"Look. You just pinch her tail, like this." Rin sighed, pinching Winter's tail. She was sitting on Len's bed with him.

Rin mentally flinched from the memory of her own anger as she pet Winter, not yet giving her back to Len. So, she thought, dream it is then. I was hoping for nothing though. Memories aren't my friends right now.

"Thank you Rin." Len smiled. "Sorry you had to show me."

No, I'm sorry Len.

"Yeah, whatever," Rin growled, glaring at the wall. "You should have been able to figure it out. It's not that hard."

Yeah right, as if you would have just guessed that on your own if Len hadn't told you. This isn't his fault. Rin wanted to smack herself for being so mean. Maybe she would when she woke up.

"I'm sorry, Rin."

Rin was surprised she remained asleep when the memory changed. It wasn't unusual for memories to jump when she was asleep, but they did tend to follow a theme. She often was still in the same place or doing something similar. Len's soft bed and warm welcoming room were gone. The air was cold and the ground was hard. She wasn't even sitting anymore, she was laying down, but none of that was jarring enough to possibly wake her. What was, was the sleeping figure curled up in her arms. She was staring down at her own sleeping face, and she was close enough to see the tear stains on her cheeks. This was not her memory.

Rin could see and feel everything from Len's perspective as he hugged her tighter. "Sleep well Rin," he whispered, gently kissing her forehead, but Rin felt him give her data as well. "Your chances of getting home just went up a bit." Len's thoughts were moving too quickly for Rin to catch them, but she could tell he was already planning their escape and as he closed his eyes, changing the memory.

"Right now I'm going to release your orbs for a moment. You could try to run, but you won't get far," Mr. Road said before unfreezing the vocaloids orbs and opening the container they were in.

Now, Len thought. He remained still, focusing on both his and Miku's orbs. He copied every movement she told her orb to do as he moved her orb towards him. Len quickly changed his orb so it wouldn't hurt Miku, but he didn't have the time, focus, or care to change Miku's outside of allowing it in.

Miku pulled Len's orb in as if it were her own, unable to notice any difference due to everything else going on. Both her and Mr. Road's attention were caught by Rin as she ran to the door. No one noticed the slight cave in of Len's projection around his chest as he pulled Miku's orb in. No one saw his silent gasp of pain when he succeeded and there was no way anyone could notice the burning pain pulsing from his chest thanks to Miku's barely adjusted orb, but Rin could feel it now. It was almost as bad as when she'd hit the edge of her projection field and she was sure she was probably twitching in her sleep.

Well, that hurts. Foreign objects really aren't supposed to be inside us in physicality mode so, just like leaving the range of our orb, it causes a slight malfunction resulting in pain. Orbs are the exception if adjusted, and telling yourself why this hurts, doesn't make it stop so focus already. It's fine. This was going to hurt anyway.

This isn't fine. Rin countered Len's thoughts. The moment Mr. Road froze them, Len cut his connection to Miku's orb, not helping the pain at all. He watched as His orb was called out of Miku.

"That's better. Now just to give you this," Mr. Road said, twirling the card in his hand. After doing something on the remote, an opening appeared in Len's orb. All Len could do was watch as the card was inserted into his orb.

A new wave of pain washed over Len, and he could move again, but that's not what his thoughts focused on, other than staying quiet. Rin! I can't believe I almost— The memory cut off instantly.

Rin woke up gasping for air she didn't need. Her eyes were wide as she looked over at Len, who — much to her surprise — was wide awake as well.

"Rin? Are you okay?" Len questioned.

"Yeah," Rin gasped quietly. "Why are you awake?"

"No idea. I wasn't even dreaming, just woke up. You on the other hand look like you just had a nightmare. Are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm sure." Rin smiled. "Sure, it was a nightmare, even hurt a bit, but I'm just surprised. I didn't think I'd actually be able to prove you wrong. And to think it's all thanks to you."

"Thanks to me? You're going to have to explain better than that if you want me to understand, Rin."

"I told you you could get your memories back. You were right about not just remembering them, but I was also right. You gave your memories to me for safe keeping. You just failed to tell anyone." Rin pouted, her arms crossed. "You're lucky I ran into them." Her hands moved to her lap as she looked down and fidgeted with them. "That is, if you want them back."

"Rin."

"I mean, I know I really want you to get them back, and I'm so happy I found them, but some of them aren't so nice, and it really should be up to you. I won't hate you if you don't want them, and I know I shouldn't have been so mean to you before. I promise I won't do that again, I just—"

"Rin!" Len called, gently grabbing her hands as he cut off her rambling. "If I gave you my memories, it was to protect them from being destroyed. You can give them back whenever you're ready, even if that's never. I trusted you with them and I trust you to know what to do with them. Okay?"

Rin nodded. "Even if I give them back now? I only saw one, so I don't know what all you put there, but it's all together in one folder. Do you think it's all of your memories?"

"We won't know until one of us looks."

"You mean until you look. I'm not looking at your memories Len, at least, not intentionally. Are you ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

"Then I have two questions first. One, you really don't remember what happened, do you? Two, can I copy the memory I saw? I saw what I saw and I won't forget I saw it. I don't want to forget what it was."

"Of course Rin. It's your memory now too. You have every right to keep it. As for the virus… I only remember the address, knowing you two were still trapped, and what happened when I got back here. The virus got the rest of that memory, probably somewhere on my trip back. Why?"

"Nothing. Anyway, here. You can have this back." Rin said, passing the folder to Len. She watched as he remained perfectly still reviewing all the memories as fast as he could. He flinched a few times, but Rin said nothing until his eyes focused on her again.

"Rin?" He whispered, tears in his eyes but not overflowing. "That last memory wasn't mine."

"I know, but you deserve to know what happened, even if your memory got cut off. Besides, it's only fair for me to share one of mine if I'm keeping one of yours. So, is it all of them?"

"Almost. Some of the repetitive ones are gone to make sure I wouldn't take too much space, but you covered the only important one that's missing. Thank you Rin. I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to tell you what I did."

"That's okay. I'm just glad you're back to normal." Rin smiled pulling Len into a hug.

"Yeah. Now how to tell everyone else?" Len questioned, glancing at Miku and Kaito.

Rin let go and followed his gaze. She shrugged. "We'll tell them when they wake up. We should get some more sleep anyway."

Len agreed. He hummed quietly as Rin went back to sleep and quickly followed her lead.