A/N: Say nothing, don't remind me I haven't updated this in six months. To be fair, my creativity has drifted towards Etsy but that's not the point.

What beautiful childhood song inspired this... It has swears in it but Enjoy!

"I fucked up, you need to let me in." Chad Charming's desperate voice was heard over the intercom. Eric Jr dragged his ass off the sofa, and buzzed his best mate in. Chad's scrambling up the two flights of stairs could be heard and as Eric opened the door, the blonde darted in the flat.

"Morning Chad." Eric yawned, scrubbed a hand through his hair and stretched.

"Hey." Chad's nerves were shot to pieces, and he stood by the window twitching the curtain.

"What's up."

"I did something stupid."

"Nothing out of the usual then." Eric said drily, padding to the kitchen and sniffing a bottle before taking a healthy drink.

"Audrey caught me."

"Caught you…" Eric quirked an eyebrow.

"She caught me with Blanche." Chad's words prompted Eric to splutter his water halfway across the kitchen, choke and force himself to take deep gasps of air while he gaped at his best friend.

"You let her catch you!?"

"What do I do?!"

"Tell her it wasn't you?" Eric hedged his bets as Chad flumped down on the sofa.

"I forgot Audrey had a key to my place from when we went on holiday." The Charming Prince ran his hands over his face, clenched his fists and then darted back to the window.

"You forgot she had a key!? Chad I knew you were stupid but seriously!" Eric almost growled. "You've made my flat now your bolthole so she can kill both of us?!" The dark haired man joined Chad at his window vigil.

"This is from the time I covered your ass with Flo." Chad reminded him archly and Eric fell silent.

"Can you say it wasn't you? I mean how much proof does Audrey have?" Eric's suggestion fell in the silence.

"She literally caught me red handed with Blanche in the bathroom, how am I going to get out of that one?"

"Praise her, flatter her and then make her out to be crazy. She could have a blackout, you're a Charming for Merlin's sake…. You could convince the sun that it's night if you put the effort in." Eric shrugged.

"But she clearly has me tapped, she threw photos at me, of Blanche and I in the kitchen, on the sofa… why would she believe me if I told her it's not me?" Chad said desperately.

"You're a Charming, it's in your DNA to charm women… charm your woman." Eric said stubbornly. "Fuck." His gaze had been drawn to the courtyard outside. "She brought company."

Sure enough, Audrey was striding towards the Atlantic Court flats with Uma on her left and Flo on the right.

"Shit she called in my sister!" Chad thunked his head on the window frame and closed his eyes in defeat.

"We can go down the fire escape?" Eric said suddenly and with a shared look of desperation, both princes grabbed their jackets and keys and scuttled towards the fire escape before the three women reached the flat.

It was almost perfect. Almost.

Jay, Gil and Harry waited at the base of the fire escape stairs.

"We're fucked."

"What do you mean we?!" Eric screeched as Gil pinned his arm behind his back and the trio marched them back up to the flat. "You scarpered to me, and I'm caught up in your shit!"

"I told you she wouldn't believe me." Chad snapped as they were pushed back through the door to face the fury of Audrey Beauty. Eric spared a glance towards Florence Charming, big sister to Chad and quailed under the black look she shot his way; he'd murder Chad for this if Audrey didn't.

"I want to say I'm sorry for the pain that I've caused you." Chad blurted out as Jay dumped him on the sofa.

"Not good enough." Audrey ground out. "You promised me that you wouldn't do it again. Not after Shelley…"

"My cousin!?" Eric half snarled as Chad faced him.

"You want to talk to my sister about your conduct!" Chad half shouted back and Eric glared mutinously at him.

"Well… that's a conversation I look forward to…" Flo's voice was tightly controlled and Eric hung his head.

"There's clearly a lot to unpack here, but something I can say with confidence…" Audrey's voice was dark and they could almost feel the magic rolling off of her. "Is that we are done Chad Charming. .Yourself." She punctuated each word with a step forward until she was inches from Chad, he stared up at her with bated breath. He'd seen her this dark before, at Jane's birthday party many years ago, but she was still as radiant and the next words slipped from his lips before his brain could register them.

"You're so beautiful when you're angry." He heard Eric's groan, Harry Hook's disbelieving snort and Uma's sigh.

"Can you just smack him so we can leave?" The dry tones of the Sea Witch seemed to break Audrey's sheer anger and with one last furious look, she turned her back on Chad and moved towards the other women.

"Flo, you want to deal with Eric now?"

"Nah, I'm just going to dump him. It's not worth the energy, or the manipulation – not if my brother had a hand in it." She said acidly and Chad had never seen such an ugly look on his sister's face before.

"Florence please…" Eric said softly.

"Stuff it." She held up a hand and her voice was sharp. "You're truly not worth my time Eric, and I think I've known that for a while." She snapped.

"Cool, we can leave now then?" Uma was already striding towards the door. "Drinks are on Harry and I?"

"Are they?!" Hook was astounded as he moved towards his sea witch.

"Yes, we're going to head to the Regency Bar, kick Carlos out from behind the bar and make drinks these women need right now. Let's move it Jolly Roger…." She held the door open and watched as Audrey and Flo stepped outside, and waited for Gil and Jay to catch up.

Uma would need to keep an eye on her best friend, but Chad Charming was hardly worth the tears.