Ignite My Heart (Ignis X Reader)

Chapter 31

"Well, look who's here," Noct and I are sitting on the ground as the other two look down at us. We turn towards the voice coming from behind us.

"Aranea," Noct says. He turns back around and sighs, "Guess we've got you to thank for this mess?"

Aranea scoffs, "You wanna know who to thank? Come with me," She turns back around and walks away. We stand up to follow her and she looks over her shoulder at us. She looks taken aback when she sees Ignis.

"What happened to your eye?"

Ignis stumbles on his words trying to think of what to say, "Oh, um, just a flesh wound."

"Can you see?"

He's silent for a while, "I'm... afraid not."

"That sucks," We follow her to a small grassy space with Magitek engines everywhere. She explains that she has left the army for the search and rescue business.

"You mentioned being part of the relief effort," Ignis starts, "We have a favor to ask,"

"Ask away," Ignis requests that Aranea take care of the passengers while we ride the train to Gralea. She agrees and introduces us to two guys who will drive the train for us.

She then tells Noct that some woman that worked for Lunafreya wanted to speak with him. I begin to walk off in a random direction when a voice stops me, "And where are you going?"

I turn towards the gruff voice. I raise an eyebrow at him, wondering why he was being so rude. "A walk," I answer and continue leaving.

He places a hand on my shoulder, "We don't got time for that. We're leaving as soon as they replace some of the train cars."

I sigh and rub my face with my hands, "Look, Gladio. I just need to be alone for a bit," These past few days have been too much for me. We've lost so much and I was not in the mood for a fight.

"You can be alone on the train," his grip gets tighter on my shoulder.

I pry his fingers off of me, "It'll just be for a little bit, alright? Back off,"

He pulls his hand away and glares at me, "Fine. Do whatever you want," he turns around and stomps off before I can respond. I can see Ignis look slightly pained as he listens to us fight.

I quickly turn around and stomp off as Ignis calls out for us both. It was really shitty, but I just couldn't take this. I begin walking up a large hill covered in blue flowers. Once I've reached the top of it I stand there panting in anger. The tears begin to fall and finally I look up at the night sky and scream as loud as I can.

When I'm finished I fall to my knees and cry even more. We lost Insomnia, the Crystal, Lucis, Lunafreya, and now Prompto. When would this madness end? All the feelings I had on the day the empire took over Insomnia come back.

After a few minutes I hear the shuffling of footsteps behind me. I look over my shoulder to find Ignis slowly making his way towards me.

"Iggy?" He lifts up his head and begins looking from side to side, moving his cane around to find me.

"Y/N?" He stops when he touches me with the cane and then reaches forward to touch me. He pats my shoulder a few times to verify that it's me.