#rip eugene

            a shaky breath is exhaled as she draws near , the chain rattling against the floor as he attempts to bring his arm close to her .   ❝  rapunzel . ❞  fingers grip her arm to move her hand away from his wound .    ❝  hey ! ❞   a grunt is followed as he weakly moves his hand to cup her cheek .  a strand of hair is pushed back .   ❝  you were my new dream . ❞  his breath brings a cough out of him as he pulls himself up to press dry lips to hers .

             ❝  i’ll hold on . ❞  the words are whispered against her lips as his breath starts to become more ragged .  fingers lace through her hair ,  he’s fighting a battle of consciousness as the area around him slowly fades in on her .     ❝  h  —  hey ,  i love you . ❞  lips are pressed against hers again and he musters up just enough strength to try and cut her hair with a remaining piece of glass from the broken mirror .  he’s only managed to get a large strand before the woman yanked her away .  his arm attempts to reach out but he drops back against the wall frame .  teeth grit as his body grows extremely tense before falling limp against the frame .

              he can hear the echos of the two woman as she pulls her down the stairs .   Rapunzel .   there’s a rush of cold that trails over his body and it takes him a moment to sit up .  brows furrow as he’s trying to figure out if it was all just a dream or not .  hands reach for his wound but is greeted with seeing his upper body against the floor and he jumps back .  eyes search over the body and then himself before the realization flushes through him .  there’s silence all around him as he searches the room to see it bright as hell outside ,  but it wasn’t when he came to help her .  he’s not sure how long it has been but he starts to hear voices in the background before seeing the uniforms of the corona guards coming through the trap door .  he takes a step back from his body as he watches them motion towards it and hold a conversation over him to find out what to do with what’s before them .  

              he works to make his way down the stairs and being greeted by Max rearing back and he puts his hands up carefully to calm him down .    ❝  Max woah !  it’s me ! ❞  he manages to calm him and tries to explain the situation to him in best efforts .  he’s able to get out of him what way they went and tries to track her down .  there are breaks taken when he starts to feel as if it’s happening to him again .  he can’t feel himself breathing or feel his pulse .  he slouches against a tree as he continues to process what has happened .  the colors are dull around him as his hands lace through his hair and head brought to his knees .

               there’s a sliver of light that peeks through his hair to his face and he pulls his hand away to see the slight scar on his hand glowing .  eyes survey it a moment before he stands and takes a few steps to see if brighten and he follows it .  it brings him to a tower of what looks like the ruins of an older castle but there are black rocks that enclose the space below .  he can see a small light through the window cracks .  his figure floats through the wall to find a lower living quarters that he can only think to be that witches .  he manages to find a door that’s chained above and moves through to wall into the room .

              it’s not as colorful as her last room ,  and his eyes search the room before finding her all frame entangled in hair on the floor between the wall and her bed .  ❝  Rapunzel . ❞  his frame moves quickly towards her , as his fingers attempt to lace through her hair but it simply fades through . his shoulders slump as he falls back against the wall and sinks against the ground in front of her .   ❝  i’m sorry . ❞

            'don't you have to be MORONIC somewhere else?' cassandra remarked, not even looking up from her sewing project before her as she threaded her needle through the hem of the dress, EMBROIDERING a swirly, sunny pattern along the edge. there was something about eugene just made his annoying presence known without saying a single STUPID word.

            'rapunzel isn't here, if that's who you're LOOKING for.'

"You think I do not know that? I wouldn’t have pinned you here if I didn’t have a good reason," the fuchsia snickered, his slender fingers running over the boy’s shoulders.