Sorry for the delay. Started this yesterday and did not finish as much as I wanted too. This is the first time I wrote a fanfic, but I have been playing around with the story line for a while now. Lets just say it is a lot harder to add the filler parts and the small details then you would think. If anyone is a Babe fan and wants to be my beta or help me let me know. Also keep the reviews coming. It makes it more encouraging that others are enjoying the story.
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Steph arrived back at her apartment and started peeling off her clothes on the way to the bathroom. She allowed the hot steam to build up in the room. After entering the shower, she sighed in content as the hot water soothed her sore muscles. Eventually she got to the important things such as shaving, exfoliating and washing her hair. Steph stepped out of the shower and wrapped the towel around her than grabbed another towel for her hair.
She walked back into her room realizing it was about three thirty and technically she just left work in the middle of the day. So she decided she should head back over to the office and get some more work done. She redressed in her Rangeman black than pulled over one of Ranger's black sweatshirts that she had in the back of her closet for probably well over a year. On her way out the door she stopped and tapped on Rex's cage. He wiggled his butt and backed out of his soup can. Steph actually believed Rex might have cocked his head to the side some and blinked. Steph grabbed some grapes from the fridge and few nuts from the tin she had sitting next to his cage and dropped them into his food bowl. She then filled his water jug with some fresh water and was out the door and back in her car on her way to Rangeman.
She felt calm. Punching that bag really allowed her the time to work through some of her issues. She did not own Ranger. Hell, half the time she was in the "on stage" with Joe. Ranger and her are just friends, and even if he got married for a job they would still be friends. Since that was all worked out she pulled in the gate waving her fob at the sensor and parking her car of the month. Actually the car has lasted since she last blew up two of Ranger's expensive cars. She was now driving a little '95 GMC Sonoma pickup truck. It did not have the much needed back seat that allowed her to catch skips but she did have the bed of the truck she could strap the larger smelly individuals. But the most important thing about the truck was it was all hers. She also had the use of Ranger's fleet of broncos is she really needed them on weekends to go pick up a skip or since she became really close with most of the guys on the fifth floor one of them would offer to help her.
Steph finger waved at the camera and stepped into the waiting elevator. She arrived on the fifth floor moments later and headed right to her office. She booted up her computer and started looking through some of the files she still had to work on. She started a routine search for one of the guys and figured that while that was running she could look at some of the print outs from a few of the other files. Apparently Ranger and Tank felt there was a connection between a few of these files and wanted to see if she could find anything. She glanced over the files last week when they came in but did not really start to dig in till just then. After two hours, Steph had completed four routine searches and was making some ground on the other files. She had papers scattered all over her desk and floor. She was pulling papers out of all different files and stacking them in piles on the floor when she felt the hairs on her neck stand up. She knew the reason was that Ranger was standing behind her but she was to engrossed looking for another document that she glanced up saying "yo" before looking right back down and digging through some more files.
Ranger stood there taking the scene. There were papers all over Steph's cubicle. All he could think was she must be on to something. "yo yourself"
"Hey do you have a empty conference room available that I can use for a day or too?" Steph asked as she looked around at her piles.
"Conference room 3 should be available for the rest of the week. You can use that."
"Okay thanks." Steph started searching a few more stacks of papers when she realized that Ranger was still standing there. She looked up and asked, "Did you need something?"
"Just wanted to check on you, and see if you wanted to come up after work tonight?"
Ranger was watching for her reaction, he was trying to gauge if something was really wrong this afternoon when she left after speaking with Lester or if she really had to be somewhere.
"Yeah I can come up tonight, but I am not sure how long I will be though, I want to look for a few more things and I want to make up a few more hours since I had some things to do earlier" she responded.
"Okay I see you later on seven" Ranger spoke before turning and heading back down the hall. Steph heard him stop to speak with a few of the guys about various jobs before he continued on.