Carlos was terrified. Not only was today one of their more important games, after it he'd be visiting with his family, his real family. Jay had promised not to leave him alone, but it was still scary. He pulled his tourney jersey on over a long sleeve shirt, he smirked at his number, 101. Coach had said that was how many miracles it would take for him to be an asset to the team. Carlos, Ben and Jay had practiced half to death and coach had ended up eating his words, Carlos didn't have a chance at MVP, but the team would be hurting if he didn't go play. With one last look at the mirror he left with a smile, for once he was comfortable in his own skin.

Carlos walked into the locker room for Ben's usual pre-game pep talk.

"You never get changed in here, but you always come in to check us out" Chad whined

Carlos raised his pierced brow and smirked, "I'd rather look at a road kill naked mole rat than you".

Jay was first to laugh, the rest of the locker room quickly following suit.

"You're in a good mood" Jay teased while going to stand by his boyfriend.

"Of course I am, I have my family back, I have you and we're going to kick some ass today!" Carlos grinned.

"Well fuck my pep-talk, just listen to his" Ben laughed, the rest of the team quickly joined in. Ben didn't curse often, it was always nice to be reminded that while he'd be king in a few months, he was still just a teenager like them.

"I don't have much to add, we're gonna win, they're gonna lose. That is really all there is to it!"

The team stacked their hands let out a whoop and ran from the locker room.
The game was quick and dirty, the other team was playing just as hard as they were. Ten minutes in the sky had opened up covering them all in water, then mud as the field got turned into a mud pit.

Coach called a time out, "Do we want to call the game for weather?" He asked, his team usually wouldn't play in the mud, after all they were mostly descent from royalty.

The whole team looked at Carlos, "What?" he asked confused.

Ben smiled, "You've been an inspiration for the team, everything you went through makes a tourney game seem like nothing"

"Well, in that case what are we waiting for?" Carlos yelled as thunder broke overhead. Jay held back a flinch at the noise, Carlos didn't even seem to notice it.

Coach sent them back to the field where the proceeded to run the other team into the ground, both metaphorically and literaly.

Jay ran along side Carlos right before the final score "C, go out, I'll pass to you!" He yelled over the rain. Usually Carlos would falter, the winning shot wasn't his thing, but today he did just as Jay said. He vaguely heard the stands erupt into cheers, what he did notice was Jay pulling him into a kiss that left him breathless. "We won babe" Jay laughed, "That puts us in the championships this year"

Carlos squeaked as Jay and Ben lifted him onto their shoulders, a sound that was drown out by another burst of thunder.

Mal met them at the sidelines with Anita, a man who had to be Rodger and a girl that they guessed was Ashlyn. Ben and Jay let Carlos down before Mal tackled Ben in a hug, "Babe! I'm covered in mud!" he protested. "Babe!" She mocked "I'm an Isle kid, mud means less than nothing!" That made Jay and Carlos laugh, Carlos stopped laughing when Anita pulled him into a hug as well.

"That was an awesome game, you kids have a lot of talent." Anita said, "No I don't mind a little mud either, with a herd of dogs at home I see my fair share of it. This is your father, Rodger and your sister Ashlyn. I'd suggest calling her Ash"

"This is Carlos and his boyfriend Jay." Anita told her family.

"Yeah I'd kinda guessed that from the kiss out there" Ash said with a grin. Carlos turned bright red.

"You can't talk Missy, you and Rachel were in a much more compromising position" Rodger told the girl, making her blush.

Carlos breathed a sigh of relief, at least no one in his family was going to mind him being with Jay.

"So which are the other Isle kids?" Rodger asked.

"Mal, Carlos, Jay, and that blue haired girl talking to Doug is Evie." Rodger looked surprised.

"You win love, I couldn't pick them out of a crowd." Rodger told his wife, who laughed at him and told Carlos, "He had that whole 'Isle kids are bad' thing. I told him he'd never even know which kids you were. I guess I was right"

"You're all so different from each other, I guess I expect you all to be more-" he paused as if looking for the right word.

"Evil?" Mal asked

"Broken?" Carlos said.

"Outcast?" Jay added.

"Yes to all of it, I'm ashamed to say I was thinking more like King Adam. It's been minutes and I've been proven very wrong."

All five kids smiled, "I told you daddy" Ash said, "They are just kids, like momma always told us."

"I wouldn't go that far" Mal, Jay and Carlos said together.

Anita laughed, "Why don't we go get lunch, you too Jay, Ben, Mal, our treat"

"Thanks, but I promised Mal cake when we won, and I think I better keep that promise, she does have an evil streak." Ben smiled down at Mal, who currently looked as threatening as a newborn kitten.

With a parting wave Anita, Rodger, Ashlyn, Carlos, and Jay walked down the path into the village.

Ashlyn fell a step behind her parents so she was walking next to Carlos, "I like the eyebrow, didn't think isle kids would have piercings."

Jay watched him relax as he answered, "They don't, my cousin, who I guess isn't really my cousin, did it for me. I used fishing line to keep it open, I didn't get anything to put in it until a couple months ago. I think I was the only one besides him with any piercings."

"Had to be dangerous in a fight, that'd be ripped right out." Ash said.

"No one knew he had it, fishing line was too hard to see. I didn't even notice it until he put a bone in it for a school dance." Jay said from the other side of Carlos.

"A bone?" Now Ash was curious.

"Not a real bone, it was jewelry. I like dog bones and paw prints. In the Isle I always wore black, white and red to drive Cruella even more insane. It started out to piss her off, but I actually started liking the stuff."

Ash laughed. "That sounds like something Ash would have done" Rodger said from ahead of them.

"Momma said she use to abuse you something bad, why'd you try to piss her off" Ash asked, "You don't have to answer, I'm just curious."

"She'd been abusive as long as I could remember, nothing could have made it worse, so I figured I'd have some fun with it." Carlos found he didn't mind answering questions about his past as much as he used to.

After lunch Anita suggested they go look at the village for the Descendants.

"We looked around before, you two go look at report back."

Carlos and Jay were surprised, in just one week the apartments were up as was a shop. Ben had taken their advice and left things scarce, it was all open lines of sight which made it hard for evil to lurk behind any corners. Inside the warehouse there was a huge pile of pillows, blankets and rugs. Carlos didn't even pause before running and diving into the pile head first. Ashlyn quickly joined him, while Jay just watched. "They are so much alike despite never meeting before." Jay said when Anita came to stand by him.

"I wasn't lying when I said she'd always wanted a brother." Anita grinned as the siblings started play fighting in the pillows.

Jay, Anita and Rodger talked about how the descendants would adjust and challenges they expected to face. Carlos and Ash continued to play.

Ash was trying to pin Carlos, but he was quick. She got her chance and shoved him right between the shoulder blades, he flinched, but fell forward into the blanket mountain. Ash's curiosity got the best of her, she let him flip over before she asked, "How come you have ridges on your shoulders? More piercings?"

"Nothing that cool, it's scars. Cruella called it her best artwork." Carlos thought for a second and decided sooner was better than later, "wanna see them? I mean it's not like they are going anywhere."

Ash nodded, "Call it morbid curiosity"

Carlos smiled and yanked his shirt over his head, at this point he was used to peoples looks of surprise. He turned so she could see the ridges she'd felt earlier. He jumped when she reached out to trace over one of the lines.

"Sorry" she said softly. "Momma said you had bad scars, I thought maybe like mine, I didn't expect anything like that."

"I showed you mine, you show me yours?" Carlos joked.

"Mine seem twice as stupid next to yours" she said as he pulled his shirt back on. She shoved her sleeves up to show him her forearms which were littered with thin white lines, nearly identical to those that littered his torso and arms.

"I'll let you in on a secret sis, not all of mine are from Cruella" Carlos gave her a grim smile "Jay stopped me." he shoved his left sleeve up to show her the single line that ran from inner elbow to wrist.

"How, there is no way to survive that, you'd have bled out."

"Luckily it wasn't deep enough, the blade was dull. I hit the vein in a few spots, sorta nicked it, but I didn't actually slice it up. Looking back I should have known how Jay felt after that night, it was one of the few times I've seen him cry."

The two siblings were so lost in their own conversation they missed that everyone else was staring at them.

"I've never seen her willing show her scars to anyone." Rodger commented.

"Unless she's friends with Princess Jasmines daughter and got mauled by Raj, it can't be worse than his." Jay said.

"I'd think she'd hide hers even more from him, she caused her own." Anita said.

Jay looked surprised, "Why?"

"She wanted to die, she'd gotten dumped by her first boyfriend and got depressed."

"Carlos has one scar like that, scared the life out of me. I found him laying on on the roof outside his room. He'd written a note and everything." Jay shook his head.

"Merlin, obviously he's been through a lot, what's your story?" Rodger asked.

"Jafar is my father, my mom died having me. On the Isle I was Mal's right hand and a top of the line thief. Here I'm just a tourney player who happens to be dating a certifiable genius."

Carlos choose that moment to walk over to them, Carlos had his arm slung across her shoulders, her arm was around his waist.

"Momma, can I be here when the Isle kids come?" Ash asked her mom.

"Please, I want her to meet Diego" Carlos added, he wasn't about to tell anyone, but wanted to try his hand at match maker. Ash had told him she was on the verge of dumping Rachel, but hated being single.

"I'll have to be here, I think it would be a very good idea for some kids to be here, so yes you may come with me." Anita said.

Both kids gave her a blinding smile, "oh hell, no one will ever say no to the two of them together" Jay whined.

"I don't think many people told them no anyway" Anita said.

"Nope" Carlos said, letting the 'P' pop so it echoed throughout the room. "I wonder if Ben can get a stereo for in here, or some instruments"

"Do you dance?" Ash asked.

"Sorta, it's more acrobatics than dancing."

"So like hip-hop?" She asked

"I dunno." Carlos said.

Ash pulled out her phone and flipped on a song before sitting it on the floor, she grabbed Carlos' hand and pulled him away from everything.

"Come on, I wanna see! I'll dance too" Ash moved away. Carlos didn't even try to protest, he loved dancing almost as much as he loved Jay.

"Tourney is not the right place for him. Doesn't that school have a dance squad?"

"Nope, but I think Ben might make one when the Isle kids get here. He's impressive alone you should see him in a group."

"You dance on the Isle?"

"Yeah, helps you learn how to move to escape and hide." Jay grinned.

The song came to an end and Ash scooped her phone up to put on another song. Jay smiled, he liked watching Carlos dance nearly as much as Carlos enjoyed dancing. As Ash turned Carlos took advantage of the empty space. He ran halfway up the way and flipped off it, he landed on his hands and immediately went into a series of back flips that he ended with a twist that looked like a corkscrew that left him on his feet.

"Holy shit!" Ash yelled running over to him.

Jay glanced at Anita and Rodger expecting them to complain about her language, they saw his look and laughed, "We gave up on that battle years ago, she got her mothers mouth." Rodger laughed, Anita gave him the middle finger and went back to watching the kids. Ash was gesturing wildly while Carlos nodded along. After a minute she made the song restart, this time the two danced together, Jay felt his jaw fall open. He'd never seen this routine before, so Carlos must have picked it up in the last five minutes. As the song ended again both youths came over grinning.

"You are amazing, what was that last dance?" Jay asked

"New, she just taught me it, but it was kinda like one me and Diego used to do so I picked it up quick." Carlos smiled. He was a bit awkward with Rodger and Anita, but he loved his sister to pieces already.