Aria took a deep breath, opened the door and walked over to the gate. She had to talk to him. And she wanted to go home. With him. This was crazy, it was just like Hank and Gambit had said; if you miss someone this much, you probably did a dumb thing by leaving.

But she was stopped in her strides by Kitty "Aria, I have something for you".

"What is it?".

"Your stalker just handed it to me".

She almost ripped the piece of paper from Kitty's hand and opened it just as rapidly.

Aria,
I'm no good with words.
I won't bother you anymore.
I can't change the past, but I fucking hate myself for hurting you.
Don't be afraid little one, you'll be a great mother.
Victor.

She looked at Kitty in shock "Kitty… Where is he?".

"He just left. He gave me the letter and walked off".

She didn't even hear the rest Kitty said, she just made a run for the gates and jumped over it in one swift move. When she landed on the ground, she looked around frantically. Pavement and woods, stretching on for miles.

No sight of Victor.

Aria panicked.

She ran all the way to the end of the drive way and looked around again, still no sight. But she could faintly smell the direction he'd gone into. She called out his name as loud as she possibly could.

Aria ran down the road as fast as she could and looked around again. Just a lot of trees and an empty road. On the top of her lungs she called out his name again.

"Victor!" she tried again, louder this time. "Don't go" she called out, he voice noticeably quieter.

She was gasping for breath, trying to run further but she realized that running like this was probably not the best thing to do while being pregnant. Also, it was useless.

"Fuck!" she cursed "Fuck, fuck, fuck!".

She waited a few minutes as she desperately stared down that road, realizing that she didn't even have a phone on her to call him. She was still eyeing the road. Somehow hoping that he was somewhere there.

Eventually she gave up and turned around, slowly walking back the entire road towards the school.
She wiped away a few tears from her face "Screw you Victor, for leaving me. Asshole, I hate you".

It wasn't true, but she was hurt, so bad things came out of her mouth.

"Right" a gruff voice came from the woods on the left side of the road "Three weeks I've been standing outside that fucking school and now it's screw me for leaving you?".

Aria blinked several times before finally catching sight of him, slowly strolling outside the woods and onto the pavement.

"What the fuck are you doing in the woods?" was all she could say.

He simply shrugged "It's the shortest way to my hotel".

He stepped onto the road and into her direction. When she finally came to her senses, she ran into him. Never happier to see him than in this moment. She clasped to his chest, never ever wanting to let go again. Victor put his big arms around her, closed his eyes and just pressed her tightly against him. He inhaled all her scents deeply.

"You can't just go and leave me you asshole" she cried into his chest "I want to go home too. And I fucking hate you!".

He released his tight grip on her and she looked up at him, his arms still around her. When she saw his beautiful face above her, it just made her angrier. Aria started to pound his chest with her little fists "You don't get to leave me you ass jerk. I hate you so much right now!".

Though he did deserve this, he'd rather have a different kind of contact with her right now. So Victor lifted her up in one swift moved and clashed his lips onto hers. Her little arms snaked around his neck as her legs locked around his waist. He'd missed this more than anything. Her body against his, her smell dominating his senses, her soft lips as he roughly kissed her. Three fucking never ending weeks of longing were in this kiss.

Then she suddenly broke the kiss and forced him to put her back on the ground "And just so you know" she angrily continued "I am not crying for you or about you, I am just pregnant and hormonal so deal with it".

He chuckled at her but then became most serious as he cupped her face in his hands "I'm sorry Aria, for everything".

She continued to pound his chest but slower this time, for she was losing strength as she looked at him with anger. She was also losing her balance a little and her head was spinning.

Before her legs could give in, Victor quickly put one arm around her shoulders and one underneath her legs as he easily lifted her up "I think you need to calm down little one, you can hate me when you're stronger again".

"I don't hate you" she mumbled as she rested her head on his shoulder and smelled his beard "I hate myself for not hating you. But you're still an asshole".

"You should watch your language really" he joked carefully as he kissed the top of her head "I'm still your employer, or did I miss your letter of recognition somewhere in the mail?".

That made her laugh "Well, I'm not working right now Victor, so I can say whatever I want".

"Perhaps" he casually replied "But you're definitely out of vacation days for the rest of the year".

Aria laughed again "Stop being funny Victor, this is very serious".

"Oh baby, I'm never more serious than when pregnant women start running like mad down a deserted road" he looked down at her sternly now, gripping her chin between his fingers "I'm serious though, don't ever fucking do that again Aria".

"I thought you had gone for good" she tried to defend her foolishness "And I want to go home".

He sighed and kissed her head "Well, I'm taking you home today".

"I don't understand why you're going with him" Logan sounded disappointed.

Aria sighed "I want to be with him Logan".

"But after what he did-"

"Listen" she interrupted "You have been very good to me while I was here. And I want us to be friends.I really do. I am even hoping that someday Victor and you will leave this behind you and you could come visit us. But if your grudge against Victor is too big, then I need you to know that I will always choose his side Logan. And no matter how honorable your intentions were… you should not have told me about Victor's plans".

Logan took out his cigar and threw it on the ground "Someone had to tell you".

"He was going to. It was not your concern. You told me out of spite. You told me so you could hurt him. You did not do it for me Logan".

Logan looked away, slightly ashamed "Perhaps" he admitted "But what he did was fucked up and I wonder how he will treat you in the future".

Aria smiled at Logan "We shall see. It's a good thing I am not some breakable porcelain doll. I can stand up for myself Logan. I really can".

Logan hesitated, really not knowing what to say. She had made up her mind and chose exactly that which he would not recommend to anyone: to be with Victor.

"Just know that we're here for ya kid, okay? Whenever you need us. And I will consider you invitation for stopping by to see how you're doing".

"I'm glad to hear that".

"What?" Victor asked suspiciously as he caught her staring at him.

They were sitting in his private jet across from one another. Finally on their way home.

"Nothing" she replied with a naughty smile on her face as she kept staring at him. More specifically she was staring at his beard. It had gotten a bit… big.

"By all means, tell me" he replied most sarcastically.

She shrugged as she continued to titter "Just that, you know, you could've at least trimmed your beard. You look like a hobo".

Victor chuckled darkly "Well excuse me. Grooming wasn't really on my list of priorities".

"You don't say" Aria replied as she looked at his long beard "And what was on your list of priorities? Stalking me?".

"You're real funny now that you're an ungagged bird aren't you?".

She smiled sweetly at him "I was real funny before Victor. I'm just taking this opportunity to make fun of you" she said as she smiled and pointed her finger at him.

"How is this a good opportunity to make fun of me?" he wondered "You're in a plain, you can't go anywhere and you're only three feet away from me".

"Yeah but the seatbelt signs are on. So I'm safe from you" she continued to tease him.

Victor just started chuckling at her "Little one, those lights are going off in about 5 minutes".

Now Aria had to laugh at her own stupidity. "Oops" she mused as she bit her lip.

She reached into her bag quickly and got out her sketchbook and pencils.

"That still not finished?" he murmured. Ever since she had started a particular drawing and refused to show it to him, he wanted to know what it was.

"I keep fixing it with more details, it's frustrating that I cannot execute the pictures in my head".

"Let me see it. It's been long enough. I'm getting impatient".

She giggled softly "You're always impatient, why should this be news to me?".

"You either show me, or I will come over and take it from you Aria".

Aria looked into his eyes, he was staring back into hers most seriously. There was a small glimpse of playfulness there. But it was minor, so she decided to show her drawing.

She slowly turned the sketchbook around so Victor could see her work. He recognized it immediately. It was fixed with great details, so he didn't know what the fuck she was talking about when she said she couldn't execute what was in her head. The drawing showed him and his brother in a fight. They were outside in the snow, their bodies merely touching the ground, Victor's claws piercing into Logan's chest and his brother just about to slash into Victor's face. He liked that she had drawn it so he was on top and seemingly winning the fight.

"I didn't know you could do that" he broke the silence "Any more hidden talents?".

"Putting up with you" she joked "Do you like it? It's not finished yet but-".

He nodded "It's good. If you could turn this into a bigger one, like on canvas, I could frame it and hang it in the hallway. Then whenever the runt comes by he'll remember who's the stronger alpha male".

Aria couldn't help but roll her eyes "Wouldn't it be nice if Logan and you would get along?".

"We were getting along. Well, at least we weren't fighting. But then he came to my house to meddle in our affairs. So now it's fucked again" Victor growled.

"I think he meant well".

"You defending him now or sumthing?".

Aria sighed, when Victor was agitated he was impossible to talk to "I'm just saying it would be nice to leave all that behind you. Isn't he the only family you have?".

"Yeah so?".

"And don't you two also have a lot of nice memories together?".

Victor grumbled, the fuck was she getting at? That him and Jimmy should hold hands like a bunch of chirpy fucking love birds? Too late for that, the runt had yet another time meddled with his shit and now Victor had almost lost something which he lo-

Which was his.

Aria yawned as she put away the sketchbook "Maybe I should draw a picture of you and Logan hugging and that will make it better".

"You best not fucking do that".

She closed her eyes, leaned back into her chair and smiled "Maybe".

"I'll rip it apart".

Aria wasn't even listening, she just smiled and slowly drifted off to sleep. The last couple of weeks had exhausted them both.

AN: yeah yeah, sorry for the lack of sex you pervs :-p
Next chapter, I promise ;-)