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And--similarly attired--to Pat's right was Monk. The homely chemist was grinning ear to ear as he stared at Pat like he was a man dying of thirst and she was cool, spring water. He very much looked like a man intent on slaking his thirst, as was evidenced by the state of his male member, which waved proudly erect. "Blazes!" Monk said softly to himself, as he looked back and forth at the twin nude visions before him. It was an expression he'd been uttering for the last half hour, ever since he'd arrived at Pat's apartment on her invitation. Expecting to find Pat alone, he had at first been a little surprised to find Melissa--whom he knew only as one of Pat's employees--waiting there as well. Surprise had quickly turned to outright shock as Melissa had whispered to him her thoughts on making this a night to remember for their mutual lover. Monk felt like pinching himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming, but he'd already done that enough times to leave a small bruise and as of yet, he still hadn't awakened. Nor did he want to.
If someone had told him a few days ago that he'd soon be in the situation he was in now, the chemist would have told him he was nuts. Monk thought back briefly to the events of those last few days. Returning from the site of the battle, Doc had sent to his Crime College those members of Cartwright's gang who had been mowed down by the mercy bullets fired by the superfirers. There, at this facility in upstate New York, they would have their criminal impulses removed and be retrained as productive members of society. Diving in the waters of the bay the next day, Doc and his men had found the wreckage of the submarine and several bodies, but no sign of the plans for Dr. Murray's invention. They were presumed to have washed out to sea. There had been little opportunity for Monk to be alone with Pat, though she had spent a fair amount of time at Doc's headquarters. When he had managed to get some time alone with her, though she wanted him to hold her, it had seemed that there was an invisible barrier between them. She didn't volunteer any additional information about her evening spent as the gang's captive, and Monk had deemed it best not to ask. If she had something she wanted to share, she would do so, in her own time.