Hello everyone, I'm not a native speaker and also not good with grammar, so there will be mistakes, so please keep that in mind. I hope y'all enjoy, the chapter:
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With the new plan in mind, the only thing that team RWBY and team JNR could do was think about it and see the possibilities for the plan to work the best it could, but the wait was inevitable. Regardless of how the plan would work, Terra had heard that the next atlasian airship big enough to accommodate everybody would take at least two months to arrive at Argus, so working on the plan and training while waiting was what they could do for now and no one was happy about it.
Now that the storm has passed and team JNR and Oscar have accepted their roles in a war they didn't ask for, things had work out for the best. Team RWBY and JNR have been talking about the plan and collecting information about how the atlesian base works for a week, in the meantime Ruby is constantly training with Maria to find out how she can activate her silver eyes when needed, and they are all using the forest out of town to train theirs combat ability while helping to keep the grimms away. Weiss has been training her semblance, trying improve her summons, aiming to be able to use two at the same time while making a deep connection with the others summons besides the Knight, she is also using them to train her friends, especially Oscar. With the help of Jaune's healing they were being able to train harder than ever, at the same time they were also trying to discover new semblances combinations using him as an amplifier for the others.
Since they have been using Saphron's house, the daily activities has been splitted among them, helping with the housekeeping, grocery shopping, meal preparation, babysitting and other things, trying to somehow reciprocate the Cotta-Arc family for the hospitality. This has been the routine for them: helping in the house, training outside and doing the best to the plan work out. During this time, Blake tried to become closer to Yang and since her last attempt to lighten the mood between them failed, she has being afraid that things might get worse, so she just kept herself away, not knowing what to do about it.. They are in sync when it's about 'bumblebee' as fighting partners, but things between Blake and Yang, as friends, are still awkward and distant. They have never talked to each other alone again after what happened on the Brunswick farms and Yang seems to avoid every good opportunity to do so, something that has been making Blake feel really down every time it happens.
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Blake was setting the dinner table, lost in her own thoughts when Saphron called her name, catching her attention.
"Sorry, I wasn't listening." Blake said, turning to Jaune's sister "Can you say again?" .
"It's okay, Terra do it sometimes too, getting lost in her own thoughts like you just did." Saphron chuckled, remembering her wife's manners. "I asked if you could call the others, the dinner is ready."
"Oh, of course" replied Blake heading toward the living room where the others were talking about the plan.
After everyone had eaten, Blake was helping Saphron again, this time to do the dishes while Yang and Weiss was babysitting the little Adrian.
"She is great." Saphron said simply, looking at Blake. "Yang, I meant"
Blake followed Saphron's vision, finding Yang playing with Adrian using an airplane toy with a honest smile on her face. There was a warmth in Yang's smile that made Blake smile too.
"She is." Was Blake's reply. "She truly is".
Saphron seemed curious about something, but didn't say anything until they finished with the dishes. She leaned against the sink, with Blake at her side, looking at the girls who were taking care of her beloved son.
"You know, you remind me of myself in the first few months that I had met Terra" she said in a playful way, Blake had never seen her smile like that. "Back then, I couldn't take my eyes off her either."
Blake's ears twitched as she heard it and her brain froze trying to understand the meaning of what the young woman had just said. Saphron's eyes were looking into Blake's, a caring smile on her face molding an expression that almost seemed like one of understanding, like if she was saying 'I have been there too'.
When Blake's brain started to function again and now understanding what Saphron was implying, her face went red as she stared at the floor, which suddenly looked very interesting.
"I... I don't..." Her flushed expression made Saphron giggle, but she didn't finish what she was saying.
"Sorry if I'm wrong... but if I'm not, and if you wanna talk about it, I'm always here and I would love to hear it." She said putting her hand on Blake's shoulders and nodded before heading towards her son. "Come on Adrian, it's time to go to bed."
Blake stayed in the same place. Staring blankly at nowhere, her mind racing as she tried to understand what just happened. Trying to understand why she couldn't tell to Saphron that it was a misunderstanding, that she wasn't staring at Yang that much, and that even if she was, that those looks were looks of concern with an important friend and that was nothing like that at all, but she couldn't do it, for some unknown reason. She just stayed there, trying to understand why she was so embarrassed about it, and especially, why her heart was beating like crazy right now.