A/N: Sorry guys things picked up work wise for me this week and my laptop charger cable died took me a few days to fix it.. Thanks for the reviews! Please keep them coming, I love reading them all. I will be adding more of what you guys are asking for as I go on I promise. This chapter is a little short but I wanted to give you something.
Chapter 9
Jasper picked her up from the floor and brought her into his living room and placed the Princess gently on to the sofa, she was out cold all Jasper and Robert can do now is wait.
Helena was running around with the help of Rachel trying to get all of the last minute details together for the funeral. It was to be held tomorrow she wanted to get this behind the Monarchy as soon as possible. She stopped for a moment she needed a second to catch her breath she went into her sitting room and began to think about things keeping herself busy was her only way not to feel the agony and pain of the losses of both her husband, her son and her lover. As the tears began to fall she heard footsteps coming from behind her. It was the clanking of heels on the marble floor it startled her for a moment.
"Your Majesty!" Rachel called from behind Helena.
Quickly wiping her eyes and taking a deep breath hoping Rachel wouldn't realize she was crying, "Yes, Rachel, what is it?"
"I just got a call from Fiona and was told I needed to take a look at D-throned. You aren't going to like this very much." Rachel hands the Queen the tablet.
Helena's eyes begin to widen, it was almost as if panic had come across her face. "Where is Eleanor? Find her Rachel. NOW!"
"Yes, your Majesty."
"Oh and Rachel tell Fiona there is not comment. Not one comment comes out of the Palace about this! If anyone from the Palace comments they will be fired. You hear me. Off you go! Find her!"
"Yes, your Majesty." Rachel took off trying to find someone anyone who would know where she was, she began texting and calling the Princess, but it just kept going straight to voicemail. Rachel knew her next step after calling Fiona and conveying the Queens wishes that she had to call James.
It took Eleanor quite a while to begin to open her eyes. Jasper ran over to her and help her slowly sit up and asked, "Can I get you some water Len?"
All Eleanor could do was nod she sat slightly hunched over with her head in her hands, still quite dazed and confused. Why did her head hurt? Jasper walked in and sat down next to her and handed her the tall glass of water she sipped it for a moment and she turned to him to ask, "Jasper, what just happened?"
"Lenny, its real, I am real!"
Eleanor looked startled. It sounded like him, he was the same height as her brother, but it didn't look like the boy she remember. His hair was long and slicked back, but he was clean shaven. He looks older than she remembered, but was she really seeing him. She started to curl up into the corner of the couch trying to pinch herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming… "Jasper, please tell me you see him?"
"Len, he's quite real. It's your brother Robert."
"How? Why? Is it really you? Where have you been all this time? And Jasper don't think you won't be dealt for your deception." Eleanor was surprised yet mad Jasper didn't drag her to his flat sooner.
"Lenny, I promise in due time you will know everything and for God's sakes don't take it out on him. He's only known for two days. I told him he was not to tell you. So, Boone tells me he contacted you about killing me. As you can see I am alive and well. I tried to tell you sooner, but things got a little crazy as of late."
"That's quite the understatement Robbie!" Eleanor starkly replied with a little chuckle and asked, "When did you try to contact me before?" Eleanor looked puzzled still.
"Well, love it wasn't you I tried to reach out to. It was Jasper. Do you remember the day that you were being followed by Boone and older bloke?" Jasper nodded he had an idea where this was heading, "Well I was the one following Boone followed him for weeks actually. I found out he was the person who crashed my plane remotely. I figure if he could cold bloodily kill a man by doing that he was worth hiring for protection plus he is now indebted to me for not having him arrested. But when I heard the older bloke say you were in love with Eleanor. I knew you were the one I needed to talk to not him."
"The older bloke you refer to brother's name is James. He was my security detail," Len just was trying to wrap her head around things. "Please don't think I am not happy to see you Robbie, I am! I am beyond the moon happy. I am just very, very confused right now. Where have you been all this time?"
"I needed to do some digging Lenny. But I haven't come up with much on my own. I need your help." Robert walked over and hugged her. "I missed you so much dear sister."
Eleanor was so happy she was crying tears of joy that she soaked Robert's shirt as she hugged him and then pulled away, "But Robbie why me? Why now? Why not just come back to the Palace?"
"Because dear sister you would never hold back the truth from me. I knew someone in the Palace had attempted to have me killed, I didn't know who I could trust. I always knew I could trust you. I need to know everything, please don't spare any details Lenny! First how did Cyrus take the throne and not Liam or you? I am quite fuzzy on the details."
"Robbie, this one very long shit storm of a story, I hope you have time for it. But first let me send off my security detail. There's no point making them wait all night for me."
Eleanor had forgotten she turned her phone off none of this was what she expected, she had thought she was stopping by to shag Jasper real quick and talk about things and convince him to come back to the Palace with her.
In a matter of 30 seconds of turning her phone on it began to buzz oh no she thought the worst what's happening now. Several messages also began to pop up from James and her mother before she could even read the texts or hear the voicemails, there was a knock on the door.
Jasper, Robert and Eleanor all looked at each other, like deer in headlights for a moment, did someone figure it out? Who could it be?
They needed to do something quickly, Jasper motioned for Robert to quickly hide in his spare room. Quickly he began messing up his hair and taking off his shirt, Eleanor for a split second just watching him thinking damn he's sexy and then all of a sudden something hit her in the face it was Jasper's shirt…
Jasper walked up to Eleanor and whispered in her ear, "Take off your dress, put on my shirt, mess your hair up a little bit and go into my room mess up the bed, I'll come get you in a moment," Quickly Eleanor did as Jasper asked. Jasper got louder using his British accent, "Bloody hell who is it?" He opened the door abruptly, The Queen was standing in front of him.
"I've come to collect my daughter. You two made quite the stir in the tabloids today. Are you going to ask me to come in or are you going to make the Queen stand out in the hall all night?"
Jasper bumbling as he opened the door wider, "Yes, your Majesty please come in. Can I get you something to drink? Tea or water, ma'am?" Meanwhile Eleanor hearing all of this begins to panic for a moment, what about Robbie? The Queen can't know or find out not yet any way.
Robert hearing the sound of his Mother's voice wanted nothing, but just to run out and hug her take comfort in her. He missed his Mother through everything. But he can't let her know he is alive not yet anyway. Unfortunately, he needed to know more and he knew only Eleanor would tell him the truth and if his Mother were to get her way she won't let Lenny tell him everything.
The Queen stepped in and Jasper closed the door. He's going to have some very nosey neighbours asking questions later since now two members of the Royal family showed up at his door tonight.
"No thank you Jasper, I've just come to collect my daughter. Eleanor get out here and you better have clothes on."
Eleanor walked out wearing Jasper's button down grey shirt, he thought to himself damn she looks sexy in everything, even sexier in his clothes and she isn't even trying, if the Queen wasn't standing there and if her brother wasn't in his spare room she wouldn't be wearing a stitch of clothing for days.
"Mum, what are you bloody doing here? I mean I just got the messages from you, James, and Rachel. I didn't even have a chance to see what they said, my phones been off, what in bloody hell is going on? Did something happen to Liam or Ophelia? Cyrus?"
"Eleanor, we have been calling you and messaging you for hours. It's almost Midnight!" Eleanor looked surprised she hadn't realized it was that late. "The press caught wind of you two dating quite some time ago, but never could find any proof, but after what happened at the King's Cup and Jasper suddenly leaving the Palace security detail, the Pap's have been following him hoping to catch you two in public together. And you two certainly have given them a story today. Which I am well aware is quite different then what they are spinning."
Helena sat down on Jasper's couch and continued, "But with you sitting outside the Palace last night, Jasper. Plus your stunt in the dressing room today and as well as you shopping with Ophelia for baby clothes and wedding dresses they are having a field day. Oh and then them getting photos of you coming into his apartment building and the fact that you haven't left yet. They are saying I banished you for having an affair with a staff member and you've only been at the Palace for good press."
Jasper and Eleanor looked at each other in silence for a moment letting everything sink in, Helena spoke again, "Jasper, I think I'll take that cup of tea now! Thank you!"
"Mum, honestly first things first we are not getting married, not even close, and I am not pregnant. Until today Jasper and I had not been involved physically for almost 6 months and I initiated what happened in the dressing room I should know better. I'm sorry and Ophelia asked me not to tell you, she is the one who is pregnant. They aren't ready for it to be announced to anyone as you are already releasing her engagement to Nick after the funeral and the job offer you gave her, which I am quite sure she is going to accept we spoke about it today while we were shopping."
Robert sitting in a chair in the spare bedroom trying not to get angry as he hears his mother talking about the events of that day. He asked Jasper to contact his sister not defile her and make a public spectacle of themselves. And the fact that his sister and Mother so casually allowing Ophelia to stay in their lives her father was the man who murdered their father and tried to kill him. Robert blood boiled with anger. He stood up and walked to the door and grabbed the handle.
