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: Last week we dropped in on Lee and now we have some answers finally.

Now let's see what Amanda is up to.

Please r&r and enjoy the story.

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"So what happened to you today at the park, Missy?"

Amanda looked up from her reading on the couch and thought about it. "What do you mean Mother?"

Dotty put her hands on her hips. "Amanda, I get a call from Dean in near panic because there was report of gunshots at the park and he could not find you anywhere. Now he'll be calling any minute demanding an explanation and frankly my dear I want one too."

Amanda gulped but stuck to the lie she came up with. "Mother, nothing happened. I don't even know what gunshots you are talking about. Dean and I were done with our picnic and a friend from my club came up to me and said we had an emergency meeting so I left. But I told Dean about it before I left."

Dotty stared at her daughter and scrutinized her. "An emergency meeting? That's funny that you claim you told Dean since he called here around 6 o'clock asking where you were and if you were all right."

Amanda's voice went up an octave as she became nervous. "Really, because I could have sworn I did tell him."

"Uh huh."

Amanda wrung her hands before she came up with an idea to get her mother off of the subject. "Look Mother I think it is time for bed don't you? I'm going to lock up for the night."

Dotty held Amanda's gazed for a couple of seconds before relenting, "All right Dear. With the boys over at a friend's house and my headache coming on I think that's a good idea. I'm going to go upstairs, take a big dose of sleeping pills and hope it goes away by morning. Good night, Dear."

"Good night, Mother."

With that Dotty went up the stairs to her room. Once Amanda heard her mother close her bedroom door, she let out a huge sigh of relief. If her mother had discovered even a hint of what was really going on, she would get the third degree and never hear the end of it, let alone that she had lied to her.

With those happy thoughts to accompany her, Amanda went about locking up for the night. As she was starting with the windows in the living room, she heard what sounded like a bang coming from the kitchen. Thinking it was Lee and her curiosity getting the better of her, Amanda went over to find out what was up. Upon heading straight into the kitchen, Amanda discovered that there kitchen door was wide open. Thinking it was strange for that to happen since there were no strong winds blowing at the moment and Lee would never break down the door, she looked outside before closing the door.

Not seeing any sign of Lee, she went back to the living room to finish locking up, when Amanda felt a pair of hands grab her from behind. One hand was held a cloth over her mouth and nose while the other grabbed her around the middle, effectively pinning her arms at her side. After about two minutes of struggling, Amanda went limp.

Her attacker laughed happily as he whispered so not to disturb the rest of the house. "Quick Tom, help me carry her out to the car."

"I don't think so."

Both Tom and Dan whirled around to the voice and discovered Lee standing in the doorway of the kitchen with a gun pointing at them. Lee had panicked when he saw the backdoor wide open and decided to come in.

Lee's face darkened at the sight of Amanda drugged. "Now you two are going to put her down nice and slowly then we are going to have ourselves a nice little chat."

Looking at each other, Dan made the first move and knocked Lee's gun out of his hands. Lee made a move to punch Dan, but Dan ducked causing Lee to hit Tom instead. The force from Lee's punch caused Dan to drop Amanda to the floor.

Lee then began to exchange punches with Tom, trying to knock him out. All of the sudden, Tom grinned in a menacing way and pointed over Lee's shoulder. Lee turned around to see what the guy was pointing at and was faced with the sight of Dan pointing a gun at Amanda's head.

"Surrender quietly or it's permanent lights out for her."

Lee slowly put his hands up.

Dan gestured with the gun while keeping a firm hand on Amanda's body. "Now slowly walk towards the backdoor. Don't try and be a hero. It will only earn her a bullet.

Lee walked towards the exit, but just before he walked outside he turned around to try to confront Tom only to have met Tom's fist with his face and Lee crumpled to the floor.

Tom shook out his hand and looked over at Dan. "That hurt."

"Put some ice on it when we get back. Right now let's get them back to the boss. Oh, don't forget to pick up the gun. Can't leave any signs of a struggle here and we don't need anyone else getting suspicious."

With a great effort, Tom and Dan managed to get both Lee and Amanda bound and into the back of the van, closing the door on them. Neither Lee nor Amanda ever woke up in the darkness of the nightmare that was about to fall upon them.

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Uh oh, looks like trouble for Lee and Amanda, but the question is, how does it all end?

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

Next time on Scarecrow and Mrs King: Weathering Revenge: Amanda whimpered slightly.