AN: This will be a place where I post all my one-shots on my thoughts on Jasper and Eleanor's relationship.
All stories take place after the s2 finale.
This one-shot will be split into 2 parts cause it's getting long. Enjoy part 1.
The Invitation
Her Royal Highness, Princess Eleanor inhaled deeply as she closed her eyes. In a whisper, she said, "1...2…3…4…5…" She opened a second later and threw her head back on the leather seat of the car. She lifted her head up a second later when she felt someone reach over and grab her hand.
"You're going to be ok," said Jasper with his dirty blond hair parted to the side in a dark suit and dark color shirt with the top two buttons undone.
"That's easy for you to say, bodyguard. You're not the one everyone is going be looking at. I have to go in there and interact with all those people," said Eleanor. She looked out the tinted window of car at the large modern building with its spotlights, lighting up the building from the bottom up.
She turned to face Jasper and asked, "Can't we turn around? It's not like anyone knows I'm here."
He squeezed her hand gently and said, "Hey, we drove three hours to get here. We should at least get some alcohol out this place." He leaned over and gently kissed her forehead and said, "Don't worry, I'll be here with you. I'm not going anywhere."
She chewed her bottom lip gently and said, "Don't make me regret this, bodyguard."
He gave her a small smile and then let go of her hand. He pushed open his side of the door and quickly stepped out of the car. Once the door shut she inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly. She watched as the door on her side opened and Jasper extended his hand to her.
1 week before the event- Royal Palace
Her Majesty, The Queen Mother, Helena turned off the television at the sound of approaching footsteps. She placed the remote gently on the coffee table as Rachel, her personal assistant and Royal Secretary, walked into the Red State room. She watched as Rachel stepped aside to let the person into the room and gently closed the door behind the person.
"Have a seat," said Helena.
The young woman sat down with a sigh as she sat across from the Queen. The woman crossed her legs at her ankle and said, "What is it mum? I was in the middle of important call."
Helena stood up clutching a stiff envelope that was in her lap and walked over the princess. She held out the envelope to the Princess and said, "This came in the post for you."
Princess Eleanor looked up at her mother and then at the envelope before slowly taking it. She read the address on the envelope and broke the seal on the envelope. She pulled out the folded piece of papers and unfolded them to read the contents. After a few minutes, she tossed the papers and envelope on the table and stood up.
"Well if there is else I'm going to see if I can finish my important phone call. Off I go." Eleanor said as she walked around the chair.
"That's it?" questioned Helena. "You're not going?"
"Go where mum? It's not a royal event so I have a right to not go. I'm the Princess, I have more important things to attend to." Eleanor said half way to the door.
"I think you should go. It would be good press for the crown," Helena said leaning over the table to pick up the papers.
Eleanor inhaled deeply and then said, "I've been doing enough PR for the last two month. If you've really interested in their event, then you go."
"Eleanor," interrupted Helena.
"I'm pretty sure they'd rather see the Queen than the Princess. Why else would they invite me?" Eleanor pulled open the door and the said, "Off I go." then stumped down of the hallway.
Helena sat on the armrest of the chair Eleanor occupied a few seconds ago and sighed. She looked up at Rachel who walked into the room. She shook her head and then asked, "What time does his shift end today?"
"He is said to work until after midnight tonight," Rachel replied.
"That is not going to work…" She stood up from the armchair and then said, "Call his supervisor and put me through right away."
Rachael nodded and said, "Right away, Your Majesty." She pulled out her cellphone and pressed the speed dial button.
His majesty, King Liam watched his twin sister from the reflection of his full-length mirror. He watched as she rolled from one side to the next and then stopped to dangle her hair off the foot of the bed. He shook his head as he glanced at her out of the corner of his eyes. He pulled his eyes off as he adjusted the knot of his dark blue tie.
"How long are you planning to roll around my bed dear sister," he asked as he tugged on his tie.
"Don't have plans on leaving this bed any time soon, dear brother," replied Eleanor from the bed.
"As much as I love you, you can't stay here forever," he said as he turned to face her.
Eleanor stopped rolling and turned over on her stomach, then propped her head up with her right hand. "Why not? You're King you sleep in any other room," she said as she watched his tug on the knot of his tie
"Not the point," he said and then started to untie the knot of the tie.
"The point is that with me here, you won't be able leave on that date that you've pushed back a zillion time, with Willow." She sighed and hopped off the bed. She walked up to her brother and said, "Let me before you end up hurting yourself." She loosens the tie, and swatted his hand away.
"Mum, means well… you should go the event. How bad can it be?" he asked as she looped the short end of the tie into the knot.
"Don't know, don't want to know. Besides I've been to enough events for the past two months to last a decade." She adjusted the knot on the last time and took a step back. "There… all done."
He looked down at her work and said, "How did you get so good?"
"I've had practice." she said with a small smile on her lips and then walked back to foot of the bed and sat down placing her hands out behind her.
He turned around and looked at himself in the full-length mirror. As he played with end of his hair, she sighed and said, "You know dear brother if you keep fussing with your hair people are going to think you're planning on proposing."
He smiled and smiled at her through the reflection of the mirror. "Not happening any time soon. Don't you think announcing one royal engagement is good enough?"
She rolled her eyes and said, "Please if it will take the attention off me, I'd welcome it. I can't even go ride Charlie Jones without someone asking me when the wedding is."
Two sharp knocks stopped their conversation. Liam removed his jacket off the hook on the full-length mirror and said, "Come in."
The door opened and Jasper walked in, closing the door. "Sorry about interrupting. I was told I could find the Princess in here."
Liam smiled and said, "It's good to have you back. The Princess has been grumpy since you've been on duty for the last two days." He walked up to Jasper and patted him on the shoulder. "She's all yours," he said as pulled open the door and exited the room.
"What brings you here, bodyguard? Aren't you on duty for another six hours," said Eleanor is a taunting tone as she crossed her legs as the ankles and straighten her legs out in front of herself.
"I was but my boss got a call from the Queen Mother stating that my fiancee, the Princess needs to see me right away," he said walking towards her.
She pressed her lips together and then said, "But I didn't call for you."
"No, but the Queen Mother did… so I'm here and she told me about this." He sat down next to her at the foot of the bed and placed the invitation, she read a few minutes ago, in her lap. "Her Majesty tells me that you don't want to attend."
"Why would I want to attend event with snobby people who will either pretend to be happy for me, take a photo to give the tabloids, or wants to ask when the wedding day is and who designer will be… We just announced our engagement three weeks ago," she said tossing the invitation on the carpeted floor.
" I see you've put some thought into this," he said. "But tell me the real reason you don't want to go. You know you deserve to go to this class reunion."
"I didn't graduate…" she said glancing at him as she rest her head on his shoulder.
"You really think I believe that? I was at your final project fashion show," he said.
She lifted her head off his shoulder. "You were there? That was way before you were assigned to me."
"I was still working for the Royal Intel department when they said that the Princess is having an event and needed more security. I signed up and ended up at your event," he said with a smirk . "You might have asked the palace to keep it a secret but everyone here in the palace knows you did graduate, you deserve to go."
"Ok, fine, I did graduate but nowhere in the invitation says I have to go," she said with a huff.
He reached for her hand and laced their fingers together. "How about I go with you to event as your date? Think of this reunion as a date."
"A boring date," she said.
"Don't you want to show off your fiancé?" he asked.
She rolled her eyes. "Please, our engagement is all over the news. They've seen you."
"Well since there is no way to get out of it without your mother bugging you to death, we'll go for exacting two hours and then skip out and have our own party later. We haven't had any time together since the Palace announced our engagement," he said.
She inhaled deeply and exhaled deeply for a few seconds and then said, "Fine, but that's cause if I don't agree I know you're not going to drop the subject. "
Jasper stood up and pulled her off the coach. "Good…. Now let's find me something to eat before I have to head back to work."
"We could just call the kitchen to have them bring you something," she said as she stood up.
He smirked and said, "I was thinking of something else in the privacy of our bedroom which, I haven't seen in two days."
"Well then we better hurry. We don't want you to starve do we," she leaned forward giving him a quick peek on the lips, and dashed out of room.
48 hrs before the Reunion
Eleanor laid on her bed and stared at the ceiling. At the sound of three knocks on the door, she pushed herself up on her elbows and said in a monotone voice, "Who is it?"
The door to her room opened and a guy in his late thirties stepped into the room. He tugged nervously on his gray suit and tie and he stood by the door. He cleared his throat and said, "Your Highness, Lady Willow is here to see you."
Eleanor nodded her head and then said as she laid back on her comforter, "Let her in and bring me some coffee."
"Right away, Your Highness," said the man and the stepped aside to let Willow into the room.
Willow slowly walked into the room, stepping over dresses and random articles of clothing on the floor. She placed her purse in the table and sat down on the armchair facing the bed in which Eleanor was laying on. Her eyes glossed over some of the dresses hanging on the rack and on the back of her chair near the bed.
"I can see why your brother told me to come," Willow said. "I thought you had your outfit for tomorrow night picked out? What happened?"
"My brain… I now hate the dress and I can't find one I want to wear." Eleanor said from her prone position on her bed.
Willow nodded her head as if Eleanor could see her. "And what did the Future Duke of Kent say about dress number one?"
"He said it "looks good, bae." And as you know that means I look hideous in it." Eleanor said pushing herself up into a sitting position. "I sent him to my brother."
"Men, what do they know? Your brother told me my blue jumper goes while with the white jeans. Guess he doesn't know girl can't wear white on certain days of the month. He had the nerve to ask me why." As the door to the room open and a cart with a pot of coffee and a bottle of fizzy drink was pushed into the room on a cart.
"Coffee is for me… fizzy drink is for you," said Eleanor getting off the bed and towards the cart.
Eleanor handed Willow the glass of fizzy drink and removed her cup of coffee from the cart. She sat down on the coach and took a sip of her drink and sighed. She glanced at Willow who stared at her from over the glass of soda.
"What?" she asked.
Willow shrugged her shoulder. "You never liked coffee. I guess the Future Duke of Kent is rubbing off on you."
"I only drink this battery acid when he's not around. He would never let it go if he knew I drank this stuff. I drink tea when he's around," Eleanor said as she took another sip from her cup.
Willow gingerly nodded her head as she set her drink down on the table and bend over to slip off her high heel shoes. Once the shoes where off, she placed them off to the side and stood up. "Now to find you something to wear." She walked around the clothes on the floor and headed to rack of dresses in front of the fireplace.
"Let me know if you find anything," Eleanor said as she picked up her ipad and started to scroll through her tweeter feed.
"Ah-ha!" Willow said triumphantly. She removed a cocktail dress with layers at the skirt from the rack and said, "You need to wear this."
"It's pink," Eleanor comment looking over her shoulder at the dress.
"It has an ombre effect. It goes from dark red to pink. You'll like stunning in it. A rose among a sea of black and white dresses," Willow said walking towards her with the dress. "Trust me, you'll look good. You said it was cocktail event and trust me, people are going to dressed in dark color outfits. This will make you stand out but not too much."
Eleanor placed her cup down on the end table and the ipad next to it. She stood up and stared at the dress. "Are you sure?"
Willow looked at her with raised eyebrow. "Says the girl who wore a rainbow dress to a knighting ceremony." She shoved the dress towards Eleanor and said, "Try it on."
Eleanor took the dress by the hanger and said, "Fine… but if this dress makes me look fat, I'm banishing you to the tower."
Willow grinned at her and said, "I've never been to the tower. Sounds like fun."
24 hrs before the reunion
Eleanor snatched the remote control out of Liam's hands and said, "Really? How the bloody hell did this happen?"
"It has been a week and it's not like that website is blocked from the public," Liam said as she turned off the flat screen television set.
"Not only will I have to deal with people at the reunion but now reporters. For once I would like to go to an event without them."
The door to the room opened and Helena walked in. She held up her phone and said, "I've already made some calls. Your event will now be reporter free."
"Thanks mum," she said and then stood up and marched out of the room.
Helena looked at Liam as Eleanor walked out of the room. "What's wrong with your sister?"
Liam shrugged and said, "Not sure but it could just be all the events she's been attending. You know she doesn't like doing them and then there the announcement of her engagement, I think the attention is getting to her."
"Well she better start getting use to it. She'll get more attention once we officially start announcing things about the wedding."
"Then I suggest you get her an awesome wedding gift because she's going to pop a vein sometime soon if this keeps up." Liam stood up and walked out of the room.
6 hrs before the reunion
Jasper walked into the room and gently closed the door behind himself. "What happened to new guy number four?" he asked as he draped his black coat on the back of the armchair.
Eleanor glanced at him from the reflection of her vanity mirror as her stylist adding the final touches to her hairstyle. "Got called away by James, so they sent me Hagrid for now." She looked at herself in the mirror and then said, "Your faith in me is crappy. Do you really think I enjoy scaring away all my security detail?" She stood up and signaled to her stylist to leave.
"Ah so how do you explain the first three, James set you?" he asked as she walked towards her full length mirror.
"I can't help it if he sent me female security details. I don't have anything against girls, just girls who undress my bodyguard with their eyes." She flattened out the skirt and looked at her heels before placing her hand on her hip. "You know I don't like sharing. The only one who gets to undress you is me."
"Hannah was not undressing me with her eyes," Jasper said as he watched her look at herself.
"Right… What was she doing? Why ask so many questions?" she walked over to her bed and picked up her white beaded caplet.
"She was being friendly. She heard I cook and wanted to ask me about the dish I brought to the Palace Security potluck."
"Flirting, bodyguard. I know what it looks like." She took her purse off the vanity and said, "Don't think for a second I didn't see her walk by your living quarters, when you were moving your things, in the those short shorts and tank top."
"Spying on me?" he asked as he stood up and removed his coat from the back of the armchair.
She walked passed him and said with a fake gasp, "Never. I'm am not my mother. I don't have to spy on your to know what is happening."
They stared at each other for a few seconds before he pulled open her door and let her exit before he gently closed the door.
