”“No shit! How did you accomplish that?” Brad cried.“My little nerd-net paid off. It seems that a freshman by the name of Martin was seen in...the campus infirmary early Thursday morning for a black eye. He said he walked into a door, but the nurse on duty didn't believe him. She's an X-men freak, and last night she heard about our search for freshman geeks in some chat room. She e-mailed Martin to meet her for a soda at the student union and finally got him to tell her the truth about his. In fact, I would want him to take the decision out of my hands.I know exactly what it would feel like. He almost did it to me a few years ago, when we thought that we could get pregnant by ordinary means. However, he pulled out at the last second - a decision that made me furious at the time; a decision for which I have chewed him out many times in the intervening years.But - as much as I hate to admit it - it was the right decision at the time.Now, however, he knows that I really do want him. If one of them had paused, even for just a fraction of second, to take aim, I would have been dead. They were about fifteen feet away from me and I was basically defenseless.”Donny said, “That has to be most horrible feeling in the world.”“You can’t imagine it,” Sonny said, “I laid there on the floor for a full five minutes before someone came in and found me. I couldn’t tell you who it was. I think it was a woman, but I’m not sure. Whoever it was called 911 and then left. I don’t remember too. Peggy followed me into the house and told me to go rest in the bedroom while she prepared some food. I dozed until I heard voices in the kitchen. I went to see who was here. I stood just out of sight in the living room. It was Mary who had come and she was explaining to Peggy what the attorney had read in the will about her and me. I guessed I wouldn't interrupt and went back and laid down.When next I awoke, Mary was gone. Peggy never mentioned that we had a visitor. It was addressed obliquely,.