Was she DONE? Truthfully, she had just gotten started. Five years of quips and jabs and eye rolls that Aurora had usually brushed off her shoulder were starting to bubble to the surface in a way the Horned Serpent had not imagined. Normally one to just giggle and move on, smirking in the other direction, this was not like her at all and she knew it. Perhaps it was the stress of the whole competition. Perhaps it was the stress of seeing Chad on that screen and still not having him here in the stands with her. Perhaps it was the fear that nothing she had done had been right, and she was about to be eliminated, and it would all have been for nothing. Perhaps all those emotions were what had caused the dam to finally break.

She knew she should stop. She knew that she shouldn't keep going down this road - Jesus even had the audacity to THREATEN her, and maybe she would have stopped if it weren't for that snide jab he'd worked in there. No, she probably would have kept going without that little comment. It was like her mouth and her brain were disconnected which happened a LOT to be honest, but was particularly inconvenient today, and very rarely did it ever get her in fights.

"I'm sorry!" she exclaimed, feigning surprise and putting her taloned hand to her chest. "I didn't realize it was the norm now to take out our frustrations on little kids! My mistake," she snapped at her with a sarcastic laugh. It sounded a bit maniacal, to be truthfully honest. "Maybe it's the fact that I'm just sick and tired of watching you take out your frustration on anything that breathes around you. Or maybe it's the fact that I'm sick of you acting like you're the ONLY one with problems around here and EVERYONE needs to pay for YOUR misery," she added, eyes narrowing to dangerous levels at the girl. Seriously, cry me a RIVER. Valerie Gray may have had a troubled past or whatever - she really didn't know, but she assumed SOMETHING had to be going down in the background for her to be so nasty. She didn't care, quite honestly. If Aurora was having a bad day she didn't just go out and start hexing kids in the hallway. Most sane people didn't.

"Maybe ALL THAT contributed to my LAPSE in memory, where I forgot it's OK to just pull our wands out and hex whoever is in range whenever we're angry. I'm not going to sit back and let you use the rest of us as a punching bag anymore," she practically growled at her. No matter what was going on, Aurora felt no sympathy for the girl. Not a drop. She brought on all this herself, using others to buffer her feelings instead of just working it out like everyone else. And Aurora was DONE with it.

This challenge was messing with everyone, and she wanted to scream at the pale girl to just resist every urge she had to do anything, ever, for the rest of their time here. She didn't, though. She started to feel her anger washing away. Slowly, but surely. She was still angry at Valerie - SO angry, and she wanted to just pounce on her and take out her feelings in a physical way, but she wouldn't do that. Unlike her, she had some restraint. Rationality was starting to return, and she had said her peace now. Whether or not Valerie listened she just did NOT care. So help her, though, if she hexed another kid in front of her. Aurora would not hold back. She didn't care if she got expelled or anything anymore. She was numb again. Back to feelings of being broken, empty, and exhausted.

Ok, so she DID care if she got expelled, but she sure as heck wouldn't just stay QUIET anymore in terms of Valerie.

Also why would she want a CANDY from Jesus? What a weird thing to say. Infuriating, really, because despite the fact that Aurora didn't want to admit it, she wanted something, ANYTHING, to snap in the Wampus' brain. But Valerie was weird, so it made sense. She barely registered that comment, though, as her eyes lingered on the hand holding between Valerie and Jesus. Oh. OOOOH. She couldn't help but let out a little snort of laughter at the sight of that. Really? Surely Jesus Rodriguez knew he could do better than that ice queen, right? She had been so sure a second ago that she was done with all of this - but he HAD threatened her, after all.

Before attacking, she paused to shoot an extremely nasty look at Madelyn, who insisted on being obnoxious as always. NOT TODAY, MADELYN. NOT TODAY. She'd deal with her lately if she had to. Geez. And people called HER the drama queen. She turned back to Valerie.

"Cute. You got yourself an attack dog. A fluffy poodle by the look of it," she added with a smirk to the boy. Ok, that was kind of mean and unnecessary. Truthfully she LOVED his hair. It suited him. But he'd jumped in front of the Horned Serpent - it was only natural to expect him to get bit.