Hey, guys, so you might have noticed that this story is pretty dead. It is with regret to say that I'm cancelling this fic. I don't really have the motivation to write it anymore. Roman and Neo is still the best ship, and I haven't even gotten to the romance yet, but I can't really keep going with it. I think I just took too long between chapters, got too busy, and couldn't keep a rhythm going. However, I don't want to leave off completely with out wrapping things up, and I did have this story planned out pretty well from the get-go, so here is a synopsis of what would have happened for the rest of the story

After their fight, Roman and Neo have a tense couple days before going to do their mission for Adam. They go to the Vale docks and meet up with some of the White Fang. The mission is to get aboard a SDC shipping freighter and blow it up. Roman is put in charge of finding the faunus labor on board and get them out, while leaving any humans aboard to die. Stuff happens on board, and Neo ends up fighting a whip using Hunter hired by the SDC, while Roman and some of the WF fight one of those spider mechs from the Black trailer. Neo kills the Hunter, but her aura is almost depleted during the fight. Roman is losing to the mech, but Neo jumps in and takes a blow, saving Roman, but getting herself badly hurt. Off the ship, the WF rush her to one of their medics. (I have half of this chapter written, but never completed)

While she is recovering, Roman and Neo communicate more. Roman feels he owes Neo for saving his life, so Neo makes him promise to start actually trying to work with her. Roman also finds out that Neo is not a kid, as her thought, but in her twenties. (Who can blame him? She's so smol) After she's back on her feet, Roman, Neo, and the WF start robbing Dust shops all around Vale, while Roman and Neo start trusting each other and working together better. (I call this the Partner arc, as opposed to the Bodyguard Arc, which makes up most of what I've published) Roman let's Neo start sleeping on his couch instead of the floor, etc. Developing the relationship stuff. After a bunch of this, Roman gets a message from Cinder that's really condescending and stuff and it pisses Roman off. The message ends with Cinder reminding Roman to take Neo everywhere. Despite being glad to take Neo along at this point, he lies to her and leaves her behind on the next job just to spite Cinder. This is the Volume 1 finale, from Roman's perspective. After, getting run off by Penny, he gets back to his hideout, he's met by Neo, who had been looking all over the city for him, and had heard the explosions and stuff at the docks, and had thought the worst. She's runs up crying and hugs him.

This is when things start getting 'Roman'-tic (That joke was literally in my planning notes that I wrote in like, November) Roman and Neo start their relationship while preparing for the move to Mt. Glenn. There was to be lots of fluff and cuteness here, at least as much cuteness as you can get from two criminals. Roman and Neo and the WF steal the Atlesian mechs in a big aerial heist that involves jumping from Bullheads to other ships and people falling to their deaths and stuff (This sequence, as well as the RWBY/Mech fight from Roman's perspective was one of the things I was most looking forward to writing. Seriously, I was gonna make that into a goddamn action set piece) After the mech heist would also be the first time Roman and Neo make the beast with two backs, so to speak. Why I planned out when that would happen from the very beginning, I have no idea

So after the mech stuff and getting to Mt. Glenn, the train sequence happening pretty much exactly like the show, with the Roman/Blake fight being either Roman throwing the fight to get captured or him being so worried about how they got past Neo that he is distracted and loses. Roman getting arrested at the end of Volume 2 was going to be the end of the story. Then there would be an epilogue told from Neo's perspective with her thinking back on the relationship, while breaking Roman out of jail. Originally, she was going to go to Atlas to do it, then changed to just on the Atlas airship once that episode happened. The whole thing would end with them being together and free.

AND NOT DEAD! Seriously, Torchwick getting ate was one of the worst parts of this volume for me, even with all the stuff that happened in the finale. It occurs to me that I was a bit too ambitious with my first ever fanfic, rewriting almost two whole seasons of the show from the villain's perspective. This isn't going to be the end of my writing though. Me and a friend are planning a RWBY/Game of Thrones crossover that's going to be quite in depth and going to take a long time to write. In the meantime, I'm probably going to be writing a RWBY werewolf AU, so if that sounds interesting, looks for that in the next couple weeks.

So apologies to everyone reading this story that wanted it to continue, especially people who found it recently and this is the first chapter they got an update for, and thank you to everyone who left a review on the story. Your feedback is always appreciated. I'm grateful to all of you who took the time to read this story, and I hope to see you in the future on my other writings. Hopefully they go better than this one.