"Like destroying everyone else's
life."

Hera looked up at Sophia. "I will admit
that there was a time that I desired nothing more than to destroy
my step-children and their families…"

"I think it is a bit late to
confess." She swiped her hand through her ebony hair.
"You knew what he was capable of and you sat back and did
nothing. You may not had sent him into her life, but you did
nothing to stop him." She chuckled and shook her head.
"Well, let this be a lesson for you grandmother. If you want
the job to be done right, you better do it yourself."

Sophia looked around the temple and tiny
statues of families on the altar. "I come from some very sick
stock don't I grandmother. You and father don't care who
gets hurt as long as you get what you want." Sophia walked up
to the statuettes. "The goddess of childbirth and family. What
a load of crap." She picked up two figurines of two little
boys and placed them on a table in front of the goddess. "Ares
claimed he learned everything from you. He must make you proud
Hera. I wonder how much was learned and how much was biological?
Ares inherited your darkness; your lessons just fine tuned his
natural abilities, and I was born with that same darkness. Probably
have that same self-serving, selfish streak in me as well."
She took her eyes off the small figures and stared at Hera.
"Which is really a shame. Because right now, my darkness is
telling me to hurt you, to hurt you through the only thing that you
have ever loved." Sophia raised her fist and drove it into one
of the figurines, pulverizing it into sand.

Hera eyes grew wide as she realized just what
Sophia meant. "Evander is your brother."

"Half-brother, just like Hercules and
Ares. What's your point?" Sophia smirked. "But you
know me too well, grandmother. I would never hurt a hair on my
brother's head. He is so sweet and innocent. And unlike you, I
don't kill innocent children." She picked up the second
figurine. "No, I'm going to protect my brother. I’m
going to tell him the truth. I'm going to tell him about all
the things you did, so that he can be aware of who you really are,
and the poison that you have past on to us."

"You would turn him against me?"