AN: This is my first Aladdin fic for ten years, wow. This is based off of the movies and not the TV show. Hope you guys enjoy it 😊

Street Mouse

Chapter One – The Missing Flower

Long days turned to even longer nights in the kingdom of Agrabah and Aladdin was getting more and more worried with each passing day. After the Sultan passed, things were getting a lot busier and he had had to adapt his life from that of the street rat to that of the new sultan. That was a shock for a guy who had only wanted to win a girl, a girl with these great eyes, heart. Still, there was one thing that linked everything together, survival and though he wouldn't punish those who were wealthy, he wanted to give the wealth to those who needed and stop people from starving.

He knew that a lot of people didn't really like him or think him any good in the role but others did. Either they had been first hand to see some of their heroism or they liked his policies and ways of thinking with everyone supporting one another. There was a motivation for him though and she hadn't returned from the previous night.

Ever since Sultan's death, Jasmine had been wandering. She was always so kind to the people of the kingdom, always blossoming with her smile and acting with empathy but she had become lost. Her mother had died years ago and she had grown up with her father and a tiger. Rajah hadn't given her the comfort that she needed and Al was finding that he didn't either.

He was worried about her. He knew that she had some street skills but not enough to survive out there for too long a period of time. He wished he had gone with her but she had asked to be alone. He had even sent carpet to look for her and there had been no result, same with Genie. Wow, he really did have some interesting friends.

He sighed as he sat out by the birdcages where she had found peace within herself when she was younger. They had gone through a lot during the time that they were together and he wondered whether he was helping people at all. He just hoped that he wouldn't be alone, a usurper of the throne. Well, sometimes he felt like a fraud anyway.

As he sat there with a bowed head, he felt his first real friend on his shoulder and laughed. Abu was a great distraction to keep him thinking of things other than what a disaster he would be. If anyone could be his cheerleader it was definitely Abu. "Hey," he grinned to the monkey. "So, you got bored of being inside amongst all those jewels and wanted to hang out here?" he joked and Abu nodded, staring at him and sniffing him. "Guess I'm not too much fun," he laughed before standing up and putting a hand on his back.

Abu jumped down to look at him and Aladdin laughed as he faced the monkey. Despite everything that had happened, here they were again, just the two of them. Aladdin heard a loud explosion like fireworks but there was nothing in the sky above him. He turned to the carpet before sighing, he had been warned not to get involved with solving the trouble on the streets anymore. He had been told that he could send people to do that but he was too valuable a person to lose.

It still felt as if he were a fraud despite his marriage status, he was surprised that a rumor hadn't formed of how he had been the one to dispose of Jasmine.

"Keep your head together, Al," he scolded himself. "Nobody said that she's dead. You can't let yourself think that way."

He heard a sound outside the palace and sighed, well he had tried and yes they would probably sit him down again and try to remind him of the marriage vows he had accepted and that he had decided to take a more prominent role than when he lived on the street but something was outside the palace and he didn't want to risk there being something that had hurt Jasmine.

Rushing out of the palace and avoiding the guards. He managed to find the source of the noise and his eyes widened as there was an old woman there. How had she got through the guards? She definitely didn't seem capable of some quick acrobatic work. He stared at her and she walked towards him before he felt the guards rush between them.

"Sire, I must insist that you," one of the guards said before looking at another of the men. "Please escort this woman out of here. Make sure to get every guard on the perimeter, we can't face any other intruders," he ordered but Aladdin was more interested in the woman in front of him.

"You are…the diamond in the rough?" she asked him and Aladdin sighed. He really didn't like when people referred to him that way, too many bad memories but he nodded. This was more interesting than the people that the guards usually stop. "You have the eyes that will see," she said and reached out for his hand placing a green gem in them.

"Sire, you must give that to us," the second guard said but Aladdin had already picked it up. Magical objects were kind of his specialty after all. He turned the gem in the light and then looked back at the woman. As he held the gem up he saw that she was young and beautiful but then as he slipped it into his pocket she became the old woman again.

"Go to where you developed trust," the woman told him and Al looked at Abu who was staring at his pocket before nodding.

"Carpet!" he called out before looking at his new chief guard. It was hard to work with someone who hated you after all, "Take care of the palace, I will return as soon as possible," he told them before jumping on and going to the area that he used to call home.

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As Carpet reached the place where you could view the palace's magnificent architecture, Al saw that there was a woman of his own age sitting there. She didn't look familiar to him but there was a lot that wasn't normal that he had gone through. He jumped off hating that he hadn't changed his clothes to fit in with the people around him. He was so conspicuous.

"Hello," he said as he approached the so-called street mouse. She looked at him and then dropped down into a formal bow before dropping to the ground. Aladdin stared at her. Who on earth was she?

"Please," he said to her as he knelt down opposite her. "Please don't do that, you don't need to be so scared of me," he said as his hand touched her spine and he felt some sort of familiarity there. Had he met this woman before? He tried to think of all the people that he had known but he couldn't place her. Maybe one of the women from the brothel?

"You…You are the sult-tan," she said and Al couldn't even place her voice. He just had this pull towards her as if he should believe anything she might say to him. He nodded and she bowed again but he pulled her up. However, as he did the gem fell from his pocket and he grabbed it. As he did, he held it up and saw his wife before him. He put it down to see the unfamiliar woman and then as he held it he saw.

"Jasmine?" he asked as he reached out to touch her cheek. What kind of sorcery was this?

"I'm sorry," she said and as he held the gem she sounded like herself, acted like herself, it was as if he were seeing two very different images. "I don't remember. I don't know. All I remember is darkness and the…the genies," she said and Al tilted his head.

"The genie?" he asked, "You mean, the genie that we're friends with?" he asked and she looked at him before bowing her head and shaking it.

"You must have me confused," she said and Al watched her, horrified with what he was seeing. He didn't know what was going on but this woman had somehow sent him here and if this was Jasmine who had lost her memory, it was a good place for her to come to, somewhere they had shared a precious memory.

"I don't think I have you confused," he told her, "but…are you sure you don't know who you are?" he asked and Jasmine shook her head. Al sighed and put the gem down, adjusting his sight and trying to remind himself that this was his transformed wife. He put his hand over hers and lifted it so that they could make eye contact. "Do you trust me?" he asked and she looked at him, her eyes showing that she had some memory of those words, "Do you trust me?" he asked and she nodded.

"Ye-Yes," she said and he kissed her hand as she froze.

"Then trust me when I tell you that I won't let anything happen to you. I mean it. I won't let anything happen to you," he told her and when she nodded, he cupped her cheek kissing her. She looked at him in a frightened manner and Aladdin thought of his own past when he had been scared that he had been in love with the princess.

End of Chapter One

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