Ruby was leaving her house quietly. She did not want her father or her sister to hear her leave so she closed the door slowly. As she was speeding down the road that would lead to town to meet up with what was left of team JNPR she knew that her father had probably already seen the note she had left on her bed. She knew though that once he saw she was out of sight he would not go looking for her. This was not because he did not love her, mind you, this was because he knew that she needed time.
Ruby knew that losing an arm was a big deal for Yang so she left without telling her anything, not even a lie about why she was leaving. After a while Ruby arrived at the inn that JNR was staying at and went in to meet them. She saw them at a back table and went to sit down. "Hi guys." Ruby said, not quite sure what their dynamic was now that such a pivotal member of their team was gone. ""RUBY" Nora almost screamed giving her a big hug. "Hi" said Ren in his normal almost monotone voice. "Hello" John said with a smile Ruby knew was jenuine.
"What is the plan then." Ruby asked looking at the people around her. Ruby knew that she could not tell them about the real reason she wanted to tag along. She knew it was mostly for selfish reasons but her mother had told her it was for the best. "We are going to Haven Acadamy, what we need is to know a way to get there. Nora and Ren are orphans so they have almost no money they can use to buy a train ticket, my family gave me a little but not nearly enough for all of us, what about you Ruby. I am sorry to ask this but do you have enough to get us there by train?" Ruby looked at him confused and bewildered. "Um, noooooo. I just brought enough for me, sorry." "Well, that settles it. We are walking."
Ruby really did not mind the walk. She actually quite enjoyed it. Her favorite thing was to run and fight so walking seemed like the perfect was to get her stress over the last couple of days out. Also it meant any time her mother decided she needed to split off she could without having to wait for the next train stop. After a while of stopping at villages, attacking a couple of grim playing the town, and collecting enough money to buy enough supplies to go to the next one someone unexpected came for a visit.
One night while she was supposed to be sleeping but was actually talking to her mother someone bumped her on the shoulder. she woke up to find a Qrow by her bed poking at her hand gently but enough to let her know it was there. It was in such a deliberate manner she said. "What do you want?" like it was a person. The crow then proceeded to point and move its head toward another part of the forest. Ruby decided that she was too curious of what the crow wanted to back down and left her sleeping bag to go to where the crow pointed.
When she got there she saw that the crow had flown a little bit ahead of her then flew down. She could not see it for a second then her uncle Qrow was there. "Ruby, you have been keeping some information from me." He said. Ruby was surprised, he could not be talking about her learning about her silver eyes and what they could do would he? The question was answered quite abruptly. "Yes, it is about your silver eyes. Raven told me that you have learned how to activate them. Why didn't you tell me. You can still mail me you know. You know where I get my mail from." Her uncle looked at her questioningly.
Thinking of nothing else (and she really hated keeping secrets from Qrow) she told him. "Mom said not to trust anyone. Not even you." Qrow looked at her like she had three heads. "Your mother? She is dead Ruby." Ruby answered insistently "Yes, but my silver eyes let me talk to her, and ..." Ruby was bewildered when a white light passed over them both and when it was gone a translucent form of the woman who she had been meeting with almost every single night showed up. Summer looked at Ruby. "Ruby, I thought I told you to tell him nothing about this." she said. "I know but he already knew and.." "Stop. I will talk to your Uncle Qrow now please leave and go back to sleep I will see you when I am done, we have a lot of talking to do about what nothing means."
Ruby did not look excited in the least about this but knew that staying would only get her more of a lecture later so she left. Or so they thought. What her mom and uncle did not know was that Ruby turned into as few of rose petals as she could and stayed behind a tree a little ways away and listened.
"Summer, how are you here" Qrow said. Sadly seeing was not mastered by Ruby yet so hearring was the only thing she could do. Summer then said. "I came here to help Ruby. The rest of you are only leading her to Ospin and I can not stand for it, not after what happened to me because of him. I do not want that same fate for her." "We need her, though. Without her we have no silver eyed warriors and they are what we need right now. Even one could be invaluable." Qrow argued. "You may not like Ospin, but he fights for the right things." Sadly Summer said. "I know, but I don't care. I will protect her from harm, even if it means to be against you." Then Ruby heard footsteps coming towards her and she started to run away. When she got back to camp she silently got back in her sleeping bag and waiter for her mom and uncle to finnish their conversation.