Prompto woke up, his back aching from sleeping on the cold stone. He sat up and grabbed his phone from the ground. He turned it back on and saw a couple messages from Gladio and a missed call. He dialed his voicemail to listen to what he said.
"Hey Prompto, it's Gladio, I was calling to make sure you're alright. Just give me a call when you get this." He hung up the voicemail and went to the text messages. The first was the one from last night, and a new one from an hour ago.
Gladio (9:24 a.m.) Hey Prom, are you okay? I'm coming to get you soon. So call when you can. Prompto decided to call instead of texting back, Gladio answered on the third ring.
"Hey, you okay?" Gladio asked as soon as he picked up.
"Yeah, I fell asleep inside the tomb." Prompto told him. "Is Ignis still mad at me?" Prompto asked sheepishly and stood up.
"Hell, He's mad at the world right now. He's not talked to me since getting to the car yesterday. I'm actually parked where we arrived yesterday, if you wanna come on out." Gladio said.
"Yeah, alright. On my way." Prompto said and hung up. He picked the key off of the ground and walked out, locking the tomb behind him, giving it one last look, he sighed and started walking to where Gladio was parked.
Gladio was leaned up against the passenger door waiting on Prompto. "Hey." Gladio nodded at Prompto as he approached, the kid overall looked fine, if a bit melancholy.
"Hey.." He said, looking at the ground, he felt like Gladio hated him as well.
"So, about yesterday," Gladio started, but Prompto interrupted him.
"I'm sorry! I know you guys loved Noct too, and I shouldn't have been selfish yesterday. I deserve everything Ignis said to me and more." Prompto said in a quick breath. He was breathing heavily, trying to keep himself from crying.
"That's not what I was going to say. You didn't deserve any of that Prompto. Ignis had no place to go off on you like that." Gladio said and pulled Prompto into a tight hug, reassuring him that he cared. He let go shortly after that. "You're my friend, Prompto, you had me worried when you didn't answer your phone." Gladio said, softly punching him on the arm, "Cindy too. Hell, I thought she was gonna bite my head off when she saw you weren't with us." He laughed.
"Really? Yeah, I guess she's a bit protective over me." Prompto blushed and rubbed his neck.
"All I'm saying is, don't ever think that we don't care about you, Ignis does too, he's just in his own feelings right now. I'm sure once we all get this talked out we'll be fine, now let's get back to Hammerhead and show Cindy that you're fine." Gladio said and walked to the driver side of the car. Prompto got into the passenger seat and shut the door. He pulled his phone and saw that the Carbunkles messages were no longer on his phone. He admittedly was a bit disappointed.
Gladio looked over and saw Prompto frowning down at his phone. "Hey, what's wrong?" He asked as they took off to Hammerhead.
"It's..., " he paused, not sure if he should tell Gladio what happened in the tomb last night, or if he would even believe him. If the roles were reversed he probably wouldn't. "It's nothing." He eventually said, looking at him and giving him a forced smile.
"Normally I would call you on your bullshit, but you've got a lot goin' on. But if you do wanna talk about it, just let me know." Gladio told him.
"Thanks, big guy." Prompto said and went back to staring at his phone. He wants to tell him, but was worried that Gladio wouldn't believe him. Prompto sighed and stared out the window as the landscape zoomed by.