Hhmm i wonder who this woman Beurling really hates is.

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'Oh, I know exactly who you are!' Beurling spat in her head and she silently took up a fighting stance the stick in hand.

"Oi, wench, I'm talking to you, do you know who I am?" the dark-haired woman shouted again.

"A piece of trash that needs binning!" Beurling shouted, gritting her teeth staring down the five individuals.

"You dare…!"

"I do!"

"Huh, your rather foolish, but I am a merciful person, even now if you throw yourself upon my…"

"Are you finished?" Beurling shouted, loosening herself up.

"Fine, a fight you want a fight you shall get." The woman scoffed "Get her and bring her to me on her knees!"

The four bodyguards charged towards her, Beurling countered by marching slowly at the four silently.

The female bodyguard reached Beurling first, she made to swing her bat but Beurling grabbed the girl's wrist and twisted it, before head butting her leaving her spawled on the ground.

Two of the men tried next, the first tried to punch Beurling with his knuckledusters, but Beurling beat his hands away with the stick, the man let out a yelp as a snap was heard, the second of the pair whacked Beurling's stick out her hand, he tried to followed up by hitting Beurling in head but she ducked out the way before round house kicking him.

The last one drew a pair of knifes, he tried to slash with both blades, but Beurling stepped back with each slash, Beurling then ignited her flames, the man looked at her with a look of fear.

"What are you?" he asked, dropping his guard slightly.

"Your worst nightmare." Beurling growled as she ran up to him.

The man recovered his guard, but Beurling threw some of her disks making the man cover his face with the knifes letting Beurling hit him in the gut, sending him flying and rolling along the ground.

Beurling advanced at the dark-haired woman, as the leader drew a pistol, Beurling stopped looking at her unimpressed.

"Ah ha, not so tough now are?" the woman smirked "Now on your knees!" she ordered.

Beurling rolled her eyes and just carried on advancing slowly, her flames and electricity still active "Stop right there!" the woman shouted, Beurling ignored the woman and kept advancing.

When Beurling was a few paces away the woman let off a shot which whizzed past Beurling's head, Beurling just beat the pistol away, which clattered on the road next to Beurling.

"Hello mother." Beurling sneered.

"Sabine?"

At the mention of her first name Beurling punched her mother in the centre of her chest, leaving her winded and gasping on the floor "That is not my name!" Beurling shouted, picking up her mother's pistol and pointing it at her.

"Beurling that's enough." Tomoko shouted putting her hand on Beurling's shoulder.

Beurling kept pointing the pistol for a second before lowering it and turning away with Tomoko.

"Saved by a beast." Beurling's mother muttered a bit too loud and Beurling turned back with the pistol.

"Say that again, go on!" Beurling roared, while Tomoko tried to pull the pistol away.

"Your friends with them?" Beurling's mother asked.

"Yes and proud of it." Beurling could see the twinge her mother gave to the news.

Beurling's mother laughed "What happened to those mongrels that you sullied my door with, leave you did they?"

Beurling fired a shot into the road next to her mother "I don't miss twice." Beurling threatened.

Beurling's mother stood up holding her chest with Beurling keeping the gun pointed at her "Let me guess your dating that pup that's holding on to you?"

"Beurling, please just let this go, she's not worth the trouble, just come back inside."

Beurling sighed "Leave them alone." Beurling growled before she lowered the gun and walked away as the gang that Beurling's mother brought with her groaned and moaned their way back to their leader before they headed back from whence, they came.

"Who the heck was that?" Frenda asked.

"Our local headache," Aria responded, "She runs a bar/brothel on the other side of town, her thugs like to trash our places and threaten us, evil witch."

"Can't the authorities stop her?" Maple asked.

"She's likely in their back pocket doing the dirty work of beating the faunus for them." Beurling growled.

"In one." Aria sighed, "Even if they weren't, they don't care about humans kick the faunus, faunus kicking humans that's a whole other matter."

"Somethings never change." Beurling and Frenda sighed.

"By the way nice moves." Aria complimented Beurling.

"Do you two have history?" Kelly asked, "I noticed you seemed to really hate her guts."

Beurling sighed "That was the reason I don't use my first name." Beurling shook.

"You mean she's, your mother?" Tomoko asked, to which Beurling nodded.

"Wait your mother?" Frenda asked "You mean that was the evil cow, man I wish I had my hammer to hand."

"You'd have to join the queue."

Beurling looked at the ground expecting to be shouted at from Kelly and Aria, but to her surprise Kelly walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder "Thank you for the help." Kelly smiled "Now, come on, I still need to make tea for you lot."

The rest of the time at Tomoko's home was rather peaceful and enjoyable, with Aria mentioning all the silly things Tomoko used to get up to embarrassing her sister and making her groan into Beurling's shoulder with embarrassment.

After the four left Tomoko and Frenda were chatting about some of the old antics that Tomoko used to get up to, Beurling was behind the pair thinking about the less then pleasant part of their time at Tomoko's home.

"You ok?" Maple asked.

"I'm fine." Beurling sighed lighting a cigarette "And before you worry, my mother won't be a problem."

"Are you sure, you looked ready to kill her."

"As long as I don't see her then I'll be fine, besides she's not worth my bother to go that far."

"But Tomoko is." Maple stated.

"What?" Beurling said loud enough to catch Frenda and Tomoko's attention.

Maple waved the other two off, once they were walking again Maple started to talk again "You care about her, more than me and Frenda I mean."

"Where are you going with this?"

"You like her, don't you?"

"Oh come on Maple not you to, we get enough of that from Frenda."

"Frenda might be poking fun at you but we both agree you two like each other."

"Maple, don't please."

"Beurling, I'm a sniper I see things and I can tell…"

"Look!" Beurling sighed exasperated "Whatever I, or Tomoko feel, doesn't matter, she's better off not doing that to herself."

"What does that mean?"

"Forget it." Beurling sighed walking off and catching up with the two of her team, leaving Maple behind as a chill ran up Beurling's spine at having let her emotions slip again.

Once they got back to the school Beurling decided she wanted to try the revolver, so left the team and headed off to the range.

Beurling aimed the pistol and squeezed the trigger, when she did the hammer snapped forwards and round flew down the barrel, but after the round fired the cylinder and barrel rolled back and pushed the hammer back ready to fire again.

"I knew Alia was working on this idea, guess she got it working." Beurling muttered to herself.

Beurling fired the revolver again another five times, after each shot, she could still hear Maples words 'I can't.' she sighed in her head as she emptied the cylinder, just as she was about to reload she heard a small cough behind her, turning around she saw Maple watching her.

"How long were you watching?" Beurling asked, feeling a bit on edge from what she had let slip and what Maple had been talking about earlier.

"Long enough to see the unique pistol in action, you're not a bad shot." Maple compliment.

"Thanks, though I feel you aren't just here to talk about my aim." Beurling sighed.

"What did you mean about what you and Tomoko feel?"

"Maple, please just drop this." Beurling sighed.

"No I won't, if you like then tell her, she likes you to." Maple countered her voice sounding a bit exasperated "I don't understand, What's the problem here?"

"We know." came a slightly cold and level voice.

Beurling looked over to the door of the range as Maple span round to see team SHAD and Frenda standing in the doorway.

"What?" Maples asked, as Beurling looked away, she was not in the mood for this and she wanted to just go, but she wasn't quite ready to fight her way through her friends yet.

"She's scared." Sgàil said.

"Is this true?" Maple asked, Beurling just kept her mouth shut.

"The silence is deafening." Frenda sighed.

Beurling kept looking at the far wall as far away from, as from the others as she could get her sight to be.

"What's she scared of?" Beurling heard Frenda ask, as she also felt Maple keep her eyes on her.

"Likely how people would react." Dorcha answered "Human and faunus relationships are frowned upon, humans feel it's running the purity of the human race and faunus hate that other faunus are in relationships with humans when they treat them as slaves."

"But Vacuo is doesn't care on that stuff though." Maple observed.

"Tomoko's from Atlas, her families from Atlas, it's…"

"Are you lot done?" Beurling shouted as she gripped the desk she was leaning on, she'd been steadily getting more and more frustrated with her friends, she didn't ask for their help, she didn't want their help and it was annoying her that they felt the need to interfere with something that didn't concern them.

"Beurling, we just…"

"Enough!" Beurling roared, her flames igniting momentarily from her anger "I'm done with this little game of your and want no part of it, now leave me alone and drop this blasted topic."

"Beurling we…" Maple started but Beurling had had enough.

"No Maple, I'm done, I'm done with you all sticking your noses in this I didn't ask for you to and don't want you to."

Maple was about to speak when Horatia beat her to it "What about what she wants?"

"What?" Beurling asked confused.

"Tomoko's admitted to us she likes you, if she wants to take the risk shouldn't you at least think about it." Horatia explained.

"Tomoko doesn't know what she's getting into." 'Not by half.' Beurling added in her head.

"Beurling if she…"

"No Frenda, I'm not doing it, not again!" Beurling shouted, cutting of her friend, her patience on the edge of snapping.

"Again?" Maple asked.

Beurling growled in frustration while pinching her nose 'I'm really going to need a load of cigarettes after this.' Beurling thought to herself.

Sgàil looked at Beurling confused for a second before speaking "Their's more here to this isn't their Beurling?" Sgàil asked.

"Beurling, talk to us, we just want to help." Maple pleaded.

Beurling sighed, she didn't want to say anything more but if it got them to drop it then it seemed she had no choice "If you lot must know, it's me."

"You?" Frenda asked.

"Yes me, I'm what I fear, I'm what scares me ok, you happy?"

"You mean what happened to Charlotte?" Maple asked the dreaded question.

"Everyone I get close to…leaves." Beurling sighed turning to face down the ranged so she didn't have to see her friends "I'm not doing it again, Tomoko's better off…"

"That's her choice." Maple countered "Are you really happy to watch her go off into the sunset with someone else when you could make her smile?"

"That's unfair."

"So's life." Frenda countered.

"Look, I just can't ok." Beurling pinched her nose exhausted "I don't want anymore, call me paranoid or crazy if you want but I'm cursed and that's the way it is, so stop hounding me."

Beurling sighed and walked past her friends, wanting to be alone.

"What are we going to do now?" Frenda asked Maple after Beurling was long gone.

"Maybe we should just leave it." Horatia sighed.

"Not yet, I might have an idea." Maple countered as she brought out her scroll and started to search for the person, she hoped might be able to help.

Bet you lot weren't thinking Maple would be the one going this far, well she is a bit of a softy.