. although considering her experience the previous night, I would be surprised if she ever returned.When Devlin eventually left, the blond shuffled ou... after him, and for the first time I noticed he was limping.I mean, considering I literally stabbed him to death the previous night, just ending up with a limp was pretty impressive ... but I suspected that the limp had nothing to do with me and everything to do with Devlin.As the last few patrons left, I realized that I still hadn’t seen Marty. I was ecstatic and of course said ‘yes!’ I typed in my number and within a few minutes the phone rang. My heart started to pound and I was almost over the edge with excitement. What is it with this man that fascinates me so? I picked up the phone and softly said ‘hello?’. The man on the other end said to me, ‘is this ‘Barbara’?’ I answered, ‘is this the ‘Rich’?’ Well it was indeed the ‘Bear’ and I was 100% correct. This man had the sexiest voice I had ever heard on a man. We both chuckled a bit. I have no qualms about smashing all of those computers into a billion pieces.’ Zeke threatened. ‘Oh but you won’t or Athena will never wake up again.’ Eris warned. ‘What the fuck do you have to do with this? I swear I will come down there and decompile your fucking ass if you don’t fix this!’ Zeke yelled. ‘There is only one way to wake her back up. Come into the Engineering Lab and digitize both of you. Once inside, you will have to locate a program that goes by the name of Asclepius. He will. .. up to Xavier, of course, but yes, that’s my understanding of it,” I agreed calmly, feeling a little better in spite of the weakness from blood loss... A good blood transfusion worked wonders there. Luckily for me, Stacy and I shared blood types (and no, I won’t tell you which one). A nice, hearty bowl of clam chowder helped as well. The New England kind. The Manhattan variety is okay, but it’s really a stew instead of a proper chowder in my book. A real chowder should always be cream-based.