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"Uncle Qrow?" Ruby couldn't help but look shocked at her uncle. Why was he here? Was he actually here? Was this just an elaborate illusion, but if it was then what would be the purpose of this?
Qrow just looked at Jeremie with obvious fear in his eyes, but not for himself. Ruby surprised herself that she was able to pick up on it. Normally her uncle kept a facade of stoicism and she wouldn't be able to pick any of his emotions or thoughts.
Jeremie's voice brought her out of her thoughts. "Qrow? Good name." He was looking at Qrow with a calm expression on his face. He smirked as he began to play with the knife again, something that caused Ruby to fear for her uncle since he was not apart of the agreement. "Now that you've finally revealed yourself, we can get down to the meat of the question. Why are you here, bucko?"
Ruby couldn't help but look at her Uncle Qrow to see what his response would be. All she saw though was a contemplative look, like he normally had when he would when we would make dangerous plans. It only served to remind her how bad this situation is, and how she was given this second chance at saving everyone.
Qrow sighed as he glanced at Ruby before he looked back at Jeremie. "I came here only to make sure nothing happend to my niece." Ruby was taken back at her uncle's words. She looked to see how Jeremie reacted only to see a smirk on his face and a raised eyebrow."
Jeremie winked. "I see, well I can keep a secret." Ruby was confused at that statement. What did he mean? She looked to her Uncle Qrow only to see shock written on his face.
"H-h-how? How did you just speak in my mind like that?" Ruby was surprised at that. She looked between the two men in the room and realized that Jeremie must have done what he did before when he sifted through her memories. She sighed.
Both Jeremie and Qrow looked at her when they heard her. Qrow looked at back at Jeremie with a glare. "You will never mention that to anyone."
"Oh?" Jeremie laughed as he began to walk towards the exit of the cave still spinning his knife in his hand. Ruby quickly noticed where he was going and made to question him before he looked back at the two other humans in the room. "Aren't you two coming? I assume that I am taking refuge with you two."
Ruby was quick to reply. "I'm sure that we could get Professor Ozpin to make accomodations for you at Beacon." Qrow just stared blankly at her as she made her way out of the cave with Jeremie. He quickly followed after them clearly uncomfortable with their new companion. Ruby just smirked as she got on the bullhead. 'And now the fun begins.'
Opzin stood in his office looking out of the window as he waited for Qrow to contact him, if he ever will contact him. He would understand if Qrow never wanted to talk to him again when his friend learns the truth of the situation with Ms. Rose.
He knows how overprotective Qrow is of her. It was the same way he was with the girl's mother, Summer Rose. Qrow still never forgave him for sending Summer on that mission. Frankly, Ozpin still didn't forgive himself for what happend either. Still he would never let anyone know that he blamed himself for that, especially not the council. They were looking for any reason to get rid of him.
The Council. How he absolutely hated those geezers, not that he would ever tell anyone that. They were so far distached from this situation that they would never make a good decision without him or Ironwood holding their hands. How they ever got their positions is beyond Ozpin's understanding. Didn't they understand that he was trying to save humanity?
He was jolted out of his thoughts when he heard the elevator ding. Ozpin waited for whoever entered to announce their presence, he didn't feel up to greeting them with his normal enthusiasm. He waited a few minutes before he heard the worried voice of Professor Goodwitch.
"Ozpin?" She put her hand on his shoulder to get his attention. He glanced at Glynda and saw the worry written into her features. He couldn't help but chuckle.
"My my, Glynda, I never thought you would ever be that worried about little ol' me." Goodwitch immediately got defensive as she glared at him.
"Oh haha, you look like you haven't slept in who knows how long and you make a joke out of my general concern." Ozpin sighed as he went to drink some coffee out of habit only to remember that he didn't have his mug and his silent declaration. He looked back out the window and sighed as his interaction with Salem and Ruby some time ago.
Ozpin knew that he was going to have to kick up his game and soon if he wanted to prevent the future that his student came from. He knew that she most likely didn't trust him and was most likely meeting with the one that sent her back in time in the first place. He wasn't sure how he felt about that last part. This person was an unknown factor with no known loyatlies to any of the four kingdoms.
He wondered what truly happend in that timeline she came from. Salem didn't seem to care, all she wanted was to know who sent her back. Ozpin had his theories about the identity on who sent her back, but nothing solid. It truly unnerved him to be in the dark about how things were going to transpire and how they did transpire.
Of course, Glynda Goodwitch wanted to know what he was thinking about, but he could never tell her the truth about this. He hoped that Qrow would not confront him with her in the room. He didn't believe that would go over well at all. Ozpin gave a small smile as he noticed the sun rising on the horizon meaning the night was over. It was a new day and he may just learn where the young Rose went...
Qrow was quite livid as he got the 'short explanation' of what was going on. He didn't care about the fact that he was completely sober or the fact that he was currently pushing through a large group of students marching off to Ozpin's office. He idly noticed his d... niece and that man, Jeremie, following shortly after him. Ruby had a look of concern on her face while their companion had a smirk on his face like he was enjoying this.
That look only served to piss him off more stomped over to Ozpin's elevator, pausing only when he had to wait for the elevator door to open. He glanced around to glare at everything when he noticed both Taiyang and Yang staring at his group from the corner of the room. He grit his teeth as the two blondes made there way over to them, both sharing an obvious look of concern.
He knew why as well, Ruby wasn't there when her team woke up. Qrow figured that they would want to know what happend and he was getting stuck in that conversation. He heard the ping of the elevator and walked on ignoring Taiyang's confusion with Jeremie following him and Ruby trying to but getting stopped by her sister. Sister. Funny he heard that Raven had saved Yang's life during the breach.
He almost chuckled when Yang went full mother hen on Ruby trying to get her to tell her what happened. As the elevator door closed, he heard Taiyang. "Qrow wait!" Qrow didn't really care as he just wanted to throw Ozpin out of his stupid office.
He felt a hand land on his shoulder and looked at the only other person in the elevator with him in contempt. He couldn't help the glare that he gave Jeremie, it certainly didn't help that he was the one that created this situation by sending Ruby back in time. He almost missed it when Jeremie talked to him.
"You need to calm down, it helps no one to be so mad for something in the past. I can already see that you are overprotective of her. I pity any man that trys to date her." He laughed as Qrow smirked good naturedly. Jeremie continued. "You'll have to tell her eventually in all seriousness. She still believes that she is the daughter of that blonde in the lobby when she bears no resemlence to him."
Qrow sighed. "I know, I know but I don't know if I can face that kind of rejection. Especially when I was unable to protect her mother." He put his hand through his hair and glared at the ground. "I would prefer to be the fun uncle than to have to face the fact that I'm the dead beat dad."
Jeremie laughed quite heartly at that. "If you call what you did a dead beat, then I wonder what that would make me?" Qrow looked quizzically at him. "I missed out on the first 13 years of my daughter's life, hell I didn't even know she existed until I was finally able to get home." He looked at the ground with a slight frown on his face.
This made Qrow realize that wasn't really a dead beat as he was still in Ruby's life, the only thing was that she didn't know that he was her father. Qrow still felt it was easier that way, but by the slight glare Jeremie gave him at that thought he reconsidered. Before they could go any further though, they reached Ozpin's office.
He sighed as the two stepped off of the elevator much to the surprise of Glynda, who was of course standing next to Ozpin. "Oz, we need to talk about some things." Ozpin just nodded as he took a seat at his desk offering both Qrow and Jeremie a seat. Jeremie plopped down on one of the seats like he was at a friends house checking out the room.
Qrow of course opted to stand as he stared at the only female professor in the room. Ozpin seemed to get the hint and politely asked her to leave the room. She looked like she wanted to protest but complied with the headmaster's pleading look. Wait... pleading look? That threw Qrow through a few loops as he has never seen that look on Ozpin's face.
Qrow found himself sitting up straighter after Goodwitch left the room. "Now that we are alone Qrow, who is your companion?" Jeremie just looked at Ozpin and laughed as if he was just told a funny joke. This took Qrow and Ozpin off guard as they didn't think the question was funny in anyway.
Qrow glared at Jeremie before looking back at Ozpin. "This..." He pointed at Jeremie. "Is Jeremie. He is apparently the reason my niece is here." Qrow gestured to the room as Ozpin just nodded in understanding since it was a sensitive topic. Jeremie looked confused for a second as he just looked between the two.
"Wait." The two both looked at Jeremie. "Are we literally going to sidestep this entire thing or are we going to be the big boys we are and actually talk about this?" Both Qrow and Ozpin were taken back by the straightforwardness of the question. "I know that time-travel is such a misconstrued concept that no one likes to mention it, but such a blatant avoidance of admitting to such a big achievement is a disgrace."
Ozpin sighed. "We are not sidestepping this event. We are just looking out for Ms. Rose's safety." Jeremie laughed uncontrollably at that. "Is something wrong Mr..."
Jeremie managed to stop his laughter and sighed. "My full name is Jeremie Scott. And as too why I laughed at you, well that is because you fear for the girl's safety. I don't see why you worry, she is stronger than most of the students and teachers at this school, but then again she is also regaining the ability to use her full power in her younger body."
Qrow narrowed his eyes. "I don't care if she was the strongest on this planet, she is still my family and I would give my to keep her safe." He didn't realize he growled that out until Ozpin merely rose his eyebrows in question. Qrow just huffed as he threw his hand through his hair.
Ozpin must have realized that he would get no response. "So moving on, what is your purpose here Mr. Scott?"
"Well I am helping the little Rose with her little scheme she has going on, y'know the whole prevent the everyone's deaths and the destruction at the hands of the Grimm. In return she will help kill the 4 Grimm Generals." Jeremie couldn't stop the smirk come onto his face as he pictured the generals all dead and decaying at his feet along with the twisted witche's tortured remains laying under his foot.
The other two shifted at the slighty crazed smirk on his face but this seemed to go unnoticed by Jeremie. Qrow coughed. "Well, Ruby was hoping that you would give him a place to stay." Ozpin nodded as he began to compile the necassary paperwork needed.
Jeremie noticed this and couldn't help but inquire. "So what exactly will I do here, because I know that you wouldn't just let me stay for free and we all know that I have no money to pay you."
Ozpin smirked as he seemed to finish the paperwork. "You will be a teacher here. The only question remains is, what will you teach the students during your tenure?" Jeremie looked down in thought before raising his head to look at Ozpin.
"I shall teach the kids hand-to-hand combat or more specifically martial arts." A book landed in Jeremie's lap. "This book contains every martial art style I have ever learned and/or studied in some way."
Ozpin nodded and looked at Qrow. "You shall help him teach the students." As Qrow made to retort Ozpin continued. "Do you really trust him with both of your nieces? No offense Mr. Scott."
Jeremie smirked. "None taken." He waved his hand as Ozpin made a call and Glynda walked back into the room. Ozpin merely told her to take Jeremie and Qrow to the quarters that they will be staying in. Qrow sent a questioning look as he followed the other two out, with every intent on coming back and talking to him later alone.
Alright new chapter here and back to the same question, what do you think so far? Also I know the whole Qrow is Ruby's bio father thing is just a theory but I really like that headcanon. It just feels like it might be the truth of the situation. I mean we may never know because Qrow could just be to scared to come out and say it and I doubt Taiyang would ever tell Ruby that, so unless someone like Salem knows the truth and spills the beans this will forever remain a theory.
But I still want to know what weapon should Jeremie have? I really want to hear your guy's thoughts and opinions on this matter. And in the next chapter will be the conversation between Ruby, Taiyang and Yang, much fun will be had me thinks. Until then Z0mb1ehunter out.
