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- Wiktoria … please Wiktoria, listen to me. I need you to promise me.
- No, I’m sorry dad I can’t !
The man look at his daughter and the memories hurt him, they’ve travel the world together, they seen everything a living people could seen, they fight together invisible monster. She was her last child, and, to be true, he cannot pretend that she wasn’t her favorite.
Abe didn’t really know his other child, he passed all his time far away from home, fighting against hollowgast. When Victoria turn out to be peculiar and grown up, he take her with him around the world.
- Listen… I don’t know why but I know that, but I don’t have much time left… I need you to promise me that you will took him to the loop.
- Dad, don’t say that. I… I don’t want to hear my dad say that he will die soon !
- Victoria ! Promise me !
The woman close her eyes and sight
- No… I can’t. I’m sure you will have the time to do it yourself…
- And why ? Why can’t you ?
- Dad no… I just can’t.
The father come to the woman and take her by the shoulders.
- No, you can. I know that Jack is a peculiar and I also know that I’m not immortal. If I can’t do it by myself… I ask you to take him to the loop of miss Peregrine.
The name touch the woman on the heart, that name that always was screaming in her head, at the back of her heart. Miss Peregrine, Miss Alma Peregrine. Alma…
- Okay, I’ll do it…
Her father smile to her, and give her a hug.
- Thanks you my daughter. Do it for him, you can’t let your nephew deal with the peculiar world alone.
- No, I can’t.
Something that Abraham never know was the relation that tie the two women, a strong and unbreakable link. The red string fastened to their own little fingers. Victoria share with the headmistress of her own father an intense and breathtaking love. The other thing that he never knew is that Victoria always refused to go live in the loop of her lover and one day she decide to live her life in the modern world, away from the bomb and that magnificent dark haired woman. Something she never do well.
She was way too busy by loving Alma to fall for someone else and normal life was just not for her. But she just run her life like that, keeping her happiness away from her. She wasn’t unhappy, so she start to forget that she wasn’t happy.
And soon 10 years without the love of her life passed.
And now, she was a middle age woman, alone, with no child, no lover. And her ex girlfriend stick in her head.
But, something that Abe will know too soon, is that he was right and that he never could bring his grandson to the loop like he did for his daughter.
Abraham Portman has been found dead in the forest by his own grandson, eyeless .