These characters belong to Janet I am just borrowing them for my amusement. Although I would love to keep Ranger and the merry men for myself!

This story does contain violence, and touches on dark subject matters. This story is not friendly to Morelli or Helen Plum so for Cupcake fans you have been warned.

Chapter 10: Making a Splash

SPOV

I picked Pino's because I am going to miss the food once I begin training. But I also picked Pino's because it is the heart of the burg. I know the minute I walk into the building people will have their cell phones out snapping my picture. Me with the four big scary men in black and rumors will start to fly.

I smile because I know it will only be a few minutes after that someone will call Joe or maybe more than one some ones and tell him that I am here. If I know him, he will show up to try to get me to go back home with him. Boy is he in for a rude awakening.

I am staking my claim, I am making a statement of where I belong and to whom I belong. When I got dressed tonight I purposefully put on my black cargos, my black Rangeman panties and bra, and another back fitted t-shirt with Rangeman on my left breast. The t-shirt is v necked and I purposefully pulled my hair back displaying Ranger's mark on me for the world to see.

I looked over and noticed my mark on Ranger's neck on display for the world to see as well. I just smiled. At the thought of him being mine it made me want to scream from the tallest mountain I could find. Ranger reaches over grabs my hands brings them to his lips and lightly brushes his lips across my knuckles. "It makes me happy too querida". Normally when he ESPs me it pisses me off. At this moment I am too happy, so I just give ranger a big smile.

We pull up to Pino's and I smile as I see all the cars. This is going to be fun, deep end here I come.

RPOV

My Babe is buzzing with excitement. I could feel the waves of happiness just flowing from her all the way to Pino's. I can only hope that I am the reason, that I am the cause of her being so excited. Seeing how beautiful she is in her state of bliss makes me want to turn the car around and head back home.

When did I start thinking of seventh floor as home? It was convenient to sleep there with the long hours I work, it was safe in that no one knew where I was, and it was secure. When did it start to feel like home to me? When I came home from a mission and found my Babe asleep in my bed. I never really looked at the apartment in the same way after she stayed there with me.

It was ours and it was home because she was there. I wonder if my Babe would be willing to move in with me. After tonight I don't want to spend a night in my bed alone but I don't want to pressure her or push her too fast. I take her hand bring it to my lips and run my lips across her knuckles. "It makes me happy too querida." She just looks at me and smiles.

We pull into Pino's and I see all of the cars and I briefly wonder if she would want to go someplace else. I look over and she is beaming with excitement so I guess not. I park up front and I hear my babe mumble something about parking, I just smile. I get out of the car and walk around and open her door. I offer her my hand which she happily accepts as I help her out of the car. I put my arm around her and she immediately wraps her arms around me and pulls me close to her. I lower myself and run my lips across her lips. Her tongue traces my lip requesting entrance so I open for her. What I meant to be a light kiss turned into something much more passionate and demanding and it had my cock twitching with desire. God I could never get enough of her.

"Get a room you two" Lester voice pierces thru my desire ridden brain and I pull back breathless. Both my Babe and I are struggling with catching our breath and getting ourselves back under control after that kiss. I quickly check to make sure we both had all of our clothes on.

I turn around and put my arm on the small of her back as we head to towards Pino's I can see some the patrons standing at the windows watching us with cell phones in hand. I bet they got some good pictures. I wouldn't mind have a copy of that kiss. From my current state I am sure that picture would be hot.

As we enter the noise dies down as people start starring at us but we are giving them something to stare at. Our arms are around each other, the glow my Babe is sporting, and they may even be privy to my smile tonight as I am finding it very difficult to school my blank face in place. We make our way to the back table. Tank, Babe, and I sit with our backs to the wall and Lester and Bobby sit across from us.

Lester of course is the first to make a comment. "Damn Beautiful that is quiet a mark you are sporting there, care to share how you got it?" He wags his eyebrows at her "Santos" I give him a warning. My babe turns red and giggles.

Then she surprises us all "Lester I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you and that would make me very sad." We all howl with laughter. "Beautiful I am hurt. You wouldn't really kill me, you love me too much."

"Lester I do love you, it would be a difficult decision. So to be on the safe side I am just going to have to refrain from answering you." Lester smiled Bobby decides to take the conversation to safer ground.

"Bomber how are your injuries tonight, how are the burns, and the stitches do they feel okay." "Bobby yeah everything feels fine. I haven't been sore and my ankle is even better but I guess you could tell because I am walking better on it."

I make note of cell phones being used, pictures taken of us sitting there laughing, whispered conversations that are happening all around us. I would like to get the guys attention to let them know to be prepared for anything without alerting my Babe.

SPOV

This couldn't be going better. The minute we got here and I got out I gave Ranger a kiss that could have burnt the asphalt up from the parking lot. I actually lost control and had it not been for Lester breaking us up it may have actually turned embarrassing. I had to check to make sure I still had on all my clothing it was so hot.

When we turned to go in I saw the patrons standing at the windows with their cell phones in their hand. I wonder if it would be rude to ask one of them to send me that picture. I would love to have a copy. We make our way to the table in the back and sit down. I sit down between Ranger and Tank with our back to the wall as Lester and Bobby sit across from us.

Lester starts joking and I know he is loud enough for at least for a couple of tables beside us to hear him. It couldn't be more perfect as soon as Joe hears about this he will be here. It is only a matter of time. They have been snapping pictures of us, making phone calls, and have been having whispered conversations since we walked in.

The waitress comes by our table and we place our order. We order two large pizzas with the works, pitcher of beer for the guys a glass of coke for me. Ranger orders salad and water. When is he going to learn to eat real food? "Babe that stuff will kill you."

Maybe but eating salad would kill me faster what the fuck do I look like a Rabbit? The guys start to howl in laughter "Shit I said that out loud didn't I?" Three heads start nodding and a chorus of "Yeah" and a "Babe". I really need to work on that.

The waitress comes back with our drinks. "It will be about 20 or so minutes on the Pizzas." Ranger smiles and thanks her and she stumbles over her own feet. "Ranger" he looks at me and smiles. I would probably stumble if I was walking and he smiled at me like that. I can't really fault the girl.

I feel Tank and Ranger go stiff beside me and I look up to see what they are looking at and its none other than Joe coming thru the door. Oh this night is about to get a whole lot more interesting. This is going to be fun.

He walks up to our table "Cupcake I heard you were here with four scary men dressed in black. I came to take you home." "I don't think so Joe. My home isn't with you not anymore." "Cupcake you need to come with me, we need to talk remember." "No, we no longer need to talk. We haven't needed to talk since I found you with your dick buried in Terry."

Joe quickly looks around the restaurant seeing who was there. Oh so there were people who he didn't want to know that he was fucking her. Thanks Joe for the additional ammunition. "Cupcake I can explain that, I was upset after what happened to your car, and then you left with these thugs. I was upset and worried sick about you." " You were so worried and upset about me that you felt like burying your dick in Terry Gilman" I raised my voice when I said her name to make sure everyone heard it.

I could see Joe getting mad. "Cupcake the boys miss you, you need to come home with me now. At least have the decency to stand up and walk over here and talk to me instead of me having to talk over the table at you." I stood up and walked around Ranger to stand in front of Joe.

I reached for Ranger and he took my hand in his. I knew he was giving me courage and support by his touch. "Joe I don't care about your boys you should already know that by now, if I could have I would have yanked them off last night." "Cupcake this is getting embarrassing and you are disappointing me and your mother. You don't want to embarrass or disappoint your family do you?"

I heard growls from the table but I put my hand up to stop them. This was my fight, my battle and I was standing on my own two feet. "Joe I don't give a fuck if I embarrass or disappoint you or my family. My real family would never be disappointed or embarrassed by me. For those that truly love me I could never be an embarrassment or a disappointment to them so you can take your embarrassment and your disappointment and shove them up your ass. Anyone else who believes that I embarrass them or I disappoint them can shove it their ass as well. Fuck you and Fuck them too."

Joe is so mad he is practically purple. So far I am calm only raising my voice when I want everyone here to hear me. I hope everyone was enjoying this show. I was too focused on Joe to really know what the other patrons were doing.

"Cupcake you think these thugs are your family? You think they love you? All they want is your ass. From the looks of you they must have gotten it. I am sure they are probably ready to send you back to me. After all I know how frigid you are in the bed. You could never satisfy a real man, after all I would know." Ranger narrows his eyes "Morelli" in a low lethal voice. If he spoke to me like that I would literally piss my pants.

"Joe what I do or who I do is none of your business. It isn't anyone business if I do all of Rangeman. You lost the right to my business. You lost the right to know what I do when you buried your dick in another woman why we were in an on phase."

Joe stepped closer to me and the guys started to move. I held up my hand to stop them in their tracks. This was my battle however it ended It was mine not theirs. "I will tell you this Joe I would rather fuck every guy at Rangeman than have your dick anywhere near me. As far as being able to satisfy a real man I fucked Ranger before coming here tonight. To look at him he looks pretty fucking satisfied I would say and I know no one would question if he was a real man or not."

Ranger lifted my hand to his lips place a soft kiss on knuckles before saying "Definitely satisfied Babe" with a smile on his face.

"Cupcake they are thugs, criminals, heartless mercenaries for god sake. They are only going to use you, pass you around and then when they are done with you they will throw you out like yesterday's trash. When that happens don't come crawling back to me, I don't do used."

I was hitting rhino mode, I needed to calm myself. "You don't do used huh? Then why were you banging Terry. Who else are you banging Joe because I know it doesn't stop at Terry. You been fucking Joyce too? She is definitely used. How many others Joe? I would say you do used and from the looks of it last night you do used extremely well and in excess."

Joe was breathing thru his nose like a mad bull his hands held in tight fists at his side. He was pissed, good. "Cupcake I am done with your shit, you are leaving with me now. I will not have my future wife in the company of such thugs. And talking to me like that." Now he had done it.

"Joe, fuck you. I am not leaving with you and I will never be your wife. Why don't you go ask Terry she seemed pretty happy with you last night maybe she will marry your sorry ass and have your devil spawn seed but I never will. As far as talking to you like this, I will talk to you to anyway I fucking want, I earned that right when I walked in on you fucking Terry in your bed."

"Joe I am going to tell you two more things and I want you to listen very carefully because I mean every word. First off the guys at this table and the others at Rangeman are my family. They are my brothers, and Ranger is now not only one of my best friends he is my lover, my partner, and my future husband." I looked at Ranger and saw love in his eyes.

"I love them all and I will defend and protect them. I will stand up and fight beside them I will fight for them against you and the whole god damn burg if necessary. They have more honor in their pinkie toe than you have in your whole fucking body. I am proud to call them my family, my friend, and even my best friend" I looked at Lester. "I protect what is mine and they are mine just as I am theirs. I belong there with them not with you or anyone else." I paused for a second to get my breath I didn't want to break out into tears in front of Joe.

"You call them thugs, criminals, or heartless mercenaries again and you will deal with me, understood. They are none of those things. You know them well enough to know that it isn't true you just like bad mouthing them in front of the burg. You let me hear you call them that again or you let me find out that you have spoken about me or about them behind my back and you will be sorry."

"Are you threatening a cop Cupcake?" "No I am not threatening, I am promising my asshole of an x boyfriend who thinks he can manhandle me into being something I don't want, who thinks he can control me by making me fear that someone will be disappointed or embarrassed by me, and who wants to force me to do things that I don't want to do while he is out fucking the city of Trenton behind my back. If he fucks with me or mine he will be sorry."

"Cupcake I am just trying to save you from yourself. You know good and well you can't do your job everyone in this room knows you can't even your so called professed family sitting there knows you can't do your job. Hell they have had to bail your sorry ass out of the trouble you get in enough to know it. I am just trying to give you the life every Burg girl would die for and you spit in my face."

"No Joe I haven't spit in your face. You spit in mine when you buried your pitiful little dick in Terry and told me that I would have to see past your indiscretions and maybe I would want to join in one day. You spit in my face." I wanted so bad to spit in his face but I knew he was just itching for an excuse to get me out of here and he would end up cuffing me and leading me out and I didn't want to end up alone with him.

"Joe you need to leave our Pizza is coming and I am hungry. I am done with this, and I am done with you. Oh and Joe do not ever call me Cupcake again." I started around back to my seat when Joe reached out and grab my arm. I looked down at his hand holding my arm then back up at him. I narrowed my eyes and glared at him I lowered my voice making it hard and stern.

"Let me go Joe, you won't win this fight. The only reason you are still standing here is I have held them at bay. But manhandle me again or force me to do something I don't want again and I won't be so kind to you. Now leave before I have Pino throw you out." "This isn't over Cupcake you won't always have your band of thugs surrounding you. We will have that Talk." "No Joe you are wrong, it is over. If I have to get a restraining order to keep you away you will stay away from me and we won't ever have that talk. Now leave, but Joe remember what I said I meant it." With that Joe walked out and I went back to my seat to enjoy my Pizza with a smile on my face, thinking to myself that was one hell of a splash.

TPOV

Fuck me. She was beautiful. My little girl did just what I thought. She made a splash so big that I wonder if the pool had any fucking water left. Holy hell and she stood up for us, for us. She said that we were her brothers and Ranger was her lover, her partner, her future husband.

Holy shit I guess we know what happened in that apartment when we left? I mean I noticed her glow and Ranger's smug smile for having put it on her but damn had he asked her to marry him? If so, where is the ring? When she told Joe that she would fuck all of us before she allowed him near again and that she had fucked Ranger before coming here tonight I was floored.

I know a couple of times during their conversation my jaw was probably on the table and I knew what she was going to do. She had cut him too short to shit and then sent his ass packing. It was nothing short of beautiful. I hope someone in this place videoed that because I have got to have a copy.

The guys that missed this will want to see it. They will be so proud of her. I know I am. I can feel myself beaming with pride and big bad asses like me don't do beaming. The thought that she would protect us, she would fight with us and for us that she thought us worthy of such trust and devotion made my heart swell with pride as much as it humbled me.

RPOV

God she is so fucking hot. Seeing her standing there putting Joe in his place cutting him to shreds with her words makes me want to take her right here and right now in front of everyone. It was all I could do not to pull her to me and kiss her until we were both senseless when she said that I was her lover, her partner and future husband.

I wanted to take her on the table when she told him that she had fucked me before coming here and I looked satisfied. I wanted to show him truly how much she satisfied me. But when she said that she would protect us, she would fight beside us and for us I couldn't help the pride that I felt. I was so fucking proud of her that I could have shouted from the highest mountain and bad asses don't shout from any fucking mountain.

Man I wish I had a video of that conversation I would love to watch it and hear it again and then make love to her the way I want to right now. When my Babe sat back down I tucked a curl behind her ear "Proud of you Babe, you never disappoint." She smiled and then I captured her lips with mine. I pulled her to me my tongue demanding entrance as it traced her lip which immediately opened for me. The kiss was so hot that I had to remind myself we were in Pino's. When I heard a crash I broke away to see the waitress had dropped a stack of dishes. Good thing it wasn't our Pizza or my Babe would probably have shot her with my gun.

"Beautiful that was amazing. You blew me away. I want you to know that you are my best friend too and I love you. I would protect you and would be honored to have you fight beside me as I would fight for you too." Lester sometimes knows the perfect thing to say to her. She just beams at him her eyes pooling with unshed tears. I was thankful he hadn't brought up her comment about our earlier activities. "But Beautiful I am hurt that you tell Joe details that you said you would have to kill me if you told me." Damn "Santos" I shot him a warning even though I know he was just kidding her.

"Oh my god Ranger I am so sorry, it just came out before I thought about it." I shot Santos a glare for making her question herself. His ass was mine on the mats tomorrow from the look on his face he knew it. He knew he fucked up the second she questioned herself.

I lowered my lips to hear ear and whispered "Babe it is okay, you telling him that made me so hot for you I wanted to take you on this table to show the world just how much you satisfy me. When we get home I am going to show you just how much I am affected by your words tonight and how much you satisfy me." She blushed and turned bright red at my whispered confession.

"Babe we all would be honored to have you fight beside us. To my lover, my partner and my future wife I love you, I will fight for you, I will protect you, and I will love you to the day I die." She looks up at me with tears leaking from her eyes. "I love you too with all my heart. I will be in love with you until the day I die." I kiss her soft lips again. I can't wait to get her back home tonight I only hope she will come home with me.

"Bomber you have to know that I have never in my life had someone stand up for me like that. I am honored for you to be my sister. Knowing that you are watching over me and willing to protect me will be my final thought every night before I go to sleep because knowing that will make me sleep better at night. I love you, I will protect you and would be proud to have you fight beside me and I would fight for you, I would give my life for you." Tears are running down my Babe's face as her brothers confess their love for her.

"Little Girl I knew you were coming here to make a splash tonight. I figured it out on the way here. I didn't tell the other guys because I figured it was something you wanted to do. I couldn't imagine what you were going to do but I couldn't imagine you doing it any better than you did. You were amazing simply beautiful. I have never been more proud of you watching you stand on your own two feet. You didn't just stand up for you, you stood up for us, for me. It floored me. To think that you would protect us, you would fight with us and for us it humbles me. It makes me incredibly proud to know you, to love you, and to consider you my sister. Know that I will protect you and I will fight for you just as much as you will me."

My men made me proud, my Babe made me proud. I couldn't imagine supporting her more than we did tonight even with Lester's stupid comment. I know he was just playing but I never want her to ever be made to question herself again. Looking at her you could see the love, the happiness, the trust, and the bond she had with each of us and that we now had with her. Today had bonded us in a way we had not been before. It had drawn us closer together and had truly made us family with her being the heart of us all. I was one lucky man. I couldn't wait to get her home to show her just how lucky I was.