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"Sorry I lost my temper…."

Sorrell murmured, Raven still holding him about a foot off the ground by the back of his shirt as the Bandits dispersed.

"I know you didn't mean to dear, but I'd rather you be the one to do something like this rather than Yang."

Sorrell shrugged as best he could in his current position before his curiosity got the better of him.

"Why would you rather it be me?"

Raven set him down.

"Well for one I could never just lift Yang off someone by the back of her shirt. Her hair would get in the way and I'm not too excited about the idea of second and third degree burns."

Sorrell hummed a bit and Qrow seemed genuinely surprised that Raven was being rather open and hospitable. Especially considering that Raven was still…..well….Raven.

"So, you know the kid. He obviously trusts you, don't understand that myself…."

Raven shrugged. She'd been surprised when Sorrell first started trusting her when he was a baby as well. Remembering the day Sienna had contacted her to let her meet Sorrell, who was only seven months old at the time.

-X Flashback X-

"Raven, you can come in. Sorrell isn't much of a crier, nor is he clingy. I think you'd get along."

Sienna urged, Raven still standing stubbornly just inside the closed door.

"Sienna, I couldn't stick around to raise my own kid. I'm fairly sure that should stand for something."

Sienna rolled her eyes and dragged Raven into the center of the room.

"So the big bad bandit queen is scared of small children."

She taunted, knowing it would get Raven riled up. Sure enough, the Bandit Chieftess bristled and removed her mask, glaring at her wife.

"Alright fine. Just this once."

She grumbled, fighting the urge to smile when Sienna gave her a brief hug before going to retrieve Sorrell, who was looking up at his mother with big golden eyes.

"Come on Raven. He won't bite."

Sienna urged, passing Sorrell to Raven, whose crimson eyes didn't betray a single emotion. After a few moments, Raven started to relax, and Sorrell seemed to slowly like her more and more. Even reaching out for the bandit and playing with her fingers when she offered. Sienna smiled, taking a quiet picture on her scroll to remember the day she actually got her wife not only in the same room as her son, but to hold the little faunus.

"I swear Raven, your semblance works in strange yet wonderful ways."

Sienna murmured, sitting beside the duo. Raven scoffed and Sorrell giggled.

"At any other time, I'd say something snarky and sarcastic. But for right now, I'm just going to complain that my semblance is working against me and it isn't fair."

Sorrell seemed to settle down against Raven happily, babbling and cooing for a while until he very suddenly went silent, causing Sienna and Raven to look down. Sienna forcing herself not to laugh at the shocked look on Raven's face seeing that Sorrell had grabbed onto her finger and had rather suddenly fallen asleep.

"I knew you had some form of a maternal instinct."

Sienna jibed, a smile on her face. This time Raven didn't try to hide her smile, despite the memories connected to the word 'maternal'.

"Don't patronize me. I'm sure Taiyang and Qrow, and Yang would say differently."

Sienna hugged her.

"But I'm not one of them. Sorrell isn't one of them. Heck, Sorrell may not ever meet one of them. So you can be a big cuddly bandit with us."

Raven thought about that option and looked down at the little one in her arms. She'd been somewhat apprehensive about meeting the boy, but it wasn't because of how suddenly she'd left her own family. Though, admittedly, that did play a small role. It was because Sorrell was born on Yang's 12th birthday. Something that shook Raven to the core and often left her with no choice but to link him to her elder daughter. That, and the look Sorrell would give her every time she would leave to return to her Tribe.

It was the same look Yang had given her the last time she'd held her before she left, making every time she left Sorrell with Sienna just as heartbreaking. Her own form of penance for abandoning her first family.

-X Flashback Over X-

"Raven, have you even been listening to what I've been saying?"

Qrow asked, recognizing the somewhat dazed look on his sister's face. Even at Beacon you could tell if Raven looked at you like that, it probably meant you may as well be talking to a brick wall. Until Sorrell figured out the fastest possible way to snap Raven out of her silent musings.

"Haircut."

He said smoothly before jumping out of the way from just how quickly Raven had reacted.

"Don't touch my-...I zoned out didn't I?"

Raven asked, smiling a bit when Sorrell nodded, positively beaming.

"Yeah."

Raven sighed and looked back at her brother, though there was still something on her mind that she just couldn't shake.

"I know Yang will be coming shortly, she already almost killed one of my bandits with her fist, but how did Sienna….you know…."

Sorrell looked a bit guilty, knowing that even with the CCT up the Bandits didn't get much information about the goings on in Mistral, or anywhere else for that matter. Tapping Raven on the arm to get her attention, he quietly explained to her what had happened. In that instant Raven showed more emotion in her eyes and face than Qrow had seen out of her since she left. Crimson eyes displaying shock, horror, sadness, and eventually a full blown rage that had even Raven's dark red aura pulsing about her visibly. Writhing like an angered snake as she seemed to be simultaneously thinking up every possible way she could slaughter Adam Taurus.

"Qrow….remind me of our number one rule at Beacon from 1st year…."

Raven mumbled, Qrow chuckled slightly, remembering their mantra.

"Murder is bad Raven. Murder is bad."

Raven looked up at him, Qrow being almost a head taller.

"But if it's Adam Taurus?"

Qrow realized just how angry Raven had to be if she was deeply considering killing Adam Taurus herself, but he agreed with the sentiment.

"If it's Adam I'll make an exception and keep you out of trouble with the local police force and the Huntsmen."

Raven smiled.

"Qrow, did I ever tell you how great of an older brother you were?"

Raven asked, smiling genuinely at the older man.

"Wait, older? I thought you were twins!"

Ruby asked, genuinely confused. Raven nodded.

"We are. Qrow is a few hours older than me. He was born during the day, I was born at night."

Qrow laughed a bit.

"And by 'at night' she means she was born at 2 am the next day. Something our Mom wouldn't tell us until we left for Beacon. So technically, she's a day younger than me."

Sorrell smiled a bit, he enjoyed watching his stepmom/aunt and his father bicker. Mostly because he found it rather amusing.

Especially considering he was really watching Blake's ears the whole time, and she seemed to be listening to something off in the distance. The same thing he was listening to. A motorcycle, headed their way.

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