A couple was sitting in silence on their front porch. It was a beautiful scene. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and everything was perfect. A young child with black hair and silver eyes came running up to its parents, but they shooed the child off to go play in the yard. The woman wearing a cape rests her head on her husband's shoulder.

She's content. Everything is how it should be.

But then she blinked.

In that split second she took her eyes off the scene, it changed. Instead of a beautiful yard with her child playing, it was a dark, dank forest with thousands of Grimm surrounding her. She looked around for a second, surprised, but she then quickly realized what she had to do. She brandished her weapon and flung herself towards the surrounding black mass. To her credit, she had managed to take down a couple hundred, maybe even a thousand of the monsters, but even her and her eyes weren't limitless. After what felt like was a couple minutes, but in reality was more like hours, she made a mistake. When she spun around to slash again, she lost her grip. The weapon went flying out of her hands, and into the never-ending sea of darkness. No worries, that was what her eyes were for. However, right as that thought passed through her mind, is when she realized she all of a sudden couldn't see all that well. Everything looked red, and when she put her hands to her eyes, they came back feeling warm and wet.

That's when the searing pain set in.

She crumpled to the ground as her eyes, or where they used to be, begged for mercy. She felt as her body was swept up by the black mass she had tried to defeat. She waited for her life to flash before her eyes, but maybe because she didn't have any anymore, or some other reason, that never happened.

Her last thoughts were what her family would think of her after she was gone.

Hopefully, they wouldn't be to upset.

Ruby awoke with a start. 'W-what was that?' She couldn't clearly remember her dream, but she knew that she saw someone die. From their perspective. It wasn't entirely out of the ordinary. Lately, she had been having a ton of dreams about the future, but this one had some obvious, and not so obvious differences.

For starters, most of the time, those dreams were happy. Potential futures where she saves the world, or more recently, futures with a certain Faunus. She blushed at that thought slightly, but then went back to her previous train of thought. Another difference was, this didn't entirely feel like a future dream anyway. Usually, from what she remembers, the only memories she had during those times were all her memories her conscious self-had, but in this dream, it didn't feel like she had any memories, to begin with.

Ruby checked the time. 4:38. She shook her head and laid back down to go back to sleep, but when she did, images of her nightmare flashed into her head. She tried again, this time repeating 'I'm not a kid, I can't be scared.' in her head like a mantra, but at the end that failed too. She tossed and turned more and more, before finally giving up. 'Maybe I just need some fresh air.' She thought as she hopped off of her bunk as lightly as possible, and leaving the room.

The door locked shut behind her, and she breathed in and out calmly before she realized something. She left her Scroll in the room. 'Oh crap! How'll I get back in!?' She groaned into her hands as she resigned herself to her fate. 'I just pulled a Jaune.' She wallowed in despair as she walked through the halls, looking for the commons area.

After she had finally gotten over the shame when she arrived, and she walked around the giant couch towards the balcony, only to find a figure standing there, looking upwards. She was confused for a moment until she saw the figure's tail. A soft smile appeared on her face, and she walked out without thinking about it. "What are you doing out here, Sun?"

"Hm? Oh, hey Ruby. Just watchin' the stars." He replied without turning. "You?"

"I just had a weird dream. Wanted to clear my head." She arrived at the spot right next to him and turned her head to look at him, only to blush and quickly look up at the sky with him. 'Why isn't he wearing a shirt!?'

"Weird dream? Heh, yeah I've been having some too." Ruby looked at him again, this time in the face, with a confused expression. He looked down at her. "Maybe it's just nerves. We are finally getting our missions in the morning after all."

"Y-yeah. Maybe..." To be completely honest, she had completely forgotten about that whole thing. It had been a couple days since Tai arrived, and each day was spent around Sun for some reason, so it was pretty easy to do so. "It just felt so real though..." She looked downwards at the courtyard.

"Hey..." He wrapped his arm around her, pulling her into his chest. "It's alright. I'm here if you want to talk." He offered.

She looked up at him with a small, appreciative smile, but shook her head. "It's not really something I feel the most comfortable talking about right now. I'm okay." She didn't push away or anything, which was a pretty good sign to Sun.

"That's fine. Just, remember I'm here when you need me. Got it?" She gave him a thumbs up, then pushed away. The two of them stood there for a while, just staring up at the stars until Ruby gave out a mighty yawn. "Looks like it's about time to head back to sleep, huh?" Sun asked.

"Yeah..." Ruby muttered out sheepishly as they turned to head back inside. They went through the glass door, and Sun began heading to the halls, to go back to his room. Ruby was also headed back, but then she remembered what exactly put her in this predicament, to begin with.

Sun noticed she stopped and turned around to look at her. "You sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, it's just..." She looked away. "I, uh... kind of locked myself out..." She told him, ashamed of herself.

There was silence for a couple minutes before Sun started snickering. "Y-you locked yourself out?" Sun asked, trying his best to hold in his laughter, for fear of Ruby's wrath. Meanwhile, Ruby was just glaring at the ground, cheeks bright red.

"Mmm." She grunted, and just stood there.

"S-sorry, it's just, heh. Sorry..."

"The dream freaked me out, okay!?" She crossed her arms and continued glaring at the ground.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have laughed." Sun said softly.

"You're dang right." She said grumpily. "So uh..." She stopped acting angry and looked at him with pleading eyes. "Can you help?"

"Probably not. If your dorm's window was open maybe?" Ruby shook her head. "Well then, I'm not sure what I can do." Sun thought about it for a moment. "Are you okay sleeping out here?"

"Uh, yeah I guess, but there aren't really any blankets or anything out here." She said, indicating towards the couch.

"That's fine. I can go grab something from my room for you to use." He told her, already turning around to go back to his room.

"Wait, are you sure?"

"One hundred percent." He said with a toothy grin. After that, he headed back to his dorm room, leaving Ruby in the commons area alone. It was very quiet. Way too quiet. She didn't like it. Not to mention, the wide open space was just perfect for something to sneak up on her in the middle of the night.

She hobbled over to the mega-sized couch, and sat down on it, without really thinking. The couch was facing the balcony, so the window allowed the moonlight to pass through. She sat there, staring at the rays of light almost in a trance.

"Ruby, I'm back!"

"EEP!" Due to the sudden noise, Ruby jumped almost a foot into the air and fell off the couch. "Don't so that."

"Sorry." Sun walked over to her and helped her up. "Here's the blankets and pillows ma'am." He said in a fake accent.

"Thanks, Sun, I- wait a minute. These look like all the sheets and blankets on the beds," she said suspiciously.

"Oh, uh, yeah. Don't want you getting cold."

"Sun, it's Summer."

"It'll be Autumn in a couple weeks." Ruby gave him a flat look, but he just ignored it after handing them to her. He began heading back to his room. "Anyway, uh, have a good night." He waved cheerily.

"Sun, wait!" He paused and looked back. "I don't want you to sleep without covers or anything. Besides, I..." She trailed off and looked down at the floor.

"Besides what?"

"I... Don't want to be alone right now..." She said quietly. She turned her head up to look at him. "Maybe you can, stay here with me?"

Sun was silent for the next few seconds, purely out of shock. "Okay, if that's what you want." He finally said. The next couple of moments were spent setting up the blankets and pillows to be a reasonable bed on the couch. "There doesn't seem to be enough room for the both of us to lay separately." Sun noticed.

"Yeah, it looks like we're gonna have to lay down a little closer then," Ruby said with a hint of both hope and joy in her voice.

Sun released his own yawn as he finally laid down. Ruby laid on top of him, snuggling herself into Sun's chest. "Hey, Sun?" He looked at her. "Thanks again."

"No prob-" Another yawn. "No problem Ruby..." Sun looked up at the ceiling. "You know, this is comfortable. I could really get used to this..." He trailed off, tiredness clearly evident in his voice.

Ruby giggled to herself, out of bliss, nervousness, and because she realized Sun probably had no idea what he was saying anymore. She debated quickly in her mind about whether or not to do it, but she decided why not. She looked up at his sleeping face and planted a quick kiss on his cheek. "Goodnight Sun." She said as she to drifted off into sleep.

This chapter was meant to be a shorter little set up to the beginning of the missions, but I guess it ballooned into something else entirely.

Ruby's getting quite bold, isn't she?

Already sleeping with her man...

How lewd.