If there was one thing which Tiara hated, it was being laughed at. Her eyes narrowed as Rodney and his Kitten both laughed at her. She did her best to maintain a royal and arrogant demeanour, but she couldn't. Just for a second, she looked hurt as the pair of them mocked her for the question she had asked. Tears glistened in her eyes, but she would not show this pair, not for a moment. Tiara's jaw set as she clenched her teeth together and she fell back in to what she knew.<br/><br/>Tea Tree Pinot gasped - droid hearing being what it was - at the thought of there being sex toys in the room where Tiara was going to be. She moved forward quickly, and her metallic arm wrapped around Tiara. "Now you just hang on a moment," Tea Tree said, but Precious shook her head. "No, Tea Tree, it's fine," the Princess said and she lifted her chin defiantly.<br/><br/>Tea Tree kept an arm around Precious, careful and protective. Precious, for her part, spoke in a subdued tone; she sounded upset and that was because she was. Her voice shook with emotion, her cheeks had a high colour and her eyes showed her depth of feeling. "I am paying you for transportation," she said, a defiant jutting of her chin accompanying her words. "And I am paying you well. I expect … " she breathed in, her breathing shaking as much as she was. Tiara was afraid, highly emotional, and in shock. "I expect a service commensurate with payment. This behaviour …. " she gestured to the pair of them and, in her defence, if she ever had children then she'd terrify them with that gaze.<br/><br/>"This behaviour is not appropriate. It is not kind, but I do not expect you to be kind. It is not polite, and obviously that is something which eludes you," she was telling them both off but, quite obviously, she was doing so because she was afraid and hurt. "Your behaviour is reprehensible should I not be a member of a royal family but, quite frankly, since I am you are not only thoughtless but stupid. When I tell my father of this, how likely is he to add to your reward, do you think?"<br/><br/>She was upset beyond the telling of it and she wanted to tell them off more, but in fact as she breathed in to speak to them, Tiara realised with dawning horror that she was about to cry. It wouldn't stop, she couldn't stop it and so she turned around and walked away - back into the room they had been discussing. Tea Tree moved quickly behind her and Precious looked around in horror. "Tea Tree?"<br/><br/>The 'droid immediately put her hand on Tiara's arm. "I'll get it cleaned up, darling," she said and Tiara shook her head.<br/><br/>"No, Tea Tree. We will."<br/><br/>Of course, what Tiara wasn't considering, as she put all her anger and fear into focusing her energy for clearing up, was the fact that Pizza the Hut wasn't likely to stop. Not at all. It didn't occur to her that the contents of that bag was something that Pizza really wanted. More than that, it really did not even begin to cross her mind that, the most vulnerable time for any space-faring vehicle was as it was approaching a planet.<br/><br/>No, none of that occurred to our precious Princess, but what did occur to her was a very clear question. Lifting up something which she really didn't recognise at all, she asked Tea Tree, "Tea Tree, what is this?"<br/><br/>The 'droid was programmed, of course, with her VMD or Virginity Maintenance Directive and so she knew just what to look out for. "Don't touch that end!"<br/><br/>Tiara dropped it on the bed and looked down at it. Then at Tea Tree. Then, once more, at the entirely unfamiliar item. If Tea Tree had ever worried that her VMD was not working, this moment reassured her that it was as Precious asked, quite genuinely.<br/><br/>"Why? Where has it been?"