Mad Love | Prince Ben

07| Whats my name?

IN ONLY A FEW WEEKS TIME MADDIE HAD BECOME an accepted member of the crew, although Uma treated her more like a good friend, not giving her any tiring or too dangerous tasks.

She had mostly been out on the isle with Harry, causing some mischief, but not too much. On that days patrol, the two had done a little bit of harmless shoplifting.

Once they arrived in Ursula's fish and chips shop, they put away their swords and stepped towards the back, where Harry turned on the old tv. Uma soon joined them, bringing two plates with her. One with pure fries, the other with unidentifiable food. She pushed the latter onto the table, where the other pirates threw themselves at it, whilst giving the other one to Maddie.

The sea witch noticed that Mal was on the screen, took a handful of the food and threw it onto it.

"Poser" she began.

"Traitor." Harry joined in.

"Fraud." Maddie stated.

When Uma didn't get a reaction from the others, she said "hello!?", which made the others throw stuff onto the television as well.

"Oh, I would love to wipe the smiles off their faces, you know what I mean?" Harry asked whilst caressing Madeline's cheek. He was quite attracted to her and was awful at hiding it.

"Gil. You wanna quit choking down yolks and get with the program?" Uma asked the fourth member of the close gang. He was beyond absent, Maddie wasn't sure how he still didn't have to walk the plank.

"Yeah, what they said." Was the reply, he had clearly been lost in his thoughts.

"THAT LITTLE TRAITOR. Who left us in the dark."

"Who turned her back on evil."

"Who thought she could mess with me."

"Who said you weren't big or bad enough to be in her gang." Gil threw in, completely missing the point, making everyone look at him in silence.

"Back when we were kids. Come on, you guys remember. She called her shrimpy and the name just kind of..." Maddie looked over to Harry, who held his hook ready, "...stuck." Gil gulped.

"That snooty little witch. Who grabbed everything she wanted and left me nothing."

"No, she left you that sandbox, and then she said that you could have the shrimp..."

"I need you to stop talking." Uma cut Gil off.

"Look, we have her turf now." Harry tried to calm her down. "They can stay in Boreadon..."

"Harry, that's her turf now. And I want it too. We should not be getting her leftovers. Son of Hook, son of Gaston, daughter of the Mad Hatter and me, most of all, daughter of Ursula."

She turned to Harry, asking him "What's my name?" He took off his hat and whispered "Uma"

She then asked Gil, who had returned to eating yolks, the same thing. He chewed and said "Uma."

Finally, she went over to Maddie, their faces centimetres apart.

"What's my name?" She whispered with a smirk.

The other girl kneeled down before her and said "Uma."

The whole crew then began dancing. Maddie had gotten used to being in these spontaneous dance numbers, she usually stuck to doing what either Uma or Harry were doing, because she always found at least one of them standing beside her.

After finishing the song, one of Ursula's tentacles slithered through the room, almost hitting Maddie, who had been shielded by Harry merely seconds before.

Uma began a small discussion with her mother, which ended quickly.

"It's fine. It's fine. Because when I get my chance to rain down the evil on Auradon, I will take it. They're gonna forget that girl and remember the name..."

"SHRIMPY!" Gil interrupted Uma, which earned him a timeout. Harry led him outside whilst Uma took Maddie with her to hang out.

It was kind of weird, Uma was never one to spend quality time with anyone or even waste a second not plotting something, but with Maddie she could easily let go. And even if it sounded crazy, Madeline was all in.