Here is chapter 2 of my newly updated story. I hope that you like it. A lot is still the same, theres just more meat to the story now. Please read and review.

Mal

As I slowly come to the next morning, I'm more than a little disorientated. I wasn't in my own bed or room. I roll over to find Ben asleep on the bed beside me. I am underneath the sheets, as he is on top of them so that way anyone could see that we weren't doing anything. The only thing is I don't remember falling asleep in Ben's room. The last thing that I could remember was Ben telling me I needed to get some sleep.

"Hey," I hear softly as I was lost in thought trying to remember the details about the previous night.

I looked up into Ben's eyes as he smiled softly at me. "Hey," I say back. "What time is it?"

"Not even six yet. How'd you sleep last night?" Ben asks me as he wraps an arm around me both to protect me and to bring me closer to him.

"Good," I say as I snuggle closer to him. I enjoy the feeling of comfort and peace as I lay, snuggled up next to him.

"What do you remember from last night?" he asks me as he idly plays with my purple hair.

"Bits and pieces," I say, hoping that he won't press me for answers that I don't want to give.

"Mal," he says, and my hopes are dashed immediately.

"Ben, please," I plead not wanting to bring it up.

"Fine," he says as he drops the subject.

"Let's do something," I say as I sit up. I'm now feeling restless and I want to escape from the conversation that I know we are going to have to have.

"Like what?" he chuckles at me. I can tell he knows that I'm stalling so I don't have to talk about Aaron.

"I've yet to see your castle," I say with a sly smile.

"Really?" Ben asks me as he sits up.

"Ok so basically I want to see it, make fun of it, and compare it my moms," I say laughing.

"Fine," Ben says with a roll of his eyes as he slides off the bed.

I follow closely behind him as he leads the way out of his room.

Ben shows me all around his castle. He starts with the rooms closest to his room seeing how that was where we had spent the night. As we walk the halls, I make different comments about things. Several times I glance at Ben. He is smiling at me whenever I make a comment about something. Occasionally, he mocks things about his castle with me. But it's mostly him telling me about parts of the castle and me mocking it.

Truth be told, I could care less about the castle, I just wanted something to distract me. So I figure running around a castle with my boyfriend would probably do the trick. I know that I can't run forever, I briefly remember Evie saying that she would be back later this morning with the guys.

"Hey what's in here?" I ask as we pass the same door for the third time now. I wanted something to distract my train of thought.

"I don't know," Ben says with a shrug as he turns around and walks back to the door.

"Let's open," I say with a smile as I reach out to grab the door knob.

Ben

"Mal," I hiss at her in a warning. This was the one door that I was always forbidden from opening when I was growing up. Sure I was a curious kid and tried to get in, but I was still supposed to be the poster child for goodness. So I never got into the room. I would remember the pain in my mother's voice as she told me to stop asking about the door and leave it alone.

"Come on, you're king now," she says with a wink as she turns the knob.

"Mal, we shouldn't," I say to her with a little more urgency in my tone. I don't want my parents to find us.

"Don't you want to know what in here?" she asks as she jiggles the knob to try and get the door open.

"Well it's locked," I say as I try to get her to leave the door alone before my parents find us.

"Oh come on," she says as she starts to think up a spell.

"Don't you need your mother's spell book?" I asks, hoping that without we can't get into the room.

"Nope," she says as she stares at the lock. "Open up now I speak, open up for the meek," she says as the door clicks open.

"Meek?" I ask her with a raised eyebrow. She was getting better with her spells in only a few days it seemed.

"It was the only thing that came to mind, shoot me," she says as she pushes the door open.

I take one more look down the halls before following Mal inside the room. I pull the door most of the way closed behind us as I enter the room.

"It's a nursery," Mal says as she looked around at the room in shock. "Was it yours?"

"No," I say as I look around the room. I was never aware that there was more than one nursery in the castle. I had only ever thought that there was just mine. The room looks like it had never been used before. Everything is neat and clean. Nothing is out of place in the nursery. It kind of surprised me. Why would a locked door have a nursery behind it? What was even more, why would it be clean? There was no dust or cobwebs to be seen in the whole entire room. I was shocked.

"If it's not yours? Then who's could it be?"

I was about to answer her when the almost closed door bangs open.

"What are you doing in here?" we hear a voice boom from the door way.

Mal and I turn to come face to face with my parents.

"Mom, dad," I start as I move in front of Mal to protect her from my parents.

"Ben?" my mom asks worriedly.

"What are you doing in here?" my father demands again from the two of us.

"We were exploring," I say, slightly afraid of my father. I have never seen him this upset, no that wasn't the right word. There is fear mixed into his features.

"Out," is all my father command of us.

The two of us waste no time as we bolt from the old nursery. We don't stop until we are back inside my room, safe from the wrath of my parents for breaking into the nursery.

"What was that about?" Mal asked as she tries to regulate her breathing from having to run.

"I don't know," I say as I keep my eyes fixed on my door. I know that my parents will be coming through them in a few moments.

"That was a whole nursery," Mal says as she sinks down to sit on my bed. I can tell that she's waiting for my parents to arrive.

I move to sit beside her. There's nothing that we can do until my parents arrive.

Maleficent

I was still stuck as a lizard, even after that whole episode from the night before. I thought that they were planning on turning me back to my true for, that way they could interrogate me. But here I was, stuck as a lizard as Fairy Godmother kept glancing at me. I want to say something to her, but I can't. I am still a lizard!

I tried flicking my tongue at her. Something to mock her. If I couldn't say something to her, I was going to be petty and pretend that I did not have a care in the world.

"What were you doing in that room?" Adam demands of his son as the two, Belle, and my traitorous daughter enter the room together.

"Why is there a nursery locked up?" my daughter's boyfriend demands.

'So that is what this is about?' I think to myself with a twisted smile. Oh the evil joy courses through me as I watch the events before me. I had no idea that they still had his nursery. The two probably kept everything the same since that fateful day. Not one thing out of place as a shrine to their lost boy.

"Turn her back now," Adam demands of Fairy Godmother.

"But the preparations aren't ready yet," Fairy Godmother tries to plead. She does not want to go through with this.

"I don't care, I want to talk to her now," he snarls.

"Mal, I need your help to enchant the room so that way your mother can't escape," Fairy Godmother says to my daughter.

'She wouldn't dare,' I think to myself.

I watch as Mal nods her head in agreement.

Oh she will regret defying me.

"Are you sure about this?" Mal asks as she looked at everyone in the room after the enchantments were all up.

I knew she was frightened by me. The isle couldn't hold me, this make shift prison cell couldn't hold me. I was going to be free. I was going to rule once I got free and all those that stood against me would get what was coming to them.

When both Adam and Belle nod their heads at her, she and Fairy Godmother start to lift the spell that kept me a lizard.

I am over joyed as I turn back to my original form. I take a long moment to flex my fingers. I ignore everyone in the room as I enjoy being turned back into a human.

"Tell us where he is?" Adam demand as he got close to my cell.

I ignore him. Why should I give this pesky hero the attention that he so desperately wants.

I can tell he's loosing his patiences as he yells, "Tell us where he is fairy!"

"Or what?" I laugh. It was too much fun to watch royalty squirm when you have something that they want dearly.

"Where is Aaron?" Belle demands as tears start to drip off of her face.

"He's right there," I say as Dr. Facilier and a few other villains appeared in the room with the unconscious boy.

"You want him? You'll have to let me go free," I say in triumph. I look at the faces around the room. No one wants to let me go, but most in the room want Aaron back more.

"Deal," Adam huffs out.

"Dad?" Ben yells. He gets that this person is supposed to be important to Mal and has some sort of connection to his parents, but he did not want to see me freed. I could see the wheels turning in his pretty little head.

"Fairy Godmother, release her, now," Adam demands as his eyes never leave his son that is being held by Dr. Facilier and Hook.

"We can't-" Fairy Godmother started in before Adam snarled at her.

I let out a cackle as the oh so powerful Fairy Godmother quickly started to take down the wards. As soon as I was free, I walk to the villains. I was ready to get out of here. "I will be back for what is mine," I state simply as I disappear with my villains.

Aaron

The torture was beyond anything that I had ever experienced at the hands of my mother. Several times I was tortured if I disobeyed, but this last time was far beyond the worst. I could feel the spells that my mother had placed on me over the years fighting for control over me. But I had to fight them. My job was to protect Mal, and I couldn't do that being a puppet to Maleficent.

"If you just give in we'll be done already," Dr. Facilier says as he circled me like a lion.

"No," I ground out trying to keep from groaning in pain. I thought that after everything that had ever happened to me that this would be nothing. I was wrong as pain exploded all throughout my body.

The pain seemed to be getting worse as morning crept upon us. I didn't know how much longer that I could stand the pain.

'No,' I think to myself. 'I will stand the pain if it meant protecting Mal.' I knew that Maleficent would not stop with just Mal. Her cruelty would spread to the rest of the children on the isle. Most were no like our parents. They were tired of living lives that held little hope. They wanted something better, but on the Isle, hope was hard to come by. Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos, those four now had hope. If four kids from the Isle could gain hope and freedom from the Isle, so could more. I was not going to let my mother rip that away from the my siblings and the rest of the kids. We would be free, even if I had to die to give it to the others.

I could hear other voices as I started to lose consciousness. The pain was getting worse. I thought for a moment that I was truly going to die. It was getting harder to stay awake. As I struggle to stay awake through the pain I caught part of the conversation.

"How's the torture," Captain Hook asks as he walks into the room.

"It's almost complete, " Dr. Facilier replies as he looked in my direction.

"Soon we will break Maleficent free and we will control Auradon," Hook says as he came closer.

"It's a shame that we were never able to get the boy and Mal to truly be on our side," Hades says as he walks into the room.

"Yes, but Maleficent has plans," Dr. Facilier says as he nodded for my stepmother's goons to up the torture.

"You won't win," I say as I finally succumb to the darkness from the torture.

I have no idea how long I'm out. It could have been merely a few seconds to days for all I knew. But as things seemed to become less fuzzy I hear a voice. It was little sister. "Aaron?" I can hear Mal's voice, but that can't be right. I am trapped on the Isle and I told her not to come to rescue me.

"Mal?" I ask as I slowly open up my eyes.

I see the look of relief flood her face as I became more coherent. I take notice of the tear stains on her face. She had been crying over me I realize. Before I am able to make a reply the door to my room crashes open.

"Aaron!" I here from my other siblings as they push themselves into the room I'm in.

"Hey," I say weakly as I try to sit up. As Mal helps me, I take a look around the room that we're in. It's clean and bright, I must be Auradon, because nothing on the Isle is this clean.

"Long time no see," Jay quips, but I can see the excitement that is hidden in his eyes.

Evie rushes and hugs me tightly, crying softly into my shoulder.

"Hey, it's ok," I say as rub soothing circles on her back.

Carlos tries to hug me as Evie is still clinging to me. The hug turns out more comical than anything else. But hey, we all needed a laugh.

"How did I get here?" I finally ask my siblings.

"Several villains showed up with you yesterday morning and traded your life for mom's," Mal says as she refuses to meet my gaze.

"Hey, it's not your fault," I say to her to get her to snap out of her slump. She nods, but that is it. "So what's it like here?" I ask changing the subject to something more lighthearted. I did not want to think of the Isle any more.

Three of my siblings all seem to try to talk at once. They want to explain how amazing it is here. But I notice my sister is awfully quiet. "Mal?" I ask, "Is something wrong?"

Immediately, Jay, Carlos, and Evie look at Mal as she is trying to escape the room. I now know that something other than her beating our mom has happened here.

"Busted," Jay says towards Mal as she fails to escape the room.

I watch as she glares daggers at Jay and still refuses to meet my gaze.

"What happened?" I ask her again, I was using what the four call my kingly voice.

"I have a boyfriend," Mal mutters so quietly that no one can understand.

"What was that?" I ask her again with a raised eyebrow.

"I have a boyfriend," she says louder this time.

"What?" I demand. No, my sister did not just say that she has a boyfriend. My baby sister did not say what I think she said.

Ben

"Tell me the truth now," I demand of my parents. "Who is he?" I was no longer in the mood to play the nice kid. I wanted answers from my parents. I was sick of them not giving me the answers that I of my parents had been keeping enough secrets from me and I was tired of it.

"You're older brother," my father says not meeting my stern gaze.

I was floored for a moment. It took me a second to find my voice. "What?" I demand. My thoughts are going a thousand miles per second. How could I have an older brother that I know nothing about and not a single person has ever mentioned. "How?" I asked softly, not trusting my thoughts to come out of my mouth if I say anything more.

"I had just been elected ruler of the United States of Auradon, and your mother had just given birth to your older brother. But not even a week later, he was taken from our palace," my father says. I don't know if it's shame, regret, or anger that it coloring his words. It might be mixture of all three.

"Like Rapunzel?" I ask skeptically. I wanted to scoff at the irony of everything. My brother had been kidnapped as a baby and raised with the villains. It had to be some sort of joke. "You're telling me that some of the other villains pulled a Mother Gothal on you guys?"

"Yes, we were never sure which villain had taken him. By the time that I had decreed that all villains and their sidekicks were to be sent to the Isle of the Lost, we couldn't find him with any of the villains. We had feared up until the other day that he had been killed," my father continues.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I demand. "Why didn't you tell me that I had a brother?" I get that they thought he had died. Why would a villain keep my brother for so long and not use him sooner to leverage themselves from the Isle.

"Most of the people in Auradon didn't know Aaron had lived to be born," my mother says as she tries not to cry. "We had yet to make the public announcement to all of Auradon. A few of the council members knew he had been born. After he was kidnapped, and we couldn't find him, we told everyone that Aaron never made it. They few council members that knew of his birth helped us look. But he was gone. As time went on, people stopped talking about Aaron. So many people thought that it would be too painful for us, so they refused to ever bring him up. They made it like he never existed."

"Are you going to tell him?" I ask as I made sure that my anger wasn't getting the best of me. I wanted to keep on the subject of why they hadn't told me, but that was an argument for a different time.

"Of course we will tell him," my father shouts in disbelief. "He's our son."

"But you didn't raise him," I point out.

"That doesn't matter. He is still our son," my father yells.

I can tell that I've pushed my dad to far. He upset now. I want to get upset as well. How is it fair that I was never told any of this? "Whatever," I say as walk away from my parents before I lose my temper. "Just so you guys know, Aaron knows that Maleficent isn't his real mother."

I walk as quickly as I can away from my parents. I don't want to be near them at the moment. So I decide to go find Mal and see how my brother or her brother was doing? Wow, this is going to be confusing for the both of us. Aaron is my brother, but my girlfriend was raise with him and he's her older brother. I kinda want to shout out, "Well who's brother is he going to be?" I know that the question is narrow minded, but I'm just so frustrated.

"What?" I hear an unfamiliar voice yell from behind a closed door as I approach it. I guess that it had to be Aaron's voice because I knew everyone else's in the room. "What do you mean you have a boyfriend?" he demands.

Maybe this wasn't the best time to interrupt them. I don't want to lose my head to my new brother who is a brother to my girlfriend. This is confusing. I turn around to make a quick getaway. But it's too late to leave as I hear Aaron on the other side of the door call out, "You can come in."

'Well, here goes nothing,' I think to myself as I open the door and walk into the bedroom.

"Hey," I say as I walk into the room to find all the children of the Isle in the same room.

"Hey," Jay says with a smug look on his face. I can tell that he is looking forward to the death threats that I'm going to get from Aaron for dating his sister. Jay had never been able to threaten me, but now Aaron was here to do it for him.

"You are?" Aaron ask me as he looks at the faces of all his siblings.

"I am King Auradon," I say. Not sure that this was the best thing to say. But hey it was a starting point. I knew I couldn't say, 'Oh yea, I'm your little brother. How's it been trapped on the Isle since you were kidnapped?' That would not go over well at all.

"And," Aaron says trying to get more information out of me. He doesn't seem to be impressed by my title.

"My name is Ben, and I'm Belle and Beast's son," I say trying not to get murdered by my older brother. Standing in front of him I can see the similarities between the two of us. We both have our mother's light brown hair color. Aaron has our mother's brown eyes. I can see that in the way he holds himself is the same way that our father holds himself.

"There a reason why you're staring at me?" Aaron asks me as he raises an eyebrow.

"I was just curious how you knew I was on the other side of the door?" I lie.

"Our mother always joked saying that I had the ears of a beast," Aaron says with a soft chuckle.

As Aaron says that I can see a light come on in Mal's head as she looks between Aaron and I several times. She's connected the dots onto why my parents were acting so strange.

"He's your brother," Mal says immediately as she realizes now that all the pieces are in place.