Brownies for everyone Chapter 11, a janet evanovich fanfic

Here's chapter 11!

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Ranger POV

Lester didn't come back to the guesthouse that night. I thought this was puzzling. He usually did come, even to tell me that he wouldn't come back, but not tonight. I hadn't talked to him since he left with Tank and Adam. Tank had came back soon after I left but Lester was nowhere to be seen. Tank had just said that there was somebody important who needed him. They way he said it made me think instantly about my babe. They had been close and it hurt Lester so much not being able to talk to her daily, so I guess the feeling was mutual.

I sat there in the darkness in the livingroom or my bedroom. Tank was asleep, this ordeal had made him so tired that he hadn't came with me for a late night swim like he used too. I felt left out in a silly way. They knew something and I didn't, and the worse part was that they didn't want to tell me what it was.

As I sat there I started to think this through. Lester had been acting weird since that morning he did the searches. He had talked to Charlotte after that and then they had been really close, with her talking to him and vice verse. So I assumed that the thing was in something Charlotte said or knew. She did know Steph and where she was. Maybe it was that?

That the two, Charlotte and Stephanie, looked so much like each other made me sucpicious. After Lester had been acting weird I had looked into Charlotte, Vinnies sister and had found nothing. Vinnie didn't have a sister. So who was she?

She could be Stephanie, I thought, but that didn't fit in the puzzle. She wouldn't have taken us in to live in her place. But wait, she would take Lester even if she didn't have a place. And Tank. She would help them not me! That was the last piece of clues. She hated me but not them.

I hopped away from the window and spurted down the stairs and into the main house. There I didn't care about the cameras or the noise, they would stop me. I took the stairs three in a time and ran down the corridor and hospital wing. There I stopped behind a desk. Two large guys were guarding a door, so I guessed that she was in there. I hadn't seen that they had wheeled her in the corridor, so there had to be a door in the operating room. I quickly found a used blue scrub and put it on. Then I just marched into the operating room, with out them looking twice at me.

When I was I walked to the door and silently opened it. Lester was sitting in a chair beside the bed. Now when I had figured it out I couldn't imagine how stupid I had been. A set of lenses and new hair color and style had fooled me. As I walked in Lester looked at me but in the dim light he could only see the doctor clothes, and he relaxed back in the chair, releasing her hand. Quietly I wheeled the chair he sat in into the other room and locked both of the doors. Soon they would notice so I had to be fast. I stood beside her, looking at her small frame on the bed, all bandaged and sick. My heart ached. I took her hand.

"Hey. Babe." I said my voice nearly breaking. "I finally figured it. I'm so sorry babe, please forgive me. I didn't mean it. It came so quickly and I ment to say yes, I really did." My voice broke and I was nearly sobbing there, thanking god that nobody else were there.

"Please forgive me. I didn't know how much you meant, mean to me until you were gone. You took my heart with you, I couldn't sleep or eat. I was a living dead without you. Please forgive me babe. I love you with all my heart. Yes, I do, I can keep telling you that the whole eternity. I love you Stephanie Plum, I love you. I'm so, so, so, so sorry!"

"Hey!" somebody shouted from the other side of the door, kept on hitting it. I glanced at the door, then focused on babe.

"Please open your eyes babe. Please, I beg you! Open them, please..." my voice was just a whisper as I focused on her eyes. Seconds passed, a minute passed and then, she opened her eyes, quickly closing them again. She moaned in pain trying to get comfortable.

"Shh, it's okay babe. I'm here." I whispered to her and stroked her cheek making her relax.

"Ranger...?" she croaked to me. I smiled.

"Yes, babe. I'm here."

"Do you mean it?" she asked me, for a moment puzzling me. The hitting of the door continued.

"Yes. I love with my whole heart."

She smiled to me, squeezing my hand.

"I love you too."

Stephanie POV

I laid there on the beach, in the sun shine listening to Lester as he told me everything. Then he fell asleep. I couldn't fall asleep, I was there in the middle, not awake or asleep. I watched the birds and enjoyed the sun. I listened to Lester's quiet breathing. Then the warmth in my hear was replaced . The other had felt warm now. The breathing was on the other side too. It didn't sound like Lester.

"Hey. Babe. I finally figured it. I'm so sorry babe, please forgive me. I didn't mean it. It came so quickly and I meant to say yes, I really did."

Ranger? I was puzzled. Did he know? I was dragged out of the sea onto the hard, sharp rocks.

He loved me? I felt more puzzled and to my surprise the voices became clearer and louder as I moved up the beach. I felt my senses come back, the smell of disinfectants and coffee, the feeling of sheets, the taste of metal in my mouth. It was harder to breath.

"Please open your eyes babe. Please, I beg you! Open them, please..." his voice was as clear as if he was standing beside me. Open my eyes? But they were open, I thought. But the realization that they weren't made me gasp for air. My eyes had been closed the whole time, but I had seen the beach, sea and sun. It felt like my eyes were glued together but I fought against that. I blinked them open but closed them quickly. The dim light in the room where I was made me blind.

"Shh, it's okay babe. I'm here." he whispered to me and stroked my cheek. It felt good after all the time I hadn't felt anything.

"Ranger...?" I croaked into the room.

"Yes, babe. I'm here."

"Do you mean it?" I whispered to him, refereeing to what he had told me. Somebody was hitting on something. A door?

"Yes. I love with my whole heart."

I smiled into the room, with my eyes still closed. I squeezed the hand in mine.

"I love you too." I whispered and hoped that he had heard it.

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