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Slowly Lee regained consciousness, opened his eyes and saw Francine sitting in a chair at the back of the room.

In his mind in the fraction of a second, everything that had happened came like a hurricane, "where is she?", Tell me immediately where she is "I want to see her!", Francine immediately went up to Lee, "is still in the room operation "he said in a grim voice, we are waiting for the doctor to tell us something", "how long have I been sedated?", "Three hours, I'm sorry but they couldn't calm you and they had to use a powerful sedative to put you out of action".

Seeing the pain and worry on her face, Francine felt her heart tighten, you could see that he was suffering and she was very sorry, Amanda had never been her favorite, in fact she didn't even consider her an agent, it was just a disorder , and besides it bothered her that Lee became so interested in her, now he understood why, slowly, contravening all the most sensible rules, they had fallen in love, Amanda had become really good, brave and strong, and it wasn't right that she was so badly injured.

"Lee, if you promise to stay calm, let's get out of here and wait in the waiting room ok?"

"Okay, I just want to have some news, to know how it is ... I ...",

overwhelmed by emotion he could not finish the sentence, he got up with difficulty and followed by Francine, he went out to go to the waiting room.

As soon as Billy saw him, he tried to convince him to go home to wash and change his clothes because he was dirty with Amanda's blood, but the scarecrow was adamant, for no reason he would have left the hospital, before he had to see his Amanda.

After about half an hour, when the silence weighed like a boulder, Doctor Kelford arrived visibly tired, Lee immediately got up and ran towards him, the doctor seeing him in that state he was shocked, goodness what had happened to the scarecrow , he was in a miserable state, "how is he?" Lee asked in a hoarse voice, "the situation is not good, it is not yet out of danger, it is very weak the bullet entered and exited from his body, fortunately he did not damage vital organs, but he lost a lot of blood, for the moment we have decided to keep her sedated with a drug to allow her to recover, but we don't know how long it will take us to wake up when we stop the medical therapy, in short we have to wait ", but she is strong, she is a warrior and I hope she will continue to fight".

Lee felt the doctor's words feeling a little better, "can I see her?" "Lee, you will have to settle down and clean yourself first, I will not let you come in, all dirty, go home, when you have cleaned yourself up and you will feel better, I'll let you in. "

At that point the tension that had kept him on his feet left him and he collapsed on a chair, completely exhausted, his Amanda would have made it, fighting he was sure, for his children and for them two, with a great sigh he made a decision, he had to talk to Billy, but first he would go to his apartment to settle down, and then he would immediately go to Amanda.

Lee arrived at his apartment, took a quick shower and threw his clothes in the waste basket, he was still upset, but he forced himself to eat a sandwich on the fly and prepare a travel bag with a couple of changes, he would not leave Amanda until she hadn't woken up, she wanted to be the first person, who by opening her wonderful brown eyes she would have seen, "honey don't give up I'm coming!" .

She went to the agency first, Mrs. Marston, let him pass and gave him a smile, as if to encourage him, went down into the bullpen and every person, secretary or colleague he met, stopped him to say comforting words and ask for Amanda, everyone said a single word: he is strong, he is tenacious and he will succeed, he was moved by how much demonstration of affection the people expressed for her, she had really entered the hearts of all.

He joined Billy in his office, knocked and entered, Fred, Geremy and Francine were reporting, Ivan's family had returned home a little shaken, while he was in the interrogation room, asked for political asylum and was singing like a nightingale , but he also kept asking about Amanda and he seemed really very sorry, Francine said.

"Billy we have to warn Amanda's mother, tomorrow he gets home with the boys, we can't make her wait without telling her anything," he misses the voice for a moment, "Amanda ... she ... well, we don't know when will wake up, we must tell him "," you are right Lee, I will go to his house, I will say that during a job for a documentary on the hunt, Amanda was injured "," okay Billy now I go to her ", let me know when you come to the hospital with his mother ", the agents looked at him, the scarecrow was preparing for a big battle but he was ready, he would not lose hope, Amanda would wake up and finally they would start being together.