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Sentences in italics are internal conversations in Cinder and Pyrrha's head.

In the what felt like years since we got our license Pyrrha has been running us ragged. I mean I get it, it was her dream but now I kind of feel that rest is important too. I know that's not the reason. She is terrified that because we're merging so quickly she'll lose herself and I'll go back to the way I was… That may not be inaccurate. Be that as it may, someone had still convinced her to take a break, even if it was just skipping morning briefing to sleep in for a few minutes.

Though with them both asleep I was left awake… lying next to him… I could hardly help myself as I began slowly running my fingertips down his spine. I get why she did this. It was all about her and him trying to remain normal while we merged on basically a daily basis at this point. Even still Pyrrha was disappearing for hours on end only to return from nowhere confused that time passed. It did little to stop our thoughts from merging as we were beginning to lose ourselves… there's no telling how long we have at this rate. I wanted to stop. I wanted to stay. But I knew if I stood still here Salem would end me. Thus, whenever Pyrrha wasn't awake, I was texting Neo to come up with a plan…

As far as I got Watts and Tyrian are here cutting down Ironwood's political rivals. If they push a little farther I'm sure he will resume his duty as general and snap from the paranoia. I just needed to be in the right position when he did. In the panic Neo and Adam would claim the relic while I claimed the maiden power. Out of all the women here there was only one viable choice to take the power. Someone strong with just enough of a lack of free will to fit the bill perfectly. Winter was chosen to take her namesake's power and I knew the moment she did I would be there to catch her in the act claiming it for myself. That was all that mattered… Right? I couldn't just live as Arc's girlfriend for the rest of my life right?

"Morning," Jaune was barely audible as he didn't move, he just spoke through the pillow.

"It is," He barely turned his head to face me, I couldn't see him through the mop on his head. Though I doubt he could see me either. I delicately maneuvered my human hand into the mop and slicked it out of his eyes enough to see me. His bright blue eyes were warm… until he saw my amber eye; then they froze up. He never looked at Pyrrha like that, only me, was I just that unworthy to him? Why did I want him to want me? This had to be one of her emotions but that wouldn't change the situation right now, "So what's the plan for today? More valiant guard duty? Is our valiant leader going to continue being a crossing guard that gets hit on by milfs?"

"What! No! I-"

*Pftpth*

I barely held it in but the coldness from his eyes disappeared as he calmed down. They warmed up as he began chuckling, "Yeah, I have traffic duty at 8, then we're sparring against team FNKI at noon," He clearly was unsure if he wanted to invite me, "You're more than welcome to join."

"We will have to see if I'm in the mood after I meet the casserole maker." He looked confused as I drew the curtain and climbed out of the cubby that Atlas calls a bed. You can hardly fit two people in there, much less actually having enough room to do anything… That may have been the point. I stopped thinking about it there as I had to wash off the sex and get dressed for the day. At least the room had a built in bathroom so we didn't have to share a collective one. I don't think I could properly not murder any of those prepubescent morons if they even so much as looked in my direction.

A nice steamy morning shower always felt good. Even if it was in a pod the size of a person or the bare minimum of hot water available, something about trying to run this school like a military. If I bothered currying favor with the new headmaster I could try and get a better setup. But alas he was a drunken fool… who hadn't been drunk for a while. There was a knock at the door and I knew what this was going to be about, "Yes?"

"Could you please leave a little warm water for me, please?" He had to say that twice otherwise I wouldn't even consider it. I could absolutely torment him with this.

"Oh it doesn't look like there is enough~" I gave my evil little mwahaha as I didn't shut up after, "~You could join me though."

"Uhh… alright." And the door to the restroom opened as the blond boy walked in just as naked as I had. He wasted little time as he climbed into the pod with me… My eye widened as he began soaking himself. WHAT HAD I DONE!

I stood there as he took to cleaning himself. I was staring. Not at anything indecent mind me, there was barely enough room to get a good look at anything down there, but at eye level the only thing visible was his chest. Big, muscular, toned, Pyrrha was right he was a shrimp at Beacon but now- he was- well Mercury was smaller than him. I didn't know what to do next; did we do it? Was that required? What was I supposed to do? I instigated this- WHY!? Then he noticed I was staring, "Need a hand?"

Oh so he expects something. Well I instigated may as well raise a leg and attempt- he poured shampoo on my head and began scrubbing… Not as fervently and furious as I once had done to him but gentle and kind. He made sure to get every strand as he kept it out of my eye, but when he reached the hair over my other eye he delicately stroked through it before moving it out of the way. Exposing the scar… I couldn't help it... I flinched. No one had seen it up close since it healed. I desperately searched for an escape, I could fling myself against the door or flush myself down the toilet-

Jaune lifted my chin as he got a better look at it. Was this his game, Humiliate me? Stare at my shame while I am helpless to do anything? I was soaking and could barely generate a flame much less heat that would affect more than the steaming water. Then he leaned in-I closed my eye as I raised my lips. That would distract him. He would be too busy kissing me to actually notice how grotesque I was. I would be able-

HE KISSED THE SCAR!

WHY!

WAS THIS SOME SORT OF GAME TO HIM!

As I opened my eye I could feel tears welling. He had taken advantage of me in the past but this was too far! I would kill him for sure. He was looking at me as I felt the warmest feeling I had felt in ages on my face. It wasn't one of those things I could describe as he kept me focused on him, "Sorry… I can't heal it."

"W-what?"

"I'm not too good with scars…" he had a sideways grimace as he focused on me. However as my eye lost focus from his I found his hand resting gently on my face, ever so gently stroking what's left of my cheek. It had a golden glow as it collided with my skin…

"I-is this…"

"Yeah, my semblance." It had taken him ages to find it. He didn't have it at Beacon, heck he didn't even know what aura was until I unlocked it for him. And now he had something that fit him so well, someone empathetic like him would never hesitate to give. Even to me… the woman he hated the most. Then the tears actually fell, "Cinder! Uh, I don't know what I said but-"

I wrapped my arms around his waist as I pulled him in close, "Thank you."

I get it. This moment explained a lot: how she so easily fell for him, how he didn't even consider all the nice things he did for others, how I was in so desperate need of love. I didn't ever want to break this hug. I wanted to remain nestled in his large chest as he felt warm. This intense warmth, I had never even created a flame that felt this warm. Yet he had made it so easily.

I get what Pyrrha meant by wishing a moment could last forever. But every moment has to end. Especially this one. Because a nude hug in a soapy shower was definitely something that could easily be misconstrued; even by the people in it, "What is poking me in the stomach?"

I can't believe it was necessary for him to guard these small humans. I say guard but he was mostly holding a stop sign as they crossed the street. It was so sad to see him doing something so pathetic. A mighty hero forced to act as babysitter to a bunch of children that aren't ours- his- darn it. Though after they crossed the street Jaune's attention was distracted as several women began calling to him.

"Oh gods, I thought Nora was kidding." Jaune was really the milf slayer. That is… hilarious. But as he winced at the ones on the sidewalk another came up behind him with a casserole. He really tried to refuse it but she wasn't having any of it basically forcing it into his hand. Well, lunch would be nice today at least, "Oh Jauney! Don't forget I have a dress fitting at 3!"

"Huh," he looked confused as I melted a light post into a ring on my finger.

"Don't 'huh' me you know it was the only slot I could get before the wedding!" Several of the women recoiled as they heard that. The one that offered the casserole debated internally whether she should take it back before she fled to the others. The few remaining motioned to the rings on their fingers as if they were willing to take it off. That was horrifying. But as he was freed he came over to me as we followed the children.

"Thanks for the save."

"Oh it's fine~You can just get me a better ring next time." I was being coy. I felt good, for the first time in a while, and today was a good day so far. I was having fun mocking him while disheartening the woman hitting on him. At this rate we'll actually need to get- STOP!

"Don't count on it," Yeah obviously, "Those rings are expensive pieces of junk. How about a nice sword? It's what my dad got my mom." I don't think he realized how close he was, but as he leaned in he noticed my eye again. He frowned before moving back out. What was that? Was I really that insignificant to him? But my train of thought ended when one of the children came up.

"My buddy is sick today. What do I do?"

"Wha-"

"Oh uh, you can hold Ms. Cydar's hand here." What was it with them giving me nicknames? Better question- WHY WAS I HOLDING A CHILDS HAND?! I craned my neck around to Jaune as he had a smug grin plastered all over his face, "I got them to buddy up and hold hands so they don't get lost."

"MAKES PERFECT SENSE!" I shouted furiously as I dragged the child along with the pack. The small hand felt so fragile but I just tried to remain calm the entire time not setting it on fire. But I felt content as we led them through the streets to their school. When we finally arrived though I was going to insult Jaune but now I think I kind of get why he did it. It was nice doing something so simple to help… Is this what it felt like to be Pyrrha?

"You can let go now," Jaune motioned to my hand as I still had the iron grip around the child.

"Oh right." I let it go as Jaune gave me that smirk again.

"And here I thought you didn't like kids."

"Oh I never said that. They just burn far too quickly." That should push him away. Wait, no; I want him to be close. I should have said something about the nickname.

"Have you really done that? Hurt children I mean." The smirk may be gone but the concerned look had arrived, and it wasn't concern for me.

"I mean… no. Well-" he looked ready to drop the casserole and cut me in half, "Does it count if we were the same age and they tormented me my entire childhood? I mean yes I burn orphanages..." I didn't put the effort into continuing as I said far too much already. I didn't bother looking.

"Cinder…" He lightly placed his hand on my chin pulling me to face him, "Do you want to talk about it?" JUST SAY YES! I NEED TO GET THIS OFF MY CHEST BEFORE I DO SOMETHING ELSE TO RUIN THIS!

"No." And I once again fail. But he had sympathy in his eyes as he looked at me.

"Okay," I should tell him I will tell him eventually… but what would that gain him? I shook it off as he checked his scroll, "We have 2 hours before we need to get back for the match with FNKI… Wanna eat this casserole while we bitch and moan about our past failures?"

My eye widened as he presented me with that option… "That sounds superb."

Jaune was a moderately acceptable man but that casserole was made in the shape of a heart and he didn't even notice it. He was incredibly dense. Now though we were stuck having a sparring match with another group of children… They were going to ask far too many questions.

"Let's see how far ya got since the festival," Tall dark and fedora toasting trumpeter said.

"Oh we've been training nonstop in the wilds of Mistral!" Nora determined to not be out shown by someone literally wearing a fedora.

"I wouldn't call that proper training," Tall pale and homoerotic pointed out.

"It wasn't but we still got stronger from it," Ren tried to defend his girlfriend.

"Who's she!" The pink Faunas girl on roller blades pointed at me. That's fine, I'll flex on them and tell them I'm the ghost of their former teammate possessing a terrorist… I can't though. They said not to do specifically that. I needed to lie my way out of this but if I say I'm Pyrrha they won't believe me because they already met her. And I'm still wanted by every government...

"Uh-"

"She kinda looks familiar…" Oh no, fedora is looking at me as well. I need to say something to escape this.

"She's Cydar Nill. She joined us in Mistral." Jaune said that off the top of his head… And he called me that this morning… What wasn't he telling me?

"Yes, I am spider."

"Cydar." He corrected me.

"Cydar huh." I quirked my eyebrow as her tail twisted around. Suspicion was plastered all over her face like a kitten but not so playfully, "She looks a lot like your other teammate, not as pretty maybe. I mean her armor is so close! Wait did I accidentally mention Pyrrha!"

"Yes." I said as I looked down at her, "Such a tragedy what happened to her. I'm sure whoever did the deed is suffering now though." This got the other members of team JNPR to scowl at me.

"If her name is Cydar shouldn't that change your team name?! I mean you can't exactly use the same name without one of your members!" They shared a glance as several thoughts went about. I could correct her though.

"My middle name is Phosphorus..." Should not have let that slip as Nora immediately jumped on it.

"Yeah which means we're still team JNPR!" Nora was quick to defend me… I would have to repay that favor later. Thinking about it I had a lot of favors to repay.

"Then team JNPR let us fight!" Flynt declared as he led his team to their starting point in the training area. However I had to ask before as headed off.

"Where did Cydar Nill come from?" When none of them answered I was forced to ask the only one I could intimidate, "Oscar where did it come from?"

"Uh… They put Pyrrha and your name together."

"Great, Why?" The intense glare was forming as he shrunk. Jaune chose to but in instead.

"We can't exactly use Pyrrha or Cinder because- well-"

"One's a terrorist and the other's dead." Ren cut in and answered the final part.

"So we brainstormed a bunch of different names until we came up with that one." Nora finished the rest off as I was standing there to think. I shook my head… I didn't think it was bad. I'd sign that if it got me out of my past crimes, "But we didn't come up with your middle name! Where did you get it? Is it super important?"

"I-it's my middle name…" I tried to avert my eye as I said that.

"Cinder Phosphorus Fall, quite a mouthful." Ren commented as we found our spot in the arena.

"Ha you think my real name is Cinder. That's hilarious." I rolled my eye.

"Wait! It's not! Why didn't you tell us?! We could have used your real name!" Oscar cut in as he followed along, clearly not realizing he's not fighting.

"Because then you would know it!" I didn't use it because I'd been called Cinder for the last decade and a half. At this point it's as real a name as any. They just didn't need to know that Phosphorus was my real middle name. But they couldn't ask anymore questions when the voice of god shouted.

"TOO MANY COMBATANTS ON FIELD!" Everyone looked confused.

"Bye Oscar." I said waving him off like an old person waving at a boat as it leaves the harbor. He looked at everyone bouncing between us as he realized.

"Oh man I thought I'd get to fight to…" He muttered before walking off… I felt a little bad about that. When he was finally off the field I had to ask.

"What's the plan leader?"

"First we-"

"COMBATANTS READY! FIGHT!" Well that was quick Jaune didn't even have time to explain his thoroughly thought out plan before. Heh, his plan was probably to separate and conquer.

"First-" Jaune was once again cut off this time by a rainbow blur knocking me off my feet. What!

"Not so fast on your feet are you!" Oh I am going to kill her. She pulled out a glow stick lookin nun-chuck, cracking it in the process. It had a faint glow as I stood up and faced her. Sword and shield it is. This sword was not what I typically used but I have enough of Pyrrha's muscle memory to make this a fair fight, "Man even your weapon is a knockoff of Pyrrha."

Hate. I feel hatred. She began spinning around me creating a rainbow vortex as I stood there. Her plan wasn't to suck out the air, it was to distract me. Well distractions are easy to beat when you know what they are. I tossed the shield on the ground allowing her no time to slow forcing her to ramp it like all those videos Mercury showed us of men falling horribly. While she didn't fly away she tripped enough for me to grab her hood and spin the sword to stab her. Simple yet effective.

"Ohh fiery I like that!" She cut off the stab as she began running with me in toe. It was like being dragged through a hurricane. I could stop her with the maiden power… but that would be cheating and I wanted to rub her face in the dirt by hand.

I planted my heels in the ground determined to stop her. This allowed me to pull back on the hood slowing her from but she was ever clever as she spun that nunchuck into my arm. The shock of the impact caused me to lose my grip. I should have used the metal arm! She spun around as she taunted me, "Why don't you chill out! Ha get it chill."

"I'm going to set that little tail of yours on fire!"

"Yeesh can't take a joke much." I swear if I look at my arm and it's covered in ice I will probably cave her skull in. I looked down at my arm… yep ice. She stuck her tongue out as she proclaimed, "I guess you aren't as hot as Blondie was."

I am going to kill her. I raised my hand staring her dead in the eye as I melted the ice straight off of it. Then using the newly freed hand I motioned her in. She took it as a challenge as she prepared to circle me and spin that little ice tool. Tricks are always the most important part of combat and if you're a one trick pony then you're easy to beat. l tossed the sword to my right hand as her plan set itself into motion. She intercepted the blade knocking it to the ground before swinging the ice pop to my right hand again. Her plan was flawed though as I caught the freezing glow stick.

"I guess the cat only knows one trick."

"Uh, your hand is still gonna freeze." She didn't look confident as the temperature of her glow stick shot up. Scorching Caress always had its moments. It made it easy to melt my opponents weapons, or it did… when I had two arms. But the cat girl had yet to release the stick as the end I was holding began to melt.

"I'd reconsider how much you need this glow stick vs your hands." She panicked as the heat reached through the string into the handle, the look in her eyes was begging me to stop. Why? She was annoying and this thing was bland enough to recreate a hundred times. With a tearful look she released it and I finished melting the stick. It formed a nice puddle of metal right at her feet.

"What's wrong with you! This was supposed to be a friendly match!"

"Then why did you bring Pyrrha into this?!"

"Wait- you knew her! Oh no, I'm so sor-" I didn't let her finish. I grabbed her throat with my metal arm. She can be as sorry as she wants, I'm still going to kill her. I picked her up intent on crushing her dumb larynx. But as she flailed her legs I knew I had to beat her before I got around to that. I dragged her over to the wall forcing her back up to it.

"Nothing to say now? Tell me something funny!" She couldn't reply as I began slamming her stupid skull against the wall. The swift repetitive motions determined to crush her skull. She was going to break it was only a matter of time now! When her aura finally shattered I felt a sense of glee. I would get to squeeze the life out of her. It would be easy the repetitive motions made it even better as she was quickly knocked unconscious.

There is no stopping me I WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN ALL OF THEM! I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT! THERE IS NOTHING TO STOP ME! WHERE WAS PYRRHA? Why hasn't she been here all day? Oh gods did I just kill the rainbow girl? I dropped her in an instant before I realized what I did, "Rainbow? You good? Tell me I didn't kill you. Oh gods is this guilt?"

I was panicking as I released her from my grasp allowing her to sink to the ground in a bloody mess. My hands were covered with blood as I sank to the ground next to her. What had I done? Why? Was this all just some petty game for me? I may have killed this girl… She's going to bleed out and the idiot, "JAUNE! JAUNE!"

He came rushing around the corner to find me and the girl. He wasted no time taking less than several large steps before sliding in next to her. As he began healing her he had to ask, "What happened?"

"I-I went too far." He didn't need to reply as the look on his face said everything. Anger, fear, disappointment, sadness, regret and a little twinge of happiness that I realized what I was doing was wrong. But that didn't last as the big and burly Elm entered just barely into my line of sight… or her hammer did at least.

I hated this memory. But it's always where I came in my nightmares. The storeroom, dark, cold, and lonely. It wasn't any memory specifically either, it was just me stuck in that room alone helpless to free myself. I tried to hide under the torn up shred of my blanket as I sat there in the corner trying to shrink away from all of my problems. I knew I was dreaming… or I hoped I knew. It would be a cruel joke if I had just woken up from the real nightmare.

"So this is where you grew up?" That voice was far too nice to be any part of this memory. I turned to look and found something I hoped I never would, Pyrrha standing there among the dead bodies of the people I had killed. The sisters, mistress, Rhodes, Amber, and a gaggle of others including the fresh corpse of the rainbow cat girl.

"Yeah." I didn't want to talk. She could figure out the rest from her.

"Dark and dingy… Kind of what I expected. Is this what they're all like? Tell me you have at least one pleasant memory." I didn't answer her. She could figure it out for herself, "Well if you aren't going to tell me then I'll go snoop-"

"Where were you today?" There it was. I could feel the hesitation in her as she didn't want to say. Was she there the entire time choosing to only show up when I needed it or was she unconscious the whole time? Either option didn't really suit me. Were we merged and I just didn't realize it.

"I was around-"

"What? You got lost? I nearly killed a girl for slighting me and you are galavanting around my memories! I may not be a good person, but at least I don't try and corrupt people into hoping they could be!" I said I was determined to hurt her. Even if I was in the body of a child the words still rang true. But she just stood there and took it.

"It's alright. She deserved it." What was this? Why was she like this? That wasn't Pyrrha. Pyrrha was a goody two shoes who cried over breaking the toy of her friend. Not some soulless monster that condoned my actions… But I needed her to be so I could complete my plans to get the maiden power. I just need to forget these morals she tried to imbue into me.

*BANG* BANG*

"CINDER! OPEN THE DOOR! LET ME HELP!" Pyrrha was calling from the other side of the door. I hadn't realized, when I looked at the Pyrrha in front of me she had a hole in her chest. This wasn't her… I was talking to her ghost while the real Pyrrha was out there. The door waned as Pyrrha began kicking it down. I could barely see her through a crack she made.

"Quite the noisy one isn't she? Oh well. Will you still complete your mission? Or do I need to find someone who will?" It wasn't Pyrrha and I knew from the presence it wasn't Salem. It was the Grimm. The beetle took on her form to control me as she had become my favored advisor, "Well?"

"YES! I will! There is no need to worry!" If I said nothing it would eat me but the only thing it would allow me to say is yes. I didn't know how to react as it shambled over to me clearly lacking the fine motor skill of a real person.

"Make sure you do," It leaned in close as I fell to my feet in horror, "Otherwise I will dig my way out and find a more suitable host. Understood?"

*GULP*

"Yes. But I-I… need to have f-full control wh-hen the p-plan goe-es into motion," I was in a box and it was in a much larger body than me, not just height wise I was a child again, barely old enough to tie my own shoes much less fight a monster. I couldn't run but I could talk. It opened her mouth and I felt the horrible warmth of its breath as small mandibles protruded out before they gently fiddled with my hair.

"WHEN IT DOES YOU SHALL. NOW WAKE UP." Like a light switch I was no longer unconscious; I was in a pod. Great, they've already given up on me. I always wondered what it looked like inside of these Frankenstein pods. Welp time to burn my way out-

*CLICK*

What was that?

*PSHHHHHH*

Why was the door opening?

"Cinder? You okay in there?" Jaune said as he was just barely in view through the cracks in the pod.

"I'm fine. Just a little woozy." I didn't bother sitting up as the pod slowly opened like it was timed to annoy me, but it gave me enough time to appear to be a good person, "Is Rainbow Cat Girl-"

"Neon's fine. A little concussed but she'll live." He offered a hand to me when the pod was opened enough. I hesitated before taking it, he carefully pulled me out of the pod before telling me, "A simple apology and I'm sure she'll forgive and forget the whole episode."

"Yeah… that's not gonna happen. I still haven't apologized to the others and I've done much worse things to them." He shrugged as he led me out of the room. It was in a hospital at the bottom of Atlas… Why would they have aura transfer pods in a random hospital? Oh they messed this one up big time.

I was dead tired when I was returned to the dorm. I had been in control for a full day and only managed to almost kill one person… I would have to get Pyrrha to apologize for that. Which reminded me. Where was she? Was she just rattling around in my skull acting like nothing I did mattered? Why was the dorm full of everyone? Oh no, quick start this before they can, "I assume this is about Qrow's drinking problem. I'll start- You need to start drinking again. You are significantly less fun when you aren't."

"I've been sober since we got to Atlas. Now sit down, we need to talk." He didn't bother staying as he got a call. Easy enough I'll get them all to leave like that.

"This will end fantastically. You want me to apologize to Neon? Done I'll have Pyrrha do that when she returns. Anything else on the docket? No then-"

"Please. We're worried about you two." Nora grabbed my arm as she prevented me from climbing into bed. She was deceptively strong for her height.

"Fine." I barely staggered over to the center of the circle where I plopped down on the floor for them to begin berating me. It would be refreshing to have them talk about how horrible of a person I am or how I need to be better. Heh. What I need is power-

"We're worried about you Cinder."

"Come again?" That was unexpected. Why was Ruby of all people saying she's worried? I killed her friend in front of her after I destroyed her school.

"Pyrrha's been pushing you hard the last few weeks and well…" Weiss was condescending, did she really think I couldn't take this kind of punishment. I may have complained about it but in all reality I barely felt the building strain.

"I'm not surprised she tried to cave Neon's face in-"

"YANG!"

"What? She's a little asshole," Well at least someone sees me for who I am, "What did you expect when you paired her up against Cinder? I mean it was bound to happen eventually, Neon always rubs people the wrong way." Was… was she actively defending me?

"That's not what this is about! Cinder is getting used like a prize horse and none of us thought to ask if she was tired of it." Now Weiss was defending me.

"First of all: none of us know what a prize horse is and second: even if we ask her she'll say something sarcastic and do it anyway," Blake was the one butting in now, this felt like it was one of those conversations I should probably walk away from, "You need to honestly tell us when you're worn out."

"We all have limits, even maidens, you don't have to act like you don't have any." Oscar spoke as confidently as Ruby did. Which was both very and if I insulted the haircut they would crumble.

"Wha-What is this? Is this not a firing squad? Which one of you has the knife to twist in my back?" None of them even remotely flinched; they just glared back at me and firmly held their ground.

"No. Cinder you may not think it but-" Ren didn't get to finish by himself as Nora tried to join in, "We care about you."

I felt my eye twitch. I had killed their friend and destroyed the lives of half of them, why did they think I wouldn't do it to them again?

"Because you're different than you were before." Where was she all day? Only popping in to cause a scene in my head. I was about to kick her out when I remembered I couldn't do that. Even better question, was she right? I couldn't even berate her when Qrow returned.

"Turn on the news."

"Not now! We-" I wasn't going to let Ruby finish as I clicked the news on as it showed riots in Mantle. That's odd, I thought they would be more difficult to provoke into abandoning the government.

"How'd this happen?" I was the only one out of the loop.

"Father closed all SDC Businesses in Mantle until he wins the election." Weiss informed us that she was in fact related to the biggest butt in Atlas. Shocker hers was so small.

"Be nice." As annoying as she was, I was more focused on Weiss's father. There is no chance he can win through legal means. It would take a mad genius to pull that off now… I wonder if the Wattage in Mantle is enough or if they'll have to swap out the wiring for the Stinger grade type. It mattered little.

"What does that even mean?"

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Well I did it. I made another chapter. The really dumb thing is I know what I'm going to do in a few specific scenes later but until then I'm making it up as I go.

If any of you are wondering- Cydar Nill is a joke. It probably won't be her name. Well Nill won't be at least.