AN: So this one is kind of a funny one! Hope you enjoy!

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As Tori and Erin came out of school one afternoon, Toby noticed that Erin seemed to be chatting incessantly while Tori looked mildly irritated. It was hardly unusual but, at the same time, his daughter seemed almost angry. He didn't think she was angry at Erin but she was angry at someone...or something. He could tell.

"Hey, Dad, guess what?" Erin said, grinning as she spotted him. She almost ran to him while Tori merely walked. "Someone got a detention today!"

"A detention?" He looked at his eldest daughter, unable to believe it. Tori wasn't the type to do anything that would warrant a detention. "Did you forget your homework or something?" He racked his brains to try and come up with another reason but his mind was blank.

Tori merely looked at him. Apparently she wasn't too talkative - a definitive sign that she was either anxious or angry. If Toby was going to guess, he'd probably go with the latter, given how irritated she'd looked earlier.

Erin, on the other hand, seemed delighted to inform him, "She got into a fight with a sixth grader! It was totally awesome!" She turned to Tori and said admiringly, "I didn't know you had it in you!"

Toby did a double take. That wasn't like Tori. It wasn't like her at all. "You know your mom is gonna have to know about this, don't you?"

His daughter let out a sigh. "Yeah...I know."

"You did what?" Jessica asked her eldest daughter incredulously when they got home. "What made you think that getting into a fight with a sixth grader was a good idea?"

"Did you win?" Toby asked eagerly, making Erin laugh. He looked at Jessica who was glaring disapprovingly at him and cleared his throat. "I mean...this isn't like you, Tori. You don't usually start fights."

"I didn't start it!" the ten year old girl insisted through gritted teeth. "He was picking on a first grader. I thought he should know better than to pick on someone who can't defend themselves so I told him to leave them alone. It's hardly my fault if he was stupid enough to ignore one warning, let alone three, is it?"

Toby and Jessica looked at one another. The events made a little more sense to them now. Tori may have been introverted but she clearly had a strong sense of justice, much like they did. So she probably would have done anything in her power to help the defenseless kid, even if it wasn't the best thing to have done.

"But you understand that you shouldn't have hit him, don't you?" Jessica questioned. "I know people can be annoying sometimes and they might do things you don't like or agree with but that's no excuse to hit them." Under her breath, she added, "Even though they might deserve it!"

"Yeah," Tori answered. "That's what my teacher said as well. Except for that last bit! Then she made me apologize to him. He got a detention, too. Serves him right for making that poor kid cry!"

Toby laughed at his wife's stunned expression. Clearly she hadn't expected that anyone would hear what she'd said. He certainly hadn't heard it, after all. "We can't get anything past you, can we, rosebud?"

"Are we done talking about it now?" Tori complained. "It was wrong and I shouldn't have done it. It won't ever happen again."

"Alright," the three others agreed. As their parents went into the kitchen to start preparing tea, Erin sidled up to her big sister.

"You do know that you besting a sixth grader in a fight is all anyone at school is gonna be talking about!" she pointed out in a low voice.

Tori closed her eyes. She honestly just wanted to forget it had ever happened. Getting angry and lashing out at people wasn't in her character so she felt a little out of sorts.

"They'll forget about it once something else interesting happens," she told Erin. "They always do. The only thing I care about is if that guy stops bullying people!"

"Well, after today, I doubt he'll pick on anyone again, not if you're around. He won't want to risk being laughed at again!" Erin said as she, herself, struggled not to laugh.

"Fancy watching that show you told me about?" Tori asked, changing the subject. Erin's eyes lit up in excitement as they changed the channel. The blonde silently let out a sigh of relief that her suggestion had successfully taken Erin's mind off the day's events. Then again, she didn't have the greatest attention span.

"No, but, really," Jessica asked suddenly after they'd finished their tea. "Did you win?"

"Did you see any bruises?" Tori responded rhetorically. At once, they all looked at her, their expressions changing from curiosity to admiration, more so in Erin's case.

She looked confused as her parents exchanged almost gleeful glances. She was pretty sure they weren't supposed to approve but they both looked as though Christmas had come early.

"I guess I'm grounded, aren't I?" she said dully. "Two weeks? Three?"

"She won!" Toby exclaimed, ignoring her. "Did she even get hit?"