I tried to go on like I never knew you

I'm awake but my world is half asleep

I pray for this heart to be unbroken

But without you all I'm going to be is

Incomplete

~ Backstreet Boys

Everyone had told him that this would be a bad idea, but Ben had no idea how much damage his dream would cause.

Bringing the children from the Isle of the Lost to Auradon seemed to be working so well. His selected four hadn't caused any real trouble. Nothing that they didn't fix on their own. They had been in Auradon for nearly a year. How did everything go so wrong? Why did it have to come to this?

So many things raced through the boy's mind. Most of them he didn't want to think about.

Doug glanced down at his sister who was resting her head on his chest. She was still awake, and he knew it. Daisy didn't move. She just listened to her brother's heart beat.

They lay in silence in Doug's dorm room. Neither had a roommate and neither wanted to be alone tonight.

Not tonight. It would hurt too much.

Dude was whimpering under the fairy's bed. Jane had attempted to get him out, but it was no use.

She couldn't blame the dog. She didn't want anyone to see her sadness either. That's why she asked her mother to let her go home instead of staying at school.

The girl couldn't control her emotions right now. She went from depressed to enraged, crying to screaming, in two seconds. Her mind and body were going numb. She desperately wanted all this to end. To go back to some form of normal.

If that was even possible.

What had happened? How could this be happening?

Mal looked to her siblings in cells beside her. Carlos was fiddling with a small, round metal tag in the corner of his cell. Jay was staring out the barred windows, lost in thought, like Mal had been. Evie, poor sweet Evie, had finally cried herself to sleep.

The purple haired leader lay down on her cot. She absentmindedly ran her finger tips over her other hand, search for a ring that wasn't there and would never be there again.

She sucked in a shaky breath and closed her eyes. She tried to forget where she was as dreamless sleep consumed her. Jail was not the last memory she wanted of Auradon. Prison was the Isle of the Lost. Her birthplace. The one they would be returning to in the morning.

A/N So I got this idea last night when I was listening to my Pandora and the above Backstreet Boys song played. I got this really strong image of the Core Four back on the Island trying to go about life as if they had never been to Auradon and had never met the loves of their lives. The Auradon kids would have to do the same. I don't know when I'm actually going to continue this because I really wanna finish Journey to Dwarf Mountain, but I want to hear what you all think of having this much darker story come from me. I know it's not much but I wanna hear your opinions.