Well... I should be studying maths so I'll leave you guys with this chapter to enjoy and stuff
nwn
"Victor~" the kid smiled and looked at his mother
"Yes, mom?"
"I have good news~" her singsong voice made him happy, it meant she was happy too.
"Does it have anything to do with the fact that we're not going home?" she giggled and nodded, turning the wheel to avoid taking the wrong turn.
"Yup. Wanna guess?"
"Nuh, tell me!" she giggled again
"We're going to the hospital... There, mommy has a revision... A doctor will put a machine on my tummy yo see what's inside" Victor's eyes widened
"An ultrasound scan?" she nodded, reminding herself that he was a genius "Does that mean...? You're pregnant, mom?" she giggled
"Yes! I am!" Victor's face lit up and he smiled
"That's great! I'll have another brother!"
"Or sister" she added, smiling "What would you like?"
"I'm fine with whatever it is, mom" she nodded "When will you know?"
"If you're a little patient, today, hon" he smiled widely
"Does Sheldon know about it?" she nodded
"Yeah. He's waiting for us at the hospital"
"Can I see the baby too? Please?"
"Well, I don't know, Victor. We'll ask the doctor"
"Okay"
When they finally arrived, Victor jumped out of the car, running to open his mother's door. She blinked.
"Dad did it all the time when you were pregnant" he chirped "Now it's my turn, yes?" she held back her laughter.
"You definitely are something else, Victor. I'm sure that you'll be quite popular with girls in a few years." he blushed
"J-just let's get inside, okay?" she giggled, taking the hand he offered to her and locking the car. They started to walk.
"And... here it is!" Victor tried to see the little screen, but Sheldon was in the way. Tch.
"Sheldon! I can't see!" Coral laughed
"Dear. Let Victor see too"
"He's your son, right?" the doctor asked. Coral nodded "Come here, kiddo" Victor complied "See this shadow?" This is your baby sister"
"How do you know this shadow is a girl?"
"Well, there's always a chance of being mistaken, but by this time, babies usually have their organs and their bodies form, too. So we look for a penis" the doctor shrugged "Because she doesn't have one, I know she's a girl" Victor nodded
"But I still can't see anything"
"This is the head... her body, her legs..." the doctor started to point things out for them "See?"
"Yes" Victor nodded again "That's inside of mom's tummy, right?"
"Yes"
"Then, what do you see if you look into a tummy that has no baby in it?" the doctor blinked "Can you see anything?"
"W-well, yes... why?"
"That's so cool!" Victor looked at his mother, and she laughed
"Victor, what use is it to see what you already know it's there?" he shrugged
"Scientific curiosity?" the doctor laughed
"Okaaaay... want to see your tummy?" the kid's eyes widened
"Yes!" all of them laughed
"Then wait until I finish with your mom" he nodded, at a loss for words.
"Victor, do you know how this works?" Coral asked. He shook his head no.
"Does it hurt?" she giggled
"No. It's ticklish"
"I'm not ticklish. Well. Just a little" he shrugged. The doctor had started to work again, but he still wanted to know "So, how does it work?"
"This little device makes a sound that we can't hear, but that it's not harmful, and it gets into our body. The organs which contain water don't let the sound pass through, so the sound goes back and the device can sense it. Then the computer shows you how much of the sound did come back" Victor nodded. He could understand that.
"And how does it make that sound?"
"Hm, I don't know..."
"And why we can't hear it?"
"Because it has a different frequency... I think" he frowned
"What does that mean?"
"When you hear a sound it's because you perceive a vibration with your ear, okay? When something vibrates, it moves like this" she showed and undulating movement with her finger "The frequency is how many times you make this" she repeated the movement "in a second"
"Second?! But I can't do it that fast!" she laughed
"That's why your finger won't make any sound" he stared at his finger, and nodded
"I understand... Then, when we talk, what vibrates?" she touched her throat.
"Vocal chords. When air goes through your throat, they move. We learn how to use them when we are babies and after that your brain does all the work by itself"
"But if I get the flu and I can't talk...?"
"That's because your throat becomes inflamed and it hurts if your vocal chords move" the doctor answered "Like... if you hurt your hand, it hurts to touch things and move it, right?" Victor nodded
"I understand now..."
"You're very clever, Victor" the doctor complimented
"Thank you" Coral nodded and smiled.
"So, how does it look, doctor?"
"It seems your baby is perfectly healthy. You're expecting a beautiful girl, congratulations!" Coral smiled to Victor and Sheldon, and they smiled her back. They were all happy, for once.
"Now it's my turn!" Coral laughed and shrugged
"Okay, okay... Go ahead. But just for a moment, eh? I'm sure the doctor has more patients" he nodded
"Yes, mom"
Once they got out of the hospital, Sheldon went home in his car and Coral and Victor in hers. The kid was still amazed, touching his tummy as he looked at a picture of his stomach that the doctor had given to him. He spent most of the ride back in silence. It wasn't until they got home that he spoke.
"Mom"
"Yes?"
"Do you thing... that... Do you think that my sister will like researching?" Coral was at a loss for words then, and Victor noticed "Mom?"
"I... I don't know, hon... Y-you know, Sheldon is a lawyer"
"But...!" she sighed
"She never knew your daddy, hon.. You can't pretend that she's like him or like you. You'll have to wait and see what happens"
"Y-yeah... w-will do"
Coral didn't see the small, crystalline, tears in Victor's eyes as he opened the car's door for her and they entered the house.
When Greg and Sidney Kasal came home that night, they weren't expecting to see him. Greg grimaced.
"It's you again!"
"Good evening, Victor" Sidney grinned "What brings you here tonight?"
"My mom is in the hospital, I'm going to have a little sister!" Victor was way too happy to feel offended by Greg's comment. He even hugged him "Isn't that great, Greg, Sidney?" they smiled
"Of course it is. Having a brother is the best thing that has ever happened to me" Greg assured him. Sidney blushed a little, and nodded.
"Yeah, same here. We argue a lot, but we're best friends after that"
"I'm sure it'll be the same for you and your sister"
Victor frowned, and Greg arched an eyebrow, noticing. Sidney didn't see it, though, and went to his room to change his clothes.
"Not coming, Greg?"
"In a minutes"
"Don't kill him"
"I won't"
Sidney shrugged and left them alone. Greg sighed.
"What is is, brat?" Victor huffed
"Stop that!"
"Okay, okay. Come one, tell me. I won't laugh, I won't tell" Victor looked at him, dubious. Then nodded.
"I told you about my dad, right?" Greg nodded
"Ethan, right? The researcher" Victor nodded again.
"Yup. I want to be a researcher too, just like him. And I'd like my sister to be one too one day, so she learns about the things dad and I like. But mom said that, as Sheldon was a lawyer, she might not like researching" Greg sighed.
"Well... You loved your daddy, didn't you?" Victor nodded in silence "Then you have to understand that she'll probably love hers. You can't tell her to not love her father, right? You can tell her about your father so she understands why you like different things, but if she doesn't like them too it doesn't mean you can't be friends, or does it?"
"No, you're right. I... I'll tell her about dad, but I won't be sad if she doesn't like it too. It's just... I would have liked it. I miss my dad" Greg smiled
"I'm sorry, Victor" he shrugged
"I don't like Sheldon" Greg frowned
"That's your stepfather?"
"Yes..."
"Why not?"
"He's... I don't like him. He's rude... He swears a lot."
"That's just a bad habit..."
"No, when people swear much, other people avoids them. That bad habit is for people who doesn't want anyone near them" Greg shrugged
"Maybe..."
"You can't have a family if you don't want people near you"
"I don't know, Victor..."
"Nevermind, let's go. Your brother is waiting for you" Greg nodded
Victor tugged on his lab coat. Sheldon could pretend to be nice all he wanted, but he wasn't going to fool the genius. Victor knew that he couldn't trust in Sheldon, and he wouldn't, no matter how many people told him otherwise.
"Isn't she an angel?" Victor beamed. His mother giggled and nodded, and Sheldon smiled.
"She is" Clara said. Her husband nodded too, and Sidney and Greg smiled. Sidney looked at his brother, who was holding Victor in the air so he could see his baby sister better.
"Can I hold her, mommy? Please, please, please?" she laughed and nodded
"But be very careful, okay, Victor?"
"Okay!"
Victor sat in the sofa before extending his arms to hold his sister for the first time. She was crying in his mom's arms, and she arched an eyebrow.
"Maybe there's too many people?" Sheldon guessed
"Probably" she nodded, and carefully placed her in Victor's arms. He softly cradled her and she eventually stopped crying. He smiled.
"Much better..." Coral smiled as Victor softly caressed the baby's cheek, making her smile too.
It was then when she decided to open her eyes for the first time, too.
"Blue eyes..." Victor looked at his mother, who had steel eyes, and then at Sheldon, who had blue eyes, and sighed. Greg grinned at his side, and disheveled his hair a little, almost kindly.
"You're going to have lots of boys to scare off when she gets older, Victor... She's truly beautiful" Sidney joked. Victor blushed.
"Y-yeah..."
"I can do that for you, don't worry" Victor frowned and glared at Sheldon
"I understand your desire of making yourself useful, but that won't be necessary. That's my job to do" Sidney and Greg looked at each other and burst out laughing, while Sheldon stared at Victor, astonished.
"You listen here, boy, you can't talk like that to your father!" Coral frowned
"He's not my father!" the baby giggled in Victor's arms, even though he had just yelled that at the top of his lungs. "I've had enough of that crap. He's nothing for me. I only stand him because he makes you happy and, now, because she deserves a father, and that's it, mom. He's not my father, and he'll never be" Coral sighed and raised her daughter from Victor's arms so he could move.
"Victor, apologize. You can't talk like that to your stepfather"
"I won't"
She slapped him. And, as Victor started to feel his cheek burning, he grinned.
"I won't. Never."
She slapped him again, almost in tears, but to no avail. He just kept grinning.
"A month?!" Victor was startled when he entered the kitchen that morning and found her mother feeding his sister and yelling at her husband. As he greeted them and prepared himself some breakfast, he silently wondered what had Sheldon done this time "Oh, hey, Victor?"
"Yes, mom?"
"Can you please look after your sister for a moment?" I have to talk to daddy for a second" he shrugged, ignoring the daddy thing. Her sister had to learn to call him that, so... He held her tightly in his arms and walked to her room..
It had been almost a year now, and soon she'd get one. Victor was very excited about it, even more than Sheldon or Coral. It would be better to say that Sheldon didn't seem to care at all, though. And now it seemed like he'd be gone for a month, for what Victor could tell.
"Vito!" he smiled and let the baby sit on the floor "Play wi me, Vito"
He nodded and sat next to her. Her way of talking was funny, he thought. She still found hard to pronounce some sounds, but she managed to make people understand her, somehow. She giggled when he tickled her.
"Can I tell you a story? Do you want a story?" her bright blue eyes shined and she nodded eagerly
"What story?"
"It's about my daddy" she frowned
"Daddy?"
"I have a different daddy. Same mommy, different daddy" Victor wasn't sure if she was understanding him, but continued anyway "You don't know him, so I'll tell you how he was so you know him at least a little. Besides... Well, nevermind"
"Story!" he sighed. Maybe she was still too little to understan.
"Okay, okay, maybe some other time" he sighed again "I'll tell you about... hm..."
"Nowhite!" he blinked
"Snow White...?" she nodded "Oh, well. Okay. Once upon a time..."
Her bright blue eyes started to close, and she yawned, sleepy. Victor smiled and she called him.
"Yes?"
"Where's daddy?"
"Sheldon's not home. He's in Europe, he'll come back next month" she nodded
"How much is a month?"
"Uh? T-thirty one days, this month" she nodded again, though she probably hadn't understood it. Too little to get the concept of time yet, he thought, smiling.
"G'night, Vito..."
"Goodnight..."
She fell asleep immediately, but Victor stayed there. After a week, since the day Sheldon announced it, he had departed, to Europe, for a month. He had barely said goodbye to his daughter, and Victor was proud to say that it was because he reminded Sheldon to do so. Coral had been angry, though, and that didn't please Victor at all. He looked at the dormant infant and sighed.
"I'll take care of you too... I'm sorry Sheldon doesn't, but don't worry, I'll be there for you when you need me, whenever you want" he promised, in a mere whisper. "Just leave it to me, Victoria"
Victor's POV
"What?!" I was startled, and sighed. Victorique covered her mouth, but once she was I wasn't talking anymore, she went on "Your sister was called Victoria?"
"What can I say? Someone lacked imagination or something, and that's it. I didn't decide my sister's name, you know" she giggled
"Yeah, I know, it's just, weird, okay? I mean, Victor, Victoria..."
"Thanks for the obvious..." she laughed again
"Anyway, that was so sweet of you, Victor. Aaaaww, you're such a cutie, y'know"
I glared at her, and she smiled. I shook my head, sighing, almost smiling too. Almost.
"You better take that back, or else..."
"Or else, what, Victor? You'll make me?" she crossed her arms over her chest, and I smirked. She was sitting on the cupboard, as we were still in the kitchen, and tight then I could think of just so many ways to make her take her words back. Not all of them were that innocent, though. She might have noticed, and shifted uncomfortably. I chuckled and offered her a hand.
"Let's go back to the living, c'mon"
"But you never answered my..." her voice trailed off when our eyes met, and she took a sharp breath "... question" I smirked
"You don't really want to know"
"I'm not taking it back I still think you're cute"
"That's rude of you, you hurt my feelings" she giggled as we sat back in the couch again. Slowly, I let go of her hand, and she blushed.
"The lights are still off" she pointed out, in a whisper. I nodded, smiling. She seemed to have taken it as a sign of something, and maybe, just maybe, it was, but I wasn't going to let her know that. Besides...
"The bulb is broken here, it's no use" she let go a quiet 'oh' and avoided my gaze for a second before returning it to my face, as if looking for something.
"However, I still have a question..."
"Save it for later, I still haven't finished. Especially if it's about me not having siblings" she shifted her gaze again, blushing, and I almost smiled again. Almost. Damn, she was cute. She crossed one leg over the other one and looked at me again, then.
"Then go on. I'm listening, Victor"
"Are you? Hm, okay"
"When is this memory taking place?" I thought about it for a second
"Three years later"
"Aaaw, little Victoria would be three?"
"Yes... almost four"
"Such a sweetie. Okay. Tell me"
I lowered my head for a minute, wondering. This memory wasn't a bad one, though, so I started. I just hoped she'd stay once things got worse.
Aaaaaand that was chapter four!
I was a little longer than second chapter, and a little shorter than third one... It seems I can't help but make them all af different length
Anyway.
Yeah... I lacked imagination and named her Victoria. It's fun too, so there.
Reviews would be lovely, too!
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