Here it is! The first 'Piece' of "The Best Pieces"!
This is a Christmas Eve special since it's that time of year. I hope everyone is having a good time on this special day, whether you celebrate Christmas or not. This is my Christmas present to all of you awesome readers. Thanks for supporting me by reading my stories and showing me that people will actually read my stuff. Have a great day! And Merry Christmas, as this will be the last chapter I post before tomorrow.
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or the characters. Rooster Teeth has ownership. I just write stories involving their characters because they are awesome!
This story is rated R for some suggestive stuff and cursing. It used to be T, but after chapter 3 things get a little heated. Still not smut, but there is implied stuff. It's just a precaution.
The Best Pieces
Chapter 1: Warm Christmas
It was Christmas Eve in the Rose-Belladonna house, as Ruby awoke to something brushing up against her outer left thigh. She smiled as she felt the soft, furry appendage against her skin. "Morning, Blake." Ruby whispered as she opened her eyes. She felt the arms around her tighten up as the woman behind her laid a kiss on her shoulder.
"Morning, Ruby." Blake's hands started to wander down Ruby's left leg, caressing her hip. "You know, I think the kids are still asleep. We may have some time to…have some fun before we need to get up." Blake whispered in Ruby's ear as she started to go further in, between Ruby's legs, as the shorter girl started to shift around, biting her lip. The early morning play however was interrupted by the bedroom door bursting open.
"Mommy! Momma! It's Cwistmas!" Their daughter, who just turned 3 on December 3rd, Catherine, shouts to her mothers who were still in bed. Their daughter was wearing a one piece fuzzy pajama suit with scattered roses for the design.
The two adults groaned as they were interrupted. Ruby then turned over to face Blake and smiled, giving her a kiss good morning. "We probably should have installed those child-proof door knobs."
Blake let out a humorous breath after she returned the kiss and raised up, sitting up in the bed, holding the covers over her and Ruby's body, as they were only wearing panties, boxers for Ruby. "I don't think that would have solved the problem, Ruby. She would have just beat on the door until we answered it."
Blake heard Ruby groan in acceptance as she also rose up from her back. Blake then turned to their oldest daughter and smiled. "Cat, it's Christmas Eve. The day before Christmas. We are going to Aunt Yang and Aunt Weiss' house today to spend it with them, remember?"
Their daughter shook her head rapidly, denying what her mother told her. "Nuh-uh! It's Cwistmas! Look out the window, it's smowing today!" Cat jumped up, excited that Christmas came one day earlier.
Ruby and Blake looked to the window on the right of their bed. Since the binds were closed though, they couldn't see outside. Ruby threw her legs out of the covers and reached down to pick up her shirt she left on the floor last night and put it on. After covering herself for her daughter, she got out of bed and walked over to the window blinds and pulled them open.
It really was snowing. Ruby could see Crescent Rose and their SUV covered in snow. The grass and trees were completely blanketed, nothing but a field of white covering their neighbors' houses as well.
As Ruby was taking in the sight, she felt arms encircle her and a warm body press against her back.
"It appears we have a white Christmas…" Blake whispers into Ruby's hair from behind.
Ruby leans back into her wife, putting her head on Blake's shoulder, which was also clothed from the previous day's shirt. Ruby put her left hand over Blake's and curled hers fingers with her wife's. "Mmhm." Ruby responded happily.
Ruby and Blake felt another presence down by their legs as it grabbed Ruby's. They both looked down and Cat was hugging her mothers' leg, staring out the window watching the snow fall. Ruby and Blake both smiled at their daughter, happy to see her so excited for the snow. Ruby picked Cat up in her arms to give her a better view, as this was her first white Christmas.
"What do you think, Cat? Is it pretty?" Ruby asked her daughter as Blake gave both of them a kiss and let go of her wife to change for the day.
For Cat, the kiss was on top of her head. For Ruby, it was on her right shoulder, kissing the shirt above their love mark that Blake made the day they admitted to loving each other. The bite scarred over, but Ruby was happy about it. She said that it was like a constant reminder of their love for one another, so she cherished it. As did Blake.
Ruby smiled at Blake as the faunus went to their closet, and then looked back to her daughter in her arms who started talking.
"It's amazing! Can we make a smowman, Mommy?! Can we?!" Cat asked excitedly. Ruby chuckled as Cat wiggled around, practically vibrating with joy.
"Uh…?" Ruby looked back towards Blake, who was sitting on the bed after getting her clothes. She was pulling her jeans on as she looked to Ruby, smirking. Blake could see the pleading in Ruby's eyes, wanting to build a 'smowman' with their daughter.
"Sure…" Blake agreed. "…But only if Cat promises to wear her winter jacket outside, it's cold!" Blake demanded, not wanting their 3 year old daughter to catch a cold, or worse.
"But it makes me look like a big mawshmewow!" Cat complained. "And it's so heavy!" Cat whined in her mother's arms.
"Oh, come on, baby girl. It's not that bad. Your Momma is right, you should wear it. That, and the gloves." Ruby brushed Cat's mixed hair out of her face as she reasoned with her. "You get to build a 'smowman' and we could have a 'smowball' fight afterwards!" Ruby's negotiating worked as Cat got excited again.
"Otay!" Cat wriggled around in her mother's grasp, wanting down to go put on her gloves and winter jacket, like she was asked.
Ruby let her down but didn't let go of her hand, stopping the hyper little girl in her place. "Cat, we aren't going right this second. We have to check on you sister first." Ruby smiled as Cat got upset again.
"Aww…Fine…" Cat crossed her arms and pouted as she walked over to her Momma and sat down on the bed next to her.
Ruby saw Blake smirking at her again as she finished putting on a black sweater. "What?"
"´Smowball' fight? I'm not sure who the kids are anymore." Blake snickered.
"Oh, come on, Blake! That's how she talks." Ruby whined, trying to defend her childishness.
"That doesn't mean you have to talk like her too, Ruby." Blake laughed as Ruby stomped out of the bedroom.
"Oh, shut-up! I'm going to get Jet up and ready." Ruby yelled, pouting like their 3 year old.
Blake sighed and shook her head at her wife. She then felt a tug on her sweater and looked down. Cat looked at her, confused. "Momma, what are you two talking about?"
Blake pulled Cat into her lap and smiled. "Oh, I was just joking with Mommy. That's not how you're supposed to say snow, sweetie."
"Smow?" Cat tilted her head to the side, wondering what she meant.
"S-no. Can you say that?" Blake tried to correct her, sounding it out.
"Snow?"
"Yes! Now if we can only teach your Mommy!" Blake laughed as Cat giggled, not quite getting the joke.
Blake gestured for Cat to get off her lap as she wanted to get up herself. "Come on, Cat. Let's go check on your sister and Mommy."
"Otay!" Cat jumped off Blake's lap and ran to the door, waiting on her Momma.
Blake and Catherine walked across the upstairs hallway and opened the door to the former nursery, recently turned into a third bedroom for Jet, their 2 year old as of July 30th.
Ruby had just put a new diaper on Jet from changing her. As she glanced at the newly opened doorway, she saw Blake and Cat there coming in to see them. Ruby immediately looked back to Jet as she helped her into her warm pants and tuna decorated sweater. "She had an accident last night. I just changed her, though." Ruby spoke in a basic tone, not the cheery tone Blake was accustomed to.
'So she's still upset?' Blake thought as she walked over beside Ruby and grabbed Jet's little hand and smiled at her. "Hey, Jet."
"Momma!" Jet chirped in a high pitched voice, happy to see her other mother as well. "I had accident!" The 2 year old said, like it was a good thing.
"You sure did. Mommy took care of you though, I see." Blake then snaked her other arm around Ruby and pulled her closer. She whispered into her wife's ear. "I'm sorry, Ruby. You're just too much fun to tease~." Blake kissed her cheek, making Ruby smile and blush at the comment.
Their moment was interrupted by Cat. "Eww! Stop!" Their 3 year old shook her head in disgust at their display.
The couple just smiled at her, finding it funny. Blake then let go of Ruby and her smile grew towards Cat. "Come on, sweetie. Let's go get your clothes on." Blake picked up Cat and smothered her in kisses, giving her the same treatment that she was just grossed out about. Cat's reaction was different however, as the girl started to giggle. Giggling as well, Ruby turned back to her younger daughter, still on the changing table, to finish dressing Jet.
"I'll get this one ready, Ruby. You go get changed after Jet's ready." Blake said as she was at the door with Cat.
Ruby smiled at her wife and nodded. "She's done for now. You can watch her while I get dressed." Ruby picked Jet up off the changing table and carried her. She followed Blake to Cat's room, Jet in her arms, and she put her down on Cat's bed when they walked in the room next door.
Ruby kissed her second daughter on the head and rubbed her black hair as Jet smiled. As Ruby started for the door though, Jet started to cry. "Mommy!?" Ruby rushed back and picked her up in her arms and bounced her slightly.
"Ohh…You're such a fussy britches when you wake up, aren't you?" Ruby said, trying to calm her daughter down. "Shh…I'm here, Jet. I'm here." Jet mumbled quietly as she wrapped her tiny arms around Ruby's neck, cuddling her.
"I guess you're going to have to wait for me to be done with Cat before you can change then." Blake said, getting their oldest out of her PJs and helping her into some pants and a red and black long-sleeve shirt.
"Oh, well. We shouldn't be too late. Even if we are though, they will understand." Ruby says as she sits down with Jet. "Have you heard if Weiss' family is going to be there as well?"
Blake answers her as she finishes getting Cat's shirt on. "Yeah, her father is too busy with work, and her sister and mother are going to be at a luxury island resort to get away from the cold. Weiss said they invited her, but she wasn't going to just ditch us. She said we're her family too." Blake smiled as she finished, happy to have such a big family in her life.
"Aww! Weiss really said that!? That was so sweet!" Ruby squeaked in a high-pitched voice.
"Yeah, well. She also said that she wasn't going anywhere without seeing our kids again. I'm happy she likes Cat and Jet, but I don't know whether it's racism or what, but it's a little awkward seeing her around them. Always scratching behind their ears like they're pets…" Blake looks to the side.
"Oh, come on Blake! Yang is the same way as Weiss. Our kids are just the most adorable things on the planet! You can't really blame them, we act the same way." Ruby argued back with a good point. At that moment, Ruby was absentmindedly scratching Jet's ear, making her purr into her mother's shoulder.
After a moment of staring at Ruby, Blake relented and sighed. "Yeah, you're right. I guess I just…Maybe I'm still not over the Schnee thing."
"You know Weiss' father is trying after Weiss talked to him about it. It's just not easy to change a business like that, especially the Schnee Diamond Company. With him wanting to give equal pay to the faunus workers, he first needs to convince the board. Weiss told us it could be a while." Ruby said as she got up and handed over Jet to Blake, who finished helping Cat get her shoes on.
"I know…I just want it to be over with by the time 'they' are old enough to see these things." Blake looked worried at the top of Jet's head now on her shoulder.
Ruby pulled Blake's attention to herself as she cupped her cheek to turn her head. "Hey, no one is going to mess with our kids. I won't let that happen." Blake had been expecting Ruby to be smiling, but was surprised by the determination in her wife's eyes. She really believed she could protect them from faunus discrimination.
Blake pulled Ruby into a hug as best she could with Jet still in her arms. "Thank you, Ruby."
Ruby giggled slightly as she hugged back. "You don't have to thank me. I want to protect and keep this family safe just as much as you do. I love you three."
"And we love you too, Ruby." Blake kissed Ruby, smiling with tears in her eyes. Ruby wiped them away and gave another kiss on Blake's cheek.
"Let me go get dressed and then we can head over to Yang and Weiss' house." Ruby said before she walked towards the door and went back to their bedroom. Blake carried Jet downstairs, Cat behind her, as they headed towards the door to leave once Ruby was ready.
After slipping on their jackets and coats, they left their house and got in the more family designed vehicle, the SUV, and left to visit the Xiao Long-Schnee house.
They made their way to a slightly richer side of town, as Weiss refused to raise Moonstone in anything less than perfection. That being said, Yang also refused to live in a mansion. So they compromised and bought a very nice, two-story house with a big yard for Moonstone to play on.
As they pulled up in the driveway, they noticed a familiar car was already there.
"Hey, looks like we're the last ones to make it." Ruby said as she put the vehicle in park next to the black sedan.
"Did you really think we wouldn't be? We knew we were running a bit behind, Ruby." Blake asked as she unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the passenger side door.
"Yeah, but dad always causes them to be late to dinner and such. He's such a nut about his hair." Ruby turned the SUV off and got out after Blake, helping with the kids in the back.
"He's Yang's father, she had to have gotten it from somewhere." Blake muttered as she got Cat out of her car seat and put her down so she could walk. She held her hand so the little girl wouldn't bolt off. The 3 year old was so much like Ruby, it was a nightmare keeping an eye on her.
Blake heard Ruby laughing from the other side of the car. "Yeah, that's true. Glad I didn't become that obsessive about my hair like she did." Ruby picked Jet up in her arms and elected to carry her to the house.
Jet could walk of course, but Ruby usually carried her everywhere. She was so attached to her Mommy. Not that Ruby was any better than her. She gladly coddled Jet any chance she got, as Jet reminded Ruby of Blake with their same hair and eye color. Not to mention the faunus ears and tail.
Walking up to the door, Blake nudged Cat forward, allowing her to knock for them seeing as she wanted to. When she did, it took but a moment before someone answered. The door opened and Raven was there, smiling.
"Hey. About time you showed up! How could you let us beat you? We're always the late ones!" Raven then looked down and saw Cat there staring up at her with wide eyes.
"Gwandma Waven!" Catherine made grasping motions for Raven to pick her up and she did.
Raven grunted as she brought Cat into her arms. "Wow, you're getting big kiddo! Or maybe that's just the winter jacket? And don't call me grandma! I'm not that old!" Raven complained to the family. Cat pouted as the jacket was brought up again.
"Whether you are or not doesn't matter, mom. You're still her grandma." Ruby argued with a smile.
"Still, I don't like to be reminded. Grandmas have wrinkles and grey hairs. Do you see any? I didn't think so!" Raven continued to refute her grandma status as she let the family in. She closed the door after Ruby entered last, blocking out the cold of December.
"It's good to see you, mom." Blake said as she hugged Raven over Cat, smooshing her a little.
Blake had started calling Ruby and Yang's parents her own, even before her and Ruby got married. When they heard that Blake was an orphan from birth they demanded that she call them her parents. It was awkward at first, but Blake knew Ruby's parents at that point and already thought of them as family. After a while, she agreed to the proposal of calling them family.
"You too, honey." Raven hugged back, smiling at her fourth daughter.
"Hey, mom. Don't forget about this one!" Ruby says smiling at her Raven.
"How could I forget!?" Raven leaned down towards the small one in Ruby's arms and kissed Jet's head, making her giggle. "Love you, Jet."
"Gwandma." Jet said in her quiet voice, making the unwilling grandma coo a few 'awws' at her cute voice, not caring so much about the grandma naming again.
"I mean, I was talking about not forgetting me, but fine." Ruby pouted, getting left out of the greeting.
"Oh, hush. I don't know how you put up with her, Blake." Raven grins as she hugs Ruby, looking at Blake.
"Well, she's really cute and good in bed." Blake answered with a smirk.
Ruby shrieked and tried to cover the kids' ears as best she could with only two hands. "Blake?! Not in front of my mom and the kids!"
"Ruby, your mom has the driest sense of humor I know of. And the kids don't understand what that means. It's fine." Blake looked down to Cat to see her staring at them with a curious face.
"What does that mean, Momma?" Cat finally asks as she has Blake's attention.
"I mean that I like to sleep in the same bed as Mommy, Cat." Blake knelt down to speak to Cat at eye level.
"Oh, Otay!" Cat just believes her mother as she is too innocent to not believe otherwise.
After Blake gets back up, she looks to Ruby with a 'told you so' smirk.
"Still, I don't want you mentioning that around people. It's embarrassing!" Ruby blushes.
"Ruby, honey, It's a complement. It's much better than being called lame in the sack." Raven explains as she pats Ruby on the back. "Now come on, I think the rest would like to see you." She gestures to the living room hallway and walks towards it after everyone gets their winter clothes off.
Ruby huffs, not liking to be treated like a child by her mom and wife, but carries on with Jet in her arms. "Fine…"
Blake follows her wife as she holds Cat's hand, shaking her head with a smile at Ruby for pouting because she was treated like a child. The family passed the stairway to the second floor, as it was in front of the main entrance to the home and they could hear someone upstairs.
When they walk in the living room, they see a pouting Tai on the couch, alone. The couch was a black leather angle couch. Able to seat 5 people comfortably. It was in the far right corner of the living room with a matching black recliner on the left side of it, near the first entrance to the living room. In front of the couch was a black mahogany coffee table sitting on top of an expensive looking rug. On the wall opposite of the recliner and couch was a 70 inch smart HDTV. There was a big opening on the left side of the living room that led to the dining room as if the two rooms weren't separate, and past that, was the kitchen perpendicular to the living room. There was a commotion happening in there, as people were preparing food. Nothing could be seen however, as a wall was in the way from the kitchen and living room.
Tai was looking sad on the couch, but his pout disappears as he see the family walk up. "Hey! Everyone's here!" The man bolts up and slides on the ground to kneel in front of Cat and scoops her up in his arms, rubbing his trimmed beard against her cheek.
"Hehahah! St-Stop it! It itches!" Cat gets out as she squirms in his grasp. She hugs him back though. "Hey, gwandpa!"
"Hello, my little angel!" Tai pulls his face back to see her smile. "How are you doing?"
"Good! Mommy promised that we could make a sm-snowman today!" Cat cheered excitedly, almost forgetting how it's supposed to be said.
"Sounds like fun! Can I help?" Tai asked smiling at his granddaughter in his arms.
"Sure!"
Tai then looked to the rest of the family, laughing in cheeriness. "She's so adorable!"
"You say that every time, Tai. We know." Raven said, getting a somber smile on her face.
"Well, it's true!" Tai argued with a smile. He sat Cat down and walked over to the rest of his family and hugged them, greeting them all.
"May I?" Tai asked, gesturing to Jet in Ruby's arms, wanting to hold her too.
"Well, Jet? What do you think?" Ruby looked to her daughter, asking if she wanted to be held by her grandpa over Ruby.
"Nu uh!" Jet shook her head, latching on to Ruby's neck harder and burying her face in Ruby's neck.
They all laughed as Tai's shoulders sagged in defeat.
Hearing the commotion, Weiss came into the living room from the kitchen to check what was going on. "Good! You finally made it. Ruby, we could use your help in here, if you don't mind?" Weiss asked as she had a few pieces of food on her face, no doubt Yang's doing.
"Um?" Ruby hesitated as she looked at Jet in her arms. "Sweetie, they could use my help to prepare the food, do you want to play with Moonstone and your sister while I help?" Ruby negotiated with her clingy daughter.
Jet sprang up as he hear Moonstone and smiled. "Moonstone!"
"I guess that's a yes…" Raven smirked at her granddaughter.
Ruby smiled and set Jet down on the couch as Cat was already there, playing with a toy that Moonstone had left out. Ruby looked back to Weiss with a smile. "I can help, but where is Moonstone?"
Weiss was about to answer, but as she saw Tai alone she got angry. "Tai! Where is Moonstone? We told you to watch her while we prepared dinner, what happened?"
The girl in question could be heard coming down the stairs in a rapid pace. She came from the hallway the Rose-Belladonna family just entered and she was holding a toy rapier that she got as an early Christmas present, but she dropped it as she saw the rest of her family.
"Aunt Blake, Aunt Ruby!" Moonstone ran up to both of them and hugged them, she came up to their waists as she was 4 years old. The white haired girl let go after seeing Cat and Jet on the couch and dashed over to them. "You guys are here! Come on, let's go to my room!" Moonstone pulled on Cat's hand to lead her upstairs, but the faunus girl resisted as she looked back to Jet.
"Wait! We need to take Jet." Cat had a serious expression as she was determined to carry her sister up the stairs by herself. She tried to pick her up, but had no such luck as she was about as heavy as she was.
The adults snickered and 'awwed' at the adorable display before them. Blake gave a kiss to Ruby on the cheek, issuing her to help Weiss out in the kitchen, as she was going to handle Jet. "C'mere. I got you sweetie." Blake picked up Jet in her arms as she rubbed Cat's hair, thanking her for being a good big sister. "I'll carry Jet upstairs for you, lead the way Moonstone." The group of kids and Blake went upstairs as Ruby and Weiss went back to the kitchen and Tai and Raven stayed in the living room.
Raven and Tai weren't very good at cooking. They usually left it up to Summer to cook the meals in the house, only helping with simple things like chopping vegetables. They decided to relax with a beer, as they were told not to enter the kitchen, and watch old Christmas movies while they waited on the meal to be done.
Ruby walked into the kitchen and saw the disaster that befell this once clean place. Cake batter was splattered all over the place. Covering the counter tops, the sink, and the refrigerator. Ruby saw Summer putting the dirty whisk in the sink as she glared at Yang.
The girl in question was the most filthy, as she was right in the 'blasting zone'. Yang had cake batter on her clothes and face, even in her hair, which was something to worry about for everyone around.
Yang chuckled nervously as she shrank at her mother's glare. "Hehehe…Ooops?"
Summer groaned and face palmed at her eldest daughter. "Yang, just go get cleaned up. We'll handle it from here, Ok?"
Yang wanted to say no as Weiss and Summer would have trouble getting the food completed in time, but as she started to argue, she stopped once she saw Ruby was here. "Oh, hey sis! I uh…Tried to help…"
"I s-see that, Yang." Ruby chuckled behind her hand at her sister's messy appearance.
"Yeah, yeah. I know I suck…I'll go get cleaned up now. I'm tagging you in, Ruby!" Yang cheered as she passed Ruby, slapping her hand on the way out.
"Hey, mom!" Ruby chirped out after Yang left and walked over to her mother to hug her.
"Hey, dear! It's good to see you! Where's Blake and the kids?" Summer asked as she cleaned the whisk off in the sink.
"Blake took them upstairs to play with Moonstone. She should be down in a little while." Ruby answered as her and Weiss got to work scrubbing the kitchen clean of any cake batter.
"Alright. Well how are you and Blake doing? Are the kids driving you crazy yet?" Summer asked with a smile. "You know we would be happy to look after them at any time for you, right?" Summer got started on mixing the cake batter again, where Yang was last.
"The kids are pretty great actually. Jet is a little clingy, but I happen to like it. As for Cat, she is doing well on her potty training. She's not wearing diapers of any kind anymore. She only had the one slip up early in her training. Since then she's been doing well." Ruby explained as she and Weiss finished cleaning the fridge.
"Um…Weird question, I know, but how do you train Catherine? You know…Which one?" Weiss asks awkwardly, also realizing that she is inadvertently asking her best friend how she pees as well.
"Oh…Uh…Th-The male one. It's easier…" Ruby stuttered through it, as she moved on to the counter tops.
"Ok, awkwardness aside, Weiss do you want to get started on the chickens?" Summer interrupts the conversation, to her daughters' great thanks.
"S-Sure." Weiss gets the two chickens out of the deep freeze and gets them prepared as Ruby finishes on the cleaning.
"I'll get started on the tuna casserole." Ruby says as she walks to the fridge and gets the ingredients ready. Summer, starting on the cake that Yang was previously working on.
Upstairs, Blake let Jet down and she wobbled over to the toy box in Moonstone's room. Cat and Moonstone were already playing with toy, foam weapons, pretending to be amazing heroines who fought crime. After seeing that they let Jet join in as their sidekick, Blake left with a smile, happy to see them getting along.
What she didn't see however, was that Moonstone and Cat started to fight over who got to have Jet as their sidekick. Deciding that Jet could be only one of their sidekicks and not just both, the two battled over the right to have her as their trustworthy teammate.
After a breathtaking battle across the room, Moonstone won, and Cat started to cry. She was brought out of it however, as a little arm tugged at her sleeve and she opened her eyes to see Jet tearing up after seeing her big sister cry.
"Don't cry, kitty." Jet got out through her tears as she wiped them away on her own sleeve.
Cat sniffed up her snot that was dripping with her tears and hugged her little sister, still crying.
Moonstone, feeling left out, joined the hug. After Cat and Jet calmed down some, Moonstone got an idea. "Hey, she can be both of our sidekicks!"
Cat and Jet lit up at the idea. They both agreed and started to fight crime together as a group of three.
After Blake came back downstairs, Tai called out to her as she entered the living room.
"Hey, Blake. Why don't you join the loners who don't know how to cook, you'll fit right in!" Tai joked as he clinked beers with Raven.
"No thanks. Ruby's been teaching me and I've gotten pretty damn good at it, actually. I make a mean mac and cheese!" Blake said the last part in a sarcastic tone, not actually bragging, the others laughing with her. Blake continued after turning them down, into the kitchen, and found Ruby with Weiss and Summer.
She kissed Ruby on the cheek from behind and almost spooked her into dropping a can of tuna.
"Ahh! Oh, Blake. Geeze you scared me!" Ruby put the tuna can down and turned around to give her wife a proper kiss, after smacking her on the arm of course.
"Apparently. Do you need any help here?" Blake asked as she took the hit with a smile and just encircled her arms around Ruby's waist.
"Mmh…I don't know?" Ruby then looked to her mom. "Mom, what else are we making that Blake could do?"
"Well, do you think that she could handle our secret family recipe, Ruby?" Summer smiled at her daughter.
"Definitley!" Ruby nodded her head, liking the idea.
Missing the conversation, Blake was puzzled. "What secret recipe?" She asks Ruby.
"What I've been training you for!" Ruby cheers as she gets excited to tell her wife. "Our secret family recipe for mac and cheese!"
Blake looks at her wife, unamused. "So that's why you suggested we started learning with that?"
"Yeah-huh! The secret ingredient is-…" Ruby started to happily explain, but was cut off by Blake.
"Let me guess…Love?" Blake asked, figuring it was something cliché like that.
"No! Chopped bacon! It's so good, Blake. I made it on our last anniversary. Don't you remember?" Ruby corrected her wife as she got worried Blake might not like it as much as she and the rest of her family do.
"That's what that was? Bacon? I was wondering what you put in that. That was good." Blake remembers the small pieces of, what apparently was, smoked bacon with the cheesy noodles from their last anniversary. It really was good.
"Yep. Summer taught me the recipe a few years ago and Yang and Moonstone eat it like its air." Weiss said as she slipped both chickens in the oven.
"Well, alright then. If you want me to try it, I can." Blake says as she fills a pot of water up and gets a bag of mac ready.
An hour passes and Blake was done with the mixing of ingredients just like Ruby explained to her. Ruby tested it and gave her a thumbs up. Liking the final product. After seeing that she did well, the others were just starting on the last of the dishes and told Blake that she could go relax now.
Taking their advice, Blake got out of their way and went to talk to Raven and Tai while the others finished up in the kitchen.
Weiss' chickens were still cooking and Summer was now working on another dessert besides the cake for the family. A special strawberry pie that Ruby and her kids will love. Thankfully, Weiss had two big ovens able to cook two meals at once. Ruby's casserole was in the other one though, so Summer had to wait with them while the casserole finished. Having time to kill, Ruby starts up a conversation.
"Hey, Weiss. Thanks for getting Blake a job at the station. She really appreciates it. She was worried about how the kids would learn about her last career, even if she won't admit it. She wants Cat and Jet to grow up with a mom who has a normal job, so that the kids don't think that they should try the same thing as her. This job was exactly what Blake was looking for." Ruby explains for Blake as she knows she won't say it.
"Of course, Ruby. Blake is more than welcome at the precinct. She's done excellent at all the tests and she's more than capable at handling crazy people on the phone. After all, she married one." Weiss smirks, wanting to lighten the mood.
"Oh, ha ha. Very funny Weiss. I think my sister's humor is getting to you." Ruby jokes back, smirking after seeing the shocked face on Weiss.
"If I start making puns, shoot me!" Weiss, Ruby, and Summer all laugh, enjoying the family time.
A few hours later and its 4 PM on Christmas Eve.
"Blake! Dinner's ready! Go get the kids, please!" Ruby yells from the kitchen to her wife in the living room.
"Ok, just a second!" Blake gets up from the couch and goes upstairs to get the kids. After retrieving the kids, Blake comes down with Jet in her arms and Cat holding her hand. She sees Tai and Yang carrying the two chickens to the dining table. They set them down in the center and Ruby, Weiss, Summer, and Raven carry in the other dishes to the table.
"Wow! You really out did yourselves, you three! This looks amazing!" Tai said as he reached in to sample the strawberry pie. Ruby smacked his hand and glared at him.
"Dad, wait until we have all taken a seat!"
"Hehehe…Right…" Tai scratched his head nervously.
After getting the kids to sit down, the rest pulled out some chairs and sat together. Raven at the head of the table, Tai to her right and Summer to her left. To Tai's right was Yang, then Moonstone and Weiss at the other end of that side. On Summer's left was Ruby, then Jet and Cat, and at the other head of the table was Blake, between Cat and Weiss.
The family dug in to the expertly cooked meal. The moms started by helping their kids with fixing a plate relative to their size. After the kids were served, everyone was able to enjoy the meal and company to the fullest.
They all felt like they ate way too much. Ruby ate half of the strawberry pie by herself, to the chagrin of her daughters. Blake and the kids ate just about all of the tuna casserole by themselves, only letting Summer get a sliver of it as she enjoyed it too. Everyone got a piece of the chickens, thanking Weiss for the tender and juicy main dish. The first dish to go however, was the mac and cheese that Blake had made. The pot had been picked clean, as everyone knew how good the Rose family mac and cheese tasted. Almost nothing was left of the table of food as everyone ate as much as their bellies would allow.
Moonstone let out a small berp after she was done eating, causing the kids and Ruby and Yang to giggle as it interrupted the silence.
"Moonstone…" Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose, not really scolding her daughter, as she was only 4, she was just embarrassed by it.
That however left her thoughts as Yang gave a loud belch to beat her daughter. "Yang?!" Weiss was then interrupted again, by Tai who wanted to beat his daughter, causing a belch battle at the table. The kids were giggling like mad by the end of it, but it was stopped in its tracks by Raven and Weiss covering Tai and Yang's mouth, wanting it to end.
After everyone calmed down and went back to talking about life, Blake felt a tug on her sleeve. She looked down towards her daughter, Catherine. "What, sweetie?"
"Can we go build a snowman now? Mommy pwomised." Cat asked with her silver eyes glistening.
Blake tried to resist, but the puppy dog pout, or I guess it should be called kitty cat pout, coming from her own daughter was too much. "Ok, but wait for your Mommy and Tai, they are going to help you remember? You also have to wear your jacket and gloves out there, don't forget!" Blake reminded, worried for her daughter.
"Yes, Momma!" Cat hopped down out of the chair and ran over to Ruby to tug on her sleeve too.
"Hmm?" Ruby looked down, not expecting Cat to be out of her chair. She looked to Blake, wondering why that was, but got a smile and nod from her. It was directing her to their daughter.
"Snowman! Snowman!" Cat called out, begging her Mommy.
Ruby smiled and got up. "Ok, Cat. I'm coming."
Tai got up as well, wanting to help out. "Hey, don't forget about grandpa! I'm coming too!"
Moonstone then looked to Weiss, wondering if she could go as well.
Weiss looked to Yang and she had the same expression on her face as their daughter. Rolling her eyes, Weiss relented and followed them out, telling them to put on their coats.
Outside the home, Tai was chasing Cat around the yard with a snowball in his hand. Ruby calmly picked up a snowball of her own and nailed her father in the back of his head. He fell over on his face, in the snow. Cat picked up some snow and dumped it on him, laughing.
Seeing this, everyone who came outside to watch started to laugh with her. Tai eventually got up and smiled too, before laughing the hardest. He quickly pulled Cat into his arms though and 'tortured' her with a snowball to the face as revenge.
Yang and Moonstone were having their own snowball fight, but as Yang called a truce from 'clearly' being outmatched by her daughter, they turned their sights on Tai who had an ally hostage. They pelted him with more snowballs as he covered Cat with his body, making sure that she didn't get hit too.
Ruby walked up to Tai and offered a hand to pick him up. Excepting it after letting Cat go, Tai got up and brushed himself off. "So how about that snowman now?" Tai asked Cat as she jumped up and down, elated to see a snowman built.
Ruby, Yang, Moonstone, and Tai got started on the base as Ruby told Cat to go to her Momma and ask for a carrot for the nose. Running back to the porch, Blake already had the 'nose' ready for her daughter as she ran up to her.
"Here you go. Be careful, you don't fall and drop it, Cat!" Blake warned her daughter with Jet in her arms, worried about her running around in a yard that she's not totally familiar with.
"Otay!" Cat took off though, not slowing down as she ran towards the half built snowman. Blake sighed as she watched her daughter sprint towards Ruby and Tai. She couldn't help the smile that worked its way on her face though, enjoying the sight of her daughter and wife laughing and playing in the snow.
"Why don't you go join them?" Summer cut into Blake's thoughts with the question. As Blake looked to her mother-in-law, Summer explained. "I'm sure Jet wants to join in too, right baby girl?" Summer tickled Jet in Blake's arms and she squealed and writhed.
"Hehehaha! Yes!" Jet managed to get out through her laughing fit.
"Alright then. Leeeet's…Go!" Blake took off with Jet in her arms and made it to the rest. She joined in on making the snowman, letting Jet hold onto the rocks for the face.
"How about you, Weiss?" Summer asks as her, Raven, and Weiss are left on the front porch.
"What? No, I don't really…" Weiss trailed off with her reasoning as she watched her beautiful wife, Yang jump around the snowman with Moonstone, laughing.
"You should go help them, Weiss. They're missing you." Summer coaxed her up with a smile, getting her camera ready.
"…Alright, if you insist." Weiss made her way down to the rest with a smile on her face, joining in on making the snowman. She put the hat on his head, finishing him.
"Hey, everyone! Say Cheese!" Summer shouted from the porch with Raven beside her.
Everyone turned and looked towards Summer. Ruby picking up Jet, Blake getting Cat, and Yang putting Moonstone on her shoulders, all smiling towards Summer as they gathered around the snowman.
Summer took the picture and her and Raven looked at it after it developed. It turned out exactly as expected of Summer. A beautiful family picture to remember this moment.
"What was that for?" Raven asked, thinking it was a random time to snap a picture.
"Oh, just something me and Ruby are working on. We want to remember all the good times in our lives. So I'm taking the pictures and Ruby is drawing them. It's something we came up with a few months ago. We're calling it, "The Best Pieces." What do you think?" Summer turns and looks to her wife.
"I think it's a great idea." Raven puts her arm around Summer and pulls her closer for warmth as they watch their family get into a snowball fight.
It's always warmer with family around for the holidays, even on a white Christmas.
And done! That was incredibly fluffy!
Anyways, that's what the premise of this story is going to be. Summer and Ruby working together to capture the great moments of their family's lives. I didn't include the actual Christmas day because that wasn't when the magic happened. The Rose-Xiao Long family had their Christmas together the next day, but Christmas Eve was when the family had the moment with the picture. Like I said, that's the focus of this new story.
So did you die of fluff overload? Tell me how you pulled through in the reviews, please. And make sure to follow and favorite so you can keep up with the next update! Thanks everyone! Merry Christmas again! I hope you all have wonderful times ahead of you! Peace!