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hogwartsexpressed2017-11-05 08:51 pm
waystobewicked) wrote in hogwartsexpressed2017-11-05 08:51 pm
New Beginnings
It wasn't that Auradon hadn't worked out. It was that staying in a school with your ex, and his friends that were his friends before you, and with everyone blaming you for ruining the supposedly proposal that was coming was just not the ideal situation. Not for Mal. Not for any of them.
Thankfully Belle hadn't been willing to return them to the Isle, and Ben had begged them to stay, but in the end Belle had contacted another school. One that might be more suiting to them. So the four had packed up their things, been sent magically to another realm and found themselves standing on platform 9 and 3/4, waiting on a train.
Aboard the train the boys had quickly found the candy trolley and eaten themselves into nearly a sugar coma. Mal had waited and watched as they unloaded with the other students. They were older than most, and coming in a few weeks after the year had started. There was talk of sorting and that was a flurry of a talking hat, and a bearded wizard who treated them with bright smiles and offers of lemon drops.
Being told they would be in different houses was interesting, helpful and scary. They would learn more that way, but they would also need to find a place, somewhere to meet. Which was why Mal had grabbed Evie's hand and set out about the castle.
"Well, this is different." Gone was the bright sun, the brilliance of Auradon traded for the Scotland storms. Mal rather liked it, if she were to be honest. More her.
Thankfully Belle hadn't been willing to return them to the Isle, and Ben had begged them to stay, but in the end Belle had contacted another school. One that might be more suiting to them. So the four had packed up their things, been sent magically to another realm and found themselves standing on platform 9 and 3/4, waiting on a train.
Aboard the train the boys had quickly found the candy trolley and eaten themselves into nearly a sugar coma. Mal had waited and watched as they unloaded with the other students. They were older than most, and coming in a few weeks after the year had started. There was talk of sorting and that was a flurry of a talking hat, and a bearded wizard who treated them with bright smiles and offers of lemon drops.
Being told they would be in different houses was interesting, helpful and scary. They would learn more that way, but they would also need to find a place, somewhere to meet. Which was why Mal had grabbed Evie's hand and set out about the castle.
"Well, this is different." Gone was the bright sun, the brilliance of Auradon traded for the Scotland storms. Mal rather liked it, if she were to be honest. More her.
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"No, I think they have other things in this realm that they're dealing with and it's not some villains children vouched by Queen Belle of Auradon," she said with a smile, looking at Mal. She hoped her first instincts in this were correct. This realm had more magic than theirs did! "Which is completely different than where we just came from." She was glad Mal wouldn't be losing that part of herself. She worked too hard to be who she wanted to be. Or, at the very least, recognizing who she wanted to be.
"A tiny bit," Evie said with a laugh, listening to it reverberating off the walls.
Evie's hands tightened around Mal's. "Forever," she agreed before releasing her hands and giving the other girl a hug.
"So let's see where this hallway takes us. If it's some place cool, we'll bring Carlos and Jay with us next time." If they could remember where it was next time! This play was so much bigger than Auradon Prep. While she knew she was capable of magic, the only magic she had ever done had been with Mal. She was excited to see what she could actually do on her own. Not to mention all of the information and knowledge they could learn!
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Blinking at the sounds Evie was making, and then when she explained what had her laughing, Mal couldn't help but to laugh with her. "I didn't have the heart to ask him, but I can't wait to see him in it," she admitted, grinning. "Seriously though, he got the worst. I can live with green. Jay looks great in red. Then there's Carlos," she said, chuckling even as she thinks about it.
"They're not putting much faith in us then," she admitted, smirking at Evie. "Their mistake. I can live with that. I like those that make those mistakes." Many had and would, and they would use it for their benefit.
Loving those hugs, hugging Evie tight and kissing her cheek.
"They went out shopping, you know. The giant from the grounds? He took them out to get their wands." She delighted in that as well. "Wand casting. I can't even imagine. Are you excited for it?" She knew Evie was, but she wanted to hear her talk about it.
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Evie couldn't keep the grin from her mouth as she listened to Mal and laughed again. "He did. Out of all of us, the absolute worst. Just for him, I'll add a hint of red to his uniform." Some place no one else would notice other than the four of them.
She had always admired the way Mal thought and felt a bigger grin spread over her mouth. "They're putting no faith in us whatsoever," she said with a laugh. "Which means there is so much more we can get away with." It was how it always was. Especially when they first went to Auradon Prep. Evie pressed a quick kiss to the girl's cheek before looping her arm through Mal's again.
Evie nodded and smiled, thinking of their faces when they were told they were getting wands. As for her? "Are you kidding? I am so excited! I always thought that I was capable of magic but other than the one or two things I've done with you, I was sure that was the limit of it. But now? Actually LEARNING magic? And that library!" She had been so excited when she had actually gotten a wand and when she had stepped into that library? It was beyond the library back at Auradon Prep that was for sure!
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They needed to make this place theirs. It never occurred to her to do otherwise. They didn't come in and pretend it wasn't theirs. Just as they had done in Auradon.
"Exactly," she said, positively purring that word. "We can take this place and own it. Every inch of it before we're through. Let them see us just as some kids. You're a princess. I'm the daughter of the most powerful witch in any land. We will show them," she said, not caring how much she might well sound like her mother.
Smiling at the cheek kiss, her hand moving to rub Evie's arm as she used that hold to keep her close.
"You will be amazing at this. I can't wait to see how great you are at magic," she said, meaning it. She knew that Evie could and would be amazing at this. Laughing though at the mention of the library. "I'm surprised you're here now rather than in there," she teased.
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She grinned at the tone in Mal's voice. "Absolutely," she purred, "I cannot wait to get started."
They had to find a spot that they could make theirs. Surely it couldn't be that hard in a large castle like this.
Evie smiled and watched her best friend with a fond look. "Thank you, I only hope I can be as strong as you," she teased her. "Well, first things first - we need to find a spot that we can make ours. Then, I can drag you to the library with me." Clearly she had her priorities right.
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"As powerful? Maybe." She grins though, knowing that answer was expected. "And please, the four of us will be amazing. I know Jay has it in him. His father became a genie, and even held like he is..." She pauses then, moving to grab Evie's sleeve and pull her to one side. "I always wanted to ask you this and never felt we were far enough away from Jay not to hear us. Do you think... Do you find it odd he's a thief? And as good as he is? I mean, his father wasn't like that. He was an advisor, but Jay..." She glances around furtively. "Do you think his father stole him to try and get back to Aladdin? And he made the mother forget?"