#descendantsaudrey

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

His Captain

Summary:  Surrounding Harry's feelings after Uma rejected his kiss at the party after the barrier was brought down. Huma or Uma x Harry and some Audrey thrown in with her surprisingly insightful advice. This is kind of sort of a prequel to "Keep Your Enemies Closer" and "Girls' Trip." However, it isn't required to make sense of the other two.

  Harry spun Audrey around, grinning wildly at her, and pretending not to notice Jay’s insistent glare on his back as he danced with her. She was pretty enough, but she couldn’t really erase his underlying feelings about the rejection he had just endured from Uma.

  He glanced over at his captain, watching her as she shimmied beside Gil and humored his silliness for a moment. Harry could see the fondness on her face as she rolled her eyes at the goofball, ruffling his hair out of its strangely and obviously quite temporarily perfect state.

  He felt whatever happiness he had in his chest drop a little further as he considered what had happened just earlier. It was a sad state of affairs. The entire thing was.

  “You’re a great dancer, Hooky,” Audrey teased, and he could easily see that she wasn’t feeling quite as enthusiastic as she should’ve been given that everything was going so swimmingly. It was quite apparent that she was keeping a firm façade to cover her true feelings. It was as fake as anything he had ever witnessed. He could tell that she had a lot of practice at it, but it was effortlessly identifiable to someone who had endured as much pain as Harry Hook had in the past.

  “Ye aren’t so bad yerself, Princess,” Harry flirted with her mindlessly, shooting another look in Uma’s direction as he tried to appear enthusiastic about dancing with Audrey.

  Audrey studied him for a moment as they skipped around one another, and he forced that charming grin on his face in hopes that she would swoon and completely forget whatever train of thought she was currently on.

  Disappointingly for Harry, it only brought a slight smile to her face that most certainly didn’t meet her eyes and she sighed slightly as she slowed a bit in their dance. It unnerved him to see her calm coolness and what seemed to be understanding of what he was feeling.

  Harry Hook did not do emotions. Everyone knew that he was a flirt that never cared anything about anybody. The only thing he was loyal to was Uma, her ship, and the promise of trouble.

  But that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

  “You love her, don’t you?” Audrey asked him, and he was shocked at her intuitiveness. He quickly tried to think of something that was witty and would deflect her attention from his deeper feelings but she shook her head at him. She seemed to be able to read him like a book, and it scared him out of his mind.

  “I’ve been after someone that I couldn’t have before,” Audrey confessed, and Harry watched as the mask slipped for just a moment to expose the true turmoil that was lying just beneath the surface with this girl. Audrey looked over at Ben dancing with Mal, and Harry was surprised to see a small smile come upon her face.

  He knew that Ben getting engaged to Mal was the entire reason that she had went nuts not too long ago. But to see her actually appearing to approve of their relationship was absolutely amazing.

  “I didn’t stand a chance with him. But I should’ve seen it coming. I didn’t love him as a girlfriend should, after all,” Audrey solemnly confessed, and he sensed the need for her to tell this to someone that was almost suffering the same fate as her. He watched her carefully, soaking in her every word carefully.

  “He always was my sweet big brother,” Audrey continued, giggling a bit at the sight of Evie and Ben hip-bumping and acting crazy. After a moment of watching him, she looked back at Harry with a very serious expression.

  “I was clouded by the big picture of what I wanted and what others wanted for me. I wanted to be a girlfriend to someone, so I was willing to go with anyone.” Audrey looked pointedly at him and she knew that particular comment was sent at him for his choosing to dance with her over Uma. He grinned sheepishly, but his smile melted away quickly as he swallowed hard in an attempt to keep away whatever emotion that could show.

  Audrey sidestepped, keeping up their happy dancing despite both of their true moods. After a few moments, she paused, couples dancing happily all around them. Harry raised his gaze to look at the people. Audrey gazed with him, but she quickly returned her eyes to his own icy blue ones.

  “So I took the first thing that came at me, and didn’t stop to actually worry about what I wanted at that moment,” Audrey painfully admitted.

  Harry was sure that he caught sight of tears in her eyes, but she closed her eyes for a moment before smiling at him as she reopened them. She held his hand that was in her own tightly, squeezing it.

  “But the good part about you is that you do actually have a chance with her because you really do love her in that way. Don’t waste your time on other girls, Harry. You need to talk to her,” Audrey told him, and he watched as a tear slid down her cheek.

  He furrowed his brow, feeling her touch slipping from his hand as she backed away from him with a final look of sweet well-wishes thrown his way. She turned, and he watched until she had completely faded away, disappearing into the thickness of the crowd.

  Harry knew she had to be coping with her own demons right now surrounding what she had done under the scepter’s influence. He didn’t know very much about her, but that was something that was easy to assume. Affecting that many people had to leave one with serious guilt.

  He always said he wanted to hook someone and he always made a huge drama about not getting to do so, but the truth was that he never wanted to hook anyone if he didn’t have to. Harry never truly wanted to physically harm anyone.

  Now hurting someone’s pride was a totally different story, but he generally avoided that if he possibly could, at most jabbing roughly in the places where he knew he wouldn’t seriously wound anyone’s feelings.

  Harry was amazed at this Auradon girl that he never even knew before this huge conflict concerning her alter-ego. Audrey had successfully managed to dig deeply into his carefully guarded heart and had managed to unearth every emotion and hidden thought that he possessed.

  He didn’t feel anything for her beyond what was platonic, but he certainly had a certain admiration for her amazing abilities to understand him. Harry supposed it was probably because she had suffered a similar issue and she could recognize it inside of him as well.

  Harry was disrupted from his reverie when a couple came dangerously close to stepping on his feet. He stepped back, starting to leave the circle of dancers. He was nearly outside of them when a hand caught his wrist and yanked him so that he turned back to face the mystery person.

  His eyes widened as he recognized his captain standing before him. She had a highly displeased expression on her face as she eyed him carefully.

  “So, what kind of stunt were you pulling back there?” Uma cut to the chase, blunt as always. It was almost as much of a comfort to him as it was a curse. He wet his lips slightly.

  “Well, my cap’n, ‘twas jus’ a slip of the tongue. Or the lips as the case may be,” Harry told her with a big grin in an attempt to dispel any anger she might have had. However, to his complete shock, he almost thought she looked disappointed. However, whatever weakness that could have been showing at that moment quickly disappeared in favor of undisguised irritation.

  “No, not that, you moron. I’m talking about dancing with Hello Kitty,” Uma clarified, her gaze hardening as she stared him down.

  “Oh, she grabbed me, so I thought the gentlemanly thing to do would be to oblige,” Harry explained himself, finally allowing himself to look down at Uma’s hand that was still closed firmly around his arm.

  Uma followed his gaze and she ripped her hand away from him, stepping back just a bit. A twinge of disappointment took hold of the pirate as he watched her dust her hand off on the top of her dress.

  “Huh… Since when did you care about being gentlemanly?” Uma skeptically questioned when she finally looked back at him and Harry smiled at her slyly.

  “Since we’re living in Auradon,” Harry told her cheekily and Uma glared at him, but allowed a softer grin to come onto her face as she looked at Mal.

  Harry followed her gaze and couldn’t help but enjoy the sight of Mal who was currently making herself look like an idiot as she danced ridiculously with Evie. Mal was having some sort of a dab attack while Evie was jokingly doing the floss back at her before they both collapsed into giggles, hugging each other tightly.

  “And it’s all thanks to her,” Uma told him, a look that was so purely adoring that Harry couldn’t help but want to kiss her. He stepped a bit closer, but quickly shifted back into his original spot, his smile quickly fading as his and Uma’s incident came back to his mind.

  “Yeah,” he hesitantly agreed as he watched Mal kiss Ben who had sneaked up behind her. When it had went on for just a little too long, Jay came over and patted him hard on the back in a friendly warning about his little sister, despite the fact that they were going to be married soon. Harry couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at the other boy.

  Harry honestly wished that Uma would look at him in the same way that Mal did Ben. He wanted nothing more than for his captain to take the mate in first mate more seriously.

  “Thanks for standing by me, Harry. I couldn’t ask for a better guy by my side,” Uma told him sincerely, and he felt his heart jump just a bit with her particular phrasing. It was almost as if he were her guy, which would be an absolute dream come true.

  He hadn’t meant to, but he had fell completely and deeply in love with this girl and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it.

  She looked up at him with a big smile and with undisguised love in her gaze. He returned her look and wrapped an arm around her tightly. She leaned into him heavily, pressing her head against his chest.

  Harry knew that she didn’t experience the sort of love that he felt, but he was willing to take what he could from her.

  “I love you, you idiot,” Uma mumbled under her breath and he looked at her quickly, a little too quickly if her embarrassed expression was anything to go by. He knew she had to have meant it platonically, but to ensure that fact, he squeezed her tightly and replied with something lighthearted but barbed with a hidden test.

  “I’m glad ye think so highly of me as your first mate. I s’pose ye won’t be givin’ my position to Gil no time soon,” Harry told her, hoping she’d clarify her declaration. Uma rolled her eyes, reaching up and smacking him lightly on the back of the head.

  “Good grief, I’d never give it to Gil ‘cause he’s an even bigger moron than you are,” Uma said with a laugh, but the look that she flashed him after that statement conveyed that she didn’t mean it entirely.

  “Hi, you two,” Mal suddenly spoke to the both of them, materializing just behind them. Uma spun around with a big grin and Harry felt his heart warm with his captain’s happiness. He knew she was ecstatic to get back her long-lost partner in crime and best friend. He also knew Uma had always cared deeply about Mal despite the fact that Mal didn’t want anything to do with her after the drowning incident when they were children.

  “Hey, Dragon,” Uma teased, drawing Mal into an excited hug as Evie came up behind the both of them with a big grin. Evie smiled at Harry, and he raised an eyebrow at her flirtatiously. She just rolled her eyes good-naturedly and returned her gaze to Mal and Uma.

  “I trust that you are enjoying yourselves?” Mal asked them in a ridiculous voice as she attempted to look queenly. Uma faked a deep bow as she acted as if she were completely honored to be in Mal’s presence.

  “Indeed, my dearest Queen Boogerface,” Uma managed to keep a perfectly straight face as she addressed Mal. The faerie mischievously raised an eyebrow as she stared at Uma with mock contempt.

  “You will be locked away for that act of treason, you lowly peasant,” Mal waved her away, and they both laughed at Mal’s goofy voice.

  “Okay, but seriously, you get to dancing with your boyfriend, okay? This is a partay, seaweed-breath, not a ball,” Mal joked, winking at Uma as she glanced at Harry with a grin. Harry’s breath hitched at her comment about boyfriend, and he looked at the back of Uma’s head, eager to see how she would respond.

  “Yeah, yeah, sure thing. I’ll dance with him if it makes you feel any better,” Uma told her, rolling her eyes, and Harry couldn’t resist his heart’s excited jump at her subtle agreement with Harry’s status. But he did quickly reprimand himself, knowing that she was really just trying to avoid letting Mal win in their little battle of the wills.

  “It would indeed,” Mal trailed off, eyeing the two of them before clapping her hands twice.

  “As you were. But with dancing this time,” Mal faked yet another bow in the midst of her happy haze, and her and Evie strode off to enjoy more of the dancing and no doubt discuss Mal’s wedding that was sure to come in the not so distant future.

  Uma rolled her eyes at the purple-haired girl, but Harry saw the fondness in her gaze as she watched her leave. She then turned to Harry with a raise of her eyebrow.

  “Well, you wanna dance before she comes back with some smart comment?” Uma offered. Harry internally jumped at the opportunity, but he maintained his usual suave, unaffected demeanor as he wrapped an arm around her waist, dragging her into the fray of dancers.

  “T’would be me pleasure, Cap’n,” Harry agreed, feeling a little daring and kissing her hand just to see how she’d react. Uma’s eyes lit up in a strange emotion that fortunately for Harry was not anger or anything of the sort. He couldn’t exactly recognize it, but before he could consider it any further, she started moving as she copied the other pairs around them.

  “I don’t exactly know how I feel about this gentleman version of you. We’re off the Isle, but that doesn’t mean you gotta go and get a whole personality change,” Uma told him, her expression conveying her unimpressed emotions but her voice betraying a softer feeling.

  “It was always there. Maybe ye just didn’t see it up close,” Harry replied smartly, a grin on his face as he led her in the dance. She snorted and moved in just a little closer as they skipped about.

  A few minutes of silence passed as they danced together. To Harry’s utmost surprise, Uma pulled a completely unexpected move as she spun around him before landing back in front of him with a flourish. He grinned at her, admiring her new trick.

  “Bet Princess couldn’t do that, could she?” Uma remarked, and Harry hoped that he correctly noted what sounded like jealousy in her tone.

  “Nay, I’m sure she couldn’t have. After all, no one’s as great as me cap’n,” Harry expressed, and Uma grinned widely at him.

  He felt his heart soften at her happiness with everything here. Whatever she felt for him, he supposed it didn’t really matter in the end. She loved him in one way or another, and he loved her with all of his heart.

  After all, that was his captain.

[simwoman2002]

Breathless

  “Where’re you going, Princess?” Audrey immediately cut her eyes over at the thief that was currently leaned against the wall, a smirk on his face as he regarded her.

   “It’s none of your business, the last time I checked,” she retorted harshly, avoiding his gaze and continuing on her way with her nose high in the air. She was better than that. If anyone saw her conversing with this… VK, then she would be the laughingstock of Auradon Prep. The daughter of Princess Aurora consorting with the son of Jafar? Her reputation would be utterly ruined.

  It wasn’t that she didn’t think he was attractive. Anyone could easily notice that. It was a really good thing that she had a switch on her girliness. Otherwise, just a glance and a grin would melt her on the spot.

  But no. Princess Audrey of Auradon would never allow herself to sink to such a level. The entire school would make fun of her because of her initial reaction to the VK’s and that thought alone terrified her. Not fitting in scared Audrey. Not being loved by all who saw and met her terrified Audrey.

  Sure, Mal hating her didn’t really bother her that much, but Mal was the daughter of her mother’s villain, so it was appropriate that Audrey didn’t get along with Mal.

  Everyone else in the kingdom, however, was a very different story. The most important thing she had learned as a princess was to remain in good graces with the public, or they would spitefully ridicule and tear apart one’s heart before one’s very eyes.

  “Feeling feisty today, huh?” Oh, no. He was following her now, his handsomely muscled form keeping up with her easily. Well, at least no one was around to see them walking together.

  She allowed herself to barely look over at him and roam the expanse of his bare arm that was nearest to her. Audrey, to her own immense frustration, had earlier subtly took in the fact that he was wearing shorts and a tank top- a very unusual outfit for him. And she couldn’t help but admire the skin it exposed.

  Upon the realization that she was staring a little more than she should, she averted her gaze and huffed.

  “Don’t you have some other girl’s day to go ruin?” Audrey snapped, continuing on as she ignored the prickle of guilt that chipped the walls surrounding her carefully guarded heart. She couldn’t let herself feel for him. It would just make things harder. She wouldn’t be able to so effectively resist his advances and presence.

  “You wound me. I thought I was the highlight of your day. You’re certainly the highlight of mine,” Jay charmingly quipped, keeping his eyes on her face. Audrey firmly refused to look at him.

  “Honestly, I don’t know why you insist upon following me around every morning. It’s Saturday, you creep! Can’t you take a rest?!” Audrey demanded, keeping her gaze stubbornly focused in front of her.

  “Maybe you’re just pretty to watch,” he dared to remark. Audrey almost lost her cool with that particular line. She had to strongly push down that tiny frustrating flutter in her stomach in favor of the anger that she wanted to have in response to his audacity.

  “Leave me alone,” Audrey told him, attempting to effectively send him on his way.

  “Do you really want me to?” Jay asked her, maneuvering so he was in front of her and so that she was forced to stop. She kept her gaze locked on his shoulder so she wouldn’t have to see his face as she stepped around him.

  “Yes,” she replied immediately and automatically.

  He had been doing this for days. It drove her nuts- absolutely batty, in fact- for him to watch her as he did. It wasn’t like he was being creepy, but rather he was just annoying because she didn’t understand what he wanted with her. She had never given him the time of day.

  She could hear him drawing closer to her again, and Audrey immediately added something to her previous answer, knowing it would simultaneously make him mad and work for getting him to leave her alone.

  “I don’t want some lowlife following me around like a puppy,” Audrey continued cruelly. She couldn’t help but feel immediate remorse as well as slight panic and she was confused at herself. What was wrong with her? Did she not want him to stop? That was what she had been aiming for ever since he started.

  However, to her surprise, it didn’t ward him away as she expected, but he instead pushed his body- that very muscular, toned body, a betraying part of her mind piped up- into her own smaller frame so that she was against the wall. He had simply shoved her so that she was leaning into it. At this moment, his torso was not touching her own at all.

  Just as soon as she had regained her train of thought, she began to move away. But before she could successfully go through with that plan, Jay snatched her arm and pushed it against the wall quickly following with his face leaning closer to hers.

  Audrey’s heart was racing, and a boiling pot of both anger and something else that she wasn’t going to acknowledge was lighting in her stomach. He hadn’t ever touched her before, much less like this. It was simultaneously turning her on and putting her off. She didn’t dare gauge how big of a part that each of those took up inside of her because she was a little afraid of what the answer might be, considering the fact that it was the really hot star Tourney player.

  She always had been a sucker for Tourney players. Must have been the cheerleader inside of her. But it was Jay himself, too. That smirk was enough to make any girl weak in the knees.

  Audrey finally managed to work up the malice that she had left in her body as she started into her angry rant.

  “Let me go right now, you dirty bru-mmph!” And then he was kissing her soundly and she squeaked, too taken off-guard to really do anything about it. His hand was gently gripping her waist with the other one still pinning her wrist against the wall. Her skin was a burning inferno wherever his skin was against her own. Even where his hand was touching the fabric of her dress, she still was getting electric shocks rapidly tingling up her spine.

  It was one of those toe-curling kisses that were always so famously detailed in great literature and movies. Audrey had kissed several different boys, but none left her so defenseless and so disarmed from one touch.

  Just as she found herself somewhere between yanking him closer to deepen the kiss and shoving him away with a slap, Jay pulled away. Audrey gaped at him blankly, staring into his intense gaze. His eyes left her completely speechless and sent all of her conscious thoughts into a black hole so that her instincts were the only things that could control her. She knew what her instincts were telling her, though, and she couldn’t altogether remember why she hadn’t tried this- tried him- earlier.

  But before she knew it, with that burningly attractive grin, he left her there by herself to cope with the aftershock of the contact. She stared at his back as he left, mindlessly appreciating the way his muscles in his arms and legs flexed when he moved. Her eyes wanted to linger elsewhere, but she had enough control over herself to just barely avoid that, despite the fact that she couldn’t avoid her own imagination running wild with all of the things that she could do to him right now. Like shove him against a wall and return the favor.

  Her knees trembled weakly as she leaned hard against the wall for support. Her heart raced, her chest almost throbbing with the speed it was currently moving. Her now-swollen lips were pulsating and tingling tenderly as deep, heavy puffs of breath passed through the parted area between them. Jay certainly wasn’t a gentle kisser, which she could appreciate. And as a direct result of that, she felt her stomach flopping over and over in a constant roll of anticipation and giddiness combined in one happy puddle of goo.

  She wasn’t fully herself. Audrey felt corrupted, like she had done something wrong. But it was a delicious sort of wickedness. Like snatching a cookie from the jar just before dinner.

  In fact, in that moment, she wasn’t a princess whose every move was constantly criticized and carefully calculated. She wasn’t one of the up-and-coming role models for the entirety of the kingdom to admire and copy. Right now, she wasn’t really even Audrey because her brain hadn’t flown back from wherever it had decided to vacation to.

  She was just a girl. A girl who had just happened to have been kissed senseless by what was most assuredly the hottest guy in the entire school.

  She hesitantly touched her lips, feeling a new bout of unfamiliar excitement rise up in her again as her lips were hyper-sensitive after the sudden but not so entirely unwelcome intrusion. This excitement was a very unfamiliar sensation to Audrey.

  For the first time, she actually felt a spark of enticement for a guy. And worst of all, it was the one she was not supposed to have.

  But she guessed that was the thrill of it. After all, every princess had her strike of misbehavior. Now Audrey just had to decide if she would pursue that misbehavior and make it a full-blown offense, or if she would stand by and let the opportunity pass her.

  As her senses returned to her slowly, Audrey forced herself to stand straight and muster all of the dignity she had as she headed for the restrooms to check her makeup. Two things occurred to her as she made the walk to the mirrors of the girls’ room. Number one was that absolutely no one could see her in this dazed state. Number two was that Jay had just stolen a kiss from her without her permission.

  However, one thing was certain- Princess Audrey of Auradon did not let anyone get away with robbing something from her. She would get her kiss back one way or another.

  ……………………………………………………………………………………………

    After what felt like forever, Audrey finally found him in the hangout room that the Tourney players used to wind down in after a big game. It had taken her forever.

  Audrey had been looking for the darned boy everywhere, and had nearly worked up a sweat, which directly led to a worked-up Audrey.

  She approached him from behind. He was standing at the counter and fishing through the chip bag. Audrey looked down at herself and straightened her clothes, trying to look as presentable as possible after her trek around the entire school.

  Audrey took in a breath to speak but she was interrupted before she could say anything.

  “So… Decide to come after me for some reason in particular?” Jay questioned and she could hear the teasing in his voice.

  “Yes, in fact. You stole something from me,” Audrey boldly proclaimed to the boy before her. To her immense frustration, he wasn’t listening to her one bit.

  “So what did I steal?” Jay finally asked her. Audrey’s eyebrows shot up.

  “Oh, so you have no recollection of the events of this morning?” Audrey inquired accusingly.

  “Yeah, I remember, but I didn’t lift anything off of you. You would have felt it if I slipped a hand into the pocket of your dress because it’s directly against your skin, so why would I try stealing anything from you?” Jay explained with a very much practiced innocence as he turned toward her. Audrey jutted her hip out to the side in a conveyance of her irritation with him.

  “You stole a kiss from me,” Audrey told him finally. And she wished that he would do it again, her very unhelpful brain couldn’t help but mentally add.

  “You didn’t seem to mind much when I did,” Jay told her cockily, turning back to the counter and putting up the chip bag.

  “Well, you didn’t give me much of a chance to mind!” Audrey told him, annoyed that he was winning this battle of the wills. Despite the fact that she only came after him to kiss him again, she couldn’t help but be stubborn in her pretense for coming that came in the form of an accusation of theft. He was beating her at her own game, and he knew it, the smug son of a beast.

  He didn’t show any sign of replying to her for several moments, and she found herself irrationally angry. He should be looking at her. She wanted to steal that kiss from him, and it was necessary that she keep up and win her argument so she could get that kiss.

  “Hello, I’m talking to you!” Audrey raised her voice a bit. He didn’t show any signs of having heard her besides the small quake of his shoulders that indicated the laugh he was holding back at her expense.

  She was going to get that kiss one way or another. So, Audrey determinedly went around Jay and pushed herself between him and the counter, infuriated at the lack of attention paid to her and her complaints. And to her immense frustration and anger, he just laughed at her.

  “Listen to me, darnit!” Audrey insisted, nearing a screech as she got into the boy’s face.

  “I am. And by the way, do you think you could not yell so loud? You’re going to give me a headache,” he grinned mischievously.

  Audrey had enough. He wasn’t willing to talk about what happened, and quite honestly, she was exhausted simply from trying to make him. So upon a bout of pure impulsiveness, Audrey smashed her lips into his roughly, yanking his neck so she could reach easier.

  To her immense satisfaction, Jay immediately responded to her, placing his hands low on her waist and lingering dangerously close to uncharted territory as she moved her lips with his.

  They broke away slightly and her breath immediately hitched as Jay ran his hands down the sides of her legs and underneath them so he could lift her onto the table that was just behind her. However, he quickly reconnected their lips and Audrey bit back the moan as his hands explored around her knees and calves, his fingertips tracing trails of fire on the exposed skin.

  After several moments more of this sweet bliss, Audrey conjured every piece of resistance she had to force herself to pull back so that she could look into his eyes smugly.

  “Took back what was mine, now didn’t I?” Jay just stared at her for a moment before chuckling, dipping his head.

  Audrey simply sat there, her chest heaving as she grinned complacently. She wanted him to kiss her until she couldn’t think straight, but at the same time, she couldn’t just pass up the opportunity to rub it in his face that she had accomplished what she came for.

  Jay suddenly looked back up at her with a smirk and she felt her heart skip a beat.

  “I guess you did,” Jay told her, raising an eyebrow. Audrey’s stomach twisted in anticipation as she looked him in the eyes.

  “But the question is,” Jay paused, straightening so that he was at eye-level with her perched form on the counter, “what are you going to do now that you got it back?”

  That statement almost took her breath away. He was offering her the chance to decide. Even after he had figured out that he had the ultimate effect on her by the stunt he pulled earlier, he was still giving her the opportunity to push him away if she didn’t want this.

  And to have that power over someone with them knowing that they had just as much or more power over her was absolutely endearing to her.

  Audrey had only ever been with guys that she had full control over and that didn’t have much of a hold over her. If she didn’t feel like being giggly and swooning over them, she could easily control herself and send them on their way with their tail tucked between their legs. But with Jay, one kiss would leave her completely vulnerable and easily manipulated.

  If Audrey chose to decline him and if Jay chose to exercise his power over her, she’d be agreeing to be his girlfriend or anything else just as quickly as he kissed her. She was putty in his hands and it frustrated her to no end.

  But he wasn’t forcing her. With that question, he gave her the ability to decide for herself despite his obvious advantage.

  Despite the fact that it was against everything that Audrey had been firmly instilled to believe and had been avidly raised up as at a young age by her grandmother, Audrey couldn’t help but seriously consider at least a temporary engagement with Jay. Chad was boring, not to mention a complete idiot, and every other boy in the school was either dull as well or taken.

  Jay was fascinating simply because he was a VK. She found herself wanting to know about him and who he was. He hadn’t had the classic, fairytale story that everyone in Auradon had.

  Maybe this was something that had been building for days now in little conversations they had throughout the time that he had been spending following and watching her. Now that she had kissed him, she felt like she had been feeling something for him for a while, despite her stubborn upbringing.

  Audrey studied those dark brown pools of his. There were a variety of emotions swirling in them, and she found that they were each very familiar. That hidden vulnerability under a bravado that was kept up. His cockiness was a protection from the harsh words of some of the more hypercritical members of Auradon. She found the same thing within herself. Her insensitive, proud attitude was to make herself look completely invincible to any sort of reproach that could come her way.

  When she looked into Jay’s eyes, she could see herself.

  So when Audrey finally spoke, she was certain of every word.

  “I think I’m going to steal one of my own now,” Audrey spoke, wasting no time in drawing Jay back against her and hungrily kissing him.

  She moved her legs so that they framed his sides and without hesitation, he moved closer to her in his eagerness. Audrey ran her hands down his arms, wanting to feel every last bit of the lean muscle beneath her fingertips.

  Jay broke away softly and began gently peppering kisses along her jawline. She swallowed hard at the foreign feeling of his lips upon sensitive skin that had not been kissed before.

  Audrey almost yelped, however, when he lightly nipped just under her ear. She quickly relaxed when she felt him kiss an apology where he had bitten.

  The pink princess was quite honestly at this moment happier than she had been with any other guy. It was certainly nice to have someone that wasn’t afraid of a little bit of misbehavior and going just a little farther than kisses that could easily be interpreted as platonic.

  “Holy moly, guacamole. You seeing what I’m seeing?” a familiar voice hit Audrey’s ears and she jumped backwards, banging her head against the cabinet painfully in her haste to withdraw. Jay twisted in the embrace that her legs held him in and they both gaped at the sudden intruder.

  It was Mal and Evie with their eyes as big as saucers, and Audrey could just barely spot the top of Carlos’ hair behind them.

  “Yeah,” Evie replied to the faerie, still struggling to pick up her jaw from its current position on the floor.

  “Guys? What is it? What’s going on?” Carlos cried, trying to see beyond the two of them that were effectively blocking the door. The two VK girls seemed to awaken from the temporary spell they were under and Evie wasted no time in reaching her hand back and covering Carlos’ eyes as Mal guided them both away from the doorway.

  “You should really put up a sign,” Evie suggested just before she disappeared from sight.

  “Or get a room,” Mal couldn’t help but snidely remark as she went out the door and left the two of them.

  “Wait, why can’t I see? Guys?” Carlos whined and Mal quickly shut the door behind the three of them.

  Audrey from her place on the counter just stared at the door in shock as Jay turned back to her. He started to back away a bit, but she proceeded to wrap her legs around his waist as she brought him back closer to her.

  He looked at her quizzically for a moment, but as soon as he had finished his onceover of her face, he grinned widely. Audrey smiled flirtatiously.

  “Where were we?” the pink princess questioned. He smiled sweetly at her and brought his hands up to cradle her face before leaning in for a gentler kiss.

  She had made up her mind to steal something from the one guy that was infamous for his thieving. But it was far more than just a kiss that she was after.

  Audrey was going to steal his heart.

    A/N: So the first thing that I must say is that I have finally been able to watch D3! YAY!!! Dunno if any of my Mal and Evie friendship readers that already knew I didn’t get to watch it have come and are reading this message, but if you are new readers just now reading my fics for the first time, let me tell you that I did not get to see D3 for an entire week after it came out. The suspense was killing me!

So the significance of this is…? Welp, it means that I have several new story ideas brewing in response to the new movie! SPOILERS AHEAD: I’m mulling over another Mal and Evie friendship one, a Hades and Mal family one, and maybe, possibly, perhaps an Audrey one.

Now that I have gotten that out of my system, I must acknowledge the fact that I have totally written outside of my usual. Okay… So call me crazy, but for some reason I fell in love with the idea of Jay and Audrey being together. I read some other fanfics, one of which was called A Courtship of Flowers by Foarrin- which is really great for Jay x Audrey fans so check it out- and it for some reason appealed to me. I can’t begin to explain my reasoning. So I’m sorry for a lack of Evie and Mal best friend/sisterly fluff or Core Four fluff that I most of the time do, but I fell weak.

But I hope you liked it anyway, though. :) Have a great day!

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

Pretty Little Couple

Audrey: Jay, I think you should get a haircut.

Jay: Why?

Audrey: It's just too long for a guy.

Jay: *scoffs and smirks* You're just scared I'm going to be the prettier one in our relationship.

Audrey: *narrows eyes as she grabs scissors from drawer*

Jay: HELP ME!!!

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

SO SAD!

*Evie, Ben, Carlos, Jay, and Dude turn to stone*

Mal: ...

Mal: This is so sad! AUDREY, PLAY DESPACITO!!!

Audrey: *watching her the whole time and waves the scepter so that spicy music starts to play*

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

Girls’ Trip Part 3

Summary: Evie, Mal, Uma, Audrey, and Jane go on a road trip to the beach for a three-day weekend. Evie’s driving and has road rage, Uma constantly pesters Audrey, Mal thinks it’s all kind of funny, and Jane’s wide-eyed and lovably clueless as usual. Friendship feels plus Jaudrey, Huma, Jarlos, Bal, as well as Hades and Mal father/daughter feels.

  “Wanna hear a story about a hitchhiker that I heard from some Auradon kid lately?” Uma asked and Audrey eyed her skeptically from her position beside the dark-skinned girl.

  “Maybe? It depends,” Audrey replied. Mal turned in her seat to look at Uma.

  “Go for it. We need something distract us after that fiasco earlier,” Mal told her, settling in to listen to her story. Uma grinned at them all before launching into her tale.

  “So apparently this kid’s dad was on his way to Tangletown and it was pouring down rain,” Uma began, and Evie glanced at her through the rearview mirror as she listened while drove.

  “The dad saw a hitchhiker on the side of the road, so naturally, he felt sorry for the guy and decided to offer him a ride.

  “The dude hopped in quickly, all thankful and that crap, and pulled in a leather zip-up bag with him,” Uma told them, and even Audrey was starting to look a little interested as she lowered her phone ever so slightly.

  “As they drove down the road, the guy was really strangely quiet. The dad couldn’t help but notice how odd he looked with his lanky legs and big hands on boney arms. His eyes bugged out and they had an almost feral look to them,” Uma described, and Audrey sat her phone down as she dedicated her full attention to the story. Jane leaned forward in her seat, watching Uma carefully. Even Evie was glancing into the rearview mirror more often in the midst of her curiosity.

  “The dad suddenly heard an unzipping sound, so he looked over at the guy and saw that he was very slowly unzipping his leather bag.

  “So the dad was like, ‘Yo, man, what’s in your bag?’ The guy immediately tells him, ‘It’s nunya business.’ And so they continue to drive a little bit farther.

  “The guy starts unzipping the bag again and the dad goes, ‘Seriously, what’s in your bag?’ The guy once again tells him, ‘It’s nunya business.’ The dad is starting to get pretty dang mad at this point, and when he hears the guy unzipping his bag a little more, he immediately pulls over and demands that the guy get out of his car,” Uma explained, and everyone in the car had their attention focused solely upon the pirate.

  “Of course, the guy’s all mad and he hops out of the car yelling and complaining and making a big fuss. As soon as he shuts the door, the dad takes off and leaves him there,” Uma narrated. “The dad’s really angry and he just can’t believe the nerve of this guy. He was kind enough to pick him up off the side of the road, and the guy won’t even do him the courtesy of telling him what the heck’s in the bag.

  “But here’s the real kicker- the guy left his leather bag in the car.” Mal’s brow furrowed as she considered this plot development, completely drawn in by the story.

  “The dad sees it’s opened just a little bit, and it dawns on him that he could just open it the rest of the way and figure out exactly what was inside that the guy was so intent on hiding from him,” Uma paused, and everyone felt the tension building.

  “So he pulls over slowly and stops. Then, he reaches over to the bag ever… so… slowly,” Uma narrated with a dead serious expression, mimicking the dad’s movement by reaching over in Jane’s floorboard. Jane followed her hand’s movement, looking in her floorboard as she tried to imagine the scene.

  “And he grabs ahold of the zipper, pulling it open to reveal,” Uma just stopped, and everyone gaped at her and her paused hand in Jane’s floorboard, hanging on the edge of their seats.

  “What’s inside?!” Audrey finally demanded after a few moments of this torturous silence.

  “Definitely a gun,” Evie murmured under her breath with a freaked-out expression on her face.

  After a few beats, Uma spoke again.

  “Nunya business,” Uma deadpanned, and immediately started laughing hard, falling back into her seat. Jane stared at her blankly, baffled by the way the story ended, and Mal turned back around to face the road with an exasperated expression. Evie’s brow furrowed as she considered the end and Audrey slapped her Uma’s leg in her frustration.

  “You can’t end it like that!” Audrey protested, but Uma just kept guffawing.

  “I can’t believe I seriously fell for that,” Mal spoke her thoughts aloud.

  “I really want to know what’s in the bag,” Jane told them, completely puzzled.

  After a few more moments of Audrey growing increasingly upset and Uma still chuckling, Evie decided she needed to divert them all from Uma’s little story.

  “Why don’t we put on some tunes?” Evie suggested, trying to bring a bit of levity to a situation that only Uma found funny. Mal just looked at her with a raise of her eyebrow.

  “Sure. It’s not like there’s anything better to do. I used up my best joke,” Uma told her, clearing her throat as she recovered from her laughing fit.

  “Here, I’ve got a good one,” Audrey offered, reaching forward between Evie and Mal and pushing it in the CD slot.

  Ooh whoa, ooh whoa, ooh whoa

  “This crap’s gonna suck.”

  “Shut up, it’s about to get good!” Audrey protested and Mal looked at Evie, thinking she vaguely recognized the tune.

  You know you love me, I know you care   Just shout whenever and I'll be there   You are my love, you are my heart   And we will never, ever, ever be apart

  “Aww, poor girl,” Uma sarcastically commented, and Audrey elbowed her.

  Are we an item? Girl quit playin'   We're just friends, what are you sayin'   Said there's another, look right in my eyes   My first love, broke my heart for the first time

   Mal immediately recognized that irritating high-pitched voice and she narrowed her eyes in dread as Evie suddenly looked way too excited for her liking as she sucked in a breath to sing along.

  “This is a girl, right? Kinda sounded a little bit like a dude with how her voice got deeper in that last line.”

  “It’s a guy!” Audrey shrieked in response, growing angrier by the second.

  “Oh… I guess that explains it,” Uma shrugged, grinning wickedly at the look on Audrey’s face.

  Baby, baby, baby, oh   Like baby, baby, baby, no   Like baby, baby, baby, oh   I thought you'd always be mine (mine)   Baby, baby, baby, oh   Like baby, baby, baby, no   Like baby, baby, baby, ooh

  “I think you’re killing me, me,” Uma sang along, and Audrey scowled at her.

  Oh, for you, I would have done whatever

  “Alrighty, then, and that’s the end of that,” Mal told them, and stopped the CD, pulling it out quickly and handing it back to Audrey. Evie looked at her with a slightly disappointed expression, but she quickly returned to her usual neutral expression that she had throughout the car ride.

  “That’s good music,” Audrey whined, and Uma let out a sharp bark of laughter.

  “I think you need to get your ears examined or something because that’s crap,” Uma unashamedly told her. “That dude needs some testosterone or something, because puberty’s not treating him kindly.”

  “I think he’s dreamy!” Audrey insisted.

  “I think that if you go for idiots like that, I don’t know how you ended up with Jay,” Uma successfully ended the conversation and Audrey simply huffed as she looked out Jane’s window.

  After a few beats of silence, something caught Audrey’s eye in the distance and she squinted, leaning forward a bit as she focused her attention upon it.

  “Hey, there’s a hitchhiker! And he’s got a bag!” Audrey suddenly cried, pointing out the window at a figure far ahead.

  “Revenge is not a good color on you, Princess,” Uma replied without looking, clearly not believing Audrey’s sudden announcement and thinking that she was simply trying to get back at Uma after the joke.

  “No, really! Look!” Audrey pointed again. Bored, Uma shifted her gaze over in the direction Audrey was waving at, and her eyes widened.

  “Well, son of a biscuit-eater,” Uma pronounced as she moved up to look between Mal and Evie. Jane leaned out her window a bit as the man was rapidly approaching.

  “Evie, pull over, I want to see what’s in the bag!” Jane called. But to her chagrin, Evie instead hit the gas as hard as she could and sped by the man on the side of the road.

  “What did you do that for?” Jane disappointedly questioned as she watched the form of the guy behind them.

  “I didn’t want to be the butt of the joke,” Evie hesitantly admitted with a guilty smile, and Mal giggled in response.

  “Personally, I’m glad she didn’t pull over,” Mal spoke up, growing more serious. “He could’ve been dangerous.”

  “You’ve just been corrupted by my hitchhiker story. He could’ve been interesting,” Uma expressed, reclining in her seat and frowning as she dug Audrey’s pink sunglasses from underneath her. She examined them for a moment before putting them on her face curiously.

  “Yeah, like put a gun to your head interesting!” Audrey told them, her brow furrowed concernedly as she pulled Jane so that her head wasn’t hanging out the window anymore.

  “Check out my sick shades, y’all,” Uma suddenly spoke up, pursing her lips in and raising an eyebrow as she tilted her head to the side. Evie just snorted in response, and Mal laughed at Evie’s sudden random noise.

  “Those are mine!” Audrey cried, trying to take them off of Uma’s face. She simply dodged Audrey’s invading hand, looking over at the pink princess.

  “Then why were they sittin’ in my seat?” the pirate sassily questioned.

  “Because they slid into it. Besides, you seriously need to work on your duckface,” Audrey snatched the sunglasses and poised them back upon her own face carefully.

  “The heck’s a duckface?” Uma asked, her mind so stuck on Audrey’s use of modern lingo that she didn’t even attempt to win back the glasses.

  “It’s stupid. Evie does it all the time,” Mal explained, looking over at Evie and noticing that Evie’s lips were pursed as she was driving. “See what I mean?” Mal huffed and Evie quickly relaxed her lips as she gaped at the other four who had begun laughing at her.

  “What?! I’m focused on driving!”

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

99% sure this came from another Tumblr post, so credit to whoever made this. I just have some things to say about it.

I originally hated Audrey in the first movie. She was so mean and was so terribly cruel to the VKs.

However, let me just say that this was likely because the creators put no effort into characterizing her in that movie.

D3 was so beautiful because it gave Audrey a personality- it made her into an actual person. She was more than just the evil witch that we saw as an obstacle for Ben and Mal to hurdle to get the holy grail that was Bal. She becomes a sad girl that is just trying to live up to her family’s overwhelmingly high expectations. A girl who has never had a chance to consider what she truly wants for trying to get what other people have manipulated her to want.

And this is what brings me to this GIF. The first thing she does after she is awake is that she apologizes to Mal, Ben, and everyone else in the room. You can see just how much it means to her when Ben, her childhood best friend, and Mal apologize to her. They apologize to her.

Contrary to popular belief, Audrey deserves that apology. Granted, she was awfully rude to the VKs when they first arrived. But after Ben awoke from the love spell, Audrey at least deserved an explanation. Instead, he focuses his attention on his new friends and girlfriend and completely forgets about Audrey.

From this, you can see that Audrey is highly insecure. She continued to pick on Mal and the other Core Four members because she is intensely afraid that she is being replaced and she is terrified of what that means for her. 

What will Aurora think of her? What will Phillip think of her? What will Grammy think of her? What will the kingdom think of her? A disgrace to her family, she has erased any chance of their ascension in society by allowing these children of villains to walk all over her and worst of all, she let the daughter of her mother’s sworn enemy come in and take her family’s ticket to the high life.

I guess what I’m saying is that Audrey is terribly misunderstood, and she deserves the fandom’s love, too.

And really. Look at that sweet, touched face. It’s adorable. <3

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

We Are Off to See the Wizard Part 4

Summary: Audrey's Annual Halloween Bash is coming up, and Evie has thought of a rather interesting costume idea for the Core Four. Several of their friends get pulled into the epiphany, too. It's super fluffy with Huma, Jaudrey, Bal, Jarlos, Core Four fluff, and Mal and Hades father/daughter feels.

  “Yeah, sure I know how to cook. Good grief, stupid brain! Why did you make me say that?!” Celia cried, her eyes wide as she skittered back and forth between ovens. Her normally very unruly hair was pulled back into a ponytail so that it would fall into whatever food she was working on.

  “Besides all that, what possessed her to even ask me to do it? She ought to know that I don’t know anything about baking stuff,” Celia ranted aloud, expressing her thoughts.

  She popped open one of the ovens to see if she could smell anything that was getting a little too crispy. To her utmost delight, absolutely nothing seemed to be burning. Thankfully everything seemed to be under control with this cake, unlike her previous disaster with the cupcakes.

  Celia skipped over to the other oven that was cooking another cake. It appeared to be good so far except for the fact that the cake had weird potholes in it. Of course, she did have a few problems with that one when she was mixing the batter.

  As soon as she was mostly sure that nothing was burning inside the ovens, she grinned in relief as she headed back over to work on the cupcakes.

  Celia licked her lips at the sight of the delicious chocolate confections sitting there on the counter. However, she frowned at the sight of a lone eggshell poking out of the baked deliciousness. She surreptitiously looked around- not that there was anyone there to see her anyway- and poked the eggshell so that it was hidden in the midst of the cupcake.

  “There! No one will be any the wiser!” Celia told herself, satisfied with the somewhat singed baked treats before her. “Now I just gotta decorate ‘em.”

  Celia headed over for the icing tubes and the sprinkles that Audrey had left for her to use. She examined each of the colors of icing, trying to decide which one Audrey would like. After a moment, she shrugged, grabbing all of them and placing them on the counter nearby her workspace.

  “Welp, can’t go wrong with every color there is,” Celia shrugged before gathering all the sprinkle colors, too.

  Celia launched into her cupcake decorating, but as she squirted the first dollop on the cupcake, couldn’t help but wonder what it would taste like. So she tilted her head back and opened her mouth before squeezing the icing above her so that it fell between her teeth.

  As soon as it hit her tongue, it was like heaven reinvented into squirtable décor for wonderful confections. Celia eagerly swallowed the frosting and opened her mouth for another enormously huge portion of the stuff.

  It was delectably irresistible and so, so sweet.

  After a moment, however, she didn’t feel anymore icing coming out of the tube and falling into her waiting piehole. Celia opened her eyes and disappointedly noted that she was out of the pink frosting.

  She furrowed her brow, but quickly decided that she wanted to try sprinkles, because if the frosting was that good, then the sprinkles just had to be to die for.

  Celia popped open the container and shook it so that she could chew a healthy amount of the small specks. To her disappointment, they weren’t quite as good as the icing was, but they still weren’t too bad. She eagerly indulged in a few more shakes before finally deciding that she probably needed to start working on the cupcakes.

  “Hey, Ce-Ce. What’re you doing?” Dizzy suddenly popped into the kitchen with her usual bouncy excitement and happiness and Celia grinned widely at her, her earlier idea about actually doing what Audrey asked her to completely evaporating from her mind.

  “Dizz, you have got to try this!” Celia excitedly told her, grabbing the tube of green icing and meeting the Tremaine halfway across the room.

  “Ooh, what’s that?” Dizzy questioned, and Celia just raised an eyebrow at her with a sly smirk.

  “You’ll see. Open up,” Celia instructed, and Dizzy easily complied. She held the tube over Dizzy’s mouth and squeezed firmly, mounds upon mounds of icing falling down into the hatch.

  Celia pulled back and watched expectantly as Dizzy’s whole face lit up in a monstrous grin as she looked at the tube dreamily.

  “That’s magic,” Dizzy replied with a positively enchanted expression on her face as she swallowed the icing.

  “Bibbidi-bobbidi, you know it,” Celia joked and they both laughed.

  “Oh, and by the way, I even have eggshells in the cupcakes. I know Auradonians don’t like them, but I thought it might do them good. Maybe give them a little character,” Celia suggested as she walked over to the cupcakes with Dizzy.

  “Definitely! They’re full of calcium goodness.”

  “So I’m helping people by pushing in the eggshells so they can’t see them? Celia for the win-win!” Celia whooped in happiness and Dizzy giggled in response, nodding emphatically. Celia frowned after a moment, though, reaching over and pushing in yet another eggshell she noticed.

  “Hey, Dizzy, help me out here and hide these eggshells in the cupcakes,” Celia told her.

  “Why don’t you just take them out if they’re going to be that much trouble?” Dizzy questioned.

  “Because I’m afraid that there’s entirely too many in them to even consider getting all of them out,” Celia answered somewhat sheepishly. Dizzy shrugged in response, moving over to help her push them in.

  However, after a moment, Dizzy sniffed a bit, furrowing her brow in thought.

   “Umm… What’s that burning smell?” Dizzy innocently asked. Celia’s eyes went comically wide as she rushed over to the nearest oven. As soon as she opened it, black smoke came pouring out of the appliance. Dizzy hurried to the other oven and opened it, too, another wave of smog coming out as she took a cloth and pulled the cake out of the oven.

  Both girls were coughing hard as they tried to fan away the stench of the charred cakes. Dizzy finally had the thought to open up a nearby window, and the smoke eagerly slipped by her and out of the newly opened crevice.

  “What is going on in here?!” a high-pitched voice screeched, and Celia hacked extra violently upon the realization that it was Audrey standing there not too far from her.

  “My biscuits are burning,” Celia tried, flashing the very miffed pink princess a huge toothy grin in an attempt to dispel at least a bit of the anger that was brewing just beneath the surface of the other girl. It worked for a moment as Audrey considered the colloquial meaning for biscuits, but the anger quickly returned full force as she got another whiff of the smoke.

  “Well, what about the cakes?!” Audrey demanded, and Celia jumped a bit, giggling somewhat maniacally as she tried to maneuver herself between Audrey and the crisps that were just behind her.

  “They’re fine. Well-done, just how everybody likes them!” Celia informed her, full of false cheeriness as Audrey drew nearer. Celia leaned back further, hoping that Audrey wouldn’t just sidestep her and see just how badly burnt the cakes were.

  Audrey’s eyes narrowed and she snapped her fingers, pointing to the side in a firm command. Celia looked at her for just a moment before darting to the side.

  Audrey gasped in complete horror at the blackened confections there on the counter.

  “Oh, come on! They aren’t that bad!” Celia told her and Audrey spun around to face the younger girl, the anger coming off of her in waves. Celia grinned guiltily.

  “Well, they aren’t as bad as they look… Maybe? Dunno?” Celia giggled under her breath, knowing she was going to get chewed up and spit out.

  “Why in the world didn’t you tell me that you can’t cook?!” Audrey demanded.

  “Really? You didn’t already know that? Are you forgetting that the Isle was lacking in a lot of ways and the daughter of the Shadow Man probably isn’t going to know how to cook up a bunch of tastiness?” Dizzy piped up suddenly and Celia facepalmed as Audrey’s wrath was turned to the other girl. Dizzy winced, realizing just how bad of an idea that it was to talk while Audrey was on the warpath.

  “Okay, sorry about that… I’m just gonna leave now,” Dizzy told her as she edged away and out the door.

  “What were you telling me exactly? Any idiot can cook?” Audrey checked with the shorter girl her hands on her hips and Celia sighed defeatedly as an ultimately guilty and remorseful look took over her features.

  “I’m sorry… I just… I guess I wanted to be able to help you out and do something good. Y’know, to show that I really am an Auradon girl now,” Celia explained herself, fully ashamed of her lies.

  Audrey sighed deeply, closing her eyes and conjuring every bit of patience that she had left in her. This whole party was really leaving her completely fried, but she really did feel bad for the poor girl.

  So, when she opened her eyes again, she offered Celia a benevolent, kind smile in hopes of exhibiting her sympathy for the Facilier’s plight rather than her frustration at the setback.

  “It’s okay. It’s okay. Don’t worry about it. It’ll all be fine. I’ll just order something really quick from the bakery down the street,” Audrey reassured her, placing a hand on Celia’s shoulder and squeezing gently.

  “So you’re not mad at me?” Celia questioned with an innocence that was strangely suiting for the little imp. Audrey huffed, bringing her into a somewhat hesitant side-hug. This having actual real friends that really cared thing was very different for her, and she wasn’t completely sure how to interact properly.

  “No. Now you go on and have fun. Get dressed up. I’m sure Evie has something planned,” Audrey smiled kindly at her, and watched as the girl skipped out of the room happily.

  When she was gone, however, Audrey’s grin melted away quickly and she put her face in her hand with her other hand poised on her hip.

  “Boy, I really hope they’re still open on a holiday.”

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

Girl’s Trip Part 4

Summary: Evie, Mal, Uma, Audrey, and Jane go on a road trip to the beach for a three-day weekend. Evie’s driving and has road rage, Uma constantly pesters Audrey, Mal thinks it’s all kind of funny, and Jane’s wide-eyed and lovably clueless as usual. Friendship feels plus Jaudrey, Huma, Jarlos, Bal, as well as Hades and Mal father/daughter feels.

  “Ladies…. I do believe that I need to use the restroom. Like in an urgent sort of way,” Audrey told them all, desperately having to pee.

  “What? You gotta go poo-poo?” Uma asked as if she were talking to a child. Audrey leaned away from her disgustedly and she slapped Uma’s arm. Mal worked diligently to hold back her mirth at the pink princess’s expense as her shoulders shook. However, Uma wasn’t quite as sparing in her laughter, and she unashamedly made fun of Audrey.

  “You uncouth beast! I have to pee!” Audrey announced, and Mal started scanning the side of the road for a place to stop in an attempt to take her mind off of the urge to laugh.

  “Good timing, Audrey. Charlene’s nearly out of fuel, so you guys be on the lookout for a gas station,” Evie instructed as she drove.

  “I see a town up ahead,” Jane acknowledged, and Audrey was almost bouncing in her seat as she tried to hold it.

  “Don’t worry, Audy, just think of waterfalls and rivers and the sound of a toilet flushing,” Uma described, leaning close to the brunette’s ear. Audrey eyed her angrily with a scowl.

  They passed the last tree on their way through the forest and entered civilization once again. Audrey could feel her bladder about to bust and her leg bounced a little more furiously as she spotted all of the different opportunities for restroom-using.

  “There’s a Hearts,” Uma told them, and Audrey excitedly looked over at the big heart on the sign.

  “That place is no good. The last time I stopped at Hearts, there was no premium fuel available, and Charlene only takes the best,” Evie firmly informed them. Audrey felt her urge to pee grow a little stronger, and she bit her lip.

  “Okay, then… What about that Speedtrack?” Jane asked, and Evie shook her head.

  “Crappy selection of drinks,” Evie negated, continuing in her driving. Audrey held back a whine and held her legs together a little tighter.

  They had nearly left the town when Mal, the wonderful human being that she was, spotted one last opportunity for Audrey to pee and for them to get gas.

  “Here’s something called a Jify-Journey,” Mal pointed at the gas station on the side of the road. It was a terribly run-down looking little place and it looked like it’d barely pump anything, much less premium gas like Evie had originally wanted.

  Evie started to say something, no doubt in negation of Mal’s suggestion, but Audrey quickly interjected.

  “JUST FLIPPIN’ TURN!” Evie begrudgingly pulled into the parking lot. Evie carefully wheeled in front of a pump and brought Charlene to a stop.

  “Okay, you guys, let me feed the beast, and I’ll meet you inside,” the bluenette spoke, turning around to face them all. However, to her surprise, Audrey had just crawled over Uma’s lap and ran out the car door.

  After a few moments of silence, Uma grinned, dispelling the surprised atmosphere at Audrey’s quick escape.

  “Well, I guess she really did have to go,” Uma commented, turning and sliding out of the car door herself.

  Audrey practically charged through the doors as she ran to the counter with an air of urgency that was not unlike the Queen of Mean. She slammed her hands on the counter, staring at the woman with wide eyes. The lady behind the counter jumped in surprise as she looked up from her task of counting the money in the cash register.

  “Where is the restroom?” Audrey demanded, bouncing in place a bit as she resisted the urge to pee.

  “Well, honey,” the woman started, and it was obvious that she was from Bayou de Orleans, “it’s right on back ‘dere on dat door to de right.” Audrey made a break for it as she rushed over to the hall desperately making her way to the toilet.

  She opened the door and was immediately greeted with a nearly unholy smell. Audrey gagged, feeing her insides wrench with the motion. She stepped forward and dared look at the porcelain throne and was horrified to see that it was very much clogged.

  Audrey covered her nose with her hand, leaning against the door in an attempt to keep what little was left of her breakfast down.

  “Why ain’t you peeing?” Uma questioned, raising an eyebrow as she suddenly materialized beside the pink princess. The need to puke was quickly replaced by the need to pee, and Audrey recoiled disgustedly at the sight of the restroom as she started bouncing on the spot.

  “Somebody sure trashed this bathroom,” Uma spoke aloud, surveying the little room with a slight grimace.

  “I can’t use this bathroom,” Audrey announced, and she looked around, feeling as if she were going to burst.

  “Well, go behind the building. Right out this door, see?” Uma pushed open the back door that led to the forest behind the place.

  “I think not! I am a princess!”

  “You planning on going in your pants, then, Princess?” Uma sassily asked her, and Audrey worriedly shifted her gaze between the open back door and the toilet inside the horrifying gas station.

  “I just… I need privacy, and what if someone sees me back here?!” Audrey squeaked, and Uma shook her head exasperatedly.

  “Are you worried about the chipmunks or the squirrels staring at your naked butt?” Uma asked, and Audrey shot her one last dirty look before finally deciding she would go outside. It was purely necessity that was driving her through that door, and she honestly couldn’t believe she was lowering herself to such a depth.

  On the other side of the store, however, things were going much less disgustingly.

  “Okay! Charlene’s all filled up,” Evie told Mal, the only one of the group that had stayed with her until she was through fueling the car. The bluenette stepped up into the Jeep and sat down, cranking the vehicle. “Mmm, mmm, mmm, listen to that hum,” Evie patted the wheel firmly with a loving gaze thrown at the car’s gas gauge. “That’s my little girl. Sounds just like her mama.”

  Mal raised an eyebrow, equally creeped out and amused by Evie’s love for the Jeep. It was almost like she thought she gave birth to it or something.

  “I think you like Charlene a little too much. Let’s park her closer to the building and then,” Mal paused dramatically as she looked at Evie from the passenger seat, “it’s snack time.”

  Evie grinned in response and drove around to the storefront, parking Charlene. They then both got out and walked in.

  “Welcome to Jify-Journey! How can we help you ‘dere?” the cashier greeted.

  “We’re just grabbing some roadtrip snacks, but thank you,” Eve politely replied, and the two girls wandered over to the bagged snacks.

  “Hey, E? Do you think Uma would like Doritos?” Mal questioned, picking up a chip bag. Evie glanced over from looking at the potato chips.

  “Sure. Be sure to get some spicy ones, though. She’ll probably really love that,” Evie instructed, pointing at the red bag. Mal took it off of the shelf and started searching for something for Audrey and Jane.

  “Mal? Do you want the Fritos or the barbeque chips? You’re really particular about that sometimes,” Evie checked, holding up two bags. Mal shrugged her shoulders and pointed at the barbeque chips.

  “Jane might like the Fritos, though, so keep both of them,” Mal told her as she tried to figure out what she thought Audrey would like.

  “Do you think veggie straws will work for Thorn?” Mal questioned. Evie simply nodded and took them from her. They were just about to go back to the cash register before Evie caught sight of a whole shelf of bright wrappers and boxes.

  “Look at all the candy!” Evie exclaimed and Mal hurried behind her as Evie stared at all of the various candies, completely mesmerized.

  “M! Look! Oreos!” Evie cried and Mal couldn’t help but compare her sister to an excited little girl. Mal walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her waist fondly.

  “Yeah. Which kind are you getting?” Mal asked, despite the fact that she already knew exactly what Evie would pick. The bluenette looked at her with a raise of her eyebrow before picking up a package of original Oreos.

  “Of course,” Mal nodded her head and Evie just grinned before looking through more of the selections.

  “Mal? What is M&M’s?” Evie questioned, picking up a box that pleasantly rattled when she moved it. Mal raised an eyebrow and leaned in closer to look at it.

  “Looks like some kind of chocolate,” Mal assessed, and she glanced at the bluenette who had an adorable pout on her face. Mal squeezed Evie tightly before letting her go.

  “E, if you want it, then get it. It looks good,” Mal told her, and Evie’s eyes lit up excitedly. Mal felt her heart ache painfully for her friend, knowing how much Evie the brown-eyed girl valued sweets since they were so rare on the Isle. Mal guessed it was probably hard for Evie to realize that she could just buy them easily now.

  “What about these? Or these? Ooh! And these?” Evie picked up several containers of various types of chocolate candies, and Mal nodded her head with a fond smile before they headed over to the drinks that were available.

  Mal quickly grabbed out a bottle of chocolate milk from the refrigerators and handed it to Evie, taking a bottle of strawberry punch for herself. She then withdrew a plain milk container, a bottle of water, and some green tea for the other girls, and her and Evie headed over to the cashier.

  As soon as they reached the counter, they saw Jane leaning on the counter and scratching at a piece of paper.

  Mal furrowed her brow and looked at Evie, but the bluenette was currently way too invested in her chocolate to even acknowledge Mal’s questioning gaze.

  Mal walked over to Jane with Evie in tow and she looked over the younger girl’s shoulder.

  “What are you doing?” Mal finally inquired and Jane jumped in shock as she tried to hide the paper behind her back.

  “Nothing. Nothing at all,” Jane lied, and even if Mal hadn’t seen Jane with the paper, she could easily see right through the fib. The purple-haired girl snapped her fingers to the left of Jane to temporarily distract her, and she reached around her back and took the ticket.

  “‘Win Big Bucks! Scratchums!’” Mal read the front of the paper and she grinned at Jane mischievously. The blue-eyed girl looked terribly embarrassed and ashamed of herself. Mal walked over so that she was standing beside her, and shouldered her gently, pointing to the card.

  “So, have you won anything?” Mal asked, and Jane looked a little calmer once she realized it was not against the rules, or at least that Mal wouldn’t judge her over it.

  “No, but I might with this ticket. So far, all the numbers seem to be lining up,” Jane grinned wildly and Mal took the coin from the counter, offering it to her.

  “Go, girl. See if you get anything,” Mal told her with a smile, and Jane leapt into action, scratching away at the card.

  After a few seconds, Jane gasped and squealed, hopping up and down as she practically shoved the card in Mal’s face.

  “LOOK! I got five dollars!” Jane proudly exclaimed and Mal forced an excited grin for her benefit. Five dollars really wasn’t that great, but Mal figured it was better than nothing at all for the girl’s efforts.

  “Cool!” Mal replied.

  They paid for their snacks and they were just starting to head out the door when Mal suggested that they all pee just in case they needed to go later in the trip. Evie easily agreed, saying that it would reduce the amount of stops they’d have to make.

  Mal, followed by Jane, strode to the back of the store. Evie was going to come back after she had loaded the Jeep with the snacks.

  When she reached the hall, however, the faerie’s eyes widened as she saw Uma leaned against the doorframe of the exit leading to outside.

  “Where’s Audrey?” Mal asked, and Uma groaned.

  “Don’t ask me where she’s at, ask me where’s she’s been. That girl’s been running around the back of this store like a chicken with its head cut off, insisting that none of the spots she chooses to pee at are good enough,” Uma complained.

  “Why didn’t she use the toilet in here?” Jane questioned, furrowing her brow.

  “Take a look for yourself if you’re that curious. However, let me warn you, it induces immediate barf.” Mal nodded, understanding exactly what Uma meant, and she walked over nearby the door so that she could speak to Audrey.

  “Thorn, do you think you could hurry it up out there? There’s a line,” Mal told her.

  “I’m working on it! I just can’t bring myself to go out here!” Audrey whined.

  “I can help with that!” Uma called, grinning at Mal as she pounded her fist into her palm. Mal rolled her eyes and leaned against the opposite side of the doorframe.

  Soon enough, Audrey came back in and they each took their turns. Before long, they were back in the Jeep and on the road again.

  “Here, Audrey, we got you some green tea and veggie straws; Uma, we got you plain milk and spicy Doritos; and Jane, we got you Fritos and water,” Mal handed all of the items back to the three passengers behind her and there were varying expressions of gratitude amongst them.

  “And you’re free to any of the chocolate in this bag,” Mal told them, passing it to Uma.

  The dark-skinned girl sifted through the bag with a bored expression, but it shifted to a more curious look as she pulled out a wrapper full of Whoppers. She opened the wrapper and popped one into her mouth, her entire face lighting up when the flavor burst into her mouth.

  Audrey took the bag from Uma and passed it to Jane. The younger girl opened the bag and examined the contents carefully before withdrawing a box of M&M’s. She happily chomped on her candies and gave the bag to Audrey.

  The pink princess started to send it up to Mal, but she paused upon the sight of a certain color of wrapper. She quickly reached inside to withdraw a York Peppermint Pattie. An almost childlike expression of wonder was immediately on her face as she opened it and took a big bite. She hummed blissfully as she contentedly chewed the chocolate and the filling.

  “That looks good. Mind if I have a bite?” Uma innocently questioned. “I’ll give you some Whoppers.”

  Audrey immediately lost whatever sweetness was on her face in favor of a greedy monster as she clung to her chocolate.

  “Mine!”

[eviesmyspiritanimal]

One of my fanfics. It’s a piece of Audrey angst with her finally realizing that she truly isn’t alone anymore.