Gladio stands up. "Prompto," he sighs, "this was really irresponsible of you. You should have told someone. What about your parents? Why are you here? You are way too young to be raising a baby. You graduated high school not to long ago." he lectures Prom. She lowers her head. She knows what she did is bad, but she didn't know what else to do and telling Noct wasn't an option for her. Neither was telling them. "Look, Prom, I think I have to tell Iggy, Noct and especially King Regis."
"No!" She shouts looking at him. "Especially not Noct. I don't want him to know. No one could know. No one was supposed to know." She mutters but the shield heard her. Gladio stares down at her, their eyes locking with each other, almost challenging each other. He sighs, nodding as he looks away. What are they going to do now? He's in this now that he knows. Prompto looks away too, her baby squirming and getting upset. She turns to look at the time. It's time for him to eat. She looks at Gladio, she's never done this in front of someone else before. "He's hungry." Prompto tells him blushing.
"Okay, then feed him." Gladio says nonchalantly, sitting back down. What are they going to do? What is he going to do? Ignis is going to ask him what he saw, if he talked to her. Gladios' amber eyes widen as Prompto, who cradle her baby, lifts her shirt up. He quickly turns his head away. For a long second he thought she was going to feed him with a baby bottle. Of course she would breastfeed him, she's a healthy young woman. He focuses on his fingers, looking at the slight scars, how large they are. It's silent for a long while.
"Can you not tell anyone, and pretend you didn't see us?" She asks. Gladio looks back at her.
"You know I can't. The baby is royalty. What would happen when people find out? You both can be in danger, mostly him." he looks down at the baby for a second then back up at her. "You know this. If something were to happen how could we know? How could you be protected? We can't be silent about this." Gladio says. Prompto looks down, her baby happily sucking on her nipple, his hand on her chest kneading it as he drink. Gladio can see she's upset about this. He sighs again. She doesn't know it but she's got them all wrapped around her finger.
"I won't tell Noct or the King but," he adds seeing her look at him happy, "but I will tell Ignis. He'll know what to do and not to do." Prompto frowns in the cute way she does when it doesn't go her way. But she nods. He did say Ignis found her. She can't keep her baby a secret from the tall man forever, she couldn't even keep Gladio from knowing. She got too comfortable with her life she forgot that they can find out and she wouldn't know.
Gladio stays a little while longer, happy to be in her rays of happiness. He asks some questions. Where does she work? What is she doing now? He knew she was training with the Kingsglaive, everyone shocked by her skills with a firearm, but then she didn't come back.
Prompto doesn't lie, she tells him the truth even though she didn't tell Gladio the whole truth about what happened with Noctis. Well most of it was the truth. One second they were playing games and the next they were in her room, on her bed. She didn't tell him about them confessing to each other and the heartbreak. She had told Noctis that they can still be friends. She just didn't know that it hurt, and with the hormones while being pregnant made it a little more difficult. She told Gladio she works as a waitress, she has online classes at a community college. She wanted to get an actual job so she can move out of here and get a better apartment, one with maybe two bedroom instead of one. For now it works though.
Then Gladio left, having to get back to work. He had to admit the baby was damn cute. By the six the baby was a perfect combination of both of their cute sides. He couldn't help but wonder who the baby would take after more. Noct and his mostly quiet emo side or Prompto's bubbly personality and hyperness. Will the baby be running around everywhere shouting like crazy or will he be silent, playing by himself? Gladio smile to himself. If Noct ever finds out about that baby he's in for a surprise. Wonder what the prince would do, faint or stand in place too shocked to do anything?
Even he still can't fully believe that Prompto's got a baby and the baby is also Noct's.
As he's walking through the hallway he spots Ignis talking to a worker. Gladio stops, giving them space and time to talk. Ignis catches his eyes, then looks down at his watch then back up again to meet eyes. Gladio nods knowing the glasses wearing brunette is silently asking him if he saw Prompto. Ignis talks for a second then walks away, towards him.
"You saw Prompto. How is she?" Ignis asks looking worried. Gladio just gives a smile down at the other man.
"She's fine. She's as happy as I remember." Gladio answers. She was smiling. She seems happy with her baby, alone in their small apartment. Leave it to her to be happy with the situation.
"That's wonderful news. Did she tell you anything else?" Ignis smiles, worry gone from his expression. Gladio nods.
"She said a lot, actually." Gladio says now thinking about it. For a second he forgot he was talking to Prompto, she usually is very quiet when she feels like she's in trouble. She also doesn't like talking about herself.
"Does she really work as a waitress? I thought she was training with the Kingsglaive?" Ignis asks.
"Yeah she does but she has her reasons." Gladio defends. Now that he thought about it, who knows what she could do if she finds out he told someone. She wouldn't leave the country with the baby, would she? It does sound like something she would do.
"Well, as long as she's safe and happy that's all that matter. Now let's tell Noct the news. I'm sure he'll be happy to hear we found her." Ignis nods proud of himself. Anything to make his prince happy, also he was also worried about her too but Noct comes first. Gladio holds onto his arm, stopping him.
"You can't tell Noctis." Gladio says lowly so no one can hear.
"And why not?" Ignis wonders turning his whole body to face Gladio.
"Prompto doesn't want him to know, and I don't want to break my promise. She might run away and we can't let that happen." Ignis raises his eyebrows. She doesn't want him to know what? That she's okay. That she's safe. "Just come and talk to her yourself." Gladio says seeing the confused expression of his.
Ignis nods. "I will." He answers.
