After half their security had stepped off the plane, Prince Harry was finally able to depart. He didn't see why, if both England and Genovia had teleportation sites why they still had to go by plane - if they were still so concerned about security, wouldn't instantaeous transportation be safer? But if he knew his security team, they had probably taken that into consideration.
They took everything into consideration.
Waiting for them at the airport was a group of Genovians. Prince Harry searched them carefully and eventually found Princess Mia. It was only because he knew that she would be there that he could find her, her power being obscurity and all.
Odd power for a royal to have... but useful. Her personal security was probably minimal.
If only he had that luxury. But ooooooh nooooo. Being both royal and a mutant, and lacking in such a convient power like Mia's he had to have security coming out of his ears. England hadn't been as accepting as Genovia when they introduced equal rights for mutants.
Which was why they were here.
To tour Genovia and find out what they had going that they could introduce to England, to get the country to be more accepting of mutants. And who better to send to Genovia than England own royal mutant?
"Welcome to Genovia," said Princess Mia, greeting them. "I hope you enjoy your stay here."
"I hope so too," Prince Harry smiled.
They travelled to the palace where they would be staying, were shown their rooms and given time to settle in.
Not long therefare, Miette decided to enjoy her spare time with a walk through the palace gardens.
"Finished packing so soon?" Mia asked.
Miette jumped a little, not expecting her.
"Well, I... I do move at the speed of light."
"Cool. You're with Prince Harry, right? We met at that party a few months back?"
"Yes," Miette nodded, having a mental blank as to how she was supposed to address Mia.
All that royal protocol.
"It must be useful to move at the speed of light," Mia went on, completely oblivious. "You can get through all the nasty chores quickly, and then have plenty of time to do all the good stuff."
Miette grinned.
"Yeah, that's pretty cool. Unless what you mean by 'nasty chores' is work, which in my case is playing bodyguard to his majesty. Then you have no choice in the matter."
Mia laughed.
Tina
Tina came in from shopping and stopped short. Prince Harry. 10 feet away from her. A prince. A real prince. and dear Lord he was even cuter than his brother! Tina meeped and stood stock still, her mouth wide open.
Prince Harry
Prince Harry had finished his unpacking about half and hour ago, and was now exploring the palace. For a place built in the 1600's it sure had all the modern innovations.
He glanced around and spotted a girl staring at him.
Not here too.
Tina
The 17-year-old swallowed and smiled.
"Hi. I'm Tin Hakim-Baba. I'm Mia's friend," she said, moving forward and holding out her hand.
Prince Harry
"Harry," Prince Harry replied. "Mia's guest."
He took Tina's hand and gave it a kiss. Well, with any luck she'd get over the whole gawking shyness thing, as it would appear she hung out in the palace a lot.
And it would completely suck if they continued to see each other and she was always drooling.
Tina
Tina smiled and tried to compose herself. "I know who you are. Sorry for being star-struck for a minute. It's just when I was younger, I used to have pictures of you and your brother all over my wall," she admitted.
Prince Harry
"Oh goody," Prince Harry thought.
He wondered if there was a way he could avoid her after all.
"That's okay," he said. "Well, I'll let you get back too... whatever it was you were doing. See you later."
Tina
"Dude, I got over it," she said, feeling sad that he was running away from her. Without really paying attention to what she was doing, she unleashed a burst of romance at him, putting the whammy on Prince Harry.
Prince Harry
Prince Harry looked Tina over again and wondered why he was trying to get away.
"Well," he said, "you did say that's what you did when you were little. I just... don't want to intrude."
Tina
"That's okay," Tina said, smiling. SHe'd take it off in a little bit, but why not enjoy it for the time being?
"Has anybody given you a tour yet?"
Prince Harry
"No, no, we just arrived..." Prince Harry replied.
He closed the distance between them.
"Would you mind showing me around?"
Tina
Tina blushed. "Not at all," she said, and took his hand, leading him through the palace.
Pricne Harry
"Thanks," Prince Harry said. "But shouldn't you put your bags away first?"
Not that he was willing to let her hand go. Such a lovely, delicate hand it was...
Tina
Tina grinned, and handed her bags to Wahim, asking him very nicely in Arabic to take them to her room.
"That's my bodyguard, Wahim. I'm not royalty like you or Mia, but my daddy is an oil shiek and my mummy was a supermodel." She enjoyed the feeling of Harry's hand, his skin felt so warm.
Prince Harry
"Ahh, I see," Prince Harry nodded. "Well, I have a few security people, but I think most of them are unpacking and otherwise recouperating. What can happen to me in another royal palace?"
He paused and gazed at her lovingly.
"Other than meeting the most beautiful woman in the world, that is."
Tina
Tina blushed. HEr new wardrobe, thought she was sure Lilly would call it slutty and degrading to feminism, made he feel beautiful, for the first time in years. She thought she might pull back a little of her charm, just giving Harry the slightest nudge, but decided to have a tiny bit of fun first. Just a few minutes.
"Thank you," she stammered. "Have you seen the stables yet? The horses are beautiful. My father is actually having my horses sent over soon, and we'll stable them here."
Prince Harry
"No, I haven't. My horse is staying in England. Well, seeing as I probably won't be here all that long," Prince Harry replied. "We've come to see what's going on in Genovia that we can perhaps bring back to England in an effort to make mutants more accepted."
Tina
"Well, I hope it works. I think that someday everybody will be equal,' sighing, Tina pulled back on the whammy slightly, leaving just enough charm to make Harry attracted to her, though not necessarily in love with her.
Prince Harry
"I hope it works too," Prince Harry agreed. "So, how about this tour?"
Tina
Tina smiled and fiddled with her necklace with one hand. it was a heart-shaped locket, of course, with her parents on one side, and a picture of her, Mia & Lilly at Rocky Horror.
"Well, this, obviously, is the foyer. Down that way is my favourite part of the palace: the kitchen. Are you hungry?"
Prince Harry, Mia and Miette
"Sure," Prince Harry replied.
On their way down, who should they happen to bump into?
"Princess Mia," Prince Harry said. "Miette."
"Just Mia, please," Mia replied.
Miette nodded.
"Oh, Miette? This is my friend Tina."
"Hi," Miette said.
Tina
"You're Oli's sister, right?" Tina asked. "He's a friend of mine."
Miette
"That's right," Miette nodded. "I'm... I'm working for Prince Harry now."
She decided it was wiser to omit 'in a security capacity'.
Tina
"Wait a second," Tina said. "I don't know what's true or not, but at some point I heard some rumour that you and some friend were off robbing banks? I don't know, the Mansion people like to gossip."
Prince Harry and Miette
"What's this?" Prince Harry asked.
"Esh, robbing banks is old news," Miette replied. "After Lisha and I got separated - I forget why now - I started a cult. The Cult of Mi. Actually... it might have have been because of that whole thing with getting mutated from the raditation from Kansas. Because, of course, you realise that I am a mutant, although being half Dathrian, not the convential kind of mutant."
"Yes, but, you robbed banks? And you started a cult?"
"I was under the influence of the meddling of a criminal telepath at the time. He's dead now."
Tina
"Well, once I accidentally made two male professors fall in love with each other," Tina confessed, "And Mr. Logan is kinda homophobic, so he was not too pleased with me afterwards," she said, remembering the event with a giggle.
Mia and Miette
Mia laughed along with Tina.
"I remember that," she chuckled.
"I feel sorry for Mr Logan," Miette said.
Tina
"And then, of course I had to make it worse by accidentally making Dr. Grey fall in love with Nyxm and they were having big group sex that none of the students wanted to know about, but everybody could hear because htye were so loud. Funny, but embarassing." Tina said, laughing.
"Oh, anybody want to watch a movie? Mia gets the movies before the theatres do!"
Mia and Prince Harry
"Which still no one wants to know about," Mia said, wrinkling her nose. "You always spoil it by telling that part of the story."
"Been there, done that," Harry grinned. "What movie you got?"
"Well, let's go see," Mia replied. "To the movie room!"
She pointed her finger in the air in the general direction they had to go and lead the way.
Tina
"Ooooooh, this one looks good," TIna said, picking up something romantic and gushy.
Miette, Mia and Prince Harry
"Yeah, why not?" Miette said. "There isn't really anything else here that looks interesting."
"Whatever you guys want to watch is fine with me," Mia said.
Prince Harry actually wanted to watch something else. Something that was decidedly not romantic and gushy. But he could see he was going to be outvoted by the girls.
"Whatever," he said.
Tina
"Otay," TIna said, popping it in. "Besides, it looks like it's fun as well."
Mia
And so Mia put the movie in and they all settled down to watch.