Hey, sorry I've been so long in updating! I'll try to write more often before school starts again to make it up to all of you... I've just been kind of 'busy doing nothing' this summer- I completely forgot about my stories I had going, and I'll try to work on them some more.
It's come to my attention that as Rapunzel was kidnapped as an infant, maybe a week or so old, and is older than Anna, it wouldn't make sense for her to know Rapunzel or for her to have ever met her. However, I'm just going to have it be that Rapunzel's parents, after her return, thought it appropriate for her to meet all her family, and that she came to Arendelle not long after she came home. Also, note here that Rapunzel and Eugene have been married for three years and Rapunzel had been home for two years before she and Eugene were married. So Rapunzel met Anna when the former was 18, and the latter 13.
Just to clarify everything, everyone's ages!
Anna: 18
Elsa: 21
Kristoff: 21
Rapunzel: 23
Eugene: 31 (yeah, big age gap between him and his wife, but it's Disney canon that he's 26 when Tangled takes place)
I hope this all makes sense...
Rapunzel's POV
The sound of her bedroom door opening woke Rapunzel on the morning of her cousin's coronation. Though the princess was used to waking up early, the sun hadn't even risen yet. Still affectionately clinging to her sleeping husband, she kissed him awake and sleepily sat up. On the pillow beside her slept Pascal, whom she gently woke with a gentle rub of her finger(and whom I just realized I forgot to mention in the first chapter! Agh.). Faint rays of sunlight peeked through her curtains, illuminating the painted wooden floor of the room. Rapunzel's sleep-filled eyes rested first on her still-sleeping husband, then on the slight form of the timid servant girl who had woken her.
"Beggin' your pardon for waking you, your highnesses, but today is Princess Elsa's coronation. I've come to help the princess dress for the ceremony," stammered the girl.
Rapunzel remembered where she was and woke herself up fully, tossing the thin summer blankets off of her and climbing out of the tall bed. "Oh, of course! Don't worry, I'm not upset at being woken," she said, glancing back at the grumbling young man still under the covers, "but my husband may be. Don't worry, I'll get him up." The maid curtsied and politely excused herself to prepare a bath for the princess.
"Eugene," Rapunzel coaxed, sitting on the bed next to him and trailing her fingers over his back. He grumbled something into his pillow. "Good, you're awake! Come on, aren't you excited? We're going to spend a whole two weeks here with my cousins!" Still nothing. "You know, I heard Arendelle is famous for its great food, and there's going to be a party after the coronation ceremony." Eugene lifted his head to look at Rapunzel. "What did you say it was famous for?"
Rapunzel laughed, picked up the little chameleon, and rolled off of the bed. She gathered her coronation dress from her trunk and left to get ready, passing a male servant who was coming to prepare her husband for the coronation on her way out.
Anna's POV
A few hours after her cousin was woken, Princess Anna was woken by Kai, her personal butler, calling at her door. The servants knew the princess couldn't be woken before seven o'clock. She simply couldn't. They had found that out the hard way after spending an hour of trying everything they knew of to wake her up at six o'clock that was within their power without showing any disrespect to her. After a few minutes of knocking, he had given up and called to her. She sat up groggily, coughed, snorted, and pulled a stray hair from her mouth before realizing that there was someone at her door.
"Huh? Yeah?"
"Sorry to wake you ma'am, but-"
She gave her usual response that she gave when she was woken up, "No, you didn't, I've been up for hours..."
She still wasn't properly awake, and fell back to sleep still sitting up, but was startled awake again when her head started to fall.
"Who is it?"
"Er.. it's still me, ma'am. Time to get ready."
She had always hated the idea of having other people dress her when she was perfectly capable of doing so herself. It killed time that she otherwise would have spent aimlessly wandering around the castle she had already explored thousands of times.
"Ready for what?"
"Uh, your sister's coronation, ma'am."
The word was too large for her to comprehend so soon after waking up.
"My sister's... cornoration..." Anna was, at this point, awake enough at this point to properly open her eyes. The newly-made coronation dress standing in the corner of her bedroom sparked her memory. "It's coronation day! Ha ha!"
She leapt out of bed and ran to the gown with more alacrity than anyone who knew her could have imagined. She hastily tore her nightgown off and fumbled with the ties of her undergarments. She was only too excited to finally wear the green dress that complimented her hair and complexion so well and that was so fun to spin around in. She had taken dozens of ballroom dancing lessons, though there were never any balls to use what she learned. She waltzed around her room, knocking over some dress forms as she finished tugging at the dress to get it to sit just right on her. Her hair was tamed almost as easily as it was tangled, and she soon had it in a simple braided updo. The coronation wasn't until ten o'clock, and it was still only half an hour after she woke up. That meant that she had two and a half hours to watch the final preparations being made inside the castle, and then to watch the ships come in to port with some latecomers for the coronation. Eager to begin these activities, she darted out of her door as she finished replacing the ribbons that kept falling out of her hair.
She found Rapunzel already dressed at the top of the staircase with Pascal on her shoulder and together the two princesses descended into the Great Hall, and continued on to breakfast. They and Eugene were the only ones there beside the servants who waited on them, so it wasn't a formal banquet and only took about twenty minutes, leaving the girls plenty of time to watch the preparations, and Eugene plenty of time to ask for the recipes for every course of every meal.
"Isn't this so exciting, watching all the decorations come together? There hasn't been a ball or banquet or anything like that in over thirteen years! I'd forgotten how beautiful the Great Hall was with all the windows and shutters open," Anna remarked after the castle had been completed, looking about her with a sense of awe.
"I know! I've been home for five years already and I still get excited for parties. I usually plan the decorations, and it's so fun! Oh, sometime you should come visit and help me!"
"That would be so great! Maybe I could stay in Corona for a while, then, since it's so lonely here all the time with Elsa always up in her room..."
Anna felt she had killed the cheerful mood with this, and quickly changed the subject.
"Oh! You know, I was thinking we could go out into the gardens for a little while! We keep animals there, and I thought you might like to see some of the ducklings we have."
"I do like ducklings..."
The two spent some time walking around in the gardens, feeding ducklings and smelling flowers. After they had spent an hour watching the decoration of the palace, and half an hour in the gardens, they heard the church bells chime nine. At this, Anna gasped with the realization that the gates would be opening for the first time in thirteen years at any second. "Rapunzel! The gates are opening! Come on!" she cried, taking her cousin by the hand and half dragging her back into the Great Hall. They burst through the doors to find the inner gates being slowly and formally opened by some of the oldest and most loyal servants.
Anna practically flew across the courtyard and through the gates, and found herself on a cobblestone path leading to the market and the docks. Turning around, she saw Rapunzel beaming at her from the castle doors. "I think I'm going to let you enjoy your kingdom for yourself. I already got to see it," she called. Anna thanked her, waved, and ran to greet her guests.
So there's that. It doesn't move the plot much, but it's considerably longer than the last one and the next chapter will cover Anna meeting Hans as well as pretty much the whole party. Yay! Please review and follow/favorite if you haven't yet!
