fandomtownies | The Photo Hut; Monday Morning [02/07].

Prompto was mostly just there to open the shop and get a few things done for a couple of hours; it was Ignis's birthday and, while it definitely wasn't anything even remotely as elaborate and involved as what they'd done of his birthday last year, he did have plans back in Insomnia. It was decided that they--the other chocobros, Noctis, Gladio, and himself--would give Specs the day off and cook for him for a change. Sure, Noctis couldn't cook to save his life, probably, and Gladio's expertise involved pouring hot water into a cup of dehyrated noodles, but Prompto had taken a few cooking classes and could make something at the very least edible, so he would be leading the charge.

Of course, this whole thing would end up just making more of a mess that Ignis himself would be left to clean up and fix, but, hey, it was the thought that counted, right? Prompto was confident that it wasn't going to be all that bad, but Prompto, of course, was going to be very wrong in this case.

The effort, though, would at least be appreciated.

For now, though, he knew he had enough time to at least get a half-day in at the shop before he had to flee, and he was going to do what he could to make the most out of those hours.

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Liz knew Prompto was going to be leaving earlier than normal today, so she made sure she had enough time to come downstairs and visit before he left.

“Hi,” she smiled as she approached, “how’s everything been going?”

"Hey," Prompto said, smiling back, and then he sort of shrugged his shoulders with a faint laugh. "Pretty quiet, as usual. I'm sure the rush is just waiting until after I head out, because that's just how these kinds of things happen, right? I gotta make sure I at least swing by T&C before I go, though. Noct doesn't believe me about the blue milk, so I figured I'd bring some and we're going to try and make a cake with it."

It was going to go super well! Really!

But you had to have a cake!

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Liz laughed at that, “it will probably be one of the busiest afternoons we’ve had now,” she said with a grin, “but I’m sure the cake will turn out great,” she told him, most of what Liz knew about cooking had come from class so she wasn’t really the best judge when it came to these things.

There was a pause and then, “Oh I spoke to Professor Broom about using photos of Hellboy’s cats for Instagram,”

It was going to be glorious in its disasterousness, Liz. Glorious. And she would be treated to a multitude of pictures from Prompto cataloguing the tragedy from start to finish, from the splatter of blue cake batter from Noctis underestimating the power of a blender, to the lopsided monstrosity said cake batter would become, to never actually seeing Ignis' face throughout the whole event, because every single photo of him would inevitably involve his palm on his face.

But that was all still hours from now, and, at the moment, Prompto interest piqued not unlike a puppy who may have thought he heard the words treat or car ride. "Yeah?" he asked. "And...what'd he say?"

Liz was absolutely looking forward to photos of the event …even if she didn’t quite know the scale of what the disaster would be.

“He said we could take the photos,” she told him, “as long as they didn’t identify the BPRD in them, I don’t think he quite understands the concept of Instagram,” it wasn’t around in her time yet, “but he was happy for us to use the photos and Hellboy agreed as well,” she added, since they were his cats after all.

Had there really been any doubt that Hellboy would be down, too, though? Really?

"I mean," Prompto reasoned, "if any incriminating evidence does sneak into any shots, I'm sure I could just," he made a vague gesture, "edit them out, or something."

There was never any doubt at all.

“I wasn’t aware you could actually edit the photos,” she admitted, “but that would definitely be helpful in case,” she said and then added, “I’m pretty sure Hellboy already has plans for what photos he can take, even though I wouldn’t be surprised if they included what photos he could take in Agent Manning’s quarters,”

"Yeah, just send them all to me before you post 'em," Prompto said, "I'll see what I can do."

Did this mean at least half of those photos were coming back to Liz with sunglasses or hats photoshopped onto the cats?

Hi, have you met Prompto?

Already planning such evil machinations, he grinned over at her. "I'm really excited to see what he comes up with, though. Rain's going to have to step up her game."

Liz honestly wouldn’t be surprised to find that there were indeed additional edits made to the photos.

She laughed, “we’ll have to make sure we can get some really creative sets in of Rain, we wouldn’t want her to feel left out,” because she knew how Hellboy could be when it came to taking photos of his cats.

"She's deifnitely not going to feel left out," Prompto vowed. "If he starts throwing in a lot of multiple cat shots at us, we can always pool our resources with Issa or Pancakes...or the whole animal shelter. I do have a good in with the other big red guy who runs the place, after all."

Oh no. This was going to turn into an absurdly over-the-top competition between the two of them now, wasn't it?

It was definitely going to turn into a competition who could take the best cat photo, “we can absolutely do that,” she grinned, “the more cats the merrier,” she said with a laugh , “we can’t have Hellboy having all the fun after all,”

"Definitely not," Prompto agreed, grinning over at Liz, and then just sort of...soaking in the moment and enjoying it. Even if they weren't getting a ton of cute cat pictures out of this whole thing, there was just the fact that the whole conversation had her smiling and laughing, and sometimes? He just found himself needing to appreciate it. "I don't think we have to worry about that, though."

It felt nice, being able to laugh and relax and not feel so tired all the time. She had been a bit worried that going to the fire station the other day would set everything off again but so far she felt …well maybe not normal but she felt fine.

“It will be nice though,” Liz smiled, “seeing what photos we’ll get of the cats and doing some different for the store as well,” she added.

Because that was why they were doing this after all …the cat photos were just a bonus.

The Photo Hut; Monday Morning [02/07].

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