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The next day when Sorrell, Weiss, and Vernal had the Branwen family relations explained to them, it led to an early morning headache.
"Hold up, so Qrow hooked up with Sienna, but Sienna was in a relationship with Raven?"
Weiss asked, causing Raven to shake her head frantically.
"Sienna and I got together way after the fact. He was 3 months old when Sienna and I got together and three when we married. She told me Sorrell was a one night stand and didn't give me any names. I didn't really care and honestly, Sorrell looks so much like Sienna I couldn't even tell who his father was."
Vernal hummed, that did make sense, but it did also leave her wide open to the next question.
"So….how about the rest of us? I'm not sure how Blondie over there and I are supposed to get along, and right around now, I'm trying to figure out exactly what I am to the silver eyed one."
Sorrell nodded along in confusion, ears flicking about as he eventually fled to where Blake was sitting, hiding his face in her shirt. It was too confusing, and way too early.
"That's between you two. Yang is Sorrell's cousin and stepsister, Ruby is Yang's cousin and stepsister, but she's Sorrell's older half-sister through Qrow. You and Yang are technically adopted siblings, but I didn't do a lot of raising on Yang's end so I'm fairly sure that's entirely up to you and her if you acknowledge each other."
Yang and Vernal looked at each other before looking over at Sorrell, who was looking out at them now, but had opted against leaving Blake's lap as Sun fluffed up his hair.
"Uh…..well this is….awkward in ways I never even thought possible but….I guess for his sake we can play nice with each other."
Yang grumbled, making Sorrell beam up at her. Vernal nodded.
"I guess that's true. A bit of sibling rivalry never hurt anyone though."
Yang grinned a bit and shook Vernal's hand.
"I can agree to those terms."
While this was going on, Sorrell eventually got bored of Sun messing with his hair and shifted over to where Weiss was sitting on another couch, climbing up to sit in her lap. Weiss smiled a bit and smoothed down his hair with her fingers, careful of his tiger ears. Ruby just looked at the duo for a second before realizing.
"Wait, Sorrell, do you have godparents?"
Raven and Qrow's heads whipped to look at Ruby as if they were on swivels. Raven had confused herself figuring out how she'd ended up the stepmother of her own nephew. She'd never even asked if Sienna had announced godparents for the boy. Sorrell opened and shut his mouth before hiding his face again and nodding. He knew his godfather. The older boy having once been like a brother to him, but that time had long since passed. As for his godmother, he'd never met her, but he'd heard her name several times.
"Little tiger, you do have godparents, don't you?"
Sorrell nodded.
"Something is wrong with Adam. He wasn't evil before. He used to be nice."
Raven processed the seemingly random comment and almost facepalmed. Of course that was why Sorrell had been so quiet. His godfather had slaughtered his Mother. Sorrell hadn't been there when Adam had started to turn for the worse. He'd still thought his godfather, and for all intents and purposes his big brother, was still a good person.
Yang figured it out shortly after Raven and looked upset. They all knew who'd killed Sienna, but it hurt more to think that Sorrell had probably known the killer for his entire life and very simply never thought of him as evil.
"It's alright Sorrell. You'll be alright. What about your godmother?"
Sorrell looked up.
"You don't wanna know."
He said flatly. Raven tilted her head and promptly facepalmed to the point there was a red hand mark on her forehead despite her aura.
"I didn't realize the White Fang had been working with Fall for so long. You're seven, how long has the White Fang been working with her?"
Sorrell shrugged.
"Mommy said she assigned my godparents when I was 3."
Raven blinked.
"So….four or five years….that was kinda brash for Sienna…..maybe she had something planned."
Sorrell thought about it.
"Would one of them purposely hurt me if they're my godparents?"
Raven hummed and Qrow looked equally confused. Sorrell did make a point, except his godfather was crazy and nobody really knew if Cinder was a criminal genius or just criminally insane with good luck.
"I don't know dear. Perhaps her intentions were to give you a bit of extra protection until you were old enough to protect yourself. With those two watching your back nobody would've been dumb enough to try anything. Especially with me watching."
Yang coughed and Raven rolled her eyes.
"I came through the first time. The second time I was doing something for Sienna. Besides, I'd figured after the first time I intervened to save your life you'd learn to fight a little less…..riskily."
Vernal shrugged a bit and Yang just sighed.
"Okay, to be completely fair, that would've helped avoid a lot of problems."
Sorrell giggled and Yang smiled at him. It hadn't taken long and Sorrell had already wormed his way into Yang's heart. Managing to make her almost willing to forgive the guy who'd tried to jump her for her bike.
"Don't patronize me. I don't need to be reminded that a seven year old kid is probably smarter than me."
Sorrell hopped down and dashed to give Yang a tight hug. Yang pat him on the back a few times and Vernal realized something.
"Hey kid, weren't you working on your semblance last night?"
Sorrell grinned.
"I think I can control it now. At least for a little bit."
He said excitedly, holding up a pocket watch he'd gotten from Sun and holding it so that everyone could see the clock face, activating his semblance and grinning when the hands on the clock started speeding rapidly before freezing and going into reverse, the entire watch actually flying back into his pocket from him reversing time around the small area.
"Woah….that was impressive for your first time using it under your control."
Oscar said proudly, really just repeating what Ozpin said in his head. Sorrell smiled.
"I even figured out some of the newer parts of it. I can actually see through time, pretty far back, but not all that far forwards."
He said with a slight pout. Raven smiled. That may have been her influence from her own true semblance, which she had taken the time to explain to Sorrell when he was a bit younger. Though it was still believed even by her brother to be good luck, which was what it looked like to most people considering how she was always in the right place at the right time to help her team. Not how her semblance really worked, which was that by forming bonds with certain people she could actually teleport to their location through the bond.
"Perhaps that will come as you get older. Semblances do have a way of evolving over time. Originally I just had an internal homing beacon that guided me to the people I'd bonded with. Couldn't really do anything about it, but it made me a fairly good tracker. It wasn't until I really needed to get to them quickly that I learned to teleport."
Sorrell nodded and Raven looked over at Qrow, who seemed deep in thought. His eyes focused on the spot just over Raven's head.
"The first time you teleported was because you were in trouble."
Raven blinked. She'd thought he'd forgotten that incident when they were younger. She'd been fairly shy as a young girl, and her semblance was mostly built off of Qrow being the only person she really trusted, so being able to find him was useful. Though the first time she was bodily threatened was the first time she'd teleported to him. She'd unlocked her semblance ability through fear, and had maintained that ability even when the fear had left her purely because she still cared about her family.
There was a reason she called her semblance Heart's Desire. It pointed her straight to whoever she cared most about. Some would say the only people she truly cared about considering her current occupation.
"I was startled then. I couldn't control it, but I learned in time."
Qrow looked down slightly, being a head taller than his younger sister, and looked directly into her eyes.
"Why'd you come to me then? Why not our parents?"
Raven held his gaze.
"Because I trust you more than I ever trusted them."
Qrow looked over at Raven's nevermore mask and looked back up at her.
"Why'd you keep the mask?"
He asked softly, remembering the day he'd made it for her as a birthday present. It'd been forged from the combined leftovers that were still there from when she'd forged her first dust blade and when he'd forged his scythe.
"Why'd you keep the cross?"
She shot back, noticing the tilted cross on a rope around his neck and straightening it.
"You never answered the question."
Qrow grumbled, a slight smile on his face. Raven hummed a bit and looked over at her mask..
"Because you already know the answer."
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