I do not own the Royals, nor is my first language English so please excuse all my langauge mistakes. Enjoy!


It had been five months. Five months since Robert had been crowned King and Eleanor had left the palace. Jasper stood in front of Roberts big wooden doors, waiting for his appointment with the therapist to be over. The Queen had managed to convince her son to take actions against his ongoing nightmares. She almost hadn't notice, but after she had heard his screams one night, she had given him no chance, but to consent even if it was reluctantly.

"Your Majesty," she sighed for at least the dozenth time.

"This only works if you are actually willing to participate. We talked about this."

"I know, I know. But I am a King! I have better things to do than sit with you here every other day." He was just as annoyed by this as her, why again did he agree to this?

"Why do you think you have to sit here?" She asked instead.

"Because my mother thinks I need help." He gave back, a bored reply.

"Why?" She kept digging

"Because I lived on an island for 10 months I guess."

"You guess?"

"Geeze for real?" Robert started to loose his patience. "Of all the people in this place I am the last one that needs any kind of therapy." he spat at her.

"What makes you say that?" Dr. Keenan wondered. Robert faltered for a moment.

"Have you met the people here? This place is a mad house." Dr. Keenan didn't seem very impressed by that.

"You know, if I have to go through this, they should too." She raised her eyebrows at that.

"I want you as our palace shrink."

"Excuse me?" "You heard me this place needs some cleaning up. A lot of people want me gone and I need to know who I can trust." Dr. Keenan let out another sigh.

"And you expect me to break my vow for you?"

"I am the King of England. I could also arrest you for treason if you would prefer that." She looked at him for a moment, scrutinizing him.

"What do I get in return?" Robert just shook his head derogatory. "What would you like?"


Worriedly Jasper looked at his watch for what felt like the 100th time. If the King didn't hurry up, he would be late to his meeting at Parliament. Again. He was just about to knock on the doors when they opened.

"I see you later doc." a hand on the therapists back leading her out.

"Your majesty." she bowed slightly and gave a short nod to Jasper who returned it.

"Your Majesty, we " Jasper started, but was interrupted immediately

"I know we are late for Parliament. Let's go!" Together they made their way through the wide corridors of the palace.

"I decided that all staff members should undergo a psychological evaluation, those who fail will get the help they need." Robert let Jasper know, who had a hard time not rolling his eyes. Instead of saying anything he just nodded. Robert stayed silent until they were seated in the car.

"Have you talked to Liam lately?" He asked seemingly absent, while tracing his fingers over the stitching of one of the seats. Jasper looked up from his phone and waited, until the King himself looked up.

"No, he is still angry at me for choosing to work for you." Robert nodded, trying to keep the smirk off of his face. Good, the bastard should feel what it meant to have everything taken from him. Like he had taken everything from him. Therapy, ha, as if he needed therapy, revenge was still the best medicine.


Eleanor stepped out of the car into the familiar court of the palace she had grown up in. A small smile ghosted on her lips.

"Home sweet home." she murmured.

"You wanna stand there all day? Or are you planning on leaving me behind in the car?" Sebastian joked.

"Uhh right sorry." Eleanor apologized and moved a few steps forward. As soon as he was out of the car, he slipped his hands around her waist, while Eleanor looked up towards her childhood home.

"Let's go inside" she smiled at Sebastian and removed his hands from her waits, to slip one of her hands into his. The palace was unusually quiet.

Eleanor was just about to utter that exact thought, when she heard tiny steps running towards.

"Eleanor! Eleanor!" She heard Sara Alice scream in delight. A huge grin was plastered on the Princesses face now, seeing Sara Alice coming around the corner and jumping into her arms.

"Hey there," She whispered into the girl's hair.

"I missed you."

"I missed you too. We all have." Sara Alice gave her a sad smile and Eleanor knew exactly who she meant with 'we'. A certain bodyguard she hadn't, despite her best efforts, been able to get out of her mind.

"You are back early though!" The girl suddenly realised, confused.

"Well we finished up a little quicker than we thought we would. Also it is my birthday soon, which I really didn't want to miss spending at home."

Eleanor smiled at her. "Where is everybo-?" Before she could finish the question, Liam and Cyrus came around the corner. Eleanor's eyebrow shot up in a mix of disgust and confusion.

"Len!" Liam exclaimed and hugged his sister tightly.

"You are back early." Eleanor just nodded still not sure what to make herself, of the picture that had presented itself to her. When had her brother and Cyrus become so close?

Cyrus just gave her a quick, dismissive smile. "That your new boyfriend?" he asked and Eleanor could have sworn there was something like a real interest in his voice.

"Right," She smiled

"This is Prince Sebastian; you might remember him from the people's gala."

"Yeah right the guy Robert set you up with, so that he could have your boyfriend all to himself." Eleanor took in a deep breath and gave Cyrus her best fake smile.

"Exactly that one!" Sebastian replied for her holding out his hand politely, but Cyrus didn't even glance at it.

"You two," he pointed at Liam and Eleanor "enjoy your reunion. I need a drink." With that he was gone.

Together they made their way into one of the state rooms. They were just about to take a seat, on the renaissance sofas, when Eleanor heard Robert's voice a corridor away.

For one moment she felt her heart rate speeding up and realised how hard it suddenly was to keep breathing. No, this wasn't happening; he wasn't supposed to still have such power over her. He wasn't supposed to have any power over her at all. She was happy with Sebastian and he wouldn't ruin this for her, not again.

"I should have never allowed her to become Prime Minister!" Robert informed Jasper, who suddenly stopped dead in his tracks.

"What?" Robert asked confused until he followed Jasper's glance towards the state room.

Jasper had to take a double look to make sure his eyes weren't trying to play a cruel joke on him. For a moment their eyes met and everything else seemed to vanish.

"Lenny?" Robert asked in surprise. That was enough to lift the spell that had been cast upon his sister and his bodyguard. Quickly Eleanor pried her eyes away from Jasper towards her brother.

"Surprise!" She shouted, running over to him hugging him, closing her eyes, making sure she wouldn't have to look at him. But as always when it came to him, her heart wouldn't listen to her mind and she opened them. Instead of his eyes on her, like she had expected, maybe even deep down had hoped, his eyes were directed towards Sebastian. And again surprise hit her, when he saw that his eyes weren't filled with hatred or jealousy towards Sebastian, but with a kind of sadness she couldn't quite explain.

His eyes shifted back to her, but before they met her completely she loosened herself from her brother and gave Robert a smile, who now stepped forward to shake Sebastian's hand.

"Welcome back to the palace. I see my sister didn't manage to scare you away just yet."

"No she hasn't." Sebastian smiled.

None of the four realised the glance Sara Alice, Rosie, and Liam were sharing at the awkward situation that everyone pretended didn't exist.

"Mr. Frost!" Dr. Keenan's voice made them all turn around.

"There you are. Mr. Hill said you could provide me with the staff schedules." It seemed to take her a moment until she realised the tense situation she had walked into. Both Eleanor and Liam squinted their eyes in confusion.

"Right sorry," Robert jumped in immediately.

"This is Dr. Elizabeth Keenan, my therapist. I thought it would be best if all staff would undergo a psychological evaluation, after all that happened in the past two years and after that consultation, if needed, obviously." Dr. Keenan gave them an unsure smile.

"Of course you are all welcome to come by and ask for consultation and advise as well. I will never be far since his majesty has been kind enough to let me move into the palace, temporarily." The others nodded slightly, unsure of the situation themselves, until Eleanor stepped forward and extended her hand.

"Princess Eleanor, hi!" The other woman bowed slightly.

"Your highness it is an honour meeting you." Sebastian had extended a hand now as well.

"Prince Sebastian Idris, pleased to meet you." She nodded again.

"Prince Liam, I think our paths have crossed in the hallways once or twice." Liam smiled at her.

"Right, your highness." She nodded again.

"And I am Sarah Alice!" The little girl jumped up and down next to her.

"But I am not a Princess, just a normal girl." The Doctor turned around and crouched down in front of her.

"Pleasure meeting you Sara Alice, I am Lizzy. And you most certainly are not just a normal girl, considering that everyone in this room seems to be under your spell." She winked at the little girl, before getting back up.

"Now, Mr. Frost, if you could get me those schedules." He nodded shortly.

"Of course, this way please."

They walked in silence for a couple of minutes. "You know the offer I just made to royals can obviously also be taken into consideration by the staff. She declared.

"Thanks, but this evaluation thing is bad enough." She had a knowing smile on her face.

"And what makes you think you will pass it?" He raised his eyebrows.

"What makes you think I won't?" She sighed.

"So you are telling me that whatever tensions I just clearly saw between you and the Princess were a complete figment of my imagination?" He opened the door that lead into his office and looked at her, his glare stern.

"That is none of your business." They walked towards the desk. She took a look around his office, while he searched for the files.

"You are right it is none of my business." He finally found the files, handing them to her.

"But it is my job." She took them into her hands and was about to leave when she added: "I'll make sure you're on top of my list of appointments." With that she turned on her heels and left him standing in his office.

He didn't dare to breathe, until she was out of side. Then, he sunk onto his chair. Life it seemed just wouldn't give him a break.