GOTCHA!

The Downfall of Cedric Diggory

"S-Sinthia, what's going on?" Cedric stuttered.

"Why don't you tell me babe? How long have you been spiking my drinks?" I asked.

"Since the day you picked me over Fred." He rushed out. He looked confused. He didn't understand why he couldn't lie.

"Is it Amortentia?"

"No just a love potion that amplifies everything you love about me so it's all you can think about. It overwhelms your mind."

I looked at Fred. "I'm sorry Freddie. I should have believed you."

"You got there eventually babe." He smiled slightly.

I turned back to Cedric. "I want to know everything. Everything you put a potion in, how often you did it, why you did it. You tell me all of that right now Cedric."

"I-I got the idea while Angelina had her whole break down. I knew Fred was going to be available again and that meant that you would think about going back to him and I just needed you to pick me."

"And you had to give me a love potion for that?!"

"Yes Sinthia, I'm not stupid! You were going to pick him! I knew you loved Fred more than you did me. I could just see it in your eyes. You would have chosen him so I had to do something to save our relationship. I knew a proposal wouldn't be enough so I just put a little potion in your drink that morning. A-and I swear that's all it was going to be. Just a little edge so that you would accept my proposal and I would beat him. But then I realized when it went away you could go back to him, so of course I had to keep it up. I-it was meant to be temporary, I swear. And then you were so in love with me Sin, that's all I ever wanted. Our relationship was perfect."

"Because I was under a potion! I basically had no thoughts of my own. Everything was what you put in there!" I cried. "You made me into what you wanted me to be. A perfect little trophy fiancee who did everything you said and basically only lived for you. That is so sick Diggory."

"I had to do it." He whispered.

"What did you spike other than drinks?"

"It was mostly just drinks. Orange juice in the morning, pumpkin juice in the afternoon, the water I would bring you while we were in bed together. Whenever I could slip the potion in without being seen. And also those chocolates you like. Once Fred found out I had to be smarter about spiking things so he wouldn't catch me. That's why they tasted different. The potion."

"You gave me so many of those chocolates." I whispered. "So the whole time since I picked you it's just been you controlling me?"

"No, it wasn't supposed to be about control, it was just for you to love me as powerfully as I love you. So that things would finally be balanced and equal between us. I wanted you to feel the absolute desperation that I felt with you. For you to look at me and know there was no one else in the world for you!"

"So you had to force me to do that? Why couldn't you just make me fall in love with you the normal way Cedric?"

"I tried Sinthia! I tried everything. I gave you my virginity, I told you how much I loved you. I tried to keep you to myself. I waited for you to come back to me. I pretended not to know that you loved Fred Weasley! I did everything and it still didn't work! So I had to do something else to make you love me. I had to take it too far so I could have you."

"How often did you amplify my feelings for you?" I asked. "How often was I given that potion?"

"Depends on how powerful your feelings for Fred were. I could always tell when your feelings for him were pushing through. Sometimes I'd give you insanely strong doses so that I wouldn't have to do it every single day. And then of course the chocolates would keep you under the potion for a week. Every time I thought about stopping it, I couldn't. I just couldn't take the risk."