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"You've got a lotta nerve coming back here after all this time," Qrow muttered angrily, glaring at his deadbeat of a sister as he held Harbinger II open behind his back, a snarl on his face as he faced her down. Across from him, Raven simply stood there, sword in hand, masked and saying nothing as she eyed him over little by little. "What, you think after years of nothing, you can come back as if nothing's changed? Newsflash Raven, everything's changed- not that you'd know."
"I know more than you might think, brother," Raven hissed finally, tearing off her mask and flinging it to the side as she sheathed her blade and set the entire scabbard down as well. "I know that Summer's girl is half grimm, I know my daughter is growing up stronger than she ever would have if I was there, and I know that too many people are dead, that Glynda is still holding grudges, and that I-!"
She paused, looking away as her voice trembled slightly. "I'm not… stupid. I'm arrogant. I'm proud. I'm foolish. I was scared of my own family and I ran away to be a thug in the woods because I thought my feelings of love and care were a weakness- that I had to cut all of those things out in order to make sure I never felt weak again. That I… wouldn't lose anyone again. And it didn't work. And I lied. And I lied. And I lied. And I said it didn't affect me. I said that I was fine with the light of our lives dying in some harebrained scheme to fight Salem on our own, and…"
She shook her head, clenching her fist as a single tear fell to the ground. "Glynda beat the shit out of me. She took everything I had as the Spring Maiden and she made me realize how far I fell. That… she destroyed the Branwen Clan, you know? Stormed into my camp, ruined everything, killed half of my men and women until the remainder begged for mercy, tore everything apart and made me realize that I wasn't as strong as I thought anymore. And she made me realize that… I was wrong."
"... So. You finally decided to open up and listen to your own fucking feelings again, la di da," Qrow deadpanned, rolling his eyes as he deactivated Harbinger II and crossed his arms. "You want a fucking medal? A goddamn trophy? I don't give a shit if you realized you were wrong- you left! You abandoned Tai, broke his heart, broke Summer's heart, broke my gods damned heart because dammit Rae you're still my fucking sister and for some fucking reason I thought that you cared about me more than your own fucking pride!"
He growled, Aura bleeding off of him in waves of feathers and wind, ominous crowing bleeding into his ears as he glared at the stupid bitch he called a sister once upon a time. "You and Summer, you and Tai! Your Auras- all of our Auras! They called us the fucking miracle team for a reason! Full team Aura Synchronization and you still thought that we wouldn't love you for who you are if you let your fucking walls down!? You could feel what Summer and Tai thought about you, you've always known that I had your back even as shit as the clan raised us, and you still ran away! It's been years! How much of that has just been spying on Yang- spying on Ruby!? And for no good reason except the fact that you were still scared to admit that you just didn't know how to RAISE A FUCKING CHILD!? Newsflash asshole, nobody knows how to raise a child on their first try! You didn't even give it a week before you ran back to Mistral!"
"... I didn't come here to be berated, brother," Raven shot back, glaring as her own Aura clashed against his- a dull, blood red that didn't match her eyes, but perfectly matched her portals. Bloody and black and emanating out from her like smoke as it clashed against Qrow's and the sheer weight of their souls made the cacophony all the stronger. "I came here because I decided to help! I admit I'm wrong, but I will not stand idly by while you insult me to my face again and again! Yes! I was scared! Okay!? Is that what you wanted to hear!? That I'm fucking sorry!?"
She glared harder, storming forward as she raised her voice from her usual controlled pitch until she was actually shouting for the first time in- years probably. Qrow hadn't heard her yell so loud since the last time they'd all still been together.
"I'm FUCKING SORRY, OKAY!? I fucked up! I spent a goddamn lifetime wallowing in my own pride and stubbornness and I'm trying to be better now because Glynda showed up and kicked my ass! Yeah, I'm not sorry about being a fucking bandit, but neither were you when we showed up to Beacon!" she continued, balling up her fists as she loomed up at Qrow, doing her best to try and actually loom when she was still shorter than him. "So don't keep giving me shit about everything I did when I already know that I was wrong! I chose what I thought was the winning path, I chose to go back to the clan because no amount of strength could stop Salem, and maybe I did run off at first because I was scared but I- GAH! Fucking- It's complicated!"
"Yeah, and the sky is blue. You're a real piece of work you know that? Abandoning your own team, leaving your kids, all for a sense of moral superiority and strength that fled the moment that someone younger than you came around to kick your ass," Qrow grumbled, still narrowing his eyes at Raven but… not as much. He could see the conflict in her eyes, the sheer amount of confusion she seemed to be going through. How much time- how many months had she spent on the run, replaying what Glynda must have said to her at Haven? It'd been… what, four months now? Something like that? The fact that Raven was there at all was a gods damned miracle- because she hadn't retreated into her own mindset, hadn't just denied everything to reinforce her own sense of superiority. She'd… actually changed. Was it because she wanted to reach out after Ruby was turned? Was it because she saw how Yang was doing and decided she was strong enough? Qrow didn't know, but he knew his sister was there again for the first time in a long time, and as he looked at her now… he could see she was a mess. Damaged armor, tangled hair, missing pieces of her clothes and weaponry… hell, her own bandana that she loved more than the lives of any amount of the Branwen Clan members was charred and utterly ruined .
She must have hated that.
"Yeah, well… fuck you too," Raven answered moodily in response to Qrow's words, crossing her arms and flopping down into a chair with a heavy sigh. "I can't fucking believe I'm back here. I promised myself I'd never fall for one of Oz's damned schemes again and here I fucking am , in the worst gods damned hellhole I've ever been stuck in."
"... You're literally only saying that because you fell out of a window butt-ass naked one time and half of campus saw you," Qrow deadpanned, knowing damn well that Raven only hated Beacon so much because of the amount of bad luck that had befallen her- and not all of which were Qrow's fault either, she just had really shit luck when it came to embarrassing incidents. "Or was it that one Dust chemistry test you bombed so hard you literally made a bomb? Or that time when Summer tried to kiss you the first time and you thought she was trying to… what was it again? Bite your fucking throat out?"
"... I'm going to kill you slowly. Roast you over an open fire. And then piss on your corpse," Raven hissed out, a birdlike warble stuck in her throat as feathers flared over her body for a moment. "You had just as many incidents as I did!"
"And unlike you, I didn't take myself so seriously someone woulda thought that I shoved my own sword up my ass to keep my spine straight," Qrow answered easily, raising his middle finger at Raven with a cocky grin. "And… I wasn't the coward who would have rather destroyed half a locker room than admit that she actually liked magical girl manga."
"YOU SON OF A BITCH I'LL END YOUR GODDAMN LIFE!" Raven immediately roared, leaping out of her seat like a wild goddamn tiger, sword in hand and already in mid-swing the moment she left her seat- only to clash against Qrow's blade in a shower of sparks and a shockwave of force that cracked the floor and made the windows shatter into shards of red and black.
"YOU'LL HAVE TO TRY HARDER THAN THAT RAERAE!"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
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