Time to be an evil bastard… well more evil… is that possible? Gonna find out. But regardless I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 14:
Yang was shocked. She wasn't sure if she should go and get into a fight with the raven haired girl. Beat Sun to death for keeping it a secret. Or be mad at her sister, who meanwhile took to sitting on the floor drawing while Yang paced trying to compose her thoughts. The only reason she had not freaked out to new extremes was because Coco was sitting on the couch, laughing at the situation.
"Not that I don't like operas but don't I get a say about me going!? Or even my sister's date!? Please tell me you're at least going?" Yang asked the brunette who's laughing had died down partially.
"Yes I'm going. Ruby asked me for you and I said yes. Consider it payment for causing me to worry. I'll take you out for a nice dinner, we will meet Ruby and Blake there, and we will get to enjoy the opera." Coco spoke as she could see Yang take a seat next to her.
"Since when have you liked operas? Because if I remember right you confused Beethoven and Mozart when we first woke up next to each other." Yang asked resting her head on Coco's shoulder. "Well, I've just been exposed to it so much, I've developed a taste for it. So either just enjoy it, or I'm going to become cross and you'll sleep on the couch." Coco stated as she rested her head atop of Yang's.
"You can't possibly do that in my own house… can you?" Yang asked moving her head partially to look Coco in the eye, or attempt to. "You forget how much your sister and dad are willing to do to help me punish you." Coco stated as she moved slightly so she could rest her head on Yang's lap. As Zwei sat in front of the couch staring at her.
Coco moved slightly as she scooped the dog up and placed him onto the couch. He quickly began to circle around in his spot as he laid down and just looked at Ruby who spun around in her seat. 'You still pouting Yang? Because I'm bored of this terrible drawing and need some ideas… and since when has Zwei been able to jump up onto the couch?' Ruby signed as Yang laughed at Ruby's question.
'Coco lifted him up, and why not something involving Zwei, seeing as you haven't drawn anything about him.' Yang signed as Ruby stood up, walked over to the stereo and played the disc that was inside it, forgetting what disc she had in there but knew it would help her drawing.
She plopped down in front of her sketch pad and pulled out some of her finest pencils so she could lay in the beginning lines. She had no idea what she was going to draw, but knew Zwei was going to be one of if not the sole focus of the picture. She could see an image now. She just knew that if she drew it everyone would assume it was a dark theme. But in reality it would be closer to Zwei's constant vigil over Ruby in her room from everything that went bump in the night.
"You do know Yang will kill you if you do anything to harm Ruby." Sun stated as he sat on the couch with his head hanging off the edge of the couch with his feet in the air as Blake walked in holding a tray with three mugs on it.
"Sun, right now, I'm pretty sure Yang is thinking about killing you. As is Blake, you did tell Yang after two days of keeping your mouth shut." Neptune spoke as he took hold of the mug the raven haired girl brought him and thanked her.
"I'm not going to hurt her. We are going to go get dinner, and going to enjoy an reminds me, I should probably go and get some nice dress. Want to come with me Neptune?" Blake asked as Sun rolled off the couch to glare at Blake.
"Ow. Why must you hurt me so Blake? What have I ever done to cause you to not trust me to help you pick out a dress?" Sun asked as he sat up to grab the mug of what he hoped was tea. He was waiting for Blake's revenge from him telling Yang.
"Do you want the whole list, because if you do we need to take the rest of the month off for me to get about half way thru the list." Blake spoke as Sun took a sip of the tea and instantly spat it out.
"Okay, seriously? Did you pour salt into my tea? And something in recent history. No more than five years having past." Sun asked putting the mug down on the coffee table next to him. It wasn't that he could taste the salt in it, but it just tasted slightly sweeter than normal.
"Amongst other things, yes, and you are going to drink it all. Nothing poisonous or revolting. And remember that revealing purple dress you convinced me was good for that dance you dragged me to three years ago?" Blake spoke as Neptune looked between the two as Sun pinched his nose and drank the entire mug in one go.
"In my defence… actually I don't have one. That shit was funny." Sun began to laugh as Neptune turned to Blake, "We crashed a wake. You have no idea who they were. And to add to it, I'm pretty sure I'm banned from that church!" Blake yelled as Neptune gave out a slight sound of understanding as he nodded his head.
"You believed me when I said that it was a salsa dancing contest for charity. So yeah, not my fault. Plus you did turn a few heads, I think some eyed you up a little. Others thought you were a whore, so that should be considered a complement." Sun joked as Blake glared hard at him.
"I won't mind going Blake, I enjoy spending time with you." Neptune stated as he sipped more of the tea Blake made for him. He moved the mug back, and let out a hum of approval. "Damn Blake. This is really freaking good."
"It is just Royal Milk Tea using Camomile tea. It is a rather simple recipe. But we can go shopping say thursday? You know when Sun is on the opening shift." Blake joked as Sun glared at her. "Don't worry Sun. I'm not going to steal Neptune on you. Sadly I'm not into gay men. And they are even less into me." Blake continued to joke sipping her tea as Neptune laughed at the joke.
"Tai, you know you can't legally stop her. If she wants to actually talk with her birth mom, you can't do anything." Qrow began as he downed the glass of bourbon in front of him. "My opinion, let her learn herself how terrible Raven is herself. My money is it will take her, ohhhh I don't know fifteen seconds after they first meet." Qrow continued signalling for the bartender to pour him another glass.
Tai looked into his glass, he hadn't even taken a single drink from the first one poured. "Yeah, except when I told her about the fact Raven was her birth mother, she went got drunk, destroyed a large portion of a bar's property, wound up needing several stitches in her arm, and sprained her wrist. If Coco wasn't there she would have spent the night at Summer's grave and lost a portion of her blood… and I don't want to continue that train of thought." Tai stated resting his glass back down and turned to his brother who began to laugh.
"And, what's so funny?" Tai asked as Qrow drank some of his new glass. "Because Tai, before Yang was born, you got into worse situation, mom and dad worried for months while you were at med school." Qrow began taking a larger drink from his glass.
"And yes when Yang was born, you did mellow out but still vented your anger like that. Then you met Summer, and well she was able to calm any sort of feelings like that even before the squirt came into the picture. I just think Yang found her own version of Summer earlier." Qrow finished his glass as he looked at his brother.
"Children change you Qrow. you can deny it all you want, but once you hold their tiny body in your hands for the first time, and… it changes you."
Qrow knew where this was going to go. The same place Tai always went, and lecture him on children. "Well, while you got into fights in our youth, I slept with nearly everything with a pulse. So chances are, I could have children all over the world, older than Yang. So let's just get drunk, so you can stop mopping around." Qrow stated as he the bartender got tired of filling his glass and left the bottle.
"Seriously, you're killing my buzz. And not in the good way."
"No Qrow. I have three surgeries tomorrow. I can't afford to turn up hungover, or worse drunk. I'll give you one drink and then I'm drinking water for the rest of the time here." Tai stated as Qrow poured some of the dark amber liquid into his glass. "Well, let's top you off there you lush. Downing it faster than I can pour it."
Tai just stared at his brother, as Qrow moved over and filled up his own glass. "Don't you go on the clock in like twelve hours? How are you going to be able to do that drunk or hungover?"
"Years of practise. Plus if you've seen half the things I have, you would be drinking to. You can only see a fraction of people so many times before you turn to drink." Qrow continued as he began to drink from his glass.
"I've held people's beating hearts while it remains inside their chest, and I was the last person to see their child or spouse or parent alive to then go break the news to them." Tai stated taking a large gulp from the glass before he placed it down in front of his brother. Knowing that Qrow would complain that Tai didn't drink the glass and then drink it himself , or continue complaining until Tai would throw him a bone and would finish the drink.
"Right let's leave work at the door. That is about as much of a buzz kill as you talking about your ex wife. Speaking of which is she single?" Qrow asked as he pushed Tai's glass over. "Because she looked hot, even if she was somewhat a flight risk."
"The first time I saw her since she walked out, was for me to stitch her hand up and she wanted to meet her grown up daughter. So massive shock her love life never came up. Ask your niece if she decides to meet her. Because I'm sure it will come up then." Tai spoke pushing his glass back towards Qrow.
"Tai, I'm going to push that glass back towards you and your going to drink it. If you move it back towards me or don't drink it. I'm going to hold your mouth open and force you to drink it all. Take. Your. Pick." Qrow punctuated each word by nudging the glass ever so slightly closer.
Tai smirked as he moved it to the halfway point between him and his brother. Qrow downed his glass and turned to his brother. "That's it, gonna beat you so bad even mom wouldn't be able to recognise you." Qrow spoke grabbing the glass and attempted to force the liquid into his brother's mouth when the bartender walked back over to the duo.
"Qrow! I swear to god if you break anything else! I will have your captain take your shield!" He yelled as Qrow began to muttered taking his seat once again. "You win this round Tai. but mark my words, I will win." Qrow spoke drinking the glass that he held in his hands.
"Sure, and Raven is going to attempt to get me back. You know the difference, Raven has a better chance."
Author's Note:
Okay, time to take a break from this story. It is starting to drain me with the constant uploads. I'll get back to it in like a week, or two. But I hope you guy's enjoyed the story thus far.