Two For One

Chapter 14

As the weekend turned into a new week, life began to find a strange new pattern.

Yang, for the first time in many, many months, found herself to be free on the weekend evenings. She spent the time with her family, catching up with her uncle. He told them some crazy, yet vague enough to not get him in trouble, stories from his time undercover for the last two years.

As far as the sisters could gather, he had been on a deep undercover mission to locate, well, someone. He couldn't say who, and he wouldn't even let a gender slip out. Just someone important, as he repeatedly said. He'd had some crazy adventures, deep undercover in an unnamed organization... And well, that's all the details they'd managed to get.

Qrow was not the only one with stories to tell. Yang had many tales of nightmare customers, the atrocities and borderline illegal practices of Cardin Winchester and University Pizza, and the story of Mezzaluna, and in turn, Blake. Ruby had many stories from two years of university, complete with tales of professors, students, and her academics alike. Despite being incredibly mundane compared to Qrow's stories of heroism and criminals, he seemed to be far more interested in listening to his nieces talk about their lives than he was in talking about his own.

When Monday finally rolled around, Qrow headed straight to the office and handed in his resignation. It wasn't until later that night when both Yang and Ruby got home did he describe his attempts to secure a desk job with his agency, only to be told there were no openings in Vale. On the bright side, as Qrow had put it, one of his old coworkers had a possible opening in a teaching position for him at a private school.

Yang and Ruby had been confused by that news, to say the least. It didn't exactly make sense to them- their uncle, who had been a secret agent for their entire lives, teaching?

Qrow hadn't been able to give them much explanation, because he wasn't exactly sure why he was being considered for a teaching job either. He had been told that the requirements for teaching at a private school were different than public schools, and he was more than qualified, but he still didn't really understand either. Now, it was just a waiting game to hear back from the old co-worker, while still scouring job listings for backup options.

The days became routine. If Yang had an early shift at Scholar's, she was the first one out. If her first shift of the day was later than 9am, Yang would awake to the smell of Qrow cooking breakfast for the three of them. When she returned home from work at the end of the day, instead of just finding Ruby on the futon, she'd find Qrow there as well, his makeshift bedding pushed to one side of the futon, which he had been sleeping on since he had arrived. The trio would eat dinner together, since Qrow had actually stocked the place with real food, and not just ramen, rice, and beans. He wasn't a half-bad cook either. Not nearly as good as their father, or even remotely close to their mother, but it was far better than the broke-college-student diet they'd been living on for two years.

If there was anything Yang did more than spend time with her family, it was talking to Blake. The two texted throughout the day, whenever Yang got the chance. Blake found herself frequenting Scholar's during the mornings that Yang worked there and Blake had classes, allowing them to share Yang's lunch break together. In the evenings, Yang usually spent some time on the phone with Blake before bed, listening to Blake talk about her day.

They hadn't had formal time for their second date yet, given the sudden changes in Yang's life, but their time spent together during Yang's breaks at Scholar's felt more and more like small dates each time. They did, however, have time to make formal plans, insisted upon them by Kali.

Yang was going over Blake's apartment for dinner on Friday night, to formally meet Kali and Ghira as Blake's girlfriend.

Yang had to admit, she was rather scared.