‘It’s a Scooby Doo marathon!’ she said in the excited tone only a stoned person or child could get over such a thing. ‘And it’s not the new ...nes or the crappy ones with all the extra characters like Scooby Dumb. These are the really old ones where they have all the guest stars like Don Knotts and Phyllis Diller. The next one is the one with Batman and Robin in it.’ ‘Sweet,’ was all I could say. I knew exactly what she was talking about and could have cried with joy. I wondered where this. Fun stuff.I went into the work room and looked at my latest project. It was a very small bug. I might need this soon enough. But, for now, I had to find a battery capable of running it for a long period of time. Power was always a problem. I went into the tinker shop and looked at the leather utility belt I had set up waiting for riveting. I would wait till the weekend to finish it. I had other ideas and mostly made things to help me in my work.I had stopped wearing a vest a long time. "Well, let's see how you handle the duty. We'll give Mr. Green a rest. Two dozen of your best."The lean sailor picked up the heavy whip from the top of the locker and shook it out. He tore Michael Quinn's shirt from his back and wiped the length of the whip. "Ready, sir," he said, tossing the reddened rag away and smiling."Proceed," said the mate, and Quinn screamed before the whip hit and then cried out again with each blow until, without a pause, all two dozen had lashed his bleeding back in. ”It was a pretty quiet ride at first too. It’d be a good time to mention that we both liked each other the first time we met. Our parents were only dating at the time and my dad had promised me he wasn’t going to get married until I was out of high school so I wouldn’t have to move around anymore. Turned out to be a lie because he got married not too long after and we moved in with them. It was just me and my dad and on their side was my stepmom and she had 2 sons. So John has a younger.