Blush thanks Verea…you'll be happy to hear that you will learn WHO the nasty pig ass bomber is and to explain my unfortunately confusing story, Stephie here is going to…well…crash if I can say…in love with TANK! A little unexpected I know and I think I'll make Ranger fall for Nell. Probably. Right. Thanks SO much for your reviews! And enjoy this new chappie!

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I'm going to kill that rat bastard!

I open my eyes and focus my eyes on the white ceiling looming over me. Hunh...what did I do now? Where did I crash?

A deep chuckle startles me and I bump against Steph's silently snoring figure.

"Ouch! Watch it!" She grumbles, almost falling off.

Hey…did I say almost? Hehe…

I push her off and look at her, grinning.

"Ooooh you're going to pay for that one!" And she lunges at me, bringing me to the floor.

"Tasty treat!" I cry out, grabbing a pillow and hurtling it her way.

Steph cries out indignantly and grabs a heavy pillow next to her, sending it flying with a great deal of force into my chest.

I let a whoosh of air as it hits me and fall backwards.

"Rabbit food!" She cries and we start giggling.

Before I realize what she is doing, she jumps on me and tickles me on the stomach.

"No!" I cry out, laughing and trying to breath but failing miserably.

"Do you yield?" Steph cries over my giggles.

"N…no!" I manage, regretting it instantly as she tickles me harder under the armpits now.

"Cupcake!" I squeak and she stays stunned enough for me to try and wriggle away but thanks to my futile luck; she grabs me again and continues with her torture.

"OKAY!" I cry out, really needing to breath.

"You have to answer a question for me." She taunts, stopping the tickles.

" 'depends." I breathe, drying the tears of laughter from my eyes.

She tickles me AGAIN until I accept.

"Be honest now. How do you feel about Ranger?"

I stay stunned, at the question, my eyes huge.

"What?" I ask, unable to believe I heard right.

Omigod! She's still in love with him? Oooooohhh...I'm in deep shit.

"No. I am not still in love with Ranger Nelly." Steph retorts, eyes gleaming.

"Tank?" I whisper so low she barely hears it.

She nods a fraction of an inch.

"I told you so answer now." She smiles evilly.

"Um…" I stop, unsure, "I don't know!" I almost cry out, seeing her hand inch it's way onto my belly.

She may not look it but Steph is quite strong and is pinning me to the ground effortlessly.

A deep laugh startles us and I blush a VERY deep crimson silently cursing.

Ranger, Tank and a few people I don't know are all trooped at the bedroom door and are looking in, amused.

Several whistle and make catcalls and if possible I bush harder, finding myself only in tight panties and long shirt.

"I gotta go…bathroom." I mutter and run to it, leaving Steph to explain.

"Coward!" She cries after me.

"Better a hidden coward!" I respond, jumping in the shower.

Steph scowls at the closed bathroom door and glares her best burg glare at the Rangeman team.

They leave, grins up to their ears.

I step out of the shower to see I didn't take any clothes with me.

Groaning, I peek out and see my bag just out of reach.

Hunh. Smells trap. "Steph. You can come out, I hear you." I call, indeed hearing her barely held giggles.

She indeed comes out of her hiding place behind the closet door and deliberately looks at my bag, a sly grin in her eyes.

"Where did you put my clothes?" I fume, no longer feeling the urge to laugh.

Steph only giggles and bounces out of the room.

Taking a deep breath and silently cursing, I reach the closet and open it, sighting in relief.

Thank god for my clothes. Even if it's my ever so tight black pants and revealing gray top with HOT spelled on it in red.

I quickly put these on and sheath my knife, tying it in my back.

I finally step out and put the whole bedroom upside down before finding my bag with all its contents undisturbed.

Steph isn't in the kitchen I enter and I ogle at it for a good ten minutes, thinking I must have awoken near a bar or something.

My curiosity pushes me further and I find a living room with a wine colored loveseat, a beige, humongous sofa and an even bigger TV.

Practically drooling, I make my way around and make a full 180 on myself, spotting a door on my left.

I open it and step out, face instantly in a warm, sexy and Bulgari smelling chest.

"Morning." I say, my voice muffled by his shirt.

Ranger steps back and nods, his face blank as ever. Right. Hunh.

"Where'd Steph go?" I question, looking curiously at the hall, elevator at the end, rich dark red carpet and beige doors on either side. Well…only two actually.

"Went to talk to Tank." Ranger answers, a smile tugging at his lips.

"What did you hear this morning?" I ask, dreading the answer.

His smile only widens into a grin and I roll my eyes, very Burg like.

I push gently past him and head to the elevator.

"What?" He asks, catching me up in one stride.

"To find that mother fucker." I glance his way and see the confused look on his face.

"The guy who bombed my NEW apartment yesterday." I especially emphasize new.

"Who?"

Master of small words.

I look grimly at him for a couple heartbeats and enter the elevator.

We go down to the parking lot without anything more said and I look around for Steph's car, silently cursing myself for not buying a car earlier.

Ranger chuckles and leads me to a hot 4x4. Black. As usual. But still bloody cool.

"Where to?" He asks and I bite my lip a minute.

"Dan's place." I answer finally, definitely remembering Dan's running frame in the hallway to my apartment yesterday night.

Rat bastard. A few minutes later, Ranger pulls up in front of Daniel's battered house and I walk over to the door confidently.

I knock but either he can't hear or he doesn't want to answer because I could have sworn this house belongs to the dead.

My newly attuned ears hear a kind of drip drip…a moan and a kind of suction sound.

I turn from the door, finding Ranger slinking in the shadows right next to me and follow the sound, head slightly bent to the side.

It leads me to an alley behind Dan's house and there I stand, shocked and if possible, even angrier than I'd ever been.

Dan is a…VAMPIRE! RAT BASTARD! I'll kill him.

Without further thought, I unsheathe my knife and advance on Daniel, seeing him let his sobbing prey go and look at me.

The last vampire I killed I didn't look at him but knowing Dan and all I immediately see he changes and almost wish I never found out. Almost.

He has wings sprouting from a ripped shirt, his ears are extremely long and pointy and he has fangs going way past his chin.

Ranger hisses behind me and I had totally forgotten he was there.

"Rachel." Daniel's voice roars, sending shivers up my spine.

"Vampire." I mutter in disgust as I advance on him.

"Your puny knife will do nothing to me." He hisses, cruel laughter erupting from his chest into a sort of growl.

The young man at his feet tries to get up but Dan swoops down and sucks him dry before I have the time to so much as blink.

Seeing red. Literally. I throw my knife at his heart with lucky precision and he soon disintegrates, howling in pain and making the whole town shudder.

Another vampire, probably his mate, swoops down and just as she is about to slice me to shreads, she disintegrates.

Whoa! I turn around and find Ranger inches from me, holding a vial of what I guess is Holy Water. Notice that since it saved my life I put a H on Holy and a W on Water. I suck.

Anyway. Hold it. Ranger's a Vampire Hunter? Holy shit!

"No babe. Holy Water."

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And here it is! scary grin and posture…author could very well be a vampire…RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Anyway. Hope you liked it and please do feel free to review for this one. Thanks again.