Three days after meeting Professor Ozpin, Ruby had gotten a message telling her that he had informed her parents that they'd be getting a call between Six and Seven P.M. The message had also contained their contact numbers. She had spent the rest of the day wandering around the mostly abandoned campus, thinking of how to handle the conversation with her parents. Should she act like the bubbly and energetic girl she used to be? It'd be simple, she had faked that personality enough times for it to be convincing, and it'd be easier for them to accept her if she acted that way. The problem was, they would eventually come and visit, so if she acted all bubbly and energetic to them, she'd have to keep that act up during her stay at Beacon Academy, and she absolutely hated being bubbly and energetic, it was too much of a hassle. Another issue was that her parents would eventually have to see her for who she truly had become, and keeping that act up in front of them would only hurt them in the long run. Not that she was opposed to hurting them, but everyone wanted her to try to be a nice person and so she would, though it wouldn't come naturally.

She smiled lightly as she climbed her way up to the roof of the dorm building. It was nearing six P.M. and while Ozpin may have given her an hour timeframe to call, she wasn't one for wasting any unnecessary time. She noted that she had less than half a minute left until her she was going to have to make the call and leaned lightly against the railing.

"Wonder what they're like now, hopefully they don't try doting on me, that'd just be annoying. Though they'll probably be too shocked to really do much for a little bit," the silver-eyed girl mused to herself as the looked at the ground far below her. She mentally noted what would be the safest place to land, should she jump from this location, before pulling out her scroll and dialing the number Ozpin gave her for her mother. She then waited a few seconds, and hit the 'call' button right as the time on the clock changed to 6:00.

The scroll rang twice before the image of a silver-eyed woman with red-tipped brunette hair and a face so similar to Ruby's that the two could be mistaken for sisters, probably even twins, if Ruby didn't have wolf ears and the two wore makeup to mask the age difference. It was then that Ruby realized, without a doubt, that this woman was her mother, and it seemed as though the woman on the other end was coming to the same conclusion. The face on the scroll, which had started out with a questioning gaze, had turned to shock, the woman's eyes slowly widening as her mouth slowly fell more and more open.

"Honey? Who is it?" Came a voice from somewhere the scroll wasn't showing. "Is something wrong?"

Summer Rose didn't even bother answering the man, who Ruby assumed was Taiyang as she couldn't remember his voice, instead opting to continue staring into her scroll until she finally said, "Ruby?" The name was so soft that the scroll almost didn't pick it up, but Ruby could read her lips, and she was getting tired of the shocked silence.

"Yes, mom, it's me." That apparently got the attention of the other person in the room, as suddenly a commotion was heard getting closer and closer to the scroll until a blonde man's face also appeared on her screen. "I'm at Beacon, and Ozpin wants me to attend, starting this year," Ruby continued with a small sigh as she looked out over the campus. "It was decided that I should contact you and dad to let you know that I'm alive, and to try and reconnect with both of you."

Apparently it was her dad's turn to gape silently at the screen, as he seemed no more able to speak than his wife had originally been. Summer, on the other hand, had recovered enough to talk. "Decided? You mean you didn't want to contact us?" She asked, with a hurt expression on her face.

Ruby emotionlessly noted that the pain on her mom's face should have hurt her in turn, but didn't. She would have shrugged at the thought, but she didn't call her parents just to cause them unnecessary pain. "Not really," she stated matter of factly. "I haven't seen you two for ten years, I don't even remember you all that well. I felt like trying to contact you would be a mistake, but Ozpin forced my hand. I guess he wants me to try and let you two be my parents again."

She waited for her parents to respond. She watched as the two seemed to digest the information that she had just given them. Her dad slowly drawing into himself as if she had just cut all ties with him, and her mom slowly showing more life and hope. 'I guess my dad took it hard when I was taken. At least he cared, I guess.' Ruby thought to herself as she continued waiting. She wasn't quite prepared for how long the silence would last, as a full minute passed by before she got a response, she had long since gotten uncomfortable with seeing her parents faces on her scroll.

"Can we?" Summer asked hopefully.

"What?" Ruby asked, her silver eyes widening slightly at the unexpected question.

"Can we get another chance to be your parents?" Summer explained, a fire and hope lit in her eyes that almost scared her daughter, who sighed in response.

"I suppose we might as well try. Though I should warn you, I'm not who I was ten years ago, and if you can't accept that, then this will go nowhere," Ruby responded evenly. Her gaze turning into a light glare by the end of her response.

"I… I'll do my best, Ruby. Do you think… that there's any real chance we can be a family again?"

The assassin looked to the sky, "I can't say. Once, my whole world revolved around you. Now, my world doesn't revolve, it's stationary. I wasn't allowed to have people or things that were important to me. However, I guess there's probably a larger chance of us going back to being a family, than there is of me becoming a normal person again." Ruby didn't bother to look down at her scroll. She knew that there was most likely doubt in their minds. Their daughter just mysteriously reappearing after ten years, with a pair of wolf ears on top, must be a little too much for them to believe, or so she hoped. She didn't even know why General Ironwood and Professor Ozpin were willing to believe it, unless one of them had the semblance of detecting the truth, perhaps some glyph from Winter. She sighed heavily.

"I'm going to hang up now. have a good one. This is my scroll and you can use this number to contact me, though I'd prefer if you didn't call too often."

"Have a good day, Ruby. I'm so very sorry that we failed you," was the sad, quiet response she received from her mom before she ended the call.

"You two weren't the only people who failed," Ruby whispered to the sky, sorrow evident in her soft voice. "You were just the closest ones to me. The ones I had the most faith in."

The silver-eyed assassin stood there for a few moments, before a buzzing went off in her scroll. Looking at it revealed that it was a message from her mom.

Ruby, in my shock and confusion, I forgot to state that I'm really grateful that you decided to call us, even if you were forced to. I know I've failed you in the past, but please know that I still love you no matter what, and that if you ever need anything… I'm here for you. Leave it to me to remember the important things after we ended the call.

- Summer Rose.

'She seems to think that I hate her.' Ruby thought to herself. 'I need to tell her that I don't so she'll stop apologizing, but should I add that I simply don't love her either?'

Deciding to answer that question at another time, Ruby left the rooftop to return to her room. She was going to take Crescent Rose apart and put it back together again. She still wasn't used to her new weapon. She was more used to it than she was dealing with her family however, but that wasn't saying much. Sure her main weapon was also a scythe, but it wasn't a high-impact sniper rifle on the side. Her main weapon was also slightly shorter than Crescent Rose was, and was much lighter. So she had formed a routine of taking it to pieces, and putting it back together to familiarize herself with its parts, it taking priority over actually practicing with the weapon itself. She knew how to use a scythe, and she knew how to use a sniper rifle, so she wasn't too concerned there, she was mostly worried that she might run into a problem with it that she couldn't fix in the field. She didn't want to be forced to fight grimm with a broken weapon

Another three days passed before the students started to arrive at Beacon. Ruby smiled to herself as she watched the soon-to-be first years stumble around the campus looking for the auditorium, where they were supposed to be gathering. Some of them even had maps, but were too distracted by what was around them to be able to read it properly. The small assassin had honestly been dreading this day, as there was no chance that she wouldn't meet her sister today, and her call with her parents had been more than awkward enough. She wasn't going to try and hide, as that would only cause further problems, but she was most definitely not looking forward to the event.

As such she slowly made her way to the auditorium, timing her arrival to be right as Ozpin started his speech about how everyone in there was just a bunch of wasted potential and how their years at Beacon Academy would give them an opportunity to change that. It was an odd speech, but it definitely got everyone's attention, except for a certain lilac-eyed, blonde-haired girl who was heading straight for Ruby.

"You're really here," the blonde said as she approached. "You… really have wolf ears." She continued as her expression changed from disbelief to joy and she reached out a hand to touch Ruby's shoulder.

"Yes, Yang," Ruby responded dryly. "My name is Ruby, and it's nice to see you too, I guess."

"I'm sorry," Yang said with small tears forming in her eyes. "It's just, we spent so long looking for you. I mean, we looked everywhere."

The silver-eyed girl stifled a small, sarcastic laugh. "Obviously not everywhere, or you would have found me," she said with a small grin at the obvious distress the statement had caused her sister.

Ruby watched as the blonde in front of her seemed to struggle with her words, as she tried to form a response to Ruby's statement, but ultimately couldn't. After a few seconds though, the silver-eyed girl realized exactly how troubled her older sister was, and felt a need to comfort her. "Don't worry about it, Yang, I don't hate you. I just don't remember you all that much." With that said, and no other words of comfort that she could think of, she placed a hand on her sister's shoulder before walking away and preparing to go to sleep.

A/N

Hey everyone, how's it going? Here's another chapter and I faced to problem of "do I write initiation now, or later" and … I hate initiation, so I chose later. (unfortunately I don't have the luxury of just skipping over the event kinda like how I did in Wilting) But, I'll write it out hopefully quickly enough. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, please feel free to leave a review telling me what you may or may not have liked.