This story/work will have bonus chapters and content from the main story: 4 Years of Beacon. Lemons might eventually end up here as I am trying to keep the main story a teen rating but i realize some want to see that content. I will put those when they do appear in this work here. If anybody would like to see a chapter from 4YoB from another perspective send me an IM with the request, and I will see what I can do. This chapter is 2.9 from Ren's perspective skiping the scene with Jaune and Pyrrha which happened prior as that would remain unchanged. This was the original chapter, I later redid it to be from Katherine's perspective, but i still feel as though this was good enough to keep and share. Let me know your thoughts I read anything that is sent to me.

Ren did not like to lie. It was in fact one of his most hated things to do, something which rang especially true for his friends and team. He was returning home for the midterm break with Nora. He did need to leave a catch a flight. However, that was only half of the truth. The entire fall term he had received some anonymous messages from a source. He was with Ruby and Yang when he received the first of them. He felt zero desire to investigate the matter, they asked him too, for Jaune's sake. Arriving at the Vale Airport at the time specified he began questioning, once again, the wisdom which lead him here.

"Ren, I think you need to do it." Ruby advised him.

"What harm could it cause? It just means you have to take a later flight home, if you don't like what they have to say you don't have to act on it further." Yang further pressed him.

"They are right Renny."

It was his longtime friend saying that which ultimately convinced him to follow through with the request. Nora had the reputation of being a brute, the truth was she was actually highly intelligent. Every bit as bright as Weiss or Pyrrha. She just had an amazingly difficult time focusing. Another lesser known fact is that while he was considered to be very calm and composed, some situations totally stole any ability he had to think rationally from his being. In those times, it was always Nora who was the calmer clearer head.

He considered Jaune a brother. Seeing him go through what he had gone through was heart wrenching for him. He did not want to open those same wounds. Yet, he could practically feel the hemorrhaging heart in his team leaders chest when the subject of his family was brought up. If it helped him heal, he would give whoever this mysterious person was the 15 minute conversation they begged him for.

"I agreed to come here Nora, that doesn't mean I have to like it." He grumbled advising his traveling companion.

"Ren, this will be easier with a smile on your face." It was a very Nora thing to say, yet… it was also true. Being happy or sad could be a choice, he should try to view this as a chance to heal old wounds, not reopen them.

"I said I would listen, but I repeat if I don't like what they have to say you have my permission to break some legs." Nora could only smile at her friend.

Leaning against a wall with their arms crossed they waited until the time came when they were expected to meet their mysterious interested party. Ren considered himself a very attentive person, and it surprised him that it was Nora with a nudge to his ribs, she advised that she saw their query first. It was obvious that both of the figures were female, and they both cut a very impressive figure. They wore hooded clothing which covered them from their eyes down to their feet in a cloak. He was unsure why they wouldn't want to be seen, the Arc family always seemed to love being the center of attention, at least with the exception of Jaune. He supposed he had no definitive proof that these two women were Arc's but the safe bet was on that fact being true.

They were tall, as tall as he himself in fact one might even be a touch taller than he was. It was difficult to say, but the figures the women cut spoke to people in the upper tier of athletic training. He could not see due to the clothing they wore. But would wager a fair amount that both of them were toned and muscular similar to Pyrrha or Blake. Both women moved with a natural grace which was not just earned, but born with. As they walked in front of them he caught sight of the typical blond hair he had grown accustomed to and was less than pleased at being right, he was being asked to meet members of the Arc family, a suspicion he did not want to be correct with. They were close enough to speak, but even so they remained several feet away from each other.

"15 minutes, starting now, go" Ren said without preamble. He felt Nora give his shoulder a squeeze, she didn't need to remind him, but knowing his friend was with him was a comforting thought. He did not want to face the Arcs alone if the situation turned sour.

The two women looked at each other and shared a glance, one looked back at the pair. The same one lowered their hood and it took every bit of Ren's willpower not to gasp. The entire Arc family it seems was made of well put together and attractive people. From what he had heard of Pyrrha and other women describe Jaune, that applied to his team leader too. He didn't want to admit it, but Jaune's siblings he had met were attractive enough in their own way. He was expecting an attractive pair, yet the person standing before him was the single most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

He considered Pyrrha to be an exceptionally beautiful woman. The redhead had a natural beauty that most would claim is impossible. Her figure was amazingly slim long and astonishingly athletic while carrying all of her womanly curves. She had an absurd amount of power in her body to add to that. He could make similar compliments about the remainder of his friends, Yang, Blake, Ruby and Weiss all were very beautiful in their own way. For that matter he knew Nora cut an attractive figure, though he did consider the latter to be a sister. This girl in front of him was in his mind, more naturally pretty than anything he had ever seen. She had shoulder length blond hair, the same blue eyes Jaune had, and seemed similar to him in ways his other siblings were not. Her clothing was not adorned with the Arc symbol like Mr. Arc had been. He could tell she wore the traveling gear of a huntress in training designed for functionality and comfort on the road though the only piece he could definitely see was a glove on her left hand. She carried a collapsed weapon on her back similar to how Ruby carried Crescent Rose with the exception of a clear handle being viewable.

The 4 of them stood looking at each other taking each other's measure for a period of time. Ren wasn't overly troubled by this. He said he would give them 15 minutes of his time, if they chose not to speak, that's their problem.

It was the younger girl which started the conversation. "My name is Katherine Arc." She said simply, and extended a hand . Neither Nora or Ren moved to accept the handshake. Katherine seemed to expect that, and drew her arm back, but Ren did sense a flash of irritation and hurt on her face.

The other woman finally drew down her hood, she appeared older, yet still carried an attractive edge to her. She carried a weapon similar to the young girl on her back yet, that wasn't what commanded the friends attention. The most unnerving part was the focused burning purpose in her eyes which the younger girl didn't share. It reminded Ren of Jaune's 'glare' that he used so infrequently, yet he knew from personal experience when he used it, it was impossible to hold his gaze for more than a fraction of a second.

"I want you to give me a chance to see my Son" She said simply fixing her gaze on Ren.

Even Nora was surprised by that, they were expecting more of the Arc sisters who has as of yet, not impressed them as people. This was the Arc Matriarch, and she did not appear happy, at all in fact. Ren and Nora shared a look, he couldn't think of what to say, but he couldn't see any real reason to help this person.

Finding his mind capable of speech again he answered "I fail to see the wisdom in that. Jaune is trying to heal from his families actions, I don't see how helping you meet him would help anybody but you. The rest of his family hasn't done much to inspire trust." He claimed.

"We promised you 15 minutes, I suggest you make the most of it" Nora advised. The teammates had been friends for years, they were used to the good cop bad cop routine. Yet normally their roles were reversed, he's the one trying to be the amiable one. However here it was Nora who was forced to do that, not that she wanted too, but because he simply couldn't at the moment.

The two women shared another glance. They appeared to be in communication without speaking, like they were weighing the pros and cons of something they had discussed previously.

"We had nothing to do with what transpired against him. I want to see my boy." The mother pressed again, the strength of her gaze was staggering and seemed to only grow stronger as she spoke about Jaune.

"Your signature was on his disownment papers" Ren pointed out feeling like this was a waste of good leisure time.

"His father signed my name through a power of attorney. I would never have agreed to do that." Despite the utter power of her gaze, her eyes were becoming watery at this point.

"This all happened some time ago, you had plenty of time to send Jaune a message." Ren continued.

The Mother seemed prepared to speak again though she seemed near a breakdown mentally or maybe psychologically. At a touch from the girl, she stopped.

"My mother and I have been in the wilderness for months at a time, we do not often get a chance to catch up on news from the outside. I have chosen to follow the hunters path without attending a school. My mother is my teacher. We did not know about what happened to him until we got back and by then we could not stop it. We did not know about his disownment until weeks ago. I…. We, knew that his father never was fond of his son, but we never expected he would do this. Please, we have been doing everything we can to help him since we learned of the situation." She sounded barely more than a whisper, her already watery eyes shed a few tears as she spoke.

"Like what?" Nora asked pointedly.

"Like ensuring that his sisters sent to Beacon left him alone, contrary to their fathers intensions" Mrs. Arc responded, both JNPR members got the feeling that she had yet to make a point of addressing that with her husband.

"Why can't they just do the right thing and leave him alone by themselves?" Nora put in before Ren could say something significantly harsher.

The Matriarch seemed to deflate a bit at this, but answered "Because I was gone for extended periods of time as a Hunter, they are used to following his instructions without arguing. I know it doesn't make what they did right, but they did what they believed to be right."

Ren suspected something was going on behind the scenes. Their actions at introducing themselves and yet not doing anything or being present in their combat classes was a surprise, he certainly expected a steady dose of the Arc sisters this semester, yet it just hasn't happened. They may well be telling the truth here.

"None of that tells me I should help you. I'm waiting for a why. You made your decisions to leave him in the hands of somebody who ultimately wanted him gone. With you away he was able to do as he wished. Try as you might to convince yourselves otherwise you do share responsibility in what happened to him." He tried not to sound overly emotional as he spoke. For all he was considered a stoic person, it was not easy to remain calm about as they spoke to these two.

They visibly recoiled from his words, and both dropped their gaze to the ground. The mother, started shaking. Both friends could see that she was beginning to glow under her clothing, her semblance was just below the surface, and she was fighting, really fighting very hard to keep it from emerging.

"Jaune has a scroll, you could have, SHOULD have called it well before now" He didn't feel like he was being lied too, that doesn't mean their intensions were in line with his own.

"You have been getting our messages for weeks because we have tried to contact him. Our calls haven't been reaching him, I think he got a new Id." Katherine answered in a whisper. Her gaze now shared the look of her mother, it was astonishingly powerful as she looked up to speak, he could sense a disturbed sea inside her, barely controlled it seemed.

Ren had to admit… that was true, Jaune did break his scroll, and he broke it early in the summer break. It was Ozpin messaging Pyrrha with his new ID which let them contact him. A perk these two did not have. He had to admit that point.

"My brother was hurt, badly. I am trying to help him. The fact that our family was responsible makes my job more difficult, but it does not mean I should not try." She certainly didn't appear to be trying to lie to them.

"I have always been more of a Hunter than a politician. I have been out of touch for a long time, too long even. I will try to make it right, but I cannot do it when he will not speak to me. I asked to speak to you because I felt you would be the most unbiased. Please I need your help Mr. Lie." Mrs. Arc put forth. She could not bring herself to face him, he suspected she was crying and was too embarrassed to look him in the eye.

"You could just go to Beacon and ask the headmaster to see him" Nora put forth.

"We want him to agree to see us, could we force it upon him? Yes, but we are trying to give him the choice, something he has had few enough of in his life." Katherine answered.

Ren pinched the bridge of his nose and was struggling, really struggling to remain impartial. Nora he knew, shared similar beliefs on the matter, and he believed she would ultimately back any decision he made. He did owe Jaune his best efforts here, so he steeled himself and continued with the conversation.

"What do you hope to accomplish even if I agreed to help you? What good would it possibly cause? I fail to see any good that could come about this. He is disowned, he has already lost his family. As such he has tried to move on. Seeing him might help you two, but I do not see how it would help him at all." Nora looked at him as he said this, but did not speak.

"Being isolated will not help him. You must know how much A hand on your shoulder can help you." She obviously picked up on Nora giving him a reassuring grip earlier in their talk. "I want to help my brother, what exactly can I do to convince you? Blood oath sacrifice? You trusted us enough to meet us, all we want is an introduction." That, was obviously was a well planned point Ren admitted but he remained unconvinced.

"Your family has a horrendous track record at inspiring confidence or earning my trust. Jaune has earned it. You have not." Ren looked at the clock on the wall, 3 more minutes, then he could walk away without feeling like he broke his word.

"Let's try this." Nora said picking up on Ren's mindset. "My name is Nora Valkyrie, this is Lie Ren. You are Katherine Arc. What is your name?"

The Arc Matriarch took a moment to take a deep breath, then answered looking back "My name is Deborah."

"Mrs. Arc, you have one pitch to convince me. I think Ren is a lost cause. Why should I help you?" She asked.

She seemed to collect her thoughts with an obvious effort of will, looking oddly like Jaune did as she did so.

"Jaune must have spoken about us at some point. He HAD to have advised that not all of his family treated him poorly. He likely mentioned his mother, his youngest, and possibly his oldest sisters. I am obviously his mother, and Katherine is his youngest sister. If you trust Jaune, then trust him here. We have always been on his side." She pleaded.

"Please my brother is sick, he has always been sick, I want to see him" His sister added.

"No." Ren simply responded an edge appearing in his voice. Both Arc's looked stricken at him.

"Not sick, infected. Specifically with a parasite. The act of removing it nearly killed him." There was an uncharacteristically angry look in his eyes as he spat that out.

The reaction was immediate and obvious, both girls appeared as if they were punched square in the stomach, his mother even clutched her chest. Her semblance glow began around her body but dimmed down once again after emerging.

"Infected? By what?" She had the look of somebody barely holding herself together.

"A Grimm-"

"A Vampire!?" Mrs. Arc nearly wailed as her semblance burst forth again and was once again quenched a glow appearing behind her… terror filled eyes.

"Yes a Vampire, I find it impossible that no doctor a child would have been taken to would have noticed it inside him." He stated in confirmation. He didn't deliberately mean to make it sound harsh, but that was how it came out. The reaction he got from Mrs. Arc, was one of the most memorable he ever was to witness in his life.

It wasn't the howl of anguish the mother put forth, it wasn't the fact that she fell to her knees crying horribly. It wasn't even the fact that her daughter knelt down to comfort her.

No.

It was that in her despair, she seemed to summon her semblance unintentionally, fully summon it. It practically exploded like a volcano from her body illuminating the area in white. It was blinding.

The two JNPR members could not have missed the familiar burst of light or failed to remember who else had done that. Jaune when he learned to control his semblance last year, this was … to similar. They could even feel the warmth the glow was putting out from several feet away.

Before them was a semblance so similar to their leaders that it was practically identical. The pure white light surrounding her body, the compassionate blue light flashing from her eyes diminished as it was by tears. 'Aura is a reflection of the human soul'. They remembered at that moment. Here was a woman whose soul, was so similar so identical to Jaune's. That their semblances were literally interchangeable.

The two friends looked at each other again. They knew, at that moment. There was no malice in this woman, this person was not capable of deception or cruelty. With her soul literally made bare to them it proved the most effective method she had at communicating her intentions. It was that act which tugged on the pairs heartstrings enough to help them.

"Renny…" Nora started softly so only he could hear. She was always the one to have the most pull on his mind.

He issued a rare sigh "I will need your help with the others, especially Pyrrha." He warned just as soft.

"Ok" She responded simply and happily, then walked the few steps needed to reach the Arc's. Ren lagged behind slightly moving slowly.

Nora moved up to Mrs. Arc, earning a surprised look from both of the girls, and knelt down next to her putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Ok, we will give you an introduction, no more, the rest is up to you." she said. Mrs. Arc took that moment to move her arm over Nora's and grip her shoulder. It took an obvious effort of will, but she regained control and phased out of her semblance. As her flame like white light faded, Nora didn't think she ever saw more pure relief in anybody's face that this woman's, but she remained unable to speak.

Ren had moved up to the three of them at that point and stood beside his friend. Briefly the 4 of them forced a circle, something he very much hoped was symbolic of a future, not of a pattern.

"I give you fair warning. If this ends up hurting him, there is nowhere you will be able to hide to escape from his partner. She will not respond well to us doing this for you. We have some equity built up with her, you do not." He cautioned, now that he thought about it he might be lucky to emerge with only a bruise if this ended up hurting Jaune.

Katherine stood and looked at him, then eventually asked. "When is the soonest we could see him?" Hope was in her eyes.

Ren was deep in thought. He knew that Nora and himself had to be there when this happened. He also knew that their time was spoken for, at least for the next two weeks on midterm break. He didn't feel the need to rush, as it would take time to convince the others they had made the right decision. They would all need to help if they were going to convince Jaune to meet these two, given his attitude on meeting them from a prior discussion.

"The 2 weeks during Winter break, will be the earliest this can happen." He answered, then continued "I will help you meet your brother, no more. We have details to work out so let's get to it, Nora and I have a plane to catch."

It was then that the sister surprised him. She hesitated, moved a half step forward and hesitated again. A second passed, then she seemed to convince herself to proceed. She then moved purposely and hugged him tightly. "Not just brother, my twin. Thank you for giving us a chance."

Surprise evident on their faces, they overcame it however. With that the two friends with the 2 family members set out a plan on winter break they would meet and be given a chance to see Jaune, something both Ren and Nora would think about during their flight home for the midterm break. They sent messages to Ruby explaining the situation. Yang and her sister convinced Ren to do this, they could at least get a head start on getting the word out amongst their friends.