This time, when Ruby sat on that same bench at that same airport, by that same fountain and those same bushes, things were different.
This time, she wasn't afraid. She was nervous, and excited, and happy beyond belief, but she wasn't afraid.
Streams of people were riding down the escalator, and her heart leapt into her throat as she spotted a shock of white hair among all the browns, blacks, and yellows.
This time, she ran to Weiss, wrapped the other girl in her arms, and kissed her without any hesitation. And Weiss, even though she managed to look suitably embarrassed, kissed her back.
And Ruby was happier than she could ever remember being. Because this time, Weiss was here to stay.
"I swear you love that dog more than me," Ruby complained.
"I do not," Weiss replied, as she scratched Eins behind the ears, grinning as he tilted his head into her hand and wagged his tail.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm sitting here, on this couch, alone. Eins is in your lap, not me."
"Don't be so melodramatic Ruby. At the end of the day he's a dog. And you're my girlfriend."
"Sure doesn't seem like it sometimes..." Ruby muttered. She was indeed on the couch, in the living room of their shared house in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It was more a log cabin than a house though, the walls and roof being constructed of tan cedar logs. But it certainly wasn't run-down, or anywhere close to the common stereotypes of a log cabin in the mountains. Weiss' money had seen to that.
The fire in the hearth was warm and the room was light and welcoming, the couches and chairs were soft and the hot chocolate was delicious.
"Oh yes," Ruby thought, as she took a sip from her mug. "The hot chocolate is definitely delicious."
She looked out the window to her left, watching the way the snow outside swirled and streamed through the dark of the night. It must have been terribly cold outside, but here, with her best friend turned girlfriend, she was warm.
She was still working on getting the degrees she needed to be an astronomer, to satisfy her insatiable curiosity with some knowledge of what lay beyond their world, up in the stygian, abyssal heavens above. And Weiss was still being trained to take over her father's position as head of Schnee Oil. But fortunately for her, the courses she was taking and the work she was doing could be done completely online. So she had asked Ruby, her girlfriend of almost two years if she wanted to get a place with her, the brunette had accepted with a huge grin, an excited shout, and without a single second of hesitation.
To Ruby's surprise though, instead of a condo or apartment in the city or a house in Alaska, the heiress had a log cabin built in Ruby's home state of Colorado. Weiss explained that she knew how attached Ruby was to the mountains of her home, and wanted to experience something different than the frozen north. So with her father's permission and blessing - it had been her birthday after all, when she had asked - she had paid for a brand new house to be constructed in the Rocky Mountains. Close enough to civilization to be comfortable, yet remote enough away to feel like it was just the two of them in the whole wide world.
Returning to the real world, she turned back to glance at Weiss, and caught the oil company heiress staring at her with a mix of regret and trepidation. Weiss then frowned, and gently pushed the German Shepard off of her lap, who quickly trotted over to his bed by the fireplace and curled up on it.
She stood up and strode across the room to Ruby, who was entranced as ever by the white-haired heiress' beauty and grace. Her hair streamed down her back like a curtain of silver, her ice-blue eyes glimmered in the light of the fire, and the smirk she wore worked with the scar over her right eye to made her striking features all the more stark and gorgeous, the same way a frozen forest in wintertime is still and beautiful beyond compare.
Ruby couldn't help but smile gently, as Weiss walked over to her with the grace of a snow leopard and promptly sat down in her lap. The brunette set down her mug and wrapped her arms around the heiress, who hummed contentedly and returned the embrace.
"I do not love that dog more than you, Ruby Rose," Weiss whispered, "because I love you more than anything in this world and beyond."
"Ooh," Ruby chuckled. "I love it when you get all romantic like this. It's like a different side of you."
"Well you'd better appreciate it, because you're the only one who gets to see me like this."
"Oh I appreciate it alright," Ruby replied. She grasped Weiss gently by the chin, then pressed their lips together softly, slowly. The heiress tasted like vanilla, mixed with the sweetest cream and the richest sugar. Weiss moaned into the kiss, returning it with equal passion as they fell backwards onto the couch. The heiress ended up on top, as she usually did. Then she drew back slightly, hovering a few inches above her taller girlfriend.
They stared into eachother's eyes, neither one willing to break the glimpse they had into the windows of eachother's souls. Ruby smiled, Weiss smiled back, and Ruby's heart melted and took off into the sky at the same time. She felt her breathing grow shallow and irregular, and could hear the heiress' doing the same.
Her eyes fluttered shut as Weiss bent down and grazed her teeth along her neck, gasping as her girlfriend gently suckled on the sensitive skin, at the same time running her thin fingers through the brunette's red-streaked hair.
Being this close to another human being, to Weiss, was beyond any and all description. So many emotions ran through her all at once, and she drowned in bliss and pleasure as she lost herself to Weiss' gentle touches and lingering kisses. The sheer intimacy of it all was purely overwhelming.
Then Weiss slipped her hands around Ruby's back and under her crimson sweater, dragging her fingernails up the brunette's back as gently as she could. Fire shot up her spine, her eyes fluttered shut, and she would have moaned even louder if her words were not cut off by Weiss' lips over her own.
As Weiss pushed her sweater up over her head and off of her body, she faded into a world of heat and passion that still felt new, and was yet warm and familiar at the same time. She lost herself to Weiss, completely and totally, surrendering her body and baring her soul to the other girl. And she knew Weiss was doing the same.
Almost an hour later as they lay together on the couch, naked except for a fluffy brown blanket and the body heat they shared, she tightened her arms around Weiss' waist and drew her closer.
She placed her lips on the other girl's ear, whispering those three little words that set her own heart aflame and always made the heiress blush and shudder in the cutest way possible.
"I love you too," Weiss whispered back. Her voice seemed to envelop Ruby's entire being, making her heart skip a beat and her cheeks flush with heat.
And as the cold air and snow swirled around outside the cabin, the fire crackled and blazed, and Eins slept peacefully in his bed. And they were together.
Just the two of them, with nothing between them but bare skin and soft touches, and gentle whispers that somehow filled the room and the spaces in their hearts that they kept open for eachother.
Ruby had never believed in heaven, and neither had Weiss. One had stopped believing after her parents had died, and the other was too much of a realist to wonder about anything other than the world she could touch and feel.
But as the night drew on and the wind howled outside, they found their heaven in eachother.
I ended the story kind of sudden, so here's this. Fluffy enough for you?