It made more sense to have two computers.

Really the whole thing just made perfect sense. Daughter had wanted more autonomy in their world, their world, so he gave it to her. She wanted to play on her own, she had asked, she wanted to build the things that she wanted to build even if they made no sense. Like her ice mountain. She had built that mountain because it was from that movie she was always watching. Same for the ice castle. Even though when you mined ice blocks you just ended up with water she had still built it. Even though she could have been building Claw bases with him.

He didn't understand her at all.

But that was alright. She had taught him the controls. She had showed him how to play on his own and now he had his own laptop to play on, not his work laptop of course because then people would know what he and his Daughter got up to at night, and now he had autonomy and she had autonomy. They were equals in this world…which was difficult for him but…but if he had to be equals with anyone than it should have been his own Daughter. He was so proud of her. She was so…perfect. He just got this feeling of…of perfection when he was near her.

He cared for her so much.

She was sitting up in bed beside him. She had chosen their nighttime television viewing, the ice queen again, and he let her choose since it made her happy. He would sit through the ice queen film over and over again as long as it made her happy. She was so perfect when she was happy…and that was where his mind went when he was near her. Perfect. Mine. The two words that came to mind when she was near….which she was. Which she always would be. She would always be his and she would always be perfect and she would be perfect because she was his. His and his alone. She was his and she was there and he cared for her so much.

His thoughts had been going to her constantly lately.

It was strange to him. The whole thing was just so strange. The way he had just…allowed himself to just…be this way. Towards her. He told her that he cared for her and…and she knew how he felt…but he still told her how he felt. She let him tell her. There was something good in telling her that, in assuring her that he cared for her, and he didn't understand it. It was frightening, in some ways, being so open about how he felt…

But she enjoyed the affirmations of love and affection.

"Dad?" asked Mob. She was sitting with dad again. They sat together every night before bed and played games together. They used to do this at the kitchen table but then she and dad had ended up staying up all night. Mob told him that she hadn't liked that…so now they hung out in his bed together and played Minecraft until they got tired. That was fine.

It was fine.

She loved her dad and she loved spending time with him. She wanted to be with him because he loved her and she loved him…she just also wanted to sleep in her own bed. She had thought that maybe if she showed dad how to play by himself then he would leave her alone. That hadn't been how it went. Now they played together but he had his own guy and he build his own stuff and she built her own stuff. They had a world together and…and it was ok. She liked this. Sho had a world with Fukuda and he was having fun…so she and dad were having fun.

Even if dad sometimes mined in her area.

"Yes, Daughter?" asked Suzuki. He looked up from the laptop balanced on his lap. Was she tired? Thirsty? Bored? Whatever she was he would do something about it. He would give her whatever she wanted, whatever she needed. Anything to make her happy. That was his job, to provide for her, and he would bring her whatever she needed. Even some sort of gelatin dish.

"Dad, you're mining in my ice mountain." Said Mob as dad started to dig into the side of her ice mountain, again, even though he had said that he would stop before. He did that a lot. He told her that he wanted her to be happy, that he wanted to make her happy, but then he did stuff like this. She told him how to make her happy, letting her spend time with her friends and stuff like that, and he didn't listen. Well he did and he didn't. She wanted to be able to go and hang out with people but dad said that he had to be near to her…that she had to be near to him…

All the time….even in Minecraft.

"I know." Said Suzuki. He wasn't hurting it, not really. He just needed to get to the space underneath. She would understand. Sometimes the end justified the means. This was one of those times. He needed to obsidian vein under her mountain. She would fix it again. She had figured out how to get ice blocks and she hoarded them even though they had no value. He didn't understand her sometimes.

But he tried to.

That was why he stayed to the edge of her mountain. She could always rebuild it. He needed to dig just a little bit underneath it. She would allow him this. She was very good at making compromises. In their world and in the real world she was always making compromises. She wanted to see her friends, he told her not to leave HQ. She wanted to take a walk, she couldn't leave his range. She understood that she had to be at his side and he understood that she had things that she wanted to do in her life and people she wanted to see.

Just like in their game he gave her a measure of autonomy.

"You said that you wouldn't do that anymore." Said Mob

"You're sitting on a massive obsidian vein." Said Suzuki

"But you have a lot of obsidian already." Said Mob

"I need more." Said Suzuki

"What are you building?" asked Mob

"Another fortress." Said Suzuki

"But you already have a lot of them." Said Mob

"And you have many castles. I give you autonomy in our world and you give me autonomy in our world. Here we are equals." Said Suzuki. He needed to tell her that they were equals here so she would understand. He couldn't just expect her to know things. He had always hated that when he had been her age, being expected to just know things, and even at his age he hated it. Masami was always expecting him to just understand things. Daughter was not like her mother in that way. She was so like her mother but she was also so…not like her mother. She was…not better but…but different. Enough like Masami to bring her to mind but enough like herself to make her perfect in her own way. She was so perfect.

He loved her so much.

The thought comes to his mind. She was perfect and he loved her. He loved her and she was perfect. His mind is stuck on those two phrases. He doesn't like it, when his thoughts got stuck like that, but…but he also liked it because she would never think less of him for feeling like this. She had said so many times that she would never think less of him when he felt like this…

There was security in that.

"Ok…but can you dig under my mountain? I just got it just like in the movie and it was hard and took a long time." Said Mob. Even when she built things, her own things on her own side of the world, dad still came and did his thing. It was hard to feel like her things were her things when dad was there digging them up. He was always in her life. He was in every single part of her life and…and she loved him and dads were supposed to be in your life…and…and she just…she didn't know. She loved her dad. That was all she knew. She told herself all the time that she loved her dad.

When you loved someone you let them do whatever they wanted to you…because they loved you.

Like how Sho used to hit her a lot but he still loved her. Sho loved her no matter what and he hadn't mean to hurt her, he just lost control, and that was ok. Dad loved her no matter what and he didn't mean to make her feel suffocated. That was just…how he showed love. By being in every single part of her life until she couldn't even turn without seeing dad there or feeling his aura…

At least he still left her alone to vape.

Minegishi had asked her not to smoke but vaping wasn't smoking so it was ok. Vaping let her make sure that her powers listened and that she could sit there with dad night after night with getting upset. Even if sometimes her brain felt foggy and also she didn't smell good at all. Sho had smelled her the other night and thought that she had been trying to kill him. She would never do anything like that. She loved him so much…

She hoped that he never took up vaping.

Minegishi had told her that once you started smoking and drinking it was hard to stop. She knew what they meant. These past few weeks she had been wanting a cigarette more than ever. Drinking was good but she overdid it too much and dad noticed and got worried that she was sick and stuff…and also vaping as easier to hide. She just told dad that she was taking a walk and then she went, vaped, and came back. She felt better afterwards, like all the things that worried her were just gone. They weren't gone, though, but she could ignore them for a little bit.

Dad was still smothering her, suffocating her, and…and that as just what his love was like.

"I can do that." said Suzuki. He would give in to her. There. The autonomy that she had been asking for. The compromises that she was so good at making with him. All of that was right there in that exchange…the most fluid exchange he had ever had with someone who he considered to be his near equal ever. It had never been like that with Masami. It was so much better with Daughter. She made her needs known and then he met them as best as he could. There. Simple. Perfect. Like her.

"Thanks, dad." Said Mob with a yawn. She couldn't help it, it was just kind of late. Not like that terrible time when he had made her stay up all night, it was only eleven twenty one, but that was still pretty late. They weren't going to be pulling any more all night gaming sessions though. That was why they did this in bed now instead of at the kitchen table. "

"Are you feeling tired, Daughter?" asked Suzuki. If she was tired, she had just yawned after all, then they would go to sleep even though he wanted to keep on playing. He would give in to what she wanted. Nobody could see him now. Nobody could see how he was with her. It was…so simple but…so profound. He could breathe when he was around her. Weak. He could be weak when he was around her…and he hated himself for his weakness…but not as much as he had before. Not as much as he had with Masami. She had expected so much more from him. He had never been able to understand what it was that she even wanted from him. Daughter…things were so much simpler with Daughter…and he could give in to her with much less guilt…less shame…because she would not make him feel like that….because she had said that she, in fact, wanted this from him…for some reason.

He didn't care the reason. He would make her happy.

"No, not yet. I want to go to bed after Frozen is over. I don't want to stay up all night but I want to see the end of Frozen." Said Mob

"Understood. I can do that." Said Suzuki even though he had seen this movie a thousand and one times. He would sit through this for her. Out of everything that she liked this was one of the more tolerable movies…though he had trouble understanding what it was that she saw in this. The animation was amazing, the whole thing was done on computers but it flowed so realistically, but the story just made no sense. Why weren't the king and queen proud of the ice queen? She was a prodigy. They had a child with powers and one without, the one with powers was even their heir, but they for some reason but their child without powers, their spare, ahead of their powerful heir.

That part made no sense.

He could understand her struggle with control, though. The thing with the gloves. He wished that it could have been so simple in the real world, just put on a pair of gloves and control your powers, but it wasn't. In life he had to constantly conceal his emotions…aside from now. Now he could let it go…to a degree. The bed they were on hovered now, he felt good, and occasionally the light above them would flicker. He would stop these things, these small loses of control, as soon as he felt himself losing control…and Daughter said nothing towards it.

She should have.

But she didn't. She was very accepting. She was like the ice queen when she came down from the mountain and thawed her sister out. Her control was amazing. Even now. She was so happy but she wasn't losing control at all. She had let it go, maybe, and maybe that was why she did so well. Maybe why Son did so well too…though he was not on his and Daughter's level. Maybe he should take a page out of Daughter's book and….

And maybe he had been watching too many children's movies.

"Dad?" asked Mob. She could feel his aura. She knew that he was happy. Sometimes he messed with the lights and made the bed float on accident, too, like now. It hit the ground when she said his name. She was glad that it had happened when she had been awake. Sometimes he did that in his sleep and it was kind of scary waking up to that and stuff. But she wasn't going to ask him about that, him being happy, no.

She was going to ask him for something.

She asked him for things all the time and she mostly got what she asked for. He was her dad and he said that his job was to provide for her, which meant give her whatever she wanted, because that was what love was. Giving someone whatever they wanted. She couldn't leave his side, though, because he also had to keep her safe…even though she would just be with her friends and, of course, her friends would always be there to keep her safe and stuff.

"Yes Daughter? Did you change your mind?" asked Suzuki. He would ask her if she could fast forward to the part with the song they liked…or rewind, actually, because they had passed it already. Then they could go to bed…and also after he finished this last turret. Then they could go to bed. Also after he finished just one more thing after that. The tunnel network was still incomplete and he could not have that at all.

"Can I hang out with my friends tomorrow? In Tokyo, I mean." Said Mob. She wanted to pick something nice out for Shimazaki's birthday and she wanted to do it herself. She wanted to get him a bunch of his favorite things. Like a whole bunch of original cokes and some of that double chocolate pudding he liked and also some candles to chew on, the long dinner ones, and also a new black shirt because his got ruined in a fight and he liked that kind because it was all cotton and felt nice against his skin, and also she would get him some of that cologne he was always wearing too because he would really like that. She would put brail labels on everything so he knew what it all was right away and he would be so happy.

Because it was his birthday and those were important.

"The HQ is in Tokyo." Said Suzuki. He knew what she meant and he was not going to let her out of his range like that. There were hundreds of trains going in and out of Tokyo. She could get on one of those and leave…not of her own free will…someone could-could take her! Yes, that was it. He was not worried about his Daughter leaving because she was his Daughter and he loved her. He was worried about…about someone taking her from him…because she would never leave him…

He told her at least once a day that he loved her and he spent all the time that he could with her. He provided for her and kept her safe. He even watched the ice queen with her. She had no reason to leave him.

"Yes but…I want to go out into the city…if that's ok." Said Mob. She had hoped that he would have said yes because he was happy…clearly she had been way too hopeful. If he said no again she would drop the subject. No sense in getting him all upset before bed. He needed to calm down before bed, like how Sho had to have an hour of drawing time before bed, or else he would be poking her aura and stuff all night. Also he sometimes had trouble sleeping and she would wake up to him watching her sleep and stuff. She wished that he would have just let her go to her own bed so he could watch TV or something but no, he would rather just stare at her while she slept….which made no sense but this was dad and he never made a lot of sense to begin with.

"No. It isn't. Stay in the HQ. If you need something send people out to get it for you. Money is not a concern. Send the Awakened out for anything. Even some sort of gelatin dish. I know how you like that dancing, sugary, slime." Said Suzuki. He loved her, he cared for her, and that was why he had to keep her close. He had taken Masami for granted and let distance form between them. He hadn't realized what it was to be near her, what a gift it was to be able to see her and feel her and hold her, but he would not make that mistake with his Daughter.

"I…yes dad, I understand." Said Mob. Well she had tried. That was good, at least, even though her trying and wishing and hoping had done nothing at all to change the outcome. She had still gotten a 'no' and…and this was just her life now. That was all. At least she still got to see her friends at HQ and also sometimes she could go next door when dad was in the bath and Sho was at Fukuda's house…so that was ok.

Really, it was ok.

"Good. I'm glad that you understand. Now can you make the movie go backwards until she's singing the song she sings on the mountain? I rather enjoy that one." said Suzuki. There. They had compromised. She wanted something, he gave her an alternative, and she took it. She had autonomy and he could look after her. There. It was perfect. Things were so perfect between them that he wished that there was some way to preserve this, their relationship as it was in this state, forever.

This was perfect and she was perfect and it was such a gift to be near her.

He stopped what he was doing and just watched her. She mouthed the words of the song as they were sung. She so enjoyed that song and so did he. This film was a technical marvel. When he took over the world he was going to force the Disney Company to make one of these movies every single year for Daughter…and they would be made to her specifications. There would be more songs for her to enjoy and more scenes of the snow because it was so well animated and also there would be more dresses from the movie for her to wear, she must have been getting tired of the blue dress that she was constantly wearing, and also there would be more dolls for her to play with…and also there would be a Japanese character too, modeled after her, but he wouldn't tell her about that. No, let her be surprised that there was finally someone like her, there, too. That way she could live out her princess fantasies vicariously.

Even thought she was a princess.

She was a princess and she was his princess. If her brother died then she would inherit the Earth…though hopefully Son wouldn't prematurely die doing something idiotic…but if something happened to him then she would rule the world. The two of them would rule the real world together just as they ruled the world of their game together. Side by side. Together. It would be so wonderful….

He would make her so happy and she would make him so happy…just as they were now side by side with their separate computers creating a better world together.

Father and Daughter.