Children of Sin

Chapter 19

Summer couldn't last forever though. Larissa, Leopold, and Victor would be picking up Damian, Adin, and Ellen from the London airport, and then heading to the Scamanders for dinner. Afterwards, they'd all begin the long journey back to France. 

"You ready for a road trip kid?" Leopold asked over his shoulder, "come on Victor, what's with the sullen face?"

"Victor gets motion sickness," Larissa answers, pulling a potion from one of the drawers, "here Vic. This should help with the nausea."

"Thanks Maman," Victor drank the potion in one go, "I hate road trips."

"Don't be like that," Leopold smiles, "this is the perfect time for us all to get know each other better."

"After this summer," Victor spat at his mother's boyfriend, "I think I know you too well."

"He's a witty one," Sirius chuckled, "I like it. Makes this whole experience more entertaining."

"People's lives aren't entertainment, Sirius" Lily sighed. What was she going to do with this absolute man child?

"Don't be mean," Leopold laughed, and Victor tossed a shoe at him, "alright, alright, I'll leave you alone."

"Stupid teacher," Victor grumbled, "I'm going to sleep Maman."

"Alright," Larissa looked back from where she was driving, "we're going to start flying in an hour, so you might get jostled up. Otherwise, there should be nothing wrong with that."

Victor closes his eyes, and dozes off to sleep.

"You think he'll ever like me?" Leopold sighs, running a hand through his hair, "I feel like he only respects me as a teacher, and that fades more and more the longer we're dating."

"He's good for her," Antiope smiles to herself, "I'm glad. After all her suffering, she deserves happiness."

"Victor's made of harder stuff than his siblings," Larissa explains to her boyfriend, "he reacts harsher and stronger to things. Layla, for example, is a troublemaker and eccentric thinker, but when it comes down to it, she solves things with kindness and peace. She might be wild in attitude, but in action, she's sweet and forgiving. Damian is a very true person. He hides little about himself, masks few of his opinions, and bares his true self to everyone. He is genuinely that goodhearted, something that amazes me until this day."

Larissa pauses to glance at her middle child. He looked very vulnerable and innocent as he slept, and Larissa couldn't help the gushing love she felt for her boy.

"Victor is the child I empathize with most," Larissa tells her boyfriend, "he's jaded and unsure of himself. He knows his talents, is externally arrogant, yet in truth, he's a lot more insecure than he appears. He has a much more realistic picture of the world than the other two do. He and I are realists, while Damian and Layla are idealists. I think he always had a problem with looking different than his siblings. He knows out of the three of them that he is most similar to their father, and I think it bothers him. He always knew his father wasn't exactly a good person, so knowing he was in any way similar to him hurt."

"Huh," Lyra Delancy observed, "that is an incredibly accurate picture of who these children are. At least from what we see. I guess mother really does know best in this case."

"So the middle child is most like the father," Edgar stroked his beard, "Andrea, keep an eye on the middle boy. I want to see if we can figure it out."

"Of course dear," Andrea smiles at her husband, "then we'll know exactly how to prevent this from happening. I will not allow my daughter to become a whore."