Minor Injury (open)

He heard movement behind him, but he was too afraid to look at what Eileen was doing. He could only hope that she had seen his signals and was going to arm him. His mind was going through all of the best possible ways to deal with the threat. He might only get one chance, and he had to make this right.

First, he knew he couldn't harm her, so he had to come up with defensive spells. He made a list of his options, then figure out which he had the highest successful casting rate for. Out of those spells, he readied himself for possible counter attacks and deflecting spells. Okay, that would be his secondary list. And what was his goal? To disarm his opponent. If he could get the wand away from her, he would turn the tables quickly. He just had to bounce enough spells around to get the job done. In the end, it didn't matter if he won or lost, this was all just for damage prevention.

All the while, as he was racking his brain for the right spell, his mouth never stopped moving, keeping up an endless array of chatter. "That's a lovely sent you have there- What's it called?- I've been looking for a lighter perfume to wear- I just don't think my current one fits me- My hair? Well it is lovely, isn't it?- I've been trying to grow it out for a while now- it take great care of it- Bald you?- you know, I've always thought I was one of those few men handsome enough to pull off the chrome dome- I have a nice facial structure, don't you think?- some people have told me I could be a model- i don't believe them really, I mean, who would want to see me on the cover of a magazine?-"

Eddie saw movement out of the corner of his eye, a large shadow of someone. Eileen was standing. He closed his eyes, and prayed to god he wasn't jumping the gun; he knocked the girl's wand hand away from his face and turned, eyes connecting with his wand as it flew through the air. he snatched it with little effort, and used the momentum of his twirl to get around to the side of the blond- the side that Eileen wasn't on.

"Get down!" he warned Eileen, readying his wand for his first spell.

He had turned to cast a protective spell on Eileen, but the blond Which was too fast and had already thrown her first attack. Confundo. He couldn't afford to let this one hit. He turned from Eileen and managed "Finite Incantatem-" Just as the spell hit. He was knocked back against the wall by the force of her magic, but as far as he could tell, he hadn't been affected... yet.

with a spell like confundo, it was hard to know what it was going to do, so he had to work fast encase he started to forget what he was trying to do. He look up to see that this which had taken Eileen hostage, forcing her to stand on her poor ankle. A fire sparked inside of Eddie's gut. His lips went thin. Now was his moment to be a hero. Better not mess this up.

"Relashio!" he said strongly, cutting off the woman in mid sentence and catching her off guard. The spell hit where Eileen and the blond which met, and forced Eileen out of the girl's arms. She stumbled towards Eddie, who caught her against him and immediately ducked to put her down on the ground.

"Protego Totalum." He tapped the crown of the girl's head with his short wand, sending a ripple of bright, gold light down her body. There, now at least he wouldn't have to worry about the blond girl or her spells touching Eileen for the rest of the duel. He gave her a quick, soft smile, then turned back around to the battle.He was extremely anxious, for he was at risk now. In the time it took him to cast the protection spell the girl had probably recovered from the revulsion jinx and had readied her next spell. He had little hope to block it.

He only hoped it wasn't too bad.

Just as Eddie expected, as soon as he turned around he was faced with the flare from a very powerful spell. He raised his wand to try and counter, but he wasn't going to make it in time. He stiffened his body and got ready for whatever the girl was throwing at him, but it seemed like that wasn't fated to happen-

-because Eileen got in the way.

"NO!" Eddie cried as the girl fell into his arms. What had she done! Why had she done it! He prayed to god that his spell had been strong enough to protector her from ever this was, put looking down at her in his arms, he knew something was wrong. He held Eileen by her shoulders at arm's width and gave her a small shake. Something was wrong with her eyes! He didn't like the way her eyes were looking at him! They looked the way everyone's did as the past him in the halls- like they were looking through him... looking past him. Like he wasn't even there.

"What did you do to her!" He raised his voice in anger and fear. It had been a while since he had felt angry, it wasn't a common emotion for the boy. It wasn't one that was known to stay long either. He had to use it before it was gone and he was left with nothing but sadness and defeat.

He dropped the girl down to her knees gently and pulled out his wand. The tables were turned now, and he was the one with his wand pointed at her throat, though he didn't know what to do with it. he marched the distance between them, getting closer.

"What did you do to her?" He asked the question firmly. His eyes had darkened. " Undo it. Now."

"I wasn't the one picking on a party of Ravenclaws because they were having too much fun!" Eddie yelled back, his wand unmoving, "Eileen protected me because I am her friend! that's what friends do! But I bet that knowledge is lost on you." He shook his head in disgust. "Your own cousin... How could you?"

"F-forget me?" The boy's face went pale and his eyes glazed over. The had to be the cruelest thing she could have done to him. Eileen was his first and only friend! And she had just taken that away from him, and that was a spell you couldn't undo. The girl easily knocked him aside at this point and ran to Eileen. Eddie turned slowly to look at the cousins on the ground, frightened of what the outcome might be in the next few minutes. He just hoped his spell had held.

His face dropped when he realized that it hadn't.

Wand still raised in his right had, standing alone across the room, the blond which went one step further and labeled him as the culprit. "What?! No! I didn't! I don't even know how! I-" But his heart was crippled now, and he had little energy to fight for a girl who now knew him, but despised him.

He gave up. Obviously with him around, Eileen was in danger from her cousin, and that's not what he wanted. Maybe it was safer for her this way. "Yeah... She right. I did it. I cursed you." he said the words with a bitter loathing and went back to the hospital bed to slip on his school shoes and get his bag. He noticed the remains of the copied apple she had made him, and knocked it into the trash can from the bed.

"Good luck with your ankle." He grumbled, stealing one last glance at the pair before parting the curtains and leaving.