A/N: Okay, this took a long time to write (and fix the mistakes which I made.) But please Read & Enjoy & Review. ;)
Noctis sat in the throne room, leaning his head on his hand.
He was waiting for the conference to start. He was bored as hell. He rose up and headed to the conference room. He opened the huge doors to come step in the conference room. Around the table were some people who waiting for him to come. He sat on the king's chair in end of the table; the queen's chair was empty.
The people started discussing about something, Noctis didn't even bother to listen, he hated conferences. Noctis was tired. He couldn't get any sleep last night. He was busy of thinking about Lightning, he felt sorry to put her through so much pain. He didn't mean to get so serious; he just thought that it would be fun to play a little. He regretted it a little, a little. It wasn't fair fight at all either. He regretted it right away when he noticed how seriously she got hurt
He never regretted anything, he had the rights to do anything. He never felt bad if he killed someone, but now he felt, fortunately she didn't die though. Well, he didn't kill her, he didn't finish her, which was a new experience for him, he though that if he would start something, then he'd finish it too.
Noctis had gotten the strange feeling on that night , what he was never felt before. He felt remorse, because his actions. Suddenly his emotions turned upside down and he didn't want to hurt her anymore.
"No, I was just drunk, I must have been thinking about something else, it's a shame that I don't remember well, but I can't help it." Noctis thought and smirked arrogantly and then lifted his legs up on the table and crossed them. Noctis sighed of boredom and leaned back on the extremely uncomfortable chair and he crossed his arms behind his head.
"Your highness, can you pay more attention?" A dark haired male said.
Noctis didn't like other people ordering him around. He had the highest rank, nobody couldn't say 'no' to him. He wasn't having a great morning when he was sobering up, he felt so sick and nauseated that he decided to drink more right away to forget about everything, he'd rather to drink all the time or try to cope with sobering up.
Noctis gave him a murderous look, the man flinched and turned his head to avoid making an eye contact with Noctis.
Noctis smirked, he loved to use his rank to make other people's lives hard without any consequences. It was so wonderful to control other people as he liked, it was always fun to watch at.
Noctis tried to concentrate more but he basically couldn't. He wasn't listening anything what the other people were talking about his kingdom. Noctis knew that at the end of the day, he was the one who accepted or turned down the suggestions which were given to him. He didn't have to listen. He didn't want to listen.
"Noctis, you must find yourself a partner, the king isn't going to come back. You can't wait any longer, you're quite old already. The kingdom needs two rulers. Since your father didn't arrange you a marriage, you must to make sure by yourself, that any dirty blood won't mix in." Some guy said to him. "If you don't announce who you're going to marry in 2 weeks, we'll arrange you a marriage. Ignis will tell you what's the date of the weddings later."
Noctis took a deep breath and changed his position and hit his fist against the table. "Fuck you, I'm not marrying anybody. How dare you to advise me with my private life!?" Noctis shouted to him irritated.
"I'm sorry your highness, it's my job to try to help you with running the kingdom. You will be advised as long as you're a prince." The man said.
Noctis wasn't even sure who the man ordering him around was, but he was trying to give him orders and advises and Noctis didn't like it.
Noctis had gotten enough. "You can't order me to do something, I am the prince. I suggest you to keep your mouth shut or you'll find yourself from the graveyard...if you ever even get so far." Noctis smiled. "Just to let you know, and all of you too."
"But-"
"Get out of my castle!" Noctis shouted and got up from his chair.
"S-Sorry." The man stuttered frightened and exited the room as quick as he could, trying to be formal, but it wasn't a good try.
Noctis gave a murderous glare to the others. "You too idiots!" Noctis hit his fist on the marble table again, which made the marble to crack a little. "He's going to be executed tomorrow morning and the rest of you will get executed too if you haven't gotten out of my sight in 5 minutes. Please feel free to come to watch the executions, If you're quick enough."
All of them got up from their chairs quickly and most of them hurried to the doors right away without saying anything.
4 men stayed and bowed to Noctis and one man said with his voice trembling: "Sorry and thank you, your highness." The man said.
Noctis smirked and whistled to get the attetion of the rest of the men.
"Oh and the rest of you aren't allowed to quit your jobs if you manage to get out, you don't seem to have any manners." Noctis said little amused. "Or yes you can, but you're going to lose more than your jobs." Noctis said.
Noctis was so amused, he was looking forward to the next meeting to see how many people there was left.
Noctis pointed his finger at the 4 man who staid. "You're allowed to quit, fuck off." Noctis said.
"Thank you your highness." The other man said and the rest of them bowed and left.
"Dammit I hate this place." Noctis muttered out loud after the other people had left and then he exited the conference room and slammed the door shut.
Noctis didn't want to get married, he was too young. He didn't even know any girls, he didn't have time for that kind of stuff. Yes it was easy for commoners to say to marry someone, but he didn't even know any girls who he could even marry. He was also had commitment phobia, he didn't want to stay in one place and situation for the rest of his life...like he had to. Even if he'd find someone, he couldn't stay for long with that person and more likely he wouldn't ever find anyone, he knew that. But, he knew that the day would come when he'd have to marry someone, but still it came too quickly, he had to accept the fact that some princess would come here to marry him, but he would ignore her completely, he didn't want to get to know any other royals.
Noctis sighed, he threw his jacked away, he felt little sweaty. Noctis coughed and then he got a weird feeling. It was like something warm was flowing along his trachea.
Noctis touched his wound. He didn't feel anything unusual. The wound was like it used to be.
Then his breathing got heavy, Noctis felt like he had to vomit. Noctis went to the first washroom he could find, he never used them, but now he had to.
Noctis went in front of a sink and he leaned on the countertop of the sink. Noctis put his hand on his throat when he started to cough to rapidly that he felt like he couldn't breathe. The black marble and dark grey walls slowly started to change their color to more reddish, even though they were really dark colors, but so was his blood.
"Dammit!" Noctis coughed and wiped the blood off his mouth with his hand.
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Lightning got up. She was able to move a little but it still hurt a lot to move, but fortunately Prompto had taken care of her, so she was feeling little better now.
Lightning didn't want to lay in bed all day so she decided to ignore the pain and go to have a look of the castle.
Lightning opened the door and entered the hallway. The hallway was so long that it looked like it would never end. Again, the walls of the hallway were painted with very dark colors.
"What's wrong with this place?" Lightning thought and walked carefully to not strain her wound. There were a compelete silence in the hallway, Lightning felt little uneasy to be in unknown place, which was like this.
Lightning walked down the hallway. The walls were filled with huge paintings and the floor was covered with blood red fitted carpet. As Lightning was trying to get to know the castle little better, the maids who were walking along the hallway gave her questioning looks.
"I guess that this is the first time they've seen me. Maybe they're just curious." Lightning though.
Lightning decided to ignore the maids and servants and she kept walking. She didn't pay too much attention on the people around her, until someone ran to her and hugged her from back.
"Ow, ow!" Lightning moaned of the pain and put her hand on her side, but Prompto was faster.
"Oh, sorry I didn't remember!" Prompto said and loosened his grip.
"Are you okay?" Prompto asked and rubbed the place where her wound was carefully. "You're okay." Prompto smiled.
"No, you shouldn't be sneaking around like that." Lightning said.
"Sorry, I just wanted to say hi." Prompto snickered.
"Your parents didn't do too well raising you." Lightning said.
"I can hug you again if you want." Prompto said and put his hands on the both sides of her waist. "Wow, you're so tiny."
"I mean...slender." Prompto grinned.
"Just keep your hands off me okay?" Lightning turned around and pushed his hand farther away.
"I can't guarantee that." Prompto smiled.
"I might not be in best condition right now, but I can still punch you…If you want." Lightning said to him.
"Oh, don't be so harsh." Prompto smiled.
"I meant that." Lightning said.
"Uh-oh I'm so scared." Prompto grinned.
"You-"
"Uh-oh, I guess I have to go. I gotta get to work, I'm late." Prompto gave a glimpse of his wristwatch.
"Where are you working?" Lightning asked curiously. "Mental hospital? Is that because you're so...weird?"
"In primary school, I'm a teacher." Prompto said. "I'm special, not weird." Prompto smiled.
Lightning burst out laughing.
"Ow." Lightning moaned of the pain and put her hands on her wound.
"What?" Prompto asked.
"Are you serious? You're a teacher?" Lightning giggled.
"What so funny about it?" Prompto asked.
"Nothing just go to work already." Lightning said with a slight laughter.
"Oh I almost forgot." Prompto looked at his wristwatch. "See you later, bye!" He said quickly and kissed Lightning's cheek and then he started to run down the hallway.
Lightning stared at him until he disappeared behind the corner and then she wiped her cheek with her hand.
"Idiot." Lightning muttered. She didn't want to be kissed by any men right now or to be kissed by strangers. Well, Prompto was friendly and funny, but after all she didn't know him, not well enough.
Lightning walked next to a maid who was polishing some small golden and silver decorations.
"Sorry?" Lightning said to the first maid who passed by.
The maid flinched when she saw Lightning.
"Oh, I'm sorry." The maid said looking eyeing Lightning from head to toe. "Do you need help...miss?"
"I'm sorry to bother you." Lightning said. "Is there a washroom somewhere? I'd like to wash my hands." Lightning asked, she decided to not to say that she'd like to wash her face since Prince's friend licked her.
Lightning felt slightly amused, by the choice of words in her mind. Unfortunately it was true, Lightning didn't want him to come so close to her.
"Um, yes we do." The maid said and pointed at the end of the hallway. "There's a washroom, at the end of the hallway." She said.
"Alright thanks." Lightning said and started to head back towards the end of the hallway.
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Noctis was sitting his back against the wall in the washroom, he felt so dizzy so that he had to sit down on the cold marble floor, which was stained of his blood.
Noctis was so tired. He shivered.
"Dammit, I shouldn't have taken that last shot with that pile of medicine." Noctis couched. "Dammit I'm stupid."
Noctis never asked for help, he had his pride. He didn't want people to see how weak he was, asking for help was a sign of weakness. He could cope with his problems by himself, or so hoped but he'd never ever ask anyone to help him.
He felt like he had to vomit.
Noctis couldn't hold it, he gagged but he ended up heaving just a huge pool of blood.
"Holy shit." Noctis gasped for air, holding his throat with his other hand.
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Lightning walked to the end of the hallway and there were numerous doors, they all were similar.
Lightning sighed.
Lightning decided to start from the first door in the middle off the others, she hated the castle, everything had to be so presentable and everything was too symmetric.
She opened the door and it was indeed a washroom. It was huge, there were only sinks and some other stuff, it didn't look like a washroom or a toilet at all. No showers, no tubs, no toilets, you name it.
"How weird..." Lightning thought and she went to the first sink and washed her hands and face.
Lightning grabbed the hand towel and she dried her hands and cheeks on it. The towel was so soft, Lightning took a better look of it. There were a large almost unnoticeable tribal-ish pattern of N and C twisted around each other.
"Hm?" Lightning thought.
Then she looked at the other products on the counter of the sink. The same pattern was on hand soaps and some tubes of shampoo and something else, Lightning couldn't understand what all of the label said since they were written in some other language, Lightning couldn't speak any other languages than English.
"But no mirror?" Lightning said out loud little puzzled and put the towel on the counter if the sink.
Lightning turned around and she was about to leave but she got too curious, she wanted to have a look what were behind the partition wall.
Lightning walked back along the wall and walked into the other part of the washroom, everything was darker in there. Lightning didn't like it at all, somehow the dark colors made her to feel depressed and little afraid...in a way, it was childish and ridiculous but it was true.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Lightning heard a silky and angry voice behind her, she flinched and turned around.
"Fuck off." Noctis coughed.
"Oh my god." Lightning said quietly, lifting her hand in front of her mouth. "Are you oka-" Lightning tried to come closer to him.
Noctis summoned his swords and surrounded Lightning with them. "I've warned you." Noctis gritted his teeth, it required quite much strength to keep the swords floating, he was quite weak now, he felt like he'd faint at any moment. He couldn't think too clearly either partly because he was drunk. He wouldn't be able to control the swords properly if he wouldn't be able to concentrate.
Lightning stared at the swords and then at Noctis with a terrified and concerned expression on her face.
"Let me help you, I won't hurt you. I promise." Lightning said. "You need help."
"Get back to your room, I'm not on a good mood." Noctis said his arm shaking a little, he couldn't maintain the swords floating for a long time anymore.
There was a long silence.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Have you done something to yourself?!" Lightning asked little irritated by his reckless and arrogant behavior.
"You'd better to follow my orders, get out or I'll put you to death here and right now." Noctis said and tried to get up.
The swords dropped down creating various clunk sounds. Noctis had to sit down again. He muttered something to himself and leaned his head against the wall, the blood started to flow slowly from the corner of his mouth. Noctis wiped his lips to the sleeve of his jacket.
Noctis wasn't able to say anything; he looked at the floor and coughed again, the blood splattering all over the place.
Lightning went next to him and put her right hand on his chin and turned his head so he had to look at her. His skin felt cold and but still soft flawless.
Lightning looked into his eyes, she could see pain and little embarrassment in his deep blue eyes.
Noctis blushed. "Stop staring at me bi-" Noctis said to her to hide the fact that how nervous he was. "Don't touch me!" Noctis said and pushed her hand away.
"No, calm down." Lightning said and looked straight into his eyes. "What did you do to yourself?"
"Nothing, get your hands off me!" Noctis gritted his teeth.
"Where does the blood come from? Where does it hurt?" Lightning asked concerned, she might not like him, but she couldn't leave him there alone in that condition.
Noctis took a deep breath. "Get out." Noctis said. "Out of my castle." He said weakly and coughed.
"This might hurt a little, I'll just check." Lightning put her hand on his throat and squeezed it carefully.
Noctis moaned and grimaced, he pushed her hand aside again. "How dare you?." Noctis said.
"Are you a smoker?" Lightning asked seriously.
"No." Noctis said and turned his head away and coughed.
"Did you do anything unusual today then?" Lightning asked.
"No." Noctis said and gritted his teeth. "Get out, leave me alone. You're not allowed to touch me."
"I don't care, I'll wait here until you bleed to death." Lightning said.
Noctis didn't answer.
"What happened?" Lightning asked. "I want to help you, I can see that you're in pain, don't deny it."
Noctis grabbed Lightning by the jaw and held her head tightly in place. "I took my drugs with alcohol, happy now?" Noctis said angrily and let go of her.
Lightning stared at him worried and little shocked as Noctis turned his head away, avoiding direct eye contact.
"So this is why he smells like alcohol all the time." Lightning thought.
Lightning grabbed Noctis by the collar. "Are you crazy?! Why the hell did you do that?" Lightning asked with mixed emotions.
"None of your business." Noctis said coldly and pushed Lightning roughly farther away that her head almost hit the wall which was behind her back.
"We're going to infirmary, you might have internal bleeding or something, let's go." Lightning said.
"I'm not going anywhere, I don't need help, I'll solve my problems by myself." Noctis said arrogantly.
"Shut up and give me your cellphone." Lightning said and stretched her hand out towards him.
"No way, you have no permission to touch my personal belongings especially when they're prince's belongings." Noctis said and got on his knees to vomit, but he couldn't, only the blood was flowing down his chin and dripping on the black marble floor.
Lightning leaned forward and patted and rubbed his back lightly. "Try to breathe and give me your cellphone." Lightning said.
"Take your hands off me!" Noctis said and tried to get back in sitting position, but he didn't have enough energy to do that.
Noctis swore something quietly his arms shaking, trying to support the weight of his upper body.
Lightning grabbed him by his waist and helped him up, which was rather difficult by the size difference between him and her.
"Stop protesting, give me your cellphone." Lightning said to Noctis, holding him by the waist and letting him to partly lean against her.
"Can't you understand what I'm saying?! I don't need help!." Noctis shouted and tried to push Lightning farther away so that he would lean completely on the wall, with no support.
"Give your cellphone to me or otherwise I have to hurt you." Lightning said and put her other hand on his throat.
"How dare you?" Noctis gritted his teeth. "I'm starting to regret that I spared your life, I'll get you executed since you're harming me."
"You cannot do that if you're dead idiot, did you just lose your sanity?" Lightning asked irritated and slid her hand on the place where his Adam's apple was and pressed it.
Noctis flinched and moaned of the pain and as Lightning moved her hand down, he started coughing nonstop. There was forming a small pool of blood on the floor of the amount of blood which he was losing.
Noctis tried to take short breaths in between the coughing, he was struggling to get some oxygen. He started to turn pale, of the blood loss and of the lack of oxygen.
Lightning slid her hand back up and rubbed his neck gently.
Noctis stopped coughing and he began breathing quickly and very shallowly.
"Cellphone." Lightning said.
Noctis took his cellphone out of his pocket and gave it to Lightning.
Lightning took the phone and patted Noctis' chest. "Take deep breaths." Lightning said.
"What's Prompto's number?" Lightning asked.
"Look it up from the address book idiot." Noctis coughed.
Lightning ignored his insult.
It took a while to find the address book from his complicated and ridiculously fancy smartphone. She wasn't even sure how to use a normal cellphone, since she hadn't had one before.
"Where did you get such a complicated cellphone?" Lightning asked from Noctis and called to Prompto.
It took a little while before Prompto picked up the phone.
"I've told you to not to call me when I'm working, you never call me anyway, what's wrong?" Prompto spoke to the phone with little tired voice, with a lot of background voices, mostly voices of people talking.
"Sorry, you must come to see Noctis. I don't really know what's happening to him, but he's not feeling well, he's spitting blood also." Lightning said.
"Oh." Lightning heard Prompto saying with surprised voice. "Well okay, I'll come as soon as possible. Look after him for a while, give him water or something if he needs, don't be offended if he doesn't let you help, he's always like that." Prompto said.
"Okay." Lightning said.
"Alright, bye." Prompto said and hung up the phone.
"Okay, thanks." Lightning said and gave the phone back to Noctis. "Do you need water or something? I'll go to get you some if you need." Lightning said and looked at him, but Noctis was still avoiding getting in direct eye contact.
"No." Noctis said quietly.
"Where does it hurt? Neck only or?" Lightning asked.
"You don't do anything with that kind of information, stop asking stupid questions." Noctis said.
"I'm just trying to help, stop acting like you were a tough guy who never needs anyone's help when you're not." Lightning said.
"I don't need help." Noctis said. "Stop offending me or I'll slaughter you."
"Are you drunk or something? Or aren't you just listening?" Lightning asked.
Noctis tried to say something but he decided to remain silent since he didn't feel like he had the energy for that.
"Are you tired?" Lightning asked and hesitated but then she lightly and carefully stroke his silky and little messy hair. She just wanted to make him feel better, most men seemed to like when they were touched like that, with care, but Lightning wasn't sure if he liked it since he seemed to not to like her but Lightning decided to try anyway.
Noctis turned his head and looked at Lightning with confused and surprised expression on his face.
"Sorry." Lightning said.
"No, it's okay." Noctis said with confused voice tone and he turned his face away again.
Lightning was little surprised now too by his nice behavior.
"Are you sure that you don't need anything?" Lightning asked.
"Yes." Noctis said. "Let go of me, you don't have to support me, I can lean against the wall."
"No." Lightning said, he was quite heavy and not too easy to support, but Lightning didn't really mind, she just wanted to help. "I want to make sure that you won't hurt yourself."
Noctis didn't say anything.
"Sorry that I hurt you, I wouldn't have wanted to, but I don't have a cellphone or Prompto's number." Lightning said.
"I don't care." Noctis said.
"Of what?" Lightning asked.
"Anything."
"How so?" Lightning asked little puzzled by his answer.
"None of your business."
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Noctis felt really sleepy, he wasn't at the mood of talking, but still he was confused that why was Lightning being so nice to him even though he acted so coldly towards her.
"None of your business?" Lightning repeated.
"Do I have to repeat?." Noctis asked.
Lightning sighed and didn't say anything.
Noctis tried to find out her intentions, why was she behaving so oddly? She used to be nice but at the same time she could be really irritating, she even intentionally hurt him, but after that she tried to make him feel better. Noctis wasn't sure that should he act nicely or coldly towards her.
Even thinking was quite difficult now, he was little drunk and the blood loss made thinking even harder.
"Is everything okay? Are you dizzy?" Lightning asked.
"No, I'm okay." Noctis said. His throat was aching really badly and as he said something, he started to cough which caused a lot of pain.
Noctis put his hand on his throat automatically, as if it would relieve the pain a little.
"Let me." Lightning said.
Noctis turned his head a little to look at Lightning, he was completely lost, he had no idea what she meant.
"I have some knowledge of human anatomy. I know some little things which may make you feel better , let me help." Lightning said. "I won't hurt you."
Noctis hesitated but then he took his hand off his throat.
Lightning put her hand on his throat carefully.
"I'll just massage your neck a little, it should make you feel little better. Say if it hurts." Lightning said and pressed a little and slid her hand along his neck to his jaw and back down.
Noctis grimaced but he didn't say anything, it made breathing little easier, but it hurt a lot.
Lightning stopped when she saw his reaction. "Did it hurt?" Lightning asked.
"No." Noctis lied.
"Liar." Lightning said. "I'll be more careful. You must tell me if it hurts." Lightning said.
"However." Noctis said like he wouldn't care.
Lightning sighed and continued what she was doing, but now more gently.
Noctis tilted his head slightly backwards to reveal more of his neck, it actually started to feel good.
Noctis tried to not to smile, but his mouth corners slightly rose up, he felt so good that somebody touched him with such carefulness, even though he didn't even know this girl but she actually seemed like she wanted to make him feel better. Noctis didn't receive this kind of attention and luxury too often. Technically never, so he tried to enjoy.
"How about now?" Lightning asked.
"Thanks." Noctis said shortly.
Lightning took her hand off his throat. "Good." Lightning said.
There was quite long silence.
Noctis looked at Lightning who was sitting next to him, her other arm wrapped around his waist.
Noctis found her really attractive. She was really feminine but she had quite strong personality. Actually he liked that kind of girls who actually had some attitude too. He was slowly starting to like her, but he knew that she didn't like him. Noctis knew that he wasn't able to make her to like him so he didn't really care that how he treated her, he was going to get what he wanted if she liked it or not.
The side effects of drinking too much started to kick in.
Noctis put his other hand on his forehead trying to relieve the pain by the slight coolness of his hands, which slightly helped for a really short period of time. It was typical to him to get a headache, becoming nauseated and thirsty and start to tremble when he had a hangover. It was a horrible feeling, he didn't want to start coughing or gagging at the time, it hurt enough already.
Noctis swore quietly and tried to get up. "I have to go to get some water, let go of me." Noctis said and pushed Lightning aside and he tried to get up and he managed to do that but he tripped almost right away and almost fell over but Lightning managed to take a hold of him.
"Sit down, I'll get some water for you." Lightning said. "Don't move, you'll hurt yourself.
"No, I don't need anyone to help me." Noctis said. "I can't sit here whole day, I have to take some rest."
"Resting isn't a solution for this, what's wrong with you?" Lightning asked.
Noctis looked at Lightning, he was quite pissed off by now. "I have to sober up okay?!" Noctis said to her with irritated and loud voice.
"You're not going anywhere drunkard, you'll sober up here." Lightning said. "It's your fault that you went and drunk too much."
"Stop that, I'm feeling bad enough already." Noctis said and held his forehead.
"Do you feel nauseated or what?" Lightning asked.
"No." Noctis lied. He didn't want to seem weak in her eyes, he had his pride.
"I consider that as a yes." Lightning said and got up. "Wait here."
Lightning walked to the sink and took a glass and filled it with water and came back and offered the glass for him. "I'm sorry your highness, I hope that you won't mind to drink tap water, I couldn't find bottled water." Lightning said.
Noctis gave her a murderous look. "I'm not taking it, tap water or not." Noctis said and coughed.
"Stop being so arrogant." Lightning said and put the edge of the glass on his lips. "Do I have to force you to drink it?" Lightning lowered down on his level and tilted his head slightly back.
"How dare you humiliate me?" Noctis muttered and swiped the glass off her hand so that it hit the marble floor and broke into million pieces.
Noctis rose on his knees and grabbed Lightning by the throat and pinned her against the wall.
"I have my limits too, you've crossed them many times by now, I'm not so weak that I couldn't strangle you." Noctis said with irritated voice. "I've warned you many times, I don't usually warn anybody."
"Well go ahead, let us both die then." Lightning said. "You're not accepting help, because you have such big ego that's what it's all about."
"I can do many other unpleasant things before I kill you too." Noctis said to her calmly. "Nobody talks me like that with no consequences."
"Go ahead." Lightning said sarcastically and smiled.
Noctis was quiet, he was confused. He wasn't able to think very clearly at the time, but he was able to be confused by her indifference. She didn't seem to care, for real. She didn't seem to be afraid.
"What takes so long? You have my permission." Lightning said.
Noctis rose his head and looked at her. "Why don't you care?" Noctis asked quietly.
Lightning grinned. "I know how humans behave and respond to other human's behavior."
Noctis was quiet, it was so confusing, he had no idea what she was talking about.
"You're so confused." Lightning smiled. "You don't know what to do, but soon you'll let go of me."
Noctis didn't say anything, he was trying to find out that what was she trying to achieve.
"Are you trying to manipulate me?" Noctis asked and loosened his grip a little.
"Nope." Lightning smiled.
"I don't understand." Noctis looked at the floor and shook his head.
"I told you that."
Noctis let go of her.
"Sorry." Noctis said.
"People are so simple." Lightning said and rubbed her neck.
"Are you okay?" Noctis asked, he was little surprised by his own behavior now too, he was never worried of anybody.
"Yes, don't go anywhere. I go get you some water." Lightning said and tried to get up, but Noctis put her hand on her shoulder and didn't let her to stand up.
"No, you're not going anywhere." Noctis said and slid his hand across her neck. "Did I hurt you? Your neck is completely red, does it hurt?"
Lightning rolled her eyes and pushed his hand aside. "You're easily to be manipulated, I knew that you aren't as cold-hearted as you make other people to believe. Good try though." Lightning said.
"You don't know me." Noctis said.
"I agree. Do you eat some other drugs than antibiotics too?" Lightning asked.
Noctis stared at her confused. "Huh? What? No." Noctis said.
"Goodbye my sanity." Lightning said.
"Huh?"
"Forget it." Lightning said. "Can you please let go of me?" Lightning said.
Noctis let go of her.
"I don't understand what does it take for so long to Prompto to come." Lightning said. "I'm little worried."
Noctis didn't answer.
"Why are you so nice to me? Why do you even care? I was so rude to you." Noctis said and leaned little forward to see her face while she stared at the floor.
"Every life is precious." Lightning said.
"Huh?"
Lightning turned her head and looked at Noctis. "To put it simply, it's not polite to let people die if you can do something about it." Lightning said. "And if you can't, then it's not polite to leave the dying person alone either. You might not know how it feels like to be left alone, I know." Lightning sighed.
Noctis was quiet and stared at Lightning, suddenly he felt himself so guilty of everything what he had done, and how he had treated her.
"What are you staring at?" Lightning asked.
Noctis felt horrible. She was right and she said that she have been in a situation like that too. Maybe he was too? Then he remembered the things what he had done to millions and millions of people.
"I deserve it." Noctis said. "I'm so horrible person, am I?" Noctis sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Deserve what?" Lightning asked.
"To die." Noctis sighed.
"N-" Lightning tried to say.
"...Alone, it's not polite to help me." Noctis said. "To be honest, actually I seriously considered that should I molest you or kill you, or both." Noctis said and stared at the floor, avoiding direct eye contact.
"Sorry, I am a horrible person. I shouldn't have even thought about things like that. I can't believe that why are you still there, aren't you afraid at all if I do something to you because I have already considered it?" Noctis said.
"Every life is precious, horrible person or not." Lightning said. "I can't deny it."
Noctis didn't know why, but he felt like his feelings had been hurt, he didn't know why, he thought that he didn't have feelings anymore.. He never felt joy or things like that, alcohol made him to feel bad and sometimes he got angry, but he didn't think that he'd be able to feel happiness, remorse or empathy, let alone love or devotion. There wasn't anything anymore which could hurt his feelings, but now some feelings had returned.
Noctis tugged his hair lightly "Impossible." Noctis thought and turned his head to look at Lightning. "It can't be because of her, I don't know her and I hate her but it can't be because the insult only."
Noctis felt like he had to vomit, but he put his hand over his mouth when he gagged. Noctis grimaced, the pain returned which was even worse than before, now he started to cough.
Lightning patted his back carefully. "Are you okay?" Lightning asked with worried voice tone.
Noctis couldn't say anything, he tried but it just made him cough even more.
"Lift your head up." Lightning said and put her hand under his jaw and pushed it upwards.
Noctis lifted his head up and wiped his bloody hand on the sleeve of his jacket.
"Don't ruin your jacket idiot, you're wasting your money and the resources of the nature." Lightning said and grabbed a small hand towel from the hook on the wall.
"Use this." Lightning said and stretched out her hand to give it to Noctis. "You can wash it later and I'm sure that it isn't as expensive as your fancy fancy jackets."
"No, I'm okay." Noctis said and coughed so that some of the blood splattered on Lightning and the blood started to flow down Noctis' chin.
Noctis got on his knees and wiped the blood spatters off her face. "I'm sorry." Noctis said and spit a mouthful of blood on the floor and he wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his jacket.
"You're not listening." Lightning said and wiped the blood off his mouth and chin with the towel. "You're so immature."
"Sorry, you don't have to. I can do it by myself." Noctis said.
"No you can't, just look how helpless you are." Lightning said and grabbed him by his wrist to clean his hands.
Noctis felt really helpless indeed, he was so embarrassed that he let a woman to take care of him like this, especially when they didn't know each other.
Noctis didn't answer.
"Your hands are trembling, are you cold?" Lightning asked and let go of his hands and wiped the most of the blood off his black military type leather jacket.
"...No." Noctis sighed embarrassed. "I'm just drunk."
"What makes you to drink in the middle of the day? I know that it's Friday, but you've started little too early." Lightning asked and grabbed Noctis by the wrist and put the towel in his hand.
"What should I say?" Noctis thought, he didn't want her to know that he wasn't using alcohol as it should be used, it was really embarrassing to not to be able to drink all day and all night, but he couldn't help it.
"Did you hear me?" Lightning asked and waved her hands in front of Noctis.
Noctis got back to the reality. "I-I just took one shot because my friend offered it to me. I can't tolerance a lot of alcohol at once, I get drunk very easily." Noctis lied.
Lightning looked at him with questioning expression on her face, but she didn't say anything but: "Alright."
"Are you sick or do you look like that all the time?" Lightning asked. "Or do you have some kind of disease?"
"What?"
"You have dark circles under your eyes and your skin and hair is in really bad shape and I don't think that it's natural to be that pale either. Do you ever eat anything or do you have to be on a diet all the time , because you're a prince?" Lightning asked.
"I don't know, I just don't know." Noctis sighed tiredly and closed his eyes for a moment.
"Doesn't look like it." Lightning said. "And it's not time to take a nap, you can sleep at night."
"I don't get a lot of sleep. I'm just a little tired, don't worry."
"You have bad habits, take ahold of yourself." Lightning said.
"It's not that easy." Noctis sighed tiredly.
"I know, but it doesn't mean that you couldn't try." Lightning said.
"I don't know if I want to or if I can. I have to have something, which brings some variation to my life." Noctis said and held his hand on his forehead. "Sorry, I'm tired, drunk and I have a headache, I might speak about something what doesn't make sense and I more likely won't remember anything tomorrow morning, just to let you know." Noctis said.
Lightning sighed.
"Sorry."
"Not my problem." Lightning said.
Noctis was quiet until he got a sudden urge to throw up.
"Pardon me." Noctis said and pushed Lightning away and dropped on his knees and tried to vomit, but he ended up heaving a horrible amount of blood and as he stopped gagging the blood just kept flowing down his chin and neck from his mouth.
"I actually feel quite weak by now." Noctis said calmly but then he got on his knees again and he heaved a huge a horrible amount of blood.
Lightning wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him up, then she pulled him into a hug and pushed his head a little so he'd rest his head on her shoulder.
"What the fuck?" Noctis said confused and coughed.
"You cannot lean forward or you bleed to death. Breathe though your nose." Lightning said. "I'm just trying to help, you like it or not."
Noctis hugged Lightning carefully. "Thank you." Noctis said little happy that he just got a hug.
"No problem." Lightning said.
Noctis started to cough again continually and he tried to get out of Lightning's grip. "Sorry, please let go of me, I don't want to hurt you." Noctis said.
"Nuh-uh, you're not going anywhere, don't worry it's okay, I've been in situations like this before." Lightning said and patted his back and he stopped coughing.
"Thanks." Noctis said and rubbed his neck and pulled back a little to see Lightning. There were some of his blood on her face too.
Noctis wiped most of the blood off her cheeks. "Sorry, I didn't mean to." Noctis said. "Do you want to go to get a shower?"
"No, I'm fine." Lightning said. "Are you cold? You're trembling."
"No." Noctis said and put his hand on top of his mouth. "Move, move!" Noctis said quickly and tried to get as far away from her as possible, but Lightning didn't let go of him.
Noctis couldn't hold it and he heaved more blood right over Lightning's shoulder and most of the blood splattered on her clothes.
Lightning rubbed Noctis' back. "It's more comfortable to be in this position, isn't it?" Lightning said. "How do you feel? Are you dizzy?"
"I'm so sorry! Please forgive me." Noctis said. "Now your clothes are completely soaked by my blood. Can you let go of me? I don't want that to happen again. Don't worry, I'll buy you new cl-"
Lightning put her index finger on Noctis mouth. "Hush hush, it's okay. You're far more important than my clothes, you're ridiculous."
Noctis stared at Lightning quietly. "Aren't you here to kill me, not help me?" Noctis asked. "I'm not important, not for you."
"You don't know what I have been ordered to do." Lightning said. "I might be a soldier, but I'm a normal human being at the same time, I understand how important the ruler is for the kingdom."
Noctis sighed. "I understand, but I'm not as important as you think." Noctis said and tried to seek comfort by crossing his arms on his chest and hugging himself.
"What's wrong with you? Is everything okay?" Lightning asked, confused by his behavior.
Noctis blushed, he had tried to keep his barriers up, but now he had forgotten that there was someone else in the room too. "I-I'm just cold." Noctis tried to explain.
"Doesn't look like it." Lightning said. "Is something wrong?"
"None of your business." Noctis said.
"Tell me." Lightning said. "Are you unhappy?"
Noctis looked into Lightning's eyes and then turned his face away. "No." Noctis lied.
"Liar." Lightning said. "Do you have too much work to do or something?"
"No."
Lightning sighed.
Lightning heard the door opening and soon Prompto came to them.
"What took so long?!" Lightning almost shouted to Prompto.
"Sorry, there's many rooms in this castle." Prompto smiled. "What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know, I can't see any open wounds, he's only coughing blood." Lightning said. "Please help him."
"D'awwww you two are so cute, how did Noctis let you to hug him?" Prompto snickered.
"You shouldn't have said that." Noctis said with low and threatening voice and he tried to get up.
Lightning grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him back down. "Stop it, he's just joking, calm down."
"Nobody insults me, not without consequences!" Noctis said to Lightning with loud irritated voice.
Lightning put her hand on Noctis mouth. "Shut up and turn around, I don't want to be here all day."
Noctis sighed. "Fine" Noctis said and turned around to face Prompto.
Prompto put on a plastic glove. "Alright." Prompto said and pressed Noctis' throat.
Noctis moaned with a wince on his face.
"Don't press so hardly, you're hurting him." Lightning said.
Prompto stared at Lightning confused. "Huh?" Prompto said.
"Don't hurt him, can't you understand?!" Lightning said with little louder voice. "He feels bad enough already!"
Prompto was silent for a moment.
"Aren't you angry to him?" Prompto asked.
"Yes!" Lightning said irritated. "Help him and stop talking!"
"...Okay, sorry." Prompto said and pressed Noctis' throat again.
Noctis grimaced and started to cough.
"Are you okay?" Lightning asked and patted his back.
"No." Noctis coughed.
"Okay, let me see." Prompto said and tilted Noctis' head back. "Mm." Prompto mumbled and flipped over his first aid kit to get all of the stuff out at once.
"I want to know." Lightning said.
"I guess that the knife almost pierced his trachea and when he did a too rapid movement or something else, it probably made his throat to tear completely open." Prompto said.
"And because he ostensibly hasn't taken care of the wound properly, he might have gotten a blood poisoning and the alcohol and drugs just fucked up his body, he's screwed." Prompto said like it wouldn't be new to him.
Lightning didn't say anything, she was so worried, that she didn't know that what should she say.
"Calm down, you'll go into shock and die." Prompto snickered to Lightning and took a small bottle of transparent liquid in it.
"Thanks." Prompto said. "Okay, this should work." He took a small bottle of transparent liquid in it.
"This is the new special medicine which can patch internal wounds. It only makes a thin layer on the wound, so that it won't bleed anymore, but it takes time to heal up completely. So be careful to not to make too rapid movements." Prompto said to Noctis.
"And because this liquid we don't need surgeries anymore, which is good since I'm not a surgeon." Prompto smiled to Lightning.
"Cover his eyes; he doesn't want to see this." Prompto said to Lightning.
"What the hell, what are you going to do if it's too hard to watch at?" Noctis tried to shout, but his voice wasn't cooperating.
"Okay Lightning, cover his eyes." Prompto said.
Lightning hesitated but then she covered Noctis' eyes. "I'm sorry." Lightning said and moved some of his locks aside.
Prompto took a huge needle and poured all the liquid in the needle then he tapped the needle.
Lightning froze when she saw the size of the needle, but she didn't have time to protest when Prompto already pushed the needle through Noctis' throat.
Noctis squirmed in pain. He couldn't protest, since the needle was so deep in his trachea.
"It'll be over soon, you'll feel a lot better after that." Lightning said to comfort him. She wouldn't never act like that towards grown men, especially when she didn't know them well not to mention that they basically were her enemies, but now she had the feeling to try to help Noctis, maybe she just felt bad for him.
Prompto pulled the needle out.
Lightning took her hands off Noctis eyes and rubbed his neck carefully. "Does it feel better now?" Lightning asked.
Noctis flinched of her touch. Yes it hurt, but it was quite new to him that a female touched him with such a care.
"Uh-huh." Noctis said and turned his head a little to smile at Lightning. "Thanks."
Prompto gave a juice box to Noctis. "You'd better to drink or eat something and go to rest after that or you might faint." Prompto said.
"So I don't have to work?" Noctis said and rubbed his neck carefully.
"Don't get your hopes up yet. I got something for you." Prompto smirked.
"I'm not taking it." Noctis said.
"Do whatever you want." Prompto said and handed over some antibiotics for him.
"If you don't eat these, you die. If you eat these with alcohol, you die. Do you understand?" Prompto said to Noctis. "These are stronger antibiotics, they help the wound shut, but if you take alcohol, then it'll open again and if that happens, the liquid which I just injected to you, goes into your blood circulation and you'll get an heart attack immediately."
"Dammit." Noctis muttered and took the antibiotics from him.
"Okay we're done then." Prompto said. "I gotta head back to the school now." Prompto said and left the room.
Lightning and Noctis looked at Prompro little confused that how quickly the problem was solved as he left.
Lightning got up. "Maybe you should go to rest a little, you've lost a lot of blood, don't say that you're not feeling weak or dizzy."
"I'm not." Noctis said and got up but he tripped almost right away.
Lightning managed to get up and take a grab him by the arm before he fell over.
"You're not listening, you're too arrogant, you're acting like a child." Lightning said.
"However." Noctis sighed.
"Take support on me so I'll take you to the door of your room, okay?" Lightning said. "Just let me know that where it is."
"However."
Lightning sighed.