It was morning as Artoria ate the food of the newly freed counter guardian emiya. The king of knights had a happy smile on her face as she ate the food of her beloved, as she ate she couldnt stop holding back slight moans because of how good Emiya's food was, "This is fantastic Shirou!" She screamed out as Emiya repressed a slight flinch, he... didnt think he would ever get used to being called Shirou again but if it was Artoria, his Artoria, who was calling him that he could get used to it, "To think you would have gotten so much better after we were separated I didnt even think it was possible for you to get any better!" Yeah.. he could get used to her calling him by his original name, it helped that memories of time's long past revealed themselves to him every time she called him by his original name, memories of better times, before the end of the war, before they arived at that hill... before she opened her mouth to say something yet nothing came out.

He paused in his actions.

She didnt say anything, she may have admitted her love for him now, but how couldnt he be sure that she wasnt just a projection of a version of her a woman carrying her figure, her mannerisms, her beauty, her heart, how could he not be sure that she was a clone a construct of alaya, made to give him hope before making him gaze upon her dead body in that cave, an x shaped wound across her chest, from a wound he inflicted upon her. It would break his heart, leaving him completely open to whatever alaya wanted to do with him.

He couldnt help it his breathing deepened slightly.

What if that was the case?

He started to hyperventilate.

But he soon found small, long slender arms wrap around his back while a head rested upon his shoulder.

It was her.

As she held him, she whispered sweet nothing into his ear. His heart rate slowed down considerably, he became calmer in a instant.

"Feeling better?" She asked a slight smile on her face, it wasnt out of happiness, it was out of pure care and worry.

He couldnt hold it.

He turned around and hugged her back while crying his heart out while she slowly stroked his back.

After some time Emiya decided to ask actual questions on their situation, "So... how are we here? No... Where are we Saber?"

Saber smiled at him before responding, "We are in Fuyuki, Shirou, in a timeline where the war never happened we can be at peace here, nobody knows us, we have no enemies we can be at peace and relax here our own little slice of utopia, our own little avalon!" She said that last part with a huge smile on her face one of relief and hapiness.

He smiled as well he couldnt help it seing her happy made him happy, in that sense her smile was contagious.

"I'm glad..." He said his face still adorned with a smile, "But... how are we making money... and in the situation that we arent, how are we going to make money? On another note? What even is our legal identity? Depending on the timeline and our time of said timeline, Emiya Shirou could either be a long dead man... or a war criminal... "

Artoria's smile faded away after hearing the questions and even more so after being reminded of how her beloved died.

"I have our identifications, no need to worry about those Shirou."

"All right then what are our names?"

"I am Artoria Watson, your loving wife and you Shirou Watson, my husband."

"W-wife? H-husband!?"

"Indeed the first thing I did was make sure that in the eyes of the law was make sure we were married," She said as she put her hands on her face and looked away in embarrassment

"O-Okay then," The former counter guardian said before realizing that his other question wasnt answered, "Artoria... how are we making money..."

His former servant stilled as if she was caught with her hand in the cookie jar, "I... I may have forgotten to find a way to make money..."

Emiya paused before asking the a question of the same archetype, "Then... how are we supposed to make money?"

They both stood next to each other fingers on their chins as they thought until Artoria gave a suggestion, "How about we make a cafe?"

Shirou blinked before answering, "A cafe?"

Artoria nodded aggresively, "Yes! A cafe! With how good of a chef you are I am sure we will get customers with no problem whatsoever!"

"That... That is... actually a very good idea... Well then, how would you like to call it?" The newlywed asked his partner.

Said partner looked at her beloved before answering, "Avalon, yes that would be perfect, Avalon, our own little slice of paradise," She said that with a smile as she held his hand and leaned in to deliver a kiss to her beloved as he lowered his head to meet her halfway.

"Hey big bro, do you have any idea why davinci wanted to meet us so soon after we finished the last pseudo singularity?"

"Which one? The halloween one? Or the one where we had to face different stages of Emiya Shirou, with his assassin variant so we could combine them all into his saber variant?" Gudao Fujimaru asked his younger sibling.

"Both I guess..." Gudako answered.

While the sibling were pondering on why davinci had called them to the brig they encountered a very obviously embarassed and distressed Emiya Shirou, this time in his saber variation and not being separated leaving all of his variants to wander chaldea and do random things.

"Shirou... what are you doing here and why does it seem like you were almost raped?" Gudao questionned

"Ah well," He heaved a breath, "Let's just say that artoria and her variants became very, very hungry and not just for food, I swear, its gotten worse since Archer disappeared, he could normally keep some of them in the cafetaria enjoying their food, but with his random disappearance they can't hold themselves back anymore. And if you're wondering why all my variants decided to fuse once more... lets just say that, it was the best way to ensure we would be able to escape and walk another day..."

"O-oh... that bad?" Gudao whispered.

"Yes..."

"Well if you'd like you could always come with us to the bridge and see why davinci called us," Gudako said with a smile.

"Why not."

Once they made it to the bridge they saw davinci completely stumped and confused while looking at a monitor, "It doesnt make sense? Why would this be flagged as a singularity, its completely normal, there isnt any threat to humanity there? It just a random timeline..."

"What do you mean by that davinci?" Gudako questioned.

"What I mean is that this point in time has nothing wrong with it... its completely normal and yet its getting flagged as if alaya itself wants us to go there..."

"Alaya? What would all the of humanities insanity want with a simple timeline?" Shirou questioned.

"If you are wondering why it is getting flagged I suppose I may be able explain the situation..." A new voice said, its owner sounding sleepy.

"Okita alter? What are you doing here?" Gudao questioned.

"Answering your question on why alaya wants you to go to said timeline, somebody used a superpowered version of the holy grail that wasn't corrupted to take a heroic spirits entire soul out of the throne and bring them to the real world and give them a physical body."

"Take a heroic spirit out of the throne?" Davinci questioned, "How is that even possible? To be able to do that would need to exucute a mystery on the level of true magic!"

"I am merely telling you why that timeline has been focused on by alaya..." Okita alter yawned, "You'll propably find senpai there... that would be the only real reason she would react like that..."

"Wait what do you MEAN alaya is a she!?!" Davinci screamed.

Meanwhile a evil sounding chuckle filled a dull void, as a sultry female voice spoke, "Soon... Soon. You will be mine again... not that underserving king of knights, but mine," The being chukled, "Yes soon, soooooonnnn I will be able to claim you again... my eternal husband," The being started to pant as she drooled, "My peeeerfeeect counteeer guardiiiian, soon soooooon yoooou will be mine once more..."

Author's note.

hello and thanks for reading the second chapter of the everdistant reunion this one will be a bit on the shorter side apparently, I really thought that I had managed to make the emiya x artoria segment longer, I guess I couldn't. But this time we enter our first taste of the hurt/comfort as emiya still is struggling with thinking that his retirement is actually a ploy by alaya to break his spirit and make him her perfect counter guardian with artoria comforting him and then the both of them deciding to open up a cafe to make some money, and I promise that next chapter will have much, much more fluff, as the both of them run a cafe in the middle of fuyuki, which may or may not be a certain other nasuverse timeline that I will add in the tags the moment we get there in the story. Ps. It has to do with magical girls.

on another note, yeah... alaya really wants emiya back I mean really. Putting so much attention on a timeline that chaldea mistakes it for a singularity even though it isn't? Like talk about being down bad am I right? And yes alaya is a yandere, why do you think she did what she did to saber to stop her from confessing her feelings to shirou. Btw there is a bit of a reference to the next couple of omakes on the one last dance side of things hope y'all are intersted in that, and now onto a returning segment the user reviews.

Archangel Xireon Chaos God: I... can... explain I swear it will get better best case scenario lets just say the cafe gets a lot of visites.

Orphan Slayer: I do not have anything to really say about your review except for thanks and that I always read your review in the voice raiden has in memes.

CoconutGoSkrrt: It will develop into one I swear alaya will lose. After all true love surpasses all.

And that is all less than two thousand words... damn either I have really lost my imaginative mind or school is draining me a whole lot more, man... I hate writing in french.

And with that said.

THANKS FOR READING!!!!!!!!

made a couple of corrections on this chapter that I didnt realise I had made... and if you are wondering yes I am working in a new chapter for both of my stories I am just mega procrastinating.