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Patch Hospital Bedroom

In the bed lay a female Faunus with silver eyes, red hair and wolf ears on the top of her head, holding her newborn daughter who had a striking resemblance but instead of having silver eyes, her eyes were the color of red rubies and had black hair and wolf ears that turned red at the ends. The biggest difference between the mother and her daughter was that the newborn also had a wolf tail that was the same color as her hair and ears.

The women turned her head to the sound of the door open to see two men walk in who she recognized as her two remaining teammates from team STRQ. The first man was tanned with toned muscles and blonde hair, blue eyes, some slight facial hair under his lower lip and a tattoo of what could only be described as a heart of flames on his right arm. The second man was pale skinned, tall and slim with black, spiky hair, red eyes, slight stubble along his jaw line and a cocky smirk on his lips.

"Hey Summer how are you feeling?" asked the slim man.

"Just fine." Summer said with a smile, "You two don't have to worry about me all the time."

"See Qrow I told you she was perfectly fine." said the blonde looking at the man beside him.

"I know Taiyang its just that I wasn't able to make it on time in order to see it myself so I just needed to make sure." Qrow said with a guilty look on his face.

"Look man you don't have to beat yourself up over not being here to watch Summer give birth." Taiyang said, looking at Qrow, "Yang and I were here the whole time plus you had a very important mission."

"Yeah uncle Qrow!" said a little blonde girl about the age of two now in Taiyang's arms.

Qrow looked at her with a smile and a nod "So how's the kid?" he said as he walked towards a chair next to the bed in order to look at the child.

"She's asleep now, but she's doing fine." Summer said with a smile as she turned to look at Qrow.

Qrow smiled while looking at the sleeping child "So what are you going to name her?" he asked.

Summer looked at the child for a while, then raised her head with determination "How about Ruby?" she finally said.

"Hmm Ruby Rose..." Qrow said while stroking his chin, "I like it. What gave you the idea?".

"Her eyes are a lovely shade of red that makes them look like rubies and Ruby Rose sounds beautiful." she said as her smile grew even bigger if it was even possible.

"So Ruby Rose it is." he said looking at summer, "When do you get out of this place?".

"Tomorrow evening." she said.

"Well anyways, we should get going Summer needs to rest and we have to prepare the room don't we Qrow." said Taiyang looking at the two as he slowly walked to the exit, "I am going to go get Yang a snack, I'll be waiting in the car with Yang until you're ready. I'll see you tomorrow Summer take care."

For a while after Taiyang left they stayed there in silence admiring the bundle of joy now named Ruby in Summer's arms until Qrow decide to break the silence.

"I haven't seen Taiyang this composed ever since Raven left." Qrow said sadly.

"Yeah, it seems he just needed something else to think about." Summer said with a smile that soon turned into a frown, "I just hope he doesn't go back to how he was Yang really needs him to act like an actual father for her."

"Yeah... anyways Summer, I need to get going before Taiyang does something stupid with the car he tried painting it yellow the last time I left him alone with it." he said with a chuckle as he kissed her.

"I love you Qrow." Summer said, giving him a hug.

"Love you too Summer." Qrow said starting towards the door "I'll see you tomorrow get some rest you need it."

With that Summer gave him a nod as he left.

4 Years later

Forest around Patch

Qrow was running through the forest as if his life depended on it. Pulling out his scroll he tried calling Summer as he did many times earlier.

"Come on Summer answer!" he said desperately as he held the scroll to his ear.

"Qrow is that you?" came a reply from the scroll.

"Summer where are you? You need to get away from there she will kill you!" he said, sounding more desperate as he went on.

"I'm running south towards Patch!" she said out of breath from the running, "She's right behind me I'm running out of time...".

"Keep running I'm on my way we should be able to defeat her together just like we always have, just keep going!" he said as he started quickening his pace.

"Shit! Qrow I ran into a dead end, there's a cliff and I don't have my weapon or enough aura to get down!" she yelled in fear as she slid to a stop at the cliff.

"Crap! I'm almost there just hold on!" he yelled dropping the scroll as he pulled out his scythe.

Summer looked down the cliff to see a figure running up the side and turned back to see a woman with pale white skin, white hair and black and red eyes walking into the clearing.

"This is it." Summer said as she started running to the left side of the cliff where it peaks.

When she got to the edge she knew it was over as she looked at the women form a giant spike of ice and launched it at her at high speeds. Summer closed her eyes ready for the pain that never came. As she opened them back up she saw black feathers on the ground that seemed to belong to a crow and Qrow with his scythe out ready for battle. His red cape more tattered then it was just moments ago, facing down the oncoming threat.

"So tell me human do you still follow in Ozpin's shadow or do you play as his pawn?" the women said looking at Qrow with malice.

"If it gets rid of the Grimm and the conflict between humans and Faunus then I will do anything to kill you Salem!" Qrow said with hatred glaring daggers at the women "Why do you keep coming after us?" he asked.

"I do this in order to make Ozpin suffer." Salem said then looked at Summer "And in order to get rid of the only threats in my path. So what will it be Qrow will you two die willingly or will I have to make you both suffer as well."

"I will never let you have Summer!" Qrow yelled readying his weapon.

"Then I will just have to crush that hope out of you." charged forward to clash with Qrow.

"Summer run while you can, I'll hold her back." Qrow said

Summer stood there fidgeting for a moment before deciding to run like Qrow told her to. As she ran, the forest was filled with the crunching of the snow beneath her feet, her heavy breathing and the noise of metal colliding with one another. After a couple of seconds of running the clash stopped and she instantly turned around and ran back. Fearing the worst Summer got to the cliff to see Qrow laying on his back Scythe stuck in the snow behind Salem as she walked up to him her weapon in her hand.

'No, I can't let this happen!' Summer thought as she watched.

"Come on Qrow aren't you going to shape-shift in order to escape like you always do?" Salem taunted.

"Not until she had enough time to escape." he grunted out.

'His story will not end here!' Summer continued 'I won't let it even if it kills me!' as her eyes began to glow.

"Well, it seems like you will die here." Salem said as she backed up as she aimed her weapon at Qrow's face and pulled the trigger.

"NO!" Summer yelled without thinking as she jumped in front of the projectile her eyes glowing as everything turned white around her.

When the color came back Summer lay there with a hole in her chest being cuddled by Qrow.

"W-What happened?" Summer said, coughing out blood as she looked up at Qrow.

"You made her run away." Qrow said, looking down at her with tears in his eyes as he stroked her wolf ears "We need to get you to the hospital."

"It's too late for me Qrow what's more important right now is that you need to take care of Ruby since I am not going to be there any more." Summer said, tears falling as her eyes became foggy due to loss of blood.

"I love you Qrow!" she sobbed

"Please don't leave me!" Qrow cried, hugging his one true love "I love you."

"Please let Ruby know how much I love her and please take care of yourself Qrow." she said her life slowly fading.

"I will." Qrow choked out as he gave her one last kiss having her use the last of her energy to kiss back before her life faded away as he hugged her limp body sobbing, "You will pay for this Salem I will make sure of it.".

Coming home with a dead Summer in his arms the first to see them was Taiyang who said that Ruby was currently asleep only to be shocked at the discovery of Summer's death.

The next morning after a night of mourning Ruby awoke.

"Where's mommy?" Ruby asked, looking at Qrow who was sitting at the kitchen table.

"She's gone Ruby." He said said still looking down, refusing to look at her.

"Don't worry, she'll always be here she told me so." Ruby said, hugging him looking up at his eyes.

"When did she tell you this?" Qrow asked finally noticing the change in Ruby's eyes the eyes that gave his daughter, her name were no longer the color of rubies instead they wer-.

"When I went to sleep last night." She said hugging him tighter as she covered her head with his shirt as he felt tears now staining his shirt causing him to hug her tight.

"It's ok Ruby I'll be here for you when I can." he said before getting up to go get something from the room. Returning with what looked like a folded sheet a couple feet too big for the girl. "Your mother wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but I guess now is as good a time as any." he said wrapping the cloak around her looking at the girl he saw that the fabric did a good job of complementing her features from her hair color to the color of her skin, but the one flaw was that it no longer matched her eyes like Summer wanted it to. Instead of the red eyes, he once loved, in those eye sockets lay the eyes of the women he fell in love with. Ruby's eyes were now silver just like Summer's.

Qrow left the room after the realization and sat against the wall and sobbed. The next day he would take up drinking and start taking missions, none stop for the next two years until he landed a teaching job at signal. Agreeing with Taiyang to let him act as her 'FATHER' and Yang to be her 'SISTER' so she won't be alone since he was rarely home. His life will continue without the love of his life or his daughter knowing that he's her father.

6 years later

Downtown Vale

"Hey Ruby I'm going to go into this store in order to get something to drink want anything?" Qrow asked the 10 year old Faunus wearing a red cloak that was a too big for her.

"No thanks Uncle Qrow I'm just going to go look for some parts for the weapon you're going to help me make when we get home." she said in an excitable tone.

"Ok, there's a weapon part shop down the block just be careful ok" he said, taking a swig from his flask (No matter what he and Taiyang agreed on it still hurt him to hear his own daughter call him uncle instead of dad. It felt like his heart would start to shatter every single time, but, would instantly heal when he would see her smile only to shatter again the next time.) and handing her enough lien to get the parts they needed.

"Don't worry uncle, I'm always careful." Ruby said her black and red tail wagging as her ears twitched at the thought for her weapon. And took off as Qrow entered the store to get more liquor.

Running down the block Ruby crashed into a man on her path quickly apologizing. She looked up only to see the man glaring at her, terrified she ran into the nearest alley planing to escape once she saw him chase after her. Finding only a dead end the man caught up to her and moved closer.

"I'm so sorry for crashing into you I was so excited to be getting my weapon today that I wasn't looking where I was going." She said with tears in her eyes.

"Hmm your actually kinda cute looking for a Faunus." the man said, rubbing his chin, "How about I show you a weapon that I have?"

Hearing this Ruby's eyes grew as her ears perked up and tail wagged. "Really! Can I! Can I!" she repeated jumping up and down until he gave a nod and told her to close her eyes and open her mouth.

Doing as she was told she stood there more excited than she was moments ago. Hearing the sound of a zipper being unzipped she opened one eye to see what he was doing only to see his hand in his pants. She quickly closed her eye again and heard him tell her to walk forward. Instead, she closed her mouth and started backing away, she then heard a grunt of pain and a voice she knew as her uncle Qrow.

"Ruby cover your ears." Qrow said coldly

Ruby did as she was told. Immediately after she did Qrow swung his weapon at what the man was holding between his right hand. Hearing the muffled scream Ruby opened an eye to look at the ground to see what looked like a big shriveled up thumb with two round objects connected to it with a pool of red forming around it she quickly closed them again.

"Why are you helping a Faunus you fucking drunk?" the man asked Qrow in pain holding his bleeding crotch.

"I helped her because she is my daughter and I won't let her be corrupted by a sick fuck like you!" he said, taking a swig from his flask and hit the man in the side of his neck with his scythe beheading him "Because no one touches my daughter!" he spat at the dying man.

Picking up Ruby he walked out of the alley and told her to open her eyes and ears.

"What happened to the man?" she asked scared.

"He ran." Qrow said, taking another swig of liquor "What did I tell you about being careful?"

"He said he was going to show me a weapon." she said sadly.

"Well, next time don't trust strangers." Qrow said "That wasn't a weapon, it would have just been a traumatic experience for a girl your age."

"I'm sorry Uncle Qrow." Ruby said, her ears becoming flat against her head and tail falling "I should have ran back to you."

"No Ruby that was my fault I shouldn't have left you alone." Qrow said in shame "Here have this cookie and lets go get the parts for Crescent Rose." Qrow ended with a smile handing her a cookie.

"Yay! Thanks Uncle Qrow!" Ruby said happily as she munched on the cookie tail wagging behind her.

For the short walk towards the weapon shop Qrow thought to himself "This is the fourth time since she turned 10 that she was almost raped by some random guy on the street. I'm just glad that Taiyang is always too depressed to take the girls anywhere or else that would have just happened. I really need to teach her some combat maybe I could convince Ozpin to give me a couple of months leave from missions. Yeah, I'll let him know once we finish with Crescent Ro-" Qrow's thoughts were cut off the moment his daughter grabbed onto his arm.

"What do you want pipsqueak?" Qrow said with a smile as he brought her up to his face still hanging onto his arm.

"We're here! We're here! We're here!" Ruby cheered, leaning closer with every word her face full of excitement to be at the shop she longed to be at.

"Yeah, I could see that." he said, rubbing his hand on her hair and ears, "Lets get those parts so we can go home and make that High Caliber Sniper Scythe of yours then I could teach you how to use it."

"It has a name Uncle Qrow!" she said with a hurt look.

"Yeah, I know its Crescent Rose." he said, pulling out the schematics for said weapon and looked into her silver eyes with a smirk "Let's get this over with so I can train you." Ruby now hanging off his shoulders as he walked into the store.

Unknown to them they were being watched since the incident in the alley by a 12 year old cat Faunus with black hair and amber eyes and another Faunus with red hair and red eyes and some small bull horns right above his forehead and seemed to be at least 15.

"Why can't all humans be like that that guy Adam?" said the brunette Faunus looking at the taller Faunus next to her.

"I don't know Blake, but we need to get going or we're going to get scolded again for not bringing the food." Adam said looking down at his companion while holding a bag of stolen food in his left hand, "You remember what happened last time don't you.".

"I just don't get why we have to steal." Blake said with a frown "I also want to meet that human and find out why he treats that Faunus as his family."

"I'm sure we will find out someday Blake now lets go." Adam said as they both started walking away.

"Someday." Blake said as she turned around to look at the two through the store window, then running to catch up with Adam.

A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed the prologue. Please leave a review in order to help me improve my writing any criticism would be taken greatly.

P.S. For those of you who want to know what Kingsguard is its the only shipping name I've found so far for Qrow/Summer