Alex walked out of the bathroom with Ranger following right behind her. She wasn't sure if they had reached a truce, or had just declared where the lines would be drawn when the battle was about to commence.

"Tank, take Miss Ramono with you today." Ranger told him. He didn't get to see Lula last night and I told him he would be able too. Ranger watched as Tank, Lester and Bobby came out of the kitchen. "Just take Miss Ramono to her probation officer, after that, take the night off." Who do I stick her with now? Not to mention Stephanie can't be left alone. Ranger looked at Hal, who was standing there eager to be given something to do. "Hal you're coming with me today. Bobby stay with Stephanie."

Lester raised an eyebrow, "What do you want me to do?"

He needs time away from Hal, Ranger thought. "Why don't you stay with Miss Ramono."

Lester gave a nod.

Alex gave him a look and then went over and grabbed her pill bottles, she put them in one of the pockets on her gi bottoms. "I just need a place to sleep. It would be better if I had my own bed."

Ranger shook his head no behind her back at Lester.

"Come on baby. We'll find you a bed and Uncle Tank will take you to see Jamie at three." Lester told her and held out his hand.

Alex looked at his hand like it was something covered with a disease at the moment. She looked up at Lester, "I'm not your baby."

Lester dropped his hand, "Okay smart-ass, let's go."

Alex gave Lester a half grin, she was a smart-ass, she couldn't deny that one. She walked over towards him as Tank opened the door. Tank was just relieved Ranger hadn't stuck Lester with Hal again today. And with Lester getting Alex assigned to him it didn't look like Lester was going to be with Hal for awhile. Lester followed Alex and Tank out of Stephanie's apartment. Both men towered over her. Alex felt like a dwarf around both of them. She looked up at Tank with his big barreled chest and his over manly stature. Tank had stopped at the elevator and looked back at Alex.

"Stairs." She told him and then headed to them.

Tank grinned.

Lester chuckled, "At least she's in shape."

Alex got in the SUV, she was surprised they hadn't put cuffs on her. But she was tired and sore and hurt like hell. Running was still an option but at the moment, she just couldn't bring herself to do it. She had wanted to talk with Jamie anyway. And this way she would have a ride. "You do know where my place is right?"

"Yes." Lester said after he got in on the passenger side.

Tank started the SUV and drove out of the lot. Alex was watching them drive and saw them turn down the opposite way from going towards Slayerland. "You turned the wrong way."

Tank didn't say anything. He kept driving. Lester turned and looked back at her. "While you are in our custody. You won't be sleeping in your bed. After everything gets worked out, we'll see what happens from there."

Alex gave a sigh and then settled back in the seat, just breath, a bed is a bed at this point. Let them play the big bad-ass protectors for now. I can always get away later. Alex didn't respond back and just shut her eyes. The pain medication pulling on her mind and numbness engulfing her as she started relaxing again.

Lester looked over to Tank when Alex didn't respond, ether she was very tired and the drugs were kicking in better or she was going to be plotting a way to get away from them. Tank gave a shrug and concentrated on his driving. When they reached the underground parking at Rangeman they exited the SUV. Lester opened the back door and stuck his head in. She had actually fallen asleep. He took the time to look Alex over real well. She was a dainty little thing, but her looks were very deceiving, he had seen that sharp wit she had thrown out at Ranger. He had watched the fight that Bobby had gotten taped a week ago. Alex was dynamite wrapped up in a deceptively sweet little body.

Tank looked in at her. "I don't know if I want to wake her."

"She might explode if we do."

Tank chuckled, "Explosions are so much fun though."

Lester looked at Tank, "Rock, Paper, Scissors?"

"On the count of three." Tank agreed. They both squared off and slammed down fists in the air. Tank threw out his fist on the third one and it stayed a fist, Lester on his third throw threw down his hand flat.

He looked up at Tank, "Best two out of three?" Lester asked.

Tank smiled his white teeth gleaming. "You afraid of a little girl, Lester?"

Lester looked back in the SUV at Alex, "That is no little girl and you bloody well know it." He looked back at Tank, "Best two out of three."

"You won, winner gets the spoils." Tank started walking to the door of the elevator. "Happy plundering." Tank loved that game, winning was a bad thing, it paid to be on the loosing side of Rock, Paper, Scissors in their world. "Besides, I have to save myself for Lula this afternoon. She doesn't want her big daddy to be over excreted." He said when he punched the elevator button.

"Over excrete this!" Lester said giving him the jack-off sign.

Tank gave a bark of laughter and stepped into the elevator when it opened. He gave Lester a wave as the door shut.

Cal was watching on the monitors as Tank and Lester drove up and parked in the garage. He watched the battle between Tank and Lester on the Rock, Paper, Scissors. He spun his chair around and tapped Roy on the shoulder. "Lester lost again, what does that make him now?"

Roy turned to watch the monitor Cal pointed at. They both laughed when Lester gave the jerk-off sign to Tank. "Lester…I think that's thirty in a row now."

Manuel and Zero walked into the control room with the monitors. "Okay guys, shift change." Zero said.

"Wait, wait, wait." Cal said.

"Not yet." Roy stated. "Lester just lost at Rock, Paper, Scissors again."

Manuel gave a bark of laughter. "Lost with who?"

"With Tank, something neither one of them really want to do, evidently." Cal chuckled.

Manuel and Zero moved in behind Cal and Roy. "So who is in the SUV?" Zero asked.

"Not a clue," Roy stated.

They watched as Lester went back to the door of the SUV. From on the monitors it looked like he was stealing himself to go diving inside the vehicle. "Just get it over with." Manuel said.

Zero hit him on the shoulder. "Shush!"

All four pairs of eyes were glued to the monitor as they saw Lester going backwards and a small dainty little thing taking Lester in the midsection. Both went down on the ground with Lester taking the brunt of the concrete.

"Nice tackle!" Cal laughed out.

"Look, look!" Zero stated.

Alex was now flipping and rolling with Lester and Alex had his arms pinned behind his head with her head almost touching his.

"Damn it. We need sound in that garage." Manuel said.

She was straddling Lester her legs locked under his. They saw Lester glare at her but didn't hear what he had said to her. They saw her release his hands and put both of hers on his chest, they saw Lester's face grow extremely red.

"Fuck! We really need sound." Zero said.

"Lester must like bottom." Cal stated busting out laughing. The whole room started howling with laughter. "About time something happened to him. I'm tired of being the brunt of amniotic fluid jokes."

They saw Alex getting up off Lester, he got up as soon as she stood. He reached out to her and her arm blocked his, circled his and came up gripping his shirt near the shoulder.

"Take him down, Baby." Manuel laughed with glee.

Lester side stepped her foot and threw them both off balance with Alex now being on top of him again, laying fully on top. Lester's legs crossed over hers and pinned her to him. They saw Alex throw her head back into Lester. The whole room groaned. Alex got her legs out from being with his flipped over now where she had been able to wrap her legs under his head. Alex was sitting on his chest. Then slowly got up.

All of them started laughing as they saw that Lester was asleep on the concrete garage floor. Tank opened the door at the loud ruckus in the room.

"What happened?"

"Lester fell asleep on the job." Cal laughed out.

Tank took one look at the screen, "Fuck!"

Alex looked around the garage, she then moved to the SUV and shut the door. She leaned up against the back of the SUV. Her hair had come loose in the small skirmish she had with Lester. She removed the band that kept her hair in the ponytail and was running her fingers through her long black hair when the stairwell door opened up and Tank came walking back out of it.

He came around the vehicle that was parked near the door and looked down at Lester who was slowly gaining consciousness from being put to sleep. Tank looked up at Alex, "Was that necessary?"

"I want, MY bed in MY apartment." Alex told Tank.

Tank walked over to Lester and reached down and grabbed the man's hand and pulled him up. He tilted Lester's head back to look at his nose.

"I think the little shit broke it." Lester said with a groan. "Fuck the plundering, plundering isn't worth it when it comes to her."

"It's not broke, doesn't look like it." Tank let Lester go and walked over to Alex and stood his distance as he took a stance and crossed his arms over his chest.

Lester replayed what had just happened.

He had reached into the SUV and just touched her arm to wake her up, he hadn't expected the raging charging little package to come out tackling him. He was flat on his back and his arms pinned behind his head. He had glared at those deep dark blue assessing eyes that she had.

"If you wanted me under you, all you had to do was ask." He had hissed out in a gravely voice to her.

She had let go of his wrists and then placed them on his chest. Her fingers spreading across his chest, he saw her eyes go almost totally black and was mentally grinning inside that they went that way, his male beast inside roaring with gratification. She had shifted ever so slightly across his groin.

"If I asked, that would put you in control. And in this game, I make all the moves. And your Ameba dick wouldn't satisfy anything but another single celled organism."

His pride was hurt, not only had she told him he couldn't obtain control over her, she didn't see him as man at all. At least not one that didn't have any problems getting younger women to beg him to control them.

Lester shook himself out of the memory playing in his head as he heard Tank say, "Okay Miss Ramono, lets try something different. At three o'clock, it is my privilege to escort you to your meeting with your probation officer. In the meantime, it would also be my privilege if you would allow me to escort you upstairs where you will find food, and a bed."

Alex blinked she had never been talked to like that in her life. She looked Tank over trying to figure out what angle he was playing at.

Lester looked at Alex, he had seen she was shocked at Tank taking the chivalry angle with her. Lester filed this away, if this angle helped, he'd take it himself if it worked. He didn't want to underestimate her again.

Alex gave a slight nod and pushed off from the SUV. She didn't look at Lester, she didn't want to see his face right now. Lester pissed me off with that comment he made to me. I couldn't even sit still on top of him, why did my body choose that moment to react to him that way? Just breath and get out of this garage and put some space between me and him. Maybe he'll think twice about trying to touch me again, I hope he does, even if I have to make him. I can't lose my head, just because my body says, Hello, let's go get some of that.

She walked following Tank, she didn't like it that Lester was behind her, but she knew he was keeping his distance. Her personal space didn't feel threatened again.

Tank was congratulating himself, he was actually getting her to do something, something that Ranger wanted done. He had been playing the ever noble romantic with Lula and he had Lula eating out of his hands. Tank had seen the effect of a small change it had over her, he didn't think Alex was by any means a women of the street that put out freely for money. But Alex had that mentality of being born on the wrong side of the tracks.

Lester followed several paces behind Alex, he didn't want to invade her space. He saw how Tank had stayed clear from her. She was actually following him. Tank paused at the door upstairs and opened it.

"After you, Miss Ramono." Tank said as he held the door for her.

Lester saw how Alex hesitated and then went through the door. He wanted to grin so bad, but he kept it inside. The chivalry method was working wonders with her. So he learned his lesson with his nose stinging and his male ego pride brought down several pegs. Now he just had to remember to keep her thrown off balance in order to gradually get her to do something that would be a step in the right direction. He wondered when Tank started doing this shit. Tank had never played the romantic, but he was doing a hell of a job at it now.

Tank followed Alex out into the hall and Lester came in behind them. He briefly went over the rooms on this floor and walked over to one of the apartments that were empty. "We have a break room down stairs. It has food in it. If you feel the need to go exploring, go ahead. I just ask that if you wish to go outside you would either contact Lester or myself to escort you there. If you need anything, there is an intercom system just inside the door. Press the button and say my name or Lester's and we'll be more than happy to provide whatever you should desire."

He opened the door and allowed Alex to enter it.

Alex turned back and looked at Tank after she went inside. "Er…thank you."

"You're welcome, Miss Ramono." Tank shut the door and then turned to look at Lester breathing out a sigh of relief. "I feel for you. I really do." He walked over to Lester and slapped him on the shoulder. "She's all yours until I need to take her to her probation officer."

Lester watched Tank walk away. He went to his apartment that was stationed across from the one Alex was in and opened the door. He didn't close his, he left it open and sat on the couch just inside. He needed some time alone to sit and absorb everything he just witnessed.

Alex blinked at the closed door. Now, why did I just do what he asked? She ran her fingers through her unbound hair. Turning around she checked out the small apartment, it wasn't very big at all. She went to the bed and crawled into it, pulling the pillow up underneath as she reclined on the bed on her stomach. She let her eyes fall shut and willed her mind to not think on anything, her body craved peace and quiet, and she wanted that more than anything at the moment.