Lizzie's POV

I was so tired that I was barely awake as I sat at our usual table in the Chip Shoppe, I have been having trouble sleeping for the past week and luckily for Harry he'd taken the dagger out of our bed since more than once did I wake up on the offence and he'd been thrown out of the tiny bed we shared by my thrashing and punches which I wouldn't snap out of it and he'd would have to physically hold me in his arms and hold my wrists to stop me from hurting him or myself until I was able to calm myself down.

Today was the day that the traitors were returning for the new ones but I was barely watching the news on the TV which everyone in Chip Shoppe seemed to be so interested in and frankly I'd rather be on the ship right now sleeping but without Harry about I was scared to sleep since I had no idea what I'd do if he wasn't with me when I woke up in my pained states, I had a history of trying to kill myself and honestly wouldn't put it past my mad mind to try and Harry seemed to know that which is why he'd practically had to drag me here this morning.

"Lizzie?" my eyes snapped open and I sat up straighter having nearly drifted off and met Gil's eyes. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah Gil, I'm fine" I smiled at him since I didn't want anyone knowing about these episodes but I met Harry's eyes and he gave me a worried look, I hated the fact that I was stressing him out and he looked just as tired as I did from all the times I've woken him up the past week. "What's been going on?"

"Mal and the King just turned up" Desiree told me and I turned my attention to the TV which was broadcasting the whole event of them coming to the Isle to pick up the twins, Dizzy and Celia. I saw Mal and Ben come out both waving and shaking hands like the perfect lady of the court and king which was enough to make me barf since she was such a traitor and so fake.

"Bippity-Boppity one, two, one, two" the Fairy Godmother said into a microphone. "Can everyone hear me?" I rolled my eyes since she was always so sickly perky and it was so annoying.

"Thank you Fairy Godmother" Ben said getting a hold of the microphone when Fairy Godmother passed it to him. "What's up Auradon!" he shouted. "Thank you, thank you so much for coming out to welcome our new arrivals, they'll be here soon...it worked out pretty well for the first four" he smiled before he turned to Mal. "Mal...this is the exact we first met not so long ago, I feel like I've known you my whole life" Ben said staring adoringly in Mal's eyes and my eyes narrowed on why this was so public, Harry and I never did anything couplely in public especially since dating on the Isle was barely a thing and neither of us wanted to show our weakness like that. "But did I mention...that I'm in love with you?" everyone awed before music started playing and Ben began to sing.

"I met this girl that rocked my world like it's never been rocked and now I'm living just for her and I won't ever stop I never thought that it could happen to a guy like me but now look at what you've done you got me down on one knee" my eyes widened in shock when Ben knelt down on one knee...he was purposing to Mal!

"Mal it's you and me, it's you and me forever...will you marry me?" he opened up a ring box and the cameras all zoomed in on the ring, a huge purple gem...the things gotta be worth a fortune and could probably feed this whole island...I scoffed and glared at the scene since it was so sick especially since they made us watch this crap when we lived like this with nothing. "Will you be my Queen?"

"No!" a voice could be heard yelling and I couldn't help laugh since it seemed at least someone over there didn't like this as much as we all did since we were all glaring at the scene.

"Yes!" Mal exclaimed getting over her shock and everyone erupted into cheers as Ben stood and slid the ring onto Mal's left ring finger.

"Argh" I picked up some of the fish from Harry's tray and threw it at the TV managing to hit the off button.

"Nice shot" Harry praised and I rolled my eyes.

"Did you see the size of that thing, it could feed this whole island with what it'd be worth and they don't even give a damn about us" I yelled out annoyed and cranky from my lack of sleep.

"Someone's cranky" Gonzo laughed but I glared at him and he shut his mouth pretty quick.

"You're telling me you're not, they come here and create this program for more of them to leave but they can't correct the wrong of sending us all their crappy leftovers" I added frowning as I stood up. "They're such hypocrites and I'm sick of it" I turned and started heading for the door and Harry was quick to try and follow me but I shook my head at him. "I want to be alone, I'll meet you back at the ship later" I told him before I walked out hitting the batwing doors open before I started walking with no real destination in mind but definitely avoiding the bridge since I had no interest in seeing more traitors turn their back on their home.

"Hey kid" I stopped short in spot eyes widening before I slowly turned my head and come face to face with the devil himself...Hades?!...he was out of his cave...no ones seen him in eighteen years...I had never even seen him in person.

"What do you want?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest and he scoffed with a fake laugh.

"Do you even know who I am?"

"Hades" I shrugged like it wasn't a big deal and on this island he wasn't, he was just the islands hermit that lived in the cave system that run underneath the island.

"I am a god" he scoffed and I smirked.

"Not here your not" he glared at me but without his powers I wasn't very intimidated. "What did you want?"

"Your brave kid"

"The names Lizzie" I spat angry at him for calling me kid, only Ace ever called me that and I hated it. .

"Good for you, listen how would you like to help me get off this island?" he smirked and I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Cause you haven't tried that before" I quizzed since we all new his desperate attempts to get off this island, my mother used to talk about them all...from the time he tried to use a ladder to climb over the barrier only to realize it was a dome and the tunnel in which he lived in.

"That VK day program, that's today right?"

"Not shit sherlock" I snapped at him since I didn't have time to entertain the hermit and turned away.

"You ever tried to go through the barrier before it closed behind someone?" he asked making me stop and turn back to him. "Didn't your little friend do it"

"Well...yeah" I shrugged not knowing where he was going with this. "What's your point?"

"Jump through the barrier as the car goes through"

"Yeah thanks but no thanks I don't feel like getting my head chopped off and even if one did make it they'd just open it back up and shove you right back through"

"Not unless you have me and this" he held up some blue crystal and the thief in me admired it but I wasn't dumb enough to steal from the god of the underworld with or without his powers I didn't feel like being tortured.

"A shiny rock, wonderful" I remarked sarcastically with a snigger.

"IT'S NOT A ROCK!" he exploded in anger that I insulted his rock and I smirked actually finding it funny that he still had that Hades temper he was so infamous for but no burning hair. "It's my ember, with it I can help you escape if you help me"

"No thanks" I replied turning around and walked off leaving him behind, no way was I going to help him get off the Isle and leave Harry behind since his plan already sounded stupid and I couldn't exactly take the others with me since we wouldn't all be able to get through the barrier before it closed and I wasn't a traitor and I wasn't going to leave without Harry or Gil, they were my best friends and there was no way I could abandon them not like Uma has with us.

I continued to walk finding myself back at the Jolly Rodger, I walked to the side of the ship and started climbing the rope net to the crow's nest where I took a seat finding I had a pretty good view of the broken bridge and found myself a bit more curious to watch the scene wondering if Hades was stupid enough to actually try his idiotic plan.

"Hey" I jumped startled as Harry popped up and sat beside me. "Yeh okay?" I nodded my head with a smile. "Yeh shouldn't be up here with how tired you are, you could've fallen off"

"I'm fine Harry" I told him leaning against his side as he put his arm around my shoulders. "You'll never guess who I just saw and had a conversation with" I spoke but before he could reply we saw the barrier open up and a purple limo begun to drive through it on the magical gold bridge that appeared but it quickly stopped and even from here we heard the yell and saw the bright flames.

"I AM A GOD!"

"He's actually trying it" I exclaimed standing up and Harry followed suit.

"Who?" he questioned.

"Hades" I told him as we watched flashes of blue and my eyes widened since that's what his rock...ember could do...huh now I feel bad for calling it a shiny rock.

Before we could blink Mal had turned into her dragon form but Hades fired a blast of blue at her and it hit her in the chest and we could hear her cries as whatever it did affected her but she was still able to use some kind of dragon breath to push Hades back and the barrier closed in it's usual fashion trapping him back on the island...man is he gonna be pissed but I told him it wouldn't work.

"What the hell was that?" Harry questioned.

"I spoke to him earlier, he tried to enlist my help since Uma got out but I told him it was a lost cause"

"Hades asked you for help?" he laughed and I nodded smiling myself since it certainly had been the weirdest conversation I'd ever had. "So why didn't you help him?" he suddenly asked.

"Your kidding right, why would I risk my neck to help him"

"But it could've worked and you would have gotten off the Isle" he argued making me frown.

"I still wouldn't have done it, I couldn't escape and leave everyone behind like those traitors did and we still have no idea where Uma is and haven't seen or heard from her so I don't even know what to think about her but more importantly, I couldn't leave you behind because wherever you are is where I am" I told him taking his hand.

"Glad to hear that princess because I feel the exact same way about yeh" he smiled.

"Then I guess we're stuck with each other" I smiled back at him.

"Aye we are" he agreed before leaning in and we kissed, I smiled wrapping my arms around his shoulders letting my fingers find their way into his hair as his arms wrapped around my waist and lifted me up.

Harry's POV

Liza and I sat up in the crow's nest admiring the distant view with despair and wonder as we watched the horizon and watched the sun fade beneath the water in the far distance avoiding the view of green hills and castles since both of us were calmed by the sight and smell of the ocean and being together snuggled in the crow's nest was the best thing especially since I was hiding out from Harriet to avoid doing my chores on the ship but eventually the Isle grew darker meaning night had fallen so we headed down and as soon as we entered our quarters she collapsed on the bed and passed out.

She was so tired lately from constantly scaring herself awake from nightmares and I always got knocked out of the bed to avoid getting hit and had to pull her to me chest and restrain her from hurting herself or me and had even hidden the dagger that she'd threatened me with in fear that she wouldn't be able to be brought out of her head again, I wanted her to confide in me in what she dreamed about but she could never bring herself to tell me whenever I asked but I knew it had to have something to do with what she went through and I didn't really want to hear all the details since finding her like that had been torment for me enough.

I stayed up watching over her from the desk where I'd lit a candle and was reading a book full of nautical maps and navigational stars just to pass the time when she started the beginning of her panic attacks, she always started getting restless before the full attack came on, I sighed shutting the book and moved towards the bed kneeling beside it reaching out and pushed her hair away from her face.

"Wake up...wake up Ilizabeth"

"I'm not her, I'm not her!" she yelled and I dodged out of the way of a clenched fist quickly catching it and held it down.

"Liza wake up, it's just a dream"

"I'm not mad...I'm not..." she had tears in her eyes, I frowned leaned forward towards her only for her to thrash out and head butt me in the process...I had made a mistake leaning in and quickly clutched my nose feeling a small amount of blood trickle out as she sat up, her eyes opened wide but I knew she wasn't awake. "I'm not her!" she jumped up and started moving towards the door so I quickly moved it grabbing her arms from behind and held her tight against my chest fighting against her trying to fight me off.

"Liza wake up!" I yelled kicking her legs out throwing us both to the ground where I wrapped myself around her hearing the gasp before the frantic breaths and knew she's snapped out of it.

"Harry...Harry"

"Yeh alright, I got yeh" I brushed her hair away from her eyes as she turned looking over her shoulder at me. "It was just a dream"

"I...I can't take it anymore" she cried, her mascara was all smudged having gone to sleep without wiping it off and my heart broke of her. "I can't take the madness anymore, please...make it stop" she continued to cry as I just held her laying my head against hers since there was nothing I could do and she was just rambling in her exhausted state.

"Yeh not mad Liza, yeh not mad" I told her feeling her breaths even out again and knew she'd cried herself back to sleep so I picked her up and walked back over to the bed laying her down again and this time I laid down with her keeping my arms trapped around her in case of another episode. "Yeh not yer mother Ilizabeth, yeh kind, yeh loyal and you could never hurt anyone, yeh hear me darling" I whispered in her ear feeling a single tear roll out of my eye hating seeing her like this and it angered me since she only had to go through this because of her mother and the former king who was responsible for this cursed island in the first place as it made her mother go mad and in turn she'd made her daughter suffer the same fate but I knew she would make it through this because I wasn't ever going to leave and let her suffer through this alone like her father has all these years.

I knew who Ilizabeth's father was...I have for the past six months or so since there had been a conversation that I'd had where it had been revealed to me his identity and I've never told anyone especially not Liza because I didn't want to burden her with the knowledge on who her Dad was and the fact that he's sat by and watched her mother downright torture and warp her mind into this madness she thought she was in and I was going to keep it to myself for her safety for as long as I possibly can.

A/N: Can anyone guess who Lizzie's father is?, let me know by reviewing!