#(headcannon.)

this starts when audrey accidentally overhears mal talking about splitting up gangs from the isle to keep the peace

audrey is so pissed at this because her and uma are friends now and she knows how much her crew means to her

well, uma and her sit close to each other in any class they have (not really on purpose) and they don’t talk that much during school, but the two of them frequent this quaint little restaurant for studying that smells like fish and fried potatoes (which drives audrey insane but she needs friends right now and uma is turning out to be a very good one)  when they are there,  they talk about a variety of topics.  audrey is almost always choking over her words because everything she says has to be picked apart in her mind to make sure she isn’t as boring as she used to be.  but uma doesn’t care, and it makes audrey’s heart light up to know that she can count on uma not hiding behind a smoke screen (she couldn’t always rely on that from her old friends)

anyways, she doesn’t go in there (because princesses don’t eavesdrop and mal doesn’t get to know she accidentally did) and she immediately goes to uma instead, practically breathless after almost-running to uma’s dorm that she shared with one of the other pirates (desiree maybe?) 

uma, gil, and harry were there and she had a hard time talking to boys because according to her grandmother she was ‘out of practice’

so she stutters out an explanation to follow the confused look on uma’s face, which turns into a rather angry one and audrey’s heart pangs in the slight fear that she said something wrong.

however, uma takes notice of this and her face turns back to neutral, but audrey can practically feel the anger radiating off of her.

harry is ready to beat a bitch up, and gil will do whatever harry and uma tell him to so everyone’s on edge, audrey more so because of nerves.

‘she’s almost queen, you can’t stop her.’ is what audrey says to try and stop them from exposing her for accidental eaves dropping.

‘yeah well there’s no way in hell i’m letting her take my crew away from me.  nobody will be too happy about that, trust me auds it won’t be just us.’

following immediately after her tiny speech, uma had stormed into the office that had mal in it and gave her a (colorfully languaged) piece of her mind with harry and gil following suite

audrey stood near the doorway, and was bordering the feeling of being left out and the need to leave struck her quickly.  but lucky for her, the second she moved her foot harry turned around with a look that made her stay.

so she stayed of course, but only to leave disappointed trailing after a rage filled uma after mal’s half ass explanation for safety.

it takes approximately nine minutes of uma’s ranting before audrey speaks up so quietly she can barely hear herself, ‘i have a place you could stay,’

and she’s met with silence so she continues, ‘i inherited a castle, it’s on the water, and if you wanted to could live there and go to school here, it’s not far.’

uma blinks, ‘that’s the most extra gift i’ve ever heard of.’

audrey tries to cover it up, ‘don’t think of it as a gift, it’s just like the dorms here, but more private.’  if she squints she swears that she can see the ghost of a smile quirk at uma’s lips.

the floorboards creak and suddenly there’s a warm tan hand on her shoulder, she looks up to see gil looking at uma with a face a child would give their mother when they see a lost puppy.

harry is sitting next to uma as she nods to the boy behind her, ‘fine, but you have to come with us, if it’s really not a gift.’