This was a separate thing I wrote and was planning to publish as its own one-shot, but I finished it and decided to post it on here. It's definitely my longest one-shot to date, with about 2,000 words.

It's really sad and when I re-read it to proofread, I started crying. So hopefully you guys find it somewhat sad.

Harry watched helplessly as both Uma and Gil drifted away from him, Uma distracted constantly by her duties and thinking of ways to get off of the Isle. After the scheme with King Triton's trident had failed, she'd been getting way more distant. They never spent hours just sitting together on the beach and talking about what was happening on the Isle, no more making mischief together at Serpent Prep. She'd just hurry back to Ursula's shop during any breaks or sometimes leave class to do so, just so she'd have time to create something or whatever.

It wasn't that big of a deal at first, but then she stopped speaking to him unless it was to issue some order. At the most, she'd squeeze his shoulder when she walked past him, but there was no real interaction between the captain and first mate. Things weren't the same for him, nor was it the same for anyone. More kids were being taken to Auradon, including little Dizzy, and some other kids that Harry didn't pay attention to. The crew had turned down the chance to go to Auradon, sticking together and toughing it out despite the struggles of the Isle.

Tension began to rise between Gil and Harry, Harry's words getting harsher and Gil getting colder towards both of them.

The breaking point was one day when Harry was really ticked off at Gil, the blond had been pestering him if everything was alright. It was driving him crazy, and before he even thought about what he was doing, he turned around and yelled at Gil, "I'M FINE, NOW STOP BEING A USELESS ANNOYANCE!"

The shop went dead silent, Gil recoiling away from Harry, hurt evident on his face. He pulled his hand away, scowling. "I guess I am just useless."

Without another word, he turned and ran out of the shop. Harry frowned, rolling his eyes and turning away. "Good riddance."

He could practically feel someone's gaze on the back of his head, and there was a definite radiating feel of anger. He turned his head to look at a very ticked off Morgan, the teal-haired boy's arms crossed. His blue eyes were dark, his mouth set in a grimace as he walked over, leaning against the table to meet gazes with Harry. Harry resisted the temptation to lean away a bit. Morgan could be terrifying when he wanted to.

"You're really stupid, aren't you?" Asked Morgan quietly, a threatening undertone laced in his voice.

"What makes you say that?"

Okay, that was a bad move. Morgan's eyes narrowed and he pulled Harry up by his vest collar, standing up. Most of the crew turned away, they were rather used to Morgan and Harry having confrontations by now. Uma still watched intently, making sure she didn't need to step in. Her awareness shifted when she realized Gil was gone. She didn't see him leave, hopefully he was okay. Harry didn't screw anything up, did he?

"Did you see the look on Gil's face? Did you consider your words before you actually let them out of your mouth? Huh?" The teal-haired boy growled, grip tightening. The realization and how his own words hit Harry like ten tons of bricks.

Useless annoyance. I… I didn't mean it…

"But you did." Morgan hissed, dropping Harry onto the ground before walking away. He turned to Uma, taking his apron off and hanging it on a rusty wall hook. "I'm taking a break to look for Gil." Like I always end up doing. I don't think those two realize how much they hurt Gil.

He walked out of the shop, looking around for the familiar blond boy.

"Hey Morgan!" Ace chirped, skipping up and wrapping his arms around Morgan from the side. Morgan smiled slightly, hugging his boyfriend back.

"I'd hang out, Ace, but I need to find Gil."

The red-head raised an eyebrow. "What'd Uma and Harry do this time?"

"I don't want to get into it." Sighed Morgan, looking up at the maze of buildings and alleys ahead of them. It was going to take a while.

"Oh, yeah, speaking of missing, have you seen Jamie lately?"

"No." Morgan said, forehead creasing. "He hasn't been around the Chip Shoppe for more than a week."

"That's weird."

Morgan was going to reply, but his attention was drawn off to one of the fountains more towards the alleys, the rusted fountains still spurting out clear sea water. And there, standing in the spray, was Jamie. And Bethany. The two were laughing, leaning their foreheads against each others and their hands linked together. Jamie flicked the dark brown hair out of Bethany's face, rolling his eyes with a smile.

Ace's expression had gone to dead shock, watching the two turn to leave to separate places, but not without Bethany kissing Jamie on the cheek. Morgan's keen eyes picked up more than just that, though. Jamie was wearing a feminine outfit, his hair that was normally cast to one side and looked like half of it was shaved, was pulled into an messy braid. Jamie knelt and kissed Bethany's hand in return, pulling her into a hug, before running off back towards his house.

"Love you, Janet!" Shouted Bethany, running off somewhere else, probably back to her shadowy gang.

Morgan looked back at Ace. Said boy's eyes were glassy, his head lowered.

*time skip*

Harry watched in shock as Gil climbed in the car, hand tightly interlocked with his new girlfriend, Harry's sister CJ. Bethany and Jamie followed them, as well as Harriet and another kid… Zevon or something. His heart panged, knowing he and Uma had lost Gil to Auradon, and to CJ as well. CJ, of all people. It was as if Gil was laughing in his face, finding a girl who was obviously so much better than them. He could see the pain in Morgan's eyes, hid beneath a moody exterior.

They should have known better than to love on the Isle.

And then, when they were finally brought to Auradon, there was a huge dance. Ballroom style, romantic, both hetero and homo dates welcome and just a general fun time. It might have been great, if Gil had been there.

But when he and Uma did show up, there, walking down the aisle where the couples walked through, was Gil and CJ. His sister gripped Gil's arm, the two smiling as they walked through like all of the people who decided they wanted to be blessed as a real couple by Fairy Godmother. The tears barely contained by Uma, knowing it would smear the makeup Dizzy had ever-so-carefully applied. Watching Fairy Godmother smile at the two, saying their future held a marriage for certain. Goddamn true love.

They didn't walk down the aisle, feeling incomplete without the blond sunshine boy who had meant so much to them.

The pain stung more than ever for Ace and Morgan when Jamie and Bethany danced on stage before kissing in the moonlight as the students let out catcalls.

When they finally confronted him about it, the two were absolutely heartbroken. Ace stepped forward, betrayal and hurt lacing his voice as he placed one hand on Jamie's shoulder. "Jamie, why'd you… never tell us, you knew how we felt.."

Jamie slapped his hand away, glaring bitterly at the two people who had once been their entire world. The closeness between the two had left Jamie feeling pushed away, and then they turned Jamie away for real. Jamie knew she was a freak, and she had only one person she could turn to. Bethany. She'd helped him, accepting her and willing to put aside their differences. She convinced her there was no need to be a boy… the only reason was because he got treated badly, being called a failure by many pirates from Captain Jack's crew. A female pirate was worth nothing.

It wasn't true, but it hurt so badly. Jamie had been disillusioned, and she helped Jamie when no one else would.

"It's Janet now. Like it should have been."

The dead shock on their faces stung, but Jamie, no, Janet, didn't care. She ran, never looking back at the life that could have been the best thing in her world.

There was a similar confrontation between the former Sea Three, but with a very different outcome. Gil's gaze dropped, his tone pitiful. "Maybe we weren't meant to be."

Those were the last words that Harry and Uma ever heard Gil say to them. For within the next week, they went on a risky expedition to find several missing royal kings and queens from Auradon, saying they would do whatever it took to prove that her crew belonged. They didn't want the hopes of so many to be ruined. That confrontation was the subject of their last talk, as the storms rose. And with the storm rose waves that devoured the ship underneath dark waters.

Gil's hands shook as he read the letter that was in his hands, tears blotching the neatly-printed ink.

On Tuesday the twenty-seventh, all members of the recovery mission aboard the ship known as Dawn's Hope were killed in a freak storm on the ocean. The members known aboard the ship were Evie Queen, Morgan M., Ace Hearts, Chad Charming, Uma T., Harry Hook, Carlos De Vil, Zevon I., and Shayden Khan.

There has been no remains of the ship found, and no clue as to whether the royals were ever rescued.

"Kai? Are you alright?"

The boy didn't answer, too numb to feel anything as he stared down at the name ending the list.

As you may know, the heroes in question were unaware of the approaching storm. Only a few of their bodies were found, and there is no sign of the rest except for a few of their belongings. The items in question have been returned to the people who were closest to the hero.

Janet's hands closed around the golden woven bracelet that she had found and given to Ace, back when she had been known as Jamie.

A memorial has been set up to honor their deaths. We offer our condolences to those close to them, and we wish that your lives may eventually get better.

Sincerely,

The government of Auradon.

Heartbreak echoed across Auradon that day, but the true remorse burned in Gil's heart.

He placed his head in his hands, wishing the pain wasn't real. He could still see their smiling faces, hear their voices. They were so close, but so far. Calling out to him, begging him to help them, drowning and crushed in wreckage. The last words he said, the ones that had jinxed them and taken away the lives of so many who had a happy future still rung in his head.

He heard them as Doug gave up, without Evie's support and her brilliant smile, without her kind and truly beautiful personality to stay beside him. Another broken promise, and the loss of the only person who ever cared. He heard them as Chad's family draped the castle in black, his mother lamenting behind her dark veil. He heard them as Jay wept. Li'l Shang, Mal and Lonnie beside him as they struggled not to break down themselves.

He heard them as he looked at the caskets that held Shayden, Ace, Morgan and Zevon. As Janet gripped Bethany's hand tightly, the daughter of Blackbeard struggling not to break down at the pain of so many that surrounded her. As CJ stood beside him, stone-faced and stiff in an attempt to appear nonchalant. As Kai never appeared, no one had found him yet with the empty pill bottle beside his limp form in the dorm he once shared with his boyfriend.

But most importantly, when he was alone with only his thoughts and hopelessness pounded like a restless tempo. It was so hard not to give up, because he knew what he had done. The pain that must have torn into Harry and Uma, and what he didn't know. He didn't know that the two spent their final moments thinking that without them, things would be better. With their deaths, Gil could be free and happy, without them holding him down.

One yell that tore apart everything and all the foundations the Sea Three had built. And the single hopeless sentence that gave the Sea Three no reason to live, that must have been true.

Maybe they really weren't meant to be.

Excuse me while I just... *whale noises*

Well... let me know you thought, and... yeah... bye... I guess.

*crying in hole*