Those Who Are Lost
Disclaimer: I don't own Descendants.
Author's Note: So, I've had half of this written for months but I just didn't get around to finishing it so I'm sorry about that and the long wait, I went back and edited chapter two but it's all minor things, so you don't have to re-read it unless you want to. And while I was not getting any writing done they announced the third movie, who else is excited for Descendants 3? Hopefully, there are some fluffy Jane/Carlos moments in it yeah? Enough of that onto the story!
Chapter 3: The Isle of the Lost: Jay and Mal
Turned out that Jafar's business had one main competitor and Jay's plan that he needed Jane's help with was to distract the owner long enough for him to make off with the goods.
It didn't go so well… for Jane that is.
She was caught but Jay escaped with the loot, it hurt that he could've helped but would rather get the merch as he called it than save her but really, she should've known better after all he was a villain too.
And she should've never listened to or trusted a villain.
"Let go!" She cried as the man who owned the thrift shop pulled roughly on her arm, she didn't want to go where ever he was taking her, "Not a chance brat you lost me some valuable stuff."
Her arm is sure to be purple after how tightly he was dragging her still she wouldn't give up just yet even though it hurt the little girl kept pulling trying to free her arm.
It wasn't working.
So, she did the next thing that came to mind, she kicked him. Her mother would be so disappointed in her but she to was disappointed because unfortunately, her kick didn't have much strength behind it and didn't reach very far either.
He just laughed at her pathetic attempts to escape which brought frustrated tears to her eyes, "I wasn't sure before now, but I guess that what I've heard is true," His grin was ugly, and it had nothing to do with his missing or yellowed teeth either, "Maleficent is looking for you little Auradon girl!"
Jane gasped, he knew who she was and worse he was bringing her back to the evil fairy!
As the blue-eyed girl's struggles renewed a little boy who was watching from the rooftops nearly fell off said rooftop at the information he overheard.
"She's an Auradon kid!? It all makes sense now…"
It didn't take long before she was back in the presence of the one who started her whole nightmare Maleficent herself.
Mostly the tired, sore, hungry, dirty little girl just stood there silently and not listening as the awful thrift shop owner haggled with the fairy for her return.
Why wasn't her mom here yet?
So, another hand grabbed her arm and the exchange was complete, "My, my look at you my dear little Jane so filthy I doubt even think your own mother would recognize you like this." The endearment was said mockingly as was the whole sentence really but that's not what the little brunette caught onto.
Jane's drooping head shot up at that, was that the reason her mom couldn't find her?
Maleficent just laughed at the child's face, "You really think she's coming for you, don't you my dear?"
"She is!" Her lips trembled as she spoke back to the evil woman in front of her, the fairy just put on a sad face and not a very convincing one either, "Poor sweet stupid Jane," her mask slipped, and she was back to grinning again, "Your mommy's not coming."
Refusing to believe the villain she shook her head, "You're lying!" She screamed with her eyes closed tightly and tears flowing freely.
"I am a fairy of my word I think you'll soon come to find," she lets go of the girl's bruised arm and instead grabs her face, her nails scratching the little girl's cheeks and tearing the skin just enough to make it hurt when her salty tears get into the cuts.
"She. Is. Not. Coming." She wanted to make sure the words stuck so she put emphasis on each of them.
The little girl wouldn't believe a villain over her own mother!
She wouldn't!
The fairy sighed letting the girl go so suddenly it caused her to lose her balance and fall to the ground, "Do you want to know why your mothering isn't coming?"
Jane stayed quiet.
"I'll tell you," looking down at the pathetic girl plans started to form more clearly than ever before in her mind and it made her next words all the sweeter, "It's because of you."
Stuffy blue-eyes open and look up from the ground, "What… do you mean me?"
"You, my silly child took a stranger's hand willingly and by doing so you have made it so your mother's magic will never find you here."
Eyes widen, that couldn't be true could it? Did magic work like that?
"So, you see Jane it's all your fault."
Her mind went blank.
Before everything came rushing back in… was it her fault?
It was all her fault.
She was stuck here, and it was her fault.
Her own doing lead to this. It. Was. Her. Fault.
Her mom couldn't find her… because of her.
It was all her fault.
"I guess you should be careful who you trust in the future hmm?"
Tears wanted to fall but whether it was because she was too exhausted, had used them all up, or was dehydrated she didn't know or care.
She sat there unmoving until Maleficent called out to one of the lurking female villains in the area to get her cleaned up and bring her back here immediately after, so she could start her on her lessons.
So, she was unceremoniously hauled away to get cleaned up but at the moment she didn't care that she'd finally be clean she didn't care about anything.
"Jay come out I know you're lurking around here," the evil fairy said all the while filing her nails with a nail filer that a minion had produced on demand.
The little boy thought he was hiding really well this time too but apparently not, he comes out of his shadowy hiding spot. "Go make yourself useful and fetch my daughter."
"…Okay." After all one didn't say no to Maleficent without facing the consequences and after what he just witnessed he knew that she could be cruel in fact her cruelty would probably make the Auradon girl into an Isle one if it hasn't already…
Though what the evil fairy wanted with a kid from there the once-genie's son didn't know but whatever it was couldn't be good, it actually made him feel sorry for her well sorrier.
Shaking his head at the thought because he couldn't afford to have it, now time to find Mal.
Jay had rarely hung with her as she was kind of bossy but not the worst villain kid if you wanted to hang out with someone besides she could pull her own weight and in the end that's what mattered.
Mal wasn't happy for the second day in a row her mom was sending people to fetch her, this time she hoped she'd get a lesson unlike yesterday though she was excited for what her mom had to teach her she was also very aware that it might not turn out well for her.
Still, the half-fairy knew not to keep her mother waiting, her temper was something to be avoided at all costs if possible sadly it usually wasn't possible.
But if she was lucky maybe she wouldn't bear the brunt of her fiery temper today.
Sadly, nine times out of ten she wasn't lucky.
But that's alright she told herself if it helps make her a stronger person, someone more like her mother and that's what she wanted at least that's what she told herself that she wanted.
Perhaps if she told herself this enough one day she would truly believe it.
She wished today was that day.
Jane was clean and dressed in not exactly new clothes but different ones that were untorn and as clean as things probably got around here but still, she didn't care.
Maleficent was pacing impatiently in front of her muttering to herself but the brunette just stood there silently waiting for what she didn't know but it wasn't for her mom… not anymore.
Suddenly a voice cuts through the empty warehouse, "I'm here, mother."
Jane looks over to see a girl her age with purple hair, she'd never seen such a hair color before and vaguely wondered if the evil fairy's hair was purple underneath those horn things atop her head before deciding it didn't matter.
The kid beside Maleficent's daughter made something spark back to life in her eyes though because it was Jay! Why was he here? Did he… did he set her up back there to get caught so she'd be taken back to the dark fairy?
Briefly, he met her shocked eyes before guiltily glancing away and that in Jane's mind confirmed his guilt, he knew the whole time and pretended to be her friend… he was evil just like the rest of them.
He wasn't a friend like she'd thought.
She didn't have any friends.
And now she didn't have a mom and that was her fault.
Jane decided she wouldn't be tricked again.
"Mal my precious daughter there you are," the fairy walks over to her daughter who is was currently standing near the other half-fairy eying her funnily.
Maleficent pats her daughter on the head while said daughter tenses as if she's about to be hit, it confuses Jane, but she stays quiet.
"Now that you are here the first lesson can get underway," Briefly the fairy glances to the little boy still standing around, "What are you still doing here?"
"Um…" He answers awkwardly, "Be off with you," she makes a shooing motion with her hands, "I've no need of you any longer."
He backs away and pauses looking at Jane who gives him her best glare and turns away from him, with that he leaves.
Mal eyes Jay's retreating form and looks over at the girl she's never seen and wonders what was up with that before her mother demands her attention again.
"You see Mal people are either minions or tools," Mal nods her head, "Now tell me Mal which one are you?"
Jane's eyes grow wide when she hears this, the tiny brunette thought that the little girl before her was the evil fairy's daughter? "I'm a… tool?" It was not so much said as asked, Jane saw Maleficent shake her head and make a tsk-ing sound, "No my daughter," So she was her mother, "you are not."
Mal blinks, "Then I'm a… minion?" The evil fairy grins wickedly, "For now, but don't worry I have every confidence in your ability to prove yourself more useful in the future."
"I'll-I'll do my best."
"No, no my dear it's your worst that I'll be looking for."
"Then that's what I'll do."
"Smart girl." Once again, she pats the girls head but it's in no way affectionate it's something meant to be degrading and even in the eyes of the good fairy's daughter, she can see that.
The Isle was awful it didn't just keep villains inside it created them too.
Villains like Jay who had to steal for his father and probably didn't really know any better.
Villains like Mal who would do or say whatever her mother asked because isn't that what a good daughter should do?
And finally, herself she didn't think that she was evil, but she did steal food because she was hungry, she helped Jay steal again because he'd asked her to and now getting lessons from Maleficent could only mean one thing… she was going to do something bad again.
How many bad things could a person do before they became evil?
How long before she became evil?
She didn't want to, but would that be enough to stop it?
Jane didn't know but the future well and truly scared her.
Author's Note: I rearranged events so some things that I wrote/planned out for this chapter, so they will happen next time and we're really close to Carlos first appearance now!