Disclaimer: I own nothing
Pairing: Jay/Mal, allusions to Ben/Mal, Evie/Mal/Jay/Carlos and lots of other pairings.
WARNINGS: HEED THE WARNINGS. LIKE HOLY SHIT HEED THEM PLEASE. This is not a Disney approved story and REALLY AU. The following may be triggers, so please heed them: dark, angst, multiple shipping, possessiveness, abuse, torture, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, morally corrupt characters, underage sex, vaginal sex, oral sex, fingering, blood, fire, fighting, manipulation, scheming, world domination, little villains doing villainous things, magic, death, character death and general everything evil. Tags will be added but just BE WARNED THAT THIS STORY IS DARK.
Author's note: The title of the story comes from the song 'Evil like me.' I do not own that either. The title of this chapter is from Kanye West's song 'Monster.' Any mistakes are mine and mine alone. Also, might need a little suspension of belief/disbelief for this chapter. It gets dark and diverts from movie-canon.
This is not for us to ponder (this was pre-ordained)
ii. You could be king (but watch the queen conquer)
And underneath the dark waters, I will show you the real me
Bless the waves – The Deer Tracks
"I don't like the way he looks at you." Jay whispers in her ear as they make their way into Auradon Prep.
Mal glares at the people who stare back at her. She was right, they all were, Auradon is filled with princes and princesses who have never seen a hard day's work in their life. And they're the ones who look at them with distaste. As if they're vermin that are polluting their perfect halls and uprooting their perfect lives. Mal wonders what the look on their faces will be once they finally take over.
"Yeah, well I don't like the way you look at Audrey." She says the name with disgust, eyes rolling, because Audrey oozes pathetic and insecurity. On the other, maybe she could have fun with her. Tear her down until there's nothing left and the façade the other girl works so hard to keep, destroyed.
"You jealous, my queen?"
"Are you?" She counters, cocking an eyebrow at him.
Carlos fakes gagging. "I'm going to puke."
Evie giggles and shrugs her shoulders at Mal, when Mal glares at her. "It's funny." Evie clears her throat and the four of them stand up straight when they walk into the foyer, only to meet the Fairy Godmother.
(God. They couldn't make this easier for them even if they tried.)
Evie and Carlos have made themselves scarce, Evie dragging Carlos to their room, leaving Jay to Mal's anger.
Mal doesn't bother to contain it, she lets her frustration show in the way she slams the oak door shut, uncaring if the walls shake and people wake. They're in for a rude awakening anyways. They would have had one sooner. Quite possibly now. She turns her glare to Jay who is laying on the bed, hands clasped across his stomach, eyes trained towards the ceiling and body tired, drained.
She feels the anger dissipate from her body. He looks young here. He looks like he did all those years ago when she first met him. "You fucked up." She tells him, leaning against the table, arms crossed but her fingers trailing the red gem on her necklace.
"Yeah." He agrees. He shrugs and tilts his head to the side, just enough so he can stare at her. "I just wanted you to have the wand."
It's instinct, she thinks, the way she takes off her boots and the way she sheds her leather jacket, the purple a stark contrast to the gleaming hardwood. She toes off her socks, tugs off her pants and crawls into the space next to him. (Even without his knowledge, he always makes room for her.)
"It's for us." She reminds him quietly as she turns her body and tucks herself into his side. His body heat immediately warming her. "The wand, the power, it's for us. Not just for me."
She thinks about her mother and everything she told her, everything she said and even as her mother said it, Mal knows that it will never be herself and her mother. It will never be an equal share. No. At least with Jay, Evie and Carlos, Mal knows where she stands. Mal knows the love in their heart for one another. Mal has seen their heartbreak, she has watched them cry and go hungry and she will do everything in her power to right was done wrong to them.
We are not our parents, she thinks, her hands trailing a familiar path across Jay's body as he maneuvers himself atop of her, we're worse.
She kisses him and silences her mind for the rest of the night.
The Fairy Godmother is too hopeful that they're changing and Jane is an imbecile.
It's almost too easy and Mal laughs when she realizes that it really is this easy.
The boys room is bigger than theirs so Mal and Evie often spend their days and nights in their room, the beds big enough to fit two to a bed. It's no question where Mal goes and she and Evie often spend the night staring at each other from across their place in bed and whispering back and forth until Jay groans and Carlos tells them to shut-up. They'll laugh as quietly as they can and bury themselves under their respective blankets and it feels just like home.
When Carlos comes bounding into their room without Jay, Mal knows something is wrong. It's only when she hears Evie's light shriek does she whip her head around and her eyes narrow on the small squirming and barking dog in Carlos' arms. "Is that a dog?"
Carlos nods eagerly. "They aren't rabid beasts like mom said!" He says it like it's a revelation and Mal barely has time to comprehend that he thinks this is the first thing his mother has ever lied to him about.
"Color me surprised that your mother lied." Mal mutters, sticking her tongue out at Carlos when he crosses his eyes at her.
"He's so cute!" Evie is imitating a high-pitched voice that's laced with sugar sweetness and Mal wants to vomit. She's heard that type of voice. It litters the hallways of Auradon Prep. "What's his name?"
"Dude."
Evie blinks and Mal snorts. "Did you name him?"
Carlos shakes his head. "No, it's the school dog."
Mal's legs that were propped on Evie's desk come falling down with a thud. She can feel the vibration from under her feet as her boots make rough contact with the hardwood. Evie grimaces and continues petting the dog. The fucking school dog. She can practically smell and see the love and affection the dog has been given, how it curls into Carlos' arms, as if it has any right being there. And isn't this just the fucking funniest thing she's ever seen? A dog that has been and likely will be treated better than they were.
She wants to rip into Carlos and ask him what the hell he's thinking. She wants to ask him what possessed him to accept anything from the people here. She wants to ask him if he's forgotten who he is, who they are and the reason they're here.
Just as she opens her mouth, Evie silences her with a glare, telling her with her eyes to shut the fuck up and don't say a word because Carlos is finally happy.
And he is, Carlos is happy, sitting on the floor with Dude running laps around him, laughing as the dog licks his face. Mal still wants to vomit. "That's nice." She manages through gritted teeth.
Carlos laughs, as if knowing how difficult this is for Mal (he does and the little bastard enjoys watching her squirm.) "Thanks Mal."
Her eyes glance towards the door and frowns when she realizes that Jay still hasn't come through the door yet, huffing and puffing from their first practice. "Where's Jay?"
Carlos looks up at her and his eyes immediately cloud over, biting his lip. "Well," he starts, letting one of his hands fall to the side as Dude licks at his fingers and the other hand running through his hair. "Coach took Jay aside and was helping him practice. He's helping him with team building or something like that. Ben was helping me when Dude started chasing me and the rest is history."
Mal blinks. "Team building?"
Carlos nods slowly, as if realizing he'd given something away. "The team. We made the team and the coach is helping Jay become part of the team."
Mal gets up, hands curled into fists and body shaking with barely restrained anger. The team. The fucking team. It's one thing to practice, because Mal knew they were forced, it's another entire thing to willingly spend more time than necessary to become part of the fucking team with the people they despise and not tell her about it. She stomps across the room and yanks the door open, letting it slam against the wall and hearing it swing back as soon as she steps over the threshold.
"…I thought she knew." Carlos' voice sneaks out.
"Jay didn't say anything." Evie replies, before their voices are silenced by the closing of the door.
He didn't tell me a fucking thing, Mal repeats over and over again in her mind.
(The darkest voice in the darkest part of her mind says cruelly, are you that surprised?)
She sees Audrey standing in front of Jay's door with Jay standing in the threshold, leaning against it with a lazy smile on his face.
The anger that was simmering underneath the surface comes boiling over, and she wants to rip Audrey's hair out of her head and then watch her as she burns in dragon-fire. God. It's not the first time since she's comes to Auradon Prep that she wishes her mother made good on her threat and destroyed that fucking family long ago.
But no, Mal thinks, instead you failed Mother. And I will succeed where you didn't.
She steps between them, cutting off their conversation. "Leave." Mal tells Audrey.
"Excuse me?" Audrey acts indignant; her voice shrill with offense and Mal briefly wonders how her screams will sound like.
"I said," Mal repeats, tapping her feet and rolling her eyes at the fucking stupidity of these people, "leave. Or are you just stupid? Do you not comprehend what I'm saying?"
"Mal." Jay says without finishing. She can almost feel his hands hovering over the small of her back.
Mal turns around, putting her palms on his chest and pushing him back into the room. She turns back around and shoots Audrey a fake smile. "If you'll excuse us, I need to talk to Jay. Friend-to-friend." She doesn't bother waiting for Audrey to answer, instead shutting the door in her face, hoping that it breaks her fucking nose.
Jay just laughs at her when she stalks towards him. "Jealous much?"
"Congratulations on making the fucking team, Jay." Mal spits out.
The smile falls from his face and he looks uncomfortable (it's the first time since forever that he looks uncomfortable in her presence and that hurts more than anything.) "It's just a thing."
"A thing?" She asks incredulously, "a fucking thing? That's it, huh? Just a thing."
"Why are you getting so worked up about it?"
"Because you already have a fucking team, Jay!" She shrieks at him, hitting him the chest and pushing him towards the wall. "You have Carlos and Evie and me. We're a team. Not Ben. Not Coach and most certainly not fucking Audrey." She's breathing heavily and she can tell that her eyes are wild, hair all over the place and body shaking.
He grabs hold of her shoulders and turns her, pressing her against the wall. "I don't want Audrey. She's a joke. It's you, Mal. Just you. Always you."
"Prove it." She challenges him and she's almost (almost, not quite) ashamed at how needy, how her voice cracks and sounds almost pleading.
(He presses her against the wall harder until the groves make marks on her body and he makes a permanent mark on her soul. It's needy and desperate, mouths glued together to quiet their noises and God, this is it. This is what she needs. This is what she craves and she thinks she could live off of him and this. She thinks she would abandon their plans to take over if it meant that she, Jay, Evie and Carlos could just leave somewhere no one knows them. She holds him closer, wrapping her legs around his waist and quietly sobs into his mouth as his eyes never stray from hers. Mine, he whispers across her sweat-matted skin, mine, mine. Mineminemine. My Queen.)
She finds his stash of stolen lamps in one of his drawers and she looks at him from over her shoulder, eyebrow cocked and he shrugs, leaning against the headboard, crossing his arms over his chest. "It's a hard habit to kick." He confesses. "I always think that if I find one with a genie, my father will…" He trails off, instead giving her a smile that is all heartbreak and no happiness.
Mal feels her throat close up as she slips on his shirt and closes the drawer, making her way to the bed and crawling into the empty spot next to him.
"Do you ever think about your mother?" He asks her.
"Not kind thoughts." She tells him truthfully. Jay is no stranger to her rants against her mother and he knows out of everyone what Mal is willing to do to get her mother out of her life once and for all. "Is being on the team important to you?" She swallows the bile in her throat.
"It's not the team so much as this is something I think I can be good at." He looks down at her and gives her a smirk. "When we take over, let's create some blood sports. That'll be fun."
Mal lets out a bark of laughter before muffling it with the blankets, a weight lifting from her chest at his words. She curls into him more, folding her legs between his, intertwining their bodies until she doesn't know where he begins and she ends. "When we take over, I'll bring you all the lamps in the world." She promises him.
"You didn't think to tell me this sooner?" Mal asks as Evie tells her about the coronation.
"Well," Carlos says, his hands running through Dude's fur. Mal scrunches her nose. She's still not too fond of the dog, of animals in general, but he makes Carlos happy and Mal shuts her mouth, "realistically, how would you even be invited to the front row?"
"I'd find a way." Mal tells him.
Carlos gives her half a smile and Evie is flipping through a chemistry book nonchalantly. Mal frowns, right. She needs to talk to Evie about this because frankly, Mal is sick and tired of seeing fucking Chad Charming use her friend and she's sick and tired of watching Evie spend all night with her head in a book that doesn't belong to her and doing homework that isn't even hers. (She thinks Chad could have been great at being evil if his parents weren't who they are.)
Her musings are interrupted by a knock on the door and she marches the short way to the door and yanks it open. She stops short, seeing the Ben the Prince, the to-be King on the other side. She still wants to snarl at him. She's not stupid. She sees the way he looks at her and decidedly not at his girlfriend Audrey and as much as she likes getting under Audrey's skin, taking her sloppy seconds is not something that Mal wants or needs.
"Can we help you?" She can tell that Jay stands to attention when he sees it's Ben at the door and she knows his hatred of Ben still hasn't wavered. In fact, it's Jay who reminds her of the way Ben looks at her. It's Carlos who glances worriedly at her and Evie who cocks her head and stares at her, asking are you okay? Do you need anything?
They say we and us to let everyone else know that it will always be them versus the rest of the world.
"I was just checking in on you guys." He says and Mal can tell that he looks a bit confused as to why she and Evie are in Jay and Carlos' room. "Just wanted to see if you needed anything."
"No." Mal says shortly. She can hear Jay snort behind her and Evie choke back a sigh.
Evie's words come rushing back at her. "Wait!" Mal calls out. "Is it true we're going to be attending your coronation?"
"The whole kingdom is invited." Ben actually looks excited for it and Mal almost (almost, but not quite) feels bad for him.
"Any chance we can be…you know…front row?" She bats her eyelashes and hates every single minute of it.
He laughs and looks at her with kind eyes that she wants to gouge out. "I'm sorry. Only my parents, the Fairy Godmother and my girlfriend are allowed in the front."
Oh. Oh. Of course. Mal's inside twists as her mind races. "Really. How interesting. Okay, bye!" Without letting him finish, she slams the door in his face and leans against it, brows scrunched and hands balled into fists as she racks her brain to find something other than this.
Evie gets up quickly, her chair toppling over and uncaring at the sound it makes (they were born to make noise, they were born to shake things up). "What's wrong?"
"Give me my book." Mal says and catches it when Carlos throws it at her.
She's rummaging through it, eyes trying to find the spell she gave a cursory glance to earlier that day, huffing and rolling her eyes as Evie gushed about the possibilities.
"What are you looking for?" Jay asks, his voice doesn't betray anything but it makes Mal look up nonetheless. She knows that he knows what she's thinking before she even has to voice it.
"A love spell."
Jay's eyes close, Evie bows her head and Carlos stares at her as if asking 'have we really come to this?'
And the thing is, they've come this far, they're so close that Mal can almost taste it, so yes, she will do everything possible. Even if it means putting up with the personification of Goodness.
And Audrey's sloppy seconds.
Fuck.
Lonnie is annoying and Mal's itching to snap her neck when she gushes about mother's love and warm chocolate chip cookies. She almost wants to tell her that Carlos' mother used to beat and torture him until Mal did the exact same thing to her. She wants to tell Lonnie that Evie's mother only uses her as a fucking potential breeding bag. She wants to tell her that Jay doesn't even have a mother and she wants to tell her that her mother has groomed her to be the epitome of evil. She wants to tell her that they were trained to become the epitome of evil. That she has become the epitome of evil. Mal will surpass her mother and she will do it with a twisted smile on her face and her three partners by her side.
They know the love of each other, but they do not and will not know parental love.
But at this moment, Mal has never been so thankful for the sob story of their life that apparently was so heartbreaking it makes Lonnie genuinely cry.
(People are so sensitive in Auradon.)
Jay scores the winning goal, which isn't a surprise.
The spell works, which also, isn't a surprise, because hello? She's Mal and she's the best at what she does. However, the spell works a bit too well because Ben is attempting to serenade her and asking her to the coronation in front of everyone and she forces a smile and forces herself not to look at Jay as she responds affirmatively in the most perky voice she has, which isn't perky at all and sounds like she's a dying cat.
And then Audrey announces that she's going with Chad and Mal knows there's a special place reserved for Audrey and Chad in hell. (And she knows this because Helen, Hades and Persephone's daughter is eager to get her hands on more souls to damn in the River of the Weeping.)
She doesn't have time to pay attention to Ben or Jay as they celebrate. Instead, she puts her arm around Evie and tells her that she's better than Chad and she's a hundred times better than Audrey. Because where Audrey is shallow and lives off her family name, Evie has made a name for herself. Audrey may be a princess through birth, but Evie will be Queen.
Evie smiles, and it doesn't quite reach her eyes, but she leans her head against Mal's. "When we take over," she says quietly, almost so quiet that Mal doesn't hear, "I want to watch them burn."
Mal lets out a laugh and it's almost like a cackle that gets the attention of those around her. "That will definitely be arranged."
If she were that gullible, she could find herself falling for Ben. He has the looks. The blonde hair, blue eyes, dimples. He's the type of guy an evil girl could go good for.
But Mal is not just a typical evil girl. And honestly, blonde hair and blue eyes, just don't do it for.
But she can't exactly let him drown, not when they're so close and what idiot swims when there's a chance of drowning? Right. The same idiot that attempts to save a to-be king for her own reasons and has it turned around that she cares for him.
Sometimes, she wonders if the people of Auradon are really this trust-worthy or if it's just this idiot.
(And God help Auradon, if he actually succeeds in getting the crown. Because who would trust a boy with a kingdom, when his first proclamation was to give the children of the worst villains a second chance at a life that was never theirs?)
They don't know how to swim but in the dark of the night, she grabs Evie, Carlos and Jay and sneaks back through the familiar paths to the river. The moon shines brightly and the water looks black and ominous. Mal knew it would be more inviting at night.
"This is where he took you for your first date?" Evie asks, a grin making its way to her face. "How romantic!"
Carlos shucks off his shoes and dips his feet in the water. "It's warm!" He calls out, his voice echoing in the night. Evie follows him and sits on the ledge, their feet splashing in the water and giggling.
She looks to the side and notices Jay lingering on a pillar, his eyes staring at the night sky. She makes her way to him and wraps her arms around his waist. "You good?"
He nods, still not saying anything. "You good?"
She nods.
"We're great." Evie calls out teasingly. "Come and join us!"
Mal and Jay take off their boots and socks, rolling up their pants and takes their seat next to Evie, talking about everything and nothing, the sounds of their laughter echoing in the night with the moon and stars as their only witness.
"When we take over," Carlos speaks up, tying his laces, "let's keep this place. Just for us."
"Just for us." Mal promises.
She won't lie, there are times when she thinks their hearts aren't in it anymore. There are times where she wakes up at night, terrified that she will have to do this alone. There are times when the thought of not having them by her side causes her so much physical pain, she wishes she could die.
She doesn't ever ask them about their resolution in their plan. She never questions their loyalty to each other because she's terrified that if she pulls on that thread, everything she knows and love will come apart, so she says nothing and instead lets their actions and words speak for them.
She sees the love Carlos has for Dude. She sees the way Evie is falling for Doug and she sees the way Jay feels like he's part of a team, part of a family he never had and she wants to scream that she's their family. She wants to remind Carlos that she beat the shit out of his mother. She wants to remind Evie that before Chad and Doug, she was the one that Evie loved. She wants to remind Jay that she is his and he is hers and that's how it always was and always will be.
(The Fairy Godmother and her pathetic excuse of a gift doesn't make going home to their parents any better.)
So, there are nights where Mal loses sleep over the three people she loves most in the world. There are times when Mal does truly think that in the end it'll only be her.
But then she meets Audrey's Grandmother and shit hits the fan.
She has never wanted to rip someone's throat like she wants to rip out Chad's and she thinks, alone or not, he's getting what's coming to him, when he puts his hands on Evie.
No one puts their hands on Evie and should expect to live. No one.
Evie's broken voice, calling out to Doug who is too cowardly to go to her, almost breaks Mal and she vows again that Auradon will burn and she will be the one to burn it.
Jay meets her eyes after she undoes Jane's hair and restrains herself from doing more. "From the inside out." He repeats her words back to her.
Mal nods, eyes hard and mind reeling. She glances at Evie who is absently rubbing a blooming bruise and her blood boils. She was almost (almost) going to be merciful; toying with the idea of throwing them onto an island with a barrier, just to see what excommunication feels like. Instead, she's going to stick with her original plan, the hatred in her growing at a rapid rate that it almost (almost, but not quite) overcomes her.
She's going to burn this fucking place from the inside out.
(And from the ashes, they will reign.)
In the end, it's Jane (poor, stupid and insecure Jane) who makes it so incredibly easy for Mal.
In the chaos of Jane grabbing her mother's wand and unable to actually wield it, Mal grabs it, looks over her shoulder and sees Evie, Jay and Carlos race from their spot.
The crowd collectively gasps, hands going to their hearts and Mal rolls her eyes, spinning the wand between her fingertips.
"Give me the wand." The Fairy Godmother says, her voice strong but it's her eyes that betray her uneasiness.
"Mal," Ben starts, making his way to her but he's blocked. Jay's towering in black and red, a fingerless glove against the Prince's (once-to-be-king's) chest and pushes him back to his parents.
"Don't even fucking go there." Jay snarls, as he steps back, taking his spot next to Mal who stands shoulder to shoulder with Evie and Carlos.
"I knew it!" Audrey screeches, tears running down her face. "I knew there was something off about you guys."
The scene is entirely too similar but Mal doesn't have the patience to deal with it.
"You are not your parents." Ben tries again.
"You're right." Carlos says, "We're not."
"We're nothing like our parents." Evie agrees. "Because where our parents failed, we won't."
"We've lived in their shadows. We learned from their mistakes. We're the rotten ones." Jay adds. "We're better than our parents and we have you to thank for that."
The king thunders and roars but the four of them don't even blink.
"You banished our parents to an island with nothing." Mal says, her voice hard, "you ignored our existence for twenty fucking years and you expect us be thankful that you've just remembered the people you sentenced to die? You expect us to be thankful over a fucking charity project? Has anyone in Auradon ever gone hungry? Has anyone in Auradon seen a dead body, rotting and decomposing? Has anyone in Auradon suffered?"
"Your parents made ours suffered!" Chad speaks, spit spewing from his mouth.
Evie rounds on him, "So you sentence us to suffer a thousand times over?" She scoffs, "No. No. You have no idea what we're capable of."
"You should have chosen four other villains." Carlos tells them. "Who wouldn't have the balls to do what we've been planning since we were kids."
"I knew you were just like her." Audrey's Grandmother says, stepping forward.
"Why, thank you!" Mal's head whips around to see her mother leaning against her specter. "Long time no see, your majesty. You've aged horribly. You should really see to your wrinkles." She turns her eyes to Mal. "You could have done without the speech, darling. Give me the wand."
Mal narrows her eyes. "No."
Maleficent's eyes harden. "No?"
"No." Mal repeats, her voice rising as she steps forward, her hand curling around the wand, a spell on the tip of her tongue.
("Are you sure?" Jay asks her, as she tells him what she plans to do.
"I've never been more sure of anything."
"You can't take it back once it's done." Carlos reminds her.
"I won't want to take it back. If we're going to do this, it has to be done."
"It's rule or be ruled." Evie agrees. "Do it.")
"Wasn't it you, mother," Mal continues, "who said that as soon as I get my hands on the wand, that's when our reign will begin?"
"Ours." Snaps Maleficent. "Yours and mine."
"But you knew, deep down that this was never meant to be yours and mine. It was always meant to be ours." Mal says, pointing to Evie, Carlos and Jay who never leave her side.
"If you think I won't destroy you to get the crown that rightfully belongs to me," Maleficent says, dropping her spectre, her body contorting until a roar erupts from her and is halfway into transforming into the dragon, all black and purple with eyes glowing green, "than you're wrong!" when Mal points the wand, flicks her wrist and watches as her mother shrinks and shrinks and shrinks until she's a tiny little half-human, half-lizard and oh-so pathetic. How the mighty fall, Mal tells herself.
"If you think I'm so weak as to not kill you. Than you're wrong." Mal counters, her heart thudding as Jay runs and slides, grabbing the spectre and throwing it to Mal who catches with her free hand. A spell works her way through her lips, freezing her mother in place. "You taught me everything I know but do you know what I'll always remember? I'll always remember how to be better than you." She grins and it's as malicious and spiteful as she knew it was going to be. She can see everyone take a step back and it's the fear in their eyes that fuels her adrenaline. "Be sure to tell Helen I'll see her soon."
With one hand on her spectre, the other on the wand, she utters a curse, making the Fairy Godmother gasp with horror as her mother goes up in smoke. She can feel the heat from the fire and hear the strangled and garbled shrieks of her mother, the smell of her charred flesh, both dragon and human, so revolting it causes most in the castle to vomit and scream.
But not Mal, Evie, Carlos or Jay. They stand resolute and side-by-side.
They reach the dais, the entire castle quiet as the King, Queen, Ben and the Fairy Godmother kneel before them, bonds tying their hands and feet together. Ben and his father are struggling against their bonds but the Queen stays regal, back straight, eyes forward, as if accepting that this will be her last moment. And it will be. The Fairy Godmother meanwhile stares at them with hurt and betrayal but she does nothing. She can't, because without her wand, the Fairy Godmother is useless.
(In the distance, Mal can hear Jane cry, scream and wail against the magical barrier but it won't break. Because Mal is the best at what she does.)
"You know," Mal says softly, eyes staring Ben in the face, "your father was right about one thing. This," she gestures around her, "is all your fault." She turns to the Fairy Godmother, "guess we failed your lesson, huh?"
They don't use magic; instead they use daggers and carve out their hearts.
With bloodied hands, Mal grabs the wand and points it to the ceiling, "Long Live Evil!" Magic shoots from the wand and shatters the rest of the barrier to the Isle of the Lost and bridge becomes visible, connecting the two islands.
(In the distance, they can hear their friend's voices as they come stomping closer and closer to Auradon, "Long Live Evil!" "Evil Lives!" "Burn it down!")
Mal conjures four thrones and four identical crowns and together they take a seat, four carved out hearts at their feet.
Jay leans in towards her and whispers in her ear, "my Queen, welcome to your kingdom."
"Our kingdom." She corrects.
(Because this is just the beginning.)
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