I'm breaking my own heart. (invite only)

[briony]

(OOC: Just in case anyone sees the fighting later on, Professor Slughorn knows about this thread. He will be joining us later to break it up.))

Is it possible to break your own heart? Briony thought it was. Because that's what she was doing, breaking her own heart. Standing beside the lake, Briony shivered a little, though not because it was cold, but because of what she was about to do. And honestly, she couldn't give one good reason as to way she was doing it. Tears formed in her eyes as she looked out over the water, thinking about Eric. She had loved him for as long as she could remember. They had known each other since they were two and she could still remember when she fell in love with him. Of course, then it had just been a little crush. They were five and she had fallen out of the tree they were climbing and scraped her knee. Eric had jumped down to make sure she had been alright. Her mother was sick and in the hospitial again and Eric had told her that since her mom couldn't kiss it and make it better, he would. So he had kissed her knee and she had fallen again. This time in love.

So why was she standing here, getting ready to break it off with the best thing that had ever happened to her. The one thing she had finally gotten after all those years of wanting. Her mother was sick again, just like she had been when Briony was five, and in the hospitial. Her adoptive mother. The Hufflepuff had met her real mother, but to her, her adoptive mother would always be her mom. After seeing her mother so sick for so many years, Briony decided that she wanted to live a bit before she settled down. And she knew that if she stayed with Eric right now, as her life revolved around him, she would want to marry him right out of school and then she would never have the chance.

Thinking about it, she knew she had chosen the wrong way about it. The boy she had been seen with in Hogsmeade was just that. Some boy. He didn't mean anything to her and she hadn't meant to anything to him. She had chosen him for the soul purpose of being seen with him. It wasn't that she didn't still love Eric, she did. She loved him more than anything, but she needed a break. And now, because she had chosen the wrong way to go about it, she had probably lost him forever. The tears that had formed in her eyes, streamed down her face as she checked her watch. Eric should be here soon. Now she just needed to decide what she was going to do. Let him believe what he had heard, tell him the truth of what was going on, or simply beg for forgiveness and try to be with him again.

[ericm]

Eric was laying on his bed relaxing after a hard morning at class. He had had potions this morning and now he was off for the afternoon, so he decided to kick back for the day. While dozing he was awoken by a tapping on his dorm window he turned over and saw a school owl there with a letter attached to its leg. Eric got up and let the owl in he figured it was for one of his dorm mates but then the owl stopped right in front of him holding its leg out. Eric then saw the letter had his name on it. Eric took the letter and the owl flew back out the window headed back to the owlery.

The letter was from Briony of all people how dare she owl him after weeks of either ignoring or arguing with him. He almost didn’t read it but then decided what the heck he had nothing else to do today. She wants him to meet her at the lake he could tell by the tear stains on the letter that she had been crying why the heck is she crying she is the one cheating on me. Oh well he mind as well go to the lake it would kill some time. He needed to find somewhere to dump her anyway and the lake was as good as place as any.

Eric was planning on breaking her little heart so he decided to dress his best. Eric went over to his wardrobe looked through it and made his decision. He put on his brand new black jeans, a Ravenclaw blue button up shirt, his biker boots, and added his skull and cross bones earring. Then for added effect he threw on his Ravenclaw robe leaving it open. Eric knows how good he looks with it like that and he knows how she used to love it. He wants to make sure she sees what she is losing. He is ready so he heads to the lake.

He storms through the castle knocking little first years out of the way he is mad no doubt about it. The closer he gets to the lake the madder he gets. Once at the lake he sees her she is crying. He fights off his gut reaction which is to pet her. He reminds his self that she has no reason to cry he is the one who has been wronged here no her. “Briony you owled me to meet you here what is it you want? I mean you have not done anything but argue with me in months!!!” Eric said threw clenched teeth.

[briony]

It didn't take long, it seemed to Briony, for Eric to arrive. One glance at his face and she could tell he was mad, and she had to admit, she was scared slightly. Perhaps this wasn't going to go as well as she had hoped. Reaching up a hand, Briony wiped at the tears running down her face. Her fingers were wet and streaked with black from her make up. It was rather sad really, she was the cause of this. She had broke both their hearts and here she was crying. And him? Looking better than ever. It really should be the other way around. Though she supposed she was glad of it. Apparently, she hadn't hurt him as much as she had thought. Using the sleeve of her t-shirt to wipe her eyes as he approched, she couldn't help but to take a step back and lower her hand to her wand. He was madder than she had first thought.

Biting her lip, Briony waited until he had finished speaking, the anger in his voice. Of course, he had every right to be mad. She was a horrid person, even her brother thought she had done the wrong thing. Taking a step forward, Briony stopped just within arms length, though she still held her hand by her wand. "Eric..." She began, pausing for a moment to take a breath. "Eric, I thought we should talk. I've..I've done something wrong, I think."

[ericm]

Eric saw Briony's wand slip into her hand so that is how she wants to play it. Eric flicks his wrist and his wand slips into his hand. He can play that way too. Unlike her he did not try to hide his wand he let her know he had it out. "What are you gonna do curse me? I am better with a wand then you are I always have been!! If you need proff Carina's bandage is because she snuck up on me!!"

After that little rant he remembered what she had said. "You did something wrong alright you cheated on me just like Tracy I thought you were better then her I guess I was wrong Chros tryed to warn me that you had changed and were actually talking to his brother but I did not believe him I guess I am the fool. I thought what we had was specail"

[briony]

Briony's jaw dropped in shock as Eric derw his wand. She couldn't believe he had just done that. The only reason she had drawn hers was because she had been nervous over how angry he was. He hadn't cursed her though, which was a good thing. Perhaps there was still some hope left, after all. "Eric, I do not plan on cursing you. you simply startled me when you approached." It did surprise her that he had curse Carina. Why on earth would he have done that?

At his accusations, Brionys tears began again. Did he really think that badly of her now? Of course, he did. he had every right too. "Eric, please. I...I did not mean to hurt you. I have not changed. I was only confused and scared. Mum is back in the hospitial. I was just upset when we agreed to go out. I did not mean to hurt you. I wished to speak to you about everything. Truely, I did. It was too late, though, and I had already damaged what we had." Briony tried to explain, the problem was she was sobbing so hard by the end of it that between her sobs and the fact her accent gets much worse when she is upset, she was highly doubtful that he understood half of it.

[ericm]

“What did you expect? Of course I drew my wand you had yours drawn. I mean you know me well enough to know I am not going to walk up to anyone who has their wand out without drawing mine.” Eric knew she said she was not going to curse him but she had not put her wand up so he was not going to put his up either. Though is stead of it pointing at her he did drop the arm holding his wand down to beside his leg though.

What in the heck is wrong with her? She is sobbing like a baby now. If anyone should be crying it is him but he will not cry especially over a girl. Then it hit him what she had said. She was actually seeing someone else?!?! “Wait a minute you mean you are actually seeing someone behind my back? I mean I knew from all the rumors and from Chris that you were talking to Aaron. Are you telling me that you are actually dating Aaron and me at the same time and if so does he know this?” Eric was now beyond mad he is furious he is afraid he is going to blow soon.

[briony]

Though it was a bit of a relief when Eric put his wand down, he still had not put it away, so she wasn't going to either. Briony followed his lead, however, leaving her wand at her side. He did have a good point after all. It was never wise to walk into an unknown situation and this was unknown to all involved. Besides that, Eric's dad had taught her the same way of thinking, so Briony couldn't fault him for it.

His next words sent her into another fit of shock. No, she wasn't actually dating him. They had simply gone out a few times. That was all. This had just proved one of her points. He never listened to her like he should, just took the bits and pieces he heard and just ran with an assumption. This fact helped Briony calm down a bit, actually making her a little mad. "No, I'm not dating Aaron behind your back. We just went out a few times as friends. And of course, he knows about you. This is what part of the problem is. You never listen to me. Too busy with your nose up Carina's arse to care about your girlfriend." Briony was yelling by this point. It was an odd feeling for Briony as she couldn't ever remember yelling ever in her life. But maybe it would get his attention.

[ericm]

Eric stood there, fingering his wand, taking deep breaths and counting to ten, trying to calm down. It wasn't working very well, though, and with her confession about Aaron, Eric simply gave up. There was no way to calm down now. He couldn't believe this was happening. Briony had just admitted to seeing someone else. Granted, it was "just as friends", but she was still seeing someone behind his back. It was funny, he had prepared himself for this, after hearing all the rumors, yet it still hurt him to hear it from her. When she began yelling at him, Eric was shocked once. Briony had never yelled at anyone in her life, and yet she was yelling at him. It was when she drug Carina into it that things went from bad to worse. He had been afraid he was going to blow up at her and that had just pushed him over.


Eric finally gave up the deep breathes being they were not working. He yelled “How dare you bring Carina into this. I gave up on her long ago and if you had been around any instead of running around with someone else you would have noticed. I had really begun to believe you were the one for me but I was proven a fool once again by a girl. No I take that back I was proven a fool by a slag because that is all you are is a slag.” Maybe that would get his point across. It was over between them and this whole meeting proved that it wasn't going to be a pretty break up.

[briony]

Briony had been just about to open her mouth to tell him that she was the one for him, that she had been stupid and she was sorry. But when he continued his rant, her face flushed hot. Did he actually just call her a slag? Yes, he had and there could be no mistake about it, since he had said it twice. She was a lot of things, and she wasn't the smartest at times, but she was not that horrid word.

"How dare you call me that. I am not a slag." Briony screamed at Eric. She had told him that she wouldn't curse him and she had intended not to. But this was too much, even for her. Time seemed to slow down for the Hufflepuff as her arm rose. Her mouth moved, incanting the spell. The first one that popped in her mind. "Diffindo."

[ericm]

Eric realized what he had said. He hadn't meant to call her that, she wasn't a slag and he knew it, besides he wasn't that nasty to anyone. He had just opened his mouth to say he was sorry and that he hadn't meant it when he saw Briony's arm rise. The next thing he knew she had thrown a curse at him.

Eric may not have came to school until he was 15 but his dad had taught him how to avoid curses without his wand. Now that he was in school he was able to combine avoiding with retalition. As soon as she uttered the curse he drew his wand and threw his self to the right while saying "protego" it was not strong enough the curse made it threw his sheild and got his left arm. He then threw "diffendo" at her followed by "mordax"

[briony]

Briony was shocked to find that she had actually thrown a curse at Eric and it was that shock that proved to be her down fall. Rather than paying attention to Eric, Briony stared down at her wand in surprise. What had come over her she didn't know, but she had to make it right. Looking up, Briony was going to tell Eric she was sorry, but she never got the chance.

Just as she raised her head to speak, she realized that Eric had thrown curses back. Eric had thrown two of them, and he had done it so fast that she didn't have a change to dodge or block them. The cutting curse hit her first, right in the face, causing a four inch gash to form across her right cheek. Before she could react to that, the stinging hex hit her, again in the face, adding the the pain of having her face sliced open.

Briony couldn't hold back the small scream that escaped from her mouth as she dropped to her knees. Her wand slid from her fingers and fell silently to the ground. Once again, everything seemed to be happening in slow motion. Touching her hand to her face, despite the fact she knew she had been cut, she was shocked to see blood on her fingers. Holding one hand against her face to try and stop the bleeding, Briony scrambled around, trying to find her dropped wand with the other. He must have been truely upset at her for it to have messed his aim up that bad. Eric would have never hit someone in the face with a curse on purpose.

[Horace Slughorn]

I was walking out from the castle and planned on making my way out to Hogsmeade to get some light lunch and meet with Anya. As I walked down the steps and turned on my heal to take the more scenic route, I heard a cry and some blasts which I knew could only be coming from a wand. I looked around and saw nothing, and broke into a run - my robes of black billowing behind me. I reached the lake, where I saw two of my pupils, one of the in their knees holding their faces which I saw blood dripping from.

"What on earth!" I bellowed and almost ran to the girl. I bent down and saw a large slash mark on her face and turned, my eye's glaring to Eric. Whom did not look well himself with a nasty gash on his arm. I turned back to the girl at which I removed her hand from her face. I could see a lot of blood - thankfully Anya and I had spoken about some of the things she taught and I picked up a nice spell to fix it. I flicked my wand at which the gash closed, only leaving some blood. I took Birony's hand and brought her up till she was standing again.

With another flick the gash on Eric's arm vanished leaving a blood stained robe. "What!" I snapped, "May I ask is going on - why would you be so stupid to use spells like this on each other!" I snapped again, this time almost screaming. I folded my arms, waiting for one of them to speak.

[briony]

Briony had just managed to find her wand and was about to get to her feet, intent on running back to the castle, when she heard someone else, first running toward them and then she heard the voice. It was Professor Slughorn. She had heard rumors about him, of course, but she had never had a run in with him before this. Only moments later he was leaning over her, pulling her hand from her face. She thought about fighting against him, as Briony didn't want him to see it, but it would have only made matters worse.

It was probably best that she hadn't, because shortly after pulling her hand from her face, the Professor healed her cheek, leaving only the blood behind. Glancing up, she only had a second to see that he had healed Eric as well before she was pulled to her feet. Quickly, she shoved her wand back in her pocket. She was truly at a loss as to what to say as the Professor demanded to know what was going on. She was so angry over what Eric had called her and it would have been so easy to blame the whole thing on him. After all, he was a guy and she had been the one on her knees, pouring blood.

Briony found though, that she couldn't. No matter how angry she was, she couldn't place the blame on him. Stepping forward, Briony spoke, her Russian and French accent thick and hard to understand due to the emotions, and as always, her words slightly coming out wrong because English was not her first language. "Sir, I give my deepest apologies. This was a..." The Hufflepuff paused here, biting her lip as she tried to think of the word she was wanting. "An argument. Eric was only de-defending himself. The argument got out of hand and my...I got the better of myself. I cursed him first, sir. It was my fault and I will take the punishment."

[ericm]

Eric had shocked himself when he saw where his curse had hit Briony. He hadn’t meant to do that. He really hadn’t. He would never have hit her in the face like that. He had just started to step forward, to apologize and see what he could do to help her when he heard someone running toward them. When the person got there all Eric could do at first was stare. Why oh why did it have to be Professor Slughorn? Professor Slughorn was the one who caught him last time he had screwed up. Eric knew now no matter what he was in big trouble. It had only been week and here he was again.

Eric got ready to say something when he heard Briony talking. All her fault? No way was he going to let her take all the blame. “Professor Slughorn, while Briony is right it was an argument. If you will remember part of the conversation you overheard last week in the forest you will know what the argument is about. Although Briony did throw the first curse I also know better then to use those curses on a fellow student. I am also deserving of what ever punishment you decide we need.” Eric said as he slipped his wand back into his holster with a backward flick of his wrist.

[Horace Slughorn]

I looked at the two of them, from left to right. Never had I come across something like this in all my years of teaching here at Trio's. "Irregardless!" I snapped. "You should no better, the both of you than to result to throwing curses. I'm very disappointed in you both. I expected better from 4th Year pupils" I said, with a rather red face from anger.

"Both of you will be in detention for the rest of the week and 30 House points will be removed from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff!" I snapped again, and folded my arms. "You can follow me back up to the castle at once and get ready for your first detention this evening"

[ericm]

Eric stood there and ran his hand threw his hair, not knowing how to respond to this. He never thought that he and Briony would be caught fighting. If he thought about them getting caught at all it would have been doing something else, definitely not fighting. Oh well things are always changing. His relationship with her definitely had.


It had been better then Eric had thought it would be, though. Of course, he was more worried about what his housemates would do to him if they found out about the points then the detention though. He looked Professor Slughorn directly in the eyes and said “Yes Sir! Where to your office?” and started toward the castle.

[briony]

Briony couldn’t stop her head from dropping down as the Professor spoke. What in Merlin’s name had come over her? She had always tried her best to be good, never get in trouble. Her parents, both sets, were going to kill her. Her brother too. Biting her lip, she waited to see how bad the damage was going to be.

It wasn’t a long wait as the Professor continued his rant. The week detention was better than she had hoped for, but she couldn’t help but to wince at the sound of the house point loss. Well, one thing was for sure, if her parents and brother didn’t kill her, her housemates certainly would. Nodding slightly, she spoke in a quiet whisper. “Yes, sir.” That said, Briony turned and started back to the castle, trying her best to ignore Eric.