Prompto's Voicemail.

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"~~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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[hashtag_chocobro]

You know what was even better than a whole email full of cats? Those smiles in the text. Even if Liz was putting them in just to put up a good front, at least she was trying to put up a good front, and at least now she was back home, too, with friends,instead of just wallowing back in Fandom, which would only be a constant reminder of what had happened.

So he was just going to take a moment to appreciate all that before sending his response back:

😍😍😍😍🥰

theyre PERFECT! 💖 you're the best! 👍👍👍 u know I won't say no to more, if u have the time!

Tell everyone I said hi back!

Also, I don't have cats, but I do have this:

At which point Liz would be treated to a short video of Prompto going up to the novelty singing fish that Noctis had mounted on his wall, and when he pushed the button, the animatronics kicked in to have it start singing "Feliz Navidad" very loudly, for some reason, despite Prompto being pretty sure it had never sang that song before, and then the complaining voice of Noctis coming through with, "I swear, Prompto, if you keep doing that, I'm going to throw that fish right out the wind--"

That was where the video cut off, and a few moments later, another text followed:

Hope you're doing okay ❤

And he wished there was a better emoji for a hug.

[flamesburned]

Liz still hadn’t really worked out emojis so the smiles were actually genuine, taking those cat photos had definitely helped keep her distracted for a bit.

She watched the video and actually did laugh when she watched it.

I could have sworn I heard that song playing around Fandom today :)

I can definitely take more photos. It’s no trouble at all :)

I …I …I think I needed to be here. it wasn’t really a response but she had debated a long time before writing a response to Prompto’s question.

everyone knows what happened. I …I told them …they’ve been really understanding.

I …I miss you.

Then before she hit send she addedI hope everything’s going well for you back home!


and then she sent through a few photos of Rain playing with Leo.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Well, that I miss you was going to make Prompto grin at his phone in a way that almost made Noctis ask if he had fallen in love with his phone or something, but thankfully, the last past pulled him out of it.

Gladio and the Marshal have been pretty much working us to the bone, but that's really nothing new.

There was a bit of a pause, a few attempts and deleting before he managed to settle on and decided to add:

I wish I could be there with you.

But I'm glad you decided to go ❤

[flamesburned]

Me too.

Was that in relation to Prompto being with her or that she was glad that she had returned or both? It seemed that Liz wasn’t specifying that.

It, it was hard to come back but I think I would have been worse staying at Fandom. It … it was getting bad , it was …

She hesitated, she had almost written that it was like the time with the alien ships, but well trying to talk about that in a text message was kind of awkward so deleted it and then finally settled on

I …I this will help, I might stay a bit longer but I will come back, probably before New Years just to try and deal with … everything…

She stared at that sentence and then after a bit added but I’ll be at Fandom when you return, I’m not … I’m not going to leave or anything like that

[hashtag_chocobro]

The thought that Liz would leave and not return hadn't actually crossed Prompto's mind, but now that it was right there, staring at him from his phone...

He bit his lip a little, fingers starting to tap on the back of his phone, knee bouncing as he sat and tried not to dwell on it.

Take as much time as you need

And if it turned out that that time was a long time or even infinite, well...that would pretty much be his luck, wouldn't it?

[flamesburned]

Liz considered her response and then after a bit sent back.


I will ... and I ... thank you, for ...supporting me, during this...and ...well for everything ... it means a lot

[hashtag_chocobro]

I'm just glad I could help

And, boy, wasn't that quote possibly one of most achingly true statements ever put down into a text message!