Part 18, sunday morning in the hospital
Lee and Amanda entered Bernd`s room.
"Good morning, Bernd. I hope you are feeling better. I think it is better if we are going to be on first-name terms after all we are brothers."
"Okay, I am Bernd."
Lee shook hands.
"I am Amanda, Lee´s wife."
Amanda shook hands, too. Lee took a chair and set down.
"You will getting in another hospital today. I had ordered this and in the other hospital you will be safe."
Bernd was setting up.
"Why? What is going on here?"
"The shot yesterday was for me. Actually it should had killed me but because of our big similarity you had get it."
Then Amanda continued to speak. "You will be watched all time at the new hospital. And when you are released your will come in our house or in a house from our workplace. In both you will be safe."
"You must have a big influence if your can do all this."
Lee grinned. "We not, but our boss. He has some power in this city and we most get the things we want because we are his best team."
Bernd didn't ask a further question.
Lee and Amanda said good bye but promised to visit him at the new hospital.
In the car Amanda asked: "What are you thinking about Bossi and the Angels?"
"They are all nice. I think I will ask them about a special Angel."
Amanda looked at him angrily. "You wouldn't do this, would you? You would like it what you are going to hear especially about our methods to solve a case. I had used other methods with the Angels as I am using now with you. Besides that why you are interested in it?"
Lee grinned insidious.
"Perhaps it will be the only way the know something about the mysterious past from my wife. You are surely not going to tell me something about it and if you are going to tell me something you will not tell me the explosive and interesting details."
Amanda played insulted.
"This is nasty. I had no-one I can asked about your past, expect your uncle. But he will be not a great help. As I know my Angels they will talk like a waterfall. Where we are just speaking of the Angels I had made some thought about something. Although it is not at all the matter."
"Don't make it so exciting. What is it about?"
"It is about our baby. I had thought because he or she is not going to have a lot of relatives it would be nice when be baby is going to have some godfathers and godmothers."
Lee smiled. "And you had thought on your friends."
Amanda noticed that Lee was liking her idea.
"Not only. The Angels and Bossi from me and from you perhaps Billy, T.P. and your old friend Barney. Only you had something against it or some other proposals."
"Your idea is great but there is a disadvantage. There are to much men. We need another godmother."
Amanda thought. "We can ask Francine polite. Perhaps we are going to be friends. Besides that she must know that we are married."
"Okay, we will ask her. She can not kill us because of our wedding."
Both of them laughed. As they came back to the house the table for the lunch was finished.
"Hello, is someone in here?" Amanda called as she saw no-one.
Kelly came from the kitchen. She worn a apron and had a wooden spoon in her hand.
"Good that you are back. Now we had only to wait for Bossi and Jill."
Amanda was surprised. "Lee, pinch me on the arm. Are you seeing Kelly with an apron and a wooden spoon?"
Lee nodded.
"Since when can you cook? I can remember times we were arguing about from where we was going to order our food!"
Kelly and Amanda laughed.
"You are still learning!"
"Where are the others?"
Lee and Amanda followed Kelly into the kitchen.
"Jill and Bossi are at the race track and inspect the track and the cars. Kris will surprise you. She is in the soon to be baby-room. She will decorate it for you and your child."
Amanda was surprised again.
"I will go up to her. And you, Lee you are going to put your leg up."
Amanda left the kitchen and Lee sat at a chair and started to talk with Kelly.
"Mandy had never told me something about her previous live and she is surely not going to tell me something. Will you tell me something about it? Please?!?"
Kelly sat down, too.
"She had totally changed. She is the exact opposite of the old Bri. With the Angels she had worn sexy clothes and had flirted with every male person. She was not domestically and like everyone of us, she couldn't cook. We were really surprised when she didn't showed up at the bureau after an assignment. Charlie had told us that Bri was never coming back again, because she had get married and was pregnant. We had missed. She was the good soul between us and Bossi had no-one had had done his paper work."
Lee couldn't believe that his Amanda had been like this.
"She hadn't changed totally. If I hadn't her I would had disappeared in my paperwork. She does the most of it for me. And I think she had a plan to spent more time in the future with you. I can remember some of her features as Sabrina Duncan. As the Angel had worked with the Agency it had not given a men under forty who was after her."
While Lee was getting information about the mysterious live from his wife, Amanda was speaking with Kris.
"Hi Sweety. Kelly told me that you are here."
Kris turned to the door.
"It was boring and so I had thought I look at the baby room. Perhaps I can get a little creative here. But only it is okay with you."
"It is okay with me and I think Lee will be okay with it too. But you need not to do this."
Kris was looking at her pleading. "But I will do it. I have many of ideas for the room."
Amanda sat down on the floor because there where no chairs.
"Tell me a little bit about you. Bossi had told me that you are in love!"
"I was in love. But he left me because of another man. Suddenly he noticed that he liked men more than me."
Amanda had to laugh.
"It wasn't funny for me. But I am over him and can laugh about it, too. It seems that you are in love with your husband over both ears. I can understand it, with this appearance."
"You are right. I am totally in love with him but it was a difficult matter to say that we love each other. And his good appearance is a big disadvantage. What do you think how many ex's he had. And one of those works with the Agency, too. She is still trying to separate Lee and me. She said that he will not stay a long time with me and his is going to break my heard. "
Then they heard car outside.
"This will be Bossi and Jill. Come on Kris, let us go upstairs. I had to speak with you."
They went up into the dining room. They greeted Bossi and Jill and sat down on the table, where Kelly and Lee had everything get finished. During the dinner Bossi and Jill told them about the course and the car Charlie had organized for them. Lee didn't feel well when he thought about his wife in on of those cars. As they were on the dessert Amanda told them about her idea.
"I had thought that it would be nice to see each other more times. And because of that I will ask you if you would like to be the godmothers and the godfather of our baby. So we had the change to see each other often and the baby had some aunts and uncles."
This idea was okay with any of then and Amanda told them that Lee and she are going to asked some more persons. They spent the remaining day in the baby room to help kris with the renovation.
On the other day all of them went to the Agency. Mrs. Marsden was really surprised to see so many of unknown people. Amanda explain it to her.
"Good morning Mrs Marsden. This are some old colleagues of me. They would like to visit Francine and Mr. Melrose. Are they in? I will escort them."
Mrs. Marsden took the badges from her drawer.
"Surely. Here are the badges."
Amanda took them and gave each of them of badge. Then she went to a door and opened it. The other of them look into a closet. Amanda pushed the clothes apart.
"Come on!"
Jill said: "I don't want to take my jacket of."
Lee explained it to the visitors.
"This is no closet, it is a lift."
Now the visitors would step into this weird lift. Lee pressed the button of the hospital ward and Amanda pressed the button of the Field Section. Lee went of first, but before he gave Amanda a kiss. As he was outside, Amanda told Kris, Kelly, Jill and Bossi, that they couldn't tell someone about her marriage with Lee. After the left the lift, they were looking for Francine, who was working on her desk like mostly. She was very happy about seeing Kris and Jill after all those years. As Amanda went to the others she whispered to Jill.
"No words about the marriage but you can incidentally mention that Lee is living with me and that I take care of him."
Then she shouted over her shoulder that Francine should come to the Q- Bureau later that day. Bossy and Kelly followed Amanda toward Billy`s office. She knocked as usual and as Billy told her to come in she opened the door a little bit.
"Good Morning Sir. I hope I don't interrupt something. But here is someone who insist on seeing you."
Billy draw his file away.
"You never interrupt something. Please send this person in, Amanda."
Amanda waved her hand and let Bossi in the office of her boss. The two men couldn't believe to see each other after all those years.
"Mr. Melrose if you need me I will be with Kelly in the Q-Bureau. Bossi, I will get you later."
Kelly and Amanda left the office, told Francine, Jill and Kris, who were deep in memories the same and went finally to the upper floor.
"Welcome in the empire of the Stetson´s. We two will look through the computer after files of Bernd Schmiedt."
Amanda sat down on her desk and put her PC on. Kelly did the same with Lee´s.
"You are looking through the Internet and I will asked some other Agencies."
"I think, I have a better idea. Why don't we ask Charlie first. He is the expert in finding information about person. He will help us."
"Great idea. Why hadn't I this idea? Will you call him. Meanwhile I will see if our other Agencies have something about him."
Kelly reached out for Lee´s phone and dialed the familiar number of Charlie.
"Hi Charlie, this is Kelly. We need your help."
"Is something wrong with the case?"
"No, Charlie. It's not about the case. Sabrina´s husband was told yesterday that he had a brother. He is suspicious about him. Bri and I are looking now for files about him. But I thought that nobody can do this better then you. Would you do this for Bri?"
"I will try it. Who is it? What do you know about him?"
"His name is Bernd Schmiedt. He is from Germany and two years younger than Lee, so his age is between 33 and 34 years. That's all."
"I will do my best. I call again, Bye angel."
A short time after Kelly´s call the phone was ringing.
"IFF. Amanda King is speaking. Hello mother. I have told you, that you should only call this number by an emergency. Has something happened?"
"Happen, you can say so, but not a bad thing. I have just married."
"You have WHAT???"
"I have married. I would only tell you, that I will be on holiday a little longer. Bye."
Dotty hang up. Amanda was looking distraught.
"Oh my Gosh. I can't believe it. My mother had just married. This will be a shock for the boys. Not only that they get a new step-father, no they are getting a new step-grandfather, too."
As the phone was ringing again, Amanda had come to terms with the news form her mother. The caller was Charlie, who had nothing big about Bernd. He was really from Germany, had studied informatics and was adopted. Everything on his story was true. Amanda hadn't found something else.
Short time after the call, Lee came back in the office. He looked worried at his wife.
"Are you okay? You are fate."
"Thanks for the question. I must only accept that my mother had a wedding today."
Lee smirked.
"Now you know how your mother was feeling."
"I had told her before we had the wedding. Besides that she had known you. I doesn't know this man."
"Feel happy for your mother!"
Amanda didn't say a word at this topic. Lee continued.
"After my appointment with the doctor I went to Bernd. It's all eerie to him. He would like to stay with us, after he is released. Is this okay with you?"
"Surely is this okay with me. We had offered him this. We have plenty of free rooms."
Bossi, Kris and Jill were brought to the Q-Bureau by Francine. The got Kelly and went to the house of the Stetson´s. Lee and Amanda stayed at the IFF because the had to talk to Billy and Francine. They started with Billy, because he knew about their marriage. So they went to the office of the Head of the Field Section.
"Hi, Billy. We would asked you something."
Billy was happy to see Lee again.
"It's nice that you are feeling better. What would you ask me?"
Lee took Amanda´s hand.
"You know that we are getting to have a baby and we would ask you, if you would like to be her or his godfather. You aren't alone with this task."
Billy accepted the offer and was really looking forward to his new task.
"Now it's going to be hairy."
Lee and Amanda went to Francine and asked her to come up to the Q-Bureau. She went with them, because she would talk with Amanda about Jill and Kris. Lee offered Francine his chair because he thought it would be better if she sat down during their talk.
"Francine, we have to tell you something really important but you must promise that you wont speak about this with someone else."
Francine promised it but it was going to be very hard for her.
"It will be a shock for you, but Amanda and I we are in love and we are married."
Francine was really shocked.
"You and these housewife?!? This won't last long. I know you, you love the adventure and the freedom."
"Don't worry about this. This marriage is going to last forever. You are a good friend of mine and I will that you stay a friend of mine. And I will that you go with Amanda. At least try it. I love her. Do it for me, please Francine. Perhaps I will left you two alone so you get the chance to speak."
Lee left the room and went down to his brother. Amanda started the conversation.
"Was it nice to see Jill and Kris again?"
Francine relaxed and tried to be nice.
"Yes, it was really nice. Can you tell me who you have meet them. Anyway they are from Chicago and you are from Arlington, Virginia."
"We have met in San Francisco. There we have worked together as private investigators and since that time we are friends. And they are going to be soon a part of Lee´s and my family. By the way I will thank you for the hint about Lee. You couldn't know that we are engaged. Believe me, he had changed. For the better. He has settled down."
"Why are Jill and Kris are going to be a part of your family?"
"Actually Lee and I, we would asked you something. But that required that we both are getting along."
"Okay, I will try it. Actually I like you. I have considered you every time as a threat. By Lee and at the Agency. I see, that I lost by Lee. But it makes me happy when I see that he is happy. And he is very happy. But at the Agency I'm still better than you. But I don't think this will be forever. So, what would you ask me?"
"I can tell you, that you will be for a long time better than me, because in several months I can't work any longer. But there is a reason. I am pregnant. We would like you to be a godmother. Kris and Jill had accepted. Billy, too."
Amanda persuaded Francine to accept the offer. Francine went down to her work and Amanda went down to her husband and her brother-in-law. Both of them were speaking about their childhood. She sneaked into the room and wasn't noticed. She stood for some time at the door and was listening carefully to what the two of them spoke. As Amanda tried to sit down she was noticed by Lee.
"Hi, my darling. How long are you here? What did Francine say?"
She went to them and greeted them.
"We are trying to get along. We are on the way to a friendship. I thing, I am not long enough in here. In this short time I had been here I had got more information about your childhood that I had known."
Lee didn't answer because Amanda knew how hard it is for him to speak about his past.
"Bernd is going to be released tomorrow and he is coming to us."
"This is good because then you are not alone when Kris, Jill and I will be at the track."
Lee still wouldn't believe it.
"Tomorrow? Is this necessary?"
"Yes, it is. I must go with them tomorrow. I must get used to driving this car. But I promising that I will be careful."
Lee and Amanda said good-bye to Bernd and went home. In the early evening Amanda called her sons.
"Hi mom. Is it boring without us?"
Amanda was happy to hear Phillip.
"Not really. Some friends of mine are here to visit me. How are you? Are you getting along with your dad?"
"Yes, here is no problem. And we have no problem with Carry."
"Who is Carry."
"Didn't you know. Carry is dad´s fiancée".
Amanda was happy for Joe.
"No, I didn't know this. But when your dad is going to be re-married it wouldn't matter if I are going to marry again, would it?"
"No, but why? Is there someone we don't know about?"
"Yes, there is someone, but you already knew him. And we are married."
Phillip could only say "OH" and hung wordless up.
Lee and Amanda entered Bernd`s room.
"Good morning, Bernd. I hope you are feeling better. I think it is better if we are going to be on first-name terms after all we are brothers."
"Okay, I am Bernd."
Lee shook hands.
"I am Amanda, Lee´s wife."
Amanda shook hands, too. Lee took a chair and set down.
"You will getting in another hospital today. I had ordered this and in the other hospital you will be safe."
Bernd was setting up.
"Why? What is going on here?"
"The shot yesterday was for me. Actually it should had killed me but because of our big similarity you had get it."
Then Amanda continued to speak. "You will be watched all time at the new hospital. And when you are released your will come in our house or in a house from our workplace. In both you will be safe."
"You must have a big influence if your can do all this."
Lee grinned. "We not, but our boss. He has some power in this city and we most get the things we want because we are his best team."
Bernd didn't ask a further question.
Lee and Amanda said good bye but promised to visit him at the new hospital.
In the car Amanda asked: "What are you thinking about Bossi and the Angels?"
"They are all nice. I think I will ask them about a special Angel."
Amanda looked at him angrily. "You wouldn't do this, would you? You would like it what you are going to hear especially about our methods to solve a case. I had used other methods with the Angels as I am using now with you. Besides that why you are interested in it?"
Lee grinned insidious.
"Perhaps it will be the only way the know something about the mysterious past from my wife. You are surely not going to tell me something about it and if you are going to tell me something you will not tell me the explosive and interesting details."
Amanda played insulted.
"This is nasty. I had no-one I can asked about your past, expect your uncle. But he will be not a great help. As I know my Angels they will talk like a waterfall. Where we are just speaking of the Angels I had made some thought about something. Although it is not at all the matter."
"Don't make it so exciting. What is it about?"
"It is about our baby. I had thought because he or she is not going to have a lot of relatives it would be nice when be baby is going to have some godfathers and godmothers."
Lee smiled. "And you had thought on your friends."
Amanda noticed that Lee was liking her idea.
"Not only. The Angels and Bossi from me and from you perhaps Billy, T.P. and your old friend Barney. Only you had something against it or some other proposals."
"Your idea is great but there is a disadvantage. There are to much men. We need another godmother."
Amanda thought. "We can ask Francine polite. Perhaps we are going to be friends. Besides that she must know that we are married."
"Okay, we will ask her. She can not kill us because of our wedding."
Both of them laughed. As they came back to the house the table for the lunch was finished.
"Hello, is someone in here?" Amanda called as she saw no-one.
Kelly came from the kitchen. She worn a apron and had a wooden spoon in her hand.
"Good that you are back. Now we had only to wait for Bossi and Jill."
Amanda was surprised. "Lee, pinch me on the arm. Are you seeing Kelly with an apron and a wooden spoon?"
Lee nodded.
"Since when can you cook? I can remember times we were arguing about from where we was going to order our food!"
Kelly and Amanda laughed.
"You are still learning!"
"Where are the others?"
Lee and Amanda followed Kelly into the kitchen.
"Jill and Bossi are at the race track and inspect the track and the cars. Kris will surprise you. She is in the soon to be baby-room. She will decorate it for you and your child."
Amanda was surprised again.
"I will go up to her. And you, Lee you are going to put your leg up."
Amanda left the kitchen and Lee sat at a chair and started to talk with Kelly.
"Mandy had never told me something about her previous live and she is surely not going to tell me something. Will you tell me something about it? Please?!?"
Kelly sat down, too.
"She had totally changed. She is the exact opposite of the old Bri. With the Angels she had worn sexy clothes and had flirted with every male person. She was not domestically and like everyone of us, she couldn't cook. We were really surprised when she didn't showed up at the bureau after an assignment. Charlie had told us that Bri was never coming back again, because she had get married and was pregnant. We had missed. She was the good soul between us and Bossi had no-one had had done his paper work."
Lee couldn't believe that his Amanda had been like this.
"She hadn't changed totally. If I hadn't her I would had disappeared in my paperwork. She does the most of it for me. And I think she had a plan to spent more time in the future with you. I can remember some of her features as Sabrina Duncan. As the Angel had worked with the Agency it had not given a men under forty who was after her."
While Lee was getting information about the mysterious live from his wife, Amanda was speaking with Kris.
"Hi Sweety. Kelly told me that you are here."
Kris turned to the door.
"It was boring and so I had thought I look at the baby room. Perhaps I can get a little creative here. But only it is okay with you."
"It is okay with me and I think Lee will be okay with it too. But you need not to do this."
Kris was looking at her pleading. "But I will do it. I have many of ideas for the room."
Amanda sat down on the floor because there where no chairs.
"Tell me a little bit about you. Bossi had told me that you are in love!"
"I was in love. But he left me because of another man. Suddenly he noticed that he liked men more than me."
Amanda had to laugh.
"It wasn't funny for me. But I am over him and can laugh about it, too. It seems that you are in love with your husband over both ears. I can understand it, with this appearance."
"You are right. I am totally in love with him but it was a difficult matter to say that we love each other. And his good appearance is a big disadvantage. What do you think how many ex's he had. And one of those works with the Agency, too. She is still trying to separate Lee and me. She said that he will not stay a long time with me and his is going to break my heard. "
Then they heard car outside.
"This will be Bossi and Jill. Come on Kris, let us go upstairs. I had to speak with you."
They went up into the dining room. They greeted Bossi and Jill and sat down on the table, where Kelly and Lee had everything get finished. During the dinner Bossi and Jill told them about the course and the car Charlie had organized for them. Lee didn't feel well when he thought about his wife in on of those cars. As they were on the dessert Amanda told them about her idea.
"I had thought that it would be nice to see each other more times. And because of that I will ask you if you would like to be the godmothers and the godfather of our baby. So we had the change to see each other often and the baby had some aunts and uncles."
This idea was okay with any of then and Amanda told them that Lee and she are going to asked some more persons. They spent the remaining day in the baby room to help kris with the renovation.
On the other day all of them went to the Agency. Mrs. Marsden was really surprised to see so many of unknown people. Amanda explain it to her.
"Good morning Mrs Marsden. This are some old colleagues of me. They would like to visit Francine and Mr. Melrose. Are they in? I will escort them."
Mrs. Marsden took the badges from her drawer.
"Surely. Here are the badges."
Amanda took them and gave each of them of badge. Then she went to a door and opened it. The other of them look into a closet. Amanda pushed the clothes apart.
"Come on!"
Jill said: "I don't want to take my jacket of."
Lee explained it to the visitors.
"This is no closet, it is a lift."
Now the visitors would step into this weird lift. Lee pressed the button of the hospital ward and Amanda pressed the button of the Field Section. Lee went of first, but before he gave Amanda a kiss. As he was outside, Amanda told Kris, Kelly, Jill and Bossi, that they couldn't tell someone about her marriage with Lee. After the left the lift, they were looking for Francine, who was working on her desk like mostly. She was very happy about seeing Kris and Jill after all those years. As Amanda went to the others she whispered to Jill.
"No words about the marriage but you can incidentally mention that Lee is living with me and that I take care of him."
Then she shouted over her shoulder that Francine should come to the Q- Bureau later that day. Bossy and Kelly followed Amanda toward Billy`s office. She knocked as usual and as Billy told her to come in she opened the door a little bit.
"Good Morning Sir. I hope I don't interrupt something. But here is someone who insist on seeing you."
Billy draw his file away.
"You never interrupt something. Please send this person in, Amanda."
Amanda waved her hand and let Bossi in the office of her boss. The two men couldn't believe to see each other after all those years.
"Mr. Melrose if you need me I will be with Kelly in the Q-Bureau. Bossi, I will get you later."
Kelly and Amanda left the office, told Francine, Jill and Kris, who were deep in memories the same and went finally to the upper floor.
"Welcome in the empire of the Stetson´s. We two will look through the computer after files of Bernd Schmiedt."
Amanda sat down on her desk and put her PC on. Kelly did the same with Lee´s.
"You are looking through the Internet and I will asked some other Agencies."
"I think, I have a better idea. Why don't we ask Charlie first. He is the expert in finding information about person. He will help us."
"Great idea. Why hadn't I this idea? Will you call him. Meanwhile I will see if our other Agencies have something about him."
Kelly reached out for Lee´s phone and dialed the familiar number of Charlie.
"Hi Charlie, this is Kelly. We need your help."
"Is something wrong with the case?"
"No, Charlie. It's not about the case. Sabrina´s husband was told yesterday that he had a brother. He is suspicious about him. Bri and I are looking now for files about him. But I thought that nobody can do this better then you. Would you do this for Bri?"
"I will try it. Who is it? What do you know about him?"
"His name is Bernd Schmiedt. He is from Germany and two years younger than Lee, so his age is between 33 and 34 years. That's all."
"I will do my best. I call again, Bye angel."
A short time after Kelly´s call the phone was ringing.
"IFF. Amanda King is speaking. Hello mother. I have told you, that you should only call this number by an emergency. Has something happened?"
"Happen, you can say so, but not a bad thing. I have just married."
"You have WHAT???"
"I have married. I would only tell you, that I will be on holiday a little longer. Bye."
Dotty hang up. Amanda was looking distraught.
"Oh my Gosh. I can't believe it. My mother had just married. This will be a shock for the boys. Not only that they get a new step-father, no they are getting a new step-grandfather, too."
As the phone was ringing again, Amanda had come to terms with the news form her mother. The caller was Charlie, who had nothing big about Bernd. He was really from Germany, had studied informatics and was adopted. Everything on his story was true. Amanda hadn't found something else.
Short time after the call, Lee came back in the office. He looked worried at his wife.
"Are you okay? You are fate."
"Thanks for the question. I must only accept that my mother had a wedding today."
Lee smirked.
"Now you know how your mother was feeling."
"I had told her before we had the wedding. Besides that she had known you. I doesn't know this man."
"Feel happy for your mother!"
Amanda didn't say a word at this topic. Lee continued.
"After my appointment with the doctor I went to Bernd. It's all eerie to him. He would like to stay with us, after he is released. Is this okay with you?"
"Surely is this okay with me. We had offered him this. We have plenty of free rooms."
Bossi, Kris and Jill were brought to the Q-Bureau by Francine. The got Kelly and went to the house of the Stetson´s. Lee and Amanda stayed at the IFF because the had to talk to Billy and Francine. They started with Billy, because he knew about their marriage. So they went to the office of the Head of the Field Section.
"Hi, Billy. We would asked you something."
Billy was happy to see Lee again.
"It's nice that you are feeling better. What would you ask me?"
Lee took Amanda´s hand.
"You know that we are getting to have a baby and we would ask you, if you would like to be her or his godfather. You aren't alone with this task."
Billy accepted the offer and was really looking forward to his new task.
"Now it's going to be hairy."
Lee and Amanda went to Francine and asked her to come up to the Q-Bureau. She went with them, because she would talk with Amanda about Jill and Kris. Lee offered Francine his chair because he thought it would be better if she sat down during their talk.
"Francine, we have to tell you something really important but you must promise that you wont speak about this with someone else."
Francine promised it but it was going to be very hard for her.
"It will be a shock for you, but Amanda and I we are in love and we are married."
Francine was really shocked.
"You and these housewife?!? This won't last long. I know you, you love the adventure and the freedom."
"Don't worry about this. This marriage is going to last forever. You are a good friend of mine and I will that you stay a friend of mine. And I will that you go with Amanda. At least try it. I love her. Do it for me, please Francine. Perhaps I will left you two alone so you get the chance to speak."
Lee left the room and went down to his brother. Amanda started the conversation.
"Was it nice to see Jill and Kris again?"
Francine relaxed and tried to be nice.
"Yes, it was really nice. Can you tell me who you have meet them. Anyway they are from Chicago and you are from Arlington, Virginia."
"We have met in San Francisco. There we have worked together as private investigators and since that time we are friends. And they are going to be soon a part of Lee´s and my family. By the way I will thank you for the hint about Lee. You couldn't know that we are engaged. Believe me, he had changed. For the better. He has settled down."
"Why are Jill and Kris are going to be a part of your family?"
"Actually Lee and I, we would asked you something. But that required that we both are getting along."
"Okay, I will try it. Actually I like you. I have considered you every time as a threat. By Lee and at the Agency. I see, that I lost by Lee. But it makes me happy when I see that he is happy. And he is very happy. But at the Agency I'm still better than you. But I don't think this will be forever. So, what would you ask me?"
"I can tell you, that you will be for a long time better than me, because in several months I can't work any longer. But there is a reason. I am pregnant. We would like you to be a godmother. Kris and Jill had accepted. Billy, too."
Amanda persuaded Francine to accept the offer. Francine went down to her work and Amanda went down to her husband and her brother-in-law. Both of them were speaking about their childhood. She sneaked into the room and wasn't noticed. She stood for some time at the door and was listening carefully to what the two of them spoke. As Amanda tried to sit down she was noticed by Lee.
"Hi, my darling. How long are you here? What did Francine say?"
She went to them and greeted them.
"We are trying to get along. We are on the way to a friendship. I thing, I am not long enough in here. In this short time I had been here I had got more information about your childhood that I had known."
Lee didn't answer because Amanda knew how hard it is for him to speak about his past.
"Bernd is going to be released tomorrow and he is coming to us."
"This is good because then you are not alone when Kris, Jill and I will be at the track."
Lee still wouldn't believe it.
"Tomorrow? Is this necessary?"
"Yes, it is. I must go with them tomorrow. I must get used to driving this car. But I promising that I will be careful."
Lee and Amanda said good-bye to Bernd and went home. In the early evening Amanda called her sons.
"Hi mom. Is it boring without us?"
Amanda was happy to hear Phillip.
"Not really. Some friends of mine are here to visit me. How are you? Are you getting along with your dad?"
"Yes, here is no problem. And we have no problem with Carry."
"Who is Carry."
"Didn't you know. Carry is dad´s fiancée".
Amanda was happy for Joe.
"No, I didn't know this. But when your dad is going to be re-married it wouldn't matter if I are going to marry again, would it?"
"No, but why? Is there someone we don't know about?"
"Yes, there is someone, but you already knew him. And we are married."
Phillip could only say "OH" and hung wordless up.