"Lee?"

Lee turned around and swallowed hard. What he saw stopped him in his tracks. "Jaime?"

"I thought that was you. It's been ages, but you just looked so familiar. It took me a minute to figure it out. How are you?"

"I'm good," Lee said as he scanned the room looking for his wife wondering how bad things were about to get. "What are you doing here?"

Jaime noticed that Lee seemed a bit nervous. 'Maybe he's nervous because he is the 'ex' boyfriend. But aren't he and my mom still working together? Maybe he's searching out someone he needs to talk to about a film,' Jaime thought as he watched Lee. "I got called in to work as part of the security detail at the last minute. My superiors thought it would be a good idea since I knew the Senator's son. I work for the FBI now."

"Do you know the Senator?" Lee asked, though he knew the answer, trying to stall still unable to spot his wife.

Jaime wondered why he wasn't getting the usual response and barrage of questions when he mentioned he worked for the FBI but was glad for the reprieve. "Yeah, I," Jaime started to explain.

"Jaime, Lee, come here, let me formally introduce you," the Senator interrupted Jaime mid-sentence.

'Uh oh,' Lee thought as he caught sight of his wife next to Senator Long. He leaned over to Jaime as they walked over to the Senator, "Jaime, it's about to get really weird for us and we both need to keep our agent faces on. I'll explain as soon as we can get away from everyone."

"What are you," Jaime started to ask what Lee was talking about but paused when he saw his mom.

Amanda looked at her husband and then at her son. She cursed the inaccurate information they had received. Jaime was supposed to be on assignment at a gala in New York. 'Agent Face,' Amanda thought, 'here goes'.

Lee walked over to his wife and wrapped his arm around her.

"Jaime, I see you met Lee Steadman and this is his wife Amanda. Mr. and Mrs. Steadman, meet Jaime King. I don't suppose you all managed to meet each other there in your circles in Washington. Jaime, these two have been helping me with a situation around here. When I inquired, I was told you were tied up with another case. I sure would have loved to have you on the case too."

Jaime marveled that he could comprehend all the Senator was saying while he looked at his mom and Lee. He could see the love in their eyes and the all too knowing 'agent face'. 'That's what Lee had called it.' Some things were starting to make sense but they were still all jumbled. "Thanks sir, when they told me I was needed here, I was glad I'd managed to wrap up my last case early." The first realization hit him, "Lee, Amanda, your reputation precedes you. I would have been honored to work with you. "

Lee choked up at Jaime's last words. It would have been Lee's honor. Amanda squeezed Lee's hand sensing his emotions. "From what Senator Long has told me about you, we'd have loved to work with you," Lee said hoping to portray how genuinely he would love to work with his stepson.

Amanda was so proud watching Jaime manage to keep it together in this moment. She and Lee already knew that he had quite a reputation himself for being a sharp young agent. Amanda wondered about the smile Jaime was flashing them. 'Is he putting the pieces together? How is he going to react when he can step out of agent mode?' Amanda didn't know and she'd just have to wait to find out. Amanda thought about how it always seemed Jaime managed to take after Lee even though Lee was never visibly around. Jaime looked so sharp in his tux and that grin could charm anyone.

"Senator," someone in the crowd called.

"Excuse me, I'm being paged," the Senator said as he walked away.

"Jaime," Amanda and Lee said in Unison.

Lee looked at his wife with that unperceivable look that meant I've got this. "Jaime, I said as we walked over here that I would explain. I know you are working but we're actually done with our work. I think Amanda and I are going to walk out to the veranda, when you can get away and you're ready, we'll try to explain out there."

"Yeah, I'd follow you out there now but I need to make another sweep. I'll see if I can take a break after that." Jaime looked at his mom. Then, he looked at Lee again. He could see a bit of fear in their eyes. He realized that some huge secret or secrets had just been brought to light and they must be worried about how he'd react. He looked at his mom trying to portray the love he felt for her, "It's ok. I'm grown. Just be honest with me, okay?" He spoke in a low voice.

Amanda just shook her head as she looked into her son's eyes. There was such strength in his eyes. She realized then how much the things they had been through had made him such a strong, kind, and considerate man.

"Excuse me," Jaime said louder than their hushed private conversation as he walked away.

Lee and Amanda exchanged a glance before Lee led his wife out to the veranda. "Oh god, Amanda, I didn't know what to do when he came over to me. I'm surprised he remembered what I even looked like. Then again, given the last time he saw me, I'm probably seared into his memory." Lee recalled the moment when he'd finally gotten Jaime away from the kidnappers.

"Lee," Amanda said shaking him loose from that dark memory. "Clearly he wasn't scarred for life if he came up to talk to you."

"All I could do when I saw you talking to the Senator as he called us over was warn Jaime it was going to get weird, promise to explain, and then tell him we needed to keep our agent faces on. I'm so glad he managed to do that better than I did."

"This isn't how we planned this, is it? Where do we start? How do we explain it to him here?" Amanda asked.

"I guess we do what we do best. We'll figure it out as we go along and we'll do it together," Lee replied. He wrapped his arms around Amanda and then pulled away. "Do you think we should tell him about us now or act like the marriage was just a part of our cover story?"

Amanda wrapped her arms around her husband with a slight giddy feeling- she knew the charades were coming to an end. "Our secrets are too intertwined to keep them separate. Besides, he asked for honesty and he deserves that now."

Meanwhile, Jaime was making his rounds walking through the venue with purpose. He forced himself to focus on the task at hand using a mental checklist of all the things he needed to look for or check. He did allow himself to smile when 'Like Mother, Like Son' occurred to him. 'Or was it Like Mother and step-dad, like son.' He wasn't sure but he was going to find out. 'Tonight,' he promised himself, 'but not until I finish the task at hand'. And with that Jaime finished his sweep of the party.

"Gosh Amanda, look at him." Lee said as he caught a glimpse of his stepson at the party. "Despite all we've done to keep our work a secret, he's followed in your footsteps. Watching him in there tonight, he's as good as you are in a pinch. He appeared so calm."

"I couldn't help but wonder in there how well he wears a tux- just like his stepdad. And that smile, oh that smile. Somehow, I think he's gotten your charm." She led her husband over to a seating area off to the far end of the veranda, "maybe this area will be more private."

"I don't know, there are still all the cameras."

Jaime walked over to several other agents. "I'm going to walk the perimeter and then I'm going to take a break. Think you guys can cover for me until I get back?" When he saw Agent Beamon nod his head, Jaime went to get a drink for him and two more for Lee and his mom. He shook his head a bit wondering if the freshman Agent Beaman would pick-up on the fact that he was getting three drinks instead of just one for himself. 'Well, at least that wanna-be womanizer won't surmise I'm trying to pick up some woman.'

As he walked the perimeter, he started with the veranda- the opposite side of the veranda that Lee and Amanda were on so that he could finish where they were. Jaime tapped his ear piece as he looked over at them trying to let them know he was still working. Lee smiled at the gesture- how many times had he left Amanda inside a party or outside on a veranda while he walked the perimeter? Of course, she rarely stayed there and, as time went on, he took her with her on those perimeter searches. He loved that even though they were working, he could play it off as a couple just out for a stroll.

As he walked, Jaime so wanted to put the pieces together. 'So, they are the incomparable and legendary Lee and Amanda. Why hadn't he figured that out? He'd come close to meeting them once on assignment, but they'd been nowhere around. Mom still says she works for a film company. . . so had she been working for the agency all this time? From all the legends, Mom and Lee have worked together a long time so they have to be really close. Mom and Lee. They seem to really love each other. Are they together? Was their marriage a cover story or the truth? They certainly seemed comfortable in the role. Think, Jaime, think.' He thought back to when he'd met Lee. 'Wait was that Lee at the gym that day? Could it be? Clearly if mom knew him back then or shortly thereafter, the film company was all a lie. Mom was a spy? If they knew at school, I would have been the coolest kid in school. Oh! That would not have gone over good. Maybe we were too young to know the truth. But then, what about her and Lee? When did they quit dating? Oh yeah, it wasn't long after I was kidnapped at the pizza parlor out with Sally, Chad, and Phillip.' Jaime continued his walk. Lee and Amanda's relationship, the love he saw in their eyes, it continued to be foremost in his mind and was quickly becoming the most burning question of all.

As he approached the veranda, he took a deep breath. He'd come to the conclusion that his mom must have had good reasons to keep her secret and the more he thought about how that must have killed his mother, the more he saw her love for Phillip and him. 'Maybe that's the clue to figuring out their relationship as well'. Rather than stand behind the bushes, he stepped forward closer to the truth.

As Jaime walked up to them, he looked towards the camera. Lee and Amanda smiled. "Same thought," Lee said.

"Lee and Amanda, I'd love to learn more about the truth behind all the legends. I'm on a break, would you like to take a walk?"

Amanda looked over at Lee fully in cover, "I'd love too." But as she looked back at her son, the façade was already coming down. Jaime could see she really wanted to talk to him and he needed to hear the truth from her- and Lee.

After they were out of sight, Jaime stopped and put his arms around his mother. "Mom, I want you to know that I love you, no matter what. And Lee, I've pieced enough together to know that you've kept my mother safe all these years, for that I'll never be able to thank you enough. It's obvious you care a great deal about my mother."

"And you kids and your grandmother." Lee added a bit choked up.

"Oh, and Lee, thanks for that word of warning before Senator Long introduced me to my mother, one-half of the legendary Lee-Amanda spy duo. I can't imagine how I would have reacted otherwise."

"Jaime, I'm just sorry this is how and when you found out. Clearly you've figured out some things on your own. I'm not fond of the word 'spy' and certainly our roles have changed over the years, but one thing you need to know is that while most of the legend isn't true, your mother is a legend. She's amazing at her job." Lee paused, watching his wife blush and their son smiling at her. "I don't know where or how to start. Keeping this secret and lying to you boys and your grandmother has been hard on your mom, well really, both of us. Do you want me to start from the beginning, hit the highlights, or do you want to ask the questions?"

Jaime looked Lee in the eyes. He could see that Lee cared very much for him. He suddenly knew for sure the answer to the question that had been nagging him, but decided to step out on a limb and ask them about it. "You two are married, aren't you? How long?"

Lee wasn't all that shocked that Amanda's son would pick up on a relationship being more than what you see on the surface. He smiled at Amanda smiled. The secret they hated the most was out. Lee sighed. Now came the hard part, Jaime would soon know how long they've kept this secret. Lee ached at the thought of the time he could have spent with Jaime growing up and what they had deprived the boys of over the years. "19 years- almost 20."

Jaime walked a little further taking it all in. He found a place they could sit under the stars and laid down on the grass. The ground was cool even though it was really pretty warm for winter time. He looked up at the stars but found he wasn't marveling at their beauty but rather the revelations this night had brought. "Mom, Dad," he gulped at the word overcome with emotion realizing he had a stepdad who seemed to really care about him, "How? I guess I need to know how all these secrets came to be."

Lee began with the fateful package and the train station.