FFXV: After the Fall

Chapter 17

Ignis was first into the elevator the next morning at just after ten followed by Noctis and Prompto, the latter leaning his back against one of the inner walls with a contented sigh not long after the doors had closed.
He studied the both of them for a second, then decided to carry on reading his book from where he got to last night.
Noctis also leant against the wall and turned his head to look at Prompto; there was a cheeky grin on that face that triggered a short, boyish laugh.
   "Those rooms are great, huh?" He ventured.
   "Most pleasant." Ignis said without looking.
   "Sure are." Prompto sighed. "Wanna go back already."
Noctis did his own grin then. "Ha. You, sir, have the look of a man who's been thoroughly re-acquainted. Am I right?"
   "You are so right." He admitted, holding his hand up for a brofist that was quickly accepted.
Ignis' book wobbled slightly, but he remained silent.
   "Let me guess..." Noctis thought for a second. "Hot tub?"
   "Bro, that's the only place, ya know? Too fuckin' right I did. In fact- I don't mind tellin' you that I did it more than once."
Noctis laughed. "I can tell."
   "You too?"
   "...yeah, me too."
   "Yeah boi! Gotta live a little, ya know? And I had the curtains open. Fish didn't know what hit 'em."
   "Oh my..." He laughed again. "Really? Holy shit, bro."
Prompto gave him a wink. "Was kinda unusual at first, cos' really, it's still a set of eyes, ya know? Well...several sets of eyes...but then, you just kinda get into it a-and it totally didn't matter. Next time? I might just walk right up to that window, and-"
   "Do you fucking mind?" Ignis had had enough by that point.
   "Nope. Fish might have...but fuck them." He sniggered while he shared another brofist with Noctis.
   "I meant- you're supposed to not talk about it."
   "Says who?" Noctis grinned. "We're all bros here, right? No secrets. You'd have done it too, right?"
Ignis gave no answer to that.
Noctis stared at him. "...do you mean to tell us that you didn't? That was the perfect occasion and everything! C'mon, man, tell us ya didn't let the side down. C'mon." He stopped the elevator so that they could get the inside scoop.
Ignis looked over the top of his book and saw the two young men staring eagerly at him, waiting for an answer...
He sighed inwardly, then returned to his book.
   "...yes." He eventually mumbled.
Prompto's hand shot out to cup one of his ears. "Uh, what was that? Being underwater does shit to your ears, y'know."
   "I said yes, alright?" Ignis snapped irritably.
   "There we go." Prompto grinned. "See? That wasn't so hard...though maybe it was, ei?" He added slyly.
   "I don't wish to discuss it."
   "He's being awfully tight-lipped." Noctis critiqued. "Thought it woulda loosened you up some, you're always so uptight." He paused briefly. "Okay then, let's have some details."
The book wobbled slightly again. "I don't think so."
   "Oh? Well I do think so bro, I'm inclined to totally not believe ya cos' you're tighter than you were yesterday."
   "Maybe he did it in the bathroom?" Prompto guessed. "He might not be as adventurous as us."
   "Hmm...I reckon he went for the tub as well. I mean, it's gotta be done, right? Bet they did stuff in there too."
   "Bro, they're not even in the picture, you know what I'm sayin'? They probly did stuff on every available flat surface that exists in the fuckin' place."
   "...true. Anyway, I think he went in the tub."
They both looked at him, peeking over his book, and they saw the merest hint of a blush.
   "Oh yeah!" Prompto laughed. "Tub three, every other place that exists in the world, zero."
   "Oh, do piss off." Ignis muttered.
   "See, this is where you need to loosen up. We're not gonna go around tellin' the whole world...but us bros? That's different."
   "He's too attached to that book." Noctis smiled.
   "That's easily fixed." His hand started sneaking towards it.
Ignis looked at him. "Touch it, and that hand will never touch anything else ever again."
   "Or...maybe not, heh." Prompto quickly abandoned the idea.
He then thought of another. "...you don't think..."
Noctis looked at him, then stared at Ignis and the book.
   "Tell me you didn't." He asked the man, lowering the book so that he could see his face.
It was...definitely on the pink side.
Ignis rolled his eyes. "I really don't think th-"
   "Oh. My. Fucking. God!" Noctis laughed. "Are you serious?"
   "Always the quiet ones, ei?" Prompto grinned. "Although...you do know there's proper readin' material for that, yeah?"
   "Hey, don't knock it, Prom. I mean...he loves that stuff, right? It's probly the exact same thing."
   "That's true." He then extended his fist out towards the now furiously-blushing Ignis. "Put it there, bro." He beamed.
Ignis looked at the both of them, then slowly did so.
   "Attaboi!" Prompto laughed.
   "Okay, enough now." Ignis warned. He still smiled, though.
   "Ooh! Fuck me, is that a smile? Are my eyes actually witnessing an upward curvature of your lips?"
   "You guys..." He was grinning now.
   "Keep it up." Noctis started the elevator again.
   "He did last night." Prompto added cheekily. "Right, bro?"
Ignis laughed at that. "Shut up."