Sinful Obsessions: Drabbles for Ruby & Bela

Title: You're in My Blood

POV: Ruby's

Song: Joni Mitchell's 'A Case of You'

Ruby grimaces as the scalding hot water hits her back. She closes her eyes, but not before she quietly watches her blood spiral achingly slowly down the drain. Bela isn't back yet, hopefully she can get this done before...

The door opens. Said girlfriend crosses her arms. "And what happened here?"

Ruby pulls back the curtain a little more and smiles a tiny bit sheepishly. Yes, demons are capable of this. Or at least she is anyway. "Just had a run in with an annoying human who thought it would be fun to play 'how far can I shoot my nifty gun'. Don't worry though, kicked his ass to kingdom come."

Bela shakes her head, Ruby still doesn't think she's seen the blood yet. The look of expectation is thick on her face, not that the demon should find that surprising in any way.

"It's been two days, Bel. Don't expect me to stay out of trouble for that long." It's meant to be a joke but the look on her girlfriend's face makes it anything but.

Great. Just great. We're supposed to be focusing solely on Bela, on her own problems and fixing her and now we have to deal with me getting shot.

"Someone actually shot you?" Bela says in shock, instantly stepping into the shower and horror playing out on her face at the moment she sees the blood that just isn't draining fast enough.

"It's nothing, forget it..."

"How can you tell me to push it aside? If someone hurts my bloody girlfriend they better well bet I'm gonna get pissed, enough to do something about it."

"If the person who's planning to enact vengeance happens to find the perpetrator, that is."

Bela glares at her. Ruby goes back to staring down at her feet, trying to ignore all the blood but wanting it off of her nonetheless, then she shuts her eyes as Bela's hand flits to her shoulder. "You're gonna need someone to stitch that up." And by someone she means her, of course. Putting the human in this position was not on Ruby's list of things to do today.

"And I'm fully prepared to take on the challenge," Ruby retorts. "Not like I haven't done this before."

"Quit with the snark," Bela snaps, "and just let me take care of you. It's my job."

Ruby can't help but smile at that. Bels just looks so fucking gorgeous under the water, her hair hovering in front of her vivacious hazel eyes and sticking to her irresistible neck. The demon moves to strip off her clothes, if she's in here already, they might as well make it worthwhile.

"What are you doing?"

"Showing you how much you mean to me."

Bela pulls her shirt up over her head, kisses and caresses Ruby, careful not to touch the bullet wound on the back of her shoulder. "Uh, Rubes? It's out right? The bullet?"

"You bet, sugar cakes."

And then her lips suddenly feel like they could never stop kissing her prize.

To be continued...