TITLE: Lee's Girls
AUTHOR: Tassi
EMAIL: tassi-girl@juno.com
ARCHIVE: nowhere yet, please ask if you would like to
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FEEDBACK: Yes, please, I need any feedback I can get,
good and bad, so I can cultivate my writing skills
WRITTEN: January 27, 2001
WHY: I just felt like writing, and this is what came
out! Pretty much a short bunch of blah.
TIME: March 1993; marriage is common knowledge
DISCLAIMERS: Lee, Amanda, Jaimie, and Francine are
not mine. Tom, Nicola, and Shayla Leskin, Rebecca and Elisabeth Stetson, and
the soon to be Natalie and Katherine Stetson are my characters, please do not
use them without asking me first.
Lee's
Girls
"Yes, I love you too, Jaimie," Amanda said as she
hung up the phone after talking with her son, a freshman in college at the
University of California in Los Angeles. She hen turned her attention to her
identical twin daughters, Rebecca and Elisabeth, who were jumping up and down
on the living room couches, anxiously waiting for their father to come home
from his five day venture in Paris. It wasn't certain that he would even be
home tonight, but Lee had been trying to make sure that he would be home as
soon as possible because today was Amanda's birthday. Amanda hoped that he would
be home. It was what she wanted the most, to be with her husband.
The girls were five, and Amanda couldn't believe
how fast, and how pretty, they were growing. The only way that you could tell
Becca and Lee-lee apart were their beauty marks. Becca's was underneath her
left eye, and Lee-lee's was under her right. Other than that, they were exactly
the same, it was quite shocking.
"Rebecca
Marie Stetson and Elisabeth Miranda Stetson, stop jumping on those couches
right this instant before your father comes home and catches you!" Amanda
exclaimed, walking over to one couch, grabbing Becca into her arms, and then
doing the same at the other couch with Lee-lee. She fell back onto the second
couch, a girl in each arm, out of breath, and after a moment, tackled them with
tickles. The two curly blond haired and blue eyed girls lapsed into fits of
laughter, trying to escape their Mama.
Amanda
suddenly felt herself being tackled and a deep male voice ring out in hearty
laughter as she jumped in surprise.
"Lee!"
she exclaimed, her eyes chocolate eyes twinkling, as she turned to face him. He
leaned over the back of the couch and gave her a slow, lingering kiss. "Welcome
home!"
"Daddy!"
the twins exclaimed, scrambling into their fathers outstretched arms. He winked
at Amanda and turned his attention towards his adoring daughters.
"And
how are two of my favorite women?" he asked, kissing each of their foreheads,
proud smiles adorning their cute faces at being called 'women.'
Amanda
watched happily as both girls immediately started at him, Becca bombarding him
with stories about kindergarten, and Lee-lee confidently announcing her plans
to marry Charles Hennery, the sandy haired boy from the first grade classroom
next to her kindergarten classroom. Lee chuckled as he tried to listen to each
tale, thinking to himself that they had definitely inherited their mother's
talent of rambling. He hoisted up one in each arm and walked into the spacious
kitchen, setting them down to sit on the Corian countertop.
"Now,"
he started, reaching into his briefcase, "I have a present for m girls, all of
my girls." He looked at Amanda with a wide smile, she pointed to herself, and
he nodded. She walked over next to the counter and leaned against it.
"Now,
close your eyes," Lee instructed, the three females did as he asked. Lee took
two small packages out of his briefcase and placed them in each of the little
girl's hands. He took another package out of his case and pressed it into
Amanda's hands, and brought his lips to her forehead. A smile played around her
lips as they all obediently waited for him to let them open their gifts. He
stood back and smiled, teasing them.
"Lee!"
Amanda exclaimed after a moment. Becca and Lee-lee started to squirm, and
Lee-lee opened one eye slightly and glared at her father.
"Okay,
okay," he laughed, enjoying this game, "You can open your eyes and gifts."
The
girls opened their eyes, but Amanda didn't open her gift immediately, she
waited for the children to open theirs first and leave the room so that she
could open hers with just Lee.
"Chocolate!"
Lee-lee exclaimed joyfully, ripping the paper off of her package first. Becca
exclaimed the same thing a moment later when she also succeeded in opening her
gift. Amanda groaned. The girls were always lively enough, they didn't need any
more sugar! Lee gave her a sympathetic smile, and accepted a hug from each girl
as they jumped down from the counter and bounded up the stairs to their
bedrooms in the 5 bedroom that the Stetson family had had built when there were
eight people living in the 'family,' including Dotty and Francine.
"Are
you going to open your gift?" Lee asked, sidling up to his wife and placing his
hands on her swollen abdomen. Amanda smiled coyly and unwrapped the gift to
find a green velvet box. She pried it open and gasped when she saw the piece of
jewelry lying against the soft satin material. It was a gold necklace, and
there were five platinum charms, each a different letter, separated by a gold
heart charm so it spelled A-N-G-E-L. She wrapped her arms around his neck and
kissed him soundly. Angel was the codename that she had been awarded when she
had become an official agent. Lee had picked the codename during her pregnancy
with her first set of twins, this would be her second.
They
were interrupted by the phone ringing, Amanda moaned her disappointment and
rested her head against Lee's shoulder as he picked up the phone.
"Hello,
Stetson residence," he said as cheerfully as he could to whoever it was that
had disturbed one of the rare moments alone that he experienced with his wife.
"Francine? Oh, hi. - No, no, you didn't
interrupt anything. – Well, yes, that would be great! – Let me ask Amanda." Lee
covered the mouthpiece of the phone and gently lifted Amanda's chin so he could
talk to her.
"Francine
wants to know if we want her to take the girls tonight so we can have some
private time," he said, eyes twinkling mischievously. Amanda's shout of "yes"
thoroughly convinced Lee.
"Lee, I feel like a whale," Amanda complained an
hour later as she surveyed herself in the mirror, not satisfied with the way
that the black, strapless, evening gown fitted her form. They were getting
ready for a night on the town in honor of her birthday.
Lee chuckled and came up behind her, wrapping his
arms around her and looking at her reflection in the mirror. Amanda leaned back
into him, exhausted from being eight and a half months pregnant and having
taken care of two rambunxious five year olds for five days, alone.
"Amanda,
darling, believe me, you do not look like a whale, you look like a pregnant
woman, beautiful, absolutely beautiful!" He gently kissed the nape of her neck,
working his way up towards her ear. He felt her yawn. "If you just want to stay
here, we can. My wish is your command, I just want to be with my stunning wife.
You seem exhausted, like you haven't slept for a while."
She
lifted a hand to her mouth to cover another yawn, and nodded as Lee led her to
the bed and helped her slip out of the dress. He lifted her legs onto the bed
and was about to speak when he heard her sigh contentedly. She was fast asleep.
He
smiled as her breathing became regular and as her chest rose and fell. She was
the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and that beauty was even more
enhanced when she was pregnant. She radiated with some unexplainable glow. He
knelt beside the bed, and lay his head on her belly, trying to listen for a
heartbeat. He smiled softly when he felt one of the children he had helped to
create suddenly kick her mother. More girls! Lee laughed. It seemed as if he
was going to be completely surrounded by girls. Both of Francine and her
partner and husband Tom Leskin's children, Nicola and Shayla, were girls, both
of whom spent a lot of time at the Stetson house, his first set of twins were girls,
and the set he was expecting were also girls! He and Amanda had already named
their little ones. Natalie Michelle Stetson and Katherine Amanda Stetson. Lee
loved to just sit like this, listening two his little ones inside their mother.
They would be beautiful, just like her.
Lee
lifted his head after almost an hour of silence and quickly changed for bed
before climbing underneath the thick winter quilt next to Amanda. Within
minutes he was asleep.
Amanda lazily rolled over in her bed, snuggling up
against the warm body of her husband, and opening one eye slightly to check and
see if it was light outside yet. She was relieved to see that it was still
dark, and she buried her face in her husband's chest.
"Manda,
baby?" Lee murmured, wrapping his arms around her as best as he could, not
opening his eyes.
"Mmm,"
she replied softly, pressing even closer.
"Kiss
me?" he whispered. She opened hers eyes to see his silhouette in the darkness,
and laughed slightly before obliging.
"What
was your birthday wish?" he asked.
"If
I told you, it won't come true," Amanda protested.
"Please?"
Lee pleaded, giving her the puppy dog look. She placed a soft kiss on his lips.
"Alright,
my wish was that you would be able to make it home for my birthday," Amanda
answered.
"I
love you, Amanda," he said quietly, drifting back to sleep. "Happy birthday."
"I love you too, Lee."