The Apartment Above the Photo Hut - Late Friday Evening

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Liz was hoping that after the last few nights of restless sleep, she was hoping tonight was going to be different, she was still a little on edge from the dreams about her brother - normally they turned.

After Noctra had been fed, changed and gone to bed for the night and the kitchen had been cleaned up from dinner, Liz joined Prompto on the couch as they settled on for the evening.

“Do you think we should try and watch something?” Liz looked over at Prompto a little tiredly, “maybe it will help us fall asleep?”

She didn’t think it would work but it was worth a try.

[for the husband and eventual visitors]

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Prompto winced, as he realized he might need to do a little bit more of a balancing act, between making David feel comfortable and safe and Liz also feeling the same. He shot her an apologetic look, a sympathetic one, a if I could go over there right now and hug you, I would look, but he tried to keep his attention mostly on David, and he started to gently guide the kid over toward the kitchen.

"We do," he confirmed. "Her name's Noctra, we named her after..." He felt an odd little twinge in his chest, especially considering all the dreams he'd been having about him lately, "...a very good friend of mine who also died, making a great sacrifice that actually allowed me to come back here to your sister after a very, very long war. But that's kind of a long story, and we haven't even gotten you your drink ye--"

Was it, somehow, mentioning him that caused it? Or was it mere poetic coincidence, that as Prompto spoke, his phone began to ring. But he was busy right now, so he was going to ignore it, although there was a little nagging tickle at the back of his brain that said that no one would be calling him at this hour unless it was something important.

But this was important, too.

"So what do you like? Just water? Soda? Some orange juice? Capri Sun?"

What? Prompto loved those things!

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"I'm sorry about your friend," David said quietly as he started to follow Prompto to the kitchen, glancing back at Liz briefly. Liz had understood the look Prompto gave her and she nodded back that she would be okay, even as those tears started to spill over.

David then looked a little curious as Prompto listed the drinks and tilted his head at the last one, "what's Capri Sun?" his parents had never given him the drink before.

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"Oh, that definitely settles it," Prompto said with decisive confidence, "you gotta try one, they're great. Here."

He took a moment to pull one from the fridge, taking the initiative to unwrap the little straw and poking it into the beverage because it could be pretty difficult to get right if you were new to it, and then handed it over to David.

"Here you go, buddy. Try not to squeeze it too much when you hold onto it, or else it might get messy."

His phone finally stopped ringing, and so Prompto figured it would just go to voicemail, but it just started ringing again.

"Shi--" he started, remembered David there, and corrected himself, hopefully smoothly."--oot. I should probably take this."

So he finally pulled it out of his pocket, saw that it was Gladio, and frown.

"Hey, man, what's up?"

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David looked at the drink in fascination, "thank you," he said, remembering his manners as he started to slowly sip the straw and then immediately understood why Prompto liked it so much, he began to drink it a little quicker.

Liz had taken a moment to compose herself and then started to walk over to join them in the kitchen but stopped as Prompto answered his phone, she decided to wait until he was finished before she walked over.