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 I'm imagining older Noct and Prompto and a ransom situation where Noct is told to come alone with the money

Turns out the badguy has some major beef with Noctis and it was never about the money it was  about Noctis watching his most important person die.

They never planned on letting Prompto go - they dont especially care if they make it out of there so long as they can see the Princes face.

I'm thinking some very serious injury for Prompto - maybe like Harry in Kingsman or some such and the guy is convinced he succeeded and he got to see Noct lose everything. Rather than kill him he's taken in alive.

Prompto is critical but is saved. Noct later goes to visit the guy in his cell and he's all smug at Noctis and then Prompto makes an appearance like 'oops, you failed'