A/N I do not own RWBY or Rooster Teeth.

Hi! I'm still alive!

And as an appreciation for your patience, I've included a character that many RT fans might appreciate.

So enjoy, and maybe try not to hate me as much.

EDIT: 2/24/16

Gavin and Ruby played Minecraft.

Gavin guided Ruby on her gaming adventure. Well, at least he tried to. Explaining how to make a username took way too long for something so simple. It was a collection of bad instructions and miss-presses. Eventually, they finally got into the game.

And immediately died. Ruby drowned.

"Press the 'A' button!"

Ruby's eyes flickered to the strangely shaped controller in her hands, quickly checking that she was pressing the 'A' button with her thumb.

"I am!"

"Don't mash it! Hold it down!"

Ruby's end of the screen flashed to the death screen. Ruby pouted and got back in, staying far away from the water's edge.

"This place is so blocky. These graphics are terrible!"

Gavin shook his head and punched a tree, something that Ruby laughed at.

"Why are you punching a tree?"

A piece of tree trunk disappeared and reappeared as a smaller version in Gavin's hand. Gavin's green hand.

"I'm getting wood."

"Why are you green?"

Gavin shrugged, "I'm a Creeper."

"Ew."

"Not that kind."

Ruby proved to be incapable of breaking any blocks, or holding down the triggers long enough for them to break. She watched as Gavin punched a pig.

"Why are you punching a pig? They didn't do anything to you!"

"We need food."

The pig disappeared in a white cloud before leaving two pink pork-chops that Gavin picked up and ate.

"Really? That's not even cooked."

"We don't need to cook them," Gavin sighed in frustration, "I swear, I'm like the smart one here."

"You are the smart one!"

Gavin paused the game, looking at Ruby strangely as if he didn't know what she was talking about, "Let's do something else."

"Great! I was really confused anyway."

The man furrowed his eyebrows at her, almost teasingly, "You got confused at a kids game."

"It's not my fault you're green!"

Gavin put his hands up in the air, showing her his palms. Ruby laughed, her silver eyes glinting in the light mischievously.

It was fun to mess with people. Gavin reached over to his desk, grabbing the 'handbag' Meg had left for him.

"Present time?" Ruby asked hopefully.

Gavin chucked the bag at Ruby, which wasn't really a handbag and more like a shopping bag from a shop called Target. Ruby caught it deftly. Taking a quick glance at the logo, Ruby glanced up at Gavin who was watching her shake the bag with an excitement that could be mistaken for Christmas.

"Open it."

Ruby shrugged and followed his instruction, fingers instinctively finding the tears in the bag and ripping it apart. Gavin made a big show of leaning back in faked shock.

Ruby giggled as she took out a white box with something heavy in it.

"Oooh! What's this?"

Gavin took the box from Ruby and slid it open, "This is an iPhone."

"Barbara has one of those! She let me use it."

"You can download apps and play games and stuff. And call people. I already gave you your number and bought you some credit."

"Already?" Ruby was surprised. It was incredible to see how much these people cared for her.

"Yeah. And put 50 bucks in your iTunes account. I did everything. There's headphones in the bag if you want to listen to some music."

"Bucks? Is that the currency here?"

Gavin giggled, if men could giggle, "No, that's just a term for money. In the USA, money is called dollars."

Ruby blinked, taking the phone from Gavin, "You didn't have to do this."

"I wanted to," Gavin smirked, "Since you're living with the Jones', I've announced myself as your self-proclaimed uncle."

Ruby laughed and poked him the shoulder, "Thanks Uncle Gavin."

Then she paused, "How did you pay for this?"

Gavin blushed and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly, "Michael always makes fun of my bank account."

"What's wrong with your bank account?"

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing."

Gavin handed Ruby a coke, just to see if she'll go sugar high like in many of the fanfiction the RWBY fans wrote.

"Is this a soda?"

Ruby looked down at the red can after seeing him nod. The surface was cool to touch, the ice biting through her fingers.

"Are there any People Like Grapes cans here?"

Gavin suppressed a laugh before shaking his head, "I made that up."

Ruby looked at him in surprise, "You made a soda?"

"No. I just said something really stupid and it turned into a shirt. They put it in the show as an Easter egg."

"I like Easter."

"You have Easter? I didn't know that."

"I liked Christmas best. I always used to curl up in front of the fireplace with Yang and Dad."

Ruby's silver eyes turned soft, her mind fondly flashing back to the last Christmas she had with her family back before she and Yang went off to Beacon.

Gavin gave her a smile, a smile that was so familiar to her. A fake smile.

"Maybe you can celebrate Christmas here. We can have a family celebration here."

Ruby's heart skipped a beat. What did that mean? It was so early in the year, how was she going to stay here until Christmas? She was going back to Remnant. Right?

"Yeah," Ruby returned his smile, just to please him, "Okay."

Gavin drank his coke just to fill the silence that followed. Ruby joined him and the two drank their drinks in the quiet kitchen.

The taste of the drink was strange, almost as if her brain didn't want to comprehend it. But after a few sips, the sugary flavor came through. Ruby smiled at the familiar rush of energy.

"I'm Vav."

Ruby perked her eyes up, "What?"

"Do you know about X-Ray and Vav?"

"Do you mean that comic book Jaune's always reading?"

Gavin nodded, brushing his dirty blond hair out of his eyes. Ruby giggled, "Jaune always used to freak out when he got another issue."

Ruby frowned slightly at her use of the word 'used,' but her attention was drawn to Gavin's surprised expression.

"They never put anything like that in the show."

Ruby shrugged, "I don't think it follows every part of our lives. At least I hope so."

"So is there anything that we don't know about you?"

Ruby gives him a peculiar smile, then hangs her head low, "I haven't watched the show yet."

Gavin raises an eyebrow, then grabs her arm in a rough but excited manner. Ruby yelped and tried to jump away but her 'uncle' just lifted her up in the air and carried her to the Animation Department.

Ruby dangled from Gavin's grasp, desperately clutching handfuls of his shirt in fear of being dropped. Gavin laughed, his gleeful expression causing Ruby to join in.

"Gavin stop! Michael and Lindsay want to watch it with me!"

Gavin paused for a moment. If Michael wanted to watch RWBY with her, he was quite obviously going to kick his butt if he spoiled it for him. Opting for the safest route, he resumed walking, "Then let's go behind the scenes!"

Shane's work was interrupted by giggles. Tearing his eyes away from his screen, he watched as Gavin carried a hyper teenager into his line of vision. Rolling his eyes, he returned his typing.

Gavin let Ruby down after her joking threats to hit him. Gavin highly doubted that she would even think about it, but when you're in the presence of a scythe-wielding prodigy, you can't really take any chances.

Ruby skipped up to Shane, and with a curious glance she spoke, "What you doing?"

Shane tilted his head up to look at the cheerful gaze of the Remnan. He briefly thought back to their first encounter but shrugged as he answered monotonously.

"I'm working on Red vs Blue."

"What's that?"

Shane didn't really have time to explain. Explaining that he was working on an ongoing 13 season machinima about a video game wasn't something that an ordinary person wanted to talk about.

But then again, Ruby was not an ordinary person.

"It's complicated."

"Everything's complicated to me!"

Shane gave Gavin a pleading look, one that Gavin did not get whatsoever. After a few seconds of awkward silence, Gavin finally got the message and rescued Shane from conversing with the still waiting Ruby.

"Seriously Rubes, you don't want to know. Basically there's a guy that's really a robot, but he doesn't know it and when he finally realizes, he dies."

Gavin pauses to take a breath. Ruby looks stumped at the seemingly dark ending.

"And then he gets resurrected in another robot that remembers him but suddenly there's a huge plot twist and the guy is actually based off the bad guy and the bad guy is actually just trying to recreate his girlfriend."

Shane mentally face palmed as Gavin created another, and painful, silence. The presence of Ruby, Gavin and himself was literally giving off awkwardness.

"Can you repeat that?"

"Oh for fu-," Shane cut himself off as he slammed his hands onto the desk, then giving Gavin a glare.

"Can you not try to explain the plot of Red vs Blue?"

"Trust me. I'm already confused just thinking about it."

"Story of my life," Ruby agreed.

Shane sighed and resumed his work, dragging his mouse across the screen. He tried desperately to not think about the Ruby leaning over his shoulder. After a few clicks of his mouse, Gavin's nose appeared over his other shoulder.

Casting a small, unnoticed glance at the duo, he tried to focus on his work.

"Are they fighting?"

Shane let out a faint breath of relief, "Yes."

"Why?"

Shane pursed his lips, trying to think of a less complicated answer, "Because they have some unresolved problems."

"Who's the blue-turquoise one?"

"That's Carolina. The other one is Sharkface."

"What kind of name is Sharkface?"

Shane regretted what he thought earlier. This was worse than the silence.

"Oh god okay, okay, okay we're so fucked."

Matt snapped, "Burnie, shut up. We're not fucked, we're just-"

"-fucked," Burnie finished, standing in the middle of Matt's office with his hands out as if he wanted God to come down and un-fuck them.

Matt sighed and stood up from his desk, "It's fine, Burnie."

"No, we are not! There's literally an alien downstairs and we have no fucking clue how to get her back!"

"Can you stop saying that? There is a way to get her back, we just haven't found it yet."

Burnie ran over to Matt's desk, still in his Office Tour suit, "How do you know that!?"

Matt flipped over a pile of paperwork, "CAN YOU STOP YELLING?"

"CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW WE ARE GOING TO GET A FICTIONAL CHARACTER BACK INTO A FICTIONAL WORLD!?"

"FOR GOD'S SAKE BURNIE! SHE'S NOT FICTIONAL ANYMORE! WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THAT?!"

Burnie opened his mouth, then closed it again, only large breaths being expelled from his mouth. Matt was in a similar position, except calmer.

"We have other things to worry about."

"No we don't! How are we going to keep her safe here?"

Matt swallowed painfully, "I have friends at a police station. They can deal with it."

"Are you saying that we turn her in?!"

"No!" Matt immediately replied, "I'm not a monster. They can deal with any attacks and shit."

"They're not going to believe that! They'll get suspicious! They'll ask questions!" Burnie clenched the edge of Matt's desk tightly, "She doesn't exist in this world."

Matt stared at Burnie, his tense muscles relaxing as his brain's gears began to turn.

"What if we make her exist?"

"Matt are you high? What are you even talking about?"

Matt shuffled around his desk, an action that proved to have no purpose except for fueling Matt's brain power.

"We need to make her an identity."

Burnie spluttered incredulously at Matt's words, "You're insane."

"No, no. Think about it. If Ruby can get an identity, she can go out there and do normal teenager things."

"Are you on drugs? Because I'm pretty sure you're on drugs. Are you saying that Ruby won't be able to get back to Remnant?"

Matt paused, thinking about his next words carefully, "I'm pretty sure there's a way. But until we find out, we need to make it as normal as possible. And if she has an identity- even a fake one- she can experience what it's like. For now."

"You're high."

"Ruby needs to get out there and see the world. Imagine being stuck in here. It would drive me crazy. Imagine what it would do to Ruby."

Burnie stopped his accusations of Matt being on drugs and actually listened.

"How?"

"What?"

"How are we going to make her an identity?"

Matt didn't have an answer. His mind was too full of reasons to convince Burnie that this was- in fact- the best option.

"I-uh," he stammered.

"Yeah genius," Burnie scoffed, some of his dignity returning back, "How are we going to make an identity?"

Matt collapsed on his seat and just sat there as Burnie's sarcastic personality returned. What the hell was he thinking? Making an identity? Impossible.

Impossible.

"Let me know when you find out the vital part of your plan, Einstein," Burnie shot harshly as he walked out the door.

Gavin was a quarter-way through explaining the plot of Red vs Blue, a tremendous feat for someone that couldn't even explain how to make a username on the Xbox, even if he wasn't doing much of a good job of it.

Shane grumbled under his breath as he noticed Gavin miss out another plot point and move onto another tangent about minor characters.

It was incredible to see how Gavin used to be a major Red vs Blue fan, but couldn't explain how Project Freelancer started. Hell, Gavin got a job at RT for being one of the early Red vs Blue fans.

"I voiced a guy named Jones, except everyone kept saying it as 'Jo-en-nes'. And then I got shot by Caboose."

"I like Caboose."

"Everyone likes Caboose," Shane muttered, trying to block out the endless rambles that Gavin was travelling down.

"He's funny."

"And he's Joel. Everyone loves Joel," Gavin contributed.

"Alright! Fine! Just stop talking about Red vs Blue," Shane huffed, dragging his mouse across to look for any imperfections in Carolina's jump.

"But why? I want to watch it now."

Gavin shook his head, "You might not like the swearing in it."

"Oh, okay."

Another silence.

"Oh shoot. I have to go. Geoff needs me," Gavin looks at Ruby apologetically after glancing at his phone.

"It's alright."

"No, no. I can't leave you here. I'm bringing you to the offices. Just stay quiet, and don't interrupt the recording."

Ruby nodded warily, allowing Gavin to take ahold of her arm and drag her off to the Achievement Hunter Offices.

Shane sighed. Finally, some peace and quiet.

Miles ran across the Animation Department, chasing Blaine with a Nerf gun, "Take him down boys!"

"Fuck."

It turned out that sitting quietly in a room full of swearing men was even more boring than she had originally thought.

Ruby had rebuilt her fort of gold block cushions and was now sitting in the middle of it with her new phone, trying to work out this newfangled technology.

Eventually, she gave up and gave the phone to Gavin who was waiting for his character to respawn. The rest of them noticed but barely changed their conversation in order to cover up the fact that there was a fictional character in the office.

The phone was rather similar to Barbara's, except a bit emptier and spacious. The new headphones were obviously picked out especially for her. Red, sleek and the RWBY symbol on each ear pad. Trying them on, she resisted the urge to squeal at the softness of it.

Ruby plugged the accessory in, after spending a few minutes finding the port, and began her search for the music. Surprisingly, it wasn't that hard, after catching sight of a music note with 'Music' underneath. Her list was empty.

Glancing over to Gavin, she noticed that he was way too preoccupied with his raging co-worker to help her. Michael was said co-worker.

Frowning, she put her thumb on her chin, a perplexed look on her face. She was too busy thinking to notice the small child sneaking into her fort.

"Hi!"

Ruby jumped and let out a small yelp before clasping a hand over her mouth.

Geoff looked over to the two, and sighed, "Millie? I told you to stay with Lindsay."

Millie grinned a gap toothed grin, "Sorry Daddy. I'll be quiet."

"Fine," Geoff grumbled.

Ruby glanced at the child before glancing back at Geoff, then repeating the process again.

"I'm Millie!" Millie stage-whispered, stretching out her small hand.

Ruby shook it. "Nice to meet you. I'm Ruby," she replied, her initial surprise wearing off.

It was possible that Ruby was the only one feeling the awkwardness of their situation, but Millie didn't really notice.

"What are you doing?" the blonde girl asked a bit too loudly, completely disregarding her promise to Geoff. And also earning the small glances from Jack and Ryan. Millie didn't seem to mind.

"I'm trying to, uh…" Ruby trailed off, wondering how a 9 year old child was going to react to a 15 year old teenager not knowing how a phone works. She didn't even know if Millie even knew about her.

Which is probably plausible after Ruby remembered the flash of recognition in her eyes when they first caught eye-contact.

"Are you looking for music? Ooh! I can help," Millie smiled enthusiastically, snatching the phone out of Ruby's hands and scrolled and tapped on the screen. Ruby tried to keep up, but eventually Millie's expertise in these areas outweighed Ruby's weakened semblance.

Not to mention the fact that she was slightly disturbed at Millie's childish antics, even though she knew she had done some of these things before. Mostly to Weiss, but sometimes even Blake. Yang never minded though.

"What are you looking for?" Millie asked, with a light of positivity in her voice. She showed the screen to Ruby, scrolling though the newly released albums.

Ruby didn't really know what music she wanted. Her playlist at home was a seemingly endless list of names, but Yang's playlist made hers look miniscule.

"Um…" Ruby mumbled, trying to rack her brain for the names of the songs Lindsay had put on the radio. Eventually she gave up and said the first song she thought of.

"Try searching for This Will Be the Day."

There it was again, the flash of recognition in Millie's eyes. The look quickly vanished, replaced by a look of happiness. The happiness to help.

Millie typed in the song title with a slow but somehow expert few taps of the screen then grinned as the search result came up with a few names.

Millie gave the phone back to Ruby, who smiled gratefully at her help. Millie simply replied with a grin, so stunningly bright it lit up the room.

"Thank you, Millie."

"No problem! I'm here to help!"