Meetings and Beatings

Liam followed the girl in silence. She had a very dark red hair color and was in some sort of school uniform. As he followed he took a flask out of his pocket and took a quick gulp of the liquid inside. It slipped down his throat leaving a good burning sensation. As quickly as he took the flask out of his pants pocket, it returned after its lid being secured. For the past few months at the hospital he had been drinking. There was a law passed recently that any veteran who had been in active duty could purchase and consume alcohol even if they were not twenty-one years of age. Liam had found comfort in the drink. Whenever he had some drink it made his nerves a lot calmer and he could focus more clearly.

"What are you drinking?" Ruby asked out of curiosity, and it also may help spark some conversation so the whole walked to Ozpin's would be terribly awkward.

"Scotch." Liam replied flatly.

"Wait what? You're not supposed to have alcohol you have to be twenty-one! Wait are you?" Ruby said as she noted his height. He was extremely tall.

"No I'm not twenty-one but I have been in active duty making it legal."

"Oh." The rest of the walk was extremely awkward for Ruby. She has this tall, scarred young man who has been in active duty, but is now attending Beacon and he has worse social skills than her. She felt like asking about his active duty and what he did but she felt it wasn't the correct time for questions like this.

When they arrived at the door that leads into Ozpin's room Ruby knocked and the two were met by Ozpin's face bursting through the now open door. He moved to the side of the door and motioned both of them to take a seat in front of his desk.

"I am glad you could make it for part of the term, and I am glad you have made a full recovery." Ozpin said as he took his seat behind the desk.

"Thank you sir it is an honor to be here." Liam said.

"Now I would like to ask you something. Are you ready for a team or do you think it would not be a wise decision?"

"Sir I am ready." Liam said.

"Ok well I have put in some time thinking about this scenario. And I have come to the conclusion that you best fit in with two teams. I would like you to meet Jaune Arc." As Ozpin said this a knock came at the door.

"Come in Mr. Arc" he called through the door.

"You called for me sir?" Jaune said as he came through the door. He then looked at Liam and then at Ruby and only got more confused as to why he was there.

"Yes I would like you to meet you and Ruby's new teammate Liam Sokin." Ozpin said with a small grin as he saw Ruby fly out of her seat in excitement.

"A new teammate shared between both our teams, NOICE!" Ruby yelled as she attempted to grab Liam and pull him on his feet to meet the rest of both teams, but he didn't move an inch.

"Professor Ozpin may I have the files of my teammates?" Liam asked as Ruby tried over and over again to pull him up until Jaune came over and made her stop.

"I don't see why not, sure. Also you must now know that you are part of teams RWBY and JNPR. They are your allies in battle and your friends in class. Get to know them; it may do you some good." Ozpin stated.

"Will do." Liam said even though he had no true sentiment in his voice.

"Ok now come on we need you to meet everyone else, this is gonna be so cool." Ruby screamed as she again tried to haul Liam up, which he then agreed with and let himself get dragged along.

After about a minute of being dragged Liam smelt the aroma of food. He then saw the giant cafeteria. Before he could say anything Ruby had hauled him over to the lunch line, gotten him his food and then brought him to a table with six others sitting at it. But Liam's eyes widened when he saw someone he knew. He was now standing still eyeing her as thoughts raced through his head. The strong thoughts of revenge went through his head over and over again. But his subconscious said this was not the right thing to do. He then reached into his pocket, his eyes never leaving the girl in black who sat across from where he was supposed to sit, and scooped out the flask. Unscrewing it and tossing his head back as he finished the contents of the flask. He now stood ready for anything the girl would try and do.

"Do you to know each other?" Ruby said nervously feeling the tension in the air.

"Yes, but I'm afraid he does not know my name. I'm Blake, and I just want to say I'm sorry and I really regret what I did, and I left because of what I saw that day. I left because I saw what I had become. I do not expect you to forgive me but please don't hurt me." Blake said tearing up in the eyes and her voice cracking at the end of her little rant.

Liam thoughts were a mess. He had just met the girl who killed his brother and now she was apologizing and crying for mercy. He thought of many ways the scenario could have played out. One of them was him taking out his brother's pistol and shooting her in the head. But h realized many things in that split second of thinking. He could not live in the past wishing for his brother, he must move on, and accepting the apology from his brother's killer would make him move on.

So Liam placed his tray at his seat, and then walked around the table till he was one foot away. He then closed the gap between them. He embraced her and let her cry into his chest. She must have been truly sorry for what she had done.

To everyone else seated at the table this looked like an impossible thing to happen. Blake was crying, actually showing emotion, and the stranger was hugging her after drinking a suspicious liquid out of a flask. Everyone just stared in astonishment for a while. Then after a good ten minutes of Blake crying into Liam's chest, she looked up. She saw his scarred face and could only imagine what he must of gone through as he chopped and shot his way out of a horde of White Fang soldiers. Then before she started crying again Liam grabbed her face and pulled his closer to her human ears.

"I forgive you; we were both just following orders. It's ok but can we stop the crying, it's making me sad." And with that Blake sat back down a small smile plastered on her face as she had just received forgiveness for something that had been haunting her dreams.

As Liam sat he and Blake were bombarded with questions. They both explained what had happened on Liam's last mission and everyone felt like crying but Liam made everyone promise they wouldn't so they all held back tears but had small smiles on their faces as they realized Liam was a true gentlemen who was always there for someone no madder what they needed.

The rest of the day consisted with both teams giving a tour of the school to Liam. It was bout 9:00pm and everyone started heading back to their dorms until they realized that Liam didn't have a designated dorm. He was to be shared between both teams. So Yang volunteered to have Liam stay with team RWBY tonight but Weiss said that she would not stand for a co sex sleeping situation.

So Liam went into team JNPR's dorm after saying goodnight to team RWBY. The four sat on a couch leaned up against the wall the door was located on. Liam just decided to lie on the ground.

"Hey Liam I don't think our team got to introduce ourselves. I am Jaune Arc, team leader of JNPR and I am very glad you could be on our team." Said Jaune with honor resounding through his voice.

"And I'm Nora Valkyrie, I can't wait for us to run around and beat up some Grimm together. Meeting you reminds me of the time when I met…"

"Nora is a bit more hyper than the normal person; she is my lifelong friend. And I'm Lie Ren. But please just call me Ren."
"And I am Pyrrha Nikos, It will be an honor to work with you, and also to get to know you. I think we'll be fine friends in the not too distant future."

"It's very nice to meet all of you and I hope we will all get along with each other. Wait Pyrrha what did you just say your last name was?"

"Nikos, why you think you've seen me some where before?"

Liam had set his pack down but now he was rummaging through it trying to find his bottle of scotch. He found it and downed the half that was left before passing out on the floor. His brain would not let him think straight. And the last thing he saw before everything went black was those green emerald colored eyes.

Liam awoke on the floor but was covered by a blanket. He looked around to see his teammates from team JNPR all on the floor surrounding him. Concern was written all over their faces even when they were asleep. But Liam accidently kicked Jaune as he was getting up, and everyone soon awoke to the sounds of him moaning loudly.

But then they all realized Liam was awake. So Pyrrha was the first to speak.

"Liam why did you do that last night, what got into you? We were worried sick about you after you passed out."

"Pyrrha we need to talk." Liam said.

"About what, is everything alright?"

"Can we go outside and talk I need some fresh air?"

"Yes but our team comes with us. What you can tell me you can tell them."

"Ok, but let's hurry."

It was a good thing it was Sunday morning, no students were awake yet.

"Ok we are outside, can you please tell us what's going on?"

"My last name is yours just spelled backwards, we must have the same father because my Father made me change my last name when I moved into the Armed Forces. It originally was Nikos. And to my knowledge there is only one Nikos family. He had us chained to the basement for the first five years of me and Thomas' lives. Pyrrha you believe me right?" Ranted Liam.

Pyrrha was quite for some time before she ran towards Liam. Liam just absorbed every blow not making an effort to even try and block because he knew this is how she was going to deal with this new news. He felt bad for telling Pyrrha this but it was all the truth.

No one on JNPR tried to stop Pyrrha because they didn't want to be killed in her rage. Pyrrha had talked Liam now to the ground and was punching till she got tired and then she would use her aura to fuel her punches. After a while she began to cry more than punch. She knew what Liam was saying was the truth but she didn't want to believe it. But she then felt someone grab her back and pull her into a hug. She looked to see who it was and it was Liam. He was now standing while holding her. She began to cry into his chest just like Blake. And after a while of nothing but sobs Liam put his face next to Pyrrha's ear.

"My dear sister Pyrrha, please don't be sad. Dad must have had some good reason for what he did. And I'm ok with what has happened. But please I can't take many more punches and it hurts me to see you cry. Let's go back to the dorm."

And with that JNPR and Liam went back to their dorm where they fell asleep. All dreaming different things, and for the first time Liam felt a big load of a burden he had been carrying for some time was now gone. He had finally told someone of his past and they actually cared for him.

Authors Note: Hey guys here is another chapter. I really need some feed back about my writing guys because I feel like it is lacking something. I just can figure out what it is. But please Review, Follow and Favorite. It would mean a lot to me. :D