Hello everybody my name is Trevyler and welcome to my first story for the Fate Series. Now I've finally finished Fate/Zero after starting it months ago and started Unlimited Blade Works so I decided I wanted to write a fanfic for it. So I'll just say that I ship Shirou with Rin as I like it better and find shipping him with Saber incredibly strange. I ship Saber (Arturia) with Lancer (Diarmuid). Those will be parings in this story along with some others. Now this is an AU story so no magic or servants or Grail War or anything like that. All the characters are just people. Now let's get started.


CHAPTER 1

It was a peaceful morning in the city of Fuyuki, The sun was shining, the blue sky clear and the birds were chirping. Then it happened.

The annoying sound of an alarm clock pierced the silence. Sapphire eyes peaked out in an annoyed glare from under the covers. A hand reached out, trying to silence the infernal machine.

Finally getting annoyed the person threw the covers off and grabbed the clock before throwing it against the wall. Of course this resulted in it breaking ans pieces scattering acrossed the floor.

Dark brown-black hair was visible as the figure rose from bed groaning. Her feet touched the floor on the opposite side of the bed, "I'm up, I'm up!" she shouted.

She frowned at the broken clock, "There goes another one." she mumbled.

Rin Tohsaka was not a morning person. Sure if you saw her you would've never guessed it because she hid it incredibly well in public, but that didn't stop her from complaining in the privacy of her home.

She yawned as she walked out of her bedroom in her white night gown and pink house slippers. She entered the bathroom where she discarded her clothes into a hamper to later be washed. The shower turned on and she adjusted it to her desired temperature before stepping in. The warm water was refreshing and helped wake her up a bit more.

She went over the essentials of washing her hair along with the rest of her body and quickly and thoroughly as she possibly could.

When she got out she dried herself off and picked out clothes for today. This included a red long sleeved shirt with two gold buttons on each cuff, a black pleated skirt, black thigh high socks, and brown flats.

She threw them on and brushed her hair our before pulling it up into her signature pig tails. She smiled as she looked in the mirror, satisfied with her appearance.

Breakfast was a couple pieces of toast, an apple, and some tea as she had to hurry to get to work. She didn't have a lot of time in the morning because she tried to get as much sleep as she could get.

She got into her plain black car, made sure that everything was in order, and rushed off to work.


Holy Grail Magazine was very popular these days and was generally up to date with all the latest info on movies, actors, and other related media.

Rin worked here under Waver Velvet or Lord El-Melloi II as he went by professionally. He was hard to work for at times, but overall a decent boss. He's from England so normally he'd stand out, but in Fuyuki he fits in just fine since the population is so diverse.

Rin came in and was greeted by her sister and co-worker Sakura Tohsaka.

The purple haired girl smiled, "Good morning Nee-san." she greeted.

Rin gave a smile back, "Good morning to you too Sakura." she said in return.

The two sisters had been generally close throughout their lives despite being opposites in terms of personality.

The fact that they'd worked together was purely coincidental as they hadn't talked to each other for a couple months prior to finding out they'd both been hired. It wasn't an unwelcome situation though.

Sakura handed Rin some papers, "Here's those articles you needed. I gave them a read and fixed some things. By the way, Lord El-Melloi wants to see you." she informed.

The dark haired girl grinned, "Don't forget the second." she joked.

The two girls giggled a little before getting back into work mode.

The elder sister nodded, "Well I better get going. Thanks for these Sakura. See you around lunch if you're not busy." she said.

The purple haired girl gathered closed her bag and headed to her office with a wave to her sister.


Rin knocked on the bosses door since he didn't have a secretary or assistant at the moment.

A voiced called telling her to enter and she did so. Waver Velvet sat at his desk looking over things with a bored expression. It seemed the work load was slow today leaving him with very little to do.

She dropped the stack of papers on his desk, "You wanted to see me? Oh and feel free to look these over before they get published." she told him.

He nodded, "Thank you Rin and yes I did call for you. I have an assignment for you." he responded.

She raised an eyebrow, "So what do I need to do this time?" she asked.

He smirked, "I think you'll be happy with this assignment. You're job will be to get the first exclusive interview with actor Shirou Emiya." he answered.

She held back a gasp, "THE Shirou Emiya? The actor behind Archer in the ever popular TV series Unlimited Blade Works?" she said, wanting clarification.

Waver nodded, "Yes. That's the one. He's agreed to do an exclusive interview for us this coming Friday after the studio finishes shooting for the day." he explained.

Rin's sapphire eyes shined. Her and Sakura were huge fans of the show and Sakura was infatuated with the character of Archer. While she wouldn't admit it to anyone she actually found him attractive as well.

Meeting the actor that played him was a fans dream. Although it being for work made is less ideal, but she would get to meet him regardless.

She nodded, concealing her inner glee, "Is there anything else you need me to do in the meantime?" she asked.

Waver shook his head, "Not really. Just work as usual for the next few days." he told her.

She continued the rest of her day managing information she'd gotten to try and verify it before she sent it over to Sakura to be edited and then to Waver for publication.


First chapter complete. Well this isn't much of a first chapter. More of an intro for Rin than anything. Tell me what I could do better and what you think. Also just know there will be quite a few ships in this story. SO be prepared. I've obviously stated two of them in the author's note at the top. The others you'll just have to wait and see. So anyway that's all I really have to say for now. Have a great day everyone and I'll see you next time.

~Trevyler