Title: Away Summary: Set in the future. Mia has run away from Genovia and is living near Seattle in a commune. What happens when the past ketches up with her, including Michael?

Chapter One- Default Chapter Disclaimer:

Mia, grandmere, Genovia and anything else you might recognize belongs to Meg Cabot

July 15th, 2010
Mia sighed and put down her garden trowel. The hot July sun was baking down on her. She looked around the large garden, amazed that it was so much work to grow your own food. She picked put her bucket of weed and carried them down the hill to the chickens. It was now the hottest part of the day and time for lunch.

Mia walked into the common space and fixed her self a salad. She looked around at the anti- war posters on the wall and the shopping list written on the mirror. This is what I was meant to be doing, not ruling a country. Mia though to herself as she ate.

-Two Years Earlier-
Mia ran down the hall of her palace. It was the middle of the night. She was leaving and wanted no one to know. What was that? Mia whirled around as she hear some thing drop. A large flash light rolled around the corner.

"Crap! That must of woken the princess." Mia hear someone whisper in French. It was one of the guards. Mia looked for a hiding place, and noticed that she was near the tapestry of a Genovian hunting party. Perfect! Mia thought as she pulled it back, reveling a door. She opened it and shuck into the hidden tunnel. Thank God for the phase I went through after reading Harry Potter, when I went around looking for hidden passage ways in the castle. Mia smiled as she remembered the days she had spent in the summer after her junior year, tapping on walls and looking behind tapestries. She had found this one, a secret way out of the castle, used during the olden times, just incase the royal family had to escape. The door had squeaked loudly, and so she oiled it, who know when she might need to get away from grandmere. She had forgotten all about it until now.

Mia ran through the dark until she came to a door that opened into the horse stables. She went into them and stopped when she came to her horse, Bandit. She was planning on taking a car to escape, she thought now that it would be a lot more fun on her horse, more romantic some how. She saddled up Bandit and they rode into the dark, towards France.

When morning came it found Mia and Bandit in a fair sized city. Mia was ridding around the city, regretting that she had taken Bandit. What was she going to do with him? She looked out of place riding around in the city. Thankfully it was still very early, and not many people were around. She passed a telephone poll that had a sign on it for riding lessons, and had an address. Mia steered Bandit in the other direction, to the address. When they got there Mia saw a stable out back. She dismounted Bandit and lead him into it. As they walked by the horses that were just waking up stared to nicker and whinny at them. Mia walked until they came upon an empty stall. She opened it an lead Bandit inside.

"I'm sorry, but I have to leave you here," Mia said, rubbing her beloved horse's nose. Mia had gotten him from her father when she turned 17. When she went to Genovia in the summer she and her father would take a morning ride every day. When she can to live in Genovia she rode twice a day, and was in shows often. She had many metals to show for it. Mia kissed bandit goodbye and snuck out before anyone came.

Mia wondered around until she found a bus station and got a bus to Paris. Mia went to the airport and asked at a desk where the next available flight to America was to. The attendant said Seattle. Mia liked the sound of that, she always wanted to go to the west coast. She booked a ticket, thankful that she had hidden her American passport away, and had lied to grandmere when she asked if she had gotten rid of it.

Mia found a seat in the corner, trying to not look out of place and keep hidden from anyone that might recognize her. The fell asleep while waiting for her flight. Thankfully, she didn't have to wait too long.

a/n This is my first fan fic. I have been thinking about doing it for a while, but hadn't.