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 don't think you need to read each of the stories in order to understand the story being told but hopefully you will read all of them anyway. Thanks again for all your support.
Chapter 1 - An Offer He Couldn't Refuse
It was Saturday and Lee had the day off. He had decided that he was going to invite Penny from the Steno Pool out dancing at his favorite nightclub and then he planned to bring her back to his place for a little companionship. She had been begging him for weeks to take her out and it was high time he took her up on that offer. As he was thinking about it, the phone rang.
"Yeah" He answered.
"Stetson, this is Agent Reinhardt. I think we have some news that you would be interested in."
"Go ahead." Lee said
"Well I'm sure you know the name of Rostov?"
"Who doesn't? What about him."
"Well I know that you were in charge of the last operation to try to bring him in and at the last minute he was tipped off and you lost him."
"Yes, we never did find out how he got word that we knew he would be at the Governor's mansion that day. I have come so close to nearly catching him so many times that I can't believe what good luck the man seems to have. It is almost like he is a Chameleon. What does this have to do with anything?"
"Well Scarecrow, how would you like another crack at him?"
"Really? How?"
"Well I'm part of a special forces team that has been trying to get him for months. The head of the team is Agent Brewer. We have been running a secret operation together and just as we were ready to close in, Brewer became extremely sick and went to the Hospital ER where they discovered that his appendix had burst. He's okay but it will be a long time before he will be of any use to us and if we don't follow through on our operation, all our work for the past 5 months is down the drain. We know how long you have been trying to get Rostov and thought you might like first stab at taking Brewer's place."
"Okay, you have my attention. Tell me more." Lee said getting excited at the prospect.
"There is a college in Virginia called Green Briar College."
"Yeah, I've heard of it. Isn't that a Catholic School?"
"That's the one. Well about 5 months ago, we arranged for Professor Daly to go to work there. Professor Daly has been working in the Government in the weapons department for many years and has developed a specialized Missile that can zone in on its target from hundreds of miles away."
"Okay, so I'm not sure I'm following. How does that get us Rostov?"
"Well we made sure that Moscow was aware of this missile being developed and made it seem like Professor Daly had gotten burnt out while creating it so he decided to go back to his first love; teaching. Then we leaked out that he was using the school as a cover to finish the project and that the school was so eager to get him as a teacher that they made a deal with him. They would allow him to use their labs and materials to continue his work with these new test missiles while he taught physics and chemistry to the students."
"Which means the documents would be in his classroom." Lee finally understood.
"Exactly! Our sources have determined that now that Professor Daly has announced that his work is complete and he will be revealing it next week, Rostov will be making his move. We made sure that he thinks that the plans will be moved to a more secure location on Tuesday after the computer is demonstrated to a group of important government and military people so he should be infiltrating the Campus on Monday. Are you up to busting the leader of the most successful Espionage ring in the country?"
Lee smiled as he answered "I am definitely in for that. Where do we start?"
"Can you meet me at the Agency in an hour? I can fill you in on all the details."
"Sure, I'll be there." All thoughts of a night out with Penny were forgotten.
A/N - I'm using Green Briar College because that is where the original says that this took place. However, interesting enough, Green Briar is an all girl school, not coed. There were definitely guys in the aired episode so I'm just going to ignore that it should have been all girls.
TBC
