I'll do it for him //Noctis x Reader//

18: Legacy (Guess whose back)

//Edited//

//Reader's Pov//

The next day, with the help of Ignis's healing I was able to move alot easier. It was morning when we prepared to leave Hammerhead. Since Macko and I were pretty banged up we didn't really have the chance to inquire about Cor's whereabouts with Cid. So today we made our way over to him in the garage. As soon as we entered Cid lowered his somber look.

"Crystal in the kings ring, what they been after all along." He mused. Ignis looked to him, "So all talk of peace was mearly a pretex." We all casted our gazes down. I quietly shifted my feet leaning on Macko's shoulder.( he's the size of a wolf now.) Noctis got my attention when he spoke up,"They played my father for a fool." I frowned at his words, if that was true...then that meant my own father was one too. "Don't kid yourself. Regi wasn't born yesterday." Cid then glanced at me, "And Maximus may have been a hot head, but that didn't mean the man couldn't hold his own. Lucis got dealt a losing hand, and your old man played it the best he could. He saw this comming a mile away and he wasn't gonna go down without a fight."

Noctis gasped finally looking up.
"In the end though well... It just wasn't enough." He became quiet after he finished before turning away from us, "You need something else you talk to Cor." He stood from his seat, "I can't even remember the last time I saw Reggi or Max. Feels like a lifetime ago." With that Cid left us in the garage. After watching him leave my eye's caught site of a small picture on his table. Squinting, I saw that it was of a younger Cid, King Regis, Cor, Clarus, and my father with Macko. I shifted my gaze between the wolf and the picture. A look of nostalgia was painted over his furry features, along with a bittersweet smile.

I too felt an unknown pain in my heart. Gently placing a hand on his head to wake him from his dreamlike state, Macko turned to me. He smiled before brushing the side of my leg on the way out.

We met Cid outside who told us that Cor was at the tombs northwest from our current location past the Outpost. The others and I said our goodbyes and gathered the necessities for the trip. We waited a few so that Ignis could refill the gas tank to the regalia.

As I was readjusting the last bandage around my right hand foot steps caught my attention, looking up I saw Cindy walk over to me. Her smile brought my own out when she handed a medium sized box with a red cross on it, "Here y'all are. Some extra bandages and ointment for your small burns. I know Ignis can only do so much for ya." My face heated up at her kind gesture, "Thanks Cindy, you didn't have to-" but before I could finish she pulled me into a gentle hug, careful not to move me to much. "I don't want to hear it. You just be careful out there ya hear?"

I relaxed from my ridged poster soon after she let go of me. Giving her a nod before climbing into the middle of the back seat. Cindy then pet Macko's head before he happily shrunk to sit in the passenger seat on Prompto's lap (That brat). Gladios sat on my right and Noctis on my left, leaving Iggy to be the last to get into the drivers seat.

///////Time Skip ////////

(Narrator's POV)

(YN) layed back in her seat listening to the soft sound of the radio. The road was rather quiet other than the cool breeze that gently rippled through her (hc) hair. There were few times a conversation would come up but quickly died down as soon as it came. One did stick with them though and that was 'When they would return to the city.' This caused (Yn) to unintentionally shiver at the thought of returning to what was left of the home she had failed to protect. Her movment got Noctis's attention. The prince shifted his blue eyes to her, he noticed that her skin slightly paled and her wrapped fingers tightening on the small box in her lap.

He frowned at her actions, ever since (Yn) reunited with them she has been.... off. It might have to do with the fall of Insomnia.

But for some reason something else about her was worrying him. Something she wasn't telling, regardless he still wanted to comfort her somehow without making it weird. The prince started to panic so in an attempt to calm her, his body moved on its own. Ever so slightly he pressed his shoulder near the short haired girl. Because of her lack in height to him his shoulder reached equal level to the top of her ear. (Yn) tensed at his unexpected movement. Her face became warm, 'W-what?' (Yn) tried not to move, keeping her eye's fixated on the road ahead. 'Maybe I'm just over thinking it. Jeez! for all I know he might have just moved to get more comfortable. Yeah, yeah that's it.'