Disclaimer: Heir Apparent and its character belong to Vivan Vande Velde. I own nothing.

"Are you sure that you wish to do this, Giannine?"

She smiled while taking off her denim jacket, and draping it over the leather couch in the lobby. Turning around to face her friend, Giannine laughed at the worried expression on his face. "Yes," she answered, without a waver of uncertainty in her tone of voice," I am positive." Pushing a lock of her dirty, blonde hair out of her eyes, she continued,"Besides, you and... the receptionist person-"

"Kendra," he said, cutting into my speech, a smirk finally appearing on his face.

Pouting she continued, "Whatever. You and her-"

"Kendra."

"Will you shut up a second so I can finish my statement?" His swift reply was a hearty laugh. Annoyed, Giannine sighed," As I was saying, you two made sure that all the damage done by the CPOC people was fixed. And, if my memory serves right, you and she both recorded everything I did, up until the point I won the game."

"That is true," Nigel said nodding," but we're still kind of unsure of what the outcome may be if we send you back into the Heir Apparent experience from right before you won the game." He sat down on the couch, looking over the blueprints from the game's design. "The experience is only supposed to last from when you are brought from the farm to the castle, to the ending where you are coronated. Despite creating the game myself, I am unsure of how this will end. She said-"

"Kendra."

Nigel narrowed his eyes, glaring a bit at the now laughing Giannine. "Yes, Kendra." He waited until her crackling resided into chuckling gasps to resume. "Anyways, Kendra said that if we changed the graphics, and added a bit more realism, we may be able to do it. Of course, I had to stay up all night for weeks to do this..."

"So I'm expecting this had better be near perfect," Giannine exclaimed, stifling a giggle at Nigel's annoyed look. Sighing, she seated herself next to him on the couch. "I'm just kidding Nigel," she said smiling. "Thank you for do all this for me, I really appreciate, despite my offbeat demeanor." She took this chance to hug him, which was returned. However, he stopped a few moments after, with her stopping after he mentioned,"Um...you can let go of me now?" A silence took place, along with a blushing Giannine standing up, brushing any dust off her jeans. "So," she said, breaking an awkward silence between them, "Can we get started now?"

"Um, yes," he replied. Giannine noticed a faint blush upon his checks as he walked past her. She snickered, and followed him to the Heir Apparent experience. He ran a hand through his black hair turning around. He opened his mouth, but she cut him off. "I'll be okay." Sighing, he shook his head and ushered her onto the platform. Taking the helmet, he carefully placed it over her head. "Good luck Giannine," he mumbled. Giannine smiled at this as her vision darkened and pixels started appearing.

"The names Janine," she murmured, barely conscious of what she was saying. "You should...know this....Kenric..."

Dun, dun, duuuuuuuun!

The haze clouding her vision disappeared, and Janine found herself kneeling on the ground. Her mind was still a bit warped, but a shake snapped her out of it. Janine looks up to see who it was and smiled. "Hello, Kenric," she said, trying mask the excitement in her voice of seeing him again.

A confused look appeared on his face, but only briefly before his impassive look returned. "Are you alright?" he asked, helping her up. Nodding her head Janine replied," Yes, merely stumbled upon my own feet." Blushing a bit she muttered, "Clumsy me." Smiling he held the goblet he was holding out to her. Janine heart missed a beat; it was the same goblet she had drunk before, right before her mind had gone into overload. She shook her head, trying to rid herself of the thought, but stopped seeing the incredulous look on Kenric face. Blushing she stuttered,"F-fleas again..."

"Lovely," he said sighing. He closed his eyes and grinned. "I guess I shouldn't complain though, seeing as how they saved us before."

"Yeah," acknowledged Janine, even though she was lying through her teeth. Her attention was once again brought back to the goblet Kenric was offering her. "I don't really like mead," she stated. Kenric merely laughed at her statement.

"I remembered," he told her, handing her the goblet. "This is honey water."

"Thank you," Janine said, taking a sip of the drink. It was sweet, but tasted just like it did before. It seems Kenric isn't out to poison me once again, she though, smiling. Taking another sip, she nearly did a spit-take as someone bumped into her. Choking slightly, she turned to see who it was; the one and only, ridiculously dressed Sister Mary Ursula. "I am One with happy endings!" she cried, slipping away back into the crowd. Giggled slightly, Janine turned her attention back to the now annoyed Kenric. Although, seeing him shake his head mouthing a disrespectful "No" just made her giggle harder.

After a few minutes of Janine having a hell of a giggle fit, along with an annoyed Kenric stalking away from her, things were back to normal...or as normal as they were designed to be.

Janine whipped her head in all directions looking for the queen. Janine soon spotted her chatting away with King Grimbold. Walking calmly up to her she was greeted with a pleasant "Hello" from Grimbold and a glare from queen Andreanna. She ignored the expression given to her as she took her arm. "Excuse me your majesties. I would like to speak to my mother about my coronation."

Apparently Grimbold missed the desperate look from Andreanna as he replied, "Well, go right ahead, King Janine. Just be sure to bring this pretty, lil' thing back." Janine stifled a laugh as she heard queen Andreanna hack. "Of course," she called out to him as she ushered queen Andreanna into an empty hall. Thoroughly annoyed at the behavior she was shown, queen Andreanna shook off Janine and scowled at her.

"You better have a good explanation for this, sheep girl!" she exclaimed, temper rising every second. Janine reached into her pocket and took out the ring. Holding it up so she could see it, Janine said,"Andreanna, take the ring." She did so without hesitation; Janine smirked as she slipped it on her finger. "You will treat me fairly, will not incite your sons to rebel against me," pausing, Janine gave a hearty laugh at the stoned look upon Andreanna's face."And you will not tell anyone what has occurred here tonight."

Andreanna was silent for a few moments, looking back from the ring to Janine and then back to the ring again. "I hate you..." she finally muttered.

"I know," replied Janine, walking back into the Great Hall. She looked back to where Andreanna appearing, storming off, and accidently bumped into someone. "Sorry!" she quickly replied to the man. Xenos turned around and stared at her for a while, slowly munching on his caterpillars. "Those are still my boots."

Sighing, Janine turned around and started walking back to her chamber to change. "I know, I know," she called back to him. Stepping over the drunken guests, Janine made her way to her room. She opened the door and walking in, poking her head in. "Ghosts?" She hesitantly called. No reply. Smiling, Janine walked in and locked the door. It seems they have finally left, she gladly thought. Slipping out of the page's uniform, Janine donned a red evening gown. It's silk felt smooth against her skin, a different, yet delightful change from the rough outfit she had been forced to wear. She paused in front of the mirror and sighed. Things were finally going right. The dragon was turned to gold, and her mother would not plot against her. Taking a pair of flats from the chest, Janine sat down and took off Xeno's seven-league boots.

Sighing, Janine shook her head and laid the boots aside. How useful they had been, despite the trouble to get them. Millions of caterpillars would be dead, but at least the treasure was returned and the kingdom was safe from Grimbold and his barbarian army. Slipping on the shoes, Janine stood up. She walked back to the Great Hall, the seven-league boots under her arms. It may as well have been an adventure just getting there though; tripping down stairs a few times because of a long dress was not making this a pleasant night. Neither had Xeno's "About time" at the return of his boots.

Despite his complaining, Janine thought what she did afterwards was a good thing and something he most definitely deserved. Besides, that honey water was not the most pleasant thing in the world to drink and it did make his balding head look shinier.

Author's note:

Just wanted to say this my first fan fiction, so I'm not expecting it to be good. The only reason I'm writing this is because someone said I should. Also, made up the name Kendra for the lady since she has no name. Finally, just wanted to say that later chapters will have Janine searching the country side for potion ingrediens.

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