Tangled: Stardust and the 12 Zodiacs (Varian Fanfiction)

Chapter 52: I've Got My Eyes On You

Soul sadly sighed as she eyed the room before her, watching both her animal companions zoom around. It's been two days since they arrived in the village of Fritzburg, and two days since she's been blatantly ignoring her brother. Though, the latter was kind of hard to do as they both shared a room together. She took in a deep breath, blankly staring at the ceiling.

"Hoot! Hoot!" Sir Hoots hooted, catching the girl's attention.

"What is it, Hoots?" Soul asked, cocking her head to the side to look at the owl.

Hoots just tilted his head, and just like that, the two were like in a telepathic conversation as Soul seemed to understand what he was trying to say.

"Look I'm not mad. Maybe sad, but I'm not mad! Really." She replied, sheepishly waving her hands towards the owl. Her reply made both Hoots and Flick narrow their eyes at her. "Honest!"

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"Alright... I give. But can you really blame me for ignoring him? All this time, I thought that not having any memories of my parents was just normal since they died when I was younger. But turns out...it's more than that, and Gold has been keeping something big from me. Something involving our parents. And seeing that the guardians are involved, it's far more bigger than I imagined." Soul sighed, turning to her side. "Uggghh! My life suddenly became more complicated than what I thought it already was." She whined, thrashing around on the bed.

"Oh, it's complicated. More complicated than you know." Flick said to Hoots, who sighed, nodding his head.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed into the pillow she grabbed.

"I take it you're not alright?" Varian asked, leaning on the door frame, smirking at the girl.

"Don't you know it's impolite to not knock, especially when entering the opposite gender's room? What if I was changing?" Soul replied, sitting up as she narrowed her eyes towards the teen.

Varian blushed. "I- At least you're not, right?" He then cleared his throat. "So, how are you holding up?" He asked, sitting next to the girl. "I'm sure all this information is rattling your brain."

Soul nodded, leaning her head on the boy's shoulder. "At first, I didn't mind the secrecy behind our parents and their work and stuff. But knowing that Gold's a guardian and ALL of the other guardians know about what happened before I forgot about half my life is just...overwhelming." She sighed.

"Is this why you've been ignoring him?"

She nodded. "Yeah. I-I just thought it would be better than...possibly arguing with him again, and we had enough of those before."

"You know, I was getting dad vibes from Gold." Varian laughed.

"Dad vibes?"

"Yeah, it's like I saw my dad in him."

"Really? Your dad? Why? How?" Soul asked, looking up at Varian from his shoulder.

"He's like Gold, in a way. You see, dad's been keeping a lot of secrets from me as well. From what happened to my mother to his past. We were never open to each other. I just recently learned that he was in this brotherhood or something from the dark kingdom almost a year ago before we met you." He explained, recalling their fights whenever he would ask his dad about his mother or anything about his past. He also remembered the small fight they had, moments before the amber incident.

"I'm sorry." Soul whispered, catching Varian's attention.

"What for?"

"Looking at your face, although you seem to be joking about seeing a bit of your dad in my brother, I can tell that this is bringing you bad memories." She said, taking his hand, circling her thumb through his gloved hands.