The Photo Hut; Monday [02/28].

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Had Prompto spent a good chunk of his day yesterday trying to cull through the honestly impressively vast amount of pictures he'd taken on the trip? Yes. Was he still working his way through that immense quatity of photographic evidence during his shift at the shop today? Also very much yes.

At least by this point, though, he'd managed to sort out all the weird angles of mostly sky and horizon, all the accidental ground shots, the failed attempts to be clever by trying to shoot through foilage and just pretty much getting jumbled brambles of bushes and whatnot, and the surprisingly frequent instances of butt shots of the other guys, which didn't even make much sense, because the only activity they really all did together was the bush ride where they were all sitting down the whole time.

Weird.

But, anyway, he'd be more than happy to stop if anyone happened to pop in looking for some help (except maybe you, burgeoning gremlin mafia!), but until then, it was back to sorting and picking out which pictures were really worth keeping, which clearly needed to be every single absurdly frequent intance of him being an absolute dork thinking it was funny to take a picture of Liz taking a picture of him (who was taking a picture of Liz, probably).

The Photo Hut is open!

[[ and it will never not be funny to poke fun at just how frequent ground and butt shots show up on Prompto's camera rolls, I'm sorry ]]

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To the surprise of no one, Liz had also been going through the photos that she had taken over the week yesterday and this morning and that was before she even started sorting which photos of the trip she wanted to add to her photo board as well.

“Hi,” she smiled brightly once she was downstairs, “how’s the photo sorting going?” she asked, nodding towards his camera with a grin.

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"Hey," Prompto greeted back with a grin, and then shook his head as he turned back to the camera and the small scattering of data cards in front of him. "And it's...going." He laughed. "I don't even remember taking half of these pictures..."

His grin went back to her. "But they're good," he said. Mostly. And to prove it, he turned the camera her way to show off the shot he was currently on, of some of the zebras they'd seen during their camel ride.

Or was that from the car tour? The bikes? It didn't really matter.

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“Oh wow that turned out to be a great shot of the zebras,” Liz said with a smile as she looked at the photo Prompto showed her, “I know what you mean about the photos though,” she nodded, “I don’t think I’m even half way through my photos yet, I feel like I’m going to a full week just to sort through all of them,” she added with a laugh.

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"I'd give it more like a month," Prompto decided, looking at his data cards with another laugh, before his attention turned back to Liz, softening slightly.

"You had a good time, though?"

He'd probably already asked her some variation of that question a few times already, sure, but, you know, it was just one of those things, didn't hurt to check, right?

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“A month sounds about right,” Liz said with a laugh, “we did take a lot of photos, didn’t we?” she remarked.

That was a bit of an understatement Liz.

There was a pause then as Prompto asked her if she’d had a good time and she nodded, “I had a great time,” Liz assured him with a smile, “thank you again for inviting me,”

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"Thank you for accepting my invitation." If Prompto's face wasn't already still sunburned from the last week, a new shade of pink, out of just sheer contentment and happiness, would have sprung up.

He would probably make it through all those pictures before his face stopped vaguely resembling a strawberry, really.

"I know," he teased, his hand reaching out to find hers, "it was a real sacrifice, when you coulda just stayed here all week instead."

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“You’re very welcome,” Liz said with a laugh, her cheeks turning rather red … somehow she had managed to avoid getting sunburnt on the trip, which she wasn’t sure how she’d managed that, she reached out to take Prompto’s hand, “it was definitely a hard decision to make,” she grinned, “I mean a choice between a week in Africa or a week in Fandom where there was hardly anyone here?” she giggled, shaking her head, “I don't know how I was able to make such a decision,"

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"Definitely think you made the right one," Prompto assured her, with a Very Serious nod and a squeeze of her hand. There was a slight, hesitant pause before he added, "It's going to be kind of weird, being back home without you around these next few days."

The gorgeous location and incredible photo ops hadn't been the only great things about the trip, after all.

He was pretty sure the next two days were going to be the longest days of his life.

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“I’m going to miss you,” Liz said softly, returning the hand squeeze, she had enjoyed spending a lot of time with Prompto on vacation and she knew it was going to take a bit of adjustment when he went back home for a few days, “I’ve definitely been spoiled this past week, it will feel weird with you not being here all the time,”

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"I knooo~ooow!" Prompto agreed, and you could tell he'd definitely reached a certain level of comfort with this whole relationship in the way he threw in a little extra whine in the sentiment, pouting a little as his shoulders slumped forward.

Over two days.

But like Liz said, last week had spoiled him something rotten.

"The only upside is the fact that at least I'll get to rub it all in Noct's face the whole time."

And even that he wouldn't do, because he'd realize that was kind of cruel, when Noctis really couldn't go out and do stuff like this without it being a whole big deal and a security risk, and so je'd probably just keep the pictures and stories he shared to a minimum and wind up feeling bad that they didn't spend nearly as much time together these days now....

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“Well I’m sure he might like to know how the trip went?” Liz tried to be optimistic and she knew that Prompto needed to go back home but she was still going to miss him.

Yes it was only for two days but Liz was pretty sure it was going to feel longer than that.

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It was going to be torture.

"I mean," Prompto chuckled a little, "he's definitely been getting enough selfies and updates throughout the week that he's complained about it at least a few times, but that's the thing with Noct. Complaining is how he shows he cares."

Noctis, of course, would die this fact, and that he even complained at all.

By complaining.

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Liz smiled, “and to think you haven’t shown him all of the photos yet,” she said with a laugh, “I’m sure he’ll love seeing all the photos you’ve taken,”

Then Noctis would really complain about it, wouldn’t he?

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"Mmmm," Prompto hummed a little thoughtfully, and even managed to keep a...mostly straight face, "maybe I shouldn't have delete all those ones where Gladio's butt kept getting in the way, then."

Because if Noct thought all of Prompto's selfies were bad...

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Liz did not have the same self restraint and she let out a giggle, it would be an entirely different response if Gladio had been in the room though, “well that would certainly be memorable vacation photos,” she grinned.

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"I don't know how he does it!" Prompto remarked, the giggle only goading him on further as he shook his head like he just couldn't comprehend this mystery. "He's like a masterclass in photobombing, but only, apparently, in very specific angles."

Just wait until you found out about Gentiana, Prompto; her photobomb game would make Gladio's butt look like a hack.

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“Well it’s definitely one way to ensure you’ll remember the vacation and that Gladio was with you,” Liz said with a laugh, “do you think he does it on purpose?”

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Prompto took a moment to think about it, considering Thursday nights especially.

"Oh," he said, with confidence, "at least 95 percent sure. I mean, he's gotta, there weren't nearly as many Ignis butts."

And if you'd have told Prompto that morning that he'd be spending a significant amount of time talking about his coworkers' butts with his girlfriend, he'd have patted you on the shoulder and told you to try to avoid the gremlins next time.

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“Maybe that can be a challenge for next time?” Liz said with a grin, no she never thought this would be a conversation she’d ever be having either.

“You see how many different photobombing angles you can get of everyone,” she added with a laugh.

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"A challenge?" asked Prompto, with a laugh. "To get more butts?"

He shook his head and grinned lopsidedly.

"Is that something I should be worried about, that you're encouraging this?"

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Liz couldn’t help it, she started laughing, “there’s definitely nothing to worry about it,” she assured him, “there’s only one butt that I’m interested in,” and then she turned bright red because she couldn’t believe she had actually said that out loud.

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Prompto really had to fight against a pleased little smirk against that blush, because it was imperitive that he managed to be as serious as possible with this response.

Starting with a very grave nod of his head and a slightly too long thoughtful pause.

"Gladio's," he said, with a resigned sigh and a shake of his head in accepting disappointment. "I knew it..."

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To her credit, Liz did try to give a serious answer in response, she bit her lip to try and stop laughing, “how did you know?” she let out an sigh and a giggle escaped before she could stop it, “I thought I was being rather discreet,"

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There may have been a small pang of disappointment in Prompto that Liz's response didn't come with an immediate denial, but he couldn't really be mad about it since he kind of deserved that answer after all that.

"I mean, the camera doesn't lie," he grinned, shrugged as he lifted it for emphasis. "That thing's like a magnet."

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Liz grinned up at him with that shy smile, feeling a bit bad that she didn't deny it straight away but she was still blushing that brilliant red, “yours is still the only I’m interested in,” she assured him, "there was never any doubt at all,"

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"Hmmm." Prompto narrowed his eyes at Liz skeptically. "Sounds fake," he decided, "but okay."

And he'd also decided that there was too much cute going on in the other side of this conversation for him to handle, and so something had to be done about it because it was too late. And that something was going to be reaching for Liz, to put his arm around her and pull her in to kiss her.

There was definitely usually more kissing going on by this point, they clearly needed to make up for lost time.

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They definitely had to make up for lost time, especially since they were going to have a whole two days without any kissing.

Liz let out another giggle as Prompto pulled her in close to him and she happily leaned in to meet his lips in a kiss.