Ari knew that once September rolled around she would have hell to pay with the professors who claimed her as their little sister. It would be painful to think about them looking down on her swollen belly, their comments about how her future had been so bright, all of it just taken away in an instant. She wanted to have the loving embrace they showed her for the past six years. No longer would they send her letters to make sure she had enough things for school, no longer would she have that support system through the entire school.

When she head the Swedish voice beside her, she could hear the borderline horror in his voice. The dripping sneer that told her she messed up and he would let her know.
"Professor Hedlund, it's nice to see you."

This was the first summer since she came to Salem that she didn't have to have a guardian to watch over her during the summer. Instead she spent it with the love of her life. Waking up curled up in his arms, making them meals, watching his nose crinkle up a little when he read. It was all beautiful and perfect.

"How has your summer been?" Felix was always a little bit obvilious, maybe he didn't even notice her pregnant belly. Maybe he just never really liked Ari and that was why he was so snide with his hello.

This past year she felt like Felix was pulling away from their friendship. It might of had something to do with his current betrothed and Ari's adopted father having been in a physical relationship. Did he blame her for it? Or did it just have something to do with her last name and some left over anger on his end. She missed the times when they would hang out around the school. When he took her to Sweden for the festivals, when they would dance around the maypoles and wear the crown of flowers. She missed shopping around with Elsa even if she would protest while doing it, it was the highlight of her days.

She hoped that he could drop whatever resentment he held for the Madigan family, and just look at her like he used to. Like how an older brother would be with a younger sister. Ari missed him and didn't want to have to tip toe around the baby bump any longer. When school was back in session everyone would know that Gaspard resigned as librarian because he was the father of her child.

Lots of students who loved Gaspard would hate her, all of the professors who saw him as a friend would hate her. All of the professors who saw her as a sister would hate him. It would be a messy situation. She just wanted everyone to stop whispering about her. All of the times when she would be able to use her fists or her snapping words, she couldn't anymore. She just had to focus on keeping her baby safe.

"Just making sure we're still on that level. You know, since the whole you and my dad fight thing." She didn't know if she was allowed to talk to Felix, if he would think that her whole family is horrible because of whatever it was that happened. Ian didn't talk too much about it, but he seemed to turn to Ari for more of his personal life than his biological children.

"That's wonderful you've been able to travel. I've missed hanging out with you. How was midsummer?" She had missed going to the event and wished that she could have gone with Felix, his new beau and Gaspard. Instead she had been kept mostly around the house with Gaspard, growing larger and eventually working on her music with Rome Simmons. She had so much that she wanted to do, but she would make it all work. She wanted Daisy to be proud of her mother, not pity her.

"According to some people it's the best thing to happen to me." Most people told her that she became much nicer with her growing stomach. She wasn't sure how true that was, but she loved knowing that she was finally going to be able to have the family who she was denied. To be the mother that hers could never be. It was wonderful.
"She's due on October 30th." She worried about mentioning that Gaspard was the father, but she was sure that Felix would understand it. He never seemed to judge her for what happened in her life before her time at Salem.

"Are you really getting married to Professor Satagori?"

Ari was the girl with no family until she came to Salem. She had been bounced around from foster home to foster home, each time hoping that it would get better. That someone out there would love her even a little bit. Those homes never came. Apparently with her first signs of magic starting, they assumed that she was some dangerous child. Lighting her bed on fire, or the curtains. Each time it was to protect herself from some letherous foster parent or brother who wanted to test her out or break her in.

Once she came to Salem, she didn't have to worry about that. She was suddenly engulfed into this family of big brothers and sisters who just wanted to see her smile.

She shifted on her feet, taking in his words. So he didn't hate her? Ari wanted to race forward and wrap her arms around Felix and beg for his forgiveness for even assuming that he didn't want to be her friend, but she was also sure that was just Daisy messing with her hormones.
"I'm sorry for not trying harder as well."

She really could have tried a bit harder. She could have sought him out and made sure that he was doing okay with the whole Ian and Harrow thing, even more okay when they broke up because of Felix and Harrow getting back together. Ari had a keen sense with these sort of things, and she always loved observing. The more notes she kept on people, the more she could use against them if she needed to. Her life in a cult and in foster care taught her well.

"So long as you're alright with Daisy coming along." She motioned to her stomach, hoping that he would be okay with her bringing her daughter along. If he wanted things to go back to exactly how they were, she wasn't sure she would be able to ever have that. She wasn't the same girl who she was. She had been adopted into the most loving home possible, she was put into a coma from her brother, she figured out she was pregnant, got engaged, and now planned on having a beautiful family as Madame Chavalier come October.
"I had a lot of fun when we went." It was easily the best memory that she held with Felix, maybe with any of the professors. When he brought her to midsummer, she finally knew that these professors didn't just care for her because they had to, but rather because they really did love her.

"It was a shock at first, clearly unplanned, but I'm happy." She placed her hands on her stomach, hoping that her rash thoughts about abortion would stay between Ari and Paul. That her daughter would never know what Ari thought about, and never think that it was because Daisy was unloved. Even after everything that she went though with Paul, she liked to believe that he would take her secret to his grave.

She smiled and nodded,
"I'm happy for you. I like you and Harrow together a lot better than him and my dad." Not because she had anything against her father being in love with a man, she just wanted to be selfish and see her mother with her father. She wanted even a little bit of a chance at having a typical family, even if she wasn't related to any of them by blood.

"Harrow and my dad, it just never seemed all that right. Probably because Ian was just trying to replace Rita and Harrow was just trying to replace you." Or at least that was how Ari saw it. There was no denying that Ian lost his soul mate when Rita died, and Harrow walked away from his like an idiot that cold Valentine's Day. Both of the men just tried to pretend that a relationship with someone else would fix all of the problems, but it wouldn't. The trouble was that Harrow and Felix could get back together, Ian and Rita couldn't. Maybe that was why her father was being such a bitch to the two professors.

Her relationship with Gaspard began shortly after returning to Salem from the Triwizard Tournament. They spent the evening in her room, sharing some delicious Thai food and rice beer. They got a little tipsy and watched a movie snuggled up together. They stole kisses through the rest of the summer. The two of them usually ending up in his loft right off of Hawthorne Village. They would lay in bed for days, just memorizing every inch of each other to make sure that the other dwould know that they were completely loved when fall came around.

Ari was utterly addicted to Gaspard Marius Chavalier and she knew that he was the man she was supposed to be with.

She nodded and smiled when he repeated the name. Her daughter was going to be most spoiled and loved little girl in the world. She already knew that the recently graduated Clover Wynne had a little boy while at Salem, apparently Ari was following in the bold tradition of teen pregnancies at Salem.
"I think she's going to enjoy it. Flower crowns and beautiful music, she just hoped that Gaspard would survive the rest of the professors at Salem once they found out that he was the one who put Daisy inside of her.

Ari sat down carefully, hoping to readjust so her daughter wasn't sitting on her bladder.
"Yeah, he's helping me out." She worried her bottom lip a little bit and scanned the bookstore quickly to see if there was anyone around who she went to school with and didn't need to know about her and Gaspard being together.
"He asked me to marry him, and I said yes."

If anyone deserved to know about Gaspard it was Felix, The Faust Twins and her father.
"The father is Gaspard Chavelier." She watched his face, checking to make sure that Felix wasn't going to become homicidal or something. She knew that her father wanted to kill him sometimes, but respected that Gaspard quit his job so he would be able to be a proper father for Daisy. He's been studying to be a lawyer and even provided a house for them all to live in.

Ari placed her hands on her stomach, waiting for a harsh reaction or even for Felix to scold her. If he would hate her for falling in love with someone ten years her senior. She just couldn't help herself. She loved him more than words could say. He understood her demons and did everything that he could to help her. Felix and the others did too, but Gaspard was special. He was her missing piece.

Not many people in the school knew about her life before Salem. Her father, Gaspard, Booker and Felix knew everything. They knew what she had to deal with and she wanted to keep everything between those men. They were the ones who she could trust with her life and they had never betrayed her. When she found out that she was pregnant, she knew that Booker, Felix and her father would try to harm Gaspard. Thankfully her father contained his anger and instead his heart stopped. There would never be a time where she didn't feel guilty over it, but knew that there was no way to go back.

Ari laughed when he insisted on making a crown of daisies for her daughter.
"Less of the flower, more of the character." Ari and Gaspard came together over their love of The Great Gatsby. When they laid together in her bed and watched movies, they talked about their love of the books.
"But I love it." She wanted to go with Daisy and Gaspard, Felix and Harrow to Sweden so they could enjoy the midsummer together.

Her lower back was in shambles, all of the years of tearing her body apart with quidditch was finally showing. Her stomach was growing wider every day with her daughter and she was pretty much finished with being pregnant. She had been terrified about being pregnant when she first realized it, she even considered aborting the baby to save them both from having to go public with their relationship, but she decided not to. Paul talked to her and helped her see that she could be a mother and care for the child in ways that her biological parents never could.

"Well we had always sorta talked about long term plans, but then my dad mentioned it more and more. I think he might have forgotten that most people insist on getting married before a baby arrival." Gaspard was a librarian to the core, he was brilliant and wonderful, but he sometimes was a space case.
"We decided to wait until she's here to get married. Less stress that way."

She knew a little bit of Swedish from her summer with Felix, but knew that she was rusty. He seemed to be surprised that she was with Gaspard, but she knew that she would have to deal with that for a while. Some of the people who knew her very well, knew that she hated most everyone in the world. She was the one who snapped at people who tried to get close to her, but only Gaspard managed to wiggle past all of her defenses and earn her love.
"Jag vet."

She smiled when he wished her all of the luck, earning a hug from the young brunette.
"Thank you, Felix." She couldn't wait to be a mother and to introduce her child to the professors who care for her so much.
"How have you been?"

Ari nodded when he asked who the character was. A lot of people thought that she was talking about the mouse that some of them would watch when they were a child. She might have caught herself up on movies that she had to see in her life, but she didn't watch cartoons as a child. She grew up in a church that believed in complete obedience. She didn't have much time for cartoons.
"From the book The Great Gatsby." She clarified, hoping that he would know that.
"It was the book that brought Gaspard and I together, so we thought it would be befitting." If they were to have a boy, his name would probably be Gatsby Madigan for the book and the family.

She loved when she was able to share in Felix's family members traditions. She didn't have many traditions from when she was growing up, so it made her feel like a part of a family to have something to partake in. She loved when she was able to do a countdown to Sweden trips, when she would pretend to hate the crown of flowers, but dance around the maypole with Elsa. It was a beautiful thing to be part of, and she wouldn't trade it for all of the world. She wanted to have all of it with Daisy and Gaspard.

She wanted to show his family that she was worthy of the Chavalier family, that she wasn't just some uneducated American who trapped their son into a family.

"I..." She licked her lips and placed a hand on her stomach for strength. Only Gaspard and Paul knew this part of her life. Half of that population promised to love her for the rest of her life, the other half tried to kill her. Needless to say she was a bit worried about how all of this would turn out with her dear friend,
"I had been married once before. When I was a kid." She kept her eyes on her swollen stomach, so she wouldn't have to see the horror or shame on his features.
"I was forced into it, and when he tried to make the marriage erm, complete. I set the bed on fire. I got away, but ended up nearly getting killed for it." She ran her hand over her stomach and tried to steady her voice.
"I didn't have a choice before, but I do now. I want to be with Gaspard, and nothing is going to change that."

Her own love and well being was wrapped around having this family with Gaspard. She knew that he was the best man for her, and that no one would be able to make her as happy.
"He knows every part of me, and I love him." She knew that they would have issues forever with their age differences and that they would have to deal with people saying things about Daisy for it, but they would make it work.

She knew that they would.

Felix was one of the only ones who cared for her. Who kept an eye on her while she was growing up in the walls of the school. She wasn't living in some silly high school fantasy, she tried to fight this relationship with Gaspard as much as he did. She didn't want to ruin his life, he didn't want to ruin hers. It was only reasonable that they both tried to save the other, but it was impossible. It would be like Felix and Harrow trying to keep from each other. Certain things were just meant to be.

"Trying to. I'm getting a little oerwhelmed with Swedish, Spanish and French." Swedish for Felix, Spanish for her Madigan family and French for her husband.
"But I really like it, so I think that I'll try to balance them. With all of this wedding planning, I guess you're too busy to work with me?"

He always tensed up, just like she did. Ari hated to be touched too much because it reminded her of the disgusting hands that were on her when she was too young to even know what it was. It never stopped her from trying to reach out when she needed it though, and she could appreciate Felix trying to break down his walls for her as well.

"Summer has been lovely. Spent it with my family and Gaspard. We went to the Mermaid Festival in California, so that's always my favorite." She had been able to perform at it as well, but it still got her a little embarrassed to think about getting on the stage with her pregnant belly and original song.
"I got to sing with a band while there, it was terrifying."