A/N: Guys you rock! For chap 9 I got a record of 30 reviews! That´s awesome.

So this is one of my favorite Chapters, I really hope you will enjoy it. And maybe we can set a new record.

Betrayal

Chapter 12

Stephanie´s PoV

October 31, 2011 1200 hours

Bodie, WA

Bodie is a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington. Once it was a blooming town of miners but falling gold prices and the Second World War left it to the elements.

At the end of the year the landscape appears rough and inhospitable. The abandoned, rotting buildings gives you the impression of emptiness, sadness and desperation. It´s like the whole area still grieves for its former occupants.

Although the sun is at the highest point, it´s almost dark. Heavy rain clouds hung deep in the sky.

It will be raining soon.

Not the light, cleansing rain; I´m talking about vicious raindrops, earthshattering thunder, crackling thunderbolts and berserk storms. It is eerily fitting for the things to come.

Sitting here alone, it seems impossible that seven billion people walk this earth; this is really the end of the world, in more than just one sense.

Oh, you ask yourself why I´m suddenly so poetic? Well your impending death has the tendency to do so.

I am sitting in the mouth of the mine, waiting for them. Sadly the area is much too big to have it monitored by one person alone, even with all the gadgets I could get. So I´m solely relying on my knowledge of him and my ability to feel him. Yes, I´m sure that I will still get those tingles in the back of my neck, he might have severed our connection on his end but my love for him is as strong as ever.

I have called Connie yesterday at 2130 hours, I estimate he had received the coordinates 2 to 3 minutes later, either from Connie herself or through the bugs I ´m certain he had placed in her phone. And knowing Ranger he had our "meeting" planned with military precision ten minutes later.

His first step will be looking up the coordinates and researching the area. Maybe he even had called in a favor for satellite photos with higher-definition then Google Earth provides.

Then he will be assembling a team; Bobby and Lester for sure and Ram as sniper and two or three man more or he will bring representatives of the other branches seeing as I betrayed not only Ranger but RangeMan as a whole. It´s already past noon and nobody is here yet, so I think he will bring at least one man from the other branches. They will fly to Oroville, rent some cars, drive here and observe the area. Ram will look for a place for a clear shot on the opposite hill while the others will close in on me. Ranger on the other hand will approach me directly. Armed to teeth of course. Ranger is nothing but thorough.

Oh, I don´t think he will shot me on sight. No he´ll want answers first and he wants me to see the condemnation in his eyes. His eyes. Oh his beautiful expressive eyes. Even when his face was blank I was always able to read in those dark orbs. To my dying breath I will remember how they laughed in amusement over my antics, how they burned with rage when someone dared to lay a hand on me, and how they clouded with passion as our bodies and soul united in that one fateful night.

Thinking of the devil the tingles started.

I rose from the ground and made a few steps and then I saw him stepping out of the shadows. My Dark Knight. His black silky hair pulled back, clad in black and his gun pointing straight at my heart.

I took my gun out of the hip holster clipped to my jeans with two fingers, disabled it and threw the parts at his feet. I sank to my knees and folded my hands on my head.

"Hello Ranger"