A sequal? I have to check this out in a minute! - That chapter was great, btw. - Gaston having to deal with his tiny son and doing such a great job was adorable and funny...
And belle's musing's in the end... well, they fit well with the chapter's title. ;)
I loved this whole story. - You did so great, keeping everybody in character and still letting things work out believable!
I actually like your Gaston and I NEVER could stand Gaston before!
I think I will tell some friends about your story... At least one of them will love it, for sure.

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Now, off to the sequal with me...

oh wow, who would have thought Gaston would have such a good, nice idea? - it's prefect! With the help of that other woman Belle will manage everything... and stop working herself to death!
you wrote a good chapter there... showing all the problems caused by work, baby and the things that have to be done in the house. - And Belle did the best she could. She continued being a good teacher, she managed to be an attentive, good mother... but the household? there is only so much one person can do without breaking...
I applaud Gaston for taking things into his own hands, in this case!

Ah, now the little one is born... and it's so cute how he is named - and why he is named the way he is...
Good Gaston and Belle made up at the beginning of this chapter...
Now, I wonder if and how Belle will handle work and little Alain.

Oh, I knew Belle would make a great teacher.
and now she is pregnant and hwat happens? a fight! - Well it was to be expected. - Even today a lot of people think women should stop working when they have a child... at least for a few years... - And this is all a few centuries earlier. - And Gaston of course has lived through a childhood he felt was perfect and his mother doted for him and never would have thought about working...
Yes, that argument was to be expected... Even though I actually did not expect it. ... i thought: "Pregnant? but what will she do about teaching then?" ... then Monique said she could take care of the baby while Belle was at school and I thoought: "Oh, all right, then everything is settled." - it did not even cross my mind how Gaston would react...
Well, it looks our couple has mostly calmed down and now they reasonabley will talk things through (talk through things? what's the right grammer?)
Gaston needs to be reassured that just because things will be a bit different for his child than they where for him, they still will be GOOD! - And they will, I know that...

oh, that was sweet. And when they where in Paris i kept wating and watiting when they finally would run into Hervé and Imogene... I knew it would happen!
... But all this romantic stuff makes me miss my boy-friend even more... long-distance-relationships suck!
Anyway, I realy enjoyed that chapter... And by now I kinda like when Gaston goes into his bragging mood... Don't know why, but somehow it is just HIM... and it's good that way...

YES! - I am happy about this little chapter here!
So our Hervé DOES have it in him to feel deeper feelings? - that's good... And this woman. - She likes analizing books, and she knows a lot more than Belle (in analizing, that is... ) she and Hervé actually can be total equals in discussion... and while Hervé always accepted Belle's different point of fews it never made him change his... Imogene so managed without problems...
and he feels exited about her... and...
well, I am happy for him :) - just imagine Belle had accepted the öproposal and they had moved to Paris together and then he had met this girl? that would have been horrible...

*grins* you know? that WAS a modest proposal... Exspecially for Gaston... Darn, he did not even have aring when it finally came to it!
But that chapter was so... sweet... and annoying at the same time... all the time I thought:; "when will they, finally? who will crak first?"
And then, when Gaston tried to make his proposal all romantical and found no good word to describe Belle's hair... -and then the: " “So, Belle, what’ll it be? Is it ‘yes,’ or is it “OH, YES!” " ... I love when you do that, put parts out of canon in, but in aother context... or a similar but still different context... argh... it IS different, but it is still ... a proposal... and... Well, that made me laugh!
Great work!

And I think Belle will make a wonderful teacher. :)

" “So you have said. Although I hope you will understand why I myself look forward to returning to the ivory towers of academia, a peaceful and secure environment that most assuredly lacks such surprises as life-threatening attacks by wild animals.” "
*Gasps* Isn't that nearly exactly what I said? - that's creepy...

anyway, great chapter! Finally Gaston managed to receite his poem and they are an item now and... WOOT! I am happy right now! :)
But there are still a few chapters to go, so let's see what happens next...

Hm... nope, Hervé is not about to ask Belle to marry him... or at least that is not his first intention. - Somehting else must have happend, something that has to do with his career, with teaching and books... A promotion, something like this... Something that would have to make him cut his vacation short... That would be the only thing to make him that exited. - Maybe he WILL ask Belle to marry him, but it's probably more of an afterthought...
Ah, so Hervé no longer hates Gaston, he probably even admires him in a way now... that's good. - I mean, he just COULD have asked "yes, what is it?" when Gaston tired to call for him that one time before he headed the wrong way.
And Belle knows what Gaston did and does not hate him. - she realizes what it took him to actually do the right thing and she sees that, that overcoming of his selfishness, as an heroic act on it's own. - what is true, after all!
And now Gaston is running around, scared of loosing his last chance with Belle... and he should stay in bed, take it easy, the silly boy!
Well, I wonder what'll happen next...

Well, I think Gaston deserved being bitten after he nearly got Hervé killed through not acting for so long. - I am sure he will be right, though... even though he probably will feel horrible for fainting in front of a lot of people...
Gaston's fainting at least was understnadable, though... blood loss! - But that Hervé did not do anything to protect himself from the wolves... not even something ineffective... and then he fainted... Well, I agree with Gaston, that man is useless! - At least in a situation like this... I think Hevré is a great scholar, probably a good teacher to his students... But I also think he better should get home as fast as poissilbe and stay inside the safety of his ivory tower!
Good for Gaston that he finaly got his act together in the end and saved Hervé, though. - it was a tough decision for him, but he did the right thing. :)

Please Gaston... please.. .get over that thought and find Hervé! I know doing nothing sounds like a good idea... but: letting somebody die? - Please, if not becauxse you think it's right... do it becuase it would be the thing BELLE would want you to do... Come on, Gaston...

All right, enough nagging on a character in a story!

I am happy, Belle finally saw that there is no way she cold be happy with Hervé. - and I understnad why she did not tell him now...
Hervé is so incredibly boring! He is nice, don't get me wrong... and clever... and he knows the right way to act... but he is so detached of feelings! - and he realy has no idea how to have fun! (even though the greased pig contest f.e. probably owuld not have been anything for me either... poor piggy!)
I don't want him dead, though...

Oh, poor Gaston! - there he is thinking that Belle fall's more and more in love with Hervé, while in reality Belle is more and more falling OUT of love with him...
And Here? I thought he would react like this: Lewt Belle have the fun that is nothing for him and stick to his books... and he realy means well. - he has a point, why should he go to a fair he does not enjoy while he could work at his book, something he does enjoy?
I am actually kinda with him there... My boyfriend and I have things we share, but also some things the other one has no interest in and we so don't share apart from maybe talking about how I had a good time at the choir... or how he found a real nice rock (he likes rocks and studying geology he knows a lot about them...) ... I think I would go crazy in a relationship where you have to share EVERYTHING!
And Hervé does want her to tell him about the fair, he just does not want to visit it...
But yeah, for Belle the fair is one of the things she would love to share with the person she is in a relationship with. - there are things that just feel better if you can share them with your siginificant other... And fairs are one of them...

I liked the little bit that was from LeFou's point of fiew in this chapter. - Aww, now even he is pitying Gaston, good Gaston does not know!
And aww, how LeFou loves Amelie! yes, that pairng so gives me an "how cute is that now?"-feeling...

ah, now Belle is realizing how detached Hervé is... how he is not realy feeling stories the way she does... how even the normal things he does lack... something... Friendly, polite... but without fire.
Damn, she messed up his way of putting ooks in order nad he was all riendly! - What's wrong with that guy?
I like the sewing circle girls more and more. - Josette is kinda flirty, isn't she?
And all the times you mention the Amelie/LeFou relationship something in me goes all "aw" ...
Now, the fair... I am not sure Hervé can enjoy something that includes a greased pig... Well, let's see...

Hervé and Belle just don't fit together... all right, they probably would lead a nice live, he is a good guy and would let her do what she want's as long as it is not TO crazy... but something would be missing... And Hervé probably would not even realize it...
I don't know what a girl Hervé needs or if he even is macde for marriage... but Belle is not the one!

Gaston trying to learn a poem is fun... and it is fitting that he set on “Like As A Huntsman” ... And also fitting that he does not get why it is about love, even though he himself made the connection between trying to get Belle and hunting at the beggining of the story. (btw. I googled for the poem... it's not my piece of cake... but then: Very few poems that are not written in German, my language, are ... I can read storys in English and they feel great... but poems don't work for me in a language not my mother tongue... - Still, it is cool, the things I can find by googleing some of the stuff you put in that story!)

I like Amelie! - You know hoe I reacted when reading the LeFou chapter in your story about how Gaston became who he is? - How I so much wished LeFou had somebody who just liked him for being him? - Well, you just made me happy now! ... And I have to say, with how you describe Amelie and how she descirbes being with LeFou: They sound like a real sweet couple! :)
I like the other girls, too.
Cecile is a bit manipulative, isn't she? - But I think many women in course of history used her tactic... and probably still do. - Hey, id DID get the floor clean. ;)
Monique is just plain out nice. - I think she and Belle could make the best of friends.
And Josette? ... Well, maybe she is a model-gril and all typical submisive and all. - But, hey, there is nothing wrong wit this, not realy. - Every person has her right to be... and if she finds the right guy, both of them will be happy...

What a nice little chapter. - Thanks for Amelie! :)