A/N: Sorry, it took so long to get up, but school and RL interfered with my time to write. Since, it's taken so long I made the chapter extra long, however it didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted it to, so it may be rewritten at a later date.
After Amy leaves, Steph heads to her room and flops on the bed in her thinking position. With her arms spread-eagle on the bed, she starts to ponder who the mystery person is. Before she even rules out Ranger, she falls fast asleep.
Steph is sitting on her couch when she hears the locks on her door click open. Ranger? No, it can't be Ranger. It doesn't feel right. Who is it? Steph gets up and starts to walk over to the door. The door starts to creak open.
Knock. Knock. Knock. What? Who's knocking? Surely, not the person opening the door?
Knock. Knock. Knock. There it goes again. Really, who is knocking?
"Wait a minute that's not from the dream." Steph realizes, slowly shaking herself awake.
Looking around she notices that she's in her bed with her covers all around her. The covers weren't on me when I fell asleep. Who visited me in the night?
Knock. Knock. Knock. Oh, right. The door. That's what woke me up. Looking at her clock and muttering about early hours, she drags herself out of bed and heads to the door. Looking through the peephole she sees Amy on the other side of the door.
"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Steph asks as she opens the door.
"Of course, I do. It's 6:30am."
"What reason could you possibly have to wake me up this early?"
"You wanted me to tell you about the phone number as soon as I found out."
"Still, couldn't you have let yourself in and waited until I woke up, rather than actually waking me up?"
"That wouldn't have been as much fun."
Steph sighs, "Fine, tell me about it, so that I can go back to bed."
"Well, Bobby ran the number through are computers and some other computers and we finally figured out who the phone number belongs to." Amy pauses.
"And?"
"And what?"
"Whose is it?"
"Somebody safe."
"You woke me up just to tell me that the phone number belonged to somebody safe?"
"Yep."
"You... You... Oh, I don't know what you are!" Steph exclaims angrily.
"Can't you at least tell me the name?"
"Nope. It's not my place to reveal that information."
"Well, then whose place is it? Ranger's?"
"No, sorry. It's not his place either. He'd get reamed a new one if he told you that information. You'll just have to call the number and find out that information yourself."
"What?" Steph screeched.
Amy starts to speak, but Steph interrupts before she can say anything, "Oh, just go away, Amy."
"Ok, but make sure you let Ranger know if you end up leaving. I don't want to chase your sorry ass across this world."
"I'll think about it." Steph says petulantly.
"Now go." Steph commands, pointing at the door. "And make sure you lock it on your way out."
Steph turns around and heads back to her bedroom saying on her way, "I'm going back to bed."
Shortly after Stephanie climbs into bed, she hears the door shut. Thank god, she left. Now, I can sleep again.
Surrounded by monitors, Bobby watches Amy leave. Following her progress until she reaches her car, Bobby slowly stretches before standing up. Quickly scanning the room to make sure there is nothing out of place, he briefly rests his eyes on each of the twenty monitors scattered in a semi-circle at the front of the room. Seeing nothing out of ordinary on the monitors, he turns to exit through the clear glass door. Sweeping the rest of the room with his eyes, he notices an envelope addressed to Ranger sitting on top of the file cabinets in the back of the room. Snatching up the envelope, Bobby whisks off in search of Hal.
After searching floors 2, 3, and 4 containing offices, conference rooms, and apartments respectively, Bobby finally finds Hal at the weights in the gym on the 5th floor of the Rangeman building. "Hal. Got a job for you."
"What is it?"
"We found out who the phone number belongs to. Need you to show the boss. It's on the computer."
"Ok. "
"Also, deliver this to the boss."
"What is it?"
"I don't know. Now, go. I don't want to see you again until you have completed those tasks, soldier." Bobby pauses, waiting for Hal to leave. When he doesn't move, Bobby yells, "Go!"
"Sir, yes sir." Hal replies as he sprints out the gym door.
Watching Hal run, Bobby smiles an evil grin and says, "This is going to be good."
"What's going to be good, sir?"
Bobby starts. Turning around, he berates, "Don't do that, Cal."
As Bobby starts to walk away, Cal asks, "Sir?"
"What, Cal?"
"What's going to be good?"
"Come and find out." Bobby responds, as he walks to the door of the gym.
"Does it have something to do with Hal's assignment?"
Bobby smiles enigmatically and saying nothing, steps into the elevator and presses floor 2. I wonder what's going on. Cal quickly follows Bobby into the elevator.
They both step out of the elevator and walk into the control room. Seeing that no one is currently in the control room, Bobby walks over to the file cabinets and pulls out one of the digital cameras that are used for assignments. He then indicates to Cal that they should find good hiding spots. After all, they wouldn't want to miss out on the action.
After leaving the gym, Hal goes up to the seventh floor apartment and knocks on the door. Ranger opens the door before he even gets to the second knock. "What?"
"Bobby wanted me to give this to you." Hal says as he hands Ranger the envelope. "I'm also supposed to take you down to the computer and show you whose phone number Stephanie received."
Ranger sets the envelope on his coffee table. "I'll deal with this later. Let's go find out who wishes to talk to Stephanie."
Hal leads the way to the elevator and they both get in. It takes them down to the second floor where Bobby and Cal are hiding. As they step out of the elevator, Ranger scans the room to see if anything is out of place. Not noticing anything, Ranger invites Hal to lead the way to the computer. They both look at the monitor and see the name John McKayle along with the listing for his personal cell phone number. "You've got to be kidding me." Ranger mumbles, raising his eyebrow and yelling, "Alright, Bobby, where are you? Is this your idea of a joke?"
"Bobby, boss. What makes you think this is a joke?"
"Simple. I know John and ... Bobby."
"I see." Hal says slowly shaking his head with a bemused expression on his face.
"Now, Bobby get your butt out here now."
Carefully, handing off the camera to Cal, Bobby climbs out of his hiding spot. "Boss?"
"Did you do this?"
"If you mean did I find the person who gave Stephanie the phone number, then yes I did."
"And is this the person?"
"Yes."
"You're lying. He would have told me before doing something like this." Ranger exclaims as a look of complete shock covers his face.
Cal quickly stands up from his hiding spot and takes a picture. "Apparently, you don't know John as well as you thought you did, boss."
"Umm. Excuse me, but could someone please explain who John is and what's going on?"
"Bobby." Ranger growls loudly.
"Right, boss. Well, Hal, John is the Director of the FBI and he allegedly gave Steph his personal cell phone number and asked her to call him."
"There's no allegedly about this Brown. Not if you're telling the truth about his phone number being the one Steph received."
"Oh, it's his alright."
"Has anyone told Stephanie?"
"Amy left around 6:15 this morning to go tell her."
"6:15? I hope she's prepared for a grouchy Steph." Ranger mutters.
"Don't worry, I was."
"Back already, Amy?"
"Steph kicked me out and went back to sleep. I don't think we'll be finding out anything more on this until after she wakes up again."
"Is that so? Well, in that case, everyone BACK TO WORK." Ranger starts out softly, but shouts the last part. "You're assignments have already been posted. If you have any questions come see me. I'll be in my office."