How to Find the Truth

Maybe some fairy tales are true

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"Guys! Where are Ben and (Y/N)?" Carlos asked panicked. We obviously weren't in the street where we had been talking before.

Evie and Jay rushed over to him, calling out for us. A shadowed figure came walking back towards them in reply.

"Ben, don't scare us like that. Where's (Y/N)?" Evie asked in relief. Carlos smiled hopefully, waiting to see me too.

"Don't scare you?" The figure asked, revealing themselves as Harry Hook. "But that's my specialty," he smirked.

Carlos' eyes widened. This was worse than he thought.

"Harry" Evie glared, realizing the direness of the situation.

"What did you do with the twins?" Jay demanded. Carlos growled under his breath.

"Oh, uh, we nicked them," Harry bragged. "Mm-hmm. Yeah. And if you want to see them again, have Mal come to the Chip Shoppe tonight. Alone."

He continued with the theatrics and his wide hand gestures. "Uma wants a little visit."

The three VKs looked at him blankly, trying not to show their fear. Carlos was also trying to hide his anger.

"Aw, Jay," Harry sized him up. "Seems like you've lost your touch."

Jay barked at him, clearly not hiding his anger as well as Carlos. But Evie grabbed him before he could touch Hook.

Harry's eyes landed on Carlos last. "Trying to make up for what you did mate?" Harry sneered, getting close to him. Carlos' breath hitched. "Good luck saving her this time," he smirked.

"I don't need luck," Carlos growled back.

Harry did one last yip at him, before walking back into the darkness, whistling as he went.

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The VKs were up in the Mal's hideout, trying to tell her that Ben and I had been kidnapped. And that Uma wanted to talk to her, alone.

"If you guys never would have brought him here, this never would have happened," Mal scolded her friends. "What were you thinking?!"

"Hey you're not innocent either! You shouldn't have let (Y/N) come with you!" Jay snapped back.

"Oh!" Mal laughed to herself. "Well no kidnappings occurred when it was just us here!"

"Look, Ben was gonna come with or without us," Evie explained. "We just wanted to protect him."

"Yeah, and we completely blew it, guys. Now they're both gone," Carlos told her and Jay.

He was trying to wrap his head around everything. He wanted to protect (Y/N), but now she was in danger. Harry and his rats could be torturing her and Ben right now, and there was nothing they could do about it. He shouldn't have lost sight of her as soon as he had seen her again. 

What have I done? he thought.

"Okay! Okay," Jay tried to calm them all down. "So, what are we gonna do?"

"We are not doing anything. This is between Uma and me. And she's a punk. And guess what? Now I have to go get him," Mal angrily spoke, grabbing her bag to leave.