So before we get to Dark's notes and the chapter I wanted to do a shout out roll call to bring in the new year, so in no particular order, we personally want to thank Dobby (For starting the trend of posting on every chapter and particpating in the fanart request, and letting us know this rewrite is better than the original), FC (For always giving us such in-depth reviews and such hard core support. We really appreciate how much you pour into your responses fuck knows that takes you a good chunk of your time.), Devin (our beautiful fantastic beta for taking time out to make this story even better), QuintBrit (For the Legends comment specifically, character dev is our life), Ghostofasmile (For loving our Dude intro rewrite), DJ (for taking the time), MusikSoul1388 (Firstly We hate us too, secondly thank you for coming back to us even though we left you on such a shit hanger), NotLD (For taking the time to drop a line or two especially cause your not someone who typically reviews) and even though you aren't on this book yet, thank you BookxWormxPrincess (For posting so consistantly, and for not killing us for where we left our Pie Series) And to you random guests dropping us a line, we appreciate you guys too.
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Happy New Year Descendants!
2020! Heres hoping it's a year of growth, learning, challenges, and of course, writing. :D
Right now Twisted and I are hanging out because our husbands are both working through the AM. So lucky you, we're posting early. My poor cats are freaking out because of all the fireworks going off around us. We hope you're having a great start to the new year, no matter how you celebrate.
And now... the chapter :)
Are you excited to see what's waiting for the core four in their rooms?
-Dark-
"Oh shit." Jay closes his eyes as he tilts his head to the side, "Fucking seriously?"
Carlos freezes in the door frame, "How?"
Roy steps up to look over Carlos' shoulder and past Jay, "You guys never lock your door," he rolls his eyes, "That's how. David, you might not want to see this man."
David sighs, "But I better." He pushes past the boys into the room. His eyes widen before he turns and takes Carlos by the shoulder. "Do not touch any of it."
"I swear we didn't do it." Carlos pleads as he turns into David's hold.
"I know that. I do. And for so many reasons this is annoying." David quickly tries to assure Carlos, "Just- Just don't clean or organize it." He pulls the boy into his side, "Jay, pack a bag for him please." he walks out of the room, doing his best to keep Carlos from looking back.
"Uh, yeah. I can do that." Jay sighs as he looks around.
"I'll pack the station and COD." Roy offers.
Jay picks up his sports bag to empty it, only to set it down and step back when he finds a pile of jewelry on top. "Fuck man." He groans and turns, "David!"
"Huh." Roy blinks. "Fuck someone really has it out for the four of you."
David peeks back into the room, "Sup Jay?"
"It's fucking everywhere. My gym bag," He carefully looks into Carlos' backpack, "His backpack." He shakes his head.
"Doug's got this." Roy shoves his hands in his pocket. "He's a boy scout. Kid's got bags everywhere. I'm sure he won't mind us borrowing a few of em."
"Good plan Roy. Jay get out here 'till we come back with bags. This shit is lolo."
Jay sighs as he walks out of the room, "Why?" He shakes his head.
"What did we do wrong?" Carlos shakes his head as he leans back against the wall, clutching and twisting the hem of his shirt.
"Nothing." David assures them, his eyes hardening as he looks back in the room before he grabs them both by the shoulder, "Look at me. This is important." Carlos instantly looks him in the eyes, but Jay takes a little longer to look away from the mess in the room, "You did nothing wrong. Nothing." He squeezes their shoulders, "Some people are just ignorant bigots. Best thing you can do in this situation is not rise to their bait." He pulls out his phone when it vibrates. "Okay. Fuck this." He responds as he plays with his phone. "New plan, we're stopping at the mall. Just getting you guys new shit for now. Girls can't get in their room either. Roy. Quickly go grab your green and let's get the hell out of this place."
Roy's eyes widen, "Seriously?"
"Yeah, you're clearly not an actual target. Nani says she found all the missing answer sheets. And I'm not going to be here for Doug's panic attack when he finds out cops are going to be investigating your room."
"Brah! Thank you." Roy shakes his head before he takes off down the hall.
David sighs before he dials a number and holds it up to his ear.
"Green?" Jay asks with a raised brow.
"It's an herb that gets you high and makes you cough a lot when you smoke it," Carlos explains with a shrug.
David chuckles as he holds a finger to his lips, "FG, we got a problem. We're just taking them with us and leaving their rooms the way we found them. Someone is setting these kids up hardcore. But luckily for us, they don't know these kids enough to know how they should've done it. They must not have had a lot of time, but I'm pretty sure there's more than two of them. Yeah, we can cover it. Yes, I'm sure Hiro will come to help. Kokami, I can even bring in a retired member of the CIA if you want, and we can cut through all this bullshit quicker. No, I didn't just swear in front of the kids. Are you sure? He's one of the best investigators, and he's already involved. Okay. But if they can't figure out it wasn't them on their own I'm bringing him in. We have a weird ohana, okay. And this isn't right."
Jay and Carlos look at each other in confusion before they mouth the letters.
"Central intelligence agency." David supplies after he hangs up his phone. "It's my government's version of spies."
"Oh." Carlos blinks. "That seems a bit excessive."
"So was this set up." David frowns. "If someone's going to thrust their weight around, might as well let them know who's supporting you."
"Thanks for believing us," Jay says as he looks down at his feet.
"Of course brah." David nods as he texts a warning to Doug. He looks up when he hears Roy rushing back towards them. "Got everything brah?"
"Got it or flushed it." Roy grimaces as he holds up a bag.
"Nice. Now put it away." David nods in approval. "And let's go meet the girls."
I don't know if you've heard yet,
but things are crazy right now.
I swear we didn't do anything.
We're safe.
We're with David and Nani.
I know you guys didn't do this.
Your tags are completely different.
And I have more faith in your stealth,
and thievery skills than this.
Glad you guys are safe and with them.
I'll come and join you once I take
care of the mess Doug and Lonnie
got themselves into this morning.
Be careful who sees your faith in my skills.
Glad you can tell the difference
between art and trash.
What mess?
Seems both of them cracked under
the pressure of being perfect children
and students and went on a spree of
vandalism and thievery this past week,
to rebel against their parent's expectations.
And of course I can. Your art is very unique
To you. They didn't even get the cape right.
Jordan is having a field day.
Not them too!
What is with you damn HKs?
Roy's already with us cause he
couldn't keep his damn mouth shut.
You should keep your distance though.
You're the prince and need to be seen.
HKs? Hero Kids?
Yes, hero kids. What the fuck is
wrong with all of you?
We have friends worth fighting for,
don't be dumb Mal. :p
You're dumb!
Seriously though.
You should still stay away.
Dumb for you maybe. ;)
And I refuse. I will see you soon.
I need you to trust me.
There's no way I'm letting this go.
Though admittedly It's going to be
a very lonely couple of days at our table.
I do trust you Ben.
I just don't want this to make
things harder for you.
Or the goal.
That means a lot to me Mal, I know how
hard-earned it is.
It's not like we weren't expecting
something like this. I promise
This is nothing I can't handle.
Besides, C without a doubt is going
to get cleared once Hiro
shows up. And then we'll have a
better idea of who did this.
And by the time this is over, we can
spin this to help our goal. No worries.
It just might take some time.
Be careful.
If something like this happened
On the isle, we'd be waiting for
The other boot to fall.
I will be.
And luckily this isn't the isle and
you have the support of those who trust you.
We'll figure this out together.
I promise.
If it helps, my mom is livid
on all your behalfs. Her friends
are too. You guys aren't alone in this.
Right now it doesn't feel lucky
that we're not on the isle.
I'd know what to do there.
Also your mom livid sounds terrifying.
She is. Very much so. Sometimes I wonder if
she didn't have the beast trait switched to her
when the enchantment was lifted.
And I totally understand that this
doesn't feel lucky right now,
but this isn't the isle and justice will be served.
Did you miss the I trust you?
Just checking to see if I should
be worried about your eyes.
LOL. Hope not. I don't think
I could rock glasses even
with E picking them out.
Thank you for your faith in me,
I won't let you down Mal.
Idiots.
Jay crosses his arms and leaned his hip against the post as he glares at the approaching car. Every one of them. All they'd collected in Auradon were idiots.
He waits impatiently for the car to park. And when his idiots get out of the car laughing he growls. Did they really think this was funny?
"Fucking seriously?" Jay glares once the three start making their way up to the porch. What the hell had they been thinking? Weren't Lonnie's parents important to the army? And Doug? He couldn't picture the kid even dog-earing a library book, let alone do anything they were accused of. How had the Fairy Godmother taken his admission seriously?
And weren't their parents going to be pissed at them? He glances at Lonnie in concern before his eyes harden. Idiots.
"What?" Lonnie blinks innocently.
"You shouldn't have gotten involved." Jay snaps, pointing at her accusingly as he glares in clear disapproval.
"And let the school just shit over the four of you?" Lonnie lifts her brow. "I don't fucking think so." She crosses her arms, clearly not intimidated in the slightest.
"Yes! Because this is stupid. But now you're going to be looped in with the stupid too and just, why?" Jay roughly runs his hands down his face, leaving a trail of red, irritated skin in their wake, "You didn't do anything."
"Well, you guys didn't do anything either." Doug shrugs.
"And it's stupid that you guys were set up like this." Lonnie adds with a glare of her own, "Come on Jay, this was the right thing to do."
"You guys shouldn't have to possibly fuck your lives up over this," Jay growls as he slams his hand down on the porch railing.
Lonnie waves dismissively, "Come on, are you really complaining?" She winks, "This was kinda the last thing I expected when I called myself out for the first-floor girl's bathroom. I thought for sure it was just going to be some in house suspension."
Jay takes a deep breath as he grips the railing, "What all got done to the damn school?" He swallows his groan. Seriously? How much damage did these fuckers do? His knuckles turn white as they tighten around the railing, and he can't keep his thoughts from turning to the isle.
This was complete bull shit. They'd fucking chosen good, they'd done everything in their power to try to fit in, well minus the swearing, but still. Wasn't choosing good enough? What if this ruined the chances of the others coming over? He takes a deep breath. Fucking damn it.
"A lot of vandalism apparently." Doug pushes up his glasses as he grins sheepishly. "I claimed the boy's locker room debacle."
"Jay." Nani walks up to him slowly before she puts her hand over his tense one, "I know it's hard to step away from this." She slowly peels his fingers from the railing, one by one, "It's hard to see someone trying hard to tarnish your reputation and not do anything about it. I've been there too. It feels like every time you catch your breath another swell of water just gets dumped over you. It sucks, but you have a lot of good people who are on your side. We'll figure this out together I promise."
Jay lets out a heavy sigh, "Who are fucking up their own rep's now." he glares at the two. "Which is stupid."
"But it is their choice." Nani gently redirects his gaze with her finger under his chin, "Not yours, theirs. You can't control what they choose to do. I understand you feeling upset and concerned and worried over it. So," She claps her hands together. "Let's just choose to look at this time together as a mini-vacation to collect our thoughts, regroup, and figure out the next step."
"Hell yeah!" Lonnie grins as she pumps her fist triumphantly before she rushes past them and into the house.
"Sounds good to me." Doug grins, "Also-" He turns around to show the bagged hanger running down his back.
"You knicked the dress." Jay lifts a brow, impressed by the timid's kid's sudden set of balls.
"Yeah." He shrugs, "I can't imagine Evie worse than she has been about this, so a week of not being able to work on it scares me."
"I have a sewing machine in my trunk if you want to go grab it." Nani offers.
Jay sighs before he nods as he looks up at her and then to Doug, "Yeah, I can do that." What was the point of fighting this right now? Nani was right, this was their choice. It wasn't perfect, but he could at least see a way to deal with the anger.
It was also nice to know his pack had others that believed in them. It felt like a selfish thought, but for now, he'd take it.
"Thank you," Nani smiles politely before she points the beeper at the car and pops the trunk. "We still need to go to the mall and get groceries." She chuckles, "Kai knows we don't have enough food for eight teenagers in this house."
"Eight teenagers?" David shakes his head as he leans against the door frame, "I have a sneaking suspicion you're including me in that since Ben can't make it out here yet."
"Yep," Nani's eyes sparkle with mischief. "Now, let's set up the cars and get your trunk cleared out."
"Work work work." David rolls his eyes, "Nani, we're at a beach." He gestures to the shore.
"And it's like thirty degrees out, so if you think these kids are going to learn how to surf without wetsuits you're lolo."
"Sweet!" David claps his hands before he whoops and runs after Jay, "You'll help, right brah?" He asks as he throws an arm around his shoulders
"Sure." He agrees easily, unable to help his grin. David always made things seem better.
"Ooh, maybe I can get Hiro and Lilo to bring us a pig, have a proper frozen luau."
"It would be our first frozen luau you lolo." Nani chuckles from the patio as she rolls her eyes. "But I think it's a great idea." She smiles as she leans against the railing, "They should be here tomorrow morning. When I talked to Lilo she said Hiro already took care of the virus, and she thinks he'll have the who soon enough."
Alright, I can't stop myself these questions are coming at you T style since I absolutely adore the final scene in this chapter. Pretty much anything that starts off with idiots makes me smile. For the VK's it's pretty much come to be a word of endearment.
Jay is so fucking annoyed with their new friends. Isn't it just the sweetest? He's just so worried about the others it makes my heart melt.
Lonnie wasn't even phased which pissed him off more. Wasn't it cute?
I loved this scene all around, and look, we even added some Nani.
What did you guys think?
Are you excited that the eight of them pretty much get a mini-vacay because of this shittery?
And the texts between Mal and Ben. It was definitely more to establish the trust Mal has with Ben. And of course she'd admit it through a text.
Who do you think Belle's friends are? Any guesses?
And what about that room sitch?
Dumb. Whoever did this clearly wasn't the brightest or just didn't give these kids enough credit.
So what do you guys think?
Let us know in the comments below,
Much love and appreciation
-Twisted