AHHHHH 3 requests! I feel honoured! Hmm. Once again (and im sorry about this) THANK YOU to my wonderful reviewers who help me write these little vignettes :P
I decided that seeing as im such a generous writer I would use two suggestions for this Fic o.0 it worked for a running idea of mine so I thought "Both would work….Lets use BOTH!" so here it is! My next chapter will be written on the third suggestion.
Purple and silver suggested by LilRockerStar and EmoChildLova respectively. The sequel to Green
"Darling I don't think a Chameleon would work"
Rapunzel harrumphed and slouched in her chair.
So far six of her suggestions had been shot down, not that any of her parents choices had been accepted either. They had been in the drawing room for over an hour now and the previous enthusiasm she had felt left shortly after the tingling of Eugene's kiss faded into memory. Perhaps if she went and kissed him again she would finally get a good idea?
Kissing him is a good idea in itself, she thought.
After a week living in Corona Rapunzel realised just what Eugene really was; the most handsome man in the kingdom. Her hair clearly didn't just have healing properties - it was a good luck charm as well! It must have been, how else would her saviour not only be as smart and wonderful as Eugene but handsome too!
But having the most handsome man as your beau also came with its down sides. It just so happened he wasn't just a wanted thief; he was also a secretly wanted man for every young woman in Corona and beyond! She had thought he was joking at first when he would exclaim his superhuman good-looks could snare any woman he wanted - She had never really seen any other men before….how was she meant to know he was telling the truth!
He really is perfect, she thought dreamily, because he wasn't just handsome ( even though his hair fell in just the right way to frame his strong, chiselled face without covering those smouldering hazel eyes -sigh-) but he was kind to. He didn't get frustrated with her like the maids and her tutors did and he didn't mollycoddle her like the King and Queen. He took her love of life into his stride and showed her a world not only beyond her tower but beyond the kingdom. He didn't see a lost princess when he looked at her - he saw a young, deranged girl who had been trapped her whole life and it didn't scare him away. He didn't patronise her and he didn't overlook her. He gave her the one thing she had never encountered her whole life; freedom. Not just from a tower but he gave her the freedom and the knowledge she had always dreamed of.
How had she never seen the man he was until that beautiful night? Was she really that blind by moth- Gothel's words that she couldn't see how amazing he truly was?
That night had been imprinted into her mind ( Often to be re-watched as she fell asleep) and she remembered every detail. The sincerity in his voice, the worked but gentle skin around his hand as he grasped hers - almost as if it were the first time he ever did, the way his smile not only reached his eyes but to his soul and how the silvery shine of the water lit his skin so beautifully before the lanterns has even reached the sky. But most of all she remembered his eyes, how the lanterns lit them and his whole being shone through. He seemed almost too perfect, the moment too surreal for it to be true. Surrounded by the lights that fascinated her for as long as she could remember and sat with the man who would fascinate her for the rest of her life. The lanterns shining in his eyes as if they were-
"….stars" she whispered.
Rapunzel shot her head up - how long had she been daydreaming?
She turned to her parents; her father was still signing papers, humming loudly and had failed to notice anything going on in the room, but her mother was looking at her with a contented little smile. She stood and sat next to her daughter.
"You know dear," she whispered, "I used to daydream about your father in meetings when I was a young princess" Rapunzel felt her face heat up.
"I-I wasn't daydreaming about Eugene…" The queen held back a giggle.
"If so then why have you been unresponsive for ten minutes, allowed your tea to go cold and, although it is a lovely piece of architecture, why have you been staring at that pillar as if it just asked you to marry it?" Rapunzel actually did release a giggle at this point.
"Was I really that obvious?" Her mother patted her hand.
"Perhaps to me my darling, but your father is rather blind when it comes to matters of the heart. It took him three and a half years to ask me if I would like to dance with him and a further two years to ask me to marry him!" Rapunzel gasped.
"Three and a half years before dancing? But mother your so beautiful why wouldn't he want to dance with you?" The queen laughed at the memory
"It wasn't that he did not want to- He's just shy. You see I worked that out so I started giving him hints every time we met..oh what was it…Ah yes! "Prince Jonathan you must tell your parents how much I enjoy coming to the balls your family host. I practice my waltz every time I hear when the next one will be? Do you waltz Jonathan? I imagine you dance quite well?" but he would just stutter and change the subject."
"Oh mother how did you get him to dance with you! Oh please do tell me! I am enjoying this story much more than choosing names!"
"Well eventually, when I was 16, I asked him if he would meet me out on the balcony. When we were there I turned to him and asked him if he thought I was ugly. Oh you should have seen the look on his face! I think he stopped breathing! You would have forgotten that he was three years my senior. Anyway he turned to me and said I was "Appeasing to the eye" - you can imagine how irritated I was at the comment" Rapunzel nodded enthusiastically "So I turned to him and said
~~~~ 31 years earlier ~~~~~
"So if I am not ugly is it because I am not intelligent? Am I perhaps not politically minded enough for you? Or am I too young? Too old? You see I'm asking you this because since I was thirteen I have been waiting for you to ask me to dance and the only thing you have asked me is if I enjoyed the shrimp canapés? It is not that I do not enjoy them each year- it is just that I am getting a little frustrated and I was wondering what is was that's so unappealing about dancing with me?" Oh I am so stupid! Every year I set myself up for failure….NO do not give in, determination Ve've old girl! There is nothing wrong with you!
"Your majesty-" Oh for goodness sake!
"Jonathan please! I have known you almost 4 years now! Our families have been friends for centuries! In the name of the sun, we hunt together Jonathan! so could you please at least have the kindness to call me by my name!" great. Now I'm red and I'm panting like a savage. After spending so long trying to make myself look beautiful for him.
"G-Genevieve, I'm sorry if I sent you any mixed signals..."
... Oh god. I'm a fool. He never liked me, oh God, what was I thinking. You stupid girl Ve've….Great everything's ruined…and now im crying in front of the future King.
"You see I- Genevieve? Are-are you crying?" Bugger
"Of course not…Ladies don't cry" Just leave you big crying fool "Excuse me your highness"
Don't make it worse and for god sake don't love that his cloak just brushed against your arm and- why have I stopped - oh my arms stuck? - Ahh he's holding my wrist…Wait What?
"Genevieve by the name of the sun would you please just stop thinking for a moment and let me talk!"
Oh
"Genevieve you are crazy!"
- Great start to cheer up a girl -
"You think too much. You've read every book in my library, you beat me at chess and not because I let you…your just very good at chess. You always catch more game than I do when we go hunting, you can tame any horse you ride whilst they all just buck me off! You hate lamb but every time you eat here you pretend to eat it to impress my mother and you feed it to my dog under the table. When a man accosted you in the middle of the street you didn't call for my help- you hit him in the nose and kicked him in the shin. And last year you looked so beautiful in that purple dress I could barely talk I was so enraptured by you and how every year you could get any more beautiful.
"So for the past 4 years I've been trying to work up the courage to ask you to dance but every time I try I keep on wondering what on earth you would want to dance with me for?
"I know you don't care for my title. I'm quiet, I have no talents particularly, I am not nearly as intelligent as you are, I cannot ride a horse…Goodness I can barely even talk to you without stuttering like a fool. So no, Its not that I don't ask you to dance because your ugly and stupid, or because you don't have a mind for politics or that you're the wrong age. I don't ask you to dance because your so smart and so intelligent, because you love your citizens with all your heart, because your age suits you wonderfully and I think am a correct by saying I have never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you look tonight."
And he kissed me" Both mother and daughter were smiling, Rapunzel also happened to begin tearing up at the story. "So, when we finally married and it was our time to name the next 20 years we chose Solaris, because of our exclamation and your father chose the colour purple...because it reminded him of the moment he knew we would spend the rest of our lives together."
Rapunzel looked down to their joined hands and paused for a minute. She suddenly lit up and grinned at her mother.
"I've got it!" she called in a voice so loud it jostled her father out of his paperwork.
"Got what my dear?" he queried (Having a strange feeling he had just missed out something at his expense?)
"The name! I know what I want to call the next 20 years!" The queen smiled at her daughter
"Go on then darling" Rapunzel cleared her voice;
"The Constella years….after the stars. A-and for the colour to be silver." She looked up hesitantly at her father, who looked puzzled and impressed at the same time.
"Why that my child?" Rapunzel grinned at her mother knowingly
"It reminds me of the most important moment of my life. The moment I knew would live with me until the day I die."
Soooooo, what do you think? I wanted to do a little more back story on the king and queen (because they love each other SO much in the movie)…..was the name too cheesy? It took me SO long to think of a good name for them.
The next colour has already been decided but if you can't wait until the next chapters out please let me know what colour you want next! Lots of love once again to my lovely reviewers who just keep on making my day ^_^