A/N#1: I decided to continue you this because I honestly I was always curious what happened from the time of the tower to the returning to the castle. This is my take of what happened, I wanted the relationship to grow between Rapunzel and Eugene because they really only spent three days together and I kinda wanted them to know more about one another. I always pictured them having another conversation in the woods because in the balcony scene before the king and queen come out their grasping hands as if holding on to reality, I just wanted to experiment with how it all came to that. Ok I'm going to shut up now:) Expect an update very soon.
Disclaimer: I don't own "Tangled" or the characters, they all belong to Disney.
The fire crackled loudly while Eugene's hazel eyes held a far off look, gazing into the dancing flames. The night around him was eerily silent and it was quite unnerving especially after the events of that day.
He was in the middle of the forest with the lost princess. The one that they set lanterns off every year to ensure her a safe journey home. To guide her home. He had been her guide, but so had the lanterns.
Lifting his tanned hand the man rubbed his eyes tiredly fighting the urge to close them as the fear of never being opened again came to mind. This all seemed too good to be true, the last two days seemed like a dream, or was it three?
Looking down the log, he saw that Rapunzel's head was gently propped against it with her hands drawn daintly to her sides. The look of discomfort on the young princesses face was probably due to the fact she no longer had a soft pillow of golden blonde hair, now all that was atop her head was spikey brown tendrils.
Sighing, Eugene turned his face away from her's knowing that if he hadn't cut her seventy feet of hair that look wouldn't be on her face. He had been dying and he wasn't thinking clearly, but he could see whenever she talked to him how her face fell when she would grab at air near her ear instead of her magic hair.
After the girl had stopped crying, and had told Eugene who her real parents are she somehow had convinced him to take her back to the kingdom. The scary thing of the whole thing was that all it took was a puppy dog look from underneath those long lashes of hers and a sad look in those beautiful emerald eyes.
Flynn Rider's smolder being used against him, who would have thought that would ever happen?
Getting Blondie out of the tower though had been harder then the young man expected. The girl had walked upstairs to her room to grab a few things and came down nearly an hour later gripping a small brown basket full of paints and brushes,
tears streaming down her face. Rapunzel didn't say a word though not until he opened the hatch to the stairs that led to the foot of the tower.
"Can we use my hair?" The quiet voice broke Eugene from his thoughts as he turned to the petite girl. Her hands grasped onto the basket tightly and her eyes were downcast, her face was almost hidden beneath her beautiful brown locks.
"Sure," Eugene realized the source of her request, she didn't want to leave the tower the same way that she was about to be taken away from him forever with a women who kidnapped her for the girl's hair.
After tying the hair around the owning on the window of the tower, Eugene looked back at the girl who was hesitantly watching him, her green eyes questioning her companion.
"Hop on Blondie," He flashed her a gentle smile and she timidly walked closer to him, reaching her thin arms around his neck and holding on tightly.
Eugene grasped onto the now brunette locks that had just a few hours ago been attached to the girl that was holding onto him tightly, depending on him, and they slowly made their way to the base of the tower.
When they reached the ground, Eugene let go of the hair and brought his hands up to his neck where the lost princess's arms still held a tight grip on him.
"Ok Blondie we are safely on the ground it's time to go," But the girl didn't respond she just buried her face farther into his neck, the man felt her eyelashes soft as a butterflies wings flutter on his skin.
"Please Eugene, I don't want to see...to see the..." Rapunzel sighed frusterated that she couldn't say anything without feeling the need to cry, it was quite exasperating for a girl that usually held such a bright happiness.
The young man didn't quite understand until he spotted the cloak that lay on the ground right beside where they stood. In silent agreement, Eugene somehow shifted Rapunzel from his back to his arms craddling her gently against his chest.
"It's ok Rapunzel, we're leaving," The gentle tone of voice he used surprised him, but it seemed to comfort the distraught brunette in his arms as she rested her head against his shoulder and closed her eyes with a sigh.
Maximus had been laying down in the grass, resting after such a tiring run when he saw Eugene with a strange girl in his arms that looked like Rapunzel yet she had brown hair. Her pale hands craddled a small brown basket and he saw the brown eyes of her little cameleon pearing out over it with a sad look in his usually vibrant eyes.
"We will tell you everything later Max but right now I believe we should begin our journey to return the lost princess," Max's eyes widened but Eugene offered no more of an explanation, wanting to leave this place where he just a few hours ago had died. Carefully he placed Rapunzel in the saddle steading her and then jumping on right behind her grabbing onto the reigns.
Rapunzel's sad green eyes looked over his shoulders and she couldn't hide the tears that escaped when she got her last glimpse of the tower.
"Come on Blondie, lets get you home," Eugene gently kicked Max in the sides with his brown boots and the horse started to walk forward, their movements all like those of a funeral prosession.
With her face forward again, Rapunzel leaned back and held tightly to the arms of her Eugene.
They had made it quite away until they had to camp outside the city, the sky had grown dark but Eugene preferred walking into the castle tomorrow, that way if he were to be hanged he would have had one more day with Rapunzel.
Building a fire and setting a log beside it, the two sat and stared at the fire for hours, both feared the nightmares that were sure to come. The usually bubbly girl sat quietly, occasionally she would play with the ends of her hair and would sometimes speak quietly to either Pascal or Eugene but other then that she remained silent.
Eventually she had been lulled into sleep by the sounds of the night, leaving Eugene alone in the silence aside from the princess's gentle breaths and the snores coming from Max and Pascal.
But the silence was broken by the sounds of screams and the movements resembling those of thrashing.
Rapunzel was having a nightmare.
"Please...Please...I-I don't want him to die! Please!" Eugene quickly scooted down the log onto the cool ground and grasped the girl by the shoulders shaking her lightly.
Green eyes opened to Hazel ones, both knowing that neither would peacefully rest that night. But that was ok, it would give them more time to talk.
More time to just be Rapunzel and Eugene.
A/N#2: Please Review?
