Artemis smiled "ooh I'm sorry, did I distract you from coming up with some implausible BS to cover up what I worked out?" she asked with a grin "sorry... I'm afraid I'm not going to let that happen". Kid Flash groaned again "oh god, you're a spitfire, you're not going to let me get away with anything, are you?" he said with a smile. Artemis looked confused "a spitfire? Who the hell says something like that?" Bart shrugged "I hang out with a lot of old people, one of them said something like. Well, Duncan was a real misogynist of course, almost as bad as Kevin, her ex-husband. She remembered the two of them sitting in the backyard, drinking beer and talking about work and women, but not in a nice way at all. God, how could she possibly have been married to one of them for so long?Sometimes she wondered about Marge too. Was she happy with Duncan? She didn’t know, because although the two women became rather good friends, Marge hardly ever opened up about her marriage. So now Louise. Joan and Clara went to the kitchen to make coffee. Then when the coffee was ready, Joan served both John and Eric in the living room. When Joan handed Eric his coffee, she passed a small piece of paper from her hand to his and gave him a wink. Eric assumed he was not to show the paper and immediately slipped it in his pocket. When the coffee was finished, John said he would drive Joan to her apartment. They left. Eric stayed with Clara long enough to help her tidy up the living room and. Taping her mouth and sitting her on the wooden saw horse. He spread her legs and lowered her onto it, letting her short legs dangle. He ran another short line from her hands to the saw horse, just to be sure she wouldn’t be dismounting unassisted. Then he woke her with one strike from the rope to her back. Her eyes spread open screening the room and being unable to really move her neck. She then realized where she was, and she was naked, and tied. Panic shot through her and she wiggled trying.