Hey fellow readers! I'm here with another chapter. In this chapter, Katherine is taken to the castle and offered to stay there. She also meets the King and Queen and the twins. The chapter song and chapter name is "Getting to Know you" from the King and I.
Disclaimer: I don't own Tangled or "Getting to know you" from the King and I.
Chapter 3
Getting to Know You
After a long walk back to the castle, they finally make it to the palace gates. Katherine was still smiling from meeting such kind people like Rapunzel and Eugene. The only she'd get from someone was a scowl, sneer, or stare; once in a while, an eye roll. But Rapunzel and Eugene were different. They gave her a smile, a kind introduction, and even stopped a man who tried to rob her. She was curious how the King and Queen were going to react when they find a peasant woman like her in the palace. She automatically knew commoners weren't allowed in the palace, but here she was: standing at the gates of Corona palace waiting to get in. At the gates, they were stopped by two straight-faced guards. The guards saw Rapunzel and Eugene and let them in. Katherine noticed the two guards scowled at Eugene. Did he do something to upset them? Katherine asked herself as she followed behind Rapunzel and Eugene as they entered the palace.
The inside of the palace was just as Katherine thought: Very fancy. She noticed the various paintings of royals that used to rule Corona and the large windows that revealed the beautiful gardens that brought lovely scenery to the view in the window. She followed Rapunzel and Eugene as they passed various guards, servants, and pages. The guards gave her a scowl, the servants gave her a stare, and the pages sneered at her as they stuck their noses up like they owned the place. Katherine then heard something as she turned around to find the last thing she'd find in the palace.
"You can't catch me, Peter!" exclaimed a little girl with shoulder length brunette hair and hazel eyes. She was currently running in a blue dress that reached to her ankles. She noticed the girl was running from a little boy and carrying something.
"Liza! Why are you always so hard to catch?" groaned a little boy with dark brown hair like his sister and big green eyes. He tried to run after her, but the girl was faster.
Eugene noticed and picked up the girl and she was now in his arms. "Daddy!" squealed the girl as she was lifted up. Katherine looked confused by when the girl said "daddy," but realized that meant Eugene was the girl's father.
"Is she your daughter?" asked Katherine as she noted the girl who was squirming in her father's arm.
"Yes she is," grinned Eugene as he playfully tickled the girl. The girl started laughing out so loud; people on the other side of the kingdom could hear her! The girl then stopped laughing and looked at Katherine confused.
"Daddy, who's the lady?" she asked as she stared at her like she was her long lost friend.
"This is Ms. Katherine Elizabeth, Ms. Katherine, this is Elizabeth," said Eugene as he gave a smile to Ms. Katherine to show that Elizabeth did like her.
"How are you doing Elizabeth?" asked Katherine as she shook Elizabeth's hand.
"Fine," smiled Elizabeth as she shook her hand right back. Elizabeth still held that thing she had in her hand as Eugene noticed and tried to see what it was.
"Alright, what do you have?" asked Eugene as he tried to take it.
"No Daddy, that's the valuable necklace that belongs to the queen! Only Captain Peter is supposed to take it back from me!" giggled Elizabeth as she took it away. Eugene knew what she meant by that.
Elizabeth and Peter would play guards and thieves practically all the time. Peter would always be the Captain of the Guard and Elizabeth would always be the notorious thief who would always take stuff. In fact, after she learned about Flynn Rider, she called herself Elizabeth Rider because she thought she was like her dad in the game.
Eugene then tickled Elizabeth into giving him the thing she was hiding. He then recognized what Elizabeth was hiding. It was a necklace, but it wasn't just any necklace; it was his mother's necklace.
The necklace was gold and it said: M. F. for Miranda Fitzherbert. Eugene knew his dad got his mother that necklace since he was richer than anyone else in his family. It was also a locket and in the locket held a picture of her. She told him that if he ever had a sister, she would give it to her, but his mother never had any other children besides him so she kept it. Before she died, she told him to keep it and give it to someone special. In fact, he gave it to Rapunzel on their wedding anniversary. It was the last thing he had of his mother. He kept it hidden in his satchel, but he took it out after he got it back a second time.
He remembered he left it at the beach, but after he returned Rapunzel home, Rapunzel's mother gave him his satchel back. She said the guards found his satchel with the Stabbingtons and gave it to her and King Henry for evidence. She went through it and she didn't find anything, but when she was dumping it out, she found that necklace. At first she thought he took it from a woman, but when she found out his real name and his mother's name, she decided to give the satchel and the necklace back to him. She even suggested giving it to Rapunzel after she heard the story about the necklace.
A few years later, he gave his satchel to Elizabeth since she was always interested in it. He was curious now how Elizabeth got her tiny hands on that necklace.
"Elizabeth, did you go through your mother's stuff again?" asked Eugene. He knew when she and Peter would play "guards and thieves" Elizabeth would "borrow" their stuff so she would have something to steal in the game.
"No, Pascal did," said Elizabeth. Eugene and Rapunzel were baffled by that. Pascal was the last one that would go through their stuff. "I told Pascal that I was going to need something for the game and I asked him to find something that wasn't new and wasn't too much of value so you guys wouldn't freak out thinking you misplaced it or something. So he said that he found it and he knew Mom wouldn't mind because it looked old and I went along with him. I agreed because it looked about thirty years old," explained Elizabeth.
"Who's Pascal?" asked Katherine. She wanted to know who this was.
"Pascal the chameleon is a friend that has been with my mother since she was little," explained Elizabeth.
"Pascal is a chameleon?" asked Katherine.
"Yes, and he likes fruit, my mom, and sticking his tongue in Dad's ear," explained Elizabeth. Katherine was baffled after hearing that along with some passing guards and maids.
"Okay, how about you go take a nap Little Blondie because you must be exhausted from playing," chuckled Eugene nervously as he led her away. "Cute and adorable little five year old, just doesn't know what she's saying sometimes," he chuckled again. He was embarrassed from that.
"I don't mind. I think it's absolutely adorable when kids say things like that. It can be hilarious," chuckled Katherine. Eugene chuckled too out of embarrassment.
"Alright, now let's go talk to the King and Queen," chuckled Eugene as he tried to stop laughing.
"Is Peter your child too?" asked Katherine on the way.
"Yes, he is," smiled Eugene as he saw Peter run after Elizabeth yelling at her to give the necklace back which he had now.
They finally made it to the throne room where Eugene told Katherine to wait right there. Katherine looked at Eugene odd as she watched him and Rapunzel go into the throne room to talk to the King and Queen. Katherine just stood there waiting deciding not to eavesdrop this time.
Eugene and Rapunzel went into the throne room where they saw King Henry and Queen Anne discussing some things about the kingdom again but stopped when they saw their daughter and son in-law enter the room.
"Rapunzel," addressed King Henry who was the first one to notice her.
"How are you doing sweetie?" asked Queen Anne as she put the papers they were reading away.
"Good, it's just we found this old lady and she doesn't have a home and we were thinking we should offer her a place to live," explained Rapunzel.
"Really? Where?" asked Queen Anne. She thought it was nice that Rapunzel and Eugene were helping a lady like the one they just descrbed.
"Here," replied Rapunzel.
"Rapunzel, this isn't an inn. You can't just offer people to live here without our permission," said King Henry.
"Come on Henry, have a heart! This is an old lady Rapunzel found who's homeless! We shouldn't upset her like that and leave her homeless," cried Queen Anne.
"It's not that I want her to have a home, I just don't want her staying here!" exclaimed King Henry.
"And why not?" asked Queen Anne.
"Because what are the people going to say? Having a commoner in the palace?" asked King Henry.
"Eugene's a commoner and we let him stay in the palace!" exclaimed Queen Anne.
"That's a different story, I only let him stay at the palace because he's the reason Rapunzel's here in the first place!" exclaimed King Henry.
In the Hallway:
Katherine could hear yelling from the door and just frowned because she knew it wasn't good. She automatically knew what they were arguing about: her staying at the palace. She hoped Rapunzel and Eugene were going to try and change the King's mind and letting her stay here. Her thoughts were interrupted by someone.
"Excuse me?" asked a voice. She turned and saw a familiar man that she saw on possibly the worst day of her life. It was the man from that day twenty-six years ago. He was wearing the same gold armor with the sun on it and the same gold helmet with the feathers as the man before.
"You!" gasped Katherine when she saw him.
"Me?" asked the man who was baffled by how she knew him.
"You were the one who did that!" exclaimed Katherine.
"Did what?" asked the man.
"Don't act stupid! I know who you are! You're that soldier that dragged away that poor innocent boy who was upset that day!" exclaimed Katherine.
"I don't know what you're talking about Madam, I just want to…" the man insisted as he backed away from Katherine before she grabbed a sword from a knight statue and threatened him with it.
In the Throne Room:
"I'm just not sure about it Anne," groaned King Henry.
"Not sure about what? This is a helpless old lady we're talking about and she's probably weak and helpless, Henry! And another thing…" exclaimed Queen Anne. The argument was interrupted by Elizabeth who came rushing in.
"Mommy, Daddy, there's a fight going on," said Elizabeth in her soft little girl voice.
"A fight? Who's in a fight?" asked Eugene who was curious what his five year old daughter meant by that.
"Ms. Katherine's threatening Captain Mustache with a sword," Elizabeth tattled. They all went into the hallway where they say exactly what Elizabeth saw.
Ms. Katherine was pointing a sword at the Captain while the Captain was trying to back away slowly.
"Is that the old lady you were talking about?" asked King Henry.
"Yes?" replied Eugene afraid of King Henry's reaction.
"She's a lot younger and stronger than I thought she would be," commented King Henry as he remembered what his wife had said earlier. "Ms. Katherine, Captain, why are you doing that?" groaned King Henry as they two looked at him scared by how much trouble they were probably going to be in.
"This man here dragged a poor six year old boy who was upset by the loss of my sister and didn't care how muddy he got from that," responded Katherine not taking her sword from her position.
"What? I never did that!" the Captain choked out because the sword was at his throat to where he could hardly breathe.
"Yes, you did! Twenty-six years ago on the 21st of October!" exclaimed Katherine as she pointed it closer and closer to his throat.
"Twenty-six years- Oh! You mean my old man! He told me he had to take a six year old orphan to the orphanage that day. His mother died of scarlet fever," explained the Captain.
"Oh, sorry," chuckled Katherine as she moved the sword away as she blushed.
"Apology not accepted," huffed the Captain as he walked away.
"Sorry your highness, I mistaken him for someone else," chuckled Katherine nervously, still blushing.
"That's alright," chuckled Queen Anne, "So…you're Ms. Katherine?"
"Yes your highness," replied Katherine as she curtsied.
"Oh, don't go with formalities! Call me Anne," chuckled Queen Anne.
"Okay Anne," addressed Katherine.
"This is my husband Henry, and we are delighted to have you here at the castle and I'm sure everyone else is," smiled Queen Anne.
"Minus the Captain," muttered King Henry.
"Thank you Anne, I'm already enjoying my stay here," smiled Katherine.
"We're glad; anyways we'd like you to join us for dinner in an hour. Would you accept?" asked Queen Anne.
"Really? Thank you!" replied Katherine. This was her first time having dinner with royals.
"You're welcome," smiled Queen Anne. She noticed a maid and decided to call her. "Mabel, will you please show Ms. Katherine to her room," she called as she whispered which room to put her in.
"Sure," replied Mabel as she led Katherine to her room. Katherine was smiling even more knowing that she was going to be treated like a guest and not a piece of trash. She knew once she met Eugene and Rapunzel, she was going to meet other nice people like them.
Well, that's the end of this chapter. I'm sure this is the longest chapter I have ever typed for any of my stories. Sorry if I haven't done anything for like a few weeks. Life can just get in the way sometimes. Did you like how Elizabeth and Queen Anne treated Katherine? I also want to wish an early Happy Halloween since tomorrow's Halloween, one of my favorite holidays. Also if you're curious how old some people are in this story, Eugene is 32, Rapunzel's 24, and Katherine's 51. Well, before I go, I have some reviews to reply to:
BroadwayFanGirl91: You'll find out what the idea is later in the story. And thanks for saying that about the way Rapunzel and Eugene treated Katherine.
disneyisbeautiful: When you asked about the twins, even though I didn't plan on adding them in it, I did anyway. I hope you liked the way they were in this story.
Wheels4TheOneTrueGod: Thanks, and I hoped you enjoyed this chapter too.
Well, that's it for now. Hasta Luego (see you soon)!