#lepear

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Royal AU + Accidental Eavesdropping

okay so I'm imagining a red white and royal blue type scenario where charles is the crown prince of monaco trying to have a good time despite the pressure and pierre is the youngest son of the french president trying to prove he can be useful to the family (think redbull-esque) somehow.

they keep running into each other at galas etc and find each other cocky (pierre), too perfect (charles) and unbearable (both).

eventually, the sexual tension can't be ignored and develops into a recurring hookup and a friendship they are both desperate to ignore seeing as them dating would be a disaster considering their respective titles.

unfortunately, since they are both fucking idiots, they are far less secretive than they think they are and it quickly becomes a sort of open secret. the royals of monaco find this unacceptable of course, and immediately plan for charles to be married off to some random princess for a good match.

pierre overhears as he is trying to (badly) sneak out f the royal palace and immediately reports back to charles, both more heartbroken about their arrangement coming to an end than they are willing to let on. charles, that slippery little rat is trying to apply all his three braincells to the problem and arrives at the solution - what if we just say we are already married? pierre is absolutely against it but he sees how terrified charles is at the prospect of being traded away like a commodity and trapped in an impossible marriage. might as well take advantage of being the youngest, the overlooked for once right?

so "purely for charles' sake" he agrees, graciously. he's getting nothing out of this obviously. charles dramatically reveals to the royal family that the wedding would be a sham because it would be /gasp/ bigamy as he has regrettably, drunkenly married pierre. because of his charm and well known 3 brain cell nature, he somehow convinces them that he's very sorry for this mistakebut what can they really do now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and that the smaller disaster for church and state would be just embracing the situation.

they have to do the whole royal tour and navigate the international controversy together while still convincing themselves and each other that this is just convenience and they are just fuckbuddies at the end of it all, and once it blows over, they'll get a quickie annulment, and both get to be out of the closet and free with the biggest scandal of their lives already behind them.

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