#venxion

Prompto flipped the pages of the book, looking for the answer to the study guide, his eyebrow twitching each time he heard his cousin whisper (not quietly mind you) to his girlfriend Xion. Prompto really didn’t know how Ignis was just sitting there sipping his coffee, reading a report from work with those two talking about… unsavory things.

“I don’t know Ven, but I’m bored with our usual. We need more.”

Ventus groaned and tapped a few keys on his laptop. “Okay well what haven’t we tried? I feel like we’ve done everything.”

Xion’s eyes lit up as she pointed at the screen. “What about that? We’ve never tried that!”

Ventus nodded enthusiastically as Prompto tried to tune them out and continue working.

“What about midnight armor?”

Xion sighed, “that sounds terrible.”

Prompto rolled his eyes at the two sex fiends before turning to Ignis. “Iggy are you listening to these two?”

Ignis didn’t even look away from his paper, “hmm? Oh, darling yes I’m listening to everything.”

“You’re not paying attention.”

“That’s nice dear.”

“Oh, great you reached the point where you just are blankly answering people.”

“Yes of course.”

Prompto groaned and shook his head. “Honestly, Iggy, sometimes.”

“Sometimes you do what you must.”

“You sound like a broken AI!” Ignis just nodded and took another sip of his coffee as Prompto glared at him.

Ventus hummed in thought. “What about Final Fantasies?”

Ignis shook his head no, “oh no those ropes gave Prompto severe rope burns. You want silk or velvet ropes, try Insomnia Nights. It’s a store ran by a friend of mine.”

Ventus and Xion stared at Ignis as Prompto sputtered at him in disbelief, the freckles on his cheeks now hidden by bright red.

“Uh, Iggy!? What the hell!?”

Ignis froze as Xion and Ventus gave them both shit eating grins. “Oh lord what have I done?”

Xion slinked forward and wrapped her arms around Prompto’s neck, “aw so little Prompto and Ignis aren’t plain vanilla like everyone thought huh?”

Prompto just kept sputtering in horror as Ventus laughed uproariously. “Prompto.exe has stopped working.”

Red bloomed over Ignis’s face and neck, “You two shut up, we are not discussing this with you!”

Xion pouted, “aw but Iggy come on! This our first time in this territory, how can you throw us to the wolves? Don’t you want us to be safe?”

Ignis groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose, thinking for a moment before sighing in defeat. “Fine since this is dangerous if you want to get into this stuff you may meet us in our apartment and we can teach you some safe ways to do it.”

Ventus and Xion grinned at each other before nodding enthusiastically as Prompto gagged, “nope not doing that, he’s my cousin and Xion is basically a little sister nope not doing it you’re on your own.”

Xion kisses him on the cheek, “understandable. Expect us at your apartment tonight!”

Ignis groaned again, “fine.”

Ventus snapped his laptop shut, “good now Xion, to class!”

Xion took her apron off with a disgusted face, “can we just skip?”

Ignis caught her in a glare, “no now go.”

“Geez fine!”

As the other couple walked away from the table hand in hand Prompto turned to Iggy who was burying his face in his hands. “I’m mortified.”

“Maybe you should learn to stop answering questions without thinking!”

Ignis levied a glare his way, “I got that way because of you and your best friend in high school!”

Prompto stuck his tongue out at him, “yeah well now look at where that habit as got you, now you’re teaching two people how to properly tie each other up.”

“Oh sweet Bahamut. I’m going to die.”

Prompto patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, “there there, I’ll plan your funeral.”

“Thank you darling.”

Ventus brushed his thumb along Xion’s knuckles, his lips upturned lightly as he stared at his computer screen. Xion continued her rant, oblivious to him just barely paying attention to her as she yelled about her science professor.

“He put dry ice on a student Ven! A student! Not to mention, IT WAS ME!”

Ventus just sighed happily, “hmmm.”

“Are you even paying attention?”

“Huh?” Ventus looked at her when he heard the intonation of a question. She was staring at him from across the table, her brows knotted together in the middle of her forehead as she stared concerned. She reached out a hand to touch his forehead.

“Are you feeling well?”

Ventus grinned and grabbed her hand from midair, pressing it against his mouth making her blush. “I’m just happy being here with my partner. I’m in a good mood today.”

She narrowed her eyes at him, “did you take a nap today?”

“For three hours and I missed a class but that doesn’t matter!” He added hastily as she opened her mouth to scold him, Xion sounded a bit too much like his mother when she did that. “Today was just a review day for the rest Tuesday in that class I’m golden!”

She nodded, “can I go back to ranting with your attention? Please?”

Ventus nodded and hit the keys a few more times before looking up at her. “I’m sorry sweetie, you have my attention.”

She smiled, “thank you. Now I get why we were using dry ice for the experiment cause like we needed the instant freezing stuff but honestly, putting it on a student is just wrong!”

“I agree.”

“That’s obvious! Only crazy Vexen would do that!”

“Mmmhmmm.” Ventus didn’t mean to get distracted by her eyes, but he did whenever she was yelling about something. They sparked with such passion and drive he loved it. Ventus almost didn’t leave his stupor until a pair of hands grabbed his laptop screen. The fingers had a few rings on them and the nails had black chipped polish, meaning Ventus knew exactly who was trying to pull grand theft laptop right now.

“Vanitas! Don’t! I’m editing!”

Vanitas groaned and began picking up the laptop anyways. “I need the Internet for like a minute.”

“No! Go get your laptop!”

“Dude! This is important!”

Ventus turned in his seat to face his twin, a scathing reply on his lips until he saw his brother was with Xehanort Jr, X for short. “Oh, you’re with… him…”

X smirked and crossed his arms. “Hiya Ven.”

“You can’t call me that. Now why do you need this?” He turned his gaze to Vanitas who had already opened a new browser page.

“I gotta look up cute penguins.”

Stunned silence followed him, minus X snorting into his hand. Xion stared at the edgy adult in shock as Ventus just looked at him incredulously.

“What the hell?”

“I told you they wouldn’t understand Van.”

“I know X but I promise you! This shit is hilarious!”

Ventus pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, “what are you talking about!?”

Vanitas made a triumphant noise and angled the laptop so everyone could see it, turning up the volume. “Here!” He hit the space bar and a video began playing. It was a compilation video of penguins falling down the ice, but the sounds of them falling were replaced by Benedict Cumberbatch’s butchering of the word ‘penguin’. It quickly had the group laughing within the first falls in the video. When the video was done Ventus rolled his eyes affectionately at his twin.

“I suppose that was funny enough to interrupt Xion and I.”

Vanitas grinned and put his hands on his hips, looking uh like his younger mirror image. “My work here is done. Come on X let’s go plan that frat party!”

“Alright.” Vanitas wrapped his arm around X’s shoulders as they began walking away making Ventus sneer before turning to Xion.

“See? He ruined it by being friendly to him of all people.”

Xion smiled sweetly at him, “aw it’s okay babe, just think of peng-wings and you’ll be okay.”

Ventus snorted and pulled his editing back up, “what the heck man. I feel bad that no one corrected him.” Xion nodded in agreement and began to examine her nails until Ventus shut his laptop, grabbing her hands.

“Xion! Oh em Shiva, Xi, it came!” The black-haired girl looked up from her homework to see her boyfriend smiling blindingly at her, blue eyes sparkling with mirth. He was holding a seemingly nondescript box tight against his chest as if it was the most precious thing in the world.

“Ven, what are you talking about?” Xion rubbed her forehead, trying to stem off the incoming headache from trying to solve trigonometry equations in a noisy café.

Ventus rolled his eyes before grabbing her by the hand and trying to drag her off. “You gotta come see! Let’s go! I have to film this for YouTube!” Ventus knew his subscribers would love to watch him unbox a rare game like this.

Xion groaned as he gently tugged on her arm. She really had to get this work done. She looked down at the book in front of her, the numbers blurring together on the pages. Maybe she did need a break. Xion slammed the cover of the textbook shut, shoving it in her already overstuffed backpack and throwing said backpack over her shoulder. “Alright. Let me just stop by my dorm and grab my video camera.”

Ven practically bounced alongside her as the stepped out into the sunlight. He was humming a song that she thought she might recognize but couldn’t place. “You’re happy,” Xion smiled at her energetic boyfriend.

Ventus grinned back at her, “It’s not everyday you get a game that you’ve waited for your whole life.”

Xion chuckled, “wow, must be some game.” Ven just hummed an affirmative and nodded while they walked up the stairs to the dorm room she shared with Namine.

They entered the room and Ven grimaced at the mess that was Xion’s side. Xion walked to her small desk, shifting around papers. “Hold on, It’s in here somewhere.”

Ven just stood by the door, wondering where she slept as he stared at the pile of clothes on her bed. “Maybe you should clean up in here, Hun.”

Xion looked over her shoulder with a glare, “It’s called organized chaos. I know where everything is, it just takes a while to get to it.” She punctuated her sentence by pulled up a camera bag by the strap, “see?”

Ven rolled his eyes, but simply followed her out the door and to him and Vanitas' room. Vanitas was currently in a psych class so the room was free for him to use. As soon as the entered the room, Xion began setting up the camera. Ven shut the door, bypassing his bed and going to the corner with his gaming stuff where he filmed.

“Alright, we’re ready!” Xion had the camera set up on a tripod and was now looking at him expectantly. “You ready, Ven?”

He grinned at her, “Yep, just make sure it’s filming for real this time, Xi. Don’t wanna have to refilm a whole vid like the last time.” He winked and she rolled her eyes.

“It was one time, jeez.” But she double checked anyway because she didn’t really want to film all over again either. She gave him a thumb up to signal it was all good and he began.

“Hey, what’s up everybody, Ven here with a new game reveal!” Ventus held the box up towards the camera with a huge grin on his face. “Today I received something I ordered about a week ago, but I’ve been searching for, for most of my life. It’s a very rare game and I got it for a steal at only 300 gil.” Xion’s eyes went wide at the price Ven had paid for a game, but she stayed silent to not ruin the video.

Ven had began opening the box while he talked, “Now, I know all of you are probably having the exact same thoughts as my lovely videographer right now. What game could possibly cost that much?” Ven had gotten the box open and was reaching in, shifting the bubble wrap until he got his hands on the game, “it is none other than, drumroll please,” he raised the game from the box and presented it with a flourish to the camera, “Duck Tales 2 for the NES!”

Xion stared at her boyfriend incredulously as he began to get emotional over the game. “Guys you don’t even understand how long I have been searching for this game. I love the first game and the show. Duck Tales was the first game I ever completed and when I found out that this existed,” his eyes were wet with tears now as Ven got all choked up, “I spent any internet time my parents gave me as a kid searching for this game. Hours on dial up internet trying to find someone who sold this and now it’s here, in my hands.”

Xion bit her lip to keep from giggling as tears threatened to spill onto her boyfriend’s cheeks

Ven opened the game’s box and looked inside. “It has the manual and everything!” He hugged the game gently to his chest, his lip trembling as he smiled at the camera, “I’m just so happy right now guys, you have no idea.” He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, glaring as a snort escaped Xion. “You shush!” Xion bit her lip hard enough to taste blood, shoulders shaking with laughter. “Alright guys, leave me a comment if you want to see me play this game and I will do a livestream of it. Peace out!”

Xion stopped the camera rolling and burst out laughing. “You cried! Over a NES game!”

“Shut up! You cried over that one vintage camera we found in that shop.”

Xion smiled fondly at the memory, “True.” She pulled the SD card out of the camera and handed it to him, “I’m glad you found your game.”