The Roof; Friday Evening [09/21].

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Truth be told, Prompto was a little afraid of the dark, which might make it seem a little weird that he'd go up to the roof that evening, as the darkness was just settling in, but there was one thing he'd come to realize about this place, something he should have figured with it not even being on Eos or anything, and that was something he found a little unbelievable and absolutely amazing.

This place had no daemons.

He'd practically ran back to the dorms through the streets of Fandom that first time after his shift at the C.I.C. was over. Sure, the streets were lit well enough, but way out here, without any walls to protect him, he had no idea what to expect. He took his time a little more earlier this week, no one had mentioned anything about being caught in the dark late at night, could this place really not have any?

He figured the roof would be a great place to really scope out any dark places to avoid; if it turned out to be unsafe, he could duck back inside quickly enough, no problem. And if everything was fine, if his theory was right, then he'd get to spend the evening doing something he'd never imagined himself able to do: kick back and look up into a night sky full of stars.

"Amazing!"

It was the little things in life, right?

[[ open! m'boy here was feeling left out, so it's Prompto time! ]]

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina... honestly, Nina had no reason to be on the roof at all but that had never stopped her before and it was better than bumming around in her room and squinting at all the terms she didn't know and--

"Oh my gosh!!!!! Prompto!!!!!!!! I haven't seen you in, like, forever!!!!."

At least, not to talk to him.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Nina!" Laughing, Prompto was pretty sure he could have recognized that oh my gosh!!!!! anywhere, and he turned his head, opening his arms welcomingly from where he sat as he confirmed it. "It's been, like, forever and a day! Pop a squat, girl," he shifted over and patted the space on the roof next to him, "plenty of room up here! I think we're overdue for some catching up."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Pop a squat????" she echoed, laughing as she came over to sit next to him. "What a thing to say!!!! Though your meaning in clear, at least!!!!!"

Which was more than she could say for so, so many things.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Not too many other ways to interpret it, I'd bet," Prompto chuckled a little, leaning back again with his arms behind him to support him, and he sighed at another view of that sky. "How've you been, Nina? Settling in okay?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Oh my goooooosh," she sighed, "that's a question neither Vette nor I can answer very well!!!!! Prompto we're, like, the room of the lost!!!!!! Vette didn't even have spare clothes, so we're sharing my wardrobe now!!!!!"

Because the other option had been, like, to let her bestie go around in the same clothes all the time and that hadn't been happening.

"But, like, I've mostly figured out the phone by now!!!!!! I can even text!!!!"

Slowly, but hey. And she hadn't yet figured out the whole getting more apps thing yet. But it was tangible progress that Nina was proud of.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Hey, if you need any more help with phones," Prompto, who wasn't going to be able to stop grinning if he tried, offered, "I might be able to help. The tech here''s almost exactly like what I've got back home. And maybe we could all go shopping for some clothes nw that the three of us are all gainfully employed at the C.I.C., right? I've been meaning to check out the clotHing shops here."

Though he...honestly didn't know what to think of those names....but of Demon Marcus was the only damon here, that'd be alright.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Kaidan suggested Vette and I go to Demon Marcus," Nina admitted, brightening a bit. "And, like, you could totally come along!!!! It'd be great!!!! After all, team bonding!!!!!! And we're all super cute, who could resist us????"

She considered that.

"Ooooooooooh! And Kaidan said that, like, if what Vette and I, if we didn't have enough money to get the things we need, we could send the bill to him!!!!!!!!"

He'd mentioned in coming out of their paycheques later but pfffffffft, he was such a pushover that Nina wasn't worried about that. After all, she'd hired herself.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Well, now you had Prompto intrigued, Nina, as indicated by the quirk of his intrigued brow. "Team bonding , you say? On the boss''s own gil, perhaps?"

Seriously, Kaidan, what were you thinking with these three?

"I mean, makes sense! Why wouldn't he want this crew to be fashionable and current? Reflects well on the business. I mean, he''s clearly taken a good step in the right direction by hiring us on the first place, might as well take it to the next level, right?"

[bookbeltof_love]

She certainly wasn't going to pay for it! Not when Kaidan had offered! Sortof. Ish. Close enough.

Kaidan had brought this upon himself.

"Right????? Like, and if we all went together, then we could even find something that maybe, I don't know, shows we're all part of the team???? Not, like, a full uniform, but something!!!!"

[hashtag_chocobro]

And that one hit him in a soft spot, and Prompto's big wide stupid grin went a little distant.

"Clothing's important to a team," he agreed. "That's actually why I wear so much black, you know. It's pretty important symbolism with my crew back home."

He smacked a hand resolutely on the roof beside him. "That''s it," he said, "we're doing it. We gotta now! You think Vette'd be down for it, too, right?"

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina waved one hand absently. "Vette will totally be down with it," she said, with complete confidence.

Vette was down with basically everything, except slavery, and this was just shopping. Totally fine.

"But!!!! Tell me about your crew????" she said, glancing at him. "What crew are you part of??????"

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well," it was a good thing red went with black so well, because Prompto's face was full of it and he breathed a small laugh, ducked his head a little, "not part of it yet, not technically. But I will be, after I graduate. I'll be a Crownsguard, that's one of the Prince of Lucis's own personal bodyguards. Me and Ignis and Gladio, probably."

Ignis and Gladio definitely. He was still pretty up in the air, really.

"Hopefully."

[bookbeltof_love]

Her eyes went wide.

"Oh my gosh!!!!!! You're, like, totally going to be a knight?????"

Nina was going to have to do some re-evaluating here. Sure, Prompto was cute, but she hadn't thought of him as, like, Matilda Knight cute.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Yeah, not helping him with the blushing there, Nina. But, hey, at least it was getting pretty dark.

Prompto laughed, lifting his eyes up to the sky again. "Yeah," he said. "I guess you could say that. A knight." Even with the gathering dark, it was clear to see him swell a little with pride. "I mean, Crownsguard is, like, the ultimate, you know, hashtag-goals, but if anything, I know i can at least get into the Kingsglaive....probably...so that would still count, right?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Either would be amazing!!!!!!!!!!" she bubbled because, well, Nina had read (and was invested in) far too many romances about Matilda Knights.

They were all so dashing and polite and manly.

"You can totally do it," she said encouragingly. "Is there, like, a test you have to take???? Are you training for it while you're here????"

[hashtag_chocobro]

It would be amazing, and that thought managed to keep Prompto from wincing slightly at the particular pitch of Nina's bubbling. He was a pretty bubbly guy himself, sure, but Nina could probably make him feel as deadpan and buzzkill as Gladio if you got her amped up enough.

It was super cute, though.

"To get into the Glaive, yeah," he said, "but I think the Crownsguard's pretty much up to Noct." He hoped it would be that easy, anyway, but he wasn't about to take anything for granted. "But I'm doing what I can here, keeping in shape, improving my mind with...some of my classes." There was a slight roll of his eyes. Sure, kicking charts and listening to Elton John was fun, but he didn't see exactly how that was going to help him with...anything, really. "I should probably get back to working on my shooting now that I'm a little more settled, too. I've probably got..." He sucked in a breath, and let it back out with his words, "a lot of work to do still."

[bookbeltof_love]

RIP Gladio if Nina ever met him. RIP. Though he was totally, totally dreamy.

Nina would adore him.

"Vette and I could help you," Nina offered, reaching over to try and pat his arm. "Like, Vette's got blasters???? Which I bet are closer to whatever shooting you need to learn than anything I might know????? And I'm not bad in a fight at all!!!!!"

That was Nina being modest. Nina was a beast in a fight.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto was trying to picture it, honestly, he was, but all he could imagine was Nina pretty much just wearing her opponent down with cuteness and verve.

He know he'd be doomed within a second.

"Yeah?" he asked, chuckling as he grinned at her. "What kind of fighting do you do?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"I," she said, with grave dignity, "beat things with my bookbelt!!!!"

And once she had enough money to upgrade it, that bookbelt was going to get even more terrifying.

"Or, like, zap them with magic!!!!!" It was, uh, rather too dark for the runes on her palms to really show though.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Magic, huh?" Prompto grinned a little. "I'll probably get to use some of that one day, but I"m so not there yet. What's a bookbelt, though?"

[unusual_sith]

Whereas Lana had come up here to get a breath of fresh air, and hadn't expected it to be occupied.

"Oh, Prompto. Hello."

[hashtag_chocobro]

Blonde party on the roof, whoo! Prompto looked over with a grin, knocking a little hand-pistol of a wave her way.

"Hey, there, Lana, how's it going?"

[unusual_sith]

"Not too bad." Lana saluted him back. "How have you been?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"But magic is, like, easy!!!!!"

For her. Not so for many, many other people.

"And my bookbelt is what I carry books around in," she said, which... well... was maybe a bit obvious? "It's a belt meant to be tied around books!!!!"

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Great, actually," Prompto said, laughing a little as he realized it was pretty much true. "Just...you know..." His eyes drifted up to the sky again, grin brightening, "enjoying the nice view."

At night. Without daemons. With stars. He didn't think he could put it into words how cool that was for him even if he tried. And he was pretty sure if he tried, he'd just sound ridiculous.