A/N: Hello everyone! I have finally decided to just do a series of oneshots based off of the "Disney" movie "Tangled". I know a very orginal title, no? Haha it will probably change so honestly don't be alarmed by my uncreativeness. Also I will update as frequently as possible, especially with Spring Break coming, but also my school work the next week is being doubled so please be patient. Also it would be lovely to get reviews! I have other "Tangled" stories too so that may spark your interest. Anyway thank you for reading!

Disclaimer: "Tangled" and its characters are owned by Disney.

Chapter 1: Long Live

Warmth. It was the first feeling that Eugene Fitzherbert had felt when re-entering the world. It was pleasant, yet oddly uncomfortable, like it was healing a pain that he could already no longer feel.

Soon after the warmth went away Eugene realized that the petite brunette who was sitting in front of him had saved his life.
Saved him from the ultimate demise. Not from death, but a lifetime as Flynn Rider.

Eugene felt that warmth now, but it wasn't the same. Sweat dripped from his forehead and fell to the tile on the balcony of the Corona royal palace. This was the summer sun causing him the discomfort, and the state of his nerves.

It was a day after his death, can you really blame the guy for being a bit on his toes. His sweaty palms greedily raked through his dark brown hair looking for a way to busy themselves and his footfalls were fast as he paced back and forth the length of the small balcony.

Pardoned. He was pardoned. Why wasn't he just overwhelmingly excited about this like he should be? The fact was simple, he had a whole kingdom to face. A whole sea of faces that he had once stole from and cheated.

Today was the big announcment. The princess had been found and the people had been waiting for this for 18 years. But along with the princess being returned, a wanted thief had brought her back. How would they react to that?

"Eugene?" A soft voice questioned from behind him, the man had been so caught up in his thoughts that he hadn't even heard the pixie haired princess come out onto the balcony.

Eugene quickly fixed his posture and placed both hands on his hips, trying to look as calm as usual.

"Yeah blondie?" Was the reply she received from him, his voice was level and even a bit playful, but she had been through enough with him to know that his nerves were shaking.

"It's time for the announcement," Big green eyes looked up at his, her slippered feet cautiously walking towards him. Upon arrival Rapunzel had been dressed in clothes fit for a princess, a emerald dress made of fabrics that probably costed more than Eugene could even imagine.

He too had been given the royal treatment. They had arrived yesterday and right after telling their great adventure, and discussing long talk with the royals about his freedom, they had been taken to different rooms and treated with the utmost respect.

Rapunzel by now had reached the ex-thief and was fiddling a bit with his new black vest, styled like the blue one he had worn before.

"I know your nervous Eugene but I am too, what if they don't like me?" The innocent question quickly broke him from his thoughts as pale hands reached down to grab his large tan ones. Her emerald orbs shimmered with what looked like the beginning of tears.

Flynn Rider had never been sympathetic, or gave one specific girl the time of day really. But in the past what had it been 4 days?
This amazing, beautiful, young women right in front of him had changed him more than she would ever possibly even know.

Instinctively Eugene took the sad princess into his arms and held her close. He was still trying to figure out this whole, relationship thing. As Flynn he had passing girlfriends but that had just been so that he could steal whatever they had, jewelry, money, anything. With Rapunzel, all of that was different.

The second her tears hit the black vest, he felt like he wanted to cry. Seeing the usually happy and estatic princess so distraught was absolutly heartwrencing.

"Hey Blondie, Shhhh, please don't cry," Eugene practically begged as he firmly placed both hands on her thin shoulders gently ruffling her messy brown hair.

Rapunzel smiled apologetically and took one of her hands, gently wiping it across her face trying to dry the skin.

"Sorry, it's just I'm scared..." The Princess got caught off suddenly as they heard someone enter the balcony from behind them. It was the Queen, her Mother.

"Darling it's time," Both Eugene and Rapunzel looked at eachother,
both scared of what was yet to come, both longing for acceptance.

"Blondie?" The ex-thief held out his arm to her in a gentleman manor. Rapunzel grabbed his arm as gently as her shaking hands cound.

Eugene looked down at the girl who had once had 70 feet of long blonde hair, after all they had been through she had never looked so scared, or so young. Standing beside him now, Eugene's 6'2" frame towered over her small body, she looked like a child.

Leaning down, he fought the urge to roll his eyes at how sappy this was going to sound. Putting his chapped lips right against her ear he whispered, "Their going to love you, just like I do."

The Princess's face light up with a smile that looked like it would split her face in half. Rolling her shoulders back she stood proudly and gave him a confident smile as they began to walk forward following in the Queen's footsteps.

In 4 days, Eugene Fitzherbert had seen more than he had in a lifetime.
In 4 days, was all it took for him to fall in love with the girl by his side.

Flynn Rider would be so disgraced, but Eugene could careless. He didn't need a silly book character, he had Rapunzel.

"...therefore my daughter was returned to me yesterday by none other then Flynn Rider," The King's voice boomed over the spectators of the village so that everyone could hear.

Standing on the huge balcony, where Rapunzel had been reunited with her parent's just yesterday, stood all the royals and one Eugene Fitzherbert, who was absolutely shaking in his leather boots.

"So from this day forward, Flynn Rider is pardoned from all his crimes for returning the lost princess," Not a sound was made among the villagers, everyone was absolutely shocked. For 12 years,
the thief had made quite a name of himself among these people, and now he had suddenly decided to turn over a new leaf.

Rapunzel was then asked to speak, squeezing Eugene's arm the princess let go and left to speak to what was now going to be her kingdom.

Watching the girl tell their tale, he couldn't help but admire her bravery, and her naive sense of childlike wonder. Even now was she retold the tale her big green eyes wondered around the crowd taking everything in they could, it was all a new world to her still.

The hot sun beat down and as time drew closer and closer to the end, Eugene's nerves once again began to make him sweat.
Standing beside Rapunzel's parents, he fiddled with his vest and tried not to listen to her talk about his death. Last night the ex-thiefs eyes wouldn't even close, terrified that they would never be opened again.

"Eugene?" Rapunzel coaxed him softly reaching her hand out towards him, wiggling her tiny fingers for him to grab.

It was now, or never.

As he gripped onto the Princess's hand, Eugene vowed to never again do something dishonest, to never fall back into the ways of Flynn Rider, and to never, ever leave the amazing girl's who was standing in front of him side.

As a warm tan hand engulfed her's she smiled brighter then the sun and pulled him up to where she was standing at the front of the balcony.

The crowd had watched silently, still taking in the story as the lost,
now found princess wrapped her thin arms around a thiefs waist and snuggle up to his side.

Eugene looked down, his hazel eyes looking in her big green orbs and he just couldn't conceal his happiness. Though his nerves were definatly still their, with her by his side nothing would ever matter but her happiness.

A little brunette girl at the back of crowd smiled as the thief smiled down at his princess, it was like something out of a fairytale. It was her that started clapping.

Then suddenly everyone in the square was clapping and shouting out in absolute glee. People were smiling up at the couple in disbelief,
but also shouting out thank you's to the Princess's rescuer.

No one had ever been proud of Eugene, his parents had dumped him off at an orphanage, an their caretaker wasn't the most attentive person in the world. But for once, every eye was on him, and everyone was happy because of something he did.

The ex-thief couldn't help but let the little bit of Flynn Rider that was left escape him at that moment. While he hugged Rapunzel to him tightly, what he whispered was a final farewell to the past and a hello to the future.

"This is...stupendous."

This chapter was basically written while I thought of the song "Long Live". Go listen to it! Taylor Swift wrote it, and whenever I hear it I seriously think of "Tangled".

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