fandomtownies | A Different Part of the Beach, Sunday

With advance warning from Bobby, Uma had managed to avoid her so-called guests for the weekend. She didn't know what the hell Ben and the Fairy Godmother wanted her for and, honestly? She didn't care. She wasn't at their beck and call anyway.

Though that whole 'tried in absentia' thing didn't sound all that promising. It fact, it had unsettled her enough that this morning when she'd woken up, she'd headed down to the beach and immediately dove into the water, spending most of the day swimming far below the ocean surface, letting the water calm and soothe her. By mid-afternoon, she was relaxed enough to contemplate getting out of the water and getting some lunch. Bobby had said that the Fairy Godmother wanted to be gone by this morning, right? She'd probably outlasted them, ha! Another win for Uma!

That feeling of triumph hadn't lasted much past surfacing the water and seeing both Auradonians waiting for her, the magic wand being held like a divining rod in the Fairy Godmother's hands.

"Ha! I knew this would find her!" the Fairy Godmother announced. "There you are, you little hooligan! Come out and face the music!"

Yeah, Uma was no dope. Immediately, she turned to dive back under the waves. But Fair Godmother's magic wand wasn't the most powerful magical artifact in the United States of Auradon for a nothing. Before she could even properly dive, she was surrounded by a bubble of shimmery, sparkly blue magic that pulled her up out of the ocean and deposited her right back onto the beach.

"I don't think so, missy," Fairy Godmother told her, looking prim and smug at the exact same time. "You're gonna stay in that bubble until you're back on the Isle where you belong!"

[Technically it's still Sunday! In other, not-me timezones, sure, but still! Open? For all the SP ever though]

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Meanwhile, Bobby had been tailing the Fairy Godmother and Ben most of the day, just in case something like this happened.

"Ummm, I don't think so," he exclaimed, popping up from behind a rock. "She's already on the island she's supposed to be on!"

SO THERE.

"You!" the Fairy Godmother yelled, pointing at Bobby with the want. "You're the one who sent us on that fool's errand to the castle!"

"Yeah," Ben said, giving Bobby sad eyes. "You lied to us. Why would you do that?"

"Uma, daughter of Ursula's friends with liars and ne'er-do-wells, color me surprised."

"... Seriously?" Bobby said to Ben. "You're literally trying to kidnap someone, and you're asking me why I lied to you?"

So much side-eye, Ben. SO MUCH.

"We're not trying to kidnap her!" Ben protested. Uma let loose with a blistering string of curses and insults that had him quickly backpeddling to add, "We're just trying to keep her from running away again!"

"Right," Bobby said, his tone one that said he clearly was not convinced. Well, maybe Ben genuinely meant well, but whoever this lady was, not so much.

"You know, I've known a lot of runaways," he continued. Kind of came hand-in-hand with living at a school for mutants, funnily enough. "Most of them had pretty good reasons for running," he added pointedly.

"Yeah, you wanna know mine?" Uma asked bitterly. "Cause I got a fuckin' list."

"You were trying to avoid justice for your actions," the Fairy Godmother railed.

"My actions were all about trying to get justice!"

"And guess what?" Bobby told the Fairy Godmother. "I don't actually care about what justice you think she needs to face, she doesn't want to go and that's good enough for me!" he spat. "I'm not letting you take her anywhere."

"She kidnapped the king and held him hostage!" the Fairy Godmother snapped.

"Right, but I forgave her--"

"And then she brainwashed him with a lovespell at the party honoring his current girlfriend's ascension as a Lady of the Court!"

"That was kind of awful," Ben acknowledged.

"And then turned into a ship sized monster and tried to kill everyone onboard!"

Uma was grinning and cackling at her list of crimes. "Technically, he was kidnapped by Gil," she said gleefully. "But I did hold him for ransom - but only for the power to get us off the island! And if you want to charge me for brainwashing him, you'll have to do the same for your precious Mal! She did it first!"

Both Ben and the fairy godmother looked uncomfortable at that.

"But ruining the party? That was worth it just for the look on her face!"

"Why do you hate Mal so much?" Ben asked. Uma's laughter stopped and she looked deadly serious. "That's between me and her, Beasty-Boy. No nobs need apply."

"But at the end- you could have kept fighting if you really wanted to," Ben said. "But you didn't. You have me my ring back and swam away."

Uma turned her face away and deliberately didn't reply.

Right, okay. Bobby didn't know the history behind everything that they were talking about, but he knew enough. He knew how Uma liked to compare life in Fandom to what life in Auradon must be like, which was nothing like what she'd grown up with.

"You can't treat people on the Isle like you do and then be surprised when they get mad and try to strike back!" Bobby said, shaking his head.

"They're on the Isle because they're criminals," the Fairy Godmother said, annoyed. "Bippity, Uma's behavior just proves it!"

"Oh, but Mal, Carlos, Evie, and Jay don't?" Uma sneered. "They get a pass, but the rest of us are screwed?"

"They proved their Goodness," the Fairy Godmother retorted. "You proved you're anything but!"

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"Well...they did also have time in Auradon to learn to be good," Ben said slowly. "They took your goodness class and everything. Maybe that helped?"

You think, Ben?

"Okaaaaay," Bobby said, still scowling at the Fairy Godmother. "So what did she do to end up on this Isle full of criminals in the first place?"

Was it 'she was born'? Bobby was going to be so mad if it was that.

Yeaaaaah watch how their eyes dropped, Bobby. Just watch.

"Beasty-Boy's dad thought it would be a great idea to round up all the Villain's that were left, resurrect the ones who weren't - like my mother - and ship 'em off to the Isle," Uma said, bitter. "She was there four years before I was born."

"Ursula is a sea-witch and a criminal!" the Fairy Godmother stated. "She cursed hundreds or merfolk and attempted to steal the throne from King Triton, the son of Poseidon!"

"Her half-brother!" Uma said, stomping her foot on the bottom of the bubble! "Daughter of Poseidon! So she had a claim to that throne, too!"

Getting all the good family history today, weren't you Bobby?

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"Sure," Bobby shrugged. "So Uma's mom was a villain. That doesn't make her one." A beat. "Unless, you know, you keep her trapped someplace full of people who are villains, and tell her that's what she is all her life, even though she never asked to be born, and certainly didn't get to choose her mother."

My goodness, the chill in the air was really getting rather more pronounced, wasn't it?

Ben shivered, looking around to see if there was a northerly wind on the beach. "Well, no," he said uneasily at the same time the Fairy Godmother sniffed and declared, "Blood will tell."

Even Ben looked askance at that.

"Right, like it did for those who had apparently 'proved their goodness'?" Bobby pointed out.

"The rose above their beginnings and worked hard to become good," the Fairy Godmother sniffed. "They didn't give into it."

Uma jeered from the bubble. "You did this!" she hissed. "All of you. Who knows what we could have become if we'd just been given a chance, you old harpy!"

A Different Part of the Beach, Sunday

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