Disclaimer: Scarecrow and Mrs. King and its characters are the property of Warner Brothers and Shoot the Moon Productions. The plot is mine, you may copy at any whim you so choose however please leave credit where credit is due.
Yes it is now the 21st (IFF Girl LOL) Finals are over! I am now free to unleash my writing on you poor unsuspecting fanfic readers for a month. Enjoy and I will do my best to post at least once every other day. More if you can stand it.
A Race Against Time and the KGB
Amanda's eyes were heavy. She was faintly aware of Lee calling her name, but her head hurt too much to concentrate on anything. Her world as she knew it began to move; and as she tried to clear the cobwebs she realized someone was shaking her. "Lee…"
"Yes. Amanda, that's it. Come on. Wake up." Lee encouraged.
"Lee?" She repeated becoming aware of her surroundings. She was in her office, the Q bureau, and there were agents swarming the small room. Billy and Francine hovered a respectful distance. Amanda brought her hand up to her head and noticed a gray band fastened to her wrist. She studied it and looked into Lee's concerned eyes. "What happened? What is this?" She questioned.
"What do you remember?" Billy asked.
Amanda thought about her morning. "We were getting ready to leave for lunch when I heard machine gun fire." She started and Lee nodded for her to continue. "Mrs. Marsden?"
"She's okay." Lee answered. Amanda grabbed his hand. She realized she had been lying down on their couch and wanted to sit up. "Easy." Lee warned as he helped her.
Her head was spinning and began to throb. She'd been drugged enough times to know what it felt like. Closing her eyes to stop the room from swirling she continued. "I was by the vault and tried to make it to my gun in my desk when the bullets crashed through the door." She felt her forehead and found a gauze bandage soaked with blood. "One grazed my head and I blacked out. After that I just remember bits and pieces."
"You were in and out." Lee informed her. "Alexi Morehouse broke in demanding his brother be released. The only problem is we don't have him. We never did. Alexi refused to believe me and put that dead man's watch on you."
Amanda examined the face of the device. The timer was strange but the rest looked standard. "It's different." She observed.
"It administers random doses of poison which will kill slowly if we don't get it off you or find Dimitri." Billy interjected with more calmness than he felt. As he spoke it beeped.
Amanda felt a poke under the watch and a slight burning as the drug entered her system. She gasped in surprise and felt a wave of nausea over take her. "Excuse me." She said bolting for the bathroom.
"Francine." Lee ordered, but Francine was already heading in her direction.
"Amanda?" Francine questioned as she shut the door not sure what stall she was in. "Are you okay?" She heard movement and Amanda left the confines of the stall to sit on a nearby chair.
"I've been better." She admitted steadying herself. "How many of those do you think I've had?"
"We're not sure. There seems to be no pattern to the injections."
Amanda nodded. "How many of those do you think I can handle?"
Francine shocked her by sitting next to her and putting an arm around her shoulder. "We don't know and we're not going to find out."
A knock at the door interrupted their conversation. "Amanda? Are you okay?" A worried Lee asked through the door.
Amanda stood and opened the door with shaky hands. She looked up at Lee and noticed a black eye forming and a nasty lump on his head. She reached out to touch the bruise, "Are you okay?" She echoed.
"Amanda, I'm fine." He answered taking her outstretched hand in his. "We need to get you to a hospital."
"No way." She spoke with determination.
"Amanda now is not the time to argue."
"You're absolutely right. We need to be searching for Dimitri."
"I need to be searching for Dimitri." Lee corrected his wife.
"Lee listen. The last time we saw one of these," she motioned to the watch, "You were the one wearing it and as I recall you didn't just sit around waiting to die."
"She has a point Scarecrow." Francine commented.
"You stay out of it." Lee pointed to the blonde. "Amanda King—"
"Spare me the speeches Stetson. It's about time you were in my place…" Amanda trailed off instantly sorry for her outburst. "Lee," she began softly. "I need to be doing something to keep my mind off this. I know you understand that."
Lee hugged her, "I do understand. I just want to do everything possible to help. I don't want to loose you."
"Never." She whispered in his ear.
Walking back into the office Amanda surveyed the damage. "How could this happen?"
"We let our guard down." Billy answered simply. "They were in and out in five minutes, but that's four minutes and fifty nine seconds too many."
"Where do we start?" She asked as Billy looked at her questioningly. "I can't just sit around sir." She explained.
He nodded his understanding. "We split up. Lee and Amanda follow up on your contacts. Francine and I will hit ours."
"If we find him then what? We can't just hand him over to Alexi. He's a terrorist and a killer!"
"I'm not sure Amanda. We'll deal with that when we come to it." Billy answered honestly.
To be continued…