Authors Note

Hey guys I'm back and ready to write. This week has been super hectic. My school has lost its mind. People are being kicked out of the MME's because they are wearing yoga pants. Is it just me or is that so stupid? People got kicked out for tight jeans too. What's with that crap? Like half my school was gone for one stupid thing or another and the teachers are at their wits ends, so it's been crazy. Well anyways here I am with the next chapter of Found.

~Ranger'sBabe16

Warnings

The usual I think, anything more and I don't know about it yet so enjoy.

Found

Chapter 5: Longest Week Ever

Previously on Found

My team was still looking into Steph's capture and her rescue. At this moment in time I was on my RangeMan issued laptop running background checks on our new hires, to see if they were fit for RangeMan. A creak made me jump as it was just me and Steph in the room. I looked over at her and saw she was waking up. I stood over her bed until her blue eye opened and looked at me with curiosity.

"Steph, you're awake." I whispered, just before she closed her eye and the heart monitor line went flat.

Ranger P.O.V.

Before I could do anything doctors and nurses were running around dragging machines behind them with some purpose that I didn't know, and I hated not knowing. I stood just staring at Steph, not sure what to do. Before I got my mind wrapped around the fact that Steph had flat lined and was dying a nurse got into my face and pushed me out the door. If I had really not wanted to move, I wouldn't have, but I did. The door shut with a note of finality with it. Steph was dying and I could do abso-fucking-lutly nothing. Slowly I came back to the world around me and I heard yelling down the hall.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU FORGOT TO CALL ME?! IT'S MY BABY GRANDDAUGHTER IN THEIR HELEN. I DID NOT RAISE YOU THIS WAY, TO FROGET TO CALL ME WHEN SHE WAS FOUND. HOW COULD YOU? I WOULD HAVE LEFT THAT SENIOR CRUISE INSTANTLY IF I WOULD HAVE HEARD! THAT'S IT WASN'T IT? I WOULD HAVE DROPPED EVERYTHING AND FLOWN BACK TO TRENTON AND YOU DIDN'T WANT ME HERE! THAT'S IT ISNT IT? GOD DAMN IT, HELEN!" The voice of Edna Mazar sounded throughout the hospital. I smiled a grim smile glad that Helen was getting some shit thrown in her holier-than-thou mentality. I walked around the corner to tell Frank and Edna what had happened to Steph, my notorious blank face firmly in place.

"Edna, how nice to see you. I wish it was under happier circumstances." I told her as I walked up next to her.

"Why Carlos Manoso, I haven't seen you in years. My how you developed, you must have a nice package down there." Edna said copping a feel. The blood drained from my face and everywhere else and seemed to pool at my feet. Edna smiles back and I grimaced.

"Frank, Edna, Steph flat lined." I spit out hoping that they heard me over Helen's insistent rambling.

"SHUT UP HELEN!" Frank roared at her before turning to me with a wild look in his eyes.

"What do you mean she's flat lined? She isn't dead is she?" He asked me, panic seeping through every pore.

"No, not yet, the doctors got their fast enough so she's alive, we just have to hope that she pulls through." I tell him. Edna and Frank nod and head back into the waiting room in front of Steph's room, forgetting all about Helen. I walked with them but at the last second looked over my shoulder and saw something that would forever haunt me. Helen's face was twisted into a terrible hatred for her youngest daughter. It was so malicious that I wondered if I had ever met her on one of my missions overseas. Just as quickly as I saw it, it was gone, but I knew I hadn't imagined it, I was Ranger for God's sake. I sat down next to Frank to wait.

The next week passed so slowly. Steph never woke up, but she was still alive and her brain was functioning normally. So I still had hope. Then one day exactly a week later her beautiful blue eye opened up and she smiled the brightest smile at m, her one eye shinning bright.

"Oh Steph, I'm so glad that you are ok." I told her honestly. She opened her mouth but no sound came out. Just as quickly as the light was there, it disappeared. In its place was a broken scared little girl of six, with Carlos as her only friend and so much pain, so much. I didn't know what to say so I just sat there with her.

Steph P.O.V.

My eyes opened and everything was hazy. I couldn't make out anything with my left eye and I couldn't see at all with my right. A familiar face looked down at me and I smiled at him so happy to see that Carlos visited me when I broke my arm, when I jumped of the roof.

'Oh Steph, I'm so glad that you are ok." He says. His voice is different and now that I think about he looks different too. I opened my mouth to ask him about it when no sound came out. For a second I was confused as to why, before my whole world came shattering around me in a million shards of sharp pointed glass that cut me with every fall. All the memories I tried not to think about came to the forefront of my mind. The pain, suffering, and torture I endured were fresh in my mind and I didn't know how to handle it. So I did the thing that seemed natural, I mean it got me what I wanted with my parents before it all, I cried. Deep hart wrenching sobs that I couldn't control. The machines went wild scaring me half to death as they beeped. The door was flung open making me choke on a sob scared of everyone. I just wanted my daddy to help me.

'I want my daddy.' I tried to tell them, but no one seemed to hear me. What do I do? I'm so scared. I thought to myself.

'Help me!' I called out, but still no sound emerged. So I cried, and cried, and cried.

Authors Note

So what do you think? Fun, I thought so. Poor Steph, I feel so bad writing this but I know that it will get better, and now you do too. I promise it does get better and happier, abet slowly, but it does. So R and R. Now some peoples R and R means rate and review well mine mean read and review. Fun huh? I thought so.

~Ranger'sBabe16