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"Is it bad that I want it back?" Noctis whispers.
Prompto squints at him, "What, The 10 years of total darkness? Err, yeah dude, that's bad. No thanks."
Noctis doesn't even laugh, or roll his eyes, and he feels bad because he knows Prompto is trying to get him to lighten up, but he's too busy drowning under the weight of dread he's been carrying. "Not the darkness. Not the scourge. But the… the time. I guess." he sighs, refusing to look at any of their faces. "I just wish I could've had that. There was so much I wanted to do, so much I wanted to learn. So much to experience, so much to live for. Instead, I lost an entire decade."
He lets his words hang there, taking notice of the moment where they all start to realise where the conversation is heading. Noctis breathes out heavily through his nose. "Is it bad? Is it selfish? That I want those 10 years back?"
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09 May 2026
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“But what do you want?” Noctis says.
“Whatever you want,” Ignis says, perfectly sincere.
And this—this is why Noctis is completely fucked.
After Gladio lets slip a little-known fact about Ignis’s bedroom habits, Noct finds he can’t leave well enough alone.
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08 Mar 2026
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After an accident that leaves Ignis partially blind, he parts ways with the Caelum crime family and leaves his old life as an assassin to open up a bakery in a trendy part of town. All he wants is a normal life, a respectable business, and a fresh start.
Complicating matters is the handsome flower shop owner next door who may have strong ties to his old life, a creepy and corrupt real estate agent who would rather sew chaos than let things be, and a childhood friend who wants nothing to do with the violent world they both grew up in.
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07 Jan 2026
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”You’d call everything off right now, just for this?”
Just for this, he says. As though it’s trivial. As though it isn’t everything that Vox has dreamt of every night for the past several decades. As though the rejection doesn’t sting just as sharply every time he wakes up and reaches to the other side of a cold bed, hands searching for a lover that will never be there, and hears callous laughter echoing in the back of his skull.
Vox sucks in a shaky breath, closing his eyes. He tilts his face downward, unable to look at Alastor when he admits it. He almost can’t bring himself to, sure that Alastor is already certain of the answer.
”Yes,” he whispers.
”You can’t be serious,” Alastor says quietly.
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In which many things come to light, all earth-shattering.
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01 Jan 2026
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“There will be conditions,” Alastor says, once the door clicks shut behind Vox. Vox clenches one shaking hand against the deadbolt. He swallows, turning only once he’s had time to collect himself and lock the door.
“Yeah of-,” he croaks, and then clears his throat, “Of course. That’s- Yes, whatever you-” he bites back the ‘want’ that threatens to complete that sentence, unwilling to make it any more obvious than it already is how badly he needs this to happen.
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In which Vox is made an offer than he can't even fathom refusing.
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