Sickness was never really mentioned on the Isle, it happened but it was never brought up in conversation. Seen as a weakness no one dared to mention it, and God forbid look for sympathy. You got it, you got over it. Which is why when Harry walked into Ursula's Fish and Chips looking clearly under the weather, nobody gave him a second glance.
"The little one didn't have much today" He confessed slamming the money that he'd just stolen from Dizzy at Curl up & Dye on the counter in front of Uma. "She's probably getting better at hiding it" Uma shrugged dismissively collecting the used trays of costumers. "I'll go get her to fork up the rest" Harry declared to her turning around towards the door. "It's fine Harry, we'll get it another time" she grabbed his arm to stop him from going any further. As he turned back around she noticed that his face was a bit paler than usual, but then again, his eyeliner did that to his skin sometimes. "Take these to the kitchen, would you?" she instructed handing the trays to him, watching him walk towards the kitchen it occurred to her that his movements were slower than usual. 'Uma stop it! Since when did you care about stuff like this?' she thought to herself.
Uma didn't know how long it had been since she zoned out, but it felt like it had been a while ago. "I'd leave him be" Gil said tapping her on the arm, looking over at Harry, who Uma just realised that she had been staring at. Sitting slumped against the wall one foot brought up onto the chair, coughing quietly into his elbow, muffled by his sleeve. She knew that this was one of the few times that Gil was right. Harry could get quite irritable when he was sick, they all did. Being sick made you an easy target. Not that Harry had a problem with that, people were intimidated by him anyway. "I haven't seen him like this before" Uma found herself saying. "Well he has been sick before" Gil said, not quite catching on. "No, I know that. But like this…" Uma trailed of lost in thought. "Eh… you could say that he's sea sick" Gil attempted a failed joke, Uma found herself smiling anyway. "Harry Hook seasick" Uma heard Gil chuckle to himself as he walked over to turn the TV on. "Huh... look who it is. Miss Pretty Princess herself" Gil said bemused, as Harry got out of his chair and came over to the screen. "Bah! Can't believe she's been officially in line to become Queen for a week now" Uma spat, disgusted. "Can you believe it? Mal! Being Queen!" "She did have a certain leadership quality to her" Gil mused looking at the screen. Uma quickly placed her hand on Harry's arm which she was sure would have flown out at Gil if she hadn't. "We've got to do something" Uma told them. "We'd best do it soon, while Auradon is still in its happy period" Harry strategised. "We have to find someone who can break the barrier" Uma muttered to herself trying to think. "It'll have to be someone on this side because the rest of them sure aren't going to come back over here" Gil mentioned. "That would be great, but do you know of anyone over here who has broken the barrier?" Harry growled. "Carlos did it once, but it was only for a second" Gil stated unphazed by Harry's harshness. "How did he do that again?" Uma asked. "Used a computer or something" Gil remembered. As Gil and Uma carried on in a conversation about how they didn't have a computer, Harry turned away from the group to cough for a brief moment before returning and saying, "they'll have at least one in their hideout." Uma nodded her head. "Even if we get one, do any of us know how to use it?" Gil pointed out. They all hung their heads in knowing that the plan was a bust, not a single one of them was particularly good on a computer. "UMA!" Ursula yelled from the kitchen, interrupting them. "THESE DISHES DON'T WASH THEMSELVES!" Uma huffed in annoyance before saying "we'll talk about it more tomorrow." With that she stalked off into the kitchen and Harry and Gil went their separate ways.
"Where's Harry?" Uma asked Gil, sitting down next to him in the cafeteria of Serpent Prep. "Don't know, ditching?" Gil suggested. "Wouldn't be surprised" Uma muttered to herself. School wasn't exactly a top priority for the kids on the Isle, so much so that it was a shock when the teachers took attendance. Although Uma and Harry both hated school it was still an escape from their shitty lives, so they made an effort to attend as often as they could. She'd never say this to him, but she missed her partner in crime. Her and Harry were always up to mischief together, pulling pranks on teachers and just being arses in general, to make school more interesting for each other. Today her day lacked that excitement. Sure, she still had Gil to keep her company, but she didn't have the same connection with him.
Walking out of school, Gil rambling on about something Uma wasn't paying attention to, she saw one of Harry's sisters. "CJ!" she yelled across the street. Confused, the younger girl looked towards Uma. "Where's Harry?!" She asked. "Sick! Stayed home!" She yelled back before disappearing back into the crowd. "I'll see you tomorrow" Uma told Gil before heading off to Harry's house.
Even for being the daughter of a Sea witch, Uma still felt on edge every time she went to the Hook's house. Not that they posed any danger, they would never hurt her. They were all so wild and unpredictable at the best of times. She knew the way from school like the back of her hand and when she got to the door she went straight through. There were many times when she had come here late at night to escape from her mother after an argument, it was like she was a third sister or fifth resident. Walking through the lounge and into the hallway she heard Harriet rummaging about in her room, probably getting ready to go out with her pirate gang. Continuing to walk to the end she turned into Harry's room at the last door on the right. His room was messy as always, maps lining his desk and the walls depicting many adventures that he wanted to go on one day, his father's hook and his own sword leaning against the wall by the door. She found him lying in his bed amongst a tangle of sheets. "What a train wreck" she exclaimed walking to his desk and pulling the chair towards his bed. Harry rolled over to face her "since when have I been so mean to you?" he rasped, his voice deep but almost gone. "You missed out on Accelerated Piracy today" Uma said in an attempt to make him feel guilty for abandoning her at school, knowing that it was his favourite class as well as her own. "I would have gone but dad made me stay home" Harry said before a cough bubbled up in his chest making him cough into the back of his hand. "Must be pretty serious if your dad made you stay home" Uma considered. Parents on the Isle didn't really care about their kids, being villains and all, her own and Harry's were the worst offenders. Which is why it worried Uma when she found out that Captain Hook himself had made sure his son stayed home that day. In response Harry groaned, not having the energy to explain. "How'd you know to find me here?" Harry asked looking up at Uma. "CJ" she told him simply, to which he smirked slightly, knowing that if anyone was to give out where he was it would be CJ. Against what anyone would think, Harry was quite family orientated. He may not appear to have a care in the world unless it was to hook someone, but it wasn't the case. Uma remembered when CJ was getting bullied because their father is a murderer, Harry would walk her to school every morning and walk her home after, so that she got places safely. "And where else would you be?" Uma continued giving him a small smile. "Kicked off the face of the earth. Trust me, I'd rather be anywhere but here" he replied. "Well that's too bad on you, I doubt that you'd be able to make it anywhere else" Uma said flatly. "Bet you I could be" Harry surprised Uma by rising out of his bed. "Wha-" Uma stopped short confused at where Harry was going. "Where are you going?" she asked ready to follow him out the door. "Dizzy's to get the money she didn't give up yesterday" Harry explained looking at Uma, daring her to challenge him. She didn't, she knew nothing would change his mind. "You're crazy" she sighed following out the door.
Harry entered the Curl up & Dye store alone after Uma had left to work her shift at the Fish and Chips store. "All right hand the rest over" Harry demanded as he walked into the centre of the salon. Dizzy looked up from the back table where she was working. "You know this is going to be one of the last times that you can do this?" Dizzy said surprisingly happy. "And why is that?" Harry asked uninterested leaning against the wall, God his head hurt. "Because I won't be here anymore. They're taking me to Auradon" she said in a sing-song voice, smiling and swaying from side to side. "And I don't think that you'd have any luck getting money off my Grandmother" Dizzy added a serious tone to her voice. Harry closed his eyes while his headache worsened. "Are you sick?" Dizzy inquired, noticing the change in Harry's behaviour from the other times, confused at the possibility. "It's none of your business what I am" Harry said slowly, opening his eyes again. "It's just you look- "she was interrupted by Harry. "Just cough it up" he demanded ironically before coughing himself. "Okay then" Dizzy huffed rolling her eyes. "That's all of it" she said sadly watching Harry take the money. "Thank you" he mocked before walking out of the store.
Arriving at Ursula's Fish and Chips, Harry saw Uma and Gil talking at the counter. Walking up to them Harry placed the money in front of Uma, who nodded while in a conversation with Gil. "I don't think the necklace would work on this one. It needs something to be exchanged for its magic" Uma was explaining. "And there wouldn't be something big enough for it to be exchanged with?" Gil asked, knowing the answer was probably no. Uma shook her head. "Didn't Mal leave her spell book behind?" Gil remembered how Uma had used the book to cast a love spell on Ben. "Yeah, she did, but they got it back when I had to get off the ship" Uma explained, looking at the floor at her failure. "Mal wouldn't have been smart enough to create a spell that could break the barrier" Harry dismissed. "Even something that her mum wrote?" Gil asked hopefully. "Doubt it. Good magic is always more powerful than bad magic. Nothing would be strong enough" Uma mentioned. "We have to think of something else, anything" Uma commanded. "Well it's not like we can jack a ride, no one's going to and from Auradon and here" Gil exclaimed. "Actually, there is" Harry spoke up, remembering what Dizzy had told him. "What?" Uma and Gil asked in unison. "When I went to take the money from Dizzy, she told me that she's being taken to Auradon" Harry informed them. "So, Ben must be carrying out the second phase of his plan" Uma said mostly to herself. "Do you know when?" Gil inquired looking at Harry. "Didn't say" he replied shaking his head. "We'll have to interrogate her" Uma said looking at the door where the last of the costumers were leaving. "Well, maybe we wouldn't have to interrogate her, she'd probably just tell us anyway" Gil suggested, knowing that Dizzy is quite a chatter-box. "How will we get there?" Uma muttered to herself. While she and Gil started to discuss how they could get across the barrier, Harry broke away from the group coughing deeply into his wrist. Uma and Gil immediately stopped their conversation looking over at Harry leaning against the bench trying his best not to cough up his lung. "Stop with your sympathy" he choked out between coughs, seeing Uma's expression and Gil's eyebrows knitted together. Uma reached forward and put her hand on the back of his shoulder blade "Harry, you should go home. You're worse than you were yesterday" she told him kindly, making circular motions with her thumb in the hope of getting him to stop coughing. "M' fine. We've got to sort out our plan first." Harry tried to assure them when he had recovered. "God sake Harry! You're not! You sound horrible" Uma complained. "We'll sort out the plan another time. I'm taking you home" she demanded so forcefully that no one dared to question her. With that she grabbed Harry's arm and proceeded to lead him out the door.
They walked slowly back to the Hook's residence. Uma carefully guiding Harry through the streets with her hand on his back, pretending not to notice him shivering, and making him stop every time he started to cough. When they walked inside Uma saw CJ sitting on the couch in the lounge reading over a map. "Harry?" she asked kind of scared, adjusting her position to get a better look at him, seeing his face extra pale and him sniffling into the back of his gloved hand. Harry was pretty out of it and didn't hear her but Uma gave her a small but worried smile, continuing to push Harry towards his room. Entering his room Harry kicked off his shoes before Uma pushed him into his bed, throwing the covers over him. Harry groaned as they covered his entire body. "Come on, come out of there. You'll suffocate" Uma laughed at little. As Harry resurfaced and turned so that he was facing her Uma looked him in the eyes and said, "I want you to go see a healer tomorrow." He smirked, laughing a little before replying "and since when have they ever actually been accurate? It's a waste of time." Uma nodded understanding his point, it would probably be unaffordable anyway. "All right, you win. Get some rest Harry. I need you back on your feet if we're going to invade Auradon" she said before walking out the door.