White Sheep

Chapter 14 - A Sheep among Wolves

So, here the chapter is – a day late because of my parents being burgled. Thanks for understanding, and I worked to get this out today without too much disruption. We don't know much about what happened yet, other than that they clearly knew my family were away – even though I visited the house every day to make it look occupied, empty bins and such. They do have a guard dog, by the way, but that lives with me while they are on holiday, as it can't exactly fend for itself for four weeks.

Anyway, police and insurance are being about as useful as you'd expect, with warnings not to expect anyone to be found or prosecuted before they even TRY to look, and insurance already determined to weasel out of it. Maybe the whole robbery is fake news, or maybe I'm just stating alternative facts to them – who even knows!? They'll cave, especially since my parents have CCTV. On the other hand, it proves as useless as usual since the crooks wore hoodies to cover head and wrapped cloth or bandannas around lower face. One even gave the camera the middle finger.

It's a pain in the ass to be honest, and I hate it all so much, but it's a reality of living in the countryside, because there's just too much open space and noise doesn't travel. Houses tend to be worth more too, and thus better prospects for thieves. All you can do is grit your teeth and keep going.

Enough angst...

To the one who asked, yes I write fics the night before in most cases (except NTF, it's too long for that). I tried to reply to your review, but you have PM disabled.

Note: you may have received two alert emails because the site went a little crazy. There are not two chapters.

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Chapter 14 – A Sheep among Wolves

"It was all Remy's idea!"

Cinder rolled her eyes and ignored his silly attempt to shift the blame. She also had to resist the urge to point out that Grimm neither needed nor had names, but that was an argument she couldn't be bothered to get into. If he wished to name a parasite within his body, then so be it. She had bigger fish to fry. She ran a hand through her hair, and smiled when Jaune swallowed and looked nervous. She still had power over him. Good.

"I get the feeling you're a little upset with me," Jaune said with a little wince.

"Do you?" she asked. "My, your time here must have made you very perceptive, Jaune. You're right, I am upset. Fancy that." She tilted her head back so that she could look down her nose at him, a subtle thing to suggest her advantage. Like always, he bowed his head. "Do you have any idea how dangerous this was? You could have been killed before making it this far, and I dare say it's Salem's own luck you even survived this long."

"I did-"

"No." She cut him off with a finger against his lips. "No excuses. You are the prince of the Grimm, Jaune. You're not a normal human, you're not a huntsman, and you're certainly not equipped to study at a place like this! Why would you even do this?"

"I-"

"Your silly dream, of course," she sighed. "Become a huntsman, just like your father, even if it makes zero sense because of what you are." At any other time, she might have kept such truths to herself, but she had checked the room personally for bugs and found none. Mercury and Emerald knew better than to speak, and she could kill the other and Roman included if they became irksome. "This isn't a game and your mother is worried, which translates to her being furious – enough so as to nearly invade Vale and slaughter everyone!"