#also wait i just noticed the kiss mark i wonder who gave that HUH (criminal side eyes you)

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sniff sniff sniff ueueueu the things we do to make them the happiest brothers alive

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So for tangled captain canary, could you do the boat scene with the lanterns and also maybe the final scene where be tries to save her and he cuts her hair and she saves him????

Presenting…the Tangled AU final installment!

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               Thingshad been looking bleak for Leonard when he woke up to find the palace guardsurrounding him as he held the lost princess’s crown. They’d arrested himimmediately and thrown him into the prisons. He’d waited there, trying not toworry about Sara and where she was, until the head guard opened his cell. Ithadn’t taken much to figure out that he was going to be executed for hisprevious thefts, and catching sight of the noose through one window backed thatup. What he hadn’t counted on was the patrons of Saints and Sinners holding aprison break to get him out. Once Shawna got him over the walls, Leonard was met by Mick,who was holding Ray’s reins.

“What are you doing here?” he asked, staring at his friendand the horse that had once been homicidal toward him. “And how’d you know Iwas even in here?”

“Your horse-”

“He’s not my horse,” Leonard interrupted.

Mick snorted. “Whatever. He came into the pub with yourwanted poster. It took a while before we figured out what he meant, but weall followed after him to get here. When we heard from an actual person thatyou had been arrested, we decided to band together and get you out.”

Leonard looked over at Ray. “You brought them here?”

Ray neighed.

“Thank you,” Leonard smiled a little. “So what do you say toa rescue mission?”

Mick raised his eyebrows as Ray whinnied. “You a hero now orsomething?”

“Just trying to prevent someone from being taken advantageof,” Leonard answered as he climbed up into the saddle. He had gottenconfirmation from Mark and Clyde, both of whom had also been arrested, thatSara’s “father” had set them up to kidnap her. Sara had no idea that she wasactually the lost princess, and the man who she had grown up calling Father hadbeen her abductor. She had to know the truth.

“It’s Blondie, isn’tit?” Mick smirked. “You seemed to have a thing for her when you two came intoSaints and Sinners.”

The sounds of approaching guards started to reach theirears. Ray neighed and glared at him.

“Right, you better get going,” Mick told Leonard. “Goodluck, Cold.”

“Thanks.”

Ray took off before Leonard was ready. He grabbed the reinsquickly as the horse galloped through the streets and away from the kingdom.

“I’m on my way, Sara,”he thought to himself as he and Ray entered the forest.

“You lied to me!” Sara yelled at the man who had claimed tobe her father. “You took me away from my family!”

“It was to protect you,” Vandal Savage protested as Sarapushed him out of her way. “They would have only taken advantage of your hair.”

“Like you have?” the lost princess spat. “You warned me thatpeople would want to steal me away for my hair, but you’d already done that!”

Sara grabbed her staff and prepared to make her way towardthe window, but Savage blocked her path.

“Where do you think you’re going?” he growled. “Back to yourcrook? He won’t be there.”

She narrowed her eyes. “You did something to him, didn’tyou?”

“Nothing that thief didn’t deserve. To the palace guards,he’s just another criminal who’s going to be hung for his crimes.”

Sara shook her head. “You didn’t.”

“It would have happened eventually,” Savage shrugged, hishand moving to rest on her hair. “But you don’t have to worry about him.Everything is back to the way it should be.”

Her hand snapped up to catch his wrist before he could touchher hair. Savage looked stunned. Sara glared at him.

“You can lock me up for the rest of my life,” she hissed. “Youcan hurt me, torture me, chain me down, but you will never ever touch my hairagain!”

She released his wrist and shoved him back against a mirror.Sara turned back towards the window, hearing the sound of the mirror shatteringbehind her. Before she could get over the windowsill, she was stopped as adagger pressed against her throat.

“So you want me to be the villain?” Savage’s voice whisperedmenacingly. “Then I’ll be the villain.”

Ray ran through the ivy and brought them into the canyonwhere the tower was. The clouds were moving to cover the sun, casting a darkshadow over everything. Ray stopped just in front of the tower, and Leonarddismounted.

“Sara!” he shouted out, looking around for something toclimb the tower with.

Just as he managed to find thearrows he’d used to get up to the tower the first time he was there, longblonde hair suddenly descended down in front of him. Leonard took hold of it,using it like a rope to climb up the side of the tower. It was definitelyquicker instead of having to use the arrows. When he made it to the top,Leonard climbed over the windowsill.

“Sara, I-”

He trailed off when he saw Sara on the floor, chained up. Agag was over her mouth, and she was struggling against her shackles, trying tosay something.

Before he could figure out what was going on, a dagger wasdriven into his chest.

Sara screamed behind her gag as she watched Vandal Savagestab Leonard. He let the crook drop to the floor before turning back to Sara.

“One less problem for the world,” Savage sneered beforenoticing Sara’s horrified expression. “Don’t look at me like that. If youhadn’t told him about your hair, then maybe he would still be alive.”

               Heapproached Sara and pushed the rug on the floor aside. A trapdoor was exposedin the stone underneath, and Savage opened it. Grabbing her chains, he starteddragging her toward the opening, going on about how he would take her somewherethat no one would ever be able to find her. Sara felt sick as he went on aboutit, and shook her head to get the gag across her mouth loose.

“Stop fighting!” Savage ordered as she pulled back againstthe chains. “It’s useless and immature, Sara!”

“Maybe to you,” Sara shot back, the gag hanging around herneck. “But I won’t stop fighting this. I will fight you until my last breath ifI have to, and I will never stop trying to escape now. But if you want me to gopeacefully with you, then let me heal him,”

“No,” Leonard coughed from over by the window. “Don’t.”

“If you want things to be the way you want them, then let mesave him and they will be,” Sara pleaded as Savage looked back at her. “Oncehe’s saved, then I’ll go with you, and I will never try to leave.”

A nasty smile crossed his face as he released her from hershackles. Once her hands and feet were free, Sara ran over to where he was nowleaning against a pillar. He looked pale, his hand pressed against his side.

“Leonard,” she whispered, moving his hand aside to get alook at the injury. When she saw the damage Savage’s dagger had done, Sarasucked in a sharp breath.

“Pretty bad, huh?” the crook chuckled weakly.

“Not for long,” Sara smiled, grabbing her hair to place onhis wound. “You won’t even know you were hurt in a minute.”

“No,” Leonard grasped her wrist. “I can’t let you do that.”

Sara shook her head. “If I don’t do this, you’ll die.”

“So will you if you do this,” he replied. “Sara-”

“Don’t talk,” she said, preparing to sing the incantation. “Flower-”

“Wait,” Leonard stopped her, leaning forward. “One thingfirst.”

He was so close to her, closeenough to kiss. Before anything else could happen, she heard the sound ofsomething being sliced. Leonard fell back against the pillar, a shard of thebroken mirror falling from his hand. She felt like a weight had been taken offof her, and looked down to see her hair falling forward just above her elbows.It was still blonde, but not the intense pure golden it had been. Looking behindher, she saw the rest of her hair going from golden to the current shade ofblonde it now was. Savage was staring at it in horror.

“No!” he roared, running forward to grab it while it wasstill golden. “What did you do?!”

His hair was turning gray as hesaid this. Sara watched his hands start to shrivel with old age. Savage grabbedthe dagger, looking like he was about to use it on both her and Leonard. Beforehe could, a screeching cry came from above as Kendra soared down at his face,talons out. He batted against the hawk, but there was no stopped her as sheclawed his eyes out. The rapidly aging man stumbled backward closer towards thewindow, eyes over his face as he howled in pain.

Jumping to her feet, Sara grabbedher staff and ran at him. She swung, connecting with his chest. The blow senthim tumbling backwards over the windowsill and out of the tower. Sara watchedas he fell down towards the ground. She saw his hair turn to white, and then atrail of dust fly from the cloak before it landed on the grass at the bottom ofthe tower by Ray, who backed away from it.

She heard Leonard wheeze for air, and remembered he stillneeded her help. Coming away from the window, she knelt on the ground besidehim.

“Leonard,” she murmured. “No, no, you stay with me.”

He coughed, blinking slowly.

“No!” Sara took his hand, placing it on her head. “Flowergleam and glow, let your power shine, make the clock reverse, bring back whatonce was-”

“Sara, stop.”

Sara stopped singing and looked down at him. She had only knownhim for a few days, but she had fallen for him. Now he was dying, and she feltso powerless to save him now.

“When we were in the boats, I started to wonder what thefuture would hold for me, and you,” he rasped, smiling. “And…me and you.”

Sara smiled back at him before he closed his eyes.

“Leonard?” she asked, her smile fading as she gave him alittle shake. “Leonard, wake up”

He didn’t respond. Sara covered hermouth to contain a sob as tears welled up in her eyes. She had caused him todie. The deal she had struck with him had led to this. If she had only let himgo, then none of this would have ever happened. Yes, getting to see the worldhad been fantastic, but Leonard had died as a result of all it. Sara closed hereyes, leaning down so her forehead touched his. Kendra landed on the floorbeside her, watching them closely.

“Heal what has beenhurt,” Sara sang softly as another tear welled up in her eye. “Change the fate’s design. Save what has beenlost. Bring back what once was mine…what once was mine.”

The tear fell onto Leonard’s cheek. Sara didn’t notice as itwas absorbed into his skin, and light flared underneath his skin in the patternof the sun.

               It waswhen the wound that had killed him started to glow that Sara looked up.Tendrils of golden light begin to grow from it and fill the room with a warmlight. A flower with six petals grew in the light that was coming from hiswound. It disappeared as the light dissipated from the room. The clouds startedto move away, allowing the sun to shine back into the tower. Sara looked towhere the wound had been, and found it was now gone.

She heard a small gasp, and looked to see Leonard openinghis eyes.

“Sara?” he asked.

A smile spread across her face. “Leonard.”

“Guess there’s still some magic in you beyond your hair,” hesmirked, sitting up.

Sara laughed, brushing her hair over her shoulder. It felt strangeto have her fingers fall into empty air with the new length it was at.“Maybe.”

Leonard looked at her. “Remember that crown I had when Ifirst came here?”

“All too well.”

“I might want to give it back to you,” he told her. “Itbelongs to the lost princess-”

“Who is me,” Sara finished. “I figured it out. It’s whySavage chained me up. I wanted to leave to go back to my real family.”

“Care for some company?”

“I’d love it.”

A few days later, Sara and Leonardhad arrived back at the kingdom. They had come to the palace, and told the headguard there everything. They were lead to wait in a throne room for the royalfamily to arrive. It didn’t take long before the doors opened, and a youngwoman Sara found out was her older sister entered and embraced her. Her birthparents weren’t far behind, and they too hugged her. They were a mess ofhugging and crying, the family finally reunited after so long. Even Leonard gotpulled into it at one point.

The whole kingdom celebrated thereturn of Princess Sara, and those who had helped bring her back to thekingdom. Leonard was pardoned of his crimes, although the king warned him neverto hurt his returned daughter unless he wanted a price back on his head. But asmuch as Sara enjoyed being with her family, she was also restless to see therest of the world. When she told her parents this, they arranged for her tojoin an ambassador to another kingdom so she could travel.

               Shewouldn’t be alone though. Leonard would be joining her, and Kendra was theretoo. Leonard’s friend from Saints and Sinners, Mick, was coming on the shiptoo. There was a chatty man named Barry who was going back to his own kingdomon the vessel, and her sister Laurel was there to assist the ambassador andestablish herself with the leaders of their destination. Sara was surrounded byfriends and family, and she felt safe around all of them.

As the ship left the docks, she stood at the front withLeonard, staring out at the horizon as they embarked on their new adventure.

“This is the story of how I died.”“Leonard!”“What? It’s true.”“That’s a terrible way to start a bedtime story.”“Daddy died?”“Kind of. Your mother saved me. But it all begins with the sun…”

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