I decided to post early for this one because I thought you guys would really enjoy this one :)

Guest: That would be funny if it was him, sadly it's not, but she does have something that relates to Maximus later in the story.

Thebabewiththepower15: You'll see in this chapter :)

Enjoy!

Chapter 8

Pitch's P.O.V

When I told her my plan, she nodded her head like she understood. I thought she was too much in la-la land to pay attention, but it turns out I was wrong.

Once she knocked the thug out I smiled feeling impressed by her hair. "Great! You must be a natural."

She looked up at me and smiled back, "Thank you." while unwrapping her hair from his limp, knocked out, body.

"Now," I look at the house and the horse. "Let's sneak up to the horse without making a sound."

I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, she rolled her it's-easy-for-you-to-say eyes. I know people couldn't see me, but something in me says that she can do this. Why not test her?

She walks quietly, trying not to make any sound, by stepping on the grass softly as I followed right behind her. Since the people don't believe in me, they can't hear me or see me. So in other words, I'm fine. As for her, she needs to be quiet and sneaky as possible. That way, they won't hear her and if they don't hear her, they won't know she's even there.

Pressing her back to the wall, next to the door, she slowly lets her hand grab the doorknob, while we hear laughter inside, and closes the door so softly, no sound is heard.

"Nice work." I say to her feeling excitement grow as she seems like she's been doing this for years.

If she wanted to be a thief, she would make a good one. Nobody will even notice that something is missing, until later. She'll take things so quietly, they wouldn't even notice.

She smiles back at me and moves her back slowly against the wall. Then at the corner, she peers her head around to see if there is any more of them. I hear a sigh, meaning there are none.

I think everything is fine, until I hear footsteps walk, then the sound of the door opening. "Let's break for it; they might be coming out right now."

She looks back at me like I'm crazy. Then she tenses as she realizes as she hears the door too.

"Hey! Where did you go?" I can tell by the thug's voice that he's suspicious.

He might find her if we don't leave soon.

She then runs and jumps on the horse. I do the same. I look back and notice that the thug is running straight towards us.

"Hey!" I look back at Rapunzel and she looks back at him with wide eyes.

I can tell she's scared, but she needs to get her head back in the game. "Let's ride!" I shout at her to bring her back to reality.

I realize it works when she whips its reigns down and the horse starts going.

"Whoa!" she says as the horse starts picking up speed on the path.

I look back and see the thugs, all in a huddle, shouting back at us, but technically her, with torches and pitchforks. What is this, a riot?

I start laughing. I never felt this happy before. Something in me is just… happy.

Maybe we should do this more often.

I noticed we have been riding for some time. Looking at the sky, I would say we've been riding for hours. The sun setting on the horizon means we won't have light for awhile and my powers will work, but only till sunrise. I feel like a vampire. Sleeps in day and wakes at night. That's where my powers work the most.

"Maybe we should camp out." I snap back to reality when the horse stops. "This seems like a good spot."

I couldn't believe how right she was. I saw a place where a part of the tree was lying on the ground, without a bottom, so technically it was a log. It was like some on had made this for us.

She got off the horse as did I. It wasn't like I was really on it, but I did wonder how can I get on this horse if it couldn't see me.

"Is there something wrong?" I looked at her as she looked at me with a worried expression on her face.

I was about to speak, but then I noticed the horse looked back at me. I looked back at it in shock.

"Can you see me?" I noticed Rapunzel looked at the horse then back at me then back at the horse again.

The horse nodded. She grabbed the horse as it looked back at her.

"You can see him?" It nodded again.

She looked at me wide eyed. "It can see you." I was just as shocked as her.

"So…" her eyes calmed down. "Only animals can see you, but with people they have to believe?"

"Apparently." I say looking at her.

The horse moves away from her and walks towards me. I shielded myself thinking it would hurt me, but… nothing. I felt its face knock my arm to its nose and closed its eyes as it leaned into me, wanting me to pet it.

I heard her giggle. "Looks like it likes you." I look back at her then back at the horse.

"I guess it does." Then I started moving my hands, petting its nose as it let me hug it.

No animal has noticed me before. Once I'm done hugging it, it opens its purple eyes staring back into my gold ones.

"I wonder what its name is." She walked over beside me looking around the horse trying to find something that will tell us, but she doesn't find anything.

"Well, I can't find anything." She looks at me. "What about you?" I look back at her.

"I'll try." I look over and move its gold mane. "It might have a birthmark or something here." I move pieces of it, until I find a brown "J" mark on its lower neck. "Well, this J might tell us."

"Huh?" She walked over to the left and saw what I saw. "Yeah, I guess we'll have to guess what its name is."

"Oh okay." I move my hands away from its mane.

I start thinking as I hear her call out a name. "Jake?" The horse shakes its head. "John?" It shakes its head again.

"Is it a girl's name?" I say.

Its eyes brighten and it nods. So apparently it's a She.

"Jenny?" The horse looked at her and shook its head. "Jackie?" it shook its head again.

"Jennifer?" I asked, but sadly the horse shook its head again as it looked back at me.

"Is it a unique name?" The horse looks back at her and nods excitedly.

We must be close. "Well," I look back at Rapunzel. "I don't know any unique names."

I think long and hard. What unique names do I know? Then one pops to my head.

"Is it Jinx?" She looks back at me and stomps happy.

"I guess that's her name." Rapunzel smiles.

Then she does a happy dance around us. "She's so happy that you got her name right."

I look at her. "I think your right." She then gets behind Rapunzel and moves her close to me.

"Jinx? What are you…" Then she moves me close to her, "doing…" she says with a sigh as she looks at me while I look at her.

Her green eyes staring back at my gold ones. I can hear her breathing getting heavy. As for me, I feel something deep down in me wanting to bring her close.

"Pitch…" she says as she puts her hands on my arms.

I put my arms around her waist and pull her closer. "Pitch…" she says again.

Do I feel something towards her?

I notice her face gets close to mine as she is on her tippy toes and she closes her eyes. "Rapunzel…" I say as she gets closer.

"Yes?" She says as she opens her eyes staring at me.

"Maybe, we should set up for camp." I look in her eyes feeling little guilt.

"Oh…"She puts her feet flat on the ground and brushes a bang behind her ear while she glance away. "Yeah…" Then she glances back at me. "I'll get some wood to prepare the fire."

I nod. "Yeah…" Then she walks off into the woods.

I turn to walk over to the log, but Jinx stands in my way angry. "What?" I look at her as she huffs. "What did you expect me to do?" She huffs a you-know-what-you-should-have-done.

I move her head from my way and sit on the log as she comes beside me. "I know I could feel it, but I guess…"

Do I love her?

"… It didn't seem like the right time…"

Do I?

Later, when the moon is out, she comes back happy to see me. "Here some more wood." I look up at her and smile. "Thanks."

She sits down next to me and sighs. "So…" I say deciding to start a conversation. "Why were you up in that tower?"

She looks at me and sighs again. "Mother never let me leave that tower." I stare at her confused. "She believed that if I left, that I would walk to a place where people would want to take my hair."

"Why would they want your hair?" She stared at me not knowing if she should tell me or not.

She grabs a piece of her hair. "Here," She sticks a hand out. "Let me show you."

I give her my hand as she wraps her hair around it. "Promise me you won't freak out."

"Why would I freak out?" She gives me a "seriously" look.

Then she starts singing in that same good voice I heard when she left the tower.

Flower, gleam and glow. Let your power shine. Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine

Then her hair started glow as I felt the heat touch my skin. She is magical. She has powers, like me, like the opposite of me.

Heal what has been hurt. Change the Fates' design. Save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine.

It shined a little brighter and the heat was calming down to soothing.

What once was mine.

She sang "mine" longer than the last one. Then the light and heat faded away. She unwrapped her hair and started at me.

"Your… your hair glows." She smiled at me while messing with her hair.

"Yeah, Mother said I've had that gift ever since I was born." She let go of her hair. "Enough about me…" she scooted closer to me. "So…What about you? Do you have a gift too?"

I looked at her eyes then away. "More like a curse." She gasped.

"Oh no. What happened?" I looked back at her surprised.

Usually people aren't interested in me since they can't see me. I look over her shoulder and stare at Jinx. She bobs her head at me as if saying "go on".

I look back at her. "The man in the moon took my daughter away from me." I noticed she looked sad about it. "So in revenge, I killed his parents just so I can get my daughter back, but instead he cursed me for eternity."

"That's awful! Why would he do that?" I shrugged.

"Maybe to get back at me, but all I wanted to do is to get my daughter back." She looks up at the moon.

"That is such a sad story." I notice her had close to mine.

She soon moves her hand over mine. I look back up as we stare back at each other, as if we can feel a connection with one another.

"Pitch…" She leans closer to me as do I.

"Rapunzel…" We are almost so close until a lantern falls in front of us.

I stare at it confused as she gasped. She gets up and runs in the trees next to us.

"Rapunzel!" I call back to her as I follow her.

Then once I pass the trees I notice something I never expect to see.

Millions of Lanterns are in the sky. Even some are coming off ships. I look around and notice Rapunzel is close to the water.

"Look at all those lights. Are they beautiful?" She look back at me pointing at them.

I look at her and look back at them. "Yes, they are magnificent."

I've never seen so many lanterns before. "Actually," She looks at me still in wonder. "They are called lanterns."

"Really?" I walk next beside her and nod. "How can we get closer to them?" She then looks around and notices something.

"Hey!"She runs over to a small boat. "We can use this. That way we'll be able to see all of them." She smiles at me.

Well this might be fun.

Well, look at this... Is Pitch falling for Rapunzel? Is Rapunzel falling for Pitch? Who knows... we might even find out next chapter :)