Author: Feather (Flightf)

Warnings: Spoilers all the way through Twelve Sharp.

Disclaimers: I own nothing…JE owns it all….I will return everything when I am finished

Rating (K-M) M (for language)

A/N: This was started from a challenge sent by the 'Twelve Sharp' group. "Ranger in the hospital of any point of view." This is 4th in a series of about 9. J Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback…it is always appreciated.

Also, a very HUGE thank you to Melle who has been acting as my editor extraordinaire. Without her my story would be full of creative grammar and would consist of the never-ending sentence. I think that I am trying to set the record for the most use of "and", "but", "or" and of course just the plain commasJ in one sentence. MagnificentSin…I salute you! Thanks for being my second set of eyes. I really appreciate your tough loveJ.

Damn, this has been 10 days from hell. What we thought started out as simple credit card fraud, turned out to be a full-blown psycho.

I wouldn't tell the boss this, but he might be hanging out with Bombshell too much. I think that she has rubbed off on him.

Shit, here came Morelli again. I wish he would stay in the waiting room, or better yet go home. He wasn't needed here. We would take care of Bombshell.

That's it, look at me. Yep this look is for you; I would love to take out some of this frustration. Please, just give me a reason. Hmm…He's headed back to his seat; time to put the blank face back on.

I swear that man is so slow on the intake that he couldn't sneak up on a glass of milk. I wonder if it is love that makes Morelli so blind or if it is just plain stubbornness. I think that everybody in Trenton knows that Stephanie and Carlos love each other. Everybody knows about the stolen kisses in the ally behind the bonds office. The touches and innuendos that they share. The looks that those two give each other could catch the artic on fire. And Stephanie's reaction tonight toped the cake. I have never seen her react that way. She has kept her cool through thick and thin. She has been stalked, kidnapped, harassed, attacked and anything else that a crazed criminal's mind could come up with and she has stayed sane. When Carlos was shot tonight, to say that Stephanie was in bad shape would be the understatement of the year. You cannot tell me that a vice Cop has not heard the thugs on the street call Stephanie Plum Ranger's woman.

Ah…here comes the cute nurse with chocolate Brown hair and perky…better get my mind off of her assets. I wonder what she is doing on this floor she works in the emergency room.

"Can I help you?"

"It was my break time and I thought that I would come up and see how Stephanie was doing. Earlier in the emergency room she didn't look so good. By the way I am Gail Mangianni; my sister is married to Stephanie's cousin so we are family. "

I swear everybody in the Burg was family in some way or another. "I'm Lester Santos. Stephanie is sitting in with Ranger, waiting for him to wake up. Would you like me to tell her that you stopped by?"

"That would be good. Could you have her stop by emergency on her way home?" She waited for me to nod then she turned around and walked towards the elevator. I wonder if I can get Stephanie to introduce me when this is all over. Gail's assets were really nice.

I looked at my left wrist, I have been on the job for 16 hours now, four more and it is Cal and Junior's turn to sit in these chairs. Tank arranged earlier to have a room set up so that we had a place to crash here. I can't wait to see the back of my eyelids.