Author's Note: This update took a little longer than normal, but I've been busy with real life. Mostly I was sick, and I've been working to try and earn some extra cash for tickets to my city's Comic Con. However, updates should start coming more often for this, and all my other stories. Although I should mention, I'm actually very close to finishing this story, though I have been toying with the idea for a sequel. Let me know if this something you all would like to see.


It had been a week since Ben's party. Things had once again settled into their normal summer routine. Going to bed late. Sleeping in even later. And in the case of Mal and Jane, that meant hanging around the house, bored due to being grounded. Their days were routinely limited to waking up, maybe arguing over the bathroom if they woke around the same time, breakfast, chores, magic lessons, more chores, and then sitting around, texting their friends, boyfriends, or hanging out with each other.

Now, they'd never admit it, but being grounded was probably one of the best things that happened to them in regards to their relationship to each other. Spending so much time together had made them have to learn about each other. By the time that that first week was over, they well on their way to having the same type of bond with each other that Mal had with Evie; a fact that made their blue-haired girl practically squeal with glee on her end of the texts.

Right now, they were sharing that bond with their boyfriends who had come over earlier to see them. It was a shock to both girls, as neither knew that they were coming, and despite what Fairy Godmother had asked them, they hadn't asked them to come over either. Fairy Godmother was inclined to believe her girls however since the boys hadn't come alone.

"I know what you two are doing?" Fairy Godmother said as took a sip of her drink as she, Belle, and Liz sat out on the patio, having drinks together.

Liz and Belle just looked at her, both of them smiling knowingly. They eventually averted their gaze and looked at each other.

"I have no clue what you're talking about," Liz countered.

"I'm just here to chat with friends," Belle added. "And to find out how the kids have been doing since moving in."

"Uh-huh, which I would believe if you hadn't brought Ben with you," Fairy Godmother told Belle before looking over to Liz. "Or Carlos in your case."

"Some sons do like spending time with their mothers," Liz said in her defense. Belle smiled as she listened to Liz call Carlos her son and herself his mother. She loved seeing how closer she'd gotten with him, and probably Jay as well. Even Fairy Godmother let a smile break through her serious expression for the moment.

"I'm sure they do," Fairy Godmother chuckled, Liz's words cracking her shell. "Especially when those mothers are visiting the house where their girlfriends live. Girlfriends they can't see since said girls are grounded."

Belle took a sip of her own drink and then wiped her mouth. "You know I forgot that Mal and Jane were grounded. Did you remember that?" she asked Liz.

Liz shook her head. "Totally slipped my mind."

Fairy Godmother let out another chuckle and decided to drop the annoyed host act. "What happened? Did the boys start moping around the house all day?"

Belle let out a small smirk. "Not moping, but Ben has been distracted."

"Carlos is moping," Liz said bluntly. After a short pause, the three mothers began laughing. "Okay, so maybe moping is too strong a word, but he does get a little down after texting with her since he can't see her. Apparently, she's his first girlfriend," she smiled.

"He's Jane's first boyfriend, too," Fairy Godmothers revealed to her guests. "It's actually kind of adorable seeing her walk around here with that look of puppy love on her face.

Both Belle and Liz found themselves "awing" at that news. It was in that atmosphere that Belle felt comfortable revealing a little thing about Mal. "I visited Snow White earlier last week, and Evie told me that despite how at ease Mal is now with their relationship, she was nervous the first time Ben asked her out; evidently, Ben is Mal's first boyfriend.

"Which explains why Mal hated giving Jane advice, she was new to whole relationship thing herself," Fairy Godmother chuckled.

"Never would've guessed a girl as beautiful as her had never had a boyfriend," Liz added.

Belle nodded. "Evie was the one who dated more."

"That's not surprising at all," Fairy Godmother said.

There was a little more small talk made after that, but after a few more minutes, Belle revealed the reason for her visit.

"Okay, now I know that me and Liz did bent the 'no boyfriends rule' by bringing our boys here, but I had an ulterior motive for bringing Liz by," she said seriously. "I mentioned visiting Snow earlier in the week, and I did that because I knew she'd be too busy to make this impromptu meeting, but I want to ask the same thing of you that I asked of her; how have the kids been adjusting?" Belle asked.

"Really well," Liz answered first. "It was touch and go there at the start, but things have gotten better."

"Touch and go?" Belle asked.

Liz took a deep breath and both Belle and Fairy Godmother noticed she got a look on her face that they couldn't place. It was somewhere between regret and realization.

"I won't lie, when this started, I wasn't thrilled. Sam sprung this on me so suddenly, and the twins were already such a handful. Not to mention the house we lived in was so small," she explained.

"I'm sensing a but in there," Fairy Godmother said.

"But honestly, I was actually a little afraid."

"Afraid?" Belle asked in disbelief.

Liz nodded. It wasn't something she was proud to be admitting, but, in the company of these fellow mothers, she felt she should be honest. "They were the sons of villains. I didn't know what kind of children they were. Would they be trouble? What kind of influence would they have over my twins?"

Liz paused after revelation. Belle and Fairy Godmother stayed silent as well, feeling like Liz needed to get more off her chest. Liz took a drink before continuing.

"Now...now I can't imagine them not being in our lives. I mean sure they brought some issues with them. Carlos definitely has some rejection issues and Jay; well, Jay had problems with attachment, but I think they've come to grips with the fact that they're somewhere where those issues aren't handicaps. And that it didn't make them weak for admitting to it."

Both Belle and Fairy Godmother had beaming smiles as they listened to Liz to talk about the boys. Liz felt herself smiling from ear to ear as she talked about Jay and Carlos. She hadn't actually said it out loud, but she knew now that she, or Coach Jenkins, would have no problem calling them their boys now.

"And what about you?" Belle asked happily, hoping that Fairy Godmother's response would be just as good. She already had a few specifics from their talks, but hadn't had the chance to check up her recently.

"Well you know how the girls had a little trouble adjusting to each other at first, right?"

Belle nodded.

"The boys mentioned a few things to me and Sam, but they didn't go into specifics. I remember them saying something about Jane turning Mal into a rabbit?" Liz interjected.

Fairy Godmother shook her head. "No, Mal turned Jane into a rabbit. And she did that because Jane made her bald."

Belle and Liz laughed at that news. "What is it with Jane and her taking away people's hair?" Liz asked.

"I think it's because she's always felt like her hair never looked as good all the other girl's did," Fairy Godmother answered her.

"I'm sure Carlos would tell her otherwise," Liz remarked. Fairy Godmother agreed with her, thinking that maybe Jane just needed to hear about all the good things about herself from someone who wasn't her mother since Jane probably felt that she was just saying those things because all mother's said them.

"Hopefully he does," Fairy Godmother told Liz. "Moving on however," she said, and proceeded to tell the other two about how for the most part Mal and Jane did get along. Both of them teared up a little as they listened to the sadness in Fairy Godmother's voice as she told them about the week they even refused to acknowledge each other.

It broke both mother's hearts to hear that about Mal and Jane. They figured that since both girls were half-fairy they'd have used that as common ground to start bonding with each other.

"I never thought that Jane had ever considered that she'd be the next Fairy Godmother. I was even more surprised to find out that Mal was going to be my successor."

"How'd they get past the animosity of finding that out?" Liz asked seriously.

"Jane had to take care of Mal after she got sick from her first time using the wand. I don't know what happened when that happened, but since that day, those two have practically become sisters," she responded. Now her smile was as big as Liz's was when talking about Jay and Carlos, though she had to be given a tissue because she actually did cry a little. After she dabbed at them enough to feel that they had stopped she had a question of her own. "Liz, have the boys called you or Coach mom and dad?"

Liz smiled and almost teared up. Belle listened with bated anticipation.

"They don't with Sam, they find it weird, and so does he, so they all agreed to stick with Coach."

"And you?" Belle prodded.

"They don't say it all the time, but it does get said. Carlos a little more than Jay," she said happily.

"That's because he's probably latched on to you," Fairy Godmother told her. "Mal mentioned once that Cruella lived up to her name when it came to being a mother."

"Does Mal call you mom?" Liz asked, not wanting to stay on the subject of Cruella DeVille for fear of becoming enraged at the thought of things that woman did her boy.

"She's still a little uncomfortable saying intentionally, but yes, she does say it every now and then without thinking."

Belle was now the one who had to hold back tears as she listened to these latest revelations. When she'd come up with the idea of placing these kids she never imagined that these kind of bonds would be formed. She just wanted to keep these children safe, instead, she realized, she'd given them so much more.