If you've already read the previous chapter(s), I strongly advise, if not blatantly ask you reread the ones you've already read as things have changed. Some has been added, taken away, or changed. Seriously, have a look just in case. - Left Hand Suzuki Method - 5/7/15
If you wanna see what tattoo's Eric has, look up Renji's tattoos. He just doesn't have the ones on his but or on his forehead, but has the same ones on his lower arm as he does on his lower leg. Choose whichever colour pattern you feel is best for how you think of the character, but remember, the only colours you can choose is Red, Blue, Yellow, Green and really bright Orange.
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"So, guardian!" Yang put emphasis on the second word. "We all share a dorm because we're part of the same team. Where you'll be?"
"Please don't call me guardian. It's just weird. Maybe guardians have their own room?"
"No actually." Everyone yelped suddenly as Ozpin made himself known to everyone. "Normally they share the room with the team they choose to protect. Because you've chosen two, you need to choose one of these." He held out two cards, both face down. Eric slowly went to grab one, only to change his mind mid way. This carried on for a full two minutes before Ozpin threw them away. "They were both blank anyways." Eric looked at him, slightly stupefied. He took a slow sip from his iconic mug, drawing out the moment. Eventually, he took the mug away from his lips and said "You'll be in Team RWBY's dorm." Without another word said, he walked off, feeling he made the right decision. Eric shouted back at him "You mean I'm stuck with four other girls?!" Ozpin simply waved him off, and Yang crashed into his side, lifting him up in a hug.
"Yay!" She shouted, voice blaring down the corridor. "We get to share our room with our knight in shining armour!"
"Oh joy!" Weiss remarked sarcastically.
"I know right!" Eric retorted, just as sarcastic, if not more. Blake dragged her scroll across the door lock, opening the door with a slight push. Everyone walked in, Yang's feet now off the floor as she stayed glued in the same position as she was before. The room was barely spacious, the four beds taking up the most space, with four sets of drawers on either side of the room. In between them being a window.. The curtains were a light crimson, with the window wide open. On either side of the door was two sets of tables, providing work spaces for the students.
"There's only four beds." Ruby pointed out.
"Well done captain obvious!" Weiss remarked, sitting down on one of the beds. Everyone gave a slightly disapproving look, but she didn't seem to notice.
"Don't worry!" Yang shouted. "Our knight in white can sleep with me!" She pulled Eric's arm towards her, causing him to lose balance and fall over.
"Please stop calling me that!" He pleaded, raising a finger in the air to emphasise his point.
"Nope." She cheerfully replied, a low moan emanating from Eric.
"First things first!" Ruby shouted, a wild grin on her face. "Sleep! We have a big day ahead of us, so we all need to get some rest!" Everyone agreed, tired from the day's mishaps. As everyone quickly chose their beds, Eric sat down at one of the desks and pulled a book out from the desk draw.
"That's not sleeping!" Ruby panicked, thinking something was wrong.
"I'm not too tired." He replied bluntly, getting into his book. "I'll sleep later."
"But it's already.." Ruby pulled out her scroll, looking for the time. "10:00! You need to sleep or you'll be exhausted!"
"I'm used to it." He got up, still reading as he dragged his hand across the wall, looking for light switch. After flicking the lights off, he walked back to the desk and sat down, putting his feet up.
"How can you read in the dark?"
"I have good eyesight." Everyone shrugged it off except for Blake, who gave him a deadly glare, thoughts running through her eyes. Instead of saying anything, she turned around, trying to sleep.
"You're not going to...try anything are you?" Yang asked, implying something was wrong.
"Excuse me?" Weiss spluttered, Blake chuckling into her pillow.
"Yang!" Ruby moaned, throwing a pillow at her.
"What?! He's a guy in a room full of beautiful girls, who'd all be asleep!"
"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Eric mumbled as everyone settled back down.
"You didn't answer my-"
"Of course I'm not going to do anything!" He shouted sharply. "You'd all probably kill me before I did anything anyway. Plus that would be the complete opposite of my role now." With that silence enveloped the room, and before long everyone was asleep, Eric dozing off into his book.
He was woken up by a sharp noise in his ear. Panicking, he fell off his chair and quickly rolled to his feet.
"Good morning team RWBY!" The team's leader shouted cheerfully, whistle in hand. "Today we get our uniforms, and I have already devised a job that we can do as a team! Decorating!" Her and Yang threw all forms of things through the air, pleased that the day had started.
"What?" Weiss got up, rubbing her eyes.
"She looks adorable!" Eric thought, the realization of just how cute the ice queen really was dawning upon him. "She's like a little child!" Blake snapped him out of his stupor, telling Weiss that they still need to unpack, the contents of her bag dropping to her feet. "And clean up." With a huff, Weiss got up off the floor and grabbed the uniform Ruby had oh so happily provided her. Going to change, she remembered that Eric was still in the room. Turning a bright shade of red, she launched her suitcases at him until he left the room, shutting the door behind him, narrowly blocking the last bag.
"Rough first day huh?" Stood in the doorway opposite was Jaune, already in his uniform, drinking something.
"Yeah. Yeah you could say that." He replied.
"What was that about?" He asked, Eric scratching his neck.
"Dunno. I think Weiss is getting changed. Met any new hot girls?" He nudged Jaune with his elbow.
"No, but me and Pyrrha seem to be hitting it off. You need to introduce me to Weiss please!" Jaune begged, kneeling to Eric.
"Really? I mean yeah she's cute and everything, but she's a bit of a bitch."
"Please?!" He pleaded again.
"I'll see what I can do."
"Oh thank you so much!" Jaune went to hug him, only for Eric to push him back into his dorm and shut the door. He walked back to his dorm, going to grab the handle when he heard agreements and a angry Weiss. Opening the door, he casually strolled in, seeing that the girls had done some refurbishment. Granting a simple "Huh" from Eric, he overheard what they were talking about. Hiding around a corner, he carried on listening to them.
"You were a bit harsh on him." Blake said calmly, her bow twitching at the intensity of Weiss's voice.
"He's not a mind reader!" Yang cried.
"Here you go!" He looked around to see Ruby stood there, holding his uniform.
"Cheers." He took the uniform off her and started changing.
"What you doing round here?" She asked casually, avoiding the fact that he was changing.
"I was listening to them." He pointed towards the other girls, who were still arguing.
"Isn't that bad though?" She questioned, accidentally nudging him as he was pulling his trousers on. Falling sideways, he just managed to pull his trousers up so that he wasn't exposing anything save his bare chest. This time the tattoos could be seen clearly, and Ruby just fawned over them. Weiss blushed a little again, but a bit more intensely than last time, and Yang's nose exploded, propelling her to the floor. Ruby raised her hand to touch one.
"Can I?" She asked, pulling on her best puppy dog eyes. Blushing slightly himself, Eric attempted to not make eye contact while nodding slightly. Dragging her hand across his chest, her eyes widened and gasped in amazement as she traced each edge of his slightly raised skin. The door swung open and Glynda Goodwitch walked in, staring at her scroll.
"You girls need to go to class. You are already late as it is. Do not take any longer." She peered up from her scroll to look at the girls, only to instead take in the scene before her.
"Glynda Goodwitch!" Eric shouted, gently pushing the still wide eyed Ruby off of him. "I haven't seen you in ages!" He walked towards her, arms spread.
"Mr Lindergren. Tattoos are not permitted on academy grou- What are you doing?" Eric pulled her into a tight hug. "I haven't talked to you in bloody ages! How are you?!"
"Put me down right now!" She tried to keep a straight face, but it wavered slightly at the current skin contact and the boy. "P-p-please put me down." She stuttered, her cheeks rivalling that of Ruby's hair. Everyone stared at the teacher, wondering why someone so composed as her would stutter of all things. Cautiously lowering her to the floor, Eric released her from his grip and slowly backed away. She cleared her throat, composed herself, and left the room, muttering something about them getting to class. Eric pulled the rest of his uniform on, and ignoring the pleas of Yang and Ruby to take it back off, walked with Weiss and Blake to class, the sisters grumbling behind them. They walked through the many, winding corridors, out the dorms and towards the main area of the school. Finally reaching their class, the first to enter was Blake, followed closely by Weiss, then Ruby, and finally Yang.
"Mister Lindegren not with you?" Glynda asked.
"How you get here so fast?" Yang asked, blatantly ignoring the question.
"I have my ways. Where is Eric?"
"He was outside." Eric pulled his scroll out of his pocket, spent a minute untangling his headphones, before plugging them in, playing his favourite song, strangely called caffeine, and nonchalantly strolled into the class, ignoring Glynda and her nagging about his headphones. Taking a seat next to Yang, he leaned back, put his feet up and slowly drifted off into lala land. Thoughts about how he would attempt to change the future, which were then followed by thoughts of Penny and their children.
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