Disclaimer: Joss, Fox, Universal Own em’. (Except for Maxine and the rest of my OC's. they're mine) I’m just playing. No money being made.

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Continuing on the storyline I started with “New Blood ” and “Guardians” Read those first so you will know who is who and what has happened in the 'Verse.

Warning: This storyline includes 'gasp' fem slash. It won't be graphic but I know some are offended by any depiction of homosexuality. If you don't like this kind of thing... stop reading right now. Same goes for my depiction of a Polyamory relationship.

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AN: Takes place both in the future and post Guardians. This chapter is set mostly in the future.

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Tales of the Rangers

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Chapter Thirteen

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Simon let the hot water erase some of the fatigue he felt. There had been a time when ten hours of complicated surgery didn't even make him blink. A cup of coffee and he'd be ready to go another ten.

He jokingly thought that he might be getting too old and then chuckled out loud. Twenty nine was nowhere near old.

Maybe it was the stress of the last few years that had aged him. There were some mornings he felt much older than his years. Until he looked over at Kaylee sleeping next to him.

Thoughts of his wife brought a smile to the doctor's face as he stepped out of the shower and toweled off.

Maybe what made him feel old was that most of the time now. His patients weren't strangers but people he considered friends and family.

Friends like Roberta Williams.

With a towel around his waist, Simon stepped into the surgeon's changing room proper and opened the locker he had been loaned to hold his clothing.

“Dr. Tam?”

Simon turned around, “Yes Dr. Sing?”

The shorter and a few years older Asian man stepped forward. Already dressed in fresh scrubs, “I am honored to have worked with a surgeon of your skill.”

Simon smiled wanly, “Thank you. I must say your work is first class as well.”

“Comes from being a field surgeon for the Independents.”

Simon nodded, “Experience i