"Eeeeeek" Ruby squeaked with her eyes closed. That was the first time she teleported with me and I figured she would be a bit nervous but this was a little excessive. Ruby was frozen with her eyes closed and her hands were shielding her face.
I needed to coax her out of this state. I put my hands on her shoulders and slowly slid them down her arms until we were holding hands. I lowered her hands from her face and she slowly opened her eyes.
"H-h-hi Neo" Ruby stuttered. I just smiled warmly back at her. I let go of one of her hands in order to show her the beautiful tropical beach I had brought us to. Ruby was caught in a trance, looking out over the shimmering water with the lowering sun behind us.
"I need to take off some clothes." Ruby said out of the blue. Whoa. I wasn't complaining but I had set of a fine picnic supper and brought us here so we could have a romantic walk down the beach. If I thought that would be the second thing out of her mouth I would have just taken her back to my place.
Unfortunately, I realized I misinterpreted the amount of clothes she intended on relieving herself of and why. I looked at her and she was sweating. It was quite hot here, we were near the equator after all. She took off her hood so she was in a tank top and her normal skirt and leggings.
As I began to relieve myself of some of my clothes too, Ruby stepped away from me.
"W-w-what are y-you doing?" Ruby stuttered again. I just gestured at her and finished taking off my coat. I knew what the problem was so I pulled out my scroll.
'If what I wanted was a wild time I would have teleported with your sister and not to this beach.' I typed.
"Wow. A little to much information, don't you think?" Ruby said awkwardly. I smiled. At least she wasn't stuttering any more.
"Why am I here then?" Ruby asked. Supper of course. I gestured to the picnic blanket and the cooler full of food and a certain flavor of ice cream. I opened the lid and Ruby's eyes lit up at the sight of a tub of Cookie Dough ice cream.
I started to set out the plates and utensils as Ruby made a beeline for the ice cream. She had her hands on it, ready to wrench it free from the cooler when I smacked her hand with a spoon.
Ruby yelped and her hands retreated. She looked at me with an innocent and pleading look. I felt bad about myself as I realized that I could withstand such a look. My time with the White Fang made me into one cold hearted person. I gestured for her to sit with me on the blanket and she eventually complied. I could see her eyes flicking back to the ice cream every now and again.
I didn't prepare all this food so she could just inhale a tub of ice cream that was supposed to be for dessert. I handed her a plate with non-ice cream based food and she reluctantly accepted it. She slowly shoveled some of the food onto the fork and put it into her mouth even slower. All the while she was looking at me with an apprehensive look on her face.
After she realized the first bite didn't poison her and probably tasted pretty good she then dedicated all her focus to her food. I fixed up my plate and started eating with her.
"Why are you being so nice to me? With Yang and Weiss you ... wanted something ... so if you don't want ... that ... why are you doing this for me?" Ruby asked. I shrugged. Technically, yes I wanted 'something' from her as well but I had pulled out the big guns and I was taking it slow. I wasn't about to tell her that she was the only thing that gave me hope in humanity again. That would be coming on too strong. I also wasn't going to tell her that just being around her was the most interesting thing I have done in weeks. That would make me look pathetic. So I played the saint and just acted like I wanted to do good things out of the kindness of my heart.
"Thank you. It is really beautiful here and the food was very good." Ruby said, finishing off her plate. With all the things I had rehearsed and thought that she might say, I never thought she would thank me.
I smiled and blushed at the gratitude.
"Yoink" I heard Ruby say as soon as my head turned away from her. I turned back around to see that she was sprinting down the beach at incredible speed with something cradled in her arms.
"It's all mine now." Ruby said with a very cute evil laugh.
I looked back to the cooler to discover that the ice cream was gone. I sighed. They needed a class at Beacon that taught these girls about teleportation.
I stood up and flashed down the beach, watching Ruby run towards me as she was looking at my illusion by the picnic blanket. I should have given her more room to stop. Ruby whipped her head around and saw that I was in her path too late. She skidded along the sand and ran into me.
"Ow" Ruby moaned, laying on top of me. The ice cream had flown out of her hands and landed several feet away. I was giving her an angry look as she attempted to get off of me.
"Sorry" she cooed as she got up and extended a hand to help me up. That hurt so much I almost didn't take her hand. But, eventually those innocent silver eyes melted my anger and I got up with her help.
We both spotted the ice cream at the same time. Ruby looked back to me to see if I was going to make a move for it. Our eyes met. My eyes narrowed. Ruby's eyes narrowed. She started moving and with two quick flashes I was sitting back on the picnic blanket with a tub of ice cream. I listened to a frustrated scream in the distance and smiled.
I opened the tub up and considered just leaving Ruby alone for a while while I finished off the tub. Then I remembered why I brought us here so I stuck two spoons into the soft ice cream. Ruby made it back to our picnic spot quickly but with a pout on her face. Her eyes brightened as she saw two spoons in the ice cream.
She sat down on the blanket far from me and reached out for her spoon. I cocked my head at her actions and pulled the ice cream back as she reached out.
"Hey! Are you going to share or not?" Ruby asked. I patted a spot closer to me on the blanket. She moved inches closer and made a grab for her spoon again. It was still just out of her reach. She started moving closer again and I simultaneously scooted closer to her. There was no keeping the ice cream away from her now so I just held it between us and took a spoonful myself.
"So ... um ..." Ruby said gulping down her latest spoonful "how has ... teleporting been recently.". Was this girl trying to make small talk with a mute? I could tell that she felt obligated to chit chat but I wasn't about to stop her from feeling awkward so soon.
'Teleporting has been splendid, so glad you asked. How has Huntress training been?' I typed.
"Good ... good ... learning how to kill monsters." Ruby replied.
I smiled and typed 'Ruby, I am more accustomed than most people are to enjoying the moment in silence. You don't have to make small talk if you don't want to.'.
Ruby let out a sigh of relief and then said "I am complete garbage at it aren't I?". I nodded.
"Yang always said when you meet new people try to talk with them. 'Just be your self and talk to them' she would say. The problem is that being myself doesn't include small talk." Ruby vented. She looked at me and realized how long she had been talking and went back to being quiet.
'Well, don't wait for me to comment.' I typed. Ruby snickered and began spilling out everything that came into her head. It was adorable. I had know idea how much information I could learn from this girl. If I was still working for the White Fang, I would be promoted for getting this much insight into Beacon and this girls life. I was so entranced by Ruby's enthusiastic story telling I hadn't realized, until now, that she had eaten more than her half of the ice cream. I quickly salvaged what few scoops I could from the tub.
"So what now?" Ruby asked.
'What do you want to do?' I typed. My question caught Ruby off guard.
"I don't know, you brought me here and I have no idea where I am so I'm pretty much your prisoner. You should be telling me what to do." Ruby said.
'Well I will just have to inform you. We are on the eastern coast of the Minstrel sea. Please don't think of yourself as a prisoner and enjoy yourself. When the sun sets you have my word that I will take you wherever you want to go.' I typed. Ruby snickered at my writing and I did not know why. I looked at what I typed on my scroll and I didn't find anything wrong with it. I gave Ruby a quizzical look.
"You give me your 'word'?" Ruby mocked. When she continued laughing I grabbed one of the plastic spoons we ate ice cream with and I flicked her on the nose with it. She wasn't even phased by my actions as she attempted to lick the melted ice cream off of her nose. After several failed attempts she used her finger to wipe it off.
"Well, we are on a beach so ... we could go swimming ... but I don't have a bathing suit." Ruby said. I shrugged at her. Neither did I but that didn't mean we couldn't skinny dip.
"So, I guess we could walk down the beach." Ruby said, skinny dipping probably never even entered her mind. I guess. I got up and helped her to her feet.
As we walked Ruby continued to talk as I listened. She found a sea shell and she marveled at how small it was. The next shell she found, she marveled at how big it was. I thought that was that when she found a third sea shell and marveled at how medium sized it was. There was no stopping it, her joy towards all things was infectious. I was lost in her smile when I noticed that it warped into an expression of shock.
I looked for the source of her shock and saw that, down the beach, there was an Ursa looking right at us. Ruby unfolded her scythe and prepared to fight the beast. I wouldn't have my perfect date spoiled by anything. I put my hand on Ruby's scythe, telling her to put it away. With three quick flashes the beast was gone and I was back at Ruby's side.
"Where did you send it?" Ruby asked, folding up her weapon. I answered her with a gesture that told her not to worry about it.
"You know, if you can get rid of Grimm that easily then, if a life of aimlessly teleporting places isn't enough for you, you could become a Huntress." Ruby suggested. I pulled out my scroll.
'You have seen how sloppily I make disguises. I'm wanted for attempting to kill your sister in three of the four kingdoms, remember.' I typed.
"Yeah but ... you could just say your sorry" Ruby said. I almost laughed at her.
'I don't think that the governments are interested in my apology.' I typed. As Ruby read this a dull booming sound was heard in the distance.
"Sounds like there is a storm coming." Ruby asserted. I knew that there was no storm and that was the sound of an Ursa finally hitting the ground after being teleported thousands of feet in the air.
"Maybe we should start walking back to the picnic now." Ruby said. I knew there was no storm coming but I didn't mention it as, while she said this, she extended her arm as she wanted to hold hands. I quickly accepted her offering.
I was having confusing feelings on the way back.
This one was perfect.
Everything about Ruby seemed to brighten my day but I was feeling feelings of ... hesitation. There wasn't that big of an age gap between us and the fact that we were around the same height really hid that fact so that wasn't the problem. She was certainly warming up to me so I didn't feel like I was taking advantage of her. The fact that I had been with her sister didn't bother me and didn't seem to bother Ruby either. Everything about this evening was perfect so why was I feeling this way?
We had made it back to the picnic cloth.
"Well it is getting dark." Ruby said, letting go of my hand. Oh, maybe that is why. I gave her a sad smile and then approached her to take her back to her dorm. She stepped back away from me.
"You said you would take me wherever I wanted to go and ... well ... I want to go back to your place." Ruby demanded which shocked me.
"I know what you are thinking. Why would I want that? The truth is being fifteen sucks. You are right on the edge of were people want you to act like an adult but think of you as a child. The worst part is that they never let you choose when you get to be a child or an adult. Well, I'm choosing this time and I want to be treated like an adult." Ruby stated. This would have been music to my ears if I hadn't come to a realization just before it.
When I was with the White Fang I was desperate for money. Now I had more money than I knew what to do with and Ruby was the only thing that saved me from wasting away in my self made dungeon. Ruby was perfect, she was all I could ever want and I knew that if I had her I would fall into the same condition as before. What if it didn't workout between us? What if it did? Ruby was becoming a Huntress and I very recently was aiding a terrorist organization. If we were together I would be corrupting the very innocence I loved in Ruby.
I pulled out my scroll and typed on it. Ruby came closer to me to read it. With two flashes I was alone in my bunker and Ruby was with her teammates in her dorm.
I threw my phone on the bed with the text on it still reading 'I'm sorry Ruby. I can't keep my word.'.
Authors Note: Sorry about the anti-climatic ending. Again. But I promise Weiss will get a part two down the line.
I am completely at a loss for what Blake and Neo's ship name would by so please comment and give me suggestions. I'm probably going to have to do Jaune next because I have no idea what Blake could be. (Can't be Chocolate Ice cream as Rooster Teeth decided to name one of their character Coco. I was thinking of broadening the theme from all desserts to delicacies and desserts and make it "Caviar" because Blake is a cat Faunus and cats like fish but I don't really like that name.)
