Yuuko was pacing back and forth in front of the newlyweds, unable to put into words what she was currently thinking about the events directly after the wedding. After the explosions, she was shaking in fear about what was happening as everyone else merely seemed to be tense and on alert.

"Mother…if you would please just sit down I can explain everything." Rock asked calmly, the last thing he wanted was for his mother to start throwing ideas out without any parts of the truth with it.

"Rokuro all I want to know is why that happened. There were explosions at your wedding, cars blew up. And everyone acts like this is an everyday occurrence." Yuuko said trying to stay calm, but given the situation, she was finding it difficult, "Well it kind of is…this city is not exactly a holiday location." Sawyer admitted getting a sigh from Rock, "I suppose I should start at the beginning.".

Rock went into the long story about how he ended up as a resident of Roanapur, from the helicopter chase to dealing with Greenback Jane as well as telling of how he assisted Balalaika with the Yakuza and ending with the Bloodhound going on her revenge trip.

While he left some of the darker parts out of the story he merely stuck to the highlights, and while those highlights weren't exactly family friendly it was in his opinion a little white lie to keep his mother from going in a full blown panic over the new information.

"Are you alright?" Rock asked carefully as his mother just looked on in surprise, "I-I don't know what to say…", "I can understand if this is a lot to take in mother, but honestly I didn't want to tell unless I had too.", "But you are friends with criminals and smugglers, and you are a negotiator?", "Yes, that is true mother, but while yes they are criminals they are my friends.".

"I-I'd like to go home, I need some time Rokuro to think about this. I'm sorry…" he apologized but all she saw was her son smiling in understanding, "It's alright mother, I'll drive you to the airport when your ready." nodding she returned to her bedroom and shut the door behind her.

"That could have gone better…" Rock sighed, "But it isn't the worst thing that could have happened.", "Agreed, she could have screamed at you and stormed out into the city." Sawyer said leaning into Rock's side.

It did not take long for Yuuko to be on the return flight back to Tokyo, Rock had asked Chang to charter a first class seat on the first available flight, figuring that she would feel safer back home then with him at the moment. He would have offered Chang's private jet again but after the attack outside the church, he would rather stay away from anything related to the cities crime groups if he could help it.

While it had not been a tearful farewell, his mother had been sad to leave him, but he would let her have her time to process everything he had explained to her, he saw no point in pushing her. As he may end up pushing her away.

Arriving at the office he saw Dutch sitting at the table reading the morning paper and having a cup of coffee. "Any word on what's happening Dutch?" he asked pouring himself a cup, "Nah…But whoever lit up the fireworks for your wedding are about to be in a world of hurt. Balalaika and Chang are already pulling out all the stops to find whoever it was behind all this.", "Didn't they call themselves The Collective or something like that? Sounds like something pulled from a spy novel or film.".

Dutch nodded in agreement but as always he was always thinking about the bigger picture. "Yeah but I have to think that these guys aren't exactly amateurs. The fact they managed to plant several bombs without anyone seeing them is impressive. Plus they seemed very sure of themselves from what Balalaika said, if they know who they are going up against and still sound so sure then they are either very strong or really stupid." letting out a tired sigh he set the coffee down, "The city is going to turn into another war zone…".

While Rock had not been around for what many saw as the original war in the city between Balalaika and Chang, he had seen bounty hunters, child killers, and countless mercenaries try to rip the city apart. And in those times he had always wondered if the next bullet fired would have his name on it.

"What about us? Do you plan on staying or are we going to have a workers vacation?" Rock asked, "Until it all blows over.", "Still on the table Rock, at the moment I'd like to see what Chang and Balalaika have planned before we go on a belonged fishing trip. Whoever these jokers are aren't likely to target us, but if they're going to just carpet bomb the place then I'd rather not stick around.".

Dutch looked up from his paper after a moment, "Besides what about you? I thought you'd be on your honeymoon with the wife?", "Well Sawyer and I thought it would be better to leave for a week or so just so we can get everything sorted out.", "Fair enough…though I think Revy is really looking forward to all this. Her fingers are getting itchy.".

Sawyer sighed as she sat in her office, Isabelle was safe with a sitter, one they could actually trust. And she had to wonder what they were going, part of her would like to see what chaos it brought but she had a family to take care of and she did not want to put them in harm's way.

"Hey! Sawyer! You up there love?" Mora called up and when she looked out of the window she saw a man in fancy suit flanked by what looked like two rent-a-goons. "Who is this?" she asked as Mora shrugged, "Bugger wouldn't give me a name but he has a job for you." the man flinched as he was standing right next to the Australian woman.

"Fine…send him up. His goons can stay there." the man nodded and headed up the stairs to her office and let himself in, surprised upon seeing the rather short stature of the body disposal specialist.

"Is something wrong? Don't I measure up to your expectations?" she teased with a haunting smile, "I mean no offense. As your assistant mentioned I have a job offer for you and I hope you are willing to hear me out." Sawyer mentioned for him to have a seat and he handed her a small envelope.
"Inside are the pictures of two people who I wished to have you deal with once we deliver them to you." Sawyer said nothing but opened the envelope and saw two very familiar faces, "No. I'm not going anywhere near those two." she said calmly tossing the pictures back to him, "And why not?" the man asked curious as to why she refused, "You know who they are, right? I'd be walking around with a target on my head if I even accepted the job.", "We can make it worth your while. I can make you a very rich lady.", "Again, no.".

Sighing the man handed her a card with a number, "Well you can always contact me if you change your mind." he walked over to the window and noticed the two men he had brought with him had disappeared.

"Looking for your men? They're being taken care of by Mora and my crew. And I wouldn't try anything foolish if I was you, tipping your hand like this…very foolish indeed.", "You don't know what you are doing." he warned suddenly feeling a very cold feeling go down his spine as Sawyer got to her feet and slowly walked over to him. "The Collective? I know you're the ones being ruining my wedding…to me that's all I need to know. I met a wonderful man who loves me for who I am and I couldn't be happier that I met him. But you tried to ruin that…" drawing back her fist she slugged him across the jaw, knocking him out in one blow.

Her years of swinging her chainsaw had given her very strong upper body strength, not that she had much reason to use it outside of work, besides the times when she man-handled Rock around in the bedroom. Laughing softly at her memories of her lover in the bedroom she dragged the unconscious man down the stairs, not bothering about injuring him. "Good thing you got that buzzer installed." Mora said approaching with an ice-pack pressed across her knuckles, "Are you alright?", "Yeah I'm fine, little sod just broke a few fingers when I punched him. Nothing serious.".

"Michael!" Sawyer called out as a towering pale skinned man silently walked over from the meat freezer, an overly large kitchen knife in his hand which was covered in animal blood. "Take this fool to the storage room. Do not kill him." Sawyer said as the pale man nodded silently, picking him without any effort and slung him across his broad shoulder.

"You know…if he wasn't…" Mora said making a few gestures for crazy, "I would so have a ride on that.", "You want to be his 'special friend'?" Mora suddenly realised what she was talking about and quickly dismissed the idea, "I think we're better off friends. Don't want him getting too attached to me, yeah staying friends…". Michael was nice enough, though he never said a word he always got the job done, whether it was human or animal.

"Very good Mora, I don't need this becoming a slasher flick. I need to make a phone call, make sure those three are secure." she said heading back up to her office, knowing that Chang would be very interested to hear about the man's job offer.

Of course, when both Chang and Balalaika turned up at her factory she was already wearing her surgical scrubs, getting ready to dispose of the two goons the man he had brought with him.

"So this is a member of The Collective? Not really much to look at is he?" Chang joked as they watched the man strapped to the gurney, "The fact the man tried to hire me to kill you both is a rather disturbing lapse in judgment, considering that you both are my top clients." Sawyer explained as she pulled out some smelling salts.

"I figured you would like to talk to him before he…disappears." waving the salts under his nose she gave him a few slaps around the face for good measure as he finally came back around.

As he slowly became aware of his surroundings he saw the furious blonde glaring down and him, "You are a very foolish man, you and your companions.", "You won't stop us…", "That's the thing, we don't want to stop you. We want to destroy you. This is our city and we want to keep the status quo how it is." Chang explained calmly.

"You don't even know anything about us." the man taunted, "That is true, that is why you are going to tell us everything…or else I'm sure Sawyer here would be happy to get them out of you.", "I won't tell you shit!" Sawyer nodded her assistant and one of the goons was dragged inside the tiled room.

"You are aware of this man, correct? He means nothing to us and he will act as an example of things to come." Sawyer walked over to one of her tables and picked up her signature chainsaw before turning to Chang and Balalaika, "You might want to wait outside…this room is wiped clean for a reason.", "Let us know when he's a little more loose-lipped.".

As the door closed the only thing Chang and Balalaika heard was the sound of her chainsaw revving up and the screams of the henchman which were quickly silenced as the man, who was being forced to watch it all seemed to be screaming in panic. Mora poked her head out of the doorway down the hall and gave a short whistle, "Anyone fancy a cuppa?".

Sawyer was actually glad to have someone to cut up, it had been a while since she had last had someone alive to cut up, all she had done lately were clean ups from drug overdoses and disposing of people who had already been delivered to her dead, it was refreshing to have a live one. Of course, nothing could stop her from having a bit of fun.

"Don't feel like giving your guard a high five?" she asked holding up the severed appendage to him, "I mean I know your restrained and all that but you could at least make an effort." she gave him a gentle slap around the face with the hand before tossing into the corner with the rest of his goon, he himself was pale and was barely making any noise after witnessing his guard being chopped to pieces while screaming for his life.

"Well how about talking for a bit? You must be eager to talk after what you've just witnessed?", "What…what do you want?", "Me? I'd like to skin you alive for ruining my big day but the two you wanted me to kill for you want you alive so you can talk to them…and maybe I'll end you quickly if you answer their questions." he nodded weakly and Sawyer pressed the buzzer on the wall, signalling Chang and Balalaika that he was ready.

Moments later the two arrived and she had drawn the curtain around in the corner where the first body was piled.

"I take it our guest is ready to talk?" Balalaika asked, sounding very tired, "He is I'll leave you two alone for this, I have a few things to take care of before my next appointment.".

Leaving the room the sound of their questions faded as she went into the restroom down the hall and made herself a cup of coffee, Mora was already there having her lunch. "Hey dear, you finished already?" she asked, "Yeah, I really need to remember my earplugs next time. Both of them screaming like that really gave me a headache.", "Maybe you should get on your way to your honeymoon.".

Sawyer glared over the edge of her cup to her friend, "I've told you already, until this is taken care of, and the city isn't at risk of being reduced to a corpse filled crater I'd rather not leave.", "What about Isabelle?" Sawyer sighed, "Well yeah…if I felt like she was in danger I wouldn't hesitate to leave until all this blew over." Mora shrugged, "If you say so boss. I just don't want to see anything bad happen to you.".

Sawyer realised that she had been used to dealing with herself so long, she had sometimes forgotten that she now has to look after Isabelle with Rock. "Your right. I'll talk with Rock tonight, and see if he wants to take some time away from the city.", "Don't worry about it all Sawyer, I'll hold down this place until you get back.", "Thanks but it will be our decision if we actually go anywhere at the moment.".

She chatted with Mora a little more before she headed up to her office to sort out a few things related to her business front, she knew she had a while before Chang and Balalaika finished questioning their guest so she had enough time to deal with everything.

After almost an hour of questioning the two crime lords stepped out looking far more exhausted than they looked when they entered. "Did you learn anything?" Sawyer asked walking up to them, "A few things…but nothing that we can really use at the moment. Until we find out more we cannot put it to much use.", "Well something is better than nothing I suppose. Do you have any further use for him?", "No…get rid of him and leave him on the outskirts, make sure they find him." nodding she headed back into the tiled room and picked up a serrated knife from the nearby table.

"Well I will keep my end of my promise and give you a quick death." she said and before he could even look up at her she grabbed his head in a firm grip and slashed deeply across his throat before skillfully twirling the blade around and stabbed it through his heart.

The moment he breathed his last she put the knife aside and pulled out an electric saw, industrial sized of course and began the messy task of cutting the man into pieces.

Rock was having a late shower, he had only just gotten home and was enjoying the hot water when he felt a pair of arms wrap around him and just hold onto him. "Rough day?" she nodded against his back since she was not wearing her choker, she then wrote on his back, 'One of those goons showed up. Wanted me to kill Chang and Balalaika.', "You told him where to stick it though, right?" he asked as he turned to face her and got another nod.
'Do you want to take our honeymoon? Get away for a bit?' she wrote, "I think that would be best. We don't know just how much this is going to affect the city. And I wouldn't like to see everything get sucked into it around us. Where do you want to go?" he asked only to get poked in the back rather hard, 'Why do I have to pick?' she wrote, pressing into his skin firmly.
"Because I want you to pick somewhere you'll feel comfortable going to? I know how you are around big crowds." Rock knew that she sometimes froze and sometimes drifted onto full blown panic attacks with large crowds, he had thankfully been there to help her through them during their short trip to Tokyo.

'Nowhere tropical...Canada.' as much as she felt at home in the city of sin they lived in, she would not mind a change of scenery and Canada was meant to be a nice place to visit for holiday.

Double update today. Continuation of this series and a new thing I wanted to make a start on last month but laptop problems slowed it down. Sawyers Horror Compilation is a collection of Sawyer/ Rock stories with horror backdrops whether books, movies or games they start off following the story then ends up with Sawyer glomping/ molesting Rock in some manner. At the end of each story it has Rock giving his reaction to her little tale.

Oh and props to whoever picked up on Micheal (Halloween series) been watching a lot of Dead by Daylight gameplay and he was the new killer.