The Boat is Sinking:

Flynn and Rapunzel had just left the bar through the back when five cops and two twins walked in. The twins were talking to one of the cops.

"This woman we work for out in the country... We went to her house and there was no answer but the blonde chick was walking away and she had some kind of cooking pan... Later we saw her with the boy, Ryder. He brought her here." It was obvious by the cuffs on their wrists that this was just something to say to get out of whatever kind of trouble they were in and pin it on Flynn.

"So, what's the frying pan for?" Flynn asked as they walked on a dirt road by a creek. Rapunzel looked down at her hand and smiled guiltily.

"Nope."

"So I'm not allowed to ask where you're from, you're family, or the various objects your carrying?"

"Nope. Nuh uh." Rapunzel smiled at the look on his very undeniably attractive face. Flynn was tall and fit. He had tan skin and brown hair with a small gotee on his chin. His smile was always to one side, usually the right.

"Can I ask why you act like this is your first time going anywhere?" He raised his eyebrows. She was distracted again, looking backwards over her shoulder.

"Flynn..." Cop cars were racing after them. Rapunzel and Flynn ran straight and skidded when they got to a cliff edge over a reservoir of some kind. When the cops cornered them, they all got out of their cars and there was one dog, a German Shepard who growled at Flynn. Rapunzel got nervous and slammed the frying pan over each officers head.

"Double Tap." Flynn said as a joke, referring to the zombie movie he'd watched last weekend. Rapunzel had never seen said movie so she hit each officer over the head once more. Flynn's eyes widened and he nodded at Rapunzel when she raised an eyebrow as if to ask if that's what double tap meant.

"Come on." Rapunzel tied everything of hers onto a belt loop on her pants and dove straight into the water next to the sign that said "no swimming." Flynn looked at the dog that was now advancing on him. The collar said Max. Flynn jumped. It didn't take long for his whole body to be consumed by ice cold water.

They came up from the water, gulping for air. "Holy shit, that's cold!" Flynn said, making a beeline for the closest bit of land he could see. Rapunzel followed him. Her chameleon did not look happy at all.

Flynn and Rapunzel ended up on a grassy hill. Rapunzel was obviously finally feeling the impact of her day. She'd run away from her kidnapper, run from the cops after assaulting them, and basically kidnapped a boy into showing her where the city was. She burst into quiet sobs.

"I'm so sorry, Flynn." She buried her face into her knees as she hugged her legs to herself. Flynn didn't move. He looked over at her, then down at the pissed off chameleon on the grass next to her.

"Eugene." He corrected her. He didn't know why he'd done it. He'd never told anyone his real name. "My real name is Eugene Fitzherbert." She looked up at him with a small smile.

"I either murdered or severely injured a person, who kidnapped me when I was a baby, today." Rapunzel smiled wider before the expression on his face told her this was not normal.

"You also attacked the cops." Flynn laughed despite himself. Rapunzel laughed, too. "let's go find somewhere to dry off."

Neither of them had realized how far the city really was. They stopped at a hotel and got a two bed room. Rapunzel took a sheet and hung it from the ceiling between the two beds. On her side of the room she set everything out to dry and set her chameleon, Pascal, near the heater. She draped a towel around herself before going into the bathroom and taking a shower. When she came out she went back to her side of the room and crawled into her bed.

"Goodnight, Eugene." She muttered.

"Night, Blondie."

In the morning, at 7am precisely, Rapunzel found her clothes had dried. She got dressed and started to tidy up the room. At 7:15 she woke up Flynn.

"What the hell. I was sleeping."

"Who sleeps past 7?"

"Normal people." Flynn shoved his face into his pillow and let out a sigh. Rapunzel waited for a few seconds. He started snoring.

"I said wake up." Rapunzel gave him a light shove.

"I'm awake." Flynn muttered.