Raddest Dragon Dad

Livin' that dad life

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Homeward Bound

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Summer didn’t look at the nurse that came in, wheeling in the ultrasound tech. “I want to go home. Please.” She was always ready, always prepared for any scenario– it was part of what made her the leader she was, able to approach a situation and adapt quickly to it. But this wasn’t anything like that. She needed…. time to think, to process… but for once Summer was at a loss.

Raven nodded and spoke quietly to the nurse, who allowed them to leave and reschedule the appointment. She pulled Summer to her feet and out of the clinic. Luckily they weren’t too far from home, since she couldn’t just make a portal. “We’ll go home, I’ll make some tea, and we can talk about this.”

In a break between classes he sends a text to Raven. <How’s Yang?> Sometimes she sent pictures of their daughter. Work was going well and he enjoyed teaching the kids, but he missed Yang, even when he was only away for a few hours. 

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Raven hadn’t realised that they’d never called him that out loud before. They referred to him that way often enough in private. And she did it in her head… it really was surprising it hadn’t come out sooner.

Qrow raised a brow at the outburst. “Is that really the best you can do, Blondie?” 

At least her brother was the only one who caught on to what had happened.

This was actually kind of nice. The four of them together, out on the town, eating breakfast… they felt like a team. No real animosity. A sense of pride swept over her. This was her team. It wasn’t perfect, they didn’t quite see eye-to-eye, but the potential was there. Summer could feel it. 

“Questionable nicknames aside, I think we should do something fun today! How about it?”

Tai scowled at Qrow, then blinked and grinned at Summer. “That’s a great idea! Hmm...” He looked up at the ceiling, considering the possibilities. “I know there are a number of good shops around and we could probably go to a tea shop and have fingerfood and fancy tea? Is there a museum around here?” 

Tai beamed around at them all, practically bouncing in his seat. 

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Qrow snorted as the laundry poured down over him and watched through the spaces in the basket that Tai had left on his head. 

“Can you say ‘jackass’, Firecracker?” He wondered, grinning and fully expecting retribution.

Raven just shook her head at him. “Let Tai have his moment, Qrow,” she said, watching her husband and daughter. She looked so happy… but he knew she couldn’t stay here and be happy. She was like him, restless. But at least she had this to come home to.

“I don’t expect a baby to be able to say ‘jackass’, I’m just saying it’d be funny…” He was definitely going to teach her to do that. “As her uncle it’s my sworn duty to make sure she can swear properly.”

Summer cleared the baby toys away so no one could trip on them later, moving off the floor and onto the couch. “You’re not funny, Qrow. And there’s no need to rush her, she’ll get it in her own time.” Yang proved to be a very clever baby, as bright as the smile she so easily gave to anyone close enough in her vicinity. 

Yang burbled as she reached up to touch Tai’s face, attempting to grasp his soul patch, making sounds like wowo and dodo, and then she patted his nose. “Dada.” 

Tai gasped, his eyes filling with tears. “She just said Dada,” he whispered, turning to look at the others. “Did you hear her? She said dada!! Yang!! Yang you said dada!!” He lifted her into the air, spinning around, a massive grin lighting his face. “That’s my girl!!!!” he crowed triumphantly then hugged her to his chest again, grinning at Qrow. 

“Dada,” he said gleefully, bouncing on the balls of his feet with excitement. “She said her first word and it was dada. I love you too Sunbeam.” He kissed her neck, rubbing his soul patch against her to make her laugh and flail at him.

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Another Way

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Raven rose and grabbed her weapon and exchanged the blanket for a heavy cloak, wanting that extra layer between her and the rest of the world. She was ready to jump at the slightest provocation. Qrow stayed close enough that his arm brushed hers in a silent gesture of comfort.

“So, what are you going to show us?” Raven wondered once they were a ways into the forest.

Hood drawn over her head, Summer stopped walking after a certain point and haphazardly dropped her weapon on the ground. She just had to wait– something will come crawling out through the depths of the forests soon enough. Evading Raven’s question without an answer, she responded with one of her own. “What do you know about the legends and fairytales of Remnant?” Her eyes seemed to glow just the slightest bit brighter.

“Not very much really,” he admitted, glancing from her to the darkness around them. He turned slowly, keeping an eye on the shadows. He trusted Summer but the whole point of being at Beacon was to learn to keep his guard up and not be caught by surprise. 

Tai considered what she said and looked at her again. “...Are you talking about any particular legend or fairytale?” 

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For once blondie had a point… Raven did seem less twitchy about Summer… wary, perhaps, but not twitchy. Hell, maybe even relaxed? What was going on?

Raven glared at Tai. “I’m not twitchy about anyone,” she growled, stabbing a piece of strawberry. “And nothing happened.”

“Don’t worry, blondie, you weren’t the only one not involved,” Qrow reminded him, drinking coffee. “I was just as left out.”

“Of course neither of you were involved. Nothing happened,” she repeated, a little too defensively.

“Just some bonding moments?” He asked lightly, taking a stab in the dark. Raven cast him a quick look. Well, fuck…. she bonded to Summer.

“Whatever,” was her response for everyone else to hear.

Summer didn’t exactly get it, what the big deal was. “We were just… learning how to understand each other a little better.” Something like that. 

“I guess we had a bonding moment.” The connection flew over her head and she smiled even if Raven didn’t sound enthused about it. The kingdoms weren’t built in a day after all, but they were getting there.

Tai stared at Qrow. “Blondie? Did you just call me Blondie??” he demanded, scowling at his teammate and missing the acres of subtext underneath what Qrow said to Raven. 

He huffed, munching sulkily on his bacon. “How would you like it if I called you... um.... Redeye?” 

Still, it was hard to maintain a good sulk when the food was so good, and he had to sit up straighter to reach the syrup, forgetting about glaring and scowling as he chewed. 

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Another Way

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Qrow was surprised when Summer spoke up. She’d be the last person he suspected of having a deep, dark secret. But going by her expression… chances were that she did.

“Where do we have to go?” He wondered, frowning slightly. Raven’s expression remained neutral, but he suspected she was just trying to keep a hold on herself.

“Outside.” Summer forced herself to look them all in the eye. “The Emerald Forest. It’ll just… make more sense if you see it.” She stood and adjusted her cloak, opening the door. Everything was already way out of control and they were already pretty much ditching their classes anyway, so what did it matter? If everything went smoothly, she made a note that it wouldn’t happen again.

“Just come with me, please?” She glanced back at them, trying to appear braver than she felt.

Tai scrambled to his feet, wanting to wrap an arm around her when she looked so skittish, but his recent encounter with Raven’s knife had him shoving his hands in his pockets to keep them to himself. “Wherever you need us to go,” he said stoutly. He meant what he said about their secrets becoming his own. He might be a rotten liar but he was a vault for the secrets of others, especially about serious things. 

He kept his hands in his pockets as they want, not wanting to upset any of his teammates, though he would have been happier to hold someone’s hand or sling an arm around someone’s shoulder. Touch was reassuring to him... but he understood that he was not much like the rest of his team in this. 

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Homeward Bound

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“You say that like you weren’t rolling around on the floor with her five minutes ago,” Qrow said, rolling his eyes as he and Raven looked over a map. She had put herself back in as an active huntress at last and they were going to go on a mission to ease her back into work. By picking one of the most dangerous and demanding jobs they could find.

The logic made sense to them. 

“We’ll come back and she’ll be dancing circles around the rest of us,” Raven said with a grin. For all her terror of motherhood, she was doing quite well with it. “I wonder if she’ll start talking soon?”

“It’d be funny if her first word was ‘fuck’,” Qrow said, grinning at the thought. His sister clearly wasn’t amused so he looked to Tai and Summer for support, though expecting none.

“She’s doing great and having lots of fun.” It was hard not to devote all her attention to Yang, but now that the twins were going out on their mission and Raven back in action, she absolutely did not mind in the slightest.

Summer’s expression mirrored that of Raven’s as her gaze slid over to Qrow, and she shook her head. “That’s highly unlikely, seeing as we are actively working against it.” She didn’t know why Qrow found it hilarious. She thought it was terrible. 

Yang, when she saw that it was the laundry basket balancing on her father’s hip and not herself, automatically raised her arms up to him, a demand to be held accompanied by baby babble. 

Tai glared at Qrow for the suggestion, but Yang’s noises distracted him and he melted. 

He shot Qrow a glance, then upended the basket over his head. it would probably have to be tumbled again but he deserved it. Tai picked up his daughter, cuddling her to his chest. “Can you say ‘dada’ my little sunbeam?” he cooed, bouncing her happily. Qrow was wrapped around Yang’s finger but then again so were all of them. 

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What They Wanted

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It was a week before Raven was taken out of the coma. Her aura was coming back strong, but there was still significant damage that needed to be repaired, and needed to be handled with care or else risk permanent damage to her back.

A few hours later, she stirred slightly and opened her eyes. Everything was foggy and confusing and bright, and different. There was a power within her she hadn’t felt before. She blinked a few times to clear her vision, trying to piece together what had happened. She was… someone needed her. No… more than one person… but she had to do something, had to take someone to a safe place… but it hadn’t been safe. The monster had been there, and then there was jut pain…

Jade.

Jade was dead… but the while the Nucklavee had caused her death… it hadn’t killed her. 

Tears started falling, blurring her already distorted vision. She tried to curl up on her side, but couldn’t move. 

Summer stood as soon as Raven opened her eyes, carefully taking one of her hands in hers and drying her tears. “Hey, we’re here.” She didn’t want to say everything was okay, because it wasn’t. Jade was gone. Raven was still in terrible condition and now…she had the powers of the Spring Maiden.

Her throat felt tight, and she felt her own vision well up with tears. None of this was supposed to happen. 

Tai had been pacing the widest stretch of the room since they’d started trying to take her out of the coma and as soon as Summer spoke he was at Raven’s other side, carefully taking her other hand and stroking her arm. “We’re right here,” he says, so glad to see her eyes open. He digs a clean bandana out of his pocket, using it to wipe her tears. “We’re in the hospital.”

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Qrow shook his head and sent Tai his flight info. “Nothing else. Go, your flight leaves in an hour. Call me when you have any updates or know when you’ll be coming home. I’m not telling Ozpin anything just yet. We’ll figure that out if we come to it.” He went upstairs to check on the girls once Tai was gone, and to try to reassure them that everything would be alright.

As soon as Summer got word that Tai was on his way, she breathed out in relief. Two of them with Raven would be better than just one. The nurses and doctors monitoring her were pleased with the way her aura kept recovering, and she sincerely hope that meant they could pull her out of the coma. Honestly, dealing with Raven under the influence of drugs was better than just sitting at her bedside while she was still and quiet. It just worried her.

Tai arrived looking travel-worn, but his eyes darkened when he saw Raven unconscious on the bed. He’d seen some of it in Qrow’s expression but this.... He hurried to her bedside, looking over at Summer as he wrapped his hand around an unbruised part of Raven’s arm, stroking his thumb against her skin. “Any updates?” he asked quietly, instinctively keeping his voice low, though he would have been thrilled if she opened her eyes and spoke to him. 

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Raven stood, shaking, feeling too exposed. At their words a broken sob escaped into Qrow’s shoulder, and her brother gently pulled her shirt down over her back once more, careful not to touch it. The phantom pain was hell, almost as bad as when it had happened.

“Now you know why she hates people touching her back,” Qrow said quietly. Raven moved away and went to the bathroom quickly to fix her shirt, and when she went back to the room she wrapped a blanket around herself and sat with her back against the wall.

“I can still feel it sometimes, like a phantom pain, or when it gets cold and damp,” she said, forcing herself to push aside her emotions, looking at the bedpost.  “I won’t let it slow me down.”

“That’s our deep, dark secret,” Qrow said, sitting next to her. “If the tribe sees us again they’ll probably try to kill us. Anyone else have any deep, dark secrets they want to share?”

Summer chewed the inside of her cheek, her mind at war with herself. She knew what she had to do, what the right thing to do was, but that voice in her head, the one she heard since childhood told her not to. It’s not safe, they won’t understand, keep it to yourself and never never let anyone know.

She was afraid, but it wasn’t fair to Qrow or to Raven. They’d been afraid, too, and yet they let the truth spill out and it was okay. It was going to be okay, so maybe… maybe she’d be okay, too.

“I have one,” she said, sounding calmer than she felt, hiding her shaking hands beneath the white cloak. She was sure her knuckles were the same color, fingers clenched tight into fists as she exhaled. “But I have to go out to show you. It’ll make more sense.” 

Tai twisted his fingers together in his lap, wishing he had something to share, then looked at Summer in surprise when she spoke up. “....I really wish I had something to share too.... I can promise to keep your secrets though, and swear that if the tribe tries to kill you they’ll have to go through me.” 

His blue eyes were solemn as he looked back at the twins, then at Summer. I guess I have one deep dark secret now,” he said, smiling a little. “Yours. Soon to be two?” He gave Summer a quizzical look, then waited to hear what she had to say.

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Raven made herself comfortable against him. “I know how you feel,” she replied, then looked over at Summer. “She’s already got them both wrapped around her little fingers.” Then she looked back at Tai. “No, we don’t have anything orange. I made sure of it.” Her daughter would not follow in Tai’s footsteps when it came to colours. She wouldn’t let it happen.

“They’re going to descend upon us tomorrow,” Qrow said, coming back into the room. “Hopefully everyone plays nice, and I’ll bet anyone twenty Lien that Huojin cries when he sees Yang.”

Raven raised a brow. “What happened to everyone playing nice?” Qrow just shrugged, grinning. 

At least some things weren’t going to change.

And for a while, nothing did change. Nothing except Yang, who grew bigger and stronger as the months went by. It was amazing, watching her grow up before their very eyes, seeing the gears in her head turn as she learned something new, rejoicing when she started crawling as if she won a marathon. 

Summer documented everything, sticking photos into a baby book. She wondered what it would be like to look back in five, ten, fifteen years and see her niece become an incredible human being. For now she sat on the floor with Yang, playing with her and observing as she stuck different block shapes into a cube with appropriately shaped holes. Yang picked up the concept quickly, and she clapped whenever Summer did, seemingly proud of herself when she figured out the puzzle. 

“You are the smartest baby, aren’t you, Yang?” she cooed. Her niece laughed, an infectious, joyous sound. 

Tai came through with a load of laundry. For someone so small, Yang certainly increased how often he needed to wash everything in the house. “How’s she doing?” he asked, beaming at his daughter over Summer’s head, the laundry basket propped on his hip with warm clothes ready to be folded. Yang’s laugh was irresistible and sometimes it was almost physically painful not to cuddle her every minute of the day with her bright curls and shining eyes. 

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Raven took longer in the shower than she normally would have, trying to figure out what the hell had happened. She had a new bond… to Summer. But… that wasn’t possible… and yet she could feel Summer, feel that same kind of connection that she had with Qrow. No. It wasn’t possible. Still, when she got out of the shower and dressed, she took a deep breath and focused on that connection to her team’s leader, then tried to open a portal.

It worked.

Fuck.

She stepped through it and kept a neutral expression. It was close enough to Qrow that no one ought to notice, though Qrow did glance at her, since it wasn’t something she normally did when they were inside.

“I think anywhere with waffles would be good,” he said in response to whatever had been said before. “Summer is taking us out for breakfast.”

“Oh.” She kept her usual expression of mild disinterest in place as she sat down on her bed and towel-dried her hair. Qrow would likely have questions later, but she would deal with that later.

Summer took them to a sunny little spot known for their brunch and breakfast specials, smiling cheerfully at their waiter as they were lead to a table and given glasses of water to start with. Despite the night she and Raven shared outside, she felt pretty great. Like they were getting somewhere. Like something changed, but for the better. That was at least what she hopped.

“Order whatever you want,” she told them as she opened a menu, scanning it. “It’s on me.” 

Tai munched his way through a stack of pancakes and bacon, watching Raven and Summer curiously. He chewed and swallowed, washing the mouthful down with orange juice. “So what happened last night and how come I don’t get to be involved?” he asked, a little put out. “Neither of you were there in the morning and suddenly Raven’s only twitchy about me.” 

He licked bacon from his fingers and watched Raven with wide blue eyes, looking a bit like a kicked puppy.

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“Yeah, don’t worry. I can make tea and order pizza. Let the girls know you’re going. I’ll book your ticket while you pack.” He slipped into crises mode easily. “I’ll call Dawn or Copper if I need help, or hell, I’ll call your father. We’ll be fine.”

They had to be. It was easier to focus on what was happening now than what they would have to deal with soon, if Raven was the Spring Maiden. 

Tai nodded grimly and rushed upstairs, pulling out his pack and augmenting the essentials in his go bag with a few things to ease Raven’s confinement in a hospital bed before waking the girls up and letting them know that he was going to go keep an eye on Raven in the hospital and that Uncle Qrow would be taking care of them. 

He hurried back downstairs with his pack over his shoulder. “Do I need to take anything else?”

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Qrow nodded. “Came back as fast as I could.”  He shrugged off the blankets and followed Tai into the kitchen. “Raven needs you, Tai. More than she needs me. Jade is dead and Raven… Fuck… Tai, Raven is more than likely the new Spring Maiden. They were attacked by a Nucklavee.” He raked a hand through his hair. “You’re the only one who can help her calm down, and she’ll probably be in the hospital for a while. I called Ozpin, but he doesn’t know much more than we do.” He wanted to fly to Raven as fast as he could… but he wasn’t what she needed. He glanced at his scroll when it went off, and sent a message to Summer that he was sending Tai, and he would stay with the girls.

Tai froze. “A nucklavee,” he breathed, staring at Qrow. “I... ok. ......Ok there isn’t much in the freezer, sorry, I didn’t...” He rubbed his face, a shudder going through him. “Ok.... ok I’ll get on the first ship I can get.... I... I need to pack.” 

He shot Qrow a frantic look. “Can you make yourself tea?” Not precisely an idle question but more due to mind-blanking panic and rush than a true fear that Qrow couldn’t handle making tea without disaster. “Should I wake the girls up to tell them goodbye?”

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Raven was a wire pulled too tight. She wanted to believe them, wanted to believe it was that easy to escape their old lives and find acceptance. She didn’t react fast enough when Tai went after her to get away.

His hands touched her back.

She snapped.

Moving like the lethal creature she was, she had him on his back and a blade pressed against his throat hard enough to draw a thin line of blood before she was aware of doing it. Her body shook with tension as she stared down at him, trying to figure out exactly who was underneath her at that instant. 

It was Qrow who pulled her off of him and knocked the blade from her hand. It sank point-down into the floor, just shy of Tai’s arm. “Raven, you’re okay, we’re at Beacon, he wasn’t going to hurt you.” He pulled her away from their teammate, his hands on her arms. She was shaking, and leaned against him, trying to calm down, to put her mind back in the present. “Do you think we should explain…”

At this point there was little choice, wasn’t there? And she knew that showing would be far more effective than telling them. She kept her face hidden against Qrow’s shoulder, not wanting to see the looks on Summer and Tai’s faces when they saw her back. She reached up under her shirt and unhooked her bra, giving herself a few seconds to brace herself before she pulled her hair forward, and pulled the back of her shirt up. From her shoulders to her hips, it looked like a mirror had been smashed but hadn’t yet fallen to pieces, the glass like a spider’s web. 

“This was the last straw,” she said into Qrow’s shirt. “This was why we left.” She stood there, trembling, still able to feel the whip across her back, the agony of tearing skin, her blood pooling around her. She’d thought their leader was going to kill her. Some of the scars nearly wrapped around her sides. Exposed like this, it was hard to keep her mind in the present, to remind herself that the wounds had healed, and they ached like when they’d been fresh. 

Summer quickly went to Tai, helping him sit back up as she glanced at Raven. It all happened so fast she could barely piece together what happened. As she watched Raven pull up her shirt, she couldn’t keep from gasping when she revealed her back, full of horrific scars, and she pressed a hand over her mouth to keep any more sounds from escaping. 

How could people be so cruel to each other? It made a quiet, seething rage seep into her bones at the unfairness of it all. So maybe Summer didn’t feel cut out to be a good leader, but now she was beginning to realize that she didn’t have a choice– or she did, and that meant there was nothing she wouldn’t do to make sure that Raven and Qrow would ever be harmed again. Not while she was there. Not if she had the ability to prevent it.

She let her hand fall away from her mouth. Natural instinct wanted her to reach out and pull Raven into an embrace. But now she knew better. “No matter what happens, from this moment on we’re in this together. All of us. Okay?”  

Tai froze when Raven took him down without hesitation, feeling a blade against his throat with lethal intent for the first time as he stared up into her furious.... and terrified... eyes, trying to hold very very still. Qrow pulled her away and Summer helped him up, his eyes still wide with shock. 

His surprise was forgotten as soon as Raven showed them her back, a low growl escaping him when he realized what he was seeing. He wanted to embrace her again... but this soon after having a knife to his throat... he wrapped his arms around himself as well, clutching at his shirt. “Thank the gods you left,” he said quietly, his blue eyes full of sorrow for the twins and their painful past. He nodded at Summer’s words. “We’ll never let anyone do that to you again. Never again.” 

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Qrow was on the first flight home when he got the message, risking a flight in an airship instead of flying himself home as he usually would. Raven… Jade… Gods… He considered calling Ozpin, but decided to wait. The headmaster would find out soon enough. Getting to Tai and the girls was more important.

He took to the sky as soon as the airship landed in Vale, flying at full tilt to Patch, falling more than landing on the doorstep and knocking on the door even as he leaned against it, shaking with exhaustion and emotion. He could have gone to Mistral, but he didn’t want to risk his semblance and her recovery, or need for secrecy. And he had no doubt she would need Tai more. She would listen to him and Summer more than Qrow. And besides, she had a whole new bunch of nightmares to have. A Nucklavee…. the powers of the Spring Maiden… Jade’s death….

When would enough be enough?

Summer stayed at Raven’s bedside, watching the monitors as they beeped, the levels of her aura as they fluctuated and recovered. She hoped that meant the doctors in charge of her best friend’s care would take her out of the medical coma soon. The way her back looked, bloodied and torn to shreds…. she didn’t want to think about it, but she rarely saw anyone’s aura bounce back like Raven’s was doing. That did a little to reassure her.

She sent another message to Tai and Qrow to inform them it was probably best for all of them to be together. They were going to need each other.

Tai pulled the door open and helped Qrow to the sofa when he saw what rough shape his friend was in. “Did you fly the whole way here?” He wrapped the other in blankets and put on hot water for tea with shaking hands. “I... I thought you’d head for Mistral... I can... I can make sure the house is ready... the girls are safe...” He tried to keep his tone light, but he ached to be with Raven. She was so bad about being in hospitals, and they had yet to meet a doctor who wasn’t familiar with her who was willing to adopt the measures that kept her calm, that kept everyone safe... but the girls were important too. 

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Summer leaned over to look at the photo Qrow had taken, her heart feeling full. This was a new chapter in all of their lives and it was just the beginning for Yang… what more could they want? There was no way she was going to get over that little baby anytime soon. 

She went over to Raven, smiling down at Yang before looking back to her best friend. “Do you want anything to eat? Food? Maybe some water?” 

Qrow grinned and showed Tai the picture of him and Raven walking into the house with their daughter.

“Both?” Raven still looked tired, but that wasn’t much of a surprise. 

“I’ll call Dawn, Copper, and Huojin, let them know we’re home.” He wasn’t allowed to cook, but he could at least deal with the phone calls. “I’d send them pictures, but I really want to see if the grumpy old dragon will cry when he sees his granddaughter. He seems the type.” Dawn and Copper would essentially be Yang’s grandparents as well, by virtue of pretty much adopting him and Raven during their time at Beacon. He looked at his tiny niece, who would never carry the burden of their family name. 

He stepped away and quietly made the calls.

Tai smiled happily at the picture and cuddled closer to his wife, stroking her hair and watching their sleeping daughter. “I didn’t think I could love anything in the world as much as I love you but now....” He gently brushed fingertips across Yang’s cheek, melting worse than Qrow when his daughter leaned into his touch. 

“Did we get any orange baby clothes? I think she’s inherited my special skill of looking great in orange.”