A loud ringing noise awoke Winter from her slumber as she let out a low groan. She let the noise sink in for a minute before it got on her nerves and she stopped the noise by slamming the black alarm clock from across her bed. It was soon quiet, that was before someone started to bang on the main door of her apartment.

Apparently, she could've stayed at the school in one of the teacher's dorms. But she thought to herself. She would stay in the academy where students probably party and bang one another in the middle of the night. Yeah, that wasn't a very good idea. So the staff booked her a apartment instead. And it was one that only had a carpet spread and a outlet. So how did she fix this? She just used her leftover money to buy a bed and a clock, which took up all of her money. Just great. But she couldn't mop around at the minute. She had company.

She slugged her body over to the door across from her and opened it with a lazy motion that made the knob slam into the wall to make a new whole in it. Some people would think she was upset at the time, but nope. She just wasn't a morning person. But she had to be right now because the person who was knocking on the door was none other then General Ironwood, whose smile quickly turned crooked to the sight of the awoken lady.

"Good morning, Ms. Schnee." The man greeted nicely, making her beam up in surprise and bow down to him quickly while greeting back, "Morning, General!"

"Did you sleep well?"

"I slept perfectly well, sir."

"I'm glad you did," Ironwood stated. "Because today is the start of your tutoring with Ruby Rose, right?"

Ruby Rose. The girl that texted Winter earlier. She didn't know if the text made the young one think for a moment, but it sure as hell made her. Especially the part when she found out that she loved her. It made her think how she could overcome the problem if it gets worse. But she had just screwed up as it is. Not only that, but she left her general in a state of worry as he repeated himself with a raised eyebrow, "Right?"

The woman snapped right back into reality and answered, "Y-Yes, of course. I plan on getting these lessons into her thick skull."

"I know you will," He replied with a small smirk. "Well, you should get dressed. I got a cab for both of us to get to the academy."

"Oh, why thank you, General. I'll go right now. Please wait." Winter responded before the man agreed, walked outside the apartment and left the Schnee to a nice shower.

After getting dressed, Winter walked gracefully to the cab outside where Ironwood helped her inside of it before he went inside himself. Finally, the driver started up the car and drove the two to Beacon.

While they headed for Beacon, the Schnee looked out the window and thought back to the redhead from last night. Why in the world did she call her cute, she thought. The young girl probably thinks she's a pedophile now or even a rapist! But wait, how could she be a pedophile if she was only nineteen. No. That wasn't the point. Ruby must have got the wrong idea if she never text back. Or maybe she was just shy? She didn't know but she started to feel kind of sad for Ruby. Like she never had a boyfriend before. Or girlfriend? No, why would she lie to herself, of course she did. But did she want another? Due to affection or for fun? Oh, she just didn't know! The subject was just hurting her head so much! That was until Ironwood, again got her attention by clearing his throat.

"You seem a little. Stressed," He told her softly and sat up straight to have eye contact with his soldier. "What is it that bugs you?"

"Nothing, General. Is something troubling you by any chance?" She asked, trying to change the subject on him. She thought it wouldn't work, but to her surprise, it did and it made him think for a second before he told her,

"The owner of Tukson's Book Trade, Tukson? Was killed just yesterday." The subject finally caught Winter's attention in a heartbeat as she looked in horror. "Yes. And some of the soldiers think the White Fang had something to do with it."

"B-But that's impossible," The Schnee continued with a stutter as she quietly tried to turn her hurried breaths into slower ones. "Isn't he a faunus?"

"True, but the White Fang are very deadly people to the four kingdoms. They don't care who they hurt unless they get what they want."

"Maybe... But we can't just jump to conclusions. It could've been someone out of the White Fang. Maybe even a terrorist. Or maybe he's just-."

With the nod of his head, he interrupted to inform, "Yes, that is true. But White Fang or not, the person will be brought to justice. I. Really didn't want to tell you about it because you might want to help with catching the criminal. And. You might want revenge so badly now... But remember why you're here, Ms. Schnee. To help Ruby with her grades, nothing more. I do not want you to be stressed out right now. Until those grades go up, then I'll have you help out again, understand?"

Without any questions, Winter answered quietly, "Yes sir," before sitting back to look out the window again, this time with a expression filled of fright and sadness as the car fell into silence once more.

The adults finally got to the school where they headed straight for the class the redhead would be in. Outside, Winter seemed okay with the tutor concept. But inside, she was filled with fear. So much fear that she started to shake lightly at the thought of seeing how the redhead was doing right now. She was probably throwing paper balls like rocks at students or passing inappropriate notes. The list went on and on until Ironwood made them stop all of a sudden. Their stop caused by their arrival at the class. The door was shut, so that meant the class was probably in session. Which also meant she had to do something else! Maybe.

But they certainly didn't mean anything to Ironwood as he commanded her to walk right in, grab Ruby and wished her good luck before leaving.

Strike two.

The Schnee knew one thing was for sure. The General was very influential, but at the same time, kind of mean. She'll remember that the next time they meet up. But for now, she had to enter this classroom to get her pupil. Enter the classroom to get her pupil. Enter the classroom to start her first day for real. But what she had entered in was yet another version of hell.

What she found was students going crazy all around the place. A brown haired was messing with a bunny faunus while his friends were laughing. A blonde haired boy was reading a comic book with a red haired on the right of him. On the left of him was a orange haired girl was throwing paper planes while her friend was. Meditating? She didn't know. Finally, her eyes moved to Ruby with her team. She was actually studying to her surprise as the black haired girl next to her was reading a book in front of her, the blonde was playing a game on her scroll and her younger sister was studying quietly.

That was until her eyes moved up from her papers to find the woman in front of the door, causing her eyes and mouth to go wide and yell out in excitement, "Winter!", making all the students look at her like she was the main attraction. Instead of being happy that all the commotion stopped, the older Schnee was somewhat embarrassed about the call out to her. And it only got worse when she ran down from her seat above and hugged her older sister tightly. So tight that the woman almost lost her breath.

Yes, she was happy to see her sister again. No. More like excited. If it wasn't for the crowd of students in front of her, she would hug her right back! But she couldn't, that would be too much for her. So instead, she waited for her to notice what she was doing, which didn't take really long, and the young Schnee finally let go of her and greeted formally, "Your pressence honors us."

"Um, yes. Thank you," Winter replied quietly before eyeing all the teens and decided to call out to them, "Uh, hello, fellow students. I am Winter Schnee, and before you ask, yes, I am Weiss' sister... Um, hello again?" They all stayed silent that was until the red haired that was sitting next to the shaggy blonde greeted back with a hello again.

"That's Weiss' sister?!" The brown haired boy shouted more then questioned as he let go of the faunus he was holding by it's ears and acted sexually towards the woman. "You single?"

"... What is your name?"

"Uh, Cardin, beautiful."

"Well, yes, Cardin. I am single," She told him, causing the boy to smirk at her answer. That was until she continued, "But I'm the other way around or as you say it. Lesbian."

All of the students couldn't help but just freeze at her statement. Even Ruby. But Cardin, he did more then wide his eyes, he passed out. Yet that didn't phase the Schnee at all since she walked towards the redhead above from her, making them have eye contact. The young girl couldn't help but shake at how close they were. She was scared that she might hurt her or something, but instead, the older girl just smiled and whispered, "Hi, Ruby."

"H-Hi, Winter." The redhead stuttered to her in surprise.

"Wait, how do you know her?" Weiss questioned from behind her sister.

"I'm here to tutor her of course."

"What?! Is that really it?! I thought you would be on a huge mission or something."

The older Schnee turned to the young one and answered honestly with a sigh, "I thought so myself. But this just came naturally, I guess." She then turned to the redhead behind her and held out her hand lightly that it made the young girl jump a little. "Chill. I'm here to get you for tutoring... And to talk about what happened last night. So get your stuff. You're coming with me."

"Wha-."

"What?!" Weiss yelled out to Winter in disbelief and somewhat anger. "So you're just gonna leave?! Without even-."

"Without even introducing yourself to your student's teammates?" A voice chimed in from behind her out loud, causing the Schnee to turn to find a blonde haired girl wearing Beacon clothing. And just when Winter was about to question if she was part of Team RWBY. If she was the quiet one or the loud one. Her answer was quickly answered when the girl smirked and introduced herself loudly, "I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister!"

"Why hello, Yang. I have heard. A lot about you-."

"Yeah! Me too! So you're gonna be tutoring my sister, huh? Well, I'm just going to tell you that she likes her coffee. Cold." Winter should've realized she would have those horrible things around her. The activity that would kill her mentally while at Beacon. The horrible puns of Yang. But that wasn't it, nope. She also was too energetic, which was shown when she continued by saying, "You met Blake? Let's meet Blake. Blake! Say hello to Winter!"

The woman looked at the black haired faunus who looked slightly away from her book to examine the Schnee closely. To her, she didn't look really breath taking like other students had predicted her to be, she was just a older and wiser version of Weiss if you asked her. So in a annoyed manner, she just said hi in a low tone that made Winter just stay silent before it hit her that she had to take Ruby to go train. So she clapped her hands together and said out loud, "Thank you all for being... You. But I must get Ruby to her training."

"Sure, training~" Yang cooed in a dirty like manner that had Weiss punch her on the shoulder hard, yelling, "That's just dirty, you dunce!"

"Whatever, have fun, Ruby! Don't get hurt!"

"Uh, okay, Yang. I'll try not to-."

"Let's go. I'm on an invisible time limit." The older Schnee informed her before she rushed her right out of the room quickly. She actually thought the time in that room would've got worst, but it's a good thing she just rushed Ruby out of the room so they can get their training started. Yeah, she would have introduced herself back to the teens or at least talk for about a minute or two. But nope. Maybe she could do it later. But for now, she had to talk to Ruby about the lessons. About what happened last night. And how she feels about it.

Hope it doesn't go to hell.