Summary: What if Mother Gothel never kidnapped Rapunzel? Would Rapunzel and Flynn ever have met?

I couldn't get this idea out of my head so I just had to write it. But if someone had this idea and wrote it then I obviously haven't read it yet so no I am not intentionally stealing your idea (I'm always scared that someone's going to accuse me of stealing ideas ). Anyway about Flynn's age. I don't fully know exactly how old Flynn is because so many people have said so many different ages. So I'm going to take a guess that in the movie he easily looks in his early 20's so I'm going to guess about 21 or 22… yeah, 22 seems to fit him for some reason (although I heard once 24, I'm still going to stick with this)

Disclaimer : I Don't own Tangled or any of the characters ( I so wish I did though, I would make a tangled 2…don't know what would happen though)

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It was one of those days; Gloomy, Wet and Dark; not really a happy sort of day. Fortunately that wasn't the case for a certain 12 year old Princess. All throughout the castle you could hear the little pre-teen's giggling throughout the corridors trying to escape from one of her less serious tutor.

"Hahaha! You'll never catch me!" The little girl yelled for world to hear as she screeched around another sharp corner; her bare feet tapping along the cold tile floor.

"Your highness, please stop! I'm not playing anymore!" The tutor named Edward Mundagreen said finally coming to a stop; placing his hands on his knees; leaning over to catch his breath. 'Ah…I'll just send out a few of the guard to look for her' he thought to himself standing upright and pushing the palm of his hand on a stinging cramp that seemed to have formed in his side while he was running.

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Meanwhile, on the slummed down side of the City; a young 16 year old boy name Eugene Fitzerbert was running out in the rain, dirtying up his bare feet in the mud. He had decided get away from the orphanage for a while after an argument with an older boy at the orphanage; it had almost revolved into a fight and the other children were gathering around until one of the catholic sisters, named sister Angelica came rushing in, breaking the two up. She had told Eugene to wait outside to talk to him while she scolded the other boy inside.

He never liked being scolded. Heck, what child did; so he bailed and ran.

The young teenager was running, not a happily and carefree as the princess was but he had a smile on his face; his feet were scratched and bruised due to running over stones and small pieces of broken glass; so he stopped. His dirty face was wet because of the rain, but it helped cool him off so he stood there with his face to the sky; catching small rain drops on his tongue, it was heaven to him.

He looked around him; realising he had never been to this part of the city before. He wasn't thinking of where he was going but he loved the feeling of being able to go anywhere he wanted; sure he would get a long session of yells from the old lady when he returned to the orphanage but it was worth it.

He straightened his posture and walked around; soon he saw a small gap in between two tall buildings. He looked through the gap and saw something. He wasn't fully sure what it was but he wanted to find out. He slid through the long gap and gawked; He had found the fuller, richer part of the city. He'd only taken a few steps before he came across a man in a uniform on top of a horse.

"Are you lost kid?" The man asked; eyeing Eugene strangely.

"n-no sir, I'm just going for a walk." he stammered nervously, whoever the man was he didn't look like he should be one to fool with.

The man snorted at his words and rode on. Eugene looked over his shoulder to see the guard looking at him, also noticing his bare feet and dirty appearance. Eugene snapped his head forward and quickly walked on.

The rain began to let up but it was still strong enough to heavily wet your clothes.

After a few minute of looking around at stalls and shops; Even sneaking an apple from a fruit stall into his shirt for a snack. He began to shiver. He looked down at his soaked clothes and hugged his arms, hoping it would help warm him up. It didn't. He decided to run, hoping it would warm him like it did before, it helped, but barely. He ran past shops, it was getting dark so most were closing for the night; He slowed down to a light jog. He slowly came to a stop due to lack of breath and leaned on a near wall. He looked up and saw most amazing, beautiful castle. He had heard of the royal part of the city and how amazing it looked. Even though it was dreary, dark and wet, the castle still looked amazing.

He stood there, gazing at the site; the small orphanage that was his home didn't have a view of even the tip of the castle. The sound of footsteps behind his snapped him back to reality. The small boy spun around only to find the same guard from earlier that day towering over him, looking down on him as if to say "you don't belong here you wasteful piece of life".

He didn't think, it was like instinct, he ran; all the back to the lower part of the city to the orphanage. It was where he felt most safe, although it was the last thing from safe. None of the floorboards were secure so you had be sure not to step on a loose nail and hurt you foot. The only light they had were 7 candles. One or at most two candles in each small room, the place reeked of dying rats and moulding wood. And they had to beg for food half the times when donations were too small to feed everyone.

He climbed into through the window of the room where all the children slept. Exhausted from his "field trip" to the higher-ups, He collapsed onto the uncomfortable spring mattress that he was forced the share with another child. The other child was thankfully a heavy sleeper so he only mumbled something under his breath and turned over. He knew he was going to have to deal with sister Angelica tomorrow morning but for now he was too tired to think of how he could weasel his way out of extra chores that he knew would be his punishment.

Yeah, that was the start. Short I know. Detailed enough? Not detailed enough? I don't think it is but I still want your opinion. There will be more I promise. It's not going to be like my other fanfic and be reeeaaalllyyy lazy about it. I actually am going to try with this, not sure if this was actually chapter one or a prologue. I think prologue would seem better. I don't think I introduced Rapunzel well enough, gah! I barely gave her one paragraph! I'll do Rapunzel's side of the story better next time, in fact next ones going to all about Rapunzel…Well I don't think I couldn't write Eugene in there somewhere. He's just an awesome character! OMG I love him!

Anyway, R&Rs please :3 no flames, first tangled fic (I don't get the chance to write very much anyway so be nice) If you review then I will love you forever =D Thanks *muah* xoxo