A/N – Part 2 as promised! This chapter picks up from when Mal left the group after mentioning her Dad. For anyone who's watched Once Upon A Time you may recognise a character who's about to feature more regularly in this. If you've not see OUAT, it's awesome!
Everything is owned by Disney – Enjoy.
Chapter 32
Mal stormed through the dorms and began to head towards the gym's changing rooms. Every student she passed was greeted with the deathly glare of her Isle persona who had taken over temporarily.
When she got to the changing room it was, thankfully, empty. She violently opened her locker door to grab some sports kit. One advantage with Auradon was definitely the multiple outfits for every occasion that happened to be a staple of every students supplied wardrobe.
Once changed she marched out into the main student gym area, it was scarcely populated with only five other students - all ones Mal recognised as being the boy's tourney team mates. When she entered they all looked round to see who it was, and very quickly made to leave from the look on her face.
They'd gotten to know Jay, Carlos, Harry and Gil during the training and knew titbits of information about their lives. The two VK girls were an unknown entity to them as beyond knowing them as being close to the boy's they'd never had any real dealings with them. The look on her face caused them to leave and also to stay clear of the others in case they somehow thought they were involved. An angry VK, was a dangerous VK.
Mal headed straight for the punching bag suspended from the rooms ceiling, completely forgoing the traditional boxing gloves she began pummelling the bag with all her might.
"Stupid Council" punch "Stupid Christening" punch "Stupid GODS, Stupid OLYMPUS, STUPID MEG" she finished with multiple punches executing her words.
Harry had watched most of this unfold, leaning against the doorframe between the men's changing room and the main gym. He'd seen five of his fellow team mates in the changing room, who upon seeing the pirates face directed him towards the gym knowing he was simply looking for Mal. It was rare to see him lose control, it had become less and less frequent the longer he was away from the Isle.
"I almost miss being that punching bag" he said from his place in the doorframe. Mal span round, halting her attack on the bag. Both were looking at each other, Isle masks still in place - it was almost exactly the way she used to look at him when she came running to him in the past. Despite the ferocious look gracing her face, he could see the broken look in her eyes, those green orbs were her one weakness. Her eyes truly were a window to her soul - at least they were for Harry.
"Harry" she whispered before crumbling to the ground, sobbing hysterically. He rushed across the room to her, quickly checking her knuckles for damage having seen her punching the bag with no protection. Thankfully the skin had only broken slightly in a couple of places, he placed a quick kiss on the wounds before pulling her into his arms.
"It's going to be okay Mal, we can sort this" he whispered this to her while rubbing her back gently - at least he was still good at being her tear stained pillow. He hated seeing her like this, but was glad she had always trusted him enough to be like this with him.
He kept muttering short, reassuring sentences to her - some in Gaelic that he'd say to comfort CJ and Harriett.
Either his words of comfort were working or her anger had run the worst of its course. Her sobs slowing, her breathing becoming more stable and even.
"Thank you, Harry, for always being there for me" she said softly, finally returning his hug. "I'm glad they've got a real punching bag here, I always hated using your chest for that." she murmured into the aforementioned chest.
"The others, they know about where you used to go princess" he said to her, hoping she wouldn't mind too much about another of their secrets being out.
"How did they find out?" she asked, he could see the genuine curiosity in her eyes.
"Jane was worried when you left. Jay and Evie explained you occasionally went off on the Isle in a similar manner and then Gil's mouth got away from him." he said, rolling his eyes - electing a giggle from Mal. "Anyway, I then was forced to admit to everything."
"Harry, I think I might take Fairy Godmother up on her offer of talking to someone" she admitted with a small shrug, "I just hope they won't pre-judge me due to my parents and the stories they've heard." at this admission of weakness she was looking up at Harry for reassurance.
"Given what we've read in that book I might also take up that offer" he replied, placing a kiss on her hair. "We could even have some together - plenty of shared trauma in our case."
With this he stood up and offered Mal his had to help her up off the floor. A shiver ran through the petite girls' frame, the air-coned room and her sudden lack of punching caused her to feel very cold.
"Let me grab a jumper and I'll meet you in the hall and we can head up to her office." she said to Harry, who nodded in agreement.
They walked into their respective changing rooms, Harry just went straight through without even stopping. Mal went via her locker and picker up her pirate's tourney jumper she'd 'acquired' many weeks ago. after putting it on she then went out to the hall.
"So that's where you had it hidden, the one place I actually can't sneak into to look" Harry greeted her with. She'd been well aware that he'd been attempting to find the jumper for weeks just to prove the point that she couldn't hide it from him. Thankfully Mal knew all about the protections enacted on the changing rooms to stop any student mischief.
"It looks better on you than it does me - and I like my name on your back" he said giving her a true smile before taking her hand and making their way towards the headmistress's office.
Mal knocked on her door, they were called in after a few moments. Mal dreaded to think what she looked like to the headmistress as she felt like a tear stained, sweat soaked mess, no doubt her minimal make-up smeared over her face. Thankfully Harry looked fairly well put together in comparison.
"Hello you two" she greeted warmly, "what brings the two of you to my office on a Sunday?"
Harry spoke on behalf on the duo, "we'd like to take you up on the offer of talking to a professional - together and by ourselves, we've got a lot of shared trauma" he said while nervously fiddling with his hook.
"Of course, I'll contact Dr Hopper and let you know the times." replied the older fairy.
"Will he hold our pasts against us - will we get a fair chance?" Mal asked, a stressed look on her face.
"Dr Hopper is the best here in Auradon, his job will be to help you through any problems and work on the best ways to help you. Anything you discuss with him will be private and confidential - even I won't know what happens in those sessions unless you tell me yourselves."
"Thank you" Mal said and the two left the office. While closing the door Mal spotted she was already heading to the phone on her desk. No doubt they'd receive an email later on in the day.
Once they had reached the top of the stairs Mal turned towards Harry, "can I show you a project I've been working on?" she asked him.
"Of course, where is it?" he replied.
"It's outside, in the forest - on campus, just. No one knows about it yet but hopefully the others will see it soon" she said while taking his hand a towing him out of the main building.
They walked across the empty tourney field towards the forest that boarders the campus. After about 10 minutes of walking through the trees Mal brought them both to a stop.
On first inspection Harry failed to see what makes this particular patch of trees any different from the others, that's until he noticed Mal's hand motioning for him to look up.
It took him a few seconds of searching before he spotted the camouflaged tree house.
"How on earth did you do that?" he asked her, completely astonished and actually quite impressed.
"Magic, it's amazing what you can transfigure - it's safe, I made some 'fake' math for Carlos which confirmed I've done it right." She replied, a small smile gracing her lips.
"How do we get up? These things normally have ladders?" he asked her, as that seemed to be the only element missing.
"Well I didn't want just anyone getting up there so you've got to press this" she said, while pressing a nondescript knot in the tree causing a ladder to appear, "there's another one at the top to re-hide it." she shrugged.
With this the two began to climb up into the space. Once inside it was clear Mal had spent a long time on the wall's artwork - it was pretty similar to the designs on the insides of her Isle hideout. There was a group portrait of the 6VK's with Jane, Lonnie and Doug, Mal's 'Long Live Evil' symbol was there along with an outline of Skull Rock and the Jolly Roger.
Unlike the Isle hideout there were no beds here just a couple of sofas with a TV and gaming system along with a pool table and a small kitchen area that was no more than a couple of cupboards, a fridge and a sink.
"This in incredible" Harry said, giving Mal a quick kiss, "When did you start it?"
"Most of it was done over the summer holidays - the others were all of doing their own thing, so I did this. The only thing I've done during the term is the furniture and finishing the art work. So, do you like it?" She asked him.
"I love it princess, and you know what I love most?" he asked, a seductive smirk on his face, "that right now we're the only two who know about it."
With this the pirate pulled her close for a kiss, which she instantly deepened. It wasn't long before their tongues were battling for dominance. Mal pulled back from the kiss causing Harry to growl possessively, although that soon changed to a moan of pleasure when the girl began kissing and sucking her way down his neck - marking him as hers.
Knowing that with a click of her fingers she could fix any ripped garment she picked up his hook and ran it down the front of his t-shirt and continued with the same trail of kissing and sucking, making a special effort when she reached the skull rock tattoo knowing it was an incredibly sensitive spot for Harry.
As much as the pirate enjoyed the teasing he clearly wanted more, using his strength to his advantage he picked Mal up and began walking towards the sofas.
"Two seconds" Mal whispered and clicked her fingers while her eyes flashed green. One of the sofas had been transformed into a sofa bed - far more suitable for certain activities.
Harry placed her back on her feet just by the bed, so he could get her jumper and top of with far more ease. With one hand, he managed to unclip her bra and they let it fall to the ground. It was now his turn to tease her. Slowly he began to massager her breasts, causing her to moan softly, especially when he would rub a finger over her nipple. Soon he kept massaging one breast and began to flick his tongue over her other, erect nipple, causing her back to arch in pleasure. He continued this for a few minutes, swapping between the two.
He then began cupping her pussy through her shorts, allowing her the freedom of movement to begin rubbing him through his tight jeans, from the bulging swell it was clear they'd recently got even tighter.
Mal began working the belt open and the jeans and boxers down. Once his manhood was free she quickly squatted down and began pleasuring him using her mouth.
"Urgh Mal that feels amazing" he moaned, throwing his head back - still somehow stood up. Mal kept up her ministrations, adding in a hand to stoke his length in time with her mouth, occasional running her tongue over his tip causing him to hiss in pleasure.
"Please let me feel how wet you are?" he begged of her, she simply nodded causing Harry to make quick work of removing her shorts and panties. He gently picked her up and laid her on her back on the bed.
He ran a finger over her pussy, stopping at her entrance to feel how wet she was and they both moaned, Mal at the sensation and Harry at the effect he had on her body.
When Harry shuffled down so he could use his tongue to bring her pleasure by licking her clit he was glad they were in a secluded treehouse from the noises she was making - if this was the dorms they'd never have been able to cover up what they were doing.
He then reappeared at face level and gave his princess a long deep kiss while lining himself up with entrance.
"Please Harry" was all she had to whimper to get him to slowly edge his way inside her, it felt like heaven.
He began slowly at first until he had her begging for more, soon he was pounding into her, both of them so close to reaching their respective climaxes.
"Your tight pussy is gonna made me cum" he groaned, while at the same time she was panting, "there, just there - perfect".
Once they'd reached their climax and had cleaned up a bit they just lay back on the bed staring lovingly into the others eyes.
Given it was early December the duo began to shiver, Mal got up to pull Harry's tourney jumper again which covered her bottom due to their height difference and Harry just ducked under the covers.
As she was getting back into the bed he asked her, "can we keep this out little secret for a while longer?" clearly hoping for more fun afternoons.
"You bet it pirate" she said winking at him, while snuggling together.
Despite it only being 4 o'clock they were both pretty tired from the afternoons emotional start and then their little workout in the treehouse, before they knew it they had fallen blissfully asleep - completely unaware that their friends were becoming worried at their long absence.
When they woke up they could tell a few hours had passed as it was almost completely dark out - the joys of it only being 6.30pm in winter.
Both were confused at what had woken them, until they head Evie and Doug's voices from somewhere outside shouting their names.
Mal headed over to the window, while Harry quickly pulled his boxers and jeans back on.
"Evie, Doug - up here" Mal shouted from the window causing the two on the ground to look up and around in confusion until they spotted the lights of the treehouse.
"Thank god you're okay M!" Evie exclaimed, approaching the tree as Harry pressed the knot to reveal the ladder, while Mal transformed the bed back to the original sofa. "Is Harry with you?"
"Yes, I'm okay, and he's here - come on up" she said inviting the duo up - so much for it remaining their little secret for a while longer. With that Evie and Doug made their way up, both having an incredibly similar reaction to Harry a few hours earlier.
Evie quickly fired a text off to the others telling there where they were, Jane was the first to reply saying she'd tell her mother that they'd found the pair.
It was twenty minutes before the rest of the group arrived, Mal briefly explained to them how she'd built it and designed it. The other VK's quickly recognising the similarity in the spray paint artwork. Lonnie, Doug and Jane were simply touched to be included in her artwork - clearly the wall art meant a lot to their purple haired friend - they'd seen her painting of their old hideout on the Isle after all.
"That weird math stuff you came to me with now makes sense" Carlos said with a smile at his friend. At the time, he'd been confused as he knew Mal's class hadn't been working on anything like that.
"Jane" Mal said, getting the girls attention while sitting down next to her. "Evie and Harry both told me you wanted to go straight after me earlier, thanks for caring." she said giving her a smile, "although Evie was right it wouldn't have been the best plan of attack - a poor punch bag became my victim" she said with a small laugh and showing the girl her battered knuckles.
"No problem Mal. Are you aware of how terrifying he can be?" Jane replied, pointing at Harry who was over in the 'kitchen' area.
"Oh god, what did he do?" she said with a small laugh, Evie and Lonnie were also sat with the pair and were following the conversation.
"He did 'the voice' and the face that has ruined almost all attempts Harriet's ever had at a relationship" Evie piped up knowing the explanation would mean more to Mal than what Lonnie and Jane would come up with.
Mal laughed remembering the number of times Harriett had complained to her about her brother and his over protectiveness. "The same face he used to pull when we had those mock sword fights?" she asked, "There was nothing mock about those fights for us, perhaps for the two of you! But yes, that face" Evie responded, still half tempted to give the girl a taste of her own medicine. The fact that they had gone to such great lengths to sneak off with each other was actually pretty admirable and it had improved the blue haired girls defence techniques.
"Shame there's that stupid, archaic rule book for swords and shields - you'd be great on the team" Lonnie said to Mal and Evie.
"No thank you" was all Evie replied with, causing Lonnie and Jane to laugh, "my sword fighting days are long over and reserved for genuine life and death situations." seeing his girlfriend's animation Doug was paying attention to their conversation as well.
He'd been told what had happened on the Isle before Cotillion and he couldn't imagine Evie sword fighting at all, let alone on a pirate ship - it all sounded so far-fetched for the son of a miner.
"Sorry Jane but that's Gil and Harry's speciality, I wouldn't want to steal their thunder" Mal responded to the initial question, sticking her tongue out at Harry who had heard his name.
"What speciality and what thunder?" he asked as he approached the group of girls.
"Scaring the living daylights out of people" Jane muttered, while at the same time Mal said, "attacking people with swords".
"Aye, sorry about that earlier Jane - please know I would never have hurt you" he said sincerely to her, in his rage earlier he'd seen the shock on her face but wasn't in the right frame of mind to rectify it.
"It's okay, I was more worried for anyone who got in your way between the dorm and the gym" she said, flashing him a quick smile before standing up and heading over to the pool table where Carlos, Jay and Gil currently were.
From the look of it Gil was absolutely destroying Carlos at a game of pool, clearly growing up in a house attached to a Tavern had some advantages. From the state of play it appeared that Carlos hadn't actually had much of an opportunity to play since breaking. Soon the two were shaking hands, after Gil had officially won.
At least the pool table had been a good addition to the space for them.
"Guys we need to be heading back to the dorms before Fairy Godmother puts all out rooms under arrest like she did earlier in the term." Doug said. Mal and Harry just looked at each other, it was clear that they were never going to live down his first 48 hours in Auradon - no matter what.
"Come to Auradon, they said" Gil began, "They'll be freedom, they said. What they didn't mention was your reckless dorm mate effectively getting you grounded!" he finished with a grin.
"They said, live life to the full!" Harry retorted as the group began to make their way down the ladder.
It took them about 10 minutes to walk back to the dorms, jovial conversation flowing between them. As the group reached the common room they bid good night to the others and the girls and boys went their separate ways.
Jane and Lonnie went into their respective rooms, with Evie and Mal continuing almost all the way along the corridor before they reached their own dorm room.
Once they were back in the room and both settled in their beds, Evie spoke up; "are you okay Mal? Genuinely?"
"I will be E" came a muffled reply, "Harry and I will both be seeing Dr Hopper to talk about, well, life I suppose" Evie could imagine the shrug that would accompany her friends sentence.
"On a less serious note… Doug and I didn't interrupt anything, did we?" Evie asked with a serious tone of mischief.
"Whatever gave you that impression?" Mal responded, tone completely level.
"Well you were just wearing a certain pirate's tourney jumper, and Harry was only wearing a pair of jeans" Evie taunted, both girls knowing she was simply teasing.
"Two hours earlier you'd have been interrupting, you actually just woke us up - fun is exhausting" Mal giggled.
"I almost prefer the old you. Just remember if you ever need to talk, I'm always here" Evie said before both girls began to drift off to sleep.