Ink and Feather
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Eventually Gladio will get to meet Noct's mystery new friend, he's sure. But for now he's got bigger things on his mind, like finally getting his tattoo and having some temporary fun with whoever peaks his interest.
“Did you like the studio? Prompto speaks very highly of it,” Ignis asks.
Gladio nods, “It seems pretty cool,” he admits, “Plus they've got the cutest blond I’ve ever seen wandering around.”
Ignis smirks, “You don’t say?”Alternatively: Gladio gets a rad new tattoo and a super cute definitely-not-a-boyfriend. What would he want a boyfriend for? That doesn't really fit in with that inevitable life path the world has laid out for him.
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- Part 1 of Ink and Feather
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"Is that Gladio?" Prompto asks Noct, pointing at an unfamiliar face in a framed picture on the wall.
"Mhm," Noct murmurs, barely looking up from his phone.
Prompto chews on his bottom lip, taking in the breadth of his shoulders, the width of his arms.
"Wow," Prompto says.
Prompto doesn’t know what he was expecting when he decided to partake in a casual affair with Noct’s lifelong friend and Shield, Gladio. But its not this.Alternatively: Prompto tries to put his horrific childhood behind him but doesn't really manage until he finally lands on a chance move to Insomnia where he meets Noct and Iggy. And Gladio.
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- Part 2 of Ink and Feather
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College is over and Noct’s married. Prompto has two jobs that he actually wants… The next step is obvious. It’s all but decided, just the formalities remain. A ring and a simple exchange of words.
So they call Ignis.
“How fast can we plan a wedding?” Ignis repeats.
“A very small wedding,” Prompto stresses.
Just them and the handful of people they love - only the people they would miss if they weren't there.
“Two weeks,” Ignis offers, “I think I can get something ready in two weeks.”Alternatively: Gladio and Prompto have chosen a life together and now all they need to do is start living it.
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- Part 3 of Ink and Feather
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“Do you want my blessing or not?” Noct teases, dangling it like bait before one of his oldest friends.
“Have I got it?” Gladio asks, all earnest.
Noctis wishes it were so simple. Noctis wishes there was nothing else in his head but excitement, that the thought of Prompto and Gladio finally working things out wasn’t tied up with everything else that he’s been feeling for the last several months since Prompto tumbled into their lives.
“Now you’re serious, yeah,” Noct promises. “Prompto might have thought he was cut out for the casual thing - and I think he really was having fun - but he needs someone else for all the other shit too. No one’s ever taken care of him in his entire life and I’m trusting you to take it seriously.”
Gladio nods, “That’s all I want.”Alternatively: Prompto teaches Noctis that he's capable of loving people in every which way - and of being loved in return.
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- Part 4 of Ink and Feather
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Ignis stands straight backed outside the Marshal’s office, folder clutched tightly in his hands.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Nyx asks, standing as close as he can without triggering Ignis’ dislike of PDA. Ignis loves him for it - like he loves how Nyx stayed up late with him when this had been boiling restlessly inside him, how he was his trusted confidant in this and everything else.
But of course Ignis is sure. He’d been happy when Prompto had told him the truth of his past, glad his friend finally trusted him with this information he finds so painful.
There was just one thing.
The information Prompto has doesn’t seem to line up with what Ignis already knows.
Ignis gives Nyx a nod and receives a bracing, encouraging smile in return. Squaring his shoulders just a touch more he steps forward to knock, waiting patiently to be called inside.
“Ignis,” Cor says in surprise, “What can I do for you?”
“If I may be so bold, sir, I’d quite like the truth.”Alternatively: “How did you know you were in love with Nyx?” Prompto asks all in one breath.
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- Part 5 of Ink and Feather
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Nyx is probably imagining it but by the time they get home Ignis’ fever burns hotter than before.
“Come on babe,” Nyx says softly letting Ignis get his feet underneath him slowly.
“Sorry,” Ignis says, voice hoarse.
“Apology un-accepted,” Nyx says, “Nothing to be sorry for.”
“Be right as rain in a minute,” Ignis mumbles.
“Of course you will,” Nyx humours him.Alternatively: Ignis gets sick so Nyx - and everyone else - steps up to take care of him.
Written for FFXV Rare Pair Week 2021 | Day 5 - Getting sick/caring for sick partner + Apology (Un)accepted + Wearing the other’s clothes
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- Part 6 of Ink and Feather
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Nyx doesn’t do anything small.
Not his friendships, not his job, not the way he looks after his family and pushes on and on and on for what he wants.
Fighting against those ‘friends’ to protect the thing they should be loyal to wasn’t any different.
And neither is falling in love.
Ignis shifts a little in his sleep, nose nuzzling against the short hair decorating his jaw and Nyx dare not move, not even to breath deeply, in case it disturbs him. Not because Ignis would be upset if Nyx accidentally woke him but because he’d realise the vulnerable position he’d found himself in and move away again.
“Sorry to be a bother,” Ignis would say and as charming as Nyx knows he is he wouldn’t be able to find the right words just to tell Ignis how not true that is.Alternatively: Nyx moved to Insomnia because there was nothing left for him in Galahd. In Insomnia he finds Ignis. In Insomnia he finds everything.
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- Part 7 of Ink and Feather
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When Cor got the tip that Niflheim was building its army up again he assembles his team and heads out to take down this new facility.
But he never expected -
They can fix this, get the kids out, get them safe, get them back to whatever family they have and Cor can put this entire thing behind him.
Except for the one kid with no name and nowhere to go. Except for him.
Niflheim’s newest leader glares at him over his desk.
“What gives you the right to take an Imperial child away from his country?”
“Nothing,” Cor says, “But I’m going to do it anyway.”Alternatively: When Monica and Cor recover eight year old Prompto from his ‘training’ facility they do not surrender him up to Niflheim’s care and instead bring him back to Insomnia and co-parent the heck out of that little sunbeam.
[Technically an AU of my Ink and Feather series but no knowledge of that is necessary and this can be enjoyed as pure Dad Cor sweetness.]
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- Part 8 of Ink and Feather