Ok this is a slight edit to the format I was informed that the first draft was a little blocky and hard to pick out where the new paragraphs started I hope this is easier!!

The Note

Dear Tai.

By now you've searched the house and the woods around the house trying to figure things out, and you probably have a million questions not the least of which are Why and Where. To answer those I'll give you a little peek as to what has been our life for the last year or so. When we graduated school and decided to stay together it was to this day one of the best decisions Iv ever made. I had a home now, one full of love and understanding. My brother was finally happy and his semblance was at an all time low for occurrences. We decided to pursue a relationship and again it was one of the best things that had ever happened to me. 6 months in we found out about Yang and you had to hold me through my trembling I was so scared that it was a mistake and that I was going to be to her what my mother was to me, and it was you who talked me through the panic and the tears by the time I'd calmed down I was nothing but happy about this little beacon of light and warmth in my life, the one thing I knew I could not mess up.

But it wasn't me that messed up was it Tai? I suppose I always knew that Summer was jealous of me and us and what we had. I tried my best to not rub it in that you chose me. I guess I didn't do as well as I thought I had. Just after Yang was born I noticed the lingering looks between the two of you and Qrow noticed them too I could tell from the way his drinking had picked up.

I convinced myself that it was nothing that it was the hormones, that I was just being paranoid. But I wasn't was I? I knew something had happened between the two of you when you suddenly stopped talking about her or trying to schedule hunts with her she stopped coming around to "see" me and Yang and I thought she'd finally gotten the hint. The brighter part of my mind hoped that you'd seen what it was doing to Qrow and I, but the pessimist in me knew that wasn't what happened.

So I started planning I had some extra cash stored away in a secret place I was planning to surprise you with for a family vacation for Yang's birthday. I started packing things for Yang as well not that you noticed when her stuff started disappearing I made sure to start with the stuff she didn't play with or wear often. Even as I was doing all of this I still wanted to believe I was just being paranoid I wanted to trust you so bad, you who had opened me up to the sun and the colorful world around me. Life is funny like that don't you think? You made my decision for me when I received a message telling me to look at the news out of Vacuo. I turned it on and saw that it was a live report from a resort on the coast. It wasn't anything I'd be interested in until I saw a couple in the background of the report, it was you and her hand in hand walking with her belly swollen I knew than what had actually happened and I broke down I have only cried a hand full of times in my life Tai and this one hurt more than the rest combined.

You had been with her and she was carrying a child. Your child… so I finished packing everything I'd need to raise Yang alone and as you can see Iv already left. I want to be clear one a few things Taiyang, I do not hate you I could never not after the incredible gift you gave me. I do not hate Summer either but I'll never be able to trust her or trust her around my daughter ever again. Finally I do not hate her child I could never hate someone who has never done anything to deserve it. I just hope you'll do better with this family than you did with ours…

Don't try and look for me, don't take that time away from someone who's going to need you and don't bother trying to get anything about me out of Qrow he won't tell you and he probably won't be around you much if at all for a long while, I wasn't the only Branwen who's trust you betrayed. I won't cut you out of Yang's life completely she will know of her father she will know who you are and where to find you if she ever wants to seek you out.

I'll send updates on her as well pictures and relevant life events, I have arranged it with Qrow to have them delivered to you. I don't know if I'll ever want to see you again Tai and I don't know that I'll ever want to talk to you in person or over the phone, I'm not even sure if I'm doing the right thing but I know I'm doing what best for me and for Yang. Goodbye Taiyang Xio Long please do better this time for the sake of the little life you and she have created and for the sake of the daughter you will be missing the chance of raising, do better.

Raven Branwen

P.S.

As I stated before don't bother looking for us, you know how I was raised so you know if I don't want to be found you will not find me. Please just give me time, give us time. You have more important things to worry about now.

This is the sight that greeted Tai when he returned home from a place he never should have gone with someone he never had and business being with. It was a note next to a gold wedding band sat in front of a collage of photos including the team photo his and Raven's wedding picture, the first ultrasound of Yang and the day she was born. He knew he'd messed up and he knew he'd have to come clean eventually, but he never expected for Raven to pick up on all that before and to leave before he'd had a chance to talk to her. It was one of the only times in his adult life that Taiyang Xio Long cried and it was the first time he'd ever wished he'd died on a hunt.