January 29th
Mistral
8:30 PM
The day had been pretty long but it was nothing compared to what he was imagining was coming for the next. The fact that he was going to be showing a group of teenagers Mistral before meeting with Leo was going to drag the next day on and on. At least, he supposed, the fact that he healed was good and it was very good that Winter was there. She hadn't been eager to leave him alone while he was dealing with the after effects of the stinger but, on Ruby's persistent pleas to let him rest rather than talk, she had relented however grudgingly. Now that he was doing better, he didn't want her to go away for very long - not that he really had wanted to to begin with. His dreams had turned less from being a bad luck charm and more towards having sex with her though he knew better than anyone that she would reject the idea if he brought it up at the moment. That was not to say that they weren't passionate - they had snogged for over ten minutes in the corridor outside the room before Ruby accidently ran into them and freaked out. Of all the people she had expected her uncle to get involved with, Winter Schnee was one of the last of them. Her normally perfectly done hair had been down and one hand tightly wound in it while the other was pulling her closer and was low on her back. Her arms had been around his neck, and the two of them had been virtually impervious to what had been going on. That was, until Ruby screamed.
"Oh my god!" Ruby looked at the two adults in surprise as they broke apart. "Uncle Qrow!"
"Ruby..." Qrow didn't even have to try to act annoyed - that was simply how he was. "Look, kid -"
"Are you two dating?" The red-headed girl half-squealed. "That's crazy - I mean, in a good way, but I thought that the two of you hated each other?"
"We don't hate each other," Winter insisted. "I mean it Ruby."
"Well...I mean you kind of tore apart our courtyard…" The young girl rubbed her arm sheepishly before giggling. "But, I mean, this is great! Are you two happy?"
"Yes," Winter told her, an arm wrapped around Qrow. "But -"
"No, I get it…" Ruby said, bouncing in place. "I'll leave you two to...whatever it is you're doing."
Hearing Winter sigh in the doorway, Qrow turned around looked at her. She was wearing long silk pants that brushed the ground and were tied at the waist and she also was in a long sleeved top that went off her shoulders exposing them and her muted pink bra straps. Her long, white hair was down though the faintest bit of her natural black was seeping in at the roots. Her left arm was up against the door frame and her hip was leaning against it in the opposite direction. All he could think about was how beautiful she looked and, getting up from his little corner where he had been reading on his scroll, he came over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. She smiled and pulled him into a kiss before he brought her into a tight embrace.
"Miss me, Ice Queen?" Qrow asked, rubbing his thumb against her slightly pink cheek. "'Cause I missed you."
"Well…" Winter said, bringing him into a kiss and biting his lower lip slightly as she broke it. "What do you think? After all, I'm standing right before you and -"
Qrow brought her back into a kiss, this time with more passion. Their lips met in a frenzy and fought for dominance as she grabbed fistfuls of his dark, spiky hair. His arms wrapped themselves tightly around her waist and brought her closer to him as they continued to snog and they didn't even stop as her back gently began to press against the wall. All she did was draw him closer and he slowly began to tread his fingers through her darkening locks. It wasn't until she felt his hands on her back that she broke the kiss with a heavy sigh. Gently pushing him away, Winter looked at him with her eyes both wide and tired before she loosely wrapped her arms around him.
"I can't, Qrow, not right now." Winter told him, her voice quiet. "I'm not ready for that."
"Okay," He nodded and kissed her forehead in little more than a peck and held her close. "It's up to you."
Taking his hand in hers, Winter squeezed it with a small smile and the two of them walked out of the room. Though it was drizzling slightly and the sun was beginning to set, Winter and Qrow walked around the city of Mistral for awhile, hand in hand, without speaking. It was nice to be able to spend some time together that they knew would go uninterrupted and even the silence was nice. It wasn't awkward, it felt natural. Though she was worried about how was holding up in Atlas, she tried to reason with herself that nothing had happened because she would have heard about it by now if something had. Of course, it was certainly not comforting to know that she was with their father or that their mother was still not getting any better, at least the last time she had checked. All she could do was hope that she was alright and that things weren't getting too much harder for her. Whitley, she could imagine, wasn't helping in the slightest. In spite of the fact that she knew full well that her brother wasn't as bad as he could make himself out to be, she also knew that he was similar to their father in many regards and the last thing she wanted was for him to do something to intentionally hurt Weiss. Not that he hadn't done things that had appeared to be that way before.
"You alright, Winter?" Qrow asked, squeezing her hand. "You seem tense."
Cursing her noticible tension, Winter sighed. "I'm fine, Qrow, really."
Qrow looked at her in concern before nodding. "Okay. But if something's bothering you, I don't have a problem with talking about it if that'll make you feel better."
