*huuh, huuh, huuh* Gothel was running as fast as she could, holding a screaming infant as she ran. She was now deep in the middle of the forest, and feeling quite worn out. The child still screaming, she quickly came up with a plan to solve both problems. She rubbed the child's head as she started to sing her song… "Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine, make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine, what once was mine." It worked. She quickly became more energetic and the child fell fast asleep. She decided that would be her new lullaby. She quickly began to run again, singing along the way so as to not wake the newborn infant. Soon they reached her little cabin. Gothel was so worn out, even though she was now younger than when she first took the child from the palace. She quickly ran inside, shut and locked the doors and windows, lit a small candle and plopped down in her simple chair. She stared at the child in her arms, what had she done?
"What have I done? Taking the newborn Princess? Not even 8 days old. But what choice did I have? The flower was now part of the Princess, as in, the flower's power was IN her, she now had the magic. I tried to take just the hair, but that only resulted in my growing older quicker, not the other way around like I had wanted (not to mention the hair turned brown when it was cut, like that of her mothers, the queen)". The baby was starting to wake up, she panicked. She instantly grabbed the child, jumped out the window and ran home, which brings us to the present.
She instantly grabbed a crate she found, dumping out all the apples, then she grabbed a large pillow and placed it in the bottom. She then placed the child in the make-shift "crib" and began to pace around.
What was she going to do? She had no idea how to be a parent. She herself hadn't had a mother for over 100 years. She tried to think back to when her mother had given birth to her brother, what was the first thing she did again? "She fed him" she said aloud. So she went over to the new infant, lifting her from her "crib", sat down on her chair and began to nurse the child while she sang her song.
"Yes" she thought "it will do lovely as a lullaby".
After a moment she paused to burp the child, and then resumed the feeding. She started thinking what her mother did next… "A name" she exclaimed (if she was going to keep the child she would have to name it… her). She started thinking again, it had been over 100 years since she had heard anyone else's name, so she couldn't think of a single one (that she wouldn't get sick at using). Frantic she started looking around for anything that would make a good name for a little girl, but being a poor hermit, she didn't see a single thing. She looked down at the baby, now sleeping in her arms. "Flower?" she questioned "No" she answered herself, "maybe as a nickname, but not her REAL name" (Being not even 8 days old, the King and Queen had not even chosen a name for their beautiful baby, since it was custom to wait till a baby WAS 8 days old before revealing a name {this would avoid that connection if the child were to for some reason, not make it even a whole week}). Gothel quickly started roaming through her favorite things in her mind, when she came to her favorite food, then it hit her… "repunzel" she stated allowed, then she looked at the sleeping child in her arms. With admiration, she stated "Hi Repunzel, I'm your new mommy".
