[He sleeps easily beside her, and in the doing so he too misses the initial twinges of guilt that wash over the city. The touch to his waist stirs him slightly, the softest sigh passing his lips as he reaches for her in return without fully waking.
Despite the warmth in the room he draws her close to him, the contact of her skin drawing him further into wakefulness.
It's then that it hits him, stirring like the last dregs of a nightmare that follow when you open your eyes to twist your stomach and the middle of your chest. It impacts sharply enough for him to not so much still as stiffen, and his barely conscious mind is only just prepared for the way that his thoughts suddenly race.
What cuts the deepest is only to be expected of him.
Naturally, it's Noctis.
His awareness of the future while he's been here has always been more of a burden than a blessing, but it has never hurt more than in these moments. There's so much that the young king will have to suffer, so much that Ignis will not be able to save him from despite how he will try. Knowing it's destined does not help matters when the world means nothing to him if Noctis isn't in it.
But here, with the woman he loves so much that it's almost an ache, there's something else. Things he has wondered if he should tell her, but hasn't only to save her from worrying about things that she may never have to deal with.
Ignis presses a kiss into Kate's hair, barely moving save for the motion taken to slide his arm around her.]
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Date: 2018-04-21 08:55 pm (UTC)Despite the warmth in the room he draws her close to him, the contact of her skin drawing him further into wakefulness.
It's then that it hits him, stirring like the last dregs of a nightmare that follow when you open your eyes to twist your stomach and the middle of your chest. It impacts sharply enough for him to not so much still as stiffen, and his barely conscious mind is only just prepared for the way that his thoughts suddenly race.
What cuts the deepest is only to be expected of him.
Naturally, it's Noctis.
His awareness of the future while he's been here has always been more of a burden than a blessing, but it has never hurt more than in these moments. There's so much that the young king will have to suffer, so much that Ignis will not be able to save him from despite how he will try. Knowing it's destined does not help matters when the world means nothing to him if Noctis isn't in it.
But here, with the woman he loves so much that it's almost an ache, there's something else. Things he has wondered if he should tell her, but hasn't only to save her from worrying about things that she may never have to deal with.
Ignis presses a kiss into Kate's hair, barely moving save for the motion taken to slide his arm around her.]