A/N: Clean, simple, short-chaptered and focused on dialogue. Hope you enjoy it~

The Room

Chapter I - Naming

Flynn Rider sighed.

"Hey, blondie."

"Yes?"

"I've told you my name but you've never told me yours."

"Yes, I've noticed it."

"Are you going to tell me?"

"My name?"

"Yes."

"Perhaps. From one to ten how much interested are you about my name?"

"Well, acknowledging that in this damned place I haven't got anything to do besides thinking on how are we getting out of here, I guess a ten. I mean, we're partners now. We've a common goal."

"Partnership doesn't always lead to friendship."

"Well, I know that. But in partnership there must be trust."

The girl looked at Flynn, bemused. "You don't really believe that. Flynn Rider, the man who has stolen the queen's own diamond slippers actually says that trust is important in partnership? How many men corpses have you walked by to actually steal the slippers?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Who do you think I am, blondie? I'm a thief and no murderer."

"Nonetheless, you are ruthless, for all people who break the law are ruthless and careless about other people's property."

"And by property you include one's life?"

"By property I include everything that belongs to that person, including life, yes. And a lifeless person isn't necessarily someone who is dead."

"Well, I've always believed that life is just the air that comes in and out of your lungs."

"But it's not. There are people that are alive and are lifeless."

"Like...?"

"Disrespected people. People that were stolen or tortured. They don't feel that their life is their property anymore."

"Oh, blondie, now you make me feel the devil itself with your philosophies. I am no murderer and I don't 'take people's lives away.' Do you really think the queen needed those diamond slippers? Do you really think that Captain Bitten's poor soul needed his lost pearls? Can't you see, blondie? I'm the conscience that steals away people's temptation."

"And you turn people's temptation's into your own."

"I don't. Because robbing is not an endless cycle. Somehow I'll feel satisfied about my possessions and stop stealing."

The girl laughed "You're bluffing again, Flynn Rider. And you still want me to tell you my name?"

"I do."

"It's Rapunzel."

"It's Raa-"

"-punzel. Ra-punzel."

"Now you are bluffing, blondie. I've never heard about such a name before."

"Well then I guess I should let you believe I'm bluffing. I don't think Flynn Rider is your real name either."

"And why do you think that?"

"Because I've read a book called 'The Adventures of Flynnigan Rider'."

Flynn stood silent for a moment. "Flynn is a very common first name and Rider is also a very common last name. Just because my full name resembles the name of a hero doesn't mean it's fake."

"I know. But it is fake."

"Well, and 'why do you think that'?"

"Because you're blushing terribly, and from the sight I can plainly tell you're a terrible liar."