Sometime in the middle of the night, Ranger stirred and caused Steph to wake. She rolled over to check if Ranger was okay. He was rubbing his head, so Steph slipped out of bed and went in search of the bags she picked up from the store. She pulled out a bottle of Aleve and water and returned to the bed. "Here take this. It will help," she said as she handed over the items. "Thanks."

They both lay back down and went to sleep. The next time Steph woke, the sun was shinning through the curtains, and it was after nine a.m. Steph was surprised that Ranger was still asleep and figured his concussion was worse than they had thought. She slipped out of bed and headed towards the shower. She made due with the shampoo and conditioner that the hotel provided and then grabbed the brush and hotel hair dryer to try to tame her hair. With the towel wrapped around her, she went back into the bedroom and rummaged for the clothing items she bought for herself and headed back to the bathroom to get dressed.

Steph came back into the room and decided that she better wake Ranger because they still needed to check out before eleven, and she did not know if Ranger would want to shower again. She sat on his side of the bed next to him and nudged him some. He swatted her away. She nudged him again, a little harder this time. This time he rolled away from her. Finally figuring that being subtle was not working, she started to speak, "Hey, if you get up, I'll let you have some twigs and bark for breakfast."

She could barely hear the mumbling response. "Don't want twigs and bark."

"Okay, but you need to get up and take a shower."

Ranger pulled himself up out of bed and started to head towards the bathroom. He stopped, turned around, and took in the room. "Babe, this is not my apartment."

"Yeah, I know that."

"Where are we? And how did we get here?"

"A hotel, and I drove us here. Now go get a shower. I'm going to go order breakfast."

Ranger got in the shower, and Steph laid out his clothes that she bought on the bed. She then picked up the phone and ordered a variety of foods for breakfast since she was not sure what Ranger would want.

Ranger came out of the bathroom wearing the pair of blue Levis and a black t-shirt. He took in the room again. "Where did these clothes come from?" he asked Steph as he came to see the cart food that had been delivered. "I bought them," she responded around a bite of her chocolate chip pancakes. She was really enjoying using these short to the point answers. Ranger sat down next to her and started to load his plate with a little bit of everything except the fruit and healthy items.

"You sure you're feeling okay?" she asked.

"Yeah, why?" was the response as he continued to eat.

"No reason."

They finished breakfast and packed up their few items in the complementary bags provided by the hotel and headed to the lobby to checkout. Walking out to the car, Steph asked if Ranger was okay to drive. He gave her a confused look asking, "Why wouldn't I be?"

"No reason."

"Babe, you have been saying that a lot this morning."

Steph shrugged in response and slid into the passenger seat. Ranger took in his surroundings, started the car and headed towards Trenton. An hour later, he turned to Steph. "Where am I dropping you off at, Babe?"

"My apartment is fine."

They pulled up to the curb of her apartment building; not knowing why Ranger was acting so strange after proposing during dinner, she just grabbed her stuff out of the back seat. She leaned back into the car and said, "I guess I'll see you at work on Monday."

Steph entered her apartment as Ranger headed back to Rangeman. She decided that she would watch some Sunday afternoon cartoons and just spend the day relaxing. She did not make it through two whole episodes of Tom and Jerry before falling asleep on the couch.

Ranger pulled into the garage, grabbed his bag from the backseat, and headed up to the seventh floor apartment. He dropped his belongings off and headed back to the fifth floor to check out how everything was running in the Communication room. Tank saw Ranger step off the elevator onto the floor and headed over to see how dinner went.

"Rangeman, how did dinner go?"

"When?"

"Last night, you know with Bomber? Did you ask her?"

Ranger had a confused look on his face. "Did I ask her what? You're not making sense."

"Are you seriously going to make me spell it out for you. How did the marriage proposal go?"

"Huh, who is getting married?"

"You okay, Ranger? Do you really not have any idea what I'm talking about?"

"No, between you and Steph this morning, no one is making much sense."

"How about you head to your office, and I'll have Bobby and Lester meet us in there."

Meanwhile, Steph woke up to the constant ringing of her phone. Apparently, the burg heard about her truck catching on fire yesterday and wanted details. Figuring that she was not going to have any quiet if she stayed in her apartment, she called her dad for a ride to pick up the Buick from Rangeman.

Her dad dropped her off with no questions asked. He appeared to be grateful to get out of the house for a little while. Steph entered the garage and headed right to the Buick. She started the car, kicked on the heater, and headed for the highway.

With no destination in mind, she drove until she pulled into the parking lot near the Point Pleasant boardwalk. The beach and boardwalk were deserted this time of year, but she still loved to sit and watch the waves. Steph grabbed a blanket out of the trunk of the car. She'd added the old blanket to the car months ago when she had last borrowed it. She figured with her luck she would need it on the dirtier skips or when she ended up covered in food.

She wrapped herself in the blanket and sat about twenty feet away from the surf. She sat out there watching the waves and enjoying the quiet. She used this time to think about the case she was working on, her pending wedding with Ranger and up coming trip to Miami to help Julie. She had a lot going on in such a short time. She needed time to adjust to the changes.

Back at Rangeman:

Tank called Lester and Bobby to Ranger's office. He explained the previous conversation that he had with Ranger and the fact he appeared not to remember certain events. Bobby checked Ranger over and stated that nothing appeared to be out of the norm with the exception of the memory loss. Bobby stated that with the degree of Ranger's concussion, it is not unusual for the patient to forget certain events or to even get sick hours after the injury.

The guys then spent the next half hour filling Ranger in on the case and the fact he had been planning to ask Bomber to marry him last night and that they did not return home after dinner the previous evening. Not being able to remember if he did in fact ask Steph to marry him, he decided he better call her. Ranger tried to call but didn't receive an answer, and the voicemail message center appeared to be full. He decided that he should drive by to check on Steph himself. The guys were not sure if Ranger was still experiencing any other side effects from the concussion and decided that Tank would drive Ranger to the apartment building to be on the safe side.

Ranger and Tank pulled up to the apartment building and parked in the front row. They took notice that there was a police cruiser parked at the curb. They headed up the stairs to the second floor and approached Stephanie's apartment. As they came closer to the door, they noticed that the door was open and two uniform officers were inside. Ranger and Tank entered the apartment and inquired about the nature of their presence.

The officers informed them that Steph's truck was found engulfed in flames, and due to the fact that an unknown accelerant was used, the fire burned so hot that it took a while to get under control, and they could not identify whether Stephanie was in fact in the vehicle at the time of the fire. So the officers were sent to see if anyone was home or if anyone had seen Stephanie to confirm that she was not in the vehicle.

Ranger could not believe what he was hearing, and sometime during the conversation, he took a seat on the couch. "Where was the truck found?" he asked.

The younger of the two officers rambled off the name and address of Stephanie's skip's house. He recalled that being one of the skips she had on her list to go after yesterday. Figuring she did not catch him yesterday, he thought she must have gone back there today by herself.

Tank had stepped into the hallway to call the communication room. He asked Hal to check the status of all Steph's trackers and report their locations. Tank could hear the clicking of the keys. A few moments later, Hal started to report, "The one on her truck is reading her apartment parking lot. It says it has been in the same spot for four days now. The lipstick tracker is reading in her apartment, and the pen is reading from Point Pleasant." Tank thanked him and headed back into the room.

Tank spoke with Ranger for a few moments and then turned back to the officers. "When was Stephanie's truck found?" The officer looked down at his pad that was scribbled with notes and remarked, "Yesterday afternoon around 1:45 p.m." Tank blew out a sign of relief and informed the officers that Stephanie was seen last night and again a few hours ago. The officers thanked them for their help and left.

Ranger looked towards Tank and asked him to take him to Point Pleasant. That was the only other clue they had to where Steph really might be.