A/N: I forget their actual ages, for my sanity I assume Evie and Mal are the same age, 15, jay is a year older, 16 and Carlos is a year younger than the girls, 14.

I also don't know the age of my readers. I've been on since I was 14, I'm now 26; if I use words that are too big too often tell me, I'm trying to stay with what I knew at 15/16 but I wasn't really a typical kid.

Mal was feeling particularly wicked this morning. She'd slept like shit and been awoke too early by Evie and her morning beauty routine. With a curse she pulled on her traditional all purple outfit and deiced to go bother the boys. When she shoved their door open she laughed, Evie had just lost their bet. On the bed both boys were curled together, quite comfortably snuggled together on Jay's bed.

"Well, well, well." She said, her grin widening as the two boys woke up and moved apart. "One night on this over-sized island and you two are already getting all lovey. We're evil! We don't do cuddly!" Mal ranted.

"The fuck? you and Evie can suck face but I can't hold Carlos? Double standard much?" Jay glared at the girl.

"That is different, no emotions involved. Besides my target is prince Ben, I have to make sure my skills are in top form." Mal said

Jay froze, Mal was in rare form this morning. Carlos slid out of the bed and went to the bathroom, Mal scared him when she got like this, last time they'd ended up trying to get Maleficent's scepter.

Jay hated Mal when she got like this, she acted too much like her mother. With a start he realized that may be the perfect thing to jolt her out of it.

"Mal, you sound like your mother." Jay told her

He watched her turn the same shade of purple as her hair before she launched at him. He pinned her quickly, which only served to piss her off further. "Quick to anger today, humm where have I seen that before?" Jay smirked. "Knock it off. This is your chance to escape, probably your only chance. I still know your secret" Jay reminded her, hoping she'd take the hint, he didn't want to say more just in case Carlos could hear them.

A ten year old Mal sits next to an eleven year old Jay. They are under an old cobble stone bridge, a brook is babbling away in front of them. All in all it looks like a fairy tale, but this isn't a fairy tale, this is the Isle of the Lost, land of the villains and their kids. The two kids are throwing stones into the brook, trying to hit the fish within, neither succeeding. Just as Mal starts to get bored a small ball of fluff walks towards them, letting out a small mew. Jay sees the kitten and reaches out to pet it, his hand no more than touches the top of its head. Mal reaches over and scoops the kitten up, holding it by the throat.

"Disgusting pile of fur" she sneers.

"Put it down, it's a kitten!" Jay tells his friend. Sure they were evil kids, but choking kittens to death seemed a bit extreme.

Mal lets the kitten drop to the ground where it promptly runs away from the two kids.

"What the hell, you like cats!" Jay is still in shock at Mal's behavior, it's just not like her. Her response was to pull her knees up and hide her face in her arms. Now Jay knew something was seriously wrong.

"Mal?" he asked, puzzled by his violet haired friend.

"It's nothing" she insisted, still hiding.

"And the cave of wonders just has some cheap trinkets!" he counters.

Mal lifted her head to show tear stained cheeks, Jay froze, the Isle kids don't cry and not in front of each other, that was a weakness none of them could afford, not even the daughter of Maleficent could afford it.

"This doesn't leave this bridge, if it does they will never find your rotten corpse!" Mal threatened. Jay had to stop a laugh, she was much less threatening at the moment. He decided to risk it, if nothing else he'd have some good blackmail on the younger girl, he nodded.

"My mother and I had a fight last night. Apparently I'm not enough like her because I'm not cursing entire villages or commanding a horde of minions."

"That's not a big deal, hell my father always reminds me I'm not enough like him. That's like 'I love you' for us" Jay didn't see the issue.

"That's the thing, I don't want to be like her! I want a normal life, I don't want to be just the daughter of a villain. I could be so much more if I only had the chance!" Mal whined

Jay froze. Mal had just spoken what he assumed every kid on the Isle felt. They never had a chance, they were their parents kids, and that was it.

"I want a chance too" Jay quietly agreed with the upset girl, her jaw fell open. She was being weak, but he'd just admitted the same weakness. "Someday we might get it, I doubt it though, so we may as well make the best of what we have." He slung his arm around her shoulders.

"Do you really think there is any chance of us getting off this floating hell hole?" Mal asked.

"Sure! And when we do you'll marry a prince, I'll find true love and we'll all live happily ever after while woodland critters clean our homes. In the meantime though; partners in crime?" He asked with a grin.

"And this isn't mentioned again?" Mal asked

"Never again on the Isle" Jay agreed.

"you said you'd never talk about that again!" Mal growled

"I said never again on the Isle, this isn't the Isle. Now are you going to take your chance or are you going to be a dragon puppet for the rest of your life?"

Jay felt her deflate under him, it was like someone had pulled a plug, she stopped fighting and looked up at him. "I'm fucking scared okay. I know how to be an evil bitch, the rest is all new."

"It's new to us all. But if we figure out how to do good, we never need to go back. You can get your prince and the woodland critters" he said quietly.

Mal's eyes widened "I don't really want a prince" she said, but her eyes gave away more than she'd intended.

Jay laughed, this was good. "You do, you actually want Ben. Good news, he's not too into his current girlfriend so you do have a chance." he kept his voice low, he was more than a little surprised but the blush on his friends cheeks confirmed his suspicions.

"How can you tell?" Mal demanded

"Yesterday, I was flirting and he gave zero fucks. If he cared I'd have gotten at least a glare."

They stopped talking as Carlos walked out of the bathroom. Jay laughed, "Sorta like that" he told Mal as Carlos glared at them.

He put his hands on hips as his glare turned into a smirk, "you know it's good I'm not the jealous type." Carlos joked

"Oh come on, doesn't it bother you a little that I'm shirtless in bed with a girl" Jay waggled his eyebrows, which made Mal try to shove him off her. He slid over and let her up

"Nope, at this point I'd be more concerned if you pinned another guy. I'm starting to think you're gayer than me, just farther back in the closet" Carlos grinned as two jaws dropped.

"So you two are officially a thing?" Mal asked as she recovered.

"Uhm, sorta, maybe, I don't know" Jay admitted.

"But you jump anything with a set of tits, no offense C, but you're lacking in that department." Mal laughed.

"None taken" Carlos said while pulling off his shirt to get changed. Jay didn't think anything of it when he looked over at the other boys lithe form.

"Holy fuck!" Mal shrieked sounding more like Evie than herself. "You are gay!"

Carlos started laughing "thanks Mal, I thought he'd been staring, needed another set of eyes to confirm it"

"OY! I'm not gay, I like girls just fine." jay protested

"Oh fine, like me then you're bi."

"Not really, I don't like any other guys. It's just a Carlos thing"

"Just a Carlos thing" Mal repeated in shock. She really hadn't expected Jay to confirm anything. "So does that mean no more flirting?" Mal asked, she was kind of relying on Jay being his usual self to get Audrey away from Ben.

"I dunno, C didn't seem to mind yesterday."

Carlos took a deep breath, on the Isle his next sentence would have been one of death, but everyone seemed to be leaving the Isle behind.

"I don't care what he does, as long as I get to fall asleep in his arms". He turned progressively more red, before hiding in head in his dresser to look for the shorts he wanted.

Mal laughed "Well then, I shall see you outside in twenty minutes, you got to look around yesterday so now you get to show us around!" with that she bounded back to bug Evie and let Carlos return to a normal color.

"Did you mean that?" Jay asked while getting off the bed.

"I don't care what you do. It's nice to be warm though" Carlos said, trying to save face.

Jay laughed at him and pulled the slight boy into a hug. "This is fucked up for both of us, you know"

"I know" Carlos softly agreed while wrapping his arms around jay. The boys stayed like that for ten minutes before they had to get ready to meet the girls. Jay just finished getting ready as they walked out the door, his last act was to grab his red beanie and pull it on over his ears.

The four of them walked the same path Jay and Carlos had taken the night before, this time though when they reached the Tourney field there was a bunch of guys and a couple girls trying out for the school teams. The evil kids sat on the bleachers to watch, after a few minutes the coach came over "You play any sports on the isle?"

"Yeah, steal and run" Carlos muttered.

"Go try out, we need runners."

Carlos looked at Jay, who had already stood up. He wanted to run the other way, but Jay pulled his hand and drug him into the field. Jay was a natural, Carlos was a natural disaster.

"You need a rule book" coach said addressing Jay, "you need to go audition for band", he added to Carlos.

"I can train him up" Ben said coming up behind Carlos "Good luck, you're gonna need it. Practice on Monday!" he said while walking away.

"You'll really help me?" Carlos asked

"Sure will, one condition though." Ben said

"Anything" Carlos agreed

"See if you can get me a date with the purple haired one?" Ben said

Jay choked as he heard that, his conversation with Mal coming back to his mind. Carlos started to stammer that he couldn't do that when Jay put his arm around him and cut in "He'd love it, no trouble at all. Meet her over by the locker room in ten". With that he lead Carlos over to Mal and Evie. "Oh Mally!" Jay called sing song

"Oh walking dead man!" Mal called back.

"Gotcha a date with a prince" He winked while her jaw dropped.

"You have got to be kidding!" she said.

"Nope, you just gotta go talk to him. By the locker rooms, ten minutes." Jay said.

"What are we waiting for!" Evie exclaimed while dragging Mal towards the locker rooms while Jay and Carlos went back to their room, deciding their own shower was just as good as the communal one.