A/N: So thanks for the review:) They are greatly appreciated! This chapter has a bit of Rapunzel and Eugene with a flashback.

Disclaimer: I don't own "Tangled" or the characters they are Disney.

"Eugene?" Rapunzel asked her boyfriend from the couch where she was sitting watching him lazily flip through the pages of a random book that came from the shelf behind him.

"Yeah Blondie?" The brunette smiled and rolled her eyes before patting the seat next to her, he gladly went and sat beside her placing his arm over her thin shoulders.

The princess played with a lock of her hair, nervous to ask what she had originally been wanting to know."Well...you know how you told me about you and your sister running off?"

Eugene looked at her surprised, he had told Rapnzel that month's ago, why was she bringing it up now? "Yeah..." He trailed off wanting to know where the girl was going with this question of her's.

"What happened to her?" Rapunzel asked hesitantly, her green eyes looking through her lashes up at the ex-thief sitting beside her.

Running his fingers through his hair, Eugene let out a long sigh then glanced at her sideways. "I guess I have to tell you...because if I don't I'm pretty sure my head will become familiar with the frying pan again."

Giggling she placed one of her small hands on his warm cheek and told him lovingly, "You know I would never do that to you..."
Eugene laughed a bit but became serious once he began his tale.

"Well...it's kinda a sad story...brace yourself blondie..."


"Elizabeth!" Flynn looking around the campsite he had just made for the night, he hadn't seen his sister for an hour and she was just going to get firewood.

Flynn was now 18, he had grown up to be a tall man standing about 6'4" while his petite little sister was only about 5'3" and 14.

Both had been through a lot over the years, living on the streets or at the camps they stationed, and having to steal for a living.

Elizabeth had never stolen a thing, she claimed that if she did she just couldn't live with herself even though she would eat the things Flynn collected. "I'm here!" A feminine voice shouted behind him lightly stepping out of the forest and into the open where the fire was radiating a red glow, against the dark night. He could see her white teeth shining as she set the the wood in her arms down on top of it clapping her hands together.

"Where have you been?" Flynn asked nonchalantly trying to act like he really could careless, I mean he was Flynn Rider.

Elizabeth looked at him strangely then shrugged her shoulders, "Collecting firewood...duh," the smug look on her face replaced the previous one.

"You didn't steal it did you?" Her brother asked tauntingly choosing to ignore the strange look she had displayed when asked about the firewood.

Snorting the girl merely plucked a piece of grass from the ground below her and threw it into the fire, "Keep dreaming Rider."

The full moon shined above their heads casting eerie shadows across the site, the fire crackling and popping, but both runaways staying silent.

The last few years had been hard on both, Elizabeth because she didn't have the heart to steal or the stealth and Flynn because he didn't want to do anything but break the rules. Ever since he was younger everyone was always telling him what to do but out here in the open.

"I fell earlier..." Elizabeth whispered almost more to herself then at her brother, but still Flynn heard loud and clear.

Sympathetically, Flynn walked over to the girl and sat down on the grass beside her tucking his legs up to his chest while she just absentmindedly grabbed the grass around her and threw it in the fire.

"It's ok Beth, I know you still have trouble with your knee." Turns out Elizabeth had received a pretty bad knee injury that had never been treated back when she was still at her adopted guardian's home. They had waved it off like it was nothing and continued to make her work. But she was still having long term difficulties with it, she tripped every now and then, and fell occasionally because the joints gave out, but usually Flynn was there to catch her when she fell.

"I know, but it just makes me angry! Im not capable of anything!" Tears began to fall from her eyes as she became more angry at herself. Her brother turned away good naturedly, he couldn't stand crying.

"Hey now! You know I don't like crying!" He heard a slight giggle and then she froze and her ears perked up. Flynn also became silent and heard what she heard.

A song drifted through the trees on a cool breeze that made the fire flicker, words were being softly sung and a melody was being hummed, it was quite eerie yet beautiful nontheless.
Flynn Rider stood up and looked around, same with his sister. Neither of them saw anyone even close to their camp.

"What is that?" Elizabeth asked quietly as the song continued to travel on the slight breeze, not saying a word Flynn walked over to a break in the forest and began making his way through the dense woods with Elizabeth trailing closely behind.

Their footsteps were quiet and there breath was coming out in whispers. Both had their eyes trailed straight ahead where the noise was coming from.

Coming to a break in the forest both stepped out cautiously and listened to see if they could hear the song anymore. The voice had stopped but they knew whoever was the owner of the voice was close.

Both curiously looked over at a set of boulders where a curtain of vines fell enclosing the entrance of a cave. The brother and sister looked at each other curiously then back at the vines, Flynn stepped forward but was stopped short.

"What are you doing?" A womans voice screeched from behind them, both turned and saw a women with slightly grey tinged black hair and a red medievel dress on, she looked to be about 50 or so.
Her grey eyes were filled with an anger beyond belief and both felt their blood run cold.

Flynn had taken off running immediatly always choosing flight over fight, his adreneline was pumping and his heart was racing, he thought he heard footsteps behind him but didn't look back to make sure Elizabeth was following, she was a smart girl and would definately be back there.

He would have kept running except there was a silence surrounding him, no footsteps, no labored breaths of exhaustion, just nothing.

Panic set in as he rested his hand against a tree and realized that his sister was not behind him, she hadn't been for awhile now.

Once he regained his strength the thief retraced his exact path, the sun was rising and a dull glow was set around him, giving the forest a pinkish color.
His worst nightmare greeted him as he stumbled over something and falling face down on the damp ground. Yanking himself up he went to kick whatever he had tripped over but stopped cold.

In front oh him lay a girl face flat on the ground arms by her sides, her dark brown hair was messy and tangled with leaves and small branches from the trees, blood poured from a wound in her side.

"No...No!" He cried out falling to his knees beside his little sister and gently turning her over, the girl's skin was pale white and cold. Flynn desperately checked for a heartbeat but couldn't even hear a faint beat.

Just silence.

The tears came, and for once Flynn Rider didn't want to keep them in. He had lost his little sister and once he saw why he began to cry even harder. Elizabeth's knee was bent in a strange way, it appears to had given out some point when she was running, and that woman had decided to stab her.

What was she hiding? Something so secret that she would kill over it? Then it hit him like a ton of bricks, the woman, she stole the lost princess! The baby with the big green eyes!
But for once he couldn't care less, Flynn would get his revenge on her sooner or later, and rescue the princess.

For now, he just sat on the damp ground and cried over the death over his sister.

She had fallen, and he hadn't been there to catch her.


When he finished, Eugene was immediately pulled into a hug as a tear escaped his eye. When he realized that he wasn't the only one crying though he gave a weak smile and wrapped his arms around the now found princess.

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