"Amanda?" There was a knock on Amanda's hotel door. "Can I come in?"

"Yep." The doorknob jiggled as Lee tried opening the door. Getting it open a crack, he stopped as the security chain grabbed hold. "Just a second!" Amanda called.

Amanda crossed her hotel room and reached for the chain. Lee's face was pressed into the narrow opening, one impatient eye watching her. Shaking her head, Amanda put her index finger on Lee's protruding nose and pushed.

"Hey!"

Amanda closed the door fully in order to unlatch the chain, then opened it again. Lee was standing with his hand covering his nose, a wounded expression on his face. Amanda put her hands on her hips. "Well how'd you expect me to get the chain off with your face in the way?"

She stood aside as Lee marched into her room. He looked around. "Are you ready to go?"

Amanda nodded vaguely, pointing to her suitcase propped next to the door. "Yep, all packed. Ready to go."

"You don't sound happy about it," Lee observed, still absently glancing around the room, "I thought you'd be dying to leave."

"Oh, I am," she protested without conviction. Amanda moved to stand in front of the huge window. "Beautiful sunset. I think it's the clouds that make it something special."

Lee moved next to her at the window, taking a moment to examine the view. As they watched, the brilliant colors of the sunset painted the clouds in broad strokes of light. Lee waited, watching Amanda watch the sky. Her eyes mirrored the sunset, defenseless and beautiful.

Amanda turned and met his gaze. Taking a deep breath she lowered her eyes. "Sorry, they don't really have them like this at home and I don't know when I might ever come back, so" pausing, she shrugged and looked back up at Lee with a crooked smile. "You ready?"

Lee cleared his throat and turned away. "Yeah," he mumbled, hoisting up her suitcase and banging it against the doorframe on his way out.

Amanda took one more look at the diminishing sunset before closing the door and following Lee down the hall.