A/N: School's almost over, and then Summer will be here! Then I can update some of these stories I have written! Also look on my profile if you just feel like reading another "Tangled" fanfiction because I think this is my fourth or fifth. This might turn into more than a oneshot, but as of now that is up in the air. But until that desision is made please read this chapter. My main goal wasn't to exactly have a story line I just wanted to practice writing in character and testing them out, please tell me what you thought of this!

"...he could do anything he wanted, he could go anywhere that he wanted to go," Eugene's reading was interupted by a light snore from the girl rest her head on his knee.
Rapunzel's short spikey hair cradled her head, curving around the shape of her face. His knee didn't look to comfortable but with the look on her face you would think it was the softest pillow a princess could find.

Eugene, rather than be offended, just chuckled as he smoothed back the loose brunette strands on her forehead.

They had been in her room all day painting the wallks and arranging the furniture to the princess's liking. The castle had been their home for a little over two months now but Rapunzel had been so overwhelmed with the celebrations and princess lessons that she hadn't had a chance to just be herself. Seeing this, Eugene had asked her parent's permission for their daughter to have the day off to do as she pleased, which they had readily agreed that she deserved it.

The day had been long, yet relaxing and Eugene decided that this had to be his favorite type of day.

In the months that he had known the girl currently asleep on his knee, the man had changed. If he wasn't the one that had gone through it, than as a bystander he would have never believed one person could change so much. Flynn Rider would be disgusted, but Eugene really didn't know what to feel.

He had fallen fast, faster than he thought was possible. It had to be some record right? I mean three days to fall in love,
that was stupendous! But not only did he fall in love, but he died for the object of his affection and was brought back to life by her. How could he not adore the girl?
Not only did his perspective change of life, but also his personality had changed immensely. Still his charming self,
the ex-thief now acted more childish, getting the years of childhood he had missed and living through him with the girl he was currently courting. Rapunzel was so innocent and childlike, it was almost like a bresh of fresh air or an ocean breeze, warm and inviting.

Never would Flynn have imagined he would be running through the gardens chuckling as his princess spun and twirled and tripped without the weight of her magical golden hair, no Flynn was too busy thinking of that stupid dream of his. Well, she had replaced that too. Flynn would have found that impossible.

But Flynn was gone, he had died along with the magic in her long golden hair. Left in his place was Eugene Fitzherbert, who happened to have a clean slate, via a pardon from the royals, and a princess to court and protect with his life.

As Eugene continued to stare at the girl lying on his knee and curled up on the bed still in her dress from today, which happened to be covered in paint, another figure slipped into the room.

The Queen tried hard not to giggle at the look of love on the young man's face, the same look he wore everytime her daughter was around.

"Eugene?" She asked softly causing the young man reclining on the bed to jump, before realizing that the sleeping princess was still on his knee.

"Your majesty!" He said welcomingly and a little awkwardly as he realized he probably shouldn't still be in Rapunzel's room, but the Queen just blew it off and closed the door behind her walking over to the bed and sitting at the end of it.

Eugene sometimes couldn't believe the resemblance between Rapunzel and her mother, the brown chestnut hair and the round emerald eyes, but no freckles sprinkled the Queen's nose. Eugene only assumed that Rapunzel had gotten those from the King.

Shifting the Queen finally looked around the room at her daughter's murals that were splattered on the walls, she still had a long way to go. Only one wall in the room was painted but on it was a castle with lanterns pouring over the rooftops of the village below it. The Queen knew that Rapunzel loved the lanterns but she couldn't quite figure out why two figures rest in a lone canoe just watching the spectacle from afar.

It bugged her, the fact that she didn't know her daughter. As her mother she should be able to tell you all the girl's favorite dances and jokes and books, but she didn't know any of that. Over the two months her and her husband had been struggling to get to know their daughter, but it proved harder then they thought. Everyone was pushing the now found princess to take her princess lessons, and even Eugene was having to attend some lessons of his own. These two strangers in her household she hadn't even gotten to know yet, and one was half of her. The only time all of them talked was at meals and that usually was filled with the constant playful bickering between Eugene and Rapunzel.

The princess had yet to call her parents mother and father, she didn't know them well enough. Both understood her hesitation, but Rapunzel wasn't a hesitant kind she was too curious for that, they both feared that she simply would never want to call them her parents, that she had felt more at home with that horrid Mother Gothel.
Rapunzel only really ever talked to Eugene, ofcourse she did talk to everyone else making comments and asking questions, but all her thoughts and feelings were kept exclusively to share with him.

The Queen always saw them taking strolls through the garden or just walking hand in hand down the castle halls, while Rapunzel looked wide eyed around her, Eugene would watch closely to catch the first sign of curiousity in her eyes. When she asked a question he already had an answer, always a witty one, never as logical as it should be, but Rapunzel would just giggled and take his arm pulling him down the hall.

Eugene knew her best and for while the Queen had simply wanted to sit and talk to the ex-thief just to talk about her daughter, to learn her likes and dislikes but it seemed like life always got in the way.

But right now was perfect, while the both were sitting here simply watching the princess sleep contentedly on the man she was courtings leg.

"Eugene? May I ask you something?" Their was a maternal sound in her voice, it made Eugene smile. This woman was definately a step up from Mother Gothel.

"If I said no you would just order me to say yes, so you may ask whatever you please," The Queen rolled her eyes at the man's witty reply, though she knew it was true. He knew from all his refusals to talk in court that the royals could just order him to speak.

"What is she like?" The question threw Eugene offguard, he didn't quite understand what the woman was asking.

"Huh?" was the only reply she recieved.

"Rapunzel. What does she like to do?" The Queen's green eyes looked into his hazel ones with mere curiousity, reminding him so much of her daughter.

"Well as you can see from the, uh drawings on the wall painting is her favorite thing to do." Gesturing at the wall over on his left the Queen smiled and nodded already knowing that Rapunzel enjoyed this activity. It was one of the many things she shared with her.

"Another thing she can do is bake, her cupcakes are utterly stupendous the chef got mad that Rapunzel's were even better then his, which to be honest aren't that great in the first place," Eugene said the last part with a slight bitterness, for the royal chef wasn't the nicest person they had seemed to meet in the castle.

"The next time she makes them I believe I will be the judge of that, I love cupcakes," Eugene chuckled at what the Queen had said, nodding his head. "Rapunzel also likes to clean, don't ask me why but every morning before the maids come to her room she has already swept and made her bed, before long those poor maids will be out of a job," As he was saying this he remembered that morning when he had walked in and she was hurriedly sweeping the floor, the maids walked in about an hour later gaping at the cleanliness of the room.

"There's a few strange things thrown in there too, like the fact Rapunzel can make better candles then anyone in this kingdom and if talking to chameleon is considered a talent, then she has it," The Queen smiled looking over on the nightstand where a silent green Pascal squeked his agreement.

"Well what does she not like?" This stopped Eugene in his tracks and he looked down at the Princess sleeping on his knee.

Just that morning they had been talking about one thing she hated more than anything, the word "Mother". Rapunzel wasn't stupid and she realized that she shouldn't hold bitterness in her heart, after all the owner of that name for the first eighteen years of her life had taken care of her, but it wasn't right for the woman that should have been reading her bedtime stories and singing her to sleep.

"She does not like the word Mother," Eugene whispered that but the Queen heard and averted his eyes as she looked out the window at the full moon drifting through the sky. "It has nothing to do with you, after Gothel stole that rightful title away from you and used it for herself Rapunzel just can't bring herself to call you that when it will only remind her of someone that once betrayed her.

Nodding slightly the Queen looks down at the slumbering princess, watching as Eugene's tanned fingers lovingly played with the loose strands of her daughter's hair.

Rapunzel was so full of life and love, she knew that the hate that surely filled her whenever she thought of that woman proved not to be the greatest of feelings. She probably wouldn't use the word Father yet either because it wouldn't be fair to her Mother.

Their daughter was spectacular, even if she didn't know her well the Queen just knew that as a fact. Rapunzel was so aware of the people around her, that she just couldn't compare them to things she didn't like.

"Is that all?" The Queen asked the ex-thief as he chuckled a bit looking straight at her.

"Yeah if you havn't noticed, this girl pretty much loves everything," They both smiled knowing well that this was true. "She loves you too you know that right?"

The touching statement surprised the Queen when it was coming out of Eugene's mouth, but she figured she knew it all along.

"Yeah, I know."

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