Ruby blinked and suddenly two months had passed. She sat at her desk in her office staring out the window, her cheek resting in her palm as she absently tapped away with her pen at the paper work in front of her.

Had it really been two months?

She mumbled to herself as she did a mental backtrack of everything that had happened to her since Yang had told her about the promotion, wondering where she'd slipped into a coma for a month and a half.

"You know paper work doesn't do itself Ruby." A soft voice said from the door way, breaking Ruby out of her daydreaming.

She lazily cast her silver eyes over to the man at the door. "Well not with that attitude." She commented as Jaune walked into her office, another stack of paper work under one arm.

He chuckled a little at the joke as he set the folder down on his desk. "Just got the latest supply order in from HQ, should be fine but I know how you like to double check everything." He said. Ruby nodded as she set the folder to one side and began filling out the paper work in front of her, signing off dates and names.

She sighed to herself as she put the last of it away. "Oh God I hate paper work." She moaned as she stretched her back in her chair.

Jaune shrugged as he began gathering up the finished paper work. "Well it's all part of the job." He said. "Besides, it's only two days a week at most. I on the other hand am her 50 hours a week making sure everything's all organised and tying up the loose ends."

Ruby sighed as she picked up the inventory folder and headed for the door, Jaune right behind her.

"I know it's nothing bad," Ruby said as she flicked through order forms and recites and delivery documents. "But I'm still allowed to not like it." She said, "It's not exactly why I became a hunter in the first place."

Jaune shrugged as he passed off the paper work ruby had completed to one of the many office workers walking about.

"I don't think anybody enters this because of the paper work." Jaune said.

Ruby shrugged as she went through form after form. "Everything seems to be in order." She said as she het the call button on the elevator to take them down to the loading dock.

The elevator doors opened as Ruby slumped against the far wall heavily as she pressed the button to take them down, a slight sigh escaping her lips.

"Something wrong?" Jaune asked.

Ruby cast him a glance, silently contemplating weather or not to say anything to him, eventually she caved, she was only going to be there for another ten months but she figured she should at the very least open up to the man on a more social level, if only to make the next ten months more bearable.

"Not really," She said unconvincingly.

Jaune smiled as he leant back against the far wall. "Come on, we both know that's a lie." Jaune said with a half-smile. "What's on your mind?"

"I'm bored," She admitted.

"You're bored?" Jaune asked, sounding a little unconvinced with her answer. "What do you mean bored?"

Ruby struggled with her answer, having trouble pinning down exactly why she was bored. "Well partially it's a lot of little things that keep adding up, but mainly I just don't have anything to do here. Hell I was actually excited about coming in today because it meant I had something to do." She told him. "No offence but this place is seriously dull, hell I actually had a whole week off last week, a whole week, while on call, I've barely had a day to myself before this." She said sounding a little frustrated.

Jaune shrugged, "Well sorry to hear that," He said evenly, "I guess a little city like this is nothing like central Vale huh?"

Ruby just sighed all the more. "The real problem is that Yang gave me this post to let me take my mind off stuff and yet I've found myself just sitting at home doing the exact opposite." She said as the door's opened and the two of them walked into the loading doc.

Jaune offered her a sympathetic smile. "Well me and a few other people are going to be hitting the pub up after work tonight; you might as well join us." He said.

"I don't know," Ruby said uncertainly.

"Too bad," Jaune said, "I've decided you're going along even if I have to call in a response team." Jaune said.

Ruby spun on her heal and looked at him. "And since when do you give me orders?" She asked in her commanding tone.

Jaune raised an eyebrow. "Since now," He said in a casual tone. "You just admitted that you're feeling bored so you can either; come along and have a good time or you can fight off a response team. I think you'll have fun either way." He said.

Ruby went to give a counter argument when she realised she didn't have one. It was either go out and be social or sit at home with a bucket of ice cream and bad TV and working it all off at the gym the next morning.

With a sigh she gave up. "Okay fine, you win. When and where?" She asked.

Jaune allowed a smile to cross his features. "O'Hallerens on fifth at seven." He told her.

Ruby nodded. "Okay then I'll see you there, then." She said as she began walking for the lift.

"Hey, wait, where are you going?" Jaune asked.

"I have some things I need to get done, see you later." She called from the elevator.

Ruby was on her third lap of the block, once again nearing the door of the pub Jaune and the others were going to be. She'd already mentally bailed twice only to psych herself out of it as she worked her way around the block.

She had no idea why she was so nervous about this. She'd done it tones of times before, but it was always the first that scared her the most.

However it seemed third time was the charm as she finally managed to walk up to the door and open it, if only because there was a small group of people behind her and she felt too embarrassed to fake out again in front of them.

Walking into the bar wasn't all that intense of frightening, but Ruby had a way of over complicating social situations.

She scanned the bar a few times before she noticed Jaune and a few other people sitting in a booth towards the back.

She took a deep breath as she walked over to them, checking her appearance in the mirror behind the bar.

She was dressed casually in baggy pants and shirt, a very punk attire to say the least.

"Hey," Ruby said, trying to hide her nervousness as she walked up to the table.

"Hey Ruby," Jaune said with a smile as he shuffled over to make room for her. There were six of them in total and Jaune introduced her to each of them in turn.

"Ruby this is Dale, he works in accounting." He said indicating to the scruffy bearded man next to him. "That's Mort, he works in records. And next to him is Hal, he works in analysis." He said pointing to a pair of sandy blond twins.

It was the two at the other end of the booth that seemed most interesting. She'd seen them before, read their files but she'd never actually met them.

Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren.

They were Hunters in training, finishing their final year they were given their first proper assignment. She didn't even know they were here yet.

"Nice to meet you," Ruby said before sitting down next to Jaune. The group shuffled over a bit to make sure she had room as the others resumed their conversation.

For the most part she only added a sentence here and there, enough to be social but not enough to get her too involved in the conversation. Allowing her to be there without really being there.

However eventually as she knew they must things eventually turned to Ruby. As the new hunter of the area she was somewhat of a mystery. Even though on average a hunter was a rare sight at the office Ruby had been particularly elusive for the last two months.

"So Ms Rose, what brings you to our neck of the woods?" Nora asked.

"Huh?" Ruby murmured, only half listening.

"Why'd you transfer to here?" She elaborated.

"Oh, that, uh, it was kind of my sisters idea." She said.

"Your sisters?" Ren asked.

"Yea, she said I needed some time away from Vale so she assigned me this post." Ruby told him.

"Who is your sister?" Nora asked excitedly.

"Yang Xiao Long," Ruby told her.

"Really?!" She burst out excitedly. Ruby could see the million and one questions about to burst out of the girl in a un-organised mass of sounds but before the girl could start Ren cut her off, much to ruby's relief.

"If you don't mind my asking Ms. Rose, why'd she send you here?" Ren asked, putting a hand on Nora's shoulder to calm her down.

Ruby began to blush as she looked down at her hands and immediately started to play with her fingers.

"It's Ruby," She said a little flustered. "And it's kind of embarrassing actually."

Nora's eyes once again lit up as she couldn't help but pry.

"She doesn't have to say if she doesn't want to." Jaune said a little forcefully, making Nora quiet down.

Ruby smiled. "It's okay," She said as she looked up at nothing in particular. "It was just a bad break up really. Yang sent me out here so I could have some time to clear my head."

"Was it that bad?" Ren asked.

Ruby shook her head as she continued to look up at the roof. "Not really." She said as she took a sip of beer. "It's just that we were together a long time and it was my first real relationship so when it all fell apart I was just a bit...out of it."

"What was his name?" Nora asked before anyone could stop her.

"Her name was Weiss." Ruby said with a happy smile as she thought about the white haired woman.

There was a moment of silence as Ruby said it, none of the others knowing quite how to react to the news.

"Her?" Nora said. "So you're a-." She began before Ren cut her off.

She smiled as she looked at the two. "It's okay Ren." She said making the black haired boy relax a little before she turned to Nora. "Yes I am a lesbian if that's what you're about to ask."

Nora blushed a little as she looked at the table.

"So when you say Weiss. You don't mean Weiss Schnee do you?" Jaune asked after a moment.

Ruby nodded. "The one and only."

The others at the table all started at her.

"You dated the Heiress to the Schnee dust company?" Ren asked, a little shocked.

Ruby nodded. "Uh-huh," she said with a smile. "For about four years. Though we were sought of dancing around each other for a while before that."

"S-so why did you break up?" Nora asked a little hesitantly.

Ruby shrugged. "It was a bunch of things really." She said as she once again began staring off into space. "When it was just us things were perfect, but those moments were few and far between, I was going through training and Weiss was moving up within the company, we started seeing each other less and less, even though we lived together and we spent just as much time arguing as anything else. Eventually we just decided that it wasn't working. I mean it's not like we hated each other or anything like that, the break up was mutual and we talked about it like adults, which was nice, we just didn't have the same spark we used to. I still love her but we just don't work well together. So after that she moved back in worth her family and I moved back in with Yang, I guess after a while she got sick of me moping around the house in my spare time so she sent me over here."

The others all looked at her, a little shocked at how casually she had shared such personal information, but for Ruby it was about copping. She knew she'd never really get over Weiss if she couldn't talk about it.

Sensing the awkwardness on the rise Juan deftly deflected the conversation onto Ren and Nora and began querying them on why they had become Hunters.

The night went by at a comforting place as they drank and ate and generally had a good time. Ruby laughed along with the lot of them as they joked about this and that and talked about work.

It was near 11 when Ruby's phone went off.

"One sec guys." Ruby said as she held her phone to here year.

"This is Rose." She said.

"Ms Rose there is an emergency down two. Confirmed three Semblance users. The response team needs help." The operator told her.

Ruby's expression changed in an instant. "Roger that, I'll be there in ten, tell them to hold tight."

Her sudden change had gotten every ones attention. As she stood up she turned to Ren and Nora. "You two load up. There's a problem down town." She told them.

They nodded and stood up. Ren looking as passive as ever while Nora looked like it was her birthday.

"Hey Ruby are you sure, they're yet to be-." Jaune began.

"They're here and they're Hunters." She told him. "It's their job and there's no better way to test them then in the field." She said as she turned to the two of them. "Let's go. You're scrolls should have all the information you need." They nodded as the three of them made for the door. Jaune and the others also got up to leave.

Ruby had taken all of two steps before she ran into someone. There was the sound of breaking glass as Ruby tumbled to the ground with someone, alcohol and ice going everywhere.

There was a general commotion as the two fell to the ground, Ren and Nora tried to help but she waved them off. "Get going I'll catch up." She said as she forced herself up, wiping what alcohol she could off of her clothes. "Look I'm really sorry about that." she said as she turned to look at who she'd run into.

The woman didn't look all too pleased and ignored Ruby's hand as she stood up looking at her own out-fit.

Ruby blushed as she looked into the annoyed amber eyes of the other woman. She went to say something but before she could even formulate a word Ruby shoved a handful of cash into the woman's hand.

"Look I'm really sorry about that, and I'm sorry about this but I really do have to run. I'm sorry about that, but this should cover the cleaning bill hope you have a good night." Ruby blathered as she bolted from the door, leaving the perplexed woman standing there with a rather large sum of money.

Ruby arrived on sight with Ren and Nora a few minutes later. There were three perpetrators keeping the response team at bay with a mixture of heavy fire power and their own semblances. From behind the red face mask Ruby turned to Ren and Nora.

She dug her Scythe into the wall next to her and stood on it, casually leaning against the wall.

"All right kids, show me what you got." Ruby said.

The two stood there for a moment before they exchanged looks.

"You sure?" Ren asked.

Ruby nodded. "You'll be fine, and if things go wrong I'll bail you out. You're here to learn, and this is the best way. So hurry up, the response team needs help."

Ren and Nora nodded before looking at each other again as if speaking telepathically. A moment later they burst into action.

From the roof Ruby watched on approvingly.

"Not bad, not bad at all." She mumbled to herself as Ren and Nora made short work of the three perpetrators.

Ruby sighed to herself as she walked into her usual coffee shop. The mission last night had been easy but the paper work had been annoying to say the least. Especially since she had to have it all in within two hours of the event meaning Nora, Ren and Herself had had to head back to the office to fill out all the necessary forms.

And as expected she'd been on call the rest of the night with the two of them doing all the minor work that came with being a hunter. She hadn't slept all night and she desperately needed a coffee before she faced her last day of dreaded paper work for the week.

She yawned as she walked into the coffee shop, coming face to face with a familiar set of amber eyes.

Ruby stared at the other woman for a moment perplexed, her sleep deprived mind tried to remember where she'd seen them before.

The eyes became more annoyed as Ruby continued to stare at them and then it all came back to her. With a start Ruby jumped back a deep blush coming to her face.

"H-hey." She said meekly.

The woman didn't seemed too please with her.

"Hey," She muttered irritably as she made her way past Ruby.

Ruby stood there awkwardly as several patrons looked on in interest. Ruby forced herself to take a deep breath before she followed the woman out of the café.

"H-hay, wait." Ruby called out.

The woman sighed in irritation as she turned to face Ruby. Now that she actually had time to look at her, Ruby realised just how beautiful to woman was. Deep amber eyes, complimented nicely with purple eyeliner, a black bow, vest and black and purple leggings.

She gave Ruby an annoyed glare which was supposed to scare her off, something that would have normally worked but in her sleep deprived state Ruby missed the intent.

"Look, uh, about last night, I am really sorry about what happened." She said sheepishly. "I know it was rude of me to just knock you over and bolt like that, a-and I-I'd like to make it up to you if I can." She mumbled.

With woman raised an eyebrow. "Make it up to me?" She repeated surprised by what Ruby was saying.

"Y-yea," Ruby muttered. "I mean it w-was rude of me to do what I did, and I do feel bad about it." She said not realising she was repeating herself.

"And how would you make it up to me?" The woman asked her.

"W-well," Ruby began as he nervously played with her hands "I really feel like I should pay for your dry cleaning and I owe you another drink."

Despite how annoyed she had been mere moments ago the other woman smiled softly at the remark as she reached into her hand bag. "Well you already did that." She said with sly grin. "In fact I probably have enough here to pay for all my drinking and dry-cleaning for the rest of the year." She held up the substantial wad of cash for Ruby to see and Ruby felt her heart sink as she saw just how much she'd handed over to the other woman.

"Though," She continued at length. "I do think this was a bit much." She said before tossing the money back at Ruby. "I already paid for the dry cleaning, I'm actually glad I ran into you, I felt bad about keep all that money."

Ruby smiled weakly as she slipped the money back into her wallet. "T-thanks for that, a-and again, really sorry."

The woman smiled at her. "It's okay," She said.

Ruby relaxed a little bit, safe in the knowledge that the other woman was no longer mad at her. However she felt the all too familiar butterflies in her stomach. Butterflies she had first felt when she had met Weiss all those years ago.

"So tell me." The Woman said after a long pause. "How would you make it up to me?"

Ruby was silent for a moment. "W-well I guess I could take you out to dinner…" She mumbled.

The woman raised an eyebrow at her.

"Or drinks!" Ruby burst out hurriedly. "Yea that; drinks!" She said in an almost panicked voice.

The woman looked at her confused before smiled. "Okay then, meet me at O'Hallerens at seven, and don't be late." She said as she began walking off.

Ruby couldn't help but smile at the turn of events. At best she had hoped the woman would have accepted some form of apology, but instead she got a date.

Well not a date. Ruby corrected herself. Just a chance to make it up to her.

"Hey wait!" Ruby called out just before the black haired woman disappeared. "I didn't get your name!"

The woman offered her a smirk. A smirk that made Ruby's stomach do a flip and made her cheeks turn red.

"It's Blake." She replied before she walked off.

Ruby smiled to herself as she turned around. "Blake huh, that's a cute name."

With a new found energy Ruby ordered her coffee and called Jaune.

"Hey Ruby." Jaune answered chipper-ly.

"Hey Jaune, I won't be in today." Ruby said as she made her way home.

"What why?" Jaune asked a little surprised.

"I have a thing," Ruby answered.

"You…have a thing…?" Jaune replied befuddled. "…What?!"

"Well I've got plans for tonight." Ruby elaborated.

"And plans for tonight stop you from coming in today because?" Jaune left his sentence hanging.

Ruby sighed. "Jaune in the last 30 hours I've slept about two, and know I've got, well it's not really a date, more of an apology, but that's not the point." Ruby went on incoherently for another minute or so before Jaune spoke up.

"Yea okay Ruby, point made." Jaune said. "But you still have paperwork to do." He said.

Ruby sighed. "I know, but I can do that tomorrow. As long as it's done by weeks end I'm set , there is not set I have to be in these days thing going."

Jaune sighed in defeat. "Yea okay, you win. Get some sleep and have fun on your date."

"Don't jinx it!"

Jaune only laughed.

S'up friendlies.

Sorry this update took so long, I've been lazy among other things.

Hope this tides you over till I've added more stuff.

Until next time I Wish you all the best.
Yours truly.
Nicolai Grey.