Author Notes: Mwahaha. It's Chapter two! I'm afriad nothing much happens in this chapter, sorry, it just kinda setting up for the rest of the action to come later. I promise the next chapter will have more action in it. In the next chapter the actually arrive in Boston. If your wondering why I chose Boston here are the reasons: Ranger does have an office there, Boston is a big, busy city with lots of people, I know Boston really well, and I've never seen a story done there! Anyways enjoy the new chapter.

Disclaimer: Not mine and no amount of satan worship will make it so.


I'd agreed to do the job but that meant I would have to pack for the job. I had problems with this for several reasons; one, I had never been to Boston before, two, I didn't know how long we'd be there, three, would I have to look really professional or not? I gave up trying to answer these questions on my own after about fifteen minutes. I grabbed my cell phone and pressed my speed dial for Ranger.

"Yo." He answered.

"I don't know what to pack!" I was sounding slightly crazed by this time. I'd put off packing until the last minute, not surprising, and now had two hours to get ready to leave.

"Try clothing, babe." I could feel the smile through the phone lines.

"Oh, ha ha." I sneered back. "What kind of clothing? How much? How long will we be gone anyway?" I should have asked earlier probably.

"Until the job is done." He said. Yeah, sure, that'll go over well with my mother, and I told him so. He said, "Babe." and proceeded to hang up on me.

"Insufferable man." I said to my closet. I had nothing more in the way of information after the call than I'd had before. Sighing I decided it was time for the woman's old stand-by when it came to packing. Pack EVERYTHING. Now I didn't have enough room in my suitcases for everything, so I packed some of everything. Suits, jeans, t-shirts, a sweat-shirt (it's summer but you never know), a swim suit (again, you never know), and some nicer pieces all got thrown in. My mother would be flabbergasted but I didn't have time to fold.

I dragged the suitcases behind me into the living room. I then did something I'd been dreading since I learned yesterday about this job: I called my mother.

"Hi mom."

"Stephanie, what did you blow up this time?" She said in a resigned kind of voice.

"Nothing! I just wanted to tell you that I was going away for a little while."

"Away? Away where?"

"To Boston, I'm going to help Ranger out with a job."

"Going away with Ranger? What will the neighbors think! And what about Joseph!" I knew what my mom was thinking. Joe would never marry me if I went off with other men.

"Mom, I'm going for a JOB. It's not a vacation. We'll be staying in different rooms." Why did every conversation with my mother make me want to bang my head against a table or something?

"Well, that's okay then." There was a pause when neither of us said anything. "Do you need me to come by to water your plants? Or what about Rex." Rex is my hamster room mate. Rex is great, he never hogs the remote.

"I don't have any plants." And I really didn't. Every now and then I'd buy one but I always forgot to water it. "And Lula is going to watch Rex for me. I just wanted to call you so you would worry when I left."

"Oh. When are you leaving?" Not soon enough I wanted to say.

"In an hour or so."

"You don't even think to call me until an hour before you leave?" The conversation was beginning to deteriorate.

"Sorry. It was kinda a last minute decision."

"Just be careful." She sighed. "And try not to blow anything up."

"It's not like I do it on purpose!" I cried in my defense.

"Humph." She said before hanging up. She must be getting phone tips from Ranger.

After that I had nothing to do. Lula had come by earlier and gotten Rex, telling me she'd watch the ass off him. I wasn't sure this was a good thing but the sentiment was nice I suppose. I'd already told Vinnie I'd be gone. He wasn't happy but I told him to just get Joyce Barndhart to trace skips and that cheered him a little, to my disgust. I'd also told Connie and Mary-Lou where I was going and who with. This got them both excited and they didn't want to listen when I told them it was for work.

Because I had nothing else to do I began to think. Unfortunately I didn't particularly like my thoughts. Honestly I had no idea what I was doing. I'd never been a body guard before. I would be a horrible body guard. Probably I would blow up the body I was suppose to be guarding. I'm not sure why Ranger thought I could do this, and then I remembered he didn't. He just needed to have someone female there, and for that I was qualified. Part of me was angry that Ranger didn't expect me to be a good body guard, but a larger part was just relieved. I was really hoping I didn't just make a fool out of myself.

Thinking was beginning to bore me, I was more an action kind of person, or a watch T.V. until I couldn't think kind of person. I still had half an hour to wait so I turned on the T.V. The news was playing; death, drugs, war, blah blah blah. Boring and depressing. I quickly changed the channel. I found some cartoons to watch, mindless and entertaining, perfect. Then half an hour later at precisely one in the afternoon I heard my door being opened. I knew it was Ranger so I didn't even turn around, just turned off my T.V. and grabbed my purse.

"Ready babe?" Ranger said looking at my bags.

"Yep, packed and everything." I said smiling brightly.

"More like packed everything." Ranger raised an eyebrow at my bags.

"You wouldn't tell me what I would need to pack! So I packed for every occasion." This got me a lip twitch.

"Come on." He grabbed my suitcases for me and stepped out into my hall. He waited while I locked my door. I'm not sure why I bothered. Anyone and everyone could, and probably had, broken into my apartment. Probably it was a prerequisite for graduation at the local high school. We stepped onto the empty elevator and rode down a floor.

Ranger stuffed my suitcases into the back of a shiny black SUV. I noticed one, much smaller than mine, suitcase already in there.

"Is that all you're bringing?" I didn't get an reply so I just assumed the answer was yes.


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