Prompto, half asleep, moves to lay on her side, groaning when she feels pain erupt on her side. When the pain subsides she takes a deep breath, breathing in the scent of a powerful smelling flower scent which doesn't make sense because her laundry always comes out smelling like lemons. Then she notices how soft the bed she's on feels. Way softer and cloudlike than her slightly stiff cheap mattress. She blinks awake, eyes blurry for a second before she can see the bright room that's most definitely not her room or anywhere in her apartment.
She sits up quickly, wincing when her side explodes in pain. She holds her side, clenching her eyes and taking a deep breath, slowly moving to not hurt it more. As she opens her eyes the memories of what happen at work come flooding in. A few tears fall from her eyes but then she notices she's not wearing her work uniform anymore. She's actually wearing nice black silk pajamas. A pair she knows she doesn't own. She raises her hands, clean and pale like before, not a hint of blood on them, just a spackle of freckles on her knuckles, like that day was just a nightmare. She looks around, not long before she can tell where she is. With how elaborate everything is she could tell she's at the Citadel. She doesn't remember much, all that she saw is Astrum, she wanted to hold him but she saw the blood on her hands and didn't want to get him dirty. But she remembers whose blood it is and starts crying. She does remember hugging Gladio then everything turns black.
Wait. If Ignis drove her, and Gladio came up from behind her then who was holding Astrum? Prompto gets off the bed, throwing the warm duvet off her, she jumps off the bed and sprints to the door. It opens to a living area. She scans the room, the living room is empty but she spots toys and Astrums diaper bag, but no Astrum, then her eyes roam to the kitchen to see Ignis rocking Astrum who rest on his shoulder as he read something. "Astrum!" She shouts way to loud shocking both her baby and Ignis. They both look at her. Ignis gives her a smile while Astrum hold his hands out, opening and closing his fist, wanting her to carry him. She walks up to him, grabbing him into her arms. Ignis happy to let him go.
"Good morning. Glad to see you awake." Ignis greets her. Prompto gives him a smile back, but Ignis can see the tired still in her eyes. She looks better than yesterday though, the puffiness around her eyes from crying is almost gone. But now it's very easy to see the bruises she got on her face. The doctor had even told them she has a bruise on her side from being kicked. Noct almost warped out the room, wanting to punch the guy who gave it to her. It took his father to calm him down.
"Um... h-how... l-long?" she stutters, not sure if she should ask. What if that all was a nightmare? Maybe she passed out from overworking herself and had some crazy nightmare.
"Almost ten hours. Which in my opinion isn't enough." Ignis says pushing his glasses up his nose with one hand while setting the papers down with the other. "You have a large bruise on your side, your cheek, and you were shot in the arm yesterday." He says giving her a serious look. Her eyes can only widen.
"I was shot!" She yells, Astrum starts whimpering so she starts rubbing his back.
"In your left arm. It went right through you." He says turning around to start cooking her some breakfast. Prompto moves Astrum to settle him on her hip better and she felt the bandage on her left bicep. Guess the day before wasn't a nightmare, and with so much happening she didn't even notice a bullet going right through her arm. "Sit and rest, Cor and some officers want to ask some questions about what happened. We already know but we would like to get your side of the story of course." Ignis tells her. Prompto sits at the small round table set so she can see both the living room and kitchen.
"How's Ronan? Have you heard anything?" Prompto wonders, obviously worried about the man. He took a bullet for her.
"Yes, the investigator asking questions went to see your boss at the hospital, he told me Ronan is out of surgery but is still resting. He's stable for now but he's resting and they don't know when he'll wake up." Ignis tells her.
"Oh shit!" Prompto yells ignoring the looks Ignis gave her from over his shoulder, she looks at him before she continues, "what am I going to do? I left my purse at work. It has my ID, keys, and wallet." She tells him.
"For now rest. I'll see if I can get it for you. Cor and the investigator would like to see you. Plus we have to get you some clothes to wear." Ignis points out. Prompto blushes. Right she forgot, she's in her pajamas. Which she knows isn't bad, she's still covered but it almost feels like she's naked. Especially in front of Ignis who is as posh as royalty. "Here," he says setting down a plate of warm breakfast sandwiches in front of her, "eat. You need it." He tells her with a smile.
"Thanks, for take care of Astrum while I was asleep." She says then eats, holding the sandwich as well as she can with one hand. Ignis looks at her for a while before giving her a smile.
"It was no problem." He says, thinking it's a good idea to not tell her that Regis is the one who took care of Astrum. Gladio was busy with Noct, trying to calm him down, while he was with Cor, telling the man what he knew. Regis just continue to take care of Astrum who didn't seem to leave his lap. "I'll be back. I have to deliver these papers, then I'll let Cor know you are awake and see about your purse." Ignis mentions as he packs the papers into his messenger bag. Prompto nods, eating as she watch him leave. Just her and Astrum in this room, in an unknown part of the Citadel. She's got a lot of thinking to do. With the diner the way it is no way she can go back to work, she also wants to visit her boss, maybe tell her she's sorry. Her brother is in the hospital because of her.
When Prompto finishes her meal, she washes the dish as best as she can with one hand. Astrum didn't seem to want to let her go but she didn't want to let him go either so she did her best one handed.
With the dish washed and set to dry she sits on the couch just in time to feed someone. She unbuttons the first few button of the silk pajamas, laying Astrum on his back, he already knew what to do so it didn't take much prompting for him to search for her nipple and starts sucking. She drags one of the throw pillows underneath Astrum on her lap so she doesn't have to hold him in place. As he fed she throws her head back to rest on the back of the couch. She felt tired again. With a nice and warm breakfast filling her stomach she wanted so bad to take a nap. Shouldn't be a big deal for her to, just for a minute.
Maybe five minutes of her closing her eyes.
