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"God, you scared the crap out of me," she said as she closed the door.
"This is Tank and Lester. Except I think you met them yesterday," I said.
"Hey beautiful," Lester said swinging his arms around her shoulders. I could tell Tank was watching me. I was a little jealous.
Steph's POV
Lester had put his arms around me. I smiled. I liked Lester, but he didn't seem like the long term kind of guy.
"So how are we going to do this?" I asked.
"Lester and Tank will take the back, and Steph and I will take the front," Ranger said. They nodded. I slid out of Lester's arms and we did what Ranger said. We went to the front door and Ranger knocked. Johnson opened the door and then started to close it. Ranger stuck his foot in and Johnson started running. He pulled out a gun when Lester and Tank came up the front. He was about to shoot.
"Hey Johnson!" I called and then I threw a shoe at him. He turned to me and I realized now he was after me.
"You bitch!" he yelled, and pointed the gun at me. But before he could shoot me Tank and Lester had him cuffed.
"Steph, thanks we would probably gotten shot if it wasn't for you," Lester told me giving me a kiss on the cheek.
"You're welcome. I just didn't want to see you guys hurt. You know I didn't want to be hurt either, but really it was nothing," I rambled. A hand settled on the base of my neck. It was Ranger.
"We'll take him to the station and drop off the body receipt for you," Ranger told us. I nodded.
"Okay. I have another FTA to go after anyways," I told them. Here I come Morelli. I think I actually grimaced.
"Something wrong Babe?" Ranger asked me.
"No, no of course not. What would be wrong?" I asked with a smile. I wasn't about to tell him I had to go after Morelli.
"Nothing. You just got a look on your face." I nodded.
"Well I'm going to go. See you later." I walked out to my car and drove to Morelli's apartment. His car was there but no one seemed to be home. Using a nifty skill I picked up in Miami, I picked his lock. His apartment was empty, but his car keys were on the counter. I figured it wouldn't hurt if I took his car for a drive. I took the keys and locked up the apartment. I left my Nova in the spot were his red Cherokee Jeep had been. I got in and went to the bonds office.
"I got Johnson with the help of Ranger and his men," I told Connie.
"That's good. Now you need to get Amos and Morelli," Connie informed me. I nodded.
"I have his car. I'm just using it for a bit," I said. They nodded. I went around looking for Joe. I couldn't find him and decided to check with his mom. She didn't know where he was. I continued around the neighborhood I stopped and went slower around the police station. I didn't see him and decided to call it a night since it was around seven. I stopped at Pino's and got some food. I then drove home. On the way I was stopped at a light, and I saw Joe in the other lane in a van. His eyes widened. I locked the door and smiled at him. I drove home and removed the distributor cap. I hid behind the azalea bushes and put down some newspaper to sit on. I sat down stun gun ready. I didn't want to run upstairs in case I missed Morelli. I waited for a while and nobody came. It was around two in the morning, when I decided to call it a night. I left the distributor cap there and trudged upstairs. My butt was sore and I was cold. I went inside my apartment and locked the door. I then peeled off my clothes and walked to the bathroom. I started the shower my bag on the toilet seat. I had just finished washing my hair, when I saw someone behind the curtain. I couldn't reach my stuff. I turned off the water and the shower curtain was ripped aside. I thought it was going to be Amos, but it was an angry Joe Morelli.
"Where is my distributor cap?" he asked relatively calmly. I shrugged and got angry. He just broke in here.
"Get out of here Morelli or I'll start screaming," I warned him. He smirked.
"You live in a building full of old people who have their hearing aids out."
"It was worth a try. I don't have your distributor cap. If you let me take you to the police station, I'll give you your distributor cap back," I told him. He put his hand on his hip.
"I'll tear this place to part to find it," he told me he then got the cuffs out of my bag. He tried to cuff me.
"I don't think so," I told him trying to move but it was hard in the tub. He cuffed me.
"Perv!" I exclaimed. He laughed.
"In your dreams, Plum," he said and then he took the other cuff and cuffed it to the shower rod. Then he went out and I heard things clinking and slamming. He came back and he didn't look happy.
"I'm going to give you one last chance to tell me where it is, otherwise I'll leave you hanging," Morelli told me.
"I'm not telling you." I was too mad to be embarrassed so I wasn't going to tell him.
"Fine. Here's the telephone," Morelli said with a smirk as he handed me the phone. I felt relief. Oh wait who was I going to call? I couldn't call the police or my mother. And no one had a key besides Dillon.
"Who am I going to call?" I asked him. He shrugged. He stepped back and took a look at me. Then he grinned. I rolled my eyes. He left and I heard the door shut. Great, now I was stuck hanging naked with the phone. I couldn't call anyone because no one had a key, and if I called the fire department or police it would get back to my mother. The only choice would be Ranger. I dialed his number.
"Yo," he said. I sighed.
"Ranger…I have a slight problem," I started.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I'm stuck. If you could come help me, I'd be really grateful. I'm in my apartment. Oh, and try to hurry," I told him.
"I'll be there in five," he said and then I heard the dial tone. It seemed like thirty minutes when I heard my door open and close.
"Babe?" I heard Ranger call.
"In here," I yelled. I heard him go around things and he ended up in the bathroom.
"How'd this happen?" he asked picking through the mess on the floor and finding the keys. As he was unlocking the cuffs his hands brushed against me sending a hum all the way to my doodad.
"One of my skips came in looking for something and handcuffed me to the shower rod," I told him. He looked me up and down and his eyes darkened. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around me.
Ranger's POV
I had gotten a call from Steph and thought that maybe she was coming onto me, but I didn't think she would. She could have been in trouble so, I rushed over and found her cuffed to her shower rod. I wondered which skip did this.
"Who was the skip?" I asked her as she went over towards the mirror. She shrieked.
"What?" I asked.
"My hair!" Her hair was standing up a little bit like she was shocked. I thought she looked sexy. Well, everything besides the hair.
"So, who is the skip?" I asked again.
"mmerllo," she mumbled.
"Who?" I asked again.
"Morelli," she said walking into her bedroom, "crappity crap crap."
"Morelli's one of your skips, what made him do this?" I asked.
"I kind of borrowed his car and hid the distributor cap," she told me sorting through the clothes on the ground.
"I'm guessing he didn't take that very well," I said coming closer to her.
A/N: What'd you think? Still want more. I wanted to do the scene from One For the Money and I did. There's a twist though and it's coming next chapter. =) So review and I'll post faster.
