Well, that´s the fourth chapter. And a pretty heavy one. While the young ones live their lives, the adults live theirs, and their lives reflect on them, even if they didn´t notice. Anyway, new chapter for you all. I'am happy to see that in the graphics a lot of people a reading the fanfic, but don´t forget do coment, give your reviews and etc. Also, if you want to support my little hobby, there is my .
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Adult talk
Finally finishing tidied up the things on your new office, Ozpin sit on his chair of rector while tasted the coffe recentely done. The aroma of the caffeine with some drops of cream brought the right dose of sugar that the man needed to pass the day motivaded with his doings. Looking at some picture frames that he had put on the desk, the man saw not only the photos of your former army mates, but also your older family.
In your most personal Picture he was acompained with a blond woman of blue eyes, togheter with four childrem. All full of life and smiling. Your uniform of military surgeon was all designed with animals and little bears and at the side of your name tag was written "papa save lives".
TOC! TOC!
The door knocked and one voice very well known by Ozpin said "Excuse me".
"Good morning, Glynda." Ozpin said in a friendly tone.
"Good morning, Oz." Said the woman, dressed with black leggings and one white shirt.
"Going for a walking?"
"Yes. I have to take one day for me, because starting tomorrow the university will start to get busy again, and the life on the dorm will also have it´s routine. And I still have to figure a way to make those young don´t burn my dorm with their "welcome party".
"They are just young people Glynda, let them have their fun.—Ozpin said while drink an little more of your coffee, hiding his smile behind the mug.
"Young ones who can get high with ease, can commit acts of vandalism, furthermore the unwanted pregnancy and the pandemic of std's. They are just 'young people' Ozpin." Glynda said while made quotes with her fingers.
"Alright, hormonal and compulsive bombs then."
After Glynda sit on the opposite chair, both stood in silence for a while until the blond woman resolved break the ice:
"Do you will not ask about your protégés?"
"Exist something i should ask about them?" The man asked while arched one eyebrow.
"Ozpin, serious? Cynism? To me?"
Sighing heavily, the man finished his coffe and said:
"They will get along. Tai daughters are good girls, one is a genius and the other is a already qualify professional fighter. Now, about the Schnee and Belladonna, don´t worry. I know that because of their particular history you think they with not get along, but, i have a good feeling that they will resolve any problems that appears, and at the end, they both will become very good friends. The four will complement each other's life very well."
Glynda listened what the man told a asked:
"And what about the problems that can affect our particular life's?"
Knowing exactly what Glynda was talking about, Ozpin continues:
"Well, liking or not, Mr. Jacques Schnee is one of the biggest financiers of my university. But regardless of the behavior that his daughter may have in my campus, he will not stop to pay his patronage. With this charity he gets a lot of marketing, besides avoiding pay a lot of taxes. About Ruby, well, James has a lot of friends on Atlas Corp that got interested on her project of 'the use of 3d printers and recyclable materials to build new weapons', and since she has a great connection with Summer trough the weapons as Qrow once told me, well, it´s very unlikely that she will drop the scholarship investment. Yang despite have a very explosive behavior, she will stand firm with her athlete career, she still has a lot to prove, but i wouldn´t worry about that. If there is one thing she shows, is that no one can put her down. And about Blake..."
Talking about the young girl made the man pondered. Of all girls, she was precisely the one that had the most delicate problems to deal with it.
"...she just need adjust herself. The fact that she managed to pass the test that i gived to her, even after dropping out the school to follow with her criminal life, just show how smart she is. Furthermore, she has a natural talent to paint and art, and in this university, she will prosper those gifts."
"You have a soft heart, do you know it?" Said Glynda.
"Yes, i know. It reminds me that i still have some lived sentiment, and good inside of me, but enough about me. How have you been, Glynda?
"Just living, i think. I...argh, i receive a proposal and i don´t know what to do. James want´s to resume our marriage." Glynda finally said, letting her posture get soft, which was always elegant and rigid.
Her talk made Ozpin express a serious semblance, which in turn, said:
"Tell me more."
"I knew that both of you had returned to talk as a friends, but, i didn´t think that bridge was still available to me, even more for this type of relationship. He was the man that was always with me, since we both were high school students. My first kiss was with him, my first time in bed was with him, and our daughter, i..." Glynda had no words, and the woman that always expressed herself as a authoritarian person with norms and rules was barely holding herself to cry "I betrayed him Ozpin, in a moment of weakness, in the moment that he most needed me, i betrayed him with his best friend."
Ozpin heard the words of her friend, and ex-lover, with a very sad expression. He waited her recover her posture and final asked:
"Glynda, after all these years that we had ended our relationship, you still hold feelings for me?"
The woman stared the man with a very serious expression, despite still keep showing some traits of vulnerability and responded:
"No, i don´t have. And even if i did had, correspond them would be wrong, or at least would seem wrong, even more knowing that those feelings were responsible for the tragedies of your family."
"I see. You think that your happiness is synonymous of tragedy, isn´t? I know very well how it is, after all, was because of our relationship that, indirectly, i lost four daughters and i had to watch the burns of my wife body eat her flesh and her soul." He said with a heaviness in his voice, which reverberated the most saddest emotion of your heart. The guilty "But, the same pain that corrodes us, it´s also the same pain that remind us of the good moments. Of why we value our smiles and our good memories. Glynda, James had all the reasons of the world to forget you, but he resolved to come back to you after a long time, he choose to be happy with you. Promise me that…promise that you will allow yourself to be loved, for your own good. You can do that?"
Glynda look to the man one more time, smiled briefly and said:
"Thanks Ozpin, i...will try."
Getting up, the man with gray hair went at the bloond and gived her a warm hug and a kiss on her forehead and said:
"Don try, be happy." And complementing his speech with a distracted tone, he continues "And also allow the young ones be happy, let your compulsion to have all thing in order aside for a while, right?"
Give a gentle slap on his should, she walked away from the hug and said:
"I will think, and again Ozpin, thank you."
"Wow! Hey, hey!" Moving your horse rein, Tai guided the herd in the pasture as Zwei, despite being a little Corgi, barked and directed with success the oxes and the cows that went strayed from the herd back to the group.
It was almost night and it was necessary to made the animals get back to the corral. It was a heavy job, even with the foremen that always helped the farm, but, as always, they had success. The Texas Longhorn´s are exuberant animals, and Tai had a immense herd of those animals that made every farmer of the region of borderline of Texas and New México feel jealous. Putting his horse inside of the stable, and after, of course, gives a very nice juicy steak to Zwei as reward for his wonderful work, he went back to your house and saw the old figure that always showed up in the late afternoon.
"Madam Mallari!" Tai exclaimed with a wave, calling the attention of the old lady that was sitting at the balcony with a basket of sweets and cakes freshly baked.
"Tai, my young one, how are you?" She asked while opened her arms in sign of affection.
"I´m sweat and dirty madam, i don´t know if you will want a hug of mine right now." Tai commented with a very big smile on his face, but, despite the comment, that didn´t imped him to receive the hug by the woman in question.
"Nonsense." She commented as she walked away from the hug "I helped you and Summer change Yang´s diaper, so don´t talk to me as if i was not used to bad smelling!"
"Right, right, but so, besides the good company and the sweets, some News?" the blond commented.
"Yes, i talked with my son, he accept offering some discount on the products of the farm. You will have few more dollars in you pocket next month when you will buy the rations of your cattle."
Dramatizing, Tai took the hands of the madam a kissed while said:
"You are an angel, do you know that?"
"Awnn, come on, stop, you are embarrassing me!"
And with this exchange of friendly affection, both sited down and talked about the things of the day. Mallari talked that her Garden was growing, and that she was think in get some sunflower seedlings and given it to Tai. Tai said that he would accept willing, besides the work with the cattle, the second thing that he liked to do in the farm was taking care of the little Garden that him, Summer, Ruby and Yang had built a long time. They talked for a while about trivial things and stayed reviving your old memories, of your old past, more precisely, the lady Mallari stayed talking about your dead husband and how she misses him.
"And about you Tai, do you miss Summer?" she asked with a soft voice.
"Every day, especially when the good memories come. Sometimes i went to the kitchen believing that i will find her preparing the breakfast, you know? But then…i see that there is no one there, and that right now i am the one that make the breakfast for the family. And now that i see both of my daughter left their nest, well, i simple stayed alone."
Mallari looked to Tai from top to bottom and said:
"You should try again, you know? Find a new woman"
"Hahahaha!" Tai laughed, don´t believing of what he heard "And who would wanted a man with almost forty three Years that lives in a farm and sleeps before the 9pm?"
"You would be surprised. Exist even app for that."
"Yeah, Qrow told me about those, but i pass madam Mallari. I appreciate the feeling, but that is not for me"
"In this case, there is nothing that i can do it. Gods know that i tried." And with this words she stood up and said "Anyway Tai, i going, you are not the only old one that need to sleep early."
"Until tomorrow madam Mallari, your company is always welcome, as your cakes and you sweets and sweets"
And with a nod of farewell, madam Mallari went to her truck that was parked near at the entrance gate, turning on the vehicle, she turn it to the road and went to home. Since her farm was at the down the road, all she needed to do was follow the highway to the left for some miles.
Sighing, seeing that he was finally alone, Tai stood up, tooked what left from the sweets and went inside home. When he puts what left from the bowls on the refrigerator he saw, by one of the windows of the kitchen, a headlight coming by the right side of the highway, but instead going stray ahead to the left, it turns on the dirt road heading to his house, which was practically in the middle of a flat land of pasture.
A motorcycle? Tai tought while the figure of the vehicle came closer, and when the figure that ride the motorbike came much closer, your eyes went wide, your hands shaked and his heart pound much harder with a mix o feelings that he sweard had forgotten and burried inside of his memories. It can´t be...
Getting out of the house, and went through the balcony, he saw a woman with pale skin, and with brown eyes so intense that seemed to be red, and with a dark hair that was braided at the top while the bottom part falled like a free cascate. The woman in question parked her motorcycle while Zwei went towards her barking in not a friendly way.
"Tai, tell your mongrel to stay quiet. I don´t want to have to broke his snout." She said with a grumpy voice.
"Raven, what are you doing here?" Tai said while snaped his fingers, making Zwei staying at his side like a good partner that he was.
"I need a shower and a place to sleep." She commented while she stood up from motorcycle back and already went inside the house without caring with the protest of the man "And i also need food to."
Zwei tried to bite her, but Tai held him and ordered that he stayed outside. The corgi in question made a grount of anger, but still, obeyed his owner, which in turn, went inside the house possessed.
"That´s wonderful Raven, you just vanish from my life for almost fourteen years and right now you appeared out of nowhere demanding hot water, shelter and food? Who you think you are, woman!?" Vociferating, Tai went next to Raven and pulled her by the arm, and when he did that, besides the arm, he pulled the jacket, allowing him to have a full vision of her abdomen, which was soaked in blood.
"It´s not so bad as it seems. The bullet didn´t go deep, but also didn´t make tickle. Do you still know how to remove this thing from the body of someone?" Raven asked with a mocking voice, but, still expressing a semblance of pain.
Seeing that situation, Tai just sighing. Despite all the rage that he was feeling, despite it still bubbling inside of your chest, his heart let it gave space to a tremendous worry. Raven could be the witch that left him in the most time of need, but, she was also the woman that he fell in love at the first sight.
"What you have done with your life, Rae?"
Turning her face to the side very embarrassed, a expression that she didn´t like to show very much, Raven responded:
"Just take out the damn bullet."
Sighing, Tai went to the box of first aid that was on the top of kitchen counter a went back to the living room were he found her 'ex-wife' very well accommodated with her boots off and with a tv control in her right hand which passed the channels of the tv randomly. In your left hand, she had a very big bottle of whisky that moment from moment she turned around taking a sip of her drink.
Getting ready at the side of the woman, Tai picked up the clamp while said:
"I am not so good as Oz, but i can made a patch that hold it."
As he started to touch the wound to remove the bullet, Raven started to drink the whisky with large 'goulps' with the intention to ease the pain. Tai seeing that, took the whiskey from her hand and said:
"Nonononono, at least this taste of justice you will receive. Without whisky, and without anesthesia."
Raven didn´t resisted when the alcohol was taken from her hand, all she expressed was a grunt of contempt and a acid comment:
"Tsk, justice...what justice you receive for fucking my best friend when i wasn´t around?"
The management of the wound made Raven writhe in pain on the couch, but she couldn´t let this opportunity pass. Tai now with bullet at the tip of the clamp turn himself with a very bad expression and said:
"I thought you only wanted to take off the bullet and get some rest." He commented while he putted the remnant of the projectile in one of the cups that was at the table on the living room.
"Now that i´m seeing you ass of a face, no fucking way." Raven responded with a very angry face "Come on, answer me Tai Yang Xiao Long! Where is the justice that you own me for betrayed me!? Hun!?"
The man stood in silence while patched the wound of the abdomen. Even with a little blood coming out, he could see that the wound wasn´t infected and any sign of bleeding had stopped.
"Yang didn´t deserved to be abandoned, Raven." Tai said after finish doing the curative.
"And i deserved, Tai!? We had a history, even before the marriage! Even when you behaved as a player and had slept with half of the squad!" She exclaimed as she stood up with tears on her eyes "I stood with you because of all the girls you fucked, I was the one that you choose to put a ring on finger."
Getting close to the man with a fierce eye she continues:
"But it seems to being the chosen one was not enough. Summer also had to have a taste of this project of…chinese hawaiian man that all the woman of the squad couldn´t stop talking about. Hunf, Summer, that little project of stacy. Always helping, always being sweet, always being affectionate. All facade to try catch you with a pussylock of her womb, that miserable whore!"
Before Raven could do anything, Tai exploded his hand on her left cheek and retorted:
"Don´t you dare to talk about Summer that way! You open that mouth to say that i betrayed you, but when Yang was with fever, it was Summer that was at my side helping taking care of her while you were out there with your bike gang doing some mess God know where!"
"They were my family damnit! My cousins, my uncles, fuck, the had got in trouble and they needed my help!" Raven retorted
"And i wasn´t you family!? I didn´t need your help!? Come on Raven, answer me!?"
This time, was Raven that didn´t had the answers.
"I betrayed you, i messed up, that was no excuse, but you allowed that to happen. Your weekend outings became trips of weeks and even months, and when you did arrived at home with bullet injures, just like now, i...i just couldn´t hold any longer. I needed someone at my side, and unfortunately, you were not that person."
Both cool off , looked tense at one another, stayed in silence again, and simply sit on the couch and stayed watching TV in a awkward silence.
"I need Summer weapons." Raven said at the end, breaking the silence "Since they fucked up with a people of a friend gang in a important business, the cartel that now rules the Texas and in New Mexico has been cleaning up the gangs they deem as a problem. The Brawen family is one of the gangs of their red list."
"I will not give Summer´s weapons, because they are not mine to give. They belongs to Ruby.
Looking strangely at Tai for a brief moment, she continues:
"Summer´s brat? Qrow told me about her."
"You´ve been talking with Qrow? How?" The blond sked with a very surprises expression..
"Cellphone?" She responded while lift one of her eyeborw
"Oh..."
Both faced each other for a brief moment, and despiste the inumerous questions they could asked each other, both Tai and Raven just get tired and dropped of their body on the couch exausted.
"If you give me SUMMER´S weapons, i will give you the files of divorce without asking anything more in return and i promise don´t showing up at your door anymore." Said Raven with a serious look.
"Why of this generous offer?" Tai asked incredulous.
"You already followed with your life Tai, and i with mine. Let´s just make it official in the paper."
Sighing, the blond thought on the possible ramifications of that deal. Of how, indeed, Raven was right. Even tough the idea of divorce came too late, it was better solve this at once and impede the things persist by the rest of their lifes.
"They are at the shed, in the back of the barn. It´s a lot of weapons, you will need a truck to pick up everything." He said at least.
"Right, later i will call my man to come here and help me transport them." Raven commented.
"I don´t want those people near my lands." Tai retorted with vehemence
"Urgh, so you can at least help me get the truck to the city?" Raven asked after roll her eyes upset.
"I can."
Finally agreeing with a deal, both stayed on more time in silence while watched TV. It was almost midnight in point when Tai looked at the watcher, he and raven simple passed the time watch some random movie while drinked whisky, eat cakes, and some pieces of rare steaks
"I think it´s time to sleep, on the upstairs has a guest bedroom that you can use." Tai while tried to stood up, exactly, tried, because Raven hold his arm with her strong hand and said:
"Hey Tai...want to do sex?"
The man looked at her ex-wife with a incredulous face, they had fight, they had talked and they agreed in getting the divorce, but still, that offer was made. And for Tai surprise, he didn´t find strength to say no to that despite of all logics reasons of the world. He just hugged his ex-wife, kissed her and allowed himself to feel that comfort that was offered to him. It doesn't matter what kind of consequence could happen after, he was just to tired to think on it and he just wanted the immediate relief.
Be adult is complicated.
You certainly can bet Tai...you certainly can bet.