Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 18:17:46 GMT -5
If it came down to it, if he had to lose one of them, because he could only worry about balancing two… He knew what the decision would be, and that was awful, but if there was one thing that Ares thought that he valued it was family. And he was going to make that choice. He knew that he would make that choice, because to him there was no other choice. Ares knew that if he had to do that, if he had to make that call, he would. Because it would be what was best. But they weren’t there yet. He was still juggling, he just knew that he wasn’t going to survive juggling forever. And he didn’t want to give Anicka the satisfaction of being right. That was what annoyed him the most. That she had been right, and that he was going to have to deal with the smug, ‘I told you so’ look on her face when he finally decided what it was that he wanted to do about that particular little detail. He knew that she was a liability. He knew that he had to think things through better when he was dealing with her, because she was annoyingly sensitive about things. More so than she had been before, and she had been nearly impossible to deal with then. If he hadn’t have wanted things to be a certain way, he wouldn’t have made himself the Minister for Magic. But he did want things a certain way, and she wasn’t going to continue to get away with fighting him on it. Ares knew that she wasn’t what he needed right now, but he also knew that he was going to be there for his sons, and for his step daughter. Because LJ was his now. Ares had adopted him, but he hadn’t adopted Besiana. She hadn’t wanted him to, and he hadn’t pushed.
What he had done was take her brother though, and so all of the boys were his. Nick and Orion were biologically his, and LJ was legally his. They were his kids. This was his family, and right now, he didn’t know if he was going to be able to keep that family all together when their mother was driving him insane. But that was a lesser detail to the fact that there were other things that he was supposed to do. Other things that he wanted to do. Wanted to focus on, right now, and those things didn’t involve trying to make sure that his wife was appeased. He didn’t want to be around her when she was in a terrible mood, and him inviting his sister over here was sure to put her in a terrible mood. It didn’t matter though, she could go back to her castle, and she could mope there, or she could get over it. Ares thought that it wouldn’t be quite that simple, and that he was going to have a fight waiting for him when they were finished, especially since he had asked Attie to close the door, but what he wanted to talk to his sister about was nothing that concerned his wife. He knew that she was the one that he needed to talk to about this, because no one else was going to get what he wanted to do. Anicka was going to tell him that it wasn’t legal, and she would be right, but he was the law, and he got to make the laws, so it was going to be legal now. And his wife was just going to not approve completely. So he was going to have to deal with that.
He thought that he was learning to balance all three of them well enough, though he did want Attie to feel like she was a part of this family. Or at least a part of the family that included Nika and the girls, and the rest of the pureblood family. That was the part of the family that she could fit into. But that would involve she and Anicka not ripping each other’s throats out if they were left in a room together for too long. Something that they could work on sooner or later, but he thought that that would perhaps have to be later. There were other things to worry about right now. Things that involved getting rid of the mudbloods that were littering their world. “It’s time. They bother me. They are everywhere, and they need to be no where. In the school, in the streets… I’m sick of seeing them. I’m sick of thinking about the fact that they are the reason our people were impoverished and imprisoned for so long. I’m sick of remembering that they are the reason I was in prison.” That was it, really, he was sick of thinking about Azkaban, and the fact that he had been there, and it had kept cropping up in his thoughts. Losing Nick because of Azkaban, the closer and closer that Orion got to being here. But Attie didn’t care about the sentimental part, and so he had refrained from letting that part even so much as show in his eyes. “Ah…” he nodded when she said voiced what she thought the problem would be, “See, that, my dear sister, is where you come in. I, for one, believe the wrath of Athena Finley is probably worse than the wrath of God.”
What he had done was take her brother though, and so all of the boys were his. Nick and Orion were biologically his, and LJ was legally his. They were his kids. This was his family, and right now, he didn’t know if he was going to be able to keep that family all together when their mother was driving him insane. But that was a lesser detail to the fact that there were other things that he was supposed to do. Other things that he wanted to do. Wanted to focus on, right now, and those things didn’t involve trying to make sure that his wife was appeased. He didn’t want to be around her when she was in a terrible mood, and him inviting his sister over here was sure to put her in a terrible mood. It didn’t matter though, she could go back to her castle, and she could mope there, or she could get over it. Ares thought that it wouldn’t be quite that simple, and that he was going to have a fight waiting for him when they were finished, especially since he had asked Attie to close the door, but what he wanted to talk to his sister about was nothing that concerned his wife. He knew that she was the one that he needed to talk to about this, because no one else was going to get what he wanted to do. Anicka was going to tell him that it wasn’t legal, and she would be right, but he was the law, and he got to make the laws, so it was going to be legal now. And his wife was just going to not approve completely. So he was going to have to deal with that.
He thought that he was learning to balance all three of them well enough, though he did want Attie to feel like she was a part of this family. Or at least a part of the family that included Nika and the girls, and the rest of the pureblood family. That was the part of the family that she could fit into. But that would involve she and Anicka not ripping each other’s throats out if they were left in a room together for too long. Something that they could work on sooner or later, but he thought that that would perhaps have to be later. There were other things to worry about right now. Things that involved getting rid of the mudbloods that were littering their world. “It’s time. They bother me. They are everywhere, and they need to be no where. In the school, in the streets… I’m sick of seeing them. I’m sick of thinking about the fact that they are the reason our people were impoverished and imprisoned for so long. I’m sick of remembering that they are the reason I was in prison.” That was it, really, he was sick of thinking about Azkaban, and the fact that he had been there, and it had kept cropping up in his thoughts. Losing Nick because of Azkaban, the closer and closer that Orion got to being here. But Attie didn’t care about the sentimental part, and so he had refrained from letting that part even so much as show in his eyes. “Ah…” he nodded when she said voiced what she thought the problem would be, “See, that, my dear sister, is where you come in. I, for one, believe the wrath of Athena Finley is probably worse than the wrath of God.”