What if... Rapunzel worked at a brothel?

Anna had discovered a secret back exit out of the castle when she was fifteen. In the five years since then, she had taken to using it almost every opportunity she could, though she mostly kept to sneaking out at the cover of dark, using a hooded cloak to keep anyone from recognizing her.

The streets of Arendelle were quiet, the lamps were lit and most people had left for bed. The only places that would still be open this time of night were the taverns and Hilda's.

Hilda's was the Arendelle capital's most successful whorehouse. It was camped on just the other side of the harbor. It was three stories tall and painted a faded shade of pink, the sign reading "Hilda's" in elegant cursive with a picture of a woman in a feathery Burlesque outfit.

The lobby was full of people. Sailors, fishermen and unfaithful husbands from town packed the bar and the tables. Some were drunk, were in the process of getting drunk or had their hands full with one of the scantily clad girls.

The bouncer gave Anna a look of suspicion before giving her a nod and letting her pass through. When she had first arrived, she had given her entire allowance to the house, not having realized that the currency she had given them was at least a hundred times the regular amount and had agreed to give her instant access to their facility until her tab runs out.

She was the princess. Money was no object.

"Ah! Woah, excuse me. Pardon me!"

Anna struggled to squeeze her way through a galley of drunken sailors, singing some shanty as one of the brothel's girls tickled the ivory's at their request. Something Anna had learned after frequent visits is that not everyone came to Hilda for sex, though that was usually the reason. Some people came for regular companionship. Someone to talk to, someone to sleep with in the literal sense. There were a lot of lonely people out there.

She managed to avoid getting accosted by any creeps looking for a pretty girl to play with this time and she made it to the steps.

On the second floor in one of the corner rooms, Anna pressed her ear against the door to hear if anyone was "busy" in there. It was silent. She opened the door.

On the other side of the room, the occupant was bent over. She was applying light-pink lipstick. She had a short crop of brown hair, and was dressed in a matching pink corset loosely strapped to her waist. She had a matching pink garter belt attached to a pair of white stockings. Anna blushed a little, trying to keep herself from staring at her butt, her matching underwear leaving little to the imagination.

She noticed the door opening from her mirror and looked back. She gave Anna a smile that lit up the entire room as Anna closed the door behind her.

"You came!"

"Well... yeah!" Answered Anna lamely.

The other woman practically skipped over and gave Anna a bearhug.

"I'm so happy see you!"

"I'm always happy to see you," said Anna. She raised a hand up to her face and the two kissed.

Rapunzel's family were a band of drifters, fortune-tellers and laborers who were heading north looking for work. One day, they had found Rapunzel as a baby, abandoned by whoever had her last in a forest just north of the Corona capital. As the years went on, good work became harder to find, and one day, her father had taken her to Hilda's and left her there.

When she came of age, Rapunzel was put to work. It wasn't like she had anywhere else to go. She took to her new... "profession"... pretty quickly. She got a salary, a bed to sleep in, three square meals. She even made friends with the other girls. It wasn't easy at first, but she got by. Some clients were ravenous, and could get violent, others were kind and just needed someone to talk to.

When Anna showed up, things were different.

She didn't know she could have real feelings for another girl. Neither did Anna.

Anna originally came to Hilda's to find companionship of her own. She actually mistook it for a regular tavern, wanting to try beer for the first time and maybe find a man who would be interested in her. Unfortunately, she got one of those things in the form of a client who mistook her "no's" as her just being coy, thinking she was a "new girl." Thankfully Rapunzel was the first to notice what was happening and called a bouncer to throw the bastard out. She even comforted a distraught Anna in the privacy of her room.

She returned the following night, having basically assembled a fruit basket from the castle kitchen as a "thank you" gift for Rapunzel and they became fast friends. She would visit every other night, and eventually they both realized that their attraction wasn't just platonic.

Anna didn't know you could have sexual fantasies for someone of the same sex, but she just rolled with it.

If anyone found out that the Princess had been sneaking out to swap spit with another woman, much less a sex-worker, that would be quit the scandal wouldn't it?