"Name your price" Ozpin asked his voice calm though everyone in the room knew he was anything but.

"How about the boy? The blonde one."

"Jaune? No he's hardly combat ready" said Ironwood. "Someone else Torchwick"

"Oh I know!" the criminal said in a tone of mock excitement "How about the orange haired girl."

"Penny?" Ironwood said taken back by the suggestion.

Ozpin sighed. "I think he means Nora. She's too destructive Torchwick, we'd be spending the entire time saving you from her"

"Oh, well… I guess I have one last suggestion." Roman teased, placing his hand on the thick folder in front of him threatening to take it back. "This one you can't throw out or I walk" The criminal watched all three men before him squirm. He paused for effect… "Red."

"Mrs. Rose?" Ozpin asked, having heard Ruby referred to by that before.

Ozpin, Ironwood and Qrow all looked at the manila folder on the big glass table horrified. Qrow stood up and went to the window carrying his flask with him; the lid was the only thing on the table, besides that blasted folder. The fourth man at the table was leaning back in his chair smirking.

"I'm not selling my niece to this Bastard" Qrow said from the window.

"Hey be nice" Roman teased. "I'm offering you the whole world of organized crime, for one full time body guard. Surely that's a fair trade. But I guess if you don't want it…" He picked up the folder.

"Wait." Ozpin said quickly, glancing at Qrow then to Roman. "It's not fair for us to just give her to you without her consent."

She is still a student, and underage." Ironwood agreed "We have to ask her what she wants to do. Please excuse us to talk to her. We'll have your answer in an hour. Qrow, if you would." He motioned to the elevator door.

Qrow sighed and took a drink. "Yeah, Yeah… I'll go get her." He crossed to the elevator and headed down stairs.

Ruby followed her uncle towards the tower elevator. He was being secretive again and told Yang to stay behind. She felt her entire insides folding in on each other from nerves. Qrow stopped suddenly and she walked straight into him. Ahead the elevator doors opened and Glynda walked out followed by Torchwick? Ruby looked up at her uncle questioningly but he just shook his head and started walking again. They passed by the criminal and he just smirked at them and waived a file folder at them, Ruby noticed it was aimed more towards Qrow. She waited until the elevators closed before she realized she had been holding her breath.

"What's going on Uncle Qrow?" She begged him for an answer but he said nothing and all too soon the elevator stopped and the doors opened.

"Welcome Mrs. Rose" Ozpin greeted her. She saw Ironwood sitting at the desk behind him and her stomach dropped. This wasn't going to be good at all. "Please sit" the headmaster guided her to the table and sat her down in a chair across from Ironwood, then walked around to one of two empty chairs. Qrow walked over to stand in the window, and Ruby noticed that her chair was warm from someone else sitting it in prior.

"We've had a um… Client… offer a job for you." Ozpin started, not sure where to begin.

"Torchwick?" Ruby said mystified.

"You can say no at any time" Qrow cut in. Ironwood glared over at him.

Ironwood cleared his throat. "It's not so much a client but that he's got our hands tied and is demanding your service as his body guard in return for turning in several other criminals. "

"We've reminded him you're a student still of course but he's insistent that it be you." Ozpin explained.

"And you can still say no at any time" Ozpin countered taking a drink from his flask.

"We'd allow you to come back to the school for tests and have staff babysit him for the duration," Ironwood explained" but basically you'd be staying at his location. We've been made aware that he's purchased a property—"

"With stolen money probably" Qrow cut in.

"HES PURCHASED A PROPERTY!" Ironwood shouted louder to continue "And he's positive that no one knows about it. Qrow if you're not here to help we will throw you out" He glared over at Ruby's forever-drunk uncle and Qrow shot him a look back.

Ruby sighed. "How long will this job last?"

"He said as long as it takes us to capture everyone he's turning in, or at least until he feels satisfied that we've got enough of them that he's safe from anyone else." Ozpin told her. "It could be months to a couple years. If we go about this wrong some of them might go into hiding, and we don't know exactly what's in the folder. If you agree he will give us the folder today and a target that we can single out that works alone that we can take in by themselves to verify the data is good and then you'll start work."

Ruby looked at her uncle as he looked out the window. He was so against this… but she could do so much good by helping with this.

"I'll do it" She said defiantly.

"See look she said no." Qrow turned quickly away from the window. Ironwood and Ozpin looked pleased. "Wait what!?" his flask hit the ground.

A/N Look two chapters tonight. Just updated Amnesia and now I'm starting this wonderful journey. This is set in an A/U where Beacon never fell. The Vytal Festival never got attacked. Cinder's plans laid elsewhere. Short chapter as a start.