Hello everybody, Grey Fool here with a new chapter.

First of all, thank you to those who have reviewed and to my beta, who is helping me stay on track with these characters.

As always, I don't own these characters. They belong to Shoot the Moon.

Last Week: We checked to see how Amanda was doing after she fled the police station.

Now let's see what Lee is up to.

Please r&r and enjoy the story.

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"How in the world could you get yourself arrested for the second time this year?"

The bullpen became strangely quiet as the roar of Billy's voice echoed off the walls, even though they were currently in his office. Lee grimaced at the loudness of Billy's voice. He had hoped the other agents would not hear of his recent adventure.

Unwilling to wait for a response, Billy continued on; "Lee you do realize I have more things to worry about right now than you getting yourself arrested for doing something as stupid as breaking into a secured building! I don't have time for your antics right now. As it is, you are this close to having your ass pulled from the case, and letting the local police handle it!"

Lee raised his voice in protest, "Oh come on Billy; it was an accident. It's not like I could have gone down there saying I was a special agent investigating a murder that had taken place a couple nights ago."

Billy held up his hands to stop Lee's protest. "But you could have at least waited for the guard to let you in; did you have to go and break in?"

Lee slammed his hand on the desk and started to pace back and forth; "I didn't have a choice Billy. I told them the truth in that I was John's next of kin, but the guy didn't even know the man was dead."

Billy's face frowned; "They didn't know he was dead? How is that possible when it was the Virginia State Police found his body?"

Lee sighed and stopped his pacing, "I know and one would think that since it has been at least 24 hours someone would think something was amiss. Unless…"

Lee leaned against the glass wall and rubbed his face with both of hands as if he was tired. Billy waited a few minutes before pressing Lee on to continue his thought process.

Having given him enough time, Billy's eyebrows rose in question, "Unless?"

Lee pulled his hands away from his face and moved to stand in front of the desk with a thoughtful expression on his face, "When I left the station, the Arlington Cops were telling each other a story about a woman reporting a murder at the weather bureau. But they didn't believe her."

Billy scratched his head in confusion, "That's odd since the police found John's body."

Lee's eyes widen with shock, "But it was a different police force. The State Virginia Police was the ones that found the body. It was the Arlington Local Police were the initial ones that were called when the crime was reported."

Billy frowned, "But that still doesn't explain why the Arlington Local police never filed a report of the woman's claim."

Lee shook his head, "When I check John's office, it was clean…too clean."

"Meaning someone cleaned up before the police arrived leaving no evidence. Did you find anything?"

Lee growled with frustration and ran his fingers through this hair, "At the apartment, I found what looks like a bunch of weather reports. I sent them down to Crypto so we'll see if they get anything, but I don't have any high hopes. With the office, I didn't get much of a chance to look around. After a couple minutes of searching, a noise alerted me to someone else in the room. I ended up opening a closet door and found Amanda, who swung a purse at me and stunned me for a minute."

"Amanda? What was she doing there?"

"I don't know. I didn't get a chance to talk to her last night or this morning. I was going to try and catch her at her house."

A voice came from behind Lee at that moment, "Is it true? Someone attacked you with a purse last night Scarecrow?"

He turned towards the sound of the voice and groaned when he saw who it was, "Yes Francine, Amanda was in a closet when I opened it and came after me."

Francine smirked; "you know I just never thought that the mighty Scarecrow could be brought down by a domestic housewife using a purse as a weapon. Let alone it would be Amanda that attacked you. But then again, they say housewives are very high strung."

"Just can it will ya? I did surprise her and it was dark."

Billy shook his head, "Francine did you have a reason for coming over here right now instead of working?"

Francine's face took on a tone of seriousness as she handed a file over to Billy, "Yes this report just came in from the Air Force. Another mission has gone astray."

Billy took the report and scanned it briefly, "Damn, that makes the fifth one in the past two months."

Lee frowned, "What's going on?"

Francine spoke up to give Billy more time to review the report; "Recently there have been a lot of secret missions under the operation of the Air Force just suddenly gone wrong. Most of the time, it looks like the enemy had advance warning of what was coming their way and even those called on 24 hours notice have been ruined." Francine nodded to the folder currently in Billy's hands; "That is just the latest of surprise attacks gone wrong."

Lee moved behind Billy to look over his shoulder to try and read the report. "Do they have any idea about how the information is being leaked?"

Billy just shook his head and turned to face Lee; "No and I've had Francine go over everything. Unfortunately, she is the only one I can spare at the moment to deal with it. Thanks, Francine."

She nodded and left.

Billy turned towards Lee, "Okay, I want you to go see Amanda. Find out if she knows anything. If you have to get her involved, I don't need you getting arrested again. And please try to wrap this up quickly. I've got men upstairs who are breathing down my neck about the security detail for the ball next week and I need you to be on that detail. Oh and before I forget, your Porsche has been towed back here. I figured it was better than letting the police take it. "

Lee nodded in agreement; "Thanks, Billy." With that, Lee opened the door and walked out.

Billy watched him for a few minutes before reaching into one of the desk drawers and pull out a bottle of Tums and popping them into his mouth. Putting the bottle back, Billy rubbed his tired face and leaned back in his chair. He had the strangest feeling tomorrow was going to make things worse than they already were.

Meanwhile, Lee finally parked his car in front of Amanda's house. He didn't know why, but he had a strange feeling that now was not a good time to go and visit her in the backyard. After a few minutes, Lee was rewarded with Amanda and her boyfriend…Sean, John, or Tom; leaving the house carrying a picnic basket.

Lee felt his gut clinch as he saw how tight the guy was holding Amanda to his body, making her appear uncomfortable.

Lee rubbed his chin in deep thought; seeing how Amanda did not appear to be in trouble, he made a quick decision to follow them. He needed to talk to her, and he had a gut feeling it could not wait until tonight.

Lee waited a few moments after the couple pulled away from the house before leaving the curb and following their car. With all his concentration on the couple's car, he never realized that another car had pulled away at the same time and stayed on his tail.

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I know not a lot of action in this chapter. But I promise there will be action in the next chapter. Right now all Lee has is more questions than answers…isn't that how it always goes?

until next week, please r&r and have a wonderful day.

Next time on Scarecrow and Mrs King: Weathering Revenge: the sound of a gun rang out.