Lester and I stretched out in our chairs to wait. I felt like I was being watched so I looked over to see Lester grinning like a fool at me. Shaking my head I asked him if he did it, shaking his head at me his smile grew wider.

"Yes I did" he said bouncing in his chair

"What time?" I asked

"Should be here in about fifteen minutes"

"Good" I said going back to waiting

Like Les said fifteen minutes later I watched as my brothers Ranger, Tank, Hal, Cal, woody, and Ram walked in. I thought this would help Steph feel better when she came out to see RangeMan and all the ones she loved there to support her thru this difficult time. They all sat down in chairs and joined me and Les in waiting.

"When is she supposed to be done?" Ranger asked me

"The MRI takes about twenty minutes and that's how long they've had her so if they do the test right way she should be coming out in just a few minutes"

"Yea but they may have made her sit back there and wait since she is not life threatening"

"Oh yea I figured they did. Just like we were always made to do, hurry up and wait" I said as the door where Steph had gone in opened. I watched and hoped it was her coming out but it wasn't, it was an older woman with her arm in a sling.

"How is she?" he asked me and my shoulders dropped

"You know we tend to forget that Stephanie isn't like us. She seems ok because she is in there fighting with us in everything we say and do"

"OK"

"For years we've been trained, broken down, and then built back up to be a fighting killing machine, something to never show fear, never show any type of emotions but not Steph. Steph's as we say is a civilian but she is informed more than a typical one but until today I've taken for granted that she's not like us. She was truly terrified this morning of doing something we wouldn't think twice doing"

"I guess I never really stopped and think that what Stiva did to her, locking her in the coffin and then that overhead cabinet may have caused some deep lasting damage" Ranger said

"Yea that's my point we don't think of these things because we are so used to letting things go and moving on that we forget Steph's just a woman who has emotions and feelings. We also tend to forget because she's right along with us but like you said there could be some damage we don't know until like today it was triggered" I tell him

"Hey Steph's coming" Les said hitting my arm

When I looked over at the door, I saw Steph standing there. She kept her eyes to the floor just holding her big brown envelop that I knew contained her pictures. We all stood up and waited for her to see us but she never looked up and that's when I looked at her more closely. She kept herself closed and kept her head down, she never looked up when she walked over to where we were sitting. Steph grabbed her purse off the chair she had it sitting on and slung it over her shoulder.

"Steph" I called to her

"I want to go, let's go now, I need to get out of here" she said and I heard not fear coming from her but anger

"Stephanie what's wrong?" I asked but she turned on her heels and began to walk towards the way that we had come in until she hit something solid which was Tank. Finally looking up her eyes went wide as she looked around and saw all the guys standing there. Stopping in her tracks she looked at each of them individually.

"What are you all doing here?" she asked

"They came to support you" I said coming up behind her wrapping my arms around her

"Babe your one of us" Ranger said and I could feel her relax from its previous agitated state

"You all came because of my MRI?" she asked

"Yes Beautiful you didn't think we'd let you do this all on your own did you. We all came to support you, we got you" Les said making a tear come down her cheek

I watched as Stephanie smiled and then went over and hugged each man. She thanked them for coming and being there for her. I looked around and we were all getting some weird looks from the staff and some from the other patients but I didn't care, we were there to support the woman we all loved and that's what we were going to do.

"So how was it?" I asked her when everyone had settled and Steph had came back to my side

"I don't want to talk about it" she said and her anger returned

"Steph?" I questioned watching her as she darted her eyes all over the room

"Bobby I'm really tired and I just want to leave. I don't want to be here anymore"

"Ok" I told her hugging her to me looking back at the guys who all had looks telling me they too had sensed something wrong

While hugging her, I could just feel and tell something was off with Steph. She turned and re-gathered all her things and we all left the radiology building. Ranger and the rest of the men said their goodbyes to us and headed back to work. When Lester, Steph, and I loaded back up into our truck, I asked her if she wanted to drop of her films to Dr. Orinda.

"Maybe tomorrow, I really don't want to deal with this anymore today"

"Ok we will take them over tomorrow" I said kissing her forehead hoping everything was ok

"Ok Beautiful what's wrong? I know you were scared but this isn't fear, you're pissed off because of something" Les asked from the front seat as he started the truck

Stephanie looked down at her hands in her lap and started to pick at her nails "the guy that did my MRI was mean to me" she said

"What?" Les asked his eyes flipping from the road to the rearview mirror

Stephanie began telling us how he had spoken to her when he came to get her for the test and then she told us what he said when she started coughing. When she was done, I saw Lester's knuckles white from where he was gripping the steering wheel so tight and I was calling on every ounce of my training to remain calm and not bust out the window.

"I don't think he should speak to people like that who are sick, hurt and , injured" Steph said " I didn't mean to cough it was an accident"

"No shit" Lester said

"I was going to complain to the front desk but when I got out in the lobby I just wanted to go" she said looking out the window swiping at her cheek

"Come here" I told her drawing her to me "I'm sorry that guy was such a prick to you. He had no right speaking to you like that or to anyone for that matter"

"I want to forget that today ever happened" she said snuggling in closer to me

I held Steph in my arms and hoped she could feel my love for her and that she felt safe. I believe we are good for one another, I help her with her fears and she helps me to remain calm. I was pissed at how she was treated during her MRI, that I had visions of returning when that man got off and having a meeting with him but having Steph in my arms calmed me and I just wanted to be here for her. Taking my index finger, I ran it along the line of her jaw. Steph picked up her head and smiled at me. Hooking my finger under her chin, I leaned down and kissed her.

"MMM I think I'm forgetting already" she said and I smiled

"Let me get you to my place and ill help you forget more" I told her nibbling on her ear

"Your place?"

"Yea is that ok?"

"Umm I don't know is it?" she asked and looked up at Lester

"What's wrong?" I asked seeing her hesitation

"RangeMan" she said looking up at Lester again

"What about RangeMan?"

"It's where everyone is" she said

"Steph baby I do not understand what you're getting at"

"Man she is afraid of coming back to RangeMan and going up to your place" Les piped up from the front seat

"Dude mind your own business and stop listening to my conversation" I told him and felt a hand on my arm

"Bobby Les is right" Steph told me

"Your not afraid of RangeMan Steph, you work there"

"No I'm not scared of RangeMan; I'm just a little hesitant on the part of going up and being in your room. The only place I've ever frequented other than the fifth floor was…"

"Seven" I finished for her

"Yea" she said doing that picking of the nails thing again

"Steph, Rangers not the only one that's had girls in his place. Don't you think that I've had others there before you?"

"I really try not to think of that"

"Well I have, we all have and we've even brought them home with us"

"Yea but that's different no one knew the girls that you brought in, everyone knows me" she said

"And everyone knows that you and I are together now, so I really don't see where there's a problem" I tell her making her look at me

"It's just won't it be awkward afterwards when I come up from four to five the next morning and see everyone?"

"You don't think they don't already know with me sleeping over your place and coming in every morning and then went into battle smelling like lavender?" I asked her and she grinned. Lester burst out laughing earning him a slap to the back of the head

"Hey it wasn't so funny when we were there but after it all went down and we all were back in RangeMan it was frikken hilarious you smelling so girly"

"I was going to shower before work. I didn't know that was going to happen" I growled and then brought my attention back to Stephanie "please come home with me. I'm getting my stitches out and then we can go up to my place and be alone" I tell her kissing her again

"Okkk" she moaned when we came up for air