Welcome to thsi story! I'm glad you decided to read it this first chapter is mostly fluffy banter between the two.
Mal and Evie were inseparable and today was no different. They sat in their room each doing their thing, Mal sketching in her notebook and Evie working on making some new clothes. There was a comfortable silence in the room and they didn't mind it at all. Specially Mal, since this was the most time she could go staring at Evie without getting questioned. Mal loved to sketch the blue princess when she worked, she always glowed with content as she concentrated on creating new things. Today Evie had been making her something, she knew because of the colours, purple and pink with a few accents of green. Mal's colours, it was undeniable. And Mal found that heartwarming, not that she'd ever admit it. I mean Evie of course made clothes for Jay and Carlos too, but not as often as Mal and she found that very pleasing.
In this specific moment Mal had completely stoped drawing and was just looking at Evie, taking everything in. Her long blue hair, her slightly pouty rosy lips as she concentrated, her big brown eyes relaxed as she knew what she was doing. It was like watching a goddess create life. Mal would never admit it out loud but she felt more affection with Evie than she did with Ben. Maybe it was to be expected as Evie was her best friend but she didn't think about that too much. It was only in times like these that she wondered.
Evie had noticed that Mal stopped working her hand across the notebook pages and felt flustered when she glanced at her to see where her attention had gone to. Apparently it had been Evie herself. So she tried not to look at Mal as she felt herself getting hot to her face. It felt like an eternity, Mal just kept checking her out. Because that's all it could've been perceived as on her end. Evie let herself relaxed and thought about teasing Mal. So she waited until her blush was gone and turned to see Mal with a smirk on her lips.
"Hey M, you like what you see?" Evie expertly gave her a flirty look what she didn't expect was Mal's face completely blushed and an expression like she had been caught red handed. Which she was and she saw Mal trying to be cool about it but she certainly had an internal struggle because she took forever to answer.
"And what if I do, Princess? You don't seem to mind." Mal finally answered, perfectly in character as if she hadn't even been flustered minutes before. Evie almost let herself be flustered again but retorted quickly.
"Well aren't you spicy, little Dragon?" Evie purred at Mal. She didn't usually use that nick name but using it in this manner made Mal red to the face again.
"Ok you win, I can't take it anymore!" Mal said frustrated at her own behaviour. She had liked that Evie was flirting, she would rather welcome that than Ben's flirting... what am I thinking? Ben is my boyfriend! I don't like Evie that way. Right? Mal thought to herself.
Evie laughed heartedly, "Oh Mal..." she kept laughing and Mal blushed furiously with a pout planted on her face, "you're adorable" the purple haired girl could only feel frustrated but only because she enjoyed that banter and all of Evie's compliments.
Mal hadn't noticed Evie's blush in any of the previous statements so when she said her next comment she was surprised to see the Princess blushing, "you're the most adorable though, and beautiful." Evie quickly started working again to hide her blush.
"Alright, Mal! What are we going to eat tonight?" Evie tried changing the subject to calm herself down. Surely food was a safe topic.
Mal didn't hesitate even a second to let her answer out, "how about each other?" She said nonchalantly. Then her words were processed by her brain and she blushed the hardest she had even done in her life. Evie had a matching colour on her face. She had meant it as a joke but I guess it was too flirty and not enough funny.
Right, I'm definitely not thinking of kissing Evie, and not not just kiss her... ravish her. Eat her for dessert. Mal thought that through and suddenly she felt very aroused. She never felt this excited with Ben. Ok Mal get your shit together.
"Or we could get some sandwiches. You like those right?" Mal quickly covered. She noticed Evie was blushing really hard and she took a minute to finally answer.
"Yeah, sure. Do we– shall we– let's go eat yeah? Sandwiches. Eat food I mean." Evie put a hand to her face as she was frustrated that she had become this flustered mess. Mal was confused why it had affected her so much but she didn't want to bring that up now.
"Yeah let's go." Mal jumped down from the bed and walked to the door, waiting for Evie.
Evie got up from her station and walked to the door making sure to not make any physical contact with Mal.
Evie felt so hot after that mental image. It took her a while to put away the thought of eating Mal out… sucking and gulping all of the fluids… licking and biting her on her most sensitive spots… and now she was blushing again thinking of all that. She needs to stop, Mal has a boyfriend and Evie just broke up with Doug a day ago. Specifically because she realised she had been in love with Mal all along. But she had to get over that, she wasn't about to ruin her best friend's happiness with her selfishness.
Evie was desperately trying to avoid touching Mal, she knew for certain that she wouldn't be able to stop herself from kissing Mal if she touched her right now. Evie almost cursed her flirty and exited nature. Almost.
Once they were at the cafeteria they went to the buffet and picked their choices of sandwiches. Evie grabbed some milk and Mal chocolate milk. Then she remembered her first days in Auradon as she couldn't believe they people could drink the disgusting stuff. Once Evie tried it she realised fresh milk was way better than milk gone bad. Mal still had her wariness and never drank whole milk on its own. She needed the chocolate, and she liked it that way.
Now that Evie calmed down, she grabbed Mal's hand and dragged her to their spot out in the gardens to eat. Under an apple tree that Mal had seen on one of her dates with Ben and Mal couldn't wait to tell Evie about it because she loved her apples.
I'm always thinking of Evie… and her wellbeing. I just want her to be happy. Mal thought in silence. She then noticed after they sat down to eat that Evie was awfully and unusually quiet. Was the flirting too much earlier? Mal was about to apologise to the only person she apologised to when Evie cleared her throat.
"Yes?" Mal asked.
"I have to tell you something, M." Evie said not looking towards Mal.
"Ok, go ahead. You know I got your back, E." Mal said giving her a big smile, trying to hide how nervous she was getting as if fearing the worst.
"I-I brokeupwithdougandiwanttotellyouwhybutidontknowifishould" Evie said in one breath and her face was flustered again.
"Ok I only heard "Doug" in that whole mumbling mess you said. Calm down Evie it's only me." Mal assured Evie.
"It's because it's you that is so hard… I care for you Mal and you mean a lot to me and I don't want to ruin what we have because I can't control my feelings!" Evie explained clearly frustrated. Mal seemed confused and she looked at her to explain. "Ok I broke up with Doug!" Evie let out in frustration because she didn't know how else to say it.
"Ok why would you breaking up with Doug ruin what we have? I'm sure Ben and Doug will still be best buddies, and I'll be fine with Ben. Plus you're my best friend, nothing could dampen our relationship."
"Ok Mal you are so clueless." Evie laughed heartedly losing some of her nervousness, but Mal pouted as she was being judged by her friend. "Don't pout! It's just adorable how you are." Evie let out and Mal blushed slightly.
"Stop… you've been awfully nice to me today. This is the second time in the span of an hour that you call me adorable…" Mal said fighting the blush on her face to death because Mal doesn't blush. Not even Ben can make her react like this and she's started to really really like him.
"I can't help it it's what I feel." She let out and when Mal looked further confused she covered up saying, "I mean- you are just cute– well beautiful– what I mean is that you bring out a side of me that makes me comfortable and since we've been bonding more since we came to Auradon it feels natural for me to compliment you." Ok so that was vague enough for her to not see that I'm in love with her.
"Ok, I'm so confused but basically your saying that you think I'm beautiful and that you feel more connected with me since we are talking more and opening up." Evie nodded at this. "I feel the same way, I feel way more attached to you now. I mean in the Isle we weren't acting like friends it was more like it suited us to be together, and even then I felt an inkling of friendship I just couldn't afford to be soft, I am Maleficent's daughter I couldn't be a softie! But now with you at least… I can just be me. Is it possible that's what you mean?"
"Mal, yes, I feel so grateful that you trust me enough to open up to me, I remember when you can to me for help for that first date with Ben! I felt so happy. And ever since then you've told me everything, how you feel with him, how you think of it, you even told Jay, Carlos and I how much you cared for us. We've come a long way, and I just feel like that. That I just need to tell you how beautiful you are because I finally can. Mal, you mean so much to me and I just didn't want you to think it was going to be weird after I told you this."
"It's not weird Evie, if anything it makes me feel… like I'm confident I'm cared for, is that? Is that what love is? Because E, I feel that for you too. You are so beautiful and smart and strong and I can't believe you care for me like I care for you."
Evie was bursting with so much happiness she felt the urge to kiss Mal. And she knew she wasn't going to be able to contain herself.
"So E, if you want to talk about your break up I'm here, giving you all the support you need like you gave me when I wasn't sure whether to date Ben or not." Mal took Evie's hand and looked at her affectionately.
Evie was on the brink of losing her control. "It's ok there's not much to talk about. I just realised that I just love some– I just didn't love him." Mal raised her eyebrow, love someone else? Is that was she was going to say? Mal dropped her internal monologue specially because it brought a feeling she knew very well: jealousy. But of what, she didn't know. Maybe something to do that Evie didn't care just for her.
"Ok but im here if you need me." Mal hugged Evie and Evie was surprised, she never recalled Mal initiating a hug, only being on the receiving end of Evie's hugs.
Evie felt like she would kiss Mal right there. But she couldn't for the sake of Mal and Ben she couldn't. She held onto Mal, and Mal felt loved again. It felt awesome, better than Ben's hugs. And at that thought Mal pulled away.
"Alright let's finish eating so I can finish the sketch I'm making of a goddess." Mal said grinning at Evie.
And that was it, Evie leaned in really fast and had half the mind to not kiss Mal on her lips, instead her own lips landing on Mal's forehead. An endearing act, just enough to calm her urges but bold enough to keep her wanting more.
Mal's face felt warm and she had closed her eyes at the sudden movement but now she felt relaxed. Yes she was blushing intensely but she was happy. And Mal just hugged Evie again. "Thank you E, for all this love you give me." Because at last Mal knew what real love felt like. And she knew that what her and Evie had was special. Evie just wrapped her arms around the baby dragon and kissed her forehead again.
"Thank you M. For everything you've done for me and given me." And so they stayed there for a while. And then continued their lunch. And out in the corner of the garden a heartbroken prince saw the exchange. He left them to their space and figured he should try harder to win over Mal.
End note: This was inspired a while ago but I finally finished it after watching Descendants 2. Watching Mal and Evie's interaction in Space Between was enough to drive me to finish this draft I had. And if you want more let me know and I'll write some. I only have an idea of where I want this to go and it won't be too long of a fic, mostly because I can't seem to write long stories, but i'd like suggestions to give it shape.
Also I was thinking of doing this as a mini series. Like doing this same thing for Jay, Carlos and Lonnie. Idk which ships i'll use yet for the others but if you have any suggestions let me know.
p.s. if there are any spelling mistakes im sorry, just let me know and i'l fix em as fast as I can.