Ozpin's Little Rose

Chapter 2: Interesting Conversations

Later that night Ozpin was in his room getting ready for bed when his scroll began to ring. The old man had a funny feeling that it was either one of two people calling him about Ruby. He just didn't know which one. So he picked up his scroll and looked at the caller id it was Taiyang. He picks up "Hello Tai." He simply said.

"Oz, are you sure about this?" was his reply in an calm voice, but with hints of anger and worry.

"You mean letting Ruby come to my school two years early? Yes I'm absolutely certain. I saw the video of her fighting Roman Torchwick I even sent a copy to Ironwood and he agrees with me that she is ready. I'm not playing favourites Tai and she needs to be ready for a not-so forgiving world. Salem is starting to make her move. If I wait for two more years then Salem would most likely find Ruby and have her killed before I or anyone else could do a thing about it."

Ozpin continues from there "At least if Salem does find her sooner than I think then I can at least keep an eye on Ruby here at Beacon, trust me, her safety here is more assured than if she were to stay at Signal." Ozpin paused to let Taiyang interject his opinion.

"What about Qrow?" was the younger man's question, Ozpin thought it over for a second before answering.

"As soon as Qrow comes back from his mission I can start to work on transferring him, from a Signal teacher to a teacher here at Beacon." He paused, sighing he continued.

"This is for the best I already lost Summer and Lunar to Salem. I'm not going to let her take my only granddaughter, my only family" he says as his free hand clenches into a fist.

Silence hung between the two men before Taiyang broke it.

"If you think that it is for the best then I'm with you on this. Speaking about the silver eyed warriors, are you going to give her the watch?"

Ozpin looked down at the watch Taiyang was talking about. It was a silver pocket watch that had his family emblem on it, a single cog that he personally imprinted on the time-piece when he first made it. But below his symbol, on the opposite side, was his wife's emblem, Lunar Rose. Summer had adopted the mark as her own, much like her daughter had. The Rose.

He added the mark after he married Lunar. At first glance it was a normal pocket watch, if you pushed the little button it would open up and you would see a perfectly normal time-piece. But few people knew that if you push the button again it would open again from behind the clock. Behind the mechanisms were two gems one green and one red.

The green gem has recordings and memories of each person that has ever owned said gem, even if they didn't own it any more. The red gem had recordings of Lunar teaching Summer the ways of the 'Silver Eyed Warrior'. He added the red gem as a contingency plan, if Summer ever had children of her own and if neither her or Lunar were able to teach their offspring, then the watch could do it for them. It was unfortunate that this was the case for Ruby.

The plan was for Qrow to teach Ruby how to fight like him when she got into Signal, which Qrow done to a commendable level. Then when she came to Beacon he would introduce her into his order.

The other Headmasters within the order had agreed to this, but they were all under the impression that Ozpin would wait until the girl was 17 before admitting her into Beacon.

"I don't know" Ozpin thought "I might wait until she is settled in before telling her"

'That would be for the best'. And with that final thought he decided to turn in for the night,

"Alright Tai it was nice talking to you." He said,

"Oh before I go I was wondering how did Qrow take the news about Ruby going to Beacon this year?"

Ozpin didn't answer for a few seconds.

"He doesn't know yet, he has been on a secret mission and has not called me yet I'll let him know as soon as he makes contact."

"Are you sure you don't want to call him now and give him the news. You know how he gets when he is left in the dark. And we both know that It will be worse when he finds out it is about Ruby."

Oz thought about it for a moment. "Yes, I'm sure. The mission he is on is way too dangerous for me to call at any time. Either he calls me when he knows he is in a safe place or he finishes the mission and comes home. Either of them will be the time when I'll tell him."

"Alright if you are sure about this, I'll get going then. Good night Ozpin."

"Night Tai."

Ozpin grabs the pocket watch and clicked the button two times then he tapped the green gem and a memory popped up. It was the day Ruby Rose was born. Summer was holding Ruby in the hospital bed with a smile on her face. "Look Ruby it's your grandpa say hi to grandpa."

At that moment Ruby opened her eyes looked at Ozpin and started to reach out to him wanting to be held by him. Oz did eventually pick her up, which caused her to giggle. Both the Ozpin of the past and present smiled. Ozpin of the present thought about Salem and how Ruby was now a student of his school.

"I promise you Summer, the fate you suffered, will not be inflicted upon your daughter."

And with that Ozpin closed the pocket watch and went off to bed.

...

The next day Ruby was running around trying to get ready to go to Beacon. Yang grabbed her. "Yang what are you doing." The younger girl asked.

"Trying to calm you down, Ruby we are not leaving until tomorrow anyways. You got plenty of time to pack up what you need and want to bring to Beacon."

"Yeah you're right I'll slow down."

And with that Ruby started to pack at a much slower pace. Ruby remembered about the cookies that Ozpin gave her. "Hey Yang do you remember Grandpa from mom's side? He would give me boxes of cookies."

"Oh you mean granduncle?"

"No I mean grandpa. He was the one who gave me the cookies, not a granduncle." Replied Ruby.

"No I remember the guy who always gave you those chocolate chip cookies. And dad always had me call him granduncle something. I always had a hard time with his name so I would call him granduncle. I've been calling him that ever since about when I was three years old."

"That can't be true, ever since I could talk I called him grandpa and dad never told me to call him anything else."

"Well that is weird. I wonder why? Anyways why do you ask?"

"Well Professor Ozpin gave me a plate of chocolate chip cookies and they tasted the same as those cookies."

Yang paused for a second as confusion crossed her face.

"Wait I thought those cookies had been discontinued, Dad never got them? Not even when you asked for them for your birthday."

"I know" Ruby replied "But Professor Ozpin had them or something that tasted like them."

"Okay. That is a little weird Ruby."

Just then Ruby's scroll began to ring so she picked it up. "Hello."

"Hey kiddo how's it hanging?"

"Uncle Qrow!"

Silence accompanied the scroll for a second.

"Okay Ruby I missed you to but you don't need to yell in the scroll."

"Sorry but guess what."

"What kiddo?"

Qrow took a swig from his flask. "Yesterday I got to meet Professor Ozpin and he is letting me to go Beacon this year!"

At that moment Qrow spat out his drink in a way very similar to the way Ozpin had the night before. "Okay I think I really need to stop drinking. Because I thought I just heard you say you are going to Beacon this year?"

"Nope Uncle Qrow, Ruby is really going to Beacon with me this year." Yang replied.

Qrow was not happy, sure he looked happy, but he kept a smile for Ruby and Yang, but inside he was already beginning to boil over, as soon as he got off the Scroll with Ruby and Yang, he was going to tear Oz a fuckin' new one, or his name wasn't Qrow Hannibal Branwen! "Oh really now that is great kiddo. I'm sure you'll have a great time."

"I hope so. I'm a little worried that some of the other students might treat me differently though." Ruby said in a more meek voice.

"Just do your best, and kid"

"Yes uncle Qrow?"

"I'm sure you'll be fine."

At hearing this Ruby smiled and nodded her head. "I will do my best."

"Look, I need to get going, see you soon"

"Okay bye Uncle Qrow."

"See you later Qrow."

"See yah..."

And with that Qrow hung up. He then dialled in Ozpin's number.

At the time Ozpin was in his office, he notices that Qrow was calling before he picked up his scroll. "Well hello Qrow so nice of you to call."

"Ahem, excuse me, but what the FUCKING FUCK OZ?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING LETTING MY DAUGHTER IN TWO FUCKING YEARS EARLY?!" Qrow yelled into the scroll microphone indignantly.

At hearing... that Oz began to really wish that he did call Qrow last night, instead of having to deal with an angry and very irate in-law. It would have saved his ears. "Did Tai call you and tell you? I told him that you were not to be distracted."

"No I called Ruby's scroll just before calling you. She told me that she met you last night and you gave her 'the okay' to go to Beacon early." Qrow paused for a second "How in the THE FUCK could you do this without calling me first and asking if I was okay with it! I don't care if I'm on a mission or not. I have the right to know what happens in Ruby's life!"

"Qrow." Ozpin said quietly.

"Fucking No Oz!" was his response. "You are not putting her in any godsdamned danger. She is my daughter, even if she doesn't know it she's still my little girl. I'm not going to lose her like I lost Summer!"

"I don't want her to end up like Summer either Qrow" Ozpin said with a stern and intimidating voice, "She is safer at Beacon, you know this."

At that moment Qrow froze remembering that Ozpin was Summer's father. That Ozpin was still hurting from Summer's death just like he was still hurting from it. Qrow takes a minute to breathe and calm down before replying.

"Oz look I'm sorry. I, I just don't want Ruby to get hurt."

"I know Qrow, but please hear me out."

"..."

"Fine, tell me everything."

"First of all did Ruby tell you how she and I met yesterday?"

"No she was just so hyped up about going to Beacon."

"Well yesterday she was in a dust shop looking at a magazine about weapons when the store got robbed by Roman Torchwick."

"Oh great" Qrow interrupted "I think I know where this is going. She fought him and any other person that was with him, didn't she?"

"She did, although Roman did get away."

At hearing that Qrow smiled. "So how much butt did she kick?"

"She knocked out all the thugs that Roman had with him."

"That's my girl." Qrow said quietly with pride, a large grin on his face.

"Yes, well I see that you did teach her your way of fighting."

"Of course I godsdamned did, one she is my little girl, and two that was the damn plan. But I thought I would get to teach her for two more years. You know, before she would go to Beacon." Qrow said with sarcasm dripping from his voice.

"Yes well from what I saw you taught her well, well enough that she is ready for Beacon, which is what I wanted to talk with you about".

Ozpin was met with silence,

"Qrow, I want you to work here at Beacon" upon saying the words Ozpin heard the sounds of coughing and wheezing, he smiled, knowing that he had just made Qrow inhale his drink.

"What!?" Qrow managed to say before continuing to push the burning liquid from his lungs.

"I want you to work at Beacon, to teach students how to better themselves, and to be a supporting person towards Ruby, she will need all the help she can get."

Silence met the air.

"And if Beacon should be attacked, then you could assist in its defence" Ozpin concluded.

"Fine, fine! You win, she can go to Beacon. By the way does she know who you are to her and does she have the watch yet?"

Ozpin sighed, "Why do you and Tai keep asking about the watch? And no, Ruby doesn't know anything about me except that I'm the headmaster of Beacon. And I'm waiting till she settled in at Beacon before I hand over such a responsibility."

"Alright fine, I need to get going Oz see you around."

"Yes. Good day Qrow."

And with that the two ended the call.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and that rant from Qrow. I sure did. Caio for now. Sincerely, The GunMaster