YAN-PARA au master post

[earthflames]

WHAT IT SAYS ON THE BOX.

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[tracings]

[oh my god will you shut up you're ruining everything]

[unhappymeal]

[ugh Shirou why are you so good natured and dumb]

It's not that easy when you're actively being hunted down. I can't be here all the time to back you up.

[plotarmor]

You won't have to be!

I won't be like--

[Ah, well, it won't be like Kirei, is what he means to promise, but he's still rather sore over that whole incident and gathers no one really wants to be reminded]

It won't be a problem...

[tracings]

[...well. Archer would like to disagree, but he can't, really. It's dumb, but it's what he had in mind, too.




...god that's a scary thought.]

[unhappymeal]

[frownsss]

You'd be doing more for yourselves and the greater good by putting him out of his misery.

[And yet Kerry hasn't sniped D himself yet for some reason. Maybe he just doesn't want to see the looks on their faces if he did.]

[tracings]

Isn't that your area of expertise? I don't think either of us could stop you if you thought that was the best course of action.

[unhappymeal]

I might.

[plotarmor]

Don't! You can't! Not when he's getting better...!

[Kerry he hates having to argue with you. :((( Look at him, tying off Archer's bandages and looking all concerned. PLEASE DON'T BE MAD U R HERO OK WE WILL FIX THINGS AND U CAN HERO OTHER PEOPLE.]

[unhappymeal]

[sharp look!! boy u shut it]

Shirou.

[...but siiighs and hair ruffles]

Listen. It's not possible to save everyone in this world. Sometimes you have to make difficult choices.

[plotarmor]

But this isn't difficult... It's what Cu would want, too.

[Mostly because they're all too stupid to make a sensible decision, but--]

[unhappymeal]

I know you're all attached. But he's already killed thousands of people, and it obviously isn't hard to push him to violence. If those people took him from you, I doubt he could throw off his training easily. He'd kill thousands more. All it would take is one moment of negligence from you three.

[tracings]

[Archer sighs - he would hardly call himself "attached" but he realizes that's more the truth than he acknowledges. And that's what makes Kiritsugu's words difficult to swallow.

Really, he hates those moments when he realizes how stuck he is between Shirou's idiocy and Kiritsugu's pragmatism. The former wishes for something impossible while the latter hurts more than he admits. It really would be best to kill Diarmuid and save everyone the trouble, but the thought makes him sick.]

And none of us can claim perfect vigilance here.

[YES SHIROU LOOKING AT YOU IN PARTICULAR]

[unhappymeal]

Exactly. I don't want to come home to find you all dead and him back to his old routine. I'd been looking for years, before you stumbled into him.

[plotarmor]

[O-Oh no... Kiritsugu looks sort of sad because, well, dead family is sad. Shirou isn't as shaken by it as his brothers must be, and he knows that. He knows he has the luxury of being too young to remember, but still...

No he doesn't want sad and worried Kiritsugu -- but he doesn't want Cu to lose someone important either. What do?????????]

...is it really that bad?

[unhappymeal]

You saw him after Kotomine Kirei was here.

[plotarmor]

[Shirou frowns--

That was a bad day. For everyone. Well, especially Diarmuid. It was a bad for weeks for Diarmuid, which somehow, by extension, led to his own bodily injury. At the same time, well, didn't he bring all that on himself? He wanted to stand up for Kirei, even if it meant getting beaten up...

He's fairly certain Kiritsugu wouldn't accept that as an excuse for all that, though.]

...Still. I won't let him die

[tracings]

[UGGGHHHHH BROTHERS. THIS IS WHY YOU'RE THE ONE HE WANTS TO THROW OVERBOARD, SHIROU.

Annoyed, Archer shoves the first aid kit aside and tries to hobble to his feet and escape Shirou's idiocy]

...throw him overboard for me

[unhappymeal]

Sit down, Archer.

[this is a no-nonsense tone!]

...I have an ultimatum for both of you.

1/2

[tracings]

[Archer sinks back down with a pained hiss - yeah, no walking on that leg for a bit, huh? Kiritsugu's lucky he doesn't have an easy escape option]

...And that is?

[plotarmor]

[...it's a bit like kicking a puppy. Kiritsugu's tone couple with his prior insistence are enough to convince Shirou that something bad is on the way, something that might involve Diarmuid dying even though he's said over and over he won't let that happen.

He wants to do good by his brother, but he doesn't know if he could allow anything to happen...]

[unhappymeal]

If you believe you can keep him around without it getting out of hand, I'll let you keep trying.

[but watch him play with his gun here]

But I'll be checking in more often. If I think it's gone too far, I'm ending it.

[plotarmor]

[He's back to dumb happy puppy in a matter of seconds. The gun doesn't register - the chance to continue to be stubborn does.]

You won't have to. I'll protect him myself if that's what it takes!

[tracings]

...will you throw him overboard now?

[Facepalming. It's not like he's not a bit glad Diarmuid isn't going to get sent to the farm or anything.]

[unhappymeal]

No, and neither will you.

[tracings]

But he's being an idiot.