Prompto's Voicemail.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"~~Prompto's phone~~! But, aw, man, bummer! You probably juuuust missed me! But don't sweat it, dude, just leave me a message! I'll try to get back to you faster than you can say 'chocobo.' Haha, okay, so maybe not that fast, but you get what I mean. See ya!"

**BEEEP!**

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[bookbeltof_love]

What was that? A late night text? When she should be sleeping, but wasn't? Only a fool would think she hadn't timed it deliberately so that, like, if he didn't answer, she could reasonably pretend he was sleeping...

THE FISH CAME IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And if, like, Prompto needed any further elaboration on which fish then he was totally hopeless.

And, because she'd been thinking about it for, like, a week and a half at this point but actually talking to him in person was… well, she wasn't sure how it would go, really, and Nina was brave to the point of severe recklessness when it came to her safety and she knew good and well that fortune favoured the brave when it came to love, too, but all the same, she was a bit anxious about the next bit:

And, like, the last two weeks have been CRAZY MAD but, um, being your sister was pretty great??????????

She'd been so happy. Nina had thought about that a lot.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Of course Prompto was still up. He'd gotten sucked into this dumb new farming game lol method rp what's that??, and kept telling himself, okay, one more day, he'd get through just one more day, and then he'd go to bed. Okay, one more. One more, he'd just gotten enough money selling cheese to upgrade his chicken coop, he had to at least do that before he went to bed...

...and that's when his phone started singing at him, and he was about to hit Nina up with a bunch of excited exclamation marks when the rest of her message came in, and he blinked.

Huh.

Right.

He'd had so much happen to him that week, he'd been six very different versions of himself (seven, if you included being pixelated the following week, too) that it was all sort of a mad jumble, but that one, the one that started it all, sitting in the common room together, making sure she ate breakfast, talking to their dad....

It was such a headtrip he tried not thinking about it, if he was honest.

But was it really all that weird? At this point, Nina practically was like a sister to him. But having her be his actual blood-related sister? With parents that were actually around?

And if she remembered even half of what he did about that reality...

He bit his lip, contemplating just brushing it off because it was kind of late, and he could totally pass it off that he was asleep, and then he forgot, or something like that, but then he decided maybe he'd go with the next best thing to ignoring it: deflection!

Yeah, well, you missed the one where I could have been YOUR sister.

Because, yeah, talking about being a girl that one day was easier.

Also: FISH!!!!!!!!!!

That singing fish would be the one sole fish on the entire island this week.

And, then, because he felt bad now about the deflection:

Also also: it was pretty great. I guess. I mean, as far as sisters go, I could have done a lot worse.

Yeah. Good one, Prompto, that was so much better than just deflecting it.

He should go to bed.

[bookbeltof_love]

He... Nina kind of wished he had been in bed, with those answers, since they left her feeling decidedly mixed about basically everything. Ugh.

Why was this so hard? It should be easy, right, because there was no question that they were important to each other, so why was actually saying anything so hard?

Nina gave serious thought about pretending she was asleep now and just ignoring his messages but, like, she doubted he would believe that--she'd never go to sleep right away after letting him know about The Fish.

(Who was, in fact, one of two fish on the island this week, since Iris was also in possession of a singing fish on a plaque, god help everyone.)

Besides, she had a lot of work to do before she slept anyway.

"Prompto," she muttered, "you idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Boys were so dumb.

I was the best sister EVER you.................. you.................. BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And he'd been a pretty great big brother too. She had an excellent memory. It left her unsettled, to think of that life that wasn't hers, but was some version of hers. It left her a bit envious.

More than a bit, really, but Nina wasn't quite willing to admit that to... anyone, really.

I'm wrapping the fish in pink wrapping paper and you can't stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Why would I ever want to stop you from that?

Honestly. Did she forget who she was talking to? The rest of this gift included matching rompers for the whole future Kingslaive of Insomnia that featured a sloth riding a dinosaur. There really were no limits here.

AND you were my ONLY sister ever, so that also makes you the worst.

[bookbeltof_love]

This was the best gift ever.

Nina stuck her tongue out at her phone.

I guess, like, that makes you the best-worst big brother too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there! Or something.

I was also, like, thinking sparkly rainbow ribbon for the gift????????????