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"Behold!" Prompto announced, as he came into the Photo Hut a little bit earlier than his usual time, because he could absolutely not just kill time the time between his class and lunch like usual, not with all the nervous energy bundled up inside of him with all the plotting he'd been doing this past week back home. "I come bearing lunch!"

Surprising, at this point, no one, as he held up a bag of take-away from Sushi Station, which he set on the counter as he made his way over toward where Liz was working. "And," he added, pushing up on the counter a little so he could lean over it enough to add a kiss to his greeting, and a big, dumb smile, "a very important request."

Liz grinned, looking up from her work because lunch with Prompto was definitely more exciting than responding to emails.

“Oh?” Liz smiled moving closer when Prompto leaned in to kiss her, “and what might that request be?”

"Cancel all your plans for Monday," Prompto informed her with a grin, because, yeah, pretty high demand there, her schedule was probably completely booked, right? He was fully leaning most of his body on the counter now, his feet sort of dancing timidly just a bit above the floor behind him, as if to keep any lingering nervousness inside of him safe from view, "because we are going out."

Which wasn't that big of a deal, right? They were dating, they were living together, it was Valentine's Day, totally expected, right? But this was the nerve-wracking part, this was the part where his grin widened to help give him the confidence to not just back out into a safer option like somewhere here on the island or on the mainland, because there was a good chance she'd hate the idea, that it was just a really bad move on his part, or just kind of stupid...

"In Insomnia."

Whatever Liz had been expecting wasn’t that and it took her a moment to register what Prompto had said.

Yes she knew Monday was Valentine’s Day and didn’t actually have any plans because well she figured they would be doing something but she hadn’t factored in a trip to Prompto’s world …even though he had talked about it the other week.

Then she realised she hadn’t said anything and she smiled warmly, “I would love that,” she told him, “that sounds perfect,” hopefully she didn’t sound too nervous.

That pause between when Prompto told Liz and Liz finally saying somethinghad to be one of the longest stretches of time he'd experienced in a while, or it least it only seemed that way with how many increasingly panicked thoughts managed to get shoved into such a small timeframe. He couldn't even begin to mask the great sigh of relief that rushed out of him once she did finally speak even if he'd thought to try.

So the relief, and then the grin, which turned into a nervous kind of sheepish laugh before he added, "And that's not even the good part! I got us reservations at the Caelum Via, which is one of the most premium venues in the whole city."

Honestly, he still couldn't believe he managed to land that, and it was going to do some major damage to his bank account, but being Crownsguard to the future king certainly had its benefits!

(It also helped that no one in Insomnia had ever even heard of Valentine's Day and it was literally just a random Monday there like any other, but still!)

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“Oh wow,” Liz was definitely impressed and was definitely rather nervous now since she really didn’t have a lot of experience with celebrating Valentine’s Day or really fancy restaurants and …oh what was she going to wear?

“That sounds amazing, thank you,” she smiled, leaning over to give Prompto a kiss, “I’m looking forward to it,”

At least they'd be in their nervousness together, because Prompto definitely didn't have much experience with this kind of thing, either, and was going to feel way out of his depth the whole damn time, but if Liz reacted to it even remotely like she'd reacted just now when she was just hearing about it? Totally worth it, every painfully flailing step of the way.

He felt the red splash across his face when she smiled at him, burning even brighter when she leaned in to kiss him, and that was when he discovered that it was a really interesting experience, trying to kiss someone back when you honestly felt like you just couldn't stop smiling.

Especially when he remembered that there was a little bit more, too, and, well, dinner for Valentine's Day, that wasn't anything that big, that was kind of expected, right? But this next part...

He was just going to take advantage of a little more kissing to work up the courage to say it...at least, it started that way, but then he just kind of stuck with the kissing, because, well...kissing was nice, but, eventually, he drew away, remembered how to breathe again and ventured, "And, um, I thought...maybe...since we were, you know...already there, you could, um...come...stay at...my place after."

Which seemed weird, that he'd be nervous about that, since they lived together when he was on the island, but...well...still, it was....different. To spend a night there and not be alone...

Liz had no problem with extra kissing, so she was very happy to oblige until Prompto pulled apart and asked his question.

She didn’t know why she was suddenly blushing so much at that offer, since well they lived together and all, unaware that she was completely agreeing with the narrative there.

She bit her lip, smiling shyly up at him, “I …I would like that,” her blush deepened, “I would like that a lot,”

At that point, Prompto's face was probably finding freckles he didn't even know he had, with the way his face was burning from the blush and pulling every single one of them out front and center, especially as he felt another breath of relief just flood from him, and then the embarrassment started to sweep in because why had he even been so nervous in the first place? It wasn't a big deal...

...except that it was, it totally was, and he knew that, and he wondered if he could ever explain to Liz exactly why, and...

He just sort of looked at her for a long moment, then, the relief and gratitude almost radiating off of him as brightly as his blushing cheeks and stupid smile, already starting to think ahead, and how it was going to be perfect and he couldn't wait to...

He laughed, then, shaking his head, reminding himself that this was still days away now, and they still had the days in between to enjoy with each other, and he leaned in to give her at least one more kiss.

"Good," he said. "Then we have a plan."

“It sounds perfect,” Liz said with a smile as she leaned in to return the kiss and was quite content to keep that going as long as possible.

And you know what? Prompto seemed to be perfectly fine with that course of action right now himself, even if, admittedly, it was a little awkward since he was still mostly just leaning over the counter, which wasn't exactly optimal for kissing, but it wasn't exactly optimal to stop kissing just to shift positions, either.

He did, eventually, though, break enough to comment, with a faint grin, "Good thing I got sushi. We don't have to worry about our lunch getting cold."

Liz had considered that she could move and walk round the counter to make it more comfortable to keep kissing but well the kissing had been to nice to stop and so she had stayed.

When Prompto pulled apart and made the remark about sushi, she couldn’t help but laugh at that, “that was rather good planning,” she told him with a grin, “it’s been a while since I’ve had sushi,” she added.

With that temporary break in all that kissing (for now!), Prompto seized the opportunity to just hop over the counter to Liz's side, maybe sneak in one quick peck on her forehead now that he was close enough to do that without it being awkward, and then pulled the food closer.

"I wasn't really sure what you liked," he admitted, and, really, he hadn't even be sure she'd like sushi in the first place, but he figured it was a risk worth taking and who didn't like sushi, anyway? "So I just got a whole bunch of different stuff."

His method of just getting a bunch of things and seeing what Liz gravitated toward had been working pretty well so far, after all! And eventually, he'll have made it through all the dining options on the island and would have established certain favorites or just have to start getting really creative with it.

Prompto jumping over the counter definitely worked for her and she smiled as she reached over for one of the dishes, which was teriyaki chicken.

“I don’t mind most foods,” she told him with a grin, “I like trying different things except,” there was a slight hesitation, “well I don’t like vanilla ice cream,” she admitted and felt rather embarrassed since she knew it was an unusual quirk that she had about it.

Well, that felt like a little tidbit that Prompto was glad to have gotten before he goofed up and got the wrong kind of ice cream one of these days, although, really, if he was getting ice cream, he was definitely getting the crazy stupid loaded flavors. If you were having ice cream, you had to make it count.

But he wouldn't exactly say no to vanilla, either.

"What's wrong with vanilla?" he asked, shifting through a few of the containers until he found the spicy salmon one he'd been looking forward to digging into for himself.

“It’s …well there’s nothing wrong with it,” Liz stared down at her food before she took a bite of sushi, “I well …it just makes me cry,” she blushed a bit, it felt so weird to admit this, “I …I can’t really explain it,”

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Prompto blinked a little at that; whatever Liz's answer was going to be, that definitely wasn't what he would have expected.

And it was definitely making him even more glad he hadn't made any unfortunate ice cream missteps yet.

"Oh," he said, now frowning thoughtfully down at his salmon roll, not entirely sure what to say to that. He definitely wasn't going to try to get her to explain it, especially if she said she couldn't really. So he just sort of looked over with an uncertain smile and shrugged a shoulder. "No vanilla ice cream, then. That's...I think I can manage to remember that."

Liz felt relieved at that and smiled as she took another bite of sushi, “thank you,” she said quietly, “it’s been that way since I was a child, I didn’t exactly have a normal childhood even before everything started happening,” she paused, “but it’s the only food I don’t like, so I promise there’s no more weird eating quirks I have,” she assured him.

"I hope not," Prompto said, a little quietly, but he still sent another small smile over to Liz. It's not like he could really hold it against anyone for some weird hang-ups about food, either. "The last thing I'd want to do is...make you cry." The smile grew just a little bit more on one side. "Even by accident."

"You don't have to worry about that," Liz said quietly with a small smile, which may have been rather bold of her to say at this point, especially considering her history with crying and all, "it's never your fault," she assured him, "I ... I'm trying to work on it but well ... there's a lot to work through," she admitted.

Crying over eating vanilla ice cream was probably going to take a back seat for a while.

"There is," Prompto agreed softly, leaning in a little to give Liz's shoulder an encouraging nudge with his own. "But you're doing great. And it's nothing you can't handle."

Liz gave a shy smile at that encouraging nod and found herself blushing a bit as she stared down at her sushi before looking back up at him, “thank you," she smiled warmly, there was a pause, "I even stopped by the fire station last week," she told him, she had been rather nervous about the whole thing but it had actually turned out to not be as bad as she thought it would.

"Yeah?" Prompto asked, finally getting around to popping one of hid rolls into his mouth. "How'd that go?"

“It … it went well, Travis has been really understanding about everything,” Liz paused as she considered what else to say, “I … I told him about Pittsburg,” since the only people she had told about Pittsburg had been Dr. Lecter and Prompto, it had been a lot to tell a fire fighter about an episode like that.

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