Hello there! EugeneLoverRapunzel here! So, I've been reading several stories here on FanFiction, and I'm pleased to tell you that I am finally putting my first chapter of my first story up. :) Huzzah! This is gonna be a multi-chaptered story, and I'll probably update once or twice a week unless I say otherwise. So without further ado, here is the prologue to my first Tangled novel, Life Ever After.

Disclaimer: I don't own Tangled. Disney does. Otherwise I would make a sequel without any further thought. :)

Prologue

He was gone. Her new dream. Gone. Just like that. And there was absolutely nothing she could do. Nothing. Nothing.

So she did the only thing she could think to do. She sang. Sang for Eugene. For Pascal. For Gothel. For everything she felt. Sorrow, betrayal, pity. Everything. And yet nothing all the same.

"Bring back what once was mine. What once was mine." She finally allowed the tears to fall from her eyes, thick and fast, sobs violently wracking her body. A single tear dropped from her eye to the cold cheek of her beloved.

Her life had changed drastically in the past three days. She had gone from being a young, naïve girl to a young lady, perhaps still quite a bit naïve, but out in the world. She had experienced so many new feelings. The cool grass between her toes. The pressure of oxygen trying to escape and enter her lungs at the same time while floating under water. Love. The latter of these being the greatest. She had finally seen the light last night, sitting in the boat with… him. She could still see the light. Shining brightly, right in front of her.

Wait. There was a light shining in front of her. She opened her reddened eyes, her gaze drifting to the dreadful wound on Eugene's abdomen. The dreadful wound… that was now glowing with an intense beam of light. She blinked once in disbelief as the beam of light divided and increased in intensity. Suddenly, the room was bathed in a golden glow. Lines of golden light twisted and weaved around her as she continued to stare in disbelief.

In all her years of healing, this had never happened before. She watched as the faint outline of a flower, her flower, appeared over the wound in Eugene's side, leaving as quickly as it had appeared. She continued to watch curiously as the light began to fade. She carefully touched the vest where, only moments before, a life-ending wound had been. She quickly looked to back to search Eugene's face as she tucked a strand of her new, chestnut brown hair behind her ear.

Slowly, his eyelids fluttered open and he exhaled shortly. In a weak and quiet voice, he asked, "Rapunzel?"

She gasped. "Eugene?" she asked tentatively.

He raised his eyebrows as he gazed up at her teary eyes. "Did I ever tell you I've got a thing for brunettes?" He managed a weak smile.

Rapunzel gave a short laugh. "Eugene!" she cried as she flung her arms around his neck and fell into his arms, laughing, crying, and thanking her lucky stars all at once.

Eugene wrapped an arm around her as she shook in his grip. He tightened his hold on her and buried his face in the crook of her neck.

She pulled away from him, her eyes searching his as she laughed again, and then did something that Eugene never thought, in all of his years, that he would see. She grabbed his vest in her fists and pulled him to her, her lips crashing down on his.

Eugene looked at her in slight shock before her lifted his hand from the small of her back to the back of her head, his fingers entangling themselves as he deepened the kiss.

As they pulled apart, he could still see tears glittering in her eyes. He reached a hand to her face and gently wiped them away. "I'm here. I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere," he told her.

"I know. I know!" she repeated as she hung her arms around him again.

"I love you," Eugene said as he held her tiny form against him.

"And I love you." She closed her eyes and nuzzled into his neck as she prepared for the next step in her new life. Her new dream.

So, what'd you think? Let me know by clicking that lovely little button down there that says "Review." The next chapter will be up sometime during this week… hopefully.

EugeneLoverRapunzel