Author's Note: I should warn you. There is a mention of abuse in this chapter. It is brief and doesn't go into much detail but as I know some people don't like reading things like this I thought I would warn you all before you start reading.

Mal's POV.

"Morning Mal." Ben greeted me as I walked out of the bathroom. I had tried no be quiet and even got changed in the bathroom in an attempt to not wake Ben up. Apparently I shouldn't have bothered.

"Morning, sorry for waking you." I apologized to him. It was still early and I wanted him to sleep in. He hasn't been sleeping properly for days now and he needed to catch up a little.

"It's okay." He told me. I couldn't help but smile at him as I leant over the bed to kiss him good morning. "Got any plans for today?" He asked me.

That wasn't exactly a hard question. "Not really." It was then a thought came into my head. "Ben, is there somewhere in Auradon that keeps birth records from the Isle?"

A look of confusion crossed his face. "Yeah, why?" Ben asked.

"Erm... Well none of us actually know when our birthdays are." I admitted to him. The look of confusion quickly turned to a look of shock. I actually had to look away from him at that point. I couldn't bare to look at him.

"You guys don't even know when your birthdays are?" He asked the disbelief clear in his voice. I just shook my head in response to him. I couldn't even look over to him when I felt the bed move. It wasn't until a few minutes later when I felt him gently grab my hand and pull me into a standing position that I eventually looked up. I didn't even try and hide the embarrassed yet questioning look on my face. "Come on. We're going to go and find out your birthdays." He told me.

After a few seconds Ben began leading me from his bedroom. We walked downstairs and down a few corridors until we came to Belle's study again. Ben didn't bother knocking her just walked straight in gently pulling me with him. Belle quickly turned to face the door and smiled when she saw us. "Shouldn't you two still be in bed?" She asked. Yeah right. Like either of us could sleep in even if we tried.

"Mom, do we still have the birth certificates from the Isle?" Ben asked, completely ignoring his mothers question.

"Of course, they're in the filling room attached to the council meeting room. Why do you need them?" Belle asked as she looked curiously at the pair of us.

"Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos have no idea when their birthdays are." Ben stated to her. The look that settled on her face was difficult to place. It was somewhere between upset, shock and, something I never thought I would see from Belle, anger.

"Come on then. I will help you look." She stated as she walked towards us. I dropped my gaze to the floor as she neared us. This was seriously embarrassing. We never thought of these things as a big deal until we came to Auradon. Back on the Isle it wasn't deemed important. Besides with Maleficent ruling the Isle it's not like you could have a birthday party anyway, go ballistic at you if you so much as mention the possibility of a party.

Within a few minutes we were in a part of the castle I didn't recognise. Belle took out a key and unlocked the door in front of us. As we walked in I noticed various filling cabinets and bookshelves full of papers and books. "I know those..." Belle said as she pointed to a selection of filing cabinets in the corner of the room. "Contain files from the Isle but I don't know how they're organised." She told us.

"Okay so we go through one each until we find them?" Ben asked us. Both me and Belle nodded to him as I moved towards the filling cabinet furthest away from the door. Since we were some of the oldest children on the Isle I figured it would be a good place to start.

It wasn't long before I found a box at the bottom of the top drawer. I brushed the dust off the label to find it read: Maleficent. Interesting. For some reason she has her own box. I sat myself on the floor and began looking through it. There were various papers in there ranging from when she was young to her crime and court case. I scanned through some of the court case papers and it wasn't hard to deduce even then she was pleased with what she had done and showed no remorse for it. Underneath those papers I found my birth certificate. As I assumed it didn't have my father's name on it but I really wasn't expecting it to. Birthday: 4 November. Looks like I turn 17 tomorrow.

"Found something Mal?" Ben asked me. I just nodded to him as he walked over. His action even caused Belle to stop looking. I handed Ben my birth certificate so he could see it. "Your birthday is tomorrow? Mom we will have to put something together. Like a party or something." Ben began to ramble on to Belle who was agreeing with him.

"Guys, please." I said finally stopping their plans. I really didn't want a fuss to be made. Even knowing my birthday was weird right now. Let's not go straight to celebrating it with some huge party. "I don't want any party or any kind of fuss. I just want it to be like a normal day. Please?" I was practically begging them right now but I didn't care. This brought up way too many memories and it was too much.

They realised my tone but wouldn't agree not to plan anything. "How about we find the others birth certificates then talk about this later, yeah?" Belle asked. I nodded. That seemed fairly reasonable to me although I highly doubted they would treat it like a normal day. But hey, they may surprise me.

"Can I keep this?" I asked them as Ben handed me my birth certificate back.

"Of course you can, Mal. It's yours." Belle stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world. As I moved to put the papers back in the box I noticed another birth certificate there.

"Belle, why is there two in here?" I questioned. It seemed weird for them to keep two of the same piece of paper.

"Well, two are written out so the mother can keep one." Belle said, quietly. Wow. I didn't even mean enough to Maleficent for her to keep a god damn piece of paper. I nodded my head but that was the only response they got from me. It was a little depressing to think about. I quickly began to look for my siblings birth certificates and quickly found Evie's although I struggled to find Carlos' and Jay's.

"Found Carlos's birth certificate." Belle said, holding a piece of paper similar to the two I had next to me. It was then Ben pulled out a piece of paper as well.

"I have Jay's. So we just need Evie's?" He asked. It was then I shook my head and pointed to hers which was on the floor next to mine. "Jay's birthday is 6th September. He's already 17. When is Carlos' birthday?" he asked Belle who quickly scanned the paper.

"His is 1st July. He turns 16 then." She said. "Evie's?" She asked me.

"Hers is the 21st March." I told them. "Are you sure were okay to keep these?" I asked Belle again to double check.

"It's absolutely fine." She stated. "Let's go get some breakfast." It was then Ben stepped towards me and helped me up off the floor. Usually I would find it annoying but for some reason today I didn't mind. I guess I'm finally getting used to his over protective side showing not that I'm pregnant. I mean he's always been protective but he's taken it a lot further the past few weeks. I guess for now I just have to learn to live with it.

Shortly after we were sat in the dining room with Adam having just finished breakfast. Adam had a similar reaction to Belle at the news we didn't know when our birthdays are but now that we had all finished eating Ben brought up a very uncomfortable topic. "Mal? Why won't you let us throw you a party tomorrow?" He asked. You could tell he was just curious but the thought of a birthday party terrified me. Sure I had attended plenty of other parties (obviously including our engagement ball last night) but I had avoided birthday parties at all costs.

I couldn't help but sigh at his question. I couldn't bare to lie to him. With everything he had done for me he deserved to know the truth. I tried to forget Belle and Adam were in the room to make it a little easier for me to talk to Ben and it started to work. "Do you remember the scars on my lower back?" I asked him, my voice trembling. He nodded clearly a little unsure of where I was going with this. "Even though I didn't know when my birthday was I figured we could have one any day. Those scars where her reply to me." I admitted looking down at the table.

It was then I remembered we weren't alone. Belle couldn't help the gasp that came from her and I had no idea of what Ben and Adam thought, since I refused to look up from the table, although I distinctly heard two growls. I couldn't help the tears that escaped my eyes. I could feel the tension coming from Ben but strangely it felt good to tell them. The only other person who knew about the scars and how they were caused was Evie. I actually felt relieved I didn't have to lie to Ben about them anymore.

I leant towards Ben since he was the only one in reach. Belle was sat opposite us while Adam was sat to my right, at the head of the table. How I ended up next to him I have no idea but Ben figured out straight away I was looking for a little comfort and reached over, pulling me into a hug. He shuffled his chair a little closer so I didn't fall off mine and held me as tight as he could. As he did this though my vest top rode up my back a little revealing some of my scars. Adam noticed straight away and another growl sounded around the room. "What did she..?" He started to say but I quickly cut him off.

It didn't take a genius to figure out what he wanted to say so I just answered before I lost my nerve. "A rusty fork." I muttered. I said it as quiet as I could yet it was still heard by all around the room. I still couldn't look at any of them. I couldn't stand to see them looking at me differently.

"How could she do that!" Adam growled out. The tone of his voice actually made me flinch.

"Adam, calm down. You scaring Mal more then she already is." Belle told him. You could tell by her voice she was tearing up.

Adam however let his temper get the better of him like I could tell Ben would soon. "Calm down! How can I calm down after finding this out. Maleficent better hope I don't find her anytime soon for what she did to our daughter!"

Wait! What did he just call me!?I thought. Did I just hear that right!? Did he actually just call me his daughter!? "Adam, she is my daughter as well but getting mad wont help the situation or Mal, will it?" Belle informed him.

Okay now I know I'm imagining this. There's no way they both just called me their daughter. I looked up at this and glanced at Adam and Belle before I looked at Ben. The proud loving smile on his face was all I needed to see to know I hadn't imagined them saying it. I could tell Ben was absolutely fuming. I just had to look in his eyes to see that but he was trying to keep himself calm.

"How about we plan some of this wedding that is happening in a little over a month?" Belle asked me and Ben. I was grateful she was trying to change the topic to something happier. I couldn't handle much more talk about my past right now.

"Me and dad have some paperwork we need to sort through." Ben told us. Regret clear in his voice. "Although we have set a date." He told his mom, our mom. It would take some time but if they were going to willingly call me their daughter I'm sure I could get used to calling them my parents. Both Adam and Belle perked up a little bit at this. "We decided on the 30th of this month. It's the last Sunday of the month."

"Well we better get planning then." Belle told us, smiling. Adam just smiled fondly at us before he stood up and looked to Ben obviously waiting for him to go with him. I smiled at Ben before I moved out of his hold.

"See you soon." I told him, before I quickly kissed him. He stood and followed his dad, our dad out of the room.

I looked back to Belle to find her already looking at me. "How's about we go and talk dress designs with Evie?" She asked me. I nodded as we stood.

She picked her phone up off the table and was typing out a text before I spoke. "I can transport us if you like?" I said. I really wasn't sure if she would mind or not which is why I asked.

"Oh, I was going to ask you to take us anyway. I was just texting the boys so they don't worry." She told me. I couldn't help but smile. Somehow she was always a step ahead of me. I picked up the pile of birth certificates in my right hand and took Belle outstretched hand in my left one before transported us to school.

A few seconds later we were in Evie's dorm. After a quick scan of the room we found Evie sat at her sewing machine with her headphones in, completely oblivious to the fact we were there. I walked up to Evie and tapped her on the shoulder. She quickly jumped up pulling her headphones put of her ears and pushing whatever she was working on underneath some books.

"Oh Mal, it's you." She said as she hugged me. It was as she hugged me she spotted Belle behind me. "Hi Belle." She greeted.

"Hello Evie. I hope you don't mind us dropping by?" She asked. Evie just shook her head as her response. "We were hoping to talk about Mal's wedding dress with you." Evie practically skipped to her bedside table and picked up a sketch pad. While she flipped through the pages trying to find something I noticed a small piece of brown fabric sticking out from under the books. I couldn't help but smile as I pulled out the most adorable onesie I could ever imagine. It was like a little beast outfit and was so cute.

"What's this?" I asked my sister. Gaining both her and my mom's attention.

Evie actually blushed seeing the small onesie in my hand. "You weren't supposed to see that." She said. I just raised an eyebrow which caused her to go into the wardrobe and pull out a small bag. "It goes with this one." She said, handing me the bag. I passed the onesie to mom who couldn't believe how cute it was and pulled another one out of the bag. This one however was a dragon onesie.

"They're amazing Evie. When did you start making these?" I asked as I showed Belle, my mom the dragon onesie. They were great.

"I started them last week. I hope you don't mind. I just wanted you to have something unique for the babies." She explained.

"Of course I don't mind Evie. Our babies will be the most well dressed babies in Auradon with you making their clothes." I told he. The tone of my voice telling her I wasn't going to argue about this. "I see you have an idea for my dress?" I asked as I put the two onesie's on the table. Since she went straight for a sketch pad I knew she had designed something I just wanted her to talk about something other then the onesie's. Don't get me wrong I was extremely happy she was making outfits for the babies but I knew she would start knit-picking at them if we talked about them.

"Of course I have." She stated like it was a ridiculous notion for her to now have a design. "This is your wedding dress design." She told us as she turned the sketch pad around. I had to say the dress would be beautiful. Not a style I would normally wear but I trusted Evie wholeheartedly and it included both our colours like my dress from last night. I nodded to her silently telling her I loved it.

"The only thing I have about it is the veil." Belle told Evie. My mom told Evie. I was starting to annoy myself now. I have called her my mom before without meaning to yet now I meant to call her it I kept calling her Belle. Both me and Evie looked to her wondering why she had an issue with it. "It's just Mal will be having her coronation right after their vows and it will be a bit of a pain taking off her veil first." She explained. Okay that made sense. Even Evie got a look of understanding across her face. Picking up the nearest pencil she crossed out the veil before turning the pad back towards us.

"This is the idea I had for the bridesmaids dresses." She said as she turned the page. Those dresses were just as beautiful. Floor length purple dresses with a blue sash around the waist. The girls would look stunning. We both nodded to her this time. Neither of us finding anything wrong with the designs. Then she turned the page again and explained they were the suits for Ben, Adam, Doug, Jay, Carlos and Aziz. They were similar to Ben's coronation suit except instead of having a gold rim it was purple. Except for Adam's his would be yellow with Belle's dress probably being yellow. Again we nodded until mom spoke again.

"I have a question for you Evie." Evie looked sceptically at mom before Evie nodded for her to continue. "Would you make my dress for me? Of course I would like it in yellow though." I looked back to my stunned sister. She couldn't believe what mom had asked her. That was clearly written on her face.

Evie quickly recovered though. "Of course. I would be honoured." She said. The happiness she felt came oozing out in her voice.

"Also when you go fabric shopping please let myself or Adam know. We will be giving you the money for the fabrics you need." She told Evie. Wow! Mom was firm when she got an idea in her head wasn't she? Again Evie nodded. It was then I remembered the papers in my hand.

"Oh E, I almost forgot. Here." I said as I handed my sister the one with her name on it.

"My birth certificate. How did you get this?" She questioned me.

"Turns out they were in the castle the entire time. Ben and mom helped me find them this morning. I have the boys' as well." The fact I called Belle my mom wasn't missed by either of them. Belle just looked beyond pleased but Evie had a questioning face, obviously wondering when this started. Since I didn't fancy having this conversation in front of Belle I just gave Evie my 'I'll talk to you later' look. She seemed happy with this and the conversation turned to other things as we waited for the boys to drag themselves out of bed. Honestly, trying to get them out of bed when they had a day off school was like trying to get a wall to talk. It just didn't happen.

The boys had a similar reaction to Evie when I gave them their birth certificates but mostly they were just happy to know when their birthdays were. It had always been a sore spot for us that our parents either didn't remember when we were born or they just didn't care. Me and mom spent a fair few hours with my siblings. We went back to the castle mid afternoon. Mom went to her library and I told her I would meet her there as I was hungry.

"There's a plate of strawberry cookies in the fridge. I made them for you yesterday." She called to me before she entered her library. I walked quickly to the kitchen eager to have some of the cookies but stopped when I got there. The kitchen was empty apart from Ben sat at the island.

"Hey Ben." I greeted him as I walked to the fridge, pulling out the plate which was piled high with cookies.

"Hi Mal, get a lot planned today?" he asked me, genuinely curious.

"Not really spent most of the day with Evie, Jay and Carlos. But the dresses and suits are designed." I informed him. I know he felt bad since he felt like he wasn't really helping to plan the wedding but mom was helping loads.

"Hungry?" He joked once he noticed the cookie plate in my hands.

"I always am lately. Beside mom made these for me." I told him before I realised what I'd said. It's the first time I've called Belle my mom to him. A smile broke out on his face but I had to be sure he didn't mind. "You don't mind me calling your mom my mom do you?"

"Course not. She's as much your mom as she is mine now." He told me. I smiled back at him. "Mal I know you don't want a fuss made tomorrow so how about a nice family dinner instead of a party?" He asked. I nodded to him. I family dinner didn't seem so bad. "You do know that you will probably have a party next year though right? Since you will be queen people will expect it. It's okay if you really don't want it. I will understand but.."

"Ben, we will sort that when the time comes okay? Besides I might be okay with the idea by then." I told him. It was true. There was no point planning something this far in advance since plans change all the time. We smiled at each other and shared a kiss before I took the plate and went to the library. Honestly right now I don't think I've ever felt happier.

Author's note: I hope you like this chapter. I hope to have the next chapter up in a couple of days. Since I no longer have a lot of college work I have got back into a good writing flow. The group will now be having some well earned stress free time for a while. Please review and let me know what you think :) x