( The next day )

Bean was currently crying his eyes out in Rapunzel's room. Rapunzel was trying her best to calm the four year old down while Eugene and Pascal were trying to plug their ears.

Rapunzel: ( to Bean, trying to calm him down: ) Shush... Shush... It's okay-

Bean: ( cries louder ) SISSY! I WANT SERY BACK!!!

Eugene: ( to Bean: ) Look, kid, I'm sorry, but the King made it clear that your sister has to pay for what she stole, now if you please-

Bean just cries louder, and this time...large black vines with glowing green thorns sprouted from the ground and begin spreading out as the boy continued to cry, as he wanted his sister back. Rapunzel, Pascal, and Eugene backed away from the vines in shock, as the vines began reaching towards them as they spreaded throughout the castle.

Varian watched in shock as the vines spread throughout the castle as he stood outside the entrance to the dungeons with the girl's guitar, he was going to check on the girl. He then turned his focus back on the dungeons as he heard the pleading cries of the masked girl coming from inside.

Misery: ( yells, pleading: ) Please! My brother needs me, neither you or he can control what will happen if I'm not there to keep him calm! Please!!

Varian took a deep breath before he ran into the dungeons and followed the sounds of the girl's yelling to find her cell. His heart sank when he saw the desperate look on the girl's face as she was holding onto the bars of the cell door.

Misery: Who are you? ( Sees the vines spreading into the dungeons ) Bean! ( To Varian: ) Please, you gotta let me out of here, my brother, he-

Varian: Needs you, I know. He kinda made that clear, with all the vines and stuff. Just hold on, I'll-

Misery: ( sees her guitar ) My guitar! Quickly, inside a hidden pocket on the strap is what looks like a thing of lipstick.

Varian raised his brow, but he looked at the strap of the guitar, saw a small hidden pocket on it, and pulled out the thing of lipstick Misery was talking about.

Misery: Okay, goggles, hand it to me unless you want to get stung by the vines' highly poisonous thorns.

Varian: ( to Misery, with a smile as he hands her the thing of " lipstick ": ) The name's Varian, mi'lady. I'm the royal engineer of Corona. And you are...?

Misery opened the thing of " lipstick " to reveal that it was actually a lockpick, and began picking the lock.

Misery: ( to Varian, as she picks the lock: ) Misery. Don't bother trying to get my real name, because it's dead.

Misery then smiled as she opened the cell door. She then gave a distrustful glare at Varian as she grabs her guitar and pins him against the wall with her guitar pointed at his throat.

Misery: ( to Varian, sternly: ) Give me one good reason why not to beat the living daylights out of you for leading the guards to my camp and causing me and my little brother to be separated, aka causing this whole mess.

Varian: Uh, uh, because if you do that, I can't help you find your brother and you won't have anyone to help talk to the king about letting you and your brother stay together and out of the dungeons.

Misery lets out a groan, as she knows deep down that the alchemist in front of her was right, and she lowers her guitar and puts it on her back with the strap across her chest.

Misery: You have five seconds to start moving, alchemist before I change my mind. Now, move!

Misery and Varian quickly ran out of the dungeons, and they followed the vines to Rapunzel's room, Misery saved Varian a few times from getting stung by the vines' highly poisonous thorns. When they got there, the king and queen, Eugene, Rapunzel, Stan, and Pete were backed up against the wall as they were trying to avoid from getting stung by the thorns.

King Frederic: ( sees the two teenagers ) Varian, what is she-

Varian: Your highness, listen, please, this only happened because we separated, uh...

Misery: Bean.

Eugene: Bean? Seriously?-

Misery gave Eugene a death glare in response, and Varian quickly got her to stop by continuing to talk to the king.

Varian: Bean, from his sister. He's upset and has no control of ( gestures to the vines ) this! Misery is the only one that can calm him down and stop the vines, so please, let her stay with her brother.

King Frederic only took a few seconds to think before he nods at the two teenagers.

Misery: Okay, first off. Is there anyone in there with my brother?

Rapunzel: Pascal, my chameleon, he stayed to try to calm him down, I wasn't able to get him before the vines pushed us out and block the exit.

Misery: Alright, he most likely got stung, which means...

Misery took off her guitar and pulled out a small bottle of a strange green and black liquid with flowers inside the liquid and a tag with a flower on it, from the hole of her guitar.

( A/n: What the small potion looks like. )

Varian: Okay, how much stuff do you keep in that guitar, and how does it even function with stuff in it?

Misery: A thief doesn't give away her secrets, plus, now's not the time as the chameleon probably has less than three minutes before he dies from the thorn's vemon, maybe less given his size.

Rapunzel: Dies?!

Eugene: Then hurry-

Misery: Oh, shut it, Rider. Just leave it to the girl that knows how to deal with this. ( To Varian, sternly as she hands him her guitar: ) Hold this, and don't drop it off I'll use rule number three on you.

Varian: Rule number what?-

Misery then quickly squeezed through the vines to get into Rapunzel's room, and that's when she heards her little brother's cries. She then sees the chameleon on the ground, he was having trouble keeping his eyes open and he was sickly and pale.

Misery: ( to Pascal, calmly as she carefully picks him up: ) Easy, buddy, it's okay. Misery is going to get you all feeling better, just stay with me.

Misery then used her teeth to open the bottle's cap and she then carefully poured a single drop into the thorn sting wound, and in the matter of seconds, Pascal slowly began feeling the effects of the poison disappear as his original colors began returning.

Misery: ( to Pascal, with a smile: ) There you go, little buddy, now, let's go calm down Little Bean.

Misery then carefully placed Pascal on her shoulder, picked up the bottle's cap, and closed the bottle. She then began carefully making her way to Bean through the vines and thorns, he was still crying his eyes out with his eyes closed as he stood on the floor with the source of the vines behind him. Misery then walked to him, picked him up, and began slowly calming him down by singing to him.

Misery: ( singing, to Bean: ) Sleep, little one, close your eyes. Your body's cooling with the night... Let your worries slip away, tomorrow is a brand new day.

As she sang and as Bean slowly calmed down and hugged her neck, the vines slowly began wilting, Pascal watched is shock and everyone outside the room watched the vines slowly wilt away and they heard Misery's singing and began walking inside to watch the teenage girl calm her brother down.

Misery: ( continues singing, to Bean: ) Shimmering moon and satin sky, soft wind breathes its lullaby. Your dreams are here to set you free. The dawn will bring you back to me...

Once the vines fully wilted away, the magic within them repaired the room and all the damaged it caused as Bean fell asleep to hearing Misery's song.

Misery: ( finishes singing: ) The dawn will bring you back to me.

Misery then lets out a sigh of relief before turning to the royal family, the three guards, and the royal engineer. Misery then kicked Stan in between the legs when he tried to get close to her and Bean, and he fell to the ground in pain.

Misery: Don't touch him. You'll wake him up. ( Takes a deep breath ) ( to the King, with a serious expression: ) Listen, your highness. I may have stolen from many, many people, but it's not like I had much of a choice. No one is going to just hire a teenager for a job, especially one that doesn't have a place to stay and with a little kid with her. And trusting adults isn't an option, because all the adults I've met were deadbeats, closed minded, judgemental, or bandits that want to use my little brother's powers for their own bad intentions. If my brother didn't need me here to keep him safe from himself, I would have gladly stay in that cell for exchange that my brother is given the best life possible, but as you bloody saw, that's not the case. So...

Misery placed Pascal on the bed, before grabbing her guitar from Varian while holding the sleeping Bean in her arms, she ignored the looks that Rapunzel, Eugene, Pascal, and Varian were giving her as she looked into the king's eyes.

Misery: ( to the King, with a serious expression: ) Me and my brother will leave Corona and never come back. And that's a promise.

King Frederic: Wait-

Misery then suddenly pulled out a small white ball and threw it at the ground, covering the room in a thick white fog. Varian and Rapunzel looked around for Misery and Bean, Rapunzel then caught a glimpse of the strap of Misery's guitar and she quickly tried to grab onto it, but she missed it by a few inches.

Misery ran out of the castle and out of the kingdom with her guitar and Bean in her arms. She then walked back to their campsite to see that everything they took was gone and she saw that their tent had been ripped to shreds, and on it was a note that read " The next time we find you, we'll rip the kid out of your cold dead hands, brat ".

Misery lets out a tired sigh as the word " brat " brought back an old memory in her mind, but she'd forced the memory back into the back of her mind to forget about. She then turned her head when she heard hoofsteps coming towards her to see a white palace horse with a blonde mane, and she saw Pascal on the horse's back.

Misery: What the-

Maximus then quickly but carefully picked Bean up from Misery's arms and placed him on his saddle with Pascal, before he grabbed Misery's sleeve and began dragging her towards Corona.

Misery: Hey! Let go-

Misery then saw that Eugene and Varian were waiting for them at the gate with the royal family.

Misery: ( sarcastically: ) Great, I'm being dragged back to the slammer.

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That's it for this chapter, I hope you like it

Feel free to comment on what you think about Varian's feelings towards Misery and what did for her at the dungeons, and feel free to comment on what you think will happen next.

Till next time my agents of mischief 😜