This is based off of my Lost Prince Gil Au on tumblr.
With help from supernovesilence and auburnlaughter.
Enjoy, the angst.
King Beast and Queen Belle.
The faces of goodness in the kingdom of Auradon. With smiles that could shine a light on the darkest of days.
Everyone in Auradon looked up to the Royal couple, trusting them with the lives of their families.
However, as everyone in Auradon knows, looks can be deceiving.
The King and Queen, had a secret, one that very few knew or remembered.
King Ben, was not their only son. Prince Gilbert was their eldest.
I know what you're thinking. Why haven't we seen this other prince at any royal gatherings? Or if he's older then why is Ben King? And why doesn't the Queen and King ever talk about him?
Well, it all happened years ago. When the Villains were being shipped away to the Island Prison.
It was nighttime at King Beast's castle, and through the halls, the sound of a baby crying could be heard.
In a beautifully decorated nursery, a baby boy was lying down in his crib, wailing his little heart out.
Just then, a little boy with blonde hair and brown eyes appeared and looked down at the squirming baby.
"It's okay, Ben," he said but the baby kept crying. An idea popped into the boys head, "Watch this,"
The baby opened his eyes and giggled when he saw his brother making funny faces. Whatever had been troubling him earlier, was now forgotten.
The older boy smiled when he saw his trick had worked, "That's better right?" The baby giggled and waved his tiny hands in the air, with a smile the boy grasped one of the smaller hands
"You and me, Ben, we're pals. And we're always going to be together,"
"Even when it's past your bedtime," a woman's voice spoke from behind. The boy quickly spun around to see his mother standing in the doorway with her nightgown and proud smile on.
The boy put on a large smile that screamed, Busted, "Hi mommy,"
"Hello Bertie," Queen Belle smiled as she walked into the room, "Did your brother wake you up?" She asked as she gently reached her hand into the baby's crib to ease her second son back to sleep.
"I told you that you should let us share rooms," Gilbert replied as Ben fell asleep in his crib.
"Why? So you two can make funny faces all night?"
"Maybe," the boy said with a mischievous smile, the Queen smiled brightly and cupped her sons face, tilting his face upwards enough so she could plant a kiss on his forehead.
"I'll talk it over with your father tomorrow. Until then, off to bed with you,"
Without complaint, Gilbert slid his hand into his mothers and walked with her to the room right next to the nursery.
Belle gently tucked the boy beneath the soft covers of his bed, "Good night, my dear," the queen gently kissed the princes forehead
"Mommy," Gilbert called out causing Belle to stop in the doorway, "Aren't you forgetting something?"
Belle pretended to think about it before shaking her head, "No, I don't think so,"
"Mommy," the boy complained sitting up, "I can't sleep unless you sing the song," the young prince then put on his best begging puppy eyes and stuck out his bottom lip, "Pretty please?"
The queen sighed with amusement, "Oh alright,"
The prince smiled and laid back in bed as his mother opened a drawer and pulled out a small music box. With a smile, Belle winded up the box before placing it down so she could sit down next to her son.
As the melody played, Belle sang her father's song.
"How does a moment last forever? How does a story never die? It is love, we must hold onto. Never easy but we try,"
The boy smiled at the beautiful sound of his mothers singing as he slowly closed his eyes.
"Sometimes our happiness is captured. Somwhow a time and place stand still. Love lives on inside our hearts, and always will."
As the music faded away, the boy was already fast asleep. Belle smiled and placed a gentle kiss on the boys head before quietly leaving the room.
As the royal family was sleeping and dreaming, a shadow was climbing the walls of the castle.
A man wrapped in a dark cloak with a mission.
The mysterious shadow stopped at a large window to Prince Ben's Nursery.
Prince Gilbert was woken up by the sound of his brother crying. Sleepily, the boy got out of his bed and trudged towards the nursery.
Opening the door, the boy was horrified to see a stranger reaching into the crib for his baby brother.
The man was muscular and had a familiar face but Gilbert didn't care, he was making Ben cry.
With a roar, the boy charged into the room and kicked the man's shin.
The intruder pulled his hand out of the crib and cradled his leg. Glaring down, he saw a child that was a few years own growling back at him.
"Don't touch my brother!" the child roared
The man then noticed something familiar about the boy's eyes, he saw them before, on another woman.
"They have two little brats?" Just outside the room, the thundering sounds of footsteps approached the room. The intruder looked at the angry child with a sigh, "So be it, the plan will work with one!"
The intruder grabbed the child and heaved him over his shoulder like a potato sack before running towards the window. The prince kicked his legs and pounded his tiny fists against the large back but it didn't do anything.
King Adam and Queen Belle rushed into the nursery just in time to see the man leap out the window.
Belle quickly rushed to her crying baby while Adam ran towards the window. While he couldn't see the intruders face, he could see the younger face that was being carried away.
"DADDY!"
"GILBERT!"
The next day was horrible.
King Beast left Fairy Godmother in charge of seeing that every villain made it to the isle with their offsprings. He then called an emergency conference with every sorcerer in Auradon to try and find their son.
Reporters surrounded the castle, wanting to know what had happened. Beast refused to see anyone. Belle only said one thing to them:
"Prince Gilbert, our Gilbert, was stolen. If anyone knows anything, please help us,"
Every day after that was torture.
Beast didn't stop his search and grew more desperate by the day. Belle wanted to help but she couldn't bear to lose Ben as well.
Days turned into months and only one thing was certain. Prince Gilbert was lost to Auradon, forever.
The news tore the King and Queen, the parents apart.
Belle could not bear the sight not the sound of their special song. So she locked away the music box and sang a different song to Ben each night.
Beast was angry. He failed his son, failed to stop him from being abducted and in such failed as a king and father.
Ben would grow up and his memories of his older brother would be forgotten with age.
As Auradon grew more advanced, the memory of the second Prince died away. Not forgotten, just unspoken.
Ben indeed forgot about his brother as he prepared to become king.
As for Belle and Beast, they never gave up on the hope that they would see their son again so they went on with their lives while taking care of the kingdom.
However, what no one knew what that Prince Gilbert was alive. He raised by the villainous Gaston on the Island Prison. under a new name and new family.
Every memory of his true family was lost in his mind as the trials of survival chased away those happy memories.
However, Gil never forgot the lullaby.
