Away From Reality/ A Carlos DeVil Story/

A Family Reunion

Hades arrived not too long after and was escorted into Audrey's room. "Thank you for coming." Mal nodded.

"Didn't have much choice." Hades sighed.

"Can you wake her?" Ben asked.

"Since when do heroes care about villains?" He asked.

"She's..." Ben started.

"One of your own." Hades finished and chuckled. "Right. When you guys try to destroy the world... it's an error in judgment. But when it's one of us... lock them up and throw away the key. Right, Beast?" He looked at Adam. He lifted his arms and everyone flinched, he sighed. "Yeah. I'm gonna need to use my hands."

They unlocked his cuffs and Mal hesitated before giving him the ember. His hair ignited and he smirked. "Haven't lost my touch."

After an intense growling competition between Adam and Hades, he walked over to the foot of the bed.

I grasped onto Carlos' hand and he squeezed it comfortingly. The room illuminated blue and after a moment Audrey sat up and woke. Everyone gasped. "Audrey." Queen Leah gasped. "You're okay."

Audrey's face was painted with guilt and regret, "Tell me it was all a bad dream." She whispered.

"I wish I could." Ben sighed. "But, it's over now."

"I'm sorry." Audrey shook her head. "I wanted to hurt you both. I wanted to hurt all of you."

Mal walked up to her and grabbed her hand, "I have owed you an apology for... a very long time now."

"And so have I." Ben nodded.

"And perhaps, I have owed you one, too." Queen Leah sighed.

The guards went back up to Hades, "Oh, yeah." He frowned. They took him out of the room and Mal followed them.

A few seconds later she came back and we all made our way out to give Audrey some space.

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I made my way to the chapel with the two shards of mirror in my shaking hands. Carlos was at my side the whole time we walked and once we got to the doors he let me go in alone.

I slowly walked over to the large mirror that I glanced through for the first time only a year ago, never knowing that my mother could have possibly been watching me from the other side the whole time.

I knelt down in front of the broken corner and with a shaky hand I placed one shard in its place. Like magic, the mirror fixed itself and now there was only one spot for a missing piece.

I took a deep breath and placed the other in and watched. The whole mirror rippled and glowed bright, I shielded my eyes away and when I looked back there was a girl that looked a few years older than me, on her knees. She panted before looking up and I gasped.

"Mom?"

She nodded quickly and I ran into her arms, the two of us burst into tears and clutched onto each other for dear life. "I knew you could do it." She whispered.

We rambled about stupid small things when another figure entered the building. "Payton?!"

Dad saw the two of us and froze and so did mom. We stood and I smiled softly, "I found her dad." I chuckled.

"Peter..." My mom breathed out and ran for him, my dad doing the same. They met and she threw her arms around him. I smiled at the sight of them and walked over to them. They shared a loving moment and mom looked at me, she pulled me to them and for the first time in a very, very, long time, I felt both of my parents hold me in their arms. I couldn't help but cry. 

A/N: Hey! Sorry for the short chapters but the next chapter is the last one of this book! Thanks for the support and love!