A/N: Hey all! So, I've been wanting to do a chaptered story for a while, and well, this is what came out of it! Thanks to my "Charmed Light" reviewers who voted that I do this one first! I know this has been done many times before, but I wanted to do my own interpretation of it! Because they didn't just show up on the castle's balcony. Unless the whole tear-healing thing gave them magic teleporting powers...:) This is going to include Eugene and Rapunzel's journey back to the kingdom, their first few days there, and will be ended with a song fic. Long Live by Taylor Swift, to be exact. And just to let you know, this follows the storyline in "Charmed Light" (Rapunzel's sister, Rose, etc. etc.), probably all my stories will. Anyway, hope you all like it!

"Eugene!" Rapunzel exclaimed in excitement, breaking off their first kiss and pushing herself backward, to see him, to make sure it really was him for the hundredth time.

Eugene smiled up at her.

She enveloped him in another hug as she breathed, "Oh, Eugene, I thought you'd left me!"

Eugene pulled back and looked into her eyes seriously.

"Rapunzel, I'd never leave you alone." He promised her. "And you know what?"

"What?" Rapunzel whispered, leaning into his chest, listening to his heartbeat, in amazement that it was beating again and silently willing it to never stop again. Eugene adjusted her on his lap and wrapped his arms around her.

"I am so sorry for leaving you. Both times. I didn't mean to leave you, Rapunzel, I am so sorry. And I never plan on leaving you again." He explained sincerely, looking into her eyes and wiping away a stray tear that looked very out of place on her joyous face with his thumb.

And then Eugene knew he couldn't contain his happiness any longer. He was with Rapunzel, a Rapunzel who no longer had to worry about ruffians, thugs, or any person cutting, selling, or using her hair, and there was nothing stopping them from being able to be together forever. He grinned and stood up before Rapunzel could respond to his apology, reaching out his hand to help her up.

"What?" Rapunzel asked softly, smiling.

"Nothing." Eugene said, shaking his head and still smiling.

Unexpectedly, he picked her up and twirled her around. Rapunzel felt giddy, giggling and feeling the wind rush through her newly cut hair and her dress fluttering at her ankles. The world around her spun in circles, but her eyes were focused on one thing: the man in front of her. The man who had just died for her, the man who cut her hair and freed her from captivity. The first man she met, the man she hit over the head with a frying pan and stuffed in her closet. The man who had taken her to see the lights she had been dreaming about for as long as she could remember. The man who now claimed the title of her new dream. Eugene set her bare feet back on the ground carefully before she embraced him yet again, truly bursting with happiness.

"But what even…just happened here?" Eugene asked in an amazed voice.

Rapunzel smiled and gave a little laugh.

"I don't really even think I know. I…I was crying, and I started singing the song again. I just didn't know what else to do, that song fixed everything my whole life, until now. And…I think a tear fell on your cheek, because I looked up, and there was this glowing light filling up the room, and it looked like it was healing you. And then, well, you woke up." She answered slowly, smiling at her last sentence.

Eugene smiled and shook his head in amazement.

"What do you remember?" Rapunzel asked him.

"I couldn't tell you, honestly. It was all really fuzzy. I remember a gold light, and then…I saw you." He answered.

"And at last I see the light, and all at once, everything is different, now that I see you." Rapunzel sung quietly.

"Yeah, something like that. It fits pretty good, huh? " He replied as he smiled down at her.

"I just…I can't believe this happened." Rapunzel breathed.

"Which part? We've been through a lot the past few days." Eugene laughed.

"All of it." Rapunzel answered.

"But it did." He replied soothingly.

He ran his fingers through her now brown locks and kissed her softly on her head.

"Rapunzel, I love you." He whispered into her hair.

Rapunzel looked up at him with those big green eyes he loved so much and smiled softly.

"And I love you." She whispered.

"And I have something to tell you." She said after a moment.

"And what might that be?" Eugene asked.

"Well, first, you have to promise you won't freak out." Rapunzel told him.

Eugene raised his eyebrows in surprise. She didn't have magical, glowing, healing hair anymore, what could she possibly have to tell him that he might freak out about?

"Well, I don't know, Blondie, I do have the tendency to freak out about small, minor details that were forgotten to mention, like, say, glowing hair that just so happens to also heal." He joked with her.

Rapunzel gave him a playful swat. "I'm serious! Promise me!"

"I just…I don't know, Blondie, I just think that's too hard of a promise to keep…maybe you better just keep this one to yourself…" He continued.

"Eugene! I'm serious!" Rapunzel reprimanded.

"Okay, okay!" Eugene finally consented, holding up his hands in defeat.

"Pinky promise?" Rapunzel expectantly held out her pinky.

"Promise." Eugene agreed, wrapping his pinky around her smaller one and shaking them. "Now what's your little secret?"

Rapunzel had a feeling he had no idea how big her "little secret" really was.

"Well, Eugene…." She sighed, not knowing how she should tell him. "I'm the Lost Princess." She finally blurted out, not being able to think of a better, gentler way to tell him.

Eugene's jaw dropped as he looked at her with wide eyes in astonishment. No…she couldn't be! Was it really possible? Well, he knew for a fact that woman wasn't her mother, because while he didn't know too terribly much about mothers, being an orphan, he did know that no real mother could keep her child in a tower for eighteen years and chain her and gag her when she refused to stay any longer, even to keep herself young forever. The Lost Princess – if she was still alive, that is – turned eighteen yesterday. Oh…Rapunzel did too. The Lost Princess had long blonde hair and big green eyes, just like the Queen's – Wait…Rapunzel did too. That is, until a few minutes ago. The more he looked at her, the more he realized how much she looked like the Queen.

Now that he thought about it, he wondered how he could have been so dumb that he hadn't realized it before.

"You're...the Lost…Princess…" Eugene gasped in incredulity, trying to let it all sink in.

"Mhmm." Rapunzel agreed, nodding her head. Yep, he was freaking out, despite her warnings.

"Rapunzel, you're the Lost Princess!" He yelled, as if he himself had just made some amazing discovery.

"Yeah, Eugene, I know." Rapunzel calmly reminded him.

"I know, Rapunzel, I just…" He trailed off, lost in his thoughts.

What was he going to do? He truly did think it was stupendous that she was the Lost Princess, because that meant she knew exactly where to find her family, and she would assuredly have a good family to go to. But…what was he going to do? He had promised her minutes ago that he never planned on leaving her again. But if he went into the kingdom again, which he would have to do to return Rapunzel, he surely would be caught, put in prison and hanged. Even if he didn't, and he met the King and Queen with Rapunzel, they'd without a doubt send him to prison. Or would they, seeing that would make him the one who brought the Lost Princess back? All he wanted was for Rapunzel to be back home, with a real family, to be safe and happy, but he knew she wouldn't be happy without him in the picture. What was he going to do? How was he going to explain this to her?

"…How did you know?" Eugene finally asked.

"Well, there were little clues all along, but I was in my bedroom last night, looking at my paintings on the ceiling. I kept looking at them, and I realized that almost everything was in the shape of Corona's sun. This memory of two people came back to me, and I had never known what it meant before, and I realized the two people were the King and Queen from the mural in the kingdom. And when you first climbed up here, I looked in your satchel and put on the crown, and that memory came back to me too. And all of the sudden, I just knew." Rapunzel explained.

"Wow. Well, uh, I guess we better get you home, huh?" Eugene said, ignoring all the questions and doubts in his mind of what was going to happen to them.

"Yeah, I guess so." Rapunzel laughed.

What an adventure this was going to be. Certainly not one they'd forget anytime soon.

A/N: What'd you think? Personally, I was pretty happy with it, but I felt like it could've been better. Anyway, REVIEW and tell me what you thought! :) Constructive criticism is welcome!