Nox Fleurets' alphabet

19. Secrets

Summary:  Luna tells her sister about her secret crush on Nyx. Set during game. 

FFXV

"Stella?" her sister's voice snapped Stella from her thoughts. "Are you sleeping?"

"No," Stella replied. "Come in."

Luna entered the tent, her sleeping bag with her.

"Sorry if I woke you up," the Oracle apologized. "I just couldn't sleep. Do you mind if I sleep in your tent tonight?"

"Of course I don't mind."

Lunafreya smiled, placed her sleeping bag, beside Stella's and then climbed into it, turning so she and Stella faced each other.

"Nightmares?" Stella asked though she knew answer already.

"Yeah."

Ever since their mother died and Tenebrae fell and became Imperial province, each of the siblings suffered from nightmares. They learned how to deal with them. Either come to each other's room (Stella often came to Luna and vice versa) or either come to Ravus room and fall asleep in his arms as he sang them a lullaby.

Over the years nightmares stopped only appearing from time to time.

But now it seemed they had returned. It wasn't a surprise. A few days ago Insomnia fell and King Regis died before hers, Luna and Nyx's eyes from General Glauca's sword. These events caused nightmares to return, and they were the reason Stella was awake when Luna came, awake for the same reason.

For a while, there was silence between sisters.

"You know," Luna spoke up. "Nightmares are not the only reason why I came to you. I wanted to tell you something."

"What did you wanted to tell me?"

Oracle blushed a deep red.

"I..." the older Nox Fleuret sister paused for a moment. "...I think I developed crush on Nyx."

Stella just hummed in reply to this. Lunafreya raised an eyebrow at her little sister.

"You don't seem surprised by this," she noted.

"I had suspicions," the youngest Nox Fleuret explained her lack of surprise at Luna's confession, " Ever since you spoke at the party. It was clear you liked him right from the start. That, and your flirting gave your crush away."

"I did not flirt with him," Oracle protested.

"Sure you didn't," Stella said, not believing her sister. "Then why you said: ' then surely there is no safer place for me to be' after he said he was busy with guard duty, when you approached him asking his name?"

"You heard that?" Luna's face became even redder than before.

"Yeah, I did. When you said that, you looked alive," Stella said. Her sister was always formal, her smiles polite, but without emotion behind. Ravus, she, Maria, Gentiana and Noctis were only people Luna showed emotion to.

And now Nyx was included in this circle.

"So are you not upset? That I have crush on Nyx?"

Now it was Stella's turn to raise an eyebrow.

"Why should I be? You can like whoever you wish. Besides, he makes you happy and that's all I care about." This was true. Nyx made her sister happy, truly happy, and if they ended up together, Stella wasn't going to protest.

Luna bit her lower lip.

"We will keep it between us. I want to tell him myself, when the time is right."

"Of course. Don't worry I won't tell anyone. Your secret is safe with me."

Luna smiled, feeling relieved.

"Thank you, Stella."

"You're welcome, Lu."