What happened?
Archer opened his eyes to see a blur of colors. His vision gradually resolved and he blinked as he realized it was ceiling? Moving his head hurt but despite the strained muscles, Emiya managed to look around. The Tohsaka mansion. Someone had brought him home.
"How am I alive?" Archer murmured, reaching under the blankets to run a hand over his chest. There were three wounds, all of them barely healed. But they were healed which was a miracle. No. No, this wasn't a miracle. "…Shit!" Emiya growled as he considered the only way those wounds could have been healed. How could she?!
"Archer, you're awake!" The object of his ire walked into the room. She seemed completely cheerful, to his further rage.
"Rin," Archer said, his voice as cold as the arctic wind. She looked very surprised at his tone, her innocent eyes so wide. That only fueled his anger. "How could you have done this?"
"Done what?" The false protestation of innocence made his throat clog for a moment and his hands fisted in the blankets. This. Was. Wrong!
"I thought better of you. Will you do anything for the Grail?" Archer snapped and saw utter confusion on her face. "And stop it! Stop lying to me and denying what you have done!" That was just insulting. Did she think he wouldn't know? Saber poked her head inside, looking at him wide-eyed before suddenly vanishing.
"I don't understand!" Rin protested and Archer ground his teeth together before resorting to cruder language.
"Will you whore yourself out for the Grail? Have you no self-respect?" Emiya snarled and saw her eyes become even wider. "I would have preferred to die than soil you this way!" Having sex with his unconscious body… Archer wanted to scream. Tears were filling Rin's eyes now.
"Stop it! I haven't had sex with anyone! Archer, stop it!" LIAR! Archer was about to shout at her when the door abruptly burst open and his younger self ran into the room.
"It was me!" What? Archer and Rin both stared as Shirou shouted. Were there tears building in his eyes? "Stop yelling at Rin! It was me, I did it and I'm SORRY Archer! I'm sorry but Saber said your mana core was pierced and you needed so I… I'm sorry!" Shirou collapsed by the side of his bed, putting his arms on the blankets before resting his head in them. More mumbled 'I'm sorries' and some heavy sobbing… Archer blinked, trying to reboot his brain. That was… was… more wrong yet less wrong… somehow…
"Archer, you should apologize." That was Saber, she'd entered the room and was looking at him with stern eyes. Rin was just confused. "You – " Archer held up a hand to her before looking at Shirou, a crying, mumbling mess. Then he gently rested a hand on that head.
"It's fine Shirou," Archer said gently, patting his head. Shirou just sobbed a little harder. "I'm not angry with you. Please, it's fine." Oddly enough, it was. Shirou lifted his head then, his face wet with tears.
"How can you not be… I raped you Archer!" Emiya heard Rin's confused gasp and Saber's voice quietly explaining but paid them no mind. What mattered was Shirou. "Why are you not angry with me when you were so mad at Rin?" …Ah.
"Shirou, I was never angry for myself. I was angry because I believed Rin had sacrificed her virginity to a man she does not care for, to continue her quest for the Grail," Archer explained and heard a strange sound from Rin. Would he be paying for this later? Quite likely. "That she would soil herself with my body for power enraged me." Archer paused before taking a breath and wincing. Mana transfer or not, he was far from healed. "You, however, are a rival master. By any logic you should have allowed me to die. Then Rin would have been removed from the game, giving you a cleaner field. So what would have seemed unclean from Rin is, from you, an act of self-sacrifice." Archer gave the young man beside him a small smile. "Thank you."
"I… you don't mind that I…?" A blush was spreading over Shirou's cheeks and Archer sighed, reaching up to rub his forehead.
"I'll think about that later." Much later. Really, 'go fuck yourself' was only supposed to be an expression, how the hell? Ugh, he was too tired for this. "Right now I need to rest. You may have given me enough mana to mend my core, but…" Archer twitched down the blanket a little, letting them see the livid marks.
"Oh, let me help!" Rin was there then, giving him a mana feed in a more appropriate manner. "Although we're going to talk about this later Archer. How could you even think I would do that!" she said through gritted teeth and Archer couldn't help but chuckle. Ah, Rin was adorable when she was upset. Ah, but he was so tired. Archer smiled at her, feeling deeply comforted by the mana replenishment. Settling deeper into his blankets, he closed his eyes.
Very soon, Archer drifted into a deep and restful sleep.
