Home Is Where The Heart Lies
Harry's POV
Uma and I were hastily walking past this huge castle in search of Gil so we could get back to the Isle and I could take Hadley to Hades, she'd passed out in me arms and I kept looking down at her to make sure she was still breathing, I just got her back I wasn't gonna lose her now.
"Uma!" we heard Mal call out and Uma turned around but I nudged her to keep walking since we didn't have time to entertain her now, me Hothead's life was on the line. "Uma stop please!" Mal cut in front of us forcing us to stop walking and her eyes fell on Hadley's unconscious form. "Hadley" I glared at her and pulled Hadley closer to my chest. "What happened to her?" she asked.
"What do you want Mal?" Uma spat at her.
"I need your help" Mal replied tearing her gaze off her sister but Uma side stepped her. "We have a chance if we do this together"
"Your friends kick you to the curb like your sister did?" Uma spat at her and Mal's eyes looked over at me and Hadley again. "Good"
"Ben saw something in you and today Uma I saw it too, you care Uma you care about everybody and Auradon is worth saving...help us please" Mal begged and I looked over at Uma before looking back towards Mal.
"You talk pretty but she's already made up her mind and I have me girlfriend to save" I spat at her ignoring the way her eyes widened when I said 'girlfriend' but I didn't care anymore who knew.
"You brought this on yourself Mal, you figure out how to fix it" Uma added. "Let's go" she said to me and I nodded before we started walking off again. "She'll be okay Harry" I looked over at Uma as we continued to walk. "There's one thing I always respected about Hadley is her fire-"
"Which is gone" I replied worriedly looking back down at her.
"We don't know that, we'll save her" she shot back and I sighed nodding my head choosing to believe and cherish that her heart was still beating but it was short lived as we heard a roar and looked back seeing a purple dragon flying behind us. "It's Mal!" Uma exclaimed and started running back so I followed and we both ran up having to duck to avoid Mal's dragon tail.
She flew overhead towards one of the towers on the castle and we could hear Celia yelling for Mal's help which meant that this Audrey person had her and Mal was fighting her without the help of the ember which she was trying to reignite with her dragon flame but it wasn't working.
"She doesn't stand a chance without the ember" Uma said touching my forearm.
"HELP ME MAL!" Celia yelled before a bolt of purple lightning hit Mal in the wing and she came spiraling down towards us.
"Come on!" Uma exclaimed and ran to where she was falling, I followed her trying not to jostle Hadley too much. "We're stronger together, were stronger together" I turned to Uma seeing her mother's necklace was glowing. "I'm right here Mal...'Regain your might and ignite'...I'm right here girl, I'm right here...'Regain your might and ignite!'..." Mal looked down at us and I saw a single tear roll down from her dragon eye before the ember in her talons glowed bright blue and Hadley suddenly gasped her eyes opening.
"What happened?" she asked and I chuckled a little pulling her close.
"Ye okay!" I exclaimed excited to see her blue eyes staring back up at mine.
"What's going on?" she continued to ask moving in my arms so I let her stand on her own feet but kept my arm around her waist as we all looked up watching Mal fly up. "Mal" Hadley stated seeing her sister and I saw the worried look on her face especially when the purple sparks came from the rooftop and was met by the power of the ember's fire. "Get her Mal!" she yelled a smile on her face when we saw the blue fire overpowering the purple sparks.
"You got this, you got this girl!" Uma celebrated alongside her making me smile happy to see that the two most important people in my life were actually getting along.
Hadley's POV
There was a bright flash of light and it all seemed to be over, we'd won and I didn't feel so weak anymore which lead to the small celebrations, I screamed out in joy and wrapped my arms around Harry's neck and he spun me around before we let go of each other and he turned to celebrate with Uma before we saw Mal's purple smoke again and she flew down towards us in her dragon form with Celia in one clawed hand and Audrey in the other.
She dropped Celia down and I hugged the girl glad that she was okay seeing as she might have been threatened during all this before I turned to Mal frowning when I saw her lay Audrey down on the grass before changing back and I saw that Audrey was unconscious.
"Hadley, you're okay!" Mal exclaimed and I nodded.
"What happened to her?" I asked walking up to her.
"The ember, it's just like Hades said it won't work for us like it does him" she replied and I realised why she was saying Hades instead of Dad because of Harry and Uma behind me but I wasn't going to tell her that Harry knew already and that I'm pretty sure I'd told Uma before I'd collapsed.
"Let's take her back to the school, Fairy Godmother might be able to help" I said and she nodded before I turned to Harry indicating he lift her up.
"Ye okay?" he asked and I nodded my head at him, he nodded back before he went oved and pulled Audrey into his arms and we all walked to Auradon Prep with Mal texting Ben telling me about how they'd all turned to stone before she came to find Uma and now that Audrey was defeated everyone would be awake given that the spell was broken and once there Harry laid Audrey down in her bed before everyone quickly arrived and there was nothing to do but wait and hope that she was gonna wake up since we were at a loss of options and the more time that passed the further Audrey was slipping away.
"She's slipping away" Evie spoke up from Audrey's bedside where her and Mal was sitting, Ben was pacing back and forth, Jay was standing by the fireplace, Celia was over near the window and Uma was on one of the lounges while Harry and I occupied the other since Harry was barely letting me out of his sight or grasp and although it warmed my heart having PJ in the room standing over near Jay and I felt like this was rubbing salt in a wound so I was just holding Harry's hand between us lowered out of his direct sight.
"There's only one person in the world who might be able to do something about this and that's Hades" Mal replied and my head snapped up towards her.
"Hades?" Ben questioned. "He wouldn't do it, I wouldn't risk it" he added and I frowned since Dad wasn't a risk.
"Actually he might do it for me, for Hadley" Mal replied and I felt Harry squeeze my hand. "He's our father" she added and I felt shock throughout the room from all that didn't know, the only unsurprised faces were that of Evie, Celia, Harry and Uma.
"Okay well I'll have to send some guards to get him" Ben agreed and I sighed.
"Maybe I could hitch a ride" Uma spoke up and I saw Harry's eyes snap up to her before he looked at me. "The Isle is my home, someone needs to be there to protect it" she added and I saw Harry's look before I nodded and he stood up letting go of my hand walking up behind Uma.
"Well then you'll need your first mate" Harry announced and Uma turned to him.
"No, you can't...I've seen you separated from Hadley once before-"
"It's okay Uma" I cut her off walking up. "Because I'm going with you guys" I nodded at them with a smile before I turned to Mal seeing her shocked look.
"The Isle will be in very good hands" she replied nodding at us with a smile and I smiled back at her since this is what I wanted, Harry was my future and it's what I've been missing the entire time in Auradon.
"Can I go too?" Celia spoke up standing up from the window seat. "I wish I could be in both places" I smiled sadly at her since she deserved to be here but not if she wasn't going to be happy since I'd tried that and it was horrible.
"I really think that Evie was right and I do think that we could've been friends" Mal said standing up and was looking at Uma who nodded at her. "And I'm really sorry that I lied to all of you guys, you deserved so much better than that"
"You were just trying to do the right thing" Jay argued.
"Yeah" Uma agreed surprisingly but I guess they did have a point, sure they were condemning the kids but they were keeping the actual villains...our parents out of Auradon.
"I get it" Evie added standing up as well and Mal smiled a little before Ben called a limo and allowed them to take me to Evie's cottage first so I could pack a few bags and for Harry to say goodbye to CJ but just like Celia once we explained what was going to happen she stated she was returning with us.
"Are they yours?" Harry asked standing in my room as I packed and I turned seeing him looking at my paintings and I became nervous.
"Yeah" I replied smiling softly before it fell since Mal was gonna have to cancel my art show, I guess it wasn't meant to me anyway.
"They're amazing" he said making me nod and go back to packing. "They're all about me though, I really have been on ye mind" I rolled my eyes fighting to keep the smile off my face.
"Don't flatter yourself" I scoffed zipping up my bag. "Let's go, Audrey doesn't have a lot of time" he nodded before he picked up the one of the beach. "What are you doing?"
"I'm taking it" he stated with a smile.
"Oh yeah, what for?" I shot back and his response was to shrug as we climbed up the stairs and put everything I'd packed and the painting he'd taken into the boot before getting in and the guards drove us to the Isle dropping Uma, Harry, CJ and Celia off by the docks before I lead them to Dad's lair. "Let me go in first" I told the guards and they seemed hesitant but I didn't give them the chance to argue and went inside using the key Celia gave me and skipped the bike this time walking along the tunnels. "Dad!" I called walking down the stairs when I didn't see him on his throne.
"Hadley" I spun around finding him behind me when I'd reached the bottom of the wooden stairs.
"Hi Dad" I smiled at him.
"So did you and Mal save the world"
"Kind of, she needs your help" I told him with a heavy sigh. "She used the ember but something happened, Audrey is asleep and your our only hope, they need your help Dad please" I explained and his face fell.
"Why didn't you use the ember?" he asked and I frowned.
"I was...unconscious, the ember...it got wet and went out-"
"It what?!" he exclaimed.
"Relax your precious stone is fine, Mal has it but we don't have a lot of time there's guards outside and you need to go with them...peacefully"
"Peacefully" he scoffed.
"Dad please, if Mal and I ever meant anything to you then you'll do this for us" I argued right as the guards seemed to have lost patience because they arrived and Dad looked up at them.
"Seems like I don't have a choice anyway" he spat glaring at the guards and sighed holding up his hands in surrender and the guards put chains around his wrists and ankles before they lead him out putting him in the car and I watched it drive away disappearing out of sight.
"So ye gave up the lavish life for little 'ol me?" I turned around and saw Harry leaning with a smug smirk on his face, hands holding onto the loops of his belt.
"It wasn't all that it was cracked up to be" I smiled walking towards him.
"Seemed alright in my brief time" he replied wrapping his arms around me when I reached him.
"Yeah well it gets old" I smirked wrapping my arms around his shoulders.
"And it didn't have meh?" he asked a smug smirk on his lips.
"Eh" I shrugged smirking myself. "As much as I love this, I should go since I have as castle to clean since it would seem in my absence and my mother's that Bargain Castle was looted"
"Don't look at me" he laughed and I quirked an eyebrow at him.
"Oh yeah cause the last time I was here I could have sworn I saw the faintest hint of hook marks in my window sill and that my window was pried open"
"Okay I went into ye room but I only wanted my gloves that yeh had" I scoffed and rolled my eyes.
"Whatever yeh say Hook" I tapped his chest before I pried myself out of his arms grabbing onto his hook instead. "You can come and help me if you really want to"
"If you wish me to be with yer"
"Of course I do, I think we've spent enough time apart don't you" I smiled and started pulling him along by his hook before he fell into step with me but I didn't let go of his hook as we walked towards the center of the Isle.
"So you don't regret it?" he suddenly asked.
"Regret what?"
"Leaving behind all that...your sister?" he asked and I looked over seeing the deep frown on his his face.
"No I don't regret it, I'll miss a few things...the other VK's, my sister...my friend-"
"The other boy" he scoffed and I turned to him.
"His name was PJ, Peter Pan...Junior" I told him and he stopped making me turn to him when he pulled on my hand.
"He's a Pan" he snarled.
"He's nothing like his father Harry, just like your nothing like your father"
"That's not true" he scoffed.
"Yeah it is, we are not our parents Harry and it doesn't matter anymore we're stuck on this island once again and what matters is that I came back here for you...for us if that's still what you want" I replied frowning at him looking down at the cobblestoned path.
"It's want I want Hothead" he replied squeezing my hand. "Now about ye castle..."
"What about it, you and Uma burn it down after the last beat down" I smirked eying him as we continued to walk as I took in the Isle seeing a lot of people staring at me, some with interest and others with hatred which had me a little worried.
"No ye family castle still stands" he replied and I saw him scratch the back of his neck with his hook which I'd always recognized it as a nervous gesture from him.
"What then?" I pressed finally stopping outside of Bargain Castle seeing it still looked as desolate as I'd always remembered it and I hated the actual thought of living there again even with Mom not being there but for the first seventeen years of my life it had been a torture chamber as much as it had been my home.
"Nothing" Harry sighed and went to walk inside but stopped when I didn't make a move to follow him. "Ye okay luv?" I didn't reply and just kept staring up at the castle practically the balcony almost expecting to see my mother standing there waiting for me, to punish me for something she deemed worthy to be punished for which was practically everything I did. "Hadley?"
"Sorry...I'm okay" I finally replied taking a deep breath reminding myself that my mother wasn't there, she was still with Mal as a lizard and she wouldn't ever be coming back so I was safe...well almost anyway since I had a feeling that there were a few on this island that still wants revenge against us for abandoning them here and I didn't blame them but I had to find my place here once again.
"Ye not okay, ye whole bodies frozen"
"I just...pictured my Mom waiting for me, this place had been a prison...well you know what it was like for me"
"Aye I remember the times ye came to me on Dad's ship all bloody and I patched ye up" I sighed nodding my head. "Yer know you don't have to live here"
"I have nowhere else to go Har" I sighed and started to walk towards the thick wooden doors but he caught my hand pulled me to a stop.
"Ye can come live with me, on the Jolly Rodger" he argued and I turned to him in surprise and shock.
"Your serious?" I asked him and he nodded a small smile at me.
"I love ye Hadley so I'd be happy to share me room with yer" my eyes shot up to meet his since he said he loved me, he hadn't said it back before but now he did.
"The feared Harry Hook admitting his feelings for someone, has the world turned upside down"
"Don't make me change me mind Hothead" he shot back but had a smile on his face. "So?"
"I'll agree to it, on one condition" I told him and he rose and eye brow signalling me to go ahead. "Ye keep your hands to yerself" I smirked mocking his accent.
"I can't make that promise" he argued with a smirk.
"Good I was just testing, wouldn't want you going soft on me" I laughed.
"I'll show ye soft" he exclaimed and I turned making a run for it laughing loudly as he chased after me, maybe this wasn't going to be as bad as it had seemed to live here not when I had Harry and we were finally together...well I think we are anyway since we hadn't officially labelled ourselves as boyfriend and girlfriend.
