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Chapter 13: Family, Memories and Realizations

Later…

Hal and Emma were watching a soccer game between Klaus and other Arendelle teens and children. Anna's son had actually asked the auburn-haired boy to join them but he preferred to spend his time with the princess, also it had been a titanic effort for him to go outside the castle.

Emma was actually writing down something on a leather notebook and sometimes would look at the game just to smile a little and then return to her activity. Hal looked at her work once in a while and tried to understand her handwriting which was a little messy, but he didn't ask what she was doing since he knew better than ask.

His brothers didn't take kindly to be asked what they were doing, if he did ask her would not eat for a day or so, and if he asked something to his father…

Though he remembered a time when he had been a brother to Hansel and Harald, though at one point he thought that those memories were not real but now he was sure that it had happened.

A four-year-old Hal was running behind a six-year-old Harald and a seven-year-old Hansel.

"Wait for me!" He cried trying to reach them.

"Run" Harald said.

They had been running away from Gaston's twins, they had stolen their rubber ball and they were not good at controlling their ire even for had taken the ball while Hansel distracted them, Hal just tagged along just to get away from their father.

His brothers dropped some boxes at the stairs and them jumped by the side.

"What are you doing?" Hal muttered looking down.

"Jump" Hansel commanded.

Hal looked behind his back, Gaston had joined his twins searching for them as he did not like when other kids messed with his sons.

"I'm scared" The youngest Westergaard muttered. At four years old he had yet to learn to hide his weaknesses.

"I'll get you" Harald said.

After a few seconds Hal decided to jump and landed on his brothers. Surprisngly Harald had laughed lightheartedly and rubbed his younger brother's head.

But then their father had lectured them.

And it had not been nice.

He didn't want to think about his father, the one who often forgotten about him and only remembered about his youngest son when it suited him like using him to steal something from the market when he was younger or when he had to send someone to pay his debts.

"What are you thinking about?" Emma asked.

"Nothing important" Hal responded shrugging but his friend knew he was lying.

Still Emma didn't ask more and he was thankful for that, she knew that he wouldn't say anything he didn't want to share.

But he trusted her and so he admitted after a few minutes "I was thinking about my father"

"I knew it" She said.

"You heard what the King said"

"Yes…"

"I know he won't come but my brothers…"

"They are out of school?" Emma asked and when Hal nodded she added "Then they have little chance to come here, Ben is mostly interest on those that are on school-age"

Hal was not so sure but hummed a response.

Hadie was waiting for his sister to appear.

He had left the book where he had found it since carrying it around could be dangerous for him and also he didn't want to go back to the Isle. Most of the people at the Isle must want to kill him now, though it was almost impossible to die in the Isle.

Now that he thought about it, no one he knew had died yet in the Isle not even Madam Mim who was old as the dinosaurs,or Ginny Gothel who was subject of her mother's experiments and oftenly looked as a mass of meat and blood.

His sister was talking with Henry.

"So she had been plotting with him?" He thought, he knew that Plantagenet was greedy and back in the Isle he cheated his way to the top though he was not well known for he was the son of a minor villain.

He felt a small flame burning inside him.

Melly looked at him and raised an eyebrow, and then he realized that they had a connection as they were siblings. (Now he had to find a way to use it.)

He decided he would investigate what they were doing before confronting her, though his sister was not known for her brilliance she was known for her tantrums.

Then he looked at Rick Ratcliffe, he may know something since he shared room with Plantagenet. He would have to find something interesting for raven haired boy since he was not one to help the others if it not suited him.

Also he haven't talked to Ratcliffe in a long –time but there was always a first for everything.

"Hey Rick!" He called.

"Hadie" The other boy nodded courtly but confused.

Hadie smiled and started a conversation with him.

Evie was just not having a good day.

She was slightly angry at Ben for his announcement, as his advisor in topics related to the Isle of the Lost she had the right to know what he was going to do about that.

The idea of bringing adults was…risky.

She knew of course that Anastasia, the Stabbington Brothers and Diego's father needed to get out of the Isle and her poor parrot, Othello, would he still be alive? Would he be eating? Was he missing her?, she felt guilty for leaving him at the Isle with her mother as she had always hated the bird.

Mal entered their room and threw the door, and then she took a breath and yelled "What the heck was Ben thinking?"

Evie just sighed and said "If you ask me, he had lost his mind"

"I agree" Mal grunted.

Then both girls fell silent and decided to get ready for the lunch, but there was a worry in the air.

"Today will be worse than our first Family Day" Evie commented "They will put the blame on me"

"On all of us…I already heard Chad complaining about it and I saw him discussing with Harriet"

There was a pause and then Mal asked "Carlos and Diego had an audience with Ben, did you know that?"

"I knew that they wanted to talk with Ben but I didn't know if they already had it"

"Could they have talked him into it…? They said at the same time.

"It's not Carlos style" Evie said softly.

"I have to admit that neither is Diego's"

Evie looked at Mal and said " You have to talk Ben out of this…at least for a while, he has not thought about it"

Mal made a face but silently agreed, Ben had gotten them in a really interesting situation.

Christian Charming was having a bad time trying to stay up. His legs were too weak to support his weight lately and so he had been using a cane.

But he was trying hard for his brother and his cousins.

He couldn't let them see him that way, he was the oldest and he was supposed to take care of them or so he had thought from the moment Chad was born and he had meet the Tremaines.

He had insisted on coming despite the advice of the royal doctor, he wouldn't miss a Family Day again, the last time he did his brother had infuriated the Rotten Four (as Anthony had called them).

Also he wanted to meet Harriet Hook, the girl who was becoming a subject of his brother's affections and had been fairly "close" to his mother told Chad that she wanted to meet her and he had not been happy about that.

Christian was having tea with his family, surprisingly his father was with them and actually was being nice to everyone.

Buttercup/Primrose the Dachshund was with them too, though she was drinking milk from her plate.

If someone had told him that someday he would be sharing table with his Tremaine cousins and with a dog near, he would have laughed at that, but now it seemed that it had always been like that.

It was going fairly well until his mother told Chad that she wanted to meet Harriet.

"That will not be possible" Chad quickly said.

"Why not? I could meet her at Family Day" Their mother said.

"She will have to be with her guardian" The blonde prince said and looked to Anthony for support, so the Tremaine nodded.

"She is shy around older people" Anthony said behind his cup "She doesn't know how to talk to them, she doesn't even know how to talk to people her age if she was not introduced first"

"Also she was Anthony's girlfriend" Chad added gaining a dirty look from his cousin.

"Was she?" Kit, King Charming, asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes/No"

"We were close back in the Isle" Anthony tried to explain "It was better to be on her good side and she can be nice enough…at times"

Dizzy laughed.

"Then I have more reasons to meet her, my nephew is a good friend to her and my soon has taken some interest on her"

"Mom" Chad whined.

"I think it would be interesting to meet her too"Kit commented "Maybe I can take a day off"

Chad looked again to Anthony for help but the other boy shook his head and sipped his tea, then the blonde looked at his brother.

"I'll go too"Christian said with a smirk.

He looked around and spotted a raven haired girl talking to Peter Pan, she seemed fairly serious but looking closely she was enjoying it. Also she is pretty, though she was different from Audrey and the other girls Chad had dated.

Anthony approached them and joined the conversation, Harriet seemed comfortable around him and looked at him with… fondness?. Then Chad joined them awkwardly and every time the pirate talked the prince looked at her with interest and, a growing affection?

"Very interesting" Christian muttered.

His mother approached him and said "I asked Peter if they would care to join us for lunch and he agreed"

He raised an eyebrow "Chad says that Harriet seemed rather surprised by your…invitation"

"Surely your brother told her at the last minute and she didn't have time to assimilate it" Then she commented "She seems fairly …okay"

"Aye"

Carlos was with Dude and Diego in his bedroom.

"Things are going out of hand, aren't they?" Carlos commented.

"I think so" Diego sighed.

"Yeah, you screwed them up" Dude said winging his tail.

Both boys gave him a dirty look.

"Well you did" He said.

Carlos knew that people had yet to accept them in Auradon, of course they were fawning over Mal because of her status as the girlfriend of the king and a lady of the court, and of course Evie becaouse her designs.

But for the rest was a different case, people treated him kindly but warily. The only ones who seemed to really like them were the dogs…and lately Roger, Anita and Annie.

"You think that they will still come?" Diego asked.

"Sure" Carlos said but he wasn't so sure.

Rick Ratcliffe was having a conversation with Hadie son of Hades.

He hadn't talked with other villain kids since he joined the group of King Ben and partially the group of Ronnie Hood and Thomas Rolfe.

The raven haired boy studied the god, he knew that the other wanted something because no one approaches someone they don't know so abruptly. But he knew better than to ask, he would wait until Hadie expressed his interests.

Then Hadie finally spoke "Have you noticed something strange on Henry?"

There was it.

He could tell Hadie about the plot Henry was making with Melinoe, though he knew little about it and just knew that it involved magic and other Isle kids.

Also he knew about CJ Hook still being in Auradon.

Still, he knew that he couldn't tell him that information for free.

He studied Hadie again.

"I'll tell you…but" He started to talk while looking at Henry.

Ginny and Zevon had been working to break the barrier for more than a few seconds.

They haven't tell the other about their little success the other day, they wanted to keep I for themselves just to avoid any…delays.

Then Mad Maddy told Ginny about the tunnel that connected Auradon and the Isle.

"You could have told us sooner" Ginny grunted.

"I could have…but better late than after"

The three walked towards the entrance.

"It's locked at the other side" Maddy announced.

"Then were are losing precious time"

"Maybe not, you already broke the barrier and your…assistant has magic so"

"He only knows how to make potions, he has no real magic…no one had magic on the Isle grounds" The curly haired girl interrupted the other and started to walk towards the docks again.

Then a realization hit her and turned her head towards the cave.

Again sorry for the delay.

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