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Liz had not slept at all last night.

She knew it was going to be hard saying goodbye to David, she had tried to prepare herself as best she could, for letting go of her brother again but nothing could have prepared her for how much it had hurt. It felt like she was losing her brother all over again and now she just felt numb. She had spent much of the night crying on and off and had been afraid to sleep, it had been months since she had last had a nightmare and she had been scared of having another one, she was afraid of losing Prompto and Noctra.

She was so grateful for Prompto being there with her, he had not gone downstairs for his shift today and had stayed with her and Noctra, she hadn’t wanted to be alone and she had tried to do as best she could but she was tired and wished David was there.

She was curled up on the couch later that morning, Prompto had made her breakfast and she had tried to eat something but she couldn’t. She stared at one the photos she had taken of David, holding it in her hand, afraid to let it go.

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And Prompto let her cry, for as long as she needed to, as hard as she needed to, all the while just rubbing her arm and holding her close and wishing there was more he could do. Once she started to speak again, he gave her a tight squeeze.

"Also not your fault," he said quietly. "That's not anyone's fault, that's just....I know it doesn't help, to say it...but you can't blame yourself for that either..."

There was a sigh, and it felt like there was nothing he could say that would help, but he couldn't just not say anything.

"At least..." he offered, "you got the chance to see him again, though, right? And I got to meet him, and we made really good pancakes and scrambled eggs. I only even messed them up just a little...."

Liz managed a shaky laugh at that, and that turned into more hiccups as she tried to get her breathing under control.

“You did get to meet him,” she said softly, “and I …I have photos of him now,” she clutched the photo she was holding of him tightly, “ I …I didn’t have any before,” she let out a tiny sob but managed to stop crying for a little bit at that.

"And," Prompto said, shifting a little, so that he could look at Liz and wipe some of those tears from her cheek with his thumb and brush some of her hair back out of her face and give her a light kiss on the forehead, "we can take all those pictures and put them on a nice memory board, just for him, or some really sleek and fancy photo album, and then we can always look back on how nice it was to have this little extra time, and a chance to say good-byr, yeah?"

Liz managed a small smile at that, as she gazed up at Prompto, I …I would like that,” she said softly, “having a memory board for David …it …it was really nice being able to say goodbye to him, I …I didn’t get the chance before,” her voice trailed off as she tried to find the words she wanted to say, “and I would really like us to be able to work on the memory board together,” she managed to say.

"I'd love to work on it together with you, Liz," Prompto told her, unable to keep the soft, touched smile off his face.

Just like he was unable to help himself from adding and teasing, just a little, "Should we get Noctra and Rain to help, too?"

Look. He'd managed to get a few small laughs and smiles out of her already, might as well plsy to his strengths.

There was a very tiny giggle that escaped at that and Liz blinked away a few of her tears.

"I would like that," she said softly as she gave a small smile up at Prompto, "I think they could help us as well,"

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