Hey Everyone, This Chapter will be about Carla facing her mom in prison, now you're going to see Ash in a different way, though her villainous personality will still be there. This is going to be a Tear jerker so I hope you got your tissues. Enjoy!

Ash was worried about her daughter. She may have abandoned her, but she still cared for her. She was afraid that Elena would show her no mercy.

"Ash, what is going on with you?" Esteban questioned.

"I cannot sit here while my baby girl is all locked up all alone in the dungeon." Ash said.

"You're still fretting over that? Carla abandoned you! she chose to turn herself in, she doesn't want any part of you." Esteban argued.

"That's not true! You don't know my daughter like I do!" Ash retorted. "She's not prepared to face the real word herself, she needs me! She's probably scared, hurt, being threatened by the guards and Princess Elena."

Esteban rolled his eyes. "The girl is 18, she can handle prison by herself. Besides it will be a good lesson for her, it would teach her that crime doesn't pay, it would encourage her to grow up."

"What kind of mother would I be, if I would just leave her to suffer in jail?" Ash growled.

"A good parent?" Esteban answered jokingly.

Ash was not having it, she raised her tamborita at Esteban. "Boquato!"

"Ahhhh!" Esteban dodged the blast with his teleportation power "Aye, I just giving you parental advice."

"Don't make me more angry, Esteban! You're starting to test my patience!" Ash growled.

Esteban shut his mouth quickly as he didn't want to be turned into stone like Victor.

"I can't let Carla suffer in there any longer, I have to get her out!" said Ash.

Esteban couldn't believe what he was hearing. "No! It is impossible, I know all the royal guard tactics. you'll never be able to get in the palace without being caught."

"But you can, you can teleport us straight to the dungeon where Carla is locked up." Ash smiled wickedly.

Esteban tried to object. "What? but..."

"Tell me, do the guards have night patrols?" Ash questioned.

"Inside the palace, but never in the dungeon." Esteban answered.

"Then that's when we sneak in." said Ash. "We will teleport to the dungeon, I will use an unlocking spell to free Carla, then we are home free."

"This is madness Ash, we'll get caught!" Esteban urged.

"Not on my watch." said Ash.

Esteban tried to reason with Ash. "If we go there Elena would.."

"I wont let anything stand between me and my daughter!" Ash yelled. "We leave at nighttime."

Esteban was scared of this idea, not only he was afraid of getting caught but he was worried about what Elena would do to him once he's captured. He pretty sure he made Elena pretty mad by escaping and joining Ash, now there is now doubt that Elena will banish him to that deserted island. He wanted to stay safe, and Ash saving Carla was going to jeopardize everything they have worked for.

...

Back at the palace dungeon, Carla was getting ready to sleep in her cell when Elena came down to visit Carla before bed.

"Hey Carla." said Elena.

"Hey Elena." said Carla.

"About to turn in?" Elena asked.

"Yep sure am." Carla said.

"I know it not easy sleeping in a cell with the environment" said Elena. "But look on the bright side, at least you have a mattress, sheet and pillows that I gave you."

"With or without pillows, I rather stay in this cell and away from Mama." said Carla.

"Don't worry, I won't even let Ash near you." Elena sworn.

Carla was angry at herself "I knew something was off about Mom ever since we left Papa to be arrested."

"Carla, if you knew that something wasn't right, then why didn't you just leave?" Elena asked.

Carla explained with deep thought.

"I don't know, ever since Shuriki kicked me and my family out of the palace, we were outcasts, I was just a kid back then. I felt like no one respected me, while Papa gets criticized for joining Shuriki, I never did anything wrong and I still get treated like dirt. It made me sad, hurt and angry so much, that I no longer cared for anyone but my family. When mama said we should become malvagos, I was happy that my mother and father would help me gain the respect from the people I always dreamed of, we waited 10 years for mom to finish her training so she could train us. She offered me the key to get respect from the people that I always dreamed off, but I guess you can't always get what you want, you can only get what you deserve, and I got what I deserved, a life behind bars."

Elena understood where she came from and knew how to help her.

"Carla, respect doesn't come from power or force, it comes from courage, love, and understanding. Just like you have to earn your father's freedom, you have to earn your respect, and that comes from being a good person."

"How can I be good, if I dont know how to be good myself?" Carla doubted herself.

Elena smiled as she told her what she sees in Carla from her own perspective.

"Carla, for the longest time I've visited you in prison I've seen you grow, develop, and mature into the young woman you became to be, you gave Gabe tips on how to catch a thief, you boosted Mateo's confidence more than ever by being nice to him, you became honest, loving, kind, and you've learned from your mistake to join your mother, knowing that you would never be like her again."

Carla had to admit, she was getting better. "Huh, I guess I can be good, can I?"

"As far as I'm certain, you are good." Elena said with full confidence.

That lit up Carla's heart, she had no one to believe in her, Elena was the only one who did.

"Thank you Elena, for everything you have done for me." Carla joyfully said.

"Your welcome, Carla." Elena smiled. She was happy for Carla, she came a long way.

They both said good night to each other as they both got ready for bed in their respective places.

"Good night. Carla." said Elena

"Good night, Elena." said Carla

...

It was night time and Ash and Esteban were preparing to go on a rescue mission to free Carla.

"Are you ready for this?" Ash said.

"Ash I'm telling you right now, this is a bad idea." Esteban warned.

"Nothing will stop me from my family." Ash vowed.

"You mean what you preserved of your family." Esteban corrected Ash. "Victor is still Carla's father"

"He doesn't deserve her!" Ash scowled as she thought of Victor "and he's dead to me!"

Esteban sighed. He did not like this, but he had no choice. "It's time, let's go!"

Esteban teleported himself and Ash to the dungeon.

...

Carla was fast alseep when she saw a glowing green light that waked her up.

"Carla."

Carla turned around to see Ash and Esteban outside her cell.

Carla was shocked to see her "Mama! What are you doing here?!"

"I came to break you out, Mija." said Ash. "We can go home."

Carla was angry to see her. "I dont want anything to do with you!" she angrily said.

"What? Carla, what are you.." Just then Ash noticed something in her cell. "Mattress? pillows? sheets? Carla what is this?"

"Elena is making sure I'm being taken care of, just like papa has always done" Carla glared at her mother.

"Haven't I done much for you?" Ash angrily said. "I'm the one who saved you from Elena too many times."

"You left our familia for ten years!" Carla shouted. "I never got a chance to spend my childhood with my own mother! All I had was Papa, he was the only one who took care of me! and now after you came back into our lives after all these years, you just turn him into stone and nothing you can ever do will fix everything!"

"Your father was going to turn against you!" Ash retorted. "He wanted the power for himself, he was going to leave us and leave you with me with nothing in our hands!"

"I don't believe you." Carla growled. "No one has ever cared for me than Papa, and Elena."

"Do you really think she'll help you?" said Ash. "She's just keeping you around to use you as bait to catch me."

"She was compassionate with me, she made sure the got the help I needed." Carla defended.

"And once she has what she wants, she'll treat you like dirt just as any other criminal." said Ash "Elena is a liar!"

"No! you lied to me my whole life, I looked up to you just as any child would look up to their parents, but you took that hope away from me, you hurt me!" Carla yelled.

"I hate to interrupt this little family crisis, but we should get out of this dungeon before the guards come, whether Carla wants to come or not." Esteban interrupted.

"STAY OUT OF THIS ESTEBAN!" Ash and Carla yelled at Esteban.

Esteban fell over as he was getting yelled at, then he got back up.

"Aye aye aye, parents and their teenagers." said Esteban as he rolled his eyes and brushed himself off.

"Ever since you were a little girl, I promised you that we would have a better future. What more do you want from me?!" Ash yelled.

Carla broke down into tears as she answered the one thing wants more than anything else.

"I JUST WANT MY FAMIILA!" Carla sobbed.

Carla cried so much she was filled with sorrow and pain. Ash saw that pain as she watched her daughter cry in tears, and in that moment Ash's loving motherly instinct kicked in as she opened her heart out to her daughter.

"And I'm here. Your mother is here, mija." Ash said softly as she held her hand.

"Mother? mija?" Carla was beyond furious. "After what you did to Papa, I am no longer your daughter!" she angrily declared as she pulled her hand away from her mom's.

Those worse struck Ash down like lighting, she was heartbroken that her own daughter disowned her. Even Esteban was devastated to hear that since he remembered that Elena, his own cousin disowned him as family.

"Get out." Carla growled.

Ash stood there in shock as she heard Carla say that to her.

"GET OUT!" Carla yelled again.

"Ash, we must go." Esteban warned as he heard the guards coming.

"GET OUUUUUUUUUT!" Carla screamed for the third time, she screamed so loud that the guards can hear her

Esteban grabbed Ash and teleported out of the dungeon.

...

Elena and Gabe came down with a group of guards as soon as they heard the commotion. When they got to Carla's cell they saw her on her knees crying.

Elena ran to Carla like her life depended on it. "Carla, What happened?"

"My mother she was here." Carla cried. "...with Esteban."

"What?!" Elena was shocked.

"She tried to free me, but I didn't want to go!" Carla said through her sobs.

Elena was so heartbroken to hear this, the thought of Carla's cruel evil mother and her traitorous cousin, trying to make her do something she doesn't want to do. She ran into Carla's cell and hugged her.

Gabe was just as shocked to see Carla like this.

Elena calmed Carla down as she kept sobbing "shh shh shh Esta bien, Esta bien, You're safe now." "I won't let anything happen to you, no one is ever going to hurt you again, I swear it."

Carla looked into Elena's eyes with her tearful ones, and she knew that what Elena says is true. She held on to her like she would hold on to her father.

...

Back in their hideout, Ash and Esteban made it back to safety.

"That was a close one." said Esteban. "You're lucky we didn't get caught by the guards."

Ash was still devastated when they came back "My own flesh and blood turned against me, she said she is no longer my daughter."

"Now you know how I feel." Esteban said.

Ash mourned over her daughter who disowned her, then her face of sadness quickly turned into rage when she realized who is to blame.

"Elena. She did this, she plagued her head with lies!" Ash was enraged. "Elena will pay for this! SHE WILL PAY!"

At that moment Esteban started to worry about how far Ash would go to hurt his cousin.

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