Chapter two my lovelies. Here ya go.
She slowly opened her eyes and groaned. There was no sky above her, instead a stark white ceiling. She slowly sat up and winced in pain, studying her surroundings. There was a monitor beeping next to her, monitoring her heart beat, and an IV was stuck in her wrist.
Winter Schnee groggily rubbed her head and felt a twinge of pain. Her skin felt strange...no...it wasn't skin, instead a bandage was wrapped around her head, it obviously had been on her for at least two days.
A nurse walked inside and gasped, rushing to get a doctor.
He came inside and began to check on her health before telling her that she was lucky to have survived.
She mainly ignored everything he told her and asked for a wheelchair, which was delivered a few minutes later. She hurriedly began going from room to room, searching.
A nurse stopped her. "Excuse me ma'am, what are you looking for?" She asked.
Winter looked up at her, she looked a bit panicked. "I'm...I'm looking for a Qrow Branwen...where is his room?"
The nurse seemed to pale. "Oh...you're his partner...I'm sorry to tell you this ma'am, but he's currently in intensive care, and...is in a coma."
Winter felt a massive cold chill go down her spine. "Please take me there." She pleaded.
The nurse opened her mouth to protest but Winter grabbed her by the gown and she yelled. "Please take me to him now!"
The nurse looked about and people were staring at them. She sighed and nodded, slowly wheeling Winter to the intensive care.
When they entered his room, Winter's breathing hitched. His chest was wrapped in bandages and stained red, his forehead was also bandaged, the bandage covering his left eye, a large blood stain right over where it would be. He had cuts all over him, and quite a few IVs inside him.
Winter winced as she tried to get out of her wheelchair, the nurse quickly sitting her upright. "Ma'am you were seriously injured! Please, don't try to get up!"
Winter choked back tears and sighed. "I did this...I got him hurt….he might not even make it…" She covered her face and began to silently weep, at least, until a hoarse and gritty voice interrupted her.
"Whatcha...cryin about...Ice queen? Did Ironwood….not give you your reward?" Qrow said weakly, his eyes still closed.
The nurse ducked out of the room, most likely to inform the doctor that Qrow had woken up, and Winter gritted her teeth and shakily stood, wobbling over to Qrow.
"God damnit Qrow!" She wrapped her arms around his head and sighed. "You're too damn reckless." She whispered.
Qrow chuckled, and said, muffled, "Glad to hear you worry, but I'm being suffocated by your bust, not to complain that is."
Winter sighed, and a small blush crept onto her cheeks and she stepped back, before full blown slapping him. "I see our accident didn't kill your childish behavior." She scolded.
"Admit it, you love it." He teased.
"Oh hush." She sighed and leaned towards him, whispering, "Tell anyone, and I mean anyone, about this, and I will personally and painfully kill you."
He furrowed his brow, confused, just as she kissed his cheek.
"Thank you...for finding me."
He chuckled. "No problem Ice Queen."
2 ½ Weeks ago
The crystal pulsed with energy in Winter's palm. They were shaken badly and very close to their objective.
Qrow leaned against her shoulder, his knee still not yet healed from one of the rounds he had taken, a bandage stained red covering it.
"I suppose that's where we're heading?" Qrow asked while pointing towards a massive ship that was half the size of the mountains it was built inside.
Winter nodded. "The valkyrie. You should feel honored, Ironwood's kept this a secret to everyone, including Ozpin. You're the first outsider to learn of its existence." She said smugly.
Qrow chuckled, winter furrowing her brow. "What's so funny?" She asked.
"I bet he's compensating for something, seeing as how he makes everything so big." Qrow joked.
Winter, who usually would have chastised someone who had insulted Ironwood, snorted and bit her lip to avoid laughing.
Qrow took notice and chuckled. "Laugh Ice Queen, you should feel honored for having gotten to hear a Branwen pun." He said in a fake snarky high pitched voice, causing Winter to drop him and fall to her knees cackling, her face red, and tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Qr-Qrow! Enough enough! We need to keep moving!" She said through her laughter.
He sighed. "Fine...and I can walk by myself, I should be fine." He slowly and shakily stood, and gestured for her to follow.
Unbeknownst to them, not too far behind them, sensitive ears of all species listened to their conversation. Dark silver faces watched the two weary travelers, their faces devoid of emotion, all except for one that stepped forth.
This one's face was covered by a white mask. His hair was a dark red, and he wore completely black. "Have the infiltration teams commence the strike and to ready themselves for our guest." He said softly to one of the grey faces. It stood and revealed itself to be a Faunus woman. She seemed to almost vanish at incredible speeds as she raced to the Valkyrie.
4 days later
Qrow and Winter stood in front of the gate to the facility, remaining silent as they were processed. First they moved through a large gate that was at least nine inches thick, and electrified, most likely for Grimm. Then they went through a weapons scanner, showing they were armed, but licensed hunters. Finally they entered the facility through a gate guarded by 4 battle mech suits. (Like the one Torchwick used)
A man with grey hair met them once they were through. "My name is Zephyr Luna, I am the man in charge of the facility. Are you Winter Schnee?" He asked, his curly mustache wobbling with his words.
"Yes sir. It's a pleasure to meet you. I believe you know why we are here?" She asked.
He nodded and turned, while beckoning them to follow.
They both began to follow him when he stopped. "I'm afraid your friend has to leave ."
"WHAT?! But he was speci-"
"Winter. It's fine. I'll see you back at Atlas." Qrow said quickly.
"You can't be serious…" She said to him, her voice cracking a bit.
"I'll be okay. Have fun protecting the world Ice Queen." He held out his hand to shake hers, but she instead wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug.
"Take care of yourself Qrow…" She whispered.
"Yes ma'am." He said softly, before stepping back and turning to Zephyr. "Take care of her curlycue."
Zephyr chuckled and nodded, and they watched as Qrow was escorted out.
"Well. Shall we?" Zephyr asked.
About twenty minutes later they had entered the Valkyrie and were approaching the control room. Winter felt uneasy for some odd reason.
'What is wrong with me?' She asked herself. She felt like something was missing...she felt...empty.
"Something wrong ?" Zephyr asked.
"Oh uh, no sir, just thinking is all." She said with a forced smile.
He nodded and they stopped at a large silver door. He tapped a keypad and the door opened.
He led her inside and her eyes went wide with child like wonder.
Then in a flash the world went black, and she heard muffled snickering, her body felt heavy, and she couldn't move.
Zephyr chuckled and stepped towards a large empty cylinder in the center of the room. He placed the crystal inside and the ship hummed to life immediately.
A chair at the front of the room slowly turned and Adam Taurus smirked. "You captured me a Schnee, the crystal, and the most technologically advanced ship on the planet. I commend you." He said to Zephyr who bowed.
"'Twas a pleasure sir."
"Sadly you're human. And we don't work with humans, so I'm afraid our contract ends here." And in the blink of an eye Zephyr was sliced cleanly in two, Adam sheathing his sword. "Set course for Atlas, and ready the weapon systems, oh and...open fire on the human roaches you left alive."
His soldiers nodded and took their seats, as they began to do as ordered.
Adam turned to Winter's unconscious body and smirked. "I can't wait to play with you. I heard Schnee women are the tightest on the continent. I'd love to sa-"
"SIR INCOMING NEVERMORE, PORT SIDE!" One of the soldiers screamed just as a massive Nevermore rammed the ship.
Adam stood and ran to the window, looking down at the beast.
Qrow Branwen stood proudly on the beast's neck, Atlas soldiers climbing off behind him.
"Why must people always get in the way?" Adam asked himself softly. "Guard the bridge, I'm heading down to handle the huntsman."
In the three minutes it had taken for Adam to come on deck, chaos had erupted, and explosions had covered the deck with flaming shrapnel. Qrow was standing at the center of the shrapnel, sword in hand.
Adam stepped out of a porthole and smirked. "Just a simple huntsman, all alone. You could surrender now and I'll let you have a go at the Schn-"
"How about I tear your tiny little shrimp you've got hidden on a microscopic scale in your pants off and shove it down your throat, and then curb stomp your head straight to hell?" Qrow said terrifyingly calmly.
Adam went silent, taken aback. He sighed. "Very well, the hard way it is." He drew his sword and flew towards Qrow.
Qrow suddenly vanished and a bird was left in his spot, Adam sliding to a stop, confused.
"What the?"
Suddenly Qrow appeared above him, scythe drawn, slicing in a downward arc.
Adam lunged back, but was too late.
Adam dropped to his knee, as his left arm slid off his body. He howled in pain as Qrow walked up to him.
Qrow grabbed Adam's throat and crushed it, before kicking him in the genitals, which he proceeded to rip off and shove down Adam's crushed throat. He pushed him over and began to curb stomp his head in, white fang soldiers who were emerging to take care of the fires watching in horror. (Yeah. He did exactly that.)
Qrow turned to the soldiers and held up his scythe. "Where is she?"
Winter slowly regained consciousness. She could smell alcohol and smoke, and blood. She opened her eyes and realized she was being carried.
Qrow was holding her bridal style, and charging through the Valkyrie, as firefights raged all around them.
Qrow noticed she had woken and smiled down to her before glaring ahead, where a massive structure that was pulsing with massive amounts of energy.
"Qrow?" She looked up at him, confused. "Why are we in the reactor room?" She asked.
He sighed. "We're losing this fight, Grimm and White Fang are swarming the area, and this thing has enough energy to level the area and take out the White Fang and Grimm in the area...the only problem is…" He trailed off while looking down to her.
She locked eyes with him and realized his eyes were no longer hard and focused, but were sad, and scared.
"We won't survive either." She finished for him.
He nodded and sighed. "I'm gonna need your help, think you can walk?"
She nodded and he set her down, the two drawing their swords.
"Ready?" He asked her.
She nodded and the linked arms, swords pointing ahead.
"On three." Qrow whispered. "One."
She summoned a speed glyph under them.
"Two."
It flared with power.
"Three."
They flew at the reactor in the blink of an eye.
Winter closed her eyes as they flew, until she felt a boot on her stomach.
She opened her eyes and realized she was flying out of the ship.
"QROW!" She shrieked as Qrow was engulfed in flames.
Present day, 2 weeks after the hospital visit.
Winter was strolling through Beacon, she had just seen her younger sister Weiss, and her team, and was now exploring the building, following a certain familiar scent.
She had heard earlier in the day that a certain dusty old bird was hanging around the school, and she was determined to find him, for some reason wanting to see him very badly.
In the courtyard Ozpin and Qrow were chatting heartilly.
"So you're the reason there was so much smoke in the north." Ozpin said while chuckling.
"Yeah...I guess Winter was worried about me because I...tossed her out before I destroyed the reactor." Qrow said softly, his smile slowly disappearing.
Ozpin set his hand on Qrow's shoulder giving him a knowing look. "Take things slow Qrow, emotions are a tricky beast to control and understand. Make sure you're absolutely sure before doing anything."
Qrow sighed and his boyish smirk returned. "Thanks Oz. And...I'm sure."
Ozpin nodded to him and they looked out at the students who were relaxing on the slow day.
"So, a Schnee?" Ozpin said slyly.
Qrow felt a tinge of red dusting his cheeks and he punched the silver haired man in the shoulder. "Shut up, or I'll get 'Goodwitch'" He said the Headmaster's right hand woman's last name with quotations as he stared at the obvious wedding ring on Ozpin's finger.
"Oh hush." Ozpin chuckled and then straightened. "Good luck."
Qrow furrowed his brow and then suddenly felt arms wrapping around his neck.
"Qrow!" A woman's voice yelled out.
Qrow turned and to his surprise realized it was not Ruby who was hugging his neck, but instead, Winter was burying her face into the small of his back.
"Ice Q-Winter?" He asked, gently pushing her off and turning to face her.
She nodded and hugged him tightly, Qrow still very much confused.
"Why the hugs? And...what are you doing here?" He asked.
"I'm uh…." She noticed a few students staring and snickering and let go of him, stepping back and straightening her gown. "I'm here to view the festival. Might I ask what you are doing here?" She asked formally.
"Well...Ice Queen, I'm here to watch my niece Ruby Rose in the festival." He said as he pulled his flask from his pocket and took a large sip before putting it away.
She glared at the flask before turning her attention back to him.
"Splendid, would you like to join me in my private booth?" She asked, her cheeks now visibly had a slight dusting of pink.
Qrow shrugged. "Sure, hopefully It'll have better seats than that bar in Vale." He joked.
"Very well, here is a key card to allow you access, I'll meet you there tonight." She said softly as she handed him a blue card.
A few hours later Qrow entered the private booth overlooking the arena as he took a large sip of his flask.
In the room was a large mahogany table that had some very expensive wine, and two cups, a couch in the corner, and a few chair facing the Arena in front of the glass.
He walked over to the wine and picked it up, checking the date.
"It's the oldest and most expensive in my wine rack." Winter's voice came from behind him, but it seemed smaller, more...nervous?
Qrow turned to see that she was in a tightly fitting midnight black dress, and stockings, her heels next to the door, and her hair still tied back in a bow.
He chuckled. "Why such fancy wine for dusty old me?" He asked as he set it down.
"Because I owed you. For you know...getting me out of the Valkyrie." She said.
"Oh? Is that so? Just for that?" He asked softly as he began to slowly approach her.
She felt her cheeks burn red as she slowly began backing away. "Well….uh….I mean….no, but...uh….it's also because…." Her voice became softer and softer as he approached her.
She felt her back press up against the wall, and he was inches away from her.
"Because?" He asked softly, his breath surprisingly not reeking of alcohol.
"Because….I….want you." She whispered.
In a moment he was upon her, her breath hitching as he nipped and kissed down her neck, and soon over her collarbone, and before you knew it her dress was on the floor, and she was spread eagle on the table.
Down below, literally one floor in another private booth Ozpin and Glynda sat watching team RWBY's battle. Ozpin sipped his coffee, as Glynda stared at the ceiling, where WInter's moans, yelps, and cries of pleasure could be heard.
Soon the thumping began and Glynda turned to Ozpin. "I should probably have a wheelchair delivered to their room later, yeah?"
Ozpin shook his head. "Qrow may be one of the toughest men on Remnant but I know after they've finished he won't let her go anywhere without him, he's going to carry her everywhere."
Glynda nodded and went back to watching the battle below.
Upstairs about two and a half hours later Qrow and Winter were laying on the floor, a pillow under their heads as they clung to each other, drenched in sweat.
"Winter." Qrow said softly between his panting.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"I know this is a little late...but I.." He was stopped by her lips softly pressing to his.
"I know Qrow, and I feel the same way." She said softly.
He sighed in relief and held her close.
"Oh and Qrow,,," She said softly.
"Hm?"
"You're paying for a new table." She gestured to the mahogany table that was now splinters on the floor across the room from them.
"As long as I can take you on a date." He said with a smirk.
She chuckled. "Deal."
And that's it for now my lovelies, I know, this chapter probably seemed a bit rushed, but I have big plans for these two in coming chapters. See ya next time.
