"Is this real?" He asked her in astonishment. "Are you doing… what I think you're doing… with them?" 

Sofia just stood in the middle of her room, tears rolling down her cheeks, covering her naked with her bedsheet in shame.  Lucy was huddled in the corner of the bed against the wall. 

"I thought you had grown out of all of that giantess fantasy shit!" He growled at her. "Are these real people? How have you done this? What's wrong with you?" He stepped forward and struck her across the face with the back of his hand. 

"Ahh!" Sofia screamed and dropped to the floor, protecting her face from him.

"Don't you dare hit her!" Lucy leapt up from the bed and went to smack Sofia’s father to defend her girlfriend. 

Joseph deflected his arms effortlessly and thumped Lucy in the stomach with a balled-up fist. 

It felt like a rock had hit Lucy. She instantly creased up in two and fell to her knees, gasping, as her diaphragm collapsed. She had no air left in her lungs and she couldn't summon the strength to breathe inwards. 

"Joseph, no!" Sofia's mother called out and tried to restrain her. 

He threw her off him and sent her spinning against the wall. 

"They're disturbed Patricia, disturbed!" He cried back at her. "We need to call the police, look what they've been doing, look… who they are!" He pointed across the vista of naked Sofia, Lucy and their tiny victims. "Look what we've brought up," he stepped forwards to strike at Lucy. "No, it's not us…” He paused, reconsidering. “No, you've done this to her," he glared at Lucy. "You're the toxic little fucker poisoning my daughter, I bet you've brought these poor wretched things back from whatever sick cult you’re involved in!" He smacked Lucy across the face with a backhanded slap. 

Lucy staggered backwards rubbing her reddening cheek. It stung painfully. She tasted the distinctive irony taste of blood in her mouth. 

"No, dad!" Sofia screamed at him and stood up, trying to hold his elbow from dealing another blow on Lucy. 

He kicked Lucy in the stomach instead. Lucy was in a foetal position on the floor, gasping and trying to protect her face and chest.  

"I'm going to fucking kill you, lesbian!" Then Joseph just stormed out of the room.

"What have you done?" Patricia asked timidly as she looked at both of them aghast. "You fools!"

Joseph stormed back into the bedroom, holding a colt revolver and pointing it at Lucy's head.

"I'm going to fucking kill you, I'll get a medal for dealing with you, for ending your sick heathen ways!"

Then Joseph bent over double in agony, he collapsed onto his knees, dropping the gun and looked down at his body in shock and confusion. 

He gasped and clutched at his stomach. 

"Wha?" They all looked across at Sofia who was holding some kind of device, tears streaming down her face. 

"I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I just… you shouldn't have done that dad. Why didn't you just leave us alone?" 

"Sofia! What have you done?" Patricia approached Sofia, stepping around her husband. She suddenly looked furious. 

"Stay back!" Sofia pointed the muzzle of the shrinking gun directly at her mother. "Stay back!"