A/N: I'm late because life sucks. Like serously, I've been forced to do a ridiculous amount of homework and my insomnia kept me awake for practically five days straight. So, yeah, sorry I'm late again.

On the plus side, double chapter and I released a trailer for an upcoming story. If you haven't seen it yet, it's under the title Orphan RWBY: Ruby Rose Arc. It's not Lancaster so don't worry about that.

So a heads up for this chapter. There's a lot of development in here, both plot and character. I won't spoil any scenes, but I'll probably be talking about them quite a bit in the recap.

Please enjoy the chapter!

I don't own anything!

Guilty Rose Chapter 33

"You did what?"

Cinder couldn't hide the venom that seeped into her voice. Not that she truly wanted it to be there in the first place, it was just that she could not fathom Rose, of all people, betraying her like this.

Rose's reaction to Cinder's tone of voice came immediately. She shrank, not understanding what she did wrong to earn this much ire. Unfortunately, Rose's silence spurred Cinder on more and even Rose's massive silver pools couldn't take the wind out of her sails.

"Rose, what did you do?"

Rose's silence was now replaced by sputtering wordlessly. Finally, after a few minutes she managed to force out some coherent words.

"I-I-I w-was j-j-just trying t-to help you."

Cinder's lips pulled tight in a snarl and she took a step towards, forcing Rose to take a step back.

"And how does turning us in to Ozpin help us?"

"I didn't t-turn you in to anyone, Ozpin already knew about your past."

That sentence did take the wind out of Cinder's sail. Her jaw went slack and she stood there gaping while she was trying to wrap her mind around this new information.

"He already knew?"

The question was more for herself but she couldn't help but voice it.

"I think he knows even more than me, but I don't know how he knows."

Cinder refocused on Rose's face now that all of her anger and betrayal was gone. She then realized that Rose was trembling in fright that she had caused. Cinder's stomach twisted into a painful knot.

Cinder slowly reached out to Rose who flinched away from her hand. Cinder cringed at this and let her hand drop. She had to take a shaky breath to keep from cursing herself out loud.

"I'm so sorry Rose, I shouldn't have gotten mad at you like that. Please, tell me what happened."

Rose still looked shaken, but had obviously managed to calm down a bit.

"I went to Ozpin today to ask him to give you and your team the same deal that he gave me."

Cinder felt the knot in her stomach tighten.

"When I met Glynda on my way to him, she told that they knew about your past already. They didn't tell me how much they knew. But from what they said and how they said it, they know a lot more than I do."

Rose shifted a bit at this and only spared a single glance at Cinder before continuing.

"Anyway, the good news is that I did manage to convince them to offer you the deal."

The small smile Rose offered with the news did much to ease Cinder's guilt, but then something struck her.

"If what she said is right...then they might know that I worked for Salem. If they know that, how did she get them to agree?"

Cinder bit her lip just before she voiced her question.

"How did you convince him?"

Rose shuffled in place again and started sheepishly pressing her index fingers together.

"I vouched for you and Ozpin trusts me. I may have also thrown my past into his face, but it was mostly him trusting me... I think."

Cinder stared at Rose for a moment before sighing softly.

"Thank you, you put that trust at risk for us by doing this. More than you realize even. The woman I work for, no, worked for has been at war with Ozpin and the kingdom for longer than either of us have been alive. And by war, I do mean actual war, it's just hidden in plain sight."

Cinder watched Rose's reaction. Emotions flickered across those gorgeous silver eyes, but they eventually settled on understanding. Cinder guess that she was beginning to understand the full gravity of her situation. Suddenly, another important question came to Cinder's mind.

"Why did you secure this deal for us Rose, I don't mean your reasons for doing it, but rather how did you know we'd even be okay with this."

Once again, Rose became completely sheepish.

"I didn't know for sure… I did know you weren't happy with your situation. So, I was more hinging on my ability to convince you this was a good idea."

"You could have just gave her your puppy eyes."

Both Cinder and Rose turned to look at the other people in the dorm room, finally realizing they weren't alone room.

"Merc, shut the fuck up, they are having an important conversation."

"Hey, I've been holding back Neo for ten minutes now and I'm about out of aura from her stabbing me. So, sorry if I finally voice my opinion."

Merc's comment got him the immediate reward of being stabbed in the foot agian again with Neo's umbrella blade. Though the stab went unnoticed as Mercury's attention was all on Emerald.

"Oum, you're such an insensitive dick!"

"Like you're such a fucking saint yourself!"

Neo glanced between the two and noticed that Mercury's hold was getting relaxed. An escape plan immediately formed in her head.

Cinder leaned over to Rose when she noticed that Neo was smiling deviously.

"She's got that look in her eye."

"Hopefully she doesn't hurt them."

Neo waited for the next exchange between her captors.

"At least I don't hit on every moving thing!"

"Hey, I have standards, I've never hit on you."

Neo wiggled out of the hands holding her and grabbed both their wallets while making her way to Cinder and Rose. Cinder lightly snorted at this.

"You just took their wallets, I'm proud of you."

Neo shrugged noncommittally while she removed the money from said wallets.

"Good, I wouldn't want some sleazeball like you hitting on me!"

"No, you'd rather grovel at Cinder's feet for attention!"

Cinder and Neo winced at that.

"That was a low blow."

Neo just nodded in response. Rose on the other hand, poked Cinder in the side to get her attention.

"What did he mean by that?"

Cinder and Neo just stared at Rose for a moment.

"I DO NOT GROVEL!"

"Oh right, 'cause you'd need to grow a pair to even do that much."

Cinder shook her head.

"He means what Neo, Weiss, and I do towards you."

Neo's response was to just dumbly point at Cinder.

"I know that, I mean why does she have to grovel?"

A silent beat passed between them.

"You do know."

"That she has feelings for you? Yes."

"Oh thank Oum."

"I mean, why does she have to grovel?"

Cinder looked at the ground and shuffled a bit, this line of questioning was no longer comfortable.

"I was always thinking of you So, even when I did know about her feelings for me, I just didn't quite return them."

"I don't have feelings for you!"

Emerald slapped her hands over her mouth when everyone turned to her.

A moment of silence passed and everyone's stares got a little more deadpan.

"Okay, I have some feelings for you."

The deadpan stares got worse.

"SHUT UP!"

Emerald huffed and stormed out of the room with a massive blush on her face.

After another beat of silence, Cinder spoke up.

"So this is what it's like being the peanut gallery, I can see why you do it."

Neo happily nodded this time and Rose shrugged.

….

Sun stood in the door way to Neptune's infirmary room, doing all he could to not laugh at his partner encased in a fully body cast while in the spread eagle position and covered in embarrassing and inappropriate graffiti.

"Hey asshole, are you dead?"

Neptune turned his head to glare at his partner.

"Ha ha, very funny. Can you get me out of this cast please."

Sun shrugged and shook his head while snickering.

"I don't know man, you should listen to the doctor's orders."

"The doctor didn't order anything, those girls just convinced the nurses to do this!"

"Actually, the talked the nurses into only doing this much. You don't mess with Rose or her girls here."

"Well then why didn't you warn me?"

Sun gave his partner a seriously deadpan look.

"I spent two hours this morning telling you not to act like you did, but no, you're awesome."

Neptune opened his mouth to retort before shutting it and hanging his head.

"I'm sorry. Could you please get me out still, that Nora girl pumped syrup into the cast."

Sun winced at that and decided to take pity on the idiot. He approached Neptune to see if there would be a quick way to get him out of the cast, then he noticed a specific piece of graffiti on Neptune's crotch.

"Is that a drooling cat?"

Neptune hung his head further.

"They were quite specific, that is not drool."

Sun couldn't help, but lose it laughing.

….

Raven knew something was wrong. She didn't know what it was, but she knew it was wrong. The cause of this feeling was the fact that Summer was already twenty minutes late and that when she searched her semblance for Summer's marker, it told her that Summer was in some kind of distress.

She would have teleported to Summer immediately, but past images of her teleporting in on Summer in situations where she really shouldn't have rushed in on.

"Come on Raven, she's a veteran huntress, and one of the best at that, there's nothing that can happen while she's walking home from the store that she can't handle."

Raven paced a few more times before stopping.

"I've waited long enough."

With a wave of her hand, she opened a portal to Summer and stepped through. Once again, she found her semblance too slow.

Reality materialized and she found herself in the midst of an active crime scene, and a massive one at that. Panic rose in her chest and it was only her training as a huntress that kept it from overtaking her. As calmly as she could, she searched her surrounding for Summer, ignoring the officers that had taken notice of her.

The world muted when her eyes fell on the form of Summer sitting in the back of an ambulance, arguing with the paramedics who were trying to see to her bloodied arm.

With speed more characteristic of her youngest daughter's semblance, Raven sprinted towards her lover.

"Summer! What happened?"

Summer's head snapped to Raven immediately.

"Raven? What are you doing here, I thought the paramedics didn't call you yet."

She turned to the paramedic who she had just been arguing with, but she just shrugged.

"I came because you were late and my semblance said you were in trouble. Now what happened?"

Summer shrugged slightly and gestured to the squad cars where several faunus were being held.

"I was walking home minding my own business and these guys jumped out at me claiming I was a traitor to my kind or something."

Raven stared at the woman for a moment before nodding to the injured arm.

"Okay, okay, I fought them off, but one of them pulled a gun and apparently loaded it with aura-penetrating rounds. But it's fine, see. Already healed."

Summer showed off her arm which indeed had healed perfectly. Raven let out a tired sigh.

"Summer, we got to do something. I don't know why the White Fang are after you, though it probably has something to do with Rose's history with them."

Summer's face twisted in anger.

"Don't you blame Ruby for this!"

Raven shot a glare back at Summer.

"I'm not blaming her for anything, it's these pissants that have the problem."

Summer huffed and nodded her acceptance before turning to the paramedic again.

"Look, I'm fine, can you just hand me something to clean up with so I can go?"

The paramedic scowled and was about to deliver some argument, but Raven decided to cut her off.

"Trust me, just give in now, you'll save yourself twenty minutes of trouble before she gets her way anyway."

The paramedic looked between the two women before finally sighing in defeat.

"I'll go get a waiver."

"Ha, I win."

Summer crossed her arms under her bust and puffed out her chest out victoriously. Raven pinched Summer's side, making the woman shriek and glower back at the woman.

"That was mean."

"And our conversation isn't done. I was trying to say earlier is that these attacks are only going to get worse, and it may no longer be safe for you to stay in the city."

Summer's face slackened before she looked down at the ground.

"I know, what do you suggest, should I go to Tai's or back to Mistral with you until this blows over?"

Raven nearly snarled at the idea of either of those options. While the clan would treat her well as the wife of the tribe leader, the tribe didn't have too many creature comforts. Going to Patch at all was out of the question in her mind specifically because Tai still needed to calm down.

"Or we could ask Ozpin to put us up in the staff dorms, maybe even teach a few classes in exchange."

Summer snorted and looked up at Raven with a smug smirk.

"You teaching, that I have to see."

Rather than shot back some snide comment, Raven became serious. She took a step towards Summer and put a hand on her uninjured shoulder.

"Summer, I'll do whatever it takes to keep you and our daughters safe."

Summer was taken back by this and her face softened as grabbed Raven's hand.

"If you're this serious about it, I'll call Ozpin as soon as we get home."

Raven smiled softly and nodded.

"Thank you."

….

BUZZ

Winter growled as her scroll rang. She'd ignore it until after she was through with her call to Ironwood, like she had told Yang.

BUZZ

Winter let her foot tap with irritation. She would have words with the blonde.

BUZZ BUZZ

"Impatient woman!"

"But I didn't do anything!"

Winter's head turned towards the voice to find Penny standing right next to her looking terrified.

"Oh, Penny, I didn't realize you were there...how long have you been there?"

"I got on the elevator with you friend Winter, did you really not notice."

"No, I did not, I apologiz-"

BUZZ~

"How did you even Manage that!"

Penny's face turned from terrified to confused and concerned when Winter facepalmed.

"Is there something wrong, friend Winter?"

"Miss Xiao-Long is messaging me even though I've informed her that I will be a meeting with the General."

"Oh."

BUZZ BUZZ

"Oh for Oum's sake."

Winter pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head.

"Just answer her, friend Winter, you have ten minutes until we are supposed to to make the call."

Winter glared at Penny weakly.

"It's the principle of the matter, I asked her not to message me until the meeting was over."

BUZZ

This time Penny hit the 'STOP' button on the elevator before crossing her arms and staring at Winter.

"Just answer her already."

"Penny, I told you-"

"Answer. Her. You two have been infatuated with each other since you met."

The two held each other's glare, but eventually Winter relented.

"Fine, I'll answer her."

Winter retrieved her scroll as Penny hit the button to release the elevator.

Winter nearly growled again when she skimmed the messages.

Winter, I'm bored

Talk to meeeeee

Pretty please

With a cherry on top

I'll send you whatever pics you want~

Oh c'mon, that's supposed to work!

Not that you're easy or anything!

Winter was getting increasingly frustrated with the blonde until she scrolled down to the last message, which was a picture of Yang attempting to give her puppy eyes. She snorted at the failed attempt to make herself look adorable. She immediately began typing her response with a soft smile.

First, I told you I had an important meeting and not to disturb me. Second, you should ask you're sister for lessons before trying that face again. Though I don't mind you you begging for my attention.

Winter shook her head and was about put her phone until it went off again.

Success!

Also you said you had to make a call, nothing about 'an important meeting', scroll up if you don't believe me

Winter quirked an eye before she scrolled up to find that Yang was right. She glared at the traitorous device as she typed her next message.

Fine, you are correct. However, why did you feel the need to bombard me with messages?

There was a brief pause before the response.

Oof, really proper English

I understand that your mad

Do you want me to send a pic to make you feel better~

Winter's scowl evolved into a glare.

And what picture could you possibly send that would make me any less upset with you?

There was a pregnant pause before the next message, which was a picture of Yang in a very sultry pose. Winter's anger was abated, but not erased.

Not bad, but not enough.

The next response was immediate.

You asked for it~

Winter felt her stomach sink when she read that and debated on whether or not to turn off her scroll and not answer it again. Unfortunately, her took too long and the next picture came up.

It was a picture of Yang pulling down her top exposing a more than generous amount of her breasts.

Heat rose to her face as she couldn't tear her eyes from the image. Then another picture was received. Yang had pulled top even further down, to the point that the two fleshy masses were about ready to pop out to display their full glory at any second.

A third picture was received, but it must have been a mistake if Yang's face was any indicator.

It was at this time that the elevator chimed and the doors opened. Winter immediately stowed her scroll and straightened up to greet the CCT Tower staff.

"Oh, Specialist Schnee and Ironwood… Um, Specialist Schnee, are you okay? Your nose is bleeding."

"I am perfectly fine."

….

Sienna sat on the edge of her bed with her head held in her hands. This had been the worst few days of her life. Not only had she been staying in Kali's home with Kali, she had met someone new.

"Marron Sauvage."

She sighed the name of the newest muse of her fantasies. She could still feel the bear faunus' soft hands from when she held her face last.

As if summoned, a knock came from her door.

"I heard my name, you need something or need something?"

A massive blush grew on Sienna's face as she glared at the door.

"It's not polite to eavesdrop."

"Honey, you and I both know there's no need to eavesdrop with these walls. I'm really glad Ghira and Kali are on the other side of the house from you."

Sienna's blush got worse and she hung her head.

"I promise I'm normally not like this...just seeing her again has me all messed up."

There was a pregnant silence hanging in the air.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No."

Silence reigned for a beat.

"Yes."

"Alright, I'm coming in, are you decent?"

Sienna sighed softly, Marron was really growing on her.

"Yes, I am."

The door opened to reveal Marron in a neatly tied nightgown, who took one step into the door before stopping and turning her head.

"I thought you said you were decent!"

Sienna blinked owlishly at the woman before looking down to discover the problem. Her nightgown was untied and barely hanging on her form.

"Um…. Surprise?"

Marron turned her head back to Sienna and gave her a deadpan look.

"Really?"

Sienna slumped over to hide her embarrassment and fix her nightgown. Marron sighed as she stepped into the room and closed the door.

"Look, I can hardly think straight here at the best of times."

"Yeah, I can tell. What's that all about anyway."

Sienna meekly looked up at the bear faunus, weighing what she should say.

"I've been in love with Kali since I met her."

"I'm aware of that bit. You want to tell me about it?"

Sienna hung her head in her hands again and shook it, this time meaning the negative.

"I'd seriously like to talk about anything but that."

Marron shook her head in pity and decided to walk up and sit next to the tiger faunus. After a tense moment of debate, She began rubbing comforting circles on Sienna's back.

"So you're a useless lesbian, it happens. I mean, you're a person after all, you're entitled to a few flaws."

Sienna grumbled some incoherent words before finally saying something.

"You're just as bad for my mental health as Kali is, I swear."

Marron was taken back by that as her entire thought process came to a complete halt.

"What?"

Sienna tensed up immediately after realizing what she said. She turned to Marron and summoned as much resolve as she could.

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing."

Marron stared at her unimpressed again, Her resolve obviously wasn't worth much.

"No no no, that was something. Talk."

"Never."

Marron's eyes narrowed as she brought her hand up in a faux claw.

"I'll make you."

Sienna's heart sank.

"You wouldn't dare, not to the leader of the White Fang."

The words came out as desperate pleading rather than the warning it was supposed to be. Marron just smirked mischievously.

"The choice is yours, tell me what you meant or I'll have to persuade you."

To prove her point, Marron used the hand that Sienna wasn't paying attention to grab the tiger faunus' side. The elicited squeak and following pout were far to adorable for Marron to stop.

"Tell me."

"No."

This time Marron went for both sides at once, tickling the woman for several seconds.

"Tell me."

"I'll die first."

"Fine, have it your way."

Marron resumed tickling the other faunus mercilessly. Eventually, Sienna fell back onto the bed, which Marron took advantage of. Marron saw her chance and, in the heat of the moment, climbed on top of the other woman. Now straddling the tiger's hips, the Bear faunus continued the assault for another few minutes until both women were exhausted from the struggle.

"Do you surrender yet?"

Sienna looked up breathlessly, but smiled nonetheless.

"You will never break me."

The faux defiance made Marron smile. The bear faunus bent over until her forehead rested on Sienna's. They stayed like that for a full minute, silently enjoying the other's presence.

"So, where does this go?"

Sienna knew what Marron meant by that question, but couldn't think of how to answer her. When the silence became too much for Marron, she made to get off of Sienna. However, before the woman actually could move Sienna unconsciously placed her hands on the Marron's hips to stop her.

"You just caught me off guard, Marron. I'll be honest, I'm not used to someone...accepting my feeling and returning them."

Marron blinked at the woman.

"So I take it Kali wasn't the only person you fell in love with."

Sienna chewed on her lip and shook her head.

"There were others...but they all ended the same way."

Marron couldn't help but feel bad for the woman. She cupped Sienna's cheek, who then snuggled into the contact.

"So, see where this goes?"

Sienna smiled softly.

"Yeah, let's see where this goes."

….

Cinder stopped for the fifth time since her team and Rose set for Ozpin's office.

"What if he doesn't think the information I have for him is enough?"

Emerald groaned loudly and resisted the urge to shake the woman, again.

"Again, the deal is you give him all the information you have, he didn't say it actually had to be useful. Besides, you know practically everything, so stop worrying!"

"I can't help it, this is nerve wracking!"

Rose grabbed Cinder's hand and gave it a squeeze.

"Cin, I already told you that everything is fine, and that all you have to do right now is accept the deal."

Cinder slumped and soaked in the reassurance so she could at least make it to the next corridor before stopping again.

Cinder straighten her posture once she mustered the courage to continue. But Rose's hand slipped from hers as she stepped onward.

"Cin, what's really wrong? I know you've been trying to figure out how to do exactly what we are going to do for a while now."

Cinder looked back at Rose and chewed on her lip.

"I'm sorry, it's just that the woman I work for...once she finds out I betrayed her...she'll stop at nothing to kill all of us. There will be nowhere for us to go if Ozpin doesn't help us."

Cinder was expecting Rose to soak those words in, but her response came immediately.

"I've told you that Ozpin has already extended the deal, you just need to accept it. But more than that, you already have me and all of our friends and families here for you. So even if, for some Oum forsaken reason, that Ozpin doesn't follow through on his word, you aren't alone. You will never be alone."

Cinder and her entire team were taken back, they knew that they had made friends in their time at Beacon Academy, or at least as close to friends as an undercover infiltration mission would allow. And while Rose's resolve to protect them was expected at this point, they didn't think the others would feel the same.

But Rose's eyes told them that every word she said was true.

After letting the words sink in, Cinder found that all of her doubts were gone and that this was truly the right decision. Cinder grabbed Rose's hand and smiled at her.

"Thank you Rose, for everything. Now, let's go see Ozpin and get this over with."

A/N: Woo, another double chapter down. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself and you all. Oh well, spilled milk and all that.

So recap time, the time most of y'all seem to like!

So Cinder reacts to Rose telling Ozpin about her and her team. That scene was tough, it didn't turn out exactly as I had planned, but I think the way it turned out was pretty good. I know most of you were cheering for Cin to not explode on Rose, but come on guys, how could you expect a human to react any other way. Well anyway, things turned out okay in the end. Oh, the peanut gallery moment, I'm sure that blindsided a lot of you, I was a bit drunk when I wrote it. But when I sobered up, I couldn't bring myself to change it as it really fits the characters as I have written them. Also I really wanted to give Cin and Rose some time as the peanut gallery just to turn the tables on Em and Merc.

The Sun and Neptune scene, I'll be honest, I added it to give some extra comedic relief for this chapter. Also, anyone who spots the easter egg and guesses where it's from gets a mention in the next chapter.

Raven and Summer's scene, I've been neglecting them for a while, but that's not the whole reason I wrote this scene. I needed to show that there side of things was getting serious and that the White Fang are starting to show their true colors a bit early. Besides that, I need to explain something else. A friend brought up the fact that Raven's semblance might feed her more than a place to teleport to seeing as she teleported to Yang in V2 when Yang was in trouble. Thus I'm going to write Raven's semblance with a slight addition from now on. With a person she is bonded to is in any form of trouble, it sets of an alarm in Raven's head effectively. These alarms will NOT be tailored to the situation the person is in at all, thus Raven has to guess when it is appropriate to teleport all on her own.

The Winter and Yang scene...that was fun to write. I wanted to show that their relationship had progressed from last time, though they aren't officially dating yet. Now, some of you are going to say "why did Yang sext Winter if they weren't dating?" Well, there a simple answer the first two were just Yang trying to get a rise out of Winter, the third one, as stated, was a mistake. And also yes, they did pop out and Winter got a very generous view.

Marron and Sienna...yeah I didn't expect that to be as much fun to write as it was. Also, I admit, I sat for two hours debating if this would be the scene that earned me an M rating for this story. So I compromised and left the lemon off screen. Yes that's a cop out, yes I am sorry, and maybe I'll write the actual lemon and post it in another short story dump.

Final scene, Cinder and company going to accept the deal. But there's trouble , Cinder knows what betraying Salem means and it terrifies her. Though in my head, she's less terrified for her own life as she is for Rose's, but that's just me.

And that's it for the recap!

Thanks to psychostorys for editing!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I'm going to pass out.

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