Ranger and Steph hopped into one of the broncos. Steph pulled out her files, "I figured I would try Johnny first" and then continued to read off his address. Ranger directed the truck in that direction and pulled up a few houses down ten minutes later. They sat in quite for a few minutes observing the house for any activity. "How do you want to handle this?" Ranger asked.
"I will take the front; you take the back in case he runs. I doubt he will, he is probably coming off a bender but just to be safe we will cover all exits." She responded than reached for the door handle and exited the truck.
Steph waited till Ranger had enough time to get around the side of the truck before she knocked on the door. She knocked three times before the door was wrenched open and two beady bloodshot eyes stared at her. "Whatcha want"
Steph stuck her shoe in the door way slightly and gave her spiel "Hi my name is Stephanie and I represent your Bond Agent," She did not get any further when Johnny tried to push her back and shut the door but Steph was expecting this and lunged forward knocking Johnny off balance taking them both to the floor. Steph had the cuffs on him before he had a chance to recover from hitting his head when he hit the floor." Ranger was back around the front of the house and helped Steph pick the skip up and loaded into the back of the bronco.
Johnny whined the whole way to the police station about his head hurting and not feeling so well. They pulled up to the station and Steph opened the back door of the bronco to help Johnny out. As soon as Johnny got his feet on the ground he was beyond the color green. Before Steph could react and take a step back her entire front was covered in puke. Steph tried to cover her mouth and nose to prevent herself from puking. It did not seem to help because she puked up her coffee and banana muffin on Johnny. Feeling totally disgusted she pulled the sweatshirt off and handed it to Ranger "I am going to wash up; you think you can get Johnny into booking?" She did not wait for a response but started up the steps of the station and down the hall to the ladies room.
Steph washed her hands, face and rinsed out her mouth the best she could. The majority of the puke had been on the sweatshirt and a little on her shoes. Since she took off the sweatshirt she wiped down the shoes. Figuring that was the best she was going to get, she headed out of the restroom to the vending machine in the corner of the hall and purchased a pack of gum. She opened two pieces and stuffed them both in her mouth and started chewing. At the rate she was going today she figured she probably should have just gone back to bed this morning.
Steph headed back to the booking desk to see the clerk hand Ranger the receipt for Johnny. "Great perfect timing, ready to go? Ranger asked."
"Yeah, lets go."
Back in the bronco they headed to the next house. "This is Mark's second time being picked up for indecent exposure."
"Babe how old is this guy?"
"47 but it says he's 5ft 8in and 378lbs so I can see someone taking offense from being flashed."
"Alright but I going to the front door this time, you get the back. Is that alright?"
"Yeah I don't want to be seeing anything he is offering to show."
Steph pulled out her stun gun and got around the back of the house and stood beside the steps. She could hear Ranger ringing the door bell, the door opened; there was some kind of commotion than she saw the back door open and Mark running down the steps.
Steph took off after Mark across the yard. Being the size Mark was it only took a few strides before she caught up with him and brought the stun gun to his back. Mark fell like a ton of bricks and the earthquake he caused hitting the floor knocked her over also. Okay so maybe it was Mark's foot that flung out and knocked her knee out but he fell so hard it could have been from the earthquake he created.
Standing up and brushing the debris from her jeans she looked around. She still did not see any sight of Ranger. That was weird she thought. She put the cuffs on Mark just in case he came too before she got back and then headed towards the house. Steph walked in the back door cautiously not sure what she would find. When she got to the hallway she saw Ranger laying under a bookcase. Steph panicked at first thinking that Ranger was seriously hurt but when she realized that he slipped in what appeared to be cherry jello and hit his head she thought that it could be a pretty funny situation. The book shelf was actually not even touching him but leaning over and propped up by another shelf on the other side of the hallway. Steph grabbed her cell phone off her belt and called Rangeman.
"Rangeman this is Cal how can I help you"
"Cal its Steph, hey I need for Bobby to come take a look at Ranger and if someone could drop my truck off at the following address I appreciate it."
"Is Ranger ok?"
"He should be, I believe he has a concussion but he is unconscious and that is why I would like Bobby to come take a look."
"Okay Bobby is on his way and I will have someone over with your truck in a few minutes."
"Thanks Cal"
Steph hung up, double checked Ranger again for a pulse than went back outside to the back yard. She could see that Mark was just coming around and figured she better get him secured in the truck and than she could go back in to sit with Ranger.
Mark was all locked into the truck, and Steph was sitting next to Ranger holding his hand waiting for the guys to show up. The bookcase was too heavy to move on her own and she did not want to take the chance of it slipping when she tried and it actually falling on Ranger. Steph was able to move all the excess books that laid around Ranger out of the way. She wasn't taking any chances so she had her gun out sitting on her lap.
A few minutes later she could hear a truck pull up out front and a knock on the front door. She called out "who is it". "Bobby" She got up, unlocked the door and let Bobby and Hal in. Bobby headed right over to Ranger and started checking for a pulse and checking his eyes while Hal took care of moving the bookcase.
"Ok it looks like he just has a concussion, how long has he been out?" Bobby asked
"Maybe ten to fifteen minutes, I heard a noise than the skip came flying out the back door. I tackled the skip and came right back in because Ranger had not come out yet. I called as soon as I found him. When I knew he was okay and you were on your way I secured the skip in the bronco and came back in here to guard over him. The bookshelf was too heavy for me to lift by myself."
"Bomber you did well. I am just going to take him to the ER just to make sure everything is okay since he was out so long." While he was talking Bobby waved some salts under Ranger's nose and you could see his eyes start to open even though they looked dazed.
After a few more minutes Bobby helped Ranger up and headed out to the truck. Since Mark was still cuffed in the back of the other Bronco Hal offered to drop him off at the station and Steph headed over to her pickup truck that was sitting on the side of the road. She felt bad about not going with Ranger to the ER but she really needed to get her other three skips in plus she needed time to get ready for tonight.
