Witness

Chapter 9

"Ah'll set up camp!" Merida moaned as they found a clearing in the forest after walking for hours and hours. Merida had been complaining of this and that as they went through the forest, why can't we ride the dragon, if Flynn-oh sorry-Eugene is so smart why can't he take us, Rapunzel can I just hide in your hair? Eugene was fed up and his hand was still in agony, it had begun to heal but if he bent it slightly then the new skin would crack. He kept asking Rapunzel questions to put off her healing his hand, as he was nervous about it. It wasn't every day magic hair healed you, was it? he discovered that if she cut her hair though, it turns brown and loses its power, that's why her Mother never let her leave. Now she'd told him all of that, Eugene had run out of questions for her.

"Would you let me heal you, Eugene? Please?" Rapunzel asked, holding his hand and staring as the blood seeped through the cracks. Eugene felt his heartbeat raise a little when she held his hand, when she talked to him and just him or even when she was walking and her arm touched his slightly. He'd been with a lot of women, surprisingly a lot of them liked his bad-attitude, but Rapunzel...she was, different. She didn't seem to have any hatred, jealousy or anything like that in her heart just goodness. He liked the way she found joy in everything, she didn't resent her Mother as much as she probably should for not letting her venture into the outside world. For a girl that had never left her house before, she was smart too. Smart enough to blackmail him, smart enough to get them out of the cave.

He glanced at her, she was smiling at him, her eyes pleading for his agreement as if - if he didn't agree – he'd die. "Fine." He told her, she clapped her hands and sat down on a log near where Merida was setting up the fire. Merida watched them and rolled her eyes, she knew they were falling in love, they were just a magic boat ride away from kissing. She looked over to the other couple – Hiccup and Astrid. Hiccup had been apologizing to her for the best part of an hour, but Astrid wasn't taking any of it.

"If you won't listen, at least let me show you." Astrid looked at him and the dragon, the dragon had saved her life she guessed, not to mention Hiccup's. "Please, Astrid."

She pushed him out of the way and helped Merida with the fire. "Ah don't need yer help!" Merida shouted at her. Astrid looked furious now.

"You know what, fine! you want to die in the forest?" She looked at Hiccup, though all eight eyes were on her now, "Die in the forest!" Astrid stormed off, Hiccup yelled after her but she carried on walking.

"Now look what you've done!" He shouted at Merida.

The fire started so Merida stood up and turned to him; "Me? This was yer fault! I never asked you to come lookin' for me!"

"At least help me get her back!" Hiccup said, already walking off with Toothless by his side, Merida rolled her eyes and muttered why me? as she followed them.

Rapunzel and Eugene sat there for a while, alone, not sure how to respond. Eugene sudden became aware Rapunzel was holding his hand. "Anyway," he quickly said to avoid the awkwardness, but he noticed Rapunzel was already staring at him, she looked nervous.

"Promise...promise you won't freak out.." Eugene looked down to his hand at the strands of hair, his hand still hurting pretty bad from where he'd scraped it at the cave. He met her eyes again, her gorgeous, huge green eyes. Rapunzel watched him with curiosity, she hadn't even begun and he already looked freaked out. "Flower, gleam and glow." She was singing it slower than she had in the cave Eugene noticed, from the moment when said the first word her roots light up and the light spread down her hair. "Let your power shine." She continued, the light had now spread to where her hair touched the grass, Eugene suddenly felt panicked what if the light burned? He didn't want his hand to burn! "Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine." Eugene looked at her, in an angelic form her eyes were closed and she sang the words like a song, her voice was beautiful. She didn't look like her hair was burning her at all. "Heal what has been hurt." Eugene followed the trail of her and he saw the light flow past Pascal, Rapunzel's pet frog who gestured to his hand. "Change the fate's design." Eugene looked at his hand; the light had now reached the hair Rapunzel had wrapped around his hand and it didn't burn at all, he felt a soft, sort of sensation on his hand, "Bring back what once was mine, what once was mine..." Rapunzel lifted her eyes open, slowly and carefully Eugene unwrapped the hair around his hand, no scar, no blood, no burn mark. Skin.

He went to scream. "PLEASE DON'T FREAK OUT!" Rapunzel quickly shouted, Eugene stood up and wrapped his hands under his armpits.

"I'm not freaking out..I just I.." Eugene looked round for some distraction, "I'm worried the fire will die, I'll just get some err..firewood." He met her eyes for a second, each of them smiled at each other, he wasn't fooling Rapunzel, he knew he wasn't. After that, they both drew away from each other. Rapunzel giggled to herself.

"Well,"

A/N: Sorry for the long awaited update but I finally got through my writer's block! Yay!

And sorry readers but there will be no Mother Knows Best (reprise) simply because I really, really don't know how to write that sorry x

Next chapter will be them waking up in the clearing, and I'm so sorry I didn't get them to share stories around the campfire, but Hiccup and Merida will talk about what's been going on since they last properly spoke which will mainly focus on Hiccup's story!

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