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A/N: Sorry this update took so long. Things are crazy around here. We are trying to get ready to have our first holiday in our first house. My in-laws will already be here, and we want to it to be nice. At this point I must also say HI MOM! My MIL is one of my biggest supporters here on . So just an FYI chapters will be slow until after the Easter Holiday. Hopefully by then I will also be done with my newest project. Mod Podging an old set of bookshelves for my 2 year old. Anyone want to help cut circles? 100 down and 300 to go!

It had been several days since our talk, and Angie was slowly growing used to being in the house, and the uncomfortable silences that had filled the first few days were now gone. Bobby, Lester and I were used to being in one place for quite some time, and we had the advantage of being able to go out once in a while, but poor Angie was about ready to climb the walls. I had to give her credit though, she was doing her best not to take out her frustration on us, but it didn't always work. I paced around the garage speaking to Ranger in Spanish, while Angie smoked what seemed like her second pack that hour. Apparently she smoked when she was bored.

"¡Maldita sea! Debe salir de aquí, fuma tanto estoy a punto de poner arriba sacos de dormir en el garage." 1

Stephanie must have been with him, because Ranger responded in English. "Fine. She doesn't get more than 10 feet from you. No one goes out wearing Rangeman black, none of our regular hangouts, or obvious places. She can't go to the mall, but smaller stores are ok. No more than 3 hours outside the gates, I want panic buttons on everyone, and check ins every half an hour. "

I looked over at Angie who was standing stiffly near the SUV with one arm crossed over her chest holding her other arm just above the elbow so she could still bring the cigarette to her lips. She shifted her weight from foot to foot with each drag as if she could hardly stand still. I turned my attention back to the phone call.

"Thanks Ranger. We all appreciate this. We will call when we leave the gates to start the countdown to the first check in." I hung up the phone and headed over to stand next to Angie just as she put out her cigarette into an already over flowing ashtray.

"Hey Ang?"

"What's up Big Guy?"

"How would you like to get out of here for a few hours?"

"Oh God yes! Where are we going? When do we leave?"

I laughed and crossed my arms over my chest. "We can leave after you are dressed. We'll talk about where to go with Bobby and Lester after you are ready."

I watched her bounce up and down as she waited for me to take her back in the house. I stepped in front of her and knocked before opening the door. She pushed past me and rushed up the stairs. I went into the kitchen with Bobby and Lester, and filled them in on the situation. Bobby was getting the Panic buttons ready when Angie came back down the stairs. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, but what made her even more beautiful than normal was the huge grin on her face. She joined the three of us at the kitchen table and sat, if you could call it that in the chair. She was bouncing as she was sitting there as she waited for us. I handed her a panic button and showed her how to use it. She tucked it into her pocket while Bobby and Lester grabbed theirs before heading up stairs to change out of their Rangeman uniforms. I leaned forward on the table and looked at Angie.

"So where do you want to go on your first day out? Ranger put a few restrictions on our trip. We can't go to the mall, and we can't take you to any of our regular hangouts, but other than that it is your choice."

Angie looked thoughtful for a minute, and I knew when she had decided where she wanted to go, her eyes lit up. "Can we go to Michaels? It's a craft store. I'd like to get a few things to work on to keep me busy around the house."

I thought about it for a minute and nodded. "Sure, is there anywhere else you want to go?"

"Not that I can think of, I just need a few things to keep me busy. I know the risks of an outing and I want to make sure we don't need to go out often."

I nodded and was about to say something else, but Bobby and Lester came back into the kitchen. I stood up to go get changed. Once we were all dressed and ready, we piled into the SUV and headed for the nearest Michaels store. Angie bounced in her seat next to Bobby the entire trip. If Bobby hadn't been in such a good mood he probably would have sedated her, just for a little peace and quiet.

When we got to the store, she impatiently waited for us to escort her out of the vehicle and to the store. She gave the job of pushing the cart to Lester and headed to the clearance rack in the center of the store. She started flipping through books of colored paper; I managed not to groan as she checked out the price tag and muttered "It isn't ten dollars cute." Before setting it aside and continuing with her search. If she kept this up we would never make it out of this store. I glanced over at Bobby who was making our first check in with Ranger. I looked at Angie going through the piles of paper, so far she had picked a few pads that were marked 4.99, but had set aside a large pile of papers she liked but they weren't worth the price in her mind. I touched her lightly on the shoulder.

"Are there any here that you absolutely hate?"

She shook her head "Not really, but even for clearance some of them are marked really high."

I made an executive decision and grabbed every piece of paper on the shelves there and set them in the cart. "Ok, problem solved."

"TANK! You can't do that. I'm trying to keep it under $100.00. That paper alone is probably more than that."

I took a deep breath and crossed my arms over my chest and looked at her standing there with her hands on her hips. "You need stuff to keep you busy, we're getting that stuff today. Who knows when you might get to come back?"

She just threw her hands up in the air and sighed. "Fine. We'll get the paper."

"And everything else you need."

She rolled her eyes. "And a few other things within reason." She moved to the side of the display which held scrapbooking stickers and borders. She chose a few designs and grabbed two packages of each sticker. I gave Bobby a signal as he walked back towards us to grab the rest of whatever she looked at when she wasn't looking. She didn't seem to notice as items were added to the cart. We walked down to the aisle that had glue and Angie busied herself comparing the labels on bottles of something called Mod Podge. I picked up two different bottles of the stuff and studied the labels. It all looked the same to me, so again I made an executive decision and grabbed the biggest bottles of each kind and tossed them in the cart. I couldn't tell the difference, but I bet Angie could. I gave her my best disarming smile as she turned to glare at me. She huffed and moved on towards the paint brushes. She grabbed some sponge paint brushes from a bin marked 20/$1.00. I rolled my eyes as she counted out exactly 20 of them and gestured for her to grab more. She shook her head and waited for me to follow behind her as she walked down the aisle and picked up a few cardboard boxes and set those in the cart. This had to be the most boring shopping trip on the planet. I had pretty much told her she had an unlimited budget, and she was counting out 5 cent paint brushes. I didn't understand her at all. Any other woman given an unlimited budget in any store would have picked out more than one of everything. She was standing in front of a display of different sized letters and studying them as though they were going to give her the meaning of life. I was going to lose my mind as she walked away moving to the next aisle. I hurried behind her. Lester and Bobby took the opportunity to make a selection for her. We walked up and down a few more aisles and grabbed a few things like an exacto knife and a few other things. I think Bobby and Lester were having more fun than she was. They were randomly grabbing pads of paper off the shelves as we walked up and down each aisle to make sure we didn't miss anything. Finally it was time to check out. I did my best to keep her distracted as they guys unloaded the cart. I wasn't doing such a good job. She noticed all the extra additions and crossed her arms over her chest.

"This is way too much stuff you guys. It will take me years to use all of this."

"Then it will take years, but you needed something to do."

She rolled her eyes and just waited for us to finish checking out. The guys put the bags back into the cart and the four of us headed towards the car. I jerked my head up as I heard a suspicious PING. It took me a split second to realize it was gun shots. I threw my body over Angie's and took us to the ground. I had my gun out and pointed in the direction of the shots while Bobby and Lester crowded around us scanning the area for where the shots were coming from.

"Angie, I know it's hard, but in my front pocket is my panic button. Try and push it." I could feel her groping around to find the button and then her hand fall away after pressing it hard against my thigh. I could hear the bullets pinging off the nearby cars, and suddenly a large explosion caused a wave of heat to roll over us and I could hear Lester groan. "Damn Bombshell's luck seems to have rubbed off on Angie."

While we lay pinned down I could hear the screeching of vehicles arriving in the parking lot and looked up to see a Black SUV right in front of us. I managed to get up and grabbed Angie and threw her into the back seat with Cal and Hal. I slammed the door and hit the roof and the SUV sped off to take her back to Haywood to wait for us.

The three of us stood back and waited for the police to arrive, and unfortunately for us one of the first on the scene was Morelli. He slammed his POS into park and stormed over towards us.

"Where is she?"

"Who?" Bobby asked.

"Steph. I heard the call that a Rangeman SUV was up in flames, I know she's involved So where the hell is she?"

I took a step forward and stared down Morelli. "She wasn't here. We were with a protected witness when shots were fired, one of them hit the gas tank and the SUV went up in flames."

Morelli's face went purple. "I know you are lying! You would do anything to protect Rangeman's whore! I don't see a witness anywhere around here."

Bobby grabbed Lester's arm as Joe called Steph a whore. I chose to ignore that statement, as I started to speak. "Morelli, our witness has been moved to a secure location. We judged it prudent to keep the witness safe rather than leave them as a target out here."

"I demand to speak to this witness right now!"

"Morelli, there is no witness here. We will contact the department when we are available to give our statements."

Ram pulled up in an SUV. Bobby and Lester loaded Angie's purchases into the back and then climbed into the back seat. I gave Morelli one last nod before climbing into the front seat and letting Ram take us back to Haywood.

1 Damn it! She needs to get out of here, she's smoking so much I'm about to set up sleeping bags in the garage.