This is a Babe story, I have no idea how often I'll update, but im on holidays for the next two weeks to I might do some then.
Disclaimer: These are not mine, they are JE's, and its unfortunately going to stay that way
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The Long Hard Road
Prologue:
Sometimes Steph wondered what she saw in Dickie Orr, the ex-husband who had screwed around (literally) even before their 1st Anniversary. She supposed it was because he was, by Burg standards, husband material. It was just that Steph wasn't really Burg wife-material. Wonder Woman simply hadn't wanted to hang up her cloak.
Her romance with Joe Morelli, who was a vice in the force, was rather the same. He was Burg husband material; she still wouldn't hang up her cloak and settle down. Eventually he had found a nice girl, also from the Burg, who would happily clean and cook.
Steph had just kept going the way she always had. She kept her job at Rangeman and eventually moved into one of the apartments on the fourth floor and pick up the occasional skip for Vinnie.
Not much had changed, but then, she didn't want it to. It was a life she was content, if not 100 happy, with.
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Chapter 1:
"Something's wrong, the connection isn't there. We have no way to connect Zervos to anyone else involved in the drug ring," Steph concluded to Lester. They were putting a report for Ranger updating him on the recent events of Rangeman's latest project, trying to bust a drug ring in the New Jersey area.
"Your right, there is nothing placing his men with the drugs, or even his money, yet he's the only one who could have set something, like this up."
"So maybe you not looking at the right person," Tank strolled in. He and Lester did some macho handshake and sat himself down next to Lester. "Say he had family," Lester snorted.
"Man, he's Greek, they have family everywhere, of course he has family… Steph, where you going?" Steph was already in her cubby, typing furiously at the computer.
"That's the connection, family! The Family," just then she felt her hairs on the back of her neck rise.
"Babe, Tank, Lester," Ranger greeted each of them in turn, "I need to talk to you," he told Steph.
"Not right now please, Ranger, I'm…" she trailed off as she looked at the articles displayed on the screen, "I got it," Steph read from the screen, "Late yesterday afternoon, the charges against Mr Zervos were dropped. They included laundering money and fraud…That's it; he siphoned money out of his company and gave it to…" Steph tapped at the keyboard again and a new set of articles filled the screen, "A large sum of money was donated today by Mr Alan Zervos…The charity, FamilyCircle, is rumoured to have connections to the Celeni family, members of which were involved in the gangland wars of Miami in 1995," Steph looked up and the three boys smiled at her.
"Well now that we have the connection, I want a report and a team in Miami will sort it out," Ranger said.
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I know its short, but I just wanted to get the story started. R&R, I'll return the favor!