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"What if he doesn't like me?" She asked him as she peered up into his face.

Eugene smiled gently and placed his hand along her enlarged stomach. "How'd you know it's a boy?" he asked. Rapunzel looked down at her hand, absorbed in memories she dare not relay.

His other hand found hers and she looked up into his eyes as he was inches away.

"It's going to be okay," he assured her again. "Besides, she'll have my good looks!"

Rapunzel gave him a deadpan look.

"And your..." he touched her shoulder-length curls, "Beautiful, chestnut locks."

"Nice save," she scrunched her nose briefly. "But there's something in me that says something's going to go wrong." Rapunzel confessed and stood up from her intricately-painted wood chair.

"What can I do?" Eugene motioned desperately. "Could I... could I get you a glass of water? I-um, I could go your mother and she could... well, do mother things, oh! I could get the Doula."

Hook-Hand Thug suddenly appeared in the doorway. "They wouldn't let me be the doctor."

Eugene cleared his throat and jerked his head in the direction of the hall.

"No," Rapunzel sat down on the railing outside in the sunlight and looked out longingly.

"I'm... not following you. These last nine months you've been fine," As he said this he went to sit with her and take her chin, directing her green eyes to his golden ones, "What's going on now?"

She smiled limply and then peered down outside in the courtyard.

"It's occurred to me ever since I've felt him moved." Rapunzel looked up. "Eugene, I don't have my mother with me." He was instantly appalled. "I know, I'm horrible!" she stood up and strode away from him before whipping back around. "But she's the only thing I've known for years, she was the closest thing to the outside world I had besides Pascal." she looked down at the sleepy lizard who popped his eyes open. "I know what she did and what she planned on doing, but..."

"But what?" He asked unknowingly.

She looked up with tears in her eyes at him. "What if what she said was true?"

"No!" Eugene said vindictively and rushed up to her now, "No," he lowered his voice and his face softened, "Rapunzel, I know you're scared that you can't take care of yourself but it's not like that anymore." He took her hands and smiled. "You're stronger then what you were before and even then you were a force to be reckoned with." She laughed a little and fell into his arms.

He caught her chin again and tilted her head up. "I know this is going to work out. You'll see."

She closed her eyes as he tucked her head under his own chin.

"You'll see," he whispered and closed his own eyes.

To be continued...

A/N: Part 2 will be Elsa and Anna's turn. ;)