I wanted a chapter comparing the past and present Blake, so this was born. All the italics are from the past conversation.

Blake had never been good with children. So why on remnant did fate lead her to this? Now she's stuck awkwardly holding a girl, one who couldn't be older than seven, as the girl cried her eyes out on Blake's shoulder.

Blake shouldn't stay here, she had to get as far away from the city as she could, before Weiss or someone else noticed she had ever left at all.

"Mommy…" The girl sniffled, her tiger tail curling up sadly around her feet. "…Daddy. Where are they? I want to see them."

Blake was unwillingly reminded of a time so many year ago, a time so different if felt like another life, after a raid on their base by Schnee hired mercenaries. Adam had left her behind to deal with an orphaned boy, one with tiny deer antlers. Maybe she could apply that to the girl she has now?

"Your parents were taken by some very bad people."

"Your parents are gone, they were taken away by bad people."

"Who took them?" The girl demanded through her tears.

"Who did it! Who would take them? They were good people."

"The grimm, you know how bad the grimm are, right?" The girl nodded, and Blake continued. "But the grimm were brought here by the White Fang. The White Fang has scary people in it. Those people only want to hurt others. Understand?"

"It was humans. Evil, evil humans who don't like faunus. They took your parents because they were afraid of what they could do. Most humans can't be trusted, especially the Schnee family, because they hate faunus the most. Understand?"

The girl shakes her head, her tail lashing back and forth. "But why?"

"No. Why did the Schnee's take them? They didn't do anything wrong."

Blake set the girl down, looking into her eyes. "Because the White Fang don't care about anybody that isn't bad like them. The huntsmen can protect you from them though, if you trust them."

"Because they don't care about faunus, along with almost every other human. We're going to change that though. One day the White Fang is going to make it so that there aren't any more Schnee's on remnant. The White Fang is going to protect all faunus, and make the world safer.

"What about mommy and daddy? Will they be safe?" The girl asked, her tears replaced with hope, a hope that Blake is about to crush with a mere sentence.

"What about my parents? Can the White Fang protect them?"

"They're already gone, but they wanted you to be safe. Can you be safe for them?" Blake said, and the girl gave a hesitant nod.

"Your parents are already gone, but they wanted you to be strong. Can you be strong for them?"

"I'm going to be stronger than any human!"

"You'll make a good Fang member someday."

"I don't want to make them sad." The girl whispered, and Blake offered her arms once again. The girl ran readily to her, and Blake rearranged her so that she could carry the girl piggyback.

"You won't. I'm sure your parents are already proud of you."

As Blake took to the rooftops, girl in hand as she searched for the nearest survivor station to drop the girl off at, she wondered what became of that boy all those years ago. Was he a part of the White Fang now? Did he even remember her?

Blake hoped he didn't, that he had seen the White Fang for what they were and left to live a peaceful life.

Somehow though, she didn't think that was the case.