briony-bobbin:

“You want to help me?” Briony asked in disbelief. And Somehow saying it out loud made it sound almost like a good idea. Maybe this wasn’t such a horrible turn of events after all. “Okay,” Bri said softly, “I’ll let you help me. I’ll tell you everything about everything, but I’ll do it in the morning.” She paused, watching Jesse’s reactions carefully, she didn’t want to mess this up. “Now, Jesse, honey, please go back upstairs, crawl back into bed, and go back to sleep. I need to do this last thing by myself, okay? Just one more night.” She was nearly pleading with him. “Please? I love you.”

He sighed, though he considered the battle to have been won. This wasn’t exactly what he had planned to do when he’d cornered her. He had expected to make her stop what she was doing completely. The knowledge that he would now be helping her kill people still hadn’t fully sunk in. He’d deal with it in the morning. “All right,” he said hesitantly. “But only because I’m tired and ill-equipped to assist you as of yet.” Jesse pulled her into a hug and hugged her tightly for a moment. He kissed the top of her head and stepped back to look her in the eyes. “Just be careful, all right?” He really couldn’t stress that enough. Before she had the chance to respond, he headed back up the stairs and into his dorm.

(Source: jesse-spinnett)

briony-bobbin:

“I’m risking your life too, hmm?” Briony sneered. “Honestly you’d probably be safer without me if you stopped and thought about it for maybe a half of a second.” Briony walked away from Jesse then, trying to shove away the emotions that were starting to spark up. “If you think adding yourself into this mess is going to humanize the situation and make me stop all this, you’re wrong. I’m already in too deep.” She paused, “I know none of this will bring them back, but at least I know they won’t do anything again… ever. It’s like insurance.” Another pause. “They’re not even human beings anymore, Jesse. They’re lower than that, they’re meaningless, and they’re almost gone. Just let me finish this.” Briony had started inching closer and closer to the door of the common room, waiting for the right moment to simply run away.

He laughed without humour, already tired of this conversation. “I don’t give a shit if I would be safer without you, Bri. Because I want you, with or without the risk. And the second you started this business, you should have known that I’d find out and I’d want to get involved. I have to make sure that nothing happens to you.” He grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer so her could take both of her hands in his. “Fine,” he said quietly. “You can…finish your revenge or whatever the hell you’ve been calling it. But I’m helping you. It doesn’t matter that I don’t agree with what you’re doing or how you’re doing it. I’m in, whether you want my help or not. If you don’t allow me to assist you, then…” Jesse let out a breath through clenched teeth. “Then I’ll have to do something drastic. You’re not doing this alone and that’s final.”

(Source: jesse-spinnett)

briony-bobbin:

“Why am I doing this? Are you really asking me that?” Briony started off calm, but quickly lost her ability to maintain it. “THEY TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING I HAD. THEY TOOK AWAY MY MOTHER, AND MY FATHER, AND MY LITTLE BROTHER. CAMERON DIDN’T EVEN DO ANYTHING, JESSE. HE WAS THERE AND BECAUSE OF IT HE’S DEAD. THEY SLAUGHTERED MY FAMILY LIKE ANIMALS, HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO LIVE WITH THAT?” Briony screamed. She took a moment to breathe, she wasn’t even sad anymore, she was just full of rage. She began again, this time in an even tone. “I don’t care if I’m hurt or killed. Hell, maybe that’s what I want. I should have been there with them, Jesse. I should have died with them.”

Jesse listened to her in stunned silence, not daring to interrupt. All of this he already knew, of course. And he knew she would never be over it. But there wasn’t much she could say to convince him that murdering people was an okay thing to do. Why would she want to be just like the people who killed her family? Normally, he would have said this aloud, but he didn’t want to upset her further in her already fragile state.  It wasn’t until her last statement that he regained his anger and worry. He took Briony’s face between both of his hands so she would really listen to him. “Stop, Briony. Just stop. Please stop saying that. You deserve to be alive. Your family would be glad that you’re alive. Don’t take your own life for granted when theirs were taken so suddenly.” He loosened his grip and softened his gaze. “I really don’t like it when you say things like that, Bri. Because I need you. You can’t risk your life like this, because it’s like you’re risking my life, too.”

(Source: jesse-spinnett)

briony-bobbin:

Briony had been reviewing the plan in her mind, going over the same steps again and again. She had spent the night with Jesse and tried to, as silently as possible, crawl out of the warm bed, but the moment she felt a hand on her wrist, Briony let out a high pitch squeal. It was over.

“Jesse… let me go. Please.”

“No.”

Jesse quickly got up and began dragging her with him. With what little strength she had, Briony fought back trying her best to break free. That was quickly defeated the moment Jesse picked her up and literally carried her into the common room. Briony kicked and flailed, trying best she could to get Jesse to release her but she didn’t stand even the smallest chance. When Jesse threw her into the chair Briony winced, not expecting it to hurt as much as it did. Then he was talking, but Bri wasn’t listening, she studied Jesse’s face careful, trying to remember a time when she had ever seen Jesse this mad.

“Well, what do you have to say for yourself?”

The question was like cold water. Briony’s face went emotionless and unreadable, her eyes dead. She had nothing to say, but a question to ask.

“How long have you known?”

Was she trying to make him angrier? Whether it was intentional or not, she was doing just that. He clenched his hands into fists, trying not to do anything that he’d regret. “Dammit, Briony, is that really all you care about? How long I’ve known?” He pushed away from her, disappointment evident on his face. “I’ve known for almost two weeks. And I gave you more than enough time to stop. Clearly, I should have confronted you earlier, because you don’t plan on stopping, do you?” His expression was somber as he took a moment to let everything he’d said sink in. “Why are you doing this, Bri? I don’t…understand. You could be hurt, you could be kill—” Jesse couldn’t even finish his sentence, his voice cracking on the last word. She had to understand how much she was hurting not only herself, but him as well by doing this.

(Source: jesse-spinnett)

(Source: gideon-prewett)