Eugene let out a long sigh as he straightened his clothes for the fifth time. He ran his hands through his hair, ruffling it up but he had bigger problems at the moment.

Rapunzel walked up behind him and put her hands on his shoulders, leaning up and kissing his cheek. "It'll be fine Eugene" Rapunzel assured him, brushing his shoulders off.

"How can you be so sure? I know my parents and they can be a bit much sometimes. I just hope they don't offend them in any way." Eugene fretted.

It was Tulio and Miguel's turn to properly meet the King and Queen and Eugene was dreading it. "What if they hate each other?" He turned to her, concern in his voice.

Rapunzel frowned but should understand her husband's concern, she knew her parents had opened their castle to the two ex conmen but they had not met in person yet. They had oranged a dinner so the two families could talk and get to know one another.

No one could predict how the night could end, but Rapunzel had high hopes, she only wished Eugene felt the same.

"Eugene your dads' have been nothing amazing so far. I'm sure my parents will love them just as much as I do. And besides, it's just dinner, what could possibly go wrong?" She asked as she pulled him out the door and to the dining room.

"You should never say that. My dads' have this habit of getting into trouble in the weirdest ways..." Eugene laughed as he let himself be dragged away.

"Well, you now know where you get from." Rapunzel teased, before turning to give him and a quick peck on the lips.

It was just dinner, what could go wrong?

Miguel looked over himself in the large mirror. His eyes were drawn to the new clothes that he had been given, courtesy of the crown, of course. Red, his favourite colour. He smiled as he took in his appearance, he has looked this good since Eldorado.

Then his eyes were drawn to his face and hair. It felt like it took forever to clean all the grime that had built up on his body over the years to disappear, but it was worth it. His hair had been cut and styled and his beard trimmed.

He looked brand new and yet... He still felt dirty. A few strands of grey hair stood out against his golden Blonde and wrinkles were starting to appear under his eyes. He wasn't a young man anymore.

He sighed as he looked the way from the mirror.

"Is everything alright?" he heard as an arm snaked his way across his shoulders.

He looked up and saw Tulio, who was looking down at him with concern. He smiled at me just partner, no matter how much time passed; he still looked beautiful in his eyes. Always have done and probably always will.

"I'm fine darling, just worrying about tonight I have supposed." he lied but only slightly.

"Hey come on now, you know worrying is my job." Tulio joked, which made Miguel chuckle a little.

"How do you deal with this all the time, it feels awful." Migule joked back, wrapping his arm around the waist of the other man.

"Yeah? Welcome to my life."

The two laughed at there childish teasing.

"But come on, Miguel. What's really wrong?"

"How could you tell?"

"Miguel, I know you better than anybody else, I think I can tell when you're upset... Now, what's the matter?" Tulio said, sitting them both on the bed.

Miguel sighed. "There's no getting past you is their darling?" he looks down at his own hands, calloused, tough. The hands of a thief.

"What if...What if they don't like us? What if there against us? We have to make a good impression Tulio, these are daughter-in-law's parents. Not to mention the king and queen... I-I just don't want to mess this up for Eugene. He already has a good relationship with them and what if we ruin it?" Migule fretted, tangling his hands to his hair.

"Hey, hey! Don't talk like that. Everything's going to be fine if we just lie low, act civil and don't mention too much about our past; then they have to like us. And even if we do somehow, then that's their loss. I'm sure Rapunzel isn't going to ditch us if her parents don't like us." Tulio tried to reassure.

"Yeah, that girl is the sweetest thing." Miguel murmured. "Your right Darling. Your always right."

"You bet I am. Now, let's go, it's bad to show up late to our own dinner." Tulio said, wrapping his arm Miguel and pulling him out the door.

It was just dinner after all, what could go wrong?

Things started out fine, the six all met in the dining hall and shook hands, induing themselves.

"King Frederic, but you can call me Fred." The king said, in a deep voice that rumbled in his chest as he shook Tulio's hand.

"Tulio Maduro, thank you for having us."

"Queen Arianna, it's a pleasure to meet you both." Her tone was reserved but pleasant as she shook Miguel's hand.

"Miguel Terrazas and the pleasure is all mine," Miguel smirked as he brought her hand to his lips, kissing the back of it. The Queen giggled at the display, she heard he did the same to Rupenzel when they first met.

Eugene rolled his eyes at his dad's introduction, typical Miguel.

Then they all sat down and ate in silence when the food arrived. It was a little awkward, to be honest, but at least everything was going fine.

"So, we hear that you two have travelled a lot in your lives." The King commented, only going off what Rapunzel had told them so far.

"Huh? Oh! Oh yeah, Tulio and I have been all over, haven't we Tulio?" Miguel announced, turning to his partner.

"Oh yes, France, Arendelle, Agrabah, China, England and many more," Tulio confirmed. It was after

"Oh my, so many places! That is quite impressive." The Queen remarked, while their kingdom traded with a lot of places that were mentioned, she had rarely been out of the kingdom herself, as well as the king.

"Well, we weren't able to stay long in most places, do to being criminals of course." Tulio shrugged, still slightly ashamed of his past even if it was to survive.

"Except for the Kuzconian Empire!" Miguel piped up.

"The Kuzconian Empire? I don't believe I've ever heard of a place." The King confessed.

"Really? It's this massive empire this ruled over by this young Emperor called Kuzco in Puru. We spent about a year and a half there, mostly for Chel." Miguel reviled, food all but forgotten.

"Chel?" The queen questioned.

"Chel was our third partner for a little while after we saved El Dorado form Spanish Conquistador's," Tulio stated, as if was the most normal thing in the world.

Rapunzel stifled a laugh as she watched her parents' eyes widen, while she already knew the story, she hadn't told them anything. Eugene just facepalmed, he knew that the story was true but it did sound outrageous.

"W-well, it seems that you boys have had a very interesting life." The King mused, he wouldn't lie, he was intrigued.

"We had no idea that anyone could have so many adventures." The Queen laughed. "But we have been told that you have an affinity for getting yourselves into trouble, Rapunzel told us that much." She said spearing a look to her daughter, who waved back innocently.

"Well, you can thank most of that, to Mr Adventure over here," Tulio choked, pointing a thumb at his partner, shrugged politely. "If it wasn't for him we wouldn't get in half as much trouble as we do."

The whole table laughed at his jest.

The whole evening went over pretty quick, the group just laughed and told stories of the past and present, the king and queen had never met anyone with such interesting stories. As the evening due to an end, why was giving out and everyone had some, which made them a little tipsy.

"You know, we were so worried about you not liking it." Tulio chuckled, cheeks a little red.

"Why would we have any reason to not like you? It's so nice to see the people that raised the man that saved our daughter. Speaking of which, you raised a good egg, I'm proud to call him son-in-law." The king spoke honestly.

Eugene felt his face go red at the blunt compliment. The king was nothing but nice to him sure, but to hear such praise made him feel embarrassed.

"That's funny, you should have seen a kind of hellraiser he was when he was a kid. Say, Rapunzel didn't tell you about the time that he ran through the town square naked, right?" Miguel introjected.

That sentence made Eugene's blood run cold.

Oh god.

Not that story, it was bad enough that they told Rapunzel, he didn't need her parents knowing.

"Why, no! No, she has not. You wouldn't mind retelling it to us, would you?" The Queen asked, smiling deviously.

Rapunzel giggled at her husband's embarrassment, she felt a little bad but it was just too funny.

"If you do, will tell you a few stories about Rapunzel that you might not know." She then heard her father laugh.

Oh no...

Karma truly is a heartless bitch...