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Every Story Has a Beginning... and This is Ours...

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New Dream Week - Day 2: AU

Flynn Rider is a Witch Hunter. To some he's considered a hero... to others, a villain. When he looks in the mirror, he sees a hero, so it really doesn't bother him that much that he kills witches for money... if he prefers not to think of it that way, then it's his own business.
It's said that there is a vast forest that has been cursed by an evil witch named Gothel, and it's been said that there is no man brave enough to enter that forest... if you asked Flynn, he'd tell you that bravery wasn't what you needed to walk in there... just the right amount of crazy... and a high enough pay check.
So Flynn Rider finds himself in a cursed forest hunting down a witch that even the wickedest witch of the west thinks is evil... that's pretty crazy, but the pay could set him up for life... maybe get him a tropical island somewhere...
He expected monsters, spells, and even green skinned, warty old ladies... the last thing he expected was to see a pretty young woman sitting by the river, with golden hair that carried on for 70 feet... it was a pleasant surprise, at least.
Turned out this pretty young thing's name was Rapunzel, and she was kidnapped as a child by Gothel, who placed a curse on her so that she would never be able to leave the forest so long as Gothel lived. She was pretty quiet about the why, but Flynn reckoned it was safe to say she didn't know the why. Just more incentive to get the job done, he supposed. Turns out Blondie was the adventurous type, and she was more than eager to follow him around with her long, really long hair.
Flynn and Rapunzel walk through the forest, while fighting and running from Gothel's creatures, and while they travel Flynn reveals his job, and Rapunzel states her opinion. She thinks what he does for money is awful, and she doesn't think that being a witch makes you a monster, she believes that being a monster makes you a monster. Flynn shrugs off her opinion and tells her that if she can prove that, he will quit his job as a witch hunter forever... she is silent after that. One night, while the pair is sitting beside a fire, Flynn reveals his darkest secret... his name is not Flynn Rider, it's Eugene Fitzherbert, and he is an orphan. His family was murdered by an evil witch, and he was the only survivor.
They came across a tower, and when they got to the top they found the evil witch herself waiting for them. Gothel knew exactly why Flynn was there, and using her magic, sent a knife into his shoulder. As he lay on the floor, bleeding and in pain, with Rapunzel hunched over him, holding his head in her lap and crying out to him to stay with her, Gothel stood from her chair and approached the pair. Flynn listened to her talk to Rapunzel, who it turned out was a witch herself, the daughter of the Witch Queen, no less. It is revealed that Rapunzel was kidnapped for a reason, her hair is believed to be the source of her magic, a magic that Gothel wants, and Rapunzel is the only witch capable of the power to heal any and all wounds, but if she should cut Rapunzel's hair it will lose it's power. So Gothel has been keeping Rapunzel trapped in her forest, living off of the healing magic Rapunzel possesses. Rapunzel offers to make Gothel immortal if given the chance to heal Flynn, but when she goes to heal him, he cuts off her hair with the bloody knife lying on the ground beside him. Gothel is too old and too reliant on Rapunzel's healing magic, and so all of her years pile back on her and she crumbles to dust. Flynn is still dying, and Rapunzel is distraught. She reveals that she is in love with Flynn, and he is about to reply to her confession when he lets out his last breathe. Rapunzel, near hysterical, pleads with him to wake up, and then kisses him gently while she cries. Her emotions awaken her magic, and she manages to heal his wound.
The pair rejoice and the curse on the forest and on Rapunzel was lifted when Gothel died. Flynn returns Rapunzel to her mother, the Witch Queen, and leaves to go collect the payment from his job.
Flynn returns a few months later to see Rapunzel, and he reveals that he has quit his job as a witch hunter, after she proved to him that being a witch does not in fact make you a monster. Rapunzel introduces Flynn to her mother, not as Flynn Rider but as Eugene Fitzherbert, who offers him a job as a Guard for her kingdom.
A year later, Eugene and Rapunzel are married and they reveal the story of how they met.
"Every story has a beginning, and this is ours..."


Image is from Disney's animated film Tangled.
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