The following morning, Elsa had submitted her crime report. Despite throwing the bug away, after contacting Alfred at the hotel, he was able to recover the pieces of the device. One of Elsa's palace guards drove to retrieve it and placed it in a plastic bag. They printed the text message and sent all of their items to the Auradon Federal Bureau of Investigation, also known as the AFBI.

Much to Evie and Elsa's pleasure, in the matter of hours, the AFBI held Mirage and Hans under investigation, finding more evidence to prove Evie's case. Since they still had to be held to a fair trial, things were going to be slow before she saw anytime of physical compensation. On the emotional side, things were going to take just as long to heal.

After such a long trip that remarkably was only a week, Evie was glad to be going home. Soon everything that happened would be left in the Southern Isles. Everything including the piece of her heart that inevitably belonged to her father. She had been distancing herself from thinking of the fact that she wanted her father to pay the consequences of his actions. Yet, it was still hard to believe that the same man she trusted at Kos Og Mat, was the same man who took advantage of her.

In the meantime, before she could even leave the Isles, there was still one thing left to do.

Standing before the majority of the nation, was something Evie found would be difficult. Because of the short time constraint and her friend's increasingly busy lifestyles, none of them were able to come and support her at the anniversary of Southern Isles. She was to take part of Elsa's address time frame to make her announcement of whether she chose to be Queen or not.

"Evie, you're going to be just fine" she whispered to herself a she stood backstage hearing the crowds of people arrive. Music blasted from the booth on stage. She felt her hands shaking and her legs turn to jelly.

She took out the sheet of paper with her speech written on it and she nervously smiled. Staring at the paper, carefully written with help of Elsa's speech writers, she realized it wasn't her. If anything since coming to Auradon, she learned that she should speak from the heart. And her speech wasn't that at all.

Without hesitation, she crumpled it and threw it in a waste basket. Immediately regreting her action, Evie looked to the speech ball, her nerves exploding at this point.

Silently wishing she hadn't told Doug he didn't need to come out to the the Isles, she hoped he hadn't listened to her. She knew he would probably catch a flight to her no matter the cost. One, because he definitely had the funds, but secondly and most of all, because he loved her.

The previous day, he told her he wasn't upset with her. It was evident that he would never stop loving her. That's what made their connection true, besides their names written together in the stars. It was simply because neither of them could stop loving the other.

It eased her mind to think of Doug and really anything, as long as she wasn't thinking of the speech and having to face the entire Isles that opposed her. In addition to rising before her father and his cousin, who clearly should never have been liberated from the Isle of the Lost.

It hurt her to see how terrible the table had turned. That's why she had been influenced to make the decision she did. That was another thing Doug had lead her to. He constructed a plan for her to approach the throne in the best way, without falling to the plan of Mirage and Hans.

And once again, she couldn't thank him enough for it.

"Auradon, I hope he shows up," Evie said, pulling out her phone from her red sundress pocket and looking at his message thread. The last thing read good night & miss you. A tiny smile curved onto her lips and she took in a deep breath. Whatever was to happen, however they would take it, Doug and her friends would be right by her side.

Unlike her father, she knew what mattered most.

"Evie?" She heard the voice of Elsa as she walked up in a pale blue pantsuit and a crown sitting on her head much like Evie's tiara. "Only a few minutes. You're going to do great"

"Thank you," She said politely with a curtesy. The Queen of Ice followed her bodyguards down the back hall and sent a wave to the blue-haired girl.

As her nerves returned, Evie heard the MC give an opening as the massive crowd cheered. She peeked out the curtains and felt a churn in her stomach, regretting choosing not to eat a blueberry muffin. She paced around in a circle, awaiting the moment she was going to destroy a nation. A hand touched her shoulder and she suddenly turned around.

The stage hand pointed to the front. "You're on."

She exhaled a breath and walked to the opening in the curtain. Her entire rehearsed speech left her brain and she saw every pair of eyes in the audience staring back at her.

Evie came to the mic, the MC smiling as he stepped aside.

She held the microphone and looked around. "Hello all. By law my name is Genevieve Westergaard. I am the eldest child of Prince Hans Westergaard. I am first in line for the throne," she began as the audience booed. A lump grew in her throat.

It took a moment before she remembered her roots. Though she felt tears brimming her eyes, she swallowed the urge. If there was one thing besides beauty and materialistic love that her mother taught her, it had been to never show your vulnerability. In her words, "Queens never let their nation see them cry. The people may oppose you, but you will not succumb to their ignorance."

She instead felt the courage to smile. "I have decided my course of action. But before I give my decision, I have some words."

Evie found Elsa's eyes as they spoke of her proudness. She nodded her head, telling Evie to continue.

"As a guest to your nation, I am highly disgusted by your treatment of me. I find it terrible that you are willing to find me as a villian, despite having no record of such crimes. King Ben has pardoned my own wrongs doings from the Isle of the Lost when I chose good."

"What baffles me is your trust in my father and cousins—the corrupt government you pledge to each and every day,"

"I am following my heart and my brain, which communicate the same thing," she said, looking around the audience who were silent. They looked to each other, disturbed by her words.

"I will take the throne. I have chosen to be your Queen," Evie said, her voice confident. A smile crossed her face as Elsa smiled back. She saw a few audience members gasp and that's when the shouting began. A few elder citizens nearly fainted as the crowd was shocked with utter disbelief.

"And legally, by the power vested in Queen Elsa, I took my oath yesterday. As your Queen, I would like to give my first proclamation. That is," she said as fear was emitted through the audience. They watched her with stunned looks on their faces. "I would like for the Southern Isles to merge into Arendelle once more. The order has been processed and it will go through at midnight tonight under the oversight of Queen Elsa."

Her nerves came back as she realized she was completely destroying an entire nation, but she knew it was only right. "Lastly," She said her voice shaking. "I would like to announce my abdication. I cannot abdicate the throne until 24 hours after being crowned Queen. Therefore, in affect at 5:46 this afternoon, I will no longer serve as your ruler."

The entire crowd of more than 50,000 people were quiet. Not a word was uttered. But just as she was about to say her final words, she heard a familiar voice cheer. The only one clapping. Dressed in dress pants, a pale green sweater vest, white button up and round glasses, Doug was the only one standing.

Elsa looked over and smiled. She clapped along with him. Evie's cheeks turned rosy and she was overwhelmed with a feeling that everything was okay.

"In closing, I want to thank you all for allowing the opportunity to come into your region. The lack of hospitality and friendliness here is ridiculous. I will gladly spread the word of this behavior to those I know, as a friend of His Royal Highness, King Ben."

Stepping back from the microphone, before her eyes she saw the crowd filled with anger. Some citizens approached the stage, only for security to fill in for support. Chanting for their opposition to Evie, she fled the stage at the hands of two of Elsa's bodyguards. Taking her to the back of the stage, the curtain drawing, she didn't realize her heart had been beating as much as it was. She stopped to catch her breath.

A blur of pale blue passed her as Elsa gave a few words of encouragement behind practically a cage of bodyguards. Evie looked up and thanked her.

Still trying to process what had just happened, she looked around waiting for directions, but it turned out she had been facing the wrong direction when a hand reached to her shoulder.

"Doug!" Evie said completely overjoyed. She nearly crushed the organs out his body as she hugged him. Leaning her head close to his chest, she felt his arms limply curve around her abdomen. Just as he remembered, her warmth melted his limbs.

"Evie," he said. "Your speech was terrific. Just as we planned" He lightly unraveled his arms, much to Evie's displeasure. He separated from her, enough to look into her eyes with a smile on his face. "I missed you"

"Me too," Evie said. "I'm really sorry about Friday. And don't say that just because I apologized that it is fine. I feel terrible still."

"I know you do. I forgive you. But they say first fights are always distressing. Don't stress about it. I guarantee you that you'd have to do something completely outrageous for me to stop loving you," he said, taking onto her hand. She gladly squeeze his hand and took his lead as they left the back of the stage.

Still in earshot was an ill-tempered crowd listening to Elsa's speech. Glad to be out of that position, Evie followed Doug to where Alfred was waiting in a vintage car.

She chuckled as the older man with a whie mustache got out and opened her door. "With much pleasure I serve you, Queen Westergaard. Your boyfriend here asked for a ride. I respect your decision. I cannot agree more on your view of Mirage and Hans. I could smell the dishonesty from meters away" he said, the end of his sentence becoming sing-songy.

"Looks like you and Doug have something in common," Evie giggled as she slid into the backseat.

"Ah, yes. Smart man, I'd say," Alfred commented.

Doug sliding into the backseat, Evie looked over to him with a smile, grateful for his presence. "Thanks for coming out."

"I wouldn't have missed this for anything. Last thing before you leave will be to sign the documents of your abdication in two hours. Then we're good to go back home," he said taking out his phone and rapidly typing into the keyboard. Evie leaned over between their seats to find him focused on adding material to his dissertation.

She slipped his phone away and turned it off. "Vacay?"

Reluctantly smiling, he pulled her as close as he could and chuckled. "Vacay."

From the front of the car, Alfred looked through the rearview mirror and felt a smile curve on his face at the two kids in the back. He was glad they came back together. He knew they would. And he was proud that the fire he noticed that first day was still burning bright in their hearts.