Love Thy Enemy
Chapter 1
Summary: Audrey isn't the only child born to Princess Aurora. Meet Audrey's twin brother Peter. He knows the story of what happened between his grandparents, his mother and Maleficent. But he is still oddly pulled to Mal, The Dark Fairy's daughter in a way that he should not be. Audrey isn't the only one who ends up falling for a villain's kid. She's just not stupid enough to fall for the one that her family has a history with. Couples: Audrey/Jay, Mal/OC, Evie/Doug, Ben/OC and Jane/Carlos, with mentions of Chad/Lonnie and platonic Ben/Evie.
Disclaimer: I don't own Descendants. I do own Audrey's twin brother and Ben's eventual love interest though.
You think you know the story of the famed Sleeping Beauty, but you don't. What you were told was a half truth. Yes, my grandparents, King Stephen and Queen Leah, failed to invite The Dark Fairy, Maleficent to the christening for my mother, Aurora, causing Maleficent to curse her. From the time that my mother was a mere few days old, she led a cursed life. Fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning will and die. But Merryweather, the last of the Good Fairies, lessened the curse, for no magic could reverse one of death. Instead of death, my mother was fated to fall into a deep sleep for 100 years while she awaited her true love's kiss. And upon the time that she was to prick her finger, all of my grandfather's kingdom was to fall asleep as well.
As each of the 100 years passed, a dome of thorns grew to encase my grandfather's castle. And with each year that passed, another young princes battled to his death with the dome of thorns, trying to get to my sleeping mother's form. Finally, three months into the 99th year of my mother's sleeping curse, a soldier, not a prince, broke through the thorns and made his way to my mother's sleeping chamber. At this point, most believe that the young soldier is Prince Phillip, the man who my mother married, but that is not so. As I mentioned already, this man was not a prince, he was a soldier. And upon finding my mother's sleeping form, he took her innocence. She was a sixteen year old girl,cursed to live another 9 months under a sleep in curse unless awoken before hand by true love's kiss, and this horrid man raped her, and left her without so much as a small kiss. She was left asleep and pregnant.
That's right. Myself, Princess Audrey, and my twin brother, Prince Peter, were conceived while my mother was still in a magically induced coma. And it was because of the magic spell that my mother was under that we were able to grow inside her. And it was 9 months later, on the very 100th anniversary of my mother pricking her finger that my brother and I were born. It was not true love's kiss that awoke my mother from her 100 year sleep, but the pain of childbirth that was was roused from her sleep. How everything worked out during the birthing process, my family chalks up to it being magic. If it wasn't magic, then we would have no other inkling as to what it could be.
After my mother got her bearings, she scooped my brother and I up, one in each arm and slowly made her way down through the castle in search of the parents she had not known. Because of the curse placed on her when she was a baby, my grandparents did not get to raise my mother. My mother was raised by the Three Good Fairies. But upon my grandparents seeing my mother, carrying her newborn son and daughter in her arms, the past 116 years was put aside for the time being.
It's now been 16 years since my mother awoke from her cursed sleep. As it turned out, 4 years before my grandfather's kingdom was awoken by mine and my brother's birth, King Adam Bête, and his wife, Queen Belle, rounded up all of the villains, and sent them to an island called the Isle of the Lost, and united the kingdoms to become The United States of Auradon. I've been dating The Heir Apparent, Prince Benjamin Bête, Soon-to-Be Crowned King of Auradon. It's been a good couple of years that we've been together, but I'm honestly starting to think that he's drifting away from me. He keeps muttering about some blue-haired girl.
And then it happened. Ben's muttering a came to an end when he made his first official proclamation a month before his coronation to become king: the children on the Isle of the Lost are to be given a chance to live in Auradon. Of course, I am completely against this idea. If his father thought it was a good idea to banish all of the villains, then why let their horrid kids come here? Sadly, as only his girlfriend, I don't have as much sway over his decision as I like to pretend I do.
Of course, I can always rant about how much of an idiot Ben is being by bringing those kids here to Peter. He understands where I'm coming from and always takes my side. At least, he did until the four kids showed up. For some reason, Ben decided that Evie, The Evil Queen's daughter, Carlos, Cruella de Vil's son, Jay, Jafar's son and Mal, Maleficent's daughter (who was a really bad choice) as the first four to integrate into Auradon Prep. At the sight of Evie, who happened to have blue hair, Ben let go of my hand and pulled her aside. Of course his blue-haired fantasy girl was from the island. But as I stood there, awkwardly trying not talk to Mal, my eyes kept sliding over to Jay. Then I felt a breeze go by and the next thing I know, my brother, my own flesh and blood, has an arm around Mal.
This was not going to be a project of Ben's that I could even remotely pretend to go along with. Unless I could get Jay alone at some point. Then I might be able to. Unfortunately, with Ben practically drooling over Evie- and Evie loving the attention she was getting from a Prince- and Peter trying to make out with Mal right in front of me, it left me with the slightly unfortunate task of leading the boys inside while my boyfriend and brother trailed behind, following the girls closely like love sick puppy dogs.
"BENJAMIN! PETER!" I finally snapped, breaking their attention away from Evie and Mal and putting it back on the task at hand, and me.
"You don't have to yell Rey-Rey." Peter mumbled as he walked away from Mal and stood next to me.
"If any of you need anything, feel free..." Ben started to say as he waved our friend Doug over.
"To ask Doug." I added quickly. I was not going to let them take my boyfriend and my brother away from me.
Once that was settled, I pulled both Ben and Peter along with me, I needed to have a serious talk with both of them. It wasn't until we were safely in my room, and away from the Others, before I loosened my hold on either of them. Neither looked happy with me, and I'm sure I didn't look happy with them either.
"You know Rey-Rey, you could have nicely asked to talk to us. You didn't have to drag us along as if we were dolls." Peter commented.
"Petey, what the hell were you thinking!?" I berated my brother.
"What was I thinking? Me? You were the one making eyes at Jay!" Peter retorted.
"And you were the one that was all over the daughter of our family's worst enemy!" I yelled back.
"This seems to be a family matter… so I'm just gonna…" Ben started to say.
"Don't you dare take one step Benjamin." I threatened. Ben stayed where he was.
"Can I help it if I think Mal is hot? I'm not stupid Rey, I know full well who she is and what her mother did to our family. She's hot, I'm going to see if she different than her mom. If she isn't, I'll leave her. I don't do feelings and emotions like you do sis." Peter said.
"You are not to go anywhere near that girl again, do you understand me?" I asked.
"Let's get some things straight around here Audrey. You aren't my mother. You are my younger twin sister. You can be concerned about me all you want, but don't ever try to tell me what to do again. You aren't the only one in our family that doesn't like having their free will taken from them. And if you do try and tell me what to do, or in this case, what not to do, you will be on the receiving end of mom and dad's anger. I will hang out with whomever I want to, and if that includes Mal, so be it." Peter said before storming out of my room. I rounded on Ben once the door slammed shut behind my brother.
"I know that we've been drifting apart since you started having dreams about a blue-haired girl, but to literally start drooling over her the second you see her, right in front of me? That's really hurtful Ben." I said and my voice was considerably steadier than when I was just arguing with Peter.
"I didn't mean to hurt you Audrey. I never thought that I would meet her, let alone that she would be from the island. It didn't even occur to me when I started having those dreams that it was my subconscious' way of telling me that the kids from the island shouldn't have to suffer the same fate as their parents. I just thought it was my mind forming some sort of fantasy that would never come true." Ben explained.
"Do you love her?" I asked.
"I might. I don't know yet. I'll have to get to know her first before I make that decision." Ben replied.
"What are we going to do in the mean time?" I asked.
"Like you said, we've been drifting apart since I started dreaming about Evie. I have been slowly distancing myself from you, and that's not fair to you. And continuing a relationship between us as I figure out what my dreams about Evie were really telling me wouldn't be fair to you either. I think, in the mean time, we should take a break. If what Pete said was true, and you were making eyes at Jay, maybe this will be for the best." Ben said. Very diplomatic of him.
"I think you might be right." I admitted with a sigh. I was a few weeks away from being the future Queen of Auradon, now I'm just another princess in the crowd.
"I don't want this to be the end of our friendship though." Ben commented.
"Of course not. You're the star tourney player and I'm the head cheerleader. We still have the same friends, so we'll still hang out." I said with a dismissive wave of my hand. I just needed to hold it together until Ben left the room.
"Sounds good. I guess I'll see you later." Ben said with an apologetic smile and a one armed hug before he followed my brother's path and left my room.
I managed to hold it together for a whole 20 seconds before I collapsed onto my bed, a teary-eyed mess with make-up running down my face. Definitely not a princess-y sight to behold, I'll assure you. Since it was a Sunday, my night ended shortly after that. Once the tears had stopped flowing, I had washed my face, changed into my pink silk pajamas and then crawled into bed. It was not a pleasant night's sleep at all.
