REUNITED

Chapter 9

Checkup

"So did you do it!?"

Hayley was now asleep in the den. If she didn't wake in the next two hours Hadie and Hayden were planning to leave her to sleep while they go to the hideout to check up on the others.

"Of course I did. swallowed my pride and everything," Hadie said, deciding not to tell Hayden about Mal's breakdown; she rarely let her walls down, and hadie knew that when she woke up they were going right back up.

"So I'm guessing she took it lightly?" Hayden asked, raising an eyebrow as his brother dragged him through the door yelling to their dad that they were leaving to check up on the others. perks of being the middle child he guessed.

"Is everybody ok?" Malachy asked making his way inside while using his eyes to scan over everyone

"Where's mal?"

"What am I rotten tomato?"

"Oh, Malachi you know I didn't mean it as that" Harriet said in a teasing voice "she's usually never too far from you guys".

Malachi simply rolled his eyes and shrugged "We left her asleep" you could have heard a pin drop.

"at maleficent's" Evie whispered, placing her hand over her mouth.

Ok, the boys weren't going to lie that was a logical yet dumb response it's just like Harriet told it their sister was never too far and if they left her to sleep somewhere obviously the place must be safe enough for them to leave without her.

"Who do you take us for Cruella!" Malachi asked jokingly.

"Meh don't worry about it guys she's safe," Malachy said ruffling his brother's hair and making his way over to Harriet.

"don't touch the hair"

"So how is everyone," Malachy asked suddenly. It was his duty as one of the oldest members to make sure that everyone was alright well as alright as one can be living on the isle.

"I already did that," Harriet said raising her hand to stop Malachy from going further " but if you still want to know no one seemed to be badly bruised, we managed to help jay finish his dad's quota, and if you're wondering why Freddie isn't here she's watching her youngest sister".

That made sense ever since Harriet and Freddie's mothers died they were left to take care of their younger siblings, much like him the only difference was that both parents were alive but things were complicated. At least Anastasia was a big help in caring for Celia, CJ, and her niece, though Celia was a rare exception, Dr.Facilier opting to take care of his daughter himself, Occasionally asking Freddie to watch her when he had principal work to take care of.

There were days when he would sit and wonder what it would be like if he could live with his dad and Lady Persephone. His memory of her was hazy but she seemed to be a pretty great woman. Whatever convinced his dad to have kids with his mom instead of his goddess wife will forever be a mystery to him. He knew his mother would eventually come and get them. Besides such thoughts were very childish and the isle was no such place for such fairytale dreams.

"you ok?"

"yeah just thinking" he chuckled.

"A very dangerous pastime" Harriet sighed as she leaned in closer to Malachy."You ever wish we could all stay like this without worrying how we're going to obtain our next meal, wondering if we're going to live to see another day, Just no worries at all" looking around their hideout granted not everyone was here Malachy could see that everyone was safe they had no one screaming at them calling them useless, they didn't have to steal a score just to sleep inside, No one was telling them to lose weight to be pretty they were not happy but were content with what they had. "All the time Harriet, All the time."

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"Would you two shut up and help us carry these?" Everyone had eventually gathered at the clubhouse including Mal and they had all decided that it was the perfect mood and time for them to all make smoke bombs and hurl them at each other.

"Kai-Kai and I aren't even on your team" It had been a while since Malachi had heard his sister call him that and it honestly felt good to hear.

The group of eleven made their way to their secluded battlefield where they got ready to fight "raise your hand and state whose team you're on" one by one they went over to their respective team captains.

"Ah, it seems to me that Jay and Uma have betrayed me," Mal chucked as she took cover behind a nearby wall.

"Says the girl that betrayed her older brother." Smoke bombs were going off everywhere and after fifteen minutes Harriet's team managed to knock Gil out. "we're down a boy" Uma yelled as she placed all her focus on trying to knock down her younger cousins.

"GOTCHA!!!"

"GO FUTURE BELLE-SOEUR" the twins yelled as Uma dragged her defeated body to the loser's side of the battlefield.

Soon enough only four contestants were left; they were Malachy, Mal, Harriet andJay. Malachi would have been in the standing if it weren't for Harry going all mad in getting revenge on Harriet for taking down Uma, He managed to knock everyone out including himself.

They were down to four smoke bombs, one each and they had to make this count. It had now turned into a very serious match and neither one of them was thinking logically. Jay threw the first smoke bomb that mal dodged but it hit Malachy while he was attempting to shove Harriet out of its way causing her smoke bomb to hit mal and his hitting Jay So, in the end, they each killed their teammate.

"That was fun," they nodded.

Today has been an excellent day if you ask them. They all got to relax and be kids for once without the constant worry that comes with living on the isle, making their way back to the hideout without knowing the tragedy that awaited them in the future. The group smiled.

Sorry for not updating you know how it is writer's block! Authors like me hate them.