Disclaimer - "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" are copyrighted to Warner Brothers and Shoot the Moon Productions. This story is for entertainment only. I will not make any money off it but do hope that at least some people will enjoy it. The Characters are not mine; I only took them out to play with them for a while so they could help me tell the story. All the credit goes to Bruce and Kate and their wonderful supporting staff for portraying these wonderful characters so well that so many of us still love them so much today. The additional characters and this story are mine.
A/N #1 – For those who are familiar with my In Between Series, you know that I accomplish two things with them. First, I try to fill in all the holes that were missing from the aired version. Then Amanda and Lee help me tell what happened in between the aired episodes. Since I meld them into the series like they really were aired (because we know that Amanda and Lee are real so the stories really do exist), I will be using references from them in future stories. I think that it might be difficult for you to understand some of the characters if you are not reading my past stories as I am going to begin using some of the past into my current stories. Since I don't want to bore my readers who do read my stories, I will not be explaining that history so hopefully you will read my past stories so you understand. Thanks again for all your support.
A/N #2 Sudden Death's storyline has something wrong that drives me nuts. The timing is wrong. All wrong. Sunday was supposed to be when the game was played. Saturday was the final practice before the big game. The original plan was to kill Bela on Sunday during the game but when he runs off, they decide to do it on Saturday during practice BUT if you watch the scene with Billy and Lee in Billy's office after Bela takes off, Billy is on the phone with someone telling them that he is fully aware that it is Saturday night ONLY it's not Saturday night if you use the timeline, it is actually Friday night. That is reaffirmed when Lazlo is in Crandall's office as Phil is driving them up the wall with banging nuts as Lazlo states that he can't wait for Sunday's game, he wants Bela taken out the next day instead in practice. SOOOOOO, we are going to chalk it up to Billy being tired and getting his night wrong and go with Bela running on Friday NOT Saturday cause even I can't explain how Saturday can be two days back to back. Did you follow that ramble? Hopefully you did so just sit back and listen to the expanded version of Sudden death followed by a new story.
Chapter 1 - A Day Off
Lee had gone back to his apartment after leaving the gym the day he and Amanda caught Rostov and Dirk and found that his answering machine was flashing. He pushed the play button and heard Billy's voice say "Lee, you did a great job getting Rostov. I contacted President Reagan and he is thrilled that we have him back in custody. He was disappointed to hear about Dirk but is glad that you were able to gather enough evidence to lock him away for a very long time. As a thank you from us to you and because I know you didn't get your vacation; I'm giving you tomorrow off with pay. It won't count towards your vacation time at all. I really wish I could give you longer but I have a new case and I need you on it by Thursday. We'll talk about giving you more time after that case is solved. Get some rest and I'll see you at 5am on Thursday morning.
Lee turned off the machine and chuckled. Time off for most people meant a week or two but not Lee Stetson. Billy knew that if Lee wasn't kept busy, he would get into trouble so giving him a day off was usually enough to let Lee unwind a bit without having him do something rash. Lee wondered what he could do with only 1 day off. Since his vacation had to be canceled when Amanda was kidnapped, he hadn't planned on any time off so now he needed to come up with something that he would enjoy for just 1 day. Since it was during the week, it would be unlikely to find any female companionship to join him especially on such short notice. Then it dawned on him. There was one place that he had been neglecting. He had always tried to visit it once a week but it seemed that since that fateful day that he met Amanda; life had been so crazy that he hadn't had any time to go out there. He would spend part of the day tomorrow at one of his favorite places; Birchwood.
TBC
