This is going to be rather fluffy- a lot of Clarisse/Mia interaction, of course Josef will be in it and then Phillippe and Rupert, maybe Charlotte, depends on how far it goes... Please read and review, I hope you´ll all like it! :D
"Mamam, do you have a moment?"
Clarisse Renaldi looked up from her paperwork and smiled at her son.
"Of course, Phillippe, do come in."
The prince closed the door behind him and stepped up to the queen´s desk, looking hesitant.
Clarisse Renaldi had come to San Francisco to help him organize moving back to Genovia after he had graduated from college.
Of course for Phillippe the week leading up to the flight home had more significance since he had recently broken up with his girlfriend Helen and now it was time to say goodbye to her and to their ten months old daughter Amelia.
Clarisse had met Helen a few times when the young woman and Phillippe had made arrangements about the child´s future but she had refused to meet her granddaughter, she had seen the girl once right after she had been born and it had been hard enough to give her back to her mother once she had held her granddaughter in her arms.
The queen feared that if she saw the child again now she wouldn´t want to keep out of Amelia´s life, she so much had wanted a daughter herself and now there was this little girl she could have spoiled and showered with affection and she couldn´t be a part of her life.
"Mamam?"
Clarisse realized that her son was still waiting in front of her desk.
"I´m sorry, Darling, you wanted to say?"
"Actually I wanted to ask you to reconsider your decision concerning Amelia."
"Phillippe-"
"Please, she´s ten months old now and you won´t see her again until she is eighteen, don´t you at least want to see her once?"
Clarisse leaned back in her chair.
"It´s not that I´m not interested in seeing her, Phillippe, I just- I´m scared."
"You are scared?"
Her son looked confused and Clarisse resigned herself to the fact that she obviously would have to offer him an explanation.
"Your father is very glad about the arrangements made, to him it´s uncomplicated and comfortable but to me it´s not, you know how much I love you and your brother but like almost every woman I so much wanted a daughter and now you have one and I can´t be a part of her life."
Her son looked surprised.
"But I thought you wanted it that way- I thought both you and Dad wanted that."
Clarisse sighed and finally got up from her chair, she stepped over to the window and looked out on the garden.
"It´s the only way if we want to give Amelia the chance to have a normal childhood, you know that we can´t meet her without security present and she would soon understand that something is different and then we would have to explain it to her."
"I´m sorry, I didn´t know you were so upset about it, I thought-" the prince bit his lip as Clarisse turned around to him.
"You thought you were the only one who was upset" she said softly and Phillippe nodded heavily.
"Yes, actually I did- it´s easier if you are too, though- are you sure you don´t want to see her before we go home?"
The queen briefly closed her eyes, then she made a decision.
"You are right, Dear, I will see her."
Her son smiled and hugged her gently before saying "I wanted to spend some time alone with Helen today, do you want to watch Mia for us?"
"You mean alone?"
"Of course- come on, you´ve raised us, you can manage a ten months old girl."