Lily normally wasn't one for questions. She wasn't a very curious girl. She liked learning, they were learning how to subtract in school, but she just didn't really ask much of her own accord. She wasn't naturally curious, like her mother tended to be. When she was, though?

Oh boy.

"Mommy?" Lily's small voice whispered.

Ruby Rose looked up from her scroll to see her daughter looking up at her. Ruby, putting down her scroll and forgetting about the report she'd been reading for a moment, reached down and hoisted her daughter into her lap.
"Heyo, silly," Ruby said, tapping her daughter on the nose. "What's up?"

Lily grabbed a fistful of her strikingly blonde hair as she looked at her mother. She'd always thought she looked more like Auntie Yang than her own mom. "Why do I look different?"

Ruby frowned. "What do you mean, sweetie? You look the same as always to me."

Lily let go of her own hair and reached out to grab Ruby's. Her small hands wrapped around a lock of her black hair. She'd long since stopped dying the tips.

"My hair," Lily said. "You've got black hair. And mommy has really pretty white hair. Why is mine yellow?"

Ruby laughed, finally understanding what her daughter was getting at. "We've talked about this before, silly. You're adopted. Me and mommy picked you out when you were reeallll little because we loved you so much."

"But the other kids at school look like their mommy!" Lily said.

Ruby tapped Lily on the nose again. "Yeah, well, they didn't pick their kiddos out. They're just stuck with them," Ruby said with a wink, eliciting a giggle from Lily.

"Why did you and mommy pick me out? Why didn't you get stuck with me?" Lily asked.

Ruby stopped laughing and froze up. "Uh, well, Lily, that's a talk for another time, okay?"

Lily shook her head. "Nope. Tell me now."

Ruby cursed internally. Her daughter took after her in all the wrong ways. "Well, uh, Lily, you see… Weiss?" Ruby called, standing up and carrying her daughter.

A familiar shock of white hair and pale skin came strolling into the room. "Yes?" Weiss asked, clearly annoyed. Ruby figured she must've interrupted work.

Ruby smiled. "Lily here just wanted to talk to you," Ruby said, gently transferring their daughter into Weiss's arms. The scowl on her wife's face faded as she did so. Weiss couldn't resist Lily. "Anyways, I'll leave you two to it! I'm suuuper busy!" Ruby exclaimed, quickly slipping out of the room.

Ruby let out the breath she'd been holding as she left the room and shut the door. Crisis averted.

"Ruby!"

Ruby cringed as she heard Weiss yell, very clearly unhappy. Crisis not averted.