So if review alerts/favorite adds/story watches are to tell me anything, it's that you all like this story so far, which makes me super happy! : ) This chapter is a little shorter, but I'm still happy with it! Enjoy! : )

Chapter 2

It hadn't even been a minute from Rapunzel's scream that a guard was knocking on their bedroom door, calling in.

"Your majesties? Is everything alright in there?" Eugene hurried to the door, pushing his disheveled from his face as he opened the door just enough to squeeze his head out, his voice serious and quiet as he struggled to keep it from shaking.

"Tell the king and queen that we request an emergency audience with them, right away."

It was nearly noon and Eugene and Rapunzel were still locked away in her father's study, trying to make sense of her once-again long blonde hair. Some time had been taken up with braiding Rapunzel's hair back, so as she wouldn't trip on it. Once again her long, flower filled locks earned a goofy smile from her husband as he stared at her. Slowly the two drifted back into the conversation, having been lost in one another eyes, the smiles fading at her father's words.

"The question here is still "why?". Not that anyone here has anything against your hair dear." Her father quickly recovered at seeing his daughter's wondering eyes. "It's just…well according to what we know; the power should have died off when Eugene cut your hair."

"Of course her tears proved otherwise." Eugene interjected, giving Rapunzel's hand a squeeze. "But you're right, we haven't seen anything like that since." he drifted off in thought as the queen worried her own question.

"You don't think-?"

The king turned his eyes to his wife, taking in her expression before sighing,

"I was trying not to go that direction love."

"What direction?" Rapunzel looked curiously to her parents, wondering what she was being kept out on. Life had been nothing but confusion since she had woken up early that morning to get a drink and was greeted with a reflection of 70 feet of bright blonde hair.

"Rapunzel darling, we didn't want to worry you…but we were concerned that…well we talked about it when you were getting your hair sorted with that…" the queen sighed, unable to finish as she looked to her husband, who looked just as uncomfortable. Rapunzel looked to the king, her eyes wide with worry.

"Daddy?"

"We we worried that you might be in danger." As he finished his sentence Eugene's arm wrapped instinctively around Rapunzel's shoulders, looking to his in-laws. He could fully sympathize with their fears. After 18 years of wondering where their daughter was and if they would ever see her, and finally having her back safely, it was heart wrenching to worry that they could lose her again. Eugene felt it himself, he had died for her once already, and would do it again if he had to, but even the thought of someone possibly threatening his beloved sent that old Flynn Rider blood boiling angrily through his veins.

"Danger from who exactly?"

"That's what we can't be sure of. Since your return, we seem to have fallen into an age of peace. But it seems the only reasonable explanation for all of…this." the king motioned towards Rapunzel's hair, the vast amount of it still shocking. "Something knows you need to be protected. And if not you, then someone close to you. The most we can do for now, is to keep our guards on their toes, and be on the watch for the first sign of danger."

At that same moment, miles away in what should have been one of the most secure prisons in the kingdom, three guards lay unmoving on the ground. In the distance, two large and rough men were departing from the building, hurrying away into the shadows.

Yes that's right.. she's calling him Daddy. For some reason, when I first saw the movie and she was reunited with her parents, as she looked up to her father from her mother's shoulder, I was just really expecting her to smile all shy and squeak out a "Hi Daddy". I just think it's something Rapunzel would do.

Well… I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! It was a short one, I know. But more are to come! : )