Hello, welcome back to another Trauma Center fanfiction. Trauma Center is still owned by Atlus.

Again, this is another Delphi Derek AU story so I apologise if this isn't your thing but it's currently mine at the moment. So, enjoy.

The Battle Against Savato

"Door unlocked, welcome back Professor Blackwell."

Angie quickly turned the handle and threw the door open before stepping inside, electronic locks were scary at times. The room had graffiti everywhere the owner of the room could reach but she didn't need to read it to understand what she was looking at. The walls were covered in research notes on G.U.I.L.T, diagrams and even names of the hosts. She quickly found Greg Kasal, Kenneth Blackwell, Richard Anderson just to name a few along with the strains they were infected with. She glanced around the walls before the scent of iron in the air wafted to her nose as if introducing itself. There was someone bleeding in the room which needed her attention first. Tearing her eyes from the walls she spotted who she suspected was Derek. This was his room after all.

There in the center of the room was the source of the blood, he was curled up in the fetal position, his arms wrapped around his stomach with blood dripping from his nose onto the floor. Angie hesitated to come towards him out of fear before she shrugged it off and approached him. He must have heard her steps and looked up at her with a pained expression on his face. She stared into his chocolate brown eyes, his skin was pale with his hair messy. She noticed he was biting his tongue but for what reason she couldn't identify easily.

"I'm here to he-" she started before he opened his mouth.

"Why…didn't you…help them…?" He asked, his voice sounded weak.

"What do you mean?" Angie questioned him, her own confusion appearing on her face. She couldn't directly see what was hurting him but she needed to stop him losing even more blood from his nose. She approached him cautiously and was ready if he made any sudden movements.

"The…Delphi…members…why didn't you…help them?!" He demanded.

"The G.U.I.L.T was dormant. Professor Blackwell asked that I find you." She watched as he seemed to relax slightly at the mention of her father. She felt a spark of jealously as she watched his reaction to her father's name. She shrugged it off quickly but this was something she was going to ask him when he was cured of his G.U.I.L.T. For now though she needed to try and help Derek.

There was an awkward silence between the two. Angie's eyes were locked onto his and his onto hers. She noticed the dripping of blood from Derek's nose but wasn't sure what had caused it immediately. Finally she won the staring contest as Derek looked away from her and down at the blood on the floor.

"I'm…keeping them…dormant…" He admitted to her.

"How?" Angie asked. This was new to her too. It wasn't just that the G.U.I.L..T was dormant in the struggling Delphi members but this man was the reason behind them being dormant? How was he doing that? If what he said was true…is the nosebleed the result of pausing the G.U.I.L.T in their tracks? There was just so much going on here that Angie couldn't process all at the same time.

"Bliss…inside me…has some control…over nearby G.U.I.L.T. Adam…can control…anywhere…" Derek confessed.

Bliss? Another new strain of G.U.I.L.T they had yet to encounter and learn how to fight! Just how many strains where there of this parasite!? Angie wanted to yell at Derek and demand answers from him but she had to remain professional. She could question him and her father when they were behind bars and repaying for their sins of G.U.I.L.T. Then her brain clicked on the word 'father'. Was Derek not responsible for this? No…if he was then he wouldn't have put the other G.U.I.L.T into a dormant phase…could things get any more complicated?!

"I'll get Doctor Chase to start operating on the othe-" Angie started as she turned her back on Derek.

"Please treat…Professor Blackwell first…the others…don't matter to me…but he does!" Derek pleaded to her. She froze for a second and glanced back at Derek.

"Every lift matters!"

"Save…him…please…?" Derek asked her again but calmer.

"Fine," she responded before running out the room without shutting the door. She sprinted down the corridor to find Tyler, they were going to save Professor Blackwell before anyone else if Derek could keep all the other strains in a dormant phase. They were already getting backup, she hoped that Tyler had already placed the request.

Trauma Center - The Battle Against Savato

"Ready to operate?" Angie asked Tyler who nodded in response. This would be their first encounter with a mature Savato and both were nervous. Could Derek really keep Savato dormant while its being attacked? Or will its desire to live break it free from Derek's control and they were going to have a real battle? She hoped that Derek could keep it dormant even if it meant that he would lose blood.

"The sooner we get Savato killed, the sooner he can start repaying for his sins," Tyler nodded and the operation began.

Opening Professor Blackwell they didn't need to look hard at the heart to see where the parasite was. There sitting on the middle of the nest was Savato, the four limbed parasite with what appeared to have a membrane covering it which gave off a smoking effect. The web surrounded the heart but it was allowing the muscle to continue beating. Angie and Tyler looked at each other and nodded, the parasite seemed to be dormant…but they weren't sure for how long it would remain like that though.

"Let's start with cutting the web…" Angie spoke as she watched the Savato. Tyler nodded and started to cut the web. There was a sizzling sound before the thread was cut and fizzled out with a hissing sound. "What happened to the scalpel?" Angie asked as Tyler lifted it up.

"The web must have reacted to it. Let's keep going though," he responded and continued to cut the web. Savato hadn't moved. Cutting the web and replacing the scalpels over, they now moved onto Savato itself and simply stared at it. They weren't sure how they were going to even start the operation on the removal of Savato. Finally Tyler picked up the laser and smiled at Angie behind his mask. "Let's burn it like we did with Kyriaki and Pempti~"

"Right."

Trauma Center – The Battle Against Savato

All he could feel was pain. He was stopping the other members who had become infected with the strains of G.U.I.L.T from suffering by forcing the parasites to become dormant. It was only natural that they put up a fight against this. Nothing wanted to become dormant if they could help it and G.U.I.L.T was no different. They were alive, they were all connected to each other through the G.U.I.L.T hivemind that Derek himself was part of. To stop such a force, feeling pain was a worthy punishment. Pain was everywhere. His hands, his stomach, his lungs, his feet…everywhere was radiating pain and he had come to accept it. The one area he knew he was responsible for was his tongue. He had bitten down on it to see if that would help…but it didn't and instead just made it worse. When that girl came into his room he stopped biting so he could force his request out. Save Professor Blackwell. He had done so much to help G.U.I.L.T become the way it was today at this very moment…yet Adam gave the command to kill him. That was something Derek couldn't let happen. This pain would be nothing if he let Savato claim the life of Professor Blackwell, the only father figure he had.

The door had been left open. That girl had left it open but why? He could stay in here and continue to suffer in silence or he could force himself to leave, find Professor Blackwell and be by his side. He wiped his nose and felt the warm blood cover his sleeve but that didn't matter. He forced himself up from the ground and onto his feet before wobbling. He wasn't in danger of falling unconscious from lack of blood yet so decided to move. He was sure that the military or other men trained to kill would be entering any moment, what's a little harm of walking around (or trying to) to find where his father figure was?

"You've interfered long enough. Time to end this!"

"Adam…" Derek hissed at the voice in his mind. Yes, he had pissed off Adam by making the G.U.I.L.T go dormant, but he was sure that Adam had commanded the G.U.I.L.T to become 'unstable' and infect everyone here. "You brought this on yourself…" Derek hissed in his mind, through the G.U.I.L.T hivemind to Adam.

"Then pay the consequence for your actions."

Derek froze as the pain increased in his body. He had been quiet for so long but now he couldn't stop himself as a scream of pain erupted from his mouth. He crashed down to the ground. If he could describe it, he felt as though the ceiling had just collapsed on his body and crushed him while applying more pressure. He coughed, the flow of metallic tasting blood sprayed the ground. This was his punishment from Adam…he could just take it and when Adam grew bored he would let it go. That wasn't the worst of it, the sudden wave of pain released some G.U.I.L.T from his control. Other members were now dying from their infection and one G.U.I.L.T which Derek couldn't stop anymore…was Savato.

Trauma Center – The Battle Against Savato

"Chiral reaction increasing!" Angie yelled as Savato seemed to jump to life and created another web rapidly on the heart. From the web, immature Savato emerged from the thread and began to crawl around.

"Damn! This isn't good!" Tyler hissed as the laser had finished recharging but he started to cut the web instead. That seemed more important than worrying about the baby Savato bodies. As Tyler continued to cut, alarms ran from the other chiral tests that monitored the other patients. It became clear that they couldn't save everyone before the radio kicked in.

"Doctor Chase, Nurse Thompson, what's going on?" Sidney's voice came through the radio. Angie handed Tyler another scalpel before grabbing the radio and spoke clearly.

"Back-up better be here soon otherwise we're loosing patients!"

"Back-up will be arriving in approximately three minutes. If they can hang on for that long they can be saved. What's your current condition?"

"Operating on Professor Blackwell, G.U.I.L.T has become active! Tell back-up to get here quicker!" She slammed the radio down and handed Tyler the laser, the web had been cut once more and Savato didn't seem interested in making another web but instead it created lacerations on the heart.

"This is bad…" Tyler admitted as he struggled to keep up with Savato and its actions.

"Please…keep trying…" Angie breathed but she had the growing feeling that this was going to be a losing battle…Savato was too quick for Tyler with its attacks becoming more and more aggressive.

"Save…him…please?"

Derek's request fluttered in her mind but how could they? Savato was too quick…to aggressive for the pair of them to handle! How was anyone supposed to operate on a parasite this quickly? Derek…he was keeping the G.U.I.L.T dormant but now some of it was waking up and attacking, was he slowly losing control over the G.U.I.L.T due to his blood loss?

"Angie! Focus!" Tyler broke her out of her thoughts and brought had strait back to the operation. No, she couldn't give up now! The sound of a door opening caught their attention. Both snapped to look at who entered. Angie's eyes widened as she saw Derek standing there, breathing heavily with blood dripping from his nose and mouth.

"Don't…let…him…die!" Derek demanded before he vomited up more blood which splashed onto the ground. Derek was growing paler and paler the more blood he was losing but his eyes held determination to continue fighting. "The only…thing…that's going…to die…it you!" Derek managed to roar. His eyes changed from chocolate brown to a pale green colour.

"Angie, wat-" Tyler started as he tore his eyes from Derek and down at Savato. Savato remained still before it writhed in pain. Tyler nudged Angie before pointing down at Savato. She glanced at him before where he was pointing and then looked back at Derek. The hatred that resided in those pale green eyes was aimed at Savato, the parasite continued to writhe in pain.

"Tyler, let's continue to burn it with the laser!" Angie commanded and Tyler nodded. He didn't need telling twice as he grabbed the laser from Angie and continued to burn the protective coating off the parasite.

"Medicine…in…black…vial…" Derek spoke through gritted teeth, blood continued to drool and dribble out from his mouth. Angie glanced around and reached for it before glancing back at Derek. She could see that he was getting weaker and weaker but hid his pain well…past the fury in his eyes though she could see it. The intense pain he was feeling.

"Thank you," she spoke and handed Tyler the medicine. Within two doses of medicine, the Savato was down for the count.

"It's over…" Tyler sighed before they heard Derek collapse.

"Derek!" Angie exclaimed.

"Go check him, I've got this," Tyler said to Angie who nodded.

"Thank you…" She smiled before leaving his side to check Derek over. Finally their back-up arrived. "You're going to be fine Derek…thanks to you…we saved father."

Thanks for reading~