loud, angry footsteps approached. Ty quickly dove behind Rebecca's vanity mirror, so as to not be seen as Rebecca slips the berry into her robe's pocket. Suddenly, the door flies open. Rebecca's father stomped to the closet door and flung it open, looked out the window, and then peeked under the bed. He stood back up and glared menacingly at Rebecca. From his hiding spot, Ty saw the fearful expression on her face.
"Alright, where is he!?" He shouted.
"Who?" Rebecca timidly responded.
"Don't give me that! I heard you talking to someone. Who is it?" His fist was clenched tightly now.
"No one; I was talking to myself!"
"Stop lying to me!" He reared his fist and tried to thrust it at his daughter, but it froze, as if being held back.
"That's completely uncalled for!" Ty shouted. He had emerged and returned to his human form.
Rebecca's father turned his head to see Ty hovering behind him. "Who the hell do you think... Wait, you're that weird Ty kid my daughter's always hanging with. Well what gives you the right to tell me how to raise my daughter!?
"What gives you the right to treat her like a punching bag?"
"I'm her father, that's good enough!" He threw a punch at Ty, but his powers stopped the blow from landing.
"I know more about what makes a good parent than you'll ever know. My father gave his life to defend me, and my mother gave me up to protect me. You, however, seem content to do the exact opposite."
"What the hell are you, a freak!?"
"No, a fairy!" He shrank down to fairy size once again, his ears elongated, eyes enlarged, antennae emerged clothing reverted to leaves, and his wings sprouted. "If you wish to beg or barter, do so with your daughter."
"What'll you do to him?" Rebecca asked.
"Justice, karma, whatever he deserved; for how you have been unnerved."
"Rebecca, come on, I'm your father!" He pleaded, but Rebecca was less than moved.
"In name only. Ty's right, you were never a father to me! I was never more than a possession to you! Ty, do what you will... but at least don't kill or torture him. I'll at least give him that much."
Ty pondered for a moment and thought of something. "Like she said, you I will not kill; but where I'm absent, my void you will fill." Rebecca's father started to get younger, until he was the same age as Ty. He was then transported to Ty's foster home.
"Where were you Ty?" June, Ty's Foster mother shouted. "You up and vanish yesterday, we were worried sick!"
"What!" replacement Ty shouted. "I'm not Ty, he's some freaky fairy that has my daughter!"
"There you go, making up those ridiculous stories again! Mark; Make an appointment with the doctor for Ty, too!"
Back at Rebecca's house, she was thinking about what just happened. "Maybe I should've thought this through, as big an SOB as he was, I was his dependent."
"There's still the berry, become a fairy. I won't force you to become my wife, you just deserve to have a better life."