Shadows: A Tauradonna Collection

Drabble: She is not a random game

Rating: K

Summary: On their free day, the members of the White Fang spend their day resting and relaxing with their friends and fellow brothers of the organization. Adam is an amateur to the random games with their same rank brothers and the bets get higher and higher. Will Adam have the luck he needs to win the game?

Guest reviews (The others are answered Via PM):

Guest: How about an AU where Blake is pregnant?

Consider it added to the list. I hadn't planned anything involving paternity or children and it will be a challenge I accept. I will post it after I end posting the drabbles that I already have written.

Miko: Hello! I'm glad to hear from other Tauradonna shippers that enjoy this kind of content.

Moonbreeze3: I know, right? There are not a lot of Tauradonna stories and there are a lot of crack pairings that people write more instead of writing anthologies or about relationships between characters that actually interacted. Glad I know another fellow shipper.

Any requests and petitions and are welcome!

Sunday, the free day of the White Fang members on the Headquarters. The faunus rested during the morning, recovering all the lost sleep due to the training of the week. Then on the afternoons some of them went to the city or stayed in relaxing or interacting with their brothers and sisters in the organization. Blake wasn't an exception to this rule, she woke up near the midday and spent the afternoon reading peacefully in her shared room with Ilia. Sometimes she would accompany Amitola to the city but she disliked having to hide her faunus traits so on that occasion she rejected the invitation and stayed on the headquarter.

Blake was in a good mood so she decided to go outside her room and join the other trainees in the dining room. Most of the people were on the tables eating, chatting or playing board games but she decided to go to the bottom of the room, where there were big sofas perfect to lay in and read peacefully near the fireplace. The ambiance was not as peaceful as her room but she learned to go out of her comfort zone in order to make new friends and to not be the antisocial type. She ordered some tea and sat on a corner of the sofa, the most near to the fireplace as possible. Then opened her book to catch up on the new chapter.

Meanwhile, on the other side near the fireplace, Adam was playing Parcheesi and making bets with high quantities of money with other members of his same rank. He had seen his pupil by the corner of his eye, she was sitting on the sofa trying to read but possibly she wasn't. He smiled seeing how she was putting some effort to be one more of the organization and trying to socialize.

Adam looked at his watch, it was nearly time to supper. The dining room should be clean before dinner.

"I'm afraid this is the last round, gentleman." He announced.

"You haven't been lucky, Taurus. Ready to lose?" Said the lieutenant betting all the money he had collected.

Adam just smirked and also betted his remaining money, the other players did the same. This would be the definitive round. Everyone was focused on the game to win the pot, more lien than all of them together could win in a month.

Blake due to her cat ears couldn't help but hear the guy's conversation and bets. When the game started they began to be too noisy, she couldn't even focus on her reading. She tried to be tolerant for a while, but her head started hurting due to the effort she was doing to read.

"If Taurus rolls a five he will win the pot!" Yelled the lieutenant.

"You need a lucky charm, Taurus." Commented another player.

Belladonna, tired by the obnoxious yells of the men, got up from the sofa and went to the table.

"Excuse me." Started Blake, but was ignored. "Some of us find unnecessary shouting-..." Adam caught her by the waist with his arm.

Blowing the dice was considered a ritual for good luck on the Parcheesi, and Blake couldn't have arrived in a better moment. The last game, the decisive throw.

"Belladonna, you will have the honor to blow this throw." The bull faunus approached the dice to her lips.

"If I do it, will you stop shouting?" Taurus nodded. "Well, then."

His partner blew softly at the dice and he rolled it. The dice fell to the table, showing a triumphant five. Thanks to that, Taurus had won all the money his partners had bet. The players started shouting again, Adam included. The cat faunus gave up and left the dining room, she would continue reading in her room.

Adam collected all the lien he had won and left the game, being the absolute winner of the Parcheesi. He noticed that Blake was gone so he left the dining room to find her. He knew she would be locked inside her shared bedroom, he also knew that Amitola was in the city and she wouldn't return until midnight. So Blake would be alone. He knocked on the door and waited for permission to enter. He heard Blake muttering an answer so he came in.

The cat faunus was laying on the bed, reading peacefully.

"Today I've won a lot of money thanks to you, my darling."

Blake finished her reading and got up to leave the book on the bookshelf. Her hands were shaky, Adam's presence made her shiver.

"Not thanks to me, Parcheesi it's a random game." She objected.

Taurus got closer to her, almost cornering her between him and the shelf. Blake's heart started racing and heavily beating.

"I'd like to show you my gratitude so I've thought about inviting you to a dinner."

Blake tried to control her emotions, Adam's proximity was overwhelming for her. She wasn't used to interacting with boys and less to spend time alone with them. The only thought of being on a dinner with him on a restaurant, like a date, made her blush and swat nervously. Not that she didn't wish it.

"That's not necessary, you owe me nothing."

Taurus put his hands between her head and took off his Grimm mask. Belladonna stated hypnotized at his handsome face, not that she hadn't seen it before but he still amazed her.

"It's just an excuse to invite you out." He confessed.

His hands went to her cheek and caressed it softly, his eyes observing carefully if she bothered that contact. She didn't seem to care, she even got closer to him.

"Are you flirting with me?" Finally managed to speak the cat faunus.

"Well, it's about time you noticed."

This first drabble was flirting themed but the other may show a more advanced state of their romantic relationship.

I have another Christmas themed but I don't know if I'll wait to post it until December. Otherwise, I have more drabbles planned meanwhile.

Remember that I accept ideas and petitions for future drabbles and all reviews are welcome, I love to read the readers and fellow shippers opinions.

Please, I'd like to hear which kind of content do you want or prefer: fluff, smut, romance... So I can guide my ideas for future drabbles. All reviews are welcome!

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