Small talk and time skip.

As Ruby is blissfully eating her breakfast William sits down at the table after cleaning the dishes.

William "So Ruby, what do you think about cooking now?"

Ruby "izz goo." she says while talking with some food in her mouth as William chuckles.

William "Well I'm glad you're enjoying the fruits of your labor and as promised you can check out my new gun." William unloads the KS-23 and puts it on the table as Ruby excitedly squeals and quickly finishes her meal as she uses her semblance to get her tools from her room and comes back excitedly to start taking it apart.

Oye "Sir is it okay for her to be taking apart your new weapon? She says with some concerns as Ruby quickly looks up at Oye.

Ruby "I'm sorry i didn't get your name miss?" she says somewhat annoyed.

Oye "I'm Oye Miyako Sir Williams bodyguard on Aimy's orders." Oye replies with some venom in her voice and before Ruby can reply William interrupts her.

William "Yes Oye it's quite alright I know Ruby will handle weapons with extreme care." he says trying to defuse an argument so early in the morning.

Oye "I apologize Sir I just wanted to make sure." as she does a small apologetic bow.

William "It's quite alright and Ruby if you have any questions about anything just ask me but since your probably going to be enthralled by the KS-23 I'll be in the dojo working out."

Ruby "Okay ill be up here and once everyone else wakes up ill tell them your here." she smiles a bit and starts happily working on how to take apart the KS-23 as William and Oye go to the dojo.

After getting to the dojo William starts doing stretches as Oye watches for a minute until she speaks up.

Oye "Sir why did you defuse the argument that was about to happen with me and Ruby?" she asks as William starts doing push-ups.

William "Because I don't want the others to wake up and I would rather stay on good terms with Ruby and the rest of the group."

Oye "I have a felling theres more to it than that Sir."

William gets up and starts doing crunches and replies slowly more so focused on his form. "Yes the is.. she has some PTSD from Pyrrha dying in front of her."

Oye "Yes but she should have been able to get over it to some degree since its been roughly a year since beacon fell." she replies dead toned as Willian gets up and starts to do a plank.

William "Yes I somewhat agree with you Oye but I wouldn't be surprised if she was suppressing her emotions since Yang got her arm cut off by Adam that might have taken front stage while her emotions took a back seat." as he continues to keep the plank up without any struggle.

Oye "Well if possible do you think she should go to therapy? If what you said is correct then she should see someone to help."

William slowly gets up and looks at Oye. "As much as i agree she should see someone about her trauma but she might spill something shes still a kid not even eighteen yet and shes roped up in this clusterfuck and oscar probably a couple years younger than ruby and now hes the vessel for ozpin." as William rests against a wall and slowly slides down and sits on the floor. "The older generation should be the ones to stop this from even happening but fate is a fickle thing. Hell if i could i would take all the problems from these kids and shoulder them by myself if I have to so they can live their lives I can see Ruby is so close to becoming broken like me i don't want her to be like that." as William sighs sadly as some life fades from his eyes.

Oye stands there in silence as she looks at William slightly lifeless until he slowly gets back up. "Sir, why do you want to shoulder someone else's pain?" she says with curiosity.

William "Because that's just who I am I may be colder than I was when I was younger but it's still there that and I made an oath of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and courage even if I didn't hold up my oath because of what happened during my tour of duty." as he looks at Oye with an almost unwavering conviction until William gets back to working out as Oye just looks at the stairway as there are soft footsteps going back up as she looks back at William.

POV Ruby

After roughly five minutes of working on the KS-23, she finally managed to start taking it apart until she softly hears William and Oye talking. She quietly goes down the stairs until she can hear them more clearly.

Oye "Yes but she should have been able to get over it to some degree since its been roughly a year since beacon fell."

[Yeah like I could I had too much on my plate and with Yang missing her arm I didn't want her and dad to worry about me.]

William "Yes I somewhat agree with you Oye but I wouldn't be surprised if she was suppressing her emotions since Yang got her arm cut off by Adam that might have taken front stage while her emotions took a back seat."

[At least William gets it I just wish he came a year ago instead of now so he could at least have helped at beacon.]

Oye "Well if possible do you think she should go to therapy? If what you said is correct then she should see someone to help."

William slowly gets up and looks at Oye. "As much as i agree she should see someone about her trauma but she might spill something shes still a kid not even eighteen yet and shes roped up in this clusterfuck and oscar probably a couple years younger than ruby and now hes the vessel for ozpin."

As Ruby hears a soft thud against a wall and hears a soft thud against the floor. [I chose to come to Haven to help and William is somewhat correct. I was roped up into this 'mess' now I want to go and talk to him about this] Ruby was about to start to make her presence known until William started talking again.

William now says with a pained voice "The older generation should be the ones to stop this from even happening but fate is a fickle thing. Hell if i could i would take all the problems from these kids and shoulder them by myself if I have to so they can live their lives I can see Ruby is so close to becoming broken like me i don't want her to be like that." as he sighs sadly as ruby is standing there surprised that William is wanting to shoulder all their problems until her vision starts to blur as tears roll down her face. Until a memory pops back into her mind.

[I don't want to be the bee's knees, I want to be a normal girl with normal knees.]

Until she hears shuffling and doesn't hear what Oye said to William until he spoke again.

William "Because that's just who I am I may be colder than I was when I was younger but it's still there that and i made an oath of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and courage even if I didn't hold up my oath because of what happened during my tour of duty." as he sounds confident of his oath that he made. Until Ruby slowly walks back upstairs and distracts herself with Williams KS-23 as she continues to cry.

[Why didn't I see that I know William is trying to help but even if I want to be normal now I can't because as William said I'm in this 'Clusterfuck' now] I softly giggle to myself as I work on a rough design of the KS-23 until everyone else is awake.

Slowly the weeks went by as it was nearing the end of the month with ruby getting some of the footwork of hand to hand down but also adding something William said about crescent rose 'Why don't you have some sort of gauntlet with gravity dust to bring your weapon back to your hand.'

So after taking his advice ruby now has a gauntlet filled with gravity dust as well as a crescent rose having some gravity dust in the middle to come back to ruby. And Eventually after a while, Aimy's huntsman found where Weiss is in Raven's camp with Wiliam volunteering to talk with Raven to try and get Weiss back from her.

Sup guys and gals it's been a while since I updated so I would like to apologize for that and thank you all for keeping it in your library it has motivated me to continue this story for you all since i hit a huge writers block for a long while and I have another idea for another RWBY fanfic so be on the lookout for that once I start writing that.

Stay awesome guys and gals.