Autor Note:

Hey i'm back, apollogise for the no word for a while their is a reason for this but i won't put it here it will be at the bottom along with another update.

Volume 3 Trailer and this volume we're following Beurling in Atlas no less, i hope they have good insurance over there

Anyway i hope you enjoy.

Beurling watched the clouds and sky fly by the window of the transport 'I never thought I'd be heading back there again.' Beurling thought to herself, as she looked around and saw Maple and Frenda talking team SHAD in the corner.

A small cough caught her attention making her turn to the other side and see Tomoko standing beside her.

"Are you ok Beurling?" Tomoko asked nervously.

"Yeah, I'm just thinking." Beurling replied as Tomoko sat next to her.

"About your mother?"

"No, the bandits actually."

"Why?" Tomoko looked surprised.

"I was just thinking that I'm not that different from them."

"How, their bad, you're not." Tomoko replied, with a mild look of annoyance and horror at the idea Beurling just suggested.

"But I could have been and they didn't start out bad, most of them were or wanted to be the good guys at heart, but they were abandoned and ignored and were forced to banditry to survive, it was a necessary evil for them, then it became a tasteless task for them, then it became their entire existence."

"I wasn't much different, I knew stealing was wrong, but I needed to do it to survive, I could easily gone down the same path as the bandits and become a master thief in Atlas, I mean technically I am still a criminal under Atlas law, but I got lucky, Charlotte saved me."

Beurling looked over and saw Tomoko had a concerned look on her face.

"I'm not saying I agree with them, it's just not so easy for me to hate them as easy as you three do." Beurling smiled at Tomoko as she put her hand on Tomoko's shoulder "Don't worry I've got your back."

Tomoko smiled before speaking "I know, I can't have been with you for this long and not trust that you have my back, it's just thinking we all could have been like that, its rather scary to think about."

"It's natural, we all want to think the best of ourselves."

Tomoko smiled again before a thought came across her mind and she went for her bag, before pulling out a wooden box.

"Erm, me, Sara and Alia thought you might need this, you know just in case, you need some more range then Spitfire." Tomoko smiled nervously as she handed to the box over.

Beurling took the box and opened it, inside the box on top of the contents was a note:

Beurling

I know Tomoko said that me and her and likely Alia thought you could use this, but it was really her idea, hope it is useful for you and good luck in Atlas from the three of us, we'll be watching.

Sara

Beurling looked back inside the box, inside was a revolver in a light brown leather holster, Beurling took the revolver and looked it over, its grip was chestnut, along both sides of the barrel engraved into the gun metal was the word "Knight".

Beurling smiled and put the revolver back in its holster before attaching it to her belt. Beurling then stood and hugged Tomoko "Thank you." Beurling whispered to the surprised faunus.

Tomoko returned the hug, Beurling could feel eyes on the pair as they hugged and not all were friendly at the gesture 'Racist scum.' Beurling thought as she peaked at Blau off in the corner, giving the pair a glare.

Though Beurling knew it wasn't all one sided, she knew there were faunus who would be equally appalled by the two embracing.

Beurling's heart twisted slightly, she knew that even though she treated the faunus with respect, she knew that she might be able to become friends with them, but she would never be one of them and that most of them would be cautious around her and treat her as an outsider.

Even though the end of the great war had meant the faunus got freedom it was mostly freedom to starve, or to "freely" head back to where they had been before the war, humanity had been dragging its heels since the ink dried over twenty five years ago.

The two broke apart and sat back down, though Beurling felt a slight sense of emptiness as she let go of her partner, even if she was in the next seat. Beurling felt a little tired so leaned her head back and closed her eyes.

She was woken up by the transport shaking, she felt something squeeze her waist, looking down she saw Tomoko laying down, the faunus's head in her lap and arms wrapped around her waist.

Beurling gently patted Tomoko's head, the gunner stirred with little moan but didn't wake, Beurling smiled at the sight.

'She can be so childish but cute sometimes.' Beurling thought to herself 'I could just lean down and…No, no, no, I can't…, I can't do that, even if it's what I want, if I did…then it will happen again.' Beurling tensed up making Tomoko subconsciously squeeze her again, despite her fear Beurling smiled at the act and calmed down.

Beurling closed her eyes with her hand on Tomoko's head 'Charlotte, help me I don't know what to do!' Beurling thought as she drifted back to sleep.

Aw cute. Let me know if you see anything wrong or you have any tips.

Now for the Updates:

First the being why i was quite and a heads up, so my computer died with all the work i had on this volume and past two and the notes and other fanfics i had planed out and i lost the whole lot and when the computer died it took the back ups with them as i was trying to back up them up at the time.

As you can guess this was a punch in the gut as i had the basic plan for the first two chapters done and lost them, now i've rewritten them out as best i can from memory so headsup if they seem a bit off thats why, this may also effect another chater later on but i will say which that is when i post it and say why.

Second i was putting these chapters up once a week and that was getting to stressful for me to try and get them out so quick so i'm dailing it back hopefully it will up the quality as well.