I don't own anything relating to Descendants, Disney, Dove or Sofia.
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Evie spent the majority of the day in and out of sleep, throwing up in the bedpan Mal kept cleaning. It was disgusting but she knew she couldn't leave the miserable woman alone. While Evie slept, Mal caught up on much needed relaxing it. Normally on her days off she was running errands and wrangling a 2 year old. With Evie in the hospital, she just got to hang out and watch tv. Not that her anxiety let her relax much but it beat running around town all day.
Mal knew she would need sleep at some point. She was exhausted. She glanced over at the hospital bed and saw Evie was still sound asleep. Mal shut off the tv and made her way out of the room, carefully shutting the heavy door. Evie had been moved out of the ICU into a regular room now that she had completely stabilized.
Making her way down the very familiar halls, Mal snuck her way around until she had come to the on call rooms. She slipped inside and locked the door behind her. She needed sleep. She needed her brain to shut off for 5 minutes. Mal didn't even bother to take her jeans off, she just collapsed down into the bed.
It hadn't even been an hour before Mal was awoken by a knock at the door. "I'm sleeping," she yelled, cursing the person outside.
"Mal?" A women's voice spoke. It was Sofia. "It's your friend. She's-"
Before Sofia could finish the sentence, Mal was tearing out the door and down the hallway, almost running into the door trying to get it open. She saw Evie sitting up in the bed.
"What the hell?" Mal asked, trying to catch her breath. "I thought something was wrong."
"It is wrong," Evie snarled back, her normal contagious smile gone. "This shit is disgusting." She pointed at the food that was sitting in front of her.
Mal simple rolled her eyes and waved the nurses out of the room. "Well don't eat it then, princess."
"Excuse me?" Evie glared daggers into Mal.
"What? You don't like it, don't eat it," Mal shrugged, sitting down in the chair at the end of the bed. "We both know what you really want to anyway."
"Then give me some!" Evie demanded.
Mal laughed, "yeah that's not going to happen. You're more than welcome to be a bitch and throw whatever tantrums you like. You'll be better in the long run."
"Go to hell," Evie snapped. Mal just ignored her. Evie started trying to get out of the bed but Mal immediately stopped her.
"I will have them restrain you if you don't sit your ass down."
Evie stared at her for a full minute, challenging the threat before slowly returning to the bed.
"So, you want to tell me what's got you so pissed off?" Mal asked, returning to her chair, propping her feet up on the edge of the bed.
"You took my drugs," Evie replied.
"Yeah, no I didn't. I'm just not giving you more," Mal simply stated. "How about you try a new answer? Maybe one that doesn't involve your coke habit?" Mal knew she was pushing Evie but she didn't care. It was better to get all that anger out anyway.
"What do you want from me?" Evie questioned. "You left."
"You told me to. You told me to leave you alone. Forever. Or do you not remember?" Mal felt the smallest tears starting to form in her eyes but she pushed them away.
"Why did you listen to me? You didn't even try!" Evie yelled.
Mal stood up suddenly. "Are you fucking kidding me? I called you. I texted you. I sat outside your house and banged on the door for so long that security escorted me off the property. I did literally every single thing I could think of." Tears were falling now. "There was only so much I could do. I had to give up. I had to walk away."
Evie sat for a second before responding. "You left me," she said almost silently. "You let him...you didn't..." Evie let the words drift off.
"That wasn't my fault, E." Mal tried to reason. "You didn't want me to walk you home that night. I asked."
"I had my reasons," Evie snapped suddenly.
Mal wiped the tears from her eyes, "which were?" She asked, intrigued by this new piece of information.
Evie turned to face the window, looking out over Auradon. "I knew that if you walked me home that night that I would do something I shouldn't."
Mal raised her eyebrow in confusion, "like what?"
"Kiss you."
Mal felt like she had been hit with a ton of bricks. This was all too much for her brain. "Oh," was all she could muster back.
"Don't act like you didn't know."
"I..I didn't," Mal told her, not completely telling the truth. She knew Evie had always liked her. She just never knew what to do about it.
"You're a liar," Evie snapped.
"Do not call me a liar!" Mal snapped right back.
"Why not? You are lying." Evie narrowed her eyes. "You knew full well how I felt about you. Hell, everyone did. You were just too afraid to admit it to yourself."
The girls went quiet again as Evie's last words hung in the air.
The silence in the room was almost deafening when Sofia finally came in to check on Evie. "I figured since the yelling stopped, it would be an okay time." She looked back and forth between the two woman, unable to read their faces. "Um, okay then. Evie, I just wanted to let you know they are moving you to detox tomorrow. It's in the east wing of this building. An orderly will be by to walk you over there in the morning." Evie and Mal both nodded. Sofia glanced between them again and walked out of the room.
Mal crossed her arms across her chest, chewing her lip a moment before she spoke again. "I won't be able to see you for 24 hours. It's mandatory with detox," Mal explained.
"Great," Evie replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"If you don't want me there then I won't come again. Do what you want." Mal headed for the door. "You want to blame me for being raped? Fine. You want to act like you weren't the one who ended our friendship instead of talking to me. Fine."
Evie sat in the bed, unable to speak. Mal could see the thoughts in her head spinning but no words came out.
"Good luck, Evie," and with that, Mal walked out the door. A loud crash cams from inside her room and the blonde knew Evie had thrown her tray across the room. Mal started to turn back, to check on the girl but she couldn't do it. With a deep breath she walked down the hall and away from her former friend.
