Fairy Godmother's POV

"Do you know what it's like to be laying on the ground writhing in pain and barely able to breath for hours on end after a beating until you can sum up enough strength to army crawl up the stairs of your house and barely be able to pull yourself up on to a old lumpy beaten up matress you call your bed? Or wishing you could just end it all and die but every time you try the wounds on your wrists just heal up and leave little faint scars?! As if the universe was mocking you by saying 'No one wants you alive but you don't deserve to be put out of your misery'"Mal demands as she holds up her wrist for the king and queen to see. Ben lets out a silent sob as he looks at her absolutely heart broken. I raise my hand to my mouth to hold back a sob as tears tun down my cheeks. These children have been through so much and we've done absolutely nothing to help.

"Let me just tell you that not being able to breath sucks!"she shouts and several of us wince at the pure anger in her tone. I look over at Evie,Jay and Carlos and see them watching their friend pour her heart out with tears in their eyes. Jay has his arms around Carlos and Evie's shoulders protectively and Carlos is holding Dude.

"Do you?!"Mal shouts at King Beast and he can barely look at her.

"No" I hear him mumble.

"No you don't! Because you grew up as a spoiled brat that got everything you wanted and never appreciated anything you had! That's what got you to being cursed so you looked as ugly on the outside as you were on the inside!" she shouts and tears prick his eyes.

"You may not be a beast anymore but you will always be a monster in my eyes" she hisses and he winces. That's the one thing he was always afraid of when he became king, that he'd be seen as a monster.

"What kind of king lets the innocent suffer?! Last I checked Gil never did anything to you or Belle! Harry never did anything to Peter Pan or The Lost Boys! Freddie never did anything to Tiana and Naveen, Carlos was afraid of dogs so I'm not even gonna start on him! Evie did nothing to Snow White, and Jay didn't do anything to Aladdin and Jasmine! They weren't even born yet for Hades sake!"she shouts and I hear her frustration grow with each word.

"So what were their crimes to deserve suffering every day not knowing which day was going to be their last?! What did they do that was so horrible to have to endure a fate worse than death?!"she demands and I see her blink away angry tears.

"Nothing" he sobs out quietly. I've never seen him cry before except for when Ben was born.

"Exactly, nothing. My friends and I suffered for sixteen years for crimes we didn't commit, sometimes just wishing we could die so we didn't have to suffer anymore and it was all your fault!"she shouts as a tear slides down her cheek.

"So if you want someone to blame, go look in a mirror"she says quietly as her anger leaves her, and I see that her rant left her completely drained. Without another word she lets go of Ben's hand and begins to walk away quickly, and we all watch her in stunned silence as she disappears from sight.

"Mal! Mal wait up!" Ben calls out as he snaps out of it and begins to chase after her.

"Oh my god" I finally manage to get out after a moment of silence, and we all look at the three remaining vks.

"Her getting beaten that day was all my fault" Carlos sobs, turning to bury his face into Jay's chest.

"Hey no no, don't think like that Carlos" Evie says soothingly, moving to rub her friend's back.

"But it was! If she hadn't let me out of my mom's closet and yelled at her Maleficent wouldn't have beat her!" he sobs and we all gasp in horror.

"Your mom locked you in a closet?" Jane asks in horror, moving away from me to go to the distraught boy.

"The one where she keeps her furs" he sniffs, not looking at her.

"Mal came over to see how I was doing when my mom wasn't home and I started screaming for her to help me" he sobs as he removes his head from Jay's chest and I feel my heart break as I see the tears in his eyes.

"She..she had to kick in the door and I just fell into her arms sobbing and she just held me the whole time saying it was gonna be okay" he whimpers.

"M-my mom walked in a few minutes later and she let me go in favor of standing up and screaming at my mom, she knocked her down and while my mom was distracted she took my hand and ran me out of the house" he says as he wipes his eyes. I look around and see there are no dry eyes in the crowd.

"Sh-she took me to her hideout and told me to stay there until she came back..she never did" he says before letting out a small sob.

"The next day when the four of us met up, she was late and she winced every time she moved" he says before racking with sobs.

"A month before we came here she looked me right in the eye and said 'Jay I'm not gonna be around much longer, I know my mom is going to kill me'" Jay says with tears sliding down his cheeks. My heart breaks even more at his confession, no child should have to go through telling their friend they know they're going to die.

"She looked right at me and said 'I need you to promise me you'll take care of Evie and Carlos for me when I'm gone, and take care of yourself'" he says as he blinks away tears and closes his eyes tightly, as if he's struggling to put together his next words.

"The next night she almost killed herself" he says brokenly and I hear several gasps.

"She almost jumped off of the dock on pirates bay to drown herself, she can't swim" he sniffs and my vision becomes blurry from my tears

"She didn't tell us about that until a week after it happened, to this day we still don't know what changed her mind so she didn't go through with it" Evie sniffs, wiping some tears off her cheeks.

"Can you imagine that? Your life getting so bad that you consider killing yourself so you won't have to be in pain anymore" he says as tears continue to flow down his cheeks.

"Can you imagine your best friend looking you in the eye and making you promise you'll take care of everyone and yourself when you're gone" he says, his voice gaining a little more strength. At this poin Queen Belle is now sobbing into King Beast's chest and he's watching the three with watery eyes.

"Can you?" he repeats softly, and I can see he's on the edge of breaking down.

"From the time we were kids she practically raised us all by herself. She made her hideout, her space, into a safe place for us to go to so we didn't have to hide. A place where we could be ourselves" Evie says tearfully.

"She was constantly looking for food so we each had at least two small meals a day" Jay chimes in and I frown, that isn't healthy.

"She...she'd take a few bites from her share and give the rest to me, she said it's because she wasn't hungry and I needed more food to grow big and strong" Carlos sniffs.

"I can't tell you how many times I've walked by and spotted her looking for food after we went our seperate ways after eating together" he sobs, wiping away tears.

"She spent so much time looking out for us and taking care of us that she didn't care what happened to her" Evie sniffs.

"She knew what she was doing, she knew how her mom would react but she didn't care. She only cared about making sure we were okay, even when we first came here we were always her first priority" Jay sniffs, hugging his friends close.

"That's what you do in a family" Mal's voice calls out and we all turn to see her and Ben holding hands as they rejoin the party, and Mal is smiling sadly at her friends.

"You look out for each other" she says as she lets go of Ben's hand in favor of going over to them and pulling them into a group hug. Ben smiles as he walks over to them and I can see in his eyes that he wants to join in but atbthe same time doesn't wanna cross any bounderies. Mal turns her head towards him and just smiles before pulling him into the hug and leaning her head against his shoulder. He kisses the top of her head and we just watch these five teenagers with a whole new perspective on the lives of the four rough around the edges teenagers, more specifically the purple haired daughter of the most evil villain of all.