Jackunzel Drabbles (The Original)

My Muse

“Are you sure you want to do this again?”

The meek voice of his friend was a mix of nervousness and humor, though he was sure that it was more of a personal joke than anything. The fact that he was doing this again was not exactly something that a normal person would do. Only Hiccup didn’t know that back story to his actions, only watching from the side lines was the least informative view point. No one really knew how strained his relationship was with Rapunzel right now. A couple weeks ago they were great. More than great, they were fantastic. Everything was going so well and they had a year of absolute bliss. That was her step mother came to visit the campus.

It was hell warmed over for Rapunzel. Everything she worked so hard at was under scrutiny by that bitch of a woman and she took pleasure in picking it all apart piece by piece. When he first saw her, he didn’t expect her to be so…evil looking. In all honesty she looked like a witch straight out of the house made of candy in the woods. Her hair was pitch black with curly ends, her eyes big and cheek bones high. Her body was thin for her age but she seemed so fake. He was prepared to ask Rapunzel if she had any work done or was it just his imagination. He decided she was on edge enough without him helping.

“God, this campus has gone down-hill since I went here.” Gothel lifted her upper lip in disgust. Rapunzel walked a step behind her, looking down at the ground. Her entire day had started like this. The moment she left her dorm room with her step mother, she not only called Merida a dike to her face but commented about the ‘extra weight’ Rapunzel had gained and how she shouldn’t wear such short dresses.

The blonde had walked back in, much to Merida’s dismay, and changed out of her pretty pink dress and into a pair of jeans and a purple t-shirt. It took everything in the red head not to just lay it out for the evil woman but she knew that despite the issues at hand, Rapunzel tried to get along with her step mother as well as possible. As impossible as that had seemed.

Rapunzel’s father had remarried after her mother’s death and met Gothel, a beauty product sales woman at an upper class shop. While everyone else had known she was a gold digger and pined after the married man for years, he took the companionship where he could and married her after a couple years. She had been Rapunzel’s tormentor, constantly belittling her when her father wasn’t around under the pretenses of motherly love and honesty. She forgot that Rapunzel was sixteen when her mother died so she remembered what a real mother was like but too nice to call the hag on her antics.

“So where are we going, dear?” the woman asked, dressed in her most expensive white pant suit with gold and white heels, her large sunglasses rested atop her curly hair.

“To the school’s art gallery.” Rapunzel beamed, “They hang up all my art in there. The professor really likes my work.”

“That’s nice, dear.” The response was expected yet still faltered the college girl’s smile.

When they made it to the large art gallery, Rapunzel was quick to point out her beautiful work of both landscapes and portraits, her sketches and paintings that were showcased due to their incredible talent. The elder woman looked positively bored with it all. Rapunzel kept high hopes though, trying to find the one that would pull the compliment from her step mothers lips she so wanted. By the end of the tour, not single one had gotten more than a nod.

When they walked out, Jack had been sitting with Hiccup on the grass just a few feet away. Both set of eyes zeroed in on the two and both stood to introduce themselves. They had gotten the warning text from Merida about the woman but paid no mind. Merida came off harsh to people so it might have been an exaggeration. That was until they got close enough to hear the conversation between the two.