RWBY: Ever After

"Just what comes after happily ever after?"

Chapter 4

"Oh Clem, you're supposed to drink the milk to wear it." Oscar couldn't help but smile as he wiped the stray drops of the liquid that dribbled down his daughter's chin. She was absolutely adorable in his totally-non-biased opinion. Clementine Rose was only a month old but he had been wrapped around her little fingers for much longer. He was already in love with her from the moment Ruby told him they were going to have a family of their own.

"Want me to tell you a story?" Oscar asked as he set the now empty bottle down and then leaned back onto the porch swing, enjoying the lingering summer breezes in mid-September. The little baby just cooed at him in response, her hazel eyes not focusing on anything in particular. "I suppose I would just be talking to myself, but I think I'm going to tell you anyway."

Oscar and Ruby had been doing the dishes after dinner that night. It was a fairly routine procedure for them- Ruby washed while Oscar dried and put away. It was a time they spent with just the two of them, something they hadn't really gotten to do in a while. Especially since they had just had Qrow and Taiyang over for dinner. The two men had left though shortly after as Tai still wanted to check in with Yang and Ilia before he headed home and Qrow didn't want to cause them to break a ton of dishes like his semblence had done last time.

Strangely though, the time was also spent mostly in silence. It wasn't uncomfortable but there was a heaviness in the air Oscar hadn't expected. It just continued like that until they were done with the big pots and pans and onto the china and silverware.

"Hey, Oscar," Ruby finally spoke up.

"Yes, dear?" Oscar replied as he placed a plate on a dish rack to dry completely.

"How would you feel about starting a family?"

Oscar shouldn't have been as surprised by the question as he was. All of their friends had started to have children of their own, and with recently finding out that neither Ilia or Yang could have children it had set the youngest couple on edge. He had finished his own time at the newly reformed beacon academy last year, graduating early at twenty-one instead of the usual twenty-two. It helped he still retained all of Ozpin's memories despite the old wizard's soul having finally moved on.

"I would love to have a family," Oscar stated simply. He couldn't think of a reason for them not to have a family. They were financially well-off, had been married for almost three years, and most importantly both of them had talked for years when they started dating how excited they were to have a family of their own. "You always said how you wanted to be a mother since you couldn't remember your own and my parents died when I was younger so I always wanted a family of my own too. I don't see why we shouldn't go ahead and start a family."

Ruby let out a sigh of relief and Oscar smiled a little. Had she really been that nervous about him saying he didn't want one yet? "I'm so glad," Ruby finally stated and smiled at him her bright smile that had taken his breath away since he was fourteen years old. "Because I'm pregnant."

CRASH

Oscar, without realizing it, had dropped the plate he was drying at the sound of his wife's confession. His mind was racing, a father, he was going to be a father? He could remember the other's reactions to being parents. Lie had kissed Nora senseless when she announced the pregnancy last year at a big group dinner. Sun and lifted Blake in the air and spun her around, or so he said. Jaune had held Weiss and reassured her that it was going to be great, that he wasn't going to leave her and that she would be an amazing mother.

And what does Oscar do?

He started crying.

"Oscar, are you alright? I know it's a bit sudden but I wasn't feeling well in the morning for a while and I had Yang take me to the doctor to confirm. I know it's a bit soon so I understand if you need a second to process."

"It's not that," Oscar said quickly to reassure his increasingly panicking wife as he wiped furiously at his tears that just wouldn't stop coming. "I'm just so happy, I don't know what to do. When Ozpin said our souls would eventually merge together I thought my life was over. I remember how lucky I felt on the day we got married. And now? I find out my perfect wife is carrying our child. I don't think I could be happier then I am right now."

Ruby let out a small giggle and kissed his cheek before holding him close, allowing him to wrap his arms around her as well. "You cried on our wedding day as well."

He chuckled and kissed the top of her head. "Yeah I did, and I'll probably cry when she's born as well."

Ruby pulled back and cocked an eyebrow at him. "She?"

"Yep, we are going to have a little girl who will look just like you."

"Well, I think we are going to have a little boy who will look just like you."

They both laughed and just had a night of pure bliss that night.

Looking back on it, Oscar really had to laugh. They both ended up being only half right. He was right about having a little girl, but she looked almost exactly like him with the same deep chestnut hair instead of her mother's deep hair with red low-lights and hazel eyes instead of silver. Honestly, they had both been pretty relieved to find out she wouldn't be a silver-eyed warrior like Ruby. That she would get to choose her own destiny.

"You two still sitting out here?" Oscar looked out over their backyard to see Ruby approaching the house. She had gone over to Yang's earlier to make babysitting plans for their date that weekend.

"Just telling her a story," Oscar replied to his wife as she bent down to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"I hope it wasn't anything too embarrassing." She let out a giggle as she spoke and Oscar couldn't stop blushing, he really was just as in love with her as the day they met.

"Embarrassing yes, but not for you. Just telling her how I cried when I found out she would be joining our family." She let out a sigh of relief.

"Good, I thought you were going to tell her how she got her name." Ruby had been craving the small and sweet orange fruit so much during her pregnancy that they joked they should name her that, only for her hazel eyes to share the same orange shade with hints of green that the fruit shared. It was too good and too cute to pass up.

"That's a story for when she can remember."

BRK: So this is introducing the last of the kids for now. As always head cannons about the couples are appreciated. Next time we go on babysitting adventures with Ilia and Yang! Until next time, later gators!

Clementine: The smallest fruit of the orange citrus family