Queen Clarisse walked into her office, it was a busy time of the year and neither she nor her husband King Rupert seemed to get a break at any point. if paperwork didn't pile up, then there was some sort of official representation they had to attend. She was tired, she was so tired that she felt sick. Clarisse sank down in her chair with yet another bill they both had to take into consideration.

'I might as well call for Rupert now." she thought and leaned forward to call her assistent.

"Marie, would you be a doll and get Georg on the line and have him send Rupert to my office?" with the polite answer from her aide she allowed herself to lean back and close her eyes for a short minute.

When a knock on her door sounded, she realized that she had taken a powernap, Clarisse quickly shook her head and called 'Entré'

When the door open she was ready with a soft smile to greet her husband, but the expression quickly changed to surprised, at the sight of the kings aide.

"Excuse me your majesty, but I have been unable to locate the King for the past hour at least, and due to the fact that I couldn't find him, and the knowledge from the last search of him, I expected him to be with you."

"You don't know where the king is George?" Clarisse looked at him with big questioning eyes.

"No your majesty as I said, I thought he was with you."

The image of a distressed George who caught them in a heated kissing session in her office less than a week ago, flashed before her eyes and brought a blush to her cheeks.

"I see - uhm sorry again George . but does his security at least know where to find him then? a smiling Clarisse asked.

"I have just requested their knowledge - and all came back negative, so everybody is searching now." George looked down at his feet while slightly bowing.

"Well then we better all help out." She panicked a little and hoped that this was just another of Ruperts little demonstration against being followed and no privacy, but her heart rate went up a notch as she left her office to go look.

Twenty minutes later she entered the terrasse, softly calling his name, and just before she turned to leave again, she was shoot in the rear with a plastic arrow.

"What…" Clarisse bend down and collected the arrow while looking over from where the shot must have come. She heard soft giggling, smiling she approached the large planters, quickly registered it must come from her sons, and the soft rumble that accompanied the giggles, was detected as Ruperts laugh.

"There you are, Rupert the whole palace is looking for you - what are you doing?" She lifted the big leaves from the plants hiding him. Once lifted she was meet with the smiling faces of her three boys.

"mommy we are on a safari, and you where the beautifully uhm… reindeer." tiny philip said

"gazelle philip, gazelle!" her oldest pierre corrected

"hello darling!" Rupert smiled and winked at her.

Clarisse but both hands to her sides and tilted her head and was about to softly scold Rupert, she loved that he always found time to play with the boys like a father should, but here she was missing out on family time because she didn't ditch her job for playtime, which meant their adult time became more limited due to late readings of official papers. But just as she was about to start…

"quick Pierre, Phillip pull in our catch, I think I hear a ferocious lion approaching." Rupert helped the boys pull their mother in between the plants the was covering the walls on the terrasse. Clarisse instantly started laughing.

"Mommy you have to be quiet or they finded us quicker!" Phillip scolded

Clarisse tried to stop her laugh as she sat down on the floor, hiding from the staff she had ordered around to find the king, with her boys.

"Maman you are noisy" Pierre looked at her with the same look she often send him and his brother when noises got too loud, and that didn't help her giggles.

"sorry sweet cheek!" she tried

"Don't worry boys I will get this gazelle to be quiet, you two just keep a look out for the predators." Rupert said and both boys smiled and the boys gave each other a double thumbs up before the boys turned from their parents.

Clarisse kept giggling as Rupert turned to her and pulled her into his arms, he lowered his head towards her, and just before his lips touched hers, he quickly shoot the boys a look, both where expertly hiding them all with the big leaves.

"Now i will finish this hunt." Ruperts eyes smiled at her as he again lowered his head, this time capturing her lips in a hungry kiss, perfectly stopping her giggles just as Georg entered the terrasse looking for, now, the entire royal family.