"It looks amazing really," Lizzie said and then took a sip of her tea.
"Doesn't it just? It took weeks but it was worth it," Violet said, she sat across from Lizzie in the sitting room, "I can't thank you enough Augustus for all the flowers."
"Anything for you my darling," he stood over her seat and leaned in for a quick kiss on the cheek.
"I know Beasly appreciates it too, I never see him much anymore," Lizzie said cheerfully, but Augustus couldn't help but hear a touch of sadness in her voice too, "too busy pollinating flowers," She giggled.
"Hm, I wonder if he's met the little demon yet." Violet asked looking up at her husband.
"I hope for his sake he hasn't," Augustus said eyes towards the ceiling.
"Excuse me, the demon?" Lizzie asked.
"Claude," Augustus groaned.
A loud crash followed by a scream made Lizzie sit straight up, "What was that? I think I heard Beasly," she cried.
"That would be Claude, quickly now, if anything could drive that bee to sting, it would be that cat," Augustus hurried out of the room followed close behind by his wife and Lizzie.
They made it to the main entrance to see quite the sight. A white and very hairy cat was cornering the poor bee, one of his wings looked a bit damaged and was folded in on itself. The furry beast had a murderous gleam in his eyes; he shook as he readied to pounce.
"Bad cat! No bees for you!" Violet picked him up, much to his chagrin, and threw him outside as he hissed and scratched at her arms.
"Are you alright my bee?" Lizzie had him in her cupped hands as he began straightening out his wing.
"Bloody 'ell Lizzie! That cat almost took my wings off!" Beasly cursed.
"I wish we'd never listened to that artist," Augustus grumbled.
"What artist?" Lizzie asked.
"We hired an artist to paint that wonderful painting of Violet in the sitting room, but he wasn't satisfied with it. He thought it needed something, a cat," he said rolling his eyes.
"At first I loved the idea, I have always wanted a cat. He said that his cat had a litter and offered the one he called the prettiest. He was so gentle at first but then his true colors showed only two days after the artist left," Violet said crossing her arms.
"I would get rid of the thing but no one will take him!" Augustus cried, "So we are stuck with that cat for who knows how long."
"I'll try to avoid 'im from now on," Beasly said buzzing angrily, his wing looked a bit weird now but nothing he couldn't manage. He flew through the air a bit slower than usual but he was still glad he could.
"Come join us for tea Beasly, we'd love the company," Augustus asked giving a quick smile to Lizzie.
"Don't mind if I do, a nice chat will do me good. I think I've 'ad enough excitement for one day," he said shuddering at the thought of that cat.
"I have some exciting news!" Violet announced at after dinner tea.
"Do you think we should tell them now?" Augustus asked.
"What?" Beasly asked curious.
"Of course we should, they shouldn't have to wait much longer," Violet said taking her husband's hand.
"What!" Beasly cried.
"I'm pregnant, with a little baby girl," Violet's eyes welled with tears Lizzie ran to hug her and they began to chat excitedly.
"Congratulations," Bruno stood over Augustus who quickly stood up to shake his hand.
Beasly watched it all, almost as an outsider, he didn't know much about how to react to the news of a baby anymore. The only experience he had with one almost got him killed three times and it seemed to only end in tragedy. He could see Violet crying tears of joy with Lizzie and saw Bruno wipe his eyes once. He then understood why Violet wanted to tell him about all of Lizzie's predictions a week before, she knew it was beginning to come true.
"Beasly isn't just wonderful?" Violet cried to him, pulling him over and almost smothering him in a hug. And even with all he knew he couldn't help but smile too.
"I'm completely hopeless Beasly," Violet sat, a hand protectively over her stomach, surrounded by books and stacks of paper.
"Well, 'ow about this one, any good names in 'ere?" he pointed to a book that had fallen on the floor.
She strained herself to take a quick look at it under the table, "Already read through it, no names that feel right, you know?" She put her head back and closed her eyes, "I thought when Augustus said I could pick the baby's name that he was just the sweetest. But now I think he just couldn't come up with anything so he put it all on me!"
"That's not like 'im, I'm sure Augustus thinks you'll be better at it," Beasly said.
"I've got it!" Violet suddenly sat up, "Beasly!"
"What?" Beasly asked warily.
"I've been thinking, if I can't do it, and he can't do it, why not you?" She said.
"Me, pick out 'er name? You are entrusting the name of your daughter to me?" he asked shocked.
"Yes! I'm so glad you accept," she smiled.
"But I-," he started.
"I'll talk to Augustus, I'm sure he'll be fine with it, even thrilled, I'm counting on you Beasly!" Then she was gone, he had never seen her move so fast before.
"A name, and it 'as to be perfect," Beasly scratched his head, "I don't even know that many names to begin with! Expecting a bee to know the perfect 'uman name for your child, ridiculous!" He sat in that room all night, shuffling through papers and struggling to open books. It had gotten really late and he still sat there almost defeated, "What names do I know?" He tried to look through the names but they all sounded so foreign to him, and he understood what Violet meant by they didn't feel right too. "I'm the very worst at names!" he cried for the hundredth time that night. He sighed, it had even taken him forever to get used to the names of his friends, except of course Violet. "Wait, names I know, didn't I see?" he shuffled through the papers and found one with fifty or so names scrawled on it. "Lily, Rose, all flower names for 'umans! Names I know!" He then spent the next hour going through names of flowers but it was just so hard to decide which one, they all sounded perfect. Then it came to him.
The next morning Violet squealed with joy when Beasly told her the perfect name.
I'm sure you all know what name he went with :) Hope you liked it!