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*May receive some edits in the future and maybe additional dialogue.

*Fresh post. May have more than few mistakes here and there. Will update with corrections in several days or so.

"Then I'll be heading out then!" Eugene Moran had bid goodbye to his boss.

Rin looked up from her desk of her home office to look at the squirrel faunus. "Ah, yeah. Take care," she said before returning back to the paperwork she had been diligently working on.

Today was Eugene's day off that he had requested a week prior. He was very much looking forward to it and was about to exit the mansion when he stopped after he saw a friend of his was leaning on the doorway out.

"Hey, Rud!" he smiled at his long-time friend. "Came to see me out?"

The wolf faunus uncrossed his arms and approached Eugene. "Just wanted to be sure to tell you to keep out of trouble before my shift starts," he answered gruffly. "I won't be there to save your ass if something does, so keep that in mind."

Eugene was glad for the concern, even if it was delivered a little roughly. Rud had always been like that, but he really was always worrying about him and the others. It was too bad that Rud couldn't go with him.

"Thanks," he answered. "Don't worry. I'll be back soon enough."

"You don't have to rush, idiot," Rud frowned in dissatisfaction. "Take your time and enjoy it. We'll still be here waiting for you."

"Yeah," said Eugene as he went past Rud. "You don't have to worry about that."

Before the squirrel faunus got too far, his friend shouted, "And don't forget to say 'hi' to your mom from us!"

Eugene answered with a nod and a smile before waving back goodbye to his friend.

Today was the day that he would be off to visit his mother. He had brought a few snacks and desserts that both Sakura and Shirou had made for him and his parent. It was good that mother and child were quite similar in many ways, having a fondness for sweets was just one of them. However, some of these similarities has led to more than a few misunderstandings.

It didn't take Eugene long to arrive at his mother's current residence after taking a taxi from the mansion.

He came up to the reception desk of the building he had arrived at. "Good morning," he said to the receptionist. "I'm here to see my mother."

The receptionist smiled as she recognized the faunus. "Of course, Eugene. She's waiting for you in her room."

After thanking the receptionist, Eugene made his way to the hospital room where his mother was in. It wouldn't take him long to get there because this place has long been part of his memories of his mother. After all, this hospital has been Mrs. Moran's home for the better part of a third of Eugene's life.

She hadn't been in the hospital the entire time during those years, but she has spent most of it, even then, at the hospital than at her own home. The staff had been nice enough to them for all those years and had treated them kindly enough. It was just unfortunate that her stay had been prolonged due to the lack of funds for the actual treatment of her ailment. The cost was simply much too high for it, but at least the hospital had given them time by letting her stay there at a much reduced price that they could afford.

However, even though the payments were less, the continued stay at the hospital had drained their finances, and only made it impossible for Eugene to save enough money to get his mother's sickness cured permanently. There were few jobs that he could do that would be able to pay for all those expenses. And of those that did, there were none willing to hire a faunus, at least, not for a fair wage.

It had only been recently that his mother had finally started receiving treatment, and was now on her way to a full recovery. He was truly grateful for that.

"Mom, are you awake?" he called behind the door to her room. "I came to visit."

"Eugene?" called the voice from the room.

He opened the door and saw his mother sitting across the room on one of the chairs with an open book on her lap. "Hey, Mom!"

The woman was dressed modestly and looked to be in her late 20's. That was however not the case, considering her son was 27 yrs. old. It was because her baby-face made her look quite a bit younger than her actual age, something her son had also inherited from her. This made for uncomfortable situations where they had been mistaken together as siblings for those who did not know them.

Mrs. Moran got up her seat slowly before she dashed over and threw herself at her child in a hug. "Oh, Eugene, it really is you!" she loudly said with joy. "You haven't visited me in such a long time, I had thought something happened to you."

"You worry too much, Mom," Eugene said with a smile on his face. "I told you I had to take a… hard job, so I wouldn't be able to talk to you for a while." He didn't bother telling her that he had joined the White Fang, which was one of the reasons why he had not wanted to contact her back then.

Mrs. Moran gave her son an unhappy pout but was quickly gone when she saw the snacks he had brought. "Are those for me?" she asked in a hopeful voice, to which, her son gave an affirmative nod. "Thank you, Eugene. You don't know how happy I am to eat something else here," she said delightedly.

"The people where I work at, made it for you and me," said Eugene.

"This is delicious!" Mrs. Moran moaned after taking a bite off a brownie. She devoured the little morsels unlike that of a woman who has spent so much time in a hospital. "Those people are amazing! The chocolate just melts wonderfully in my mouth!"

"Wait a minute, Mom! Those aren't all yours!" said Eugene as he saw the rapidly decreasing snacks from his pack. "Some of those are mine!"

Mrs. Moran held the pack from her son's reach as she continued to empty its contents. "Your frail mother needs all the nutrition she can get," she answered as she continued to magnificently evade her son's attempts at getting the pack from her. "You don't want me to get sick from malnourishment, do you?" She smiled playfully at her boy.

"I'm more worried you'll get sick from overeating right now," answered Eugene as he made another grab at the pack unsuccessfully. He was glad his mother was healthy enough to move around so much, but that didn't mean he would let her eat his share. "At least let me have a taste of one of the donuts," he said tearfully.

After a short while, Mrs. Moran finally relented and let her son have some of the snacks from the pack. She had eaten quite a lot of it after all and she could see that her son was almost about to cry. She had always did liked teasing her son so much, but she always knew when to stop when it got too much. Although, she did still feel somewhat regretful at not being to eat all of the food.

"It's nice to see you're doing so well now, Mom," said Eugene with a pout, as he nibbled on one of the snacks from his arms that he vigilantly guarded from his mother.

"Now, now," Mrs. Moran said as she sat down right next to her son on the hospital bed. "You don't have to be like that. I promise I won't steal your food for now." Eugene was still unhappy about the last bit of that sentence, but was a little mollified by the promise. "So tell me what you've been up to."

Eugene thought about what to say to her. "I got a new job now and it's a much nicer place than where I worked at before," he said with a smile. "Rud and the others -They said 'hi', by the way- are working there with me too. There's a lot of hard work but we do get paid plenty for it and the benefits are really great. The health insurance we get even covers your bills for the hospital and we even have a full coverage dental plan. You wouldn't belie—"

He stopped when he saw his mother's eyes staring intently at him.

"Is there something on my face?" he asked.

Mrs. Moran nodded to herself after a few seconds. "It doesn't look like you're lying to me this time…"

Eugene was bewildered.

The last time he had visited her, he had told her that he was about to take a new job that would help pay for her treatment. He told her not to worry, that it would be easy, and that everything about it would be alright. He said all of this with a smile on his face so as not to worry his bedridden mother who he knew would be against him joining the White Fang.

"Don't look so surprised," said his mother. "I'm your mom, remember?" She squeezed her son's hand. "I may have been sick at the time, but I knew you weren't telling me the truth back then."

"I-I… I'm sorry," said Eugene with his face looking down. "I promised you I wouldn't do anything bad but I—"

"Shush," his mother cut in and embraced him. "It's okay, I'm not angry. I understand how difficult it must have been for you," she said as tears began to build in her eyes. "I'm sorry I wasn't able to do anything for you. Forgive me for failing you as a mother."

Eugene hugged his mother back. "It's not your fault, Mom," he said, trying to reassure her. "None of it was any of your fault. I did what I had to, but I swear that it's all better now." He held her at arm's length to dry the tears from her eyes. "I'm doing a good job at my new workplace now. And to thanks to that, you'll be able to leave this place soon."

Mrs. Moran sniffled back her tears and embraced her child once more. They enjoyed their family moment together for a time.

*munch* *munch*

It wasn't until Eugene heard the strange sounds coming from his mother, did he held her back once more. "Mom! You said you weren't going to eat my snacks anymore!"

"I'm sorry," his mother said with her eyes still a little wet as she finished a glazed donut she had swiped from him. "I got a little hungry after our little moment there." She gave a wide smile at him. "You can call us even now for lying."

Eugene sighed.

"Now tell me more about this new place you work at," said Mrs. Moran unabashedly. "I'm surprised Rud's able to work there with you, considering how he is. And if they make this kind of food there, then I'd love to go visit you and your friend's there once I'm out of the hospital."

Eugene was unsure of how that visit would go with his boss, since he wasn't really allowed to say the complete nature of his employment. He supposed it wouldn't really be a problem for them if his mother did go out to visit him at work, and Rud, Euly, and Thomas would be able to see her healthy for once.

He really just hoped nothing goes wrong with that.

Radix Book Café, it was here that a girl was about to start her new duties as a maid of this place.

"G-good morning," she said, a little flustered with her smile twitching. "W-welcome to Radix Book Café. How may I be of service?"

The table she had been assigned to was fairly composed of the usual regulars, so there wasn't any problems with them relaying their orders in time. She was able to jot down all the orders on her note before she made her way towards the kitchen, with only the occasional curious stares from some customers bothering her.

"Looks like you did just fine," said Shirou as he was busily stirring some pasta. "Don't be so nervous, Arturia," he said as he took down the order she handed over to him. "The people here aren't all that different from our world. I think you're really doing great with them."

Arturia smiled uncomfortably at that. "It is not the people that really bothers me, nor the fact, I am now needed to perform more in my capacity as a Servant, Shirou," she said before staring down at what she was wearing. "I am more… displeased with the outfit that Sakura and Illya had given me." What she wore was a maid outfit similar as that of the others that work there. The only difference was that hers was a little bit shorter than the normal ones. "I do not understand why they insisted that this outfit would be better." She chose not to remember the compliments that the customers had given her outfit.

She had really no choice in the matter after Rin had called her to explain why she would have to start working as a maid now. Since Rin and Shirou would be going to work part-time at Beacon Academy at the start of its 2nd semester, the café would need more hands during those times they are gone. It was with great reluctance that Arturia had to agree to her Master's logic about getting her started soon before that. She was very unhappy with the arrangement, and that was even before she saw what she would be wearing.

Perhaps, had she not disagreed so vehemently the first time, Rin would have given her the proper maid outfit from before, and not the short skirt version that she currently wore. She didn't believe for a second that her Master had agreed to Illya and Sakura's wishes, simply because "They made a good argument for it." She was sure her Master had her own ulterior motives behind it, probably to get back at her for defying her the first time around.

Given the look of pleasure the magus had on her face when she saw her Saber in the outfit, it was entirely safe to say that those ulterior motives were a bit more unclean that the Servant had thought so and she would have still ended up in the short skirt maid outfit.

"It does look good on you though," said Shirou after he blushed at seeing the outfit.

The blonde maid's cheeks reddened at the comment. "Are you sure, Shirou?" she asked. "I do not look… improper?" She was going to say 'indecent' but thought better of it.

"I-I think you look cute in it," nervously answered Shirou before he started focusing back on the food he needed to prepare. "You should probably head back. There are other customers waiting to be served." He tried not to look at the flustered face of his lover as he said so, since he had also wanted to avoid showing the same reaction from his face.

Arturia walked briskly away to hide her own embarrassment. She went to a table where another set of regulars who had just recently arrived.

"Good morning, how may I be of service?" At least this time she was able to say so without stuttering.

"Miss Arturia?"

A familiar blonde boy sat on the table with people she had recognized as probably the team he had talked with her about. They sat with the other students that she had seen at the docks just some nights ago. She took a moment to recollect the boy's name.

"Your name is Jaune, correct?" she said with a smile. "I had not expected to see you here."

"I… was told that you would start working here soon," said Jaune. "I wanted to thank you for the advice that you had given me before and tell you how grateful I am for following it." He struggled to keep himself from mincing his words. "Although… I hadn't really expected us to see each other like this."

Arturia saw Jaune blush a little and was trying hard not to look directly at her. She understood that her current outfit must be quite a different change from the image he had of her before. "I'm sorry that I look somewhat different today," she said bashfully. "This is not something I had a choice with."

"But you look so cute in that outfit!" said Ruby.

"I agree with Ruby on that," smiled Yang. "That outfit really suits you."

"It's not that bad," said Weiss. "Even though it looks a bit too short for me, it works well on you."

Blake snorted at that. "Says the girl wearing a dress just as short."

"It's a combat skirt!" proudly declared Weiss.

"Yeah!" said Ruby before they both slapped hands in agreement.

Team RWBY seemed perfectly fine with Arturia. Team JNPR was much the same way, with the sole exception being Pyrrha, who had eyed the short-skirted maid with wariness. It was probably mostly due to her Jaune's reaction toward the girl, that had caused some feelings of jealousy to arise from her. She must feel that this girl was more dangerous for her than Weiss, since the latter was in no way interested in Jaune.

"I thank you for your kind words," said Arturia gratefully. She was a bit less embarrassed now due to the positive words directed at her. "Would you care to give me your orders?"

The students ordered up drinks and a few appetizers. Arturia had inquired if they were not particularly hungry, if that was all that they ordering. She was told that both Teams were waiting on more people to be arriving soon and wanted to wait for them before ordering their lunch.

Team RWBY were waiting on the students from Atlas and Team SSSN of Haven Academy. Team JNPR were also expecting Teams NDGO and ABRN to join them.

It wouldn't take that long before everyone would arrive, but one of the teams would be a little later than the others due to one of its troublesome members.

Sun Wukong was busy browsing a produce store, checking out the freshness of the apples and bananas out on sale. It was all legit as far as anyone was concerned since the boy kept picking up and putting down fresh fruit, as if checking for the best one. Picking out the best one was true enough, however, the monkey faunus had the bad habit of forgetting to pay for it and hiding it somewhere no one could see on his way out.

After selecting a particularly ripe banana that suited his tastes, as usual, he just left the establishment without having to pay for it. Once he was out of the premises, he was about to go and find his team, when a hand caught his arm.

"I believe you forgot to pay for that," said a womanly voice from behind him.

He stopped and looked at the person who caught him, and saw a beautiful woman with long purple hair, accompanied by a girl beside her who had shorter violet hair.

For a moment, the beauties left him somewhat stunned, but he managed to get over it after he remembered what he had just been caught doing. "I don't know what you mean," he feigned innocence.

The woman looked accusingly at him and said, "That banana on your jacket pocket, you didn't pay for it yet."

"I… uhm… This isn't what it looks like," he said guiltily.

"I'm sure it isn't," said the beautiful woman in a stern but unconvinced tone. "Would you care to pay for it before you leave then?"

"Sure thing!" answered Sun as he tapped his pockets for his liens. He was in enough trouble as it is when he first got in Vale. Having to pay for a banana would be the least of his problems.

Sadly, it would seem there might be a small problem with that.

He kept checking his pockets for his liens but couldn't find them anywhere. "I-I can't find it! I thought I brought it with me today!" he said in a panic. The store owner was now outside and had apparently heard the conversation about a potential thief stealing from him.

"You dirty thief!" angrily yelled the store owner. "You weren't planning on paying at all were you?!"

The faunus was in really deep trouble now. "No! I can pay for it, I swear!" he said. "Let me just call my friends on my scroll and—" He froze as he couldn't find his scroll anywhere on him either.

"The only people getting called in here are the police," said the store owner.

"Look, you don't have to do that," said Sun desperately. He could always run for it but that wouldn't look good for him or his team after the first time already. "I just need to find a way to call my friends and they can pay for it."

The store owner was not convinced of this. He was about to call the cops but was stopped by a hand at his side.

"I'm sorry, but would it be alright if we paid for it instead?" said the violet haired girl with a smile at the man.

"Are you sure about this, Miss Sakura?" he asked unsurely. "If he really was stealing, then this thief needs to face justice." He was very fond of the customers from Radix Book Café, since they had a good eye for quality produce at his store.

Sakura simply nodded at him. "We'll take care of it."

"Very well," said the store owner. "You better not forget this again, boy."

Sun chuckled nervously as he scratched the back of his head. "I won't, don't worry."

Once the store owner left, Sun and the two ladies with him, were about to part ways, but not before he had thanked them profusely for saving him from trouble. While Medusa looked unconcerned at all by the matter, Sakura was far more understanding of the faunus.

"Thank you," said Sun towards both women. "It would have been a real big problem for me and my friends if the cops came."

"Please, don't worry about it," smiled Sakura. "Just make sure not to forget to pay for it next time."

Sun agreed.

They had said goodbye to one another at the entrance of the store, but they ended up walking the same direction.

"Are you, by chance, heading to Radix Book Café?" questioned Sakura.

"Yeah," Sun nodded in response. "I'm supposed to go there with my team to meet up with a bunch of other students from Beacon who're supposed to be our guide for now, but I kind of got up a little bit earlier than the others and wanted to see the city for myself first." He laughed awkwardly at that. "I guess I'll have to meet up with them there."

As they continued walking, Sun noticed a familiar trio, who had looked troubled and waiting for someone, a few feet ahead of them. "Oh, there they are now. Let me introduce you," he said before shouting out over at his friends. "Hey guys! I'm over here!"

The trio walked over and one of them, a brown skinned and green haired boy took Sun in a headlock. "Where have you been, Sun?!" he said angrily.

"Ow, ow, ow," said the faunus underneath his teammate's armpits. "Let go, Sage!" He desperately tried to free himself from the strong arms that held his head in place.

"We told you not to go out by yourself," said Scarlet. "You know you get into trouble without anyone to watch you."

Neptune also got into the scolding. "And you know you already got us into tro—" The blue-haired teen paused as he saw the two girls next to them. "Well, hello there, ladies," he said with his trademark pose and glistening smile.

Sakura did not know how to respond to that and felt mildly discomforted. She didn't want to seem rude to the boy, but she also definitely did not want to answer that greeting just now.

Fortunately, Medusa had no such qualms about making her displeasure known. "Please keep your distance from us," she said bluntly. "We wish you do not speak to us like that."

Before Neptune could speak, Sun, who was still in a headlock, said, "Don't go hitting on them, Neptune. These girls helped me out just a while ago."

"So you really did get into trouble," Sage said as he tightened his arms around the troublesome head of his team leader.

"Honestly," sighed Scarlet as he took something from his pockets. "You even forgot about your scroll and liens."

"Oh, thanks! I was looking for those," said Sun after he finally manage to get his head free, taking the items. He took out some liens and offered it back to Sakura. "Here you go, I told you I would have paid for it."

Sakura just shook her head. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure you'll want to spend it at the café anyway," she answered.

"Oh?" said Scarlet. "You ladies are headin' for the café as well?"

"Medusa and I both work there actually."

Neptune, not one to stay down, asked with a gentleman's smile, "Care to join us, ladies?"

Sakura was uncomfortable with the invitation and so said, "I'm sorry, but I already have someone."

Medusa saw the blue-haired teen move his crosshairs over to her. "I… already have someone I'm interested in," After she said so, she looked over to Sakura and hoped that her Master would not ask her about it later, only to find no surprised reaction from her.

"Aw, man…" Neptune was downhearted from the answers.

"You should stop hitting on girls all the time, Neptune," said Sun. "Sorry about him, that's just the way he is." He apologized towards the girls.

"It's quite alright," smiled Sakura. "One of our employees is like that as well."

"Sounds like the kind of guy you'd be friends with," Scarlet said to Neptune. "Think you two lovebirds might hit it off?"

"Hardeharhar."

"Since we're all going the same way anyways," began Sun. "Why don't we walk you girls there?" He saw the distrustful look from Medusa pointed at him. "Totally not because we have any ulterior motives. It's just a plain simple walk to escort you guys there."

Sakura saw nothing wrong with that and decided to accept the suggestion. It would be kind of awkward not to when they were going to have to walk the same way.

"Maybe we'll meet a few interesting girls there?" said Neptune in a more positive light. "You work there, right? He asked the two girls. "Do you know the students from Team RWBY?"

"Oh, yes." Sakura answered. "I suppose you could say they are very interesting," she said as she remembered the lively schoolgirls. "Please try to behave yourselves when you get there." The thought of all the interesting students there was not a very peaceful scene in her mind.

"You can count on us!" loudly proclaimed Sun.

"Yes, it would be best if you were not to cause us any problems there," Medusa said coldly, while adjusting her glasses. "Troublemakers will be dealt with… severely." Her icy glare pierced the depths of being of the students before her, stunning them for a moment.

"Yes, Ma'am!" The boys nodded in unison and would make sure to remember that for their entire time in Vale.

A/N:

I gave the OC some little bit of background story because more than a few people seem so concerned about their indentured servitude. The OCs have their own minor backstories and this is only one part of them but I think that should be good enough since it already answers most questions about them. Mrs. Moran was originally supposed to be a mature, quiet, and understanding type of mother like Ed and Al's mom from FMA, but that didn't really happen. I'm not sure why, but its probably because her son was a little too upbeat for that kind of mother.

You may notice that there are more RWBY characters coming in, and yes, that will be difficult to handle. The RWBY cast are going to need the backups against Servants anyway, so it still works for me.

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