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Noctis awoke all at once. Something was wrong. He was cold. His shirt was gone. He was hanging from a metal strut, his arms forced uncomfortably above him. His bare feet dangled just above the cold cement floor. Wherever he was, he knew one thing. He had been taken.
When though?
Noctis tried to think back to his last memories. At first there was nothing, then a small churn of nausea filled his gut and he remembered. He had been at the arcade. With Prompto. Eating pizza and drinking enough coke to give Ignis an aneurysm.
They had finished eating and finally gotten to play the newest Dead Again V game that Prompto had been wanting to try for ages. It hadn’t been long until an uncomfortable heat crept across Noct’s face and a strange dizziness overtook him. Nausea hit him full force, and suddenly his character was dead onscreen.
”Dude, I know you’re not that bad at shooters,” Prompto said, chortling. “If you really didn’t want to play the game, you could have just watched.”
__________________________________________________________________________Noctis has a bad time and everyone just gets to watch.
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Your eyes flashed open and you jolted upright, your breath heaving. That dream again. It lingered in your mind. You raised your knees, resting your elbows on them. You put your head in your hands, frowning.
That dream. It was so real. So familiar. Like the voice of your grandmother. You scrunched your face in confusion. Your thoughts made no sense. But it felt so personal. So intimate.
You looked around the tent. It was extremely early. The sky was just inviting the Sun to visit. The others were still sleeping. Even Ignis which was surprising. You were up before Ignis? Again? How many times was this now? Four? Ever since the dreams had started.
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You know the Prince and his friend, but only in passing. Today is a bit different though. Today, he saves you, and in turn, you save him. I mean, it’s only fair.
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The front door of the store opened and you instinctually greeted whoever it was without bothering to look up. “Welcome to Bastard Sword Books,” you said, trying not to sound bored.
“Heyaz!”
“Hey, Y/N.”
You looked up. It was the Prince and his blonde haired friend again. Prompto, was it? That sounded right.
You smiled sincerely, no need for the plastic smile everyone else got. They came into the store often enough, they felt like a constant fixture here.
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“This place feels unending. We’ve been down here for hours and there’s been no sign of anything.” You adjusted your hold on your axes. While you could pull your axes easily from the armiger at a moment’s notice, the familiar smoothness of the wooden handles grounded you.
You didn’t particularly like caves all that much. Prompto always complained about his claustrophobia, but yours was on a slightly different level. You were just more close-mouthed about it.
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Noctis was all grins. Then he frowned slightly. Yeah, there was a lot of cash, but the notes on top were single gil amounts. He quickly flipped through the stack, trying to get an idea of what they were looking at. They were all single notes. He double-checked the envelope, making sure there wasn’t anything left in there. There wasn’t.
”Shit!” Noctis’ reaction startled everyone in the car.
”What? What is it?” Prompto asked, looking back at Noctis as he started counting out their gil, frowning deeply.
Noctis got to the end of the pile. He closed his eyes, letting his head fall backward, groaning loudly.
“What?” Prompto asked again.
Noctis counted again, slower this time, trying to make sure he didn’t miss any notes. He got to the end again.
“Five hundred gil!” He said in frustration. “Five hundred f*cking gil!”
”You’re joking, right?” Gladio asked.
__________________________________________________Good boys get baked. Enter completely ridiculous story. Buuuuuuut - I had fun. So XP
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Noctis/Reader Series - Of blanks and more blanks by Bookishbethany
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“Guys?” He hears himself call out, scanning across the ground fearfully for any fallen bodies, and grimaces when he comes up short.
Instead of the sounds of his friends, a different sound replies to his calling, a round of croaking that echoes off the walls much as his voice had.
Croaking?
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With his friends suffering under the Toad status aliment from a nasty hunt gone wrong, and all out of curatives, it's up to Noctis to get them out of the Daurell Caverns and back to the rest area to purchase a cure. But suffering with injuries of his own, that might be trickier than he'd first thought...
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- Part 1 of Hurt!Noctis Collection.
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But trussed up against something solid, hands stuck too far behind him to get any real leverage, he hasn’t figured out a way to disentangle himself from that.
Gladio’s going to need to add this one to the training drill list.
(HurtNoctWeek 2021 Day 1: Kidnapped)
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Noctis looks like a frightened animal, and Gladio thinks he knows what’s going to happen next. Slowly, steadily, he gets nearly close enough to grab his sleeve. Dropping his shoulders, trying to keep the tension low, he calls out one more time.
“Noct. It’s okay.”
He reaches out, quickly as he can, but he’s too slow. Noctis recoils, lurching back, then turns and flings out a dagger, warping off the edge of the haven.
(HurtNoctWeek2021 Day 3: hidden injury)
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It only takes a moment for the scene to change, the tedious monotony of the day giving way to something far worse.
(HurtNoctWeek2021 Day 4: assassination attempt)
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In the flickering of the firelight, Noctis could make out the Ring the attackers were demanding. He could hear some of the brave people in the crowd working to save them, to give the Crownsguard time to get to them to protect them. He knew Gladiolus would be there soon, if he just stayed safe.
But they wanted his father, and they wanted the Ring. Their family legacy, and he wouldn’t fail them when he was strong enough to keep moving and save everyone.
“I’m sorry Dad,” Noctis whispered as he took the shaking, bloody hand in front of him. He wasn’t sure who was shaking more as he took hold of the large, black ring on Regis’s hand and slid it off in one quick motion.
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Hurt Noct Week Day 4:
Assassination Attempt
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