Camp: private conversations

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Respond here for a private conversation with Red! All comment threads are screened.

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[Red looks a little confused by that, but she will go along with it.]

...alright. What did you want to talk about?

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Uh.

[shit think of something quick]

Is. There something you want to talk about?

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You found out Archer's identity somehow and it's bothering you, isn't it?

[She's the observant type, sorry.]

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Of course it's bothering me.

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[There's no non-awkward way to talk about this, is there?]


If you would like, I can arrange a time for the two of you to speak about it?

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I really don't think that would be a good idea. He hates me as much as I hate him.

[Which. Probably says a lot about the whole situation with them.]

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[IT. IT REALLY DOES.]

If you are certain. But if you change your mind later, let me know.

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Thanks, but I can't imagine ever wanting to hear anything he's got to say.

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...if you're certain.

[Red looks a little disappointed, but won't comment on it further.]

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[...Oh, he hates that look.]

Come on, what would we even talk about? How he became the total opposite of everything I believe in? Why would I want to hear about that?

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I was thinking you might remind him of how he once was, and that he would have more to learn from you.

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[He scoffs.]

It didn't look like he wanted to learn anything from me back home.

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Different situations, different circumstances. You two aren't enemies in a war, for one.

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We weren't enemies then, either! Tohsaka and I were allied, so we were on the same side! Hell, he even saved our lives.

[Which was pretty cool, admittedly. BUT STILL.]

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And if he had won that fight, and eventually it had come down to your team and Tohsaka's team, what would have happened?

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...Presumably the same thing that actually did happen. We would have fought Kotomine and Gilgamesh and destroyed the Grail. It's not like we had any reason to fight each other to begin with.

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[Okay, fair point.]

Maybe he's just embarrassed. Like how someone looks back on decisions they made and say 'why did I do that'.

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...You know what he told me the day he visited camp? He said I should get used to being unable to save anyone.

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That...sounds exactly like something he would say, yes.

Camp has made him a bit jaded, unfortunately.

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A bit.

[That's a funny joke, Red. Hilarious.]

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[She's a real ham, isn't she?]

I wasn't lying about him being sweet, though. That's why he left camp: he couldn't handle it anymore.

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He asks me every year to leave, you know.

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...That sounds more like something I'd do, yeah.

[Also, it sure is a reminder of the thing where Red and Archer are dating and he'd managed to put that off his mind until now but he's remembering it now and it's making it a whole lot more awkward that he's just hanging out in Red's room.]

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[If it makes him feel any better, talking with Shirou got infinitely harder after she found out certain details.]

He works for the same people I do. He handles other 'problems' in different areas of the world.

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Other camps like this, or something different?

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Different things. More like the lake cats, or other monsters like that.

There is a lot of danger in this world, and not many people strong enough to handle it.