A Fiolee Fairytale

Chapter 3: Rapunzel

*Author's Note*

Thank you all for your support in the last chapter!! You guys are awesome! I would have dedicated to each and every one of you personally if I could, but I can't... and FioleeFann commented first, so she gets the dedication for this one. Sorry to everyone else. Okay now- back to the part you guys actually care about.

*Fionna's POV*
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Again, no Disney 'adaptations'. This is just straight-up, original stories by the brothers Grimm. So, once again, I was treated to a flashback, this time of my parents trading me for cabbages. What...? Okay, maybe living with the Ice Queen was better. Even though she locked me in the tower, and came up by yanking on my hair. And though my hair was pretty long, it was magically extended through plot devices that were never, ever, ever explained.

Then one day, I heard a completely different voice. But he said the passwords 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair'. Honestly, that has to be the worst password ever. When he came up, I was still remembering the Cinderella adventure and was slightly scared of him.
He examined my hair, then shot me a look. "Your hair seems to have gotten a lot longer since I last saw you, Fi."
"Marshall Lee Abadeer-! What are you even doing here?! When did you get in here?! Why did you scare me so much in the Cinderella story?!"

"I stepped in the stupid puddle when I went looking for you, I came in right as some pigeons came and told me this penguin-lady I had on the back of my horse was not the true bride and to turn back to wherever I was before, and I didn't, to the best of my knowledge. What happened?"
"You stalked me! And you were extremely possessive!" I replied.

He blinked. "I love how Disney never mentioned that part."
"Or the magic tree."
"Magic tree...?" He asked.
I shrugged. "No idea. Why did you come up here in the first place?"

He froze, and blushed."I-um... nothing."
"Okay..." I said, though I didn't believe him. He kept coming back every day, and... I don't know what happened. I really, really don't. One day, we were just friends... ish... and the next day, I had a crush on him. Okay, it happened gradually, not just boom, instant love, but... yeah.

"What's up, Fi?" He asked.
"I-I-I... nothing."
"Oh, come on. You can tell me."
"It's nothing, Marshall!" I sighed. "Just... I don't want to talk about it."
"Are you mad at me?"

"No, I'm not...I just... I want to go home, and I hate it up here."
He frowned. "Why? You have everything you could ever want up here."
"I don't have Cake, or Gumball, and the only people I ever see are you and the Ice Queen. Please, Marshall. I want to go home." I begged, even though I knew he had nothing to do with it.
"What's wrong with only me and the Ice Queen?" He asked quietly.

"She's evil, and while I don't mind hanging out with you at all, I need other people."
"No, you don't. You need him. You said it yourself." He said darkly.
"Who- Gumball?" I asked, stunned.
"Yes, Gumball, unless there's something you're not telling me!" Marshall growled.

I frowned. "He's just a friend- you know that."
Marshall laughed. "Not by your own choice. And he won't always be. He's been eyeing you up recently."
This didn't make my heart pound like it would have before this whole thing started. "So?"
He laughed, but there wasn't any humor in it. "So, I won't play second best to him, Fi! And don't ask me about it. Don't. Just... you won't understand, you'll never understand!" He yelled.

"Especially since you won't tell me anything about it!" I shot back.
He was right next to me in a second, his red eyes glaring down into my blue ones. Then his lips crashed down on mine, and he was hugging me to him, while my fingers somehow tangled themselves in his hair. It was even better than the kiss that woke me up from Snow White. Then he pulled back, and said softly, "You'll never understand how I feel about you, because you don't feel the same way."

With that, he was gone. I had left my hair hanging out the window, so I didn't hear Ice Queen come up. "Rapunzel, why did you leave your hair out the window?!" She snapped. "Someone could have come up! You could have been kidnapped! You could have been killed!"
I looked up at her slowly. "I broke his heart by having a crush on Gumball. And I really do love Marshall back, and he thinks I don't... it's all so messed up."

"Rapunzel?! Who is he?! What did he do to you?" The Ice Queen asked me, concerned.
"He's the man I love. And he just left me here, without letting me explain, and now he thinks I hate him, and I hurt him without meaning to, and.." I trailed off, crying.
"Don't worry Rapunzel... I'll send you far away, to where he can't hurt you anymore." Ice Queen said, hugging me.
"No, no, please don't, I have to stay, I have to tell him I love him, please, please!" I begged (mostly incoherently).

"You're too young for romance, and he'll only break your heart in the end! This is for your own good!" Ice Queen said, before zapping me into the next story. Hey, why does she always send me to another story before the end? In the original Snow White, the evil queen was invited to the wedding, and then red hot shoes were put on her feet, and she was forced to dance until she was dead. In the original Cinderella, pigeons pecked out her sisters' eyes.

In the original Rapunzel story, the witch cut off all of Rapunzel's hair before banishing her to the wilderness (it's not explained very well) and then, when the prince climbs up (because he and Rapunzel did not fight about her being in love with another guy) he finds the witch instead, and falls to the ground. Miraculously, he survives, but becomes blind.

Apparently his eyes broke his fall. I'm willing to accept it- it's not the weirdest thing that's happened in these stories. Anyway, he somehow finds Rapunzel and their twins that she gave birth to in the forest, and her magic tears heal his eyes. This is never explained either. At least they explained things better in the next story...