A/N: May add on to this but I'm not sure. Please make sure to read and review and if you enjoy it please go take a look at my other "Tangled" stories.

Disclaimer: I don't own "Tangled" or it's characters...they belong to Disney.

For one terrible moment she had been alone, whether it was seconds or minutes or hours she didn't know but the numbing feeling settling in her stomach had been all too real.

When he had opened his eyes and spoke her name, she had to ask if it was him. Rapunzel believed she was dreaming and at any moment reality would set in and she would be awake.

But her imagination was not vast enough to imagine the first words to leave Eugene Fitzherbert when he re-enetered the land of the living.

"Did I ever tell you I've got a thing of brunettes?"
Rapunzel was not dreaming and this was Eugene, her Eugene, the one that had hopped through that window two days ago seeking for a hideout and re-entered it earlier to ensure her safety. She did the one thing her mind was capable of doing at a time like this.

She laughed for the numbness that had been setting in quickly turned to happiness as butterflies filled her stomach.
Wanting to keep him close to her and make sure he wouldn't leave anytime soon, the small girl launched herself into his arms as he slowly picked himself up a bit disbelieving. Rapunzel felt him grip onto her tighter after the initial shock wore off.

Letting go of him but still grasping his vest she broke off the hug wanting to just look into those honey eyes of his. When emerald met hazel both wore an expression of happiness and that in itself made Rapunzel giggle and without thinking she locked her lips with his.

After he registered what was going on, Eugene gladly returned the kiss running his rough hands through the girl's now short, spikey brunette hair.

Pulling back from the kiss, Rapunzel realized that she was now softly crying.

"Oh sorry!" She quickly picked herself up realizing that Eugene was still chained to the staircase. Walking carefully across the cold tiled floor she located the key that had fallen from Gothel's cloak when she had aged.

The girl with tears still falling quietly down her face grasped the small object and walked back over to Eugene who by now had a concerned look on his face.

Sitting carefully on the floor that was still littered with glass,
Rapunzel swiftly put the key in the lock and turned it until she heard the resounding click.

Eugene rubbed his wrist, which had become red, while he tried to figure the past few minutes out, how they had ever been possible. That's when he heard the object of his affection starting to sob.

"Hey Rapunzel, it's ok," That was the only thing he could offer as he gently tucked the girl underneath his arm and awkwardly tried to comfort her. This was all new to him, the affection and caring part of it.

"Eugene she fell from the window, and I couldn't save her! Then I turned around and you were dying on the floor after you cut my hair!
How could you...How could you be so stupid? I can't believe that you would leave me alone again...and...and," Rapunzel was mumbling and sobbing at the same time and quite frankly her companion was having trouble keeping up. He had experienced her almost bipolar like behavior a few days before when she first left her tower and as he watched her face change emotions quickly he soon realized this girl was only feeling one of those emotions and just not showing it.

She was scared.

For just a minute, Rapunzel had been left in the world alone. A world that she hadn't even known about until two days prior. The scary feeling of being forced into a world you couldn't handle was all too real to Eugene for that had been him years ago when the orphanage forced him out. But he knew about reality, he knew that life wasn't all sunshine and magic, he knew about death and loss. Rapunzel well, now she did.

"Blondie calm down!" Eugene gripped her chin forcing her to lift her eyes to meet his. The emerald orbs usually filled with joy were dull now as she whispered the true reason behind her tears.

"You were dead, you died in my lap, I was alone," Rapunzel whispered as he felt his heart reach a near breaking point. Never before had a girl had this kind of affect on him. Those emerald orbs again filled with tears as she wrapped her hands tightly around his arms making her small knuckles turn white.

"Rapunzel I'm not anymore, in fact why am I not?" This set off another round of tears and Eugene mentally kicked himself for being so inconsiderate.

"I sang and then there was light, and I guess I had a little of the magic left in me," The response was quiet but the man didn't question it as he gently strokes the girl's hair.

For a few minutes both sat in silence, Rapunzel starting to quiet a bit and Eugene pondering what they were going to do next. Guards would be searching the forest for him far and wide, he needed to get himself and Rapunzel away from them as quickly as possible.

"Eugene I'm was scared," The small voice broke him from his thoughts as he looked at her tear stained face. His heart again clenched and he wanted to chase away whatever fears she had, that scared him.

"I'm scared too, Blondie," She looked up at him with questioning eyes and Eugene realized that he had said what he was thinking aloud,
this scared him even more.

"What about?" The girl questioned as the ex-bandit tried to think of a good answer, but when those emerald eyes fixed on his Eugene realized that he wouldn't be able to lie to her, ever.

"You, I've never risked everything before for anyone except you and it scares me that you have such a hold on me," Flynn Rider would have laughed at the sappy emotion in his voice but all Rapunzel did was smile up at him.

"You scare me too Eugene because I feel the exact same way," That was a relief, and soon his body relaxed though his back was starting to hurt from leaning against the stairwell and supporting the small girl's weight and his.

"Well...what's our next move? I guess we should probably head out considering the whole kingdom is probably looking for me and I guess you should probably grab the frog..." Eugene began to make a mental list of what they would have to bring on their next expedition, but soon he quieted as he saw the look on Rapunzel's face.

She let go of his arm and slowly sat so that she was facing him instead of sitting beside him. Playing with the ends of her purple dress, the girl contemplated how to tell Eugene the news of who her parent's really were.

"Eugene...there's something that I need to tell you," As Rapunzel told Eugene of her discovery his hazel eys grew wider and wider and he feared that this would be considered freaking out.

Eugene Fitzherbert thought he was scared before, but now knowing who his girl's real parents were, oh now he was absolutely terrified.

A/N#2: You have no idea how happy it makes me to get reviews:)