Lizzie's POV

We'd gotten Audrey back to her room at Auradon Prep but she wasn't waking up despite everyone else was awake and back to normal meaning and all was well in Auradon again apart from the unconscious princess who wasn't waking up from the battle between her and Mal and we could do nothing but sit and wait.

Mal and Evie were sitting on either side of the bed, Celia was sitting on the window seat, Carlos was sitting in a chair not far from her, Jay was by the fire place, Harry was sitting next to me on the couch with his foot on the table while Uma and Ben were standing at the foot of the bed, the latter pacing.

"She's slipping away" Evie commented and Mal sighed dropping her head for a second, clearly feeling guilty for this.

"There's only one person in the world who might be able to do something about this and that's Hades" Mal spoke up.

"Hades?" Ben questioned. "He wouldn't do it, I wouldn't risk it" he quickly added as Mal looked up at him.

"Actually he might do it for me" Mal replied and I scoffed softly to myself since why on earth would the god of the underworld do anything for her especially after she foiled his escape plan the other day. "He's my father" she added and you could hear a pin drop as we all looked around at each other since that had been a bombshell.

"Okay" Ben replied and I could hear the sudden unease in his voice making me smirk thinking he was actually scared of that thought and I had to admit Hades was probably your worst nightmare when you thought about your father-in-law. "Well I'll have to send guards to get him"

"Maybe I can hitch a ride" Uma spoke up and both Harry and I looked up at her. "The Isle is my home, someone needs to be there to protect it" she added while Harry and I shared a look and nodded to each other, Auradon might be everything that we dreamed of but it wasn't home and if the barrier was going to be closed for good than we were better off somewhere we knew especially since Harry's family was there and where Harry went I did because he was my family.

"And she's gonna need a Co-Captain" I smirked getting up walking over sharing a smile with Uma.

"Well then you's will need yeh first mate" Harry added putting his hands on my shoulders and we both smiled at him.

"The Isle will be in very good hands" Mal smiled towards us and we honestly smiled back since she wasn't so bad if you could look past all her other faults.

"Can I go too?" Celia suddenly spoke up standing. "I wish I could be in both places" the room fell silent as this was bittersweet in comparison to how we should all be feeling but Celia felt as we did and she had a family there as well.

"I really think that Evie was right" Mal spoke standing up and looked towards us. "And...I do think that we could've been friends again" she told us and I smiled since I'd wished for that so many times when we were kids after the fight between them but alas somethings are just not meant to be. "And I'm really sorry that I lied to all of you guys, you deserved so much better than that"

"You were just trying to do the right thing"

"Yeah" Uma agreed and I nodded my agreement since while it sucked this place was better off without people like our parents, Mal turned to Evie as she too stood and looked at her.

"I get it" she agreed and we all smiled at each other before Ben called for the limo which took us all back to the Isle dropping us off near the docks before they continued on to get Hades.

None of us spoke as we undecidedly decided to go our separate ways to deal with this, Uma went towards the Chip Shoppe to tell her mother that she was back and Celia headed towards the arcade which left Harry and I to return to the Jolly Rodger where luckily Harriet and his Dad were nowhere to be found, I went towards the far railing while Harry disappeared below deck.

I stared out across the water towards Auradon feeling desolate and despaired since we'd finally had a taste of the good life, of what life off this island was and we'd seen the sun but it was never going to last because villains don't get happy endings but I was glad for the small taste we'd been given as it made the life we were building here all the more precious and my fight with Harry while it had been stupid it showed me who my real family was and I was going to hold onto them for as long as I possibly could.

I smiled sadly towards Auradon one last time before I pushed myself off the railing and went downstairs making my way towards our room pausing slightly when I heard stuff hitting walls and frowned thinking Harry was having a tantrum so I went in expecting to yell at him for it but instead it was clothes and the stuff from the desk all over the floor.

"What are you doing?" I asked and smirked when I'd made him jump.

"I'm looking for something" he stated moving things around on the desk accidently knocking his hook off and he didn't immediately retrieve it.

"Why don't you tell me what it is and maybe I can help?" I asked walking over to help him picking up his hook on the way and hooked it on my belt loop for the time being.

"It's a...never mind" he sighed hanging his head before he went over to the wardrobe again, I rolled my eyes at his behavior and started cleaning up everything he'd messed up picking up some of the maps to roll and put away but frowned when I came across a small chest that could fit in the palm of my hand, I picked it up since I'd never seen it before but then I didn't really use the desk as it was Harry's space in the room but this box intrigued me since it didn't seem like Harry's style and I flipped the lock lifting the lid. "No!" Harry yelled startling me that the lid fell back before I'd seen what's inside and he came over taking it from me.

"Sorry" I apologized not sure what I'd done wrong since he never protested to me going through his stuff before but I was also a little annoyed as it felt like another secret between us and I hated secrets.

"It's...nothing" he stated looking down at it.

"You don't react that way over nothing" I argued crossing my arms across my chest.

"It's just uh...private and I'm not ready for yeh to know yet" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Is that so?" I asked with a smirk since now I just wanted to know all the much more.

"Aye it tis so" he smirked back at me and I laughed.

"Fine I'll let you have your secret...for now" I told him and he smiled back at me before he placed the box on the top shelf of the bookshelf.

"Thank yeh" he smiled and I rolled my eyes unable to stop wondering what was in that box that he wanted to hide so much but I wasn't going to be a nosy girlfriends that go through their boyfriends stuff, Harry deserved to have private stuff considering this was his room first and I just moved myself in after I left my mother's but it wasn't like he protested.

By the next morning nothing seemed to help our mood as we awoke to the dull and dark sunrise on the Isle of the Lost since it could barely be seen through the thick layer of smog and clouds which was an extreme let down after our glimpse of the sun and now it just seemed depressing especially when Harry and I walked into the Chip Shoppe and could see that our mood was reflected by Uma and Gil.

"Hey Uma" I deadpanned as Harry and I took our regular seats at our table seeing Gonzo and Desiree as well, the loyal part of our crew was all back together but it didn't feel as good as I'd hoped it did because we were back here instead of where we truly deserved to be.

"You're here?" Uma replied a little fast and I frowned confused raising an eye at her but she looked over my head so I turned around in my chair following her line of sight and my eyes widened quickly spinning around.

"What the hell is he doing in here?" I spat clenching my fists together so hard that my knuckles began to turn white until Harry placed his hands over mine.

"He came in about an hour ago, I was gonna send Gil to tell you guys not to come in but it got late that I didn't think you's were, sorry" Uma replied and I nodded at her since it wasn't her fault that he was here but this was my turf and as far as I'm concerned he doesn't belong here, I stood up only for Harry to grab my arm with his hook.

"It's not worth it princess" he warned but I ignored him and pulled my arm out of his grasp and moved towards his table with almost all eyes on me as everyone could clearly see a fight in the wind and that drew eyes in this place.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" I demanded forcing him to look up and meet my eyes and I frowned at the deep scared face he now had from the last time I saw him, all looking like burned brand marks of hearts.

"I'm just here to get some food" he replied and I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah well there's plenty of other horrible places you can eat so get out and don't come back, I don't want to see you" I glared at him and I watched as his eyes scrutinized something over my shoulder before his eyes met mine again.

"He told you" I looked over my shoulder seeing Harry looking over at us and immediately knew what he was referring to.

"If you mean Harry told me how you stood back all these years and let that tyrant abuse me then yeah but I already knew that, what I didn't know and what I didn't appreciate is you suddenly deciding to be a father when it suited you and telling my boyfriend like you did" I yelled not even caring about all the ears in the room which would no doubt start spreading gossip before the day is out. "You don't get to manipulate your way into my life when it just suits you or even think that you deserve to call yourself a father because you stood back and did nothing when I truly needed a father in my life" I felt Harry's presence behind me and his hand settled on my waist.

"I can see I'm not welcome here" he stated dropping a couple of rusted coins to pay for whatever he'd eaten then walked out but I wasn't done and maneuvered myself out of Harry's grasp again before he could stop me and followed Ace out of the Chip Shoppe.

"Hey I'm not finished with you!" he turned back to me.

"Look kid, I don't want to be a father anymore than you want me as your Dad so let's just go back to the way things were"

"So that's why you let my mother torture and abuse me all these years, just because you didn't want the responsibility of being a Dad?" I asked him not easing up on following him.

"You got off easy kid, what I had done to you was nothing compared to what your mother really wanted done"

"Am I supposed to thank you?" I spat angrily.

"No, I told you I'm not looking to be a father Ilizabeth"

"So why tell Harry?" I asked him finally making him stop. "You knew he'd tell me eventually so why tell him?"

"Because I thought it'd motivate him to get you away from your mother if he thought you had two hateful and tyrant parents and he did"

"Why do you even care, you're the one that continued to take me back"

"Would you have rathered it be the other buffoons your mother has working for her who wouldn't hesitate to have drowned you with the stunts you pulled fighting back, at least I kept them in line and kept you alive"

"Barely, I have scars because of you!"

"But your alive and really you should be thanking me because your mother wasn't even going to have you until I convinced her otherwise stating that every queen needed an heir but that backfired when you turned out to be more pirate than princess" he argued and started walking again but I was frozen in spot considering the fact that my mother hadn't even wanted me, I'd always kind of known that especially when I didn't prove princessy enough for her liking.

I didn't chase after him anymore because this only served to prove to me that I never wanted a father anyway especially not one like Ace, yeah he'd been there my whole life and had been the one to bring me bandages to patch up my wounds, had made sure I had food when mother starved me but he didn't do those things for me, I could see it now as a way to cover up his own guilt for not being my father.

I wasn't in the mood to return to the Chip Shoppe and suffer the stares of everyone that had overheard me yelling at Ace so I begun walking around the Isle not even doing anything despite shop workers giving me suspicious and untrusted glares which I ignored as I made my way to the jolly Rodger...my home completely now since I guess apart of me had always wondered that if I'd ever found out who my father was then I'd have a home with him but that was a pipe dream of a five year old girl who'd grown up without a father, now I knew the harsh reality and truly was an orphan.

I made my way up the gangplank onto the deck of the ship nearly jumping out of my skin when I bumped into a hard chest not realizing where I'd been walking with my head down until I nearly fell onto my butt but a hook caught my arm and pulled me upright, I stared at the hook because it wasn't Harry's and that made my eyes fully lift finding the blue eyes so familiar to me but different all the same as they weren't Harry's either.

"Sorry sir, I wasn't watching where I was going" I apologized to Harry's father, this is the first time I'd seen him on his ship the entire time I've lived on it with Harry.

"That's okay lass, I wasn't paying any attention either" I nodded and stepped aside. "How are ye feeling by the way, yeh all healed up?" he asked and I remembered that he'd helped Harry and Harriet stop the bleeding when I'd cut my neck open.

"Yep all healed, got pretty scared up but otherwise I got off unscathed"

"That's good to hear" he smiled at me and I smiled back since he wasn't as fearsome as everyone made him out to be and I knew Harry held a lot of respect for his father and wore his trademark proudly just like I had with my queen of hearts symbol and roses until I saw my mother for the tyrant that she was but Captain Hook wasn't anything like that. "Something else seems to be bothering yeh though, if you don't mind me saying"

"It's not important but I just found out who my father was and finally confronted him only to find out that like my mother he couldn't give a damn about me and admitted that he didn't want to be a father so I guess that means I truly am an orphan" I shrugged moving to look out over the side of the ship as he remained where he was.

"I don't think yer truly are without a family Ilizabeth given ye've made quite an impression on my son" he argued and I looked back seeing a smirk on his face. "I could see the love he felt for yeh when ye were ill and knew that he was in love with yeh which is why I gave him the ring" he added and I frowned confused with the last part.

"Ring?" I questioned and watched his eyes widen before they fell to my left hand and my eyes widened suddenly understanding what he meant. "Oh"

"I'm sorry, I thought my boy would've wasted no time...I'll uh...leave you to yeh thoughts" he was quickly leaving but my feet were glued to the deck in shock...Harry had an engagement ring...was that what was in that small wooden chest...it was the right size for an engagement ring box...why hasn't he purposed yet...what would I have said if he had already...was he re-thinking us?...all these questions raced through my head repeatedly practically giving me a headache so I forced my feet to move and made my way below deck to Harry and I's room walking in, once again getting the shock of my life when I saw Harry sitting at his desk since I'd thought he was still with Uma at the Chip Shoppe, we locked eyes and was stuck looking at each other as all those questions raced through my mind again with no answers which made things feel incredibly strange between us for the first time ever and I didn't like it.

When I finally tore my eyes off his they found the little wooden chest sitting in front of him and I gulped trying to imagine that it actually was a ring box and what I would say if he did purpose since I didn't know how I felt about it, I was definitely sure that I was in love with Harry and want to spend my life with him forever but was marriage what we both wanted right now...is that why he hasn't asked me since maybe he's not ready.

"Hey" I sighed shutting the door and approached him.

"What did Ace say to yeh?" he asked straight away.

"Nothing I didn't already know" I frowned walking over and took a seat on our bed facing him. "I actually should apologize properly to you for the way I reacted when you told me, I guess I wasn't really angry at you and I see that now" he smiled nodding his head.

"It's okay, like I said I should'a told yeh sooner" I nodded agreeing with him there but like Uma had said my reaction wouldn't have been any different and I loved Harry for trying to spare me the colossal disappointment I was now feeling.

"I shouldn't have had my hopes this long that I had a father who'd actually want me, I should have known that I wasn't meant to have a family" I shrugged.

"You have a family Liza" he argued and I looked up seeing him in front of me. "You have the crew, Uma and Gil-"

"You?" I smirked at him.

"Aye me" he nodded with the cocky smirk on his face that I'd originally fallen for. "Family isn't who yer share blood with, you can pick yer family princess"

"Then I definitely pick you and I always will" I agreed wrapping my arms around his waist and let my head rest against his shoulder since he was right, we can chose our family and as long as I had him, Uma, Gil and the crew then I was happy so who knows maybe if he does ask me to marry him...I might just say yes.

A/N: Sorry about the hiatus between the last chapter and this one but I've just gone back to studying a new field so just a forewarning the last few chapters might be a little slow coming out and I apologize but my study load is huge and I'll only be able to write a few hours a week :'( but I promise that I will try to get them out ASAP!.