Waking up and not knowing where you are was a very disorientating thing, Griffin looked around the white walls and bright lights of the small room gave no indication to where she was. Sitting on the floor in the corner of the room like a dirty smudge on the clean background was Talfryn. He was asleep bottle in hand but his presence comforted her, he wouldn't have let anything bad happen to her. A nurse entered she was obviously unhappy about the dirty man slumped in the corner.

"How long have I been out?" Griffin asked politely.

"Four days." The nurse replied.

"And him?" Griffin nodded to the prone body in the corner.

"He refused to leave; he alternates between sleeping, pacing around the room and drinking. Your other two teammates come in everyday to see you and clean up after him before restocking him with cheap beer."

Griffin smiled as she looked over at her teammate who had begun to snore. The nurse turned and walked out of the room leaving Griffin alone with her dreadlocked teammate, he was definitely out cold, weather it was due to fatigue or the contents from the bottle in his hands she didn't know. Lying her head back down on the pillow she went back to sleep.


Even though he appeared to be sleeping peacefully Talfryn's sleep was haunted by screams, the screams stopped as Griffin walked past him. He called for her but she walked away from him, he followed her. They were walking through the Emerald Forest, then through the corridors of Beacon. She came to a stop in the belly of the evacuation plane; she turned to face him as he approached her, flanking her was a legion of faces most of them nameless thugs but interspersed among them were people he knew. A bullet burst through Griffin's chest, her blood splattering his face, she began to scream once again…

Talfryn awoke dropping the bottle that was in his hand, the bottle rolled across the floor. He could feel blood on his face he wiped his face with his hands, as he bought his hands away from his face they were slick with red blood. He closed his eyes, opening them again slowly his hands were clean. Breathing heavily his hands shaking he got up from the floor and walked across the room to the basin on the far wall.

Griffin was still in the bed sleeping quietly, turning on the tap he splashed the water on to his face, he should listen to the advice Goodwitch gave him. His drinking was making his nightmares worse but he couldn't get to sleep without the fog of alcohol.

"Oi scruffy." Griffin whispered her voice weak. "Whatcha doing over there?"

"Nothing." Talfryn pushed the sound of Griffin's screaming out of his mind.

"Well get your ass over here." Talfryn grinned as he turned off the tap and walked over to the bed.

Griffin propped herself up against the headboard of the bed, as the man approached she wrinkled her nose. "God… when did you last wash?"

"Depends…"

"Depends on what?"

"What day is it?" He laughed as he asked the question.

"How should I know? I've been out cold for at least four days."

"Well going by that estimate…" Talfryn did a little calculation in his head. "About a week and a half."

"Seriously dude that's disgusting." Griffin laughed.

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"I want you to help me out of this bloody bed." Griffin offered him her hand.

As his rough calloused hands closed around hers Griffin winked at him, slowly Griffin got out of the bed supported by the rugged man. She draped her arm around his shoulders and he moved his arm around her lower back supporting her.

"Where are you getting me to take you by the way?"

"I need a shower and so do you… Do you catch my drift?" Griffin fluttered her eyelashes at him.

"I think I follow…"


Sabina and Harmonia walked along the bright corridor towards Griffin's private room in Beacon's infirmary. Ozpin and Goodwitch had decided that they couldn't wait any longer for the debrief of their last mission so had decided to have it at her bedside.

As the twins entered the room their two Professors turned to face them, Griffin's bed was empty as was the dirty corner Talfryn had made his home for the past few days.

"Ahh Sabina and Harmonia how nice of you to join us." Ozpin greeted them.

"Professors." The twins responded in synch. "Where are Griffin and Talfryn?" Harmonia asked.

"That was something we had hoped you would be able to shed some light on." Goodwitch responded.

They were not in Goodwitch's good books at the moment; well actually Talfryn wasn't in her good books especially since he had begun to refer to her as 'Grumpy'. Because of this Goodwitch was always in a bad mood when she was around them or had anything to do with them.

"We expect perfection from Beacon's 'finest' team, especially when you are tasked with missions of such a sensitive nature."

"Your position as the school's deniable operators is not something to be taken lightly…" Ozpin added.

Unfortunately at this moment Talfryn walked in his hair and clothes soaked through, with Griffin ridding on his back cheering like a maniac in an equally damp state.

"O hey Professor Ozpin, Professor Gru-Goodwitch how nice to see you." Talfryn cut himself short as Griffin bit his ear playfully. Walking over to the bed he deposited the girl before putting some distance between himself and Goodwitch, who looked like she was fully prepared to hit him with the riding crop she held. Thinking about Talfryn didn't think he would mind in she did…

Ozpin looked at all of them individually the ragtag bunch of misfits who were infamous in the school for a number of reasons, including all of them almost getting kicked out several times during their time at Beacon. Despite all this the 'Ghosts' as they called themselves had all graduated from Beacon at the top of their year and had been asked to stay on to help protect the Kingdom of Vale as a deniable operator team.

"As I remind you every time no record of your mission will ever be filed, you never left the city and know nothing of the events that took place, is that understood?" Goodwitch glared at Talfryn, "As always you have all have alibies, please stick to them…" Talfryn and Griffin both received a dirty look from the Huntress as they grinned at eachother.

"The documents you recovered contained extremely sensitive information regarding the takeover of a military base by the White Fang and the development of a Dust powered weapon. We have teams working on obtaining more information and the necessary precautions are being made." Ozpin took a second to pause before finishing, "The information you recovered may help to maintain the balance of peace in Vytal." The headmaster of Beacon then turned on the spot and left without another word.

"You are dismissed." Goodwitch added drawing a conclusion to the debriefing before also leaving.

As Goodwitch left Griffin caught Talfryn staring at the older Huntress. "You dirty bastard you were imagining her naked again weren't you?"

The Huntsman didn't deny it because he had been; shooting Griffin a wicked grin he winked at her.

She didn't care about what was going on in the Sniper's head; they weren't actually together so he could do whatever the hell he wanted. What she took offense to was how quickly his mind would switch from her to someone else.

"I'd tap that." Harmonia added.

"What? She's freaking terrifying." Her sister rebuked.

"Exactly…"

"Harmonia." Griffin interrupted.

"Yeah…"

"Too much information…"

Harmonia shrugged, "At least I'm subtler than you two." She said pointing at Griffin and Talfryn.

"Come on sis stop giving her a hard time." Sabina spoke up, "She managed to get him in a shower that has to count for something."

The girls shared a laugh at the long running joke the team had.

"So Griffin, when are you getting out?" Harmonia asked.

"I dunno." Griffin replied, "Probably not today."

"That's a shame we thought now you're back in the land of the living we could go out for drinks, but I guess we could go without you." Harmonia smirked.

"Like hell are you leaving me behind!" Griffin roared.

"So it's a breakout then…" Talfryn concluded.


Sup guys? Sorry to anyone who's been waiting on this chapter but I have been swamped with uni work so have only had time to work on my other story. No promises of a quicker release of the next chapter but I'll do my best. Anyway look after yourselves, as always any reviews are appreciated and if you have any questions PM me, see you around!