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Chapter 12: The Announcement

***Next week***

Claudine was nervous since the day before. She hadn't meet Phoebus and Esmeralda since that incident the second week at Quasimodo's. Okay, she had seen them and had avoided any contact with them when she was visiting Quasimodo. (And they had been avoiding her too)

But now she couldn't actually avoid them since they were coming to school to meet their son. Also she would have to meet the other child, a daughter named Jade.

She had dressed in a plain grey shirt and a black knee length skirt, then she tied her hair in a single braid. She looked at her reflection on the mirror and for a moment she saw a flash of her father's blue eyes in her green ones and shuddered at the thought of her father. Still, she wondered if she would be video calling him today as the Rotten Four did during their first family day, even if she was scared of her father and had conflicted feelings about of he treated her…he was her father and knew that her life could have been much worse he had not taken "care" of her, she heard rumors about having siblings scattered around the Isle and she knew that her father would deny those claims so…

" Are you ready?" Harriet called her from the room.

She got out from the bathroom and said " Kind of"

Harriet just looked at her with a strange expression and decided to nod and enter to take a shower. Then Claudine decided to turn on the tv to have some background sound while she re-organized her closet.

She heard something that most of Auradon would not like for sure.

The Tremaine grandson was alone in his bedroom since Hal was spending time at Arendelle since his powers got out of control and he was learning from Queen Elsa. A part of him liked being alone but he missed his pal, though they texted each other it was not the same.

He was trying to get Buttercup in a dog jacket when the announcement was made. He almost dropped his poor dachshund when he realized what it was about.

Snow White was interviewing King Ben and his mother Mother Queen Belle, the former looked nervous and exhausted while her son looked determined.

" So, Your Majesty you requested this special broadcast" Snow White said trying to sound relaxed but it seemed that she had a bad feeling about what would the outcome of this interview.

"Yes" Ben said" I have some important announcements about the Isle of the Lost and its inhabitants, talking to some members of the Council and many of them had agreed with me. It's not common knowledge that a number of villains had redeemed before the Isle was set and they were sent there without a trial" He made pause to look at the camera before saying "We will discuss more in the next days about this matter in the Council"

Anthony looked at his dog who apparently understood what was happening and licked his cheek "Shit…you know what does this means"

Butttercup barked at the same time that his cellphone rang. Anthony looked at the ID and sighed. It was Hal.

"Hi pal"

"Tony, you heard what Ben said?"

"Yes…"

"You know what this means? Your mother could be brought here"

He bit his lip and thought for a moment, Anastasia was not evil and not a bad mother but there was still some issues that came off by living in the Isle.

"Are you still there?"

"Yes" He ran his free hand through his hair "I just…"

"Thought about how was going to be with her there?"

"Kinda…you did?"

There was a silence and Hal finally sighed "My father is rotten to the core…he would never be brought back"

" And you don't want him here, don't you?"

"You can be sure…I don't know what I would do if I saw him again"

Then they said their goodbyes and Anthony thought about his father, a thought that was never in his mind. He didn't remember his father very well, he just knew that he left shortly after Allana was born and that meant that he was around four years old when that man left the Tremaine chateau never to be seen again.

He didn't know what he would do if he saw the man again, maybe he would yell at him or maybe would punch him on the face.

Harriet didn't heard what was going on and wasn't really interested on learning what was going on, though the murmurs bothered her little what was annoying her was the looks. She could ignore the whispers by putting her earphones on but she felt like the eyes were like daggers in her skin. Still she tried to read her notes in the school yard and ignore the others.

Someone put a hand on her shoulder when she was finally concentrating.

"Hey…" Chad called her.

"Hey" She said back and took off one of her earphones.

"Have you heard what Ben said?" He said with an expressionless face.

"No "She shrugged "Was it bad?"

"Bad?" He asked disbelievingly "He is about to cause a riot"

Harriet blinked and decided to take off the other earphone, and then she asked "What happened?"

"He is planning to bring villains from the Isle"

"Is he an idiot?" She asked, she knew that de De Vil cousins had talked about something serious to Ben but she didn't even thought about the possibility of this topic.

Chad just looked at her "You didn't know about this?"

She shrugged "How would I know that?"

The prince snorted "You are friends!"

"Yes but we don't tell each other everything we do" She started to raise her voice.

"Maybe this was your plan" He said walking back "You all came pretending to be…"

"Good?" She asked disbelievingly "We are not good, we are not evil either"

"How can I believe this?" He asked.

"Do you think I want to see my father again?" She asked.

Chad just looked down and shook his head "No, I don't think so"

They were silent before he said "My mother wants me to introduce you to her during the lunch". Chad didn't wait for a response and left.

Harriet just decided to return to her studying before going to meet up with Peter.

Henry couldn't be more delighted by the turn of events. This would make it easier to break the barrier. He had already delivered a message for Ginny Gothel.

Maybe it was a bad decision to only contact one of his…allies, but it was better to keep the others in the dark.

For the moment it was necessary. Unlike what the other thought about the curly haired girl, she was rather intelligent and knew how to break the barrier to use internet and was currently trying to break it all.

We have been trying to use some spells to make a crack in the barrier, but as you know magic is useless here so we have made a machine to make a supply of energy…We may have results by next week- G.

Probably the one who was making attempts to use magic was Zevon. He was an idiot but had magic, that was why he let Ginny make an alliance with him. If the Gastons knew about that, he wasn't aware.

He was sure that the things wouldn't go as smoothly as the king had painted them but he now had a chance.

"Henry, can we talk?" Melinoe said knocking the door.

It was lucky for him that Rick was off with his dear friend Thomas Rolfe doing gods-know-what. He let her in and asked " What do you want to talk about?"

"I know that you heard the news, and I know that you have something planned behind my back" She started to say "I won't betray you but I want to know about it"

He calculated his options, if he told her the truth it would start a conflict since the goddess hated Ginny and if he lied she would drive him mad. So he decided to tell her.

As he anticipated she fumed under her breath but then she said "I have some useful information"

"And?" He said waiting for it.

"It doesn't come free" She smirked.

He damned the moment he started to make treats with her, who knew that Hades' youngest daughter would turn to be like this.

Hadie went to his sister's room only to find up that she had already left and that she had a small confrontation with Yzla that morning. He was about to leave when he noticed a grey book on his sister's nightstand.

It was a sorcery book.

That would get his sister in great problems, they didn't have magic so she must be reading that with ulterior motives. His sister had changed very much, he wanted to blame that on Plantagenet but a part of him knew that she had always been like that.

"Do you know when she got this?"He asked Yzla holding that book.

"A week ago or so" She said "I haven't told anyone, I prefer to let you deal with your own problems"

Hadie now had to set an investigation on motion.

Sorry for the delay but I was on vacation and I didn't have a computer to write.

I know this is a short chapter but next week I will post a larger one.

Hope you like this.