Three days later found Belle and Adam in the Queen's study. They had the photo's spread out across the desk and were currently sorting them into piles. One pile was for the family photo album, one pile for Belle and Adam, one pile for Ben and one pile for Mal. But Belle suddenly realized that something wasn't right. "Everything okay, Belle?" Adam asked his wife, noticing the frown on her face.

"There's some photo's missing." The brunette told her husband. "There's three photo's missing and they're the ones with Mal wearing my crown." She stated, both concerned and confused.

Placing his hand on top his wife's. "I'm sure it's just a mistake. We will ring the photographer and sort it out okay?" Adam said, reaching for the phone with the hand not holding his wife's.

Meanwhile...

Mal was sat next to Ben in the council room, waiting for the Council of Elders to arrive. A request for a meeting had come from Castle Beauty and Ben had asked for Mal to come along, to start getting involved in the meetings. So the purplette sat next to Ben, dressed on one of her Evie made suit and her Lady of the Court tiara on her head, holding the teen King's hand. They weren't waiting for very long before the royals started entering the room.

Of course Queen Leah was the last one to enter the room. But as the woman stood behind her chair she immediately started talking. "Why on Earth is she here!?" The older woman shouted while pointing at the purple haired teen.

"Need I remind you Queen Leah that Lady Mal is my girlfriend and now my Lady of the Court." Ben stated, leaning forward in his seat a little bit. "Now why don't you explain why you are here." The brunette suggested to the woman.

Everyone turned to face Queen Leah and with an annoyed look she dropped three pictures onto on table. "Would you like to explain this scandal, King Ben?" She asked before sliding one of the photo's over to the young couple, she slid the other two pictures to other members of the council. One was picked up by Cinderella and Charming, and the other was picked up by Elsa. "This is completely outrageous." The woman said.

"I really don't see the issue here, Queen Leah." Cinderella said to the older woman.

"Me neither." Elsa agreed as the photo's were passed around the other members of the council.

None of them could quite see what the problem was with the photo's but Ben had another issue. "Where did you get these photo's from? They were private photo's that should have been printed in the photographers studio and brought straight to my parents." The brunette said. Neither him nor Mal could understand what was wrong or scandalous about the photo's but that wasn't their concern right now.

"I was sent them." Queen Leah stated.

Ben was beyond mad that someone had taken some private photos and sent them to Queen Leah. But before he could speak again Mal decided she had heard enough. "And what exactly is scandalous about these photo's, Queen Leah?" The purplette asked the older Queen. Holding the photo in her hand she really didn't know what the issue was.

Leah was shocked that the half fairy was getting involved in the conversation at all but it didn't take her long to recover from her shock. "You are wearing Queen Belle's crown." The woman stated like that should have explained things. "Nobody but the Queen should ever wear the Queen's crown." Leah explained when she saw the confused look on the purplette's face.

"First of all, these photo's were private and therefore you shouldn't have them anyway let alone be showing them around the members of the council." Mal stated. While she was mad she didn't let it show in her voice. Ben and the other council members were both shocked and pleased with how calm and diplomatic the purple haired teen was being. "Second, I had the permission and blessing of Queen Belle to wear her crown for these photo's. Therefore I do not see what is so scandalous about them." The teen stated before she remembered something. "And please correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Aurora have a picture on her phone of a young Audrey wearing your crown?" She asked the woman.

"That is completely different." The woman snapped.

"No it isn't Queen Leah." Ben responded. "Now does anybody else have anything they would like to discuss?" The King asked as the other two photo's were handed back to Mal. Everyone immediately shook their heads at the teen King annoyed that a meeting had been called for something so stupid and insignificant. "Then this meeting is over." He stated. Taking Mal's hand he led her out of the room but stopped half way to his parents. "See Mal, I told you that you would be an amazing Lady of the Court and Queen of Auradon. You just proved it in there. I love you." He said to her.

"I love you too, Ben." She responded before sharing a kiss and continuing their walk towards where they knew Belle and Adam were. Mal was finally happy and content in her role as Lady of the Court and future Queen of Auradon. For the first time she actually realized she could do this.

Author's Note: So I hoped you enjoyed this short story. This is the last chapter guys. I hope you liked it. Please review and tell me what you think x