After a seemingly normal mission ends in an ambush, Qrow and Winter are left severely wounded. But as luck would have it, they are both rescued and soon find themselves taking shelter at the village of Shion. Now forced to spend several weeks there in order to recover, the pair slowly discover there is more to each other than what meets the eye.

Winter was always destined to take her father's place as the successor of the Schnee Dust Company, but all she wanted was to write her own destiny. And in time, with the help of a certain general, she was able to attend Beacon and follow through with her desire to become a huntress. Yet, her father would always find a way to take everything she held dear in her heart. Snowbird AU.

"Your sneeze. I would've never expected your sneeze to sound like that," Edward answered, his voice returning to a somewhat appropriate tone. "What? You're talking like you've never heard someone sneeze before." A little one-shot in which Edward finds something very... interesting to tease his stoic commander with. No ships.