Sunday afternoon, Lee and Amanda smile as Lee heads the car towards her house after their long weekend together. They actually have one more day off; but decide to spend the rest of the time with her family; the boys back from their retreat; school the next day. Besides, they wanted to share their news just as soon as they could.

"We have a lot to talk about," Lee said.

"Yes, we do!" Amanda responded wholeheartedly.

"Like where do we want to live, will your mother want to live with us?"

Amanda reached out and stroked the back of Lee's hand. "Maybe keep my current house; or find one elsewhere; yes my mother will want to live with us, if that is okay with you." Amanda responded with a hint of smile in her voice.

"I would love to have her live with us. I've never really had a family."

"I know, it would be okay with me; I'd love to have my mother around me and the boys still."

"Okay, that's settled; now what about the wedding? Small? Big? My best man should be Billy of course; do you think Francine should be your maid of honor and what about…telling your mother that we intelligent operatives?"

"Lee! Lee!" Amanda cut him off. "We have time; let's just enjoy being engaged…for now. Okay?"

"Okay! I'm sorry; I just don't want to mess this up. I never thought that I'd be here…engaged."

"Neither did I. I figured that after Joe, well that was it for me."

"Really? I thought that Dan, Dirk or whatever his name was, wanted to marry you."

"You know perfectly well that his name was Dean! And yes, he wanted to marry me; my mother wanted me to marry him, but I never really considered it, even though I never actually said I wasn't interested. I just wasn't feeling Dean. I don't think the boys loved him all that much either."

"I can't say that I'm not happy about it."

"Oh...it's funny to hear you say that, to admit it."

"Why?"

"Because even then; you weren't too happy about Dean or any would be man in my life for that matter which brings me to this: one question, just one question." Amanda laughed as she remembered one of their earlier cases in Germany.

"Yes?" Lee asked, recognizing the one question Fräulein reference.

"Why were you always…" By this time, they had pulled up to her house, where Lee parked his car directly out front.

"What?"

Amanda turned to face Lee. "So jealous?"

"I was not jealous."

Amanda gave him a look that said different. "Oh no? What about Delano?"

"I was afraid for you, he was too dangerous."

"What about David Benson?"

"He was dangerous too!"

"You didn't know that right away. And then there were men at parties, any man that dared talk to me or ask me to dance. Lee Stetson, I could go on and on but then we'd be out here all night; out with it now!"

"Amanda," he took her hands in both of his. "I guess, even from the very beginning, I did feel something for you, but I didn't quite know it myself. At first, I just thought I wanted to protect you, to keep you safe because as you so elegantly put it once, it was me that got you into the agency. But later, I realized that anytime any man was near you, that that was one more person that might try to take you away from me, even though, you weren't really mine to take."

"Lee Stetson, I never knew this! I always thought I was such a bother!" Amanda said.

"I guess, I didn't want you to get too close to anyone else, while I was still thinking out, sorting out my own feelings for you. And now that Joe is back….again…I think I'm even more afraid of something happening; that Joe will try to do something to keep us apart."

"Don't worry. I am yours now; body and soul. I would think after Friday night, Saturday morning and then again this morning," Amanda said, as she moved closer to Lee, placing little tiny kisses along his lips as she spoke softly, "you wouldn't have any doubts."

"Hmm!" They kissed a few more seconds before they pulled apart.

"We better go in before one of the neighbors walk up," Amanda said. "Stop worrying."

"Okay!"