Descendants 6
Chapter 6
Episode 3b
In the basement of the hospital, Lena had just sneaked in to join Melody who was stuck behind the corner.
"Did you find her?" Lena asked.
"Does it look like I found her?" Melody said. "I don't know how to get passed that nurse."
Lena sighed and looked at the nurse.
"What is your plan now?" Melody asked, irritated.
Lena glared at her, annoyed and then told her their plan.
The two girls walked side be side towards the desk where a stern looking nurse sat behind. Lena hand her hand behind her back.
"Hello nurse," Lena said cheerfully, "I'm a volunteer here and I was told to give these to the patients down here," she held out a plastic sleeve of cookies.
"I'll take those." Nurse Ratchet said.
"But I was told to give these to them, directly." Lena said.
"I can't let you do that. Volunteer or not. Only I can give these inmates any kind of food." The nurse said.
Melody cried, "But-"
"I understand," Lena said, handing the nurse the cookies. Lena put her arm around Melody and they turned to leave.
The nurse looked at the cookies and took one. She took a bite and said, "huh," and took another bite.
"What was the point of that?" Melody asked as they walked away.
Then they heard a thud.
Back at the loft, Maryanne had just got caught by August for breaking in.
"What are you doing here?" He asked her in the middle of the room.
Maryanne was standing across from him. She looked incredibly guilty and nervous.
August folded his arms, "You know the sheriff lives here?"
Maryanne looked at the curtains with her eyes.
"If you don't start talking soon, David is come walking through that door with his wife and son. Then you'll have to explain yourself to all of them." August added.
"I'm not a villain!" Maryanne blurted.
August lowered his arms. "So what were you doing here? Looking for booby traps?"
"Whatever you're thinning, you're wrong." She said. "Not all visitors are bad. Elsa was good and she was a stranger."
August said, "Rumpelstiltskin knew her, or if her. He knew her sister. No one here knows you. I know the book. I've never seen you in it."
"Peasant."
"Peasants don't break in. Peasants don't have a tale that gets told. They fade in the background."
"Isn't there an absurd play about two random characters from Shakespeare?" She asked rhetorically.
"How do you know about Shakespeare?"
"Everyone does. There's a whole section for his plays in the library." Maryanne said.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
Maryanne glanced over at the curtains.
August noticed and looked over there. "Is someone else here?" He went over towards the curtains.
"No, no," she said.
August looked behind the curtains and Maryanne tensed up and closed her eyes.
Back at the hospital basement, Lena and Melody turned around and saw the nurse passes out on the desk with a cookie in hand.
Lena smiled and picked up the cookies, including the one in the nurse's hand and looked at Melody.
"Now we're in trouble," Melody said.
"She won't remember we were even here," Lena said grabbing the key ring off of the nurse.
"How long will she be out?" Melody asked.
"About two hours. Two bites two hours. So we better not waste time," Lena said.
They unlocked the first door and entered a dull hallway. The room was all gray and there was a man with a sullen face mopping the floor.
They started walking down the hallway and checked the names on the doors. Sydney Glass, Isaac Heller, George. Some of the rooms were empty.
Lena pointed to the name George, "Lyra's never met him."
"Okay?" Melody said.
"Nevermind." Lena said.
They got to the end of the hallway when they found who they were looking for.
"We got her," Lena said pointing to the label that read: M. Zelena.
Meanwhile at the loft, August had just pulled the curtains where Lyra had his. Maryanne prepared for the worst.
"Huh. You're alone after all," August said.
Maryanne opened her eyes and saw for herself. She took a step to the left and looked surprised.
August turned back to Maryanne and repeated, "What are you doing here?"
Maryanne sighed and whined.
Lyra was back in room 404 and called out for the others. She looked around and could tell they've been gone all day. She left the room again in a hurry.
Lena and Melody entered Zelena's room and closed the door behind them.
"Who are you?" Zelena asked looking confused.
Lena smirked at Zelena and said, "We'll be the one's acting questions here." She looked up and down Zelena in disapproval. From her clothes to her belly. Zelena was about 8 months along. "You a despicable woman."
"I though you were going to be asking questions." Zelena shrugged.
"Nothing gets to you, does it? You should be in a real prison and have no contact with that thing inside you." Lena said.
Melody looked over to her, "Lena."
"Why did you do it? To get back at your sister? You got knocked up to get back at someone!? Wait until your in labor hon." Lena said.
Zelena looked at Lena. "Regina? Is that you in disguise?"
"No!" Lena said.
"Well I must say this has been entertaining. It's not very often I have guests over who aren't my sister." Zelena said.
"Oh I'm not done," Lena got closer to Zelena.
As Lena continued to lecture her, Zelena cut her off and said, "You look familiar. Did I curse your father many years ago? In Oz?"
"There is no getting through to you. You have no remorse over what you've done." Lena said.
Melody pulled Lena and whispered in her ear, "What does this have to do with the mission?"
Lena pulled away and looked at Zelena.
Melody looked in Lena's bag and grabbed something. She lunged towards Zelena and said, "cookie?"
Zelena took the cookie and smiled, "My first sweet in weeks. You know I've have the most ridiculous cravings, none of which I've had met. I only get healthy food which is not healthy for the baby."
Lena gagged when Zelena said "baby."
Zelena took a bite out of the cookie and asked, "Can I have another?"
Melody handed her anther. Her arm was reached out for the cookie but her arm fell. She was out.
Lena looked mad as she watched Zelena sleeping.
"Are we done here?" Melody asked, after picking up the cookies.
"Not yet. But for today, yes." Lena said .
August was still waiting on Maryanne to answer him at the loft. The only excuse she could come up with that didn't make her heart race was the truth.
"August, My name is Maryanne and I have a story for you. I guess it all starts with Operation Falcon." She continued to tell him everything about the operation.
Across town, Lily and Maleficent had dinner inside their room at the motel together but Lily was distracted, picking at her food.
"What's wrong?" Maleficent asked her daughter.
Lily put her fork down. "Mom, I have to tell you something."
Maleficent stopped eating and looked at her. "I'm listening."
"I'm not child anymore. I-I have been seeing someone." Lily said.
"August," Maleficent said.
"How did you know?"
"I'm your mother. I know you. And I heard you leaving at night a few times."
Lily smiled. "So you're okay with me dating?"
"Of course, but if we make plans, you better not cancel because suddenly he wants to go on a motorcycle ride."
Lily rolled her eyes. "He has two helmets."
"You've ridden on that contraption?"
Lily smiled as she shook her head.
"And I want to meet him, properly." Maleficent added.
"Okay." Lily said, "how about tomorrow?"
"This all happening so fast."
"Mom." Lily said and then the two laughed together.
The four new arrivals were back in their room that night, tired.
"So you found Zelena," Lyra said.
"Yeah," Lena said, "Sorry it took all day. I guess tomorrow you two can have the whole day out there."
"Yeah," Maryanne agreed, sitting on the bed in her nightgown. The others were standing around the room in their day clothes.
"So were half way there?" Melody thought.
"No. Now we have to wait ten more days and until then, find a way home." Lena said.
"That should be easy." Lyra said.
"This isn't like going to Narnia or wherever you guys have been," Lena said. "We can't use certain objects. Our portal here was one of a kind. Without it..."
"We'll find a way," Lyra said. She looked at Melody. "We're all going home after this is over."
Maryanne got up and walked over to the coffee table where the remote was. She picked up the remote, pressing the "on" button. "How about a movie to end out day?"
The other three joined her at the sofa, crowding together. They scrolled trough the channels until they saw something of interest. They were united for a change.
"Woah," Melody said to Lena, "You have your own movie."