A/N: Not much to say; I'll update on a really irregular schedule. I'll have days like today where I get 3-4 chapters out, then I'll have weeks of silence. My muse is a bitch at best.

"MAL!"

Said girl groaned as her mother shrieked down the street for her. "Coming mother!" She hollered back. Walking back up the street with Jay and Evie at her sides. People moved to give them room, while simultaneously making sure anything they owned, remained theirs. Mal and Jay were notorious thieves.

"Yes mommy wickedest?" Mal inquired when she reached her mother.

"Most horrid news, you three and the De Vil outcast are going to live in Auradon!" Maleficent was thrilled. "It's another chance to restore us to our former evil glory!" She payed no mind to her daughter or her friends. She'd had a meeting with a goblin as well as Evil Queen and Jafar that morning. Their plan was set, the kids knew to obey them, or else.

Mal was pissed, no way in hell was she going to Auradon of all places. But she knew her mother, she knew there was no way out. At least whatever watched over evil kids had decided to be kind, she'd get to bring her friends with her. As the saying goes, misery loves company.

"That's all! You leave tomorrow, Mal I expect you home in time to learn the plan, shoo you little urchins!" Maleficent said looking at the kids as if they were something she'd stepped in rather than the future of the Isle.

The three kids went back down the street, Jay swiped an apple and some bread figuring he'd see Carlos at some point that day.

"So we are off to Auradon" Mal said.

"With real Princes!" Evie practically squealed.

"Don't forget the princesses with all their jewelry" Jay grinned, he was a thief to the core.

The three continued talking while walking towards the ruins of Hell Hall, right at the end of the village street they saw a scuffle. "Isn't that Carlos?" Mal asked. Jay cursed while Evie looked scared. The shop keeper had just thrown Carlos across the street while yelling about piss poor thieves. Carlos gave up and started towards home. His friends ran to catch up to him. "C, slow the hell down!" Jay finally yelled.

Carlos's head snapped around, he smiled as he saw his friends coming towards him. Then his face fell as they reached him. "let me guess you guys saw that?"

"We won't say shit." Jay said while giving Mal that clearly said to shut up, the purple hair girl surprised them all when she did. "Here, I swiped some food for you."

"Thanks dad." Carlos whined. He was grateful Jay looked out for him, but it had been less than a day, he didn't need rescued, yet.

"So big news!" Evie said

"Ugh" Mal groaned.

"Whats up guys?" Carlos asked.

"Since your mother offed on us, we're being sent to princess land" Mal said with a sneer.

"You're just scared" Jay said. He'd known Mal forever, the bigger a bitch she was the more scared she was.

Carlos stammered "B... bu... but we can't go there, we're evil and they're all good and stuff."

"New program from the Prince, wants to give us evil kids a chance. Something about we aren't our parents." Evie shuddered at the thought of being her mother "We leave tomorrow. It's the four of us off on a new adventure!" Evie was not so secretly happy they were going to Auradon. She wasn't cut out to be evil, she enjoyed making people happy and being good, she faked it enough to survive on the Isle, but it just wasn't her. Mal on the other hand seemed to be rotten to the core, Evie predicted Auradon was in for a shock with the green eyed youth.

The rest of the day was spent walking around the market. The youths talked while Jay and Mal swiped things they thought may be useful in Auradon. Carlos was almost completely silent he was lost in his thoughts. In less than two days he'd not only gotten rid of his mother but he was now going to be given a whole new chance at life, a normal non-evil life. With a start he realized there was a tiny chance he could find his real mom. He quickly put that thought out of his head, he didn't know anything about her, besides that was fourteen years ago, no way she'd still want him around.

"Okay, I've stolen enough for today, I'm gonna go pack up for tomorrow" Mal said.

"Oh my evil!" Evie exclaimed "I totally didn't think about packing! I better go, it's gonna take me forever to make sure I don't forget anything". With that the blue haired girl ran off towards her home.

"I guess I should pack too, my tech crap will take a while" Carlos said.

"I'll come help, packing for me will be easy I don't have much." Jay said, and he followed Carlos back to the tree house.

"Just put the stuff you want packed over here, I'll pack it then once you get it all sorted you can help." Jay said sitting on the floor by a pile of clothes and bags.

"Thanks, just wrap stuff in clothes, it's the best I can do. I wish I'd known earlier I'd have gone to the wharf for better packing supplies."

The two worked quietly for a while before Carlos' curiosity got the best of him, "Everyone else made their opinion pretty clear, how do you feel about this adventure, as Evie is calling it."

"You haven't talked about yours either, but I think it could be fun. Like I said to the girls, think of all the loot!"

"Yeah, but I mean this is like a chance at a whole new life, we never really need to come back here. If we want we can just stay in Auradon."

"You mean like be good, and all that?" Jay looked up, surprised he hadn't really thought of it like that. He figured they'd go and do what their parents wanted then come home and be nothing more than minions again.

"I don't think you and Mal know how to be good, just less evil. Evie may do that. I kinda have to, I can't come back, there isn't anything here for me." Carlos said, he knew it was true. He didn't make a good villain, if he came back to the Isle he'd end up dead, he was just evil enough to believe in self preservation, even if it meant never seeing Jay again. With a start he realized that was a very real possibility.

"I dunno, I hadn't thought of staying there. Maybe, just maybe we all need the new chance they're giving us. I mean me and Mal never really had much choice here. I steal to make my dad happy and have you met her mother?"

Carlos shuddered "yeah, we met once, I'm in no hurry to do so again, she made my mom look kind".

"Just as long as she didn't make her look sane" Jay laughed.

"No one could do that" Carlos laughed along.

Everything was packed up, Carlos looked around "It's weird, I never thought I'd empty the tree house, this was always home."

Jay stood up and went to his friend, slinging his arm across his shoulders, "Just think though, when we get to Auradon you can have a new home, and even more techie crap than you had here. Even new stuff!"

Carlos instantly cheered up at the thought of all the new things he'd have access to. He'd be able to have a computer that he didn't build himself from broken parts. Without thinking he leaned against Jay "I hope they don't try to split us all up in Auradon. I don't want to be there alone"

"If they do I'm moving in with you anyway! No way am I living alone, at least not at first." Jay said.

Carlos was surprised "you'd really move in with me?"

"Sure it's what friends do, I bet Evie and Mal bunk together too, Mal won't admit it but she's scared shitless by this. I'm hoping the four of us are together, but I bet they split us up by gender, wouldn't want us boys to do anything unvirtuous. Granted if you're the one getting frisky I'd be in more danger than Mal or Evie" Jay joked.

"That's gotta be the biggest word I've ever heard you use." Carlos said, ignoring his head silently agreeing that, yes Jay would be a very good option should it come to that. The entire Isle knew he was gay, it was just one more reason for Cruella, to be cruel to him.

"I'm a thief not an idiot. I know lots of sophisticated words; people around here are just too stupid to know them. Except you, and Evie. Even Mal misses a few of them." Jay said, absently squeezing Carlos closer to him.

"I wonder if this would be considered weird in Auradon?" Carlos wondered aloud.

"What?" Jay asked, not seeing anything abnormal.

"Us, I mean, I spend half my life as your arm rest. That can't be normal on the prince and princess level." Carlos blushed, but he wasn't really sure why.

"Fuck 'em." Jay said. He wasn't sure why he liked the smaller boy next to him. He knew he wasn't gay, his reputation as Isle flirt backed that up. Something about Carlos was just huggable. He laughed over his own thoughts.

"What's so funny?" Carlos asked, Jay didn't usually laugh at him, but it wasn't an unheard of occurrence.

"Nothing, just random thoughts" Jay said.

"Oh, okay. I should probably sleep before we have to leave, and you still need to pack." Carlos hinted, this whole conversation was getting awkward.

"Yeah, I should. Where'd you pack your blanket?" Jay asked

Carlos mumbled something.

"Sorry, didn't catch that" Jay said raising an eyebrow.

"I don't have one, it was in my room, which is now ashes."

"Dude! It's cold up here, and it's gonna get colder, you'll freeze." Jay's jaw hung open, Carlos was always cold anyway, sleeping with no blanket out here would have him sick as a dog by morning.

"I managed last night." Carlos defended himself, it wasn't like he had any options.

"Fuck that, come on, you can crash with me for the night." Jay said without a second thought, he reached down n to grab some of Carlos's bags.

Carlos froze, he'd seen Jays room, it was nothing more than some rugs and a blanket in the corner of his dads shop. The thought of sleeping with Jay sounded nice in theory, but when the reality sunk in it scared him more than going to Auradon.

"Hello, earth to Carlos!" Jay said shaking his shoulder.

"What?"

"I said lets go, clearly you already left!" Jay smirked. Carlos grabbed the last of his bags. There wasn't any point in protesting, Jay usually got what he wanted anyway. Besides it was only for one night, what could possibly go wrong?

Halfway to Jay's they ran into the Gaston brothers, who quickly circled Carlos.

"What do we have here Gaston" one asked.

"Looks like walking loot!" the other said.

"It looks like walking, leave him the fuck alone." Jay turned to growl. He hated the two Gastons more than anyone else on the Isle, except maybe Mal, she had a personal vendetta against them.

"Aww come on, we're just having some fun with the fag" one of them said.

"Call him that again and even Dr. Facilier won't be able to fix your faces." Jay growled. The Gastons quickly vanished down a side alley.

"I hate those two." Jay groused as they started walking again.

"They always bug me, I've gotten so I don't really notice them."

Five minutes later Jay shoved the door to his dads shop open. Jafar was sitting at a rickety old table counting coins. Carlos was ready to run, Jafar didn't like him much more than Maleficent did.

"Carlos is staying the night, if you have a problem with it stuff it, otherwise I won't steal you a single thing in Auradon." Jay said without even glancing at his father. He walked into the back of the shop, Carlos close on his heels.

"Fine, fine, it's just one night anyway." Jafar agreed.

The boys piled the stuff in a corner. Jay grabbed an old backpack and started stuffing his clothes in. In less than ten minutes he had packed up everything he owned and added it to the pile with Carlos's stuff.

Both boys changed into old sweat pants and laid in Jays makeshift bed. Jay tossed the blanket over both of them and curled up near the wall to leave Carlos room to get comfortable. Carlos rolled over his arm brushing against Jays' back.

"Bloody fuck! Your like an ice cube!" Jay exclaimed.

"Sorry." Carlos said.

Jay shifted around so he was facing Carlos and pulled the small boy against him. Carlos stiffened, it was one thing to sleep next to Jay, but cuddling, that wasn't in the plans.

"Calm down dude, it's just until you're warm. I don't want you getting sick, it's not good to be that cold." Jay reasoned.

"But your dad" Carlos tried, he knew it was a weak reason at best, but his head wasn't exactly at it's sharpest, he was tired and warm and rather comfortable.

"He won't bother me, he'll be too worried I won't get him anything in Auradon to even look in here. Just relax, I don't bite, much" Jay grinned.

Finally Carlos did, Jay said it was just until he got warm, surely he could stay away that long, then move to the far side of the bed and sleep. After a few minutes he was sound asleep, still against Jay. Jay laid there and listened to the even breathing of his friend. Mal may have been his first friend, but that was always by default, because their parents were friends. Carlos was the first person he'd decided to be friends with because he wanted to. Something about the short boy was interesting, as he got to know him he learned they were both from crappy homes, even by Isle of the Lost standards. They often didn't have much in common, but what Jay lacked Carlos made up, and vice versa. Carlos was the brains, Jay was the strength.

In his sleep Carlos shifted closer to Jay and put his arm around his stomach. Jay thought about moving him, knowing if Carlos woke up right now he'd freak out. But the teen was obviously comfortable and oddly cuddling with Carlos wasn't nearly as weird as he thought it would be. Granted he didn't think much when he'd pulled Carlos over to him, he just knew the kid was cold and he wasn't, so logic said share his body heat.