Lizzie's POV
I groaned feeling like I my throat was on fire and my mouth dry as I flexed my hands taking note that my left one was being held which made me slowly blink my eyes open seeing Harry sitting in a chair, his head laid back snoring with my hand resting on the mattress I was lying on with his hand entwined around it and found myself smiling a little before I noticed the glass of water on a crate beside the bed, I maneuvered my hand out of Harry's without waking him and reached for it raising it to my lips taking a sip only to cough when it met my parched throat and the noise seemed to wake Harry up as he sat up abruptly snorting as he woke up then looked down at me.
"Yer awake!" he announced loudly and I groaned since I had a raging headache.
"Nots so loud Har" I complained resting back again closing my eyes.
"Sorry, it's just yeh've been asleep for three days" he replied and my eyes shot open since I hadn't known it'd been that long and to be honest I couldn't even remember why I was in pain.
"What...what happened to me?" I asked him and watched his brows furrow.
"I should be asking yeh that" he argued making me frown. "When yeh didn't come back from school and Gil showed up without yeh I grew worried thinking that yeh mother got to yer so Gil and I ran towards her mansion to fight for yeh back but we found yeh near that cursed crocodiles bridge bleeding out" he explained and it was only when I heard that did I remember collapsing near Tick-Tock's dock after my confrontation with my mother and...I lifted my hand towards my neck feeling the rough cloth before he pulled my hand away. "I wouldn't do that if I were you" he told me and my frown deepened. "What happened Ilizabeth?" he asked me, I sighed and tried to sit up wincing in pain but finally managed to sit upright.
"I...I left school at lunch...wasn't in the mood for it after all and I went to my special place, a rooftop that only I know how to get onto it but it was trashed and I remember finding an Ace of Hearts playing card...it's Ace's calling card and I got angry...enraged and had enough of my mother's oppression so I...I went to confront her"
"Are yeh crazy!?" Harry exclaimed but I'd already expected his anger.
"We've established that I'm insane Harry, no need to yell at me" I argued shaking my head. "I challenged her to let me go, to let me be free of her but Ace showed up and we fought...I beat him but when I went to kill him I couldn't do it and my mother laughed saying I was weak so I...I threatened to kill myself if she didn't let me go...hence the wound on my neck"
"What the hell were yeh thinking, did yeh even stop and think about it?" he asked and I frowned looking down nodding my head.
"I knew it would hurt you but I couldn't continue to live in fear of my mother, I couldn't" I cried shaking my head which aggravated my neck wound. "I'm sorry Harry, really"
"Yeh can't do things like this Ilizabeth, yeh mean too much to me"
"I know...I know but I had to" he pulled me into his arms and I went willingly laying my head on his shoulder.
"What happened then?" he asked me and I frowned.
"I continued to beg her to let me go, to let me live my life the way that I wanted but in the end it was Ace...he made her make me stop before I cut any deeper and she finally freed me...I'm free Harry"
"Ace?" he questioned and I frowned even more since I was just as confused about that as he was since it didn't make sense especially since she'd actually listened and let me go but I didn't care since I was finally free of my mother's tyranny and I didn't want to question it. "I'm still mad at yeh but I'm just glad yer safe" he pulled me tighter and I smiled wrapping my arms around him hugging him back.
"I deserve it" I mumbled into him.
"Ah sleeping beauty's finally awake" we both looked up and saw Harriet walk into the room and I quickly stepped out of Harry's embrace. "It's time to change your bandages" I raised an eye since I hadn't known she had helped Harry.
"We've all been taking turns looking after yeh" Harry explained seemingly reading my mind. "Me, Harriet, Gil and me father" I turned to him with an even bigger shocked face for the fact that Captain Hook had been taking care of me.
"Harry never really left you for too long though" Harriet added as she brought over new bandages and I let her untie the one from around my neck wincing a little as she did. "Still no sign of infection which is good" she said checking it over before she picked up a glass jar with a white jelly looking paste in it.
"What is that?" I asked as she started applying some to my neck.
"It's from Madam Mim, it's a mixture of Aloe and sea water, it'll help stop the pain and swelling as well as disinfect it with the sea water properties" she explained and I was a little hesitant of the stuff since it came from the psycho witch but they'd been using it for the past three days I gather and I wasn't showing sign of infections so I guessed it was safe, once she was finished she tied a fresh piece of cloth around the wound as a bandage. "Keep it dry" she instructed before she left once again leaving me with Harry.
"So your fathers been helping?" I asked curiously.
"He helped us when we first found you to stop the bleeding, there was so much blood that I thought..." his voice choked up a little and I hated that I had done this to him that I had caused him to worry this much about me and I knew if the roles had been reversed I would have been just the same which is why I didn't blame him that he was angry at me.
"I'm sorry Harry, I never meant to cause you to worry"
"Yeh can't ever do anything like this again"
"I don't plan to" I replied gently touching my neck. "I think once is enough to try and cut off my own head" I tried to make a joke but he glared at me meaning it wasn't the time to joke about it just yet. "Sorry" he shook his head at me.
"Yeh damn lucky that I love yeh" he sighed and I smiled moving so that I could wrap my arms around him again.
"I love you too Harry and I promise that I will never do anything like this again especially now that I'm finally free...we're free of my mothers dark cloud" he sighed wrapping his arms around my waist and we stood in each other's arms just taking each other in.
The next few weeks we're long and agonizing as my neck healed, especially when I now had a nasty looking scar across my neck which people thought it was okay to stare at which always angered me but Harry kept reminding me not to let them bother me and that he still found me beautiful but I still hated that it was a reminder of everything I'd had to do to finally escape my mother since every time I looked at it I couldn't help think of her favorite saying 'Off with your head'...it nearly had been off with my head and the thought was enough to threaten to drive me to madness again.
I sighed once again looking at my reflection in a broken mirror that hung on the door of Harry and I's closet...we were practically living together fully now, I smiled at the thought of Harry bringing up that his room was now mine and the fact that he'd gotten rid of the hammock that we'd slept in previous and made as an actual bed out of crates and a mattress he gotten off the barge...yeah it had holes and springs missing but it was ours and meant that we could properly curl up and sleep in each other's arms without threatening to knock us out of a hammock if either of us turned the wrong way in our sleep.
"Tick-Tock love" I heard and turned around seeing Harry leaning in the doorway of our room, I rolled my eyes at his smirk and metaphor.
"Careful Harry one might think that croc is back and we both know your afraid of it" I laughed especially when he glared at me with a playful glint in his eyes.
"At least I'd be able to outswim it" I glared back at him before rolling my eyes.
"Whatever you say Hook" he smirk grew as I walked into his arms and he wrapped one around my waist, the other came up and ran over my scar as he stared down at it.
"Don't do that" I told him since he knew how much I hated it.
"Yeh beautiful" he smiled kissing my forehead before grabbing my hand and we left, he shut the door to our room before we went above deck and started walking towards the Chip Shoppe to meet up with the others since we honestly had nothing better to do.
We'd officially technically finished school, there was no fancy graduation ceremony for villains, it was basically an assembly where they told us not to return and released us as adult Isle residents and that was it so Harry I spent majority of the time at the Chip Shoppe with the crew now...what was left of it anyway since a lot of them had taken up the traitors offer and filled out applications to go to Auradon leaving only me, Harry, Gil, Desiree and Gonzo...the rest had betrayed us so we were a downright pitiful crew these days.
"Bout time you two showed up" Desiree said as we entered the Chip Shoppe and checked our swords into the barrel approaching our usual table.
"She had a lazy start" Harry smirked and I punched his shoulder.
"I did not!" I shot back at him and they all groaned rolling their eyes at our bickering, they all knew we were together now and made a point to say how disgustingly cute and annoying we were but of course Harry and I didn't care.
"Did you see those posters that are all over the Isle?" Gonzo asked us and I frowned since it was downright horrible, there was posters of Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos all over the Isle including our turf of their propaganda for VK DAY! promoting what they stood for which were all total lies.
Mal: Our liberator, our hero Mal...will never let you down...completely bullshit.
Evie: Proof that dreams come true...took our Isle style to Auradon and slayed...bullshit too.
Jay: Big brother to us all...Jay will be your friend to the end...also bullshit.
Carlos: A friend to the friendless...showed us we all deserve love...last part not bullshit except that we he didn't show us that so it was still bullshit.
"What about those signs, Jay's Way...Carlos House...urgh" Desiree added.
"Evie's Alley and Mal's Court are worse" I complained leaning into Harry as his arm rested around my shoulders. "Like we needed any more reminder of those traitors" I spat venomously annoyed that we were the only ones not buying into the hype of their pity invitation when they had left us all to rot for over a year until suddenly they felt obligated to start taking more kids and just four once again leaving the rest to rot for who knows how long.
"Nah what's worse is Bonny and Jonas betraying us to apply" Harry added just as annoyed as I was and I glared at nothing just for the reminder of half our crew deserting us even after we'd warned them that they'd be seen as traitors.
"If Uma was here-" Gil shut up as soon as Harry and I glared at him since Uma was something we didn't discuss since it's been four months since she'd left and we hadn't seen a tentacle in sight.
"Whatever we don't need them" I tried to lighten the mood and get out of the depressive state we were in, I sat up out of Harry's arm. "What's most important is that we remain loyal and we'll find our own way off this island with or without Uma coming back for us because we're pirates, we take no one's pity and we give no quarter, whose with me?"
"AYE!" they all yelled raising glasses of seaweed soda and I sank back into Harry's embrace as he smiled down.
It was all good and well saying that but we seemed to be the only ones that hadn't filled out an application and it proved as the spirits of the residents of the Isle was lifted as they now had hope and the once dark and gloomy Isle exploded with color and Mal's tags returned as people believed they were really out to help us and were honoring her like she was queen already and we were pushed to the side like outlaws...non one was really afraid of us anymore and that annoyed me more than ever.
"I'm gonna get some air" I told Harry before getting up and headed out walking onboard the Lost Revenge and leant against the side that looked out past the barrier feeling the sea breeze blow my hair around but I was focused on the horizon just wishing that I caught a glimpse of teal tentacles or guidance from Uma since I felt like it was my fault that the crew is all but dissolved since I should've been a better captain in her absence, I should have been stronger to hold the crew together like I know she would have if she was here...but most of all I missed my best friend. "I wish you were here Uma" I said to nothing before I turned and headed back to the others.
A/N: This is it for the Escape from the Isle of the Lost novel, finally moving onto Descendants 3!