6 months later Rapunzel's official Coronation is coming up and the fact that she is restrained to living in the castle and the city of Corona dawns on her, making her feel a sense of déjà vu after having been imprisoned in a tower for 18 years.
On the days before her coronation the royal family are having guests from other kingdoms stay at their castle so they can bear witness to Rapunzel's coronation and continue their good relationships. When Rapunzel greets the guests however she makes a fool of herself, not used to the way things work as a princess yet and she sneaks out to the harbor that night, sitting down in the very same boat Tai first showed her the lanterns in and looks over the water lost in thought.
"Do you want some company?" Tai asks, sitting down on the bridge above her.
"Sure." She agrees sullenly, still hugging her knees to her chest.
"Don't take it to heart. You'll get the hang of things in time." Tai tells her, sliding in the seat next to her, dressed in a special battle armor with the Corona symbol and his Katana hanging from his waist.
"You saw?" She asks embarrassed.
"I'm part of the royal guard." He reminds her with a small grin, leaning back on the boat.
"Right." She says, looking back over the water.
"So, what's on your mind?" He asks, removing his Katana and lying it at his feet.
"Do you ever feel like you don't belong here?" Rapunzel asks, picking up his sword and taking it out of its sheath, holding it up playfully.
"As if you'd need to ask. I mean I was a pirate." He laughs and takes the Katana back carefully, not wanting her to hurt herself.
"Still is this everything you wanted it to be?" She asks him.
"Hard to say, if I'm being honest, I don't have a dream per se, I only wish to be a person I can be proud of and to keep you save and happy. And from the looks of it I'm not faring much on the last part huh?" He replies with a sigh.
"No, Wait I mean I am happy, it's just I want to see what else is out there. I don't want to go from being imprisoned in that tower to being imprisoned in the city." She tells him, looking to the stars.
"Have you talked to your father about this?" He asks, facing her directly.
"Yes, I think. I know he's just worried about me and I don't want him to constantly fear I'm in danger." She answers.
"Hmm. I see, that is a problem." Tai agrees, nodding his head.
"Time to go!" Cassandra shouts from behind the two, getting by a Katana held under her chin.
"I told you not to sneak up on me if you want to keep that neck." Tai sighs loudly, turning to face Cassandra while sheathing his sword and helps Rapunzel back on the bridge.
"See, he's scary." Eugene says, hiding behind Cassandra.
"Rapunzel, it's time to head in. You don't want to exhausted tomorrow." Cassandra tells her and the group of four head back to the castle since both Tai and Eugene are staying within the castle walls. Eugene as guest and Tai as a special part of the guard.
The next day Rapunzel spends her day in the city, trying to greet and interact with the citizens, only for the guards dispatched by her father, refraining her from doing so uninterrupted. Only when they walked over the town square and Rapunzel sees Tai waiting near the fountain her day starts to get better.
"Tai!" She shouts excited, rushing over to him, figuring that the guards will leave their comrade be, but instead two of her guards rush past her, blocking the way and say "State your business."
"Seriously? I figured Rapunzel might be hungry, so I got her something to eat." He tells them.
One of the two guards intends to test the food, but the next thing he knows he's sailing through the air, landing a couple feet away from the squadron.
"Arrest him!" The rest of the squadron shout and storm at Tai, only to get knocked down in a matter of seconds.
"So, want to continue exploring the town?" Tai offers her, as well as holding out a cupcake for her.
"Yes." She says happily, jumping over her downed guards, shooting them a quick apology and joins Tai, linking one of her arms in his and trying the cupcake.
"Mhh, this is delicious, where did you get it?" she asks.
"Attila made it for you." He informs her.
"Oh, that's nice of him." She says smiling.
Tai then continues to walk around town with her and lets her actually talk and interact with the citizens while making sure she's safe and not budging from her side.
That evening in Rapunzel's chambers.
"So, big day in town wasn't all you hoped it'd be?" Cassandra asks Rapunzel, who's sitting on her bed.
"Well at first not but Tai helped turn things around." She replies with a wide smile.
"I don't know why, but I don't like him." Cassandra says, trying to think of a reason for not liking the princess's sort-of-boyfriend.
"You should, he's great. But I don't understand why my father won't let me see the world." Rapunzel complains.
"You know if you really wanted, I could get you in and out of here before anyone even knew you were gone." Cassandra informs her.
"The Royal banquet is ready to receive the princess." A servant announces while knocking on Rapunzel's door.
"Cheer up, I mean what could go wrong?" Cassandra says and the two head to the banquet hall.
"I don't understand why you are so upset sweetheart? I said you could do whatever you wanted and you did. In fact I should be upset that your friend attacked his comrades and basically kidnapped you." The King tells Rapunzel while they are eating, sitting at a single table with his daughter and wife while the guests are seated at two other tables and Tai is standing guard just behind the royal family.
"You know that he didn't kidnap me. In fact if how easily he incapacitated the guards is anything to go by he should've protected me from the start." Rapunzel says.
Eugene then holds a big speech in front of the royal gathering, asking for Rapunzel's hand in marriage, having figured that since she and Tai aren't officially a thing, now's the last chance to find out what she feels for him. While he's asking for her hand the King looks at him with a frown while Tai is visibly strained to hold himself back from voicing his opinion on the matter.
Rapunzel looks to her family during the proposal, completely blindsided by it and notices Tai basically trembling in anger.
"I'm sorry. I can't I like you Eugene, but I don't think we're meant to be. Please excuse me." She says and flees the hall, not only freaking out because of the proposal but because he made her realize that as princess, she may even be required to stay in the castle forever and never gets to see the outside world. Cassandra hurries after the scared princess and the King tells the guests to continue to enjoy their meal.
"Tai, go look after her." The King orders, knowing of the feeling the guard holds for his daughter and vice versa.
"I'm sorry your majesty, I wasn't sure if Rapunzel liked me or not and I just thought that her Coronation would be the perfect time to find out." Eugene apologizes to the King for causing a scene.
"Well now you know, don't you." The King tells the young man, who excuses himself from the hall and heads back to his room.
"Oh, I feel horrible about Eugene, but I don't love him. I think I'm in love with Tai but I don't know what he feels and I… I just need to get out and clear my head, without a fleet of guards tailing me." Rapunzel rambles to her only female friend.
"Say no more." Cassandra says and leads them to her room , where she has a mini armory in her closet and the two change into something stealthier and Cassandra takes a sword with her.
"Pascal, I need you to stay in my room and cover for me." Rapunzel tells the smart Chameleon, who salutes and hurries to the princess's chamber.
Tai knocks on her door soon after and enters after receiving no reply, simply having ignored the guards in front of her room since his rank is only second to that of the captain, Cassandra's father.
"Rapunzel?" Tai asks, looking around the empty room confused and Pascal increases the light behind him, while he's standing on a mannequin while holding some flowers over his head to look like the princesses hair.
"Rapunzel? Are you alright?" He asks, going over to the suspicious room separator and looks behind it, seeing the distressed chameleon, who tries to hide himself by turning the same color as the mannequin.
"Pascal, where is Rapunzel?" Tai asks, eyeing the chameleon dangerously, but he only shrugs and faints from the intense glare aimed at him.
"Great. Now, how do I find you Rapunzel?" Tai asks himself.
"Wait, let's think she made Pascal cover for her so she'll probably be a while. Which means she's going somewhere beyond the walls. But which direction?" Tai asks himself, stepping on her balcony and looking towards the walls surrounding the city.
Tai then notices an owl flying around like it's following something, or rather someone.
"Cassandra." He says and hops off the balcony, making his way to the Owl's location, quickly catching up to the two girls and following them on foot, with some difficulty since they are on horse but he keeps an eye on the Owl soaring over the two girls heads and uses that to his advantage.
When he gets to an old bridge, which looks like it's about to collapse he sees the two girls' horses standing in front of it.
"Maximus. Where is the princess?" Tai asks the horse, sounding exhausted from running after them on foot
The horse looks at him, pondering whether to tell him and quickly folds, pointing a hoof over the bridge.
"Thank you." Tai says sarcastically and when he's about to head over the bridge the two girls run right at him, Rapunzel with her hair blonde and as long as it was when they met while being chased by rock spikes which shoot out of the ground.
Maximus wants to help them and takes a step on the bridge, only for Tai to yank him back when a portion of the bridge crumbles underneath the horse's hoof.
"Cassandra, my hair!" Rapunzel yells because she's stuck on the bridge, her long hair having gotten caught in a crack on the far end of the bridge.
Cassandra tries to pull it out with Rapunzel from their current position but it doesn't budge.
"Sorry." Tai says, jumping over Cassandra, pushing himself over the girl with one hand and he heads for the end of Rapunzel's hair with the bridge flying up and come crashing down, separated from the other side after the spikes penetrated the stone bridge.
Tai quickly runs down the bridge, sliding to halt where Rapunzel's hair is trapped and he kicks at the crack holding it down, releasing her long blonde hair while the bridge starts to slide down into the depths beneath.
"Tai!" Rapunzel screams, trying to go back for him but Cassandra, being stronger than her pulls her along with her, jumping to safety just before the bridge collapses, taking Tai down with it.
Rapunzel looks to the depths below, yelling his name repeatedly while tears flow down her face uncontrollably until she hears a rumbling sound from the bottom of the ravine, followed by loud coughing.
"Tai! Are you hurt?" Rapunzel yells, trying to peer over the edge, but can't see anything but total darkness.
"I think so, but I have no idea how to get out of here, can you send some men back to collect me?" Tai replies.
"No, everyone will find out I sneaked you out." Cassandra says worried.
"Hey, I have an idea." Rapunzel tells her and collects her hair, throwing the end of it over the cliff and wrapping it around a tree.
"I guess that works too, that is your hair right and I'm not seeing things?" Tai shouts up.
"Yes, grab a hold and we'll pull you up." Rapunzel tells him and Tai starts to climb up the wall of the ravine, using the hair as a rope. When he reaches the top Rapunzel immediately pulls him further onto solid ground and hugs him for all she's worth, burying her head in his chest.
"It's OK I'm alright. It'll take a lot more than a 40 feet drop to keep me from making sure you're safe." Tai tells her, brushing her blonde hair lovingly.
"Wait, blonde? How'd that happen and why is it so long again?" Tai asks shocked, realizing the change.
"Uhm… I touched a magic rock and it grew back but we were chased by those spiky stones?" Rapunzel tells him, pointing to the other side where black stones are sprouting out of the ground.
"Not to sound inconsiderate but can we have this conversation on the road? I would very much like to keep my job." Cassandra asks the two and Tai gets up with Rapunzel, helping her on Maximus before taking a seat behind the now once again blonde princess.
After the three have sneaked back in the castle, into the princess's room to be exact Rapunzel immediately tells Cassandra "Quick, hand me those scissors."
"So what do you want to do here? A bob, or do you want some layers?" Cassandra asks, fetching the scissors.
"Just cut it." Rapunzel tells her urgently and Cassandra takes a strand of hair, cutting it, only for the scissors to come apart instead, with the hair not getting a scratch on them.
"Oh-oh." Tai says.
"Oh-oh, why Oh-oh, there shouldn't be any Oh-ohs." Rapunzel says worried and turns to see the now destroyed scissors.
"Was you hair always this strong?" Cassandra asks.
"No. Try again." Rapunzel insists.
"It's true, before I could cut it with no resistance whatsoever." Tai informs the handmaiden.
Cassandra then tries her dagger, which bends instead of cutting the hair.
"We're going to need a plan B." Rapunzel says and Cassandra, as well as Tai try basically any bladed weapon they can find, safe for Tai's Katana but none of them work on the princess's hair.
"Forget it, it's just like those stupid rocks." Cassandra curses when nothing worked.
"We can't forget it. Today is my coronation day." Rapunzel reminds her handmaiden.
"Hey, Blondie are you in there?" Eugene asks, knocking on the door.
"You can't let Eugene see you." Cassandra implores Rapunzel.
"Why?" Rapunzel questions.
"If anyone finds out I sneaked you out last night I'm in big trouble." Cassandra tells her.
"But I trust Eugene." Rapunzel says.
"I don't. And if my dad finds out what happened I'll never see you again." Cassandra tells her.
The three of them then try to hide Rapunzel's hair all around the room due the the amount but to no avail.
"Rapunzel, stand back I'm coming in." Eugene says and opens the door, seeing Rapunzel stand in the midst of her golden hair with Cassandra and Tai each holding an armful and some stuffed under her bed, in her closet and hanging from the ceiling.
"Holy … hair." Eugene says and faints.
"Hmpf." Tai grunts at the scene and drags him further in the room, shutting the door behind Eugene.
"Can you wake him?" Cassandra requests of Tai, who gets a small smirk and slaps the former thief across his face, jolting him awake.
"Whoa, hey, mama OK. This is new, I mean no, not new. That whole magic stuff is involved again right? I'm just going to assume your hair grew magically back. And obviously you don't want to tell me how, but just tell me how!" Eugene implores her, freaking out and sitting down on one of the seats in her room.
"Sorry, I can't." Rapunzel tells him.
"What? I thought we trusted each other. OK I mean my proposal yesterday might've been a bit premature, but I thought I was your friend." Eugene rambles.
"Rapunzel honey?" The Queen asks from outside.
"Hide your hair woman, you've got to hide your hair." Eugene tells her, helping Cassandra collect the soon to be princess's hair while Tai stands in front of the door, denying the Queen entrance.
"May I come in sweetheart?" The Queen asks.
"You can't. I'm brushing my teeth." Rapunzel lies.
"Oh, good but why can't I come in?" The Queen questions.
"Oh, uhm morning breath. I wouldn't want to expose you to that." Rapunzel tells her.
"That's uhm, thoughtful of you. Well your father and I want you to join us on the terrace for breakfast. And Rapunzel your father has something very important to share with you, he's been waiting all night." The Queen tells her.
"Yeah, sure. I'll meet you there in a minute." Rapunzel tells her and the Queen leaves.
"The coronation is in two hours, how am I supposed to cut this hair?" Rapunzel questions.
"I don't see why you want to cut it so desperately, if you don't want anyone to find out Cassandra sneaked you out, just say I did it." Tai suggests.
"No, if I do that my dad will kick you off the guard." Rapunzel says.
"I can live with that." Tai tells her, shrugging his shoulder.
"I might have another solution." Cassandra says and fixes Rapunzel's hair under a wig about half the size of a normal person.
"So, Rapunzel are you ready for the big day?" The Queen asks once Rapunzel joins her parents for breakfast.
"You bet, I'm already in the princess spirit, the bigger the wig the better the princess." Rapunzel replies.
"Rapunzel, last night your mother and I had a discussion and I know that I have trouble separating the man from the King and separating the dad from the King is even more difficult, sweetheart I know your new life is hard to get used to and I'm sure that sometimes you just want to do your own thing but Rapunzel, you're going to be Queen someday but you know better than anyone what a dangerous and evil place the world can be. And keeping the Evil at bay is my job, but one day that will be your job. But that is many, many years away. And I'm asking you to trust me that I'm trying to keep danger away from you and this Kingdom. It wasn't until last night that I learned that my methods might seems strict or unfair." The King tells her.
"Does that mean I can have some time by myself without having half the royal guard over my shoulder?" Rapunzel asks.
"It means I'm willing to reconsider some of my methods." The King tells her and gives Rapunzel a hug.
"Well, I should go. I have a lot of princessing up to do." Rapunzel tells her parents and leaves.
Meanwhile in Cassandra's room Eugene tries to find out what Rapunzel is keeping secret from him from the girl, only to learn nothing and piss of Cassandra further.
Half and hour after the breakfast the Queen visits Rapunzel and gives her a coronation gift, which is a journal of her own adventures as well as an empty book for her to write down her very own adventures.
|One and a half hour later|
Rapunzel is going towards the podium where she'll get announced princess, still having her hair hidden under the enormous wig and while she's doing that Lady Kane breaks out her squad of goons from the prison and some of them dress themselves in the guards uniform to sneak to where Rapunzel is being Coronated unnoticed.
"The wearer of this crown is a shining example of the promise that is Corona, an ambassador of good will to those visiting from afar and an inspiration to those fortunate enough to live within her borders. But above all, the chief responsibility of the crown is to keep the people of Corona safe from dangers near and far." The priest announces while Rapunzel is kneeling down in front of the smaller man, prepared to receive her crown.
While the priest is holding his speech, Tai notices the unknown guards appearing at the doors, same as Cassandra and they inform Eugene to get ready silently.
"Attention please!" Lady Kane shouts, interrupting the ceremony, walking into the room with a sword drawn, causing panic amongst the guests who try to leave, only to have the exits blocked by the fake guards while Lady Kane's men collect the visiting royalty and restrain them.
"Release my guests immediately." The King demands.
"What's the matter Fred? Am I ruining your little girls' perfect day?" Lady Kane asks.
"The Duchess?" Rapunzel asks confused, now looking through the criminal's disguise, with Lady Kane having changed clothes.
"Oh honey, I'm no Duchess." The woman tells her.
"I don't understand." Rapunzel says confused.
"Of course you wouldn't but try to follow along, because this is all your fault." The woman tells her, approaching Rapunzel, only stopped by Tai standing in her way, just in front of Rapunzel.
"You see, after your untimely disappearance your father locked up every criminal in the Kingdom, including a simple petty thief, my father. I saw him thrown into a cage and hauled off like an animal. Never to be seen again, so I thought I'd come and return the favor." She tells her while a prison wagon rolls into the room.
"Load them up boys." Lady Kane orders her henchmen, who force the Royalty into the wagon.
"Your turn your majesty. Come on we're not going to leave our price pig in the pen." Lady Kane tells the King, who then gets thrown into the wagon as well.
"Rapunzel, stay back. There is nothing you can do. As your father and your King, I command you to stay put." The King orders her.
"Just say the word." Tai tells Rapunzel, who exchanges a look with Cassandra and Eugene.
"Sorry dad." Rapunzel says and takes off her shoes as well as her wig, revealing her magical golden hair.
"Let them go!" She demands from Lady Kane.
"Hah, as if some hair will change my mind. Come on let's move out." Lady Kane says, stepping onto the side of the wagon, only for the wheels to get cut in half underneath her feet, curtesy of Tai, who's sheating his Katana again while Rapunzel rips the door of its hinges with her hair.
"Now you're just making me angry." Lady Kane says.
"Good, cause I'm just getting started." Rapunzel replies.
"Rapunzel your hair." The King says shocked.
"We'll talk about it later, take mom and get somewhere safe." Rapunzel says.
"That's my cue." Eugene shouts, knocking two fake guards heads together and Cassandra grabs a human sized candle stick to join the fight.
The four of them then start to fight against the invaders, Cassandra using the stick as a staff while Eugene stole a sword from an opponent and Rapunzel trips and knocks around her enemies with her hair while Tai stands by her side, attacking anyone who comes close to the princess.
"Tai, you go deal with Lady Kane." Rapunzel orders, giving him a look which left him no room to object and he runs over to the redhaired woman, engaging her in a sword fight, gradually overpowering the skilled woman with his superior speed.
While Tai is fighting Lady Kane the King shouts "Rapunzel!", making the Katana wielding guard shift his attention to Rapunzel, who is being held back by her long hair.
Tai sees a frying pan on the wagon next to him and quickly jumps up, kicking the kitchen tool to her. Rapunzel catches it and hits the criminal holding her hair over the head before throwing it over to Eugene, who shouts "Thanks blondie.", having lost his sword moments ago.
Meanwhile Lady Kane uses Tai's shift in focus to throw a dagger at him, hitting him in his shoulder.
Tai looks back over to her after he's sure that Rapunzel is OK and draws his sword, leaving it out of it's scabbard for the first time in a long while.
Feeling the danger emanating through the air, coming from Tai who makes his way over to the woman Lady Kane tries to flee and runs to a door her men closed by jamming it with an axe. She pulls out the axe and immediately get trampled curtesy of Maximus, who was throwing himself against the doors for a while and the doors fall on the redhaired woman.
"Hmpf." Tai grunts, not getting a real fight after all, something he is happy about as well as being disappointed by it.
The King then tells the guests to leave while the guards collect the criminals and lock them up.
The Queen runs over to Rapunzel, giving her a big hug while her father just looks at her disappointed.
After everyone left Rapunzel tells her father how she got her hair back, leaving out that Cassandra and Tai were involved.
The King then explains that with Rapunzel's hair having returned the very reason she was kidnapped is back and she's in more danger than ever so he forbids her from leaving the Kingdom and its walls, as well as asking her to keep quiet about what happened the night before.
Rapunzel runs to her room disappointed, where Tai is already waiting for her.
"Hey, I thought you might want some company." Tai tells her, sitting in an opened window.
"Tai." She says rushing over to him and glomping onto him.
"Easy, don't want to throw us out the window now." Tai says, keeping the girl steady in his arms.
"Sorry, I just … my father, he still forbids me from leaving the Kingdom." Rapunzel tells him disappointed until she spots a wet, dark spot on his clothing.
"Hey, what's this?" She asks touching the spot, making Tai wince because she's pressing on where Lady Kane stabbed him.
"Easy OK? I haven't treated it yet, I wanted to make sure you're OK first." Tai tells her, gently taking her hand off his shoulder.
"Tai! Take off your shirt now!" Rapunzel tells him sternly, having almost lost him to a blade before.
"Alright, don't make a big deal of it. It's not that bad." He tells her and takes off his arm guards, his guards vest and his shirt underneath, revealing his toned and scar covered torso to the blonde girl.
"See, just a minor stab wound." He tells her, presenting his shoulder while trying to hide the rest of his body as much as possible from her.
"Why are you being so weird?" She asks him, seeing that he is uncomfortable right now.
"I'm not being weird." He lies convincingly, only to receive a stare from Rapunzel.
"Alright, I don't want you to see me and think of me as damaged." He says, looking at his scars with shame.
"Tai, you don't have anything to be ashamed about. Those scars, they only remind me how much I mean to you and how much you mean to me." She tells him, tracing one hand over the scars over his chest.
"You went all the way from the duckling to my tower with those wounds and freed me. Nearly dying in the process." She says, tears forming in her eyes.
"Come on now, don't cry." Tai says, wiping away the tears as they fall out of her eyes.
"Tai, say what do you think of me?" She asks him, looking in her lap and fiddling with her fingers.
"You will make a great princess one day." He tells her honestly.
"No, I meant like what do I mean to you exactly?" She says, sounding insecure.
"You are my most treasured person." He replies, taking one of her hands in his.
"Will you just tell me if you like me already?" She yells at him, ripping her hand away from him.
"I thought it was pretty obvious that I do." He says genuinely surprised by the question.
"Then… Then why did you never say anything or done anything?" She asks confused.
"I thought you'd be better off with someone else, someone not looking like he's from a horror story." He says, looking down at his scars.
"Tai, you are perfect the way you are. I've loved you ever since you took me to see the lanterns." She says with tears of happiness in her eyes as she closes in and kisses him passionately, only stopping at feeling him twitch when she throws her arms around his neck and brushes over his fresh wound.
"Sorry." She apologizes and gets off the windowsill, takes his hand and pulls him inside.
"Here, let's try something." She says, wrapping some hair around his shoulder and sings, only for nothing to happen.
"Look's like you traded in healing for indestructibleness huh?" Tai says, removing the hair from his shoulder when nothing happens.
"Sorry." She says.
"You don't have anything to be sorry for." He tells her, brushing some hair out of her eyes.
"You only got hurt because I needed help, didn't you?" She asks, recalling when Lady Kane struck him.
"Rapunzel, I told you this is nothing, look if it makes you feel any better I'll go see the medicus now." He suggests.
"Yes, let's go." She says and pulls him out of her room and towards the healer, who patches him up quickly.
On the way back to her chambers the two come across a few servant girls, who look at Tai with fear upon seeing his still uncovered and scar riddled chest.
Rapunzel sees him feeling down at this and gives him a peck on his cheek and leans into his side while hugging one of his arms.
"Rapunzel, I thought you were in your chambers." The King says surprised, coming across her and Tai with his wife.
"Tai just got checked out by the healer." Rapunzel informs him while her father and mother stare at Tai's scar riddled torso, not having known about them, only having seen the one he revealed when he took of his arm guard the day he brought Rapunzel back.
"Oh, you poor boy, I'm sorry that happened." Rapunzel's mother says, hugging Tai with an unrelenting grip.
"It's OK. Rapunzel saved me after all." Tai says.
"Wait, this was all done when you were protecting our child?" The King asks shocked.
"Everything but this." Rapunzel tells them, pointing at the scar underneath Tai's eye.
"It's late, everyone should retire for the night, don't you think so?" Tai asks Rapunzel.
"Yeah, night mother, father." Rapunzel says, looking at her father disappointed and leaves with Tai.
"Did you know about the scars?" The Queen asks her husband.
"No, the captain never said anything either. I bet he doesn't know as well." The King says.
"It just makes me shudder at the thought that the woman that did that to a young man kept our sweet child locked up for 18 years." The Queen says as she and her husband head to their chambers.
"Well, I guess this is good night." Tai tells Rapunzel once he's wearing his shirt again.
"Say, do you mind staying for a while? I don't want you to leave already." Rapunzel requests, holding his hand.
"OK, but we have to make sure no one finds out or I'm going to be in a lot of trouble." He agrees, kissing her on her forehead and lies down next to her on the bed.
"Tai?" Rapunzel asks after a moment of silence.
"Yeah?" He replies.
"Can you hold me?" She asks him and Tai moves over to her and wrapping his arms around the smaller girl, who leans back in his chest.
"Better?" He asks.
"Perfect." She says with a smile on her face.
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