Lies turned to Admissions


Hadley's POV

When we finally reached Evie's cottage I smiled when I saw Celia appear in the doors before they were thrown open and Mal ran out straight into Ben's arms before I turned to Evie accepting the small hug before her eyes looked over my shoulder so I turned and saw Uma and Harry hugging and the look they gave each other had me frowning.

"I always knew you'd be apart of the solution" Ben spoke up nodding over at Uma with a smile as I wiped the frown off my face.

"What is this?" Mal asked stroking the beard on Ben's face.

"Oh yeah" Ben smiled at her.

"I could get used to this" I sniggered rolling my eyes at their display of love.

"You like it?" Ben asked her.

"I love this"

"What about those?" Uma interrupted walking over indicating to her own mouth to show Mal that Ben had fangs.

"No" Mal replied shaking her head and I laughed.

"I like them" Ben stated.

"Okay so we all think that Audrey could be at fairy cottage and we have no idea where that is, did she ever take you there?" Mal suddenly asked him getting back to the real situation of importance.

"Every Fairy Godmother's Day" I scoffed since Auradon sure did have a lot of holidays. "Where is Fairy Godmother when you need her?" Ben asked looking over at Jane.

"I wish I knew" Jane replied right before Carlos walked up to her with her birthday gift.

"Hey um...this might be a bad time but..." he handed her the gift box. "Happy Birthday, I made it with my 3D printer" she opened it and pulled out the small gold necklace he made her. "It's our names put together" I smiled a little.

"No right I get it yeah-"

"Yeah because you know were together, you and me were like a couple"

"Right cause Jane and Carlos make Jarlos"

"Yes yeah I could've gone with Cane um...but I went with Jarlos, unless you prefer Cane?" Carlos suddenly asked and I could tell he was starting to doubt his choice.

"Oh no I love it" Jane argued.

"You prefer Cane, yes you do you know what it's fine I can remake it, it's cool its fine" I rolled my eyes at Carlos for freaking out for no reason.

"No Carlos" Jane said stopping his rant. "It's perfect" she said then turned and Carlos clipped the necklace around her neck.

"Doug, go with Jane we need to find Fairy Godmother" Ben instructed.

"They might need some muscle" Uma argued.

"Hey" Doug protested.

"Well I'll go" Gil said after looking at his muscles making me laugh a little.

"Yeah actually I would feel better" Carlos agreed.

"Yeah actually I'd feel better too" Evie seconded.

"Same" Mal added.

"Actually I would too" Doug finally agreed and I scoffed shaking my head with a smile.

"Alright man let's do it" Gil laughed putting his arm around Doug. "Let's go Jane" he added and Jane nodded before they walked off, I shared a look with PJ before we all started heading inside wordlessly deciding to wait until nightfall before we went to fairy cottage.

I frowned when I saw Dizzy and the twins fast asleep from the sleeping curse on the couch and was suddenly worried about CJ so I headed down to my room finding her on my bed and instantly felt responsible.

"CJ" I spun around finding Harry behind me and he didn't even look at me before he was approaching his sister making me even more guilty since it was my fault that she was here, he knelt down beside my bed and brushed her blonde hair out of her face.

"I'm sorry Harry" I spoke up and his head snapped up to me as if noticing I was in the room for the first time.

"You didn't do this" he replied surprising me. "I mean sure ye took her away from our family but she wanted to come here and were gonna wake her" he added and I was generally surprised.

"I wanted to give her a chance, I want to get everyone off the Isle...even you" I replied nervously crossing my arms feeling vulnerable.

"Yeah right" he scoffed and my face fell even further.

"It's true Harry"

"Ye left me, remember?" he spat standing up to glare at me.

"Excuse me" I glared back at him. "I seem to recall you not giving me a chance the last time we met"

"Ye left me long before that"

"Are you seriously still holding a grudge about that, you know I didn't have a choice, my mother was crazy...you've seen my scars, you know what she was like"

"I told ye to run away with me more than once" he growled out angrily.

"And I told you I couldn't, not back then"

"Hadley, are you okay?" both our heads snapped over to the door and I saw PJ which made me realize how close Harry and I had gotten in our argument so I stepped back.

"I'm fine PJ, just go upstairs" I told him.

"You sure?" PJ pressed glaring towards Harry.

"She said she's fine mate" Harry spat glaring back at him and I saw his hand tighten around the handle of his hook.

"I wasn't talking to you...pirate" PJ replied spitting 'pirate'.

"PJ just go...please" I told him moving in front of Harry who took a threatening step towards him.

"You're asking me to leave, he's the one that doesn't belong here" PJ yelled anger evident on his face making me frown.

"You're the one that don't belong here" Harry growled out and I turned pressing my hands against his chest as he started walking towards PJ and I got see the rage on his face.

"It's complicated PJ, you don't understand" I spoke up turning to PJ once Harry was slightly calmer but I was still standing between the two boys.

"It's not complicated Hadley, you just made your choice" PJ spat glaring at me before he walked out.

"No PJ wait!" I called moving to go after him but I stopped since what would I even say to him, I didn't deserve him...I never have, he'd been nothing but nice to me since I got here and I'd tried to give him more after cotillion but I just couldn't. "I can't do this anymore" I groaned pulling at my hair.

"Hadley" I felt Harry's hand wrap around my wrist.

"Just leave Harry!" I snapped turning to glare at him pulling my arm away from him. "You got what you wanted"

"If I got what I wanted then I'd have ye" Harry argued glaring back at me before he left my room and I sighed sitting down on my bed since everything was a mess.

When nightfall fell Evie came down to get me and I saw her look...pity which made me shake off my negative thoughts reminding myself that now was not the time to worry about my boy drama, I stood up brushing off my jeans since I'd been sitting on my bedroom floor for the past two hours and walked out seeing everyone was outside waiting.

I kept my eyes down not waiting to look at either of the boys who were looking at me, I could feel their eyes as I walked towards Mal and when I looked up she was giving me a curious look clearly taking note of their longing stares so I gave her a small glare that spoke to her that I didn't want to talk about it and she nodded before we all started walking through the forest with Ben leading the way since he knew where we were going and I fell into step with my sister.

"Hey you okay?" Mal spoke up keeping her voice down.

"I'm fine Mal" I replied with a heavy sigh looking behind to see PJ walking with Evie and Harry was of course behind Uma.

"You sure cause you don't look fine, somethings off with you ever since Uma joined us" she replied and I frowned since it had nothing to do with Uma, I could care less about that girl.

"She's got the ember" I shrugged lying instead of voicing my true feelings.

"Actually I do" she replied pulling the ember out of her jacket and my eyes widened.

"What, how'd you get it back from her?" I asked her.

"She gave it to me after we defeated one of Audrey's spells together...we kind of...forgave each other" my eyes widened in shock.

"You forgave Uma, I thought you hated her?" I asked and she smiled a little.

"I never did, you remember how it was on the Isle" she replied and I frowned looking back at Harry and sighed.

"Yeah I do" I replied just before we found ourselves approaching a cabin so we all hid behind a tree and Ben held a finger to his lips signaling us to be quiet which was already obvious seeing as we were sneaking up.

We moved closer and closer hiding behind trees and rocks every now and then and unlikely I found myself in between the very boys I didn't want to look at right now and I rolled my eyes when they both looked at me before glaring at each other and I rolled my eyes at them for being so childish watching as Mal and Ben took the lead once again heading towards the iron gates and Ben opened the gate.

I watched as Mal held up the ember ready to use it against Audrey as we all crept forward behind them before Ben moved in throwing the door open for the element of surprise but once inside it was quickly apparent that Audrey wasn't here but Jay checked upstairs anyway.

"She's not upstairs" he replied coming back down shaking his head and I shared a look with Mal since that was just perfect we were back to square one but before any of us could voice our disappointment we heard bangs and all spun to the door it came from.

Ben being the closest went over to it and peered into the window before he removed the piece of wood that locked the door and opened it allowing us all to see Chad sitting on the ground in what appeared to be a closet and he was rocking back and forth.

"Chad?" Ben asked.

"I want my mommy" Chad said and I couldn't help smile and bite my lip to stop myself from laughing, Ben reached for him and he flinched away.

"No!" Chad yelled out but Ben ignored it and helped him to his feet.

"What happened buddy?" Ben asked him as Chad looked out taking in all our faces.

"Ben...Ben!" he exclaimed launching himself at Ben brushing his hand over his stubble. "Your face?" he asked then turned to the rest of us again. "She's gone huh?" he asked looking around once more clearly to make sure that Audrey was really gone. "The door is open I'm free...freedom!" we suddenly took off running out the door and I was unable to hold in the laugh any longer only stopping when Harry laughed as well and everyone looked at us like we were nuts.

I cleared my throat meeting his eyes briefly seeing him smirk at me before I frowned avoiding his eyes but I saw PJ and he was glaring at the exchange making my heart sink further before I sighed and started walking out once everyone else did the same thing and this time I saw Mal giving me a curious glance before she caught up with Ben.

"Whoo alright let's get this Audrey chick taken care of already" Uma breathed out as we walked away from the cottage. "What do you say girls time to wrap this up?" she asked as Mal chuckled and they fist bumped.

"You know someday your gonna have to tell me how you guys all got teamed up?" Ben asked and I frowned hesitating my steps for just a second before I continued following them.

"Actually Mal promised to let all the kids off the Isle once this is over" Evie explained which made me smile a little since that was about the only good thing of this whole situation.

"Mal?" Ben asked looking at my sister with an almost shocked look which made me pause once again.

"I have to tell you guys something" Mal spoke up making all of us stop. "Um...I lied to you" she admitted turning to us and I frowned confused. "The kids won't be coming off the Isle"

"What do you mean?" Jay asked her as we all shared quick looks of confusion.

"The program is shut down and the barrier...will be closed for good" Mal replied and my eyes widened since she couldn't be serious.

"For Auradon's safety" Ben added as if that justified it, leaving all those innocent kids to rot for their safety...what about their safety since just like us they've had to suffer at the hands of that island and their parents, I heard Harry scoff behind me and I turned to him with an even deeper frown knowing that he'd be thrown back there and CJ...she could never see her family again if she remained in Auradon...suddenly I wished we never came here since it ruined everything.

"Hold up" Uma cut in walking towards Mal. "So we're saving your precious people and your behinds for a lie?" she asked her and I frowned turning to Mal and her. "I knew it was a mistake to trust you, you're always out for yourself" Uma spat at her and I found myself siding with Uma on this one since Mal should have told us...told me given were sisters but then that always seemed to mean more to me than Mal.

"And you King Benny!" Harry exclaimed and I turned around seeing him approaching Ben his eyes threatening before I saw them softening and I knew his next words before he even said them. "Your probably just going to throw us all back inside" his words made my heart feel heavy knowing it was true and the thought...hurt.

"You know what?" Celia suddenly spoke up after a few seconds of absolute silence. "I actually thought you were brave but your nothing but a chicken, too scared to tell me I was never going to see my Dad again" Celia exclaimed the tears evident in her voice.

"Celia..." Mal breathed out but Celia suddenly grabbed Dad's ember out of Mal's hand and walked towards the bird bath. "Celia...Celia no!" Mal yelled before Celia dropped it inside and it sparked.

"Ah!" I exclaimed clutching my chest as I actually felt pain around my heart as soon as the ember hit the water and stumbled back slightly before I felt a hand on my back steading me.

"...'Regain your might and ignite!'..." Mal yelled out and I looked up seeing her trying to reignite the ember but I knew that wouldn't work...she had Mom's Fae abilities. "...Regain your might and ignite!'..." she tried again.

"Ye okay luv?" I looked up seeing Harry had been the one to steady me earlier, I nodded my head ignoring the weak feeling in my chest stepping away from him approaching Mal staring at Dad's ember nothing but a lifeless blue jewel as Mal held it out towards Uma for her help but Uma frowned and held up her shell necklace.

"Bummer" Uma said before she turned to Harry. "Let's go find Gil and leave them all to rot" she told him and they started walking away.

"No...Uma!" Mal yelled but they kept walking with Harry only glancing back once eyes meeting mine briefly before he kept walking with Uma and Mal turned to us as I took a step forward glaring at her. "Hadley...I'm so sorry" I didn't stay anything. "I'm so sorry I just...I thought that...I was afraid to tell you guys" she added looking between me and Evie. "I thought that I was gonna lose my sister, my best friend but I had to do something I had to protect Auradon"

"Closing the barrier was your idea?" Evie asked her.

"I did it for us" Mal insisted and I frowned since she didn't do it for us. "I did it for our life that we have here now"

"For our life?" I snapped at her with a hard glare. "What about the kids that we left behind on that island?" I asked her pointing to where Uma and Harry had walked out.

"The kids that we promised?" Evie added seeing as I'd fallen silent just glaring at my sister since I couldn't believe her, I never thought she would abandon our roots...abandon helpless kids. "We were their only hope"

"We thought you were gonna stand up for the VK's but instead you lied to them" I spat at her angrily but for some reason wasn't feeling the same warm feeling I always felt when I got angry so I looked down at my hands seeing them plain and normal...

"And you lied to Jay...and you lied to Carlos...you lied to us" Evie added as I trailed off thinking more about the fact that I couldn't feel my powers...I had no heat just like the ember... "We're your family"

"Evie" Mal breathed out but Evie had already turned her back on Mal walking towards the boys so Mal turned to me. "Hadley..."

"Save it Mal, I trusted you and you kept this from us" I glared at her. "You turned your back on our roots, all those innocent kids...all for what?" I asked her and her eyes met Ben's. "Yeah right...your love with the King" I shook my head since all this time I'd denied my own feelings for her and now she proved she wouldn't ever do the same for me. "Well it's time I admit something of my own" I spat turning to face PJ and walked towards him. "I'm sorry...I lead you on and it was wrong but I was denying something all for my sisters feelings but not anymore and you have a right to know that I'm sorry I could never feel anything more than friendship towards you...because my heart had already been hooked on someone else" I told him and his face fell before he looked up.

"I know" he nodded his frown slowly turning into a smile.

"I never meant to hurt you" I admitted and he nodded once more before he pulled me into a hug.

"I know but I'm not the one you should be telling this to" he said and I smiled squeezing him before I turned and started walking away.

"Hadley wait...where are you going?" Mal called out stopping me.

"To the one I love" I told her seeing the shock on her face but I didn't wait any longer and say any more and rushed off still feeling weak but the wild beat of my heart kept my feet moving until I finally saw him. "Harry!" I called and he spun around.

"What do you want?" Uma spat glaring at me but I ignored her.

"Harry I'm sorry...I'm so sorry" I walked up to him and cupped both his cheeks. "I never should have left the Isle, I never should have left you"

"What is she talking about?" I heard Uma asked but I nor Harry was paying her any attention.

"Harry...I love you" I admitted and his eyes widened.

"You...are ye sure?" he asked and I found myself laughing a little before I nodded my head.

"Yes I'm sure, I've been in love with you since the day of our first date and I know I'll always love you because you Harry Hook have had me hooked from the very beginning" he smiled tracing his hook along the edge of my jaw.

"Ye don't know how long I awaited yer to say that" he replied before he leant forward.

"Hold on, hold on" Uma interrupted and we both turned to her. "You two...since when?" she asked and I frowned.

"A couple months before I left" I explained.

"So you two..."

"Yes" Harry replied and I felt his hand slip into mine making me smile and turn to him.

"Can say I'm honestly not that surprised" Uma suddenly said making us turn to her and she smiled. "You weren't exactly subtle about it, in all our battles she always bested you...I knew there was no way someone could overpower you with a sword"

"Are ye saying I'm soft?" Harry growled at her.

"No offense Harry but you are when it comes to my pretty face" I laughed and he turned to me as did Uma who smiled and laughed with me.

"You two are teasing me"

"Of course, I finally have something over you Harry" Uma laughed and I smiled since this was strange but it was also kind of nice. "Although now that you two are reunited can we find Gil and get the hell out of here?" she asked and just like that my smile fell especially when Harry turned to me.

"Are ye...will ye come back with us?" he asked me and I sighed about to nod when I felt the same pain from earlier returned and I clutched my chest again right over my heart as I screamed out and felt my legs lose the strength to hold me up and I started to fall back. "What's happening?" Harry demanded catching me but I couldn't answer him since it felt like my heart was going to be torn from my chest and I realised what was going on since this happened after Celia tossed the ember into the bird bath.

"The...the ember" I choked out.

"What?" Harry questioned telling me it hadn't been as audible as I'd hoped.

"The ember" I tried again and he looked down at me. "It...it's the source of my power and without it..." I trailed off feeling myself grow weaker.

"What do you have to do with the ember?" Uma asked kneeling beside Harry who had lowered me to the ground and was holding me in his arms and I shared a look with Harry who nodded and I read it, he was telling me that I could trust her.

"Hades...is my...father" I got out feeling a sharp tightening feeling around my heart.

"Hadley just hang on" I groaned out when Harry suddenly stood up with me in his arms and I laid my head against his shoulder. "We'll get you to your Dad, he'll know what to do" I nodded my head clinging to him and I gave him a weak smile before I felt all the rest of my energy leave my body and I drifted out.