Mal's Pov:

I was finishing the portrait that I started six months ago. There is a black stain that is dripping down it I wonder what happened and where is Brae.

"Hello, Maly." I heard the Scottish voice of my friend.

I turned around and saw her in her usual brown, red and black leather jacket, leather jeans and combat boots.

"Hey Brae, god have I missed you." I said smiling and jumping down from the box I was on.

"You have?" she questioned.

"Yeah, of course, I missed you; you are one of my best friends."

She looked like she was going to say something but she didn't. I shrugged it off and went back on to my box and started spray painting again. I heard her move on to a couch that was in the corner in the shadows. I looked over at her and her eyes shined orange.

Brae's Pov:

Mal went back to painting after I moved in the shadows. A few moments later I heard Jay tell I'm guessing Ben to go straight to the top. A handsome boy with honey brown hair entered. He looked around but didn't see me.

"At least I don't see a picture of me with horns and a pitchfork." he joked but it surprised Mal.

I laughed silently.

"Ben?" Mal said scared.

As Ben walked toward her, she stepped back afraid.

"Mal, I'm so sorry about our fight." he says sincerely. "It was all my fault, I…" he steps toward her again. "Please come down." he holds out his hand with a ring.

Mal steps down. "Ben…" she walks toward him. "I am home."

I looked at Mal surprised, what happened between them.

"I brought the limo." he smiled charmingly. "It's a sweet ride." he jokes again.

"I don't fit in, Ben." she shakes her head sadly. "I really gave it my best shot. And if you think that I could change, I think you're wrong." she said.

"Then, I'll change. I'll skip school, have more fun. You know, I'll blow off some more responsibilities." he said desperately to have her come back.

He loves her unconditionally, I think he would probably die for her, but she doesn't love him like he wants, that is obvious because if she did, she wouldn't have run away. And her heart doesn't belong to him, it belongs to another.

"No, no see, I'm such a terrible influence. It's only a matter of time before I do something so messed up that not only does the kingdom turn on me, but they turn on you." she said trying to make him understand.

"Don't quit us, Mal." he pleaded.

I feel bad for the boy, the heart might keep you alive but it is easy to have it broken.

He grabbed her hand and out the ring in it.

"People love you," he tells her. "I love you. Don't you love me?" he asked vulnerably.

He smiles sad but a little hopeful. And I kinda feel bad that we are going to kidnap him. Mal grabs the ring and twirls it in her fingers as a tear rolls down her cheek. She grabs his hand and turns it giving the gold ring back to him.

"I have to take myself out of the picture, because it's what's best for you, and it's what's for Auradon." she says.

"Mal, no, please." he steps toward her as she steps away stopping him.

"Ben." she shakes her head. "I can't do this." she turns around missing the hurt that appears on his face. "You should go Ben." she goes back to painting. "Ben, please go." she says again. "Please leave."

He looks like he is about to cry as he leaves. Once he is gone I walk over to the window to see Harry and Gil waiting, watching for the right moment.

"So…" I hear Evie ask the king. "Where's Mal?"

"She's not coming back." I heard him reply.

"What?" Evie asked confused.

As Evie tries to talk to Mal, Ben walked away, Carlos and Jay didn't pay attention to him. My brother and my best friend successfully grab Ben. Gil takes him to the ship as planned.

"Ben!" Evie yells when they notice that he is gone.

As Harry is walking toward them Evie yells. "Ben, don't scare us like that."

"Don't scare you?" Harry mocks coming out of the shadow. "That's my specialty." he says as stops.

I walk away from the window trusting Harry to go with the plan.

"Mal?" I looked at the purple haired fairy.

She looked at me sadly.

"You don't love him, do you?" I asked her.

She looked down guilty.

"But you do feel love for someone, don't you?" I questioned her.

She nodded.

"Who?" I demanded.

"E...Evie...I'm in love with Evie." she whispered.

"Then you need to tell her and tell the king don't sting him along. Hope is a dangerous thing to have especially when the heart is involved trust me." I growled. "Hope breeds eternal misery."

She looked at me surprised. She was quite thinking of what to do, I heard Harry say, "Aw. Jay seems like you've lost your touch." and I could hear the smirk in his voice. I heard Evie yell Jay's name. I sat down on a couch and picked up a dusty book. A few moments later, Jay, Carlos, and Evie were in the hideout.

"Mal…" Evie said as she came in."Uma has Ben."

Mal whirled around. "What? How?"

"We weren't watching him after he left you." Carlos said as he sat by me. "Harry said that Uma wants a little visit she wants you at the chip shoppe tonight alone."

Jay sat on the other side of me and put his arm around me, it made me feel uncomfortable but I couldn't move.

"If you guys never would have brought him here this would have happened." she said pissed off.

I smirked at there guilty faces.

"What were you thinking?" she demanded.

"He was gonna come with or without us." Evie argues. "We just wanted to protect him."

"Yeah. And we completely blew it." Carlos said standing up and stepping forward.

"Okay." Jay said. "Okay, so what are we gonna do?" he asked.

"We are not doing anything." Mal pointed to the five of us.

I raised an eyebrow. This is interesting she is actually going.

"This is between Uma and me. And she's a punk."

My eyes briefly shined orange in anger at Mal calling my love a punk. Mal walked towards us. "And, guess what, now I have to go get him."

Jay and Evie looked at each other as Carlos spoke,

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mal, you're still gonna have to go through Harry Hook and his wharf rats"

I closed my eyes as I felt them start to shine again.

"Yeah, you're gonna need us." Jay said

"Uma said to come alone." Mal reminded us.

"Mal, come on." Evie pleaded.

"She said to come alone." Carlos turned to Evie saying Mal was right. "I know one thing, I'm not going anywhere." Carlos sat back by me.

"We'll be here when you get back." Jay said.

Mal turned and left annoyed. I went back to reading when I felt eyes on me. I looked up to see Evie's red-brown eyes staring at me. I raised my eyebrow and tilted my head to the left.

"You know Brae you where really quite." she stated.

"So?" I asked.

"Why? You usually interject." she said.

"Well, princess, I've changed in the six months you have been gone." I growled my eyes glowing making her jump back. "I've learned to listen instead of just talk and go around in circles, especially when someone has made up their mind to do something or fix a mistake like bringing the king of Auradon to the one place he is the most hated." I told her.

"Evie, are you going to question my girlfriend anymore?" Jay demanded.

I shivered at him calling me his girlfriend. Evie looked at me squinting a little.

"No, I'm done." she walked to a different room.

What seemed like forever Mal came back telling us that Uma wants the wand.

"There is no way we're gonna give Uma the wand," Evie says. "We can't just let her destroy Auradon." she argues.

My eyes glow again for the fifth time today.

"Uma doesn't get the wand, then ben is toast, guy." Carlos counters.

"Great, so we're going to give Uma, of all people, the wand." Evie says exasperatedly.

Jay, Evie, and Carlos start talking over each other. It was hurting my ears so I whistled to get them to shut up.

"Wait, you guy." Mal speaks up, pointing to the boys. "Your 3D printer."

Where is she going with this? I hope Harry or Gil is still keeping watch.

"A phony wand." Carlos got what Mal was meaning.

"Yes." Mal nods.

"In my sleep." Carlos smiles.

"Yeah, but the second Uma tests it, she'll know it's fake." Evie tells us.

More like once I can get away from you, princess.

"Okay, so then we get Ben out really fast. we need some kind of diversion." Mal says coming up with a plan.

"Smoke bombs." Jay suggests.

He must have gotten smarter in Auradon.

"That's perfect. I'll get the chemical I need from Lady Tremaine's place." Evie said.

Then Evie and Mal talk about Mal's pink hair as me and the boys roll our eyes annoyed. We talk more about the "plan".

"Carlos, Jay, you guys meet us at pirates bay, no later than noon. And you guys, losing, not an option. Cause we're rotten." Mal says.

"To the core." the three say.

The boys leave first, as me and the girls leave after. As we walked to curl up & dye I felt the presence of Harry and Gil following us. Five minutes later we arrived in front of the salon.

"Hey, I'm going to wait out here so no one comes in." I told them as I saw Harry in the shadows.

Mal nodded as she and Evie went inside. I walked over to where Harry is and hugged him.

"So what is happening?" he asked.

"They sent the boys to auradon to get a fake wand and the girls are getting smoke bombs for a diversion." I told him looking back at the salon.

"Okay, I'll tell Uma."

I nodded. "Tell her to bargain with the king because Mal is backstabbing us again."

He nodded, hugged me. "Be safe Gil is still around." and left.

I turned and walked back to the door. I heard Evie say "I really wish I could take you with me." as she moved. Dizzy replied chipperly "At least one of us had our dream come true, right?"

"Yeah." Evie said sadly.

The girls came out and we left.