Truth Or Fiction

Chapter Fifty Five

Lonnie grinned as she took a scroll. With every one they read, it was kinda exciting to figure out what was going to happen in the next one.

Mal couldn't help but sigh softly as she and Evie made their way to Ben's office. There was no denying the change in the blue haired girl ever since she started attending the recommended therapy that Ben suggested.

"Therapy can help," Eric nodded, his voice soft. No one but Ariel and Grimsby knew this but after Elle was born, and all the surgeries she'd needed, Eric had started seeing a therapist.

He'd blamed himself, for getting Ariel pregnant when she was still new to the whole human world. When her body was still recovering from the transformation. Maybe if they'd waited a little longer to have kids, Elle wouldn't have been put through all of that.

Actually, he had suggested all the VKs attend their own private therapy session, and even made it a staple of bringing kids from the Isle.

Maybe we should look into a therapist for you too, Ben, Belle thought with a small sigh. After all...if you were blaming yourself for my miscarriage, what else could you be blaming yourself for?

That and medical visits. If there were any issues, Ben wanted to know so they could work on getting them addressed.

"Yeah no," Uma said, shaking her head. "If you think you're going to get VKs to spill secrets to a stranger, let alone let someone jab them with something, you're barking up the wrong tree."

Mal didn't have the heart to tell him that the only one who would probably willingly go along with that would be Gil.

"And that's probably because either Uma's ordered him to do so as his captain or because he has just enough brain power to realize that it won't really look good if the son of Gaston is arguing with the son of King Beast," Harry said.

"Did you just...?"

"I'm leaning more toward the former though."

"There it is," Harriet sighed.

Well, and Hadie but that would just because Mal would have to order him to go along with it. One of the few perks of being the older sister.

"And co-captain," Celia added. "Can't forget the co-captain title."

She had attended one session but the therapist had seemed to be more focused with the fact that she was the 'biological daughter' of Maleficent and that 'it's perfectly natural to have fantasies of having a different parent'. Mal dropped him like a hot potato after the first session.

Maybe I should have kept going, Malinda thought. Maybe then Natalie's comments wouldn't have been able to have the strength they did...

"What?!" Benji exclaimed. "Mal, you...I never...why didn't you tell me?"

"Ben, it's fine," Malinda said, shaking her head.

Hades growled slightly, sounding almost like a platypus to those closest to him. "That's where we differ, Malinda. Honestly you should have gone to Asclepius himself rather than deal with this idiot!"

Ben nodded and pulled his phone close to him, still recording and miraculously not losing a spec of battery life. Though he could wonder about that later.

"Note to self, do through background checks on the therapists and make sure they understand the concept of adoption," he said into the phone before setting it back down.

If she had issues, she could go to Jay, Carlos or Ben, maybe even Evie if it wasn't super personal as they just weren't there yet...or now Harry or Uma.