Author's Note: So, I decided to turn this into a series of one-shots instead of just one. Once I'd written the first one, I thought of several other ideas working off the idea of Francine being the only one at The Agency in know, so I'm going to do one from each episode through the end of the series. I wanted to add a little something to show what Lee was doing while Amanda was having lunch with Joe so this will be more than just an extended tag like the last chapter. On an additional note for those of you who read the first part, I did a little editing to it before completing this chapter adding some additional Francine thoughts and some added dialogue.

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Francine walked into the Q Bureau to find Lee pacing back and forth muttering to himself.

"Trouble with this case?"Francine asked.

"No," Lee said as he continued walking back and forth lost in his own thoughts.

"Then what's got you wearing a hole in the floor? Did you and Carol Brady have a fight?"She quipped. I knew that engagement would never lead to marriage, she thought.

"What? No! Amanda and I are just fine," he said as he threw himself backwards into his desk chair running his hands through his hair in frustration.

"Lee, this is me you're talking to. I can tell when something's bugging you. You can talk to me, you know. I mean who else are you going to talk to? I'm the only one who knows about you two, right? Are you sure everything's ok with you and Amanda?" What the hell is going on with him? Did Amanda dump him for real this time? Did he get cold feet and decide marriage isn't for him after all?

"Everything's great with me and Amanda. In fact we were just talking about nailing down some concrete wedding plans yesterday." Francine laughed a little. "What?!" Lee snapped.

"Sorry, just hearing you talk about wedding plans is strange to me."

"Why, Francine? I told you a week ago that this is real. What Amanda and I have is real. I have never felt as close to anyone in my life as I do to Amanda."

"Then what's got you all tied up in knots?" She asked worriedly. She was really starting to get concerned about him now.

"It's her ex," He finally admitted.."He's been calling her non-stop lately and I know that they have to stay in touch because of the kids, but this is more than that. When I picked her up the other day, Dotty said they've been talking now more than they did when they were dating."

"Dotty? You're on a first name basis with her mother now?" Will wonders never cease?

"Yes, Francine, and her boys, but that's not the point," He said as he rose from his chair violently flinging it against the wall and began frantically pacing again. "The point is that he is making a move to get her back! Probably right at this very moment! She's having lunch with him now as we speak! You know, I've been expecting this ever since he came back! It's been killing me thinking about it. I mean, she was married to the guy for ten years while I was out running around like a maniac. Plus they have two kids together. "

"Well, what does she have to say about it?" She'd have never believed it if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes. Lee Stetson was jealous.

"She says I'm being paranoid and that if he says anything she's just going to tell him about us and that she's taken, But I don't know, they have a history so it's gotta be tempting for her to try to relive that history! And do you know what she said when we were trying to nail down a date for our wedding. She made a crack about how she'd "pencil me in" like our wedding's not even important to her!"

A jumble of thought's ran through Francine's head. Could it be that Amanda's the one dragging her feet on the wedding? Maybe she's not as committed to the idea of marriage as Lee seems to be. That would make sense since her first one failed. Maybe she's scared to get married again. That would be a first though, Lee being more committed to a relationship that the woman he's involved with. Could it be possible? She'd thought that Lee must surely be using Amanda when she'd first found out about the two of them but did she have it backward? Could Amanda be using Lee? There's no doubt that Lee Stetson was a definite catch, if anyone could manage to catch him. Had Amanda caught him and now wanted to throw him back? Francine shook off those nagging thoughts. No, this was Amanda King they were talking about. Besides, she knew she couldn't voice any of those thoughts aloud or it would make Lee even crazier."Look, Lee, I believe that Amanda loves you. You're just going to have to trust her to do the right thing. You do trust her, don't you?"

"With my life, but I don't trust him!"

"You don't have to trust him. If you really trust Amanda, then it doesn't matter if you trust him. He's not going to get anywhere making a move on her if she's not interested. You and I both know that you can't make Amanda do anything she doesn't want to do and if it's really you she wants, then you have nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, you're right," Lee said releasing the breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding. "I mean, this is Amanda King we're talking about. She's too damn stubborn to let anyone push her around. Besides, Amanda's honest and she told me she loves me and that she wants to marry me so I have to believe her, right? I mean, she doesn't lie, right? Not unless she has to and she hates with a passion all the lies she has to tell your mom and her kids to protect them."

"Right," Francine said as she reached out and squeezed his arm. "She told me she loves you too. The day that I confronted her about catching you two together in here. everything's going to be fine. If he does make a move, I have no doubt that she'll put him in his place."

"Thanks, Francine," Lee said. "What'd you come up here for anyway?"

"Oh," She said indicating the folder in her hands. "We ran some background information on the apartment Mrs. Spickens told you about and it seems the place has something of a revolving door when it comes to the ladies who've lived there so we weren't able to pin down anything conclusive on who he might have been involved with."

"Meaning somebody has to conduct interviews in person."

"Exactly," she said.

"I'll get right on it. Maybe it'll help keep my mind off Amanda."

"Do you really think that's possible?" It seemed to her that Amanda was always on his mind.

Lee turned back to Francine before exiting and said with a smile, "No." He gave her a quick wink and headed out the door.

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The next day Francine was walking down the hall to the Q Bureau carrying a file folder for Lee when she heard a commotion coming from within.

"NO! Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it," She heard Amanda screaming. Oh no, What's going on now, Francine thought. Had they have a fight over Amanda's lunch with the ex?

"Oh, no, this is total payback," Lee replied. "Which you started by the way."

Francine took a deep breath before reaching for the doorknob, nervous about what she'd find on the other side. As she entered she couldn't help but laugh at the sight in front of her. Lee had Amanda pinned down to her desk with a fistful of cake in his hands and both were covered head to toe in cake and frosting.

"How is this payback? You're the one who had the payback coming after smashing wedding cake in my face yesterday!" Amanda said as she pushed him away from her and scrambled to her feet.

"Wedding cake?" Francine said with a bemused expression looking at the two of them and the mess they and the office were in. There was an empty cake plate on the floor behind Amanda's desk and the desk itself and the floor surrounding it were also covered in bits of cake. "Did I miss the big day?" She asked as she carefully stepped around the mess toward Lee's desk.

"What big day?"Amanda said before realization dawned on her face. "Oh, sorry, Francine, For a moment, I forgot that you knew. No, Not yet. Two more weeks"

"Can't wait," Lee said with a smile.

"Oh, I just thought you know, the old bride and groom tradition of feeding each other cake on their wedding day and how it usually ends up with one or both of them wearing it."

"Well, it's not like we're going to be able to have a traditional wedding if no one knows about it," Amanda said with a hint of sadness in her voice. "This is the closest we're going to get to that tradition."

"Francine, you were at the country club yesterday when I ended up chasing Taggert through some poor unsuspecting couple's wedding," Lee said. 'One plus to having a quiet wedding," he said to Amanda. "No gate-crashers."

"Oh, right, You came out covered in wedding cake."

"Which he then decided he had to share with me. This," Amanda said indicating the mess around them, "was a retaliatory strike." Amanda then flung another stray piece of cake at Lee before turning and trying to run, but she was too slow.

"Hey!" Lee said catching her around the middle from behind causing her to squeal and smashing more cake into her chest.

Francine couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. Whatever had happened with her ex, Lee seemed to be over it and was laughing and smiling. She was happy to see him happy. Plus Amanda had just confirmed that their wedding was two weeks away so his fears about their wedding not being important to her seemed to be unfounded.

Amanda began tugging at her blouse pulling the sticky mess away from her skin and said to Lee, "Look what you did. Now, I've got cake all down my top and stuck in my bra," she said with a grin. Wow, that was a total come-and-get-it line coming from Amanda, of all people. Francine thought. She'd purposely drawn Lee's attention to her breasts. Maybe there are more to Amanda than she knew about. Maybe that's why Lee was attracted to her.

"Well, I'll just have to take care of that for you, won't I?" Lee said with a mischievous grin. He's falling right into her trap. Francine thought.

"You did that on purpose for that very reason." Nice one, Amanda, Francine thought. Way to make him think it was his own idea. The more she learned about Amanda the more she became impressed with her. No wonder she'd become so good in the field so fast. She had this uncanny ability to manipulate any situation, just like she was manipulating Lee now. Then an peculiar thought struck her. Was that what has led to their engagement? Had she secretly been manipulating Lee all this time to get him to fall for her enough to propose while still making him think it was all his own idea.

"Would I do something like that?" He said pretending to sound innocent with wink at his fiancée. Yeah, she definitely reeled him in like a fish on a hook.

"Yes," Amanda said pointedly as she tried to brush off loose fragments of cake. "Now, I need a shower."

"You could always shower at my place." When Amanda gave him her exasperated look, he added 'Or you could always go home and try to explain to your mother why you need that shower." Wow, she's good, wrangling herself an invitation to his place for a shower. Was a shower for two on her mind, perhaps?

"Ok, you win," Amanda said before jabbing a finger into his chest, "But don't think that means you're getting lucky tonight."

"We'll see about that," he said as he grabbed that finger pulling it into his mouth and began sucking the frosting from it causing Amanda to squeal again. Francine couldn't believe the skill with which Amanda controlled the situation subtly seducing him while all the time making him believe that he was the one seducing her. She had a feeling though she'd better remind them of her presence as they seemed to be so lost in each other that they'd forgotten she was there.

"All right, That is enough mental imagery for one day," Francine said. Lee and Amanda stopped what they were doing and turned toward her. "It's bad enough that I walked in on the two on you undressing each other a week ago." Lee and Amanda both laughed as a horrible thought struck her. "Have you two done, you know, it in this office?"

"What do you think, Francine?" Amanda said with a grin at Lee.

"Never mind, I don't wanna know. Forget I asked. I just came up here to give Lee the paperwork to get his ISP reinstated." She hesitated, not wanting to put it in either of their cake covered hands. "I'll just leave it here," She said laying the paperwork on Lee's desk since it had been unaffected by recent events. "I'll just let you two get back to...uh...work." she said as she tiptoed her way around the mess toward the door.

Just before she opened the door Lee voice stopped her. "Francine, are you sure you don't want us to answer your questions?"He said with a wink which earned him a resounding smack on the arm from Amanda.

"I think you just did," Francine said as she made a hasty retreat. She wasn't two steps down the hall when she heard the deadbolt click followed by the sound of Amanda squealing again.