Author's Note:

Woop! Woop! All done college at last. Still accepting suggestions if you have any. ^_^

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Drabble location in R.W.B.Y. timeline: Volume 3, Episode 2: New Challengers

Basic Scenario: Why Ren is fairly protective of his Scroll...

*BOOP*

Ruby's scroll was decorated with stickers, reflecting that despite her battle prowess, she was still a child. She would often split her attention during class playing games on her scroll while keeping an eye out for their ever observant professors.

Weiss could practically get any upgrade to her scroll; so hers was typically the newest model available.

Blake barely used her scroll. It wasn't until after she had met Sun that she would occasionally pull it out to roll her eyes and smirk quietly at something he had sent her.

Yang's scroll was often buzzing with messages from her admirers, and she was usually the one to challenge Ruby to games during classes.

Jaune -to put nicely- was forgetful with his scroll. From collapsing it with his shield after a combat session -resulting in numerous backtracking "missions"- or trying to type out a semi-coherent message while multitasking; Ren was surprised that their leader didn't outright lose the device.

Pyrrha sparingly used her scroll, mostly to summon her locker for combat, or to coordinate with her team on the rare occasion that she wasn't hanging out with them.

And Nora... Ren smirked a little at the thought... was reckless with her scroll. Her semblance had overloaded several scrolls over the course of the school year. And when that wasn't causing her problems, her typical spur-of-the-moment behaviour would often result in her current model of scroll being; dropped, submerged, lost, smashed, used as a weapon, disassembled out of curiosity... among many other fates.

As a result, the ever pragmatic Ren was very careful with his scroll. Using it only when absolutely necessary and always putting it back into its protective case when he had finished.

*BOOP*

"Awww... Not again!" Nora groaned, pulling out her scroll, which fizzed with an emphatic pop, "I knew I shouldn't have had it on me during our first match." She hammered her fingers against the screen to no avail before turning to face him. "Reeeeennnn?"

Ren was taken aback by how adorable her eyes looked, begging to use his scroll. After so many years, somehow Nora's puppy pout had only gotten more irresistible.

He sighed in defeat. "What do you need it for?" He was already pulling the case from his coat.

"I just wanna get a nice biiiiig picture of the fairgrounds." She leaned back and held up her hands, her fingers positioned as a frame. She twirled one her toes, still holding out her arms until Ren was now in her finger-frame. "Click!" She smiled and winked, "'Cause it's not every day that we get to go to a festival!"

He held out his scroll, "you know the rules."

"Yup!" Nora smiled, "two hands on the scroll at all times, and noooooooooo throwing it."

"Or smashing." Ren raised an eyebrow.

Nora giggled, "or smashing." She held out her hands.

Ren gently placed his scroll in Nora's awaiting hands, hoping that this aura-dampening case would have a better effect.

Nora zipped away with a cheer of victory, snapping photos of the vendors, prizes, games, people... pretty much everything.

All too soon, Nora had skipped her way back in front of Ren. "Can't forget us!" She leaned back against him, her head under his chin.

Ren wasn't expecting how close she would get, and reflexively caught her by the shoulders. His shocked expression was caught at the lightning speed Nora was taking photos.

"Hmm... not that one, no that one's blurry, how 'bout- no your eyes are shut..." she turned around and pouted up to him, her hands on her hips. "Ren! You're too tall!

He blinked, raising an eyebrow at her. "How is that my fault?"

"I can't get a good picture of us!" she tapped her foot, "because yoooooou." She poked his nose, "are ginormous!"

Ren smirked a little. He bent over until he was eye-level with Nora, "Maybe you are just short."

Nora huffed. "Fine! If you're gonna be that way." She held out his scroll with one hand, her head turned up and away from him as if she were impersonating Weiss.

An unexpected smile crossed his face as he came up with a solution. With speed that could only rival Nora's pursuit of something sugar-filled, Ren scooped Nora up underneath her legs and hoisted her onto his shoulders.

Nora squealed with alarm, which turned into a laugh as she adjusted her grip on him.

"How's that?" He held onto her legs, glancing up at her.

Nora held out his scroll with both hands, snapping more pictures for his ever-growing collection. She giggled, "Much better!" She angled her arms upwards, "now smile, silly!"

*BOOP*

They had returned to their dorm room after a long day at the fairgrounds. Ren browsed the photo gallery on his scroll as Nora busied herself with getting her own device back online.

Ren had to admit that Nora had gotten pretty good at fixing up her current model the past few times it had shorted-out from aura usage.

He carefully sorted the day's haul of photos into a catalogued list of folders. He couldn't help smirking at some of the inverted photos, taken when Nora had hung upside-down from a tree branch.

Ren searched for the oldest photos in the gallery and opened up the first image.

A younger version of himself and Nora appeared onscreen smiling back up to him. Nora had her arm slung around his neck and her cheek squished up against his as she tried to find the right angle to take a picture of them both. He remembered feeling relieved when she ran for a butterfly after taking the photo. She hadn't spotted his blush.

His fingers traced the beat-up edges of his scroll. The device had seen a lot of wear and tear over the years, yet hadn't once given out on him. Reliable.

He couldn't help but glance back up at Nora who was intently focused on her task.

Ren smirked... looks like he needed to upgrade the space on his scroll. Again.