August 7th
Patch
2:59 PM

"So," Qrow said, taking advantage of the fact that Raven had left to go running about a quarter of an hour prior. "How's my niece?"

Tai laughed as he held his baby in his arms. "Qrow, you live with us."

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean Raven likes me being near her for too long," He reminded him. "She seems convinced that I'll corrupt the girl."

"I doubt that," Tai said although he couldn't deny that he was still worried about his wife. "She's just protective of her."

Qrow snorted. "I don't think her motherly instincts are that strong."

"Don't be an ass," Tai said, rocking Yang and causing her to giggle. "I'm serious, I don't want to hear it."

"Yeah, okay, I'll stop," Qrow said, smiling as Yang continued to giggle. "She really is cute. I guess I can see why Allison and Blake Adel struggle to shut up about Coco."

"Qrow!" Summer shrieked, all but tumbling down the stairs and into his arms. "Guess what I found?"

He smiled. "What?"

"Your old skirt!" She started laughing wildly. "Oh my god, Qrow, please put it on! Please!"

Tai smirked. "Yeah, Qrow, put it on."

"I thought I'd gotten rid of that thing," He muttered. "Sums, how did you -"

"Nothing gets thrown out around here without me having a say in it," She said stubbornly. "And I for one thought that it looked adorable on you."

Qrow groaned. "Sums, I love you but -"

"Oh, come on," Tai said slyly. "Don't you want to show off your wonderful legs?"

Qrow glared at him. "Asshole."

Tai's expression shifted to mock horror. "How dare you use such language in front of my baby."

Qrow glanced to Yang who was reaching for Tai's collar. "She's only a few months old, I don't think that she's going to remember the time when I called her father an asshole twice in a row."

"I'm going to take her out into the garden and protect her from the two of you," Tai said, and Yang began to giggle once more as he slipped out. "And you two better be decent when I come back in."

"You know," Qrow whispered to Summer. "You and I could just strip down and have sex on every surface in this house so that he has to sanitise the entire house to feel safe in it."

Summer turned pink. "Every surface? Qrow, I think we've already covered a...good amount of them."

"Such as?" He asked her, swiftly kissing her cheek. "How about the kitchen counters?"

"You and I have had sex on those multiple times," She mumbled before glancing to the couch. "I'm not even going to get into the things that we've done on that couch."

"There's always the pool table in the basement that we haven't gotten to yet," He said with a smirk. "Imagine all the trouble we could get into on that..."

Summer stared at him in horror. "We'd get caught!"

"What's the worst that could happen?" He asked her, shrugging. "Tai yells at us for a little and then we remind him of all the things that I'm sure he's done with my sister?"

"Speaking of Raven," Summer said darkly. "If she was the one to catch us, she'd kill us."

"Of course she would," Qrow rolled his eyes. "Yeah, alright, I can kind of see why that would be a bad idea."

"I love you, Qrow," Summer said, taking his hand tightly in hers "But we don't need to get ourselves killed because we were in the throws of passion."

Qrow laughed. "You really think someone would kill us for having sex?"

"Maybe," Summer admitted. "But who knows?"

"So we're not going to test the possibility?" He pressed, and she narrowed her eyes. "Okay, okay, I won't suggest that we test the possibility again."

"I wish we had a child..." Summer whispered as she saw Tai sit down by one of the flower beds with Yang who was reaching for the daisies. "I'm so jealous of Tai and Raven, and I just..."

"Sums," Qrow shook his head as he pulled her over to the couch and then brought her into his arms. "It's all going to work out."

She bit her lip. "Why hasn't it, then?"

"I..." Qrow sighed. "It's probably my fault."

"Don't say that!" Summer exclaimed, her silver eyes wide. "It can't be your fault -"

"I'm bad luck, and this is something we both really want," Qrow reminded her, and she was silent. "I know you hate to acknowledge that, but it's true. I'm probably cursing you, and -"

"You're not cursing me!" Summer insisted. "Qrow, I know you're not!"

"How?" He asked her weakly. "How do you know that this isn't my fault, that.."

"That what?" She pressed, feeling sick.

"What if this is my semblance telling us that we were never meant to be parents, that this is only going to cause more pain?" He whispered, and she fought back tears. "Summer, what if you're better off with someone else?"

Summer immediately threw her arms tightly around him. "I'd never be better off with someone else, and it's not your semblance. It's just -"

"It's bad luck," He finished, and she tightened her hold around him. "Summer, that's what it's all going to circle back around to, what it's always -"

"Stop it!" She exclaimed through tears. "That's not true! You're a great man, and you're going to be a wonderful father if my fucking -"

"Don't you dare pin this on yourself," He said, and she shook her head.

"What if it's me?" She countered. "What if I'm the reason that -"

"Never," Qrow said fiercely. "You're not causing this, I am, and I fucking hate it! It's upsetting you, and more than once -"

"I know I've thought I was pregnant more than once and then it turned out to be nothing!" She snapped though her voice began to break as tears fell. "It..."

"Summer," Qrow said gently. "What is it?"

"I thought it was..." Summer sighed heavily. "I thought I might be this morning too because...well, because of several things of late but it wasn't. I got my period two hours after I woke up...right when I had gone to take the test."

Qrow kissed her softly. "I'm so sorry, Summer."

"I wish we had a family so much..." She shook her head. "Do you think it's ever going to happen?"

"It has to," He said, holding her close. "I'll be damned if Cristal Schnee of all people has a family before us."

Summer giggled in spite of herself. "You really think that she and Ozpin are going to have kids?"

"I'm trying to decide if the baby or the marriage is going to come first for them," Qrow admitted, shrugging. "And, based on what Blake had to say on the matter -"

"Since when do you talk to Blake Adel?" Summer asked him, giggling still. "Seriously, Qrow. Outside of meetings, when do you talk to him? Isn't he basically Cristal's brother?"

"They act like it, but they're not related," Qrow said, rolling his eyes. "But they tell each other everything...or sometimes he hears things through Allison. Either way, Blake said that he heard from a certain member of his team that's female and not Cristal that she and Ozpin -"

"How would Glynda know that -" Summer started.

"Because she walked in on them by accident," Qrow laughed a little. "I'm shocked she didn't kill them, but Blake said that the way he heard it she was so shocked that all she could think to do was leave."

"Sounds about right," Summer replied with a smile. "So Blake really thinks that -"

"Eh," Qrow shrugged. "Blake and Allison are taking bets between each other over when Cristal and Ozpin will decide to have kids. She thinks it will be a few weeks after they marry which she thinks will be in February or March...and then he thinks that it will be any time between last week and January - to hell with them only having -"

Summer laughed. "Team JGBC is weird. Like, I know we've got problems, but they're worse. I don't think we'd take bets on that kind of thing."

"Blake says it will coincide with the end of Cristal's drinking," Qrow added. "I have a feeling it was Raven who gave him that idea."

"Probably," Summer agreed. "But you never know."

"Who else do we know says that?" He asked her. "Seriously?"

"Fair enough," Summer conceded. "It makes sense, anyways. Hey, do you think Raven and Tai are ever going to have another kid?"

Qrow hesitated. "Honestly, I'm not sure. I know that Tai wants to have a large family...but I don't know how Raven feels about that and to be honest I don't think she'd be thrilled about the idea so soon after having her first kid."

"I can see it," Summer sighed. "I can actually see it happening pretty quickly for them...considering that the two of them are just as bad about sex as we are."

"Definitely," Qrow agreed. "Although I like to think that they are slightly worse."

Summer smirked. "Then let's go with that."