Princess Elsa
by AJ Marks
Part 23
Lynn made her way into the activities celebrating Elsa’s birthday, a big event in the empire. It seemed like just about everyone was here, from politicians to celebrities, even foreign diplomats and royalty. Now she was moving around, talking with people she never imagined herself talking to a few months ago.
“Ah, so you’re the princess girlfriend,” another person asked, walking up to her. It slightly annoyed her to be called that, after all, she did have a name but understood that people would make associations instead of names, something Kristoff mentioned to her.
“Yes, Lynn,” she replied back giving her name.
“Is it true, how you two met?” he asked her.
“Depends on what you’ve read, but the official version, yes, we met while we were both on vacation,” Lynn replied back to him. There were a few other versions, including her stalking the princess but no evidence to such a thing. A tabloid had picked up that she was gay, and always had a slight crush on the princess. Lynn always snorted at that, like who wouldn’t?
“Perhaps I should go on vacation a bit more,” he replied with a chuckle. “Must be different for you, thrust into such a situation. I did it voluntarily by running for office. I look back and wonder what drugs was I on at that time.”
“Oh?” Lynn asked.
“Anything dirty in the closet will come out, and then to top it off the media will make up their own dirt,” he said, giving another chuckle. “Well, got to go mingle some more.”
With that he walked away looking for someone else to talk to as Lynn grabbed her drink. Elsa was doing some mingling as well, political hobnobbing as she called it. Turning around Lynn ran into the one person she really never wanted to see again.
“Well, I see you haven’t been dumped yet,” Kris said.
“Still living off other people’s coattails,” Lynn replied back.
“You’re a fish out of water,” Kris said. “You’ll see, you have no idea what royalty is even like.”
The comment made Lynn snort slightly at the boldness Kris was using.
“I doubt you know either,” Lynn stated.
“You’d be surprised, been going to her birthday parties for years now,” Kris said. “You could have come as well as my girlfriend.”
That caused Lynn to snort.
“Why come as your girlfriend when I can be Elsa’s girlfriend? And she’s a step up from you,” Lynn shot back.
Lynn huffed at the insult.
“Ah, there you are,” another voice said causing them both to look over to see Rapunzel walking over to them. “So nice to finally see you actually out with Elsa and not hiding the relationship anymore.”
“Yeah, it is nice,” Lynn replied, turning her attention to the princess. “It’s not as mysterious as it was when we were sneaking around, but very different.”
“Yeah, but now you don’t have to be careful,” Rapunzel said. “I still recall when you two first met. You dropped your phone in the water.”
“Don’t think I’ll live that one down, and seeing Elsa in a swimsuit,” Lynn replied.
“So, who is this?” Rapunzel asked, looking over at Kris.
“My ex-girlfriend Kris,” Lynn said, being diplomatic.
“Ah, the cheater,” Rapunzel said, earning a glare from Kris who decided to leave. Lynn could tell from her walk she was mad but didn’t care.
“Not very sociable,” Rapunzel said, even as another person joined them.
“Hey, who was that walking off, looked like she didn’t like you Punzel,” Anna said, giving her a hug.
“Her ex,” Rapunzel said with a smile.
“Oh, yeah, now that you mention it she did seem familiar, from the website. Looks worse in person, are you sure you were her girlfriend, doesn’t look like someone you’d hook up with,” Anna said looking back at the retreating form of Kris as she disappeared in the crowd.
“She found me, think she found out who my uncle was,” Lynn replied. “And with that she wanted to use me as a way to get closer to him.”
”Ah yes, that uncle,” Rapunzel said. “That was a shocker.”
“Surprised it didn’t get more attention,” Anna said.
“It was the way my uncle treated the press over it, and the fact I don’t like him either,” Lynn said, knowing she had one secret about him no one else knew about. It was too bad really but perhaps it was for the best, she was here not some jail cell if she followed him.
“Ah well, oh, that’s a bit interesting,” Rapunzel said looking off towards the dance floor.
Lynn looked over and scanned the people dancing before zeroing in on her girlfriend. She had mentioned she would probably do some dancing with others as a way to keep up relations with other empires, not that Lynn was for that. Elsa currently was dancing with Prince Ranald again and it seemed as if he had not yet learned his lesson on where to keep his hands.
Barely realizing it she moved away from Rapunzel and Anna, hearing them mutter something but never stopped her she made a beeline towards the two, her eyes staring as Elsa moved the hand only to have it move back down.
A large part of her wanted to break his hand for touching her girlfriend there. It seemed as people moved out of her way as she made her way to them before finally reaching them.
“I suggest you remove your hand,” Lynn almost growled causing Ranald to jump slightly and look at her. Elsa, broke away and moved closer to Lynn.
“It was just a dance,” Ranald replied, giving a slight shrug and smile.
“Yeah, even after she removed it?” Lynn said feeling Elsa wrap an arm around her and looked into her blue eyes.
“How about a dance with you instead?” Elsa asked.
Lynn had to change gears quickly as she considered the request.
“Sure,” she finally said, allowing herself to be led away and back into a dance.
Elsa seemed to take the lead, considering Lynn felt herself a bi unsure about this type of dancing, and she was still fuming over Ranald. However, it felt very nice to have Elsa in her arms.
*****
Lynn relaxed a bit after the party, retiring to the inner palace where she would stay the night in a guest room they had decided instead of trying to head on back home. Overall the evening had been wonderful and she had enjoyed herself, even with the dance.
Sitting in the back now with everyone it seemed almost surreal to her, especially calling the king and queen by a different name, at their insistence. The queen mentioned that anyone who is dating one of their daughters shouldn’t have to call them king or queen, or curtsy every time they were around. It made things, according to them, awkward.
Currently they were sitting on the sofa, Lynn actually had Elsa’s head in her lap and was idly playing with the long blonde hair. Anna and Kristoff were on the other sofa with Rapunzel and Eugene on the third, the king and queen were in another part of the palace.
“You know, I really enjoyed it when Lynn went marching across the dance hall after seeing Prince Ranald all over you,” Rapunzel said. The statement caused Lynn to groan but Anna to laugh.
“Oh yeah, people were parting to let you though,” Anna said with a giggle.
Lynn wanted to disappear.
“Hey, maybe it made it to the news?” Rapunzel said.
“I hate you all,” Lynn said playfully.
“Nope, won’t work, already get that a lot,” Rapunzel replied back to her with a smile.
“Great,” Lynn replied, seeing Elsa look up.
“I thought it was sweet,” Elsa said to her. “And saved me from having to move his hand every few seconds.”
“Can’t believe he was doing that to my girl,” Lynn said as the TV turned on and Rapunzel and Anna flipped thought the channels. Kristoff and Eugene appeared unfazed by it all merely watching the interactions.
Much to Lynn’s dismay they found a news station showing what happened. She tried to ignore what the reporter said and saw herself glare towards Ranald and step towards Elsa looking very much like a jealous lover. She had stopped and folded her arms upon reaching them and watched as Elsa had slipped from Ranald to step beside Lynn.
“Well, to be honest Glenn,” a female reporter said, “Prince Ranald had been taking liberties on where his hand was on the princess all dance long. I don’t blame Lynn one bit for her reaction and hope my husband would do the same thing.”
Lynn felt Elsa chuckle at that one even as she watched the interaction between them all. It wasn’t much later before Elsa had pulled her away to dance.
“Hope it doesn’t cause a problem when you deal with them later,” Lynn replied, wondering how it might be dealt with by Prince Ranald and others. She might have overstepped a line.
“I wouldn’t worry about it,” a new voice said, causing them all to look over to see the king and queen standing there. “I’ve already spoken with King Francious, he was actually fine with it. It appears Ranald has a habit of doing such things and has many complaints against him.”
Lynn wasn’t sure if she should feel relieved or not by what the king said.
“He tried it last time as well,” Elsa stated. “Even if I didn’t already have a girlfriend, he didn’t win any points with me.”
“I don’t think anyone will have a problem with this, I think Lynn acted like any lover would,” Anna said from where she sat.
“He probably was doing it because Lynn was a girl, some of them still think a proper man will solve a problem,” Rapunzel said causing Lynn to frown. She thought that attitude had long since died out.
“More like ego according to his father,” the king said, sitting down along with the queen. “Thinks anyone he wants will fall at his feet. Seems like after the All Hallow’s Dance he was miffed you didn’t fall at his feet Elsa.”
Lynn felt Elsa snort and straightened up.
“Yeah, right, I had other people on my mind that night,” Elsa said.
“And, from what I’m told, you had a rendezvous planned already,” the king said.
Lynn looked over to see Elsa blushing slightly.
“I really wasn’t too careful,” Elsa said.
“Well, I didn’t know about it until later, and wouldn’t have approved, but what’s done is done,” he said. Lynn thought she heard something in his tone, almost as if he was amused by what happened. After hearing some things from the Queen she felt sure he had done something like it as well when dating the queen.
“Overall, the party was a success,” the queen said.
“Yeah, they’ll be talking about that ‘rescue’ for the next couple of days,” Rapunzel said with a chuckle.
“Well, just so they know, they may dance with Elsa, but no touching like that,” Lynn said finally.
“I’m only glad it was Elsa and not Anna,” Kristoff said suddenly causing them all to look at him.
“Oh, why, what would you have done?” Anna asked, looking at her husband intently.
“Be pulling you off him,” Kristoff replied with a smile.
Silence greeted his statement as everyone seemed to consider his words before Elsa began to chuckle.
“What’s so funny?” Anna asked her sister.
“Oh, just imagining you slapping Ranald, and Kristoff restraining you,” Elsa said.
“I don’t think I’d have hit another prince,” Anna said.
“Oh, you would have,” Elsa said. “I’m pretty sure of it. It was starting to annoy me.”
“And if it annoying her, Anna would have done something about it already, cause we all know Elsa has almost unlimited patience,” Rapunzel said.
Lynn thought of that, wondering if they really knew Elsa because when it came to trying to bed her, Elsa seemed to have no patience at all.
Overall though, the night had been fun and she found herself looking forward to other events as well.
End part 23