Author's Note: So sorry for the long wait! My summer has been so busy this year! I've never had so much to do before. Anyways, here's chapter six. I know it's been like... over a month, but I'm going to try to do more writing now. Things are going to start picking up soon (I think... XD) so we'll get more into the plot. It's not just about Ed and Ari's baby. It's going to get quite intense in the later chapters. Anyways... Just read the chapter. Not the best in the world...

Song for this chapter: Wrapped In Your Arms by Fireflight

As days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, Ari and Edmund could feel themselves getting more anxious by the hour. It wouldn't be long now until they were both parents. This grew more evident every day with Ari's ever expanding stomach.

At seven and a half months along, Ari felt that she could no longer grow any more. She quickly found out that this wasn't so. She found it harder with each passing day to spend any period of time on her feet without her ankles swelling to an unnatural size. She found it very difficult to get comfortable enough at night to sleep, and when she did manage to find rest at night, she was awaken with the strong need to use the loo at ungodly hours of the night. She found it exhausting just to be awake, and was always irritable with her hormones out of control. All in all, she was tired of being pregnant.

As month eight came around the corner, the pair spent countless hours thinking of names for their future child. None of them seemed to fit though. They read through many books, looking for new ideas, and it seemed like they could never agree on a name.

"What about Jeremy?" Edmund asked one day, a hopeful tone in his voice. Ari's face scrunched up, already giving him his answer.

"It sounds like 'germy'" Ari explained. After hearing this, Edmund found that he couldn't agree more.

"How about Daniel?" Ari asked, looking up from her book.

"I like that, for a middle name at least." Edmund replied, nodding his head. "Aaron Daniel. How does that sound to you, love?"

"Aaron Daniel Pevensie." Ari said, letting the name roll off of her tongue as she tried it out. She grinned brightly at him. "I love it. We're keeping that one."

"Great!" Edmund beamed. "Now we need one for a girl."

"Eden." Ari said almost immediately. Edmund thought about it for a moment.

"It has a nice ring to it." He agreed. He put a finger to his chin in thought. "Eden Patricia?"

Ari shuddered. "Ew. Really? Patricia?" She said, pulling a face. The two looked at each other and fell into a fit of laughter.

"Mm…" Ari hummed as she laid her book to the side and leaned back on the couch. She ran a hand gently over her stomach. "He sure is active today."

"She." Edmund countered out of habit.

Even after all of the time they had spent knowing they were going to be parents, they still hadn't quit bickering over the gender of their child. Neither of them knew for sure what the gender was, but it gave them something to do to pass the time.

Without Ed's siblings, things in the countryside got quite boring. Thought Edmund wouldn't admit it, he missed his siblings dearly. He had never been away from them for this long without writing every week. So far, they had only sent a few letters to the family, letting them know how Ari was doing, and how things were in the countryside. They had received a few letters in reply, but it wasn't the same as the family being right there with them.

The last letter they had received was over a week old, but it did say that the other three Pevensie siblings would be coming for a visit soon. They would be coming to the Professor's mansion near the end of the month, which was nearing Ari's due date. They would be staying for a couple of weeks, in hopes to be there for the birth.

The day that they were supposed to arrive, Ari was nearly bursting with excitement. It was all Edmund could do to keep her off of her feet. At eight and a half months pregnant, bouncing around the halls wasn't a good thing to be doing.

It nearly broke Edmund's heart to see her disappointment when his siblings' train was delayed, although he found it amusing that she missed them more than he did. It was midday by the time the other three of the family arrived at the Professor's mansion, instead of early morning.

"They're here!" Ari squealed loudly when she saw the buggy of people coming up the driveway. Edmund looked up from his book and rushed to the window and let out a loud whoop.

"It's about time." Edmund joked. He rolled his eyes as Ari rushed down the stairs faster than he thought she should have been able to move with her being this near to term.

Ari waited impatiently inside the large front doors for her family to enter. She picked invisible lint off of her coral colored dress. Edmund put a hand on her shoulder and looked at her sharply.

"Stop fidgeting. It's not like you're meeting the Pope." He muttered to her. She glared at him.

"I wouldn't be jumpy if I was meeting the Pope. I'm not Catholic, so I don't care what he thinks." She said, sending him a withering look. He didn't have a chance to send another comment back because before he could, the door opened and their family walked in.

Peter hadn't changed a bit. He was still the same blonde brother of Edmund's as he was when they left. Susan hadn't changed much either. Her hair was longer, and she was dressed in fancier clothes than she was normally found in before they left. Lucy on the other hand had shot up like a weed. She was taller than Ari now, and had lost some of the girlish look, but the sparkle of mischief was still clear in her eyes.

"Ari!" Lucy shrieked, rushing forward to give her sister-in-law a hug. It was easier said than done though, so Lucy settled for an arm wrapped around her side. Peter then clapped his brother on the back and gave him a grin.

"Never would have thought it would be you, little brother, that settled down before the rest of us." He joked. "And look at you Ari!" Peter said as he turned to her. "You're hu-"

Peter abruptly cut off with a wince when Edmund jammed his foot down on Peter's toe. He gave him a sharp glare that let Peter know he was treading thin ice already, and it hadn't even been five minutes.

"Say nothing about her size." Edmund whispered harshly to his brother.

"You're glowing." Peter settled for instead. Ari smiled at him.

"It's good to see you too, Pete." She said to him.

"Ari, it's good to see you again." Susan said, her face passive, betraying no emotion. Ari scrutinized her for a moment. There was something off about her sister-in-law.

"You as well, Susan." Ari said carefully. She could tell that Susan's mind was elsewhere at the moment. She made a mental note to talk to Lucy and Peter about it later. The interaction was not lost on Edmund either. Thought he had not seen his family for months, he could tell that something had changed dramatically between them, and it worried him.

After the long train ride to the countryside, the three Pevensie teenagers thought that it would be best to rest before they did any more catching up. After they had napped for a few hours they would all sit down and do some reminiscing, but until then the house was quiet.

Author's Note: I know the ending is kind of choppy, and it's definitely not my best chapter. I hope you guys liked it anyways...

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