RWBY: Lost and Forgotten

Chapter 54

Outside of the Schnee household, multiple black cars arrived. Teams RWBY and JNR got out of one vehicle, along with Chrome and Qrow, as Ironwood, Winter, Penny and the ace ops got out of the other.

Chrome pulled his hood up as he looked to the massive building. As for the others, they talked about what to do. Chrome, however, didn't hear a word, his focus only on his mother and the possibility of meeting her.

Entering the Schnee residence, Chrome looked around, his eyes scanning the room for anyone that resembled his two biological sisters. Heading further inside, his worries about being discovered paled in comparison to finding his mother.

That's all he cared about in this moment. Finding and speaking to Willow Schnee.

"Chr- Crimson." Weiss placed a hand on Chrome's shoulder, remembering to use his fake name.

Not hearing Weiss, Chrome stepped away. "She's here..." suddenly, Yang grabbed his arm, pulling him back to the group.

Chrome kept looking over the room as Weiss silently pulled away, heading for the main stairs but was stopped by her brother stepping in her way. As the others formed a plan to get him out of the way, Chrome was distracted by his own goal of finding his mom.

Stepping away from the group to take a look around, Nora, Ren and Jaune quickly formed a plan.

Nora went around collecting as much food as she could before getting 'knocked over' by Ren. Her mountain of food, however, fell on a passerby. Once the food hit her, she freaked out and dumped her wine on Whitley, turning his hair and clothes red.

Noticing what happened, Chrome looked over just as Whitley walked away to clean himself off in private. Looking back to Weiss, she had reached the top of the steps. He tried to follow but was stopped by one of the butlers. "You can't go up there." he said. "It's off limits to guests."

Not wanting to cause any more of a scene, Chrome nodded as he stepped away from the staircase. Feeling his annoyance quickly turn to anger, he walked outside to cool off.

He was so close, he knew this was it. This was the day he gets to meet his biological mother. And he wasn't going to let himself get stopped by such a small obstacle.

Looking back to the building, he noticed an open window. Staring at it, an idea popped into his head.

Walking under the window, Chrome created multiple glyphs up the side of the Schnee residence. Taking a running start, he rushed up the side of the building, vaulting through the open window and rolling to his feet, making as little noise as humanly possible. Taking a glance around, Chrome was glad to see no one else was in the room.

Heading to the door, he slowly opened it wide enough to take a peek. Seeing no one, Chrome slid silently into the hall.

Minutes passed as he wandered the massive house. There were a few workers walking the halls too, making it so Chrome had to hide a few times to avoid being spotted. He tried to find the master bedroom, thinking that would be the most likely place for his mother to be.

"Excuse me." a voice called to him, causing Chrome to stop in his tracks. Chrome glanced back, ready to run away, but stopped as he saw that the voice came from a woman. A woman who looked remarkably like Weiss and Winter. It was Willow Schnee. "The party is downstairs. What are you doing here?" she looked tired. Defeated. And her eyes were puffy and red from hours of weeping.

Seeing her like this caused Chrome's voice to get caught in his throat and his body to freeze. "You should get back down to the party." she told him before turning to a door on her left.

As she reached for the door, Chrome broke out of his trance. "Wait!" Willow glanced back to him. Taking off his hood, he showed his cat ears to her. Upon seeing them, Willow just cocked her head a bit. "You don't... I don't... It's just..." Chrome couldn't find the words he wanted to say. Taking a deep breath to calm himself, he looked to her. "You're the mother of Weiss and Winter Schnee, right?"

She nodded.

"Okay... Okay..." he took another deep breath. "You don't know me, but around 19 years ago, you met a Faunus. A cat Faunus." Chrome told her. "And you had a child with him that was named-"

"Chrome Belladonna..." Willow said softly, her eyes filling with tears again. She turned her head away.

"I've been wanting to see you, to talk to you, for quite some time." Chrome said.

"Why would you do this?" Willow asked as she sobbed. "How could you be so cruel?"

"What do you mean?" his cat ears folded back.

"Chrome died during that massacre..." Willow covered her mouth. "It was on the news."

"We had to-"

"Stop!" she looked back into Chrome's eyes, tears streaming down her face. "How could you?"

Chrome was speechless. However, as Willow continued staring at him, Chrome lifted his right arm, opening his hand. "I can prove it." in the palm of his hand, he created a glyph. Upon seeing this, Willow's eyes widened.

Letting his arm fall back to his side, Chrome smiled. "I'm glad I finally got to meet you, mom."

"Chrome? Is it really you?" she dropped her bottle of alcohol as she took a step towards him.

"It is." Chrome gave a gentle smile. "I had to dye my hair to blend in. Winter's orders." he gestured to his hair. "But-" he was caught off guard as he felt his mother place her hand on his cheek once she got close enough. Placing his hand over hers, tears began to fill Chrome's eyes. The two looked into each other's eyes, tears now streaming down both of their faces as Willow pulled him into a hug.

"There wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about you." she said into his ear.

Hearing her words made Chrome smile as he returned the hug. Pulling away, Willow wiped her tears as did Chrome. "Come with me. I know a place where we can talk in private."

End of chapter 54