A/N: Hey guys! So, here's another chapter that came from out of the blue! I have a few other stories that are in dire need of my attention but unfortunately I have a bad case of writers block! Anyways I want to give a big round of applause to Bearybeary, Suzerenma, Avril Lambert, and .98 for reviewing! Thank you guys so much, it means a lot! Enjoy chapter 6 everyone…

"Father you need to stop, now!" Melody begged as she fell to her knees with tears in her eyes. She couldn't believe what she was saying, and she just kept on telling herself that it was all a bad dream and that she'd wake up eventually.

Vanessa hung her head down in shame, she wanted to speak up more than ever but she couldn't even if she wanted to! At the moment she was tied to the wall in an - X – position and she couldn't have felt more uncomfortable. For the past hours Gaston had been having his way with her multiple times, and he had been screaming more profanity than ever. Oh, and to top it all off Gaston had gagged her mouth. So no matter how loud she screamed, no one would be able to hear her shrieks of pain.

Gaston immediately rolled his eyes in annoyance as he pulled his daughter by her ponytail, stomped his way towards the exit and he then threw her to the ground "You stupid girl, you know you need to stay out of here! What the hell were you thinking?"

Immediately Vanessa tried her best to scream and order her husband to leave their child alone but it was hopeless! If she had been able to move then she wouldn't be tied to the wall at the moment but that wasn't the case. Not only was Gaston much stronger than his wife but he was a skilled hunter! If he knew how to tie the legs of a kicking buck, then he could certainly tie the legs, and arms of his petite and feeble wife.

Melody huffed as she fell to the ground; she knew exactly what to say, and exactly what not to say "Please don't hurt me? I was worried that momma was hurt! Please father, I was only trying to be a good daughter?"

Her father however was not easily persuaded, instead of accepting her little story – he slapped her across the face "How dare you lie to me! You and I both know that you planned on stopping me. Admit it girl, you were going to try and stop me from being a good husband?"

She could see the fire in his eyes and it terrified her, "No – never! Father please, I'd never ever try to do something like that! Please don't do something you'll-"

"Shut up! You're going to shut up or so help me, I'll make you watch as I continue to show your mother what a good wife does. Do you want to see that? Tell me Melody, do you!" Gaston roared as he picked her up by her ponytail, forcing her to let out a high pitched shriek. She wanted nothing but to get away! She wanted to just run away, and go see Jim again!

Melody looked up to him with pleading eyes. She knew he wouldn't kill her, but you'd be surprised what you could live through "P-please don't hurt me? I'll be a good…I promise. I'll be good…"

Vanessa looked down to the ground with humiliation as tears ran down her cheeks. Not only was it humiliating for Melody to walk in on them but she hated when Gaston pushed Melody around! How could he do that? Hurting her was one thing but hurting their daughter was a whole other story. She fought back tears as a million thoughts roamed her mind, "I'm so sorry Melody! I'm an awful mother…"

The dark haired hunter only gritted his teeth as he began to drag her towards a small room. The more his daughter struggled, the tighter his grip got on her ponytail. He had a feeling she knew exactly where he was taking her, and she knew how much she despised the room "Your words mean nothing to me! You bring nothing but bad luck, all I wanted was a son and I just couldn't have that! Now your mother and I trying to make you a younger brother and this is how you repay us? By not giving us our privacy! Well, now you'll learn! Now you'll learn, you brat!"

She tried her best to squirm away but she wasn't strong enough, compared to her father she was a feather in the wind "Father please? I'll do anything! I'm sorry; please don't send me down there? Please!"

However it was no use because before she knew her father had not only opened the door but he had thrown her inside the room. Melody let out a high pitched cry but her yelps were soon cut off for Gaston had slammed the door close, leaving his daughter in the darkness of their basement.

He then turned around in the opposite direction, and without a word he went back to his wife. Gaston closed the door behind himself as he entered their bedroom, "Now…where were we?"

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Meg kneeled down by the lake as she took a minute to listen to the sound of rushing water. She closed her eyes and only faintly grinned as Jack Frost tickled her nose. Although the sound of the water was lovely, she was freezing and wanted nothing more but to get home.

"Home?" she thought to herself with a bit of a frown on her face. Where was home? Once Upon a time ago their hideout had felt like a home but now everyone wanted to go their own way! Meg didn't see the point in separating, so she tried her best to pay it no mind.

She hugged herself as a shiver shot up her spine, "I r-really should have brought a coat with me. What was I thinking?"

Meg removed the scarf from her neck as she studied the color. It was like blood-red, the color of the pool her mother had been in. It was blood-red, the same pigment of the liquid which had squirted from out of her mother's neck the day she died. It was blood-red, the same color of her almost broken heart.

She pushed those thoughts and suddenly a loud wolf howl roared through the night sky. However the wolf howl didn't sound distant, although it had a bit of an echo to it – the sound itself sounded as if it were only a few feet away.

Meg didn't dare turn around though. She didn't want to give the wolf the satisfaction of knowing that she was scared. No one – not even Hercules – deserved that kind of pleasure. Suddenly she could hear footsteps coming her way but she just knew they weren't footsteps. No, whatever was behind her wasn't human.

She immediately stood up and started running towards the forest. Meg closed her eyes for a second and she just knew the wolf was chasing her.

The wolf growled in anger and frustration as it's pray ran away from it. No matter though, this beast liked a good challenge. It especially enjoyed a good hunt and a weak damsel like this one didn't stand a chance.

What the wolf didn't know is that it had met Meg before. They had both, it had been years since they had last seen each other but love never dies. Not really anyways…

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Ariel's eyes widened with shock as Rapunzel told the story about Mother Gothel and how Eugene had saved her, "Wow Rapunzel! I mean I myself was trapped under the sea but I don't think I would have been able to handle with what you went through."

"What are you talking about? We practically went through the same thing?" Rapunzel giggled as she jumped off the love seat and merrily skipped over to a shelf filled with different books.

This moment was special because she usually paid so much attention to the books. However talking with Ariel made her forget about being a princess, it made her feel like plain, old Rapunzel again. The young brunette grabbed another copy of "Into the Woods" before turning around and skipping back over to Ariel. She opened the novel and started looking for the page she had stopped on.

The sweet red-head tilted her head to the side with the utmost curiosity. She didn't see at all how their situations were anything close to similar "What do you mean? You were trapped inside a tower for eighteen years of your life by a mad woman? Me…well, my life couldn't have been better! I mean don't get me wrong, I loved my daddy and all my sisters but…but-"

"There was something waiting for you beyond your sea home. Up above the sky waited for you, beckoning for you to come! Just beyond the bars…" Rapunzel explained completely unaware that she had finished her friend's sentence. Once she took notice of it, she immediately placed her hand on the back of her neck as she began to giggle nervously.

Ariel nodded her head in agreement; she didn't pay any attention to how Rapunzel had practically read her mind, "Exactly! Besides Eric had only been a perk to visiting the world above. Ever since I was little I had wanted to go. And the whole kiss thing…that was Ursula's rule; I was just trying to make my dream come true. I never asked for any of it but I wasn't going to let a once in a lifetime opportunity pass me like that."

It was almost uncanny how much Rapunzel understood, "Besides, you had never asked to fall in love in the first place. You had never asked to-"

"See the light?" The red-head asked with the same curious gaze.

Rapunzel held back a laugh as she remembered the song they had sang on the canoe. She let out a dreamy sigh as she lied back, "Yes, just like you had never asked to be part of Eric's world. You had dreamt of being part of the human world, just like I had dreamt of being part of the outside world. I had seen the light in my husband, and somehow you became part of your husband's world."

"Actually, "Ariel spoke up as she blushed in remembrance "you had become his light just like I had become my husband's world."

Both girls laughed in unison and eventually silence took over them. Both of them were taking the time to remember their love stories, and how it all had went down. They remembered the pain, the loss, the guilt, the love, and everything in between!

Eventually Ariel noticed how Rapunzel had started reading a book, "Um Rapunzel…what's the book about?"

Rapunzel looked up from the page she was reading and her face lit up like a Christmas tree as she hugged the book to her chest, "Only the best book ever! It's about this little girl named Little Red Riding Hood, this silly boy named Jack, a baker and his wife, and surprisingly it talks about this girl named…"

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"So Aladdin," Jasmine started as she made her way up the ladder to their hideout "what part did you like the best?"

Aladdin took a few seconds to come up with a clever response, and eventually a cocky grin formed on his face "I liked the part where they both drank the wine at the end."

She looked almost offended as she rolled his eyes at his response, "Are you kidding me? Everyone hated that part! Not only is it the saddest part in the play but it meant that the show was over."

"Exactly," he muttered as he watched Jasmine reach the top. He quickly followed after her and once he was inside, he let out sigh of relief as he allowed himself to relax. He knew they were safe once they were inside the hideout.

Jasmine hated how everything was pitch-black and if that weren't bad enough, she just couldn't stop yawning "I think I'm going to head off to bed! Thank you so much for the romantic night Aladdin!"

"Oh come on Jas, I think you're forgetting something?" Aladdin hinted as he took a few steps closer to her. The fact that they were in the dark made things rather difficult but it only made the moment all the more romantic.

She blushed and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek but to her surprise he wrapped his arms around her waist, and pulled her into a full blown kiss. At first she had planned to cut it off a few seconds afterwards. However, his tongue eventually found hers and the sweet kiss had turned into a passionate display of affection. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he pulled her closer; making the space between them even smaller then it was before.

He eventually parted from this kiss as he held her tightly in his arms, "Jasmine…do you love me? Do you truly, really love me?"

Jasmine nodded her head with a serious expression. She wasn't sure where he was going with this but she was praying that he didn't have any doubts about how much he meant to her, "Of I do. Aladdin I'd rather die than have to live without you.

"Then you will you please do me the honor of running away with me?" Aladdin begged in a whispered tone. Before she had the chance to deny his off, he tried his best to silence her doubts by pulling her into a short however sweet kiss.

She smiled a bit as their lips parted and she then replied his off in her head. Did she really have the heart to just get up and go? What about Meg? She shook her head, "Aladdin I'd love to run away with you but I can't leave my sister. You know how much she means to me. You know her and I have done everything together. I love her."

"And I love you. Jasmine don't you want a better life? Look, tonight Hercules is going to ask Meg to run away with me…do you know what she's going to say?" He rhetorically asked with a bit of a raised eyebrow.

Jasmine innocently shook her head, "No…I don't, to be honest with you. I know Meg would never want to leave me but I also know how much she loves Hercules. She'd die for him almost as much as I'd die for you."

"She's going to say yes Jasmine. The both of us want to give you girls a better life. Jasmine I want to spend the rest of my life with you but we can't do that if we spend the rest of our lives, living in this group. We need to separate," Aladdin explained and it broke his heart when he saw how disappointed she looked.

She let out a sad sigh, "I just thought we could all run away together…"

"But Jasmine there's no point in running away if we all leave together. I promise you that we'll all still keep in touch; we just won't be living together anymore. Come on Jas, it'll be a lot better if it's just the two of us," he told her as he tried his best to coax her into agreeing.

Jasmine however remained skeptical as she slowly turned around, automatically breaking away from the hug "I don't know Aladdin? I like Corona! Besides where do you suppose we go anyways?"

"Well," Aladdin started as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders "I was thinking we could go to this neighboring kingdom that isn't too far from here. It's called Agrabah and I think you'd love it!"

She crossed her arms as she rested her head on his shoulder, "I don't know Aladdin? I mean, how would our life there be any different from our lives here? And what happened to waiting for the economy in Corona to get better? I thought you said the new prince and princess were going to make things better."

"They are! It's just that Agrabah has a lot more opportunities for us. I know it may seem impossible now but believe me Jasmine it'll be for the better. Please…just think about it?" He was practically begging and she just couldn't say no. He knew that she just couldn't deny him when he had that pleading look in his eyes.

Jasmine nodded her head and said, "Fine…I'll think about it."

"Thanks."

She shifted away and sat down on her knees. She hugged herself and that's when she realized how alone she felt, "I can't leave my sister! We promised mother that we'd stay together and I have no intentions of leaving Meg behind!"

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"I need to get out of this hell," Melody whispered to herself as she wiped a few more tears from her eyes. She knew for a fact that her cheeks were probably blemished with tear stains but she didn't pay it too much mind.

She rested her back against the wall of her basement and let out a desperate sigh, "Someday I'll be free and far away. I'll take mother with me and we'll both be far away from father. I don't know why she doesn't just get me and leave him here to rot."

Melody fought back a shiver as she hugged herself, "It's f-freezing down here. I hate the basement! It's always so moldy and dusty, and not to mention cold and dark. But I guess that's why father locks me down here whenever he thinks I've been bad?"

She looked up to the ceiling and noticed how silence had taken over. She let out a relived filled sigh, "Good – he's done having his way with her."

Melody felt her stomach grumbled and that's when she remembered she still hadn't ate anything, "We were supposed to have dinner but then father had needs that just required mother's attention. He treats more like an object then he does a wife."

Suddenly there was a knock and her face slightly lit up. However she quickly realized that it wasn't coming from the door but from the window which was only a few feet above her.

She looked up and smiled when she noticed who had been knocking on the window. Melody carefully grabbed an old chair and got on top of it. She then pushed open the window, and greeted her boyfriend with a small kiss on the cheek "What are you doing here Jim? Let me guess…you sneaked out didn't you?"

Jim faintly grinned, "Hey if you can do it, why can't I? Besides I was worried about you and I had a feeling your asshole of a father would do something like this to you. I'd come inside but the window is way too small to get through."

Melody nodded her head as she got up on her tippy-toes; she hated how high the window was "Jim, you won't believe what my father did! Not only did he tie her to the wall but he had also gagged her so no one could hear her screaming. He was treating her like she was some kind of-"

"Skank..."

She nodded her head as her eyes started getting watery. She hated how small the window because right now she wanted nothing more but to be wrapped in his arms, "Jim I need to get out of here! It's freezing down here and I still haven't had a single meal since breakfast!"

He looked down at her with pity as he immediately grabbed a hold of her hand, "Run away with me…"

Melody felt her jaw drop as she took a moment to take it all in. Just a second ago she had been complaining about how awful her day had been, and now this! That being said although the request had caught her off guard, that didn't mean it sounded all too bad "But Jim what about my-"

"Melody you said it yourself, you hate the way your father treats your mother! Let me help you by taking you away from this life. I already thought all of this out, you'll leave your mother a note saying that you've run away because you can't stand your father anymore. This will drive her insane and she's bound to just pack up and go. And in the end, you'll have a better life and we'll be together? Melody please, let me help you?" Jim pled with the utmost desperation in his voice.

He hated seeing his girlfriend and this much discomfort, and he knew exactly how he was going to get her out of this mess. But he couldn't help her if she didn't cooperate.

The plan itself was like music to her fears but it sounded risky! What if they got caught? What if her father stopped her mother from leaving? Would that be it then? Would Vanessa have to spend an eternity cooking and cleaning and pleasing her husband? Besides, Jim and Melody are both so young! Where would they go anyways?

She let out a frustrated sigh and she just knew that this it wasn't going to be easy. But in the end she just couldn't deny him, "Let's do it. Let's get me out of here…"

A/N: And that's all folks! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and once again I am so sorry for the long delay! I've been super busy and things have just been so stressful and hectic lately. Honestly guys, sometimes I wonder why I even bother with school anymore! Anyways, until next chapter everyone…