Late That Night
Mal's POV
We're finally inside of the museum getting ready to steal the wand.
"That's your mother's spinning wheel?" Jay laughs quietly as we poke our heads out to peak in the windown slightly, observing the guard.
"Yeah no offense Mal but it's kinda dorky" Carlos agrees.
"It's magic, it doesn't have to look scary" I defend, even though I can't help somewhat agreeing with them.
"Prick thy finger, prick it deep, send thy victim off to sleep" I chant, ignoring the boys jokes about the spinning wheel. We watch as tthe guard stands up and slowly moves towards the spinning wheel. He pricks his finger and slowly falls asleep laying on the pedistal.
"Now that's how you do it" I say smugly. Evie tries to open the door, but it's locked.
"Stand back" Jay says smoothly before taking several steps back. I smirk as another spell pops into my head.
"Make it easy, make it quick, make it open without a kick" I say as Jay launches himself at the door, foot extended to kick it open. The door swings open just before his foot can make contact with it and he lands with a thump. Evie and I let out a few laughs as Carlos helps Jay up and we follow Evie's directions to the wand. We freeze when we enter a room full of statues, our parents statues.
"Mommy" I hear Evie say quietly.
"Killer" Jay says afterwards.
"I'll never forget mother's day again" Carlos says, and I feel a bit of regret when I hear the fear in his voice.
"Well the wand isn't here, let's go" Evie orders gently, and I hear three sets of footsteps exit the room. I don't take my eyes off of my mother's statue, I can't. I feel several conflicting emotions wash over me as I stare at it. I can't help thinking back to Bella's brilliant green eyes staring into mine, filled with so much hope and trust as she spoke to me. Can I possibly destroy that for her? Break her trust and shatter all her hope? But what would happen to me if I didn't go through with this plan? Would I live happily ever after here in Auradon? Possibly with Bella? Or would my mother find her own way off of the isle and take her revenge on me, hurt those closest to me before killing me.
"Mal C'mon" I faintly hear Evie call out, but I can't help moving towards my mother's look alike.
"Look at you look at me, I don't know who to be mother" I sing softly.
"Is it wrong, is it right? Be a thief in the night mother, tell me what to do" I continue to sing. My mother's statue suddenly comes to life and laughs at my shocked expression.
"Don't be so serious darling" she laughs.
"I'm sorry" she manages to get out after calming down.
"I was once like you my child, slightly insecure" she sings and I look up at her nervously.
"Argued with my mother too, thought I was mature. But I put my heart aside and I used my head, now I think it's time you learned what dear old momma said" she begins to sing louder, moving towards me.
"Don't you wanna be evil like me? Don't you wanna be mean? Don't you wanna make mischief your daily routine?" she sings out, beginning to dance around me.
"Well you can spend your life attending to the poor but when you're evil doing less is doing more" she continues, putting her hand on my shoulder.
"Don't you wanna be ruthless and rotten and mad? Don't you wanna be very, very good at being bad?" at this line she moves away from me and twirls her staff around. And it takes everything in me to not flinch from the gesture, remembering all the times I'd been whacked with that staff when I was a child.
"I have tried my whole life long to do the worst I can, clawed my way to victory, built my master plan" she sings with a familiar smirk on her face, the one I inherited from her.
"Now the time has come my dear for you to take your place, promise me you will try to be an absolute disgrace" she sings pointedly with a creepy smile, resting her arm on my shoulder.
"Don't you wanna be evil like me? Don't you wanna be cruel? Don't you wanna be nasty and brutal and cool?" she continues on.
"And when you grab that wand that's when your reign begins, who wants an evil king without a sack of sins?" she sings proudly, and for a moment I can't help imagining myself as ruler of the isle.
"Don't you wanna be heartless and hardin' as stone? Don't you wanna be finger licking' evil to the bone?" she continues, unaware of my inner termoil.
"This is not for us to ponder, this was preordained. You and I shall rule together, freedom soon regain" she sings, and green lightning strikes, nearly making me jump.
"Masters of the universe, powerful and strong, son, hear me, help me, join me, won't you sing along?" she sings, gesturing to me.
'Sorry Bella' I think to myself as I mentally shake her out of my thoughts.
"Now we're gonna be evil, it's true, never gonna think twice" we sing together, holding on to her staff.
"And we're gonna be spiteful" I sing, tugging on my half of her staff.
"Yes, spiteful. That's nice" my mother agrees with a smile and a point in my direction.
"In just an hour or two our futures safe and sure, this mother, son act is going out on tour" she continues to sing, pulling her staff out of my grasp and moving towards the pedistal. She begins floating up to the ceiling as she continues to sing.
"If you wanna be evil and awful and free then you should thank your lucky star that you were born the boy you are, the son of an evilicious queen like me!" she sings loudly before letting out an evil cackle, more green lightning striking around her.
"Hey I found the wand let's go" Evie calls out, earning my attention. She waves me forward before turning and exiting the room again. I take one last look at my mother's statue before following Evie down the hall where Jay and Carlos are waiting.
"Let's do this" Jay says, moving to grab the wand where it's floating, surrounded by. bright light.
"No Jay don't-" I start to say, but it's too late. He reaches in and an alarm suddenly goes off, red lights flashing through the building. We quickly run all the way down the stairs and I faintly hear Carlos at the service desk talking to someone on the phone, then the alarm turns off and the lights stop flashing.
"Nice work Carlos" I compliment as I hold the door open for the others before exiting myself.
"Great job Jay now we have to go to school tomorrow" I huff as we run away from the building.
The Next Morning
Mal's POV
"Hey guys!" Bella says with a smile as she moves towards us. We each give her our own greeting as she hands all of us a peice of paper.
"These are your schedules and I managed to get Fairy Godmother to get you in a few classes where you have one or more of your group in the same class" she explains after seeing my questioning look, and I nod in understanding.
"Thanks Bella, that was really nice of you" I say with a small smile. Even though I could never be with her romantically I'd still like to be her friend for the short time I'll be here before my mother takes control. Maybe I could even talk to my mother about sparing Bella so she could be my servent or something. I feel my heart crack at the thought of Bella in shackles and looking at me with a broken expression.
"Are you ok Mal?" Bella asks me, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah, yeah I guess I'm just really tired, I didn't get much sleep last night" I say, letting out a yawn.
"Oh why not?" she asks curiously, and the others look at me from over her shoulders with panic in their eyes.
"First night in a new envirement ya know" I explain with a shrug, which is true. I didn't get much sleep after we made it back to the school without getting caught, not used to being on a soft bed in a warm room. Bella nods in understanding and pats my shoulder.
"Anyways we should probably get going, wouldn't want to be late to...remedial goodness class?" I say after looking at my schedual, the one class we all have together.
"Let me guess, new class?" I ask with a smirk and she nods slightly.
"Alright then, let's go guys" I call out to my friends as I start moving down the hall, remembering walking past that classroom when Fairy Godmother gave us a tour of the school after we got settled into our dorms.
A Little Later
"When someone hands you a crying baby do you A) Curse it B) Lock it in a tower C) Give it a bottle or D) Carve out it's heart?" Fairy Godmother asks us from the front of the room, standing in front of a chalk board and pointing at the different choices with her pointer as she says them. I groan internally, ever since she introduced herself to us when we got in here we've been going over these type of questions.
'Hades help me' I internally curse. Evie raises her hand and Fairy Godmother smiles at her encouragingly.
"What was the second one?" Evie asks innocently with a smile and I can't help letting a small genuin smile creep on to my face as I continue drawing the wand.
'Oh Evie' I think to myself amusedly, patting her on the shoulder as I let out a small chuckle.
"Um ok..anyone else?" Fairy Godmother asks looking a bit disturbed, waving her pointer back and forth from all of us.
"Mal?" she calls softly and I immediately look up.
"C) Give it a bottle" I answer automatically.
"Correct, again" Fairy Godmother says with a big smile.
"You are on fire man!" Carlos says.
"Just pick the one that doesn't look like any fun" I say with a shrug.
"That makes so much sense" Evie says, and I hear the boys say something similar.
"Oh hello dear one! Come in" Fairy godmother says as the classroom door opens. I turn around to see a small very shy girl slowly walking into the room. I hide my cring at her plain haircut and boring dress.
"Hi mom" she says shyly, moving farther into the room.
'Fairy Godmother has a daughter?' I think to myself surprised. I notice Carlos looking at her awestruck and carefully nudge Evie, nodding in Carlos's direction. Her eyes light up and I'm sure she's already planning on how to get them together.
"Hello Jane, how are you dear?" Fairy Godmother asks soothingly as we turn back to the front of the room.
"I-I'm alright, I just came to get those papers for the potions class" she says nervously as she moves past our desks.
"Oh yes! Here you go" she says as she gives Jane a small stack of papers.
"Thank you" she says, turning to leave the room but freezes when she sees we're all looking at her curiously.
"Um don't mind me.. as you were" she says shyly as she quickly exits. The bell rings right after the door closes behind her, signaling the end of class. Hopefully with Carlos having a potential love interest Evie will turn her focus away from me and Bella.
"And don't even think that just because I'm going to get Carlos a girlfriend that I won't try setting you and Bella up" Evie whispers to me knowingly as we pack up our stuff.
'Damn it' I internally curse as we leave the room. I now have free period so I head to my locker while the others go to their classes.
"Hi" I hear a familiar voice say as I put my books in my locker. I turn my head to the left and see Bella smiling up at me.
"Hey" I say with a small smile before grabbing my sketchbook and a few drawing pens and pencils.
"You draw?" she asks with a smile while I put the pens and pencils in my jacket pocket.
"Yeah" I say softly, closing my locker. I gesture for her to follow me as I turn around and begin walking towards the staircase. She follows me obediently and we walk down the stairs. I freeze when we turn the corner to go on to the grounds and I feel Bella bump into my back from the sudden stop.
"Mal what's-" she starts to ask as she moves to stand beside me and sees what stopped me in my trackes. There in the dark corner behind the stairs is Bella's boyfriend making out with Audrey, her best friend.