" I nodded. I pulled on a T-shirt and a pair of boxer shorts, and my robe on the top. They just looked strange on my female anatomy, but it was bett...r than going around naked. I washed the bath out and tidied up, trying to keep busy to get my mind off my predicament. I opened a can of soup and cut some bread for our lunch. Ellen returned in about an hour and a half with a large shopping bag from a department store in the nearby mall. She shook it onto my bed and a number of smaller packages. I never heard anyone not getting their wish because the leprechaun was too weak to grant it, but I guess you might be a wee bit too old by now, maybe?” “Too old!” he bristled right up and mumbled something under his breath as he scuffed his feet in the dirt and then he suddenly pointed his staff at my chest and a bolt of clear light shot out the end and exploded right in the middle of my body! I wasn’t hurt, I wasn’t dead, I wasn’t anything for almost a blink of. But we can't let her know that. You know how parents are. They get uppity."Again, I didn't need eyes to know that Tami was grinning. "I'll remind you you said that when we have those three sets of twin girls you want."I was saved from answering by Robbie's arrival. "Cute picture. I guess with Parker gone, the public displays of affection rule is gone too."I knew I should have a snappy comeback for that, but I didn't know what it was."This isn't a display of affection, public or otherwise. This. I don’t think there’s much love, respect, or affection in their relationship, only her terror of disobeying him. He’s told her she’d be worse off if she went anywhere else, that nobody else in their right mind would have her, and she’s come to believe that. She hinted to me that her life is so bad that she’s started to think about taking the easy way out, and I think she means suicide.”Dave said, “We need an intervention, but she’s got to be ready to participate in it. We can’t MAKE her do.