"Two years after your birth," Raven explained, "I was poisoned by a jealous hunter, one who only saw greed as his motives to be a hunter. I was left in a forest, nude, and defenceless. That was when that lone beowolf found me. It didn't attack me. I wish it did, but it… did it while I couldn't move. When it left, I managed to drag myself back home, and regain my strength."

"You were raped. By a beowolf." Yang simply said, shocked.

"I only found out I was pregnant again after two months. I had Jet at home. I raised him for six years, before he was adopted by someone, as I was a huntress and had a big job coming. I found out he's becoming a hunter to follow me, just like you are to find me." Raven continued. She covered her face, tears evident in her eyes. "I failed both of you."

Yang sat closer to her and put an arm around her mother's shoulder. "You did," she said, her voice a combination of malice and pity, "But I'm glad Jet and I were able to meet our mother again. I don't even need to hear about why you left. I forgive you, and Jet would too."

"That's right."

Jet had teleported using either his shadows or time stop, and was sat on Raven's other side. She gazed upon him, before he said the words Yang knew would work.

"Yang's right. I know as much as you how difficult it was both times, and I can only hope that we get to spend more time not as comrades in arms, but as a family." he finished, and Yang heard him say telepathically, 'Hug her with me.' She complied, and the pair embraced their mother, who put their arms around them both.

"We're both here for you now." Yang added. She heard sobs from Raven as she put her arms around the pair of them, and felt a new surge for friendship with Jet, as they now shared a sister-brother bond. It was so ironic. The man Ruby had met and fallen in love with was indirectly related to her. As they broke apart, Jet checked his scroll, and looked up at Yang, who knew exactly what he was going to say.

"I know, little bro." Yang said. "Time to go. We'll see you soon, mom!"

Both Yang and Jet rose, and Jet offered his back. Yang climbed onto it, before Jet stretched his wings, Raven gasping as she saw how much they had actually grown, before he took off. As they flew, Jet soared in no particular direction, doing swoops and flips and no shortage of stomach churning acrobatics. Yang being the passenger, loved every bit of it, until Jet eventually landed, panting, and Yang got off his back.

"That was so FUN!" Yang panted, still getting over the adrenaline rush of the flight. Jet immediately toppled over, and Yang caught him, carrying him back to LIJN's dorm. He smiled sweetly at his sister, reminding her of Ruby.

"Glad you chose Jet Airlines." Jet said weakly, and promptly passed out.

Yang arrived at Team RWBY's dorm, and ventured inside. Weiss and Blake were both snoozing on their beds, but Ruby was still awake. She raised an eyebrow at her approach, and Yang merely hefted Jet onto their floating bed, before winking at Ruby and leaving her to pull Jet under.

The morning after, Jet and Yang had immediately woken Ruby and told her about the fact that they were in fact brother and sister, and that Jet was indirectly Ruby's brother as well. Ruby had taken the news well, and was overjoyed for Yang having finally met her mother after searching for so long.

When she had asked Jet about whether it would be weird if they still would be going out, Jet's reply would be remembered for years to come by the two sisters.

"Ruby, if you can fall in love with a hybrid of human and Grimm, I should be able to stay in love with you. Right?"

Over the course of the following week, Ruby had noticed that Jet seemed to be distracted by something, even during the time they spent together alone, so much so that when she'd asked him something about Midnight Rose (his favourite weapon, or so she thought) he hadn't heard her, and she'd had to kiss him to bring Jet back into reality.

One fine Sunday, eleven days from Christmas, Ruby and Jet were moving from their daily combat practise to get something for lunch in the cafeteria. They passed by their dorm room, and heard pounding coming from the dorm room, which they assumed to be Yang punching her favourite punch bag.

Passing by a nearby broom closet, Ruby chose this moment to strike. Grabbing Jet by the chest and resisting the sudden force that was Jet's red pulse (the name given by her to that close-range shockwave attack) Ruby pushed him inside the empty closet with such force that the door of the closet swung shut behind them. She felt the surge of strength in Jet's muscles at the sudden absence of light.

Ruby pinned Jet against the wall of the closet, still keeping her hand on his chest as she pinned his legs with her own, as his arms moved instinctively to block.

"Ruby, what are you doing?" Jet hissed in fright as he lowered his fists.

"This is my way of making sure we aren't overheard. Why are you always so distracted?" Ruby pressed immediately. "Your reactions are better than that."

"Ruby, if this is about the-" Jet began to argue, but Ruby knew what he was about to say.

"It's not. You just haven't been paying attention so much anymore. Is something bothering you? You can tell me." Ruby whispered reassuringly.

"You didn't need to be so forceful." Jet hissed in response, causing Ruby to grimace in the low light levels.

"Had to get your attention somehow." Ruby muttered as she increased the pressure as Jet started to push her off. After several seconds of resisting, Jet finally submitted to her vice.

"Ruby… you don't have to trap me to get me to open up. Future note." Jet whispered. Ruby didn't smile, she had to get this information one way or another.

"Just tell me what's wrong. There's no secrets between us, remember?" Ruby replied.

Jet sighed. Ruby knew she'd finally cracked the glass.

"Have you ever needed to get stronger quickly, as in mere days, desperately?" Jet asked.

This question puzzled Ruby. She knew Jet talked in riddles sometimes, but mostly when her gem was nervous. She decided to play his game.

"Once. There was a tournament at Signal. Qrow was really working me hard, but I just didn't cut finishing off an opponent. Qrow's way was too difficult, so I came up with something on my own." Ruby explained, smiling finally at the memory.

"Who's Qrow?" Jet asked with mild curiosity.

"Oh, my uncle Qrow. He's the reason I'm here. He trained me." Ruby answered. She felt Jet push past her with a sudden burst from his red pulse.

"We can keep talking." Jet said to Ruby's affronted look. "I've an appointment with Ozpin in five, so let's head down there as we talk. What happened at the tournament?" Jet continued, as they started to make the journey to Ozpin's office, exiting the building.

"I won it, but it ended with my new move. Qrow was really proud." Ruby replied. Jet took her hand as they neared the teacher's offices directly opposite the dorm building.

"Sounds like I have to thank Qrow for training you up so that I could meet you here." Jet commented.

"You have to thank a lot of people if you're going to do that." Ruby said, blushing.

"You're right." Jet stated, then surprised Ruby by crouching on one knee, whilst taking the hand he was holding in both of his. Kissing it lightly, he was watched tentatively by Ruby as she stopped walking. "Thank you for making all the effort to make it here, to Beacon."

"Um… thanks." Ruby awkwardly muttered, before pulling him up to his feet.

"A little too fancy?" Jet asked.

"Just a little." Ruby replied, blushing.

"I would tease you a little," Jet said, grinning, "but look where we are."

Turning, Ruby saw the door of Ozpin's new office. As a teacher, he still owned an office, though it was not as grand as his original office.

"Later, Ruby." Jet bade, before disappearing through the door.

Ruby stood where he'd left her, going over her conversation, trying to figure out what was wrong. She realised with a jolt that Jet had successfully duped her, and she was nowhere nearer to finding out what was wrong.

"Sneaky." Ruby growled, smiling despite herself.

She was going to need Yang's help to crack this nut.