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~ Rapunzel Goes Home (extended edition)
~ Chapter 003
~ Leaving
@ Eugene explains why he left and why he cut Rapunzel's hair.
Author's Note: I'm not skipping over the climax of the movie, but we've all seen that, details will come out, but they will come later.


Rapunzel was kissing Eugene on the floor of the tower. He was alive again!
Rapunzel had wanted to kiss Eugene so often and now she finally had.
It was the most wonderful kiss in the whole world.

Her heart felt like, like…

Rapunzel broke free and started hitting Eugene repeatedly with her small fists. "You left and you ripped my heart in half and left it on the beach! You died and you ripped my heart out of my chest! I had nothing left to live for! You keep leaving me! Why do you do that!? Stop doing that!" Tears fly from her face as she continued hitting Eugene.

The look on Rapunzel's face hurt him so much. Catching her wrists, the shackle clanking, Eugene said, "Please, Rapunzel, I didn't want to leave you either time, I was trying to save you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"And you cut off my hair, I couldn't save you, you died, and you took my heart with you," she cried.

"I know, I'm sorry, but your mother was killing everyone who knew about you and your hair. I was sure you were next. I couldn't let you keep that promise. I couldn't save you myself anymore, but you are so amazing, I had to give you a chance to live free, it was all I could do to help you. To keep you alive." He brought her hands to his lips and kissed them.

"Mother wouldn't have killed me, she needed me, well, my hair, to stay young and alive."

"Young?"

"Yes, she ages very quickly, and if I sing my special song she is young and beautiful again."

"Okay," says Eugene, not sure what that means, it healed his hand, but it was obviously important. "Wait, where is she?"

Rapunzel looked sad and then out the window. "After you cut my hair she started to age very quickly, she kept getting older and older, I never saw her that old before, she was screaming, her hair went all bluey-white, her face and eyes got all sunken, her skin wrinkled and transparent, and then she began to crumble like chalk. Pascal tripped her out the window, and she was screaming, screaming." Rapunzel shivered, her hands over her ears and Eugene caught her up into a hug.

"I didn't want her to die. I couldn't help her without my hair. I was too far, I couldn't catch her. I'm sorry, I'm a bad girl. I'm sorry," she sobbed.

"It's going to be okay," comforts Eugene.

Pascal limped over and touched her.
"Thank you Pascal, you were so brave to try and stop Mother."

"Good job, frog," said Eugene.

"Chameleon," corrected Rapunzel quietly.

"Nuance," smiled Eugene. Rapunzel gave a weak smile back from the comfort of his chest.

Soon Rapunzel sits up. Eugene takes her by the shoulders and looks into her great green eyes and says, "I love you, so much."

The pain he sees in those beloved eyes are like a dozen swords through his chest.

Rapunzel looks away, out the window. "Please don't say that to me right now. Mother told me that all the time and it was just a lie to keep me here."

"Okay, okay," said Eugene his own heart breaking. He never wanted to hurt her or let her be hurt again, she had been through so much. He thought fast to try and have something, some words that could be associated with love. "You are my new dream."

"And you are mine," she whispered back and she laid herself back on his chest.

For a minute there, she had wanted to join Eugene in death. She had understood there were parents out there who loved her and wanted her back, but everyone she had ever known and loved had been dead in front of her. As long as Eugene lived so would she.

end of chapter 003
Eugene explains why he left and why he cut Rapunzel's hair.
Author’s Note: I’m not skipping over the climax of the movie, but we’ve all seen that, details will come out, but they will come later.
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MrsRider's avatar
I had something exactly like this in my mind!
I mean, this part with "you were my new dream".
Btw, I think it's much better than "I love you", after all.