This has been sitting on my USB for a while. I wrote a Beck/Eleanor one-shot and had to write a Jasper/Beck one-shot. Wish they met up again after Beck and Eleanor broke up cause I felt that Jasper would have said something about Eleanor facing the reporters alone.

Her Royal Highness

Jasper Frost felt the unmarked car pull up to the location Prince Liam texted him early on in the evening, he glanced out the window, and was about to exit the car when he felt his phone vibrate. He fished his mobile out of his pocket and smirked when he read the name on the screen. He unlocked his phone and typed a quick message before slipping the phone back in his pocket.

Afterward, he leaned forward and said to the driver, "I'll text you when we are ready to leave." The driver nodded in response before he pushed open the car door and stepped out into the Autumn air.

Jasper tilted his head up and back slightly to read the name of the pub. He smirked and briskly walked up to the building and entered the pub.

Jasper eyes scanned the quiet pub and spotted the three people he was meeting up that evening. He walked towards the back of the pub where the men were playing a game of darts. He shrugged out of his leather coat and draped it on the back of a chair where the men had set their drinks.

"Sorry, Len wouldn't let me leave until I agreed to take the car with the driver," Jasper said. "How was the meeting with the PM?"

Liam smirked, "Told you to agree with Len… She rather be late to her own party with the girls than let you leave without the driver."

"That's because she wants me to test the new guy. You know how she is with new personal assigned to her. How many security details has she fired since James, your promotion?" asked Jasper with a smirk.

James through his dart at the board before he said, "Ten and it's only been three months. Maybe I should let you hire her new security detail, Frost."

"She'll make the new guy sweat before the hour is up… but I might know a guy or two that can handle her," Jasper replied.

Marcus who was going against James in their dart game cleared his throat and said, "Guys, I love the Princess as much as you but I thought you said this was Guy's Night. Can we save Palace talk for tomorrow morning?"

"Sorry, mate," said Liam who then walked up to the board and removed James's red darts and walked to where James stood. He turned to Marcus and said, "2 out of 3?"

Twenty minutes later Jasper smirked as Liam handed Marcus his darts. Liam took a swig of his second beer and as he set the glass bottle on the table said, "I'm starting to think you're cheating"

Jasper shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm just really good."

Marcus smirked asked and said to Jasper, "The Prince is just really bad at darts… You should see him when he is really buzzed. Everyone runs out of the way."

Liam took another swig of his beer and said, "You are so lucky I need you as my security detail. If not, I'd fire you this instant."

As James talked back to their table to get his beer, his felt someone staring at him. He picked up his beer and turned around to face the open space of the pub. His dark eyes scanned the almost empty place as he drank the liquid in the bottle. There were only a few tables with people. As his eyes traveled over the customers, he walked over to where Jasper stood.

He leaned forward slightly and said in a lower whisper, "Looks like you have a guest."

Jasper handed James the darts in his hand and took James's now empty beer bottle. "Would you like a refill?" he asked as he turned to see who James was talking about.

"Yeah another one for me. Would the rest of you like another round?" James asked as he took over Jasper's spot in the dart throwing competition.

Liam nodded and Marcus agreed before Jasper walked away from the group and towards the bar.

Jasper set the empty beer bottle down on the counter and said to the bartender, "Two rounds of beer." He then sat down on the empty stool and turned to face the person who caught James's attention.

The man nodded his head at Jasper and took a swig of his beer before he said, "Frost… Didn't expect to see you. Heard the Lenny was throwing a party tonight."

"Beck… Wasn't expecting to see you here either. The party is girl only… Liam's girl, Willow is hosting it and banned all the men…"

"I see…" Beck took another swig of beer.

The men fell silent for a few minutes before Beck said, "So word around the House of Lords is that Lenny is engaged… Congratulations are in order, I presumed."

"Word gets around the House fast… Didn't think the house would hear about it until after this weekend?" Jasper said.

Beck gave a smirk and said, "You know how stuffy old Lords can be. They live on gossip, especially from the Royal Family… and from the Princess … Our once famous party Princess is about to get tied down, of course the old men are going to talk."

"Well word won't get out to the public for a few weeks or so… Len wants to make sure the staff keeps everything we plan low profile…" Jasper said as he removed his gaze from Beck and watched as the bartender place the bottles of beer he orders into a bucket.

Jasper turned to head towards Beck just as Beck smirked and chuckled to himself. "What's so amusing?"

Beck shook his head. "Nothing… I just never though Lenny would be the marrying type. She never liked to listen to anyone…"

"No she doesn't seem like that marrying type… I was shocked myself when she agreed. I don't know much about the relationship you two have or had but I do know she loved you for a long time… That she was willing to give it all up back then for you. And I know that the two of you had a relationship for about two months after her father died but, things didn't work out," Jasper said as he glanced back at the bartender.

"She told you all that?" Beck asked.

"Some of it… The other stuff I knew cause Liam told me while I was his on his detail. Heard the break up didn't go well. You let her face the press by herself."

Beck inhaled deeply before he spoke. "We agreed that it was best and we weren't really ready for a relationship… That day… I did and I shouldn't have let her… I wasn't thinking…"

"You can say that…" Jasper glanced back at bartender, who now was placing two more bottles of beer into the bucket.

"You weren't there." Beck said as his eyes narrowed together, now glaring at him.

"You're right I wasn't there. If I was there I wouldn't have let her face them by herself."

"Cause it would have been your job to protect her?" Beck questioned.

"No," Jasper said firmly. "Not because it was by job… Because I love and care about her. Not because she is the Princess, but because she's Eleanor." He paused and then said, "If I knew that you were going to do that to her I would have never let her start a relationship you again."

"She wanted me," Beck countered as Jasper stood up from his stool.

"Yes and it's because I knew she would never let you go until she got to see where your relationship went that I let her be with you." The bartender handed Jasper the bucket, which Jasper took in seconds.

"Well I guess that's why got the girl at the end. Congratulations, again." Beck said before finishing off his beer and tossing some bills on the counter.

"Thank you. And I believe Len will be sending you an invitation to the engagement party"

"Would be to awkward if I showed up?" Beck asked.

"As an ex, yes. But as a friend, which I knew she still thinks of you as her friend… No. She'll be glad you came." Jasper said before walking back to the guys who were now current score.

The men arrived back at the Palace early in the morning. Once in the palace the men went their separate ways. Jasper walked through the silent halls and was headed to the Eleanor's wing of the palace when he noticed that one of the balcony doors was opened ajar.

His bodyguard training kicked in and he quietly walked towards the door. He slowly looked onto the balcony to see if there was any sign of an intruder and exhaled lightly when he saw Eleanor still in her party dress standing against the stone railing.

He undid two buttons of his shirt as he walked up to her and said, "Didn't expect to see you back so early."

Without turning around she said, "Didn't expect to be back so early either but, people spotted us and the security was having a hard time keeping the people away from us." She turned around, to face him and boosted herself on the railing. "That's why the club people should have let me use our security."

"That's because I wasn't there." Jasper said with a smirk as he boosted himself onto the railing next to her.

"How was your evening and how was the driver?" she asked

"Good, Joe isn't too bad… Not sure if he'll last long as your driver… You might have to break him in." Jasper replied

"Umm…" She paused and pressed her lips together for a second and then said, "James texted me. He said Beck was at the pub you guys were at."

He reached for her and linked their fingers together. "Should have known… Where you worried when he told you?"

She leaned towards him and rested her head on his shoulder. "I'd be lying if I said no. Yeah a little…"

"Don't worry, we just talked… about you… After all you are the only thing that we have in common."

"And how did it go?" she asked as she looked down at the interlocking fingers.

"We exchanged a few words and he congratulated you on the engagement," Jasper replied.

"Are you mad that I dated him?" she asked.

"Why do you think I'd be mad?… Len, he's someone you loved for a long time and I know from Liam that you had a thing for him. There was opportunity for you to find out where it would go."

Eleanor closed her eyes for a sound and then said, "I know but if I didn't let him back in that night he showed up I would have gone after you and something could have happened. Maybe I would have forgiven you sooner… Then that thing with Mandy would have never happened."

"And what if nothing happened that night I came to tell you I was back as Liam's security detail and you accepted my apology?" he asked.

"I just can't help but wonder if our relationship wouldn't have been so fucked up if certain things happened," she said in a whisper.

"Princess, it was fucked up the moment I left your room after my first day as your bodyguard. If it weren't, I would have never fallen in the bossy, sassy hot princess," he said with a slight chuckle.

"So you think I'm hot… because I'm the Princess?" she asked lifting her head off his shoulder.

"No, I think you're hot not only because you're the Princess but because you're Eleanor. The girl, who isn't afraid to kick CEOs in the ass if needed." He hopped off the railing and then said, "Come on Princess… I hear our bed calling our names."

She held out her hand for him to take before she hoped off the railing. "But it's only 2am…"

He grinned at her and said, "I didn't say we were going to sleeping… The new sheets came in and I thought we could break them in…"

Eleanor smiled as he pulled her close his body and said, "You read my mind, bodyguard. I guess I'll keep you around for a while." Then they walked out of the balcony area and made their way to their bedroom.