Outcasts and Outlaws Chapter 5-

A visit to the medical bay.

Here's the next chapter guys! I'm able to type these up a little faster now since I have easier computer access so I'll hopefully be able to get them out more regularly, but don't worry, I'm not rushing them. In this chapter I'm going to introduce a semi-important OC, hope you like him.

Throbbing pain, trying to ignore it. Blood dripping, trying to stay conscious, trying to keep pressure on the wound.

'Don't be a baby, it's just a scratch.'

Lost in a maze of a building. No idea where to go.

'Why don't you just ask someone?'

Struggling to keep consciousness, losing too much blood. Aura is failing to close the wound. Not going to make it.

'Connor? What happened to you?'

Connor, slowly walking, hunched over, comes to a stop and looks up. It's Ozpin and his coffee.

'That wound looks infected.' He notes. 'We should get you to the medical bay.'

Connor smiles weakly at the thought of a nice warm bed and nurses to tend his wound. He looks at Ozpin.

Ozpin's form shifts. A shadow, a silhouette of a man. The man Connor is scared of more than anything. The man that killed...

He falls backwards out of fear and cowers under the dark figure, crying and begging for mercy.

'Connor?!' Ozpin's voice says with concern. 'What's wrong?'

A hand reaches out from the darkness. It's just him and the man now; he can't even hear Kane anymore. The hand touches his shoulder and he blacks out.

Many hours later, Connor slowly opens his eyes. He looks around and sees nurses and a doctor walking around the room. He's in the medical bay, he made it.

'Connor?'

He slowly turned his head to the left and saw Ruby sitting in a chair next to his bed and weakly smiled.

'Connor!' She exclaimed as her grip around his hand tightened.

Connor straightened his back and propped himself up against his pillow, wincing as he did so. He looked down at his hand and saw it in Ruby's grip.

Ruby immediately blushes and let's go of his hand. 'Sorry.' She said 'I was worried about you that's all.'

Connor looks at Ruby in confusion. 'What happened to me?'

'You fainted, you wimp.' Kane bullied.

Ruby explained, 'After what happened in the hall I tried to find you and get you to a doctor. I found you in the corridor with Ozpin. You were unconscious on the ground.'

Connor grew even more confused. 'Fainted? Unconscious? How?' He asked in succession.

Ruby continued, 'Ozpin said the knife that Sky stabbed you with was coated with a hallucinogenic poison. He had it on him as a backup for surprise Grimm attacks. It made you act weird.'

Connor looked away from Ruby and processed this. 'So I was hallucinating? That explains a lot.'

'Yeah, like why you were being so wimpy.' Kane continued to bully.

Connor ignored him and spoke to Ruby.

'It was nice of you to come and see me.' Connor praised. 'We don't even know each other that well.'

'I know.' Ruby admitted, 'But I feel like we clicked, you know?'

Connor was really surprised at that. She genuinely liked him. He fell silent as he thought that over, forgetting Ruby was there.

'Connor, what did Cardin say to you?' Ruby asked, feeling slightly nervous that she was treading on thin ice.

'Cardin?'

'Cardin Winchester, The one you were fighting in the hall.' Ruby explained.

Connor wasn't sure what to tell her and ended up saying, 'Something he shouldn't have. Something I couldn't let him get away with.'

'But what?' Ruby continued to query, still nervous.

Connor looked away from Ruby and at a scar on the back of his left hand. 'You're treading some pretty thin ice there, Ruby.' He warned.

Ruby started to become a little frightened. 'I'm sorry I won't mention it again.'

Connor sighed. 'I won't hurt you, Ruby.' He assured her. 'There are just some things I'm not ready to talk about yet.'

Ruby looked down at her feet, feeling a mixture of disappointment and sadness.

He couldn't stand to see her like that. She was usually really happy. Now she was bringing him down too.

'A long time ago, when I was a kid, something very bad happened to me.' Connor admitted. 'I don't like to think about it but Cardin knew and he reminded me of it.'

Ruby looked up in curiosity. 'How did he know?'

'Let's just say that what happened to me was pretty big news at the time.' Connor said.

Then there was a short silence between the two before Ruby suddenly perked up and asked, 'Do you still want to come into Vale with me and my team?'

'I thought you would've gone by now.' Connor said.

Ruby smiled and told him, 'We postponed it because you're in here.'

Connor was incredibly surprised. 'You didn't have to do that for me.' He said.

'I thought you would've gotten used to it by now.' Ruby replied.

'Gotten used to what?' Connor asked.

'People being nice to you.' Ruby explained.

Connor thought about that. People had been a lot nicer to him so far, with the exception of a few certain individuals. Ruby especially had been really kind.

'Ruby...' Connor asked, 'Why are you being so nice to me?'

Ruby seemed confused by this question. 'Why wouldn't I be?'

Connor looked down at his scar again and explained, 'No one has ever been nice to me. I've always been an outcast. Even in my home town. Just because of my past.' He then clenched his fist and let out a tear.

'Oh, you baby.' Kane scolded.

'Shut up, Kane!' Connor thought, with that Kane was silent.

'I think no matter what happened in your past, you should still be treated as a normal person.' Ruby stated.

Connor looked up at Ruby, tears on the edge of his eyes, and stared right into hers.

'Ruby...thank you.' He sobbed.

There was a short silence between the two of them while Connor wiped the tears from his eyes, then Ruby spoke.

'So do you want to come into Vale tomorrow?'

Connor thought it over for a second and then replied, 'If I'm out of here by then, I'll come.'

Ruby smiled at her success and said, 'All right then. You get better soon.'

Connor smiled back at her as she left the room, leaving Connor to inspect his wound.

He looked down at his right shoulder. The knife had made a significantly deep and long cut, and had bled a lot. At that moment he wondered why he didn't have a bandage over it and moved his index finger towards it to give it a poke.

'I wouldn't recommend that.' Said a voice from the other side of the room. Connor looked up and saw a middle aged man with a goatee and a doctor's uniform under a lab coat walking towards him.

The doctor moved Connor's finger out of the way and inspected the cut. 'Hmm.' He said. 'You're definitely going to need stitches.'

The doctor then noticed that Connor was staring at him trying to figure out who he was. 'My apologies.' He announced, 'My name is Doctor Brian. I'll be tending to your wound.

Connor, still staring at Doctor Brian in confusion, replied, 'I'm Connor.'

The doctor stood up from examining Connor's wound and stated, 'Yes, I know who you are. Ozpin told me all about you.'

Connor lost rationality once again and tried to lift himself up and get to the doctor, but winced and fell back down.

'Don't worry.' Doctor Brian comforted. 'I know to keep it a secret.' Connor relaxed upon hearing this.

The doctor walked over to a table full of surgical tools on the other side of the room and pulled it to Connor's bedside. While he searched for the tool he required, he said, 'It really was awful what happened in the village that day.

This struck a nerve in Connor, and he was paralyzed by his memories of that day. The doctor noticed this and apologised. 'I'm sorry; I shouldn't have brought that up.'

He then found his tool, a pair of scissors, and began to cut the sleeve of Connor's shirt off to get easy access to the wound. He then put down the scissors and picked up a stitching set.

'This might hurt a little.' He warned.

Connor winced as the needle went in and out of his skin, sowing up the wound, causing Kane to tease him. 'Oh, stop being such a wimp.'

'You shouldn't tease him, Kane. This procedure has made grown men cry.' The doctor advised.

Connor's eyes widened as the doctor finished the job. 'You can hear Kane?' He'd only ever come across one person besides himself who could hear Kane, and that person was no more. How could this Doctor hear him?

Doctor Brian explained, 'Anyone with a high enough level of telepathic training can hear him, so that's me and Ozpin.'

Connor was shocked; he'd never known that was all it took to communicate with Kane.

The doctor stood up and announced, 'There, all done. Now try to get some rest and you'll be ready to leave in no time at all.'

Connor asked, 'Do you think I'll be out by tomorrow?'

'As long as you rest up.' The doctor advised, 'And don't get into anymore fights before the stitches fall out.

The doctor walked out of the room and left Connor and Kane to talk.

Don't get into anymore fights?' Kane repeated. 'This guy doesn't know you as well as he thinks.'

Connor nodded in agreement, 'Yeah, I can't help but get into fights. It's like I'm a magnet for trouble.

Connor thought back to that day at the village. How many people had Ozpin told? He fell into a deep sleep with that on his mind.

Kane however seemed uneasy, as if he sensed trouble, and stayed alert all through the night.

So what did you think of the new character? Not much back-story yet, I know, but he will be popping up fairly regularly. Also, the next chapter will probably have some action in it. Hopefully it will be out in about 2 or 3 days. Until then, bye.