At one o'clock, I went up to the fifth floor and walked down to the lunch room. My stomach was upset and I wasn't sure what I could eat, and as I looked over the selections I saw a turkey and cranberry and stuffing sandwich on a ciabatta bun. I wanted it with a passion like I had never experienced before. I grabbed it before anyone else took it. Ella made all the food for the building, and her turkey sandwiches were awesome. I also took a fruit salad and two milks, and I carried my stash back to Ranger's office.

I arrived at the same time as Ranger. He looked at his closed door with a wrinkle on his forehead. "What's wrong?" I said.

"I shut down my computer in its entirety when I went down to the pool, and I left my door open so that you'd be able to get in if you arrived before me." He sighed. "Something tells me that I'm not going to like what is behind the door."

I laughed. But as he opened the door and I saw Vicky, buck naked and posed sexily on his conference table, I didn't laugh any longer.

Ranger picked up Vicky's clothes and threw them out in the hallway. He turned to me and calmly said, "is this the idiot that approached you this morning and you told to leave me alone?"

I smiled and nodded. I could tell how pissed Ranger was by the control in his actions.

"I came to show you my body. I know you can't resist me", Vicky said.

Ranger sighed and shook his head, went over to his desk and retrieved a pair of cuffs. Vicky started to look excited.

"Oh, baby. I love sex games. Are we playing cops and robbers?" she said.

Ranger sighed again. "Babe, phone Morelli." He flipped Vicky over and cuffed her. "He not only will play cops with you, but he will arrest you and put you in jail as well."

She started to look a little uncomfortable.

I pulled out my phone and called Joe. "Hey", I said. "We have a pick-up for sexual harassment. Has the doctor been through his bail hearing yet?"

"He just finished. Bail was set high due to your background information. I think he was planning on using Vinnie for bonding."

I smiled. "Good. I hope he runs. I know a number of people who would enjoy bringing him in."

Joe laughed. "Who was harassed?"

"One of my staff decided that Ranger wouldn't be able to resist her, and entered his office, took off her clothes, and lay down on his conference table."

Joe snorted. "Poor deluded fool. I would have loved to have seen Ranger's reaction."

"He cuffed her and she is now standing in the nude to the side of his office. Her clothes are in the hall."

"Does she at least look uncomfortable?"

"Not as much as I would like."

Joe laughed. "Do you think I could grab some lunch while I am there? I'm starving."

"Absolutely."

"Then I'll be there in ten."

I said goodbye and hung up, and told Ranger when he'd be here. "He said he's hungry, so he might grab a sandwich when he is here."

Ranger looked at me and smiled. His natural sense of humor was coming back, probably more because Vicky was starting to look uncomfortable standing without anything on. I knew, to make his point, he wouldn't let her get dressed either. Ranger was compassionate and cared about people deeply – but he was a hard-assed commander and he didn't take shit. It was a side of him that my department didn't often see.

"I'll call in Tank, and go and get myself some lunch. Like Morelli, I'm starving." He smiled at me. "I couldn't wait. I told Tank what was going on, so you might want to visit Amelia this afternoon."

I smiled. I still had mixed feelings about the pregnancy, but I was relieved that Ranger was so enthusiastic about it.

He crossed to his phone and dialed Tank, explained the problem, and seconds later Tank was in the room. He crossed over to me and gave me a hug. "Congratulations", he said quietly. I grinned.

Tank looked at Vicky and shook his head. "Can I have my clothes back?" she said. "I'm getting cold."

Tank snorted. "Too bad", he said.

"You just want to ogle me."

Tank sighed. "When you have the hottest woman upstairs in your apartment and you know she is all soft and snuggly from having a nap, I can guarantee that I'm not interested in any other woman, clothed or not."

Ranger walked in. "The way I figure it is that you made the decision to take off your clothes. That was your decision. Now you have to follow your decision through. I'm sorry that you feel uncomfortable but, if you hadn't wanted to feel uncomfortable, you shouldn't have taken off your clothes. Your nudity is a direct consequence to your actions."

"You're a bastard."

Ranger smiled. "I've been called worse." He sighed. "Vicky, this is what you wanted. This is what you signed up for. Don't be mad at me. I didn't take advantage of you. This is all entirely your doing."

"You're a hard-assed prick."

Ranger smiled again. "I have to be. I lead a company of fourteen hundred people and growing. In my career I have led teams of special ops soldiers fighting terror and injustice and, after taking down some of the most heinous criminals in the world, I came back to the States and started Rangeman. In my career, I can't afford to be anything other than a hard-assed prick. We didn't become one of the leading security companies through being pansy-assed."

"Does your wife know?"

He grinned. "I think she's well aware of it."

I snorted.

Ranger sat down beside me and opened his lunch. "Do you want to join us?" he said to Tank.

"Sure", said Tank. "I just want to see the expression on Morelli's face when he sees the situation."

Ranger laughed.

Tank sat down as Joe walked into the room. "Hi, guys", he said. He came over to me and gave me a hug and kissed my cheek. "Hey, cupcake. How are you doing?"

"Trying not to split my gut laughing."

He grinned before straightening his face and turning to Vicky. He pulled out his notepad. "What is going on?" he said seriously.

"Do you want me to get you something to eat?" I said.

Joe smiled. "That would be great. I didn't have time for breakfast this morning. Tracy didn't want to be late, and Bob ate her underwear again. He was throwing up all over the house as he was trying to expel it. He looked so confused. It was pathetic. So after cleaning it up I left late and, when I was in the bail hearing, my stomach was growling so loud that I thought that they'd pause the hearing. It was horrible."

"I bet Bob isn't getting any extra dog biscuits tonight", said Ranger.

Joe snorted. "Tracy will give him some anyway."

I laughed. Tracy was a soft person with a big heart. She had babied Bob ever since he met her, and he adored her. She was the only one he listened to and he followed her around the house wherever she went. She said that it was only bad when she was in the washroom. She'd be having a shower and he'd be sitting on the other side of the shower curtain, his tail swishing frantically across the floor as he stared at the curtain and waited for it to open up. And then when it did? He would pop up in joy and jump to kiss her face, which she said was a little icky when she didn't have clothes on.

I walked down to the break room and quickly put together a meatball sub from the crockpot of hot meatballs. I grabbed a container of cut vegetables and an apple juice, and I walked back to Ranger's room and handed Joe the food. "Did I miss anything?" I said. Joe looked at me and shook his head, and I could see the amusement in his eyes.

"Aren't you going to let me get dressed?" said Vicky.

"If a gang member is wearing a flak jacket to enable them not to be killed while they are having their turf war", said Joe, "that flak jacket helps to illustrate intent and we don't remove it to book them. Similarly, you were caught with no clothes on. Your lack of clothes demonstrates intent and you should be booked accordingly."

"That seems illegal."

Joe turned to Ranger. "I've never heard of that being illegal. Have you? I have numerous courses and many years of experience, and I never heard of people being taken in naked as being illegal."

"No, I haven't either. I was a bounty hunter for a long time, and I've never had a problem taking in skips naked", said Ranger.

"What about you, Steph? I know that you have taken in people when they were naked before."

"The docket officer doesn't really care, and neither does the judge", I said.

"You've taken in people?" said Vicky. "You're a researcher."

"I'm also a bounty hunter", I said. "I've taken in people naked of all sorts of ages. I did that for many years until I started as a researcher with Rangeman. In fact, my first skip that I captured was naked."

Joe groaned. "I remember. You were driving my car."

I laughed. "You should have seen your face when you realized he wasn't sitting on newspaper."

"I was grateful that my car blew up before I got it back."

I laughed. "My favorite was the five hundred-pound naked man who had slathered himself with Vaseline so that I would have problems catching him. He was a little slippery to catch, and Lula refused to help. I had Vaseline stains all over my clothes and ended up having to throw them out, clumps of Vaseline in my hair that took a bottle of dish soap to wash out, and my face broke out from the grease that my skin absorbed. It was horrible."

Ranger laughed. "I remember that. Didn't you show up to the bonds office and Vinnie pulled you into a surprise meeting, and the woman you were meeting with thought it was a result of a sex game?"

I sighed. "Yes, it was one of my more embarrassing moments in my life."

Joe laughed. "That's saying something", he said as he leaned over and bumped shoulders with me. I snorted as Ranger and Tank grinned.

"Are the two of you together?" said Vicky.

"No", said Joe. "We are just good friends. I've known Steph since she was in diapers."

"Steph and I are together", said Ranger. "We're married, have a daughter together, and Steph is a proud stepmom to my other daughter. As Steph tried to tell you, our lives are perfect and I'm simply not interested in getting it on with another woman."

"You bitch! You didn't tell me that you were married to Ranger."

I sighed. "Vicky, I shouldn't have to. Whenever you try to assault someone, sexually or otherwise, you don't know who you are assaulting. However, despite not spelling it out for you, I did tell you that I'd be pissed if you tried to make a pass at him. I did tell you that Ranger was loyal and honorable, and he wouldn't even consider cheating on his wife. I did tell you that Ranger was happy. I did tell you not to do it and that, if you did, the result would be that you were fired, but it was your choice to ignore what I had said and undress yourself in Ranger's office and loll over his conference table as you waited for him to come back. Everything that is happening to you is a result of that decision."

Vicky turned to Joe. "Instead of taking me to jail, you could take me to your house and we could have fun in bed."

Joe stared at her with his mouth open for a moment, then shook his head and shut it. "Like Ranger and Steph, I am happy with my fiancée and I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize that", he said. He shoved in the last of his lunch and turned to me. "That was good, thanks." He turned back to Vicky. "What made you think that attempting to proposition or sexually harass someone was acceptable?"

"I'm seeing this doctor, Dr. Oscopi. I told him about my sexual interest and love of sex, and he told me that I had a disorder called Hornurius Disorder. He said that the name of the disorder is where the word 'horny' comes from. He said the way to cure it is to work it out of my system by having sex with as many people and as often as I could. I saw him last week, and I've been trying to work it out of my system ever since. I've been going to bars at night, but even though I've been taking people home, I am still horny during the day. I am always thinking about sex."

"I see", said Joe. "I was at a bail hearing for Dr. Oscopi this morning. He is a quack, he doesn't have a medical degree, and his advice and treatments have killed hundreds of people. I would suggest a psychologist if this continues to disturb you." He went into the hall and picked up the clothes. He gave me a hug again, smiled at Ranger and Tank, and as he shook his head again at the idiocy of Vicky, he escorted her out of the room.