Dark Times -2 season

Family

As soon as Ben arrives in his room, he sees Mal sleeping peacefully. Mal sleeps like always, but with her growing belly, she began to sleep with her hands resting on her stomach. When he sees her like this, all the anger passes and the urge to scream goes away, all he does is run back to the office. This is horrible for him and for his daughter, whose face he has never even seen, but loves more than himself.

He never thought it was fair that she wasn't a normal baby, just because she has magic... and the woman in his life. Mal is his best friend, his partner for everything and above all, his true love, what kind of decision is that? Either way, he'd end up hurting himself and without someone he loves.

(...)

The next day, when Mal wakes up and doesn't see Ben lying in bed or anywhere else in the room, she goes straight to his office and finds him asleep on the couch.

"You're so cute." She says, running her hands through his disheveled hair. Before waking him up, she goes to his desk to see what kept him up so late. What she didn't expect was to see a piece of paper written "First registration of law 9.599.2 — Prohibition of the use of magic" "What?" She says more loudly, forgetting about the sleeping boy.

"Mal? Mal, what are you doing here? I thought I was asleep."

He asks, rubbing his eyes in an attempt to wake up.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."

She replies, still looking at the paperwork.

"What time is it now?"

"It's already morning, seven, or eight o'clock." She says without taking her eyes off the papers. "Ben, what's this?"

"Draft of the law banning magic."

He's still drowsy, which is probably why he didn't notice his wife's visibly frightened and angry face.

"And you've read it?"

"A few points, why?"

"Because it's absurd. How is that possible, Ben?"

"It's just a draft, Mal, and we said we'd give them a law."

"No, you say that."

Mal reminded him, making it clear that she's thought this was idiotic from the moment they considered creating a law.

"Mal, calm down, okay?"

He asks, running a hand over his head in an attempt to ease the pain he feels.

"Calm down? I'm not going to take it easy with this at the risk of it being passed."

"It's not even 9 o'clock, please not now."

"I can't believe what I'm about to say, but I'm dying for this to get into the hands of Fauna, Flora and Merryweather."

"Please give me a break!"

Ben shouts, exploding with anger and a headache.

"What's wrong with you?"

She asks, startled by his scream. Ben doesn't get nervous easily, nor can she remember the last time he raised his voice with someone.

"Nothing, I'm sorry. I'm going to take a shower."

I left without letting her reply and wanting to know why he was like that.

(...)

Later, Mal was returning to the castle after a meeting with some leaders when she received a message.

"I'll meet you at my house, we'll wait for you." Evie

These kinds of family meetings mean that something serious is going on. It could be Jay. A few days ago, he told the Vk's about Jafar's health and how the villain from Aladdin isn't doing well at all. Or it could be Evie who is thinking of spending time with Doug on one of his trips around the kingdom. In any case, she asked the driver to reroute the route to her friend's house.