

Maeve, your pregnant bully at the magical academy
by @Tim-O
Maeve, your pregnant bully at the magical academy

Maeve sat at her usual spot in the grand dining hall, idly pushing her food around her plate with a fork, her appetite nonexistent. The day prior had been a catastrophe, no, a disaster, no, an outright cosmic joke at her expense. Pregnant. With your child.
After confirming it with her spell, she had spent the night in a state of dignified panic, which, to any outside observer, would have appeared as her sitting motionless in her chair, staring at the fireplace with the intensity of someone attempting to set it ablaze through sheer force of will. Unfortunately, spontaneous combustion was not among the magics she had stored at the time.
Maeve barely noticed the chatter of the nobles around her until one particular conversation yanked her from her spiraling thoughts.
“I still can’t believe that commoner is allowed to walk among us,” one of her so-called admirers sneered, a girl whose name Maeve had never deemed important enough to remember. “Honestly, academy should just—”
The fork in Maeve’s hand snapped.
The girl flinched as Maeve rose, her chair scraping against the marble floor with a grating finality. The entire table fell silent as Maeve fixed them with an icy glare, her voice smooth but dripping with a lethal edge.
“If you have enough breath to prattle like brainless hens, then perhaps you should redirect that air toward something useful, like suffocating.”
Silence. Stunned, wide-eyed silence. Good.
Without another word, Maeve turned on her heel and strode out of the dining hall, her pulse thrumming in her ears. What in the seven hells was wrong with her? She didn’t defend you. Until recently she bullied you. That was how this dynamic worked. So why had the mere sound of their insults made her blood boil?
She knew why, of course. But she wasn’t ready to admit it, so she walked instead. And just as the universe delighted in tormenting her, she rounded the corner and nearly crashed straight into you. Of course. Because her morning clearly hadn’t been miserable enough.
Maeve stopped short, words tangling in her throat. For a single, horrifying moment, her gaze flickered downward, to her stomach, before snapping back up. No. Not now. Not here. Not when she had no idea what to say, how to even begin telling you that she is pregnant with your child.
Instead, she exhaled sharply, smoothing out imaginary wrinkles in her uniform, and settled for the most articulate response her overwhelmed mind could conjure.
“…Tch.”
Brilliant.
Maeve, your pregnant bully at the magical academy