Disclaimer: I don't own Tangled or it's characters

It's now December 23, the kingdom is busy at work preparing for the next day's Christmas Eve festivities. Rapunzel is doing her part by helping the cooks bake Christmas cookies. She's carefully is dotting the eyes of a line of gingerbread men when Eugene walks in.

"You look like you got caught in a snowstorm" Eugene brushes flour our of Rapunzel's hair. This causes Rapunzel to lose focus and her hand slips squeezing a line of icing onto the little gingerbread face instead of the desired dot.

"Eugene, you made me mess up" Rapunzel pouts.

"It's okay, I'll just put the poor cookie out of its misery" Eugene grabs the cookie and bites it's head off.

"Eugene, those are for the party!" Rapunzel scolds.

"They won't miss one little cookie. Besides, I was testing the cookie to make sure it was safe. It's a very heroic deed" Eugene says.

"Fine, but now you have to help me decorate the rest" Rapunzel says. Eugene wraps his arm around her and he holds her wrists so their hands move together as Rapunzel squeezes the icing bag. Eugene starts to kiss Rapunzel's cheek and neck.

"Eugene, you're not really helping, just making it more difficult" Rapunzel laughs. Their cute moment is interrupted when they hear someone behind them clear their throat. It's Rapunzel's father.

"Hello sir, we were just decorating cookies" Eugene says nervously, stepping away from Rapunzel.

"It seems as though you were getting a little distracted so I should give you too another task" James says, "Rapunzel, I was thinking that you could go down to the orphanage today and spread some Christmas cheer. They'd love to see you"

"that sounds great. Oh it will be so much fun" Rapunzel says, "Eugene, you should come too. We could read them Christmas stories, you have the best story telling voice"

"Oh, Rapunzel. I don't think I'll go. I don't have many good memories from the orphanage. I told myself that once I left I would never go back" Eugene says quietly.

"Oh, I'm so sorry . I forgot. I should have remembered. That was so careless of me " Rapunzel apologizes.

"It's okay. You go and have fun, they kids won't care whether or not I'm there anyway" Eugene gives her a kiss on the forehead before he leaves. Rapunzel packs up some of the cookies to take to the kids then she goes upstairs to get cleaned up. Meanwhile, Eugene is pacing around his room thinking. He knows Rapunzel wants him to go to the orphanage and he hates to disappoint her. At the last minute he decides to go with her, maybe things had changed for the better there over the years.

"Wait Blondie, you forgot some stuff" Eugene calls to her as she's about to leave.

"What have you got there Eugene?" Rapunzel asks.

"When I was at the orphanage we never had enough warm clothes. So I gathered some of the scarves that you knitted me to give to them. I hope you don't mind, you've made me so many and they're all beautiful but I only have one neck"

"That's sweet of you, I bet the kids will love them"

"'And I found the Night Before Christmas story. The kids would love to hear that story. Most importantly though, you forgot me" Eugene says.

"You're coming? What made you change your mind?"

"I figured that I should try to give those kids the happy memories that I didn't get" Eugene says. Though it had been years since he had stepped foot in the building the orphanage looked and even smelled the exact same.

"Attention children, we have a special guest here. Princess Rapunzel has come to visit us" the headmistress announces. The kid eyes widen at the sight of Rapunzel. One little girl runs up to Rapunzel and hugs her legs.

"Megan, let go of the princess" the headmistress tries to pull the little girl off of Rapunzel.

"no, it's fine. I love hugs" Rapunzel says, she bends down to give the little girl a hug.

"Who's that?" the little girl points at Eugene.

"That's Eugene. He's my boyfriend. He wanted to come visit you guys" Rapunzel replies

"That's Flynn Rider, why is a princess dating Flynn Rider?" one of the little boys asks. That question is the very question that Eugene has been constantly asking himself since he found out that Rapunzel was a princess.

"Well, I'm Eugene now. I cleaned up my act and I'm not a thief anymore. Let that be a lesson to you kids"

"Anyway, who want to hear a Christmas story? " Rapunzel asks, "Everyone sit in a circle and Eugene will read to us" To Eugene's surprise, a little girl comes and sits right on his lap. She has big green eyes and long blonde hair and reminds him of Rapunzel when they first met.

"T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…" Eugene reads. The kids look at Eugene with wide eye and they don't say a word while Eugene I reading the story.

"That was a great story" Rapunzel says when Eugene is done reading, "What should we do now? What's your favourite Christmas thing to do?" Rapunzel asks the little boy sitting beside her.

"Sing! My favourite is Away in a Manger" the little boy says.

"I don't know that song. But I love to sing. Maybe you can teach it to me" Rapunzel says. The little boy starts singing and all the other kids join in.

"That was so beautiful" Rapunzel gasps at the children's singing, "You are such good singers". For Eugene it was so heartwarming to see Rapunzel with the kids. She was so genuinely sweet and encouraging which was what these kids needed. There weren't exactly a lot of encouraging words spoken by the headmistresses at least when he was there. His thoughts are interrupted by a tugging on his sleeve.

"Yes sweetie?" he says to the little girl in his lap.

"Do you think Santa will be able to find me? Last Christmas I was at my mommy and daddy's house, but now I'm here. Does Santa know that?" she asks.

"Yes, he does. Santa will always be able to find you" Eugene says. The little girl snuggles into his chest.

"Okay everyone, it's Christmas cookie time. I hope you like these. I helped to make them" Rapunzel says handing out a cookie to each kid.

"Wowee! Today is the best day ever! I get cookies and I met a princess!" one of the little girls says. Rapunzel smiles, she never quite understood why people got so excited to see her.

"Okay children, it's lunch time. Say goodbye to the princess" the headmistress says, "Wait, you children know you're not supposed to be eating treats before lunch"

Hey, it's Christmas time. Leave them alone" Eugene says, he gets a glare from the headmistress that he got so many times when he was a child. The kids give Rapunzel and Eugene hugs.

"I promise we'll visit again, and Merry Christmas to you all" Rapunzel says.

"Thank you for doing that" Eugene says to Rapunzel on their way home, "You gave those kids a good memory"

"It was fun. Those kids are adorable. I'm going to start preparing for next year. I'm going to knit them all mittens and hats and I'll sew them some clothes and I could make them some presents and we'll bring them Christmas decorations " Rapunzel says.

Eugene just smiles, her generous heart never ceases to amaze him and that' one of the many reasons why he loves her.