A/N: Here's another update! And sadly the story is almost coming to a close. I say seven or eight though I'm leaning more toward eight so I'll say eight. Eight more chapters to go!

I do not own PATF or its characters. Just my characters. Enjoy!

The Thrill Of It All II

Moving Pass Comfort

Several weeks passed since they're arrival and things have gotten better for Daniel since the trip. Max arrived and Daniel received brand new toys both handmade and from various toy companies. Tiana was amazed at how quickly Daniel seem to have adjusted. She herself wasn't cooping so well and that was due to being alone for most of the days while Naveen handled his royal duties. She tried to keep herself busy with Daniel and Max, and even kept her time occupied by helping out in the kitchen whenever needed and when the kitchen was occupied she went to reading and that got boring quick. So she decided to call her father since he was usually home more often they would talk about their lives and she enjoyed that, but today instead, Eudora answered and unlike her father who would have stay positive in their conversation, her mother wasn't as positive. And spoke mainly of her husband...

...

'Jacques is miserable without you babycakes.'

'Mama please stop talking about him!' Tiana said.

'Give him another chance!' Eudora begged.

Tiana closed her eyes and fought back her feelings. 'Mama I'm going to hang up.'

But her mother was consistent. 'Florence said that he's only been in his office and bedroom for the past few days.'

Tiana remained quiet as she listened on.

'All he thinks about is you and Daniel,' Eudora said. 'He misses y'all so much."

...

And Tiana would be lying if she wasn't missing him herself. It wasn't as if she loved her husband. She couldn't stand the man, but welcomed his company when he was there. Before he went back to his old ways he would hold her and ask if he could give her small massages which would lead to surprisingly pleasurable love making sessions, after a couple of drinks of wine of course. She was lonesome and the thought of her yearning for Jacques' presence scared her.

"I must be hungry," she said looking at a bowl full of purple grapes. Her stomach growled, so she took one and began chewing it. And another grape went into her mouth, and another until they were all gone.

She finished it off with a glass of water and sighed in guilt.

"What did I just do?" A sudden rush of déjà vu hit her...

...

'You actually ate all the fruit from this bowl?' A nineteen year old Jacques asked, annoyed.

Sixteen year old Tiana felt guilty but nodded her head.

'You disgusting fat pig!' he took the bowl and threw it against the wall. 'You're going to have to walk off all you ate. Not unless you want to spoil your dinner.'

'I was hungry and only ate an apple and two bananas! I am pregnant after all!' Tiana rubbed her small bump.

'And you're beginning to look like a fat pig!' Jacques walked over to her. 'Keep eating like this and you'll never get your figure back and that would mean I will have to divorce your pissed poor ass! There is no way in hell I'll have a slob in my arm.'

Tiana's eyes welled in tears as anger also build up.

Jacques snorted. 'The piggy is crying?'

Tiana turned her head away from him as he tried caressing her face.

'I thought that with our gala being tonight we'll announce the pregnancy,' Jacques then kissed her cheek. 'You won't be there for long with you getting as big as a house already.'

'I'm three months pregnant! And Florence said that I'm barely showing!' Tiana pointed out before getting slapped and falling onto the floor.

'Clumsy girl...,' he helped her up. 'Sit down...' and pulled out a beautiful violet sheer evening gown and a matching cape. 'You will be wearing this tonight.'

Tiana watched him leave the room as her lower back began aching...

…

She lost the baby that evening and her husband didn't take the news well blaming her for her 'clumsiness' and dragging her to the gala where he drank throughout the night before leaving with another woman.

"Ugh" she shuddered at the memory of him returning a month later wanting to 'try again'. How could she miss him after all the pain he gave her?

"So you finished the grapes without me!" Naveen teased, walking in her suite.

Tiana put her hand on her tummy, "I'm sorry," she looked at him apologetically.

"I was joking," Naveen sat beside her on the bed, noticing her expression. "Hey, what's up?"

She shook her head. "It's nothing..."

"You're lying," Naveen smiled, rubbing her back. "Now tell me, mi benita. What is going on with you?"

"I ate all the grapes and..." she stood up. "I ruined my dinner and have to walk this off."

"Walk what off?" Naveen laughed. Not understanding her behavior. "They were only a bowl of grapes. You're acting as if you ate a feast for seven!"

"But don't you see...," She stood in front of him, expecting to hear criticism.

Naveen stood and walked over to her. "I do..."

Tiana sighed, closing her eyes as his arms wrapped around her.

"I see the most beautiful woman in the world in my arms," he kissed her neck.

"You don't think I'm...fat?" she asked.

"Fat?" Naveen laughed and quickly regretted it when he saw that she was being serious. "I do not think you are fat. Especially after eating a bowl of grapes. If anything you look even more beautiful for actually eating! These past several days have been pretty chaotic."

"Yes, they have," she agreed and admitted. "I guess I'm feeling a little homesick."

"James already said that he and Eudora were alright," Naveen reassured.

"And that Jacques is depressed," she added, seeing Naveen's looks of disgust. "My mom answered the phone today and brought him up."

Naveen hated that she even mentioned the man's name. "As he should be depressed. Though I rather he repeatedly gets run over by a damn train!"

Tiana rolled her eyes. "Naveen I know that you hate him and you have a great excuse—

"There are no excuses," Naveen interrupted, wrapping an arm around her. "The man is rotten!"

"And Daniel's father!" Tiana felt irritated by his contact and moved away. "Who's been asking about him."

Naveen felt offended by her action. "You've been talking to him?"

"No, it's just that...my mother told me that he misses me and Daniel...especially Daniel," she answered.

"Not as much," he wasn't convinced. "Tiana why are you suddenly thinking about him as if he's this great man? After all that he's done to you!"

"It's not that I'm thinking that he's a great man Naveen! But you have to remember that we still share being Daniel's parents," she said, defensively.

"With everything you've mentioned on how he ignores and shuns that boy off. I doubt he even cares for the boy!" Naveen said.

"But Daniel is three years ago and only remembers his father buying him all his favourite toys. He's never witness his father hitting me. The most he's seen was a couple arguments," she didn't even think about the moment Daniel walked in on Jacques assaulting her.

Naveen sighed in frustration. It was pointless fighting with her over Jacques and wondered if her feelings for the man were stronger than she realized.

Tiana could tell that he was frustrated and linked her arm with his. "Really Naveen I don't want to fight about this."

"And I don't either, but you have to make a choice here Tiana," Naveen said, looking straight into her eyes. "Return to him or stay with me. But know that I won't bother you again if you end up back with him."

"Naveen—

"I'm a king! Not some fool who will let you take their heart and stomp on it!" Naveen exclaimed as his pride was coming out. "I refuse to share you with him or any another man!"

Tiana stepped forward some more to caress his face. "I want you. Its always been you. Every time he would kiss me I thought of you. Every time he takes in his bed...," her voice cracked as her eyes watered up. "...I thought of you. When he leaves me to be with whores I think of you...," she breathed. "I love you."

Naveen caressed her face and pressed his lips onto hers. He then lifted Tiana in his arms and carried her to her bed where his lip moved further down her neck...

"Can we just cuddle?" she asked, wiping away her tears.

"Cuddle?" he asked, surprised and disappointed.

"Yes, I really need to feel your arms around me," Tiana really wasn't in the mood and hoped he understood.

"You must be very depressed," Naveen said. "I thought that with you being here that you'd finally find happiness." He spooned behind her.

"I am happy," Tiana said, telling the half truth and hating herself for doing so.

"I know that I am very busy with my duty as king but know that I will make time for you and Daniel." he kissed her cheek. "I wear my title, it doesn't wear me."

Tiana nodded her head.

"And once you become queen and Daniel prince..."

"Queen?" Tiana's eyes widen. "I'm going to be a queen?"

"Of course!" Naveen said. "After you marry me—

"But I'm still married!" she exclaimed, growing paranoid.

"We will take care of that," he raised a brow.

"No!" Tiana sat up and covered her face. "I'm so sorry. I don't know what's gotten into me."

Naveen didn't know either. "Are you having second thoughts on being here?"

"Of course not! I'm..." she began playing with her ring.

Naveen frowned. "And when are you going to take off that ring? I thought you'd get rid of it the moment we left New Orleans."

"It's hard to move on pass it," she admitted. "I've had this sing since I was fifteen and it symbolized a lot for me."

"Like who? Your son? Or do you really mean Jacques?"

Tiana groaned in frustration, pulling off the wedding ring and throwing it across the room. "Happy now?"

"Answer my question first," Naveen had to make sure where Tiana stood.

"I will say that I do miss Jacques, but it's not love," she told him. "There's a little part of me who still yearns for him. And I have no idea why."

Naveen really hated hearing her truth but was also satisfied that she wasn't keeping anything from him. t least what she wants to tell him.

But then thought of someone he met before came to mind.

"I remember going into town and meeting this village woman several months ago. She was an older fortune teller and accurately predicted everything from me, you and us...why don't I bring her over and she can talk to you. Help you with whatever attachment you still have with...him. Besides Daniel."

Tiana frowned. "Who is she?"

"A witch of some sort...not professionally but she knows what she's doing. And she is from New Orleans. Her name is Odie. Mother Ode I think," Naveen said.

"I don't know..." she felt uneasy about involving herself in any form of psychic.

"When I saw her she told me that we will end up together and showed me three different alternate worlds where no matter what happened to us we always ended up together," Naveen explained.

"I don't know about that...," Tiana shook her head and he sighed.

"Try it for me. She is good and will lift your spirits since I'm doing such a lousy job," he gave her a puppy dog look.

Tiana smiled. "You are already making me feel good with your body press against mine like this."

Naveen raised a brow. "How much?" he asked.

Tiana bit the bottom of her lip before looking up at him. "Like this..." she rolled until she was facing him. "And like this..." she pressed her lips onto his.

"Achidonza..." Naveen began unbuttoning the back of her dress. Forgetting all about the conversation they had a moment before.

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