Ivy Town
The manager at the sushi restaurant wasn’t really sure what to the couple. The six and a half foot tall red head leading in her five six Asian boy toy was unusual enough, but that both of them were wearing shiny rubber clothes; a knee length tiger stripe cocktail dress and six inches stiletto heels, and a black set of tight pants with button down shirt and tiger stripe tie. She had seated the couple in both, for their privacy as much as for avoiding the headache that the couple would cause with some of the more conservative customers. The manager had gathered that they were newlywed, the boy toy was thankful at the two weeks’ vacation their job gave them for honey-moon leave. The manager watched as the woman ordered, then the boy toy fed her, and would put a piece in her mouth and then take it out of her mouth with a kiss. The manager had to admit that it was romantic, if not weird.
*
Police Headquarters, Gotham City
Gordon was sitting at his desk going over the reports on the month’s activities. There was a commotion at the door to his office, then the District Attorney walked in.
“You just answer the phone lady, and You Jim! You do not make arrest Warrants!” the DA shouted, “The lawyers in my office write them and then beg judges to sign them! You know this! And the justification for arresting your daughter’s boyfriend because he wants to marry her is absolute gross abuse of power!”
“Ah sir, a vacation company is on the line to reschedule the vacation you won, Should I just?” the secretary said from the open door.
“No!” the DA shouted, “Jim you are going to take this vacation and cool off or else!”
“Jim Gordon,” Jim answered, “Mr. Wilson, Radio Promotions and Vacations Limited? Yes, I remember that father’s day thing Barbara put in for on the radio. I thought I just got the profile on the radio… Week resort spa, Martha’s Vineyard. When is it? Tomorrow? No, I can do that, no I need a vacation. When is the flight? I will be there.”
“A week vacation starting tomorrow,” the DA breathed then shouted, “If anyone sees you in Gotham this coming week, I got a dozen judges that are drooling at the chance to sign your arrest warrant!”
The DA stormed out of the office and the secretary was standing in the doorway like she knew she was already fired.
“Come in, close the door and take a seat,” Gordon called to his secretary.
The secretary took a seat after closing the door.
“I’m fired aren’t I?” she asked.
“You’re not fired,” Gordon said calmer that he felt, “Were you told about the red list?”
“Yes sir.”
“Who was on that list and here this morning when I exploded on Grayson this morning?” Gordon asked.
“Ah Captain Mortenson, Lieutenants Hung and Garcia.”
“Alright,” Gordon read the name tag with the label printer printed name on it, “Miss Odenson, do you know why you got a name tag like that?”
“Ah,” Miss Odenson stammered.
“I tend to drive women away,” Gordon confessed, “My first wife Barbara, my second wife Sarah, more secretaries then I can count…”
“A hundred and sixty three?” Miss Odenson spoke up, “That was the number left in the desk’s drawer.”
“Sounds about right,” Gordon said, “If you want another position, I am sure HR will find another slot in the department for you while I am away. I do need to talk to detective Bullock as soon as possible.”
*
Daily Planet, Metropolis
Lois strutted into Perry’s office with a sour look on her face.
“You want me to be Cat?” Lois crossed her arms.
“No, I want you to fill her page while she takes her vacation time she dropped on us,” Perry didn’t look up, “Think of it this way, you can use the pages to run bits of the less inflammatory stuff form you kink interviews. I just need something put together in 30 minutes.”
“Thirty minutes?” Lois hissed.
“I was giving you all morning,” Perry looked up, “But you decided that whatever you were doing with your husband was more important than work this morning and just waltzes in here five minutes ago. Now get to work. Or I am going to use the page space for reruns of the old Far Side stripes!”
*
Red Light Market, Star City
Dinah lead Roy into the Red Light Market and spotted Scotty right away.
“Well hello,” Scotty came over smiling, “And who is your friend today?”
“She is sort of my step-mom,” Roy said.
“Ok, well what are you interested in?” Scotty smiled.
“I’m not sure yet,” Roy confessed, “This rubber stuff is pretty interesting.”
“Welcome back,” Christy walked over and took Dinah by the arm, “What do you need today?”
“I think we are going to need an erotic kennel!” Dinah confessed, “You were right, being our mistress’ pets blew our minds!”
*
Police Headquarters, Gotham City
“Fucking Jacobs,” Bullocks said as he flopped into the chair in front of Gordon’s desk, “They arrested Jacobs last night.”
“Detective Jacobs?” Gordon asked.
“Yeah, they tagged her with drunk and disorderly,” Bullocks said, “Seems she raided Vice’s Hooker Closet, went down to the meat market, downed two bottles of liquid courage, then walked the street waiting for her husband to show up and ‘buy’ a night with her. Of course when Patrol spotted this they pulled them over and had arrest them.”
“Sometimes you need to spice up your marriage Bullock,” Gordon covered his face.
“Spice up your marriage?” Bullocks gestured like he was vomiting, “Go out pretend to whore? Maybe? She was up and out on Robison Ave, the heart of the Meat Market! She wore a shredded tire, and he was done up in full gimp, now that may look great on George Clooney, he looked like a black Michelin Man!”
“Oh,” Gordon sighed, “Look forget about that and get over too Wayne Manor, tell him that the hunt for Grayson is called off, I will be out of town for a week and I will talk to him afterwards!”
*
Down Town Gotham City
Steph about hit the ceiling.
“What?” Tim asked.
“Mom, family,” Steph said in shock, “Family dinner?”
“What?” Tim asked.
“She wants a family dinner,” Steph said, “Bruce, you, Dick, Her Majesty as Kari, her and me!”
“Well this will be interesting,” Tim pinched the bridge of his nose