"You've never heard the story about how mom and dad met?!" Ruby shouted as she stared in disbelief at the other two girls that shared the backseat with her. Blake shook her head and Weiss said, "No."

Yang shared in her sister's shock. "How have we never told you this story before?"

"It isn't a very interesting story, girls." Taiyang said while driving.

"Ha! It's only the most kickass love story ever told." Yang said with a grin.

Weiss narrowed her eyes at her girlfriend. "Yang, language."

The blonde looked ready to retort when Blake cut her off, "So how did you and Summer meet?"

"Oh, you know. I was a boy, she was a girl."

"Dad was a hooligan!" Ruby interjected.

"A good-for-nothing!" Yang sang.

"A ne'er-do-well!"

"Girls." Taiyang said, turning his head to look at Yang.

Weiss crossed her arms over her chest. "I'm sure someone as polite and as civilized as Mr. Xiao Long couldn't have possibly been that bad."

Ruby sat back in her seat and leaned against Blake. "Dad was in a gang." She said with a smile.

Blake rose an eyebrow at the comment. "Really?"

"I was not in a gang," Taiyang defended, raising one hand off the steering wheel, "I was in charge of a gang. There is a difference."

Blake's interest was peaked. Sneaking an arm around Ruby's waist to pull the younger teen closer, the Faunas looked at Taiyang and asked, "But you were a part of a gang?"

"I was," he replied, "But that was a long time ago. Back when I lived in Vale."

"So what does this have to do with you meeting Mrs. Rose?" Weiss asked.

"He tried to mug her." Yang said before Taiyang could open his mouth.

Weiss' jaw nearly hit the floor. "MR. XIAO LONG."

"In my defence, she looked like an easy mark."

"So what happened?" Blake asked.

Ruby bolted upright and turned to Blake excitedly. "She shot him!"

Both of Blake's eyebrows went up and Taiyang was quick to explain. "With a taser gun. Not a real one."

Weiss blinked away her surprise. "Did she call the police?"

"No, she spent the next ten minutes lecturing me about the proper way to ask a young lady out to dinner and then left."

Ruby fell back against Blake and the older girl wrapped her arm back around her waist. "I can believe that," Blake said.

Weiss just shook her head. "I can't believe you tried to rob Mrs. Rose."

Taiyang shrugged, "This was before I found out who her dad was."

Blake leaned her ear down to Ruby and asked, "Who?"

"Grandpa Rose." Ruby whispered.

"Wither Rose is what we called him back then. Mr. Rose or sir when he was around. Not the kind of man you crossed if you wanted to live to see tomorrow."

Weiss' brows furrowed, "Why? Who was he?"

"A legitimate business owner and you can't prove otherwise in a court of law."

Yang turned around to the back seat. "Grandpa did what dad did, but better."

"Better?"

"Let me put it this way," Taiyang explained, "I ran streets, Wither ran cities. I made friends with on the beat cops and store owners, he made friends with police chiefs and mayors. Wither was a powerful man back in the day, still is, and you did your best to stay clear of him and his daughter. So me being the natural-born intelectual that I was, I tried to mug her again."

Blake had to resit the urge to facepalm. "You didn't learn your lesson the first time?"

"Dad got a friend of his to make him a vest that could keep him from getting shocked." Yang replied for her dad.

"And it would have worked too." Taiyang added.

"She beat him up instead."

Taiyang scoffed, "You have no witnesses to support that claim."

"Oh yeah? Then what really happened?" his eldest daughter countered.

"Her beauty and grace overwhelmed me and I passed out. At least that's what your mother tells me." Yang rolled her eyes and Ruby giggled. "All I know is that I woke up in the hospital with a mild concussion and relocated shoulder."

"This makes so much sense." Weiss said while looking at Yang.

Her girlfriend raised an eyebrow, "What does?"

"Everyone in your a family is a criminal. It explains so much."

"Now wait just a second-" the blonde starts.

"Anyway," Taiyang interrupts, "The next time I saw Summer was a week or so after I got out of the hospital. She was walking down the same street with some rich guy who was going on and on about some company he was starting on his own. He saw me and immediately put himself between me and Summer and demanded that I cross the street. Something about a man's honor to defend his woman. I proceeded to demonstrate my ability to deliver a solid right hook and knocked his ass out. Pardon the language, Weiss."

"Oh Dust," the heiress groaned, "It all explains so much."

"Who was it?" Blake asked before Yang could get started again.

"Not a clue. All I remember is what Summer said to me afterwards. She said, 'He was suppose to keep me entertained until ten o'clock. It is only five thirty. I do hope you plan on fulfilling his responsibilities considering you rendered him unable to.' I figured that was apart of her roundabout way of saying she wanted me to ask her out, so I offered her my arm and showed her the city, the real city, before taking her home. Where I then met Wither."

"Grandpa didn't like him at first" Ruby told Blake.

Taiyang laughed, "No he did not. As far as he was concerned, I wasn't worth the air I was breathing, let alone letting me get involved with Summer. But he did give me a chance to prove myself. I had one week to show that I wasn't the no-one that Wither thought I was and that I was worth Summer's attention. It wasn't until the last day that I managed to do that.

We had just finished having dinner and I had given up on impressing Wither. Nothing I thought up before seemed to work and I was resigned to failure. I was walking with them to their car and was about to say goodbye to Summer when a man walked up with a gun and demanded all our money. I managed to convince him that it wasn't in his best interest to rob us."

Blake, who had taken to running her fingers through Ruby's hair while Taiyang talked, asked, "So you told him who Wither was?"

"What? Of course not. You don't just tell someone who Wither Rose is in the middle of the street. Not if you liked breathing at least. There are witnesses on the street, you know. Very talkative witnesses. No, I told him that there were security cameras all around us, any one of which I guaranteed had caught his face on film, and if he did rob us he'd be in jail within hours. So instead, I offered him all the money I had in my pocket in return for his gun and not pressing charges. After a few nerve racking seconds, he agreed, took the money, gave me his gun, and went on his merry way."

"He just gave you his gun? Wouldn't he suspect that you'd just turn it on him?" Weiss asked.

"I can be very persuasive under the right circumstances." Taiyang replied, "After that, Wither still said that I wasn't worth much; however, I did show promise. So he sent me to law school where I spent the next few years becoming a lawyer. Me and Summer dated throughout that time and got married when I passed my bar exam. I worked for Wither for next five years or so, Summer gave birth to Yang, and we moved to Patch."

Blake laid her head against Ruby's before asking, "You didn't want to stay in Vale?"

"I was fine there but Summer wanted to move somewhere a little quieter to raise Yang and, eventually, Ruby."

Ruby let out a tired 'woohoo' at the sound of her name. Blake smiled at the valiant attempt of her young friend to stay awake.

"That really was a kickass love story," She said with a grin.

Weiss just muttered under her breath, "I'm doomed."

Howdy and Hello!

So this was the fabled mini-chapter (I say mini but it's about the same size as the others.) Thanks to you all who voted, thanks to IchiFell for some kickass advice (Hardy har, har, I can do comedy) and thanks to all the rest of ya'll for readin! The next chapter will, hopefully, be ready next Sunday so do look forward to that.

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Until the next time!

Edit: Shout out to Menolith for spelling checking!

Gorsouul: Lol, well it's bound to get better right? Right?

Ravena Wolfborn: Almost enough to give you a tooth ache, eh?

NargoOnTheNet: I like how people get what I'm trying to do with these characters. Lets me know I might actually be good at writing.

Omake:

"Oh, that reminds me. Summer, who was the guy I knocked out when we went on our first date?"

Summer paused for a moment while she thought. Her face lit up with a smile and she said, "Victor, Victor Schnee."

Weiss choked on her milkshake.