I actually really like this movie, and the songs are currently stuck in my head, so I decided to write this :) Maybe I'll stop humming them then x Please review to tell me what you think xx
King Leonard and Queen Matilda of Corona had long since lost hope of their daughter ever returning. They remembered the night she was taken with horror, the memory of the balcony doors swinging shut in the breeze and their tiny daughter's cries as she was stolen away.
They remembered the long searches, dark into the night, and the hope of the first lanterns released into the sky to lead their daughter home. They remembered the years of waiting, of fear. Sometimes Matilda wondered if it would be better to know if their daughter was dead, simply if it meant they knew what had happened.
Every time someone came to the castle proclaiming to be the lost princess, they relived the memories again until their hearts broke a little more each time. Every girl that paraded through the castle was a reminder of how their daughter was still missing, and these people that hoped to earn money through their Rapunzel's disappearance.
They could barely stand to hear the impersonators arrival announced, knowing each time that it was unlikely for it to be their little girl and wishing for it all the same. After thirty four girls the Queen could hardly bear to look at them when they entered, to look at the girls who dared to impersonate their lost child.
Over the years the number of girls lessened and both royals nearly gave up hope, holding on only by the lanterns they lit every year on Rapunzel's birthday. But still, they wished for their beloved daughter to find her way back home to them.
They never gave up hope, with as desperate as they had become, that their daughter might one day come home.
And it seemed she might have finally done.
The 'lost princess' had been announced at the castle, accompanied by a horse that seemed to belong to the Captain of the Guard, a chameleon and Flynn Rider. If this was their daughter she certainly seemed to keep strange company. Both Leonard and Matilda couldn't help the hope that rose in their hearts as the servants gossiped about the girl.
There were rumours flying like wildfire and no one seemed to know exactly what to believe, but the odd appearance of this strange girl seemed to have the whole castle up in arms (as well as a very irate Captain of the Guard, wondering what his horse was doing).
The Queen already knew that this odd girl had brown hair rather than the lovely golden hair her daughter had possessed. But to have the audacity to come here in spite of that, there had to be something else pretty convincing.
Maybe even something true.
Maybe this was their daughter. Once again she felt the hope rising in her chest, at the thought of her little girl - now eighteen years old, with all the years that they'd missed - finally coming home. Matilda knew that if this wasn't her daughter then she would never be the same.
The Queen always felt that she would know her daughter on sight, that she would be able to look out into the courtyard and pick her out in an instant. This girl wasn't like that but something in her cried out at the sight of the girl, who looked frightfully thin and dirty. Matilda couldn't help the instincts that cried out from within her, telling her to bundle the child into her arms and never let go. A mother's instincts.
The girl had Rapunzel's eyes and her mouth and her face and Leonard's chin.
Something like relief flooded through Matilda. This was her daughter - it had to be. How could she not pick her out of a crowd?
She threw herself onto her daughter, not even pausing for the chameleon and dragged her husband into the hug as well. Both she and the girl - Rapunzel - were crying, but tears of joy. She extended her hand to Flynn Rider and he took it almost hesitantly before she tugged the unexpecting thief into the hug. The four of them - five if she counted the chameleon - sat on the floor of the balcony crying wordless tears and holding each other tight.
Matilda squeezed her husband's hand tight, feeling the mutual relief that their daughter was finally home, all the hope and confusion and pain. There were many things the pair of them had to work out, but after settling in their lost little girl.
There were many things she needed to ask her new-found daughter, where had she been, who had taken her, how had she been treated, but perhaps most pressing of all - where had she picked up Flynn Rider?
Then she saw the looks passing between the two and smiled softly to herself, even as her heart sank slightly. This would just add to the list of things she needed to discuss with her husband, as if there weren't going to be enough already.
Leonard was not going to be happy.