This... was supposed to be a one-shot. But it got so long, I had to cut it down to chapters, lol. The chapters, for the most part, will be pretty short! There are 10 colors total (so 10 chapters), and most of them are little blurbs. Please read and review! I really love feedback!
This is a (kind of) darker fic. And Rapunzel and Jack are on the OC-er side because of that. I tried to keep them in character despite the circumstances, but I don't think that really happened all too much.
Summary: Black is the color of darkness, a world that she lives in where her skin is beaten black and blue. Red is the color of her swollen skin, which decorates her body like a masterpiece meant to hang on the wall. She lives in colors because she doesn't know how else to live.
Pairing: Jackunzel (obviously)
Rating: T
BLACK
Black is the color that she lives in because there is nothing she can do to get herself out.
There is a world outside of hers that moves and breathes and passes with time, but she is tucked away, wrapped in a box so that her vision runs black, and she can see nothing but what she shows.
"Rapunzel, dear, come here," she hears her say.
"I love you so much," she says.
"You are the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me," she says.
But actions speak louder than words, and Rapunzel doesn't know what to do when black becomes the black and blue that paints her skin, and love becomes a cage that traps her in.
She loves her mother, she really does. But that doesn't stop her heart from cracking under the pressure of the thorns of her fingers, and it doesn't stop her from drowning in the pain that she's in.
So she lives in black.
Because she doesn't know how else to live.
Because black is all she can see.