Kristoff wasn't necessarily pleased as he slipped on the suit jacket he was being forced to wear tonight. He would never get used to wearing dress clothes, and if it weren't for the fact that Anna had practically begged him to come, he would've spent the night in his room. He was expected to be there even though he and Anna were not married. He was not the Prince of Arendelle, and yet their engagement had made it practically so.

Now he was expected to be at every event put on by the palace, he had to be around to entertain guests and speak to people. Never mind the fact that he had no interest in doing so, since he was soon to be the consort of the crown Princess, Anna of Arendelle, beloved by all himself included, he was required to be at tonight's ball. Despite the lessons he had been forced to take on the ways of the aristocracy and generally his duties as the future Prince of Arendelle the single thing that gave him the strength to put on uncomfortable clothes and go to a stuff event was Anna and the smile he knew would undoubtedly be on her face.

Smoothing back his hair and fixing the sash he wore, Kristoff took a deep breath. He knew that this wasn't what he wanted to do tonight, but he knew he had to do it for Anna's sake at the very least. Looking in the mirror he gave himself the peptalk that he would have had with Sven had he had the time to visit the stables before going off to the event. "Look, it's just one night, a few hours. Be what Anna expects, be the Prince she sees instead of the ice harvester you are." He wasn't nervous for Anna however, he was never insecure with her, but at the same time he wanted to make her proud. She had fallen in love with him for him just as she had fallen for her for her, not because she was the Princess of Arendelle or because she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met, but rather because she made him smile and her spirit made his heart soar. He was far from Princely, but for tonight he would try, only to prove to himself and all others that if he didn't belong in the royal world, he did belong with her.

Taking a final inventory of himself before he walked through the door he couldn't help but feel as if perhaps Sven would've been able to give a far better pep talk than he had given himself. When it came to him and his reindeer pal, Sven's faces and actions almost always spoke louder than Kristoff's words.

Anna stood in the hallway awaiting Kristoff's arrival. She wrung her hands and sighed, fluffing her dress and smoothing her hair. She wasn't the type to stress about anything, but honestly she couldn't calm herself down at the moment. She had never had weight on her shoulders before, well at least not like Elsa did, and now she had to introduce her fiancé to the important men and women of Arendelle and beyond. This was the last thing that she had wanted, and Elsa had respected their wishes to keep their love life private. However once the Princess had gotten engaged and the word had gotten out, it was expected by all the dukes, duchesses, lords, ladies, merchants, and foreign powers that they would celebrate. Anna was not ashamed of Kristoff, and she would never be anything but herself and as such she never expected him to act any different than who he was, but these people did and she didn't want to shame Elsa.

The last time they had had a party where Anna had been engaged had ended catastrophically, and though they had both grown a lot since then, she didn't need people drawing unnecessary parallels to that day. Of all the things Anna was, she was not unintelligent, she knew there were those, the scorned Duke of Wesleton or the humiliated Prince Hans, who would do anything that they could to make Arendelle look weak or as if it was run by incompetent or dangerous monarchs. She knew that today, in the public eye, things needed to go right.

She heard the patting of dress boots before she saw him, and as her slender neck turned to face the approaching Kristoff, her worry washed away. He was handsome, as he always was, but somehow tonight he took her breath away. He cleaned up wonderfully, and in ways she could never even begin to explain. Everything about him was royal from head to toe, and if she didn't know him, and know him better than most, she would have confused him for a visiting dignitary. But one thing gave him away, certainly to the second glance, and that was the light in his eyes, the worry and the fascination that Anna saw in his eyes made him different than any stuffy aristocrat she had ever met before.

He touched her bare shoulder and Anna felt the heat of his fingers. It made her melt almost instantly and just his presence was making her feel strong and secure. Royals be damned, if they could not see why she loved Kristoff and what an amazing Prince he would be, hardworking, loving, caring, understanding, and above all someone who lived as a citizen of Arendelle his entire life, Anna believed that they didn't matter. If it came down to dissenters asking questions of her judgment upon her engagement with him, she would gladly renounce her royal title and move to the Mountains with Kristoff. She adored him, and nothing would ever change that.

Kristoff touched Anna softly, once the doors to the grand ballroom opened and they were announced, he knew that he would not have the time to comfort her, or get comfort from her as they both desperately needed. It had only taken him a moment to see the stress in Anna, an emotion he had never truly seen in her before as she was always so confident and brave in front of him, but he didn't judge her for feeling nervous, he was feeling the same way.

"Nervous?" Anna asked, as if she were reading his thoughts, which he didn't doubt. She did know him so well that reading his mind would just be one step further than where they were.

"Yeah." He was honest with her; there wasn't any other way to be because if he lied to her, she would know it. "You?"

Anna knew the answer as soon as he had asked it, but she took a moment to look thoughtful before turning to him and standing up on her tippy toes. "Not since you got here." She brought both her hands to the sides of his face and tugged him down to her level, as even on her toes she could not completely reach him. She kissed him, passionately and with everything she felt for him. It was a kiss of love and a kiss telling him not to worry, that he was everything she wanted and more.

It was in that moment, mid kiss that the doors swung open to reveal their very private moment to hundreds of onlookers, causing them to break apart prematurely to a shocked silence. Anna blushed scarlet as she was forced to face so many slack jawed onlookers, and Kristoff, being as protective as he always was, immediately pulled her to his side, and wrapped her up in his arms. So much for trying to act to the constraints of society, but he would not let anyone before him judge Anna for the kiss they had just shared because frankly he wanted the whole world to know that he was in love with her, and he was not ashamed of that.

Suddenly, however a clapping arose, soft and first, but gaining power throughout the crowd as more and more people joined in, some clapped, others cheered, and some even broke the rules of propriety more by whistling. Kristoff was frankly speechless and a shocked Anna, unhid herself from his side. She was willing to bet that it had been her sister that had saved her, but she was unsure as she saw Elsa, smiling demurely beside a royal couple from across the sea, a couple that had been married years before and a couple that had attended Elsa's coordination.

"Is that?" Anna asked looking in their direction.

"Pretty sure." Kristoff responded breathlessly in shock as they were announced and walked into the room amidst the cheers of the crowd."Well you know they're a bit like us, she's royal, he's common."

"Well there is another difference." Anna said quietly so that only Kristoff could hear her, "If the rumors are true, he was a thief."

Kristoff smiled, running a thumb over the hand he now held, "Well there have been stranger couples."

So I would be lying if I said I hadn't been dying to write a Tangled cameo for months, I saw it before I saw Frozen and as a heart faced, brown haired gal with a pixie cut I do love Rapunzel. What better way to add her in than to have her cheering on the love of Kristoff and Anna. Sorry these posts have been so crazy late, still on my parents laptop sadly, though my very own knight in shining armor should be bringing me my laptop back from University tomorrow. He's literally the best, and now that I'm already getting mushy on you all I have to say that he makes everything I do possible, especially my fanfics. He reads them, although it's hardly his cup of tea, and he corrects my spelling, grammar, and others little oops moments before they get posted. So thank you to all of my followers and readers, and to you Adam, you are the light of my life.