Hello everybody, Grey Fool here with the new and final chapter. I can't believe it is almost done.
First of all, thank you to those who have reviewed, and even though if you didn't review thank you for taking the time to read this story.
Also a big thank you 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 Lee and Amanda solved the case.
Now it's time for the ending.
Please r&r and enjoy the story.
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Amanda and Dean walked together to the airport trying to reach the right terminal before Dean's boarding call was announced. After a couple of minutes of jostling through the crowds to reach the gate, they were able to make it just as a line was forming.
Upon reaching his terminal, Dean turned to Amanda and flashed a sad smile. "Sweetheart, are you positive you can't come to London with me? I'll be gone almost a year if not longer. There will be many lonely nights with me being up all night worrying about you."
Amanda laughed nervously. "I'm positive Dean. I've got the two boys to look out for and I will be fine. You'll be so busy with your new career that I will doubt you'll even notice that I'm not there."
Dean pressed himself to her and tightened his grip on her arms so that it was almost bruising her. "Oh but Honey I will call you every single day, multiple times at that. I love to know where you are and what you are doing constantly. You know that."
Amanda tried to shrug off his grip but found that she couldn't. "Dean you know that I will never be able to answer all of your calls. I do have two boys remember?"
"Just have your mother take care of them. This way I'll know you'll be waiting by the phone for me to call you whenever I get the chance. And if you do, I'll have a nice surprise for you when I get back."
"This is the last boarding call for American Airlines 353 for London."
Amanda grinned with relief; "Well you better hurry. And put your red ball cap on. It makes you look cute."
"Fine, goodbye for now my Sweets."
"Good-bye Dean."
With that, he gave her a bruising kiss, before he abruptly turned away and walked towards the terminal.
"So did your boyfriend leave okay?"
Amanda jumped at the sound of Lee's voice from behind her. Whirling around to face him, she gave Lee a scolding. "Lee, you scared me. Don't you have anything better to do than sneak up on me?"
Lee just shrugged. "Is there someplace less conspicuous where we can talk?"
Amanda looked around; "How about we walk and talk in the direction of my car?"
Lee nodded and waited for her to lead the way. Silence settled between them as they headed towards Amanda's car.
After a while Amanda did speak up. "In answer to your question, yes Dean did make it to his plane and everything. You know it was funny how this job, in London of all places, just happens to open up right after John's murder was solved. It was almost like it was fate. I mean, despite all the other offers Dean was getting that were just as good, this one call came up and said that they were desperate to have him come to London to do their weather and made an offer that topped all the others put together. Weird, huh?"
Lee laughed nervously; "Uh yeah, very strange indeed."
Finally, upon reaching her car, Amanda turned to Lee unable to bear the silence anymore. "Lee is there something important about the case you wanted to discuss with me? Or did you just want to watch Dean and I say goodbye to each other?"
Lee shook his head and looked slightly nervous about what he had to say. "No, the case is closed. Both Tom and Dan are turning over on their boss Khusbakht. Claiming while they were the ones who kidnapped and took shots at us in the park, it was all under the orders of Khusbakht. Of course, Khusbakht is claiming that he was once again being sabotaged by the government and that all he was doing was running a nice quiet weather bureau. And it was I who in reality did all the work."
Amanda looked slightly shocked. "Surley they aren't going to believe him?"
"No, no. With all the evidence we found and his record, Khusbakht is going away for quite a while. And hopefully will never see the light of day."
Amanda visibly relaxed and nodded. "Good. Is that all that you wanted to tell me?"
Lee looked embarrassed and started to move his right foot back in forth in the dirt for a few minutes. Sighing, Lee moved his line of vision back up to Amanda's eyes then replied to her. "No, no, no that is not all I have to say nor is it the reason to why I'm here."
"Then what is it?"
Lee grimaced; "Uh, well, the agency is ah…providing security for a Senator's Ball…and I was wondering if…you know if you're not busy…you would like to…"
Amanda folded her arms; "If I would like to what?"
Lee cleared his throat. "If you would…you know…like to come with me…After all it is a Friday night and it would be really pathetic to go to one of these things alone. And since I would be working, I just thought…you know after the week you had…if you would like to see what agents do to relax."
"As in a date?"
Lee shook his head. "No, no, no. This is just strictly a business event. You'll even be paid. I figured you saw Monks as the place where all the agents hung out, I thought you would like to see another side of work and play being combined for agents"
"Well, when you put it that way, Hhow can I refuse such a generous offer?"
"I didn't know if you would be interested considering what happened with Delano."
Amanda gave Lee a surprised look. "Lee, what happened with Delano could have happened on any case. Don't worry about it. I would love to go see how you agents play and work at the same time.
Lee grinned, "Great! It is a black tie affair and I'll pick you up at the agency at 6."
With that Lee took off in the direction of his car. Amanda glanced down at her watch and mumbled under her breath and headed off to her car quickly as possible to get ready in such little time.
Neither Lee nor Amanda noticed a pair of eyes flashing anger and jealousy from the bushes, before heading back inside and off to London. Swearing to himself that he will be back to make sure Amanda would be his and his alone. There would be no escape for either of them.
The End
…For now…
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Well everyone, that is Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Weathering Revenge. Hope ya'll enjoyed the journey of reading it as much as I had of writing it. If I get enough interest I may start posting the next segment of the series. If people think it should end here, I won't post it.
Look for me in my next two stories:
How to Become an Agent Amanda Style
Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Filming Revenge (the second tale of the Revenge series)
until the next story, please r&r and have a wonderful day.
