A/N: Sorry about the huge delay! I have been really busy for the last couple of week, but I have put a lot of my free time on writing this just for you to get to read it! ;) Enjoy and please review!
Noctis woke up in a terrible pain. Every time when the ventilator forced the oxygen down his lungs his chest rose slowly up and then it went back down which caused the burning pain. Every breath hurt even more. Noctis would just wanted to stop breathing, but he couldn't, the ventilator forced him to breath, he tried to not to breath, but as the pressure built up, he eventually had to give in.
Noctis tried to remove the mask, but Prompto had strapped it up so tightly that there was no change that he could take it off.
Noctis held his chest with his other hand and crumpled the sheet of his bed with his other hand. He grimaced and turned his head to see Lightning.
Lightning was curled up in the chair, she was sleeping really calmly, her breathing was calm and quiet. She was so pretty, Noctis wouldn't have wanted to wake her up but the pain was unbearable. He wasn't that kind of person who asked for help in every situation, but this was too much.
"Lightning." Noctis whispered and stroked Lightning's hair gently.
Noctis stroked her cheek. "Please wake up." Noctis said and gritted his teeth in agony.
Lightning moved a little and yawned. "Mmh?" Lightning mumbled half asleep.
"P-Please Lightning, please help me." Noctis said his voice trembling. "I feel horrible, the pain is unbearable."
Lightning got up from her chair right away and she drew the cover off. The wound and the skin around it was very red.
Lightning stared at the wound shocked.
"Please help me." Noctis begged. "I'll give you anything you want, the pain is unbearable, please help me Lightning."
"I'll help you, try to last little longer." Lightning said quickly and grabbed the book which Prompto had given to her and she started to riffle the pages of the book.
"Thank you." Noctis said and moaned when he accidently tried to take a breath on his own.
"Don't worry, this won't take long." Lightning said and read the page which she had opened.
"Turn the ventilator off Lightning, please. The wound will open even more." Noctis said with trembling voice and grabbed Lightning by the wrist. "Please."
Lightning put the book aside. "I can't do that." Lightning said. "You have to breathe."
"Just for a moment." Noctis begged.
Lightning leaned forward and closed his hand between her hands. "No is a no." Lightning said.
"Please." Noctis said. "Can I have some painkillers at least?" Noctis asked.
Lightning rubbed his hand carefully. "I'm sorry Noctis." Lightning said and leaned forward and slid her hand along his jaw. "I can't, I can't relieve your pain with painkillers, I've given you too much of them already, too much is too much. Sorry."
Noctis didn't want to hear that, he was silent.
"Don't worry, I'll try to help you in some other way. I'll come up with something." Lightning said. "Your hands are so cold, are you cold?"
"No." Noctis said. "I'm sorry, they've always been like that, I don't know why."
"Tall people tend to have cold hands, but I was just wondering if you would need a blanket." Lightning said.
Noctis grimaced and crumpled the sheet of his bed with his other hand. "I-I'm okay, don't worry." Noctis moaned.
Lightning came closer and wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him. "I'm sorry, it's very hard to watch you suffering, I feel so bad when I'm just sitting here and I'm not doing anything to make you feel better." Lightning said and kissed his cheek.
Noctis' eyes widened of the shock and surprisement. Noctis froze and blushed, that was what he had been waiting for, but it happened so quickly that he went right into a shock kind of situation...mentally.
"I-I" Noctis stuttered.
Noctis was so nervous when she was so close and he felt how red his face was, his hands and voice was trembling, he had embarrassed himself again and he couldn't even help it.
"Can you take the oxygen mask off? Just for a moment?" Noctis asked shyly.
"No." Lightning drew back.
Noctis felt himself like an idiot, he was sure that she realized that what was going through his mind.
Then the pain hit again. It came in waves and stroke to his body.
Noctis moaned and he squeezed the metal framed bed and the metal distorted out of its previous shape. Noctis' knuckles started to bleed.
Lightning grabbed him by his wrist and pulled his hand off. "Don't squeeze so hardly, you're hurting yourself." Lightning said and grabbed a small piece of cloth and wiped the blood of his knuckles.
"I can't stand this." Noctis moaned. It was horrible when he was in so much pain but he could move, usually movement relieved the pain a little or so he thought.
"It will go away soon, I promise." Lightning stroke his silky hair.
"I want to die." Noctis held his chest with his other hand and his throat with his other hand.
"Stop it, that's not funny." Lightning said.
"Sorry." Noctis said and a sweat drop ran down his forehead and along his jawline.
"Is it too hot in here?" Lightning asked.
"No." Noctis closed his eyes.
"Open your eyes, don't faint." Lightning said. "And don't lie."
"It's not hot in here." Noctis looked at Lightning.
"Why are you sweating then?" Lightning asked.
"Am I?" Noctis asked surprised.
"Yes you are." Lightning said and wiped some of the sweat drops off his face with the piece of cloth.
"Sorry." Noctis said.
"Is it that bad?" Lightning asked concerned.
"The pain is horrible, I can stand it but it's unbearable when the pain comes in 'waves', I'm sorry if I'm loud, I don't have a good voice and nobody wants to hear a dying man moaning." Noctis said. "You can leave any time you want; you don't have to be polite okay? I don't mind."
"You're not dying and you don't have a bad voice." Lightning said. "And stop acting like you wouldn't care, I want to help you but you don't want me to help you." Lightning said little irritated.
Noctis was silent and he stared at Lightning.
"I'm sorry Lightning." Noctis said quietly. "I really appreciate the fact that you're helping me, I'm so lucky to have you around. Every prince doesn't receive treatment like this. I'm so lucky that you don't leave me alone suffering." Noctis said.
"Stop underestimating yourself, how can you have so low self-confidence? You're the most respected person in the kingdom and you still act like anybody wouldn't care of you." Lightning said. "What kind of leader are you?"
Noctis was silent, she hit to one of the most vulnerable spots. He didn't have any traits which good leaders had, he had bad self-esteem and he was shy and vulnerable. He wasn't respected person in his kingdom, people hated him.
"Bad." Noctis said quietly.
"Sorry?" Lightning asked.
"I'm a bad leader." Noctis said.
Lightning was silent now too.
Lightning took his hand in hers. "Sorry." Lightning whispered. "Did I hurt your feelings?"
Noctis didn't say anything for a moment. "No, I know it. It's a fact." Noctis said quietly.
"No, no...no it's not." Lightning said calmly. "I didn't mean to be rude; I just didn't know why you were behaving like that." Lightning said.
"It's okay. I know that I'm not good at this." Noctis said. "Not at all."
"I'm sorry your highness." Lightning said. "I didn't mean to offend; I'll take my words back. I shouldn't have questioned your mightiness, I apologize." Lightning said and loosened her grip of his hands.
"You're providing me a place to stay until I'm healed, I really appreciate that but still I'm acting really arrogantly, I'm sorry your highness, there's no better leader than you." Lightning said formally. "It's a great honor for me to follow your orders and that that you've let me to meet you. I regret greatly what I said, please forgive me." Lightning said and let go of his and moved the chair backwards and bowed.
Noctis was silent.
"Lightning, what have I said about using my title?" Noctis sighed, his voice trembling a little of the pain. "Stop it, I feel embarrassed. It doesn't feel good to be treated like that."
"That's only command which I can't obey." Lightning said. "I'm sorry your highness."
"Come here." Noctis said.
Lightning walked next to his bed. "At your service." Lightning said.
Noctis grabbed her by her wrist. "Stop it." Noctis gritted his teeth, he was getting little irritated.
"I can't obey your command your highness." Lightning said.
"What's wrong with you? Talk to me normally, I don't want you to behave like that." Noctis said.
"I can't obey that command either, I'm sorry." Lightning said. "I haven't finished my mission."
Noctis drew her little closer and looked into her eyes, even though it made him really nervous and he was trying to not to blush, her eyes were aqua colored, she had really beautiful eyes.
"No you're not, you haven't healed yet. You're under medical supervision; you don't have to obey any commands." Noctis said seriously.
"Things are different in my kingdom, the mission will go on as long as it needs to, it follows me to the grave." Lightning said. "I'm acting inappropriately, I'm not allowed to touch you or to be in the same room with you, I've done both I'm just a soldier. I am way too close to you right now too, but I can't leave you here alone either, I'm doing wrong. I'm a soldier, I'm an intruder, I shouldn't be in your kingdom now either." Lightning said. "I'm breaking every single rule."
"Don't go please." Noctis said. "I'm not commanding you to do anything; my word isn't your law."
"Can't you think about how I feel when you discriminate me only because I'm a royal? You're saying that you're allowed to touch or be around me only because I am me. Can't you understand how lonely I am?" Noctis said sadly.
"I want you to treat me like I would be a commoner; I can't help it that I'm a royal. I want to spend time with you; I don't want you to feel special about if you only look at my rank and you think that it's cool to hang out with a royal. I want people to look at me, not at my rank." Noctis grimaced when the wave of pain hit again.
"I've have made a vow." Lightning said and ran her fingers through her hair. "I'm not sure what to do...I shouldn't be talking like this to you, I'm sorry."
"Yes you should." Noctis said. "I want to be your friend. Can you forget your vow for a moment? Please."
"I'm not really sure that can I...I should be heading back to Cocoon already, they might think that I'm dead or then they might not. They might come to look for me and if they find me, then me and my family will be in big trouble. I might get accused of treachery and I'll get slaughtered. Not to mention that what kind of danger I put you and your kingdom in, it'd be wiser for me to leave and get executed, because all this is my fault, than risk the wellbeing of you and your whole kingdom." Lightning sighed, her voice trembling a little. "I'm stupid; I didn't think that before, I must leave."
Noctis grabbed her by her wrist. "No, don't go, please." Noctis begged. "I want to get to know you."
"Sorry." Lightning whispered sadly.
"I won't let anyone to cross the border, don't worry." Noctis said quickly. "I won't let anyone to come in or go out of the kingdom, anybody from your kingdom won't find you, I promise. I have a good army, were completely safe. I won't let them to get you back to Cocoon to be executed, don't worry, you're completely safe." Noctis said. "Please sit down."
"It's not that easy-" Lightning said quietly and sat down.
"If someone is lucky enough manages to sneak in my kingdom, I'll make sure that he'll get eliminated, I have huge army and I can hire bodyguards for you." Noctis said.
"I understand but I'm still quite worried." Lightning sighed.
"Don't worry; nobody will know that you're here." Noctis said. "Please stay here with me, I want you to stay. I want to get to know you, you're..."
"...You're so nice person." Noctis said. "I'm happy that you came here, I want to have new friends. I want to do something else than work all the time, you don't have any hurry anywhere right now right? I want to spend the little time what I have with you." Noctis blushed.
Lightning was silent for quite long time.
"Maybe I can stay for a little while." Lightning sighed.
"Thank you." Noctis smiled. "Can I have a hug? Please? I'm sorry that I can't move properly, I hope that you don't mind, you don't have to if you don't want, I'm so repulsive."
"You're not repulsive." Lightning said. "But I shouldn't be in so close contact with you, I know that commoners aren't allowed to touch royals and it's extremely forbidden to come even that close. I know the general rules Noctis, I shouldn't have touched you. Didn't you remember that you have to marry another royal from another kingdom? Only she is allowed to touch you. I also said that your body build is quite nice, it makes it even worse. I'm sorry, I'm just a woman, I shouldn't have said it out loud how you look like." Lightning said.
Noctis felt so bad when she felt like that, Noctis wanted her to touch him but she didn't think that it was allowed. Noctis hated the stupid rules; almost all the people knew the general rules. Noctis felt like he had been locked in a cage, he'd never get out, people judged him by what he did, he had rules which told him what he was allowed to do and other way around.
"I haven't been arranged a marriage Lightning." Noctis stroke her cheek. "You didn't do anything wrong, you can touch me, I have given you the permission to do that okay? I hate to say that I have the highest rank here, but I do, which means that I can give you the permission to do things what other commoners aren't allowed to do. I won't get you executed if you do something like that, you're allowed to do those things, I won't be mad if accidently do something what you think is 'wrong', it's completely okay."
"And if you are confused and don't know what to do in certain situations then you can ask for help from anyone, any time. Try to make yourself comfortable, I'll take care of you..." Noctis' didn't finish his sentence; he closed his eyes and sighed.
"Are you okay?" Lightning asked.
"Yeah, I just realized something." Noctis mumbled his eyes shut, he realized that he wasn't able to move anymore, he couldn't take care of Lightning and the kingdom was doomed, a paralyzed prince couldn't lead the kingdom. He didn't know if he still had to marry someone, but if he would have to, it would be extremely awkward, he didn't want to be taken care by...some random person.
A moan escaped from Noctis' lips. His voice was trembling.
"What's wrong? Tell me!" Lightning asked concerned and got up.
Noctis would have wanted to control of his breathing on his own, he felt like there would be some object on top of his chest which was making him hard to breath, but the ventilator just kept doing its thing.
Noctis' chest hurt like hell, his heart was hurting too. He couldn't have ever imagined that a person would feel that much pain at the same time, but now he knew. Then he felt how daggers started to pierce his heart, or that's what it felt like.
Noctis moaned and gritted his teeth.
"Noctis what's wrong?!" Lightning shouted to him.
Noctis couldn't answer, he was concentrating on enduring the pain, the wince on his face was a clear sign how he was feeling.
Lightning looked at him concentrated and she stroked his cheek. "Noctis, tell me where it hurts, I can't help you if you don't tell me." Lightning said, trying to stay calm.
Noctis relaxed just a little and he grabbed Lightning by her forearm. "M-My heart hurts." Noctis moaned. "...please give me painkillers or something." Noctis said.
"Oh shit." Lightning cursed and grabbed the cellphone of the table and called to Prompto.
"Wait just little longer, okay? I'll help you." Lightning said to Noctis and Prompto picked up phone.
"Hello, what makes you to call me in a-"Prompto spoke to the cellphone.
"Noctis' heart is hurting, what I need to do?" Lightning asked quickly and walked back and forth.
"Uhm, can I have more details? It's kinda hard to say what's wrong with so little information." Prompto asked.
"It's not funny! He's suffering in front of my eyes, what do I do?!" Lightning shouted to the cellphone irritated.
"Can I have moar information?" Prompto chuckled.
"What information jackass?" Lightning asked, she was little dazed so she had a hard time actually listening that what Prompto said.
"Uhm, does he feel pressure on his chest or something?" Prompto asked.
"Do you feel pressure on your chest?" Lightning asked from Noctis and stroked his hair.
Noctis looked at Lightning his eyes full of agony. "Yes." Noctis managed to say.
"Yes." Lightning said to the cellphone.
"He's having a heart attack." Prompto said like it wouldn't be a big deal.
"How can you be so indifferent!? What can I do?" Lightning said to the cellphone.
"Don't panic, grab some aspirin and shove it down his throat." Prompto snickered.
Lightning threw the phone on the chair, pissed off by Prompto's behavior.
Lightning grabbed a packet of aspirin and took one little pill from the packet and went back to Noctis. "Okay, just swallow this so you'll be allrig-"
"Dammit!" Lightning hit her palm against her forehead cursing.
Noctis didn't say anything.
"How the hell am I going to give this to you if you can't swallow anything?" Lightning asked from herself out loud.
"...Maybe, just maybe..."
Lightning patted Noctis' cheek to make him to look at her. Noctis turned his head.
"Is it okay if I hate your oxygen mask off? Just for few seconds, okay?" Lightning asked.
Noctis forced a smile on his face, he was actually really happy to get rid of it. "Y-Yeah." Noctis said.
As fast as Noctis said that, Lightning drew the strap of the gas mask over his head to remove it, Lightning took the mask off.
Noctis' chest dropped down immediately and Noctis gasped. He put his hand over his mouth and started to cough.
"Get the hand off your mouth and open it." Lightning said and moved his hand aside.
Noctis opened his mouth a little, he felt like he had to gasp for air, but his chest didn't move up or down, he felt like he'd be slowly suffocating.
"More." Lightning said and he opened his mouth and Lightning put the pill under his tongue.
"Atta boy." Lightning smiled and put the oxygen mask over his mouth again.
Noctis was so relieved to get some oxygen again. He closed his eyes and tried to relax as the pain slowly faded away.
"Does it feel better now?" Lightning asked after a while.
Noctis nodded and smiled.
"Good." Lightning turned around to go and sit down on the chair but Noctis grabbed her by her wrist.
"Huh?" Lightning said.
"Can you take the mask off, please?" Noctis said.
"Why on the earth?" Lightning asked.
"Please." Noctis begged.
"No."
"Prince's order."
"You said that I don't have to follow your orders."
"Yes you have." Noctis smiled.
"So you can ask me to do pretty much anything? I mean anything, that's not fair. You first promise something and then you take your words back, you're using your rank for wrong purposes." Lightning said. "Now I know why there are no women in the castle, but the maids."
"No, no, I'd never ask anything like that, trust me." Noctis said. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that like that, I'm just used to that that I get everything that I want. I'm a spoiled brat, I know, sorry." Noctis said.
"I can see that." Lightning said. "Everything is so fancy here, even your clothes, I thought that princesses have fancy clothes and prince's don't have so many. But I find it amusing that you're such a goth."
"I'm not a Goth." Noctis said.
"Yes you are. You're wearing black from head to toe." Lightning said.
"What's wrong with that?" Noctis asked "And why do you find princes amusing?"
"You look so pale already, which make you to look sick, but the black clothes make you look even paler." Lightning said. "Princes are amusing because all they have has to be perfect and they are formal in all situations, like you couldn't be able to make any other expressions or so. I also find it funny that young adult princes like don't seem to ever have fun anywhere and stuff." Lightning smiled.
Lightning walked to coat hooks and took the black military styled jacket off the hook and sat on the edge of Noctis' bed.
"May I sit here?" Lightning asked.
"Yes." Noctis smiled happily.
Lightning lifted the jacket up. "I assume that this is yours?" Lightning said.
"Yes." Noctis said.
"This is really nice jacket, I like military type stuff." Lightning smiled. "But you can't see how cool it is if you're wearing a black shirt under it. From far away, you can't even see that if you're wearing a jacket or not. The details here aren't very visible either, they're kinda useless unless someone comes really close to you." Lightning said.
"Oh..."
"This would look so good if..." Lightning smiled.
"Yes?"
"If this would be navy blue, little darker than navy blue, but not black, it'd match your hair really well." Lightning smiled and eyed the jacket.
On the shoulders of the jacket were embroideries with little bluish black calligraphy text 'N.L.C' embroidered on both sides.
"What does N.L.C stand for?" Lightning asked.
"It's my name." Noctis said.
"Prince N.L.C?" Lightning turned around and looked into his eyes smiling amused.
"N-No." Noctis blushed.
"Tell me more." Lightning grinned.
"I-It's an abbreviation of my name." Noctis stuttered.
"Get to the point." Lightning said. "And stop stuttering, I'm not that scary."
Noctis blushed and then he shyly said: "I am Noctis Lucis Caelum." Noctis forced a smile on his face, he was embarrassed of his red face and stuttering.
"Fancy royal name." Lightning smiled.
Noctis sighed.
"It's cool, don't worry. It's an exotic name." Lightning stroke his cheek. "I like it, it'd be so boring if your name would be Jack or something. I think that it's much better to have more unique name, I've never heard that someone's name would be Noctis.
"O-Okay." He stuttered.
"Well, now you only need to buy dog tags and then your look is complete, nobody will recognize you." Lightning smiled.
"Do you want to keep the jacket?" Noctis asked.
Lightning looked at him really confused. "So you're going to give all of your clothes which I touch to me?"
"N-No no, or yes if you want, I can buy new clothes." Noctis smiled. "I can give it to you if you want it; just tell me what you like so I'll give it to you."
Lightning shook her head and laid the jacket on Noctis' lap. "You're crazy."
"Just take it." Noctis smiled. "There's my name on it, you can wear it here in the castle only or wherever you like, some stupid collectors want that kind of stuff so you can sell it later if you want, but you don't really have to, I'll give you money. I mean that that if you go back to Cocoon and you suddenly run out of money, then you have something to sell. The value is even higher when I've worn it, it's worth of many millions, people are crazy."
"Why and who wants to buy this if there's only your name on it?" Lightning asked.
"I-I'm...I guess that I'm famous or something..." Noctis said quietly. "More like infamous I guess...I'd rather not to talk about it right now." Noctis said, knowing very well the fact that it was because he was so well known in all kingdoms, just because he had caused so much destruction. It was very hard to get know so well.
Lightning patted his cheek. "It's okay." Lightning said. "Do you use a lot of perfume or why all of your clothes smell like this?" Lightning asked and picked up the jacket and smelled the manly fragrance of it; it smelled just like he did, Lightning shivered a little because the wonderful smell. She felt little stupid when she realized that she was sniffing his jacket.
"No."
"No?" Lightning asked.
"No."
"No way." Lightning said.
"No I don't." Noctis said. "Why do you ask?"
Lightning blushed little. She couldn't believe how someone could naturally smell so good; Lightning was trying to resist the temptation to go closer just to smell how good he smelled.
"Ehm." Lightning said wondering that what she should say. "I don't know, maybe this jacket just smells so good." Lightning smiled.
Noctis smiled too. "You're so funny." Noctis said. "You can have it, for real." Noctis said.
"I have one jacket of yours already." Lightning said.
"Now you have two, isn't it cool to have prince's jacket? Everybody is going to be so jealous." Noctis smiled.
"Yeah ha-ha." Lightning said unamused.
"What's wrong?" Noctis asked.
"I don't want to make people jealous." Lightning said.
"Okay, let's not talk about it." Noctis said. "Let's see what it looks like on you." Noctis said and grabbed the jacket.
"You don't have to dress me." Lightning said and took the jacket and put it on.
"It's so pretty." Noctis smiled.
"You wear pretty clothes?"
"Oh...No, no, I don't." Noctis said.
"Our pretty prince." Lightning said and took the jacket off and put it on the chair in front of her.
Noctis couldn't resist the temptation and he put his hand on Lightning's waist and slid them just an inch lower. "You're pretty." Noctis said quietly.
Lightning turned her head to look over her shoulder to see Noctis. Lightning looked him into his eyes unamused.
Noctis blushed.
Lightning moved his hands away. "Don't touch me." Lightning said. "I have not given you the permission to touch me, you need permission too, prince or not." Lightning said.
"I'm sorry, that was inappropriate, I forgot my manners." Noctis said. "Not be mad at me, please. I don't really know how to handle women." Noctis said, partly lying.
Lightning sighed. "Alright."
"I won't-"Noctis didn't finish his sentence, his stomach growled.
Noctis blushed even more.
"Are you hungry?" Lightning asked.
"A little." Noctis said. "Sorry."
"Stop apologizing." Lightning said. "I'm afraid that you can't eat, I'm sorry." Lightning said quietly.
"Huh?"
"Do you think that you can handle it? I'm pretty sure that it won't take long before you can eat something; your stomach is in quite bad shape and...Well don't worry it won't take a long time. Lightning said.
No he couldn't handle it, he was starving; he hadn't eaten anything since yesterday. Noctis knew that Lightning was about to say that he couldn't eat because he was paralyzed, she was just trying to be polite.
"I guess so." Noctis said. "I'm just a little worried that my weight drops too much I-"
"Don't worry about it." Lightning said. "You'll stay in shape."
Noctis' stomach growled again. Noctis put his hand on his stomach, being careful to not to touch the wound.
"Sorry, I can't help it." Noctis said embarrassed.
Lightning put her hand on his. "No, it's okay." Lightning said. "You're lying, how hungry are you?"
Noctis was quiet for a minute but then he admitted. "Very hungry." Noctis said. "Don't worry, I'm fine."
"I'll call to Prompto, he knows what to do." Lightning said and took the phone. "We can't starve you to death."
Noctis took her hand into his while she was trying to call to Prompto. "Are you hungry?" Noctis asked.
"No, I don't eat a lot." Lightning said.
Lightning called to Prompto.
Prompto picked up the phone. "Did he die or what?" Prompto snickered.
"Can he eat anything?" Lightning asked from Prompto. She decided to ignore his idiocy.
"No." Prompto said to the cellphone.
"Are you f-." Lightning said to the phone.
"Infusion liquids will keep him alive, don't worry. He can't eat anything solid." Prompto said. "Okay? I gotta go." Prompto said and hung up the call.
Lightning stared at the beeping cellphone for a moment and then she threw it back on the chair. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair.
"It's okay." Noctis said. "I'm not that hungry."
"Stop lying, it's not polite." Lightning said.
"Sorry." Noctis sighed.
"What do you like to do? Are you bored?" Lightning asked.
"I don't know." Noctis said.
"...Okay." Lightning said and waited for a moment and then tickled his stomach.
Noctis flinched and blushed.
"You're so odd. Why are you so nervous?" Lightning asked.
"I-I'm not nervous, that just-" Noctis stuttered.
Lightning's mouth corners rose slowly up. "Are you shy or something?" Lightning grinned.
Noctis knew that she'd notice that sooner or later, he felt so embarrassed. He couldn't control his blushing and stuttering, it was so humiliating. Noctis was always really nervous around beautiful women; Lightning was the most beautiful women he had ever seen. He was making himself look like an idiot, he wanted to be appealing but he couldn't control his nervousness, which wasn't appealing at all.
"N-No, no, no." Noctis said quickly. "What makes you think like that? I'm not shy, princes aren't shy and and..." Noctis said quickly, trying to save the situation
Lightning smiled. "I'm amused." Lightning smiled.
"How dare you mock me?" Noctis said seriously, trying to regain his self-respect and trying to gain some respect from her too.
"I'm not mocking you." Lightning said.
"Show me some respect, please." Noctis said.
"As you wish your highness." Lightning sighed and shook her head.
Noctis felt himself so foolish again; he shouldn't have been so rude. She was just trying to take care of him.
Noctis laid his hand on her shoulder and slid it down her arm. "I'm sorry." Noctis said. "I shouldn't have been so rude."
"Rude and shy at the same time, that's so interesting." Lightning said.
"And arrogant." Noctis said. "You're too nice just go already, I don't mind."
Lightning turned to look at him. "Huh?"
"Can't you see what kind of arrogant prick I am? Are you blind?" Noctis said. "Normal people don't hang out with people like me, I know it already."
"Well thanks a lot." Lightning said and got off the bed and sat on the chair and started to read the book.
"What?"
"I can't leave right now even if you wanted to, or practically I could, but Prompto wouldn't be happy." Lightning said and fixed her position a little. "You can keep on mocking if you think that that it makes you feel better, I can go to get earplugs, or I can just ignore you, however the prince wants."
Noctis hit his palm on his forehead little too hard, he ended up getting a sore red spot on his forehead. He just wanted to punch himself as hard as he could.
Noctis thought again what he said, he never though what he was going to say before he said it, now he had managed to offend Lightning even though he just wanted to mock himself.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to offend; I didn't realize that I offended you. You're the sweetest person in the world because you can stand me, I just felt so bad because you have to be here just because of me." Noctis said.
Lightning sighed and put the book away. "However." Lightning said and walked to the cabinets at the other end of the room.
"Just a minute."