Waking up, for once Connor had light in his eyes. Instead of the dead grey that they usually seemed, now they were full of life. Why you may ask, because it's Hope's birthday, October 5th. And on her birthday, he will do anything to make her happy. But they had lessons today, so all that could wait until later.

The last class of the day for him was with Glynda. Connor mostly sat, and observed all others as they fought. But today he was being tested for some reason, so he had to fight. His opponent, Will Hammerfall.

"You may begin when ready."

"Best of luck Will."

"Thanks, but I won't need it." With that he pulls out his hammer and immediately changes it to mini gun form, and opens fire. But Connor wasn't there.

"Behind you," Will hears as a whisper. Switching to hammer he tries to hit him. Suddenly Connor is behind him and all the way across the stage. "Big, slow, but powerful. Good for taking down somebody as slow as you, or mowing down a crowd, but not the best for a single target."

"Stand still you fucker." Again Will tries to shoot him.

"That I will not do." And Connor appears to almost be teleporting around the stage, mocking his target, he hadn't even drawn his weapon yet. That is until he disappears, "I'm getting bored, lets end this, shall we?"

At that will starts looking around all frantic, almost like a cornered animal. "Where the hell are you!?"

"Here." Connor suddenly appears in front of Will, well more like he flickers into being. Crouched down low, he moves to the side and keeps going as Will goes for a downward smash. Doing a pivot on one foot, Connor is now behind Will. Delivering a kick to the back of the knee, sending him down on one, Connor then punches Will at the base of the. With that Will just falls forwards unconscious, and Connor walks of the stage with his cloak around him, as though nothing happened.

Later Will was sitting next to Connor, after he had woken up of course, and was rubbing his neck like he had a headache. "Dude, when did you get like that?"

"What do you mean."

"I mean how were you able to take me out so easily? You were never like that during practice."

"I was going easy on you then, not here."

"Why?"

"You need to set a goal sometimes. Now you know how far you need to go, if you wish to defeat me."

"Yeah, a long way."

Later at supper, Hope was looking all around expectantly. "Hey Hope, what are you looking for?" asked Reyna.

"Oh… I'm looking for Connor, usually he does something really nice for me on my birthday."

"Well happy birthday," said Will. Reyna just agreed.

"Sorry we didn't get you any presents, if we had known we would have," said Reyna.

"We would?" getting an elbow in the ribs at that, he quickly nodded his head. "Yeah, we would." He then looked to Reyna in a please don't hurt me way. This elicited a small laugh from Hope.

With Connor, he is currently looking for a gift for Hope. He had already gotten her cake, chocolate with a lot of frosting on it. Now he just needed to find her a gift. 'Clothes? No she wouldn't like that. Weapons? No she won't accept any, other than the ones she has of course. Stuffed animal? She would like that, but it would be hard to carry around everywhere, and would last for ever.'

Then, as he was walking past a jewelry store. He stopped, went back, and turned to look through the window. "Perfect."

Walking back to the dorms. Hope was quite gloomy, she hadn't seen Connor at all during supper. "It's okay Hope," said Reyna trying to cheer her up. "Maybe something came up and he couldn't make it."

"No, he's always there on my birthday. Even if he was off somewhere recently, he's always there for my birthday." Hope looked like she was about to cry once more, so Reyna pulled her in close as they kept walking. Will was just hanging out in the back, unsure of what to do in this kind of situation.

When they got back. Just as they were opening the door, Hope let out a gasp of surprise. She rushed in before the others could see. As they followed her in they were confused to say the least. There was a small cake sitting on top of the bookshelf, under the window. And on top of said cake was a letter that Hope was now reading.

"Here's the cake he always gives me. But where's Connor?"

"Right here." They all turn around and see him standing there, in front of the doorway, as though he had been there the whole time. Hope jumped into his arms, giving him a great big hug. The other members of the team were confused as hell. They were wondering the same thing where did he get the cake? Where was he just now? And most importantly: Connor has emotions, since when?!

"Before I forget, here's your present." And pulled from somewhere inside his cloak, a small long box. Inside was a necklace. Said necklace seemed to be made of silver chains, and around the front were three gems, each seemed to reflect the light, but it was almost as though the middle gem was shining. "That necklace comes with a little surprise as well."

"What is it?!"

"Now if I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise then, now would it?" Hope had already put on the necklace, and was practically beaming. This in turn elicited a small, almost tired smile from Connor. As though the weight of the world had just been lifted off his shoulders.

"Now are we gonna eat this cake, or let it grow old?"

"Cake!" yelled Hope as she rushed to it. This earned a small laugh from Connor.

"Hold on let me cut it before you dive face first into it. And try not to eat all of it, we have other people here as well."

Later they were all sitting down eating cake, Connor one slice, Will and Reyna one or two, and Hope demolished the rest. "Okay Hope one more present."

"Oh! Where is it!?" she said a mouth still full of cake.

"Not that kind. You get to ask me any three questions you can, and I will answer them to the best of my abilities."

Swallowing the last of the cake she asked, "What were mom and dad like?" She asks that same question every year, but she never tired of hearing the answer.

"Lets see, dad was tall and strong. He had the same semblance as me, where we go berserk. He was always putting us through some sort of training, but he always cared for us, and had a soft spot for mom."

"Mom was, a little shorter than dad but she was beautiful. She was always kind and never raised her voice, that is until she was on the battlefield, then nothing could stand before her. She even had the same semblance as you. Both of them put family before all else. Next question."

"Why can't I remember anything before we started going to school?"

"I'm not sure about that one. My best guess is you merely forgot everything, the things you experienced then were too much for you, so you just forgot. It's like a way of protecting yourself I guess. Last question."

"What was so terrible that I had to forget."

Suddenly his voice got quite on this one. "Death, so much Death. Too much for anyone that young to experience. Well that, is your last question." His voice suddenly becoming cheerful again on the last part.

Will and Reyna had been quite the entire time until now. "Wait you have emotions?!" said Will, still surprised.

"Of course, after all I am human."

"It's just…"

"We thought you might have none since you show so little of it," said Reyna.

"Well surprise. Now that all this is done, I'm going to read." That said Connor pulled a giant ass book off of the shelf like it was nothing, and it's as big as his head. Nobody else had touched because it was Connor's, and it had no title.

Later, long after everyone else had fallen asleep, the curtain was across the room, and Connor was still reading from that giant book of his. It wasn't exactly for reading, more for learning, or in his case, remembering. Connor could remember when he got each piece of info with his friends, every single adventure they ever had, it was kind of like a scrapbook for him.

Then as he closed the book and was about to pull out the video recorder, Jess appeared. "That was awfully nice of you today. It was nice, and it has been a long time since I've seen you smile like that. I think the last person you were like that to, was me before I died."

"Yeah, today was nice. Hey, wanna join in the video log?"

"Will I show up on it?"

"Probably, but if someone watches it and doesn't see you they'll think I'm crazy. But that's nothing new." Getting a small laugh from Jess, she agreed and moved into view of the recorder.

"And welcome to another update. Today is October 5th, Hope's birthday. Again she devoured the cake, and got another present."

"Tell them about me"

"Oh yeah! With me I have the beautiful Jess. It's been a long time since you've last seen her in this, but she is back as a ghost. Though if you ask me, she is still alive and kicking."

"Stop that," she said giving him a small punch.

"See? Anyways not much else to day. I kicked the ass of one of my teammates again. But that's about it. So until next…" and the screen went blank after that.

AN: And another chapter. You get to see the soft side of Connor here. And I must say, one of the few times you see it. Now next chapter, episode 16 and how only Connor is involved in it. After that it will really start to go away from what the story line for RWBY might be.

Connor: Will we see anyone I might meet soon? Because I'm getting kind of bored in here with just you.

Block31: Of course, well maybe. I might fit a character you see in chapter 9 in here some how.

Connor: What do you mean maybe?

Block31: It might be a good idea in my head at first, but once I start typing, a lot of things change. For example, that necklace you gave Hope, I never planned that.

Connor: So I might see somebody else?

Block31: Correct, well that's all the time we have today folks.

Connor: What are talking about?

Block31: Until next time, Bye!