Can't catch a break

[vermicompost]

This isn't fair. You said we could go somewhere nice, somewhere things could be better. Like one of those places where I could have a family...

[He trails off for a moment, temporarily lost in thought. Now, that sounds more like something he'd enjoy.]

I know it wouldn't be the same as a real family. But it has to be better than that tower! It sounds awful. I won't even have Berserker there. What am I supposed to do?

I only--I want to finish what I started, that's all.

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[scorchedchivalry]

Those content to live a 'normal' life have nothing to drive them. No worthy goals.

[vermicompost]

There's no goal greater than that!

To have a family, to enjoy simple things, to live a good life... The world is made up of ordinary people, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[scorchedchivalry]

That may be true, but ordinary people do not make the world move.

[vermicompost]

But the world wouldn't move without them, either.

That's all I wanted, a normal life.

[scorchedchivalry]

Then you should have taken it.

[vermicompost]

I couldn't. I was born a Matou. I had no control over that.

[scorchedchivalry]

Is that why you wanted the Grail? To wish for a normal life?

[vermicompost]

No. I'm going to give it to Zouken.

[Not that he's never thought of wishing for that.]

And he's going to let Sakura go.

[Because he is going to win. He has to.]

[scorchedchivalry]

[Oh, there's some barely contained rage in her eyes. At least it's not directed at Kariya for once.]

That man will never let her go. You are a fool to believe he will.

[vermicompost]

He wants the Grail--he promised that he would, if I got it for him.

[He might be blinded by his emotions.]

There was nothing else I could do! He wouldn't let me fight otherwise. There's no other way.

[scorchedchivalry]

And you trust that man to keep his word?

[Saber makes a disgusted sound in the back of her throat.]

Zouken Matou does not choose which masters fight in the War - the Holy Grail does.

[vermicompost]

I don't have any choice.

[Of course he hates Zouken, would kill him if he could.]

I knew I'd be chosen, but I didn't have the power... Not on my own. And that was the only way he'd agree, to let her go.

[scorchedchivalry]

Did it not occur to you to simply take the girl?

[vermicompost]

I would have, if I could.

Zouken is much more powerful than I am. [To say the least.]

[scorchedchivalry]

Strong allies compensate for that.