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Takes place: chapter 19 (D3 final fight)
Primary POV: Harry Hook

Raina runs to the tower where Audrey stood cackling with not a plan in sight while me and Uma stood confused
“You gonna stop her?”
Uma turns to me and asks
“...Yeah”
I go to run after Raina as I see her start to taunt Audrey with her dagger in hand
“Audrey, you rat-catcher, will you walk?”
Raina taunts, just before she and Audrey start a fight Mal runs onto the castle’s deck transforming into a giant purple dragon and flies up to Audrey… with Raina hanging from one of her hands
“Love… why”
I sigh, I see Raina stab Audrey and Audrey blast Raina’s hands causing a black and blue vine-like curse to grow onto her hands, I take my hook and drive it into the tower’s stone foundation pulling myself up and slowly but surely making my way to Raina. I get to the top of the tower, dangling off the edge by my hook
“Raina! Stop!”
I yell
“What are you doing!?”
She asks as Audrey tries to knock her down
“Something that’ll get me killed!”
I laugh, I was about to join the fight when Audrey knocks Raina to the ground and walks to where I was dangling
“Huh, I almost feel sorry for this”
Audrey takes the scepter and drives it into my chest, I screamed in agony as I fell to the ground
“Harry! No!”
I hear Raina scream as she falls down after me with my hook in hand catching me before I reached the ground, I seethed in pain as Raina’s fingers raced around my bloody wound in attempt to heal it to no avail
“Your ok, your ok”
Raina reassures as she cries, her tears falling to my face
“Raina…”
I start
“I-I can fix this, you’ll be ok”
Raina cries, I take one of her hands and hold it to my bloody chest, squeezing it with what little strength I had left
“It’s alright”
I comfort
“I’m not losing you again”
Raina whispers, I kiss her hand and give a weak smile
“Love…it’s ok”
Raina holds me in her arms and I start to fiddle with the pocket watch necklace I had given her so long ago
“You still have it”
I laugh softly
“Never take it off”
She chokes, Raina held me to her chest and the world went silent aside from her heart pounding in my ears and the tick of her watch, I knew my time left with her was short as I struggled to stay awake and my breathing shallow, I look to my love with tears welling in my eyes
“I love you”
I whisper
“I love you too”
I hold Raina’s face and with my remaining life give her one last kiss goodbye, the world goes dark and the last thing I hear is Raina’s comforting, yet sorrowful heartbeat echoing through my ears until it fades out and I was left in nothing

I feel a warm wave flow through my body as I regain feeling, I see a golden light through the darkness of death and I hear light sobs as the light diminishes, I gasp for air as my eyes flutter open to see my love, crying joyful tears
“Raina?”
I ask weakly
“Hey love”
She laughs through her tears
“Let’s not do this again, alright”
I laugh
“Deal”

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Bucket’s summary: So I really only ever established Raina’s relationships with Mal and Jay friendship wise and only implied a friendly rapport with Carlos and Evie so here’s a little “one shot” I guess you could call it of Raina meeting Carlos

Takes place: between chapter 1 and 2
Primary POV: Raina Fitzherbert

So believe it or not, schools exist on the Isle, are they good? God no they suck, though that tends to lead to some very interesting situations. I was about 7 years old when I met Carlos, he didn’t have many friends and was a pretty quiet kid. He had “henchmen” but they were really just assholes who hung around him. One day at school I saw some kids who looked around 10 picking on him… well more accurately beating the shit out of him, I couldn’t tell you why but something told me to step in so I pulled out my dagger and got involved
“Hey! Leave him alone or your gonna leave with less body parts than you came here with!”
I yell as I point my blade at the bullies
“really?”
One of the bullies laughed, he was a tall redhead who was a good few feet taller than me, he gestures for one of his buddies to step in, a short blonde boy went behind me and stepped on my braid preventing me from moving
“Go on, do it!”
The redhead taunts
“Ok”
I throw my dagger at the redhead’s thigh and pull my braid out from the blonde boy’s feet causing him to fall, I pull my dagger from the redhead’s thigh and stare him down as I stab his knee, he yelps in pain and his friends gather around him
“Anything else?”
I ask while still maintaining eye contact
“Ok, fine… we’ll stop”
The redhead gasps, his friends carry him off and I go to tend to Carlos
“Thank you”
He whispered
“Eh, they were being lazy”
I dismiss
“What do you mean?”
Carlos asks
“I’m calling you an easy target”
I say bluntly, the bell rings and I look at Carlos, he had a few cuts and some bruises had started to form around his face and he had a gash in his right arm
“Do you wanna leave?”
I ask him
“What?”
Carlos ponders
“Do you want to go somewhere else?”
I rephrase
“...yeah”
I help him to his feet and we leave school. I take Carlos to the tower and we sit below the entrance window
“I’m Carlos”
He introduces himself
“Raina”
I reply, I take his injured arm and let the healing magic flow from my fingertips while Carlos stares in awe as the gash seemingly disappears
“You can do magic?!”
Carlos asks in shock
“Yeah”
I confirm
“How?”
“Don’t know”
“Your Cruella deville's son, right?”
I ask
“...yeah, why?”
Carlos answers skeptically
“Well, you're the son of probably the most insane woman on the Isle… and yet you get bullied… all the time, every time I’ve seen you someone is picking on you”
I say, Carlos just sits in silence while I heal the rest of his injuries
“I should probably go home, mom needs me to fluff the furs”
Carlos says as he gets to his feet
“Well, you know where to find me”
I yell as he walks home. The next day I was at Hell Hall dropping off some fur coats I stole for Cruella, I knock on the door and Carlos answers
“Raina?”
He says perplexed
“I assume Cruella isn’t here right now”
I ask
“No, here come in”
Carlos gestures for me to come inside and I obliged, looking around the house I saw fur coats lining the walls and sporadic paintings of dalmations on black and white walls that could make you go blind
“Jeez, she really is nuts”
I say
“Oh, you don’t say”
Carlos sighs, I drop the coats on a scratched up couch and Carlos hands me $20… and half a loaf of bread, it was kinda stale but considering the other food on the Isle this was pretty good
“For helping me yesterday”
Carlos says as he hands me the bread
“...thanks?”
I say as I take the money and bread
“Uh hey…”
Carlos stops me as I walk out the door
“Will I see you at school tomorrow?”
He asks
“We’ll see”
I didn’t go to school all to often, after all if I wasn’t constantly stealing who else was gonna put food on the table, Gothel? As if
“I could give you more food…”
Carlos bribed
“Ok fine”
I caved. Safe to say I considered Carlos an ally after that day

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Takes place: Chapter 18
Primary POV: Harry Hook

I walked through the forest with Carlos, Jay, and Gil with Carlos’s mutt dude sniffing out for Ben. Jay had tried to call Raina multiple times but it always went to voicemail and everytime it did the more “what if’s” ran through my mind
“What if she got captured?”
I’d wonder
“No, Raina’s capable, she wouldn’t let Audrey get close to her”
I’d backtrack
“But what if she’s hurt? Or cursed? Or… worse”
I’d spiral, we were deep in the forest and had stopped by some bushes, Jay and Gil were talking about tourney and traveling the world while Carlos stood by himself in deep thought, I couldn’t help but mess with him, I ran my hook down the back of his head causing him to break his thought and flinch
“Harry!”
He sighed stunned, I just laughed before I began to lapse into my “what if’s”
“Thinking about Raina?”
Carlos asked
“...Yeah”
I hesitated
“It’s Raina. I’ve never seen her without some kind of weapon, I’d be surprised if she wasn’t ok”
He reassures me. Dude returns after walking off to hunt seeming eager
“I smell something! It might be Ben!”
The mutt exclaims
“Follow me!”
We follow dude and he found something alright, it just wasn’t Ben… It was Raina, passed out on the forest floor, dagger still in hand
“...Raina”
I gasped as I ran to her unconscious body checking for wounds, a breath, a pulse, anything, I just wanted to make sure she was still with me
“She’s probably asleep”
Jay remarks
“But then how do we wake her up? We don’t know how Audrey’s spells work”
Carlos interjects
“You could kiss her”
Gil suggests, we all turn to him as he stands confused
“What? Your always talking about how much you love her”
He defends
“It’s worth a shot”
Carlos admits
“Alright, c’mon love”
I whisper, I hold Raina’s face in my hands and lean in to kiss her, my lips lock with hers and I feel my heart race with anxiety, what if it doesn’t work? What if she doesn’t wake up? What if she’s gone? Our lips part and I move one of my hands down to her chest and feel relieved to find her breathing under it as her dark brown eyes flutter open
“Love?”
I whisper
“...Harry?”
She asks weakly, my head drops as I let out a relieved chuckle
“Yeah… you alright?”

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Takes place: Chapters 19 and 20 (D3 final fight and aftermath)
Primary POV: Raina Fitzherbert

Myself, Audrey, and Mal were in a very hectic fight, though most of the actual “fighting” was between me and Audrey, she would hit me with the scepter and I would stab her, at one point instead of using blunt force Audrey managed to land a spell on me, as the magic hit my hands black and blue vines painted my hands making them feel weak and almost heavy, not to mention her spell blocked my magic but I soon realized it wasn’t a spell… It was a fucking curse. I landed another stab in Audrey’s thigh when I started to stumble and fall to my knees in complete and utter agony, the vines had traveled up my arms and were starting to creep onto my face, I gasped for air as I hacked out a small inky black pool of what I could only assume was blood
“Aw, feeling unwell?”
Audrey taunted as she put the base of the scepter under my chin forcing me to look at her
“...Fuck you”
I gasped as more black blood trickled from my mouth. Audrey grabbed me by my shirt and pushed me against the edge of the tower
“Raina!”
Celia cried out as Audrey pushed me off the edge, just before I would have fallen to my death I landed in Harry’s arms and he ran to the safety of the lawn in front of the castle deck. He sits in front of the wall of the deck as he holds me to his chest and moves my hair away from my face
“You alright love?”
Harry asks, his voice shaky, almost on cue I end up coughing up more blood
“What the fuck do you think”
I try to laugh only resulting in more blood. Harry looks terrified as he wipes the blood from my face
“You’ll be ok… I promise”
Harry chokes, Uma rushes up to us, a look of horror on her face at the sight of the gory scene
“What happened!?”
She yells
“I don’t know!”
Harry yells back. I started feeling light headed as my life dwindled, I look to Harry and squeeze his shoulder as a wave of pain jolts through my body, I look into his cloudy blue eyes, now filled with tears and weakly smile
“I love you, Harry Hook”
I whisper, my eyes welling with tears
“I Love you too, Raina Fitzherbert”
Harry laughs through his sobs, I give him one last kiss goodbye and I feel Uma grip my shoulder as everything goes dark. The last things I heard were Harry’s heartbeat ringing in my ears… and screams… Harry’s screams.

I woke up in my bedroom back in corona, the curse gone from my body and a letter at my bedside, from Harry

Dearest, Raina
I’m not sure if you’ll ever read this but, I went back to the Isle with Uma and Celia the night you died. I didn’t want to leave you but the Isle needs someone to help protect it, from what I’ve heard Hades was able to break your curse and bring you back. It isn’t likely I’ll ever see you again so just know, I love you more than anything in the world and I will forever hold you in my heart
Forever yours,
Harry J. Hook

“I died?”
I think as I held the letter in my hands when I hear a knock at the door
“Come in”
Ben opens the door and looks surprised to see me awake
“Well, nice to see the ember worked”
He chuckled
“How long was I out?”
I ask
“Three days”
Ben answers
“Your kidding”
I say in disbelief
“Well to be fair… you did die”
Ben defends
“I’m sorry… what?”
I squeak
“Audrey’s curse blocked your magic and killed you… Hades had to use his ember to reverse it”
Ben explains
“Oh, and there’s someone here to see you”
Ben gestures to someone outside the door and Harry enters the room
“Hey love”
He laughs, I cup my hand over my mouth in shock and disbelief
“How?”
I ask
“We took down the barrier”
Ben explains
“When?”
“Literally an hour ago”
I look at Ben wide eyed in confusion and slightly offended he didn't wake me up for that
“Well shit”
I laugh as I leap out of my bed and run to Harry squeezing him tight
“I fucking missed you”
I joke, getting misty eyed, Harry just looks down and laughs before holding my face in hands
“I missed you too”
He says as Ben leaves the room and we share a kiss

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Takes place: Between chapter 1 and 2
Primary POV: Raina Fitzherbert

I was a well known thief back on the Isle, if you had something shiny out in the open chances are I would take it, just take it and run. I couldn't be stopped, which did help me start a small stealing business. You tell me what you want and I’ll see what I can find in exchange for like… 10-50 bucks. One of my best “clients' ' was probably the Evil Queen, she’d ask for small jewelry and hand mirrors so it was easy to get her what she wanted and because she lived so far away from everyone it gave me an excuse to not be home. One day when I was about 7 years old I was delivering some jewels and hand mirrors to the Evil Queen’s place and knocked on the door to be met with a girl my age with long blue hair and dark brown eyes
“...Hi”
I say skeptically
“Hi Raina”
The girl replied
“You know me?”
I ask, the girl looks at me and giggles
“You were at my birthday party last year, remember?”
I thought for a moment before it clicked
“Oh! Yeah, Evie right?”
Evie nodded and I went through my satchel and pulled out my haul
“Well, give these to your mother and tell her it will be $40”
I say as I pass Evie the pile of jewelry
“Isn’t that a little expensive?”
Evie debates
“Yeah well the stab wound in my shoulder says otherwise… bye”
I’m about to walk away when Evie gently places her hand on my injured shoulder
“Wait… I can fix your jacket”
Evie offers, her eyes shift to my shoulder where my jacket sleeve was tattered and frayed with some little blood stains around it
“Uh… yeah, sure”
I hand Evie my jacket and a couple dollars from my satchel
“Oh, no need”
Evie puts the cash back in my hand
“Do you want any payment?”
I ask
“Well… if you could get me a necklace or two”
Evie trails off
“Yeah sure, when do you want them?”
“Tomorrow”
“Deal”
I walk off and leave Evie with my jacket and a pile of jewels, on my walk home I stopped by the bazaar to scope out the jewels and I see a beautiful heart shaped ruby necklace on a gold chain with lopsided gold rings around the gem, it was the perfect payment…but I was injured and in public so I couldn’t heal my wound and grab it, but lucky for me Jafar’s store wasn’t to far away. I go to Jafar’s store and find Jay napping under a flimsy shelf of televisions, I get down on the floor and repeatedly poke his shoulder
“Jay… Jay…Jay”
I whisper, Jay turns around and groans
“What?”
He asks
“I need your help”
Jay raises an eyebrow
“You being chased?”
“No”
“Dying?”
“No”
“Then why do you need my help?”
He asks, drifting back to sleep
“I need help stealing something, all you gotta do is lie down”
I say
“Go on”
Jay replies
“Just pass out in the street so people try to take your shit so I can steal a necklace”
I continue, Jay ponders the offer before crawling out from under the shelf
“I’m in”
We go into the bazaar and put our plan into action, Jay “passes out” and I sneak under the stand with the necklace on display while the merchant goes to steal from the presumably unconscious Jay, I grab the necklace and sneak back out from under the stand just as Jay gets back up, he nods to me and book it home before the jewel merchant notices the necklace is gone. The next day I go back to the Evil Queen’s castle and Evie meets me at the door and hands me my jacket and the $40 from yesterday's delivery
“Good as new”
Evie says cheerfully as she hands me my repaired jacket, she had cleaned off the blood and had patched up the hole, it looked like it hadn’t even been torn in the first place
“...thanks”
I take my jacket and dig into my satchel and hand Evie the ruby necklace, her eyes light up as she holds it in her hands
“It’s beautiful! How’d you get it?”
She asks
“I make money by stealing…what do you think?”
I say bluntly, Evie nods her head as I put on my jacket
“You like it?”
Evie smiles while gripping the necklace in her hands
“Yeah”
I go to leave when Evie once again gently grips my shoulder
“Hey, I know my mom asked you for some more jewelry… Maybe I'll see you again?”
Evie suggests
“Uh yeah…maybe”
I made a good friend that day

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Takes place: between chapters 16 and 17
Primary POV: Raina Fitzherbert

It’s Auradon Prep tradition that every year the seniors have a little secret scavenger hunt and whoever wins goes down in Auradon history and I intend to win this year. I teamed up with Jay and Lonnie which couldn’t be better, Lonnie’s an amazing strategist and me and Jay grew up committing several crimes so we couldn’t be stopped. The scavenger hunt started and we immediately raced to cinderella’s castle to get the first item on the list, a shard from her glass slipper, we made it to the castle and left our shoes in the car (it was cinderella’s only request) and split up to start looking. I started in Chad’s closet, he’s proud of his legacy so it makes sense he would have some kind of “momento” but no dice, I went to search the next room when I got a text from Jay
“Think I found the shards, come to Cinderella and Charming’s room”
I went to the room where Jay and Lonnie were sitting in Prince Charming’s closet in front of a small safe with a keypad
“Ah, perfect”
I say with glee, I go over to the safe and examine the keypad
“Think you can open it?”
Jay asks
“Yup. Charming’s incredibly sentimental so the code is probably an important date”
I explain, the three of us sit thinking of a significant date when Lonnie snaps her fingers and her eyes light up
“March 4th, the day he met Cinderella”
She announced
“Yes!”
I go to the keypad and put in 304 opening the safe revealing a handful of glass slipper shards
“Have I ever mentioned I love you?”
I jest, we grab a shard and go back to the car
“What’s next on the list?”
Jay asks as he starts driving away from the castle
“A petal from the golden flower… isn’t that in the museum?”
Lonnie says
“No, we somehow managed to multiply them… I guarantee you my dad’s got them”
I interject. We drive to my parent’s castle in Corona and we run through the castle gardens to find my dad sitting on a bench with a handful of golden flower petals next to him
“Hi pops”
“Hey kid”
My dad waves and looks at me, Lonnie, and Jay
“May you please give us a flower petal father”
I ask
“First, you must answer three questions”
My dad raises a brow
“What are you, a bridge troll?”
My father laughs and begins his questions
“Question one, what was the exact date I met Rapunzel”
“November 4th, she knocked you out and shoved you in a closet”
I answer, my father nods
“Correct”
“Question two, what was my old name as a thief and where did it come from?”
Before me or Lonnie could even get a word out Jay answered in detail
“Flynn Rider, which came from the stories of Flynnigan Rider which you read to the fellow orphans before you ran away”
Jay answers
“Correct, last question, and Raina you can’t answer this. What is Raina’s middle name and why?”
Lonnie answered immediately
“Skylar, because the sundrop flower came from the sky so it was a nice little tie in and at least then she would have a nice middle name to avoid the whole Fitzherbert thing, though I believe on the Isle it was believed her middle name was genevieve because it sounded close to gothel”
“Well I can’t attest to the second part but correct”
My father says
“Yeah, the second part’s right”
I interjet
“How did the genevieve thing happen anyway?”
Jay asks
“Because I didn’t know my actual one so I just picked a name that sounded cool”
I respond, my father gives us the flower petal and we book it back to the car as another group of seniors runs in. The night goes on and we’ve done almost everything on the list except for one thing, kiss a prince, we made it to the finish line with chad, Ben, and Mal running behind us, now I wasn’t about to kiss my cousin and there was only one other option
“Hey Chad!”
I yell, Chad turns around and I run over to him
“I’ll kiss you as long as we pretend this never happened afterward”
Chad ponders until he nods his head in agreement
“Yeah sure”
Now here’s the thing, I don’t half ass anything so I pulled him and we locked lips as his hand quickly ran through my hair and I held him by the waist
“Never again?”
I say as we part
“Never”
Chad assures as we race each other to the finish line, I practically slid to Carlos and Jane
“It’s a tie!”
Carlos announces
“Good game”

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Takes place: between chapters two and three
Primary POV: Raina Fitzherbert

Me and Harry did a lot of dumb shit when we were little, though the dumbest thing we did was probably when we were 10, a couple months before I was returned to Auradon. Me and Harry decided we wanted to have some fun so we went on a little stealing run, we had nabbed some rusted jewelry and fraying scarves when we saw a pocket watch displayed in the window of doctor facilier’s store, it was an old rusted thing, the analog watch within the silver case yellowed from age with the glass protecting it damaged and cloudy but for some unknown reason we just had to have it. We walked in the store to find Dr Facilier sitting at a small coffee table with a little girl shuffling through a deck of tarot cards in his lap and Freddie looking through some clothes in the middle of the store
“Gothel, Hook, welcome”
Dr Facilier chuckled with glee, I cocked my head to the side at the comment
“Gothel?”
I asked
“Is that not your last name?”
Facilier quarred
“...honestly I have no idea”
The witch doctor laughed at my confusion and gestured for me to sit with him and the little girl at the table, I gestured for Harry to go for the watch as I walked over. I sat down across from Dr Facilier and the little girl looked up from her cards momentarily and waved
“Hi Raina”
She said
“Hi Celia”
Celia returned to the deck of tarot cards while me and her father talked
“You know rumor has it my father’s jack sparrow”
I joked
“Really?”
The witch doctor laughed
“Yeah I know, personally I don’t see it but who knows?”
We laugh at the thought for a moment when a curious look crossed Faciler’s face
“Would you like to find out?”
He asked
“For how much?”
I followed
“Name your price”
He said
“How unlike you”
I remarked
“What can I say? Feeling nice today”
He replied
“Oh that’s even more unlike you”
I rummaged through my satchel and pulled out a bit of cash and a cracked pearl ring
“$10 bucks and a ring”
The witch doctor looked disappointed in my price but obliged
“Deal”
He has Celia hand him the thoroughly shuffled deck and he fans them out on the table
“I’m gonna need a piece of you for this you know”
Dr Faciler directs
“Yeah, figured”
I take out my dagger
“Blood or hair?”
“Blood”
I prick my finger with the tip of the blade and Dr Faciler places the drop of blood on one of the cards before reshuffling them, just as he was about to pull a card he sees Harry grab the old watch from it’s stand
“You gonna pay for that, Hook?”
He says sternly, Harry just laughs and throws me the watch as I leave my seat
“Sorry”
I chuckle, Faciler laughs as me and Harry book it out the store with freddie chasing behind us. We run towards Pirates bay and thought we had lost Freddie when she suddenly slid in front of us from an alleyway
“Give me the watch”
Freddie orders with an open hand, me and Harry look at each other for a moment
“No”
We Run past her and she scoffs. Freddie continues to chase us through the Isle until we reach the upper levels of the docks, Freddie knocks over some barrels sending us over the edge of the docks. The three of us landed down on the shore by some rocks, Freddie and I were lucky enough to fall in the water with only a few scratches. Harry not so much… he had managed to hit some planks and more rocks on the way down so he was pretty banged up, he was slumped over on one of the bigger rocks at the edge of the water, groaning while me and Freddie lied in the shallow water
“Give me the watch”
Freddie insists
“Why the fuck do you want it?”
I ask, still gripping it in my fist
“It’s straight from Auradon it goes for a lot”
She replies, I sigh and rummage through my satchel pulling out some diamond earrings hanging from gold hooks, practically untouched by age or decay
“Here take these, you can charge to hell for them now for fucks sake leave us alone”
I groaned
Freddie sighs and takes the earrings and makes her way back to her father’s store while I go tend to Harry still slumped over on the side of the rock, his tricorn hat covering his face
“Hey,you alright?”
I ask, Harry quietly groans in response, I push his hat back up to the top of his head and hold his face in my hands
“Oh shit!”
I yell, Harry’s face was covered in deep cuts from the rocks, the right side of his face practically doused in blood, not to mention the deep cuts on his legs and hands
“How bad is it?”
He asks weakly
“Let’s just say if we don’t get this fixed your sister’s gonna kill me”
I let out a worried laugh because I wasn’t kidding, Harriet knows I have healing magic so she would literally murder me if her little brother got injured or killed while with me
“Oh shit”
He responds, I frantically nod and help him to his feet, he stumbles as he leans on my shoulder for support
“How far do you think we are from Ursula’s fish and chips?”
I ask
“Why?”
Harry groans in pain
“Because Uma won’t kill me for bringing you inside”
Harry looks up and squints
“Not to far”
“Good”
We make it to Ursula’s fish and chips and the restaurant’s patrons gawk at us in curiosity and slight terror, I see Uma’s blue hair just barley above the counter
“Hey Uma!”
I yell from the door slightly faltering under Harry’s weight, Uma walks over and immediately drops the plate of food she had in her hands
“What happened!?”
She asked in terror
“We made the mistake of robbing Dr Facilier. Now help me he’s getting heavy”
I explain, Uma obliges and grabs a bucket of water while she leads us to a side room of the restaurant and past her mother Ursula was watching her soap operas, she takes us to her bedroom and I lean Harry against her bed and Uma places the bucket beside me
“I’ll just…leave you to it…I guess”
Uma leaves and I look at harry now pale and even bloodier than before
“You ok?”
I ask, Harry just shakes his head in response, I grab one of the frayed scarves from my satchel and dunk it in the water
“What are you doing?”
Harry asks
“Well, I can’t fix what I can’t see”
I say cleaning the blood off his face and hands. After cleaning off all the blood I get to work on healing all the cuts and other wounds, I gently place my hand on harry’s forehead where most of the blood was coming from and watch as the golden stream of sparkles makes it look as if the cut was never there in the first place
“Better?”
I ask
“Yeah”
Harry whispers as I heal the rest of the cuts on his face and legs. I heal the rest of the wounds and notice I had the stolen pocket watch in my lap, I take Harry’s hook and tie the watch’s chain to the hook’s handle
“There, now we match”
I say, holding the hook in one hand with the watch dangling down from it and my other holding the watch necklace he gave me a few years prior
“I love it”
Harry chuckles, I hand him his hook and give him a tight hug
“Let’s not do that again”
I laugh, Harry wraps his arms around me returning the hug
“Let’s not”

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My birthday has always been a… sore subject for me, spending most of my life on the Isle meant birthdays weren’t really a thing, the most I ever got from Gothel was a glance longer than two seconds and one less insult, and then I’d just go to the Jolly Roger and sit with Harry for the day, contemplating our cursed existence. Believe it or not…it only got worse when I came to Auradon, the paparazzi and media would be in my face for weeks leading up to it and then they’d all be disappointed when no massive party was held in my honor (my family learned the hard way not to do any big spectacle on my birthday after a firework show caused me to have a panic attack on my eleventh) it was exhausting. The week of my seventeenth birthday, my fellow students at Auradon prep passed me in the halls, wishing me happy birthday in the same cheery tone, I’d always give them a small smile in acknowledgement when I really couldn’t care less, all I wanted was to go back to my dorm and sleep it off. As I made my way to the outside of the school, I got the overwhelming feeling that I was being watched…because I was, I turned to my right and saw a horde of paparazzi inching closer and closer to me. It wasn’t abnormal to see them lurking around since the press practically froths at the mouth for any picture of Ben and Mal together, but they were here for me and when they're here for me, it’s a much different affair because unlike Ben and Mal, I fight back. The horde of cameras gets closer and closer and I reach for my dagger which was usually strapped to my thigh, only this time…I left it in my dorm room, shit. The cameras reach me and all I can see and hear is flashing lights and gossip reporters berating me with questions. I feel my body becoming tense and my breath catching in my throat… I was caught off guard and now I was about to pay the price…a panic attack. I try to keep a straight face as I make my way back inside, trying to discreetly hide from the prying eyes of the cameras
“Any plans to finally have another ball after all these years?”
A reporter with a chipper voice asks, their question ringing in my ears
“Still no”
I responded as calmly as I could, though it probably sounded more like I was gasping for air. My hands started shaking slightly, I started fiddling with my pocket watch necklace to distract myself, gently running my fingers over the golden case. The reporters took note of the necklace and flooded me with a new barrage of questions…all about my love life
“You’ve worn that necklace for years! Is there a prince or princess in your life?”
“Are the rumors about you and Lonnie true?”
“Any special someone in your life?”
“Is it true you’ve been dating a pirate the past five years?”
All of those and about five hundred others were pelted at me like stones, each question and each flash of the cameras making the ringing in my ears louder and louder and my chest tighter and tighter. I eventually found the door and promptly slid inside the safety of Auradon prep’s walls, my eyes were stinging with tears and my breath became shaky and uneven. I ran back to my dorm room, not bothering to lock the door and I fell onto my bed. I felt out of control, my shaking had turned into trembling and tears trickled from my eyes…I was scared, and it was the worst feeling in the world. I tucked my head between my knees and locked my hands behind my neck…and cried, it was a silent cry, no choking or squeaking…just uncontrollable fear and sadness. I spend what feels like hours quietly sobbing by myself until I hear the door open
“Raina?”
It was Jay, he looked at me more confused than concerned, which I honestly appreciated
“You ok?”
He asked
“Uh…yeah, I’m fine”
I lied as I unlaced my fingers from around my neck and looked over at Jay
“Just got a little overwhelmed…what's up?”
Jay holds out a small letter with my name written on it in slightly wavy and uneven black ink…in Harry’s handwriting
“This got brought to Mal and Evie’s room by mistake and Evie asked me to bring it to you. They didn’t look at it”
Jay hands me the letter and his eyes linger on me for a moment
“Are you sure you're ok?”
Jay asked with a quiet and sympathetic tone
“I’m alright… don’t worry about it”
I reassured
“Alright”
Jay accepted, not wanting to prod. Jay left the room, leaving me alone with my letter

Dearest, Raina
I find myself missing you more and more with every passing day, I hear your voice in the wind, your reflection in the waters… everything feels like you. I know your birthday is a hard time for you, but I couldn’t resist getting you at least something, it isn’t much but… I think of it as giving you a piece of my heart. Each day spent away from you feels like an eternity, and every night I lay beneath the star-strewn canvas of the heavens, I am comforted only by the thought of reuniting with you once more. I yearn to hold you in my arms, to kiss away the worries that weigh upon your noble heart, and to stand beside you as we chart a course through the uncharted waters of our shared future. Though the world may seek to keep us apart, know this, my beloved: I would cross oceans, scale mountains, and brave the fiercest foes to be with you. For you are the North Star that guides me home, the lighthouse that leads me safely to shore.
Forever yours,
Harry Hook

It was a sappier letter than normal, very poetic, but I'm by no means complaining. On the bottom of the letter, a small, golden hook pin was tied to the page with twine, I untied the pin and attached it to my jacket… a little piece of Harry’s heart, right over mine