Should I be sorry?

[Kanos Styx]

Kanos Styx could have a lot to answer for since his return to the family. After he spent a couple of weeks without a word to his wife or family, which was honestly not unusual for him to disappear from time to time, he managed to talk his case and why he managed to give up on what he did. His search for Voldemort left him in vain, but he swore that he would always support the cause, while moving on from that golden age. He managed to return to his home, in Bulgaria with Rosita waiting for him and the youngest running around, playing. Achlys was going to be going to school soon, and the two parents agreed to send them to Durmstrang to learn Dark Arts by someone other than themselves. But one thing he thought that his wife would never forgive him for and that was taking her away from her family in Russia. There was no contact whatsoever. Kanos never trusted the family, and he felt that she might have taken the news to her brother being killed by his aunt to be negative. Turns out, once she did find out (albeit two years later), it was not devastating upon their marriage.

Just needed a break for a couple of months. Kanos hung his cloak up by the door, and sealed it shut so that no one could enter without him or Rosita to dispel the door. He found his wife sitting at the table, so he joined her without a word. He could hear nothing within the home, which was good. His children were rather behaved. The older ones were doing well at school too, from what he heard. He turned his eyes to Rosita and he asked, “What is going through your mind?” He hoped that it wasn’t her blasted family. He could never convince her to forget about them, really. As wrong as it was, Kanos just knew that they would frown with their lifestyle of dark magic (though truth be told, only the Khamidouline side supported it, and not the Dragonova, which is what caused her parents to divorce).
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[Rosita Styx]

After spending a long time away from her family, Rosita wasn't too ashamed to say she had missed them. Not only that, but she had also missed Russia which was where she always remembered living. She had grown up there and made many different memories back in their old house, but now she was far away from that in a country she didn't want to be living in. Nonetheless, Bulgaria wasn't the worst place to have moved, especially since she had moved there with her husband and children, despite how rough her husband had been making recent times for them. The lady sat at the dining table, looking down at the wood and reflecting whilst it was quiet. She barely even noticed her husband walk through the door. He wanted to know what was on her mind and she smiled slightly, but not so that he could see. She loved it when her husband was concerned, but she didn't know how long it was going to take to forgive him for hating her own family.

"You should already know," she replied, as if it was obvious, not moving her eyes to look at him. "You would understand if you just took a moment to think too." After being married for a long time, Rosita knew Kanos would take her words with a grain of salt. He wasn't exactly the most compassionate person she knew but she was telling him the truth whether he liked it or not. "Your family also isn't that good to get along with, but I put up with them." Rosita sighed, running a hand through her greying hair. All she ever wanted was for Kanos to understand, but she wasn't going to try to force him to. It was too much effort and Rosita knew she had better things to do than worry about such a thing.

 

[Kanos Styx]

Kanos sighed as she said that he should already know. He did. She was talking about his hatred toward the family of hers. Kanos never really understood why she was so attached to them, seeing as she always fit in with his. Her brother was worthless, and so was the rest of them. However, there was something he did. Something he had Hades do while he was away. He had not received anything back yet. He was waiting on it. "Your family... Okay, so ever since I first saw them, they weren't our type. But... I know all about family, and how close people are supposed to be to it." Kanos knew all too well because his family was extremely close. They always had each other's backs, in the end. Kanos stood up from the table, and walked to the fridge, where he got out a bottle of wine. He waved his hand and two glasses emerged from the cabinet. His eyes spotted a crow within the window seal, holding a rather large package. Using his magic, the wine poured itself and traveled into the air, and landed on the table for the two of them to share. Kanos shooed off the bird and took the package.

"Despite your family and their... Well, adaption to living at peace knowing what the muggles are, I asked my nephew to dig up some information. It took several months, but I guess he finally did it. I'm sure you remember Hades," Kanos smirked as he sat down, opening the package with his slender hands. Pictures, news clippings, and notes spilled forward. It had everything. Her siblings, what they were up to, names of their children. However, the notes Kanos was after were about her parents. Reading it over, his eyes widened, "Interesting. Your father is like us, but your mother was not. Divorced over that and split the kids up. The mother kept a few, and your father kept the less. Your sister, Svetlana, is a close friend of a sister of mine, Nataliia. Married into the same family. The rest seemed to marry pure-bloods." Kanos lowered the paper and placed both of his hands upon his face. "If you say that 'I told you so', then I am tempted to turn you into a canary without your knowing." Kanos could not believe this. He was wrong. How in the hell was he actually in the wrong?​

 

[Rosita Styx]

Kanos always believed he knew everything and it was one thing Rosita disliked about him the most. Rosita was not a stupid person and so hearing him say things that weren't true about her own family was slightly disheartening. However, Rosita knew better than to argue or disagree with him and so she let him speak, watching as he walked over to get them glasses of wine and take a package from the window. Rosita took sips of the wine as she watched her husband open it at the table. She remembered Hades well from everything Kanos had told her about him but for some reason was glad they hadn't spoken face to face yet. The woman kept her lips sealed however as she waited patiently for the package to open. When it did, she picked up one of the pieces of papers about her siblings and read a few lines as she couldn't help the curiosity. They were going well from what she could see and it took a lot of pressure off the woman's shoulders to see that.

Rosita smirked as she looked up from the piece of paper she was reading to see Kanos' reaction to the one he was reading about her parents. Admittedly, Rosita liked her father much more than her mother and she could see now that Kanos had felt the same way and was wrong about everything. From this, she felt some sort of fondness for Hades. She had always been excited for the day when Kanos would finally find the truth and this was it. "Maybe next time you should take my word." she told him, taking another sip of her wine. "You should be sorry you were so prejudice and unfair too. I guess this means now you'll go and meet them after all these years?" Rosita hoped so. She had spent so many years away from them and now that Kanos knew the truth she hoped her family would forgive him.