004 — CONFESSIONS

     It was nightfall now and Rapunzel and Flynn were both sat together around a fire to keep themselves warm as they were going to have to camp in the woods that night.

Rapunzel gently took Flynn's hand and began to wrap her ever growing hair around it whilst he looked at her inquisitively.

"So you're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured hand." He broke the silence that clouded around them as he continued to watch her before groaning as she pulled a bit too tight.

Rapunzel cringed not meaning to hurt him. "Sorry...just don't... don't freak out." She asked of him nervous about how he was going to react, as by now she's realized he's only human even if he does know about certain supernatural things.

Flynn's eyes flickered quickly between his hand and Rapunzel knowing whatever she's about to do he's gone past the freaking out point he's accepted the fact he's now probably losing his mind.

Rapunzel sighed as she closes her eyes and focuses on his hand.

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

As her hair starts to glow from root to tip lighting up the darkness around them. Flynn looks stunned as he'a transfixed by the sight even though it was now the second time that he's seen this, it was hard to get over. He watched as the light continued on down her hair his eyes widening as he tried to act normal and not freak out. He quickly snatched his other hand away from her hair that was laid next to him as that began to glow continuing to the hair that was covering his hand.

Flynn felt a strange sensation tingle through his left palm as he looked down at her glowing hair.

"Heal what has been hurt.
Change the Fates design,
Save what has been lost,
Being back what once was mine,
What once was mine..."

Once she finished her hair stopped glowing and went back to its natural blonde. Rapunzel looked up shyly at Flynn, scared for his reaction as she's never been able to show another person her gift and from what her Mother told her she doesn't expect anyone to act positively. But she felt comfortable with Flynn and he was vulnerable with her and the least she could do was heal his hand.

Flynn locked eyes with Rapunzel as he still stared at her in shock never having experienced anything like it. He carefully unwrapped her hair from his hand and saw that his wound had been fully healed.

He whimpered in shock also slightly terrified at what just happened because it should never be that easy. He started breathing heavily as he gaped at his hand clearly still in shock.

Rapunzel saw him starting to freak out as she could sense his scream building but stopped him before he could. "Please don't freak out!" She pleaded not wanting a bad reaction from him, she wouldn't be able to handle it.

He tried containing his scream as it came out sounding strangled. "I'm not freaking out. Are you freaking out?" He asked trying to play it off as if he wasn't freaking out when he definitely wanted to, but he didn't want to scare her. He shook his head resting it on his now healed hand. "I'm just interested in your hair and the magical qualities it possesses." He rambles as he continued to look at the hand and then change the angle and look at it again before shoving both us hands under his arms as if that will change what happened.

"How long has it been doing that exactly?" He asked her curiously trying to make small talk so that it wouldn't turn awkward and he would freak out.

Rapunzel chuckled as she played with her hands. "Uh, forever i guess." She shrugged. "Mother says when I was a baby, people tried to cut it. They wanted to take it for themselves." She moved a hand behind her ear as she took a piece of hair that seemed shorter than the rest.

"But once it's cut, it doesn't grow like the rest and loses its power. I don't truly understand it but my hair seems to have a mind of its own..." She gestured to the mounts of hair that was trailed around them.

"A gift like that, it has to be protected. That why Mother never let me..." she paused as she looked up at Flynn before sighing. "That's why I never left and..."

"You never left that tower." He finishes for her softly as she looks at him. "And you're still going to go back?" He asks not understanding why she would put herself through all of that.

"No!...Yes?" Rapunzel answered confused at own answer, she groaned in frustration as her mind started to have a war within itself. "It's complicated." She glances at Flynn who looks at her in pity and quickly rubs her face and smiles up at him. She didn't want him to pity her, it was her cross to bare not his.

"So.." she quickly changes the subject as it seemed to of turned slightly depressing. "Eugene Fitzherbert, huh?"

"Ah, yeah. Well...I'll spare you the sob story of poor orphan Eugene Fitzherbert. It's a little bit of a downer." He tells her honestly but she's seemed interested to know about who he is as she scooches closer to him.

He chuckled as he begins to explain his life to her, it being only fair and she shared hers with him. "There was this book. A book I used to read every night to all the younger kids. The tales of Flynnagan Rider. Swashbuckling rogue, richest man alive, not bad with the ladies either. Not that he'd ever brag about it, of course." He tries to joke as he remembered getting everyone to call him Flynn instead of Eugene until it stuck. He had grown up in New Orleans homeless and orphaned after his parents were killed and made a name for himself thieving off those who ruled the city, sort of like Robin Hood.

Rapunzel chuckled. "Was he a thief, too?"

Flynn suddenly looked caught out. "Uh...well no." He looked sort of upset knowing that what he did wasn't right but he had to do what he could to survive. "Actually he had enough money to do anything that he wanted to do. He could go anywhere that he wanted to go, and for a kid with nothing, I don't know, I... Just seemed like the better option." He said solemnly before chuckling at his own childishness.

"You can't tell anyone about this, okay? It could ruin my whole reputation."

"Ah. We wouldn't want that." She jokes with him as she gives him a look that stirred something inside him.

He shrugged it off. "A fake reputation is all a man has." He said holding his hand to his heart.

She chuckles at his antics and suddenly they're both staring into each other's eyes, finally having someone else to see them for what they are, other than alone.

Flynn clears his throat nervously, the first of them to shake himself out of it. "Well, I should um... I -I should get some more firewood." He stammered as he gets up.

"Hey." Rapunzel calls out to him as he steps away. He turns around as she continues. "For the record, I like Eugene Fitzherbert much better than Flynn Rider." She admits to him knowing how much of a big deal it was for him to confide in her.

"Well. Then you'd be the first. But thank you." He replied honestly as he fiddled with his now uninjured hand before walking away. Still not over her magical healing hair.

Rapunzel smiled to herself happily before a voice spoke out behind her.

"Well, I thought he'd never leave." Her Mother spoke causing her body to suddenly turn cold.

AUTHOR'S NOTE :

another chapter!!
I'm gonna try and finish this book before the end of the year lol. I have so many plans for this and I will soon be including the Mikaelson's aswell!
I know this chapter is short but it seemed like a good place to leave it for the next one...

On another note I was thinking of changing the cast of Flynn from Jacob Elordi to Charlie Gillespie.

Also I'm thinking of having someone instead of Max (the horse) because I really like the whole Eugene-Max dynamic...maybe Josh? Cause he's one of Marcels vampires what do you guys think? Comment any suggestions

Who do you think would be a better Flynn/Eugene??