"For brats, I'm thinking potato salad." Jeanette answers. "Potato salad isn't exactly a vegetable. Does anyone know how to make coleslaw? As for taking turns of who's in charge of meals, meal planning is not my strong area. I learned to cook for my sisters and grandmother when I was eight; I had the advantage of having a box of tuna helper. Hikaru here is a much better cook."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

Valentine: Potato salad sounds good. I have a recipe for cole slaw here somewhere an' I have stuff for a fruit salad, of sorts. If you three want to tackle those that would be good. I can finish setting up outside as I figure we shouldn't need to start the grill for 2 hours but the salads can cool if we get them done now. as far as meal planning why don't I do one day then you three do the next then. I'm not bad at plannin' an' if Hikaru is good too then you two can learn from her. We need to try to plan ahead a bit too so we can get what we need in the markets we pass. Does that sounds alright to y'all?

Macey lays down on her stomach with her feet raised up in the air, legs bent at the knees and crossed at the ankles, next to her newly acquired father as he sits on edge of the bed leaning against the camper wall. He is not getting the rest or time he wants and needs, though it is not Macey's fault. And he has to make sure that she does not see that it is her fault. He just wishes that his headache would go away, although he knows it has something to do with this topsy-turvy time line that is not supposed to be but for some reason it is.
 
"You behaving yourself?" Fernando finally asks
 
"I am. You heard Miss Val say so." Macey answers.
 
"It is not up to them that they would tell me that you did or you didn't. It is up to you to tell me the truth. For no matter what happens, a daughter is always truthful to her father. You know why?" He asks her.
 
"Why?" She asks in answer.
 
"Because a father always backs up his daughter as long as she is truthful to him. Daughters who lie to their fathers - get nothing but drama, grief and trouble. If you want a life of drama, grief and trouble - lie to me. So tell me the truth, were you behaving?" He explains to her.
 
"Well... Most of the time I was." She says nervously.
 
"What about the time you weren't behaving. What were you doing?" He asks sternly.
 
"Well... uhm... I did... apologize." She says.
 
"What did you do?" He asks sternly.
 
Macey does not want to answer.
 
"It is better for me to know about it from you than it is for me to find out from somebody else later on. You will be in more trouble if I find out from somebody else." He tells her
 
"I didn't mean too." she replies.
 
"What did you do?" He asks.
 
"I started going through their private things." She finally admits as the tears start to flow.
 
"Why you did that?" He asks with anger in his voice.
 
"That's just it - I don't know!" She answers hysterically.
 
"Then how should I punish you?" He asks to drive the point further.
 
"Why?" She asks.
 
"Because you did something wrong by going through their personal stuff. What if you stole something from them? Stealing is not allowed and needs to be punished. Going through another person's things also needs to be punished. We are either to be honest with each other or else we got nothing. You're not my daughter if you continue with it, so being my daughter you need to be punished. Period." He tells her sternly.
 
"OK..." She says unable to hold back the tears as she slowly got on her knees next to him.
 
Thinking she's had enough of his scare, he leans over to her and kisses her on the forehead, "And don't ever do it again."
 
"Huh?" Macey reacts.
 
"What?" He asks.
 
"You're not going beat me or something?" She asks.
 
"Unless he has too, a father never beats or hits his girls, because he can hurt her seriously." He tells her.
 
"But..." She says.
 
"You admitted you did something wrong. You apologized and Hondo nor Val complained to me about it. Though it is not good, at least you learned something from it." He tells her.
 
"But..." She says.
 
"You want me to beat you?" He asks.
 
"You're my father, right? You're supposed to beat me when I do wrong." She tells him.
 
"Then lets make a deal..." Before Fernando takes Macey across his lap, raising up her skirt and lowering her panties to bare her rear him to him. He puts his hand on her round bottom and strokes it lightly to feel how firm it was, "Each time you do something wrong, I will double it. Today will be the start of it all and you only get one." He takes hand off her rear end and raises it slightly, before whipping his arm down and then up, making his hand snap hard her rear end like a whip popping in the air.
 
Macey gasps deeply and bites down on her lower lip as her eyes open wide and teared even more. She's been hit before by her own mother, possibly even abused, but this was something she never experienced before!
 
"Next time it will be two, then four after that, and each time doubles the last... you got that?" Fernando tells her sternly.
 
Macey just nods nods her head vigorously, "Yes daddy... I promise to be a good girl! I promise!"
 
"Don't promise, just do it." He tells her as he slowly pulls up her panties in place and then the skirt down before putting his hand on where he hit her. "Now Macey, if you never want me to punish you, you are to be the best girl you can be to your father. That means being his daughter, it does not mean that you do ont have to agree with everything I say, especially when you grow up but you are to respect what I say and do whether you like it or not. I will try to be the best father to you as I can be. I raised other girls before but no two girls are the same and what works for one does not always for for another. But in this one time I punished you, I hope I never have to do it again. You got that?"
 
"Yes daddy." She tells him before he lifts her up onto her knees on the bed.
 
"Good. There is nothing out here to reward you when you do good but I'll see what I can do for you. Now lets see about dinner and anything else." He tells her.
 
Macey tries to sit down but the stinging from being spanked hurts her enough to make her jump, "Ow!"
 
"Daddy does not like to punish his girls. That is going to last a while for you to remember why you should not do something to get in trouble with daddy. But it will go away if you walk it off for a while. Now lets go check on Hondo and the others." He tells her before he gets up off the bed. He then helps Macey off the bed and out the camper. He takes her by the hand and leads her into the fields towards a tree, the tree Hondo is sitting against.

(sorry, not trying to double post, just missed Fernando's so separate character conversations)
 
Hondo saw them coming but didn't move or say anythin' until they got close.
 
Hondo: How's the head? temporal headaches or normal ones, you reckon?

Hikaru expresses her opinion. "I'm not so sure about having a fruit salad with brats, potato salad and coleslaw." Hikaru does not know that Hondo also got sodas. "I bought two cases of soda at the fort we left yesterday. Jeanette, Danielle and I each had one." She turns to Chihiro. "Do you want to help me with the coleslaw?"