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Somewhere In the Middle

Part 10 to the Cinder's Fall from Grace Series

Genre: Angst/Hurt and Comfort/Friendship/Humor

Pairs: Jaded (Emerald/Mercury), Arkos (Jaune/Pyrrha), Pink Lotus (Ren/Nora), Bitch and Bastard (Ozpin/Salem), former Iceberg (Weiss/Neptune), former Black Sun (Sun/Blake), former Green Knight (Emerald/Jaune), Cold Colours (Whitley/Neon), one sided Silvery Ice (Weiss/Yuki), Wet Willows (Neptune/Willow Schnee), Silver Barrel Shotgun (Yang/Yuki), implied Birth Control (Yuki/Ivory), implied past Dragon Tsunami (Yuki/Lapis), Tiger Dragon (Shampoo/Yuki), former Dante's Inferno (Yuki/Cinder), Tinder (Taiyang/Cinder)

Parody: RWBY/Ninja Dependence Vol 2.5 (Naruto Doujin)/Sonic For Hire

AU-Type: Canon-eqsue AU (Divergence-Fall from Grace!AU)

Tags: The finale for now, Cinder doesn't exactly know how to feel, The world's technically at peace going forward, Now there's a matter of now what?, Drunk Marriages, Raven gets kicked to the curb

It has been a month since the night since the night in my drunken wisdom, I would up wed to Taiyang. So far, it's been a rather good decision. Attentive, easy on the eyes, and his cabin in the woods has grown on me like he has. Ruby's at least went back to her old self, and actually apologized for the poor treatment. I've still tempted to ground her…too bad she's an adult now. At least I've got a place mostly to myself giving Emerald the space she needs. I feared that she'd secretly hated my guts all during our imprisonment, and I don't think I could even ask if she does. I'll settle for the space between us. Ironic, that the new queen of the Grimm sent one of her people to offer me a position under her. I passed. I didn't want to get involved in another mess for Salem and Ozpin to drag me back into that pit. Besides…I can leave that all behind me now.

-CfFG-

Cinder had put her journal away just glad she could vent after a long day at her new job. Being a teacher's aide really was a test of patience, but it was fulfilling.

"Cinder, dinner's ready!" Taiyang said from downstairs.

Cinder got up and got downstairs to the dinner table finding Ruby, Yang, Yuki, little Ruby, and Qrow gathered at the table. She never thought he would be in such of domestic scene. The old her would have gagged at the sight, but she took her seat at the table.

"Honestly, I never heard I've had to you to my in-law." Yuki said as Taiyang was serving the food.

"So…is Cinder by grandmother now?" Ryu said innocently.

"Better her than Raven." Qrow muttered before taking a sip of her flask. "She's around."

"Speaking of Raven, I actually haven't heard from her. I wonder what she's up to…" Yuki said as there was a knock on the door.

"You expecting another guest?" Qrow asked.

"No. Cinder, could you get it?" Taiyang asked.

Cinder walked up to door opening it and started snickering.

"Well well, you look like you've seen better days." Cinder said laughing. "Raven."

Raven looked worse for wear just like Cinder did when she was thrown out of Ozpin's services. Cinder couldn't help but smirk at Raven looking like crap.

"What the hell are you doing here? And why the fuck is you wearing my hoodie?!" Raven snarled. "Taiyang got me that as a gift!"

"Oh, he gave it to me because you didn't appreciate it. I see you look like you crawled out of the gutter." Cinder said smugly.

"Out of my way, I didn't come here for you." Raven said shoving Cinder aside and walking in.

Raven came up to the dining room and Yuki scowled.

"Raven. I thought I smelled trash. What do you even want?" Yuki asked.

"Raven." Taiyang said dryly. "Can I help you?"

"Look, I needed a bit of help. Maybe you could help me find better work?" Raven asked a bit desperately.

"And why should he help you?" Qrow snarked.

Taiyang sigh and asked one simple question.

"What took you? After Salem fell, you had ample thing to show your face if you wanted my help. And yet, you waited until you were all out of options. But unfortunately, I have someone else in my life." Taiyang said as Cinder coiled around his arm. "Someone who makes me happy."

"Cinder's freaking milking this." Yang/Yuki/Ruby thought.

"Yeah, you settled for Salem's bottom bitch." Raven said with an eye roll.

"To be fair, you're not really better. If we make a body count, I think you might be a lot higher than hers. Plus, Cinder was under an embodiment of evil. What's your excuse?" Yuki asked.

"You stay out of this!" Raven snapped.

"Yeah…apart of this family now. So, no." Yuki said as Ruby chuckled.

"Yeah, Raven, just go. No one even wants you here." Yang said getting up.

Her eyes hidden under her eyes and her arms shaking with anger as she slowly walked up to her. Before Raven could register Yang's words, Yang by her by the collar dragging her outside. Once outside, Yang had her Ember Celica coated with Armis aimed Raven's hand.

"Just walk away from this Raven. I don't care where you go. You could die in a ditch for all I care but leave my father out of this. He's happy for once and I won't you ruin this. You lost your chance to be a mother to me and a grandmother to Ryu. As far as I am concerned, Cinder's his grandparent. And you're a distant memory." Yang said throwing Raven to the ground.

Yang walked away back inside before slamming the door.

"Mom?" Ryu asked weakly as Yang sat back down. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah…I am. Don't worry." Yang said as Cinder had her hand on her shoulder.

"I must have been hard for you to do, but it had to be done." Cinder said assuring. "Now let's enjoy dinner, shall we?"

"Yeah…sure, Mom." Yang said wistfully.

Thus, Raven was in the cold that evening watching them have dinner and later watching Taiyang and Cinder preform many lewd acts in his room. That smug little grin Cinder had looking out of the window as Taiyang was taking her for behind was the tipping point that she knew that Raven was watching. She was mocking her. Raven flew off hiding bitter tears, and Cinder could not have been more pleased.

-CFfG-

[A Week Later]

I'm not one to like people watching me in my intimate moments. Having Raven watching us was probably a rather big turn-on for me. They do say neotori is a disgusting kink to have, but after putting up with kinks for years, it's all not an issue. Haven't even seen Raven in a week, and I smirk a little whenever MY grandson calls me grandmother. Yang's not intended to even mention Raven to him. Yuki's even warmed up to me. Ruby won't call me mom, which is fair, but she's glad that her father's no longer on his lonesome. Emerald and Mercury are still staying in Crossroad helping with the expansion efforts with the others. Blake's apparently staying there as well even after making things up with her parents. Funny enough, she's still working at that burger place. Weiss apparently ended up dating one of the few male Amazons. Ruby and I? We're voice actors. Apparently, Neo and Ivory teamed up to create their own animation studio, Shark Fang. I won't be the main lead, but I'll be playing the villainess which is big parody of Salem. Getting to make a mockery of her? Oh yes. It's almost as excited as the news I have for Taiyang. I really need to see what they have on maternity leave.

(A/N: And here we have our ending, not exactly a completely good, but not bad. Somewhere in the middle and it suits this miniseries perfectly. I'm rather glad I've completed something. Now we'll be moving on to other projects.)