Driving down to the docks in one of the school's mini buses, Andrew was in the middle of a small rage building up inside him. He had received a call almost twenty minutes ago, from the Vale police department about a group of students being involved in a criminal incident and needed to be collected. They had been questioned by the police so just wanted to be taken back to the school where Andrew planned to interrogate them himself but fortunately for the students Ozpin had requested that he didn't do that.

He pulled up to the docks and parked the bus near the entrance and got out of it, slamming the door behind him. He marched over to two police men and almost shouted at them

"Professor Tinman from Beacon. I believe you have some of my students, where are they?!" The two turned to look at him and when they saw his face went quite pale. Andrew knew that his features were not widely accepted by the general population but didn't care about that, he just wanted an answer.

"They're erm… over there. Sir." One of them said while pointing to an area of the docks. Andrew looked over to where the man had pointed and saw a group of very familiar girls standing around some shipping crates.

"Thank-you." He said, already moving passed them at some speed. When he got closer to them, he noted that there was another student there as well, a male Faunus with blond hair and a monkey's tail. Funny, don't remember any students like that at Beacon he thought but this soon passed from his mind when he was within grabbing distance of the girls.

"I'm still not quite sure how a feel about you!" Weiss said and pointed a finger at the young man who laughed nervously.

"Wait where's…" Ruby didn't get time to finish her sentence as she saw Andrew standing behind them. "Erm…... guys" she said grabbing their attention and when they all turned to see what the problem was, each one of the girls froze. Andrew was still angry, and his cybernetic eye had picked up a glitch through its hasty installation into his head where it would change colour depending on his emotional state. Normally it would be white but when he was mad, it would appear bright red and this is what they were all staring at now.

"Hello team RWBY. Now what's this about a dust heist I've heard so much about evening and your involvement in it? A word of warning though, if I don't get an answer that I find acceptable then we're going to have a serious problem." He never raised his voice, but it was different than normal as it was far gravellier and aggressive as though he was looking for any excuse for a shouting match.

"Hay don't look at us, we've only just got here!" Yang said while pointing at Weiss and herself, so Andrew simply turned his head to face Blake and Ruby.

"Well I wasn't technically here for all of it, I came here when I heard an explosion and these guys were well into their fight by the time I arrived." Ruby answered as she shifted on her feet. This left one person to answer and Andrew slowly turned his head towards Blake, his silent look showing that he was waiting for her to explain herself however the boy spoke first.

"Well I'll tell you what happened, we kicked butt! We came here because we were expecting these guys to come and steal a load of dust so we…." He was speaking for Blake, but Andrew wasn't interested in what he had to say and instead razed his cybernetic finger to point at to him

"You sit down and shut up for the time being! I'll get to you in due course." His voice sounded almost evil and this was enough to shut the boy up as well as to make him sit down very quickly. Once Andrew was sure that the boy wouldn't interrupt again, he looked back to Blake.

"As he said, we found out about this heist and thought we could stop it which we did."

"I see. If you found this out, then why didn't you inform the authorities or a huntsman? This is not something young STUDENTS should be doing in their down time." Blake looked right back at him in defiance.

"So I should have just turned a blind eye to this! As a huntress, it's my duty to stop people like them!" Andrew could tell that this was more than a simple heist they had "stumbled" across, there was something more to this and he wouldn't get any more out of her on that in her current state.

"You're a huntress in training! Not a full huntress yet!" he retorted

"That didn't matter to them! I found a problem and I fixed it, there was no time to go through the proper channels!"

"That's not the point! My point is that you are a student and you shouldn't have done this without any kind of back up!" Blake changed her face realising why her professor was angry. Andrew walked up to her and placed his real hand on her shoulder, now his eye had changed back to its white colour again. "You are my student and I don't want to see you get hurt when it could have been avoided. Are you all right Miss Belladonna?" She wiped away a tear and was starting to calm down now so replied

"I'm fine, nothing a bit of rest won't cure." She was smiling but it looked forced.

"Then that's all that matters right now." He heard a sigh of relief come from the other girls, but he wasn't finished with them yet. "However, in the future you must all promise me that if you come across anything like this again then you will inform me or another hunter. Understand?" He said the last part while turning to face the rest of the team causing the girls to all answered in unison with a

"Yes sir."

"Good. Now into the mini bus, I'm taking you back to Beacon."

"Does that include me?" Said the boy with a razed hand

"And you are Mr…."

"Sun Wukong but you can just call me Sun." Andrew looked him up and down and couldn't remember a student by that name so figured he was a visiting student from another kingdom so asked

"Well Mr Wukong, are you a Beacon student?"

"Nope, Haven. Came for the tournament."

"Then in the bus." His voice going back to its darker tone which Sun picked up on instantly.

"Yep, sure, I'll just go and get in the bus." Sun and the girls started their walk towards the bus and Andrew followed behind them as to make sure they went where they were told to, he was still a little uncertain about Blake's intentions right now though. She was definitely hiding something, and it was more than the fact she was a Faunus. Through his cybernetic head piece, he could hear Sun whispering to Blake

"So, is he always like this? He seems like a bit of an ass-hole." Blake smiled and kept walking

"He's not a bad person, he just really cares about his students. Also, I think I should warn you that he can probably hear us." Sun stopped moving and slowly span on his back foot to stare at Andrew who half-smiled back while he nodded proving Blake's point. Sun laughed nervously

"Thanks for the heads up." He whispered sarcastically back at Blake and then turned back around and proceeded to walk towards the bus with the others. Once they were all at the bus Andrew nodded for them all to get in and unsurprisingly, they all choose to sit nearer to the back than the front. He couldn't help but smile as even though the girls had known him for a few months now, they still seemed to be nervous around him. He then got in himself and started up the engine

"Not the coolest thing to be driving around in teach. Couldn't you have come in something a little classier?" Yang shouted from the rear of the bus.

"Yes I could have. But it only seats two and driving around Vale with students strapped to the room of my car would have raze a few questions." He replied as he leaned back in his seat. This did elicit a small laugh from the girls and a puzzled look from Sun and with that he drove them back to Beacon.

The ride was not long and nothing much if anything was said just as Andrew guessed and this was because he knew the girls didn't want him hearing anything else that might get them in trouble. They transferred to an air transport ship for the last leg of the journey and once they arrived at Beacon, they all bailed out of the vehicle.

"Right Mr Wukong, which school do you say you hail from again?" Andrew asked the young man

"Haven, you know the one from Minstrel."

"I believe I do yes. That means you're in the building forth lane down and about half way in. Miss Schnee, since you are a representative of this school would you mind escorting our guest to his temporary abode." Weiss smiled and replied

"Love to." With just a hint of sarcasm in her voice directed at Sun rather than Andrew.

"I think you should all retire to your rooms for the night as well." Andrew advised and the other three girls nodded as they turned to leave but Andrew then reached out and placed a hand on Blake's shoulder causing her to stop abruptly. "Not you Miss Belladonna. Professor Ozpin would like a word with you first."

"Hay if he wants to speak to her then we're all coming!" Yang shouted at Andrew, making all the students pause.

"No you're not. This is just for Miss Belladonna alone. Don't worry, I can promise you that she will be fine and returned to you before you go to bed." He could tell that Yang was considering digging her heals in on this one but thankfully her partner Blake spoke up

"I'll be fine Yang, if professor Tinman says that I'll be back soon then I will." She was honest, sincerer and above all trusting. Andrew turned to look at her and was surprised by this, most students found it difficult to even speak to him so having one trust him was very unusual. Yang relaxed and then smiled.

"Well if you say so that's fine with me too" and with that she grabbed Ruby and left for their room. "Don't be late!" She called back and Blake gave a small smile in response. Weiss continued off with Sun to his room leaving Andrew and Blake alone in the courtyard. Andrew patted Blake on the shoulder, and she looked up at him.

"Come Miss Belladonna, we'd better not keep professor Ozpin waiting." With that Andrew led Blake off to where he had been told to take her. When they reached the room, Andrew opened the door and let her in.

"Take a seat. The head master will be with you shortly." She smiled and went to sit down. Andrew closed the door and waited outside for Ozpin to arrive. Not five minutes later Ozpin came down the corridor, mug and cane in hand as he walked up to Andrew.

"Evening Andrew, I trust Miss Belladonna is inside?"

"Yeah, picked her up about half an hour ago. I can tell you now though she's not in much of a talkative mood."

"That is just her nature. I'll have a chat with her, you never know, I might get her to open up where you wouldn't." Andrew scoffed at that.

"You want me in there with you?" Ozpin shook his head

"No not this time. Just wait outside for now, I may need you for something else when we've finished though." Andrew nodded then opened the door and let Ozpin in and shut the door behind them.

For what felt like hours he waited for them to finish talking but knew that if Ozpin didn't want him in there and to remine out here then there must be a reason. He started to wonder if the heist was more than just a normal heist, could it be connected to the current dilemma that they themselves were dealing with? Eventually the door opened, and Ozpin came out

"So did she say anything?" Andrew asked which made Ozpin sigh.

"Nothing I didn't already know, you were right about her. She is very cagey and certainly in no mood to tell us anything. Hiding who she is only the surface of what she is keeping secret."

"Faunus can be like that Ozpin. Just as we humans can be cruel, so they do have reason for it." Ozpin patted Andrew on his arm and walked of the way he came. "Hay don't you need me for something?" without stopping Ozpin said

"Not now, I'm sorry my friend. You can leave, goodnight." Andrew tilted his head and after a few seconds replied

"Sure, no problem. Goodnight sir." Then he opened the door to the room, Blake hadn't even change one bit since she first went in there. "You can go now Miss Belladonna." She looked up, then got out of her chair and preceded to walk to the door. Andrew let her pass and she gave him a forced smile again.

"Thank you, Professor." Her voice was very quiet to a point where he could hardly hear it as she walked passed him. Andrew decided he couldn't let her walk away like that.

"You shouldn't be so hard on Professor Ozpin, he's one of the few people who is trying to make a difference in the world and make it a better place. It's difficult though as my kind have shown we are not the most trustworthy or open of people towards yours." Blake stopped but didn't turn around.

"You know as well? When did you find out or did Ozpin just tell you?" Her tone was very accusing as it was clear she didn't like people knowing what she was, it was then that Andrew noticed her clench her fists.

"I've known what you are since the evening I first saw you." Blake then turned around to face him. Andrew sighed and then tapped his cybernetic part of his head. "Sorry Miss Belladonna but this thing is a very good scanner and it can quite easily see through that little black bow. I did not mean to invade your privacy which is why I never said a word or told anyone else." Blake's head fell forward

"Well thank you for not doing that sir." She groaned then continued "Look Professor Ozpin has already talked to me about this and I'll tell you what I told him. Your kind have not been very welcoming with mine, so I'll hide who I am for the time being."

"Fair enough, just remember that for every human like Cardin Winchester there is always another like Professor Ozpin. We only want to help."

"Easy for you to say. No offence sir, I know you look different, but you are still human and you can't understand how a Faunus feels being discriminated against from the moment they are born. If you did, then you might know why I can't simply show who I am to everyone." She then turned back around and started to walk away. Once again Andrew felt like leaving it like this would only damage their relationship as student and teacher so made one last attempt to reach out to her.

"Your right Miss Belladonna, I have no idea what it's like being a Faunus in your situation. But my wife did." Blake stopped instantly, the last step echoing down the corridor being the only sound that could be heard. She once again turned to face him but this time her face was shocked from hearing him say such a thing.

"What did you say?" she gasped.

"My wife was a Faunus Miss Belladonna and she spent her whole life fighting for fair rights for all of her kind and for one day both human and Faunus to coexist in peace." Andrew very rarely mentioned his wife as her memory was linked to others inside his head of pain, torment, and sorrow but he could see that this was the only way to help Blake open up to him. She walked back over to him, cautiously.

"You married a Faunus? I know it happens but it's rare. Why?" Andrew let out a small laugh

"Why does anyone get married, I fell in love with her. She was the love of my life, my soul mate and best friend. I didn't care what she was just as she didn't care what I was, all that mattered was that we wanted to be together for the rest of our lives."

"But the way how humans view Faunus must have meant they thought even less of you! You didn't care one bit!?" Andrew laughed again but then saw that Blake was being deadly serious.

"It's true that I received a fair share disapproving looks and foul-mouthed remarks but to me all I saw was the woman I loved. No matter what people said or did was ever going to change that." Blake look completely shocked by what he was telling her.

"I find it difficult to believe that you married a Faunus, how do I know if you're telling me the truth and not something I want to hear?" even though she had trusted him earlier she was now more sceptical of what he had to say.

"Because I'm a terrible lair. Professor Ozpin can attest to that." He noticed she was still unsure about what to think about this. "I respect you too much to make up such a story just so you would speak to me, from one outcast to another it is the truth."

"You've never mentioned her before. What happened to her?" Andrew suddenly felt a knife in his heart.

"She…... died Miss Belladonna some years past." Blake covered her mouth.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry! I was just curious!" Andrew had to stop himself form laughing as a particular saying came to mind about curiosity and cats but to his credit, he held it in.

"It's fine, you didn't know." He looked down and sighed as a few happy memories came to the surface of his mind. "I wish you could have met her, you two would have got on very well together. The only problem was that you are a cat and she was, well, a wolf." Blake smiled and even chuckled a bit

"Just because we look like cats and dogs doesn't mean we'd start growling at each other you know." Andrew laughed a little as well

"Yeah, I know, she would have hit me on the back of my head for that comment." They both smiled at each other and then Andrew continued. "When we first became a couple, I found out what Faunus had to go through for just being themselves and after a while I found myself having far more in common with them than my kind. So yes, I'm not a Faunus but I do know a thing or two about why you hide who you are but please don't think there is no one on your side. As long as you are a student here, I will always be there for you and even after you graduate, I'll still be watching out for you." Blake's eyes seemed to water up, but no tears came out and just before Andrew could say anything else, she closed the gap between them and gave him a hug. He was completely taken back by this although he didn't push her away and instead after a hesitant moment hugged her back. Finding out that he was married to a Faunus proved that he was a human she could truly trust and in time Andrew hoped he could help her with her issues but that would be at her choosing, one step at a time.

"I'm sorry professor, for what I said." She wasn't crying however she did seem to be on the verge of tears. Andrew broke the hug and held her shoulders

"You have nothing to apologise for. You are one of my favourite first year students, not to mention one of the best in your year academically, and like all my students you know that my door is always open. Now you'd better get back to your team before they wonder what's happened to you and you can bet Miss Xiao Long will come gunning for me." Blake laughed and wiped her eyes which were a little red.

"Yes sir." She then went to walk away, and Andrew went and walk the other way down the corridor when he suddenly heard Blake say

"Thank you, Professor Tinman." Andrew smiled and simply waved his real hand in acknowledgement and both continued walking.

When he reached the exit to the building, he walked out into the cool night with the moon light overhead. He only took one step before he heard a voice

"Well done Andrew, you did just what I needed you to do." Andrew span around and looked straight at Ozpin standing to one side.

"So that's what you wanted me to do." He said when he put two and two together. Ozpin was smiling at him

"You are a special person Andrew and if the rest of the world viewed itself like you do then this would be a true time of peace."

"You knew that I would feel bad for her and try to help her and after doing so she might be more responsive of humans in general."

"Not entirely. I knew she needed someone closer to her problems to help her see that there is always someone you can rely on to help you get through them." Andrew was kicking himself for not realising sooner but that was the way Ozpin worked and it was one of the things he like about him.

"You could have just told me to do that you know?"

"I could of, but I find that you work far better on your feet then when you have time to prepare."

"Thanks, I think?" Ozpin smiled as he took a sip of his coffee.

"It was a compliment Andrew. So, do you think she'll say anything else?"

"I don't think she will say any more about tonight to me but with some more time I might be able to get her to take the bow off." Ozpin then smiled and walked away from Andrew and off to his home. Andrew decided to do the same but as he looked down, he saw his jacket had two small damp patches on it from where he hugged Blake.

"She did cry but only a little." As he walked back to his flat, he thought about what was said but then remembered her thanking him. He also remembered Ruby doing the same thing and couldn't figure out why she said it either.

"I must be imagining things" he said to himself and carried on walking, looking forward to a nice warm bed.