Lizzie's POV

I've spent three weeks in hell but at least I wasn't starving since my mother finally saw that I wasn't going to give in so she'd finally allowed Ace to bring me food but it was seriously only enough to keep me from starving to death, the beatings still continued and my face was more blue and purple than my usual olive skin tone and every part of my body hurt but I was growing accustomed to the pain meaning it was growing easier to spit in their faces and refuse my mothers offer and it was even growing fun to say that straight to her face when she began summoning me down from my room to her tea room to have tea with her.

"Come child, I have fantastic news!" she yelled out as soon as I walked into the tea room being escorted by two guards.

I approached the tea table and sat down placing my hands on the table and waited for her to allow me to pour myself some tea or eat any of the rotten Slop Shop cakes, it was severely annoying to wait but she punished me for incorrect etiquette.

"You'll no longer be going to that awful Serpent Preparatory School, I've enrolled you into Dragon Hall" my eyes widened before I felt the anger slip in since I didn't want to change schools, I was a senior at Serpent Prep and was almost finished so why would she bother changing my school now.

"Why?" I asked reining in my anger so that I didn't get myself in any trouble.

"I think it's course work is much more suited to your needs, no more pirate nonsense and more focusing on Evil Schemes and becoming evil just like me" I frowned holding back a glare.

"I couldn't possibly learn any of the course work on time, I'm a senior already mother so why bother change schools now"

"Don't argue and do as your told" I sighed nodding my head. "Now pour the tea and this time do it properly" I nodded my head again and picked up the teapot, pouring it the way she'd shown me a million times growing up from all my etiquette lessons even though she always had something to say about it, I handed her the cup and she took a sip without even saying anything which surprised me a little as we fell into silence and just drank our tea and ate the bitter and disgusting cakes but being used it you could get past the taste. "You better get going, the headmaster is waiting for you"

"I'm allowed to leave?" I asked stupidly but once again I was shocked since I haven't been outside in three weeks.

"How else do you expect to attend your lessons but don't get too excited since Ace will be walking you to and from school to make sure you stay away from those filthy pirates"

"They bathe quite frequently actually" I replied without thinking and felt the harsh slap of her hand in retaliation.

"Do as your told!" I nodded my head fighting against putting my hand over my stinging cheek but not enough to stop the glare towards her. "ACE!" she called and he arrived straight away. "Take her away, I'm done with her today" he frowned walking over and pulled me up from the table and dragged me out of the room back upstairs to mine.

"Get ready and grab your things" I quickly did as I was told, quickly changing clothes to be more high school appropriate and quickly added some make up, before I grabbed my bag and met Ace outside my door eager to actually be outside for the first time in weeks.

"It feels so good to be out!" I exclaimed the moment we walked out the front door throwing my arms out before Ace shoved me to walk faster, I didn't let his usual bad mood faze me and just started walking through the maze before we were on the streets of the Isle walking all the way to Dragon Hall frowning when the foreboding old tomb and it's surrounding cemetery.

"Don't try anything" he warned me with a hard glare. "If you run and I'm forced to hunt you down, the punishments will be unlike anything you've ever been through before" I rolled my eyes but nodded my head as I headed into the building and headed straight for Dr Facilier's office already knowing my way around since I'd first attended Dragon Hall for two years before I moved to Serpent Prep as it had been closer and I'd changed schools myself when I started favoring Uma over Mal after the whole shrimp accident.

"Yo Dr. F!" I called entering straight into his office seeing him sitting at his desk, feet up onto it with his top hat leaning slightly on the top of his head and he had his voodoo staff in his hand.

"Yes I was told the Queen of Hearts daughter would be returning to my school" he said sounding generally uninterested which I seconded. "Here's your locker key, this is your schedule and you can chose your seventh period class from this list" I scanned the classes not really all that interested.

"Artists and Thieves" I shrugged figuring it was the one that sounded the less boring one and with the knowledge that my mother would no doubt force me to return to work for her in her salon again it was the better fit.

"Well your dismissed" he stated after I continued to stare at him, I rolled my eyes as I headed out the door seeing Celia, the daughter of Dr Facilier heading for his office.

"Lizzie Hearts?" she asked and I nodded. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I'm back at this hell hole" I shrugged annoyed with her questioning.

"Huh, you want a tarot reading?" she asked and I scoffed knowing full well never to agree to let anyone in the Facilier family read your future.

"No thanks, I'll pass" I argued as I walked past her heading out into the halls finding my locker easily and dumped my books since I wasn't even going to bother with any of my classes seeing as I literally only have a few months left before either school would've kicked us to the curb and onto the streets of the Isle to officially fend for ourselves.

"Lizzie?" I spun around and my eyes widened when I saw Gil behind me.

"Gil!" I exclaimed having completely forgot that he went to school here instead of Serpent Prep like Uma, Harry and me.

"Does Harry know you're here?" he asked but I shook my head.

"No and you can't tell him, he needs to let me go" I argued flinching at the sound of Harry's name, I haven't seen him since he tried to bust me out two weeks ago and I'd hoped he had given up.

"He wouldn't do that" Gil protested shaking his head.

"He needs to" I argued walking off but he stubbornly followed.

"He's miserable, snaps at the crew and doesn't like us calling him Captain even though he's filling in for you and Uma" I frowned hating the thought of Harry being miserable but I had to remain strong, I had to protect him from my mothers madness.

"Just whack him over the head for me and tell him to stop being a baby" I told him and he laughed obviously thinking I was kidding.

"So what are you doing here anyway, I thought you went to Serpent Prep?" I chuckled a little at his question before it fell as I was reminded of why I was here.

"I transferred schools" I shrugged keeping it simple.

"Why?" he pressed making me nervous since I didn't want anyone around to know what I was going through, I already had enough make up on to cover up all the bruising on my face.

"I just thought it was better academically, gotta learn how to be properly evil am I right?" I fake smirked walking into my first class which was 'Evil Schemes & Nasty Plots' a class that was taught by Lady Tremaine and I unfortunately saw her pathetic grandson sitting in the front row so I immediately headed towards the back in hopes I wouldn't draw attention to myself.

Unfortunately for me though Lady Tremaine decided to humiliate me by immediately calling on me for an answer testing my evilness for her class which of course meant the entire class had turned and was shocked that I was even here, a few of them glared at me, some quickly went back to ignoring my presence but one in particular, cough *Tremaine* cough, smirked at me as if my being here had just made his whole year, I refused to answer which actually pleased the old woman as she went on with her lesson.

I pushed through my day with Gil at my side through most of it and I would never admit it to him but I actually liked having a friendly face around again even if I didn't keep up with half of the incessant babble that came out of his mouth, he seemed to act as a Anthony shield since despite his look in class he hadn't so much approached me and for that I was grateful not wanting to deal with the intitled prat.

"Are you coming to the Chip Shoppe after school?" Gil asked and just like that my good mood for being out suddenly vanished with the reminder that I wasn't really free.

"I can't" I deadpanned as we were walking to Gym, a class taught by his dad.

"Why not?"

"I just can't Gil" I shrugged and he frowned.

"Why haven't you been around the past few weeks, don't you like us anymore?" he asked and I stopped turning to him curious to know if Harry had even told them I was a prisoner to my mother.

"Of course I like you Gil, your one of my best friends, things in my life right now are how you say...complicated" I replied trying to be cryptic since while I liked Gil he wasn't the best at keeping secrets and I didn't really want people to know about my captivity.

"What about Harry, did you guys fight?"

"No" I frowned moving on through the halls, the air smelt damp and it was freezing in these old crypt tunnels that I wish I had thought to grab my jacket this morning having forgotten how horrible this place was since the last time I'd been here I had been seven and that was over eleven years ago.

"So why do you want to keep him away then?"

"Like I said it's complicated Gil" I told him just as we neared the gym. "Just promise me that you won't tell him"

"But why?"

"I can't say, just promise me Gil, as my friend that you won't tell Harry that I'm going to school here" he didn't say anything but he nodded so I took that as a yes and entered gym.

The rest of the day went by quicker than I would have liked and soon I found myself exiting the crypt seeing Ace not too far away from the main doors, his usual scowl on his face glaring at me as I trudged towards him walking straight past him but heard his footsteps fall behind me as we walked all the way back to the mansion where I had to actually sit and have tea with my mother and recount my day which meant I purposely lied about Gil knowing she'd pull me back out the moment she even knew that one of my friends went there because I knew she wouldn't send me there if she had known Gil went to Dragon Hall.

After I was done with tea I was sent to my room and locked in as per usual, I frowned towards my window which has since been boarded up when Ace had finally realised it had been broken and I'd lied stating that I threw something at it which resulted in a fresh beating but I wasn't going to ever tell the truth.

I laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling honestly just recalling today, it had been so good to see Gil since for a short while I was able to forget about my miserable life and reminisce all the good things this island had to offer which mainly was the crew, I missed them all so much especially Harry for obvious reasons, we never even got to enjoy the feeling of finally coming clean to each other.

I should've known that doing so would result in something going wrong because villains don't get happy endings and we only had to ask and thank our parents for it, the universal rules that applied to our parents also applied to us and we were forced to suffer just as they did with our only hope being getting off this hell hole but we all knew that was never going to happen either meaning we're utterly and completely screwed to suffer and it was all Auradon's fault...one day I hope we get the chance to make them suffer as we do because only then will taking my mothers punishing upbringing will ever be worth it and I welcome the day and dream of that happening as it's the only thing getting me through my endless cycle of days.

A/N: I hope nobody is hating these little filler chapters between Descendants 2 and the next book, I felt them necessary to tell the story I want to tell as this is not just a love story between an O/C, I wanted to create a different story within Melissa De LA Cruz' fantastic world so bare with me and I assure you will get some good stuff coming up I promise. Please Review your own thoughts on the past couple of chapters and please if you have any requests on scene ideas please don't be shy to PM me and I'll see what i can do about possibly/maybe bringing your idea's to life.

And of course i want to thank everyone who has been reading this story so far.