Lee gaped at his mother for a long moment, stunned at the revelation that contrary to what he had always believed, he was not an only child. His thoughts were reeling when he said, "Ok, you've got some serious explaining to do."

"Lee, Darling, I didn't want to tell you this way," she said reaching out to touch his face.

Lee backed away from her abruptly. "Don't!" He said holding his hands up as if to fend her off. "Explain! NOW!"

Jennie Stetson took a long deep breath and began, "On the day of the accident, I'd just discovered that I was pregnant. I hadn't yet told your father as I wanted to wait until we'd wrapped up this mess involving Blackthorne. I think he suspected that something was bothering me though, because just before the accident happened, he commented that I was being unusually quiet. I was lost in my own thoughts about it. We were already struggling to keep you away from the life we led and were desperately trying to live as normal a home life with you as we possibly could. While I was immensely pleased about the baby, I was also frightened to death at the idea of bringing another child into our dangerous existence. You must have felt the same way at hearing the news that you were going to be a father."

"Stop it," Lee said in annoyance. "Stop trying to use my love for my children against me to gain sympathy for yourself. You've done it several times since this whole thing started and I'm getting damn sick of it." He couldn't understand how his mother could justify staying away from him all these years when she'd been raising another child just fine.

Jennie sighed and said, "This isn't how I planned this." She sat wearily on the bed holding the framed photograph in her hands as she gazed at it. "There was a reason that I was looking for this agent code-named Scarecrow before I went looking for you. I wanted to speak to him, not only regarding the details of how the Blackthorne case was closed, but also because I'd heard that he and his partner were the best in the business. That they'd never had a missing person's case that they weren't able to solve. I had hoped to engage their help in finding not only my son, but by daughter as well so that I could attempt to put my family back together. Of course, I had no idea that the famous Scarecrow was the son I'd left behind so many years ago."

"Your daughter, so that means I've got a sister," Lee said softly.

"Yes," she answered. "She was born May 14th, 1956."

"I'm curious about something else you said," Lee said as he sat next to her on the bed. "You said you'd heard that Amanda and I have never had an unsolved missing person's case. Is that what this is? Is my...my...sister...missing?" he stammered.

"In a way," Jennie said. "You see, the day that I gave birth to her, I still didn't have all of my memories back. I had remembered you and your father by that point, but not any details of what had caused the accident and had very vague memories of what we did for a living. Agent Carpenter had arranged for me to have the baby in a private hospital and also arranged for a private adoption under an assumed name, the name that I gave you when I introduced myself."

"Jenna Davis," he said. "Very clever pseudonym, by the way, a variation of your first name combined with Dad's middle name."

"Yes, that was also Agent Carpenter's idea. Apparently, the psychiatrist's he'd been working with on my behalf had recommended keeping my alias as close to something familiar as possible to help with recovering my memories but also different enough that it wouldn't be easy for my enemies to track me down and try to harm me or my children."

"So, not only did you abandon me, but you gave my sister away to be raised by strangers," Lee said icily.

"How can you be so cold?" Jennie asked in horror. "You sit there passing judgment on me, accuse me of abandoning you and your sister, yet you have absolutely no idea how difficult that was for me to do. How painful it was. I labored for twelve hours to bring her into the world only to give her to someone else to care for. You have your children at home waiting for you. You and your wife are rearing them together as a couple should. You couldn't possibly understand what it was like to have to make a heart-wrenching decision like that. Your sister was the only piece of your father I had left. You said yourself that you don't know what you would do if you ever lost Amanda. Try adding to that losing your children as well. With that in mind, can't you try to imagine what it was like for me to leave you and your sister behind?"

Lee stood, ran a hand through his hair and said, "I don't know. I just don't know, ok? I don't know what to think of any of this. This morning my life was great! I had my kids, my wife, my job, even my goofball, meddling mother-in-law. The kids are happy and healthy. Amanda was released by her daughter so I finally had my partner back at the office, not to mention having her back as my lover. My life was full, complete even. Now you reappear in my life and I start to realize how much my life was missing that I didn't even know was missing, that it wasn't as complete as I thought it was. You keep asking me to put myself in your shoes, but you're not seeing the other side. How about you try putting yourself in my shoes for just a second and see how you would react to something like this."

"It is a lot to take in. I acknowledge that, but-"

"No buts," Lee interrupted. "It's a lot to take in, period."

"I know that you're upset-"

"No, no, no, no, no," Lee said interrupting her again. "Upset is not a word I would use right now. I'm more than upset...I'm...I...Aw hell...I don't know what I am," he said in frustration as he flopped down on the bed again. "Hurt? Confused? Angry? A little lost?"

"I'm all of those things and more," Jennie said. "Believe me, this is not the way that I wanted you to find out about your sister. I have hoped to meet her first, explain the situation to her, and maybe try to get to know her a little before reuniting the two of you."

"You can't really call it reuniting us when we've never met, can you?"

"No, I suppose I really can't," she conceded. "If it makes you feel any better, I've never met her either. I held her for no more than ten minutes, just long enough for that photo to be taken before she was taken from me by a CIA agent to be handed off to the adoption agency, then to her new parents. I never saw your sister again."

"You keep calling her my sister as if she doesn't have a name," Lee said. "Why?"

"To be honest, I don't know her name," Jennie answered. "I was kept out of all that to protect myself and her. After she was taken from me, I knew nothing more of what happened to her, not her name, who her adoptive parents were... I don't even know what adoption agency was used."

"So how did you expect me to be able to find her? Amanda and I may be good at our jobs, but I don't know that we're that good. We'd need something more to go on than just a birth date."

"Does that mean you'll help me?" Jennie asked hopefully.

Lee smiled and said, "Yeah, I guess it does. I mean, after all, she is my sister, isn't she?"

I'm sor-"

"Don't," Lee said.

"Lee, please," Jennie pleaded with him.

"What is mean is that there's no apology necessary. I get that you were only doing what you did to protect your family. If I were in your shoes, I may have done the same. If it came down to it, as much as it would kill me to be away from them, if I had to stay away from my kids to protect them, that's exactly what I'd do. I'd give my life for them if I had to. They mean everything to me."

I understand completely," Jennie said with a smile. "Thank you for understanding."

"Come on," he said rising from the bed and reaching for her hand. "Let's get you packed so I can get back to my kids, huh?"

"And me to my grandchildren," she added as she took his hand and allowed him to help her up. As they resumed the task of packing, Jennie attempted also to resume their conversation still waning to know more about her son. "So, you mentioned that Amanda was just released from her doctor's care. I assume that you meant as a result of giving birth to the twins?"

"Yeah, she just had her post-partum check-up yesterday and today was her first day back at work," Lee answered.

She couldn't resist teasing him a little since she'd seen how embarrassed he'd become earlier by his near slip-of-the-tongue when talking about his wife. "So, I have to ask then, what exactly was it that your mother-in-law and I interrupted in that gazebo?"

"You didn't interrupt anything," Lee said smiling at the memory.

"No?'

Lee shook his head still smiling and said, "No, nothing."

"So, then I must have been mistaken in thinking that I heard the sounds of you two scrambling to right your clothing," she teased. "And I must have imagined that I saw your face and neck covered in Amanda's lipstick. I mean, if there was indeed nothing going on out there to interrupt."

"Oh, I never said there was nothing going on out there. You just didn't interrupt it," he fired back with a grin.

"Oh, I see," she said a little startled that he was being so open with her.

"What? Are you making judgments now?"

"No, not at all," she replied.

"Then what's with the look? You know, there's nothing wrong with husband and wife making love."

"Of course there isn't," Jennie said and then added with a grin, "My dear son, if I felt that there were, you wouldn't be here, now would you?"

"Touché," Lee said blushing slightly. "Let's just change the subject, ok?"

"Gladly," she said. "So, your mother-in-law made a crack about you trampling the flower beds. Might I ask what that was all about or do I want to know?"

"It's not what you think," Lee said. "And get your mind out of the gutter. The flowerbed thing goes back to the early days of my partnership with Amanda before I'd met Dotty and the boys. Hell, it was before they even knew I existed." He related the story of how he used to tap on the kitchen window and how Amanda would always meet him in the back yard of the old house. "Then when we started dating, she used to meet me out in the gazebo when it was still at the old house so it has special meaning for us. That's where we used to steal a few minutes alone together when we were still keeping our relationship a secret. That's the reason we decided to move it to the new house with us. It kind of became our special place."

"That's lovely," Jennie said with a smile

Before either of them could say another word, their conversation was interrupted by the sound of bullets slamming into the side of the house and of breaking glass as flying bullets pierced the windows. "Get down!" Lee shouted as he reached for his mother and threw both of them to the floor as bullets whizzed overhead.