At the agency, outside one of the debriefing rooms, Amanda was waiting with Lee while his mother was giving her statement, Lee pacing furiously back and forth.

"Lee, Sweetheart, you're going to wear a hole in the floor at the rate you're going," Amanda said worriedly.

"I can't help it. I should be in there with her," Lee grumbled.

"Come on, Lee, you know you can't. You know the rules," Amanda reminded.

"Well, screw the rules. Do you think in the past five years, that there are any rules left that you and I haven't broken?"

"I know, but they need her to tell her whole story objectively without any interruptions and you're not in a position to be objective."

"Screw objectivity too," Lee yelled. "This is my mother. I just got her back today and not even a whole day passed by when I nearly lost her again."

"Lee, I know how you feel, but-"

"Don't say that, Amanda. I love you and I know that you're trying to be supportive, but don't try to tell me that you know how I feel. You can't possibly know how I feel."

"No? Lee, I know you, sometimes better than you know yourself. I was there when you were having nightmares about your parents; I was there when you were going through the withdrawals from the drugs we used to coax those childhood memories out of you. Do you remember? Remember how I held you when you cried for your mother as if you were still five years old? I was there when you were clinging to me for dear life as if your wee drowning and I was your lifeline."

"I was drowning and you were my lifeline," Lee confirmed as he tenderly stroked her face. "I also remember waking up after all the nightmares were over and seeing you looking at me as if I was your whole world. I already knew that I loved you then, but it hit me in that moment just how much you loved me too. That's when it really hit me for the first time that we had a shot at a real future together. I also remember that it was a short time later after I'd gotten some real rest that we made love for the first time."

"I remember," Amanda said fondly as she ran a hand through his hair and then kissed him softly. "It was the first time ever that we spent a whole night together when it wasn't related to a case."

"I remember feeling a little disoriented the next day when I woke up. At first, I thought it was all part of the dreams because my dreams of my parents had gotten all mixed up with my dreams of you. Then when I really woke up and saw you next to me with your arms wrapped around me, I knew it wasn't a dream, but a dream come true." He reached for her hand and linked his fingers with hers.

"Kind of like having your mom back now, huh?"

"Yeah," he said with a sigh.

"Hey, listen, while we've got some time to kill, why don't we head upstairs and take a look at the CIA files Billy left up there and see if we can't get closer to finding your sister? It'll keep your mind occupied while we wait."

"Yeah," he said as he grasped her hand more firmly and they made their way down the hall and toward the elevator together. "Francine just better take damn good care of her," Lee said with one last backward glance.

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An hour later in the debriefing room, Francine and Jennie were wrapping up.

"You've given us a lot of good information here," Francine said. "Is there anything else at all that you can think of?"

"No, not really. I've told you everything that I can remember. It has been over thirty years ago, after all."

"Well, if you think of anything else, please let us know."

"I will, Miss Desmond, thank you," Jennie said warmly

"I'll walk you out," Francine said as both women rose from the table. Jennie paused for a moment. Francine noticing her staring at her said, "Is there something else?"

"Not about the case, no, I just...I saw how you and my son related to each other when we first arrived here. You know him quite well, don't you?"

Francine smiled and said, "Yes, I do and your daughter-in-law."

Jennie smiled back at her and said, "Amanda is a lovely woman. I'm so glad to him so happy."

"You should have seen him when he found out he was gonna' be a dad," Francine said.

"What can you tell me about it?"Jennie probed as they began walking out of the room together.

"Well, keep in mind that no one knew that they were married at the time and they were off work for four whole days after Amanda's physical revealed that she was pregnant. You wouldn't believe the rumors that were flying around this place. Of course, everyone here pretty much knew that Lee was the one responsible so by the time they came back to work, everyone was on pins and needles wondering what he was going to do about it. They even had a pool going.

Monday, August 17, 1987

Francine stepped out of the closet elevator making her way toward Mrs. Marston's desk impatiently. "Are Lee and Amanda here yet?"

"Not since tem minutes ago when you called down here and asked for the twentieth time today," Mrs. Marston said dryly peering at Francine over the top of her glasses. "And you coming down here in person isn't going to make them magically appear."

Francine sighed and said, "I'm sorry. It's just that Billy and I have been running around like crazy, trying to quash all the rumors that are running rampant through this place and that would be a lot easier to do if they were here to offer an explanation. I'm sorry to keep bugging you, but to be honest, Billy's kind of on the warpath over this whole thing and I felt the need to get away from him for a minute."

"Well, I'd prefer it if you did it somewhere else," Mrs. Marston said in her typically cool tone.

"Well, speak of the devil," Francine said as she glanced up at the monitor and saw Lee and Amanda on it approaching the Georgetown entrance wrapped in each other's arms. Francine nodded to Mrs. Marston who buzzed them in. She gaped open-mouthed at them as they walked in together, Lee's arms wrapped around Amanda from behind, they fingers linked together over Amanda's abdomen.

"So, I'm guessing you're happy about the news," Amanda said with a gleeful smile on her face.

"Ecstatic," Lee answered with an equally gleeful smile. "Best birthday present ever."

"Um...Lee...wasn't your birthday two months ago," Francine interjected.

"Yes, Francine, it was," He said with a wink then a loving gaze at the woman still wrapped in his arms.

"You know," Amanda said with a giggle. "That present of yours was kind of a gift to me too."

"Hmm, yeah, I do seem to recall that you were getting just as much enjoyment out of it as I was...maybe more," Lee said as he nuzzled her neck no longer trying to hide his feelings for her.

Mrs. Marston cleared her throat loudly. "Mr. Stetson. Mrs. King," she said as she held out their IDs while Francine just continued to gape at them.

Lee reluctantly released his hold on Amanda and reached for their IDs, clipped his to his lapel, glanced at Amanda's and said, "Actually, Mrs. Marston, It's no longer Mrs. King." He then gazed back at Amanda, took her left hand in his and said, "It's Mrs. Stetson now," as he proudly displayed the rings they both now wore openly.

"We're going to have to do something about this," Amanda said as she took her ID from her husband's right hand and looked at it in disdain.

"I'll be damned," Francine said. "So, I guess Duffy's gonna' win the pool then."

"There's a pool," Amanda said looking amused.

"Oh, yeah, they've been taking bets downstairs on how the two of you were going to handle the news of your pregnancy," Francine said. "Duffy bet that Lee would do the right thing and finally make and honest woman of you."

"Then he lost the pool," Amanda said as she released her husband's hand to clip on her ID.

"How so? Lee just said that you're Mrs. Stetson now. So, are you telling me that you two didn't use this four-day vacation to run off and get married?"

"Nope," Lee said with a shake of his head as he wrapped an arm around his wife.

"Then I don't get it," Francine said with a shake of her head. "Are you married or not."

"Oh, we're really married, Francine," Lee said not giving her any more information.

"Lee, Sweetheart, don't you think you're being a little cruel?" Amanda said as she gazed at her husband.

"Not a bit," Lee said. "it's really no one's business but ours."

"You're impossible," she said with a playful slap on his chest before turning her attention back to Francine and saying, "Francine, the truth is we didn't use this four-day vacation to run off and get married because that's what we used our two week vacation back in February for."

"Now, if you ladies will excuse us, I'm sure Billy will have some questions for us," Lee said as he and his wife entered the elevator hand-in hand leaving the two nosiest women in the building staring at them in open-mouthed surprise.

"I'll tell you something, you could have knocked me over that day when they walked in and without so much as a hello just announced that they'd been married for six months. Of course, I didn't believe it at first. I thought it was just a story that Lee made up to cover up for the fact that he'd gotten her pregnant and make it seem less tawdry, but when I did the research, I found out that it was true," Francine said as she and Jennie began to ascend the stairs leading to the Q Bureau.

"I imagine that must have been quite a surprise for you," Jennie said as they reached the top of the stairs and entered the hallway.

"Oh, believe me, it was, particularly given Lee's history with women," Francine said as they entered the Q Bureau to find Amanda typing furiously at the computer on Lee's desk while Lee flipped through page after page of CIA files.

"Francine, I hope you're not filling my mother's head with unfounded rumors," Lee said in irritation.

"No, Lee, I was just filling her in on how you two decided to let us all in on your little secret last August," Francine answered.

"Oh, that," Amanda said never taking her eyes off of the computer screen.

"Oh that? Like it was no big deal that you two just ran off and eloped without telling a single soul about it?"

"Francine, that was almost a year ago. That was August and this is what...April. We've been married for over a year now. We have a home together and four children," Amanda said pausing in her typing, "And Lee's been an amazing father to all of them. I really wish you'd lay off his past and just let us focus on our future."

"Speaking of the past," Lee said with a glance at the computer. "Are you making any headway?"

"Not so far," Amanda said with a sigh.

"What is it that you're doing here?" Jennie inquired.

"Trying to find your missing daughter," Amanda answered.

"Here, try this one and see if there's a computer record that might get us further," Lee said. "File number JJ336501,"he read.

Amanda typed while Lee read and immediately shook her head, "Nope, locked out. My security clearance isn't high enough."

"Maybe mine is," Lee said as he as he handed her his key card.

"Bingo," Amanda said. "We're in. Let's see..." She began reading through the computer file punching in keystrokes as needed. "Jenna Davis, baby girl, May 14th, 1956. This is it. No name to go with it, but we've got the name of the hospital she was born in. That's a start."

"Is there any mention of the adoption agency that was used?" Jennie asked hopefully.

"No," Amanda said sadly. At seeing her mother-in-law's face fall, she said, "I'm sorry, but we've at least got a lead." Amanda rolled her head around trying to ease the crick that had formed in her neck at staring at the computer screen for so long."

"Here, let me," Lee said as he moved closer to his wife to massage her stiff neck muscles.

"Mmm," she sighed. "Thank you."

"Do you know if they got anything form the guys we nabbed tonight?" Lee asked Francine as he continued to work on his wife's neck.

"Nothing so far. At least the last time I check which was right before we came up here. They've all suddenly become mute," Francine said. "I don't think we're gonna' get anything out of them."

"And I don't think we're going to get any more out of these files or the computer records," Amanda said. "I think it's all gonna' be good-old-fashioned legwork from now on."

"I say it's time we knock off for the night then," Lee said as he glanced at his watch. "We should get home to the kids and give your mother a reprieve anyway. If we get home soon, we should still have time to say goodnight to the boys. It's not quite their bedtime yet."

"Yeah, let's go," Amanda said as she gathered up her things. "First thing tomorrow morning, we'll start with the hospital and see where that takes us."