So, yeah, he's my dad.

A group of one shots themed in Mal's conversations with her friends, Ben, and his parents about Hades being her father.

Jay

"Actually, he might do it for me." Mal said to the group in Audrey's room. The only one who wasn't totally shocked, was Evie. Mal had suggested the one person who had just a few weeks before tried to kill her, or at least steal her magic. Jay was, to say the least, shocked that Mal would even consider him. He watched his oldest and dearest friend take a breath. "He's my father." The room was dead silent. He never knew. He and Carlos exchanged looks. She never once in the dozen or so years that he had known her, never once admitted to knowing who her father was. It was a taboo subject with her, and so after the one time, it came up, it never did again.

After Uma, Harry and Celia got into the limo with the personal message from Mal to Hades, that Celia and the guards were going to deliver, Jay sought out his sudo sister. He found her and Evie still sitting vigil at Audrey's bedside, waiting on the arrival of Queen Leah and Audrey's parents. He walked in, and Evie met his eyes first, and he knew then, she had known. He wasn't sure why he was so upset. Was it because she didn't think he could handle the news, or that Evie actually had something all these years over Mal or was it the guilt over that birthday party so many years before.

Mal looked up and saw her two friends exchange looks. "You got this?" She asked Evie, who nodded. Mal rose and walked out, taking Jay by the hand. "I owe you an explanation." Jay just followed her. Mal brought him into a dorm room near Audrey's that wasn't being used, and shut the door. Jay knew to just let her talk, and he would know when she was ready to hear his side of it.

"I have always known he was my father. I...I was led to believe he left on his own, that he didn't want either my mother or I. So I put him out of my mind. He never came around, never called, never spied on me in the market, nothing. Once or twice I even saw him, and he ducked down the street, away from me. So I put it into my mind that he wasn't my father, and he didn't exist. That he was the weak human my mother told everyone my father was. But, my feelings and curiosity changed when we got here, but only because of what it meant for me...I am a demigod, immortal really. And then with how some still thought of me as the daughter of Maleficent, the biggest of the bad, there was no way in Hell I was going to admit my father was the number 2 big bad." Jay nodded, he could see her logic in that, he had to agree. "I never really noticed the demigod powers, not until I held the ember outside the barrier. The ember, when I walked out of the barrier, changed not only my outside but the inside as well. I could feel my power increasing. But just as soon as I dropped it, the power inside seemed to fade without the ember in my hand. Someday I will ask him what his logic was with shooting me down, that day, but that's between he and I." Mal moved towards the window, she had a view of the isle, she could see it sitting there, barrier glinting in the sun. She so wished it were gone. She turned back to Jay. She knew he needed to know why Evie knew and not him.

"I told Evie about it last year. It just happened she caught me at a weak moment, I was never going to tell anyone. She was the only one. You and Carlos were out at ROAR practice, Ben was with his parents at a meeting, one I didn't need to be at. E was out on a date with Doug. I was alone for the first time in Auradon in a long while." Jay knew what that meant, she was alone with her thoughts, and that is never good for Mal. "I was staring at a similar view, the isle, Evie was actually out with Doug and his parents, Ben was with his, and it got me thinking. Family. Family day and all our friends and their parents...and he came to mind. And well that got me thinking, and we know that is never good. ,But what came to me was what being his daughter meant, it meant I was immortal, and that I would outlive all of you. Evie, Carlos, you, Ben, our kids, all of you. And as it has done way to often since coming here, I cried. That was how E found me, and she wanted to know why. I was going to play it off as being lonely for the night, it...it just all slipped out. She was worried I had, had another fight with Ben. I think I shocked her when I started by asking her if she knew who her father was. She doesn't by the way. Anyway, I told her I knew who mine was. She was happy for me, until I told her. She understood my hesitation to not let that out. But she was still thrilled I was a demigod. I am not sure if she really understands how hard it is for me to know that one day you guys will all die and I will still be here missing you." Mal turned back to look at Jay's face. He was straight faced. No reaction, Mal could normally read him, but he was so blank she didn't know if he was mad, hurt, sad, no emotion. She went on.

"Then, the other issue came up, the one that affects my life here, now. Think about it. Mom tried to kill a baby, Aurora, Audrey's mom. My father tried to kill his own nephew, again a baby. There was no way anyone in Auradon would, will, allow me to be the mother of the future ruler of Auradon knowing both of my parents tried to kill innocent babies. I knew I was toast. She promised me there and then she would never say anything, because well she knew I was right. But now...they all know. Ben, Belle, Adam, and soon Aurora, Philip and Leah. I just handed my future with Ben over to them, to save Audrey, the one person who wants to marry Ben as much as I do." And with that Mal was done. Jay waited a moment, and doing something that was unlike isle Jay, but very much Auradon Jay, he said nothing, just took Mal into his arms and held her.

"I get it. That has to be a huge burden to carry all this time." He finally admitted after a few minutes. "And I can see why you never said anything."
"Evie just happened to be the one to find me at the time. I would have probably told anyone of you three if you had found me."
"That doesn't bother me, not really, now that I understand what it meant to you. I just want you to know I am here for you, no matter what anyone says. We are not our parents." Jay kissed the top of her head and walked out of the room. Evie walked in, passing Jay, who hugged her and whispered, 'thanks for being there for her whenever she needs someone and I am not there." Evie nodded and walked over to Mal.

"Everything ok?" She asked her best friend.

"Yeah, better now, thanks E. Audrey?"
"Her parents and Leah are here now. I came to tell you, you had a break for now, they want to be alone, well Ben is in there explaining what happened."
"Thanks, I don't want to be alone, to many thoughts."
"I am here for you."
"Actually I need to talk to Carlos, have you seen him?"
"He took Dude for a walk, and to call Jane."
"I'll go find him, I need to talk to him too. Then Ben...That's gonna be hard."
"He won't leave you Mal."
"It's not him leaving that worries me. It's his parents and the rest of Auradon that I worry about, and what it means for us."