Love-sick
Gladio / Reader part 2
Reader suffers from Hanahaki disease.
Angst/ pain. Part 2
After you had gathered yourself from crying, Noct decided to think of a plan. On this day you had a list of quests to finish, and throughout the day he would help you get alone time with Gladio. You both agreed it would be much better to just have the two of you know.
It’s been a couple hours since your breakdown with Noct, on some part, you felt embarrassed, I mean if you thought about it, Noct was the only person other than Gladio to have seen you in an emotional state, this wasn’t even just an “oh just a small cry that’s all” this was a basically, life or death situation for you, and Noct knew. “So Iggy, where we off to?” Gladio leaned forward, towards Ignis’ seat, of course you being in the middle seat this caused him to be closer to you. You’ve always been good with dealing with how close he gets to you but, ever since the whole ‘coughing up flower’ thing, you hadn’t been able to control your emotions.
Your breath hitched, causing you to cough, Noctis quickly turned to look at you, patting your back as he asked you if you were okay, “You alright Y/N?” Asked Ignis, looking at you through the mirror, with a smile you nodded, clearly not wanting to alert anyone else you just brushed it off. Gladio handed you a container with water, smiling at you before turning to Ignis once again, “so?” He continued, “Right, well Noctis and I, thought of a plan, since there are two set of Daemons we need to get, Prompto, Noctis, and I, will go after three of them, and Y/N and you, will go after the last one.”
Gladio nodded, but soon opened his mouth once again “why just the two of us?” Gladio looked at you, placing his hand on your head “not that I’m whining you know, but why go after one?” Ignis nodded, of course this was already planned out even before any of you could have any thoughts about it, or course besides Noctis. “Well, as we’ve noticed before, this type of Daemon you and Y/N are going after requires, hand to hand combat, as to say, meaning you need to be closer for it, the other two, not so much, plus, we can’t leave Noctis alone with Prompto, they’ll get themselves killed.” You turned to look at prompto, trying to see if he maybe had any protests, but just like everyone else in the car, he was nodding, agreeing to the points Ignis made.
You looked at Noct, of course you could already tell this was part of his plan to get both Gladio and you together — or atleast closer. Was there any more to get closer though? You did share moments where you flirted, and moments were you two were too close to comfort. But knowing his playful demeanor — oh yeah, and his Fuck boi thing he has going on, it was probably just him messing with you. But, who could truly be sure, in the mind of Gladio Amicitias.
The Regalia came to a slow stop, parking on the side of the road, “Guess we’re walking.” Prompto said, with a whine, starting to open the car door and getting out, before your departure you stocked up on potions and anything you could basically need, although with your whole cough situation, you weren’t sure if what you had even worked. You turned to look towards Gladios side, waiting for him to get out, once he did you slid, but as a surprise he extended his arms to you, a small smile on his lips as he signaled for you to take it “c’mon, don’t got all day now” and with a small cough you took his hand, for just a moment, he squeezed it, you noticed how warm it was and how rough his slightly calloused hands were, but that didn’t bother you. On your part you thought both of your hands fit perfectly together, your small hands on his, his on yours. You loved it, but the moment came to an end, and he let go of your hand to pat you on the back, harder than intended, it even took out a cough from you. And with a glare you turned to him before hitting him on the back as hard as you could, “Stupid, what the hell was that for?” Gladio smirked as he crossed his arms, looking down at you “You looked like an idiot with that grin on your face,” pretending to be shocked, you lightly pat his cheek “yeah says the one that literally has a stupid grin on his face at all times.”
Sure your comeback wasn’t as good, but Gladios face was absolutely priceless, he really didn’t expect you to bite back in all honesty, is face made both Noct and Prompto to burst out laughing, Ignis could barely even suppress a chuckle at best. By this point your lungs were absolutely burning, you tried to suppress many coughs during that whole ordeal, you let out a small cough, noticing that it was just one of many’s, you quickly ran away, mumbling that you had to go to pee as you quickly scurried off to where they couldn’t hear you. To your surprise tho, Noctis noticed and was able to slip off from the rest.
By instinct at this point you tried to breathe in as much as you could before the coughing fit began, the lump on your throat forming once more, oddly you began to gag, your body convulsed and knees buckled, Noctis showed up right on time, his hands holding you up before you could hit the ground. Gagging loudly you tried turning away from him, wanting to not get him dirty.
His hands grabbed at your hair, holding it back so that it wouldn’t get in your way, you’re more than thankful for him really, but each time you tried to say thank you, you coughed and gagged, tears spilling from your face, the painful feeling on your lungs never ending.
With each passing minute the lump would move further up your mouth, until finally you spit it out. To your surprise two fell out. Two large like flowers. There was nothing else you could do, so you just simply left them on the ground. Noctis rubbed your back, trying to comfort you as you wiped the tears. You stood up, patting yourself and brushing away the dirt that had accumulated on your pants. Lightly slapped your cheeks and smiled.
Once you made you way back, everyone quickly started the quest, you went with Gladio, everything was fine, of course until you butt heads with the daemon you were supposed to be killing. To be honest, everything was going fine, that was until his health regenerated, you were short of breath by this point, getting agitated by each passing moment you had to keep fighting it.
Almost 30 minutes in and Gladio was able to deliver the final blow, finally killing it and letting you rest. You know you didn’t do well, but Atleast you did something right? Gladio came up to you, stabbing his sword through the floor, clearly he was upset at you, but you didn’t need this right now. Too much to worry about.
“The fuck was that all about?” The wording was much to cruel, you were sure he didn’t mean it to come out that way. But it still struck a nerve, “What?” You said to him, turning your head to look at him in anger, “Don’t look at me like that, you were absolutely horrible today, you could’ve died!” You scoffed turning away as you mumbled something under your breath, “would’ve been sooner that’s for sure” — “What?!” You could hear the anger on his voice at this point, the absolute rage oozing from it. “NOTHING” you turned from him, going to stand up to walk away from him.
You were much too tired for this, “nothing? You clearly had something to mumble about earlier. The fuck is wrong with you? Running around with Noct and all.” This made you snap, why was he accusing you, when he literally knew nothing? “Shut up. Shut up, you know absolutely nothing.” Maybe it was just the toll on the hunt, maybe it was just past angers coming undone. You honestly didn’t know why you were arguing or how it started in the first place, but everything was just bad, it was horrible.
“Don’t know nothing? Don’t make me laugh, if I don’t know anything, then why don’t you tell me? Huh?” Normally you’d tell him anything, you’d sit and smile and tell him all about your day and everything that happened. He knew most of your secrets, but for some reason he didn’t know this one, and it pissed him off. “No.” You spat out, glaring at him by this point. The thoughts in your head raising alarms, and the heart in your chest beating loudly, you were heated, much too heated, it was too hot, too loud, it was all too much.
“What why not? You can go and tell everyone but not me?! Even Noct?!” You knew this wasn’t the way it was supposed to go, this wasn’t how you wanted it to be.
No no no no no no don’t do it. Stop.
“Because I fucking love you, okay?” Silent, everything went silent. His mouth fell agape, a thousand thoughts going through his brain, surely he heard wrong, right? I mean he only thought of you as a sister, that’s all. Nothing more. “I realized some time ago, and-“ — “I’m sorry.” He cut you short, his response making your eyes widened, I mean you had prepared a whole speech, you had, thought of everything, and he just, cut you short? Didn’t even let you finish? You breath hitched, you could absolutely feel it, this was it.
You smiled, tears spilling, “of course.” He wanted to say more, explain, tell you. But all he could say was that he’s sorry. You knew this, you knew he didn’t feel the same, but you went and got your hopes up. Fucking dumbass. You turned on your heel quickly, running away “Hey tumble what was that-“ pushing through Prompto and Noctis as you tripped through the tree roots, but you had to get away, you had to leave.
You ran for as much as you could, thankful your lungs held out as much as they could, you sat down, leaning on a big rock, you sobbed, what a dumb way to die huh? Literally heart broken, you pulled out a picture from your pocket, a picture of you and Gladio, you always had it with you. You thumb caressed it, and you couldn’t help but smile. Oh how much you loved his smile, his eyes, his hair, his nose, absolutely everything, but more than all, you loved him in general, how hot headed he is and how driven, how all he wants to do Is protect Noct.
Your breath started coming by short, you found yourself gasping for air, this was much more painful, how come no one told you it would hurt this bad? You felt, as if your chest was being ripped, flowers bloomed into your lungs, cutting your airflow. You cried scratching at your throat to Atleast try something, something anything would help, absolutely anything would do, but with tears in your eyes and flowers in your lungs, this was impossible,
“Y/N!- Y/N!” You heard your name being called, as much as you wanted to answer you couldn’t, you knew it was Gladio, but there was nothing you could do right? You were much too tired, you had to lay down, and so you did. You tear stained face, being held by someone. Big calloused hands holding you is so tenderly, “Y/N! Fuck! Do something!!” You looked at him, gasping trying to get as much air as you could. Each minute passing, earning a flower inside of you. “Shh..” you whispered, you were sleepy, your eyes threatening to close, how painful. He was crying at this point all you could see was him, how he looked at you and how worried he looked, how you hated to see him like this.
You couldn’t hear Prompto cursing under his breath trying anything he can, or Noctis trying potions on you, or Ignis checking at your pulse and frantically trying to get anything he can. You loved them, with all your heart, but you were one to fight death. “It’s.. okay..” with each word, a heavy breath, you coughed, your weak hand reaching towards him. He caught it, placing it on his cheek, “don’t go.” He looked so pained, his eyes, oh how this broke your heart. “Love...” you smiled, what a horrible thing. “Love... you” even in your last moments you loved him, you tried to look for Noct, your eyes trying to destinguish them, “love... you.. all too” you coughed, you couldn’t notice the tears on everyone else’s, but Noct was crying the most.
Maybe he felt guilty, he should’ve told someone, Ignis maybe, if he had told them, you wouldn’t be in this position, you let out a short laugh, a pained smile on your face, you turned to look a Gladio, “I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you!” How sweet, but he didn’t mean it. You could tell. You were starting to see black dots by now, and of course, you started to cough, that familiar lump on your throat once more, you didn’t even have the strength to sit up and puke it out, so instead you just coughed it out, each time taking more and more from you. As the flower made it to your lips, you closed your eyes, you were going to sleep now. You were going to rest.
Gladio shook your body, trying to get you to wake up, “I... I love you! Wake up! Wake up” he hoped even if it was stupid he hoped for you to wake up, to sit up and hug him. He felt horrible, he felt absolutely horrible, he cursed, who knows how many at this point. He hugged your body, your limp body, your.. lifeless body on his hands. And it was all his fault.. He did this to you.. if only, he had loved you. If only he truly loved you. Maybe that’s why he felt the worst, because he knew, he didn’t love you as you loved him.
The guilt ate at him, started convincing the rest to take more quests, killing more, pushing himself. It was all his fault. You died because he didn’t live you, his childhood friend, his little sister, gone and it’s all his fault, who else to blame but himself?
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