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Chapter Seven
Ben's POV
Looking at myself in the mirror, I buttoned up my dress shirt before fixing my collar and rolling up my cuffs to my forearm and fixing my hair. I quickly opened my room door to get to Mal's room before she wakes up. As I moved out of my room I saw Mrs. Potts about to knock on Mal's door with a tray filled with breakfast food.
"Hi, Mrs. Potts," I said before walking next to her.
"Oh!" she jumped before turning to face me, "You scared me, Ben! Don't sneak up on me!"
I let out a chuckle "Sorry"
"Hows Mal doing?" she asked with a serious tone "Since you both skipped breakfast, I assume her first night wasn't the best?"
I let out a sigh, "No it wasn't" I looked back at her door "I don't know what to do?"
"Look at me dearie," Mrs. Pott's said stepping closer towards me "the best things you can do for Mal, is just there for her. She will open up to you in due time"
I smiled at her, she always knew what to say.
Mrs. Potts looked down at her tray, "Here. go give it to Mal, make sure she eats it" before passing me the tray and turned to leave after giving me a comforting rub in my arm. I smiled as she left before turning to look at Mal's door.
Taking a deep breath I opened the door quietly. Walking in I saw her still asleep in the middle of the bed curled up in a ball, I smiled.
Before the whole incident Mal had stayed with us for winter break and she would get into a ball shape, hugging herself saying the room was too cold, which would just make me laugh and pulled her onto my lap before letting out a yelp when Mal would put her cold feet against my leg as revenge for laughing.
My heart clenched with the memory before I shook my head and laid out the tray on the chaise chair next to Mal's bed. I moved the blanket down to see her face. I couldn't help but grin, she had a small pool of drool on her bed, and her purple hair looked like a jungle but she still looked like a princess to me. I watched as she wrinkled her nose as a strand of her hair continued to tickle her nose, before moving it behind her ear. Mal without waking up sensing that I was there, I assume started to lean closer to my hand that was just left than a centimeter away from her face. She leaned her left cheek closer to my hand before nuzzling it and rubbing her cheek against it.
I wanted to stay like that for a while, maybe even forever, because I knew that as soon as I woke her up she wouldn't trust me anymore, last night was just a sign of sleepiness mixed with a wound that even that she still guarded herself. She was afraid to let people in because she thought they would turn out to be like him. I let out a deep breath before removing my hand from Mal's grip.
As soon as I removed my hand, she seemed afraid and alert. She opened her eyes immediately and looked around her before moving rapidly to be against the headboard and taking a deep breath almost as if in her dreams she couldn't breathe like she was being choked. She gripped her covers and seemed to have a hard time breathing. I panicked. I moved closer to her and made her look at me. Holding her face gently in my hands I tried to calm her down.
"Mal it's fine you're fine you're safe" she looked startled and confused but tried to control her breathing "In out, just relax Mal, in-out" and she followed what I was saying looking scared and relieved at the same time. I caressed her cheek when she was more calm "Better?" she nodded her head. I moved back and handed her a glass of orange juice "here, drink some" taking the cup she had small sips of the drink before giving it back.
When I turned back, her expression was different. She wasn't calm at all.
"Mal what's wrong?" she started shaking and her bottom lip started shaking like she was going to cry.
"What time is it?" she asked whispering as if she was afraid of the answer.
I gave her a confused look. Why did it matter? Looking at her expression and seeing how important it was to her I pulled out my phone from my pocket and told her the time, "umm 11:30 why?"
Looking back at her, I saw tears forming in her eyes as she began to sniffle.
"I'm sorry" she choked out she began leaning back more into the headboard as if she wanted to disappear.
"Mal?" I raised my hand to touch her but she flinched back and leaned more into the headboard digging her skin into the metal roses.
She repeated "I'm sorry"
"Mal?" I shouted alarmed that she was hurting herself by leaning back but frightened she leaned more into the headboard and flinched. Her hand moved to grip her bed's headboard where she held on to tight causing her to bleed.
Not being able to take seeing my mate get hurt I pulled picked her up from her waist and put her in my lap. She started screaming and yelling begging me not to hurt her but I didn't let her waist go until she was in my lap. I made her head so she was leaning against me laying her head on my shoulder and moved her good hand so that it was resting on top of my heart.
She stopped fighting almost scared of what I was going to do to her but her sobbing never stopped as well as her whispering 'I'm sorry' over and over "Mal...I promise you that no one will hurt you here...Not even me. No one will ever hurt you" she started to calm down I looked down at her when she lifted her head. Her eyes were puffy and red, tear streaks covered her pink cheeks her nose was pink as she continued to sniffle, her mouth opened a little as she tried to control her sobbing letting out stuttering breaths and her dams apple moving rapidly as she tried to breathe.
"Now let me fix your hand?" I made a move to grab her hand but she quickly pulled it closer to her and closed her palm making her wince as soon as she did, "I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to see it" she gave me an easy look but gave me her hand.
The cut on her hand wasn't deep but was big enough to need to be wrapped. It was more than half of her palm and straight in the middle. Putting one forearm underneath her knees and the other on her back I carried her to her bathroom and sat her down next to the sink which was a counter. Her eyes widen and were alert when I picked her up but once I set her down she just looked suspicious and alert which I call a step forward. I kneeled to look for the first aid kit and pulled it out along with the alcohol. Opening it carefully I pulled out the wipes, gauze pads, and the elastic bandage and a cotton pad. Setting everything next to Mal, I washed my hands before grabbing her hand. I pulled her hand closer to the sink and let the warm water run.
"I'm going to put it underwater okay...it might sting" she looked afraid but continued to nod her head. Putting under the water, she immediately pulled on her hand to get it out of the water but since I was holding her wrist she wasn't able to get it out her eyes were filled with tears that made doing this whole thing harder. After a few more seconds I pulled her hand out and dried her hand with a hand towel on the rank. I laid her hand on her lap before soaking the cotton pad on the alcohol.
"I'm just going to disinfect it okay?" she nodded her head once again and I placed the cotton pad on her cut, she hissed in pain but didn't try to pull her hand away, I moved the pad after half a minute to rest of her cut. I then moved on to covering the wound with the gauze pad and making sure it stays with the elastic bandage.
"Now don't bend your hand it might hurt," I told her as I started putting the things I used away or in the trash when I finished I looked up, "okay?" she nodded her head and wiped her eyes.
I picked her up again and walked her over to her chaise chair and picked up the breakfast tray before sitting her down. Sitting on her bed I put her breakfast on her lap. Making sure everything was fine with her breakfast I moved my eyes to look at Mal. She had her head was down and tears began to fall I quickly picked her head up and wiped her tears before I could say anything she apologized.
Again and again.
"Mal what's wrong? Why are you apologizing?"
She started to have hiccups as she continued to cry "I-I did-didn't" she started to sniffle "ma-make yo-you bre-breakfast"
I smiled, "Mal, other people do that for us."
She shook her head defiantly, "N-No that-that's my j-job" her eyes become glossy, "las-last t-time I didn't y-you h-hurt me." tears filled her eyes.
Hurt her?
I never!... I...Gaston Junior! He hurt her when she didn't make breakfast!
I pushed her hair behind her ears, "Mal that's NOT your job anymore." her eyes cleared
"No m-more?" she questioned
"No More" I agreed "Now let me feed you"
D-Did yo-you eat?" she asked me looking down at the food
"No I'm eating with you," I said cutting her pancakes.
She shook her head, "N-no y-you a-are t-the m-man...th-they e-eat f-first, I eat after.."
"Princess.." I looked at her again feeling my heartache. "Mal we will eat together from now on"
"I-Is t-that a rule?"
IMPORTANT:
please read.
1. Bad news, my charger for my computer broke so I might not be able to update next week.
(I'm literally at like 50% right now)
2. Good news, I'm already working on finishing chapter 14
3. Chapters after 10 are going to be TWICE as long (hopefully)
4. this book takes place, it's after the second movie a year later.
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QUESTIONS
1. Should I introduce Hades?
2. Who wants Maleficient to find out what happened to her daughter?
3. Who wants a POV of MAL?
4. How far will Ben go protect Mal?
5. How about we get an insight into Mal's nightmares?
(p.s I already worked on one and it's graphic! Which is why I choose M )
RATED M
After this chapter, some parts will be more graphic some more than others.
I will put to notice which are more graphic.
descendants: the real movie is on HOLD
only until next summer 2020
I will be changing it to add hades.
Do you think I should add anything just review or sent me a private message.
