Married life. This is a continuation of my one-shot story Ranger's Bad Day.

All characters belong to JE, I'm just playing with them and will return them when I'm done, although I really don't want to return Ranger I guess I have too.

All mistakes are mine.

There is a reason why this story is rated M. Married people do married people things.

Chapter 1

Fluff and Smut chapter. Also some background on Steph and Ranger's relationship.

A couple of days after Ranger's Bad Day...

Ranger's POV:

I walked into our bedroom to see my Babe on her side, her hair spread out over the pillows. She held my pillow to her chest with her head resting on it. I smiled and walked into the bathroom to wash the job off of me. Fresh out of the shower, I slipped back into bed behind my Babe who was laying on her side. I wrapped my arm around her waist and tucked the other under her head. She sighed and pushed her ass back against me. I had come home hoping Steph was awake to help me burn off the adrenaline from the chase. But she wasn't. I wasn't going to wake her up just because I wanted to get my rocks off. She deserved better than that and I would never treat her like that.

I felt her start wiggling and stifled a groan. Steph usually wasn't a restless sleeper. "Carlos." She whispered softly.

"I'm here babe." I said in her ear. I felt her come completely awake.

She turned in my arms and I rolled onto my back as she crawled to lay on top of me. I stroked her back. "Did you have another nightmare?" I asked softly.

She nodded into my shoulder. I sighed and wrapped my arms around her tight. "I'm okay babe, I promise."

"I know that." She said letting her lips graze my throat. "Its just sometimes it's hard for me to remember that. Every time you leave in the middle of the night I get a flash back to that night. I know it's crazy but I can't help but worry Carlos."

"I'm not telling you not to worry. I can't tell you not to worry because I worry about you too. I just don't want you to wake up in any more nightmares."

Just before Steph and I got married I left in the middle of the night for an alarm. When we got there the suspects were still in the jewelry store. Tank and I had gone into the store as they were trying to run out.

One of them had opened fire and the bullets were armor-piercing. Of course, the bullet had pierced through my armor and gone into my chest, piercing my lung and collapsing it and coming out through my back. They rushed me to the hospital and I died on the table during surgery twice. I should have died from being shot. Something though kept me hanging on.

Babe had been here in my bed when it happened. Lester had come and got her. When I opened my eyes a few days later from my medically induced coma Steph had taken one look at me and burst into tears. I had tried to get to her but I had a tube down my throat and another in my chest restricting most of my movement.

It had taken me a few months to recover. When the doctor released me for physical activity Steph had pulled a lot of strings and hauled me to the courthouse to get hitched. Because she didn't want to fly anywhere because I was still technically recovering she took me to the house I had bought her in point pleasant. We stayed there for two weeks and I promised her that I would take her away for our honeymoon when we got everything at Rangeman settled down after my accident, that was a few months ago and we were still waiting.

I stroked her hair as we laid in silence. She was reveling in the fact I was in bed with her perfectly safe. I felt her reach down and trace the scar from my latest brush with death.

I rolled us over with Steph under me. I laid my body across her but kept most of my weight off of her by supporting it on one of my arms that framed her head. The other cupped her other cheek.

"No need to think like that now babe. It's over. I'm safe. We're together." I said softly. "Forever."

She smiled softly up at me. "Forever." She turned her head and kissed my palm. She wrapped her legs around my waist. I leaned down to claim her lips in a soft kiss. She opened her mouth and tempted me with her tongue but I denied her access to my mouth. She groaned as I pulled my lips away from her's.

I slowly started kissing every part of her body. Starting at her jawline lay soft gentle kisses along the skin. Touching my tongue to her skin gently before pulling away. She gasped each time my mouth left her body because the cold air of the room hit her hot wet skin.

My hands roamed down her body and she arched up into them as they reached her thighs. They were so soft and smooth. My fingers roamed under the hem of my shirt. I felt a chill run through her body and smiled against her neck.

"Carlos." She moaned. I hooked my fingers into her panties and pulled them slowly down her legs kissing down her legs as I pulled them down. I grabbed the hem of her shirt and she sat up allowing me to pull it off easier. She tried to pull me up her body but I pushed her back onto the bed.

"Stay," I commanded. She pouted and I gave her a wolf grin. "Remember Babe bad girls get punished."

She moaned as I kissed the backs of each of her knees and up her right thigh letting my left hand roam over that thigh before I switched sides skipping over the juncture over her thighs. "Carlos!" She moaned upset. I smiled and gave one last kiss to her thigh before bringing my body back over hers.

"What is it, babe?" I asked nuzzling her neck. I laid a kiss on her collar bone and worked my way down to her chest. I nipped at her nipple causing her hips to arch up off the bed. She moaned something incoherent.

I did the same to her other nipple before sucking one of them into my mouth and flicking my tongue against the pebbled tip. She tangled her fingers in my hair as my hand kneaded her other breast. My mouth switched to her other breast and repeated the process. My dick twitched where it was pressed against her thigh from her moans and her taste.

"I swear to god Carlos if you don't get up here and fuck me, I'm going to shoot you with your own gun." She moaned. I chuckled and raised up between her thighs to pull my boxers off. I rubbed the head of my cock against her wet folds and tapping her clit.

"Carlos." She whimpered.

"What do you want babe?"

"I want you inside me. I want you filling me, stretching me. I want you pounding inside me." That was all it took for me to lose every ounce of control I had.

I thrust all the way inside her and met no resistance because she was so wet. I stilled to let her adjust. She thrust her hips against mine telling me she was ready.

I started to thrust into her slow and shallow before she tangled her fingers in my hair and pulled. "Harder Carlos." She moaned.

I sat back on my knees and grabbed a billow from the head of the bead. I lifted her hips onto my thighs changing our position, hooking her knees over my shoulders. I thrust into her deeply and Babe's hips rolled grinding her clit against me. This was one of her favorite positions and one of mine too. It allowed me access to every part of her body. It was all open for me to play with. I let my hands roam over her body touching every inch of skin, teasing her soft skin

I slowly built her up to an orgasm. She was clawing at my chest, whimpering, moaning. I was at the edge but I wanted her cumming with me. I reached down and pressed my thumb to her clit and pinched it. That set off a major reaction in her body. Her body clamped down on mine holding me tight as I tried to continue to thrust to drag on her orgasm. She moaned and thrust her hips against mine causing my orgasm to explode from me.

She milked me for all I was worth. I slowly eased her legs from around my neck but as I tried to pull out she tightened them around her waist. "I want to feel you tonight." She whispered softly her body still quaking with aftershocks. I rolled us and she came to rest on my chest.

I wrapped my arms around her body and kissed her softly. "I love you, babe. I'm not going anywhere."

"I love you too Carlos." She said softly before drifting off to sleep.

I held her in my arms looking down at my Babe. She was the strongest woman I knew but sometimes life got to her. I was glad she knew she had me to lean on and didn't bottle it up anymore. I kissed her forehead and drifted off to sleep not long after her.

Sorry about this chapter being so short. I wanted to lay the ground work for this story in this chapter.

Second Chapter will be coming very soon probably within a few hours or a day after this is posted.

Since I got a good response to the original story Ranger's Bad Day, I decided to go ahead and publish the next series of stories I had began as a possible continuation of the original story. I'll update regularly. To be honest probably every day until I don't have anything else to write for this series or I get caught up in another story. I basically have no patience and will publish as much as possible because I hate to leave anything unfinished.

I'm pondering writing a story that explains how Steph finally grew up, left joe, grew a backbone and got Ranger. Right now just tossing around ideas for a story like that. I've already hinted to some of the things I think should happen in that story.

Let me know what you think about this chapter... And possibly a prologue story that explains how this relationship came to be.