Right, okay. Sorry it has been taking me a long time between reviews. My mother decided she wanted to read the story and I didn't know if she would let me keep writing it so I had to wait a few days, but don't fret I am back! This is not one of my best chapters, but I like it! Enjoy, and ass always I don't own anyone……actually I own Toni, and a new character that is about to come along! Be excited!

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He got up and ran out into the hall. I heard him take off running followed by gun shot. That is when I passed out.

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I woke up to the blare of sirens and people whispering close by. There were lights shining in my eyes and people poking me in places.

"OUCH! OUCH! Stop it. Jeez get off of me." I screamed. I tried to kick my leg out at them when a sheering pain rushed up through my entire body. I screamed in pain. That is when I felt a large warm hand running up and down my back.

"It will be okay babe. I'm here for you." Ranger said calmly staring me in the eye. That set me off. I started to cry hysterically into his shoulder. "No, no Stephanie you are not going to do this to yourself no no, no." I yelled out loud.

That's when I felt a needle enter into my arm and a warm feeling in the pit of my stomach. I'm a matter of thirty seconds I was fast asleep, feeling no pain.

I woke up in a small really uncomfortable bed, hearing loud obnoxious beeping noises. I defiantly knew where I was and I knew I didn't wasn't to be here.

I slowly cracked one eye open to find Toni and Ranger sleeping side by side on the couch in my hospital room. I tried to move, but the pain was too overwhelming. I must have made some sort of noise because Ranger shot up and came to my side.

I just looked at him. What could I possibly say to him? But on the Brightside you can tell he cared, why else would he be here.

"How are you feeling?" he asked running his hand up and down my arm.

I looked down to examine the damage. My legs look like I was dropped into a blender, and my arms are full of bruises.

"Never been better"

He just stared at me.

"I thought I lost you there for a second." He does care! YAY!

I figured that I couldn't just let the whole kissing his brother thing go, so I decided to confront it head on. But damn it I wanted answers.

"Ranger?" I whispered to him. I attempted to sit up in bed, but it hurt too much.

"Yes babe, do you need a nurse?"

"Why wouldn't you help me when I called?" I asked staring him straight in the eye.

He just looked at me then looked at the floor. He seemed to be at a loss for words. There is a first time for everything.

"Why wouldn't you help me Ric, I needed you." Tears were staring to fill my eyes.

He looked around the room again and when he found it empty, he pulled up an empty chair over to the side of my bed.

"Babe, for the first time in my life I don't know what to say. You chose Joe over me, and that hurt. I don't think you know what you meant to me. The first time I saw you I knew you were special. You didn't look at me like dinner, like most women, and sometimes men do."

This got a rise out of me, I softly chuckled though my tears. I couldn't help but notice he kept using past tense, I meant something to him. Does that mean I don't mean anything to him anymore?

"Then when you helped me get off my murder charges with Ramos, I knew there was something even more special about you. I felt that there was some sort of love in you heart towards me. But then I screwed it up when I sent you back to Morelli. That was the biggest mistake of my life. It hurt me to do it, but I thought that you would be better off with him. That I found out was not true. I guess I just always felt in my heart that someday you would come to me. But you didn't. You went to Morelli, and worse of all you shut me out. I lost you, and that broke my heart." Ranger said very quietly.

I was crying so hard that in a few minutes I would be sitting in a river of my own tears.

"Ranger, I'm sorry. I…I….I… don't know what to say. I just want you to know that the more I think about it, i didn't marry Joe because I loved him, I married Joe because that is what my family and he wanted to do, not me. When I was walking down the aisle with Joe my mind never wandered from you. And I want you to know that I had been involved with Joe for over 10 years, and at our wedding was the first time I had ever said I loved him. Saying I love you is a hard thing for me to do, but Ranger I love you. I am so sorry about the thing with Toni too. It was just like being with you. He looks so much like you, and acts and smells just like you. It was like being with you, and I loved having that back. I am sorry." I said trying as hard as I could to keep my voice steady.

Ranger just stared at me through those deep brown eyes.

"Babe I……"

The nurse busted through the door and she looked worried.

"Mrs. Morelli. We have found something on you MRI, I need you to come with me"

I LOVE CLIFF HANGERS! I will give a cookie to whoever figures it out!