Okay, so the last few weeks have been eventful. I finally got some more ammo, I ended up getting some camo in RBS. Which is one of my favorite camos next to Flektarn and OCPs. The Chemical plant three miles down the road from my workplace blew up.

So overall an eventful time.

Now, this chapter is a bit rushed and clunky because I was trying to to think of the way to describe how Jem's cousin is messed up. And the problem is some of the stories I personally have seem too crazy for me to put in the story.

So overall, I wasn't impressed with this chapter. But I DO have a reason for putting AJ in the story. You'll see.

"Holy shit." Winter said as she couldn't believe how annoying AJ was being this morning.

First he threw a fit because Momma cooked bacon that again was farm raised, and he didn't like the fact that it didn't come from a store. Momma had prepared a fine meal of eggs, bacon, sausage and french toast and he refused to eat everything except the french toast. Because he didn't like how it came from a 'dirty' farm. Winter didn't understand how AJ and Jem were related.

She saw Jem accidentally drop a hotdog in the grass, brush off the dirt and eat it like it was no problem.

AJ however would freak out if he didn't see that plastic wrap packaging on his food prior to eating it. She tried to ask Jem why he was so scared of farm food. And Jem just gave up trying to explain it. AJ was...a special case.

"He's a special boy, just leave it at that." Jem whispered as he sipped his coffee.

"Uhm, excuse me, what are you doing?" AJ said as Jem groaned.

"I'm drinking coffee AJ."

"Ugh, how can you drink that swill!" He said as he was adding cream to the point that it was nearly white.

"Why is it any business of yours how I drink my coffee? You don't see me whining about the way you drink yours." Jem said as he pointed towards AJ's concoction of sugar and cream.

"Because I do it the right way." He said as he sipped his sugary drink.

Jem was used to this by now, AJ had a superiority complex up the ass. He had to feel like he was always in the right. Even if he was totally wrong about something, or he was easily misled by something, he would never admit he was wrong or that there were multiple ways to fuck a chicken. It drove Jem nuts, but he was used to deal with this kind of bullshit. After all, AJ had been like this for the past six years. No reason he would stop now.

"Can you give me a ride to the dispensary?" AJ asked forgetting how rude he had been about ten seconds ago.

"No weed in this house." Jem said as AJ got pissed.

"It's legal here!"

"We don't care if its legal, you're not smoking it here, thats the house rules." Jem hated the smell of it, and his parents were the same way.

They had no problem with anyone who smoked weed. But they wanted nothing to do with it, nor did they want it in their house.

"Ugh." AJ said as he left to use the bathroom.

"Okay, he reminds me of Weiss when we first met." Ruby said as Weiss glared.

"I WAS NOT THAT BAD!" She said as she hated how bratty he was acting.

"I don't know, you did kind of lecture Ruby about being careful with dust as you were shaking the bottle full of it like a maraca." Yang said as Weiss went silent.

"I still wasn't that bad..." She said as AJ came back.

The truth was Weiss didn't even want to consider the possibility she could have been annoying as AJ. She may have been a bit cold to her team at first, but she doubted she had that same whiny attitude as Jem's cousin. But then again, she did remember the time she talked to professor port about how she thought she should have been team leader vs Ruby. But that was one isolated incident! So she was going to just ignore that and focus on herself now.

In reality, she was certain she could think of other instances where she acted bitchy, but she didn't want to think about it at the time.

"Could you please tell your cat to get out of the sink so I can wash my hands?" He asked as Jem looked confused.

"Did you even go yet?"

"No, I saw your cat in the sink and didn't want to do anything til I could wash my hands."

"...Why not just move her yourself?"

"Because then I'll have to wash my hands before I pee, and then wash again after I finish."

"Fucking hell man, its a cat, not a plague rat."

"IT COULD BE FULL OF GERMS!" Aj said as Jem groaned at him.

"You know, if you stopped stressing about germs, you would probably be happier!"

"I have a weak immune system!"

"Because stress weakens the immune system, and you screw yourself over."

Winter just watched as the two cousins butted heads. In a normal universe, this would be some fun comedic ribbing. But in this case, Jem was legit pissed that AJ was acting like such a child. It hadn't even been one day yet and he was already driving him crazy.

"Well excusssseeee me for caring about my health." AJ said as he crossed his arms.

"I've seen your apartment in New York, if you cared about your health you wouldn't be eating burger king for every meal." Jem fired back as AJ glared at him.

"UGH! YOU'RE SUCH AN ASSHOLE!" AJ stormed back into the basement.

Everyone just looked at Jem calmly sipping his coffee as AJ walked into the basement.

"I don't think I've ever seen you that mad." Winter had annoyed Jem before, but she had never seen him get that irritated.

"It's really hard to be nice to him when he complains about everything. Hell, one time at the family reunion, he complained that he couldn't drink the water we had out of the cooler because it wasn't 'Fiji' brand, which meant that it wasn't good enough."

Jem did try to be civil, but it was hard when AJ found a new thing to complain about every five minutes. There was a reason he never talked to him except during the rare visits he had back home and occasionally holidays spent with family. Everyone had that one family member who they thought was annoying as hell. You may see them every now and then, but you don't actively go out of your way to talk to them.

"You could try to ignore him?" Ruby suggested as Jem shrugged.

"True, I could, but goddam thats hard to do. Especially when he's currently in the house." Jem admitted that much.

You could try to ignore stupid shit 24/7, but there would always be that little bit that leaks through and makes you question your sanity like 'Did I go insane, or is the world really like this?' No wonder Jem spent so much time outdoors, it was the only time he could get any moments of peace from the world.

"Come on, he doesn't come to you to complain about everything does he?" Winter asked as Jem laughed a little.

"Picture them like an annoying ex lover, even if you are completely done with the conversation, and you don't want to think about it, THEY want the last word because they need to feel like they're in the right no matter what, so a month or so later, even when you thought the issue was resolved, they'll come back to annoy you about the same issue even though you already moved on from it." Jem said as everyone had to agree with his assessment.

"Look it is what it is, just got to deal with it." Jem said as AJ came back and sat next to Blake.

"Uhm, I was just wondering." He said as Blake suddenly felt warning bells go off in her head.

"Uhm, yes?" She asked as AJ held up a phone.

"Can I ask you something?" He asked as Blake wasn't sure why he was acting like that.

"What?"

"Are you really into cosplay?" He said as Blake suddenly didn't feel so good.

"Why?" Although she had an idea why.

"Well, you're a dead ringer for my favorite character." He said as he pulled up a photo of Blake from RWBY volume 1.

"OH SHIT." Everyone realized something.

AJ had no idea who they all really were.

But then again...

They remembered something Jem had them go over the night before.

FLASHBACK

"Okay guys, just so you know, as long as AJ is here, we're not going to be using your real names, he's a fan of the show, and last thing we need is him fangirling."

"Don't you mean fanboy?"

"I KNOW WHAT I SAID."

Jem took a deep breath and began to speak again.

"Look, the point is if he found out you're all real, we have no idea HOW he would act, now obviously there is not much we can do about your hair or your looks, but luckily, a change in clothes should be enough to do the job." He said as he looked over everyone.

"As for names, just pick something basic." He said as Nala raised her hand.

"Yeah sweetie?"

"Uhm, what about this?" She asked as she held her tail in her hand.

And suddenly Jem didn't want to imagine the horror that he would witness if his furry cousin found out he had a faunus daughter.

"Uhm, you know what Nala, either keep your tail hidden, or just avoid him entirely." He said as he was not going to have anything happen to Nala.

"And me?" Blake asked as she pointed to her bow.

"Wouldn't the bow give me away?" She asked as AJ was staring at it all night at dinner.

"Yeah, here, just use this." He threw her a baseball hat.

"Uhm, I would rather not, I don't feel comfortable with that." Blake said as she scooted away.

"Oh come on, I bet you would look amazing." AJ said as he scooted closer.

"I even got the bow and cat ears in my bag." He said as that creeped her out even more.

"WHY do you carry those in your bag?"

"Oh, Well, I sometimes like to switch it up, I like my rainbow ears, but every now and then I like to go for dark and mysterious." He said as Blake did not like where this was going.

"Look, I really don't feel comfortable doing that."

"Oh come on, its just some cat ears whats the worst that could happen." AJ went to go reach for her ball cap.

Only for Jem to grab his wrist and throw it away.

"AJ...She Said NO." Jem said as his cousin glared at him.

"It's not that big of a deal!"

"I don't care, if she doesn't feel comfortable with it, leave her alone. Jesus, with how left you are, you think you would understand No means No." Jem said as AJ glared and walked away.

"Thanks..." Blake said as she didn't understand why AJ was so obsessed with furry ears.

"Don't mention it." He said as he sat back down at the table.

"Where is he going?"

"Probably to go and whine on facebook about how his family is terrible/sexist/racist/etc etc. You know that old speel." He took a sip of coffee which helped relax him.

"You know...maybe you could try to help him not be so weird?" Jaune suggested as Jem let out a giggle.

"Ohhhh trust me, I tried." Jem thought back to some old memories.

"One time, I took him to the gym to get him out of the house and into a more social environment about self improvement."

"That could be intimidating for someone who has never been to a gym before though."

"It was empty, except for one girl who ended up joining later and well..." He thought back to that moment.

"He referred to her as a 'Muscle Mommy'." Elm started laughing at that.

"In all fairness, you hugged me and told me I was amazing because of how muscular I was when we first met." Elm said as Jem threw his hands up in slight defeat.

"True, but did I ever refer to you as that?"

"Oh no, I would have probably punched you."

"And did I at any point pop a boner while talking to you?" Jem asked as everyone gasped.

"NoooooooO! AJ didn't!"

"He did...literally got one as he was walking up to her."

"Oh...how did she take it?"

"She slapped him and went for a can of mace." Jem thought it was funny and scary at the same time.

"I managed to get him away and into the truck, but I had to lie and claim that he was mentally challenged so she wouldn't press charges." Everyone looked at Jem horrified.

"You let her think she slapped a mentally challenged guy?"

"Hey, it was the quickest way to end the conflict peacefully!" Jem admitted it might have been a dick move but it saved his cousin from a sexual harassment charge.

Everyone was going over the situation Jem described in his head. On one hand it was kind of funny to think of AJ completely screwing up an introduction like that. On the other hand, it was kind of fucked up that it escalated to the point that Jem had to lie about his cousins mental health in order to get out of there. Either way, seemed kind of messed up.

"So what happened after that?" Marrow asked as he wanted to know how it ends.

"He refuses to go back to the gym ever since." Jem finished as he finished his coffee.

"I mean, can you blame him? That does sound traumatizing."

"A bit, but I also don't feel bad for him simply because of the 'muscle mommy' comment, and because I can't believe someone would be so sexually repressed that they pitched a tent just walking over to a girl."(1)

(1) This part is based off my friend from high school I took to the gym, now he didn't call anyone muscle mommy, but instead he went over to awkwardly talk to a girl but interrupted her doing a squat set, so he spent about ten seconds staring at her ass before talking to her...and she noticed because she was squatting in front of a mirror.