Closed end of an era

[Elio Boneheart]

Elio was tired. Apparently professors didn’t seem to realise that giving eighteen year olds a curfew of 1:30 AM and then a tent outside, meant they were not going to be sleeping very much because they were too busy trying to see who could stay awake the longest. He sighed, heading down to the Great Hall and immediately spotting Eury. She was kind of hard to pin down these days, since she was either in the library - ew - or she was in her dorm and he didn’t have access to the Hufflepuff dorms unfortunately. So when he noticed her he popped down beside her. “Hey kid, did you have fun in the Musical Chairs?” He’d been meaning to talk to her about it since it had been over, but he hadn’t had the chance. He wanted to know more about this William character.

@Eurydice Nightray​

 

[Eurydice Nightray]

Eurydice tensed when someone sat beside her while she was having her breakfast. It wasn't often these days that she would have a seat free with Jonah and Prim frequently accompanying her to places when she didn't want to be in the Library. Still, she relaxed immediately when she saw that it was Elio-nii that had come to sit beside her. "Elio-nii!" she greeted, a grin plastered on her features. A grin which turned into a full grimace when his question finally sunk in. Nose and forehead scrunched as if she smelled something unpleasant. If she could avoid another game like that, she would be happy. It had been mortifying to sit on Felix's lap, and entirely too nerve-wracking over the chair with Morrie. She knew she should have just let the chair go at that point, but she didn't want to lose to Morrie. It was why she's been staying in the Library more often than not these days - unsure whether the Slytherin girl was insane enough to attack her over a game. Then again, Morrie did after Tug-of-War, didn't she? "I don't think I wanna play it ever again," she settled on that answer.​

 

[Elio Boneheart]

“Those are some pretty strong feelings,” he said, looking over her breakfast and stealing her fork so he could eat it. He speared some of the tomatos and popped them into her mouth, flicking the - is that mango? - out of the way. “Saw the stuff with Morrie, and then the stuff with William - sorry your friend got eliminated, but also I’m glad because you’re too young to be kissing any boys.” He said finally, giving up and just stealing her whole bowl of salad right from her hands.​

 

[Eurydice Nightray]

"It was an annoying game," Eury muttered as she picked on her salad only to have Elio-nii take her fork and start eating it instead. No one should ever blame her for how bewildered she looked at what just happened. There was a perfectly good fork in front of Elio-nii so why was he stealing hers? She didn't mind sharing her food since she'd pretty much grown up around him and shared snacks with him. She did stiffen however at the mention of Morrie. And then look entirely affronted when he stole her breakfast and told her she was too young to be kissing boys? "No I'm not!" She couldn't believe he just told her that. Especially since he was best friends with Theo-nii. She grabbed a plate of eggs for herself then, see him try and steal her breakfast now!​

 

[Elio Boneheart]

Elio wondered what the game would have been like if he’d played it, he’d enjoyed watching it up until Eury had started kissing that Cade boy, Potter-Cade or whatever his name was. Related to Professor Cade somehow. One of his kids maybe? He couldn’t tell anymore, there were so many kids with the last name Cade. He didn’t tend to pay much attention to the younger students, unless he somehow ended up spending time with them, which wasn’t often, outside of the brotherhood anyway, and he wasn’t on the Monthly so there wasn’t really any interaction between them. He snorted when she took some eggs - he wasn’t going to eat those because, well, he was vegan, and he wasn’t big on most foods in general, unless it was a nice crisp salad, maybe a smoothie, mmmm, lovely. “You’re entirely too young, and in fact I’m going to tell my brother to keep an eye on you, make sure you don’t go smooching anymore in places Kael can’t see,” he said, tapping her lightly on the nose. He was annoying her and it was funny.​

 

[Eurydice Nightray]

Eurydice scrunched her nose when Elio-nii started tapping her nose. "I'm a teenager!" she reminded Elio-nii because she was pretty sure Theo-nii had started kissing girls at this age too and if Theo-nii did it then Elio-nii must have too. Probably Kael-nii too. She'd once thought that Kael-nii would never kiss anyone, but she'd already seen her brother kiss the Gryffindor in front of her loads of times to know that wasn't true. So she couldn't see why she can't be kissing. And besides, it was William kissing her. And it was nice. Made her feel fuzzy and light, and it was nice being noticed. "You can't have Rhys babysitting me!" she couldn't even hide the obvious offense in her voice. Babysat! By a younger student! "And besides, I can just smooch him where Kael-nii can see."​

 

[Elio Boneheart]

Elio looked at Eury, his face thoroughly unimpressed, and tapped her nose again despite her protests. “Uh-huh, teenager, sure. And I’m ancient, so I guess that makes me the expert here.” It killed him a little inside honestly because he wasn’t even that old, she was just a baby in comparison was all. “And Rhys would be an excellent babysitter, honestly. He’s responsible. He could probably keep you from making horrible life choices. Unlike some people.” Though the process of getting his brother to agree would probably cost him more than he was currently willing to part with, because he knew Rhys wouldn’t be pleased about having to babysit his brother’s boyfriends sister. But her last comment had him scandalised and shaking his head in protest. “Oh, no you don’t,” he said, pointing at her. “You’re not smooching anyone, especially not in front of you brother because somehow I know he’ll blame me because it’ll probably be a Gryffindor and he already says I’m a headache and you don’t have to deal with him, I do.” He huffed. “Besides, you’re too young for smooching. Go do something age-appropriate, like—like… making friendship bracelets or—playing Gobstones or something.”​