A/N This section of the story is mostly POV'S But in the original fairy tale of Rapunzel, written by the Brothers Grimm, the prince goes blind and crawls around the woods for a few, days. I wanted to illustrate this, best I could so…hope you like it, and that's why it is the way it is! So enjoy, read and and review!

Duncan walked up to the tower where Courtney stays, "Let your hair down princess!" he said. He watches a beautiful long braid of brown hair trail down the side of the tower, he hoists himself up it and reaches the window when…..

Duncan's POV

I reach the window when I see a horrible sight!

It's Heather, ugly and vile!

Heather grabs me by my hair and pulls me through the window, where I receive a gracious punch in the face.

My nose starts to bleed; man I think it is broke.

"Putrid human, you sicken me." She screams at me.

She throws another punch but I catch it. She swings again and again until I am up against the window.

"Where is Courtney?" I ask, I would hate to think I put her in danger.

"Somewhere out in the woods, unconscious, starved and alone." Heather snickers like witches do.

"You cretonne, how could you do that! What did she ever do to you?" I ask

Heather says "Cretonne? How dare you cal me a name!"

She pushes me off and out the window. I land on a bed of thorns.

My eye, there is something in it! I pull out a thorn, with blood on it. My vision, whoa it's blurry.

I see everything just kind of mixed together for a while.

I am running through the woods, fast as I can, "Courtney," I scream.

Now I see things as if they were shadows grey and white.

"Courtney?"

I can't see where I am now, I see faint outlines of shapes, but everything is turning black.

Now I know I'm blind. I'm crying, "Courtney" I should have just let her be!

"Courtney"

I am on my hands and knees crawling, and screaming.

"Courtney"

I have to find her and make sure she is o.k.!

Courtney's POV

I open my eyes; I don't know where I am.

O my head is pounding; I have a huge knot on it!

My ribs hurt so much; I can tell that they are bruised

I try to get up, but I can only manage to sit, I have lost my sense of balance, which I desperately need.

I lay back down, it's turning into night, and hopefully I can gather myself in the morning.

I see the back of my eyelids now, I am dosing off.

Duncan's POV

"Cour….tttt…ney"

I can barely talk anymore, my voice is so hoarse.

The palms of my hands are so dirty, and soar. They have been pierced by pebbles, thorns, and other textures I cannot see, but only feel.

"Cour….t"

I can't take much more, I stop crawling just to, catch my breathe and rest a bit. My head hurts around and above my eyes. I dare not touch it though, I'm not afraid of what I will feel, but rather what I won't.

I can only sit and think now, where is Courtney? For sure alone and scared! I can picture her now, I'm tearing up, she is wondering where she is! She is lying there alone in the woods, thinking, why hasn't Duncan come to rescue me?

Her dress is dirty, and she is at a loss for hair. She's whimpering for me, for anybody to save her (other than Heather of course). I can see her looking around , seeing dreadful beasts around her, with no protection.

But I mustn't think about her any more, it will only dampen my spirits. I start to think of what's around me now!

How the sky looks, what terrain is around me. For all I know, I could crawl another foot and be in an alligator infested swamp.

But, that's no better thought.

I am picturing a beautiful sky, full of stars in the silhouettes of diamonds. They are all different shapes, sizes; some even are tinted different colors.

I am also picturing where I am, even though I know it would, and will not ever happen. I am laying on a bed of moss, there is a mist about this place, there is a small pool, about six feet from me, rose petals dance on the surface of the water! And there about the pool is Courtney, with her luscious hair. She is swimming, and happily; she invites me to be with her, I accept.

I'm dreaming now, and I don't want to wake up for reality any time soon.

Courtney's POV

It feels like I've been asleep for six minutes, but I know its morning because there is a new sun.

I am so soar, I am apt just to give up and die here.

What have I to live for?

But then I hear "Courtney"

Who is it, I do hope it isn't Heather!

I sit up, still a little shaken, when I hear it again.

"Courtney," someone calls.

I stand, I am a little wobbly, but I can walk to get me where I need to go. I walk around a little ways, trying to find who is calling me.

But, I don't hear it anymore.

All I hear now is my stomach calling for anything to eat. I see a few berries. But I don't know if they are safe to eat.

Should I risk it?

No! I can't waste my life for twenty berries, I would have done more good making a lean two for a dragon!

I find a puddle of water, it is muddy but seems to be clean, the trees and plants around this area are wet, and so a shower must have come through here, probably heading north.

I sit down on my knees, and cup my hands, placing them in the water and then bringing it to my mouth fast as possible.

O how good this tastes!

After two days without any water, this suffices just fine.

I stand up again, looking for something to carry the water in. But alas I find it not.

I decide to stay here a little longer and rest up, and get my thirst and be gone with it. It is a nice part of the woods anyway. I think I can make a snare or two, and regain my strength.

Duncan's POV

Wow, it feels like I've been asleep for ages!

The only reason I know I'm awake is because instead of seeing Courtney, and a sky full of diamonds, I see blackness.

The atmosphere around me, as far as I can tell, is windy, and kind of, grey so to speak

It feels eerie!

I scratch my head, and call out for the love of my life

"Courtney"

I put my hands in front of me, and feel to make sure that I am not going to plummet over a cliff, or into an ocean, it sounds ridiculous but I can't see to persuade myself otherwise.

My knee calves are swollen; I can feel how my pants have tightened around this area. It hurts to walk on them, or rather crawl.

I haven't ran into anything yet, that's a good sign. But wait, what's that falling on my head? It is a slow drip!

Maybe it is the saliva of a wolves dripping upon my head, maybe I have been blinded by a bandit, and they are doing Chinese water torture on me!

No, that's not it.

"Kablam, boom, shockshway"

What was that?

Now the droplets are irregular and heavier.

"Shaboom, kabam, mooshaywa"

The ground I am on is softening! The drips, are coming in sheets now!

I understand I am in a thunder storm. I try to scatter, and get out of it., but every time I do, I only slip, the ground beneath me is mud now! I try harder, but I fall, I just knocked the breath out of me! I gasp for air, and cough. I feel mudd splatter into my eyes, and face, as I attempt to crawl away one last time.

"Boom, Kaboooooooooooom"

I get into fetal position, and hope I don't get struck by lightning. I can't see anything, which makes this experience much more frightful. I wish dearly for someone to be here.

"C..courtney"

I call.

"DJ, Ezekiel?"

No answer, nor reply.

I lay there, cold, and alone. I am shivering and pondering my fate.

Courtney's POV

In the distance I hear a thunder storm. I am glad it already came through where I am staying.

I see the rain coming down in sheets, and here the thunder, see the bold lighting strike trees and the ground. It looks so beautiful, and unique off in the distance.

Get back focused Courtney! I snap at myself.

I sip some more water from the puddle, and get up. I am dirty, and badly in need of a bath!

I search around for a few sticks, I find just the right sized ones. If I am going to survive until I make it a Town, I will need to make a few snares.

I search around, and carefully place my traps, hopefully I could catch a rabbit. Or maybe a squirrel. I hate to kill small, sweet little creatures, but unless I can find some sweet potatoes, or wild onions, they'll have to do!

Now that I have placed my snares, I search for plants, edible ones of course, I'm so hungry. I see something, a few feet from me. I walk over and dig some of it up.

At the end of the root were, a yam type of thing. It was a brassy, orange color. It looked delicious. Courtney bit into it.

It was delicious, the flavor explosion. The energy, I can already feel it rushing back into my body! I consume the whole thing, in a rather unreasonable time frame.

I burp, my face is cover in the yam like substance around my mouth. I wipe it of, I completely forgot my manners. O well, who gives a care. I am by myself now. It doesn't really matter. Besides the only person I ever had, and that was for a little while was Duncan…..

I thought on it a minute…..Duncan?

O my goodness. Duncan! How could I forget about him?

I hope he is alright, I can't believe I forgot about him. I look down at the yam in my hand, I wonder if Duncan has anything to eat? Even where he is, if he is warm? Or if he is still alive, Heather must have took it out on him!

No but I don't need to dwell on such sad thoughts. I am sure Duncan is safe and happy, he probably went back to the castle. With, DJ and Ezekiel, they are all eating petite fours!

I laugh, I hope the best for Duncan.

But I still can't help but wonder where he is right now!

Duncan's POV

It's been thirty minutes now, best I can tell. Now where I lay is a pool of water.

I am shivering uncontrollably; it's so cold, and wet. All I can think about at the moment is me, and my cares.

It's selfless I know, but I can't seem to take my mind off of it. I've tried strategizing ways to get out of this, ways to find Courtney again. But I can't try as I might.

I know I am just a blind ex-prince, who will die in the woods, a rich, wifeless, and worthless nobody.

The winds are blowing extremely hard now, I think I might be blown away. A leaf hits me smack in the face, then another. I have tried turning over to face the way the wind is blowing, but it only changes direction. I have given up now. I close my eyes, and try to fall asleep.

But I can't fall asleep, I wish I could see right now! I want to see the blackening sky, and the swirling wind. I want to see the ground slowly turning into mud, and dissolving into but a mush. I also want to see the lightning, blue and gold, and so beautiful, it spreads through the sky, empty space.

I take a deep breath in again and try to sleep again, I picture the lighting sparking around me and Courtney. Even though the sky is rousing, and dark purple, and black, even though the winds are speeding by us like wild mustangs; we are at peace. We are dancing together, our faces are blank, emotionless, but we can feel each others hearts and sense the emotions that we are feeling.

Trees are falling around us, crashing and breaking. Every time one does Courtney flinches, but we keep our eyes on each other, we are completely focused, I have my world in grasp. My purpose is starring into my eyes, and I'm starring right back, in awe. We continue to dance through the world falling apart, at peace.

Courtney's POV

It is turning dusky dark now. The storm is still brewing over yonder, north of me. I lay down, I have set beside me some wild strawberries, yams, and blueberries, I harvested them today. I took down my snares because I found an abundance of fruits and vegetables to sustain me. I found some moss, I stripped it from a nearby patch of ground. I took it and piled it into a bed beneath a very full headed tree.

I lay there thinking about were I will leave to, what fortunes wait me. I am sure that will all my 'misfortunes' I have had, I've got mostly good to come. I hear something crack around me. I then hear a huge thud! I flinch, I tree just fell! It was one just smaller than this.

I close my eyes, in this serene environment. I need to get my rest and set out for wherever tomorrow. I can't sleep right now!

Ugh! I can't believe it, I can't stop thinking about Duncan. Where he is, I he is o.k., is he cold, by a fire. In the palace sipping hot chocolate?

I close my eyes and start to concentrate, I see me and Duncan, we are dancing, in complete silence, other than crazy winds, and thunder, and lightning strikes. We are just starring at each other, but it is wonderful, I am loving it. His face is emotionless though, as well as mine. I dose off and drift further into the dream.

A/N The next chapter is the dream in full detail. I don't know why but I feel like sharing it, and I can't shake it, I have already wrote it all in my head so in the next chapter we won't be in past, present, or future, but instead dream! Lolz xD