Sorry but this is not a chapter! Just a bunch of outtakes I wrote during the Holiday. Sorry for any mistakes you may find, I wrote these in a bit of a rush. So I didn't read through them much. Not like I do that with regular chapters anyways.

1. Tourney Practice

Teddy stared at the shield thrust into his arms for a long moment. He swallowed down his nerves as he glanced up at the crowned king.

"Do I have to?"

"No," Ben said with a grin. "But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try."

Theodore glanced around the wide field and winced at the sounds of shields and bodies crashing into each other. To his left, about twenty feet from where he and Ben were standing, Teddy could hear the frightened screams of players running from Jay. That guy was a bulldozer with legs. The orange haired boy shuddered at the thought of being tackled. He bruised easily.

"Come on, Ted," Ben laughed as he tossed the other teen a helmet. Theodore quickly caught the headgear mid air, dropping the shield on his toes in the process.

"Y'ouch!"

"Not very coordinated, are you?"

"Not when people throw random projectiles at me, no!" Ben laughed and slapped him on the shoulder before motioning him to get into starting position with the other guys. Teddy sighed and slowly made his way over to stand beside Cinderella's kid, Brad or whatever. He looked at the blonde for a second and mimicked his stance. Crouching low, knees spread apart and shield held up. Teddy saw Carlos a few ways down giving him a thumbs up but Theodore could only grimace. He wasn't one for such a high contact sport.

"Ready!" Coach called. Teddy felt sweat drip down his forehead in anxiety. He should had said no to Ben and stayed indoors with Evie. Working on that project from his dad with her seemed like a lot more fun.

"On my count!"

This was it. Theodore was going to die.

People stared at Theodore once coach blew the whistle since no one could hear the sharp note over Theodore's screaming.

"I don't wanna play!" Theodore cried as he threw the shield down and ran towards the school. The tourney team watched with mixed reactions as the orange haired teen vaulted over obstacles and slid around people before disappearing through the front doors.

"Such a shame," Coach sighed. "Kid could really run."

2. Unexpected Understudy

Teddy gasped for breath in the corner of the dark dressing room. They, as in Evie and himself, were asked to help the costume department for this season's play, "Cinderella." Teddy had wanted to say no, that he had just started to learn how to sew under the tutelage of his father but one puppy-eyed look from Evie made him reconsider. If he had known that for the next few weeks he would be running around, gaining more puncture wounds from stray needles than he would like to admit, Teddy would have said no.

This felt like the only moment he could actually just sit and catch his breath. Which did tell how busy he and Evie were since it was actually opening day for the play. Theodore glanced around at the other students rushing around backstage. Everyone was panicking, trying to make the show a spectacular as possible. Ben had told him it was always like this on opening night since it was the day most parents would show up to support their children.

Makes sense since even his own parents showed up to see how he and Evie handled the costumes. Teddy didn't say it outloud but the sight of his mother and father made him feel like all this days of preparations were worth it. He glanced over at Evie who stood near the stage curtains and grinned at her when she nodded toward whom he assumed was the audience. The blue haired girl quickly walked over to him and nudged him with a small smile of her own.

"They actually came," she whispered in awe.

"They did say they would," teddy said with a small blush on his cheeks.

"They're really proud of you, Ted."

"Proud of us, you mean. They came for both of us." Evie didn't reply but Theodore knew that comment got to her. In a good way he hoped.

He and Evie stood in the corner of the room, their thoughts wandering as students continued to move sets and practice lines. Chad, he finally learned his name, stat a few feet away from them. He looked awfully scared in his prince charming costume. Teddy could almost see the beads of sweat roll down his temple as he wrung his hands nervously on his lap. The pressure of retelling his parents story must have finally caught up to him. That and because Teddy knew the Charming couple sat in the middle of the front row.

Even though Theodore found it kind of weird that Chad was playing his dad's part in wooing his mother, he couldn't help but think that there was probably no other way to do it. Theodore watched as Chad stood from his seat, ready for the final scene with the glass slipper. The blond squared his shoulders and marched over to the main stage with the brightest, most charming smile he could muster.

"Teddy!" He heard someone whisper urgently to him. The orange haired teen turned his head to the direction of the voice only to catch eyes with a devastated Jane as fairy godmother.

"What's wrong?" He asked as he noticed the urgency in her voice. Jane didn't say anything as he grabbed both his and Evies arm and dragged them to the curtains they used as a changing room backstage.

"It's Mary," Jane cried softly as she pushed the curtains aside to show a pale, sickly looking leading lady. "It's almost time for her to go on but she just got sick out of nowhere! She can't go on!"

"Oh no," Evie gasped as she rushed over to the girl's side. "I think she has a fever." Teddy winced in sympathy as he watched Evie try to make the poor girl comfortable.

"We have to stop the show," Jane sighed as she handed Evie a bottle of water for Mary to drink.

"Cancel the show?" Theodore gasped in shock. The idea of canceling the show just before the ending was unheard of. Parents were out there waiting for the grand finally. His parents. They were all going to be so disappointed! Teddy shook his head and glared at the ceiling, he couldn't allow that to happen. Plus, he and Evie worked too hard on those costumes for them to not be shown off.

"Jane," he called with a heavy sigh. "Find me a wig." Evie glanced up at him with wide eyes, her train of though matching his.

"No, Teddy you can't-"

"Come on, E. It'll be fun," He said with a grin. "Plus, I've always wanted to be a princess. Since I was a little girl, in fact." Teddy ran over to the clothes rack and pulled off the garment bag labeled: 'Mary's gown. Final scene.'

"This is going to be bad," Evie groaned as she watched Theodore pull on the dress in a surprisingly efficient fashion.

Chad liked to think his parents love story was a classic; one of the best the kingdom has heard of. The school liked to hold these types of plays to honor the history of Auradon's heroes. Him playing the leading role for his parents story was only fair; even if he didn't have any acting experience before hand. He thought the whole event was going to be simple, act a little and say a few of his father's famous lines. He didn't feel nervous during the rehearsals. Nor during the first or second fittings with Evie and Theodore. It wasn't until his mother wished him luck before leaving to school that morning when the nerves finally hit him.

This was his parents story. One that he was going to play an acting role in. He couldn't mess things up, not while they were watching.

Chad swallowed nervously, clutching the plastic slipper prop tightly as he walked further onto the stage. He didn't dare glance into the crowd of attentive faces, not even at the familiar blue eyes of his mother. This had to be perfect.

"Is there another young maiden in this home willing to try on the slipper?" He recited to the crowd. Chad stood confused as the no one called back to him like in rehearsal. That was Mary's cue to come in. "Um, I said, Is there another young maiden in this home willing to try on the slipper?" He tried again, his voice edging on despret. He and the audience waited in bated breath for a few moments as the silence seemed to stretch on.

"Yeah, yeah. Give me a minute, buddy," A masculine, very much not mary voice called out. "Keep your pants on and I'll be down in a sec. Give a lady some time to look good." A few people chuckled in shock and amusement. Things were starting to get interesting. A few seconds later, a boy, no 'Cinderella', in 'her' servant gown strutted over to Prince Charming. Thier cheeks blazing red and blond hair in a disarray.

'Cinderella' looked over at the audience, nodding his head in greeting at a certain pair in the crowd howling in laughter towards the back before turning back to Chad with a grin.

"Yo," 'Cinderella' greeted lifting his fist up in greeting. Chad still in shock only bumped his own fist, still confused as to what was going on. "I heard you found my shoe?"

3. Retellings

"So you followed a rabbit down a hole," Teddy repeated as he eyed the sewing needle carefully. He lined the thread up to the eye of the needle and tried to stick it through. 'Tried' being the key word. "Damn."

"Language, sweetheart," Alice said with a quiet laugh.

"Sorry," Teddy replied, though he wasn't very much sorry at all. "Ok so down a hole and then you married dad?" Alice giggled and shook her head as she walked over to her son's side. Oh how that sentence made her heart jump for joy. Life could not get better than this; her son was home and he was staying home. However, that wasn't the only reason why her life was so perfect.

"Huh," Jay huffed around the apple he was eating from his seat on the counter top. "That was anticlimactic."

"Big words there, Jay. You should be careful or you might just hurt yourself," Mal commented from across the room of the tailor shop. All five kids from the isle looked like they were at home in the small shop she and Hatter ran. It seemed like lately there was never a silent moment in her small home anymore. There was always shouts and laughter running through the halls. While the kids were a bit standoffish at first, she and Hatter were able to break through their rough exterior. It was tough but Alice found she didn't mind their company.

She grew to love them like they were her own children. She loved that her home was once again filled with noise and energy. She loved that she not only seemed to regain her child but gained four more in the process.

"Well there were some significant events that occurred between those two points in time but sure, pretty much." Her beloved husband replied, his eyes never straying from Evie's intricate stitching.

"Get to the good parts already!" Carlos groaned.

'Yes, things could not get any better,' Alice thought as she looked away from her growing family with a smile.

"...Can we get a walrus?"

And it seemed like it wasn't going to stop growing anytime soon.

4. A Villain's Christmas

Teddy stared at the tree his father and Jay struggled to pull in through the door. He glanced over at Carlos sitting beside him with the game controller slack in his hands. He too seemed confused with the strange turn of events. The orange haired teen opened his mouth to question their sanity but only a strangled sound came. His mother followed right behind the pair carrying a tree carrying a large cardboard box labeled 'Christmas.' She skipped right over to him and Carlos and dumped their box right at the feet.

"Are you two going to help decorate?" She asked with her hands on her hip, sparkling blue eyes staring down at them. Carlos turned his head to Teddy and gave him a silent look.

"Decorate what?" Teddy asked cautiously.

"The tree apparently," Jay huffed as and Hatter pushed the tree up into a standing position on top of this… metal doohickey. The long haired teen stood back, dusting his hands and threw himself onto the free space on the couch. "Some weird holiday these people subject themselves into."

"Wait!" Hatter huffed as he wiped the sweat gathering on his brow. "You— you boys never heard of Christmas?" Teddy, Jay, and Carlos gave him a deadpanned look. "Of course you haven't," The man sighed.

"Well," Carlos awkwardly prompted after a moment of silence. "What is it?"

Hatter looked over at Alice with a small, pained grin. His wife nodded and sat on the ground facing the teenage boys. Hatter followed her example only with much less grace.

"Alright then, Christmas is a holiday celebrated on December 25. It's a joyful holiday where family and friends get together—"

5. Royal visit

"So— um, what do you do for fun?" Ben asked awkwardly.

"Besides jumping people," Chad grouched. Ben elbowed the blonde in the gut in irritation. Audrey groand at her friend's rudeness and gave the other teens a tight smile.

"Don't mind him," She said.

"Don't worry about it, lass," Teddy laughed, his teeth baring into a predatory grin. "I understand how… tough this must be."

"No. Chad is just being—"

"A jerk, rude, how about idiotic. Any of those would fit just perfectly." Evie growled.

"E," Mal warned lightly. "We are entertaining royals." She mockingly said, though she smiled apologetically to Ben. Evie rolled her eyes but turned to Doug and tried to ignore the blonde headed prince as best as she could.

"'What we do for fun?' huh," Jay asked himself before turning to Teddy and Carlos with a shit-eating grin on his face. "Where do I start? Well stealing for starters."

"— gambling."

"—Looting," Evie piped in with a dark laugh.

"— Oh, don't forget vandalism!"

"—and if we feel especially evil— I mean Jolly," Mal said casually as she looked at her manicured nails for any imperfections. "We kidnap small children and make a nice stew."

Ben, Audrey, Chad, and Doug stared at the isle kids with mixed feelings of fear, amusement, and a little disgust.

"Are y-you serious?" Chad squeaked. Teddy glanced over at the prince and laughed madly, prompting the other isle kids to laugh at their little 'joke.'

"Of course we are," he mocked. "I mean, it's not like we could watch tv. There's nothing on besides those stupid 'Be good' commercials from king Beast."

I may or may not be procrastinating on that ending. Anyways, please tell me if you like these short stories. I might write more. Give me ideas. I need love. Especially after that roast session I got from my family. And I'm not talking about the stupid turkey.