Rolling over in bed, Ghira found his hand running over a decidedly empty section of mattress. That was odd, normally he was an early riser. Rolling over again so that he could face his alarm clock, his eyes widened as he looked at the time.

10:00 AM.

How had he slept in so long? Mind drawing a blank for a few moments, he sat up suddenly as he remembered exactly what had kept him awake for a few hours the night before. He wasn't in bed at all! He was on the damn sofa in the living room, and the reason his alarm clock hadn't woken him up was because it was in his room – probably with his scroll – and he was looking at the clock in his living room instead.

"Good morning, sleepyhead," Kali said from nearby, seated at an armchair with a book and a cup of tea.

"Ugh… what happened to our guests?" he asked.

"Oh, you know," Kali gave him an amused smile and a wink, then tilted her head back as she indicated the hallway behind her. "Yang and Blake are still in her room."

Before he could say anything in response, there was a knock at his door. Leaving Kali to her book, he went and opened the thing so he could tell whoever was there to beat it.

A pair of girls were standing on the other side. Both had black hair, one with red highlights and silver eyes, the other with white highlights and a scar over an eye.

"Can I help you?" he asked.

"Eeep!" the red one yelped before composing herself. "Ummm…. Umm, I think my sister was here last night, and she didn't come back to meet us, I was getting worried… Yang, her name's Yang, have you seen her?"

Ghira blinked. Yang's sister? But her sister was a small frail-looking girl from what he could recall of the Vytal Tournament broadcasts… from a year ago. If you figured she spent the last year fighting her way through Grimm, added a couple inches, and changed the wardrobe and hair a bit….

"So you're Ruby and Weiss, aren't you," he stated plainly.

"What! I told you this was a stupid disguise Ruby!" Weiss shouted, looking back over her shoulders nervously.

"Relax kid, you're safe here, you could've fooled me with that hair of yours. It's just not too hard to figure things out if you're here with this girl, while her sister's with my daughter. And then there was the Vytal Festival. You do realize we have televisions out here too… right?"

"Oh! So she is here! That's a relief," Ruby said, exhaling a breath she had been partially holding.

"Yeah."

"Uh huuuuuuh…." Ruby looked up at the Faunus with a pleading look.

Ghira sighed. "Would you like to come in? Seems like everyone else is making themselves at home lately."

"Yes! Thank you! Awesome!" Ruby squealed, pushing her way right alongside the man and rushing into the house.

"I'm sorry about Ruby doing that, but if you don't have a problem with me being a…" Weiss once again looked over her shoulders before whispering out a single word. "Schnee…. Then, well. You understand."

"Bah!" Ghira laughed. "Your dad's an asshole but my daughter likes you enough, nothing I can do," he said.

"That's all?" Weiss asked with a hint of confusion.

"What? Were you expecting me to judge you because of how you were born? I didn't start the White Fang just to start a different brand of discrimination, after all."

"YOU STARTED-" Weiss nervously looked over her shoulders again. "You started the White Fang? But, but, they are-"

"I started it, someone corrupted it," Ghira said. "You could say it was like the SDC – they treated Faunus well enough until your old man took over – no offense to you, kid. So you going to keep standing there playing twenty questions or are you going to come inside so I can figure out what the hell that noise is?"

"Huh?" Weiss asked. She listened more carefully. Sure enough, it sounded like…

"RUBY!" she shouted, running into the house and nearly shoving her way past Ghira. Looking in the house, she saw Blake sitting down in the living room, calmly reading a book with a smirk on her face – her face! That wasn't Blake, that was…. Someone. Blake never mentioned having a sister. Though if she thought about her own relationship with Winter, she supposed it wasn't all that odd for someone to avoid mentioning their older sister to their team. But that still didn't tell her where Ruby's shouting was coming from, which led her to another area in the house. The kitchen.

Ruby had her hands and face pressed up against the oven, looking in only for moments at a time before it got too hot and she had to pull away from it – but only for a second, as she pressed herself right back against it. All thanks to the wonders of aura, it seemed. As she did that, Ruby was excitedly yelping something out unintelligibly.

"Ruby what in the…."

"She's making cookies!"

"If I had known she would react this way when I told her I was making some, I would have had my scroll ready." Kali nearly snuck up behind Weiss, half-startling the heiress. As she spoke, her scroll came out and she was pointing the front of it at Ruby. "Blake hasn't acted this cute in years," she added with a sigh.

"What about Yang?" Weiss said to Ruby, ignoring whatever was going on with the older Faunus. One problem at a time. That was the only way she was going to preserve her sanity. One problem at a time.

Clearing her throat and rubbing her temples, Weiss decided to simply get to the bottom of things. "We simply wanted to check on Yang. We haven't seen her since last night and last we knew she came here to see your… sister?"

"Daughter."

"…daughter, right." Weiss stated. "So in any case, we just wanted to see if she was… here…."

Weiss let her sentence die off, suddenly at a loss for words. There, coming down the hallway, and wearing nothing more than a bright orange shirt and a pair of panties, was a half-asleep Yang. With her eyes nearly shut, Yang slowly walked up to the refrigerator, opened it, withdrew a water bottle, and closed the door. By this time Kali had turned around to see why Weiss had stopped talking, and found herself equally incapable of saying anything.

Groggily, Yang walked past the two women in the kitchen, continued down the hall, entered a bedroom, and shut the door.

It was at that moment that the timer on Kali's scroll went off.

"COOKIES!" Ruby shouted, her face having never left the oven.