Change the Fate's Design
"Just my darling sister to deal with now," Mal sat on her lavish throne, a crown made of iron thorns and golden palm fronds on her head. Ben sat next to her, on a broken blue and gold throne {the remnants of Auradon}. Next to him was Queen Evie the Conqueror {Knight of the Lost}, her throne made of glass and leather. On the other side of Mal was King Carlos the Beautiful on a silver throne, and then King Jay the Wild next to him on a throne of gold and the sands of Agrabah. Although King Carlos wasn't actually on his throne, right now. He was on Mal's lap, kissing along her neck and jaw.
Ben smiled at the couple. At first, he hadn't understood how Evie, Jay, and Carlos could possibly share Mal, but now he understood {understood over a plate of love-potion spiked cookies}. He understood the love between all of them and was so grateful to be included in the fold. And it was that inclusion that lead him to now. To the ideas flooding through his brain about destroying Audrey {that whore that had tried to take him from Mal, that had had the childhood his Queen had never had}.
{In another timeline Mal snapped her fingers and Phillip fell down dead, looked at Briar Rose and told her to tell Audrey the truth.
In another timeline all the stories of heroes would be soon forgotten, replaced by stories of a family who claimed that they ruled the Fae and the Moors, who screamed and cried as they burned from the inside out, whose blood still stained the halls of the Blood Palace.}
In this timeline, Mal strung Audrey up by her wrists in the dungeon, let her hang, kept her hungry but not starving {because it wouldn't do for her prisoner to die before the Court was done with her}. In this timeline, Mal kept Audrey to torture her because the truest torture was that Ben was by her side through it all, not Audrey's.
In this timeline, Evie burnt a crown into Audrey's head {The evil queen has no royal status here and neither do you}. In this timeline. Jay pressed his lips to Audrey's, hard enough to bruise, before running a million volts of electricity through her body, leaving her limp and weak. In this timeline, Carlos left his dogs to bite at her feet {rottweilers, gifted to him by the Queen on the anniversary of their takeover}.
{Blood shall not kill blood, the fae laws demanded. In a different timeline, Mal hadn't cared, had slain her mother, father, sister and husband in one fell swoop. In this timeline, she kept Audrey alive, screaming. She kept Phillip (dear old dad) chained down in a cell, thousands of meters below the palace, a collar around his neck and shackles around his wrists. In this timeline, she kept Briar Rose the same way Evie kept Doug, and relished in the thrill of her tormentors being under her power, forever.
In this timeline, she kept her blood alive, and the Magick of the Moors ran through her veins, and she grew wings of her own accord (Jahin would always hate Felicia). She was honoured as a hero amongst the fae, wings of cobwebs and dragon fire that she lined with iron adorning her back.}
In this timeline Audrey's life was tied to Ben's {because Ben would never die in the new regime, his Kings and Queens would never allow it} and she became immortal {a life tied to Life, to HeryshafGaiaArielFreyrTerraBen}.
The Kings and Queens of Auradon made Maleficent's execution public, in this timeline. They tied her to a rack and left her, in public, to suffer. She stayed there, in the centre of the city, for seven days before her daughter came to finally punish her. The Daughter of Maleficent, with wings cast in iron and horns that pierced through her scalp, with hair blacker than Snow White's stood above her mother. She lifted the labrys that usually hung above the bed she and her lovers used so thoroughly.
{This time, she brought the axe down. Maleficent's head rolled, but Mal had already claimed her true inheritance as the Queen of the Moors, of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. And she would be honoured for aeons, centuries of Verse about the Fae inspired by High Queen Mal the Vicious, Queen of Auradon and Arendelle.}