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…well a bomb's timer hit zero.

Shall we see if Lee and Amanda survived?

Please r&r and enjoy the story.

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Red and blue flashing lights from ambulances and police cars brightened the parking lot like it was the Fourth of July. There were multiple people milling about and going in and out of the Weather Bureau. Off to the side behind the police tape, Amanda stood and watched the scene before her with a blanket wrapped around her that had been offered by one of the EMT's on the scene.

She was not absolutely sure why someone had called for medical help since no one was hurt. The bomb had surprised everyone when it did not go off. Amanda thought back to everyone's expressions, and now that she thought about it, Lee's expression had been more of relief than of shock.

"Amanda couldn't understand why Lee wasn't as shocked as she was that the bomb never detonated. As she continued to watch the people around her doing their job, a voice popped up from beside her.

"So are you all right?"

Amanda whirled around and came face to face with Lee.

"Lee don't do that, you nearly gave me a heart attack."

Lee gave her an apologetic look.

After a few minutes, Amanda finally relented and answered his question. "Yes Lee, I'm perfectly fine. It's not like an explosion went off or anything."

Lee nodded, "That is true. We got lucky there."

So how do you know Khusbakht?"

Lee sighed. "About four years ago, I was assigned to a case about a leak in the Air Force that was causing many missions to fail. During the course of the investigation, I discovered that William Cartel, aka. Khusbakht, a radar and radio operator was in fact the leak. When I went to confront him, I ended up chasing him down to a cargo area. It was a a standoff for a bit because he claimed the area was littered with bombs and he would detonate them if I took a step closer. But in the end I did manage to capture him."

"What about the bombs? Wasn't it a big risk to capture him with the threat of him bombing the area?"

Lee chuckled, "Yeah it was, but after our bomb experts looked at them, it turned out that Khusbakht was no bomb builder. He may have put them together, but they would not have gone off."

"I say that was lucky."

"Yeah it was lucky," Lee ran fingers through his hair and sighed. "Unfortunately Khusbakht seems to blame me for somehow messing with the bombs and rigging them to not explode. Anyway, he swore vengeance if we ever met again."

"Were you betting that he made his own bomb again tonight?"

"Yeah…Yeah I was. Somehow I knew his ego would not allow him to let someone else build his bombs. And since they were indeed duds last time…"

Amanda nodded. " Leading you to believe they wouldn't explode this time, either?"

"Amanda? What are you doing here?"

Amanda turned and faced the direction of the voice, only to discover it belonged to Dean himself. She glanced back over her shoulder only to find Lee was already walking back towards Billy and Francine.

She groaned. "Dean, I thought you were working tonight."

He walked closer to her, encircled his arms around her crushing her to his body, and looked down at Amanda. "No, honey, a friend of mine called and asked if he could trade spots and I agreed. But I just got a call from the police requesting my presence here. Do you have any idea what happened? And what are you doing here? Didn't your mother tell you I was going to call you later this evening?"

Amanda stood there for a minute and thought back to the section of time when she and Lee had been waiting for everybody to show up. He had warned her that once again she could not repeat any of the recent events to anybody, for national security reasons.

"Amanda?"

The voice brought her back to the present. She smiled up at Dean. "No, I'm afraid I got here after the police started blocking everything off. Thinking you were inside, I stayed here waiting for you to come out. I thought it would be easier than for you to call me. Plus after what happened at the park…"

"You're so sweet, Honey."

After a few minutes of surveying the scene, Dean finally spoke up, "Well, whatever happened here; at least neither one of us had anything to do with it. I'm so glad we live normal lives aren't you?"

At that moment, Amanda spotted Lee watching her from her spot. After he saw she had noticed him, he turned away from her.

Assuming that she was agreeing with him from her by being unresponsive, Dean pushed the blanket off and grabbed her by both arms and steered in the direction of his car. He all but frog marched her off of the scene.

"Come on, Sweetcakes. Let's leave this stuff to these people and go back to our normal, happy lives as boyfriend and girlfriend. Though I hope someday, it will be more."

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"Well Lee, I'm sure your report will be an interesting read once it comes together."

Distracted, Lee nodded as he watched what's-his-face almost drag Amanda from the scene.

"Well you have that little housewife to thank for that," Francine sneered.

Billy rubbed his temple. "Francine, if it had not been for Amanda we would have lost a lot more than just people tonight. We would have lost our ability to launch the Military's Surprise Attack down in Grenada. Now the plans are safe and the Military can proceed as planned. "

Lee looked back to Francine. "I agree with Billy, we could have been worse off tonight had she not seen the murder."

Francine crossed her arms; "Lee has our little suburban mother turn you into a domesticated spy?"

Lee glared at her, "Francine?"

Francine just stared at him with a look of pure innocence about her. "Yes?"

"Button it."

Billy just shook his head. "Okay you two, that's enough. Oh Lee, since you were able to have finish this case in record time I have another case for you."

Lee rubbed his hands, "Great, where is it? Germany, Japan, London?"

"Washington D.C"

"Huh?"

Billy smiled. "I'm putting you on the security detail for the Senator's Ball."

"Ah come on, Billy."

Billy held up his hand, "Save it, will ya? They bumped the ball up and it will take place in three days. And since that is going to crunch time in to protecting this thing, I'm putting my best man on this thing…you."

Lee groaned.

Billy started to walk away before he turned back, "Oh, and you might want to bring someone with you. You know, just to maintain your cover."

Francine just gave Lee a big smile, "Oh don't worry Lee, I'm sure someone will be available in one of your little black books."

Lee just hung his head, when his ears picked up two familiar voices that he was unable to place. Looking in their direction, he noticed that it was Officers Steadman and Hanson.

Seeing that they were off to the side with nobody around, Lee headed off in their direction.

Francine called out, "Lee where are you going?"

"I've got some personal business to take care of," he called over his shoulder.

As Lee got closer, he picked up the tail end of the conversation.

Hanson just shook his head. "Man, I can't believe we got called to this place twice in a row involving the same woman."

Steadman snorted. "Yeah, apparently there was thought to be a bomb planted but it turned out to be a dud. How much you want to bet that woman planted it and called it in as a joke?"

Lee's voice came up from behind them. "Just how much you want to bet that woman happened to have more sense of security that you two Bozo the Clowns put together?"

Both officers whirled around and came face to face with a very angry Lee.

Lee grabbed their uniforms and pulled them closer to him. "You listen to me, both of you. If I ever, ever, hear or catch you not taking a woman seriously enough to do your jobs and check out everything possible because you feel a woman is beneath you in society, I will not only have you thrown out of the police force, but you will only be able to get jobs as janitors that will clean houses for women for the rest of your lives…for free."

Lee turned away and before he could walk two steps away, Officer Steadman piped up, "Hey Buster, where do you get off in telling us how to run our jobs? You're not our boss."

Lee turned back around slowly and spoke in his most quiet and calm voice that he could muster. "I am someone who has more ears and eyes across this world then you could ever hope for. There is no place you can't go that I will not be able to find you. Think of me as your biggest nightmare."

Lee continued to glare at them until he felt sure they were about to pee their pants, he turned and walked away. When he was out of their ear shot, Lee chuckled to himself.

In reality, he could never really cause them to lose their jobs or force them out of the police force…although if he pulled most of his strings, Lee was pretty sure he could be sure those two would get jobs like patrolling the carnivals that came into town. But that would take a lot of work.

Lee shook his head. No, the best thing to do was just keep an eye on them for now and be sure they changed their ways. If not, well maybe he'd send them a little reminder of this event.

But for now, he had a very important phone call to make back at the Agency in regards to a certain weather man.

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See, I didn't leave them in a burning building. Everyone can breathe now. Plus those cops have not been put in their place.

Wow, only one more chapter to go…but is it the end?

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

Next time on Scarecrow and Mrs King: Weathering Revenge: Swearing to himself that he will be back to make sure Amanda would be his and his alone.

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