"Come on!" Carlos yelled as they all ran back to the limo and started getting in. Evie ran towards the front intending to guide Ben out of the isle. The last thing they needed was for him to get lost.
Evie had just reached the passenger side door and was about to grab the handle when she was grabbed around the waist from behind. Before she could make a sound a hand was covering her mouth. Evie struggled but there were too many people now.
She tried to call out for help but nobody heard her. Evie kicked and tried her best to get away but there were at least six people holding on to her. She tried to call out one last time before the limo doors shut and they drove off, leaving her behind. Evie sagged in despair as she saw her friends disappear in the distance for only a moment before she started struggling again with more vigor than before.
Her feet were no longer touching the ground now and she began to panic. Who were these people and where were they taking her?
They went through back alley ways and passed only a few people. None of them did anything, didn't even bat an eye, not that she expected anyone to help her. On the isle it was every man for themselves. The only ones that would even think to help her had left her behind.
Soon enough Evie recognized the area they were dragging her in and her blood ran cold. She completely froze as the realization of just who these people were and just where they were going hit her.
Her mind went into overdrive. She had to get away. How was she going to get away? Even if she did manage to get away how would she get off the isle?
She had no time to answer any of these questions as an old run down building came into view. Not to say that every building they passed wasn't run down but this one in particular gave her chills. This was Evie's childhood home, her mothers castle, and the men who had taken her were the Evil Queens henchmen.
She was carried inside and up the many stairs until they got to the center of the castle, her mothers 'throne room', which was really just a small living room, and she was unceremoniously dropped on the ground as the henchmen moved themselves to block off any and all points of escape. Windows and doors were no longer and option for the isle princess.
After coming to the conclusion that she had no way of escape Evie looked forward and her eyes met those of her mothers. The Evil Queen did not look happy. Not that she ever looked happy, smiling caused wrinkles. "Mommy" Evie gasped out.
Evil Queen smirked for the slightest second as she looked at her daughter but removed all emotion from her face so fast Evie questioned if it was even there in teh first place. The blue haired girl stood up from the ground and stared at her mother. "Evie darling. How good it is to see you. So tell me have you got yourself a prince yet? How about that castle, don't forget the mother in law wing with lots of mirrors."
"Actually mom-" Evie didn't know what she was going to say but it didn't matter because her mom didn't let her finish anyway.
"I heard you were seen on the isle with a king. Is he the one you chose?"
"What? No!"
"Ah no matter. Prince, king. They all have castles in the end. Now what I want to know though is what you're doing back here without that wand. We can't get off this island and take over the world without it dear. You can't possibly have forgotten that little detail now could you?" From her mothers tone of voice it was clear that she was liable to snap at any moment but Evie knew she had to stand up to her mother. It was now or never.
"Mom stop!" the Queen was about to start ranting before her daughter caught her attention.
She glared down at her daughter and stepped forward so they were less than a foot apart now. "Evie what have a told you? A good princess and a good wife is seen and not heard. Never interrupt your mother. Listen, now that Maleficent and her daughter failed when Mal chose good-" 'good' was said as if the word alone filled her with disgust. "- now it is our time to rule over them all. There will be no question just who the fairest of them all is" obviously she was referring to herself.
Evie ignored the order she was just given and did the exact opposite of what she was told. "Mom I don't want to be a perfect princess." Evie stared into her mother's eyes as she spoke. "I don't want to be a perfect little princess or a perfect little wife. I just want to be me! In Auradon I learned that I am really smart. I'm more than just a pretty face. I don't even care if I get a prince or not I just want to be happy, there is so much more to me than just my looks. It wasn't just Mal mom, I chose good."
The Queen glared at her daughter, her expression lethal. "You will do no such thing!"
Evie snapped now. She was tired of backing down and doing everything her mother told her. "No! I refuse to act like something I'm not. Like some perfect little ditsy princess who can't think for herself. I choose good and I choose to be nothing like you stay the way you are you will never be anything but ugly. I will never follow in your footsteps."
The next thing Evie knew her cheek was stinging and she was on the ground. Her mother had just slapped her in her anger. Evie sat there shocked with her hand over the now red mark on her face. The Evil Queen grabbed her daughter by her long blue hair and dragged her out of the room and down the hall. Evie struggled to get to her feet as she was moved through the castle.
She had just gotten her footing back when her mother opened a door and threw her, still by her hair, into the room knocking her to the floor once more.
"Now when I get back I expect all of these ridiculous ideas to be out of your head for good. Understood?" She didn't wait for an answer and Evie didn't plan to give one. Evil Queen turned on her heel and slammed the door shut before locking it from the outside and ordering two of her henchmen to guard it.
Inside the room Evie looked around and realized she was in her bedroom. Her mother had just grounded her. She stood on shaking legs and walked to her bed before dropping down onto it. How had everything gone so wrong?
Evie lay down on the bed and flinched at how hard it was. She knew she had the softest bed on the isle but after being in Auradon it felt like a slab of stone. Still she did not make an attempt to get up. It didn't matter what her things in Auradon were like she was stuck back on the isle because her friends left without her. How could they not realize she wasn't with them? Was she really that invisible? That easily forgettable?
No. she knew she wasn't. Jay, Carlos, and Mal must have thought she got in. It wasn't until the last second she was grabbed. They were the core four and they were always there for each other. There was no way they would have knowingly left without her.
Mal was her best friend. Yeah they hadn't always gotten along. When someones mother banishes you for a decade that tends to put a damper on any friendship. Then there was the whole Cruella coat closet incident and generally trying to make her miserable, not to mention her revenge plan of making her fall under a thousand year sleep, but they have come so far since then. Evie didn't hesitate to call Mal her sister. Mal was a confidant she told her almost everything.
Carlos had been her first real friend on the isle or ever. She thought of him as her little brother. She still remembers his face when she gave him his first pillow like it had happened yesterday. She hated how his mother treated him and made it her personal mission to make sure he knew someone cared about him
Now jay, that was the one thing Evie didn't tell anyone about not even Mal. She had the biggest crush on Jay and she's not even sure when it started but in the last few weeks she realized she may even be in love with the thief. She didn't really know how it happened. either When she first met him he and Mal were partners in making her miserable but ever since they went on that mission to get Maleficent's staff something changed. That's when they became friends and as far as she could guess her feelings had just grown from there. He could always cheer her up and make her feel special.
They were family. Together they could face Auradon, their parents, the whole world.
They had all gotten in the back while Ben was alone in front. She paused on the king's name. Ben had promised her she wouldn't be stuck here again, she had even told him that she would guide him as he drove them off the isle but he had still left without her. He broke his promise.
Evie may have been thinking unfairly towards Ben but he was back at Auradon prep in his warm bed and she was trapped on the Isle of the Lost, with who knows how many enemies and even worse her mother.
It was time for her to push that all aside. Right now she was here and they were there. If she wanted to survive and find a way off the isle she had to clear her head. No matter how hard she may have tried to forget it over the last few months she was is and always will be and isle girl. These are her roots and who she was raised to be. There would always be evil inside her because that's how she was raised and sixteen years of conditioning since birth can't forgotten.
Now she had to embrace that evil all over again. She was rotten... to the core. Evie stood up and looked around her. She walked over to the single window her room contained and looked out. Her mother hadn't thought to send anyone to guard outside her window. Evie smirked at the foolish mistake.
Evie put one leg out the window and then the other, balancing on the ledge. She side stepped against the wall until she got to the missing bricks and carefully stepped in them, climbing until she as high enough to lift herself onto the roof. Adrenaline was pumping through her. She hadn't done this in so long and it felt good.
With a confident smile in place she strut across the roof and jumped onto the next one before scaling down the building and back onto solid ground. Hands on her hips and a confident swing in her step Evie walked away from her mother's castle determined to never see it or her again.
Evie had no particular destination in mind when she left. The isle wasn't exactly the best tourist spot and having actually lived here she was even less inclined to wander around aimlessly. However when her stomach started to grumble she decided it was time to head to the market.
The familiar rush of the market place washed over her. People selling, people stealing. Evie was about to become part of the latter.
Flirtatious smirk plastered on her face she strode up to a near by fruit stand with a boy around her age running it. The fruit didn't look like it had started to rot much yet either which was definitely a plus.
Evie walked up to the boy with confidence. "Hi there."
He looked up at hearing her voice and smirked when he saw it was a pretty girl talking to him. "Well hello. What's a pretty girl like you doing here all by yourself?" Evie internally grimaced as he got in her personal space but that's just what she needed.
"Nothing much, just wandering around a bit." She circled around him dragging her hand along his shoulder. While she was behind him she casually pocketed a peach. She walked around until she was stood in front of him.
"Ah you better be careful. You never know who's gonna come out of the shadows." Evie knew that painfully well. She was reminded the hard way when she had been trying to get off the damn isle.
"Oh." Evie walked closer to him backing him up into the table that held the fruit before she put her hands on the table on either side of him and leaned in. "I think I'll be just fine. I'm sure I can take care of myself." as she said this she grabbed two pears and spun around letting her hair whip back in his face blocking his view as she stashed the pears in her pockets too.
With one more look back at him and a quick wink she was off leaving the dumbfounded boy behind. As she got away from the market she pulled one of the pears out and took a bite. Not fresh but she had eaten worse in the past so she wasn't about to complain. This was about as good as any food got around here anyway.
As she ate Evie made the decision to head to Mal's old house and hide out there until she was able to decide on her next plan of action. Seeing as she knew there would be no one there she didn't see a reason to keep looking over her shoulder on the streets because her mother's men may be there. She finished her first pear and was half way done with the other by the time she got there.
Looking around on the ground she found and picked up a rock with her free hand then threw it at the sign that swung over and opened the door that would lead her inside. Once she was inside it slammed shut again. Evie made herself comfortable on a couch as she finished her pear and ate the peach.
Once done she pulled her knees to her chest and rested her head on them. Did her friends even notice she was gone yet? She was sure they had by now, they wold have gotten back to Auradon hours ago but then why hadn't they come back to find her yet? Maybe they got caught when they got back to school. She refused to let herself think they were going to leave her, she knew better. but that still left the question how long she would be stuck there before they came.
Evie decided that any longer than absolutely necessary was far too long. If only she had a way to get off the isle herself but the barrier wouldn't allow it. If only she could shut it down for just a second. By the time anyone even noticed it had opened, if even then, it would have been closed already.
Evie got an idea. Before they had gone to Auradon, before they had even all four become friends Carlos built a machine. That machine was able to open a hole in the barrier for just a second. If Evie could get the machine from his house and time things just right she could get out. She would swim across the ocean if she had to, as long as she got away from here.
Evie had her plan and now she just had to put it into action. She had to sneak into Cruella De Vil's house without being caught and find a machine that she hoped Carlos hadn't thrown out.