The fairy girl was not what he had expected. In retrospect, none of the Isle kids were. He had seen Maleficent and had acknowledged that she wasn't an unfortunate person to look at, but her daughter? The moment he locked on to her green eyes, set in a
face made of porcelain with her full pouty lips, he was done.

"This is a momentous occasion."

Audrey was two steps out the door of his heart. He'd read their files, which had beentransferred and in his anxious hands before the proclamation had even been a fully formed thought in his head. So, whenMal pursed her lips as they're eyes met, the princess
was nothing more than a fading after thought. He paused, brain ceasing all higher function as his more basic nature took over.

Then Mal had pulled her hand back and he was snapped out of his revery. "This is a momentous occasion. Today is the day when our two peoples begin to heal."

She snickered and had his undivided attention, again. "Or how about the day that you show four peoples where the bathrooms are."

He smirked and made sure to catch her gaze as he moved in front of her. "Was that a little over the top?"

She smiled, making his heart skip a bit and dropped her eyes in a shy way he wasn't expecting. "A bit more than a little bit, yeah."

He laughed, momentarily forgetting that anyone else was there. Most especially, his girlfriend. His whole frame of vision was solely encompassed by her mischievous eyes and button nose.

"Well, so much for my first impression."

She snorted and he knew, in that moment, she had stolen his heart. Audrey cut in, then. Her usually revery of his standing as prince being replaced by open hostility. "He's the crowned prince, soon to be king, as well as my boyfriend. Get it?"

Mal raised an eyebrow and passed a quick look to Jay over her shoulder. "Got it."

Audrey scrunched up her nose in an obvious show of snark. "Good. Benny-boo, shall we show them in?"

Ben was stunned momentarily by the girl at his side. She narrowed her eyes at Mal as she lifted his arm around her shoulder and steering them to the school. After the annitialshock wore off he cut her a disapproval glance and changed their embrace so
her armwas less intimately wrapped around his at his side.

After leaving them with Doug, he gave Audrey a vague excused and made his way to his study. Once behind the door, bolted to avoid intrusion, he groaned. There was something coming alive inside him. It was an unrecognisable force with a mind and intentions
all its alone.

"I may be in over my head." He ran a hand through his hair and tried shake the vision of her sparkling eyes out of his head. "Definitely in over my head."

He had been dreaming of this day for longer than he could remember. Seeing those eyes in person had been all could think about since his father had been coerced into allowing his proclamation. It had been better than he had thought.

Every detail had been the same, except for Audrey. She'd been acting off since the that morning. She was less demur than she had been just the day before. She even gone so far as tokick him when he'd gotten lost in the purple haired fairy's eyes repeatedly.

"Huh. That may prove to be problematic."

A/N: This has been kicking around in my head for awhile. Hope you enjoyed the intro. Sorry it's short. The pairings will be are the best. Thanks for reading. Much love.