I've removed "Stand By You" to make changes and hopefully will get to repost it soon. Until then here is a light summer read.
On Holiday
Jasper Frost sighed as he walked down the hallway of the palace towards the Her Royal Highness, Princess Eleanor's wing. He had has spent the last two weeks on a Royal Tour with the Prince Regent, Liam. Although, he and Liam had become good friends over the last three years there was only so much he wanted to know about Liam. He had just spent the last hour with new Head of Royal Security giving his debriefing of the tour and now all he wanted to do was relaxing with his girlfriend, Princess Eleanor.
He pushed opened the door to her study to find the Princess herself sitting on the floor on her room hunch in front of her laptop. He watched as she clicked away on the track pad while he loosens his tie, draped it on the back of a chair, and removed his suit jacket.
He sat down next to her and asked as he kissed the top of her head, "What are you doing?"
"Planning our holiday, bae," she answered.
"You want to go on holiday? Weren't you just in Paris last month?" he asked leaning over to get a look at her laptop screen.
She turned her head to the left and said, "That was not a holiday. That was royal duty stuff. Besides we've never been away together," she said wrinkling her nose.
"Way back when we went to clubs and just a few weeks after that Ted issue we went to that music festival," he replied as he started to undo the buttons of his shirt.
She sighed again and said, "The the clubbing was when you were still assigned as my bodyguard and the festival was with other security people and my brother. It doesn't count." She then threw her arms around his neck and shifted so she could sit on his lap. "Don't you think we should go as couple?"
He sighed again because all he really wanted to do was to get some sleep and just lay down to one person he loved. He gently dropped his forehead against hers and said in a whisper, "Fine.. I'll see if I can get James to arrange it for us."
"No, we can't. I do not want to go on holiday with you as Princess Eleanor. I want to go as just Eleanor Henstridge. No royal protect…" She paused and smiled. "Well except from a certain someone who has gotten really good at protecting my body."
Jasper couldn't help but smile and said, "I don't mind being the only one who gets to protect you but you know if you're planning to leave the country the Queen will assign you royal protect. After all we both know you're not normal."
"Well that's why we're going to plan this ourselves." She pulled the laptop closer to them and said, "See… I've just book our flight and now I'm booking our hotel."
He inhaled deeply and said, "Fine… Once you've set everything I'll talk to James about keeping this under wraps and figuring out how to get us through security without needing an escort."