A blonde boy with curly hair slightly covering his eyes was standing in front of his father as he was on the phone taking an order from some lady. Anatoly looked down at his son and looked at him for a couple of seconds before he mouthed what. “When are we going back to Scotland?” The boy asked with a tilt of his head, he was about to continue on his questions but Anatoly held up a finger to stop him.
“Yes ma’am, would you like that for pick up or delivery tomorrow?” There was a pause for the lady to answer before Anatoly wrote something down on the notepad in front of him. “And what time would you like to pick that up ma’am? 1pm is ok on our end as well. You have a good day too, ma’am.” He set the phone back down and handed the notepad to his other son, Jebron, so he could give it to Henry, the other owner.
“Alright finally!” The blonde, Sinncere, exclaimed as he rounded the corner of the counter. “When are we going back to Scotland? No offense but I don’t want to spend my summer in the bakery again.” He stood on the step stool so he could be closer to his dad’s head rather than being eye level with his chest. Anatoly turned his head and started to trace his finger along the calendar that had a bunch of messy writing on it. He tapped his finger on a day and picked up the phone that was ringing once again.
Anatoly immediately tuned out Sinncere’s whines of them not leaving until Saturday in favor of answering the phone, “Hello, this is Anatoly at Astéri Bakery, how may I be of service?” Sinncere dramatically hopped off the step stool and walked out of the bakery claiming to be going back home. Anatoly rolled his eyes at his son's antics and continued taking the order on the other line.
Saturday, 12am, Perphyra-Lestrange residence, New Zealand
Anatoly lifted his head when he heard the pitter patter of feet walking around downstairs near the bedroom door. He turned his head to the alarm clock and slammed his head back onto his pillow when he realized what time it was.
“Go tell your sons to go back to bed.” His wife, Ashley, mumbled into his chest and rolled off of him so he could go do that.
Anatoly rolled over to sit up but he didn’t have to get up because both Sinncere and Jebron suddenly burst through the door fully dressed, ready to leave when they stopped in their tracks and both tilted their heads to the side. “And why are the two of you still in bed? You told me that we could leave on Saturday, it’s Saturday…get up and let's go.” Sinncere said impatiently and went into the dresser and started pulling clothes out for them. Jebron flicked the light on and started to help Sinncere.
“Why are we leaving at 12 in the morning?” Anatoly mumbled through the pillow he had pulled out from underneath him to put on top of his face. He lifted the pillow off of his head when he felt something thrown onto his chest. “What did you just throw on me?”
He didn’t get an answer but instead the sound of a door shutting. He heard a groan come from behind him before Ashley mumbled something that he couldn’t quite hear. “Alright,..................your terrorist children.”
“They are your children as well” He added sarcastically and got up so he could see what one of them had chosen for him to wear.
Twenty five minutes later the two of them walked out to the living room to see the twins were sitting on their trunks arguing about something. Sinncere climbed off of his trunk ready for his mother to shrink it and walked over to his cat and put Fluffy in his crate. He picked up his trunk and put it in his pocket, he walked over to the fireplace and Anatoly handed him the floo powder. He was immediately reminded to pronounce the address clearly.
Friday, 1pm, Perphyra Estate, Scotland
Ayas lept back from the fireplace he was cleaning when it turned green and one of his 2x great grandchildren walked out. Sinncere stumbled over Ayas foot, not expecting someone to be directly in front of the fireplace. The two of them silently stared at each other before Sinncere scrambled off of Ayas with a thousand I’m Sorry’s rapidly falling out of his mouth.
Jebron came out of the fireplace and stopped dead in his tracks when he noticed his grandfather on the floor with a raised eyebrow. He glanced over to his brother who was also sitting on the floor and decided to ignore them in favor of letting Sniffer out of his crate. Jebron looked down at Mr. Fluffy who was left abandoned on the floor and let him out as well.
“I’m going to my room, y’all have fun on the floor.” He stepped over Ayas and whistled so that Sniffer could follow him upstairs. “Tell dad to let Tigger out his crate when they come through!” He shouted whilst he was already halfway up the stairs. Ayas grabbed onto the arm chair next to him and pulled himself up while Sinncere stayed on the floor with Mr. Fluffy sitting on his chest.
Anatoly and Ashley walked through the fireplace together with Anatoly holding a crate in his arms. The two of them stopped their conversation as they had noticed Sinncere on the ground but quickly got over the confusion and walked around him. “Grandfather.” Anatoly bowed his head at the old man sitting in the armchair.
“Anatoly, Ashley.” Ayas bowed his head in return and gestured towards the crate that Anatoly was holding, “Your son said to let Tigger out of his crate when you got here. Also I thought you were coming on Saturday?”
“It’s Saturday in New Zealand. It’s also 12am in New Zealand so I’m going to sleep. Don’t forget to tell Henry we won’t be back until next week, Ana.” With that Ashley walked up the stairs so she could go back to bed.
Anatoly had a sheepish look on his face because he was supposed to do that yesterday but forgot. He let Tigger out of his crate and went about tidying up the mess that had occured from before he got there. He tapped Sinncere with his foot so he could get up off the floor but Sinncere had already made himself comfortable and was reading some animal book.
Anatoly walked into the kitchen and straight over to the fridge to grab himself a drink and something to eat. He took a brief glance at the note taped to the fridge what you think is orange juice is not orange juice before he grabbed the first drink he eyes landed on and took out ingredients to make a sandwich.
There was an annoying clicking at the window and there was an owl there with something strapped around one of its legs. “Like clockwork.” Anatoly mumbled around a mouth full of sandwich as he pushed himself off the counter and grabbed a piece of ham from the fridge to offer the owl.
Jebron’s room
Jebron raised his head up from its position on Sniffer's stomach to another loud argument between Sinncere and Dotta. “There are about what…thirty rooms in this damn house?”
“Thirty six to be exact.” Sinncere said, not bothering to turn his head away from the floating cloud in front of him.
“Whatever, why out of ALL of those rooms, you choose to be in my room?” Jebron asked, annoyed as he threw a pillow through the cloud, disconnecting the call between Sinncere and Dotta. “Not to mention you have your own room!”
Sinncere turned his head around angrily as the pillow had also hit Fluffy who was sitting on top of his head before going through the cloud. He picked the pillow up and threw it back at Jebron, hitting him square in the face. “You hit my cat! It took me a while to find one of those coins, asshole! Now I gotta go find another one!” He picked Fluffy up off the chair where he had scurried away too when the pillow hit him.
“I didn’t hit your cat, your cat hit my pillow.” Jebron rolled his eyes at Sinncere and dodged the tornado of flowers that were chasing him around the room. “Hey! What the hell! Get this thing away from me.” He scrambled out of his room and tried to shut the door on the tornado but the door was instead added into the tornado.
Sinncere immediately ran downstairs whilst laughing but that quickly stopped when he ran straight into his mom. “I’m sorry mom!” He picked her up off the ground but didn’t stay long enough so she could scold him for running around the house. It didn’t matter anyway as she and Jebron were chasing him soon after as the tornado had started to get out of hand.
“Sinncere Lucas Perphyra! You put an end to this nonsense right now!”
Sinncere quickly started to form a lie that was a rather obvious lie. “I didn’t even start it! I’m an orc, not an elf! Jebron is trying to pin this on me because he can’t control his powers!” Sinncere kept the little onslaught of lies going before he ended up in the maze with a huge tornado of anything and everything behind him.
Oh I fucked up he thought to himself as he stopped and just stared at the tornado that had also seemed to stop moving as if they were having a mexican standoff. He took a step backwards as the bushes of the maze had been picked up so he had a lot of room to run now. The tornado as if it was following Sinncere moved forward. Well that was before the tornado seemed to disintegrate and suddenly everything was back to the way it was before the tornado had ripped it from where it was.
Note: It’s current 9pm for me and this was sorta rushed in the middle but it leveled itself out towards the end. I chose 1985 because 1) it’s the year my mother was born and 2) the twins would’ve been the perfect age for tray carrying
New Zealand, May 11th, 1985
Ashley opened her eyes to see her husband smiling at her with Sinncere next to him holding balloons and Jebron holding a tray with breakfast. “Happy early Mothers Day mom!” the twins said excitedly with huge grins on their faces and Jebron set the tray down on the nightstand on her side of the bed. She turned her head towards the food to see a cute set of pancakes and fruit.
“The two of you are up early and thank you for breakfast boys.” Ashley said and the twins immediately latched onto her, hugging her. Anatoly leaned over them and kissed her on the forehead, “It’s 11am” he whispered before pulling back and picking the twins up.
“You two need to go get dressed, you’ve been in your pajamas long enough.” He said, carrying them out of the room and walked back in the room with a smile on his face. “Eat up, you have a long weekend ahead of you with Cissy and Bella.” He walked out of the room ignoring her question of why they were here and what he meant by weekend.
20 minutes later
Ashley walked downstairs to see Draco, the twins, Rodolphus and Lucius sitting on the ground playing with stuffed animals. She turned to Anatoly who was suddenly by her side with flowers “More flowers? That’s a total of like 100 in the past 3 days”
“You can never have enough my love, especially not this week.” He set the flowers down and led her into the kitchen where Narcissa and Bellatrix were waiting for her. “Have a great day you two, I still don’t know why Bella is here but I guess you can have a good day as well.” He ducked from the hex being thrown at him lazily from Bella before he bid them all goodbye.
Ashley sat down between Narcissa and Bella with a smile on her face. “What are we doing this weekend? Ana wouldn’t tell me.” Narcissa jumped into an excited explanation of what their husbands and sons had planned for them, in short it was a mother’s day getaway trip to Greece for two days. “Oh that’s nice, I haven’t been to Greece since the twins were born!”
Bella waved her wand and a suitcase appeared beside Ashley already filled with stuff for their trip. Ashley had a surprised look on her face but she had learned to not question Narcissa’s taste in clothing.
Narcissa set down a key on the table “Our husbands have the kids for these two days and we can leave now if you want. The portkey doesn’t have a set time that it needs to be activated.” Ashley nodded and told them she would be right back, she got up and went to tell the twins she was leaving.
She walked in the living room to see they were nowhere in sight, she was looking around downstairs for them when she passed by the door leading outside to see the boys out there playing some game with a soccer ball.
The twins ran over to give her a hug before they started babbling about a villa and Mount Olympus. Ashley indulged their new found love for Greece while Anatoly slung an arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to him. “Have a great time in Greece my love, you deserve it.” He whispered in her ear and kissed her on the cheek before he ushered the twins back to the soccer match they had abandoned
several hours later
The girls were currently at the monasteries of Meteora, while Cissy and Bella were staring in awe at the inside of the place, Ashley was familiarizing herself with the country she had grown up in and all of its wonders. Bella appeared next to Ashley with the tiniest of smiles, “Ash…how come you’ve never taken us to Greece before?”
Ashley shrugged her shoulders and led the way out of the monastery. She led them around the back to a secluded area where they could apparate from back to the villa. “Well most of our activities involve climbing. We could apparate to the places but where’s the fun in that?” She asked them before apparating away.
“Uh it’s very fun, it doesn’t take as much energy as when you had us climb Mount Olympus before you took pity on us and apparated us to the top!” Narcissa exclaimed the moment she appeared in front of Ashley who had her signature lopsided smile on before she turned around to go to her room so she could get out of these clothes.
She walked into the common room after having a quick shower to see Narcissa having a floo call, probably with Lucius and Draco. ‘I wonder what the twins are doing? Hopefully not filling up on sugar’ Ashley thought with a smile on her face as she watched her sister in law laugh at something Lucius had said or did.
“So what’s this traditional greek food my husband has been bragging about, mosk something?” Bella said behind Ashley scaring her, Ashley turned around with a raise eyebrowed indicating her to continue “Something about lamb and eggplants”
Ashley scratched her head trying to think about what it was that Bella was talking about. “Oh you mean Moussaka? Yeah, it’s beef or lamb with fried eggplants and sauce on top of it. It’s really good, I can make it for you if we have the ingredients here.” Ashley explained walking away from Bella to go scour the kitchen to see what she could make for dinner but Bella quickly got in front of her to stop her from entering the kitchen. Ashley just stared at her for a few seconds before trying to get past her but Bella would not budge and pointed to the common room.
“It’s a Mother’s Day retreat, I’m here so you two can have the best time without having to worry about anything. That includes cooking, I’m sure I can find a recipe for it and if I can’t…” She trailed off with a thoughtful look on her face before she walked into the kitchen humming a tune.
Ashley looked surprised for a second before she went to check out the pool of the villa. It also helped that there was a fully stocked bar so she made herself a drink that she could sip on while she was lounging near the pool. ‘This might be the best Mother’s Day gift Anatoly has ever given me. I should floo call them in the morning’ she thought before she closed her eyes to soak up the last bit of sun of the day.
Fankids appreciation week: day 7 - family dynamics
This moodboard could fit a lot of my families but ofc I’m doing the Perphyra’s. The Perphyra’s consist of Ayas Perphyra and Cassandra Salas, Jason and Yasmine Shadid, Viktor Sr and Elizabeth Somerset (@camillejeaneshphm), Viktor Jr, Pietro, Anatoly and Ashley Lestrange, Sinncere, Jebron and Jimena Galardo (@endlessly-cursed). With a family who has so many different personalities, they are bound to clash at some point and in this family…it might as well be a daily occurrence. Most of the clashing is just them asking stupid scenarios which leads to a whole bunch of arguing.
Will they always be there for each other? Sure! Do they honestly wish they weren’t related? Most definitel
