Okay, so I was a little disappointed in this chapter. Mostly because I wanted to have an emotional moment with Neo and Roman, but to be honest, Neo and Roman don't seem the type to get touchy feely, and Neo's personality isn't really covered, we do know she's sadistic, but other than that, I don't know much else.
Anyways, so chapter 38, and I am at least trying to get 50 chapters.
Here we go.
Winter was pissed off. She was finally starting to accept that maybe her and Jeremiah had something, and then what happens, he takes a criminal into his home, and he starts getting her various fruit snacks and ice cream bars. Granted it was funny to see that Neo was being treated like a child, it still made her mad that the little bitch took his attention away.
"Here you go!" Neo was currently happily munching on an ice sandwich.
"You...do realize who she is right?" Winter whispered in his ear.
"Of course, Neo, Roman's partner, and possible sadist." He said if her appearance in the show was anything to go by.
"And you're sitting here feeding her ice cream." Winter said looking at the tiny woman.
"Well...she's not trying to hurt anyone, and she just looks so...tiny..." Jeremiah felt for this woman.
She was just so tiny and cute looking, how could she be so evil? That and look at her eating ice cream, it was the cutest thing ever.
"So how is Torchwick doing?" Jeremiah asked as Winter sat down on the other side of the table next to Neo.
"Well..." She said as she looked over.
Momma and Pa had gone out for awhile, and left them all alone. So they tied Torchwick to a chair, binded his hands and feet, and had Ruby standing guard while forcing him to watch RWBY volumes 1-3. After of course, Neo had kicked him in the balls for forcing her to go to school.
"Why did you guys have him watch the show?" Jeremiah didn't see the reason.
"We figured it was smart to see what would happen to him." Winter said as Jeremiah looked at her.
"You did make sure not to show him anything too important revolving Cinder's 'Nefarious' plan right?" He asked as she nodded.
"Of course, they skipped over most of the Vytal tournament and showed him the scene where he gets eaten by a Grimm." Winter said as Neo choked on her ice cream sandwich.
"WAIT! WHAT?!" Neo couldn't believe what she was hearing.
Who was this guy? How did he know their names? How did he know she was a sadist? How did he know what would happen to Torchwick, what was going on? She didn't know. But for once, she felt concerned that a man she had never met before in another world knew a lot about them.
"Oh, looks like I worried little Neo." Jeremiah was honestly laughing at the nickname that was given to Neo by his parents.
"Oh great, that is one name I am never going to escape now." Neo rolled her eyes at that.
Yeah, something tells her, if they ever do get home, then they will never stop calling her that. Roman will call her that to annoy her, much like he calls Ruby 'Little Red'. And all of her enemies would call her that because of Roman, and she would look like a child! It made her so mad! The sad part was that, people thought she was short currently, but the sad part was that she was wearing heels!
Yes boys and girls, it was true, the sad part was she was even shorter without heels! And it pissed her off to no end. Seriously, if it wasn't for the fact that she trained hard in order to fight people, she would probably be stuck working as a living advertisement for Garden Gnomes!
"So, uhm, about our date…" Jeremiah asked as Winter looked up.
"What about it?" She asked as she was a little nervous about it.
"Well, I was thinking maybe we should do something regular, nothing too fancy, but just a regular date, how about dinner and a movie?" He asked as she thought it over.
In all honesty, that seemed to be the best course of action. If they went too fancy, then Jeremiah would probably dislike it due to the fact that fancy usually means small amounts of food for a high amount of money. So that was not an option, and if it was too cheap, chances are neither one would like it because usually you want things to be decently priced for quality reasons. So dinner at a fairly nice place, and a movie sounded nice and relaxing.
"Don't most people go for the movie first and then dinner?" Winter asked as Jeremiah nodded.
"Yes, but I find having dinner first makes sense, you see, at a movie you focus on the screen, besides holding hands and cuddling, not a lot happens, you just stare at the screen and you don't interact, however, at dinner you do talk about a lot of things, so you go to dinner first and talk about the day, and then after you eat, you feel a little more relaxed, so you can just enjoy the movie while being cuddled up." Jeremiah said as Winter was actually kind of disturbed and impressed at how much thought he put into this.
"Who puts the same amount of thought and effort into planning a date that is required in Neuroscience?" Winter honestly thought he had too much time on his hands.
"In my defense, I was a shy kid who when he got his first date, didn't really know what he was doing. And spent WAAAYY too much time thinking it through." He said remembering he had a plan of attack.
"Maybe that was your problem, you put too much thought into it." She said as overthinking things usually doesn't work.
"Eh, you're probably right, take that Teenage me!" Jeremiah suddenly remembered when he went through that teenage emo phase.
He shivered at himself, the sad part was that when he did go through that emo phase, he had to steal his sister's black nailpolish. THANK GOD that part of his life was over and he came to his senses that life was good.
"You mean the version of you that looked like Ms. Belladonna?" She said remembering the makeup photos.
"Yeah, teenage angst is a weird phase, hell I don't even remember what I was so angsty about." Now that he thought about it, he really couldn't remember.
Maybe being a teenager was like being drunk, you don't remember why you were so angsty, you just were.
"So, how about tonight?" Jeremiah figured the sooner the better.
"And leave Torchwick and Little Neo here?" Neo slammed her head into the table, as even the soldier was referring to her as Little Neo.
"Momma and Pa were able to keep them occupied, and based on what Pa told me, he gave Roman quite an ass kicking, is that right Neo?" He turned to ask Neo as she nodded.
"And they put me in different outfits and started feeding me until I thought I was going to die from being too full!" Neo's torture was really not that bad at all.
"So are we absolutely sure that they are not showing Torchwick anything vital about your world with the volumes?" Jeremiah was still slightly worried.
"In our world, and in your world, we would be in a time that is a few months before Volume 3's beginning, he has seen both 1 and 2, but the only scene from Volume 3 he has seen has been his own death. To show what his mistakes will bring." Winter stated as Jeremiah looked up.
"What if he gets my dvds and watches for himself?" He asked as Winter looked awkward.
"Yeah about that….I'm sorry." She said as Jeremiah looked confused.
"Sorry? Sorry for wh-" Suddenly broken dvd pieces were put in front of him.
"Sorry Jerry….we broke them." Nora said with a guilty look on her face.
"WHAT? Guys seriously? Come on!" He took his DVD collection very seriously.
"We're sorry, we realized we didn't think our plan through all the way, so we snapped them in front of him." Nora really did feel bad.
"Well how is he now?" Jeremiah asked.
"He hasn't said a word for about fifteen minutes." Even Ruby was surprised at that, usually Torchwick never shut up.
"How about I have a word with him?" Jeremiah said as he went upstairs where they were keeping Roman.
His brother was currently passed out on the couch, too many fuzzy navels for him. His brother really was a light weight drinker. He didn't even notice that Neo was currently watching his brother sleep, Winter could see though, and it was creepy as hell.
"Sooo….Handsome…" Neo thought to herself as she traced a finger along his abs.
"Okay little Neo, time for your nap." Winter said as Neo glared at her.
"Okay seriously Schnee, you know I'm older than I look, so why don't we cut with the little Neo shit?!" Neo signed, even though she didn't think the Schnee would know how to.
"Actually I won't, so why don't you cut with the attitude, or I'll have Momma not make you any special snacks for a week." Winter signed as Neo glared at her, more pissed off about her pudding cups going away then the fact that Winter knew sign language.
"You wouldn't dare…." Neo warned as Winter smirked.
"Try me." She said with a smirk as Neo backed down.
She wasn't going to risk losing her pudding cups because of Winter.
Jeremiah almost immediately came back downstairs. He wasn't even up there for a minute. Why did he come down so fast?
"Did your talk with him really go that fast? " Winter couldn't believe it.
"Uh, No, when I got up there, he was crying, and I just closed the door, hey Neo, why don't you go up there and talk to him?" Jeremiah said as that was way too awkward for him to watch.
"Wait…Roman was crying?" Now Neo knew something was wrong.
Even if she kicked Roman in the balls, even if he was in the worst possible shape in his life, she had never seen him cry at all in his life, if something was making him cry, she knew something must have gone horribly, horribly wrong.
"Are you sure it wasn't just a way to gain sympathy?" Winter asked remembering Ruby was guarding Torchwick.
"I doubt it, even Ruby didn't know what to think." He said as he looked at Winter.
"So, what movie would you like to see tomorrow?" Jeremiah asked as Winter looked at him.
"Why don't you pick the movie?" She asked as Jeremiah froze.
"What?" She didn't know what she said to make him freeze up.
"Oh sorry, old habits, usually if I hear that, It means 'Pick what I want you to pick." He chuckled as Winter just deadpanned.
"I'm not from this world, and I don't know any of the movies except those that I watched with you and Weiss's friends." She stated as if it was that simple.
"Oh yeah….forgot about that." Well this was awkward.
UPSTAIRS
"I'll just be outside the door." Ruby said as she closed the door behind her.
Neo was just looking at Roman, his head was down. And he wasn't saying a word. She had never seen him like this before in her life. Sure, he had moments where he was pissed off, but she had never actually seen him look so morbid.
She waved her hand in front of his face trying to get his attention but nothing.
"What was the point?" He asked her as he looked up, his eyes red.
"huh?" Okay, now she was confused.
"Life was good, I took what I want, whenever I want, and go where I wanted to, I thought being bad was better than being good, and that concepts like karma were just the poor man's tool of hoping that someone that was better than him would get what was coming to him, but it all went wrong." Roman said as he looked out the window.
"I died Neo…" He said as Neo looked slightly shocked, even though she knew from Winter and Jeremiah.
"Not only did I die, I ended up being eaten by a Grimm…A GRIMM!" He had a slight burst of anger.
"Everything I ever did, everything we ever did all stood for nothing!" He couldn't believe his life was going to end like that.
"The sad part was that it could have been avoided, if I had just turned around at the last minute. But no, I get stuck dying and being turned into a pile of Grimm shit!" Okay, Neo was actually worried for Roman right now.
She may have liked to pick on him, and occasionally threaten him with violence, but seeing him like this was just wrong. So she did the only thing she knew would get him to stop.
SLAP
"PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!" She thought to herself as Roman looked shocked.
"Ow! What was that for?" He honestly didn't know.
"Look, as much as we want to hear you're 'repenting of your sins' speech, you don't even realize one simple thing, I don't know what you watched, but I'm going to assume something to do with the future right?" She asked as Roman just nodded.
"What about it?" He asked as Neo rolled her eyes.
"You idiot, now that you know what is going to happen, you can stop it from happening, is it that hard to understand?" She signed as even she could see the benefits of knowing the future.
"I don't know the future; they only let me see my own death for going along with HER plan." He said as he suddenly had doubts about working for Cinder.
"Then why don't we just go back to where we started from? You know? Robbing banks? Kidnapping rich heirs? For Oum's sake, something away from that woman, and preferably something that pays well!" That was going to be a very important factor.
"Woah woah, Neo, it's not that simple!" He knew they were in a dangerous crowd.
"You mean to tell me that you've evaded capture of the authorities for years, and have been able to get away, but you can't find a way to hide from Cinder? Come on!" Neo figured they might as well give it a shot.
"And what then? We live the rest of our lives in hiding?" He asked her as she narrowed her eyes.
"Either that, or you get eaten by a Grimm, your call." Even though it was going to PAIN her to say this, she had to say it.
"I would rather you stick around for as long as possible….." Neo hated to admit it, but as much as she sometimes hated the orange haired bastard…she would also miss him.
Before they came here, Roman was the only one she had in her life, and she would hate to see his life end because he went along with a nefarious plan that resulted in his death. So why not use the opportunity at hand to get away from it all?
"Woah, wait, did you just admit you would miss me?" Roman was done crying as he started to get a smirk on his face.
"Shut up." She said as she got ready to walk out of the room.
"YOU WOULD! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ADMIT IT!" Roman said as he suddenly felt something bonk him in the head.
"OW!" He looked down to see that Neo had thrown a shoe.
In all honesty, that did make him feel better. Coming face to face with the fact that you saw how you were going to die was an awful feeling. Even worse when you realize you didn't have much time left. So it did leave an impression on Torchwick.
But the question was, what was he going to do with this information? Would he listen to Neo? And try to prevent it?
Or would he continue down the same path?
The choice was his, and unlike his counterpart on the screen, he had a chance to change the future.
But would he?