A/N First one shot not really trying to make it anything profound its just one of the last things I'll be writing for Qrow for a while 'cause you know, he pops back up in volume 3 but I'll try to keep writing for him here and there.
The rumbling of the sky signaled that rain was coming, Qrow quickly entered the inn just as the rain started to fall. Looking around seeing patrons drinking quietly he walked up to the bar and sat down and gestured to the bartender
"what'll ya have." the man asked leaning on the bar
"Bourbon Whiskey, whatever brand doesn't matter." Qrow answered putting Lien on the bar
"I'll get right to it then." The man turned around and grabbed a bottle and put it down right in front of him "Want a glass or...?"
"No... I'll just take the bottle." Qrow answered leaning on the bar and opened the bottle as the man walked away from him
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After hours of drinking Qrow rented a room to sleep in and in his drunken state he just about reached it allowing sleep to take him
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Qrow opened his eyes to the same room he was in, sitting up he noticed the distinct lack of a splitting headache, with a sigh he got up and walked out into the hallway then back down to the bar which was now completely empty of all people, he shrugged and entered the bar to grab another bottle, he ducked behind the bar looking under it looking around for anything that could vanish without anyone noticing finding a few beers that could vanish without notice so he took them and exited from behind the bar finding a seat near a window, watching as the rain fell against the window
"Wow this is dreary." a familiar voice said from in front of him, Qrow quickly turned from the window his eyes were greeted by the heels of a pair of brown boots that were propped up on the table
"Umm, can I help you?" Qrow asked the women pulled her feet from the table and leaned forward inches from his face her golden eyes dilated and her smile grew sharper when his jaw dropped
"Heyya Qrow!" Leone greeted grabbing his drink and taking a sip of it
"I... you... what?" Qrow slowly processed looking from the drink then back to her
"What do you mean 'what'?" She asked raising an eyebrow at him
"What did I drink?" Qrow asked guessing its causing a hallucination
"Nothin' that'll kill ya... yet at least." Leone answered looking at the label on the drink
"Okay but why are you here?" he asked after hearing her answer
"Well I figured you'd like to have a drink or somethin'. we were pretty busy last time we got together so I figured we could have a little date." Leone answered again leaning on the table
"Fair enough... so hows the afterlife?" Qrow asked trying to make conversation
"Oh its great, you don't get hungry or tired or have to go to the bathroom. All your bodily needs are optional, so that's pretty sweet, I've met like... five people who just sleep all day long." Leone answered him leaning backwards and stretching her arms over her head showing off her assets "But you're not there so I can't really do what I wanna do all day long, so I've settled for wondering around the world, its really quiet impressive, every world mashed together before human intervention, it makes for a really pretty sight seeing deserts connecting to tundras, waterfalls flowing in reverse, caves filled with gold and gems glowing like the sun, I wish I could show you... but it'll have to wait awhile."
"That does sound nice... What about everyone else what happened to them?" Qrow asked again leaning forward
"Oh... Tatsumi, Bulat, and Lubbock were, last I checked, building a house for all of us to live in which isn't hard considering there's trees basically everywhere. Chelsea was acting 'foreman' of that, mainly watching Tatsumi work and torture Lubbock. Sheele was working on her airheadedness but she hasn't made much progress, apart from them no idea, Liver stuck around for a while but after we told him about Esdeaths' death he said that it was his duty to find her, that was the last we saw of him."
"Who? The name sound familiar but I cant place the face." Qrow interrupted scrunching his eyebrows
"He was that one guy you said had the and I quote 'watery splashy ring thing.'." Leone answered cracking her neck "But that's not what I came here for, I came to party so to speak."
"what did you have in mind." Qrow asked suggestively leaning on the table
"We can fuck next time, right now I want to have a drinking contest! You kept putting it off and avoiding it, so we will be doing it in the Equilibrium, so put up or shut up!" Leone said clearing up his mind and making her intentions clear
"You... pulled me into this place, defying death itself just to have a drinking contest that your going to lose?" Qrow asked confidently and grinning at her
"Oh please, 'defying death itself' isn't whats going on here, the Equilibrium is the place where life and death don't really exist. It allows the dead; me, to interact with you; the living. Its how people have visitation dreams." Leone explained getting up and walking over to the bar browsing the different bottles of alcohol Qrow following her
"And it just so happens to be the bar that I was resting at, or is it magic?" Qrow asked leaning on the bar watching her grab bottles reading the labels smelling them then putting them back
"Its just the general area of where the person is at the time so... yeah, magic... I guess." Leone answered finding what she was looking for pulling a dozen or so bottles from the shelf all looking exactly the same "This part is also magic... magic booze."
"So we're doin' this with rum? Are you sure you can handle this, Atlesian rum can be a bit... surprising." Qrow warned opening one of the bottles taking a drink from it
"I'm not a little kid, I can handle some rum." Leone said snatching the bottle from him and taking a drink from it and immediately coughed it up, Qrow laughed and pat her back comforting her as she coughed
"Yeah, I don't know why it tastes like your drinking whatever the hell makes shit sour, but apparently its popular in the atlas military so it still exists. I prefer burn to sour though so I guess its an acquired taste." Qrow explained rubbing her back, comforting her from the sudden shock
"Okay... well I already grabbed them, so we're drinking them." Leone said sitting up grabbing the opened bottle taking another drink from it handling it far better this time
"We got magic booze and are in a 'whirlwind' of what could possible be another world of magical magic... and your concerned over grabbing more alcohol." Qrow commented after staring at her for a few seconds before grabbing a few shot glasses from behind the bar before returning and pouring the shots...
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Over the next few hours they took shot after shot, neither one backing down as they drank until the sun was on the horizon and the booze had run dry
"Jeez, I figured at least one of us would have passed out by now." Qrow commented staring out the window at the rising sun as the rain lightened up and he felt a distinct lack of buzz or any form of inebriation after they had drank almost all the drinks they had grabbed
"Yeah, this is still a dream so neither of us were going to get drunk anyways, it was fun spending this time with you though." Leone added leaning on the table smiling at him
"Yeah... I guess it was pretty nice... I'm sor-" Qrow began before getting shut up by Leone hugging his head into her chest
"Shut up, don't worry about that. We may be separated but hey, every couple of weeks we can do this again, so don't worry about the distance between us. It's not as far as you think." Leone said smiling down at him before letting him go "Now then we don't want you oversleeping, so you should go wake up."
"alright, I'll wake up. When are we gonna do this again?" Qrow asked standing up from his chair
"It takes some time to recharge so I'd as a two-ish weeks, maybe three. We'll do somethin' fun next time." Leone answered with a wink causing Qrow to grin
"Alright then, I'll see you later." Qrow turned and walked towards the stairs
"Oh Qrow! I almost forgot! Tatsumi wanted me to tell you that he wants a rematch when you catch up to us." Leone called out to him from her chair
"HA! Tell him that I'll happily fight him, and tell him to at least be prepared." Qrow called back walking up the flight of stairs back to his room
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Qrow opened his eyes and rubbed sleep from them tiredly, he felt far more tired then when he had fallen asleep. He couldn't remember what he had dreamt about at all, but he felt it was important, closing his eyes he tried to remember what it was but nothing had arisen apart from blurs. Getting to his feet and walking out of the room and downstairs into the bustling inn
"Mornin' I was just about to send someone to check and see if you'd died." The bartender had said as Qrow walked up to the bar
"I ain't dead yet... So what can you tell me about travelers around here, apart from me." Qrow asked sitting down in front of the man
"Not much to tell apart from you, a women came through here. Seemed like a huntress, apparently shes in some sort of danger though, had others comin' through saying that... why?" he answered causing Qrows' eyes to widen a bit
"Which way did she go? 'Cause if its the same people I've been following... then shes in actual danger." Qrow said quickly standing up
"They went through the eastern gate, she left on horseback so you'd have to be just as fast if not faster to catch her." as soon as which way they were going left his mouth Qrow sprint for the door as fast as he could move trying to save at least one person from Salems' wrath...
A/N This is a quick little one-shot, I tried to keep it consistent with the world I'm building and I hope that you enjoy reading this short little story.