Author's Note:

Sorry for the long wait! I've been working on so many things, including other stories for you guys. Plus I've been trying to only give you one perspective per chapter, which might result in some very short but very hard to write chapters. Please leave your thoughts in the reviews, and I promise there will be more soon! Ish.

I loved Summer, my little sister always meant a lot to me. I wanted to protect her from everything, which didn't work out. Maybe that's why I hated her boyfriends with a burning passion even when they hadn't done anything wrong. I just wanted to strangle anything and everything that would could've hurt Summer. Or I was afraid of her leaving the nest, but I doubt that.

To tell the truth, the idea that Summer would get married never really crossed my mind. I always knew it was a possibility, but I didn't give it any real credit; even if she did try to get hitched, she wouldn't do it without telling me and I could cross that bridge when I got to it. So when she never sent me anything about getting married I figured it just hadn't happened. I might have fallen off the map, but if she really wanted to I'm sure Summer could have found me.

I was right, in the end, but not in the way I'd thought. It didn't occur to me until nearly a day after meeting Summer's daughter, but even if Summer hadn't married it didn't mean other things hadn't happened. She'd still had boyfriends. Apparently, she'd had a kid. I was fine with it at first. The shock of her death had numbed me, and I saw Ruby as a part of her that'd come to me. Some legacy she'd left that i could still care for.

In hindsight it probably wasn't smart to latch onto Ruby so quickly, but I couldn't help it. She reminded me so much of myself! I'd even taken to calling her Little Red in my mind. Honestly I don't know if she'd have appreciated the nickname. Or would appreciate, she still has it. She just doesn't know.

But anyway, despite it taking me a full day to realise the revelation hit me hard. I was laying there in the snow with Little Red wrapped around me from our spar when I finally put two and two together. She hadn't been married, but Summer had had a kid. That meant she'd been with a guy. I had to kill him. On principal. But I didn't want Ruby to be out both parents, I understood out shitty that was from my own childhood. Maybe I'd just maim him, he could still be a dad with only one hand. Or, more fitting to his crime, maybe he could go without a certain other member of his anatomy? Nah, that was too cruel. I mean, at least they'd waited until… wait.

"Ruby…" I lifted myself from the ground, Little Red still strapped to my back.

"Yeah?"

"You said you have a sister?"

"...yeah"

"How old is she?"

"Seventeen, why?"

Summer was going to be thirty eight that year, if Summer was twenty two when she graduated that would put the birth of Ruby's sister… my face hardened.

"Summer had a kid before she was even out of school?!" Growling that was probably overkill, but I was angry! What do you expect?

"Uh, actually she wasn't mom's…" There was a brief moment of silence as I processed the new information. The boyfriend had an affair? Or, Summer was the affair? Didn't matter, either way that cinched it. The Dick was coming off.

I set my jaw and started towards my cabin, I had grab a few things for the operation…

"Uncle Red? Where are you going?" The tone of her voice caught me off guard. There was genuine worry there, maybe I wasn't the only one to get prematurely attached. Damnit, I liked her too much. I couldn't tell her I was gonna mutilate her father. Son of a bitch.

"I'm gonna kick the shit out of your dad." You didn't know it yet Tai, but your daughter had just bought you back your baby maker.

Despite using my semblance, it took me all night to reach the home of Taiyang Xiao Long. It was more secluded than I'd thought, but I'd assumed that was Summer's doing. She was accustomed to living in secluded areas. I'd noticed Little Red following me, but she wasn't as practiced with her semblance as I was. I had about a half hour before she caught up. Looking around I noticed recent tracks on a nearby forest path, made maybe two hours before I arrived. I hoped he wasn't out on a hike, if he was I'd have to wait for him.

Now don't get me wrong, if your target comes home from a hike to find you sitting on their couch smiling, waiting for them, you have officially made a badass entrance. That being said, the waiting is boring as fuuckkk. So, praying for the best, I slammed my fist against the wooden door three times. Then I waited. Silence. Knock. Wait. Silence. Knock. Wait.

"Uhhhhhhhhgggggggg, I'm up, I'm up…" The door slowly creaked open and staring back at me from the doorframe was the face of exhaustion.

He was beautiful for a man, excepting those maring features that come with a lack of sleep. He also looked as though he'd been under a great deal of stress but I could see why Summer and other women would find him attractive. Swallowing my building rage I abandoned that train of thought, no need to display my anger. Yet.

"Good morning!" I start, throwing on one of those too wide smiles that only salesmen wear. "Are you the father of one Ruby Rose?" Despite his exhaustion, the visibly widened his eyes at her name.

"Yeah.. Why? Did something happen?" An undertone of worry crept into his voice. Good. I schooled my features into a frown and looked away.

"I'm afraid so… she's about to undergo a very traumatic experience. The loss of a father figure."

To his credit, the man only took a fraction of a second to figure out what was happening. He was backing away and falling into a fighting stance before most people would've been able to blink. Unfortunately for him, I most certainly am and was not most people. I stepped forward and grabbed his arms, before reversing him and shoving him to the ground. I stood ominously over him, feet planted on either side of his torso.

"Let's start over, I feel like we got off on the wrong foot." It was childish and cliché, but I was having fun. "Hi! I'm Robin Rose, a freelance hunter working for the Valian Government, and you fucked my sister." This time it took him longer to put together what was going on, so I merrily continued without him. "I've also heard tell that you had a kid with some woman… and then decided you wanted to get Summer pregnant!" The rage I had been suppressing was slowly showing through as I spoke, and I couldn't help but grow a small sadistic grin as I bent forward and whispered to him. "I wouldn't have done those things if I were you. Didn't anyone ever tell you cheating isn't healthy?" I punctuated the last word by resting my foot between his shoulder blades.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." A muffled voice sounded from below me. Ah great, I thought, Summer picked a masochist. Now what am I supposed to do? I lifted my foot from the man's back, no point in that anymore. "Summer and I never got that chance to meet you before…"

"Shut up." I interrupted, "I'm in the middle of beating you up for my sister's honor." Wait, if he's a masochist does that mean Sumner was a sa- nevermind, let's not think about that.

"By all means." The man relaxed himself onto the floor, as if he were waiting for me. I frowned.

"You're not suppose to be taking this so well."

"I've been through this before with Qrow." So the other woman was Qrow's sister… that actually makes sense now I think about it. Damnit. "Get up." I had lost any hint of anger in my voice, instead I had fallen into the monotone patterns of resignation.

The man slowly drew himself up off the floor and turned to face me. His expression was one of confusion, an expression that was only exaggerated when I motioned for him to sit down.

"What's your name?"

"What happened to beating the shit out of me?"

"I lost interest. Don't push it." The glare I have him seemed to get the point across.

"Taiyang Xiao Long. And you're Robin?" Another glare.

"Yeah." I looked away. Damn it was awkward. We both sat for a while, no one comfortable with speaking first. After what seemed like an eternity, Tai stood and regaled me with a sentiment I could only agree with.

"I need a drink."

Being drunk made meeting my sister's lover much easier. Mostly it did that by making me forget he was my sister's lover. In the end, I actually really liked Tai. He was a straightforward, honest kind of guy. He could take a joke and punch, and dole out both. That just makes it more of a pity we only spent all of fifteen minutes enjoying each other's company before suddenly Little Red appeared, out of breath and hammering at the front door.

"DAD? UNCLE RED? SOMEBODY OPEN THE DOOR!"

She sounded genuinely worried, and I felt a small pain of guilt that I'd worried her so much about her dad. Tai rose from where he was sitting to open the door, catching Little Red as she jumped up on him in a massive hug.

"Oh thank dust you're okay! I guess Uncle Red just hadn't found-" Then she caught me grinning at her from behind her father. Words caught in her throat, I could tell she wanted to say something, but so many things were trying to come out at once they all denied each other passage. After a few moments of silence, Little Red attempted to jump down from her father's arms, only to find herself trapped against him.

"Dad? Can I get down?" He tightened his grip around her.

"Are you kidding? Last time I left you alone for ten minutes you ran away!" Ah shit. That's gonna get really awkward really fast.

"I couldn't just stay here! I had to leave! What was I supposed to do about Cinder? About my friends?"

"You could have waited! Or told me!" Tai was unconsciously increasing his grip around Little Red to the point where most people would get a cracked rib.

"Maybe my friends can't wait! And you would've said no!"

"EXACTLY!" I should probably step in before this gets any worse.

"Tai," I call out, "listen to your girl. I know letting them grow up sucks, but she can make her own decisions." I tilt my head to the side and meet Little Red's silver gaze with my own falsely green one.

"And L- Ruby, for fucks sake if your dad says no there's probably a good goddamned reason for it! Don't just run off and give him a heart attack!"

Tai let his grip around his daughter fall away and scratched the back of his head, smiling morosely as he considered what I'd said. Little Red dropped from around her father and clasped her hands before her, looking away and blushing from either shame or embarrassment. She was the living picture of a repentant child. I sighed, I hated having to get involved in family arguments that didn't involve me. Though I suppose it was technically my family so, perhaps that made it a little better.

"I'm still not done," Little Red squeaked from where she was looking away, "Jaune, Ren, Nora, and I still need to stop Cinder. I still need to find Blake and Weiss, to make my team a team again." I could see Tai's conflicting emotions dance across his face. Pride, Anger, Fear.

"No." He finally spoke, "You're staying here where it's safe. Qrow can handle Cinder and I'm sure your team will be fine with their families."

Little Red rose to meet her dad's eyes as he spoke, and her expression jumped from one of betrayal to one of anger. Once again she had many things to say, but I could tell this time she would not choke and a tidal wave of righteous anger would pour forth onto this paternal heretic.

"Hey Tai," I snarled, "let's go talk outside real quick." I grabbed Tai by the arm and pulled him out the back door, hopefully stemming the flow of his daughter's wrath with my own false one. Tai stumbled along behind me, slipping free of my grip as we crossed the boundary to the outside.

"What is it?" He started, short and annoyed at my interruption.

"I'm going to kidnap Ruby"

…

"WHAT?!"

"Listen," I explained, "she's gonna leave whether you let her or not. Is it stupid? Yes, but she's sixteen-"

"Fifteen" He corrected

"And she's going do what she thinks is right." I continued heedless. "So, I'll take her with me. If she wants to fight this Cinder character and find her friends, she might as well come with me. I have a bone to pick with the she-bitch anyway and don't really have anything more important to do." My thiughts wandered to the named grim I'd been hunting before this fiasco. He could wait. Probably. "So I'll keep her safe and she gets to do what she thinks she needs to. Everyone wins."

"I hate you, you know that?" He scowled.

"You fucked my sister, I steal your daughter. Call it even." I retorted. He deepend his scowl and turned away from me muttering and heading back inside.

"By the way," I asked, "where's Ruby's sister?" He stopped.

"You mean Yang? Why do you-"

"I'm thinking it might be best if I took her too." That was when Tai broke.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! NO! NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!" He continued to rant at me as I gave him an apologetic smile and walked past, back into the kitchen.

I schooled my features to look angry, a deep scowl marring my face. Slamming the door open I strutted in, clenching a fist for good measure. I always enjoyed putting on a show. Tai stepped in behind me, still yelling about how I was not going to take both his daughters when I cast a look around the room to find Little Red sitting at the counter and looking worried. A welcome development from her earlier rage. She was also talking to a newcomer who sat beside her, a girl a few years her senior with long blonde hair and dark sweat spots staining her clothes. Her stature and motion bespoke of great strength, but she as she sat there I could tell she suffered from atrophy. She was also missing her arm, it'd been cut just above the elbow leaving a short stump. She turned to look at me, mild surprise and confusion filling her gaze. Immediately I knew who she was.

"Speak of the devil."

Ending credits:

Still trying to work out how I want Red's inner dialogue to sound, opinions on what you liked and didn't would be a great help! Hope you enjoyed the chapter that shouldn't have taken as long as it did. Until next time!