8 Brother And Sister

Even in his apathetic mood, Aegis felt the need to give into it and dance a dance of victory as he looked on the clear place where still yesterday night was a tower of his archenemy the horrible paperwork...

But he stopped himself as he heard a sound of light snoring from the couch that lay near the office fireplace.

Aegis walked silently and found his mother, who, after five hours, finally had enough and said she needs a little time. Well, the short time transformed into her falling asleep...

Aegis just smiled as he saw his mother's peaceful face, and after having enough observing her, he came close to her and gave her a little peck on the forehead and cover her in blanked as even with fire close, the chill of this mansion could be felt...

"Hmmmmm"

His mother just smiled in her sleep as she curled up in the blankets...

"Seet dreams, my dear mother."

Aegis said as he made his way from the office to get little fresh air after hours of torture...

Silently closing doors, Aegis walked through the halls and couldn't help but wonder why it felt so cold, and after looking, he found out that it is not cold but the feeling of coldness from the colors of white, light blue, and silver what decorate entire mansion...

Aegis hummed to himself as he gets an idea of how to fix it...

Aegis was about to continue until he saw from windows Winter standing in the garden patio. And after quick thinking, Aegis made his way to the balcony from where stairs to the garden led.

Coming close to Winter, he could see just how serene she looked, her white hair flew by the winds as her white coat with blue stripings, she was still a child or rather teenager of seventeen years old, but she already had a figure of that mature woman yet she lacked the air of mature woman...

In short, Aegis found her beautiful yet strange at the same time.

"Did you just come here to ogle your older sister Aegis? I don't remember raising you into such a pervert."

Winter said as she finally looked at her brother, who, even if four years younger than her, already looked at her age with his broad shoulders and athletic body that many would envy...

She looked at his face and couldn't help but marvel at how mature he looked, and his face was soft as a baby yet hard as veteran huntsmen, his hair that reached his shoulder was done into a short ponytail, yet he still had bangs of black hair on his face, hiding one of his ice-blue eyes...

In true Winter felt that what she said was wrong...

After all, she never really raised him...

When she was young, she played with Aegis as any loving older sister, but after that moment when she wrongly found that the father, no a monster trained Aegis into heir...

She slowly stopped being his older sister and more a stranger...

Winter regrets her stupidity. She regrets giving up on her brother and the little sister. She never ever was an older sister they both deserved...

Now Weiss was raised by Aegis, who raised himself...

Hell, she doesn't even know from when Aegis get earring!

And how manly he made it look...

Winter is sure that if Aegis went to the city, he would make every woman turn to head in his wake...

"Pervert? Maybe, after all, there isn't a human or faunus who isn't one... But no, sister, I don't need to by Pervert to marvel your beauty."

Aegis said with a teasing smirk as he watched his sister's pale cheeks turn pink...

"Stop it, Aegis, you are my brother. What if someone heard you."

Winter said as she tried to fight the blush and calm her heart what started to beat...

She doesn't remember Aegis to joke, and now he is teasing her as if it was his second nature!

"Then I would ask them if I don't speak the truth."

Aegis said with a smile.

"Stop it! If you come just to tease me, then I should leave."

Winter tried to leave as her cheeks burned more and her heart made her feel strange...

Could it be? No, no, that wasn't possible. He was her brother who just teases her nothing more...

As she was about to leave, something stopped her in her place, she looked down and saw two hands around her stomach, and then she felt Aegis's head fall on her shoulder...

"Don't."

Aegis almost pleaded...

"Don't leave Winter, I want my older sister back, I want the girl who every time I picked book outside trow snow at me, I want the sister who cuddled with me before the fire every night I had a nightmare... I want you back, Winter."

Aegis said what he felt from the depths of his own heart...

Winter just froze in her place and was glad Aegis couldn't see her face as her eyes were red...

Winter started to tremble as she was standing...

She, too, wanted back the times before she stupidly ignored her brother!

She, too, wanted to feel his warmth when the coldness of the mansion was strongest!

She, too, wanted her ray of sunshine in the bleak place they call home!

Winter quietly sniffed as her persona and faced she always wore in the academy where they nicknamed her Ice Queen broken and fallen apart, and in its place was the face of that girl who so desperately wished to take back time where she royally screwed up!

It was a girl who desired warmth of family more than she wanted to show, and as she was about to speak, she felt Aegis's arms slip, and she suddenly felt the warmth they bring fleeing away...

As Winter was about to turn to Aegis, she found him before her as he reached with his hands on her face where he cleans the tears she shed...

"Do not cry, Winter... we are still young, we still have a lot of time to repair every damage there is... Weiss wants to meet the older sister I had a child, and I want back my Winter I love."

Aegis said with a smile that melted Winters frozen heart from years of Jacques's emotional abuse, and after a while, she just leaped on Aegis, who just hugged her as she was crying...

From the windows was looking both Weiss and Willow who too were shedding tears as they could see their family finally mending back, for a while in the gardens was a sound of sobbing Winter who apologized again and again, and Aegis who repeated to her that it was alright...

And Aegis couldn't help but smile to himself as he felt the final burden lifted...