A/N: I'm rewriting this story chapter by chapter, so if there's a chapter that doesn't make any sense compared to all the chapters that came before it, that's why.

"Hey." Ruby groaned and rolled over in her bed as someone continually poked her. "Hey." The voice said again. Ruby lightly swatted at the hand and her eyes drifted open, snapping to her alarm clock. It was three AM. The girl flipped over in her bed with a grunt, facing the tall, blonde man with a glare.

"What?!" She angrily groaned. The man crouched in front of her bed. This was the first time in a while Ruby had really spoken to her father. He had some crappy job at a telemarketing company and that caused him to always be working. He got home at eleven, after Ruby had gone to sleep, and left at five, long before Ruby got up. She mainly only really saw him on weekends, but it was a Friday, and he would have to be at work in three short hours.

"Remember how you said you want to be in the first movie I made?" He asked, crossing his arms and resting them on the edge of her bed for balance. Ruby raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah." She said. "Like ten years ago." Taiyang rolled his eyes.

"Would you still wanna do that?" He asked. Ruby shrugged and pulled her blanket over her shoulder, balling up her legs.

"Yeah. Sure." She told him, beginning to drift off to sleep. He poked her forehead and she giggled.

"Then I need you to get up." He told her, standing and yanking the blanket off of her.

"But, I have a presentation in the morning!" She whined. Taiyang looked down at her.

"Do you really?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "Because I don't recall your mother telling me anything about you preparing for a presentation when you got home." Ruby groaned and swung her legs off the bed. She suddenly threw her arms in the air.

"Okay, maybe I lied!" She declared. "But I do have school tomorrow."

"One line." He told her. Ruby ran her index finger and thumb over her eyes, slowly pushing herself off of her bed and stretching. Taiyang looked away as her bare stomach was exposed in the process, throwing a hand over his eyes. "I don't wanna see that!"

"At least I'm wearing a shirt!" She kiddingly told him. He just shook his head.

"You are your mother's daughter." He said, stepping out of the small, dark bedroom.

"That would be true." She said, grinning.

The house the small family lived in wasn't very big, with two bedrooms, and a basement that they treated as Yang's room. The kitchen, dining room and living room were all that existed of the first floor, and none were very big. There was, unfortunately one bathroom for the entire family to share, making life extremely difficult for someone who really had to pee while someone else was in the shower. The basement wasn't very big either, being the same size as Ruby's room. The house was so small that the front door was in the living room. When one entered, they could walk in a straight line for a few seconds, and then reach the kitchen. In the kitchen was a door that led to the basement, adjacent the door was the small pantry, which Yang always emptied upon returning home from school. The place was listed as a house, but was definitely an apartment compared to all the other houses in the neighborhood.

The Xiao-Long family had lived in that small "house" for the entire life of the youngest child, and most of the oldest's. This meant that they had met their neighbors on several occasions of course. Ruby and Yang went to the same schools as the Schnees and Belladonnas. Taiyang wasn't a fan of Jacques Schnee, but unfortunately had to put up with the man because Ruby and Yang were friends with his daughter; Weiss. Tai did like Ghira Belladonna however, he was a nice man always willing to help others.

Ruby slowly followed her father down the stairs, and into the living room, where she could see that he had his laptop set up with a microphone plugged seated next to it. Her father was using his old camera's boom mic as the microphone for whatever it was she was doing.

"I just need you to say this…" he handed her a sticky note. "Into the mic. Sound annoyed." Ruby sighed.

"It won't be hard." She took a seat on the couch and Taiyang held the mic towards her mouth. He tapped the record button and Ruby read the words that were hastily written on the sticky note. "Yeah, I think somebody owes me the last two minutes of my life span." Taiyang smiled happily and set the mic down, turning off the camera.

"Thank you." He told her. "You can go back to bed now." She nodded and stood.

"What's that for?" She asked. He smiled again.

"You'll see." He told her. She yawned.

"This doesn't have anything to do with that stupid website You, Oobleck and Uncle Qrow made, does it?" She asked. "What's it called again?"

"Drunk Gamers." Taiyang indignantly said.

"Good luck with that." Ruby called back, beginning her ascent back up the stairs.

[Shift]

It had been a few weeks since Ruby had recorded her line for her father's project. She had found out that it was for a trailer for something called, "Red Vs Blue". It was apparently about some kind of civil war in Halo or something. She wasn't sure. What she did know was that he had taken down his website, Red vs Blue along with it. In the trailer, Ruby had played some red soldier, and her Uncle Qrow had played the orange soldier next to her.

Ruby's music blared in her headphones as she slowly walked home from her bus stop. Her older sister was not too far behind her, speaking with Weiss and Blake about whatever it was they talked about when she had her headphones on. It was a Friday and Ruby knew that it was her father's day off, so needless to say, she was eager to get home. The girl would have run, but she was weighed down by her bag full of books. Ruby swung the front door open, turned off her music, and threw her bag down next to the door. When Ruby turned back to the living room, she was surprised to see that her father was joined by her history and gym teachers; Oobleck and Port, as well as her uncle. She knew that her father was good friends with the teachers, but did not expect either to be at her house when she got home. She supposed that they arrived home before her because she rode the bus and they drove, but they couldn't have gotten there much earlier than she had.

"Hi." Ruby awkwardly said, quickly moving into the kitchen and reemerging with half of a granola bar sticking out of her mouth. In the short amount of time that Ruby had been in the kitchen, Yang had come through the front door, and was just as shocked as Ruby was to see the two teachers there.

"Well, this is super awkward!" Yang proclaimed before bolting past Ruby and down to her room. Taiyang watched his eldest disappear into the basement and his friends both handed him and Qrow a bit of cash. Ruby simply raised an eyebrow.

"I told you guys that it was stupid to bet against Tai." Qrow said. "No one knows his girls better than he does."

"It's not about personality." The aforementioned father said. "It's about not being a shitty parent!" Ruby removed the granola bar from her mouth.

"And you'd know what about that?" Ruby joked. Her father's friends froze, their eyes darting between daughter and father. Taiyang burst out into laughter.

"That is definitely my child." He told his friends, who were now nervously laughing. Ruby glanced at the TV that the men were all huddled around. They were playing Halo, just as they had the many other times that Qrow had showed up. Once Taiyang straightened up, he turned back to Ruby.

"Settle something for us, will you?" He asked. Ruby nodded. "The 'Warthog'; looks more like a puma than a pig." Ruby shrugged.

"It's a Jeep." She told her father, making a few steps towards the stairs. He began quietly grumbling something about a puma as she took this opportunity to bolt up to her room.

[Shift]

"Goddammit!" Yang's voice traveled in such a small house, especially when she yelled. She was playing some game she liked. Ruby always wondered why Yang liked that game so much, as she also seemed so mad when she played it. Her father's voice shouted next.

"Please no yelling!"

"Sorry!"

Ruby rolled her eyes, and her bedroom door swung open. In the doorway stood her father, grinning. She didn't like it when he grinned like that. It meant he had something for her to do, usually chores. The blonde man leaned against the doorway as she warily eyed him.

"I have something I need you to do." He told her. She raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

"Remember when I had you do that line for that trailer?" She nodded. "Well, we're going to be recording the lines for the first episode and I was wondering if you wanted to play the same character?" Ruby relaxed, thankful that she didn't have to clean or anything like that.

"Sure!" She happily said.

[Shift]

Ruby quickly flipped through the script that her father had presumably taken time to write with a look of shock on her face.

"I can't say these things!" She said.

"You have my permission." Taiyang told her. She subtly shook her head.

"What about Mom?" She asked. "If she sees this and hears my voice saying… the F-Word, we're both dead!" Taiyang scratched his head.

"Shit." He said. "I— I didn't think about that. Just substitute the words for other things." Ruby relaxed again and sat up so that she could be at face level with her mic. Her father had gone as bought two new microphones, complete with stands and pop filters. The whole nine yards.

"Tell us when." Qrow told Tai. He was seated next to Ruby, a microphone in his face as well.

"Alright." Tai pointed at Ruby and the two began.

"Hey." Ruby said.

"Yeah?" Qrow answered.

"You ever wonder why we're here?"