"Hello? Wake up." Alessandro groaned, turning and keeping his eyes shut tight. "Geez you sleep a lot. Guess I can´t blame you." A female voice said. He frowned as a hand slowly went through his hair.

"Let me sleep." He muttered, annoyed. He still felt tired. Extremely tired.

"You´ve been asleep for four days. Get up." He immediately shot up, covering his face. The light hurt his eyes, making Fall laugh. He separated his fingers just a bit. He saw Fall sitting next to him on the bed. The room itself was like a dorm room for Beacons students, but with a lack of décor and made for one person.

"What do you mean, four days?" He asked, scooting a bit away from Fall.

"Exactly that. Running and fighting all day, plus coming back from the dead, apparently tire people out." She said this casually, like she was talking about staying up late to study. "You really got me worried there."

"I, wait wha- oh right." He sighed, letting his hands fall. "I remember now. What happened to the faunus who got me?" At this Fall shifted nervously, giving him and odd look. "Ok, I thought so. I suppose he didn´t come back?"

"No, he didn´t. Maybe it has something to do with you being from Earth." She said. He flinched as she raised her hand, but calmed down as she simply moved a strand of hair from her face.

"How did you know about that?" He glared at her, his fists clench.

"Calm down. You´ve been through a lot. You´re safe now." Her voice was soft, kind, but it wasn´t like Cinders which made its way into her victims mind. Tricked him. It was calming, yet cleared his mind. He was in control, no influence from someone else.

"How, did you know that?" He asked again, though he decided to try and sound a bit more friendly.

"Some people in Remnant, like me, know about your planet. Just like people on your planet know about us."

"Figures both places would hide that from most of the people." He muttered, to which she shrugged.

"So, how do you feel?" She asked.

"Sore. Tired. Weak." He sighed. "Thirsty and hungry."

"I can imagine. Wait for me?" She smiled at him again, but actually waited for an answer. He found it weird that someone was so friendly. He wasn´t used to it anymore. He nodded slightly and she got up, walking out. He waited for a bit, before growing impatient. He also hated feeling so weak. Weak is was got him all that suffering, being weak is what got him killed. He needed to get stronger. So he took off the blanket and tried to get off the bed. He flinched as his feet began to support his weight, he could walk but slowly and with his hand on something. He stood straight up as Fall walked back in, then groaned. That had hurt.

"You shouldn´t move to much in your condition. Sit and eat." She sat on the bed, patting the spot next to her.

"Shouldn´t you be out doing stuff, in your cool armor and with that staff?" He asked. She was in shorts and a t shirt, barefoot actually. He frowned as he saw she had a basket of fruit with her. "And I doubt fruit is a good meal after four days."

"Its healthy. And i´m free today. So come have breakfast." She patted the spot next to her and he reluctantly sat down again. She waited, looking away from him and in a couple seconds he was basically devouring the fruit. He had been hungrier than he noticed. He inhaled to apples, choked on a peaches pit and made the three bananas disappear. It didn´t seem like he would slow down. Fall watched him with amusement, then couldn´t help but laugh. He ignored her. He was used to being laughed at by the faunus. At least, before he killed one. He paused, thinking of this.

"Hmm? Whats wrong?" She asked.

"I...i killed them...five? Or four?" His voice was shaky, he dropped his fruit.

"Don´t think about that. You did what you had to. To survive. To stop suffering. No one would blame you for what you did."

"I didn´t have to. It wasn´t necessary!" He yelled, throwing the bowl against the wall.

"You were about to be captured. You had no choice." She put a hand on his shoulder, leaning forward. "Just, don´t think of it, thin-"

"Shut up! I had a choice! I had one! I had escaped them! But instead of running, I, I killed them. Look at this!" He grabbed his shirt, which was the same from four days ago (ew, must be dirty). The blood was still there, dry. His anger was replaced by surprise as he felt something hit his face, making him look t the left. Fall had smacked him, leaving a red hand mark on his face.

"Whether you did or did not have a choice, no one can blame. After everything they did to you? Its obvious you would snap. I´m sure the White Fang were aware of this." She grabbed his shoulders, forcing him to face her. "They brought this upon themselves. They did. Blame them."

"They didn´t decide what I did. I decided what I did."

"No, you didn´t. Alessandro, they played you. Used you to their advantage. Tell me, when you first joined them, what did they ask of you?"

"Well...first they trained me. The first job was dust stealing." He tried to pull away from her, but she kept a firm grip.

"Very well, did you say yes?"

"...Not at first. At first I complained. I protested. I couldn´t fight them. Not yet, I still can´t match them. But...after awhile. I did stand up to them. They forced something on me, I didn´t like it. This faunus, the leader, he just beat the crap out of me." He sighed, clenching his fists. Fall let go of him, laying back and gently pushing him against the bed.

"Go on." She said, her voice gentle, yet encouraging.

"So, I went on the job. The first time I saw team CFVY. I was Romans new body guard. They appeared, I fought them. Lost, but Roman escaped and so did I. I did my job. But...but Adam. He didn´t accept it. He...he freaking tortured me. I was stuck in a room, for one whole week being tortured. It didn´t help that I never gave in."

"What do you mean?" Fall raised an eyebrow at him.

"The whole time, every single day, they tried to drill one thing in my mind. You´re never going to fail again, always listen to us and will suffer more if you don´t. Those exact words. Each time. I escaped afterwards, thats...thats..." He let out a shaky breath. "the first time I killed someone."

"You can stop if you want. Don´t worry about it." Fall said, putting a hand on his shoulder. Strangely, he did want to talk about.

"Its fine." He leaned back, letting out a sigh. "After that, Adam came, he broke both my legs and my arm. I was saved by my partners. They got me some help. Stopped Adam. But after that I stopped challenging him. Did more jobs. Met CFVY more times. Then when they told me I had turned into a faunus I lost it and escaped." Fall wanted to ask more questions, any explanation as to why you turned into a faunus? Where are you from? How´d you get here? Where are the fang and who are these human members? But she felt that she shouldn´t push them anymore today. Instead she smiled warmly and got up, indicating him to do the same. He slowly got up, one hand on the bed to steady himself, and began walking out with Fall. She put one arm around his waist and one of his arms around herself, supporting him.

"How long am I going to be...like this?" He asked. He glared at a couple of students watching them.

"Not sure. It won´t be for to long, don´t worry." She chuckled seeing what he was doing. "Calm down. Everyones good here."

"Yeah well, thats what I was told before. And I actually believed them. Look how well that went."

"Well you were the one to come here, come for our help. So you should trust us." Fall said, laughing as he grumbled some sort of reply. "I´ll show you around. Part of it at least, Beacon is huge." And she did. She kept supporting him every step of the way, but didn´t mind. She showed him the different class rooms. Ports, Ooblecks, Glyndas, and a couple more. The gym, the exercise room, armory (where she showed him his locker where his weapons were stowed and gave him the password to us it) and last but not least the cafeteria. Alessando´s ears turned a bit pink and Fall laughed as they heard his stomach rumble.

"Hungry already?" She asked.

"The fruit helped, but I feel like I could eat a horse." He replied.

"Please don´t eat Snow. Shes a good horse." He couldn´t help but smile a bit hearing this. Suddenly he groaned, being tackled to the ground by some red figure.

"Alessandro! You´re better!" Ruby turned as red as her cape, quickly standing up and lifting him up. He would´ve fallen again but Fall caught him and put her arm back around him, he himself putting his arm around her. Jaune frowned, sitting at a nearby table with the rest.

"Whats wrong? I thought you were feeling better." He said.

"I am feeling better. Compared to before." Ren and Yang looked at each other confused, sensing more hostility in his voice than expected. Well, the hadn´t expected any hostility.

"He is still weak. Which is why I am taking care of him." Ruby looked a bit miffed when he finally smiled, but that smile was directed to Fall.

"Thanks for catching me. Being like this sucks." He muttered.

"Come sit with us. Its about time we all were together again." Pyrrha said as Weiss moved to the side, offering the place next to her. After a moment he separated himself from Fall, giving her a nod and sitting next to Weiss. His movements were stiff, pained. Ruby sat on his other side.

"I need to go do something. I´ll be back for you later, meanwhile i´m sure your friends here will take good care of you." Fall said, giving him another friendly smile before walking off.

"Who was that?" Weiss asked, turning to Alessandro. He turned, watching her go.

"Shes...a friend." He said, then turned awkwardly to his...uh, friends? Acquaintances? Partners?

"You must be hungry." Pyrrha said, she and Ren nodded to each other and got up. "We´ll be right back."

"Don´t miss me Renny!" Nora said, half her mouth stuffed with a pancake. He simply smiled in return and left. The rest were left in awkward silence.

"Soooo..." Nora began. "Was that your girlfriend?" She leaned forward smiling mischievously, to which he turned pink.

"Nora, he just got up!" Weiss said, glaring at her.

"Looks like someones jealous~" Nora cooed. Weiss crossed her arms, not looking in the least bit amused. She probably would have snapped Nora but Ren and Pyrrha were already back, Pyrrha holding a tray of food and Ren with a couple of drinks. He handed one to Alessandro and the other he offered to Nora, who refused it.

"Whats wrong with it?" Alessandro asked. This immediately got everyones attention, as he hadn´t said anything to them since he had sat.

"Its river sludge! It tastes horrible!" She cried indignantly.

"It is perfectly good, healthy juice! With every nutrient your body needs to survive." Ren said, looking slightly offended. "Want to try?" He offered the cup to Alessandro.

"Um..." He took the cup, taking a few seconds to steady his hand, which had been shaky, then drank it. True to Nora´s statement, it tasted like river sludge. But he swallowed it.

"What did you think?" Ren asked, taking the cup and giving an appointed look to Nora.

"No offense Ren, but the only reason I didn´t throw up was because it would´ve been on top of someone. Weiss or Ruby." He indicated to the two on his sides, who scooted a bit away from him. Nora had her mouth covered, doing her best to not laugh. Ren rolled his eyes and, to the amazement of everyone, drank the whole cup in one go. And not looking sick in the slightest. Everyone resumed eating in silence, Alessandro being a bit more neat and normal and not simply shoving food in his mouth as he had with the fruit. Awhile later when everyone was done the just sat there, looking at each other and then at Alessandro. Its obvious they had questions, but he had no intention of bringing that up. Still, he felt a bit nervous with all the looks.

"Sooo..." Yang began. "Where have you been this week? We knew they were taking care of you, but you weren´t at the infirmary and no one would tell us where to find you."

He hid a smile, secretly grateful that Ozpin had done that. He still didn´t actually know the eight, and having them visit and being so friendly would´ve have made him nervous and feel a bit bad.

"I was just in a dorm. Sleeping the four days. As far as I know, nothing else happened. That girl woke me up, we talked, she gave some breakfast. Then showed me around Beacon." Everyone seemed confused now, but Ruby was the one to voice the question.

"Heh, why show you Beacon when you already know it. You lived here before disappearing..." She said, her voice low. He sighed, knowing he owed them an explanation.

"I guess I owe you guys some explanation. The reason I needed to be shown around Beacon, that I don´t feel very...um,.. comfortable, with you guys. Is because i´ve never been here. And i´ve never met you personally."

"What are you talking about? You are part of our team." Blake said, sounding as confused as the others looked.

"Thats what I don´t get. I remember my whole life. And i know it has nothing to do with you guys, Beacon, or Remnant." Everyone looked disappointed even Ren who never seemed to show his emotions.

"That came out worse than I meant. But, just keep listening." He decided to hide from where he actually was, for now. "I simply remember living my life in the city, with my family, forever. Then this partner of Romans came, took me, the fang trained me and used me." He paused there, memories surging, but continued shortly after. "Then I escaped. Made it here. I´ve heard of you. But i´m sure i´ve never met you before today. I´m sorry."

"But that makes no sense." Pyrrha said. "We remember being here with you. Training, studying, simply being together and having fun. You were, you are our friend."

"I can´t explain that either, but i´m positive I never met you. With that said, its honestly a pleasure to finally meet you all." He tried for a smile. This seemed to brighten the mood a bit, but still the rest were gloomy. "Listen, theres more to say. But first I need to see Ozpin."

"Professor Ozpin? Why?" Blake asked.

"I have my reasons. Can anyone take me?"

"We can al-" Weiss was saying, but got cut short by another girl. Fall.

"I can take you. He actually sent me to get you." Fall said, making him jump. She had come from behind him and startled him.

"Who are you exactly?" Weiss asked, a bit annoyed by the interruption.

"My name is Amber. As I said before I am Alessandro´s caretaker." She replied still friendly and smiling.

"Yes, well caretaker, we will al-" She glared at Pyrrha, being interrupted by her.

"Amber, thank you for taking care of him. We are all grateful." She gave a pointed look to Weiss, who huffed and looked away.

"Well lets go then." Jaune said.

"Ozpin wanted us to go alone." Amber clarified, getting confused looks from the rest.

"But he just got here. We finally see him an its for two minutes? Wheres the fun in that!" Nora complained.

"Ozpin is the principal. What he says, goes." Amber shrugged. "Sorry." They all looked a bit upset, but didn´t say anything as Alessandro got up. Amber was about to help him walk again, but he waved her off.

"Uh...i´ll see you guys later?" He said, forcing a small smile. Ruby nodded eagerly, Yang gave him a thumbs up, Blake and Weiss nodded, though Weiss still looked upset. Pyrrha gave a short wave, Jaune nodded with a friendly smile, Nora almost tackle hugged him but Ren held her back and nodded to Alessandro. With that, he left, walking down the halls with Amber.

"You told me your name was Fall. So, did you lie to them? Or me?" He asked without a hint of friendliness. Already thinking badly of her since it seemed like she lied.

"Both are my names. But in public I go as Amber." She replied, frowning at him. "Are you sure you don´t want help?" He was limping, and forcing the two to walk at a slower pace. He nodded, a bit later the two arrived at Ozpins office. Amber walked right next to Ozpin, but Alessandro stopped. In the room Ironwood, Opzin and Glynda were all waiting. Looking at him, it was unsettling.

"Please, come in." Ozpin said, sounding as calm and collected as ever. "Coffee?"

"No thanks, I don´t really like coffee." He answered, taking a few steps forward.

"How has your stay at Beacon been? I know you just woke up, but I would like to know what you think." He took a sip of his coffee. "Since its your first time."

"So, you three- I mean four, know about me. Don´t you?"

"Yes, we do. Well, some things." Glynda answered. Ironwood remained eerily quiet.

"What do you know?"

"How about you answer our question first." Ironwood asked, well it was more of a friendly demand. Glynda glared at him.

"Well, Beacon is nice. In other circumstances i´d be in awe. It was weird to see people here actually knew me." He crossed his arms, staring at the three as he waited an explanation. This was like a battle for information. Both sides anted to know more, luckily, Ozpin wasn´t going to hide anything.

"Yes, to us and many others this is not your first visit to Beacon. On the contrary, you studied here for one semester before you disappeared."

"Tell me more of this me. The Remnant me. Was he a faunus?" Alessandro asked.

"Not to our knowledge. Though the teachers would have noticed if you were a faunus." Glynda answered."I am sure I would have noticed."

"It is one of the many questions we are asking ourselves. How did you turn from human to faunus?" Ironwood asked. "We don´t know...yet."

"I can actually explain that one. A pretty good theory at least. It fits in with something that happened to me." Alessandro replied, sitting down as Amber, er, Fall offered him a seat. Ozpin raised an eyebrow, the four waiting. He wasn´t surprised that the already knew he was a faunus.

"I come from a planet called Earth-"

"We know." Ironwood interrupted, Glynda saw his confused look and decided to explain.

"We know about Earth, as the people of Earth know about us. Years ago, before any of us existed r our ancestors, the two planets could communicate with each other. For some reason this was broken and Earth turned into a legend. We assume Remnant is remembered there as some sort of legend as well. Anyhow, Ironwood detected when someone left Remnant, then came back. And he detected you as well." She nodded at James to explain.

"See, travel through planets, or galaxies in this case, takes and incredible amount of energy. Something we currently do not know how to achieve. But we have technology which allows us to detect bursts of this energy. Some of these bursts come from unknown sources, others come from certain extremely powerful Grimm. This is how we track some dangerous ones and make sure they aren´t a potential threat. We detected one person from Earth arriving and an unknown source."

"That begs the question." Glynda started.

"Who brought you here?" Fall finished.

"How about we let him answer our initial question?" Ozpin suggested, nodding at Alessandro. He was staring at them, processing this new information. Trying to see if it answered certain things.

"Well, to the first question, what we think happened is my metabolize changed. I came to the world with the body of an earthling. So, my body either died or changed quickly. The first day I came, I was about to run off, but this pain..." He shuddered, remembering that. A pain far, far worse than what Adam had provided with his torture. "It was the worst pain I had ever felt. Which is saying a lot. They had to knock me out because I was practically dying of pure pain. We noticed my being faunus a long while after, but the theory fit it. What else could have caused my pain?"

"Hmm...its possible. In theory, but it does make sense." Ironwood answered. "What about how you got here?" Alessandro sighed, remembering Neo. She never had really cared for him? Had she? She let him die.

"This girl, one of the criminals. Neo Politan. Her semblance has a couple of abilities, teleportation is one. She somehow used it to go to Earth, grab me, bring me here. And no, I don´t know why." At that last comment Glynda and Ironwood sighed. This helped, but left yet another question.

"You are not done, are you?" Ozpin asked.

"...Fine. I was thinking, I don´t know why but i´m important. Important to complete or to speed up there plan. But I don´t see how, or why me."

"That explains why so much faunus were all around the city. And chasing you." Ironwood said, speaking again when he saw the boys confusion. "While you were running and fighting what chased you, my men were ambushing faunus across the city. You left several fang unconscious around the city. We took them in and...interrogated them. Finding the other groups and ambushing them. Had they all been ready for you, you may have never made it."

"What he is trying to say," Fall interjected, glaring at Ironwood. "is that we were helping you every step of the way. We wanted to help. You saw team CFVY, I was there in the alleyways."

"Yeah...yeah I know. Thank you. All of you. I need to remember to thank CFVY for all they did. If i´m honest, it was thanks to Velvet that I ever left. She sort of reminded me of my old self. She was nice, it got to me. After that day is when things got worse, because I was different. Thanks to her. I´m glad she got to do that to me."

"Soon you shall see them. They are actually very eager to properly meet you." Glynda said.

"So they don´t know me from before?"

"No. Most do not. Once you disappeared we did our best to keep it secret, not wanting worry. Luckily in one semester no student, even one as...loud as you, can make a lasting impression."

"Loud. Thats was me." He actually smiled at this.

"Now, you kept talking about other people. They, we, them, partners. Who were they? And do you know where to find them?" Ironwood asked.

"I..." He wanted to give the names. But, Cinder kept appearing in his head. His mother. He shook his head rapidly, trying to block that thought. He had a real mother. On Earth. Still...

"Roman Torchwick. Neo Politan and Adam Taurus, who is one of the fang leaders. Roman and Neo were my partners, Adam was they guy who...you know. I don´t know the location. Somewhere in the forest, they never let me keep track of our way and when I left I never imagined going back. So didn´t think of marking my way or something.

"No one else? Are you positive?" Glynda asked.

"Yes, I am." He lied. Ironwood frowned.

"Alessandro, we ca-"

"Thank you for answering our questions so patiently," Ozpin cut in, earning a scowl from the general. "but I have one more for you. Will you stay? Or go?"

"I´m sorry but I don´t think I understand the question. I just escaped, I wouldn´t go back."

"I don´t mean the White Fang."

"Sir, no offense to your world, but all i´ve had here is suffering. Suffering and more suffering. I´d prefer to go back."

"When we find the way, or if your world finds the way we shall tell you. But, I encourage you to be open minded. You are behind the walls now, safe. With friends. Try to be open minded of the whole situation now, then tell us what you think."

"...i´ll give it a shot." With that Alessandro got up, Fall going next to him. "I´m going to get some more rest now. I think i´ve been up to much for today."

"What did you want to ask us?" Glynda said.

"Right, forgot why I wanted to come in the first place. What can I tell the others? I may not know them, but they´re convinced i´m their friend. So, i´ll give them a shot at least. But what can I say to them and what can I not?"

"Tell them everything. Like you told us." Ozpin answered, giving him a friendly smile and nodding. After that Alessandro left.

"He´ll be ok." Glynda said. "He already is doing better then I thought."

"He simply needed some friends. Some love." Ozpin answered.

"I will be keeping an eye on him. I do believe his story but he is still a risk." Ironwood said, to which Glynda glared at him. "I´m sorry, but it is also for his own protection. If he is so valuable we cannot take the risk of him being kidnapped again. He is a student, we take care of the students." At this Glynda sighed, but smiled at James. He seemed bad sometimes but was in fact nice.

"Very well. But do not invade his personal space. And let him enjoy life, now that he can." Ozpin took a sip of coffee.

"He deserves a life now."

-sigh- Yes, I know.

It took a long while for me to get last chapter up.

Sorry. I´m done with throwing you guys excuses so I won´t. You don´t deserve that.

But yeah, I will continue writing this! Of course! :D

I´m being a bit iffy with the story, since volume 3 is out and was a huge game changer for the whole show, i´ve already been adding changes to the plot.

Well i´m enjoying writing this a lot and I hope you guys have enjoyed this to!

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