I Need To Know

Amanda stopped by the Agency garage having been summoned by Leatherneck. She and Lee had long retired but she was naturally curious at the request.

When she saw Leatherneck she smiled and shook her head commenting, "I still can't believe you stuck around here. Aren't you gonna retire?"

Leatherneck smiled back and answered, "Oh, I am retired. But there was one last thing I had to do for the Vette' before we put it out to pasture and I found something Ace must have missed in the glove compartment when he cleaned it out."

Amanda's curiosity piqued as she replied, "Oh? I helped him clean it out so I'm sure I got everything. What is it?"

Leatherneck smiled as he gave her an envelope and disc and said, "It's a belated anniversary gift for his special girl. Happy Twelfth, Mrs. Stetson."

Amanda bewildered looked at the disc and opened the envelope. Inside was a card that read: "You turned my world upside down and inside out, Honey. And I wouldn't have traded it for anything in the world. If you ever wondered how I felt in our beginning, this song sums it up although I was damn slow to admitting it. I love you. Here's to many more wonderful years together."

Amanda swallowed hard as Leatherneck responded, "He wants you to listen to it on the way home."

Amanda hugged Leatherneck stating, "Thank you."

Leatherneck stammered embarrassed suddenly as he pulled back and remarked, "I just deliver the messages. I don't write 'em, but you're welcome. Drive safe."

So as Amanda drove home she smiled listening to the song and thought how their minds were as one as she had left him a song as well which she hoped he was listening to now.

She had left him a song by Celine Dion, "Because You Loved Me."

His song for her was by Marc Anthony, "I Need To Know."

Meanwhile at home Lee was indeed listening to the very song she had picked out and sighed thinking how very in tune they were to each other and how fate luckily had kept them together all these wonderful years and that the best was yet to come...