Zillie is standing beside a storage warehouse, when footsteps are heard nearing her, and she turns to see Caleb standing there.
Caleb: She's in Atlas custody, isn't she?
Zillie: Yeah... She was arrested a little while ago.
He lets out a sigh, briefly closing his eyes as he lowers his head.
Caleb: Where is she?
Zillie: An Atlas Holding Facility not too far from here.
Caleb: Can you get me in?
Zillie: Well, yeah... but it's really risky. You could get caught.
Caleb: I know. For Ruby... it's a risk I'm willing to take. There's no way I can let her take the fall for me.
He stares at her with a pleading expression on his face.
Caleb: Please, Zillie... I need to get her out of there.
Zillie lets out a sigh.
Zillie: Okay.
Inside the bedroom, Dan is reading through the messages on Ruby's scrolls, when Ironwood opens the door. He looks around.
Ironwood: Where's Zillie?
Dan: She went out to clear her head. Said she needed some air.
Ironwood takes a step into the room, glancing down at Ruby's scroll in Dan's hand.
Ironwood: What have you found?
Dan: Only what we suspected. Months of messages between Ruby and Caleb. Indicating meetup spots, talking about what happened... and what appears to be some flirting.
Ironwood: I see. Well, when Zillie returns, you two need to report back to the interrogation room. We're going to try to get information from Ruby again.
Dan nods at him.
Ironwood exits the room, closing the door behind him, and footsteps can be heard walking down the hall.
Dan takes a deep breath.
Ironwood comes walking up to Winter, looking in the room. Ruby is just sitting at the table with her head on her hand.
Ironwood: Has she done or said anything?
Winter: Nope. This is all she's done.
Ironwood: Hmm.
Winter: Are you going to talk to her again?
Ironwood: I don't think we'll need to.
Winter: What do you mean?
Ironwood: Something tells me Caleb will be coming here.
Before elaborating, Ironwood walks into the room.
Ironwood: There's no problem if you keep quiet. You don't have to talk to be useful to us.
He comes walking right up to the table.
Ironwood: I have a pretty strong feeling that your presence here will pull Caleb to us. And once we have him in custody, the rest of the proceedings will move swiftly.
Ruby glares at him.
A guard is walking down a hallway, when Caleb comes sneaking up behind him, hooking in a headlock and bringing him down to the floor when he's unconscious.
Zillie quickly comes rushing up, unlocking a door and opening it, allowing Caleb to drag the guard inside.
He comes back out, and they come walking up to the end, peering around the corner to see Winter standing outside of a room.
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Multi-Stories
FanfictionThis is going to be a collection of various short stories based on my characters, characters from RWBY, and characters from other universes. Each one of these has the potential to start off here, and become their own fully formed stories in the futu...
