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Ruby awoke to an empty room. She groaned and opened her eyes, nothing changed. She sighed and rolled towards the edge of the bed, recoiling when she swung her feet onto the floor. Was she in bed with Weiss or Blake? A quick pat backwards revealed no one else was in bed with her, that was probably for the best. If the lingering ache in her neck and spectacular pulse behind her eyes were to be believed, she had suffered a seizure and scared the hell out her teammates. The sore girl sighed and put her feet back on the floor, reaching for her scroll as she stood.

4:13 A.M. glared white from the expanded screen. Ruby sighed and stood, no point trying to get back to sleep. Their first class of the day was at eight o'clock sharp, and Weiss liked to be early to everything. Ruby was glad she kept her clothes in pre-prepared bundles as she snuck them out of her drawer and crept into the dorm's bathroom; even if getting more sleep was pointless, she didn't want to disturb the others. Plus, this was the first time she had woken up before Weiss so she didn't have to use the communal shower. The lights hummed to life as her clothes dropped to the floor.

"Huh." Ruby was actually a little impressed by the damage Cardin had done. She leaned closer to the mirror, trying to figure out if the fading crescents under her eyes were connected to the bruising on her nose or were just black eyes. The thin contusions along her jaw were a little perplexing, she didn't remember Cardin grabbing her jaw; plus, his hands were way too big to leave such dainty marks. Ruby winced at the realization it was probably Weiss, she wouldn't have been the first to try and pry open her mouth during a seizure. She opened her mouth and sighed, there wasn't any blood or skin between her teeth.

Ruby continued to catalog her wounds; the bruise on her abdomen had already faded to a shadow, though the ones on her back had only molted to a sickly yellow. Pressing on the discolored flesh down the back of her ribs, Ruby was pleased to find no ridges on her bones. To have her ribs rebroken and properly set would not have been a good start to a Tuesday. With a hop, and wince as her still purple heels hit the tub, Ruby turned on the water.

Freezing droplets pounded into her shoulders. Cold showers had always been more her speed, perking her up and urging her to hurry up and get out. Yang was mortified by her sister's habit, one of their many differences. Really, Ruby had realized she shared very few traits with Yang and their father. Both of them loved spicy food, she couldn't stand it. Both of them had an affinity for anywhere hot, winter was her favorite season. Both of them had bright, blonde, Vacan hair; she was almost an exact copy of her mother. That didn't even begin to cover the completely different semblances the sisters had or their personalities. Besides a habit of charging into battle, they may as well have not been related.

Ruby shook her head under the stream of water, they were family regardless. Family was also why she planned to apologize to Yang whenever she woke up, she shouldn't have fought her over getting a little pill. Especially not when she actually needed the pill; despite the crash aura boost led to, the rapid regeneration it initially provided worked wonders for preventing semblance related seizures. Eh, always next time, she mused as she lathered strawberry shampoo into her hair.

As she washed her hair and the rest of body, she flexed and stretched her muscles. After training that was always one of her favorite parts, moving around with a bunch of bruised and sore muscles. They caused just enough pain to release endorphins but not enough to actually bother Ruby, it felt great. After a half hour of scrubbing and enjoying the cold, Ruby twisted off the water.

She donned her uniform, sans ribbon and blazer, and rubbed her hair mostly dry. Ruby had always liked the maroon shade of her hair when it was damp more than the fade from jet black to blood red it usually had. That was the way her mother's hair had always been. That was really the only major difference between Ruby and her mother, her hair was darker. Ruby shook her head, four in the morning was too early to think so much. She checked the time again.

4:48 A.M., Ruby shrugged to herself, that was almost five. Weiss surely wouldn't mind waking up a little early. Flicking off the light and creeping back into the main dorm, Ruby climbed up to peek into her makeshift tent. If Weiss hadn't slept with her in the bottom bed, it only made sense she had slept in Ruby's bed. A glance, and pat down just to make sure, showed the bed was empty. Confused, Ruby checked Blake and Yang's beds. A spike of fear settled in her chest as she checked all of the beds, and the time, again. Am I hallucinating? Ruby pressed the heels of her hands into her eyes and took a few deep breathes. She was fine. They had a reason for leaving, once she found them everything would clear up.

Ruby called Yang's scroll as she left the dorm, half running to the end of the hall. Her sister didn't pick up. A voice in the back of head, tiny and nearly inaudible, brought the fear rushing back through her. What if they don't come back?

Yang paid the buzzing in her pocket no mind as she stared down SLTE's leader. He stared back, ageless face and sterling eyes impassive.

"What the fuck is this?" she jabbed at the file with Pyrrha Nikos etched across it. Carmine sauntered to the designated file and handed it to the blonde girl. She flipped through it, searching for the blackmail notes that had to have been there. Carmine knew she wouldn't find them, all of the actual files had been stashed the second Tera arrived with the Schnee heiress. The dummy file Yang held only had Nikos' tournament transcripts and a few edited notes concerning her fighting style and semblance.

"It's just a little study guide, my people and I like to keep records of possible...challenges." Carmine ran his fingers through his red dreads, he had been trying to get rid of the Xiao Long girl for nearly four hours. He had almost succeed too, she had made it to the door before demanding they return Schnee to them. Of course, Tera jumped in and refused to give the girl up until Esme checked her over; that had led to a rather unfortunate line of questioning from Belladonna and Carmine had discreetly forbidden his green haired partner from returning until all of the guests were gone. Still, Tera had not dropped the issue and handed over the girl, who had fallen asleep by this point. No, Tera had instead insisted they just wait for Esme and Carmine was suddenly stuck with four very annoying girls. Testament to that fact, Xiao Long did not look particularly pleased with his explanation of the file. In fact, if her glare was anything to go by, he had just extended her stay. I never did like working with children.

"I want the ones on my team. Now." Carmine grinned at her. This was his out.

"I'm sorry," he turned his back, "but we only keep files on those actually capable of challenging us. After the matches last night, I might just have to add one on Cardin."

He could feel the heat pulsing off of her, his arms crossed. This was great. She had the temper of a starved Grimm.

"It really was impressive how he tore apart your sister and the Schnee, almost inspiring." His eyes glittered as he turned to her, teeth bared in a wide smile, "Though he was a bit too nice at the end. Really, why not just go ahead and finish the job? One or two more good whacks would have done it too."

Yang lunged, eyes blazing. One second she was in the air with a fist cocked back, the next she was stumbling back. Carmine shimmered before her, like his aura had fallen and come back. She could feel a bruise simultaneously forming and healing at the base of her ribs, her aura was full. How the hell had bruised her? Why hadn't she burned him? His chamber foot was clad in a pristine boot. Yang readied to charge him again, it didn't matter if he got a lucky shot in. Buzz. Buzz. Xiao Long dropped her hands as her pocket vibrated again. His boot clacked against the steel floor as his opponent turned her back and answered the scroll. The specialist silently sighed, thank the Grimm for whoever called her. He had kicked her full force, through her aura, and she staggered back a few steps. Maybe riling up the most combative of the annoyances was a bad idea.

Carmine very seriously considered snatching up his billhook and slitting her throat. It would work too. Head to head and hand to hand, he wasn't sure he would win; using his semblance and with a machete, he knew he would win. If he killed her it would guarantee this never happened again, teach Tera not to bring in stray students, and give him the satisfaction of slaughtering the headstrong bitch. There was no downside to Yang's death. Glancing to the bow wearing faunus, he scrapped the plan; there was no way the panther would go as quickly and there was a high chance she would escape. Faunus were always a bitch to put down.

The panther was an object of confusion for the specialist. She had obviously led Xiao Long to the hub yet had barely said ten words in all the time she'd been there. All she did was sit down next to the dazed, and tear stained, Schnee and rub her back. He had seen her whisper to the girl a few times but otherwise stayed out of the arguments. Why was she there?

"Ruby's awake," the blonde gave Carmine a dirty look but did not try to strike him on her way to her teammates. "Can we have our heiress back now?"

Now, it was Carmine giving Tera a dirty look. After meeting her superior's gaze, she made the right choice.

"Yea, I'm sorry about all this," she moved over so Xiao Long could pick up her white haired teammate, "just try and find me in the next day or two so I can talk to her." The brawler made a noise somewhere between a scoff and a laugh, the panther solemnly nodded. Tera showed them to the door. The second it was shut, Carmine sat and looked at Tera with a blank face.

"It took you five hours to just hand off the little bitch?" Carmine sighed. Why couldn't all of them be like Esme? She barely ever made a noise, let alone talked or randomly collected students like stray cats.

"Don't blame me, you're the one who told Esme and Eurig to stay away." Tera glared at him. He kept her gaze as she marched to her cot and laid down. He would let her sleep for now, the longer she waited to deal with him the worse the consequences would be.

"We will be speaking about this later." He began setting out all of the stowed away files. His job was easier when he could just shoot anyone who compromised the hub, but of course command had set them to a school. Not just a school but one where they were forced to attend class and fight children, that would change. Ozpin had better have had a damn good argument for it.

Where are they? Ruby dialed Yang again. Again her sister failed to answer. A low whine escaped her as she fought the impulse to throw her scroll into the wall, she instead slammed both of her fists against it. They slammed down again as fear constricted her lungs. Ruby whined again and slid down the wall, panting and closing her eyes to try and regain some semblance of control. The cold fear did not relent. I know they're coming back, saying it in her head didn't help. Justifying why they would all come back any minute did nothing for the girl as she buried her head in her hands and tucked her knees to her chest, trying to escape from the awful fear. Please don't leave me. Please.

"Ruby?" tear filled eyes snapped to Ren, eyebrows knit with concern.

"Hey Ren." Ruby smiled and tried to sound cheery but her voice wavering and the tears in her eyes ruined the illusion. She wiped away the few tears that had escaped with the back of her hand. Ren helped her up.

"Where's Yang?" looking down at the girl, he quickly added, "she has some of my notes."

Ruby grinned again, this one even less convincing, "Oh, she's...she's- I don't know."

Ren ushered her towards JNPR's dorm, right across from her own, as her shoulder's slumped. A glance at Nora and little red was staring perplexed at the rapidly speaking Valkyrie. Glances to Pyrrha and Jaune made sure they wouldn't interrupt either, Ren had mastered glaring long ago. It also helped that only he and Nora were fully dressed, with Pyrrha still buttoning her shirt and Jaune slinking into the dorm's bathroom in his underwear.

"Yang?" he whispered with his back turned.

"Uh, hey Ren. Is this about-" Yang knew her sister was freaking out, the three missed calls said it all.

"She's awake. Nora's keeping her occupied," Ren risked a peek over his shoulder to see Ruby was chattering back, a genuine little smile across her lips. "You owe me for this one."

"I do, I do," both of them chuckled before Ren hung up. Pyrrha stared as he turned, again he met her eyes and tipped his head a bit to the side. She nodded and grabbed Jaune the second he came out of the bathroom.

"We're going to go on down to breakfast, right Jaune?" the Arc boy's eyes widened comically and he gulped before speaking, but managed a strong,

"Sure." Ren watched them leave, knowing he would have quite a few questions to answer later. Those were for later though, for now it was just him, Nora, and Ruby. Why had her teammates left her alone, with apparently no way to find them?

More specifically, why had Yang left her? Ren and Nora knew Ruby's phobia of being abandoned, most of Signal knew. During one of the school's micro-expeditions into Patch's woods, Ruby's teammates had decided to prank her by hiding in the woods. They had expected her to look for them, and one boy was very annoyed when she shut down and just hugged herself like she had when Ren found her in the hall. Unlike in the hallway, the boy had tried to scare her. Ruby had almost cut him in half, screaming the whole time about Grimm coming for her. Ren had helped Yang watch after her sister after that incident, that was why he had gone into the hall when she beat on the wall.

Watching the youngest student, who Nora had roped into a game of patty cake, he focused on her aura. It shimmered for the second he was able to view it, waving like the wind had it. Ren blinked and tried again but only ended up blurring his vision, more blinking set it right. Viewing others' aura was a skill he had tried and failed to master for years. A knock at the door cut his observation short.

Ruby threw open the door and dove into her sister's arms. Over her shoulder, Ren could see that Yang was exhausted. Dark circles ringed her eyes and, though she hugged her sister back, her shoulders were slumped. Yang met his stare.

"Mind waiting a few more minutes for Weiss?" Ren nodded to his old friend as she released her sister. "Thanks Ren."

Ren just nodded again.

Ten minutes later, Weiss and Ruby and Ren and Nora made their way to the cafeteria. Ruby and Nora practically skipped down the hall, Weiss trudged along, and Ren followed behind them. He couldn't shake the feeling that this would be the beginning of an interesting adventure.

The six students at RWBY's habitual table were oddly silent. Normally the table was alive with conversation, all eight members of RWBY and JNPR discussing their classes and random bits of Beacon gossip. This morning, with only six of their regulars and yesterday's fight still in everyone's head, they said nothing. Ruby and Nora had immediately begun filling their plates; Ruby because her aura was still recovering, Nora because of her semblance. Her strength was not free. Ren, Pyrrha, and Jaune managed to have an argument using only nods, glances, and tips of the head. It seemed Ren would be explaining the morning's events sooner rather than later. Weiss just stared at the table.

Every minute or so, Ruby would glance at her. She was worried about her partner. Weiss hadn't so much as touched her plate, let alone eaten anything; if the poorly concealed bags under her eyes were any indication, she hadn't slept very well or very long either. Was it because of the seizure? Ruby believed it to be, most were disturbed by them. It didn't help that the last thing she remembered before waking up to Yang and Blake argueing was being alone with Weiss. That wasn't all that bothered, no she still didn't know where the rest of her team had gone.

Ruby did not have a chance to ask through the day either. Though the next round of preliminary matches wasn't until Wednesday, they still had lectures well into the afternoon. Weiss mood did not improve as the day dragged on, if anything it worsened. The only active members of Ruby managed to sit together through Port's lecture, albeit Weiss refused to look at Ruby's bruised face. By the third class of the day, history with Oobleck, Weiss refused to sit by or acknowledge her partner at all. She completely disappeared during lunch, leaving Ruby to again eat in silence with JNPR. After lunch they only had Goodwitch's combat class, where they watched the previous day's matches and pointed out flaws in the combatants strategies. That was also the class in which Weiss showed the most emotion, staring down Cardin for the entire hour. Ruby was also encouraged by Weiss sitting next to her, in a Yang like show of boldness she had even tried to take her partner's hand to calm her. That had nearly sent her scrambling out of her chair and brought her glare to Ruby. Suffice to say, Weiss was left alone until the end of class.

Weiss also seemed intent to be left alone after class too, Ruby almost had to use her semblance to keep up as her partner wove through the post class crowds. Despite small size of the first year class, there were actually close to 300 students. Transfers were allowed from the second year on, which allowed Beacon to bolster its numbers and allowed students likely to fail the initiation to attend after proving themselves capable at another academy. The ten, or in Ruby's class' case eleven, original teams were almost always the best in their year though.

Eventually, Weiss did stop. She had wanted to be alone and remembered the terrace she found Port on as a reasonably desolate place. That expectation was why she nearly jumped out of her skin when Ruby practically yelled her name.

"Weiss!" Ruby shrunk away from her glare, Weiss was quick to soften her gaze. Her heart twinged at the mottled bruises under her partner's eyes and across the bridge of her nose. Why hadn't she just raised the glyph and eliminated Ruby from the match?

"I'm-quit...go away Ruby." She refused to look at her partner, locking her gaze on her shoes instead.

"Weiss," the older girl's teeth clacked together, "just tell me what's wrong. I can help."

For a moment the two studied each other, worried gray boring into dark ringed cobalt. Ruby inched closer, a hand outstretched. For a moment Weiss might have let the hand close over her shoulder and she would have told the cloaked girl everything. Her memory ruined that chance; a girl, a kiss, and a belt flashed by. Weiss jerked her shoulder out of reach and almost stumbled as she backed away, it was all she could do not to show her partner how afraid she was, how tempted she was. Those who intended to follow the rules had no reason to fear them.

With Ruby biting her own lip and looking for all the world like a kicked puppy, Weiss wanted nothing more than to break her father's rule and take the younger girl into her arms. Habit prevented her from doing that but did little to lessen the longing, the need, for contact. The Schnee couldn't remember the last time she had genuinely hugged someone, let alone kissed. Snap, Snap. Her hands started shaking, Ruby noticed.

"Just-just go away, leave me alone." Weiss glared daggers and crossed her arms, embarrassment threatening to steal away what little control she had. Ruby did not leave but she did not step forward either, blind to the fragility of her partner. Weiss doubted she would be able to keep from opening up to her if Ruby just took a step forward. Snap, snap. Weiss turned and ran out of the dorm, not bothering to shut the door.

To no one's surprise she ended up on the roof and in front of the spire. Instead of climbing it though, Weiss punched the rough stone. She hit it again and again, muted screams drowning out the steady scrape of skin on stone; her knuckles were bloody and purpling by the time she was done.

"Why can't all of you just leave me alone!" her voice cracked as she sunk to her knees in front of the blood stained spire. Long white hair obscured her face as she whispered it again. Why couldn't her family just go, abandon the disappointment to their name? That was all they had ever considered her. When she was the tiny second daughter, fit only to be shipped off to a Huntsman academy or sold in some political marriage, life had been more tolerable. Her father had never been warm or particularly fatherly, but he had tolerated her. He didn't question her first girlfriend, only required that the relationship be kept secret. After she became the heir, after Winter's accident, that had changed. Weiss had been labeled as wrong then, an affront to both her family and high society. Suddenly it was a crime to be herself.

Her father had been unrelenting in his attempts to break her, and Weiss couldn't say he had been entirely unsuccessful. Hell, she was knelt on a roof because she thought of breaking the rules. A sad smile turned her lips as she admitted to herself this was not her worst reaction; sure her knuckles her skinned, but they wouldn't scar and would be good as new in the morning. Other outbursts had left lasting marks, Weiss didn't wear long sleeves all the time because she was cold. Sleeves hid who she was just as her attitude had the first week. Weiss rolled up her sleeve.

Glancing at the smeared makeup on her wrist, a thick band of scar tissue hidden beneath, Weiss leaned into the stone and closed her eyes. That mark was testament to how far she had been willing to go to escape her father's hold and that mark was a testament to her failure. There she was, curled up against a spire half a world away and still trying to please her family. Her nail pressed over the scar.

Weiss knew what she would do. She was already the family failure, just how much worse could being herself at Beacon make her life?

"If only I was a gossip." Ren sighed as he left the dorm, Pyrrha and Jaune needed to learn to go with the flow or at least ask fewer questions. Pyrrha hadn't had an issue with him taking Ruby in, Jaune had begged him to give a warning next time, but both of them had wanted to know why. "I went to school with her sister" had been too vague of an answer for their liking, and Ren wasn't about to tell them about Ruby's history of seizures or Yang's apparent confrontation with team SLTE. He liked his teammates but they were a bit loose lipped when it came to gossip. Fleeing to the third floor balcony was his only escape from their questioning, it was either that or knocking both of them out. Thankfully, Ren saw he would not be lonely on the communal balcony.

"I can see your attendance hasn't gotten any better, pretty impressive considering you live here." Yang smiled as Ren joined her on the railing.

"Come on, my dad taught at Signal. That has to count for something." She turned to face her longtime classmate. "Anyone else notice I took the day off?"

"Ruby covered for you, told the teachers you were up all night making sure she didn't have a seizure." Ren rested his elbows on the wrought iron. "Weiss backed her up."

Yang nodded and sighed. "Sounds like Ruby. When did you all get back to your dorm anyway?"

"They let Jaune leave around midnight, you could have sent Ruby over if you needed to leave. Nora's always up for a sleepover. Did you go booby trap CDRL's room or something this morning?" Ren and Nora were the only other two at Beacon who knew about Ruby's past seizures. They also knew about her issue with being left alone, Yang knew she should have called one of them to watch Ruby but she hadn't planned on being gone all night.

"Not exactly," she grinned at his raised eyebrows, "I can actually control myself a little now. For the most part. I won't beat him bloody...unless it's sparring, then Winchester's dead."

"Of course," Ren laughed, "perfectly reasonable."

They lapsed into silence, Ren studying the sky and Yang studying Ren. In the fading sunlight his neon pink eyes seemed to softly glow, as did the single band of pink hair in front of his left ear. His Vacan tailcoat seemed darker than normal, ready to blend into the shade. With a foot braced to the banister's rails and hands clasped in a loose fist, Ren looked relaxed. Yang knew Ren was primed to push off the rail and bring his hands down on someone's head, she was too. He was just less obvious about it.

"So, what do you think of team SLTE?" Ren turned back towards her. He shrugged, shaking the spiky hair on his shoulders.

"They're odd and disturbingly obsessed with masks. What did they do?" Yang sighed, Ren was a friend.

"I was wondering around last night after Ruby's fit and I found Carmine in an abandoned hangar. He had files on students, one on Pyrrha." Even friends didn't need to know everything, Weiss and Blake's involvement could stay a team secret. To his credit, Ren didn't ask about why neither of her teammates had been with Ruby.

"Know why he's getting info on students?" Yang shook her head, no.

"There's a storm coming." Ren smiled at her. They could handle a storm, though he wasn't sure if he could take her ominous, cliched phrasing.

"Don't be so dramat-" A lonely roll of thunder boomed across the sky, right on time. Ren glanced at the sky with narrowed eyes, of course a literal storm would roll in for Yang.

"They're planning something, they're here for a reason." Ren fully stood as Yang rolled her shoulders and started back down the hall. "We just need to find out what it is."

"I just lost fifty lien. Esme was right, the Arc boy was a fraud. Nikos doesn't seem to mind though, she's training him." Eurig's voice crackled through the comm piece on Carmine's table, balanced over the hole his billhook had carved that morning.

"Expected, do you have the training schedule down?" Carmine added the intel to both of the target files.

"Of course, why else would I be sneaking across a buttress in the fucking rain?" Eurig growled through the mic, his leader just chuckled. The lion never had learned to hold his tongue.

"Expected. If you catch them doing anything other than training, record it for blackmail." Carmine clicked off the ear piece, Eurig could handle himself.

"Should I mark the kid as a potential bargaining chip? In case Command sees the need to 'appropriate' Nikos' skills?" Tera looked up from her own files. It was a stupid question and they both knew it, but Tera was the newest member of the squad and entitled to such a luxury. She had been using that as her go too excuse for the past two years at least, Carmine usually humored her..

"Put him down as a strong possibility, we can update it as Eurig gathers evidence." Carmine returned his gaze to the files, scribbling notes in the margins. Tera cleared her throat. Carmine's pen stopped scratching.

"I would like to take over all surveillance and reporting on the Schnee heiress." Tera's jaw tightened as Carmine scoffed and continued his notes. She waited until he was done and had shut the file before continuing, "I've made a rapport with both her and Red, they're beginning to trust me as a friend."

"That is exactly why I'm denying the transfer." Carmine turned to face her, "Esme is doing a fine job. They haven't even seen her." Esme was the only one of his squadmates who legitimately worried Carmine; her ability to be ignored, more accurately forgotten, was disturbing to observe. Thankfully, she was also loyal as a hound; it was almost like no one ever told the poor girl not to trust strangers.

"My reputation with them-" Carmine's glare silenced her. The morning's catastrophe had shown him just what her relationship with the partners would lead to.

"Your reputation with them is a mistake. What exactly were you thinking, Toupe? Bringing the Schnee here in the middle of the night, in the middle of a panic attack no less. What if I hadn't been alone here? If Esme and I were checking our notes or Eurig returned from his rounds to do the same?" His eyes were molten silver. Tera ignored the pressure behind her eyes and looked away from Carmine. Her headache immediately lessened.

"That didn't happen. Everything worked out, Schnee didn't break and her team got a reason to all work through their issues." Carmine rose, returning his file to its rightful place.

"And we lost five hours to get them to that point." Tera shut her file, the report half finished. Carmine's glare trailed from her wandering eyes to the folder and back again. "They are tools for command and the mission. We cannot afford to make them more."

"They aren't spades or rifles. They're people. They have wants and memories and issues-" Carmine couldn't fathom how Tera maintained her naive want to randomly help people, being an assassin had a certain way of weeding that trait out. Then again, the girl was an empath so it made sense she would want to keep those around her in a good mood for her own sake.

"Which we are not hired to deal with. We have our job. We have our cover, which again your little stunt put in jeopardy."

"We have a chance here. They think of us as friends, real friends, not just tools." Carmine carded his hands through his hair. Tera did not back down. "When was the last time any of us had that? It's like having a family again."

"Tera, we cannot befriend these children. They are not killers. They are not soldiers. In a few months, command will have decided a course of action, we will have carried it out, and all of them will be reflections in a bullhead's hull." Well, a fair amount of them could also end up dead but there was no reason to plan on killing them, most of Beacon's students would make great operatives if they could snatch them. Carmine pressed on the bridge of his nose, sometimes it was difficult to keep his jobs separate. "Do not do this."

"We could do more good with them helping us." Tera finally met his eyes again, he smirked. You think we're the good guys? She flinched as the pressure returned to her mind, Carmine glanced away after a moment.

He walked to the door. "Do not interact with them again."

Author's Note: Reviews are always welcome. If you find any errors, have any questions, or just want to comment on how the story is progressing, please feel free to PM me or write a review. I would really like to hear from anybody reading this, especially if you think I'm doing something wrong; that way I can fix it early.