I began writing this after episode 16, I hope you guys enjoy. RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth. Also the names of four characters are based off of characters in two stories, if you've read the books then it should be obvious.

Chapter One: Phantom of the Past

Blake couldn't sleep after what happened earlier in the night. She was still surprised Weiss forgave her just like that, but it didn't mean she wasn't happy. As Blake walked the open areas of the school taking delight of the cool air her ears picked up a noise. Blake stood her ground as she spoke.

"Whoever you are, come out." It was then Blake heard the sound of footsteps, she turned around and gasped at the figure before her. He was wearing a grey torn hoodie with a dark blue undershirt, his legs covered in black pants. The item which told her who he was was the long sword strapped to his back, however the item which masked his appearance from Blake was a black collar with a broken chain hanging by the D-ring.

"Lawrence." She said surprised. The figure sighed as he struggled to reply.

"Hey Blake, It's... it's been a while." He removed his hood to show his now short honey brown hair and wolf ears, his citrine eyes filled with a mixture of happiness and sadness. "I'm sorry Blake, I shouldn't have come... ARGH!" Lawrence flipped his hood back up and ran away from the cat faunus. Blake hesitated running after him, one reason being she knew he was probably already hiding in case she did and the other... the other reason she was ashamed of.

Minutes later in a dorm room a building away from teams RWBY and JNPR, three young men sat in silence. The older of the three sat impatiently in the chair, opening his pocket watch then clasping it shut.

"He's late." He said looking to the brothers on the other beds.

"Frederick, he'll be back soon." Said the twin whose hair slicked back into a ponytail, a streak of white on the left side. "You trust him too little."

"You trust him too much, Henry." His brother chide, his wild black hair giving him a foreboding look. "After what he told us, Fred has reason's to doubt Talbot." He ended, a snide smile on his face. His brother shook his head taking hold of his dagger.

"Were not saint's Edward." The door to the room opened as Lawrence stood in the frame. His eyes traced the other three's before he walked to his bed. For a few moments, no one said a word, for Lawrence those precious moments were far too short.

"Where have you been?" The oldest of the four demanded. Lawrence kept silent hoping Frederick would leave it be. "I won't ask again Talbot." He said standing before the faunus. Lawrence sighed as he removed his sword from his back.

"I had some old business to take care of. Anything else, Abberline?" Lawrence was tired, the reunion he dreaded to enact had failed, failed being the kinder term for him cowering out at the last second and he frankly had no patience with the man before him. A fight which was undoubtedly about to occur was stopped by Henry's kindheartedness and concern.

"So you spoke to the young lady?" The wolf turned to the twin and shook his head.

"No Jekyll, I spoke to someone else." He looked sadly out the window at the broken moon as he continued, "Somebody I haven't seen for a while." He whispered some of the last part as he remembered the last time he saw Blake, what he said to her, and especially what she said to him. It was Edward's turn to inquire about their teammates life.

"Oh, a terrorist friend of yours?" He sang in a cruel tone, using his cane to walk over to the bed. As he clenched his first he anwsered the other boy.

"What she is and isn't is none of your concern Hyde. For the record however, the last time I saw her she was in White Fang, but since she's here, she must have left." He looked to the twins thinking of their names, he nor Abberline understood why the twins had two different names, from what they would admit one was their father's last name while the other belonged to their mother. Nonetheless, which belonged to which has yet to be said. Frederick Abberline silently stared down Lawrence Talbot, he knew what was on the second in command's head. He looked back out the window and saw a leaf floating in the night air, bad memories came back to his mind of the past with the thought of he did, of what he was to blame for.

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Blake returned to her team mates, Ruby sat with Weiss on the heiress's bed working on an assignment from one of their classes while Yang laid on her bed, Blake could her the sound of music beating into the golden haired girl's skull. She got a headache just thinking about getting closer. Ruby was the first to notice her return as she smiled.

"Oh, hey Blake. Weiss and I are making sure we have all our assignment's done before the weekend, don't want to worry about homework during the festival. You wanna join?" Blake soon realized to her horror she hadn't done anything for her assignments in the past two days with everything that happened. Blake walked into the bathroom and changed into her sleep attire as her team mates already had.

"Sure Ruby, I really should start working on them. After everything that's happened I just forgot." She said in the bathroom sliding into her underwear, the image of Lawrence stung her heart. The anger she had for him a year ago seemed to tease her now. As she slipped into her purple undershirt she heard Ruby pester Weiss to talk to her, while things were better between the two Blake still felt like she was on shaky ground.

"So, how was your walk?" Weiss asked sounding annoyed, most likely from Ruby pestering the young Schnee. Blake slipped on her black kimono, biting her bottom lip, Weiss's words ringing in her head. Blake walked out of the bathroom taking her bow off her ears as she sighed,

"It could have been better, I saw someone from my past." The two stopped what they were doing and looked to the cat Faunus. Blake looked at there expression and closed her eyes. "Well Blake, time to let them know." "It wasn't somebody bad, that would have made it easier. I saw somebody I hurt... I saw my brother."

Okay before the flames begin I think you guys should read chapter two. Please leave a comment and like but like I asked, save the flames for later.