I'll Always Find You Again (Noctis x Prompto)

Nightmare

"Noct..."

This voice...

"I'm sorry"

Prompto...

"I can't handle it anymore"

What are you talking about?

"I'm sorry, I'm not as strong as you thought I was"

Noctis was standing in front of an older version of Prompto. He was taller than him, with his hair a little bit longer. He had grown a goatee which somehow looked nice on him. He looked so tired as if the years had already taken it tolls. His eyes weren't shining, the spark of sunshine that Noctis had always seen was nowhere. Instead, his eyes redden and swollen filled with tears. He looked so exhausted and filled with despair, the complete opposite of the Prompto he always knew and loved.

Prompto!

Noctis shouted but the blonde looked as if he didn't hear him. Tears continued to roll down his face. Noctis doesn't like this, not one bit. His sunshine should not look like that. He should have a face filled with smile and laughter. Not despair and sadness like the one before him. He didn't want this. Noctis ran toward his blonde lover but no matter how fast he did. He couldn't come closer to him, he even tried to reach out his arms to him but he couldn't touch him.

What is this? Prompto! Hey, listen to me! Prompto...

The prince tried his best to call out to his lover. But it was no use no matter how loud he shouts Prompto was completely oblivious.

"I couldn't take it anymore"

Prompto fell to his knees while crying his eyes out. The prince doesn't understand what was going on but he had a bad feeling after this. Somehow he knew that Prompto will do something he didn't want to.

No... PROMPTO!

"...I'm sorry, Noct... I'm so sorry"

Why are you apologizing? You have done nothing wrong...

Prompto lifted his gazed toward Noctis. His eyes already red, swollen due to who knows, how many tears he had already shed. His nose scrunched up while his face flushed in deep red. He was trying so hard to hold his tears but he couldn't and end up crying even more. Hating every second of this, Noctis fell on his knees. He felt so powerless. He wanted to comfort him, just to touch him but he couldn't instead he could only watch as his lover threw himself deeper and deeper in despair.

Why can't you see me, Prompto...?

It broke his heart to see him like this.

With a few more sniffles, Prompto wiped away the tears on his face. This time his tearful eyes looked determined as if he has chosen a path he wanted to take.

"A world without you here is so empty, Noct... I wanted to go back but I know that it is impossible. I know that you had to do it. I knew it... I realized that it was your path... But I... I can't. I'm sorry for being so useless"

You aren't useless. You are never one in my eyes. I needed you more than you ever knew. I wish... I told you, Prompto. Please...

"I already tried to walk tall, just like what you say I should. But..."

A smile appeared on his face. His usual smile, the one that Noctis knew so well. He had taken many photographs of that smile. Keeping it in his phone, having it always. He would do anything for that smile. But somehow it's different this time. He didn't want to see where this is going to end.