AN: hi guys here's another chapter of the story hope you enjoy it

Lander over and out

Chapter 2

Grace Dwarfson was good at a lot of things but maths was not one of them, Doug had thought he knew just how much his cousin hated her worst subject but after listening to her moan, wine and complain for the last 3 hours he had come to the realization that he had never truly understood the depts of hatred she held for it, until now.

"So how do I solve this problem?" Grace asked for what felt like the hundredth time.

"The same way you solved the one earlier" Doug sighed.

"Which one earlier?" Grace wined.

"I'm helping you Grace, not doing it for you" Doug told her firmly leaning back in his chair.

The red headed girl sighed and looked back though the previous questions searching for the working out Doug had shown her hours ago, Doug could see the relief wash over her when she finally found it.

"That it, I'm done" Grace crowed with a smile before breaking out her signature celebratory dance.

"Good Job Grace" Doug cheered, jumping up to join the fun.

The cousin's celebration was abruptly interrupted by a disembodied voice that floated out from beneath the pile of blankets that covered the bed beside Doug's "Great does that mean I can go to bed now" Stevie yawned.

"You've been in bed since I got here 3 hours ago Stevie" Grace sighed at her older cousin.

"He's been in bed all day Grace" Doug corrected her. "He only got out of bed to eat the lunch I got him" he explained making her laugh as she packed her bag up ready for class the next day.

Doug ever the gentleman (thanks to his aunt Snow's input) walked the girl to the door. "Thanks again for the help Doug" Grace whispered, trying to keep her voice down for Stevie's sake.

"It's ok" Doug reassured her, lowering his own voice to match hers "if I didn't help you uncle Grumpy would not have been happy to hear you were failing, in fact he would have been down right grumpy" he said laughing at not only his own little joke but also the exasperated eye roll it earned him from Grace.

"Good night Doug" Grace waved and walked away without verbally acknowledging what Doug thought was actually quite a witty joke.

"Can I go to sleep now" Stevie called as Doug shut the door.

"Yes, you can" Doug sighed heading to the bathroom to get changed into his sleep gear, by the time he came back out he could already hear his cousin snoring.

Doug was up early the next morning for his daily run, he liked to be out before most of his fellow students, the quiet and calm helped to clear his mind so he could focus on the day ahead. The first day of school always took more focus than any other and with the kids from Isle still adjusting to Auradon he wanted to be ready for whatever the day may throw him or them. He was very careful not to wake Stevie as he left, the last time he had his cousin had gone on about it for hours and that was a headache Doug could do without on the first day of school.

Doug had just begun to stretch for his run when he noticed one of the Isle kids wondering out of his dorm looking very confused, his white hair made him easy to identify even from a distance.

"Hi, Carlos" Doug called out in greeting.

"Hey, err, its Doug, right?" the other boy responded but his tone made it clear that he wasn't completely sure he had gotten the right name. Doug didn't take any offence as he was sure the poor kid had met a lot of people in the last 24 hours.

"That's me" he confirmed with a smile he also offered Carlos a handshake which the boy cautiously excepted, Doug guessed it was a gesture you didn't see much on the Isle of the Lost. "Are you ok? you look kind of lost" he asked the younger guy.

"Yeah, I think I am, I was trying to figure out where I could get some breakfast" Carlos said looking around once again.

"I pass the dining hall on my morning run, I can show you if you like?" Doug offered, Carlos hesitated for a moment before nodding his agreement, Doug couldn't help but feel for the kid, he didn't trust easily he must have been through a lot on the Isle. He hoped in Auradon Carlos and his friends could find some happiness, but he feared that there would be those that would be out to make life difficult for them.

"So, do you and the others always get up this early for breakfast?" Doug asked trying to make conversation as they walked.

"Mal and Jay usually do but Me and Evie are never up before the sun" Carlos said pointing at the sun hanging low in the sky.

"What makes today different, you can't be looking forward to school that much" Doug said attempting to joke with Carlos as he would with Grace and Stevie.

"No, not really" Carlos agreed with a little chuckle "we were getting so many weird looks yesterday and as silly as it sounds, I want to enjoy a meal without getting stared at".

Doug didn't think that sounded silly at all "I'm sorry about that" he sighed "it was a bit of a surprise for the students who didn't know you were coming" he tried to explain the other students' reactions.

"Really?" Carlos asked clearly surprised.

"Yeah, really" Doug confirmed with a grin "the look on some of the princes and princess faces were priceless" the dwarfs son couldn't contain a laugh as he remembered some of the horrified looks the royals had worn, Carlos seemed to find it funny too as he laughed along with Doug.

The two boys were still trying to smother their laughter as they reached the Dining hall but before Doug could point it out to Carlos, Chad and his friends came sauntering out of the doors, that put an end to the boys cheerful mood.

"Well, well, well if it isn't a VK all alone, you best be careful some people may take this as a chance" the prince said tauntingly.

"A chance for what Chad" Doug demanded as he stepped forward, putting himself between Chad and Carlos.

"Oh, look guys the dwarf thinks he a hero now" Chad teased Doug as he stepped closer, invading the other boy's space, Doug clenched his jaw and didn't back down.

A look of surprise flashed in Chads eyes, the last thing he had expected from Doug was a show of bravery.

"Come on guys, let's get out of here" he called out to his posse, "it's the first day of school and I've got to find a princess to do my homework for the year" he added more to save face than anything else but he still got a laugh from the gang of teens that followed him as he walked away.

"Thanks for that Doug" Carlos said sounding genuinely thankful.

"No worries, Chad can be a pain but when push comes shove, he not going to do anything" Doug said hoping he was being truthful with the boy from the Isle "hey, do you want some company for breakfast?" he offered.

"Really I thought you were going for a run" Carlos was clearly pleasantly surprised by the offer, once again Doug found himself wondering if anyone had ever been kind to Carlos just for the sake of being kind.

"Well I can go for a run later" Doug assured him, "come on" he said walking up the steps to the cafeteria with Carlos following along behind him.

Back in the Isle kids' dorm Jay was knocking on the girl's door "Mal, Evie, you in here?" he called.

"Yeah, what's up" Mal answered as she opened the door to let Jay into their room.

"Nothing really" Jay said trying to appear unbothered "have you seen Carlos this morning?"

"No why?" Evie asked as she exited the bathroom all done up for her first day at a new school.

"He wasn't in the room this morning, I thought he maybe in here with you" Jay said not bothering to hide his worry anymore.

"Do you think he's ok?" Evie fretted, ringing her hand together.

"He'll be fine" Mal said waving her friends worry away "he's the fastest runner on the Isle" she reminded them "he could run circles around any Prince here" she assured the two of them breezily, but Jay noticed his leader was moving much more quickly than she had been when he arrived. To anyone else it may have appeared she was just in a hurry to get her breakfast, but he knew what she was really doing, she was on the hunt for Carlos.

They soon found their missing friend, he was sat in the dining hall laughing and joking with that Doug kid they met the day before.

"Carlos what the heck man, why did you leave without tell me?" Jay demanded grabbing his friend by the shoulder, when would Carlos learn, Jay couldn't look out for him if he didn't know where he was.

"Sorry dude, I was hungry, and you were all still asleep" Carlos explained "besides I met up with Doug, so I wasn't alone" he said addressing the other boys unspoken concern.

"Morning" Doug waved greeting Jay and the girls but the only the response he got were three matching glares.

"Well I'll leave you be, I've got to get back to my morning run" Doug said feeling somewhat awkward and wanting to get out of the big guys way as quickly as possible. He paused briefly before leaving to give Carlos a friendly pat on the arm and to remind him that while he might be new, he wasn't alone. "Carlos you have my number now, so if you get lost or need help just call" he said as he departed doing his very best not to blush as he walked past Evie.

"Carlos were not going to be here for long don't go making friends" Mal whispered to the youngest member of their group. "we would be home and dry already if someone had been more careful last night" she added shooting a look at Jay.

"What so it's my fault they had not only force field but an alarm as well?" he sighed.

"No, it's your fault for not listening to me when I told you to wait" she told him crossly.

"Guy's would you stop" Evie hissed trying to keep her voice down in hopes that the others would follow suit "we will just have to bide our time until we can figure out how to get the codes, somehow" she reasoned with them, effectively ending their little argument. The three newcomers all settled down and helped themselves to some food from Carlos plate.

"So, what were you doing with the geek?" Jay asked though a mouthful of food.

"I didn't know how to get here so he showed me the way" Carlos said keeping his explanation brief and to the point.

"And he decided to stay and eat with you" Mal ask figuring out there was more to the story than her friend was letting on.

"I may of ran into a prince and his goons who threaten me, Doug stepped in and stood up for me" Carlos explained in a rush.

"One, tell me his name and I'll break his face and two, the geek just earned my respect, a little" Jay said looking to the door Doug just left though.

"I didn't catch his name" Carlos said.

"Are you sure?" Jay pressed.

"Yes Jay" the boy sighed.

"Fine, but if you see him around you point him out to me got it?" Jay says looking like he wasn't going to take no for an answer, all Carlos could do was nod in agreement.

"What do you think this first class will be like?" Evie asked changing the subject.

"You mean goodness 101? It's going to be boring" Jay said leaning back in his chair.

"Oh, come on guys think about it if we learn the definition of goodness, we can do the opposite" Evie sounded positively giddy at the idea, she was so excited in fact that she almost missed the shocked looks Carlos and Jay were giving her.

"What is there something on my face?" she asked taking out her mirror to check.

"No Evie you don't but you do need to use smaller words around them" Mal said in a teasing tone as she stared absentmindedly sketching on her book.

"Oh ok" Evie grinned "well, if we know the meaning of it then we know what not to do" she said putting it her mirror away.

"We know what it means Evie" Carlos sighed "it's just you looked really happy when you were talking about the class" he said with a smile.

"Yeah you got that look you would get when your Mum teaching you about makeup and stuff" Jay remarked making her blush.

Doug had to pick up the pace on his run due to his delay with Carlos, but he didn't mind he could still finishes his run with time to get ready for class he thought to himself as he approached the end of his route.

"You're a little slow today Doug" a voice called out from behind him just as he skidded to a stop outside his dorm. He turned to see a pretty girl in brightly coloured work out gear running the along the same path he just had. Lonnie was the only other student that Doug knew who actually enjoyed running in the morning as much as he did.

"Yeah I had to deal with a little problem on the way, but I thought I made the time up" he said bending over with his hands on his knees panting for breath.

"What was the problem?" Lonnie asked as she offered him a bottle of water, unlike Doug Lonnie not only remembered to bring water out with her when she ran but she also bought a spare with her. More often than not Doug ended up with the spare, so often in fact that he had begun to suspect that she bought it along just for him.

"Thank you" Doug signed as he chugged about half the bottle in one go. "The problem was Chad" he explained.

"Ah" Lonnie nodded her head in understanding, honestly most of the problems at Auradon Prep stemmed Chad Charming and his posse. "What was he doing this time?" she asks asked sitting down on the steps of the dorm building and indicating for him to join her.

"He was trying to start something with one of the kids from the Isle, you know how him and his friends get" Doug explained just barely resisting the urge to air quote the word friends. He wanted to down play the situation but that wouldn't be fair to Lonnie because he was hoping to recruit her to help both him and the isle kids and he felt it was important that she knew what she was letting herself in for if she agreed.

"Lonnie, can I ask you a favour?" Doug ventured, figuring that now was as good a time as any.

"That depends on what it is" Most Auradon girls would either say yes right off in an effort to be good or they would quickly refuse because it was Doug asking and that meant whatever he wanted was probably going to be something they would actually have to work pretty hard to achieve, Lonnie wasn't like most Aruadon girls. She would usually go out of her way to help those that needed it but she liked to know exactly what was expected of her.

"Can you keep an eye on Mel and Evie for me?" he asked her.

Lonnie seemed surprised at his request, "What do mean keep an eye on them? You're not expecting them to make any trouble are you?" she shot back "You know if you only expect the worst from them then that's all there going to give you" she added quickly fixing him with a hard look.

"No Lonnie, I mean can you watch out for them, they are going to need all the friends they can get with the likes of Chad and Audrey around" he clarified "and I know from experience just how good it can be to have you on my side, I was hoping you could be there for the girls too"

"Sure" Lonnie agreed, her easy smile retuning, she knew the chances of Doug of all people judging someone based solely on their reputation were slim, but she had to be sure. She was really rooting for the Isle kids, she wanted to give them a real chance and she hoped others would too. If she was being honest with herself Lonnie had to admit that she probably would have watched out for them without being asked but she probably wouldn't have gone as far as making friends with them but Doug was right that were going to need all the support they could get, so she was going to make sure she was there for them if and when they needed her.

"Thanks Lonnie" Doug gave her shoulder a friendly pat as he got to his feet intending to go get ready for the day of classes, he had ahead of him.

"But you have to do me a favour in return" Lonnie called after him reaching for her phone as she did so.

"Really what favour could I do you?" Doug wondered "you're not failing any classes" tutoring was usually the only help he could really offer people.

Lonnie was not a sneaky person by nature but the sly grin that Doug saw settling on her pretty face had him worried.

Lonnie pressed a button on her phone and familiar music started to pour out of it "I'm not gonna stop.Not gonna stop tillI get my shotthat's who I amthat is my planwill I end up on top?You canBet on itBet on itBet on itBet onYou canBet on itBet on itBet on me"

"That's you singing, right" she asked even though she already knew the answer"

"Yeah, that's me" Doug admitted with a sigh.

"My favour is you sing in Graces band at the audition" Lonnie explained she pressed pause on the phone and stopped the music.

"How did you get that?"

"Grace gave it to me" she told him in matter of fact tone "so are you going to do it or not? She asked.

"Do I have a choice?" he shot back referencing to her insistence on swapping favours.

"Of course you do" Lonnie said rolling her eyes at the boys dramatics "You know I'm going to watch those girls backs and the boys too if they need it, your answer isn't going to change that but you're really talented Doug why hide how good you are?" she asked him softly.

"Because" Doug gowned "I'm the band geek that's all people see me as, can you imagine what will happen if they see me on the poster? They won't want to come to see a band geek sing, they won't show up and Grace will be heartbroken" he sighed sadly.

"I don't think that will happen" Lonnie told her friend with a gentle smile "and I don't think you really think that either, I think your just scared to come out of your comfort zone" she explained "So if I can set up a way for people to hear just how good a singer you are and prove to you that you can be just as awesome in a rock band as you are in the school band will you do the audition?" she asked him encouragingly.

"As long as you meant what you said about looking out for the Isle kids then yes" Doug agreed offering Lonnie his hand to shake and seal the deal which she gladly did.

"You got yourself a deal, this is going to be fun" she said with a bright smile.

Why do I feel I'm getting the short end of the stick? Doug wondered as he finally turned to make his way into the dorm.

And that's chapter two hope you all enjoyed it, I am going to be adding songs into the story some from Disney shows and movies and some from other show that I think fit, see you in the next chapter.