Dollhouse

To the Lost kids, Ace was the innocence of the isle all bundled into a broken and bloodied boy from a country where everything was nonsense. Nothing was what it was, and everything was what it wasn't. But Ace knew what was and wasn't, and he wasn't as bonkers as his mother, or the hatter, or the hare, or the cat, or the mouse, or the rabbit who led Alice down the rabbit hole. He was a special person in a sea of mad and angry and bitter and crazy. He was a prince among thieves, and liars, and beggars but a useless card to his mother. He was the quiet calm in an eye of a storm.

To the Lost kids, he was a caged beast stolen and torn from the light.

So, they had brought him to Auradon where he could heal and flourish.
(Note: Begins before second movie even came out)