My Other Half (Descendants 2 fanfic)

Chapter 7

"Mal?"
"Lani!" Mal makes a notion to approach me but then Harry enters and she stays back. Mal has changed a lot. She still looks tough but Dizzy must have just done her hair, which makes her look a lot more mature. It's a plum purple colour and is cut shorter and is straightened. She has a fringe as well to give it some edge and she pulls it off well.

Harry doesn't seem to notice her as he approaches Dizzy.
"Fork it over ya runt," Harry taps the counter with his hook. "and the rest of it." He takes all of Dizzy's earnings and I smile wickedly, trying to impress Harry and scare Dizzy.
"Hm, thank you." Harry says satisfied.
"Still doing errands for Uma or do you actually get to keep what you steal?" Mal speaks up. Harry turns around and gives me a look but I don't do anything.
"Well well we'll, what a nice surprise."
"Hi Harry."
"Just wait until Uma here's your back. She is never going to give you back your territory." He says, walking up to her. I stay back.
"Oh well, that's ok, because I will be taking it." Mal says. Good answer.
"I could hurt you." Harry says, running his hook through her hair. Mal grabs Harry's arm and pulls out the gun she was chewing and places on the end of his hook.
"Not without her permission I bet." Mal says with mock pity in her voice. Harry laughs a little and plucks the gum with his teeth from his hook. He turns towards me and mock bows, making everything from the counter fall. He places an arm around my shoulders and we walk out of the salon.

"Nelani. What the hell was that?" Harry asks.
"What?" I ask.
"Ye did nothing. Absolutely nothing." Harry says.
"So? You looked like you had things handled." I say.
"Ye still feel something, don't cha?" He asks, his voice softening. "The way you looked at her, she left you Lass, you were bloody broken, hell you still are." He gestured to my limp. Bonus, that still hasn't gone away, it makes me slower when we fence.
"Well maybe I was a bit shocked, Hook. Maybe I wasn't expecting her to be standing right there. Hell, maybe I wasn't expecting her to be the so called visitor!" I yelled at him.
"Nelani."
"No, just forget it, we've finished everything, I'm going home." I stomp away from him and head back to the ship. I could hear Harry yelling out to me but I was too angry to turn around.
Was he right? Do I still feel something? I don't want to think about it right now. I make it back to the ship and open the door to my room, jump into the hammock and try to sleep. But it doesn't come. I groan and toss and turn. Harry enters about 7 minutes after me and I squeeze my eyes shut. He comes over to me and sighs.
"What are we gonna do with you, lass?" He asks. I feel his rough fingers graze my cheek. What the hell? He jumps into his own hammock and falls asleep almost instantly. And again, like most nights, Harry's snores drift me off to sleep.

Uma called Harry and I to her office again.
"So according to Gil, he spotted Evie, Carlos, King Ben and some other girl down the alleyways last night. And so that must mean that either Jay came with Mal or he didn't come at all, and I don't think that's the case." Uma explained.
"You really think he's here?" I ask.
"Positive. Now, Nelani. I need to know something. Are you with us to the end? You aren't going to just turn your back on us?" Uma asked.
"No. He hurt me. I'm never going to trust him again." I reply firmly. And for the first time since he left I truely believe that. Jay had hurt me and I am done with being hurt.
"Great." Uma must have a seen the sincerity behind my words. "First mission, steal the king, and maybe that other girl. That will provoke Mal and Jay to come out. Second, I will set up a deal with them to come to the chip shop, this is how we will get the wand. Third, they will have to trade the wand for their friends, which is exactly what they will do. And then, we have the power to break the barrier and leave this god damn place once and for all!" I look at Harry who is smiling wickedly. Uma's plan was amazing.
"When do we start?" I ask.
"Right. Now." Uma smiles.

Harry and I have been tracking the four most wanted people on the Isle all day. We witnessed Evie and Carlos teaching Ben and this other girl being taught how to be 'evil' and then saw them encounter Gil. The dimwit actually recognised them and proceeded on running off to tell Uma. Harry and I followed them all the way to the hangout. Of course, it made sense. Being back here made me think of all the times I would come here and just stare at Jays image.
"You okay?" Harry asks.
"Fine." I reply. "Just that I used to come here a lot." Harry and watch as Carlos throws a rock at he sign and opens the door. The king and the girl walk up the stairs together to the top of the hangout where, supposedly, Mal and Jay would be. Evie and Carlos sat together on crates. Now all there was to do was wait.

After about 10 minutes, the two hero kids came down the stairs looking defeated. It was hard to pick out the conversations, but the king walked towards us.
"Now!" I whisper. I pull the king into the ally we were spying from and knee him in the balls. He lets out a cry of pain and Harry punches him in the head. The king collapses and Harry leaves him on the ground. The three other pirates who were with us stood next to us.
"Take him back to the ship." I order. The pirates pick him up and run away.
"Should we worry about the girl?" I ask.
"No. Let her be, Jay will probably come for you anyway." Harry said. I sigh and Harry grabs my arm. "Hey! Hey I'm sorry, you guys were close." I shake my head.
"Harry. I'm done with him. Let's just go out and do this." I adjust my pirates hat and start to strut out down the narrow path, Harry following me.
"Ben! Don't scare us like that!" I heard Evie comment.
"Don't scare you?" Harry asks and I smirk. "Why, that's my speciality." He smiles.
"Harry!" Evie hisses.
"Lani?" Carlos asks.
"Wow, I'm surprised you even remember my name." I say.
"Lani, what are you doing?" Asks Evie. "And where's Ben?"
"Ben? Oh, we nicked him." Harry replied.
"If you want to see him again, Mal and Jay come to the chip shop tonight. Alone. Uma wants a little visit." I say, smirking. Harry puts his arm around me and we strut away.

Evie and Carlos have changed too, no more did Evie wear little tiaras on her head, nor did Carlos have little curls sprouting from his scalp. Evie had braids and Carlos has grown his hair out. They look mature too, but they really haven't changed a bit. Evie is such a princess and Carlos still isn't as brave as Jay ever was, but he seems more confident. I wonder what Jay is like now.
"Let's go, we need to tell Uma what happened." I say to Harry.
Things are about to get ugly.
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I was going to wait, but I'm gonna post these next chapters haha
I can't wait for you to read them (it's about time too)