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"Ruby, what happened?"

Ruby knows it doesn't look good. To be honest, she isn't sure herself. One moment she was holding the grimm in her arms and the next the grimm turned into a boy with fuzzy dog ears poking out of his head and a tail from behind. Shame and embarrassment rushed through her when she realised the grimm-err, faunus now (?) was naked, harshly dropping him to the snow. When she managed to calm her furious flush, she had unhooked her cloak and draped it on the boy to cover his dencency and called her father.

Taiyang darts his eyes from Ruby, to the boy and then to the empty field and back to Ruby.

"I-errr-" Ruby scrambles to find a coherent explanation that made sense. "There was this boy and then there were the beowolves and then we were fighting and he-" Ruby gestures wildly to the boy and melts into gibberish.

Taiyang sighs, sliding his hands over his face and gazing heavenwards as if it could provide an answer. It didn't. He crouches down to the boy, lifting the cloak.

"He's naked," Taiyang says.

"Yup."

"Why is he naked?"

Ruby hesitates. She could say that the boy just transformed from being a grimm. But her dad was a huntsman. Huntsman killed grimms. And Ruby really came to like Mister Wolf, even if they knew each other for, like, thirty minutes. And Ruby really didn't want Mister Wolf to die.

So she lies.

"N-No idea," Ruby stutters out.

Her father sends her a sharp look that Ruby averts, staring out to her father's Jeep parked not too far away. "He's covered in blood."

Ruby noticed that before her dad got here. Blood had matted his hair, splayed on his cheek, crusted beneath his triangular fingernails and some of it leaked out from his mouth. Cuts, some of them looking deep, were sliced through skin. But as Ruby glimpses at the body now, taking care to keep her eyes above his waist, they healed, clear unmarked skin visible.

"The beowolves," Ruby supplies. "There was a lot of them."

"Right. Okay." Taiyang grunts as he picks up Mister Wolf, lugging him over his shoulder. "Let's get outta here."

"Sure!" Ruby picks herself, wobbling a bit as she comes to her feet and follows after her father.

Ruby's dad drops the boy on the couch and heads to the kitchen to grab some supplies. Blood, from the boy and on her cloak, seeps onto the couch. Well, it wasn't as if the couch was a stranger to bloodstains from the other faded dark stains on the fabric. This was why they had plastic covers underneath.

Mister Wolf really appeared to be human, save for the ears and the red lines sweeping underneath his eyes like paint strokes. Freckles dusted his cheeks and the rest of his sun-tanned body. A thin, precise scar was etched above his nose. His hair, a dark chestnut colour, was all messy and sticking up at angles. Mister Wolf seemed her age, with baby fat still clinging to his cheeks.

The early morning filtered in through the blinds, casting everything, including the boy, in a golden light. He somehow seemed … cute through all the blood on him. Ruby blushes again and distracts herself with the thought that they really should get the blood off him.

Zwei wakes up from his bed in the longue and pads curiously towards Ruby and the boy. The dog's gaze settles on Mister Wolf, tilting his head before crouching on. The dog growls, spooking Ruby. Zwei was usually very friendly. If Zwei was ever hostile, it was because he had good reason to be. Could he tell that Mister Wolf was a grimm?

Ruby holds her arms up, trying to calm him. "Easy, boy. This one's a friend. I think."

"You know anybody that would come to pick him up?" Taiyang calls from the kitchen, grabbing a rag and throwing it at Ruby who catches it deftly.

Did Mister Wolf have anybody? He was all by himself when Ruby found him. Maybe he had a pack. Grimms sometimes tended to act like the animals their forms looked similar to. "I don't know. There wasn't anybody else there and he didn't say about friends or family."

That wasn't exactly a lie.

Ruby dabs at the boy's cheek gently. Only the blood that's still damp is cleared away. The rest seems to have crusted. Mister Wolf will need a shower. Can he use a shower?

Eyes snap open. The eerily human eyes were the first thing that Ruby noticed after the grimm's large size and tell-tale bone mask. All grimms were supposed to have glowing red eyes. But this one had eyes bursting with brown, yellow and green.

Mister Wolf sits up like a gunshot, head swinging from side side fast enough to give anybody whiplash. A series of noises escape his throat, sounding like Zwei whenever he was confused. Speaking of Zwei, the growls had erupted into barking, the dog primed for an attack. Mister Wolf stands, shaking unsteadily at his knees. His mouth twists in a snarl, revealing a row of very sharp canine teeth before barking with a furious volume that makes Ruby flinch.

"Hey! That's enough!" Taiyang yells, storming in from the kitchen. He holds the first aid kit in a grip that turns his knuckles white.

Zwei backs away behind Ruby, whining in contempt. Mister Wolf squints his eyes at Taiyang distrustfully, his body still ready for an attack. Taiyang holds his hands up, the gesture mirroring what Ruby only minutes ago, trying to calm Mister Wolf's feral mood.

"We're not going to hurt you," Taiyang says. "We just wanna help you, that's all."

"Yeah!" Ruby pipes up, drawing Mister Wolf's attention as he snaps his eyes to her with razor sharp focus. It's enough to unnerve her and take a careful step back. "Trust us."

Mister Wolf seems to recognise her as his face flickers with understanding. He relaxes slightly, shoulders slumping. His calm only lasts for a few seconds until he begins to blink rapidly, incoherent sounds slip out of throat. Mister Wolf loses balance, knees giving out to slam back into the couch.

"Whoa, there!" Taiyang urges.

"Easy!" Ruby squeaks.

Mister Wolf props himself up unsteadily with one arm. He holds one hand, turning it over slowly. He gazes at the limb with wonder and confusion and up to Ruby. What is going on is what his face is saying.

Ruby shakes her head in the same uncertainty Mister Wolf is drowning in.

A yawn breaks through the tension building up in the air. Yang steps down from the stairs, hair a mess and in her pajamas. She blearily takes in the situation and rubs at her eyes, scraping off the crust there.

"Wazz 'appenin'?" Yang asks.

Ruby can only shrug at her. "I have no idea."