A/N: So this is pretty much me putting a HUGE band-aid on the boo boo that I made with the chapter I just posted up, realizing that "holy crap that's a huge plot hole."

So hopefully this'll work for y'all.

Thanks for the reviews!

After a quick debrief of what had happened at Forever Fall, the two teams gathered into Team RWBY's room, everyone except Jaune and Blake sitting on the floor. The black and blonde pair sat a little higher, one sitting cross haired on the bottom of her bunk, which Jaune thought was an absolutely stupid idea, and the other leaning against the nearby wall.

"Alright, so you've gathered us all here. You said you both wanted to tell us something?" Weiss said, crossing her arms demandingly. Jaune stared at Weiss for a second, not sure if he should just not talk for a little longer just to annoy the little princess. It wasn't because he was scared of telling them all the truth or anything. Nope. No siree. Jaune sighed and uncrossed his own arms, ready to just get the whole thing done and over with.

"Me and Blake need to both tell you guys something." Jaune stared out, trying to ease them all into this.

"Oh my gosh." Yang gasped out, putting a hand to her mouth. "You're pregnant."

"No!" Blake snapped out, her face turning red. Trust Yang to break the mood. She turned her head in confusion to Blake's quick denial.

"You're getting married?" Yang asked again. "I mean, love is love, but don't you think that it's a little too soon—"

"Yang, will you shut up." Blake hissed out, turning even redder than before. Jaune didn't bother with any reply, choosing to cover his face and try not to pay attention to any of the stares given by his friends. Yang cackled a little bit.

"Oh I'm just kidding Blakey." Yang said. "I know that you're waiting until you graduation before you tie the knot so—"

This time Weiss and Ruby jumped on top of Yang, quickly securing her mouth and hands with extra-strength, Huntress-proof duct tape.

"Sorry there Blake." Ruby said sheepishly. "Please continue." She said. Blake sighed out in relief, before glaring at Yang, who was trying to find a way out of her bonds.

"Now that all of the interruptions are taken care of—" Jaune said amusingly, before, of course, Nora decided that Yang was having all the fun.

"Hey, no fair, how come Yang gets to be tied up? I wanna be tied up! Then it can be like a spy movie where I have to try and escape before the lasers cut my into tiny pieces and I defeat the bad guys by breaking all their legs and then I meet this totally hot guy who tries to kiss me because I saved him and everything and I would go like 'no sir, I can't because I have someone waiting for me' but I don't really, except for Ren, but he's not really by boyfriends or anything, he's just my friend that I like, well—" Nora kept prattling on and on until Ruby handed Ren the extra-strength, Huntress-proof duct tape. Pyrrha and Ren got to work on Nora, who ended up just as trussed up as Yang was, only squealing happily and treating the bonds like a game.

"Right." Jaune said in amusement. "That is some tape you've got there. Where'd you get it?" Weiss smiled.

"The Schnee Dust Company has ventures in other things besides Dust." She answered.

"Right." Jaune said, laughing a little.

"Well, now that all the interruptions have been completely shut out," Jaune said, pointedly ignoring Yang's furious outcries and Nora's attempts to hum "The Lion sleeps Tonight". "I guess we can't really put this off any longer. Why don't you go first Blake?" Jaune said, turning to Blake, who glared at him.

While Jaune did have a point, knowing that explaining what Blake was would take a shorter time, Blake did not enjoy being put on the spot like that all of a sudden. Blake finally turned down her glare when Jaune grinned humorously at her, showing that he wasn't really doing it out of malicious intent.

Sighing, Blake reached up to the top of her bow, wanting to show everybody rather than tell them. The bow loosened and fell off of Blake's head, revealing her two faunus ears, flicking nervously at the sudden exposure.

The room fell quiet, where even Yang and Nora stopped thrashing around and just looked at the appendages.

"Wow… Blake… you're…" Ruby said in wonder. "So cute with those ears of yours!" Ruby squealed, causing everyone in the vicinity to wince. "Oh my gosh they're so cute and fluffy looking. Can I touch them? Can I? Can I? Can I? Can I?" Ruby said, practically diving towards Blake, who screamed a little in fear at the sudden bullet that was Ruby.

Luckily, Pyrrha had fast enough reactions to use her semblance and stop Ruby in midair, plopping her down onto the floor and holding her there until she calmed down. Ruby took deep breaths before looking at Pyrrha, nodding to show that she was good now.

"Sorry about that Blake. I guess I just got a little excited." Ruby said apologetically. Blake smiled softly at her.

"No, it's alright Ruby, I'm glad you aren't mad." Blake said.

"Mad? Why would I be mad? I mean, yeah you were hiding them from us, but it's hard to blame you when there's so much discrimination against the faunus, right?" Ruby said supportively. Blake blinked in surprise, caught off guard by how insightful the fifteen year-old girl was. Blake's smile grew a little wider.

"Thank you Ruby." Blake said.

"I would say the same thing." Pyrrha added in, keeping her soft smile on her face. "I think that it's a great honor that you're willing to trust us enough to tell us about this." Ren and Nora nodded in agreement.

With every person accepting Blake for who she was, her heart felt lighter and lighter, happy that she had found friends who were willing to accept her for who she was and not discriminate for what she was.

However, there was still one that hadn't said anything yet, waiting for everyone to have their say.

Blake turned a little fearfully to Weiss, whose face was completely emotionless. Everyone else turned and looked at Weiss as well, waiting to see what she would say.

"Blake. Is there anything else you would like to tell the group?" Jaune said, interrupting Weiss just as she was about to speak. Jaune knew that the next piece of information was absolutely crucial to tell before Weiss said anything, else everything they've been working for could backfire. Blake swallowed nervously, knowing that what she would say next could possibly turn everyone's opinion of her in a completely opposite direction.

"I was also in the White Fang." Blake added in quietly. Again the room fell quiet, and this time, Blake wasn't sure she wanted to look around at the faces before her. Blake didn't want to see angry faces, or hurt, or betrayed. But she needed to. Glancing up, Blake caught everyone's expressions in one go.

Acceptance.

Some more than others, but none of them had faces that looked like they detested Blake, and even Weiss's stunned look wasn't one of accusations and anger.

Now though, it was finally time to see what Weiss thought of this.

"I can't accept this." Weiss said calmly. "There's no way I can accept a White Fang member and a faunus as a team member. I would rather die."

Blake's breath caught itself in her chest before Weiss raised an eyebrow.

"That's what you probably think I would say, wouldn't you?" Weiss said, before smirking a little. She turned her face slightly to the side, her expression a little more melancholy. "I think… I think if you had told me right when we joined as a team, I would have said something like that. Now though… Now I got to know you, and I got to know other faunus and… that's not what I think." Weiss said, before taking a deep breath.

"Are you still with the White Fang?" Weiss asked. Blake shook her head.

"I left when it started to get more and more violent. I didn't believe in trying to change you minds by killing the people you love. That would be counterproductive. And I don't want to have any more blood on my hands." Blake raised her chin defiantly. "If I'm going to change the world, I'll do it my way. Peacefully."

Weiss smiled at that.

"Then I don't have a problem with that. Thank you for telling us now, instead of having to get it forced out of you later." Weiss said primly.

At that, everyone gave a grin and looked at each other happily, glad that it ended on a good note. But now it was Jaune's turn.

"Alright, now that the cat's out of the bag," Jaune said, smirking a little. Yang guffawed through her tape, falling onto the floor at the pun. Blake just rolled her eyes, her mood too happy to be ruined by something like that. "Now it's my turn to tell you all a secret."

Jaune drew in a breath.

"Have you guys ever heard of Alchemy before?"