MOTHER ONLY KNOWS...FEAR { 2nd - Mother Knows series - ORIGINAL}

LIKE THEIR PARENTS

Rain turns around reluctantly. What the hell is that? It's me, I think. Behind her is a stained-glass window of her in a burgundy ball gown, soft dark red curls and green eyes that look blue in white light. Rain only knew that because someone shined one on it to show that aspect. The sentiment behind it almost distracts Rain from the terrible design. But god did he try.

"Ben did that?"

"Yeah," Mal rubs Rain's back

"He did," Evie wipes a tear from Rain's eyes that's escaped.

"Ben's known who I was all along,"

"He loves the real you R," Carlos pipes up.

"I mean, we look horribly deformed, it's the thought that counts right?" Mal nods slightly, hiding her smile. Rain knew she agreed that it looked like something a child would draw.

"A true love," Evie distracts her from the looks of the glass.

"Told you," Carlos and Mal chorus.

"Cover that back up!" Uma comes storming towards them, her true colours shining through.

"I will not!" yes Lumiere, go off.

Uma stutters for a bit "why don't you tell everyone the present you have for me Ben,"

"I have an announcement! Uma, will be joining the court tonight, as my lady," Rain goes to interject but Beast does it for her.

"Son..."

"Not now dad!" Ben flinches at his own voice and everyone watches quietly, shocked that Ben had yelled at his father "So, as my gift to her, I will be bringing down the barrier, once and for all!" Rain looks to Mal and Evie in panic. All the villains, set free? "Fairy Godmother, take down the barrier,"

"I most certainly will not!"

"I am your king!" Rain raises her eyebrows, that wasn't Ben. Something was more than wrong.

"Obey him!" Uma shouts and then it clicks when she sees Uma's necklace and remembers about her spell book that she dropped. He was spelled. Of course, he was! Why had it taken her so long to figure it out? She put it down to the long day.

"Ben's been spelled! "relief washes over Rain. He didn't just forget about her.

"Uma found your spell book," Mal nods agreeing with Evie. Rain looks up at the horrific stained glass one last time.

"True love...Here we go," Rain walks forward gently "Ben...calm down," She puts her arm out gently, he seems to be breathing more steadily, Rain walks forward, putting her arm down and keeping eye contact with him, he tries to avoid it "look at me,"

"No! Look at me! You love me, remember," Rain laughs slightly and Uma looks outraged

"No, you don't"

"Yes, you do!"

"Ben, look at me," the gentler approach seems to be appealing to him, Ben's eyes no longer switch between the two girls, they stay on Rain. Uma keeps shouting at Fairy Godmother but Rain's too focused on trying to keep Ben's eyes on her "Ben, I never told you that I loved you, because I thought that I wasn't good enough. And I thought it was only a matter of time before you realised that yourself! But Ben! That's me!" he turns to look at the glass "in that horrible stained glass, that you probably spent weeks on, I'm part Isle and part Auradon, hence why I can tell you the truth about that god-awful thing!" She knew she really shouldn't be saying stuff about the 'artwork'.

Uma tries to protest and a few times Ben looks at her, but he keeps looking back at Rain "you've always known who we were, and who we can be. Ben, I know what love feels like now, because I love you. I've always loved you," Rain leans up to go for a kiss and Ben doesn't protest. Dear god she hoped this worked.

When they part Ben's, eyes are filled with admiration yet again.

"You love me?" he looks so bloody smug, but Rain smiles anyway.

"Yeah..." they keep their foreheads stay together.

"True loves kiss, works every time," Mal and Evie's voices break through the moment.

"Give it to me!" Uma goes for the wand.

"Guards! Seize her!" Fairy Godmother tries to fight her off before Uma goes to jump in the sea.

"No! Stop!" Rain steps out before the guards can react "Uma! I know you! You are so much more than just a villain! A pain in my arse" she goes to jump "Sorry! Bad joke! I know where you're coming from! You just want the Isle free!" Rain claims to hate her, but she completely understood where she was coming from.

"I get that! I really do! Those kids don't deserve the treatment they get! We can help them! Do not let your pride get in the way of something you want! I've been where you are now!" Uma's necklace starts glowing. She makes a leap for the railing and Rain screams for her to stop. They all watch as the yellow glow beneath the water grows bigger, A huge wave engulfs Them and Rain spots several tentacles before Ben pulls her back.

"God that's cold," Rain mutters before running up to the railing, Uma's now much bigger and her legs are replaced with tentacles. When Rain said she looked like her mother, she didn't mean like that.

"True love's kiss won't defeat this! The world will know my name!" Uma uses one of her many new tentacles to hit the ship, and then again. Mal starts pacing before purple smoke surrounds her. If Uma can do that... Mal can turn into a dragon? And then she does. Rain is pulled back by Ben and suddenly a line of fairy lights go out and Rain's hands are glowing with golden energy.

Edited: May 2021