Disclaimer: I do not own Descendants
"Mirror, Mirror in my hand, where does my friend Jay stand?" Evie said. It was the next morning and the group was gathered around waiting for Evie to use the mirror and find Jay. Hopefully, Carlos would be with him. The mirror cleared to show Jay looking miserable, he was with his father who appeared to be babbling on incessantly without a care in the world. He was surrounded by lamps, something that likely made him very happy. "Magic Mirror, a little further out." Evie asked. The mirror zoomed out just enough to show that Jay was near the school and would be easy to find but not easy to get too, while there were no guards there was Jafar to deal with and since they were no longer on the Isle, that meant he had his sorcery powers again. He would be hard to get around. With that in mind, they decided that it would be best if only one of them went in to the shop and in disguise. Mal would go because she could show Jay her eyes and prove that it was her. Lonnie went with Mal to the shop though she didn't go all the way in, she wanted Mal to have some back-up. On the way, there the girls talked.
"Why do you trust us? We have given you no reason to." Mal asked Lonnie. Lonnie thought for a moment before answering.
"I guess the simple answer is, as far as I have seen you haven't done anything truly wrong. The biggest grievance, the one that the whole school turned your backs on you for, was in self-defense. Evie used that perfume to knock Chad out because he was verbally attacking you. He has always been the least kind of us AK's. And in a way, at least in the beginning, I felt bad for you all, you didn't grow up the same way I did and as I said then I thought that even villains loved their kids, when I turned out to be wrong I decided that no matter what happened I would always show kindness towards all of you." Lonnie explained. Mal was stunned, here was this girl who she had barely known for two weeks, that wanted to show them kindness regardless of their actions.
"Thank you, Lonnie. That really means a lot to me." Mal said. They spent the rest of the walk talking about Lonnie's childhood and the little that Mal was willing to share of her childhood, including how she met Evie, Jay, and Carlos. All too soon they were in front of the shop.
"Are you ready?" Lonnie asked. Mal nodded and quickly glamoured herself. Once inside the shop she walked up to Jay.
"How can I help you?" He asked with a clearly forced smile.
"You can meet me back here later tonight." Mal whispered, at Jay's questioning glance she made her eyes glow green. Jay immediately nodded. Seeing his father out of the corner of his eye he quickly spoke up.
"For the last time lady, we do not sell cauldrons, only lamps." He said. Knowing that she needed to act like a villain Mal tried to put as much malice in her voice as possible.
"Fine then. I'll take my business elsewhere." She huffed and stormed out of the store. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Jafar nod in approval. Once outside she met up with Lonnie and motioned with her head that they should leave. Once under the cover of the forest Mal removed her glamour.
"He's meeting us tonight. Let's let the group know and then decide who is coming back here to help him escape. I don't think there should be more than three of us, it will be harder to escape if we get in trouble that way." Mal said. Lonnie nodded, she was right the smaller the group the easier the escape. They returned to the cave and told their friends the news. IT was quickly decided that Evie and Jordan should stay behind. If they were to get captured the group would need Jordan's magic and Evie's mirror. Mal and Lonnie would go and they ended up deciding to bring Jane who could come in handy with the few defense spells that Mal had taught her. They left at dusk and made it to the tree outside the shop a few hours later. Jay came running up quickly after that.
"I told my dad I left something important at the shop, he won't come looking for me for a while now." He said.
"Prove to me that you are Jay. Tell me something that only Jay and I know." Mal said, wanting to make sure that it truly was Jay.
"When we first came to Auradon, you came to my room and saw everything that I had taken that day and asked me what I was doing. I told you that it was called stealing and when you asked me what the point was I said that it was like buying things except it was free." Jay said. Mal nodded, knowing for sure now that it was Jay. At her nod, the group took off not wanting to create any trouble. They made it to the forest and eventually to the cave without any trouble.
"Jay!" Evie cried as he came into view. Jay smiled, a genuine one, likely his first in days.
"Evie." He said as he hugged her. Jay then shook hands with Ben, and nodded to the rest of the group.
"Where's Carlos?" He asked. Mal and Evie looked at each other.
"We haven't found him yet." Mal admitted.
"We were kind of hoping he would be with you. All of the AK's were together, except Doug, so we assumed you two would be together." Evie said. Jay shook his head.
"No, I haven't seen him since our attempt to stop Maleficent at the coronation." He said.
"We will look for him in the morning, right now we all need to get some sleep." Ben said. The group nodded at this and assumed the same watch schedule as last night, telling Jay that he was free to join in on whichever watch he wanted.