Songs: "I Won't Say I'm in Love"/ "Something There"

Original Movies: Hercules / Beauty and the Beast

Author's note: Please do not think I'm cheating! I wrote the whole Naveen part with "I Won't Say I'm in Love" in mind and meant to do the same for Tiana's part, but then I realized this particular drabble fit both songs, and if I were to do the two prompts separately it would have been redundant. I sincerely apologize if this bothers anyone.

During the movie

Naveen's Side:

Naveen was not the least bit bothered by his attraction to Tiana. She was a very beautiful woman, and he had been glad to have found such a pretty princess to kiss him. Once she transformed into a frog as well, he assumed his continued attraction was either because he knew what she looked like as a human or possibly his frog form getting the better of him. Frogs do tend to be attracted to other frogs, after all.

He'd had crushes before. None of those heart-pounding, head-spinning torrid affairs, but there was attraction, and the high that came from a girl fawning all over him. And that was what was catching him off balance now. He'd struck out with the waitress he'd attempted to make eyes at earlier today (for he still had not realized it had been Tiana), and now Tiana had rejected him as a frog.

"Really," he mumbled under his breath, after Tiana threatened his life if he got too close during the night. "She acts as though I am a bigger threat to her than the alligators are…" the next part he made certain she could hear. "It is not like a waitress is going to do much better! I am a prince!"

"You're still a frog, rich boy," Tiana snapped. "And I am not letting your slimy self get anywhere near me."

"It is not slime, it is mucous!" He once again insisted. "And you yourself are covered in it!"

The next night when Tiana went to sleep, Naveen stayed up. Which is how he overheard the conversation their new traveling companions, Ray and Louis, were having about them.

"I'm not sure I see it," Louis admitted. "Are you sure those two like each other?"

"Shooooooot," Ray drawled out. "Better question be how you don't see it. You known 'em longer than I have."

"By a few hours," Louis muttered.

"They a stubborn pair. Evangeline even think so," Ray gave a jerk of his head toward the Evening Star. "You saw 'em dancin' together, same as I did. What you think that was about?" He paused, letting the gator consider. "They head over feet for one another, that's for sure."

Louis nodded. "Now that you mention it, I suppose you could be right. Could be why she pretends to hate him…"

"See, now you catchin' on," Ray nodded his approval. "She don't even know she like him yet…"

"What about Naveen? Does he know?"

Naveen thought about cutting in on the pair's conversation to inform them that while Tiana's affections could not be helped (who would not fall for someone as dashing and charming as he was? Even as a frog, he retained his princely manner, after all), he certainly had no feelings other than lingering attractions for the waitress. The feelings would go away, he was certain. But Ray responded before Naveen could, and the answer knocked him off balance.

"Shoot. Cap don't even realize he in love with her! You see the way his face fell when she pulled away from the kiss? Cap looked heartbroken."

"Does she love him back?" Louis was leaning forward now, his front claws held together by the side of his face, which now sported an oddly romantic look. Had Naveen not been so thrown off by what Ray had said, he would have found the alligator's interest in love stories rather entertaining.

"Well, I don't know," Ray admitted. "I know she like him, but I can't say if she loves him. But whatever she feel toward him, she's fightin' it like nobody's business."

Naveen had never considered the prospects of love before. He spent several hours that night telling himself that Ray and Louis simply had it wrong. By the time they reached Mama Odie, he was starting to think their theory might have some validity, but it was the old witch who really drove the point home.

Tiana may have missed the point, but Mama Odie's message was not wasted on Naveen. He left the voodoo woman's house with a new realization. He needed to be with Tiana. Not because she had money (she most certainly did not), not because she was beautiful (though that was an added bonus, he had to admit), but because he loved her. She made him a better person, and for once, he really liked who he was on the inside, rather than just what he looked like.

Tiana's Side

Tiana had never met someone she found so frustrating. Naveen was somehow rude and polite all at once, and his womanizing ways irked her. Far worse was his laziness. At first, it seemed that everything he did and said made her dislike him all the more. He expected her to do all the work and for a while he kept calling her 'waitress' instead of by her name.

But she'd taught him how to mince, and he'd taught her how to dance. He was a quick learner, she had to give him that, and he did listen very closely to her when she explained how to do it. And she had been flattered when he told her she was secretly funny. Things progressed, and she started to feel a softness towards him. She shooed the thoughts away, insisting to herself that they were merely friends.

Of course, almost kissing him after they danced was evidence to the contrary, but Tiana decided not to think too much on that.

She wasn't paying quite as much attention at Mama Odie's as Naveen was. Tiana was a self-driven woman, and while she certainly didn't mind getting advice, Mama Odie had actually distracted her by showing her the image of her father. Seeing her own memory displayed that way only served as a reminder of the hard work she promised her father she'd do.

When he brought her to the top of the river boat, she had recognized the scene as something sweet. She knew it was romantic, and that was part of the reason she was in awe that Naveen would do something like that for her. She wondered why he kept tripping over himself, but she did assure him it was cute. She meant it.

When he'd walked away from her, after first promising to do anything to make her dream come true, something hadn't felt right. She thought it was kind of him to want to help her, so she didn't know why it was suddenly starting to bother her. She turned to Evangeline for help, and asked desperately for a sign.

She had come to realize her feelings for Naveen, but it did feel like she would have to make a choice. Her restaurant or him. She wasn't sure how he felt, and she'd been working so very hard for so very long… "Please, Evangeline, just give me a sign…"

When Ray let the secret out later – that Naveen was in love with her and wanted to marry her – Tiana was surprised just how easy it was to choose to be with him. She still wanted her restaurant, but they could work towards that together. Right now, all that mattered was getting to him, telling him how she felt, and getting themselves returned to normal…

Author's Note: I'm cutting off there because, well, I really don't want to recount the whole ending of the movie, and I feel this is a good place to leave off.