You wanted a new chapter for my most popular fic? Well, okay then…

When Ruby came to, the world was a blurred, brown mess. Or at least the half of it she could see. In fact, the entire left side of her field of vision was black.

She moaned in discomfort as her vision slowly returned to her. The 'blurry brown mess' turned out to be a wooden ceiling.

"Guys, she's awake!" Ruby tilted her head to the right just in time to see Yang practically flying at her to hug her little sister. As Ruby weakly struggled to get free from her sister's crushing hug of relief, another voice spoke up in a rather irritated and concerned voice.

"Get off her, you oaf! She's been through a lot!" Weiss leaned in and pried the offending party off Ruby.

"… Guys? Where am I? What happened? And why can't I see with my left eye?" Ruby strained to talk. The room fell silent for a painful moment, then Weiss handed her a mirror. When she held it up to see her face, she was met with the visage of a large, black eyepatch with her customary rose emblem on the part covering her eye. But where her original emblem was a vibrant crimson, parts of this rose had been dyed white.

"We thought you'd like something to remember me by, so we changed the emblem a bit. Hope you don't mind." Ruby spun her head around to the left to look at whom had spoken. Summer.

"As to where – one of Beacon's infirmaries. West wing, fourth floor, to be exact." She leaned in and grasped her future daughter's hand, a pained expression on her face.

"And as to how…"

Summer leapt at her foe, but the massive alpha-beowolf intercepted her in midair and sent her sprawling across the meadow. She looked up towards Ruby, who was engaging the new adversary. Suddenly the alpha struck at the girl and yanked Crescent Rose from his opponent's hands. Summer could only gape in horror as Ruby was pinned to the ground and viciously mauled by the large beast. That was when something inside Summer snapped.

"GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER, YOU FILTHY PIECE OF UNPROCESSED LUGGAGE!" She jumped to her feet, and with two mighty swings of her chain-axes, the beast fell to the ground dead. Ruby moaned weakly, her face covered in her own blood. Good. At least she's still alive.

Summer located Ruby's scroll to call for help, which wasn't easy when her vision was blurred by the pooling of tears. She found Yang's contact info, and pressed 'dial'.

"Heya Rubes, how'd it go with Summer and… you know…" She pauses when she hears the sound of sobbing on the other end.

"… Rubes?" Now Summer can't hold the tears back anymore.

"I… it's… Yang. I am so sorry, Yang. I can't… there's so much blood. I can't-"

"Summer? Calm down, tell me exactly what's happened? Tell. Me. Everything."

Summer held the Scroll between her shoulder and ear and explained the events that led up to this predicament as she began to clean off the blood from Ruby's face. Her left eye – or what remained of it anyways, had turned a sickly yellowish-green nuance. Summer retrieved some cotton and gauze from the field kit they had brought along 'just in case', and started to cover Ruby's wound.

"You'll have an airship en route in a few minutes. When they arrive, do as they tell you to."

"Thanks for the help, Yang." Yang chuckled on the other end.

"We're just looking out for our family, Sum."

Ruby was on the verge of tears. Before she could start showering Summer with praise however, she felt a soft touch on her shoulder. When she looked up, amber eyes met her gaze.

"You should take it easy for now, you lost a lot of blood." Blake had somehow, yet again, managed to hide in plain sight. Ruby didn't care much for the reclusive girl's antics though, as long as she was there to support her team leader. Ruby suddenly felt the need to see what her eye looked like under the eyepatch, so she brought up the mirror to her face and gently lifted the eyepatch out of the way.

… Yeah, nope. Not going to look at that ever again.

"So… where's the rest of STRQ, mom?"

"Still back in the dorm." Summer reclined in the chair beside Ruby's bed.

"We're trying to keep it low-profile after all."

And that was the exact moment the door to the infirmary exploded off its hinges.

"WHERE IS SHE?! WHERE'S MY LITTLE GIRL?!" Taiyang Xiao Long bellowed loud enough for Ruby to have to cover her ears.

"Right… right over here dad." Taiyang strode over to his daughter and hugged her tight.

Then he noticed the woman sitting in a chair on the other side of the bed.

"Hello Tai." Summer smiled at the husband of her future.

"Long time no see." Taiyang got a glassy look in his eyes, then fell backwards on the floor. Summer craned her neck over the bed to see what happened.

"Is he…?" Yang kneeled down and waved a hand in front of her father's face.

"Yep. Out cold."

"Well, that was a thing."

"It was indeed." Everybody in the room spun around to look at the one who had just made his presence known. The stranger took a sip from his coffee mug as he stepped through the now doorless frame and into the light of the infirmary.

"Now if you don't mind, I would like to hear your side of this story…"

Professor Ozpin had arrived.

AN: A smidge shorter chapter than usual this time around, hope you all don't mind the missing 200-or-so words.

I could need some help visualising the Red/White rose emblem, so feel free to contact me on the /r/RWBY subreddit.

"Unprocessed luggage" – the mind goes strange places when you're mad with grief and anger. (Apparently you start channelling Molly Weasley as well.)

/u/HystericalCHijinks –please don't kill me for "borrowing" one of my favourite lines/moments of Remnant's Reclaimer.

I do not own RWBY, that's RoosterTeeth and Monty Oum.