A/N: I am so sorry this took what... 3+ months? I just had a horrible case of no motivation. I'm a little sad this chapter is so short, but hopefully moving onto a new chapter will get the gears turning again. So, enjoy!

This is…awkward…. Aura Hunter thought, as she sat on the edge of her father's bed. Her exclamation had awoken his teammates, who had quickly flipped on the lights on and prepared for a fight. They certainly weren't prepared to see a random machine hugging their leader. Now they were all seated on Father and… she thought the name was Ren, either way, their bunks, her and father on his, and his teammates on the other.

"So… AH, can I call you that? You're saying you're his... daughter, did I get that right?" Nora asked, taking this much better than Aura Hunter would have expected.

"Y-yes, I'm his daughter." She affirmed. *Or at least, I think so*. She still wasn't entirely sure on how this whole thing worked, she didn't know what exactly a "family" was, she just knew father and daughter… fit somehow.

"And… how does that work exactly?" The much younger boy, whatever his name was, it started with an O.

"I'm… not entirely sure to be honest. All I know as that he made me, or at least, I think he did." Aura Hunter looked down a bit, looking at her plated knees.

She looked up quickly when an arm wrapped around her and squeezed. Jaune had put his arm around her in an awkward attempt to reassure her. "Mind if I take a crack at it?" he asked, to which she nodded.

"What I think happened is, the General asked me to come and help them with something. You know how Penny is able to generate an aura? Apparently, there were a few experiments beforehand, and Hunter was one of the few that had any sort of success. She had aura, but no soul, and he wanted to see if I could give her a boost so she could be more effective in the field. Somehow, that boost made Hunter as she is now."

"That sound right?" Jaune asked, looking down at her, and she nodded. That sounded about right to her anyway.

"and you associated him as your father, because he's the one that made you, Is that right?" Nora asked.

"I- I Guess? I don't really know what that means. I only know the meaning of words in my database, and I can't access the net without admin permissions." Aura Hunter explained.

"Who's admin? Maybe we can find one to let you search it." Ren asked, speaking for the first time.

"Oh! Um! Let me check my register!"

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Echo Admin_

"James Ironwood", "Pietro Polendina", "Will Scarletina", "Jaune Arc"

"Oh! Father, you're an admin!" Aura Hunter exclaimed happily, looking back up at him.

"Wait, I am? Why? How? When?" Jaune asked, bewildered.

"I don't know." Aura Hunter said, putting a hand to her chin, "Maybe when I was born you were automatically registered? Can't say. Either way, you can give me access!"

"I, I guess so… um.. I, Jaune Arc, give Aura Hunter permissions to access the net to gather all information on the concept of family."

Aura Hunter rocked a bit on the spot, as her databanks were flooded by waves of new information, encyclopedia articles, definitions, videos, essays, studies and more all at once.

"Um…. Is she okay?" Nora asked, in response to which Aura Hunter put up a hand.

"Give me a second to process all this." She said, still reeling from the new info.

This was... amazing and terrifying in equal measure, all that could work and all that could go wrong… it was incredible. She felt a growing warmth in her chest as she looked towards Jaune, was she over heating? Without warning, she hugged Jaune, no her father, deeply, with all the love and affection of a child finding a lost parent.

"I- I'm so glad I found you…" she whispered, as Jaune awkwardly hugged her back, before deepening it.

"daww…" nor cooed, causing Aura Hunter and Jaune to split apart, and sit there each rubbing the back of their necks awkwardly. Seems she inherited that particular nervous tic.

For some reason, Nora found this hilarious, and laughed uproariously, nearly falling over with laughter, while the rest of the group just stared at her confused.

"Oh…. You two are related, that's for sure!" Nora said, as she began to collect herself.

"Will you four keep it dow- what?" A voice said, and the group in question looked at the door. They would be greeted with the sight of Weiss standing there, disbelief on her face.

"It's too early for this." She stated, before turning to leave.

"Weiss wait I-" Jaune exclaimed before Aura Hunter interjected with "Yes! Mother wait!"

*That* got Weiss's attention. She turned back around slowly. "What did you call me?" she asked.

"Mother!"

"Jaune? What is this…. Machine, and why is it calling me it's mother?"

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"And that's…. how I became a father."

"If the proof wasn't right here I'd say you were mad." Weiss said, her arms crossed and a very skeptical look on her face. "However, I still have one, very important question. Why is it calling me mother? I've never seen it before!"

"It's logic Mother." Aura Hunter began to explain, "These two are clearly married" she said, gesturing to Ren and Nora, which caused Nora to fidget awkwardly and even Ren looked a bit surprised.

"You are the only female I've seen interact with father, and you look absolutely nothing akin to him, therefore, you must be my mother."

"Well…." Weiss muttered, a hand to her chin, "I can't fault your logic, as lacking as your information is. However, I am in fact, not in any sort of relation with this dunce."

"Oh." Aura hunter stated simply, the whirring of fans indicating her processer running full blast.

After a moment, the fans slowed, before asking "then who is my mother then Father?"

She turned to look up at Jaune, who fidgeted uncomfortably.

"Well, um… I'm not sure… I mean, you weren't exactly… made, like most people are." He tried to explain, treading carefully so as not to upset her.

"Oh- oh…" she said, a crestfallen look crowing upon her face.

"though, I'm sure Weiss would love to be your mother! Right Weiss?" Jaune said, giving her a sharp look.

"I mean…." Weiss trailed off, only to be surprised by a bonecrunching hug from Aura Hunter.

"Oh thank you Mother!" she said, pulling the hug ever tighter.

Weiss glared at Jaune, and mouthed, "we're talking later".

Juane's body gave an involuntary shudder at his impending doom as Weiss awkwardly patted the back of the of the machine.

After almost a minute of awkward hugging, Weiss made a pointed look at Jaune, a clear message of *help me!* in her eyes.

"so um…. D-daughter, where are you staying?" Jaune asked, trying to find a way to help the situation.

Aura Hunter let go of Weiss, and turned to look at Jaune. "Oh, I don't know. I was focused on finding you."

"well… I mean, maybe you could stay here?" Jaune suggested, shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh really!" she said, looking Jaune excitedly in the eyes. He slid back a bit at her intense gaze, as Weiss mouthed "no" and Nora excitedly mouthed "yes".

"uhh… yeah, of course!" Jaune answered awkwardly, and Aura Hunter locked him in another hug.

"I knew finding you was a good idea! Thank you father!"

"Hey, It's what I'm supposed to do right?" Jaune said, rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. Weiss glared at him.