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Dee giggled, "No, you just grabbed the wrong slice."

Presenting Rock with the one from Iori's Steakhouse, she said, "This one is yours. The slice you grabbed was from this box..see? The symbols are different. I know the Turtle hermit sign and you should know Iori's symbols. But, I guess you do have a point."

She recalled that Joe Higashi was supposed to be coming over later and he doesn't like fish either. She then used a marker and wrote down what pizza was from where on the respected boxes.

Dee had to laugh a bit because of the way that turned out. She glanced over to what Terry was doing. He was apparently washing some dishes that he had to do from before.

From the angle she was looking at, Terry was rather attractive. Not that Terry was ever ugly. It was that angle that made him more good looking than usual.

Once Terry was done doing the dishes, he looked to Rock, wiped his hands, then sat down asking his son, "Is everything all right, Rock? Look, I know things have been extremely different since I married the empress, but hey, at least life around here is no longer dangerous, right?"

Terry was offended by that. He said, "Before I send you to your room to be punished by what you said to me, I want you to think about your life and how Dee saved it. If it wasn't for her, you'd be dead right now serving time in Hell for the murder of your own daughter! Now go to your room, Rock!"

Terry knocked on Rock's door and said, "No music either or games or television, Rock. You are supposed to be thinking about life and what it means to you. And in fact, I want you to write me a 30 page essay on the subject!"

Dee walked up to Terry and glanced to see the expression on his face. She blushed and thought, "Oh wow, now this is a side of Terry I really like. I thought nothing of what Rock said, but then again, Terry has been around Rock longer."

Before Terry could notice, Dee wandered back to the table in the kitchen and began fiddling with a pizza crust that Rock left behind.

Terry noticed his wife fooling with the crust and chuckled. He then asked Dee, "You don't think I was too hard on him, do you?"

Shaking her head, Dee replied, "Not at all, sweetheart. Rock needs to understand that this world does not revolve around him and that just because things are not how he expects it or likes for that matter and what he considers to be normal, that life does not always if ever work that way. He has to understand that because of me, this place has been protected. Its fighters, including Rock, no longer has to be afraid or have to struggle to survive. I have spiced things up around here. And yeah, I could use my whip on him for the murder of his own daughter, that's true, but I also think that he was at a stage in his life where, just like now, where it doesn't seem all that big of deal when all is calm, that he should reflect on his past rather than to blow up in our faces over it."

Terry sighed as he looked out the kitchen window. "Yeah, I suppose so. I just wish that Rock would like realize just how precious life can be. I mean, if he feels no remorse over killing his own daughter, like he should be, then I just don't know what to do anymore."

Dee held onto her husband. She said, "I figured Rock would be like Eiri Yuki considering how young he is."

Little did Rock know that running away was going to be useless. Dee had a good way of tracking him and she could follow him anywhere he went. She knocked on his bedroom door and said, "You had better be working on that report. And besides that, if you are thinking of running away, forget it. I know where you are going. Do not forget I am psychic and I can read your thoughts. Its best that you just finish up the report, bring it to your dad, and then if you really need to, you may stay with Iori for a week to cool down and to see how living away from us is, okay? Don't forget, Rock, that Corrigan lives with Iori because he thought the same as you and Corrigan works all the time there. I wonder, can you do what Corrigan does day in and day out? Iori isn't as forgiving as I am and he will kill you if you disobey him."