9:13 am - The kitchen
Jane whistled a familiar tune as she acquainted herself with the numerous cupboards in the kitchen. The majority were empty. Jane had the logs on the fire stoked and a warm heat had settled over the open plan living space. It was seeping through to the kitchen but Jane was dressed in thick pyjamas and woollen socks.
"Are we gonna make pancakes or eggs?" Carlos asked from the other side of the island. The pair were dancing along to the radio station playing, sliding around in their socks on the tiled floor.
Jane paused to think. "Why not both? I mean, who will be here to eat the eggs once we leave?" she questioned as she twirled towards the fridge.
"Good point, both it is then," Carlos replied and he piled the ingredients to make pancakes into his arms.
The pair then worked effortlessly as Carlos whipped up the pancake batter and Jane cooked eggs and bacon strips. Once they were done and had plated the food up, they finally looked at each other.
"Not it!" Carlos shouted suddenly and Jane had to stop herself from stamping her foot.
"I am not waking them up, they're your best friends."
"They're your friends too Janey, and besides, I'm sure they're already awake," Carlos grinned as he poured himself some orange juice as Jane frowned.
"But what if they're doing something now," she dropped her voice to a whisper. He could see how nervous Jane was at the prospect as she began to breath deeper than before.
"Alright, alright," he said, wanting to avoid a panic attack before it even started. "I'll go wake upstairs if you wake up Doug and Evie," he countered and Jane smiled at the trade.
"Deal," she said already halfway across living area towards the lower floors bedroom door.
Carlos rolled his eyes and hoped that Jane was going to knock before she entered. He climbed back up the stairs and knocked on Ben's door. The King opened it before Carlos finished knocking and the pair shared a startled laugh.
"Oh Carlos, I was just coming down to help with breakfast," the King said as he exited his room.
"Don't worry, Jane and I have already done it. Just coming to wake everyone up," Carlos told the young man.
Ben laughed. "Good luck with that."
The two parted ways as Ben descended the stairs and Carlos began to knock on Gil's door. After nearly a minute of knocking, a deep grumble answered him and a few seconds later Gil opened the door with messy hair and mismatching pyjamas. He rubbed his eyes as he slowly woke up properly.
"Morning', when's breakfast?" was all Gil said sleepily and Carlos pointed him towards the stairs with a friendly smile and shake of the head.
He took a wary breath next, not wanting to take any steps closer to the two doors in which two of his best friends and their respective partners were doing who knows what.
Carlos looked between the two and mentally decided that Jay and Lonnie's room would be safer than that of Mal and Harry's. Gil's laughter echoed up from the kitchen table and it made Carlos move. He knocked on the door and then opened it when he heard a faint noise which he mistook for a command to enter.
On the bed, a shirtless Jay was flat on his back with his hair dangling off of the mattress like a glossy curtain. Perched on his torso was Lonnie with bare thighs and a large, oversized t-shirt and an easy grin.
Carlos averted his eyes and told the pair about breakfast.
"Already eaten though haven't I," Jay snickered and Lonnie rewarded his comment with a sharp flick to his pectorals. Both Carlos and Lonnie were blushing ever so slightly and Carlos excused himself quietly. He silently hoped that Mal and Harry were doing nothing as he had already been embarrassed enough.
Carlos crossed the small hallway and knocked on the couples door, crossing his fingers that they were either still asleep or fully dressed. Behind him, Lonnie and Jay left their room, already deep in a joking conversation.
"Come in," Mal called and Carlos swore quietly to himself as he entered the room carefully.
Mal was sat on the edge of the bed and she was pulling on some slipper booties. She looked up and smiled brightly when Carlos had fully entered the room.
"Carlos," she hummed happily. Mal got up and wrapped her arms around the boy who repeated the action with a confused expression. Her eyes were still a bright and illuminated green which made Carlos uncomfortable as they seemed to flash when she saw him.
"Moooooring Mal," he replied suspiciously. "What's got you so happy this early in the morning?"
"Do ya really wanna know," Harry said as he exited the bathroom without a shirt. He was only dressed in some low slung pants and Carlos rolled his eyes as he unwound Mal's arms from his shoulders.
"Actually, scratch that I don't," he told the couple. "Come on, we just waiting for you two so we can start breakfast."
"Yay, I'm starving," Mal elongated the syllables and Harry grinned.
"Can't satisfy ya can I eh?"
Mal simply winked in reply as she threw a jumper Harry's way which hit him square in the chest.
"Come on lover boy, breakfast," she purred as she pushed gently past Carlos who looked terrified at the pet name Mal seemed to be giving the pirate.
10:56 am
The ten friends ate breakfast together, laughing and joking as they shared stories and inside jokes over the long breakfast. Eventually, the last of the food had been consumed and they were simply sat around the table with happy smiles and the Auradon kids released their curiosities.
"So did you ever steal anything?" Jane asked with wide eyes. The VKs looked at each other with glints in their eyes.
"Why don't we just play 'never have I ever'," Evie suggested, recognising the pathway they were venturing down, and a round of agreement went through the group.
"Never have I ever stolen something," Doug repeated Jane's question in the same style of the game and all of the VKs lifted their hands along with Lonnie and Doug himself.
Jane gasped. "You've both stolen something?"
Lonnie nodded. "Yeah but it wasn't a major thing. I took one of my mother's practice swords after she told me not to bring it to school. It's under my bed right now."
"And you Doug?" Ben asked after Lonnie explained herself.
"I don't really know if it counts but I took a bouquet of flowers from the gardens for Evie a few months back," he said and Evie kissed his cheek.
Ben took on the role of indifference. "That doesn't count so you haven't stolen anything."
"Never have I ever skipped class," Lonnie said, moving the game along. All of the VKs except Evie raised their hands and surprisingly, Ben also raised his.
Gil raised an eyebrow at the King. "You've skipped a class?"
"Several actually. I'm enrolled in so many stupid classes that sometimes I just lock myself in my office instead and pretend I'm doing royal duties."
"Never have I ever used or gotten somebody else to use magic to help me in any sort of way," Jay smirked at Jane who raised her hand timidly. Every single person besides Gil and Doug had their hands raised. Gil was elbowing Harry in the side.
"Come on then, out with it Hook. Who used the magic and what for?" Evie sighed as the two pirates elbowed each other violently, Harry obviously threatening his best friend through the murderous look he was giving Gil.
Gil chuckled. "I remember it like it were yesterday," he began dramatically and as Harry opened his mouth to protest, Mal and Jay placed their hands over his lips so that Gil could continue.
"We were nippers, barely eleven and Harry here was convinced he had caught the eye of a lass in one of the local pubs. Older girl, obviously made her way around a few times if ya know what I mean," Gil winked and Jane looked puzzled.
"She would sell her body Jane, that's what he means," Evie told the girl out of the side of her mouth.
"You mean...?"
"Like a prostitute? Well yeah," Carlos filled in for Evie from Jane's other side. Jane looked both horrified and highly curious. She had also subconsciously leant away from the two pirates so she was now leaning on Carlos' arm. The Auradon kids flinched at the harsh reality of how life on the Isle went.
"Anyway, he dragged me to a local hag and payed for a potion that would enhance him for the night. Safe to say it went so wrong," Harry was scowling now as laughter rippled around the table. "Had to drag him and his extra appendage to Mal cause she were the only person we knew who practised magic and weren't gonna use it as blackmail."
"Didn't you threaten to use it as blackmail eventually?" Jay asked, trying to remind himself on the event.
"Yeah, but by then he had grown into his 'appendage' and it no longer held any credibility so it was a pretty empty threat," Mal replied with a saucy wink to the frowning pirate. "Trust me on that." That made Harry smirk and the rest of the boys groan.
"Alright, never have I ever skinny dipped," Ben said, halting the laughter to change the conversation topic. Only Harry and Gil raised their hands.
"Is skinny dipping swimming naked?" Lonnie asked and Gil nodded. Her hand remained down.
"So it was just the pair of you?" Doug questioned. "Just the two of you naked?" He wiggled his eyebrows at the suggestion.
"Knock it off," Evie hushed her boyfriend. "Mal..." she said her best friends name like a prompt and it took a few select looks for the other girl to eventually just ask what she was trying to say.
"What?"
"Did you find the spell for the atmosphere bubble thing?" Evie clarified and Mal nodded with a grin.
"You wanna do it now?" The purple haired girl was already climbing out of her seat with excitement.
Ben scratched his head in confusion. "Can someone please explain what's going on."
Evie laughed musically. "Mal and I have been looking for an atmospheric bubble spell so that we could go swimming in the creek even though its September."
"You've been practising magic?" Ben asked quietly and the mood shifted.
"She dried her hair last night without sayin' a damn thing," Harry said proudly and Mal bit her lip in embarrassment.
"She never stopped practising," Doug told his friend with a blank face.
Ben nodded solemnly. "It wasn't right for me to demand you stop practising," he told the girl. "Sorry."
"S'alright," Mal replied quietly. "Shall I do the spell then? We can all cross skinny dipping off of our lists then." Mal's question relit the excitement and the two pirates whooped and hollered, following the two VKs out through the sliding doors onto the natural patio area behind the house.
"Stay near the house for a moment," Evie ordered the rest of the group as Mal shivered, standing on the bank of the creek. She shook because of the early autumn air and being so close to the water after the trauma she had gone through earlier on in the week.
"Encase us here inside this bubble, keep up warm and out of trouble," she chanted the spell the two friends had found in the library. From Mal's fingers a green bubble expanded and settled over the back garden of the house. The warmth from the log burner heated the magical atmosphere and the boys shouted and crowed once more.
"You did it!" Evie cried, running and hugging Mal.
Mal grinned and manoeuvred the two of them away from the edge of the bank. "Gonna skinny dip then?" she asked the group.
Gil and Harry ran past the group, already naked, leaping into the water with shouts. They made two large splashes and both laughed when they surfaced.
"What's it like?" Jay asked as he pulled the t shirt he had slept in over his head.
"Bit cold but it's nothin' bad," Gil told them as he treaded water. The two had kicked up sediment from the riverbed so the water was no longer clear and nothing could be seen from their shoulders down.
Jay streaked past them and dived into the water. Lonnie quickly divested herself of her pyjamas with a curse and she followed the boys. "Ohmigod!" she cried when she broke the surface. "It's so cold but it's so nice. Come on Carlos!"
"You gonna do it?" Doug asked his girlfriend and Evie nodded determinedly.
"You are too," she said sternly and Doug took his hoody off from her serious tone.
"Yes m'am," he saluted her and the pair quickly joined the others, not wanting to stay exposed on the bank for too long.
"Carlos, Jane, you've gotta come too!"
"Come on Jane!"
"Ben, get in this water!"
"Chickens," Gil cried and he imitated the bird to the laughter of the group.
"Fuck it," Carlos cried as the group in the water chanted his name. "So much for not being evil; you're peer-pressuring me," he accused before he took a running jump to leap into the deepest part of the water. He come up spluttering but grinning widely.
"See, he loves it. Come on you three!" Lonnie shouted with a splash.
"Are you going to go in - naked?" Jane quietly asked Ben and the king took a second to answer.
"I will go in my pyjamas and if I feel up to it I'll take them off once I'm in the water," he told Jane. "Do it with me?"
She hesitated and nodded with wide eyes. The two carefully lowered themselves into the river to the joys of their friends. Mal crouched at the riverbank, sitting so that her feet were dangling into the water. "Give me a few minutes," she told her concerned friends. Mal watched as the group splashed each other.
"I feel alive!" laughed Ben as he threw his wet pyjamas onto the grass. "This is amazing!"
"Well that's something you have to hold up your hand to now," Evie laughed.
"I'm getting a bit cold," Lonnie said. "Everyone close your eyes I'm going back inside."
"Oh me too," Jane added.
"Yeah, I thinks that's enough for one day, or at least thats enough naked," Doug grinned and the rest agreed.
Awkwardly, everyone clambered up out of the water one by one, scrambling naked and dripping wet to get their clothes before they ran through the house to their rooms. Jay walked confidently back through the house, taunting Gil, Jane and Lonnie as he walked back to his room.
The only person who stayed behind with Mal in the backyard was Harry. He was partially submerged in the water, up to his lips, staring up at her.
"Are you gonna join me?"
Mal looked uneasy. "I don't know. The thing at the beach really messed me up Harry," she told him.
Harry held out his hand and stood up, proving that it was quite shallow as the water lapped around his hips bones. "Do you trust me?"
"Yes."
"I won't let go of you," he promised.
Mal weighed up the situation and slowly pulled of her slippers off of her feet. She had been leaning back so that her toes were nowhere near the waters edge. Harry waded through the rushing water to the bank and he stood right below Mal with his hands caging her legs.
"You promise," she asked, her fingers caught in the waistband of her silk bottoms.
"I will never hurt you Mal," he said seriously. Mal nodded and shuffled out of her pants, opting to leave her t-shirt on.
Carefully, Harry placed his hands on Mal's hips and helped her slide into the river. She gripped his shoulders as some of the soil underneath her slipped and moved.
Mal squeaked and gasped at the coolness the river against her skin as her body slid down Harry's. He looked her in the eyes, watching and waiting for any signs of discomfort. Mal seemed to cling to the pirate as he walked backwards, taking them deeper into the centre of the albeit small river.
"Stop wrigglin'" he ordered sternly and Mal's joyous giggles washed over him. Her legs were wrapped around his naked waist and she had her head buried in his neck as she laughed.
"How are you planning on facing any of our friends if you emerge naked from the river with a boner?" Mal said into his ear, focusing on the way Harry was subconsciously running her thumb over her hipbones as he held her to him. The small action reminded her that she was safe with Harry, regardless of the situation.
"I don't care no more. Ya love me," he replied, kissing her lips.
"And you love me," Mal replied with a beaming smile.
"We're in love," Harry shouted suddenly, crowing after the cry. Mal laughed as whoops echoed throughout the house to the confession.
"Come on the lover boy, let's get out before we get hypothermia or something," Mal sighed happily. Regardless of what they did for the rest of the day, she already knew this was a day she would never forget.
Author's note: So, there may be another chapter tomorrow night but don't hold me to that. I also might post a one shot thats a bit darker and its set as thought the VKs never got off the Isle.
Basically things like murder and stealing were common on the Isle and our favourite couple (Mal and Harry for anyone new although you're 16 chapters into a fanfic about them) are kinda enemies/kinda wanna fuck each other passionately so I may or may not post it, depends on how I feel with the finished project.
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