AN: I own nothing except Christian and Mackenzie who is portrayed by Dallas Lovato
Christian Mason sighed as she got out of the PPP helicopter and walked towards the palace with her duffel bag hanging from her shoulder. She showed the guards at the front gates her driver's license and they raised an eyebrow.
"As in Joe and Carter Mason?" he asked as she nodded. "Go right on in Ms. Mason, I'll alert the queen for you."
"Thank you." Christian said flashing him a genuine smile. One her way past the gates she could hear the guard announce her arrival to the queen.
"You have a Ms. Mason on her way to see you your majesty."
Christian smiled. The Queen probably thought she was Carter now.
She walked to the study and was about to knock on the already cracked open door when she heard voices arguing.
"I don't want to marry some stranger!"
"I know Mija, but your grandmother had arranged this before she passed and your father and I never knew till now as well."
"But you know how I feel about Carter!"
Christian raised an eyebrow at this. She definitely had to ask her about it.
"You can tell her when she gets here the guards said she was on her way in."
Christian decided to make her presence known and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Christian pushed the door open and walked in.
"Oh, how may I help you?" Rosalinda "Rosie" Montoya Fioré asked as Christian smiled and nodded.
"Sorry for interrupting but I couldn't help but catch that…" She trailed off raking her brain for the right word. "debate, but I'm not the Mason you were expecting, I'm Carter's older sister Christian Mason." Christian said.
"Oh, how can I help you and how much of our…debate, did you hear?" Rosie asked.
"Just that last four or five sentences, but it's not my business, so I never heard it." Christian smiled.
"She's a smart girl." Sophia said as Christian gave her a smile in thanks.
"Wait, Cater never mentioned a sister." Rosie said as Christian nodded.
"You never did either." Christian said as Rosie and Sophia gasped.
"How do you know about her?" Sophia demanded as Christian reached into her back pocket and showed them her PPP badge.
"I guess it's a family business." Christian shrugged as the two calmed quite quickly.
"Do you know how she is?" Sophia asked as Christian nodded.
"Yeah, she's doing fine, wishes to come home, I'm here to make sure it's completely safe for her." Christian said putting her badge away and adjusting her bag's strap.
"Of course, she is welcome home anytime now that the threat is gone." Rosie said as Christian nodded.
"One other thing, I know it isn't my business, but she is my sister, how do you feel about her exactly?" Christian asked curiously as Rosie blushed. "I got my answer, the look in your eye when I mentioned her and the blush is enough." Rosie turned a shade darker.
"How is your family?" Sophia asked as Christian's smile faded.
"Uh…I haven't…um…I don't know…really, I haven't been home in four years, but Carter said in her letters that everything has been ok." Christian said.
"The same time my sister was placed in your care?" Rosie asked as Christian shook her head.
"Not really, I left about a month or two before your sister was in my care." Christian said as Sophia and Rosie nodded.
Christian hated bringing up the fact she hasn't been home in the past four years cause it reminded her how much she missed her family and made her hate herself for leaving the way she did. Nothing could stop the guilt as well. She left at a difficult time.
"When shall we expect her return?" Sophia asked.
"Uh, a week from today at the most, for a visit." Christian said. "But I always wondered, Mackenzie is her half sister, why would anyone think of her as a blockade to the throne or threat?" Christian asked Sophia who sighed.
"Rosie's father willed Costa Luna to her if anything were to happen to him or Rosie and Rosie's grandmother didn't like the fact that her son was taking in a child as well as a wife, she wished that he would marry a royal but his father felt that as long as his son was happy he shall marry whoever he pleases." Sophia explained.
Christian put the pieces together in her head. The argument Sophia and Rosie had about an arranged marriage was coming clearer and the reason why Princess Mackenzie was placed in her care to attend college with her at Oxford.
"So I take it that's why Rosie has an arranged marriage?" Christian asked as Sophia nodded. "I was kinda hoping when the Director said the grandmother was who I was protecting her from was a joke or something." Christian sighed shaking her head.
How could a mother do that to her son's daughter and stepdaughter.
"He always loved Mackenzie as his own, her own father left me and her wanting nothing to do with a child." Sophia sighed as Rosie gritted her teeth in anger.
"He should be glad he left Costa Luna."
"Well, I kinda left Mack back in London, we graduate from Oxford University in two months." Christian said readjusting her bag again.
"Please, stay the night, you must be tired." Rosie said as Christian shrugged.
"Might as well thank you." Christian said as Rosie nodded.
"I'll show you to your room myself." Rosie said as she led Christian out of the study and down the corridors.
"I never go to take a good look at this place when I took your sister out of here, it's beautiful, I am sorry about your grandmother's death though, I heard it was cancer." Christian said as Rosie nodded.
"Yes, it was, and thank you, we try to keep the palace neat." Rosie said as they reached the room and she pushed the doors open.
Christian whistled in amusement. "Wow, this place is nice."
"Thank you, my suite is right across from yours, make yourself at home." Rosie said pointing across the hall to the double doors.
"You guys really like double doors huh?" Christian joked as Rosie shrugged.
"I guess it was the thing back then."
"I guess so, thank you again." Christian said as Rosie smiled and walked out closing the door.
Christian looked around. The place was bigger than the suites she was used to at hotels. This place was probably two times bigger than those. She couldn't help but feel sorry for Mackenzie now. She never got a good look at the palace before taking her away from here to London to go to Oxford with her.
She treated Mackenzie so bad when she took her from here. She argued with her almost every night for two months because she was dealing with the stress of leaving her family and trying to get settled and get a hand on her classes. She took her anger out on Mackenzie cause she was acting like a princess. She was angry at herself more than she was the princess. Mackenzie was just acting the way she was and Christian acted like a total bitch.
Sighing Christian changed into a pair of girl boxers and a wife beater. It was the middle of the day but she was beat. PLus, she knew tomorrow was gonna be something new.
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