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Steph woke up to feel a hand on her ass and find herself totally draped on top of Ranger. Picking her head up off Ranger's chest she realized that he was still asleep. Her brain must have been slower to come awake then the rest of her body because all at once she realized that this was not a good situation. She jumped up off the bed waking Ranger in the process. She backed away from the bed; "sorry um, I was just going to get a shower" she mumbled and spun around quickly heading to the bathroom.

Steph finished in the shower having calmed herself down enough to leave the safety of the bathroom. She wrapped herself in Ranger's terry cloth robe and walked back into the bedroom. Ranger was sitting on the side of the bed with his head in his hands. "Is everything alright? She asked.

"Yeah, I was about to ask you the same thing. You jumped up pretty quickly."

"Yeah everything is fine, I just wanted a shower."

"Liar"

"No I really wanted a shower; I did not mean to wake you up."

"Babe, it is 5:30am, this is not your normal wake up time."

"What!" It can't be 5:30am. Then I am going back to bed." Steph flopped on the bed face first. She reached beside her to pull the covers to cover her. Ranger got up and headed to the bathroom. Within a few moments he was getting back in bed again.

"Uh Ranger are you heading to the gym or don't you have your normal twenty miles to go run?

"Babe are you trying to get rid of me? I figured that I will get plenty of exercise chasing after your skips today."

"Oh" Steph turned over on her back and made sure she was lying on her half of the bed. She did not want to take the chance of ending draped over Ranger again until she had time to figure things out.

Ranger pulled the covers up on his side and reached out to pull Steph closer to him. He could feel her body tense as he put both of his arms around her. "Babe relax, I not trying anything just keeping you close to me. Now go back to sleep." Steph relaxed a little until she heard his breathing even out indicating that he was back to sleep. A few minutes later Steph fell asleep also.

The next time Steph came awake the sun was pouring through the curtains into the room. She could still feel that she was wrapped in Ranger's arms but now his body was wrapped around her. Ranger's head was buried into the side of her neck. Afraid to move and have a repeat of earlier she tried to lie still enjoying the feeling of Ranger's arms around her. A few minutes later she could feel feather like kisses along her neck. A soft moan escaped her mouth and unconsciously she tilted her head allowing Ranger more access to her neck. The feather light kisses turned into open mouth kisses intermingled with some light sucking. A few more soft moans could be heard as the kisses crept up Steph's jaw line to her mouth. At first they were light; Ranger was giving her time to make sure she was really awake and consenting. Ranger than deepened the kiss by sweeping his tongue into her mouth. Steph was giving as good as she was getting. Before it could go any further Steph pulled back. Ranger was a little confused as to why Steph pulled back.

"I guess we should be getting up if we expect to bring my skips in today." She stated as she slide out of Ranger's arms and out of bed.

"Babe"

Steph was heading to the closet for her bag of clothes when Ranger spoke. "Is something wrong? Did I do something?"

Keeping her back to him and reaching for the bag and hoisting it up to her shoulder she turned around "no, just figured we need to get going."

Ranger blew out a frustrated sigh. "You know that is not what I mean."

Knowing if she did not give him an answer Ranger would continue to ask. "If you want to really know, you have been back and forth to Miami for the last what three months. I have only seen you in passing once or twice a week if that often. Then you come back not even a week ago and ask me to pick up what I am doing to go to help Julie in Miami." Ranger was about to say something but Steph put up her hand and keep on going. "I don't mind going to Miami or helping Julie. I said I would do it and I feel honored you would ask me to help. Than you ask me to marry you for a job that I have no clue what it entails. You have me spending the night and plan on helping me with my skips all of a sudden. It is a little much for me to get my head around. I tell you that I love you and am in love with you and you tell me that you are still fulfilling your government contacts and can not give yourself fully right now. So please excuse me if I hold back and don't just jump into having sex with you." She whirled around and headed right to the bathroom allowing the door to slam shut before Ranger could even respond.

Steph leaned against the bathroom door trying to calm her breathing and prevent herself from crying. She did not mean to yell let alone tell Ranger everything she was thinking but he wouldn't let it be. She did not care if he was mad at her. She did not mean to let things go that far, it is just being that close to him that causes her to stop thinking some times and right now she needs to keep her distance so she could think properly. After about five minutes she was calm enough to push away from the door and head to the sink. She splashed some cold water on her face then proceeded to get ready of the day. She figured she showered only a few hours ago and as much as she would like another shower just to prolong going back out into the bedroom she needed to get going. She dressed for the day in a pair of faded jeans and a long sleeve stretchy shirt. She brushed her hair and pulled it into a ponytail. She added some lip gloss and went heavy on the mascara figuring she would need it today.

She opened the door to find Ranger still sitting on the side of the bed like she found him at 5:30am. Ranger turned to her and was about to speak but again Steph beat him too it. "Look sorry, I did not mean to yell but you wanted to know what was wrong. But I don't want to keep talking about this. I think you might have caused me to be all talked out in the last twenty four hours. So I am going to go eat and than catch some skips. If you want to still come than I will meet you on five if not I will be going myself." She turned, grabbed her sneakers from by the door and headed in to the living room to put her socks and shoes on. Steph could hear the shower come on and figured that Ranger would still be helping her today. Steph headed back into the bedroom and grabbed one of Ranger's pullover sweatshirts and then grabbed her jacket and headed down to five.

Steph hit the break room first. She filled a large mug with coffee adding milk and sugar and inhaled it. She was on her third cup and feeling much better when Tank came strolling in. She took one of the banana nut muffins from the basket on the table while she finished her third mug of coffee. "Morning" he mumbled.

"What's wrong with you, you out living Lester's lifestyle now?" As soon as it was out of her mouth Lester walked through the break room. "Beautiful no one can keep up with my lifestyle, I perfected it."

"Least I know what you did last night, no point in asking" Steph responded giggling.

"Oh and what did you and the Boss man do last night?" Lester joked while wiggling his eyebrows up and down.

"Nothing, we had dinner, talked and went to bed. Now if you excuse me I want to check on my files before I head out to get some skips today."

Steph exited the room heading to her cubicle missing the look that was shared between Tank and Lester.

Steph grabbed her pile of outstanding skips and flipped through them. She came up with a list of which order she wanted try to pick them up based on which one she might be lucky to catch still hung over and which ones might be at work already. Hearing the communication floor get quite she knew that Ranger had arrived. She put the files in her bag, checked her stun gun to make sure it was charged, her gun for bullets and hooked it on her utility belt. She dug into her bag for her handcuffs and mace than attached those also the belt. Stepping out of the office she approached Ranger who was standing talking with Tank and Lester.

"Ready to go or should I just head out" she asked.

"No let's go." He looked to Tank and said "let me know if you get a line on the skip" he then turned and headed towards to elevator.