Shadow: slow updates I know, but anywho, this is a modified version of a spin off chapter o had written earlier. I hope you guys enjoy.
Ruby stood at a table. Cite and Thatch stood at opposite side of the table. The room was lit by screens of various regions, with over head lights giving off they're cold light.
Ruby eyes held a grim determination, the bright sliver that sung of kindness and care has dulled greatly, and now told of pain and sorrow
Havoc hanged off her side with Wilt and rose, edges still sharp as if it was still in Jack's hands. Crescent Rose took its place on the hip of her back.
Ruby wore her normal attire with black fingerless gloves. A solid black ring was on her left ring finger, with the mark of the Erebus etched onto it.
"Blood Throne has been completely decimated. There are no survivors." Cite said solemnly, the lose of his great friend and protege still weighing on him.
"And Cinder?" Ruby asked seriously.
"Who's Cinder?" Thatch asked with Blank eyes, his smile not as bright as it used to be.
"Good. If you'll excuse me, I have to take care of Radley." Ruby said walking towards the door.
Cute and Thatch looked to each other. Pity in they're eyes.
"You know Nick, are you sure she's in the right mind?" Thatch questioned, after the steel shut.
Cite nodded, ignoreing the use of his real name. "As long she has something to hold on too, she can lead." He said.
Ruby walked through the crowd with ease as it parted before her with a mixture of fear and respect.
"Mrs Erebus." A man called with a small leaf of papers in his hands
Ruby turned around, hands clasped behind her back. "What is it?" She asked coldly.
The man gulped. "I-I hav-ve the-e pap-pers y-ou orde-ered." He stuttered holding out the papers.
Ruby nodded, took the papers and walked away. The man sighed in relief and then walked away.
Ruby passed Neo, whom was leading a young man who recently recruited. "Who was that?" He asked, infatuation clear in his eyes at the sight of the Beautiful woman.
Neo typed into her scroll. "That was Ruby Erebus, the blade." It said in a female voice.
"Does she have boyfriend?" He asked, as he watched the crowd slowly block his sight.
"The blade had a lover, once. She will never date or marry as she has sworn off romantic love." Neo explained.
"What why!?" The boy asked shocked. "Why would some one as hot as her swear off love? Did her lover hurt her that badly?"
"He was killed in combat with Salem. She has been grieving ever since." Neo explained with a sad look.
"Who was her lover?" The boy asked.
"The previous Blade, Jack Erebus." Neo stated. "He meant a great deal to her, and probably more than we can ever understand."
Ruby entered her room. She laid Crescent Rose on table with a lot of tools. She laid Havoc and Wilt and rose on a table with a picture of Jack and her, on a beach both have happy smiles forever immortalized in ink.
A king sized bed was in the middle with a crib at the foot of the bed.
A wide eyed baby was standing in the crib, gripping the rails. He was a bit pale with black hair and with a mismatching set of eyes, one was sky blue with red flakes, the other was a bright sliver.
Ruby's once hard face softened completely at the sight of her son.
"Mama." Radley called with his little chubby hands in the air towards his mother. "Carry."
Ruby smiled gently and picked up her son.
"Hungry sweetheart?" She asked her son sweetly, a small smile crept onto her lips
"Milk!" Radley said with a toothy smile.
"Okay sweetheart, let's get you some milk." Ruby said. She went to a fridge and brought out a milk bottle. "Do you want it warm?"
"No!" Radley yelled, shaking his head in conjunction.
Ruby laughed. "Must be your father's blood. He always liked the cold." She stated as she gave him the bottle.
Radley garbed the bottle and started to suck on it. After he was done, he let out a loud burp and giggled.
"Dada?" Radley asked with a tilt of his head.
"We already visited your father this week." Ruby said exasperated.
Radley just stared at his mother, clearly having an iron will despite being so young.
"Fine." Ruby said sighing. She unfolded a stroller that was neatly stored in a corner with one hand and placed Radley in the stroller and left the room.
"Ruby!" A man called with a gigantic smile on his face.
Already knowing about the list he has for her, she gave a glare that froze him in his tracks. Ruby then continued on like nothing happened.
"You have to give up on wooing her, she'll never love you ever." said a passing operative.
"Just because her idiot lover died doesn't mean it should ruin other men chances with her." The man stated.
The passing operative stoped and snarled. "And you shouldn't diss the previous blade, she has killed people like you for lesser offenses."
Ruby entered an elevator that was flanked by heavily armored guards. Giving a slight nod to the guards, entered the elevator.
She pressed a button and it started to go down. Radley, not bothered by his mother's sadness, babbled loudly as the elevator reached the bottom.
The elevators opened up and revealed a room with a glass wall.
Ruby pushed her son's stroller in and then pushed it to the side and picked up her son.
"Dada!" Radley yelled happily, senesing his father, his blue eye turned blood red and his sliver eye dulling a bit.
Ruby smiled sadly and walked over to a keypad with her son in one arm and typed in a fifty digit code.
The glass wall went up and the lights turned on. A Grimm version of Ruby's husband was standing in the center of the room,
"Jack, play with your son gently." Ruby commanded sadly and the edge of tears.
Ruby gave Radley to Jack who started to gently play with his son like a normal father would, only mute and without any expressions.
Ruby's eyes misted as she watched. Jack tickled with normal hands. Radley laughed as he was tickled by his dead father.
Ruby fell to her knees and started to sob uncontrollably.
After a while Radley yawned and Ruby had no more tears. "Stop, give me Radley." Ruby commanded.
Jack gave back Radley without delay.
Ruby hesitated leaving, conflict raging in her before she shakily kissed the corpse of her husband and walked away and shut the glass gate behind her.
Radley, waved at his father knowingly, despite his rather tender age, that he won't see his father for awhile. Unseen by the Ruby, the corner of Jack's mouth titled upward, the slightest light of life, flashed in his eyes.