Robotic heart (a RWBY fan fic)

Fighting in the family

Wiess POV
I was walking to Schnee manor with Jaune, Ren, Nora, yang and Winter. The attending members of team JNPR and yang had decided to walk with me to my home. Partly so they could assure me that it'll all be alright but mostly because Ironwood and Ozpin had gotten into a very heated argument over what should happen with Penny.

As I was lost in my thoughts Jaune walked by my side "hey how're you holding up?" The blonde boy asked.

"Im fine." I lied. I was dreading this meeting with my family. I had a very shaky relationship with all my family. My father was the worst by far with him being, controlling, manipulative and in some cases violent. My mother was an alcoholic and we didn't see much of her anymore. My brother resented me. I'm not sure why, though I had a sinking feeling it was my fault. I had left him alone with my horrible father and a mother who can't protect him. I wanted to help him I just didn't know how, father had successfully manipulated Whitley so he was dependant on him and was basically a mini version of him.

Also plaguing my mind was my fight with Ruby. Obviously she was still angry at me, for good reason. I had no reason to resent Penny, it wasn't her fault that Ruby was close to her. Penny was a good person and her personality bounced off Ruby's well so they became very quick friends. The fact that Penny was robotic had come to a shock to Wiess as well as the others. The duo had explained it to them all on the flight to Atlas.

Flashback

"Okay so Ruby." Jaune began "Penny is a robot?"

"Well technically I am an Android with the capability to produce a synthetic aura." Penny answered "but i am not organic and therefore the title of 'robot' is not an inaccurate one."

"Why didn't you tell us?" I asked to which Ruby glared.

"Well you probably would've just made it another reason to insult her." She said, clear anger in her voice. Ruby was sitting as close to Penny as she could and their fingers were intertwined. Ruby wasn't letting go of Penny for any reason. Seeing Ruby and Penny like this filled me with insane jealousy. I wanted to try and repair my friendship with Ruby at the very least but doing that now wouldn't be appropriate. I can see how worried she is for her robotic friend so I shouldn't try and push it.

"The real reason I kept it secret was because that is what my father wanted." Penny answered trying to calm Ruby's anger. "Ironwood and my father wanted me to not draw attention to myself in order to keep the fact I was a robot a secret. Ruby knows since she saw me stop a truck with my bare hands that revealed my robotic body under the skin so I trusted my secret with her."

"Well you being a robot does explain some things." Yang says "like how you never eat or get tired."

"Wait so you don't have an issue eating in front of people?" Nora asked to which Penny shook her head.

"Wait professor did you know?" Jaune asked our headmaster.

"Yes Jaune I was aware of Penny's situation." He answered clearly. "Now we should make ourselves comfortable, it's a long flight."

Return to present

"You know it's okay to be upset." Jaune said to me snapping me out of my thoughts.

"What?" I asked him still readjusting to bring back in the present.

"Well Ruby told me you two had a big fight this morning and considering what's happened since, the two of you haven't really and the chance to patch things up properly." Jaune explained.

"Well that doesn't matter right now does it?" I respond coldly to which Jaune looks a little hurt.

"Jeez Wiess he's just trying to help." Yang responded. "Are you just like this with all the people who are nice to you?"