a/n: alight new story time! All mistakes are mine please forgive them.:) this is just Quinn chapter each princess will get own chapter to introduce them and then their meeting will come.:)

Disclaimer: Yeah, don't own glee, like, at all.

Karolyn/ Quinn

I ran my fingers through my smooth silky golden strands as I hummed a random tune. I stared at myself through the mirror almost physically wincing at what I saw. I am not what I remembered when I was a young girl carelessly flinging myself at the world. I wanted to travel the world to see everything one person could possibly see in a life time. But now I am blocked from the rest of the world, hiding behind the walls. I am the Princess of Australia and I am to be watched every minute of every day. This is a 'honor' I would never bestow on any of my enemies. When I was young I had no fear, I was careless to put it bluntly. I adventured the woods of the castle for hours never giving a second thought as to what might be lying in the shadows beneath the ivy. I reach for a wrinkled photograph that is tucked it the corner of my mirror and glare down at it. It is of my sister, Kylie, and me. We smile up at the camera our green eyes shining. Our face gleam with water since we had just ran out from the ocean. We could look identical if you took a glance but if you look a little closer you can see Kylie is much pretty than myself. Her hair is fairer than my own a sunshine sheen to it while mine is more a golden. Her eyes show her bubbliness while mine too me now, look like a sad carbon copy of me from the past.

I despise that smiling girl that looks so much like me, she didn't have to tuck herself away behind the walls of this place. But now since Daddy had to take the place after my grandpa had passed, we our never to feel the sunshine others can feel on their skin or breathe the same fresh air that others can whenever they choose. But I cannot else it is inside the castle or inside the large perimeter of the castle's garden.

Another thing about these place is no one my own age is here so there is no one to my friend. No one, not any one my age lives inside these walls. I know I am beautiful, I can see my reflection I am not unable to see. I notice my perfect features that nature my face. I have stunning green eyes that our light and highlighted by my darker lashes that brush against my high cheekbone when I close my lids. My nose is perfectly shape and delicate and even between my features. My lips our flushed a soft pink and our graced with a cupid's bow. My hair is golden and naturally curled that angle my cunning features on my face. This may sound conceded but it is the truth and I am a very blunt person. And it is not like I am the only one who thinks so ever one says it.

"Oh that, Karolyn, how pretty is she! She looks just like her mother, what a blessing! It's all she'll need in life, let me tell you."

I said mockingly towards my own reflection patting myself on the cheek like the old maids do here. I can't honestly say I am not flattered because, trust me, I am. It just, well, is that all I am to them? A pretty face who smiles politely like she was told to do ever since she was a young little thing. I can't help but think in distaste of was that why my parents had bared me? Just to raise a perfect little robot who has manners and fetches things for her parents a beck and call. Well that's not who I am, it seems more like Kylie than me.

Anyway, my beauty doesn't matter here anyhow. Why should it? There is no boys here besides the servants. According to mother I was honored at a young age to take responsibility of being a princess at so I had to give up my teenage years so I could fulfill my duty. More like dragged away from my childhood and was forced to grow much faster than anyone should have too. So if I can't have a boyfriend to accept and love me then what is all the primping for? The plucking of the eyebrows, the moisturizer, the nail polish, the hair tools, the dresses, the corsets. Who is it meant to make happy? Not me, parents so they can parade me around gloating at just how blessed they are. I know even without all this 'attention' to my face and body I'd be who God really intended me to be. Beauty isn't on the outside but rather the inside. And if a boy falls in love with you because of your looks he really doesn't love you at all. So, why all of this?

So, when mother came in a placed herself gracefully down on one of my plush sofa's that benefit my room I couldn't help but scowl only a little.

"No, Karolyn, you know a lady does not frown they smile and nod. Take that to mind and maybe one day you can make a good wife." My mother said curtly an even distance from me. Her hair was slicked back into a bun that was held up high on her head. She wore a cream colored gown that flowed lightly from her waist line. She was so different from me in every way. Even the way we dress is opposite. Me I was wearing the closest thing to bearable they'd let me. It was a soft mint colored dress which was a tight bodice and smooth silk material, which hung off my shoulders, for sleeves. It stopped at the ground but had a short train in the back. "I'd wish you would wear something more suitable for you, more elegant maybe instead of some sultry dress." I'd roll my eyes any other time but I was not in the mood to argue with her now.

"Please, mother will you put a sock in it?" I bit off angrily towards her. She cannot talk to me like that!

"Will you stop talking like such a hooligan? I blame it on all those American books you read! I am telling you it is lowering your IQ." She said stalely forming a hard line where her smile was replaced with.

"What do you want, mother? I'd much rather get back to my studies than fight with you." I said with a sigh as I walked over to my study desk and cracked open a notebook and started to scribble notes.

"Karolyn, Listen to me now, please." Mother said and I turned my body towards her shifting the chair slightly so I could face her. There was no smile or hard line but rather a quivering lip that was trying to hold back depressing news. Her eyes filled with tears and that is when I noticed this was not just her regular ridicule time.

"You must go into hiding we fear Karolyn. For it is for the safety of your life. You will leave in an hour. Pack your things that would not make you look anything more than a civilian. And take off that stupid diamond necklace I gave you, it would give too much away. Meet me in the corridor when you are finished. Yes?" My hand reached out to cling to the only thing I loved other than my family, my necklace my mother gave to me. I've held onto it ever since I was a baby. You'd never see me in a picture without it. This can't be true, she has to be lying. My eyes filled with tears and the tears ran down my faces like clear pebbles skipping down a surface. My mother ran a trembling hand under her eye to stop the tears that might have tracked down her face. She reached out to my face and brushed her fingers lightly against my cheekbone. She glanced back at me sadly before turning away regretfully and gliding out smoothly.

I stuffed as much memories as I could into a duffle bag and slowly made my way down the center staircase. I went slowly because I was trying to remember everything about the castle. But it was a waste and what did I want to remember anyways? How fun it was to sulk in my room for my whole childhood. And how depressed I will leaving my parents behind? I know they'll be here when I get back and that they couldn't be too sad to see me go I bet they don't even know my favorite color that's how good they are at getting to know their daughter. And trust me when I say I'm glad, I need breathing space from this place.

When I stepped out into the sunshine outside the walls of the castle I never felt freer in my entire life. Never felt like I could finally be myself more than I did just now.

I'm waiting in a large car with its windows blacked out in a dark garage. I just had gotten off the fifth plane I have taken today. I was jittered, well wouldn't you considering you had just left the only place you knew of had were being replaced into a whole different part of the world. Just now a handsome man with very curly hair slide himself onto the cool leather of the driver's seat. He shut the door behind him soundly and wasted no time cutting to the chase.

"Miss. Karolyn, I am your bodyguard for this arrangement and you are being place in Lima, Ohio for your own protection. You may not tell anyone your situation or your real name or real past. The only ones you may confide in me, the other agents and the other princesses." He spoke directly as he pulled out of the garage and peeled the car into the sun light. "We will be heading to the headquarters for now then get you placed and secured.

"Excuse me? You talked about other princesses, who are they?"

"The princess of Israel, Kenya, England, Spain, Russia, Thailand, Finland, and Egypt. Know any of them, Miss?"

"No. None." She said as she rested her head against the glass pain of the car. How distanced did her parents keep her from the outside world? She kind of felt slightly mad at them for keeping her away from girls that were just like her and knew how lonely it was.