Ben hadn't gotten remarried or anything for 18 years. As far as he was concerned, he was still married to Mal. He still wore his wedding ring and dreamed about her. He had a bed set up in his office. He couldn't bring himself to sleep in their bed. Not alone. He missed her. He wanted her back. He had just turned 40. The entire council, and his parents, were all telling him the same thing. Ben needed to remarry and produce an heir if he wanted to keep the throne in his family. If not, then Audrey's and Chad's son, CJ, would inherit the throne on his twenty-first birthday. CJ was a good kid. He had just turned 18 and he was a hard working student. He would make a good king, if Ben didn't find Mal and their kid first.
All of the sextuplets looked completely different from one another, Besides Kol and Hunter who had the same dark brown hair. Tyler had blonde hair. Rebekah, or Bex's as she preferred to be called, had medium brown hair. Skylar was also blonde. But Victoria, or Tori as she liked to be called, had bright ginger hair much to everyone's surprise. They had just turn seventeen and Mal always thought they brought light into the compound, the same way their father had brought light into her heart. Mal could only watch and struggle as her mother taught her children how to fight and steal. She could leave her small set of rooms thanks to the blood lock Maleficent had put on the door. Anyone could come and go as they pleased apart from Mal. Maleficent had used the Evil Queen's blood to do the spell so there was no way to break it and escape.
Each sextuplet had been trained to fight and use their magic from the age of seven, with a lot of protesting from Mal. She didn't want her kids to be used as soldiers for whatever hellish war Maleficent insisted bringing to Auradon. But Mal really didn't have a choice in the matter, neither did the Sextuplets. They learnt from a young age that is they disobeyed their grandmother, Mal would be punished not them. It made it worse. So they each did as they were told. Captain Hook, Gaston and Shan Yu did all the physical training, Maleficent, Jafar and Ursula did magical and The Evil Queen, Cruella, Lady Tremine and Governor Radcliffe did everything else. They were all smart and stubborn and hated the compound. All they wanted was to be free, which wouldn't happen unless Their mother was free first. They knew they couldn't just take the Evil Queen's blood. They had to patient about it and wait for the answer to come to them. For their Mother's sake.
