"What if none of this ever happened?" Ruby murmured quietly, curled up against Mercury's body, her finger tips tracing scars with feather like touches that made his skin break out in goosebumps. Mercury frowned, his hand idly combing her hair paused and looked at her carefully.

"…was the sex bad?" he gruffed sending her a small glare.

"No! Oh my gosh, not this. The thing with Beacon, the world practically ending…Cinder and Salem…all the bad stuff…" she corrected gently, lifting herself up onto her elbows to look at him. He could see the tear stains on her cheeks from their early confession, he bet she could still see his too.

"I dunno. Maybe life wouldn't have been so shitty." He huffed, letting his hand fall to the side as he studied her.

"…what if while we were at Beacon we started dating?" Ruby mused, a coy smile stretching over her face. Mercury hummed thoughtfully and leaned up to fold his hands behind his head, he'd cross his legs if they were attached but they were still drying.

"It…wouldn't have been a good first date. I'm an asshole and not good with people. I would have probably taken you to a burger place or ice cream joint…I don't know, nothing fancy cause that seems to posh for you and me both." He snickered lightly. Ruby grinned cheekily,

"Ok, So burgers and shakes for a first date, you insult our waitress on accident and get your shake dumped in your lap." Ruby teased, Mercury's eyebrows shot up.

"Well if shake ended up in my lap, her tip was nonexistence and I went off on her manager."

"Which gets us kicked out, I didn't even get to finish my burger, Aww." She giggled softly. Mercury hummed

"We'd go to a park then, I still have chocolate-banana shake all over my pants, but it's nice out and I somehow have gotten you to stick around." He offered, waiting for her reply.

"We hold hands for a while, but you pull away…you're not good at opening up or getting close to people." Ruby states, she knows him well enough to predict his actions. He didn't doubt he would have pulled away, both from nerves and his mission, but in this little fantasy there was no mission. Only homework, student drama, and academy sweethearts.

"I'd apologize for my behavior…and somehow you'd find the situation hilarious enough to attempt a second date, this time a movie, horror because I like the violence and gore. I'm also trying to get you to cling to me."

"Jokes on you, I'm pretty tough. I make it through ¾ of the movie before I grab ahold of you and crush your arm in a death grip…we start going steady shortly after." Ruby supplied with a smirk. Mercury grinned

"I graduated a year before you, I've been working as a huntsmen for a few months but I still make time for my girlfriend of a few years." He offered. Ruby scoffs

"I have to put up with your wild schedule and odd hours but we make do, I graduate and join as a huntress, we're rarely stationed together but we splurge and get an apartment together." She tilts her head a bit and pushed some hair behind her ear.

"I make love to you for the first time there, we're sweaty and pissed about something I dropped and we fall into bed like we're hormone driven teenagers."

"You didn't sleep with me back at Beacon?"

"Heavy petting and steamy makeouts, but I saved the sex for when I knew for sure we'd be together a long while." Mercury mused. Ruby smiled

"Our first time was wonderful, though I was pissed at you up until you started hitting my sweet spots…we work a lot so things get strained from time to time, you've got a temper and sometimes you say hurtful things you never mean." Ruby mumbled, Mercury pulled her close and kissed her deeply. He slipped his tongue in and kept her busy, hands tugging at her hair as he pressed her against him.

"I do my best to apologize, I hate upsetting you. I'm not good at making things up to you either, I can't cook and I'm still an asshole, the best I can do is make you moan and forget how much of a terrible person I am." He breathed into the shell of her ear. Ruby keened softly and pushed on him,

"I always tell you, you're not so bad, usually after you've made things up to me. My dad doesn't approve of you just yet, then again he doesn't approve of anyone me or sis bring home. My friends have accepted you at this rate, realizing you're here to stay."

"Emerald likes you, and that's all the support I need." Mercury huffs, pulling her back for another swirl of his tongue along her teeth. Ruby's grown breathless, her hips rolling along his thigh, post-sex adrenaline lingering in their veins. Mercury can feel some arousal building up in his belly as he moans into her mouth and bucks his hips upwards.

"I propose. On a mission in the middle of some Hell, you look beautiful, the destruction and Grimm around I blurt it out hastily. I don't have a ring yet but I need you in my life, you're the best thing that's happened to me in a long while and I know I won't have anyone better in it." Mercury breaks the kiss panting, looking at her in some sort of desperation. Ruby beamed

"I say yes, immediately after shooting an Ursa that took a liking to you, we go home and fuck hard and sweet, overjoyed that we were on the same page." Ruby cooed, kissing her neck gently, resting her arms on his shoulders.

"Did you just-!?" Mercury began,

"I find out I'm pregnant a few weeks later." Mercury's question died in his throat as he stared her down.

"I'm…Anxious, but happy…we move the wedding date up so you don't look like a cow on the wedding day." Ruby punches him with a playful smile,

"It's your fault I'd look like I swallowed a melon!" she teased, tackling him to the bed, her hips pressing against his leg; she was wet. Mercury groaned inwardly and pulled her against his chest, hands running along under the shirt to tease at her flesh.

"We exchange vows, promises to keep each other safe, promises to love each other…and those in our future." Mercury murmured, kissing along her shoulder as his hands cupped her butt and played at the hem of her panties.

"We make love, gentle and slow, we don't have a honeymoon cause we travel enough. You're so careful, terrified of hurting me…now that we have something we could lose." Ruby breathed, a soft moan escaping her as she ground into his thigh, trying to find stimulation.

"I'm terrified of being a father, it keeps me up at night, I don't want to become my father and you tell me I won't ever be him all throughout the pregnancy." Mercury murmured, a light flush of embarrassment on his cheeks. Ruby giggled,

"I tell you what a wonderful father you'll be almost daily, though you fawning over our unborn baby proves that without a doubt."

"It's a boy…Copper." Mercury blurts, his ministrations paused as he breaks out into a grin.

"Copper Black…he's like his mother, a little shy but gets louder with time." He snickered, squeezing her before sliding his hands up quickly and capturing her mouth in a kiss before she can object. Ruby breaks if off with a devilish smirk

"You're still so handsy and lovey dovey after Copper is born, we end up with 5 kids in total." She mused. Mercury blinked

"Excuse me, 5!?" he frowned, eyes widening.

"We still make love like crazed teenagers, it's a miracle we didn't end up with more." Ruby teased, kissing his chin and nipping at his neck.

"Ok, yeah, But 5? How did we end up with 5?" he asked, genuinely curious, though her continued his grappling of her body.

"2 were planned, however, 1 turned into a surprise set of twins and the last one was an accident that we didn't find out about until I went out for a mission and was sent back after the medic found out my motion sickness was actually morning sickness." Ruby explained looked down at Mercury with raised brows. He smirked and made to flip them over but flopped back, a small gasp escaping him.

Ruby burst into a fit of laughter, trying to contain it, he'd forgotten his legs were still across the room. She cupped his face gently and kissed his nose before kissing him lazily, her hands leaving his face to pull at her panties, she broke the kiss with a pant.

"No…penetration ok? Can we just-" Mercury slid a hand along her thigh and rubbed his thumb along smooth, pale skin.

"Yeah…yeah, ok." He nodded sitting up slowly, their conversation paused for a moment as he fingered her slowly. She moaned, long and low and rolled her hips as he began to pick up the pace

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were getting off to our little fantasy story?" Mercury teased inserting a third finger and hooking them quickly. Ruby cried out, face going flush

"What's wrong…with- Ah!" she jerked forward and arched her back, hissing as she did so.

"With wanting…A life with you?" she moaned, looking at him with hazy, molten eyes. Mercury felt his penis twitch, a low moan building in his chest.

"Everything. I'm a terrible person remember?" he grunted, accenting his words with a rough thrust of his fingers. Ruby braced herself on his shoulder and keened softly

"You're not terrible! You're- Ahaaaa…" she breathed, her hips stuttering forward in rhythm with his hand.

"I'm…?" he teased drawing his fingers out, feeling her fluids running down his wrist,

"You're my everything!" she cried, whining at the loss of contact. Mercury froze, looking at her with a worried expression,

"Ruby you can't mean that…" he protested softly, she growled in frustration, hips bucking furiously

"Why can't I mean it dammit! It's what I want! I want that life with you, you stupid moron!" she shook him a bit and flopped down into his lap and ground her hips against the bulge in his boxers.

"Dust, Mercury! I've been lying about it all and you can't figure that out!? Like Hell I don't love you! It's my biggest regret coming from this, I don't know if I can live without you, you've got me turned on with a few kisses and fantasies we can't have!" she cried, tears pooling in her eyes. Mercury swallowed slowly and pushed her onto her back, kissing her softly.

"I lied too…" he mumbled, looking at her sadly, Ruby blinked, a shy smile appearing.

"I knew that already…I heard it in your voice…" she mumbled, Mercury rolled his eyes and pushed his fingers back in, resuming a steady pace of thrusting and hooking his fingers inside her. He grazed her G-spot, causing her to cry out shrilly and spur her release. She moaned quietly, squirming underneath him in her orgasm bliss

"I love you…" she breathed, looking at him with soft, warm eyes, and sweet smile. Mercury felt his chest erupt in little sparks, he thought he'd die right then and there. It was out in the open, what they felt, what they wanted, hell Ruby had sold him on the 5 kids they'd never get to have.

"I love you too…" he returned, lying down beside her. Ruby turned on her side, a bit sluggish

"…I've wanted to hear that for a while actually…I'm so happy to finally hear it…even if it is the end." She breathed. Mercury nodded,

"It's a relief I didn't know I needed…" he murmured.

"…should I?" she gestured to the very obvious bulge in his shorts, Mercury shook his head

"Nah…I'm a little tired, I think another one and I'll be dead to the world." He huffed gingerly. Ruby whined

"Well now I feel guilty having you get me off again…" she mumbled. Mercury chucked,

"Consider it a bonus, a thank you for getting me to feel something other than bitterness and rage at those who've wronged me…which apparently was the whole damn world…" he scoffed.

"…" Ruby was silent, watching him carefully,

"I really fucked it all up…thinking about it…maybe we could have had that stupid little fantasy with the apartment and 5 kids, hell add in a dog just for shits and giggles…" Mercury felt his throat tighten.

"Copper, Silvia, Magnolia, Thorn, and Garnet." Ruby stated, looking at him with a warm smile.

"You raised them, and they loved you whole heartedly, same as me. We we're one big happy family, dozens of grandkids, a cabin in Patch to retire too…we lived full lives."

"…I died in my sleep…I didn't want to leave but It was a long life." Mercury felt the tightness ebb a little, as Ruby cupped his cheek and pressed her forehead to his.

"I follow a few days later, I can't live in a home without my wonderful husband beside me…the one I met all those years ago at Beacon…who I had 5 lovely children with, and a few dogs, Corgis. All of them." She breathed with a soft smile. Mercury curled up against her and she combed his hair in a comforting motion

"…you don't have to go back to them…you could just disappear…that way, I'll know your alive at the very least…I don't think I can bare knowing you're dead…knowing I didn't try to save you." Ruby mumbled, the rumble in her chest lulling Mercury.

"I know…but there are a lot of things left there, Emerald is there and I don't want to leave her alone…she's family…even if she makes it out like she hates me sometimes…" he hummed softly. Ruby sighed and continued to comb his hair, looking to the window, wondering what time it was.

"…I think I'll sleep for a bit…then go." He offered quietly, Ruby nodded a bit and felt the familiar tug of dreariness on her own eyes.

"One last night together…sleeping of course." She teased kissing his cheek, Mercury let out a short chuckle before maneuvering the covers around them and watching her drift off, she looked serene. He liked to think that there was some alternate universe, with a Mercury and Ruby, who went to bed every night in each other's arms, with babies of their own. The happy peacefulness they can't have, he wished the world of it upon them, those alternate versions fighting over stupid things and making up within moments of the argument concluding.

Maybe in this world Torchwick would still be kicking as some begrudging godparent, with Neo at his side making him smile with their inside jokes and sign language to keep their dealing private. Cinder would be whole, happier too…same for Emerald, overjoyed in her own way at being an Aunt.

Mercury wished the best for them, that universe that probably didn't exist; but he still wished the best for it, just in case there was an off chance the star had aligned for that Mercury and made up for all the shit he'd endured growing up.

Replaced his loneliness and bitterness with love and compassion for his family. Replaced his temperament with passion, his desire for revenge on the world that had scorned him replaced with a peace he'd never known.

Mercury sighed, feeling sleep finally begin to take him, he was glad to have this, even if it was just for a few hours more.


I legitimately don't know how to end thingsss? So This is the end. I want to do another one with more Threesomes and shit, also Slowly boarding the OscarXRuby boat, so maybeee I'll have an OT3 they all just makeout and fuck each other like the end of the world is tomorrow. And given how things ended in Volume 4, Volume 5 is gonna be a crazy shit storm of "OH YES PLEASE GIVE ME SOME OF THOSE FEELIOS" and then I want Mercury to like...talk more, do more, Somehow make BlackRose/QuickSilver canon? So I'm not a trash panda asshole that wants innocent Rose baby to end up with asshole McGee Mercury.

Also. Like Noah's Arc? That ship, kinda dig it too, god So manny shiippppsss. Also if y'all have requests? I know someone was Like: EmeraldXMercuryXRuby, I might start doing them. *finger guns* They will be one shots not connected to this and occupy my time until I have more plot from the RWBY Crew. So yeah, I guess a sequel but like, this sets it up for MercuryXRuby only? Yet Oscar and Ruby has given me life soooo we shall see how that goes? I really enjoy all the little comics with Oscar being cute with Ruby, or the one with Ozpin's voice going "OH GAWD OSCAR NO" it gives me life. /flops

Tell me whatcha y'all want? Like I struggled to write this end, Cause I didn't know how to end it. So I am in a hole...Help would be appreciated. Please.