Disclaimer- All of these characters belong to Janet Evanovich. If in the future there is a character that you do not know, then they're mine. I am making no money for this. Enjoy and please review!! Also I need a beta reader if anyone wants the job.

Tank's (POV)

I had just entered the Blue Moon, a bar in Trenton, after a horrible take down. It was supposed to be an easy redecoration job, but one of the junkies went crazy and got the better of Zero and now he was in the hospital with a stab wound and a concussion. I don't know how Ranger could run this company all the time. Right now Ranger is 'in the wind' as he likes to call it and I have been put in charge of running his company.

I sighed as Lester and I sat down at the bar, ordering a bud and Lester did the same. As I was working on my second, a hand landed on my shoulder and a beautiful voice spoke, "Pierre? Oh my gosh Pierre, I haven't seen you in years! What are you doing here? Last I heard you were in the army." I looked over to see a familiar face. Stephanie Plum. She and I had gone to college together and she was the prettiest, most beautiful woman that I had ever met, and she still was. Last I had heard, she had married the dick head that she had dated throughout college.

I quickly and discreetly checked her out. She was dressed in a crimson red dress with black FMPs. I quickly checked her left hand, no ring. I smiled at her and responded.

"Hello Stephanie. God do you look amazing." She blushed as if she had no idea how hot she really was. "I live here now. I work for a company called Rangeman. I left the army about two years ago and was working at my companies building in Miami until just a couple of weeks ago."

I checked my surroundings, something that I had trained myself to do a long time ago. I recognized Stephanie's friend Mary Lou, who I had also met in college.

"Hello Mary Lou." Lester chose this moment to remind me of his presence.

"So Pierre," Lester threw his arm around my shoulder. I turned to glare at him. I'd have to remind him tomorrow why my name is Tank. "How do you know these lovely ladies?" Ignoring him I turned back to Stephanie and asked her and Mary Lou to join us. After ordering their margaritas, we all moved to a booth to reconnect.

It turns out that Stephanie did marry the dick, but before their marriage was even final, she caught him cheating on their dining room table. I told her about leaving the army and joining my ranger buddy when he opened his security business. She was impressed to hear that I was running the business while my boss was away and shocked when I told her what kind of jobs that I did. Lester gladly jumped in to tell her about the time that I got knocked unconscious by a druggy, not one of my finer moments.

When I asked Stephanie what she was doing on a Wednesday night at a bar, at 11:30 at night, she told me that she had just been laid off at her job as a lingerie buyer for E.E. Martin and she needed to let off steam.

That was when the brilliant idea came to me.

"Stephanie," I interrupted her angry ranting, "would you like to work for Rangeman?" Both her and Lester's mouths fell open.

"What!" She exclaimed. "I can't do that; I have no idea how to track people down or how to catch bad guys."

"No, no, I wouldn't have you do anything like that, don't worry. We need major help in our distraction department."

"Distraction? What would I be doing?"

"When we get really high class bonds and we have Intel that they will be at a bar or club, we will send in a woman to distract him to leave with her, and once the woman and FTA are out, we grab him without making a scene."

"Don't you already have a woman to help you?"

"We have someone in Miami, but since Trenton is so new, we've had a hard time finding someone. We can't quite advertise it in the papers that we are looking for someone." That got a chuckle out of her.

"I don't know Pierre; wouldn't you rather have a size zero blond, with big boobs?" Lester laughed at this.

"Beautiful, I don't think any guy in here has been able to get his hard on to go away since you walked in here." Stephanie just stared, her mouth hanging open. I reached over and closed it for her.

"How about you just think about it for a while? Rangeman would pay for all of you distraction outfits, which you would be able to pick out. You also would earn 15% of what we get when we bring the FTA in to custody." I put a finger to her lips when she started to interrupt. "Just think about it. You would always be wired and we would have men both inside and outside of the building." She stayed silent for a long time. "How about we meet later this week at Pino's, I remember how much you like their pizza, and you can ask me any questions you might have and then you can give me your answer." I suggested.

She agreed to meet me on Saturday at noon. It was approaching one in the morning and Mary Lou said that she needed to get going home. We all said goodnight and I watched Stephanie hop in Mary Lou's car and drive off. Lester came up next to me and whistled.

"Damn man, you are so luck! That girl is hot!" My hand immediately came up and smacked him on the back of the head.

"Meet me in the gym at 0600."

"Oh man, what'd I do?"

"My name is Tank!" I reminded him of the Pierre incident, with my glare and headed toward my Rangeman SUV. As I drove back to Haywood, all I could think about was Stephanie in her little red dress, and somehow I knew that my life would never be the same.