Scarecrow's unveiling
It was a nightmare. A waking nightmare in the daytime for the owner of
the house at 4247 Maplewood drive. What started out as a morning of
sexual horseplay with her husband of 4 months for the woman who owned the
house went from an innocent bit of teasing to the hellish situation of
being caught by her two teenage sons in nothing but a very short
babydoll nightgown.
"No, This isn't happening", moaned Amanda king Stetson as she sat on
the foot of her bed face in her hands, shaking her head from side to
side while rocking back and forth.
Hearing the distraught tone of his wife's voice and seeing the
dejected posture of her body, her tall handsome husband finished tucking his T
shirt into his jeans, buttoned then zipped them up before walking over
to where his wife sat on the bed and putting his arms around his wife.
Next he leaned over just enough to place a kiss on her forehead before
saying, "it's alright honey, we'll get through this together,
somehow".
"How can you say it going to be alright" yelled his brunette wife as
she surged up off the bed so quickly and with so much force that it
caught him off guard causeing him to stumble back a few steps. "I have to
go downstairs and explain to my 12 and 14 year old sons why their mother
was running around the house half naked with a man they barely know".
"Amanda" sighed her spouse as he followed the progress of his agitated
lover who had now begun to indulge in what she referred to as "the bad
habit of pacing" that she'd recently picked up from him.
"You don't have to do this alone. I'm going to be right by your side
the whole time. As to what you were doing, Jaime may or may not have put
all of the pieces of the puzzle together to come up with the whole
picture but at 14, I'm pretty sure Phillip knows the score".
"Lee Stetson, you take that back. My babies are to young to know about
sex" his wife fumed as she stopped mid pace, drew her self up to her
full 5'7" height and glared at him.
"Come on Amanda", laughed Lee. "You can't seriously think the boys
have absolutely no ideal what goes on between a man and a woman when they
make love. I mean in this day and age it's all around them. You can't
really believe they have not picked up some idea of the concept, even if
they don't fully understand the intricate details".
Turning away from him, she walked over to her closet and took out a
pair of Black linen slacks and a black uva t shirt and started to undress
before she whispered "I don't want to talk about this now Lee. We have
to concentrate on what we are going to say to the boys when we face
them not to mention my mother".
This time it was Lee's turn to groan as he thought about the
accidental view his mother-in -law had gotten before he hastily retreated
upstairs to the safe haven of his wife's bedroom.
Amanda couldn't help but laugh at the expression on the love of her
life's face. It mirrored the one he wore when she first came upstairs
behind him almost 10 min ago, only this time his face hadn't quite reached
the same deep shade of red as earlier when she handed him the towel he
had abandoned on the staircase.
Having finished dressing Amanda reached out and took Lee's stronger,
larger, lightly calloused hand in hers.
"Come on Lee, the longer we stay up here the worse it's going to be.
Besides I know my mother's patience and we only have about two more
minutes before she'll be up here knocking on the door demanding an
explanation. You really don't want that now do you" she said pointedly looking
at the still unmade bed. Lee followed her gaze and was quick to respond "a no, un un, no way".
"That's what I thought" replied Amanda giving his hand a firm but
gentle tug as she slowly led him out the door of their bedroom down the
staircase and into to the living room to face the inquisition from her
loved ones that she knew awaited Lee and her.
As he descended the top step behind his wife Lee Stetson, know as the
great intelligence operative "Scarecrow" to the people involved in the
world of espionage and counter espionage both on a national and
international level, couldn't believe that neither he nor his wife and fellow
agent partner Amanda had been able to come up with a working plan of
just what they were going to say to her family, before they left the
bedroom.
Stepping on the third step from the top Lee's mind drifted back to the
events of earlier that morning.
The alarm had awoken him at 6:00 that morning. He was reluctant to
crawl out of bed that early on Saturday morning but knew if he didn't they
wouldn't make it to the task force meeting Dr. Smyth had called for
8:00 am sharp this morning.
He had complained about the earliness of the hour the night before
telling her they could sleep in until 7:00 and still make it to the office
by 8:00 with the drive only taking a half an hour at that time on a
Saturday morning.
Amanda being her ever efficient self had started rattling off her
preplanned schedule informing him that she had allotted twenty minutes a
piece for them both to shower and get ready, fifteen minutes to make
coffee and breakfast, which she reminded him she ate even if he didn't, a
half an hour for the drive, ten minutes to park walk into the agency,
get their badges and walk up to the Q Bureau, another fifteen minutes to
sign off on the finished reports, their expense accounts and gather the
files they need to bring to the meeting, which would give them ten
minutes to walk down the stairs from the Q Bureau to the elevator down to
the ground floor, walk across the Bullpen and take a seat in the
conference room before the meeting started.
Shaking his head in amusement as he remember the conversation, Lee
rolled over on his side and kissed his wife swiftly on the lips. When the
only response he recieved from his wife was a sweet smile, he leaned
back down and gave her a firmer, longer smooch. His second kiss evolked a
soft moan from his still slumbering wife. She must be really tired if
that didn't wake her up thought Lee.
Placing the lightest of kisses on both eyelids, Lee advanced his
mission by moving back to Amanda's lips. As he brushed his luscious lips
accross hers, his wife began her ascension back to the land of
consciousness. Seeing that she was finally waking up, Lee dove in for a kiss.
As Amanda Stetson opened her brown eyes to gaze upon the face of her
beloved husband, he intensified the kiss and drank from the well of his
wife's lips as if they were precious drops of water and he hadn't had a
drink in three days.
When she was able to form coherent speech again, Amanda glanced up
into her husband's hazel eyes and said, "You sure know how to wake a gal
up in the morning".
"All a part of the Stetson bedside service, my love. One of the many
perks of having me for a husband" he told her flashing one of his most
endearing smiles.
"Well big fella, Why don't you fill me in on some of the other
benefits", said Amanda.
"I'd love to Mrs. Stetson and believe you me I plan to fill you.....in
too your heart's delight when we get back home this afternoon, but if
we don't get up and get a move on we're going to be late to the task
force meeting. Now I personally don't mind but I seemed to recall when we
were late for the last one, you blamed me for distracting you and were
mad at me for most of the day".
"Oh my gosh. I completely forgot about the meeting", schreeched Amanda
as she gently pushed her husband away and bounded out of bed.
Throwing the covers off and sliding his long, hard muscular body off
the bed, Lee stood up and watched his wife in motion for a few minutes
before telling her to slow down, they had plenty of time.
"Hey do you mind if I shower first" said Lee as he laid a fresh pair
of boxers out on the bed for after his shower. "That way I can be making
breakfast while you finish dressing and putting on your makeup".
"No go ahead" replied Amanda as she finished gathering her clothes and
toiletry items.
Having finished his shower and shave, Lee emerged from the bathroom
with a large white bath towel wrapped around his waist. "All yours" he
told his wife.
"Thank you sweetheart", replied Amanda as she looked her husbands
beautiful body up and down.
Seeing his wife lick her lips when she had finished her slow perusal
of his semi naked body, Scarecrow leered at her and decided to tease her
a little.
"Do you like what you see Mrs. Stetson" he asked he giving her a
wicked grin.
"Oh yeah big fella. I'd like to see even more of it too", she
replied.
"I guess I'm just going to have to give you a little show then" Lee
said. He began to undulate around the room, lifting the corner of the
towel and showing Amanda a little more leg as he came near her. As she
would reach out toward th towel, he'd move back just ot of her grasp.
"Come on sexy daddy take it all off" cheered Amanda after Lee pull the
towel almost all the way up on the right side, revealing everything but
the "main attraction".
Strutting his stuff to the other side of the room, he continued to
tease and titilate his wife with his sexy gyrations. As Lee reached for
the knot on the bath towel, Amanda let out a low whistle.
Lee's eyes fell on the alarm clock that now showed the time to be 6:50
a.m.
Sweetheart I'm afraid the show's over, sighed Lee as he reached over
to grab his boxers and get dressed.
Amanda being closer to where the blue undergarments were laying
managed to snatch them up a fraction of a second before Lee had them in his
grasp.
Oh no Scarecrow, she said shaking her head, you're not going to get
these, she held the boxers up infront of her and jiggled them for effect,
until you finish what you started.
Amanda, it's ten miniutes to seven and you haven't even had your
shower. We're running way behind your, and here he stressed the word your
schedule.
Schedule, scmedule, you're not getting anywhere near these boxers,
buster, until I get my gander at the goods, Amanda informed him, as she
crossed her arms and gave him a defiant look.
Come on Amanda be serious would you.
You know how you hate being Late. It always causes trouble when we are.
First you forget something because you are in a rush and then you
always say it's my fault you forgot it. Once we get on the road you tell me
to drive faster one minute and in the next breath you tell me to slow
down before we get killed. When I remind you of the fact that you told
me to drive faster, you get mad and tell me to just be quiet and drive.
I ask you what's wrong with you and you say nothing. It's easy to see
that isn't true from the way you roll your eyes, place your hand under
your chin and turn your back to me. When I reach out touch your hand and
try to apologise, you pull away, edge even closer to the passenger door
and angrily tell me to leave you alone, you don't want to talk to me
"right now". Taking the hint, I keep to quiet the rest of the drive,
trying to figure out exactly where I went wrong, which for some
inexpliciable reason only seems to make you even madder. As he finishes the
sentence, Lee throws his hands up in the air, in flustration.
Seeing he has unintentionally hurt his wife's feeling's by the
moisture forming in the corner of her brown eyes, the rapid blnking and soft
sniffling as she fights hard not to let the teardrops fall and the
tell-tale quiver of her bottom lip, Lee walks over to her and begins to
apologise.
"Sweetheart don't cry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry, says Lee
softly as he tenderly reaches up and wipes a tear away with his index
finger.
Taking a step back Amanda utters in a hurt tone, "I'm sorry to be such
an imposition to you, Lee".
"Woah, wait a minute, where in the world did that come from. You are
not an imposition to me Amanda Stetson. You are my wife, my love, my
reason for living. Before I allowed my self to except your love, I never
knew what happiness was. Sure I had fun. I did thing, went places that
most people only dream about. But it was all an illusion. I wasn't
living, I was just existing. The pleasure I recieved from my adventures was
short lived and it seemed that I had to do more outrageous things, take
greater risks everyday to sustain that illusion".
"Life was a game to me, I played it hard and fast. Nobody gave a damn
about me and I didn't give a damn about any body. But that all change
one day when I looked ito you beautiful eyes and realized that you loved
and cared about me unconditionally, not because I was some super agent,
not because I was invited to all the right parties, not because some
magazine named me the most elgible batchelor, not because you could brag
to your friends that you had slept the famous Scarecrow, but because
you were able to look beyond the facade of fool's gold I showed to the
outside world and see into my soul".
"You saw the real me, you saw how battered and bruised my heart was
and set out to mend it. It wasn't easy, I know. I was determined to cling
to all my hurts as a reminder to not let anyone get close enough to
hurt me again, but I never stood a chance. Your ability to love,
understand and forgive was to great an obstacle to overcome. One day I
realized, I no longer wanted to overcome it. Then I had another revalation,
when we were finally both able to vocalize our love for each other. You
had shown me for years, through you actions how much I ment to you, but
the day you told me you loved me for the first time, I realized you had
given me the gift of your heart".
Lee reached down and took both of her hands in his. He brought first
the right one and then the left one reverently to his lips and kissed
the back of it. Still not releasing her hands as he gazed into her eyes
with such an intensity, that if she had been a piece of paper she would
have spontaneously combusted, Lee who by this time was becoming choked
up by the emotional flood gate that had open could only whisper his
next words, "You, my Amanda, are a blessing from God and I will cherish
and honor you with my
dying breath".
Releasing her hands before enveloping her in an almost desperate
embrace, he said, "I love you with all my heart, Amanda Stetson".
Seconds ticked by and turned into minutes as they stood there clinging
to the lifeline of each others love. As they held each other, the tears
flowed freely from their eyes, washing away all the hurt as their love,
their hearts, their souls experienced a spiritual rebirth.
Amanda was the first to pull back but she didn't leave his strong
embrace. She reached up and wiped the tears from his eyes with the pads of
her thumbs. Next she placed a soft kiss on his lips.
Shh, she said. Don't cry Lee, I know how much you love me. I love you
just with ever molecule of my body. You don't have to worry about
losing my love. It belongs to you and only you beyond the end of time. As
much as you say I've given you, You've given me that much and a thousand
times more.
Lee opened his mouth to interrupt but Amanda silenced him with a
finger to his lips.
"Lee", she said, "Don't you realize what a profound impact you have
had on not just my life but the life of my whole family. You are always
telling me how stong a woman I am. A great deal of that strength comes
from you. Yes, I had to be strong and do things on my own before I met
you, but what nobody know is that sometimes things got so rough I fet
like I was going to break. Having your love and support means more to me
than you know, because as long as I have that I know I may bend but I
won't break because whenever my foundation starts to crumble, you'll be
right there to reinforce it. And let's not forget what stability you've
brought to my son's, our son's lives. They may not know you are their
stepfather, but they see you as a role model. You've done an admirable
job of being a father figure to them. They've come to depend on you more
than they do Joe. If you tell them you are going to do something they
count on it, but when their father promises them he's going to do
something they are always hesitant to believe it will happen. If you haven't
noticed it your opinion is very important to them. They love you almost
as much as their mom does.
"They're great kids, sweetheart. I can't help but love them, afterall
they're a part of you. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of their
lives" Lee said as he smiled and leaned down to kiss his wife".
As the kiss ended, Lee made a mental note to call the florist later on
to order an I love you boquet for Amanda.
"So, does this mean that my best gal forgives me", he asked?
Hearing the lightly teasing tone of her husbands voice Amanda replies
"What do you mean best gal, Stetson? I better be the only one.
Lee pretends to look thoughtful for a moment before he says, "well my
love there is this blonde who seems to have me wrapped around her
finger'.
"Do tell", says Amanda, who by now is standing with her feet apart
hands on her hips.
Yeah, she's figured out that I would do almost anything to please her.
She knows all she has to do is say "Oh Lee could you" and I'll do it.
She's very special to me.
"And just who prey tell is this very special blonde, Scarecrow"
"Just a wonderful lady who treats me like a king. Truth be told, She
fusses over me sometimes more than you do".
"Oh she does does she", quips Amanda.
Lee is enjoying this little game but doesn't want to take it too far.
He says "yeah she always concerned that I have a good meal, she never
forgets to remind me to drive careful when we part, she treats me just
like I was her son. She's the best mother-in law a guy could ask for".
My mother? You were talking about my mother all this time Amanda asks
him as she chucks him in the arm.
"Who else would I, a deliriously, happily married man be talking
about, Mrs. Stetson", inquired Lee.
"I'm going to get you for that one Stetson".
"Those are some pretty brave words Mrs. Stetson, are you sure you're
going to be able to back them up", asked Lee as he slowly began to stalk
Amanda wih a devilish gleam in his eye.
Amanda knowing that look all to well, realized that she had better do
some fast talking or there was no way they'd make that meeting before
10:00.
"Lee sweetheart, she said glancing quickly over her right shoulder at
the alarm clock on the bedside table, while backing away hurridly
before Lee could pounce on her, it's now 7:10 and like you kept reminiding
me we're already behind schedule. If we don't hurry we're going to be
late. We don't have time for what you are planning".
"In a hurry now, are we Amanda. You fanned this flame, my dear and now
you're going to have to deal with the fire".
Before he got close enough to reach out and grab her Amada Shriked,
turned tail and ran down the hallway towards the stairs.
As this was going on, a black and white taxi cab had pulled up infront
of the two story, white Cape Cod style home and two of it's three
passengers weairly climbed out, grabbed their stuff out of the trunk and
headed towards the front door of the house, glad to be back home after
riding all night back to Arlington after they arrived to their campground
and found out the whole area had been sitting under 3ft of water for
the last 4 days. The third passenger lingered behind just long enough to
take the money out of her purse and pay the cab driver.
Inside the house, Amanda reached the staircase and started running
down at the same time that her oldest son Phillip inserted his key into
the lock on the door. She glanced back to see how close Lee was. He was
right behind her,about to grab her around the waist. She screamed and
moved even quicker down the stairs.
Because the clicking of the lock occured simulaneously with Amanda's
scream it took a few seconds for them to realize the door had been
unlocked.
The shock of the door opening all of a sudden caused Lee, who was on
the third step fom the bottom and Amanda, whose feet had just touched
the floor to hesitate slightly before retreating back up the stairs. That
brief timeperiod was enough to drag the skeleton of Amanda and Lee's
secret marriage out of the closet.
Upon hearing their mother scream, Phillip and Jaime ,shouting, "mom,
are you ok", threw open the front door, bravely ready to rush to their
Mother's aid. The site that met their eyes was quite a shock to their
adolesent psyches.
"Oh my gosh" cried Amanda
"Oh shit" muttered Lee
Amanda stood rooted to the spot, with her hands on the side of her
face, eyes wide mouth slightly agape as she stood staring at her two
teenage son's and her mother who had come in the door behind them.
Lee, who's agent instincts, by this time had kicked in, turned
quickly and started a hasty exit back up the stairs.
Unfortunately for Scarecrow, he didn't check to see if his towel was
secure earlier when he had started to unfasten it while teasing Amanda.
As he turned around his towel hit the floor, right alond with Dotty's
jaw.
"Ah hell" said Lee as he felt the temperture change and realized what
had happened. Instead of retrieving the towel, Lee Stetson continued
his flight to the safety of Amanda's bedroom.
The sight of their "stepfather" being ass out brought Phillip and
Jaime out of the near catatonic state and they began to howl with
Laughter.
Amanda King Stetson was so embarrassed that not only had she been
caught in a compromising sitation by her two sons, but that they along with
her mother had also witnessed Scarecrow's unveiling, was for the first
time in her adult life, rendered speechless.
Not able to look her children, or her mother, in the eye as she passed
by them, she slowly slunk hr way upstairs towards her bedroom, pausing
to pick up her husbands abandoned towel on the way.
Just as Amanda's hand reached for the knob to open her bedroom door
that Lee had closed after he reentered it, she heard Dotty tell the boys
that by the time they put their bags upstairs in their room, that she
and Lee would be back downstairs wanting to have a family meeting.
Amanda came into her bedroom, closed the door, walked over to her
redfaced husband, who was now fully dressed, handed him the towel and said
"I believe you dropped this streak".
After handing Lee the towel she sat on the foot of her bed face in her
hands, shaking her head from side to side while rocking back and forth,
moaning, "No, This isn't happening".
Lee was so caught up in reliving the events from earlier that morning
that he didn't realize that Amanda and he had reached the living room,
until he felt her not so genty tugging on his arm, telling him to take
a seat.
Amanda and Lee spent ten mintues doing their best to completely and
honestly answer their family's questions about their relationship,
reasurring Phillip and Jaime that they loved each other and were fully
committed to each other.
Unfortunatly that brought up the question of marriage. Knowing that
that question was a can of worms in it self and that they still had to go
to the task force meeting, Amanda and Lee told the family that they kew
they had a lot more questions but they really had to get going to work
before they got fired but they promised to finally address the subject
of marriage and answer the rest of their questions when the got off
work.
Lee and Amanda lucked out for once that day as traffic on the way to
the office was unusually light. Scarecrow brought the vette to a
screeching halt infront of IFF as he and Amanda quickly exited the car,
raced inside the building, Throwing out the word of he day at the same time
as they greeted Mrs. Marston and retrived their ID.
Next they made a mad dash up to the Q Bureau, where Amanda Grabbed the
files and Lee snatched up the reports to be signed and they rushed back
out the door. They just made it to the conference room as Billy and Dr.
Smyth walked in.
"Nice of the two of you to show up", Dr. Smyth, sneered at Lee and
Amanda.
Out of breathe neither one of them responded to the verbal jab.
Not satisfied with not getting rise out of Lee, Dr. Smyth decided to
change tactics.
It seems you partnership with Mrs. King is slowing you down Scarecrow
or all those rumors about the legendary Scarecrow's stamina greatly
exaggerated, quipped Smyth.
The few snickers Smyth's comment elicited from the room, were
immediately silence by one look from their section chief, Billy Melrose, who
hurried to start the meting before his hotheaded Agent, Scarecrow blew
his top.
Lee for his part, after recieving an almost imperceptable shake of the
head from Amanda, only gave Dr. Smyth a scalding look.
Billy was surprised, as he began to go over the agenda for the
meeting, that Scarecrow's temper hadn't errupted. Well, well, well he thought
to himself, maybe the influence of Lee being partnered with Amanda is
finally causing the Scarecrow to growup.
What Billy and the rest of the room's occupants didn't know was that
it wasn't Amanda's influence on their partnership that was keeping
Scarecrow from responding to Smyth's taunts, but the firm influence of her
right hand, that had unnoticably made it's way under the table, on his
male anatomy. Needless to say, throughout the meeting, Scarecrow was on
his best behavior.
THE END
The B5 Alley Cat
Scarecrow's unveiling
It was a nightmare. A waking nightmare in the daytime for the owner of
the house at 4247 Maplewood drive. What started out as a morning of
sexual horseplay with her husband of 4 months for the woman who owned the
house went from an innocent bit of teasing to the hellish situation of
being caught by her two teenage sons in nothing but a very short
babydoll nightgown.
"No, This isn't happening", moaned Amanda king Stetson as she sat on
the foot of her bed face in her hands, shaking her head from side to
side while rocking back and forth.
Hearing the distraught tone of his wife's voice and seeing the
dejected posture of her body, her tall handsome husband finished tucking his T
shirt into his jeans, buttoned then zipped them up before walking over
to where his wife sat on the bed and putting his arms around his wife.
Next he leaned over just enough to place a kiss on her forehead before
saying, "it's alright honey, we'll get through this together,
somehow".
"How can you say it going to be alright" yelled his brunette wife as
she surged up off the bed so quickly and with so much force that it
caught him off guard causeing him to stumble back a few steps. "I have to
go downstairs and explain to my 12 and 14 year old sons why their mother
was running around the house half naked with a man they barely know".
"Amanda" sighed her spouse as he followed the progress of his agitated
lover who had now begun to indulge in what she referred to as "the bad
habit of pacing" that she'd recently picked up from him.
"You don't have to do this alone. I'm going to be right by your side
the whole time. As to what you were doing, Jaime may or may not have put
all of the pieces of the puzzle together to come up with the whole
picture but at 14, I'm pretty sure Phillip knows the score".
"Lee Stetson, you take that back. My babies are to young to know about
sex" his wife fumed as she stopped mid pace, drew her self up to her
full 5'7" height and glared at him.
"Come on Amanda", laughed Lee. "You can't seriously think the boys
have absolutely no ideal what goes on between a man and a woman when they
make love. I mean in this day and age it's all around them. You can't
really believe they have not picked up some idea of the concept, even if
they don't fully understand the intricate details".
Turning away from him, she walked over to her closet and took out a
pair of Black linen slacks and a black uva t shirt and started to undress
before she whispered "I don't want to talk about this now Lee. We have
to concentrate on what we are going to say to the boys when we face
them not to mention my mother".
This time it was Lee's turn to groan as he thought about the
accidental view his mother-in -law had gotten before he hastily retreated
upstairs to the safe haven of his wife's bedroom.
Amanda couldn't help but laugh at the expression on the love of her
life's face. It mirrored the one he wore when she first came upstairs
behind him almost 10 min ago, only this time his face hadn't quite reached
the same deep shade of red as earlier when she handed him the towel he
had abandoned on the staircase.
Having finished dressing Amanda reached out and took Lee's stronger,
larger, lightly calloused hand in hers.
"Come on Lee, the longer we stay up here the worse it's going to be.
Besides I know my mother's patience and we only have about two more
minutes before she'll be up here knocking on the door demanding an
explanation. You really don't want that now do you" she said pointedly looking
at the still unmade bed. Lee followed her gaze and was quick to respond "a no, un un, no way".
"That's what I thought" replied Amanda giving his hand a firm but
gentle tug as she slowly led him out the door of their bedroom down the
staircase and into to the living room to face the inquisition from her
loved ones that she knew awaited Lee and her.
As he descended the top step behind his wife Lee Stetson, know as the
great intelligence operative "Scarecrow" to the people involved in the
world of espionage and counter espionage both on a national and
international level, couldn't believe that neither he nor his wife and fellow
agent partner Amanda had been able to come up with a working plan of
just what they were going to say to her family, before they left the
bedroom.
Stepping on the third step from the top Lee's mind drifted back to the
events of earlier that morning.
The alarm had awoken him at 6:00 that morning. He was reluctant to
crawl out of bed that early on Saturday morning but knew if he didn't they
wouldn't make it to the task force meeting Dr. Smyth had called for
8:00 am sharp this morning.
He had complained about the earliness of the hour the night before
telling her they could sleep in until 7:00 and still make it to the office
by 8:00 with the drive only taking a half an hour at that time on a
Saturday morning.
Amanda being her ever efficient self had started rattling off her
preplanned schedule informing him that she had allotted twenty minutes a
piece for them both to shower and get ready, fifteen minutes to make
coffee and breakfast, which she reminded him she ate even if he didn't, a
half an hour for the drive, ten minutes to park walk into the agency,
get their badges and walk up to the Q Bureau, another fifteen minutes to
sign off on the finished reports, their expense accounts and gather the
files they need to bring to the meeting, which would give them ten
minutes to walk down the stairs from the Q Bureau to the elevator down to
the ground floor, walk across the Bullpen and take a seat in the
conference room before the meeting started.
Shaking his head in amusement as he remember the conversation, Lee
rolled over on his side and kissed his wife swiftly on the lips. When the
only response he recieved from his wife was a sweet smile, he leaned
back down and gave her a firmer, longer smooch. His second kiss evolked a
soft moan from his still slumbering wife. She must be really tired if
that didn't wake her up thought Lee.
Placing the lightest of kisses on both eyelids, Lee advanced his
mission by moving back to Amanda's lips. As he brushed his luscious lips
accross hers, his wife began her ascension back to the land of
consciousness. Seeing that she was finally waking up, Lee dove in for a kiss.
As Amanda Stetson opened her brown eyes to gaze upon the face of her
beloved husband, he intensified the kiss and drank from the well of his
wife's lips as if they were precious drops of water and he hadn't had a
drink in three days.
When she was able to form coherent speech again, Amanda glanced up
into her husband's hazel eyes and said, "You sure know how to wake a gal
up in the morning".
"All a part of the Stetson bedside service, my love. One of the many
perks of having me for a husband" he told her flashing one of his most
endearing smiles.
"Well big fella, Why don't you fill me in on some of the other
benefits", said Amanda.
"I'd love to Mrs. Stetson and believe you me I plan to fill you.....in
too your heart's delight when we get back home this afternoon, but if
we don't get up and get a move on we're going to be late to the task
force meeting. Now I personally don't mind but I seemed to recall when we
were late for the last one, you blamed me for distracting you and were
mad at me for most of the day".
"Oh my gosh. I completely forgot about the meeting", schreeched Amanda
as she gently pushed her husband away and bounded out of bed.
Throwing the covers off and sliding his long, hard muscular body off
the bed, Lee stood up and watched his wife in motion for a few minutes
before telling her to slow down, they had plenty of time.
"Hey do you mind if I shower first" said Lee as he laid a fresh pair
of boxers out on the bed for after his shower. "That way I can be making
breakfast while you finish dressing and putting on your makeup".
"No go ahead" replied Amanda as she finished gathering her clothes and
toiletry items.
Having finished his shower and shave, Lee emerged from the bathroom
with a large white bath towel wrapped around his waist. "All yours" he
told his wife.
"Thank you sweetheart", replied Amanda as she looked her husbands
beautiful body up and down.
Seeing his wife lick her lips when she had finished her slow perusal
of his semi naked body, Scarecrow leered at her and decided to tease her
a little.
"Do you like what you see Mrs. Stetson" he asked he giving her a
wicked grin.
"Oh yeah big fella. I'd like to see even more of it too", she
replied.
"I guess I'm just going to have to give you a little show then" Lee
said. He began to undulate around the room, lifting the corner of the
towel and showing Amanda a little more leg as he came near her. As she
would reach out toward th towel, he'd move back just ot of her grasp.
"Come on sexy daddy take it all off" cheered Amanda after Lee pull the
towel almost all the way up on the right side, revealing everything but
the "main attraction".
Strutting his stuff to the other side of the room, he continued to
tease and titilate his wife with his sexy gyrations. As Lee reached for
the knot on the bath towel, Amanda let out a low whistle.
Lee's eyes fell on the alarm clock that now showed the time to be 6:50
a.m.
Sweetheart I'm afraid the show's over, sighed Lee as he reached over
to grab his boxers and get dressed.
Amanda being closer to where the blue undergarments were laying
managed to snatch them up a fraction of a second before Lee had them in his
grasp.
Oh no Scarecrow, she said shaking her head, you're not going to get
these, she held the boxers up infront of her and jiggled them for effect,
until you finish what you started.
Amanda, it's ten miniutes to seven and you haven't even had your
shower. We're running way behind your, and here he stressed the word your
schedule.
Schedule, scmedule, you're not getting anywhere near these boxers,
buster, until I get my gander at the goods, Amanda informed him, as she
crossed her arms and gave him a defiant look.
Come on Amanda be serious would you.
You know how you hate being Late. It always causes trouble when we are.
First you forget something because you are in a rush and then you
always say it's my fault you forgot it. Once we get on the road you tell me
to drive faster one minute and in the next breath you tell me to slow
down before we get killed. When I remind you of the fact that you told
me to drive faster, you get mad and tell me to just be quiet and drive.
I ask you what's wrong with you and you say nothing. It's easy to see
that isn't true from the way you roll your eyes, place your hand under
your chin and turn your back to me. When I reach out touch your hand and
try to apologise, you pull away, edge even closer to the passenger door
and angrily tell me to leave you alone, you don't want to talk to me
"right now". Taking the hint, I keep to quiet the rest of the drive,
trying to figure out exactly where I went wrong, which for some
inexpliciable reason only seems to make you even madder. As he finishes the
sentence, Lee throws his hands up in the air, in flustration.
Seeing he has unintentionally hurt his wife's feeling's by the
moisture forming in the corner of her brown eyes, the rapid blnking and soft
sniffling as she fights hard not to let the teardrops fall and the
tell-tale quiver of her bottom lip, Lee walks over to her and begins to
apologise.
"Sweetheart don't cry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry, says Lee
softly as he tenderly reaches up and wipes a tear away with his index
finger.
Taking a step back Amanda utters in a hurt tone, "I'm sorry to be such
an imposition to you, Lee".
"Woah, wait a minute, where in the world did that come from. You are
not an imposition to me Amanda Stetson. You are my wife, my love, my
reason for living. Before I allowed my self to except your love, I never
knew what happiness was. Sure I had fun. I did thing, went places that
most people only dream about. But it was all an illusion. I wasn't
living, I was just existing. The pleasure I recieved from my adventures was
short lived and it seemed that I had to do more outrageous things, take
greater risks everyday to sustain that illusion".
"Life was a game to me, I played it hard and fast. Nobody gave a damn
about me and I didn't give a damn about any body. But that all change
one day when I looked ito you beautiful eyes and realized that you loved
and cared about me unconditionally, not because I was some super agent,
not because I was invited to all the right parties, not because some
magazine named me the most elgible batchelor, not because you could brag
to your friends that you had slept the famous Scarecrow, but because
you were able to look beyond the facade of fool's gold I showed to the
outside world and see into my soul".
"You saw the real me, you saw how battered and bruised my heart was
and set out to mend it. It wasn't easy, I know. I was determined to cling
to all my hurts as a reminder to not let anyone get close enough to
hurt me again, but I never stood a chance. Your ability to love,
understand and forgive was to great an obstacle to overcome. One day I
realized, I no longer wanted to overcome it. Then I had another revalation,
when we were finally both able to vocalize our love for each other. You
had shown me for years, through you actions how much I ment to you, but
the day you told me you loved me for the first time, I realized you had
given me the gift of your heart".
Lee reached down and took both of her hands in his. He brought first
the right one and then the left one reverently to his lips and kissed
the back of it. Still not releasing her hands as he gazed into her eyes
with such an intensity, that if she had been a piece of paper she would
have spontaneously combusted, Lee who by this time was becoming choked
up by the emotional flood gate that had open could only whisper his
next words, "You, my Amanda, are a blessing from God and I will cherish
and honor you with my
dying breath".
Releasing her hands before enveloping her in an almost desperate
embrace, he said, "I love you with all my heart, Amanda Stetson".
Seconds ticked by and turned into minutes as they stood there clinging
to the lifeline of each others love. As they held each other, the tears
flowed freely from their eyes, washing away all the hurt as their love,
their hearts, their souls experienced a spiritual rebirth.
Amanda was the first to pull back but she didn't leave his strong
embrace. She reached up and wiped the tears from his eyes with the pads of
her thumbs. Next she placed a soft kiss on his lips.
Shh, she said. Don't cry Lee, I know how much you love me. I love you
just with ever molecule of my body. You don't have to worry about
losing my love. It belongs to you and only you beyond the end of time. As
much as you say I've given you, You've given me that much and a thousand
times more.
Lee opened his mouth to interrupt but Amanda silenced him with a
finger to his lips.
"Lee", she said, "Don't you realize what a profound impact you have
had on not just my life but the life of my whole family. You are always
telling me how stong a woman I am. A great deal of that strength comes
from you. Yes, I had to be strong and do things on my own before I met
you, but what nobody know is that sometimes things got so rough I fet
like I was going to break. Having your love and support means more to me
than you know, because as long as I have that I know I may bend but I
won't break because whenever my foundation starts to crumble, you'll be
right there to reinforce it. And let's not forget what stability you've
brought to my son's, our son's lives. They may not know you are their
stepfather, but they see you as a role model. You've done an admirable
job of being a father figure to them. They've come to depend on you more
than they do Joe. If you tell them you are going to do something they
count on it, but when their father promises them he's going to do
something they are always hesitant to believe it will happen. If you haven't
noticed it your opinion is very important to them. They love you almost
as much as their mom does.
"They're great kids, sweetheart. I can't help but love them, afterall
they're a part of you. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of their
lives" Lee said as he smiled and leaned down to kiss his wife".
As the kiss ended, Lee made a mental note to call the florist later on
to order an I love you boquet for Amanda.
"So, does this mean that my best gal forgives me", he asked?
Hearing the lightly teasing tone of her husbands voice Amanda replies
"What do you mean best gal, Stetson? I better be the only one.
Lee pretends to look thoughtful for a moment before he says, "well my
love there is this blonde who seems to have me wrapped around her
finger'.
"Do tell", says Amanda, who by now is standing with her feet apart
hands on her hips.
Yeah, she's figured out that I would do almost anything to please her.
She knows all she has to do is say "Oh Lee could you" and I'll do it.
She's very special to me.
"And just who prey tell is this very special blonde, Scarecrow"
"Just a wonderful lady who treats me like a king. Truth be told, She
fusses over me sometimes more than you do".
"Oh she does does she", quips Amanda.
Lee is enjoying this little game but doesn't want to take it too far.
He says "yeah she always concerned that I have a good meal, she never
forgets to remind me to drive careful when we part, she treats me just
like I was her son. She's the best mother-in law a guy could ask for".
My mother? You were talking about my mother all this time Amanda asks
him as she chucks him in the arm.
"Who else would I, a deliriously, happily married man be talking
about, Mrs. Stetson", inquired Lee.
"I'm going to get you for that one Stetson".
"Those are some pretty brave words Mrs. Stetson, are you sure you're
going to be able to back them up", asked Lee as he slowly began to stalk
Amanda wih a devilish gleam in his eye.
Amanda knowing that look all to well, realized that she had better do
some fast talking or there was no way they'd make that meeting before
10:00.
"Lee sweetheart, she said glancing quickly over her right shoulder at
the alarm clock on the bedside table, while backing away hurridly
before Lee could pounce on her, it's now 7:10 and like you kept reminiding
me we're already behind schedule. If we don't hurry we're going to be
late. We don't have time for what you are planning".
"In a hurry now, are we Amanda. You fanned this flame, my dear and now
you're going to have to deal with the fire".
Before he got close enough to reach out and grab her Amada Shriked,
turned tail and ran down the hallway towards the stairs.
As this was going on, a black and white taxi cab had pulled up infront
of the two story, white Cape Cod style home and two of it's three
passengers weairly climbed out, grabbed their stuff out of the trunk and
headed towards the front door of the house, glad to be back home after
riding all night back to Arlington after they arrived to their campground
and found out the whole area had been sitting under 3ft of water for
the last 4 days. The third passenger lingered behind just long enough to
take the money out of her purse and pay the cab driver.
Inside the house, Amanda reached the staircase and started running
down at the same time that her oldest son Phillip inserted his key into
the lock on the door. She glanced back to see how close Lee was. He was
right behind her,about to grab her around the waist. She screamed and
moved even quicker down the stairs.
Because the clicking of the lock occured simulaneously with Amanda's
scream it took a few seconds for them to realize the door had been
unlocked.
The shock of the door opening all of a sudden caused Lee, who was on
the third step fom the bottom and Amanda, whose feet had just touched
the floor to hesitate slightly before retreating back up the stairs. That
brief timeperiod was enough to drag the skeleton of Amanda and Lee's
secret marriage out of the closet.
Upon hearing their mother scream, Phillip and Jaime ,shouting, "mom,
are you ok", threw open the front door, bravely ready to rush to their
Mother's aid. The site that met their eyes was quite a shock to their
adolesent psyches.
"Oh my gosh" cried Amanda
"Oh shit" muttered Lee
Amanda stood rooted to the spot, with her hands on the side of her
face, eyes wide mouth slightly agape as she stood staring at her two
teenage son's and her mother who had come in the door behind them.
Lee, who's agent instincts, by this time had kicked in, turned
quickly and started a hasty exit back up the stairs.
Unfortunately for Scarecrow, he didn't check to see if his towel was
secure earlier when he had started to unfasten it while teasing Amanda.
As he turned around his towel hit the floor, right alond with Dotty's
jaw.
"Ah hell" said Lee as he felt the temperture change and realized what
had happened. Instead of retrieving the towel, Lee Stetson continued
his flight to the safety of Amanda's bedroom.
The sight of their "stepfather" being ass out brought Phillip and
Jaime out of the near catatonic state and they began to howl with
Laughter.
Amanda King Stetson was so embarrassed that not only had she been
caught in a compromising sitation by her two sons, but that they along with
her mother had also witnessed Scarecrow's unveiling, was for the first
time in her adult life, rendered speechless.
Not able to look her children, or her mother, in the eye as she passed
by them, she slowly slunk hr way upstairs towards her bedroom, pausing
to pick up her husbands abandoned towel on the way.
Just as Amanda's hand reached for the knob to open her bedroom door
that Lee had closed after he reentered it, she heard Dotty tell the boys
that by the time they put their bags upstairs in their room, that she
and Lee would be back downstairs wanting to have a family meeting.
Amanda came into her bedroom, closed the door, walked over to her
redfaced husband, who was now fully dressed, handed him the towel and said
"I believe you dropped this streak".
After handing Lee the towel she sat on the foot of her bed face in her
hands, shaking her head from side to side while rocking back and forth,
moaning, "No, This isn't happening".
Lee was so caught up in reliving the events from earlier that morning
that he didn't realize that Amanda and he had reached the living room,
until he felt her not so genty tugging on his arm, telling him to take
a seat.
Amanda and Lee spent ten mintues doing their best to completely and
honestly answer their family's questions about their relationship,
reasurring Phillip and Jaime that they loved each other and were fully
committed to each other.
Unfortunatly that brought up the question of marriage. Knowing that
that question was a can of worms in it self and that they still had to go
to the task force meeting, Amanda and Lee told the family that they kew
they had a lot more questions but they really had to get going to work
before they got fired but they promised to finally address the subject
of marriage and answer the rest of their questions when the got off
work.
Lee and Amanda lucked out for once that day as traffic on the way to
the office was unusually light. Scarecrow brought the vette to a
screeching halt infront of IFF as he and Amanda quickly exited the car,
raced inside the building, Throwing out the word of he day at the same time
as they greeted Mrs. Marston and retrived their ID.
Next they made a mad dash up to the Q Bureau, where Amanda Grabbed the
files and Lee snatched up the reports to be signed and they rushed back
out the door. They just made it to the conference room as Billy and Dr.
Smyth walked in.
"Nice of the two of you to show up", Dr. Smyth, sneered at Lee and
Amanda.
Out of breathe neither one of them responded to the verbal jab.
Not satisfied with not getting rise out of Lee, Dr. Smyth decided to
change tactics.
It seems you partnership with Mrs. King is slowing you down Scarecrow
or all those rumors about the legendary Scarecrow's stamina greatly
exaggerated, quipped Smyth.
The few snickers Smyth's comment elicited from the room, were
immediately silence by one look from their section chief, Billy Melrose, who
hurried to start the meting before his hotheaded Agent, Scarecrow blew
his top.
Lee for his part, after recieving an almost imperceptable shake of the
head from Amanda, only gave Dr. Smyth a scalding look.
Billy was surprised, as he began to go over the agenda for the
meeting, that Scarecrow's temper hadn't errupted. Well, well, well he thought
to himself, maybe the influence of Lee being partnered with Amanda is
finally causing the Scarecrow to growup.
What Billy and the rest of the room's occupants didn't know was that
it wasn't Amanda's influence on their partnership that was keeping
Scarecrow from responding to Smyth's taunts, but the firm influence of her
right hand, that had unnoticably made it's way under the table, on his
male anatomy. Needless to say, throughout the meeting, Scarecrow was on
his best behavior.
THE END
The B5 Alley Cat