So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love
Think about it every time
I think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it

Accidently In Love – Counting Crows


Chapter 5: Discovering You

Raine's POV

"I have to say, I didn't know you had that in you back there! It was pretty…impressive" Flynn muttered resentfully.

Raine smirked slyly at him. "Don't ever underestimate me" she said to him.

Flynn let out a loud laugh "Right then…" he said sarcastically.

"Oh please, I just saved your life back there from a room full of very angry, and may I point out very scary, strong, men! What would you ever do without me?" Raine joked as she dramatically put her hand over her heart.

Flynn turned around to face her and gave a small smile. "I have no idea…princess" he said before blushing slightly and turning back to face forwards, leading them through the dimly lit tunnel.

Raine pushed a dark strand of hair back that had fallen into her face as she followed Flynn. She wanted to know more about him and there was only one way to find out any information. She coughed nervously before saying "So… Flynn… you know about the way I just saved your life back there?"

"Sure, if that is what you have deluded yourself into believing" Flynn joked.

"Well in return for that…can you answer some questions for me?" Raine asked.

"This is not an interrogation!"

"Oh come on! Just ones like 'where do you come from? Why-" Raine protested.

"Sorry princess but I don't do backstory, particularly with annoying people who blackmail me into taking them to see some floating lanterns!"

Raine scoffed as she glared at him, her stormy blue eyes filled with annoyance. She stopped walking and stood still on the spot, her arms folded defiantly.

"Oh stop being such a drama Queen" Flynn moaned as he turned to face her "Do you want to spend any longer in here than we have to?" He gestured the lantern he was holding towards a skeleton leaning up against the dusty wall.

Raine grumbled as she strode past him. Why did he have to be right?

"Slow down!" Flynn said as he ran to catch up with her. "Just because I don't tell my backstory doesn't mean I'm not interested in yours" He said, raising his eyebrows.

Raine shot him a curious look in return.

"Now I know I'm not meant to ask about your precious locks, the mother and frankly I'm too scared to ask about the frog-"

"Chameleon!" Raine protested, pointing at Estel who was sitting on her shoulder with a furious look on his face.

"Nuance" Flynn replied simply.

Raine rolled her eyes as Estel continued to glare at Flynn angrily.

"Here's my question though, if you want to see the lanterns so badly why haven't you gone before?"

Raine stopped as she looked at Flynn in surprise. "I just…I guess I've never really been brave enough to-"

Flynn started to laugh quietly.

"Fine then if you don't want to know" Raine said angrily as she began to walk off. Here she was starting to trust and open up to him and he started acting like this.

"I'm sorry" Flynn said as he caught her arm as she walked past him and he held her arm softly. " I really do want to know…" he trailed off, looking into her eyes curiously.

Raine looked into Flynn's eyes, they were sincere, she exhaled slightly. "I've never been outside that tower. Not once. My mother told me terrible stories about the world and the awful things that happen in it and I was so scared about ever being exposed to that. But that never stopped me about dreaming about going out to explore it…make my own mistakes…and experience my own adventures! I just never had enough courage to go out there by myself…I probably never would have either…" she trailed off sadly. What if she had never met Flynn? She probably would have been too scared and frightened to ever leave the tower and it scared her that she was admitting this to someone…especially Flynn. She barely knew him. He refused to tell her about his life but here she was telling him things she had barely confessed to herself about her own life. But for some strange reason she felt as if she could trust him with these secrets.

"If it means anything to you…" Flynn spoke gently, breaking Raine out of her thoughts, "I think that you would have been brave enough to go out there by yourself"

"But-"

"Maybe it might have taken more time…but you would have! You're brave Raine. You're courageous and you are a complete dreamer! You wouldn't have been able to let your life be lived for you; you would have had the courage to go out there by yourself someday…" Flynn said softly as he trailed off, his hand still gently holding Raine's arm and his eyes gazing into hers.

Raine looked up at Flynn curiously. Why was he being so kind now? She felt her cheeks burn a little bit at the things he had said about her. Brave, courageous, a dreamer. Did he think of her as those things? Raine couldn't understand why that made her feel so happy inside, that Flynn admired her qualities.

Flynn coughed awkwardly "plus you're a complete nuisance, so you would have to find someone else to annoy instead of your mother"

Raine glared at him. "Why did you have to say that? You are so-"

She was interrupted by a thundering sound echoing around the cave-like tunnel. Small rocks began to crash down as the floor vibrated. She looked up at Flynn is shock. "Flynn?" she asked worriedly.

Both Flynn and Raine turned to see a large amount of palace guards running towards them.

"Run! Run!" Flynn shouted as he pushed Raine in front of him as they began to run.

As they exited the cave they saw their only escape route being blocked by two large men.

"Who's that?" Raine asked.

"They don't like me" Flynn replied simply.

"Who's that?" Raine asked as the guards came running out of the tunnel.

"They don't like me either!" Flynn said, his voice starting to rise in panic.

"Who's that?" Raine gasped as an angry looking horse came bursting out of the tunnel.

"Let's assume that everyone here doesn't like me!" Flynn cried as he held Raine's shoulders.

"Oh! Well maybe that has something to do with you being an annoying idiot!" Raine hissed at Flynn.

"Hey!" Flynn protested.

"Here!" Raine shoved her frying pan into Flynn's stomach, a little too harshly apparently as she heard him groan.

She flung her dark raven hair at a ledge and ensured it was tightly tied before swinging across smoothly to the other side.


Flynn's POV

"Save yourself! That's absolutely fine!" Flynn shouted sarcastically as Raine landed on the other side of the rocky valley.

"Hang on! I'm going to-"

Raine was cut off as Flynn spun his head around to face the approaching guards.

"I've waited a long time for this"

Flynn let out a panicked squeak.

"Use the frying pan you idiot" he heard Raine yell at him just before the guards lunged at him.

Flynn hit all the guards with the frying pan, starting at in shock when he was finished. "Oh mama! I have got to get me one of these!" he said cockily as he swung the pan around.

"Flynn the horse!" he heard Raine yell again.

"What are you-"Flynn said as he began towards Raine's voice however a sword waved in front of his eyes as he did so. He spun around in shock to see Maximus, the snowy white horse, holding a sword in his mouth.


Raine's POV

"You should know that this is the strangest thing I've ever done!" Flynn cried out to Raine as he continued fighting with the horse. Flynn armed with a frying pan. Maximus, the horse, armed with a sword.

"And this is the strangest thing I've ever seen…" Raine murmured to herself as she tried to think of a plan.

'Oh no!' Raine thought to herself as Flynn dropped his frying pan all the way down to the bottom of the valley.

"Flynn!" she cried out as she swung her hair towards him and wrapped it around his hand before pulling and bringing him over to join her on the other side.

Unfortunately she did have the strength to control the swing all the way. "Flynn look out!" she cried as the two men approached him with weapons. She pulled sharply on her hair so he could avoid them.

"You should see you faces because you look-" Flynn abruptly stopped laughing as he crashed into a wooden ledge. "Ridiculous…" he gasped out.

Raine winced but her attention was brought to Maximus knocking down a wooden beam in order to form a bridge from the other side to their side.

"Come on Raine, jump!" she heard Flynn shout to her as he held onto her hair.

'I must be crazy' Raine thought to herself before jumping and narrowly escaping Maximus. She landed on the ground smoothly as she began to run. She turned to see Flynn running alongside her as the water trough above them began to collapse, taking the reservoir with it. She and Flynn ran quickly towards the cave and made it in just in time before a large rock fell down, trapping them inside. The water however continued to flood in causing the two to start looking desperately for a way out. Flynn gasped as he came back up for air after diving down into the water numerous times unsuccessfully trying to find an escape for them.

"It's no use. I can't see anything" he said exasperated.

Raine looked at him panicked before taking a deep breath, preparing to dive down and try again. She had barely just put her head under the water before Flynn pulled her back up.

"Hey, there's no point. It's pitch-black down there" he said softly, putting his hands on her shoulders.

Raine looked at him as shock as the truth registered. They were trapped. They were going to be killed. She felt terror rush through her as a surge of guilt accompanied it.

"This is my entire fault…" she whispered hoarsely. "She was right. I never should have done this." Raine continued, clutching her head. She turned to look at Flynn. "I'm…I'm so sorry Flynn" she whispered softly as a stray tear ran down her face. "I can't believe that I've gotten you-"

"Shh, it's okay" he said gently.

"No it's not" Raine voice broke as the tears began to clog up her throat. "I've gotten you killed" she said turning away from him guiltily.

"Hey, look at me. Look at me" Flynn said softly as he gently turned her to face him. He brushed her hair off of her face and looked into her blue eyes that were filled with sadness. "This isn't your fault" he said as he wiped a stray tear off of her cheek. "And if it's worth anything…if there is anyone I would have wanted to have an adventure like this with, I'm glad it was you" he said smiling gently at her.

"Really?"

"Really, really!" he said raising his eyebrows jokingly at her. "Even though you do annoy me more than anything else I've ever know at times"

Raine let out a strangled laugh as she looked at him smiling.

"Thank you Flynn" she said as she moved closer to him.

"It was my pleasure princess" he said as he held both her hands in his, trying to offer her some comfort.

"Oh and the name's Eugene by the way" he said calmly.

"What?"

"My real name is Eugene Fitzherbert"

"I can see why you chose to rename yourself" Raine joked lightly.

"Hey! I figured someone might as well know" Flynn said laughing.

"I have magic hair that glows when I sing" Raine spoke softly.

"What?"

"I have magic hair that glows when I sing" Raine said excitedly.

Flower gleam and glow

Let your power shine

The whole of the cave was illuminated with a shimmering silver light as Raine, Flynn and Estel were submerged with water.

Raine saw Flynn jump a little bit in shock at the sight of her hair; she would tease him about it later. She followed the light of her hair to the bottom of the cave, spotting a hole which they could escape from. Both she and Flynn swam to the bottom of the cave and began pulling rocks away.

Raine let out a loud gasp as she took in the fresh air surrounding her. She never thought they would make it out of there but they had. She had also thought that she would never share her secrets with anyone but she had just shared them with Flynn Rider, or should she say Eugene Fitzherbert… What would happen next?


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