Archive of Our Own ^beta

Chapter Text

“ I hope you don’t mind, I helped myself to your semi-automatic rifle.”

That's what Cor heard when he walked into his apartment at 7:45 pm on a Wednesday night after a long day at work trying to get communications up and running again after they mysteriously went down but they still couldn't get back in contact with the kingdom of Solis.

Which greatly worried him as he recently got in contact with his last remaining family members which happened to be the royal family of the kingdom, the only one who knows about cor’s family is Monica as he knew that Regis and Clarus would freak out if he told them.

The thing with the royal family of Solis is that the faces of the their kids aren't revealed to the public until they reach a certain age so that they can live there childhood as normal as they can, so the only known information on the royal kids are information that they have given of themselves in interviews that they have done. The only people who know what they look like are high ranking guards, high ranking maids, the family's butler/ advisor, and other family members as they actively interact with the royal family.

So imagine Cor's surprise when he sees his youngest nephew 12 year old nephew Prince Prompto Aureum Ortus also known as the “Golden Prince” halfway across the world sitting on the floor in his apartment all alone which on its own was concerning as he was almost never seen without his siblings or his parents or his personal guard Zack Fair and he had a rifle in his hand that Cor had left him the last time he went to visit them and heard that he wanted to learn how to use one aside from his sword.

His cousin and her husband had made a plan with him that if there was ever a danger to the kids and they had to stay in the kingdom that he would take them in until there was no more danger but seeing as his older siblings aren't here it could mean that they got separated on the way here ,or that something happened to them ,or that they had to be separated for there safety, or that the danger was only targeting Prompto which would be greatly worrying because Prompto had been targeted before when he was four years old and Cor found him close to death being experimented on in a lab two months later while on a mission in Niflheim which is how he found his cousin again.

And that's why everyone is so overprotective of him as they don't want that to happen again which is why this older siblings hardly let him out of there sight and why his parents gave him and his siblings personal guards and made him and his siblings take extra self defense classes and put even more security on the castle, to keep him and his siblings safe so that an event like that never happens again.
Which is why it is so worrying when cor finally notices all the blood on his clothes which isn't even his seeing as it was a lower ranked royal guard uniform instead of his normal royal outfit.

And it was this accumulation of all Cor’s mixed up thoughts that the only thing that he could say was the first that came to mind.

“Kid how the FUCK did you get here !?”

Chapter Text

“Ok so maybe i shouldn't start with that sorry kid, I just can't wrap my head around the fact that you're here in front of me right now BY YOURSELF, but you’re okay, right? You’re not hurt?” Cor said all in one breath thoughts still running wild and even more so with the possibility of Prompto being hurt.

“No, no, no, I'm fine! Totally fine, no, no, I'm s fine.” Prompto finally spoke again but this time he spoke much quieter and he even started to slur his words a bit there at the end.

“Really? Because you’re repeating your words, you’re pale, there is blood on your clothes, and you look like you’re going to pass out.” Cor said finally taking the time to fully observe him, his hair and clothes were drenched in sweat and laced with blood and dirt and even in the dark living room Cor could see all the cuts and bruises on the young prince, he needed to know what happened but his nephews safety always came first when he was off the clock.

“Yeah, you might wanna catch me.” Prompto said as he started swaying no longer in control of his feet.

“ whoa be careful kid, i thought you said that you were fine” Cor said as he came forward to help keep him steady “can you tell me what hurts, if it's bad enough we are going to have to go to the citadel bud cuz i don't think that i could physically or emotionally handle that in my apartment right now” .

“It’s just a cut … Ow, yeah, okay, that’s starting to hurt” he said after a while
“ok i'm going to turn the lights on now to see what we are dealing with here ok?” Prompto didn't even have time to retaliate when the lights turned on and Cor could finally survey most of the damage and all he could see was red not only from all the blood on the floor but also from the anger he felt towards what did this to him.

“Prompto you’re BLEEDING all over my floor! The moment they fix you up you’re going to tell me EXACTLY what happened to you” cor said in the most serious voice he could manage at the moment. He then started to lift Prompto carefully into his arms as not to cause him more pain
“Where are we going Uncle Cor?” Prompto said in a small voice that really showed just how young he was.

“ Sorry if it hurts buddy but as I said before we need to head to the citadel so that they can heal you cause I have no way of knowing how bad it is and if there is anything going on internally” cor said in a soft voice that he only used on select people close to him.

Just as he started to place Prompto in his car he realized that he should probably call to notify Monica about Prompto so that they could get him in quicker, but just as he was going to call her his phone started ringing with Monica calling him he would have questioned it but he was to worried over prompto.

“I was just about to call you I need you to get a me a room ready in the medical wing.” Cor spoke as he answered the call not leaving anytime for the woman to talk.

“I’ll get that for you but Cor what happened? Are you ok?” the woman on the other side of the phone said.

“I'm ok, it's not for me and i'll explain there but why were you calling me? ” Cor said questioningly.

“We just got word that the Kingdom of Solis was attacked by Niflheim. We have no idea why they did it or where the royal family is.” Monica said in a solemn tone "I'm sorry we're doing all that we can to find them, I know how much you care about them and no one knows of your relation to them yet."

All Cor could say was "..what?"

Chapter Text

There were so many thoughts going through Cor’s mind once he finished up the call with Monica.
They both explained their stories to each other but there were still so many questions left unanswered. What happened to everyone? are they ok? or at least alive? The only thing that breaks him out of his thoughts is Prompto saying

“ Is it supposed to be bleeding this much?”

Cor looks back at him and realizes that his blood still hasn't stopped yet so this whole time he has been bleeding in the back seat of his car without telling him which only served to make him drive faster.

“You need to keep pressure on it for me bud ok, can you do that for me until we get there?”

Cor knew that realistically with the speed that he was going that they would get there in about three minutes but he wasn't going to be taking any chances with him seeing as he was technically his last living family member until he knows that the others are alive, but that was something to worry about later. He was broken out of his thoughts once again by Prompto’s small and weak voice answering him.

“Ok Uncle Cor I can do it… but is everything supposed to be going dark?”

“Kid don't you dare die on me!don't fall asleep, keep talking to me, we're almost there” Cor said panicking, this kid always managed to give him gray hairs no matter how much security he got he always managed to find himself in trouble it never helped that his personal guard Zack always encouraged it.

“Talk to me about that new game that you found, what was it called again?” He knew the name of that game by heart now by how much Prompto would talk about it , he would talk to anyone and everyone that were willing to listen to him ramble on and on about it.

“You mean Kingdom Hearts?” the young boy said

“Yeah that one, I forgot what happened in the first game, could you tell me?” Cor knew that even if Prompto was dying he would still talk about that game.

By the time that Prompto was done going over the first hour of the game they could see the citadel coming closer and closer but the gates where overrun with glaives and crownsguard meaning that it was on lock down there was no way that he could get prompto in without going through them and he really did not want to explain why he had a kid that was heavily injured with him.

Thankfully once he found a place to park that didn't have that many guards roaming around he spotted Monica looking for him he called her over to where he was with prompto and she took them to an entrance she cleared for them that had trusted doctors that worked with the prince after the incident waiting for them.

“Marshall Leonis, what happened to him?!” the doctor yelled as he rushed over to the injured young boy.

“I don't know!, I haven't had a chance to ask him yet ”the Marshall in question yelled back at the doctor.

The doctor took a few deep breaths and steeled himself “we have to take him to one of the more private rooms in the medical wing. but you have to understand that Miss Monica has already explained most of the situation to me so I know about his ‘special’ circumstances.”

Before Cor could yell at Monica for telling this random doctor about his nephew the doctor continued “I said that I wouldn't help if she didn't tell me what was going on” he said choosing to look at Prompto instead of Cor

“We will talk about what this means later, right now my priority is Prompto lets go.”Cor says carrying Prompto to the nearby elevator.

Chapter Text

As they got into the elevator Cor could tell that Prompto was starting to lose consciousness and whether that was because of the adrenaline leaving his system or because of all the blood that he had lost on the way Cor did not want to find out.

“Come on buddy don't fall asleep just yet,just wait until we get to the room and get you stabilized first and then you can sleep till your heart's content.”

Cor said as he gently started shaking Prompto to keep him from going back to sleep, Prompto then let out a wince and a groan to let Cor know that he was still awake and in pain. But before Cor could apologize for shaking him without thinking.

Prompto said “ I know that look, you have nothing to apologize for uncle Cor if anything it’s my fault, all of this is and I promise to give you a proper explanation when I'm not feeling like i want to die.”

he joked at the end to try and make Cor feel better but his voice was still so weak that it actually sounded like he was saying his last words which means that it did not have its intended effects on his poor uncle but after what felt like forever the elevator came to a stop and Cor got off the second that the door was wide enough.

“Which room is it?” Cor asked as the doctor and Monica trailed behind him.

“It’s the last door to your left, room 104 everything that we need is already in there but just to let you know I am going to have to use anesthetic, but is there anything else that you think i should know?”.

“He lost a lot of blood before coming here.”

“And you didn't think of telling me that earlier!?”.

“Well SORRY that I didn't think that you wouldn't notice his blood soaked clothes the first time!” Cor yelled at the doctor that was already starting to get on his nerves the longer that he didn't help his nephew.

“well I THOUGHT that all of the blood got absorbed by his clothes because you didn't mention him losing more than that!” he yelled right back at the Marshall.

“BOTH OF YOU STOP! Can't you see that you're hurting Prompto” Monica said as she took the whimpering Prince out of Cor’s arms and into her own. “I will get other people to help if you two can’t cooperate, because right now he needs help, not you two bickering over something that will ultimately not help any of us in the long run”.

Not giving time for either of the two men to respond she turned and entered the room that the doctor said was theirs with the only known surviving member of the royal family.

And that’s when it dawned on the two men that they potentially risked not only the Prince's life but the future of a whole nation but before Monica closed the door she said one more thing “Your only going to be allowed into this room when you two have learned to get along but for now until someone else gets here i'm going to be assessing his injuries” and then she shut the door leaving no room for either of the men to argue.