It's been two days since that night at Weiss' condo. Since then Yang has called Weiss her girlfriend and vice versa. It was Saturday and Yang chanced a day away to Patch to see Ruby and give her some good news.
"I'm here!" Yang yelled as she entered the house.
"Hey Yang." Qrow called out from the living room. "Me and Rubes are in here, Tia is at the collage."
"Ruby I have some good news." Yang sang as she went into the room.
"What? What?" Ruby got up and bounced up and down.
"First a question." Yang kneeled down to look at ruby eye level. "How would you like to live with me?"
Qrow adjusted how he sat and leaned over towards Yang and whispered. "Yang what are you talking about?"
"I got a new job." Yang whispered back. "A corporate one with executive pay it's really steady and safe. I can get a good condo and pay every bill myself now." She turned to Qrow. "I can do this."
"Mommy does that mean we can live together now?" Ruby tapped Yang's shoulder.
"I'm getting a new place big enough for you and me to live in." Yang took her daughters hands. "It's going to be by daycare and school for you to go to. I won't be there all day but I'll see you every night and morning."
"Really?!" Ruby hugged Yang. "When? When?"
"I don't know yet kiddo." Yang pinched Ruby's cheeks. "Just wait a little bit, soon I'll get a place with a room made for you."
Ruby gave the biggest smile. She was happy and excited, she always wanted to live with her Mommy. She was always happiest when she was here. She was so happy she jumped up and ran circles around the room.
Qrow tapped Yang shoulder and motioned for her to fallow. He walked out and into the kitchen so they could talk more openly. "What the Dust are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking I got a job paying a high six figures and I can finally live with my daughter." Yang said plainly. "Weiss Schnee started up a security firm and hired me to be in charge of it."
"What?" Qrow coughed. "She put you in charge of an entire firm? Alright let's move past the fact that a nineteen year old is in charge of anything. Now lets focus on how you're going to raise Ruby."
"I have a few condo's lined up, three actually, all of them in good school districts and great daycare programs." Yang leaned on the counter. "I've been planning this since I had Ruby, I keep a folder of perfect place we could live if I had the money."
"All right you have the place and school down. So what's next?" Qrow crossed his arms and looked at Yang.
"There are parks, it's a good neighborhood lots of kids." Yang rubbed her brow. "What am I missing? Please tell me if I am."
"You're not missing anything Yang." Qrow sighed. "It's the job, you're in charge of a lot. Will you have time for Ruby?"
"My work load is unbelievably light. By the time anything reaches my desk it just needs to be looked over a few times and signed. I have someone do deal with personnel. From what I've done in the past two days, my days in the field are over." Yang sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "I wear a suit and everything."
"Okay, I can see you planed this out." Qrow rubbed his face. "Are you staying long?"
"I can chance a few more hours, but if dad's at the collage he won't be back for longer than I can stay." Yang sighed as Ruby ran in and hugged her legs.
"Alright, I'll tell Tia and we'll start packing Rubes up to move." He opened the door and took out a juice box and tossed it to Yang. Yang set up the straw and handed it to Ruby. "How long till you get that condo suited?"
"I was thinking of taking Ruby to see the final three." Yang picked up the small girl and sat her on the counter. "Now Ruby I have three places picked out for us to live. Would you like to make the final choice?"
The young girl nodded. "Are any like here?"
"No sweetie." Yang ran her finger threw Ruby's red locks. "We'll be living in the city, so the woods will be gone."
Ruby frowned she loved the woods. Running threw them finding new things to play with. She would miss it. But if losing the wood means living with Mommy she would be fine with losing them. "Okay, if I see Mommy every day it's okay."
"When was the last time I told you you're cute?" Yang squeezed the little girls cheeks, earning a giggle. "Because you are so cute."
-Blake, the next night-
Blake sat in an empty apartment and stared at the door leading to Yang's room. Her eyes stung and she wanted to cry. At home she didn't have any distractions from what she lost. The first three nights she cried herself to sleep the rest of the week she just wasn't able to. She was so close to losing Yang, all because she was jealous. It wasn't the first time she was jealous there were many times Yang has gotten in relationships.
Before Ruby Yang was wild and dangerous like fire, like if you got too close she would burn you. That what Blake fell in love with. She never went out with anyone in the traditional since, her lovers where little more than friends with benefits. That was why Blake never confessed, she wanted more than just sex and she didn't hold and delusions of changing the wild fire that was Yang.
After Ruby Yang changed, she became calm and sedated. Like that fire she was had petered out to embers. She became domesticated and tame, completely different from the Yang she fell in love with. But in her eyes was the same fierceness, the same fire. And it gave Blake hope, the same girl was inside but just softer.
Not to mention how Yang just stopped, sure she flirted left and right but that just how Yang is. But she dropped the benefits of all her friends with benefits. And beside their families no one knew about Ruby, Yang kept saying "the first person to know of her will be the one I want for good."
But not only was Yang seeing someone again, but Weiss knew and met Ruby. Yang was serious about dating Weiss. So she blew up at Yang, she could have dealt with it if Yang just didn't like romantic relationships. It wouldn't have hurt as much as it did. But it snapped her out of a small delusion that she and Yang were a happy couple.
She was done feeling sorry for herself. She took out her scroll and queued up Yang's number. Blake bit her lip as her thumb hovered over the call button. She took a deep breath and hit the button. She needed to talk to Yang, find out where they stood.
It rang for a long time, so long that Blake thought Yang wouldn't answered. "Hey Blake, sorry I'm really busy right now. Apparently a majority of my paper work for the past few days was misplaced and I need to play catch up."
"I just need to talk with you." Blake felt her heart skip a beat at hearing Yang's voice again. "Find out where we stand."
"Well we can talk over the phone or you can come in." Blake heard Yang shuffling papers. "I can't leave all of this not done."
"I'll come to the office. This needs to be talked about face to face." Blake got up and headed for the door.
"Okay, just come into my office." There was a brief pause.
Blake hung up and began her walk to the Schnee Tower. On the walk she planed what she wanted to say. She went over it again and again in her head. She wanted to do this right she wanted Yang as at least a friend.
-Yang, her office half hour later-
Yang rubbed her eyes trying to force the sleep she was feeling away. She had two stacks of papers a foot high to deal with. As well as have a talk with Blake, who will be here soon. She groaned as she promised herself to make who ever made this mistake pay dearly for it. She looked at the four stacks of papers to her right all of them at least a foot tall, those are the ones she finished today. She looked out at the office floor and saw someone coming towards her office with a small stack of yet more papers.
"If those papers are for me they better be marked urgent!" Yang barked and the person flinched. "If they aren't then they can wait for tomorrow!"
The girl hesitated slightly and looked through the papers. She pulled a few out and made a separate stack. She then walked into yang's office with the small handful of sheets. "These are marked urgent from legal. I think they're the final rendition of risk assessment for out of Kingdom personnel."
"Does it include a space for a personalized will?" Yang leaned back into the chair.
She flipped between the pages quickly scanning the words. "No?"
"Is that a question?" Yang's tone was tired and a bit sharp.
"There's nothing mentioning the processing of a last will and testament." She said meekly.
"Then here's what you are going to do." Yang stood up and walked to the girl and crossed her arms. "You are going to go back to legal and tell them to write in the process for it. Outside the Kingdoms is a world full of danger. Any one of my employees that goes there out is risking their lives, I've been out there and every time I went out I wrote a new will each time. So you tell legal that I am not signing anything for out of Kingdom personnel unless it has everything on the list I gave them."
"Yes ma'am." She nodded her head quickly and ran back for the elevators. She passed by Blake on her way out.
Blake walked up to the door of Yang's office. Her eyes went wide as she looked over the stacks of papers. "What?" She whispered quietly.
"Hey Blake." Yang sat back down and rubbed her face. "Hope you don't mind that I work while we talk." Yang looked over a sheet of paper and signed it.
"No problem" Blake sat down on one of the chairs in the office.
"So what is it you wana talk about?" Yang took a small booklet from a stack on the left and started leafing through it.
"Us, our friend ship I mean." Blake bit her lip nervously as she watched Yang.
"That relies on you." Yang tossed the booklet out of the way and grabbed another sheet and read it over. "I told you, I love you like family, you're my sister."
Blake bit her lip, what Yang said was a like the twisting of a knife she forgot she was stabbed with. It was in her heart and she couldn't tell if it was good or bad. "Yang, this would be so much easier if you would be mad."
"I know." Yang kept shuffling papers.
"It would be easier if I was mad." Blake's voice caught.
"I know." Yang's voice was calm.
"I still want to be friends, I really do." Blake notice that yang stopped working and was looking at her. "But it hurts. It hurts knowing that this whole time you knew and didn't say or do anything."
"I know." Yang repeated.
"Damn it Yang say something else!" Blake snapped
"What else should I say? That I value my friendship with you? That I care about you being happy?" Yang gave Blake a hard look. "You are my one friend Blake, and I was scared of losing you if I told you I didn't love you like that."
"You wouldn't have lost me Yang." Blake looked down this was not going how she wanted it to. It quickly turned into a fight, and Blake was at fault. "Did it ever even cross your mind?"
"Once or twice." Yang admitted honestly. "When I had Ruby I thought more about how someone would be a parent than how good they would be in bed. You were the only one in my life at that time that I would trust with her. But I didn't want to start that kind of relationship with that premise. I wanted to be in a relationship for the person, I don't want Ruby to be the only thing that kept a relationship together."
Blake looked down she couldn't find anything to argue with. Yang was right. "We're still friends, but I need time to fall out of love with you."
Yang nodded as she watched Blake stand. "I hear that the new CFO, Velvet I think, and you have been getting pretty close." Yang went back to the stack of papers she was working on.
"How did you?" Blake looked up at Yang.
"I'm in charge of security I have every security camera at my finger tips. As well as a robot that's watching all of them at once." Yang chuckled as she signed a document. "Penny's trying to learn how people interact it's one of the few things she wasn't programmed with. She asked me whether or not you two were dating."
"Tell Penny that it's inappropriate to ask questions like that to anyone but the ones involved." Blake growled slightly.
"Already did." Yang kept shuffling papers and signing some here and there. "Another thing, I'm moving out and into a condo with Rubes."
"Really?" Blake watched Yang rub her eyes.
"Yup." Yang let out a yawn. "Told Ruby and Qrow about it and I've taken two days off after the meeting on Monday to take her to see the three I have lined up. She'll pick one and we'll move in."
"Well that's good news." Blake smiled they were talking again, just like before. She sighed because she needed to go. "I need to go Miss Schnee wants to get in early tomorrow."
"On your way out can you tell someone to send some strong coffee to my office, and have them keeping it coming every twenty minutes?" Yang looked up from a document.
"Sure." Blake got up and went to the door and hesitated slightly. She looked back at Yang. No matter how the blonde dresses she looks out of place in an office going through stacks of papers.