Ch. 36 Deadmans Gun

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9 Months Later

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Hilltop

Raven is sitting on a hilltop a few miles from Summer and Tai's Cabin.  She is now very pregnant,  and she is sitting next to a gravestone that reads:

Cayde Solo, the fastest gun in the west

Raven smiles at the stone as if it were a stand-in for Cayde as she rubs her belly.

Raven: The doctor says that it's a girl and that she is due any day now. 

She keeps on rubbing her belly with a smile on her face.

Raven: Tai told me that you promised to name our first child after him, *Giggles* but I am not naming our daughter Tai. 

She looks affectionately at the gravestone of the man she loved and gently places a hand on where his name is engraved.

Raven: I really wish that you could be here to see me bring our daughter into this world.

She feels a kick.

Raven: Oh, there she goes,  she's excited to see her daddy.  

She looks at the name on the gravestone.

Raven: I hope she has your fighting spirit, and your golden hair.

Suddenly she hears footsteps along the grass.

Qrow: I thought I would find you here.

She doesn't turn around.

Raven: At the grave of my daughter's father, whatever gave you that idea?

Qrow: *Sigh* How's the baby.

He walks past Raven and leans on the tree next to Cayde's grave.

Raven: She's good, the doctor says that she is very healthy.

Qrow: Thought of a name yet?

Raven: No, not yet.

Qrow: Well now that we got the obligatory small talk over with, Raven, please come back home.

Raven: You already know what I am going to say.

Qrow: *Sigh* Raven we have spent months looking for Manticore, Yuri has used every resource she has in the MPD.  We can't track him down.

Raven: That doesn't change the fact that he is still out there, and he needs to suffer for what he did to Cayde.

Qrow: Even if it means bringing back the family business?

Raven: Well if Ozpin won't help then I had to find other means of achieving my goal.

Qrow: Cayde destroyed the old tribe because he wanted you to be free from that past life.  I thought you of all people would have respected his wishes.

Raven: I am going to pretend that you didn't say that, for both our sakes. 

Qrow: *Ahem* Sorry, that was a low blow.

Raven: ...I can't let this go Qrow, I have to end this.

Qrow: And how exactly do you intend to do that rebuilding the Branwen Tribe and have them kill people.  

Raven: If that's what it takes.

Qrow: *Sarcastic* Uh-huh. What have you become Raven?

Raven: What I needed' to be.

Qrow: And what about her?

Raven: ...

Qrow: You think Cayde would want you to raise his daughter in an environment filled with gangs and murderers?

Raven: Well what would you have me do!?  Look in her eyes and tell her that I had every resource at my disposal but I gave up on finding her father's killer?

Qrow: That is not what I mean and you know it, Cayde is gone, and going on this revenge crusade won't bring him back.  

Raven: ...

Qrow: Please come back home, Summer misses you, we all do.

Raven: *Somber* I know.

Qrow knew this was hard for her so he tries to lighten the mood.

Qrow: And I need my partner to go on missions for Oz, it's getting difficult going on missions by myself you know heh heh.

Raven: Where were you, brother?  Where were you when Tai and Cayde went off on their own?

Qrow: I told you, Ozpin had me on other orders.

Raven: And that was more important than helping out your friends?

Qrow: Come on Raven, I know Ozpin seems like he is this all-knowing diety but there is no way he could have known about the trouble Cayde was in, or that he will go out and find her.

Raven: That's funny, I didn't think you were a comedian.

Qrow: What was so funny?

Raven: That Ozpin didn't know.

Qrow: Oh come Sis there is no way that...

Raven: Cayde told me that he spoke with Ozpin when he first found the girl. 

Qrow: So?

Raven: Cayde told me that Ozpin is the one who put that bounty on Sam.

Qrow starts laughing.

Qrow: Come on Sis, you can't seriously believe that bullshit.

Raven: I didn't at first but, it does make sense Ozpin has always sought out silver-eyed warriors. He is the one who convinced Summer to attend a combat school rather than an engineering school, not to mention the dozen of silver-eyed students he has had in the past.

Qrow: Recruiting them and sending ciminals to abduct one, come on sis, Oz whouldn't do that.

Raven: Are you calling Cayde a lier?

Qrow: Well you know he has unfailally blaiming Ozpin for a lot of things ever since Anna and Nick died.

Raven: He wouldn't make something like that up!

Qrow: Well, the poor guy hasn't really been in his right in the head since Wake...

Raven shoot him a look with daggers in her eyes as if to say WATCH YOUR FUCKING TONE!

Qrow: Sorry...

Raven: That was a shitty thing to say.

Qrow: I know I...

Raven: Every time I close my eyes I see him, but not as he was in life,  I just see the mangled face looking back at me.  I can't remember him like that...I have to see this through.

Qrow: Killing him won't fix it Raven.

Raven: Will it?  I guess we'll find out, sooner or later.

She opens a portal back to the tribe, and steps through, leaving Qrow alone.

He looks at Caydes grave.

Qrow: I'm sorry buddy, I tried.

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