"There. He should be stabilized now. How is she?"

"She's almost perfectly fine. Just need to supplement her with some blood, and she'll be physically perfect. Him, on the other hand... Only he can decide that."

"Then... should I admit the visitors? They're really worried about the two."

"Yeah, just... be gentle."

Saying such, the woman, dressed in a white doctor's uniform, moved to the door out of the Infirmary, followed by a man in the God Arc Engineer's uniform.

Outside the door, the first to jump out was the woman with brown hair and eyes, very quickly followed by the small albino girl.

"How are they!?/How is he!?"

With a long exhale, the doctor answered,

"They're both stabilized. She should be fine in a couple hours. He... well, we'll see."

With a look of both relief and worry on Taiga's face, and only worry on Illya's, they quickly barged past the two that came out of the Infirmary, soon followed by the two other people waiting.

When they all entered the room, they were greeted by two beds, both on opposite sides of the room. One featured a girl with purple hair, wearing a red ribbon. She was connected to an IV drip and a blood bag. The other contained...

"Shirou..."

A boy with a mainly fair face and mainly chilli-red hair. However, creeping up the left side of his face and neck, there was a streak of tan skin, going over his eye and reaching his hair, which had turned snow white in the same place as his skin.

If one were to take off his blanket, they would see his body wrapped in bandages, mostly focused on his arms, his left leg, and his torso. But the most peculiar thing was what was next to the bed. An IV drip and a blood bag, similar to the bed across from him, but what stood out was...

A terminal that was connected to a drip for Bias Factor, which was directly connected to his right arm. Specifically, to the Armlet now on his right wrist, the same in appearance to the one on Saber's.

Besides the two in beds, and the two that barged in, the other two occupants in the room were Saber and Rin Tohsaka. The blonde was looking downwards, feeling guilt for Shirou's condition because he had used her God Arc. Rin was, meanwhile, looking a cross between worried and uncomfortable. While she was close to Shirou, she didn't feel she deserved to be here with the two he basically considered family, and Saber.

Kota wanted to stay, but he had duties as the leader of the First Unit to attend to. He promised he would visit later. Sakaki has also said he would visit later to check on Shirou.

The mood in the room was depressing, and no one made any moves to fix it. Instead, they were interrupted from their brooding by the sound of shuffling from the opposite bed. The first to react was Taiga.

"Sakura!"

Running to her, Taiga quickly dropped down to her knees and took Sakura's hand.

"Hey, Sakura, hey. Don't worry. You're alright. Are you okay?"

With some light moaning, Sakura attempted to open her eyes and failing, before pitifully moaning out,

"Sen...pai... Did... you... save... us...? Sen...pai..."

She then quickly went back into her sleep, with Taiga clutching her hand with a worried expression. The depressing feeling from before came back in full force.

Taiga stayed with Sakura, while Illya sat near Shirou, and Saber just stood nearby, still looking downward. Rin began to fidget, before quietly excusing herself and leaving.

Making her way out of the Infirmary, Rin made a beeline for the elevator. Waiting for it to reach her, she wrung her hands and tugged on her twin-tails. When it finally reached her, she was greeted by Kota, who quickly asked how Shirou and the girl was. Rin told him that the girl was fine, but Shirou was up in the air. With a grim nod, Kota moved past her.

With a sigh, Rin entered the elevator, feeling a bitter sense of irony at the change in music around the Den. Instead of the usual Wolf's Howl, it was now playing the instrumental of a song called God and Man, that, in Rin's opinion, captured the sadness she felt at the situation.

As she got off at the Rookie Floor, Rin didn't pay attention to where she was going, and accidentally bumped into someone standing in the hallway. Stumbling, Rin quickly looked ahead of her to apologize, only to pause and slowly look up at the person head and shoulders taller than her.

"Oh. Sorry about that. Are you alright, Little Miss?"

He was large, not just height-wise, but also muscled. He looked like he could crush a watermelon between his pectoral and bicep, without the boost from his God Eater nature. Aside from his large stature and physique, his own appearance stood out.

Wearing a casual black dress-shirt rolled at the sleeves, and black jeans, his skin was a deep tan and his hair was a white, slicked back and spiky. But it was his face that stood out to her. It was familiar, but still different. As if she were looking at a picture with minute differences to it compared to the original. With a narrow face and narrowed eyes, he looked at her with steel-grey irises, that also felt familiar.

"Hey, Little Miss? You in there?"

Jumping at the sudden snapping in front of her face from the tan man, she briefly looked at the Armlet on his right wrist, which was wrapped in bandages, but had slight holes where a silver gleam could be seen.

Looking back to the tan man, she stood straight and bowed her head apologizing. As she looked back up, she saw the man giving her a strange look. Suddenly, he took a step back and extended his hand.

"It's nice to meet you Little Miss. May I ask for your name?"

Blinking at the sudden courteous, yet slightly confident, tone, Rin thought on whether she should respond or run, before just taking his hand, answering,

"Tohsaka. Rin Tohsaka. What should I call you?"

With a slight smirk, the man responded,

"Well then, Rin. You can call me... Archer."

*Page Break*

Thank you for reading. This is Cee and, sorry for this not being as long as the last chapter. One reviewer once said that once I got to the meat of my plot, I would start spewing words. For me, I guess that's describing epic battles. Going back to the "normality", I write less I guess.

Second, the "Are they okay!?/Is he okay!?" was meant to be Taiga and Illya respectively. In case it was confusing.

Third, God and Man. I don't remember what the sad song that played after sad events happened in God Eater was, so I went with this bittersweet work of art.

Fourth, Archer calling Rin Little Miss. It's basically English for Ojou-sama, and I feel Archer would, or has, called her that.

Fifth, Archer. Yup, that's it.

Thank you to kiznaiver, EffectedNote312, and Jamaldrake for following or favouriting, and thank you to sawtooth44 again, mauraman33 again, ptl again, and LoverOfArtemis for reviewing. Also, LoverOfArtemis added this story to a community so... *shrug*

Goodbye.

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