Here is the final chapter!

Thank you to everyone that has read, followed, favorited, and reviewed this story. You don't know how much all of that means to me. You will receive your answers about the character's motive in this chapter.

However, I am surprised no one commented on my choice of phrasing in the last time. There were only three instances, but it should have been enough to raise some flags or create some curiosity. I guess the big reveal of the big villain was enough to make everyone forget.

As I expected, the winner of the poll is 'A Princess's Punishment'. Instead of editing the old story, I will create a new one just like I did with this one. The title of the 'new' story will be 'A Princess's Rewritten Punishment'. I will be writing the chapters out before I type them, so it will take some time before the first chapter is published.

Anyways—

I hope you enjoy this chapter of 'Twist in Time: Rewrite'.

Mal awoke from her peaceful slumber when her beloved kissed her forehead before tightening the hold he had around her waist. Mal nestled her head into the crook of his neck, mumbling a 'good morning'.

Then, it clicked.

Jerking awake, the couple sat up as they tried processing what they knew.

Checking that the date was indeed the day after their engagement party on her phone, seeing all the missed text messages from her Auradon friends and the other Core Four, Mal turned to her beloved with wide eyes. "Did all of that really happen?" she wondered, pulling the blanket closer to her bare chest. "Did we really go to the past?"

Smiling softly, Ben gestured with his head. "Look at your hand," he instructed, "and you'll get your answer."

The confusion on her face transformed into surprise when she noticed a gold band on the finger next to her engagement ring. It wasn't there when she fell asleep in that time, but she had been given it during her second 'first week' in Auradon, when she and Ben decided to—

"I'll send a message to the Core Four to have them, the Sea Three, and whoever else meet in the hearth room so we can talk," Mal suggested as she began texting away on her phone with one hand, never noticing the certain gleam of hunger in her beloved's gaze. "Will thirty minutes be enough time for everyone to get here?"

"Make it a ninety minutes," Ben instructed—or more like demanded—as he began sensually kissing her neck. "That should give us more than enough time to try again."

Tensing at the king's suddenly promiscuous behavior, Mal slowly texted the message just to tease him a bit. Just as she pressed 'send', Ben roughly grabbed her phone and tossed it aside, most likely breaking it in the process. Before she could voice her disapproval, Ben's lips were already on hers in a heated kiss.

"Somebody is a little eager," Mal joked when she had finally had the chance to breathe.

"Three kids, remember?" Ben reminded as he moved to kiss her neck once more. "The more we try, the sooner we will have them, and the sooner our parents will have their grand-daughter to spoil."

Over an hour later, the couple and the other six Isle children that traveled to the past with them met in the hearth room as originally planned. Unsurprisingly, Audrey joined the group for their discussion. Most couldn't help feeling sorry for the princess. With a dead look in her eyes, Audrey practically clung onto Gil, like her sanity depended on it.

"Audrey had a panic attack when she awoke in this time," Gil informed, squeezing his girlfriend's hand tighter in reassurance. In response, Audrey laid her head on his shoulder as she kept her gaze on the floor. "Everything she experienced during that week came back and overwhelmed her, so she isn't feeling the best. Even though the ember was used to heal her wounds, she still has the scars on her arms. They look as though they aged a couple years."

"It's like our trip to the past didn't change anything important that would occur in the future," Evie logically deduced. "No future events were rewritten, but our two past experiences merged together when we returned to our correct time, if that makes sense."

"Jane is looking for her mother," Carlos informed as he continuously, yet worriedly texted his girlfriend. "Fairy Godmother wasn't at their home, but the magic wand appeared on Jane's bed. Jane took it to the museum. The guards placed it in higher security and changed all the codes so Fairy Godmother couldn't get it again."

"What about Lonnie?" Mal interrogated, adverting her attention to her childhood friend. "Jay, were you able to talk to her? Is she still . . .?"

"Her phone went to voice-mail every time I tried calling her," Jay told with a frustrated sigh. "Lonnie had said she was on a train to Auradon before being sent to the past. Before I came here, I contacted the train station in Auradon City. Apparently, it's against the law for them to give out any information about their passengers. All they could tell me was no trains were due until this afternoon."

"We will continue to hope for the best," Ben reassured confidently. "But our main focus should be figuring out Fairy Godmother's intentions."

"I don't think she meant to sent us back with her," Harry claimed with a careless shrug. "If we assume she used the same spell, it goes 'back to the moment my trouble again'. King Ben awoke to a month before any villain children came to Auradon, so that may have been when Fairy Godmother's trouble began. What was significant about that day?"

"It was the day after my meeting with the sidekicks about their proposals," Ben immediately recalled, which was easy after living through the events twice. "I went to Audrey for advice, but she had been more interested in the date she had planned. The second time, I thought about how Mal would have responded to my questions and became determined to have more than the original four come to Auradon."

"And the first time?" Uma interrogated bluntly, crossing her arms over her chest. "What were you thinking about then?"

"Mal," Ben automatically replied.

Turning in her seat, Mal gazed up at her beloved—who was standing next to her chair—to give him a confused eyebrow raise. "You didn't know me then," she reminded, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "How could you possibly be thinking about me?"

"The night of the meeting, I had a dream about a beautiful purple-haired girl who saved me from falling down a cliff on the Isle," Ben revealed, surprised the group with the new, yet few years late, information. "From then on, all I could think about was finding you, and bringing you to Auradon. You were the reason for my first proclamation."

"That must be when Fairy Godmother was sent back, since that was when you first thought of bringing Isle kids to the Isle," Evie decided. "We were sent to the times we were because Fairy Godmother had been thinking about the day we came to Auradon. Maybe she thought the spell would send her to that day, instead of where she really went."

"We still don't know what her intentions were," Jay commented with an aggravated huff. "Why did she do this?"

"Perfect timing," Carlos randomly commented, still staring at his phone. Glancing up to see the strange looks given to him by the group, he explained, "Jane found a letter from her mother in her office at the school. It said, 'I did it for the good of Auradon; so she couldn't make us suffer again'."

"The doesn't help much," Uma claimed stubbornly. "So who couldn't make who suffer?"

"Me."

All eyes turned to the saddened princess, who finally raised her head to speak. "It was me," Audrey declared softly. "I was the one who made people suffer when I became an enchantress. Only the people of Auradon were affected by the spells and enchantments. The magic dome kept the people on the Isle of the Lost safe from . . . my magic, because the dome prevents any magic from coming in or out."

Adverting her gaze back to the floor, she glumly muttered, "Maybe that is why I had those visions in the past. Maybe she did that so I wouldn't try it again. Maybe she wanted to make me suffer like I made everyone else."

"You didn't deserve that," Gil reassured, pulling his beloved closer in hopes it would cheer her up. "Fairy Godmother had no right to hurt you like she did. You already learned your lesson—"

"And you won't be punished for it," Mal promised sincerely. "Not after everything you have been put through. That would be cruel."

"So, Fairy Godmother went back in time to prevent those events from happening," Harry clarified. "Even though her intentions had been good, she became so obsessed with stopping it that her good intentions turned bad, as she gave Audrey the mental issues and refused to do anything to help her during the worst incident. So much for being a caring headmistress."

"There's still something I don't get," Uma insisted as she gestured with her head toward the king. "The ember only works for those who are family to Hades, mainly those who are blood. How did it work for you when you are just engaged to his daughter?"

The couple tensed up at the question, as though they were keeping a secret. Clearing her throat, Mal mumbled almost incoherently, "We weren't engaged during that coronation. We were. . ."

Evie tilted her head curiously. "You were what?"

Raising his hand, Ben showed off the gold band that matched with Mal's. "We are married," Ben announced, pausing a moment due to the surprised gasps and looks of their friends. "During our talk on Family Day, we tried thinking of ways to stop Fairy Godmother if she did something at the coronation. Dad joked about it, but Hades said us getting married would make the ember work for me. So, that night we eloped with only them knowing. We woke in this time with our rings, so we have technically been married for two years."

"I'm sorry we couldn't tell you," Mal apologized profusely to her friends. "We thought if others knew, it would risk the chances of Fairy Godmother finding out our plan."

"I think it's clever," Uma complimented with a playful smirk. "Now you don't have to worry about being pregnant during your official wedding in a couple months. You are going to have another wedding, right?"

"Of course they are," Evie answered for the couple. Winking at her friend, the princess teased, "We can't let all my wedding dress designs go to waste!"

While the group chuckled politely at the comment, a certain someone quietly snuck away from the room—

Having received a text about his significant other arriving shortly.

Not caring that he was out of breath from all the running he did through the castle, Jay lifted his beloved up with his embrace as soon as she was out of the rideshare cab at the main entrance outside.

"I am so glad you are here, Lonnie." Kissing her forehead lovingly, Jay carefully moved her back on her feet. Keeping her in his arms, he inspected her from head to toe, wondering, "Are you okay after coming back? You're not feeling sick, have a headache, or anything like that?"

Grinning like a mischievous cat, Lonnie grabbed an object from her jacket pocket, handing it wordlessly to worried partner. Although confused at first, Jay's face lit up when he realized what the object was. "Is this—. Are you—!"

Nodding happily, Lonnie cheered with a squeal, "Our baby is safe!"

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