Author's Note-First time writing a Descendants story. I saw the movie and watched it probably 30 times online lol. But the more I watched the more I saw a lot of little things that broke my heart or made me squeal. So I wanted to try and expand on some things I saw, giving deeper looks and explanations and theories on stuff.

So I'm going to try and take moments of silence, off comments, or even a line by a character that I felt said so much more than just what was said and look deeper at it. I'm going to try and make the titles of the chapters relate to what the line or moments I'll look more at are. Don't know how long each chapter will be, some might be drabbles, others might be essay length or in between and things. Don't know when the chapters will be updated, probably fast at the start then trickle off as I get through a majority of the moments.

Disclaimer: I don't own Descendants or the Isle of the Lost or anything like that. Do you know how rich I'd be if I did? So nope, no ownership here.

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A Momentous Occasion

One touch. Just one touch of her hand, one look into her eyes, was all he needed for everything he'd planned to say to slip away from his thoughts. His speech, delicately written, memorized for hours on end just…gone, the second their eyes locked.

He could play it off, say that Jay, son of Jafar's, punch to the shoulder had startled him, but it would be a lie.

He reached out for Mal, daughter of Maleficent's, hand, ready to continue his speech until he got his first real look at her.

It was easy to not notice, to just look at the group of four and see nothing but the children of the land's greatest villains, to lump them together as though they were just one body. He had done just that, standing beside Audrey and the Fairy Godmother, he'd looked at them as a group. It hadn't been until he'd gone to welcome them individually that it happened.

He reached out, he touched her hand and felt a spark.

He looked up, catching her eye, and felt his heart stop.

His world stopped really, in that one moment (or hours, he wasn't sure) that he looked into her eyes. It was like everything vanished except himself and Mal, like they were the only two left in the world. He couldn't catch his breath to continue his speech even if he remembered what his speech was supposed to be. It was hard to concentrate on anything when he was staring into eyes so wide and green.

He honestly wasn't sure what had finally gotten him speaking again, whether it was the odd look coming to her own eyes, or the way he could feel Audrey staring a hole in his back, how he could feel the other three Isle Children tensing as he lingered on who could only be their leader for too long. Whatever it was that finally jarred him out of his stupor…he almost wanted to banish them for it.

He would have much rather stared into Mal's eyes for hours more than continue his speech.

But it would be poor form to ignore the other two Isle Children, a King, even a future one, could not be so rude.

He continued on, finally shaking her hand instead of holding it, "This is a momentous occasion," and forced himself to move on.

His hand felt cold even as he offered it to Carlos, son of Cruella de Vil, and Evie, daughter of the Evil Queen.

He tried, hard, very hard, to look at the others, to focus on them, but something kept pulling his gaze back to Mal.

Her snark alone, what would have likely insulted others, just made him smile and laugh, it was refreshing in a way.

"Or the day that you showed four peoples where the bathrooms are," Mal muttered as he finished his speech.

"A little bit over the top?" he smiled at her.

"A little more than a little bit," Mal teased back, a small laugh escaping her that he just couldn't help but answer with one of his own.

"Well so much for my first impression," he playfully lamented, chuckling at it, only to be rewarded with a small laugh from Mal.

It was a wonderful sound, he couldn't help but smile at it…

And then Audrey had to bring up how Mal's mother had tried to kill her parents.

Very tactless considering Audrey was a princess. He could hear it in her voice, when she had introduced him earlier. He had wanted the four to think of him as just Ben, someone they could go to or talk to or seek out if need be, not someone to be intimidated by or fawning over or impressed with, yet Audrey had insisted on his title, even going so far as to nearly squeal that he was the future king.

It hadn't been till after she'd added that part that she mentioned he was her boyfriend.

NOT something that he missed in the slightest, that she focused on how he would be the future king instead of calling him her boyfriend first. That was who he wanted to be in the eyes of whoever was his girlfriend, just BEN first, not the king or prince or future king.

Audrey seemed threatened by Mal, though he couldn't understand why.

They'd only just started their tour when he'd been forced to cut it short, having a bit to do with Audrey really. Mal had been asking questions about magic and he'd tried to play it off that they were all normal mortals, even when Mal added that they were kings and queens too. And Audrey had to jump in again, bringing up how far back their lineage went, moving his arm around her shoulders.

He'd stepped away as quickly as he could, as quickly as would be polite at least, when Doug, Dopey's son, headed down the stairs. It wasn't that he didn't want to put his arm around his girlfriend, it was just…if he wanted to, he would have put it around her himself.

And maybe a small part of him didn't want Mal to think that he and Audrey were that serious.

They weren't really, serious or close that is, there had been a divide between them recently, she was very much against his allowing the children of the villains a chance. He understood, her parents and her family's history with Maleficent would make anyone wary of the woman's daughter, but he needed support, he needed support from his girlfriend and she hadn't given it, hadn't even been willing to compromise or listen. It wasn't till he'd asked her to help greet them that she'd stopped remarking about it. With all her comments about how he was her boyfriend, he was starting to be suspicious that she'd wanted to sort of stake her claim or assert her position and status over the other four, the way she'd shot down Evie's mention of being a princess too, coming close to degrading her, helped that suspicion.

Whatever it was, he didn't like it.

But he didn't want to be rude, his mother had raised him better than that. So when Doug appeared, he'd been all too happy to step over to Doug's side and away from Audrey, using it as an excuse and an out of sorts.

It was an odd feeling that swelled in him, seeing Doug. On one hand, he was happy the man appeared when he had, it gave him an excuse to remove his arm from Audrey. On the other hand, Doug wasn't meant to be there till later and the tour was meant to be led by himself and Audrey. With Doug there, the man would take over for him, which would leave him with Audrey and away from Mal, er, from the others.

He'd made sure though, before leaving, that they knew that he would see them later.

If he happened to be looking right at Mal when he said that, well he DID hope that he would see her later, see THEM later, all of them, not just Mal, though he wouldn't be opposed to seeing just Mal if the occasion arose.

He'd tried to offer them his help, that if they needed anything to ask him.

And Audrey jumped in again.

He would have thought it was concern for his safety, that she didn't want the other four to come to him alone to protect him. He would have thought that had she not been looking directly at Mal, as he had (as he had been doing practically the entire time after he'd shaken her hand), when she said it. She was telling MAL to stay away from him and go to someone else.

Well, he would just have to find a way to see Mal (and the others) some other way then.

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Author's Note-So this is just the first chapter. A lot of what I write will probably be my interpretation of what was going through the character's head at that moment based on facial expression and fairytale mentality and stuff. So some things might seem a little out there or a reach at times, but I'm trying to picture what the characters would think based on their parents being fairytale characters and how they'd be raised and stories of other fairytales and things.

One thing to keep in mind, I haven't read Isle of the Lost yet (want to, but haven't had time to). So if I get something wrong that was mentioned in the book or something, just let me know and I'll try and change it or fit it into the narrative ;)

Also, the chapters won't be in any particular order in terms of following the sequence of the movie. So we might get the coronation next and then back track to Ben and Mal's first date or things like that. No real order, just random thoughts.