They sat in silence for a long moment. Her uncle glared at Tom while her aunt pretended her pregnant belly was performing some marvelous feat. She could feel Tom's energies, they cracked with anxiety and anger. She still couldn't believe what had transpired earlier between them, or that she had expected an apology.
"Aunt I know my being here is unexpected, but after certain events at school," Eviena paused to make sure Tom did not elaborate. Her aunt would become hysterical, and she couldn't handle any of that at the moment. "Everyone thought it best that I return home for the long holiday. Tom is my boyfriend and I wanted him here with me." She finished with a sigh.
Tom glanced at her but said nothing.
"Eviena, I… to be honest I think I am just shocked at finding you with a boy and then discovering that you now speak. You sound exactly like your mother." she mumbled to herself.
"I know aunt and I am sorry."
"Sorry?" Aemon chuckled darkly. "You bring this boy into my house, and fuck him under my roof, and you are sorry?"
"Aemon!" her aunt screeched.
Tom placed her hand on her thigh and squeezed hard. He was doing his best not to react and was quickly losing the battle.
"NO ALORA! How dare this little harlot attempt to destroy this family's reputation."
Before Eviena could speak, Tom did. "You will not speak to her in such a way." He hissed.
"Excuse me? If Alphard Black spoke correctly you are nothing but a no name half-blood and I am not into giving to charity cases."
"Enough!" Eviena jumped from her seat and all of the crystal goblets shattered. Her aunt squeaked and her uncle's face turned red. "How dare you speak of him in such a way. And you," she turned to her aunt. "how could you allow him to breathe even one word of that. If it wasn't for Tom I don't know where I would be, but it wouldn't be here. He's the only one that gave a damn even though it goes against everything he stands for."
"Eviena we care, we have always cared." Her aunt attempted to explain.
Her uncle snorted.
"You cared so much that you shipped me away just because he couldn't keep his eyes to himself." She snapped. She saw the tears brimming in her aunt's eyes and her anger began to abate. "I won't abandon him. Tom stays, or I go. Along with my money."
Aemon snapped upright and Tom did the same, placing his hand in his pocket where she knew his want to be stored.
"I will not be threatened by you, or your mutt."
"You don't have a choice." Eviena glared. Tom was hers, she would not allow anyone to belittle him. For all his faults and the darkness that lurked just beneath the surface, she cared for him and that was all she needed to know that this was one fight she would not lose.
Her aunt wobbled from her seat and tried to placate the situation. "Eviena, the reason your uncle reacts in such a way, is because the Black family has become a factor again in our lives."
At first Eviena thought to shoot down her aunt for defending her uncle's cruel words, but then she found something in her aunt's words that unsettled her.
"What do you mean, we haven't spoken to the Blacks' since my marriage contract was terminated?"
Her uncle gave a nasty smirk and walked from the head of the table to the side so she was facing Tom and Eviena.
"In light of your new found speech and the eldest Black's praise of your beauty and grades, Pollux and Irma see you now as the perfect fit for their son. The most perfect Black offspring will be produced." He smiled.
She felt Tom's breath on the back of her neck and his temper made her body hairs stand on end.
"I will never marry Alphard, and you cannot make me. We all know the Black family supports Grindelwald. He murdered my parents, how could you?"
"Eviena, please see reason in this." Her aunt pleaded. She probably wanted nothing more than to remove her permanently from the house after her uncle got a good view of her and Tom.
"No!" she grabbed Tom's hand and started to march off towards the door.
"You will not go anywhere with that boy and he will not stay in this house." Her uncle screamed.
"If you want to live in a mansion with no money then please kick me out, better yet I'll do it for you." She yelled back before slamming the door.
Before Tom could ask any questions Eviena had him at the edge of the property with borrowed wand in hand. She apparated to a deserted beach she had once visited with her parents in the south of France. There were shark warning signs all over the place and Eviena assumed that's why no one was there.
She let go of Tom's hand and began to pace.
"The nerve of them!" she screamed, picking up a shell and flinging it into the ocean. "To speak to you that way and for my aunt to do nothing as always. Then to try to force Alphard on me, when they were the ones that broke the contract. Not that I wanted to be married anyways but just SWEET MERLIN! After all the shit I've dealt with don't I at least get a choice in my future?"
She turned on her heels to find Tom watching her with a smirk and his hands shoved in his pockets.
"Stop smiling." she quietly demanded.
In three purposeful steps he was in front of her and hand her by the waist but she wouldn't look at him.
"Look at me." He nudged her neck with his head and she felt his smile against her skin. "No one has ever claimed me the way you did, and no one has ever defended me. Eviena, look at me."
She reluctantly rose her head to meet his gaze and instead found his lips pressed against hers. "What are you doing to me?" he chuckled.
Before she could answer there was a loud boom and the sound of guns and men screaming.
Tome held her tighter. "Eviena it's time to go." he said in a strained voice with wand out.
She silently chided herself for forgetting about the muggle war and quickly whisked them away to an expansive field with one lone and very large tree.
"Where are we now?" Tom asked, unwilling to release her.
"Some place outside of Little Hangleton. There's a pub someplace close that my father would take me for lunch at every now and again."
Tom's arms locked and he grew rigid.
"What's wrong?"
He looked down at her and shook his head. "Nothing, just feeling a bit nostalgic."
Tom walked forwards until her back was pushed against a tree. "After the way you stood up for me, and your rousing display on the beach, I feel as if I owe you an award."
He found the hem of her skirt and she began to squirm. "Someone will see us."
"I am not about to let that happen again." he said with lips pressed firmly on the skin above her heart.
She had begun to respond when an owl screeched from a branch high above them and dropped a letter with the Forhript family seal, a hawk with outstretched wings.
Tom set her on her feet as she tore open the letter.
"What is it?" he asked with creased brow.
"It's my aunt, she's gone into early labor. We have to go home."