„For our new family member! Cheers!" Yang grinned as she rose her glass, soon clinking of glass echoed in the room. It wasn't much, just two bottles of wine for them and some soda for the Faunus girls. Yang promised that this was top of the lowest, which Weiss had to agree to, as it didn't have the aftertaste of a sulfur mine… Or whatever it's called where they extracted or made sulfur. It was still a fruity drink that was a wine only in name, although she never really got into any specifics about what could and could not be called a wine. Perhaps one day.
As for the soda, that could be more expensive, a few bucks here or there didn't hurt anyone, jump in quality came for a lower price in that regard, unlike alcohol. While Yang initially wanted to call it a party, it was far from anything like that. Or maybe that was how such parties should be? Just an evening among your friends with a nice drink and some positive emotions. She was happy that Yang offered their place, it was bigger and could contain four people more easily, not that her place was small but it could get easily crowded. Besides the last meet up was at their place, so it's just fair that this one was at Yang's spot.
"Family? We're family now, Yang?" While she didn't want to ruin the toast, Weiss's eyebrow still rose at the blonde's statement.
"Duh, we're like a dysfunctional family! Don't you know? You have two families in life, one you're born into and one you choose yourself." The taller girl winked at her, which made her smile.
"You're right, you girls are the only thing I have." She nodded with a sigh, how small her world was. "But I'm happy now, more than I ever was before when I had more."
"Well duh, it's called quality over quantity" With another grin Yang brought an arm around her and dragged her closer into a half hug.
"Y-Yang! Carefully, I'll spill my drink because of you. Are you already drunk? After one sip?" She frowned.
"Drunk on happiness maybe." The blonde chuckled.
"It's like you're more happy about this than both me and Ruby." She just rolled her eyes.
"What happened to your family?" Speaking of the dog girl, her voice, or rather question, was as if a lightning struck in the middle of the room. Everyone went silent as Weiss clenched her jaw, lowering her gaze. Yang just winced at that, looking at Blake who just shrugged.
"You didn't…?" The taller girl whispered, to which Weiss shook her head lightly. Ruby wasn't obvious to the mood shift, as her ears lowered, her silver eyes gazing between everyone in the room.
"Did I say something wrong?" The dog girl asked quietly, now her own eyes doing the same as her owner's.
"Eh, well that's sort of..." Yang started but was cut off by Weiss.
"That's a discussion for some other time, Ruby." With a deep breath, she offered a smile to the younger of the two faunus.
"How do you like your new collar, Ruby? And did you pick it yourself?" While Blake initially stayed out of the awkward discussion, she decided to chime in to change the topic, which seemed to work, artificially, but it was a step in the right direction as everyone's eyes were on the girl's new collar.
The thing in question being crimson red, with a silver round tag and a rose engraved on the front. Inside of it, by now, was a chip with all the required information about both her and the officially registered owner.
"O-Oh yes I did. Weiss allowed me to pick whatever I liked. I liked the color of the collar and I picked this tag because this way I can move on without forgetting." Ruby smiled as her fingers reached to gently take the metal tag between them.
"Sounds cryptic," Yang commented as she took a sip of her wine.
"I think it's poetic and very clever." Weiss nodded approvingly towards Ruby, which just made the girl's smile that much bigger. "We had this talk before, the rose on the tag is so that she can always remember her previous owner, while inside the tag is a chip that makes me an official guardian of her. That's what it means to move on but remember."
"Well didn't this party turned out to be some serious business." The blonde responded.
"I think that's a nice way of coping with loss and trying to manage your present life." Blake joined in, as she smiled at the dog girl and wrapped an arm around her.
"Et Tu, Blake?" Yang rose her arms towards the ceiling, although as Ruby sent her a worried glance she just winked at the Faunus girl, making sure she knew it was all pretend.
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"So what are your plans now? Both of you, since it's about your life together now." Blake's bomb of a question stopped any pointless chatter that was happening, and while it wasn't a surprise to hear such a question, Weiss had to pause to collect her thought on that specific topic.
"School for Ruby, she needs to get herself a few basic licenses so that later she can walk by herself around the city, help me with groceries when I'm at work or maybe in some near or far away future help the house budget with a job." Weiss nodded at her own words.
The cat girl nudged her dog companion. "You alright with this plan? I can scratch her till she changes her mind, both of you have to agree to that, you know." Blake smirked at Weiss, the white-haired girl just raised a brow as her blue eyes moved to settle on Ruby.
"I am, I want to help and have a purpose, learning is a nice enough purpose for now." The redhead clenched her fist as her face rose up with determination.
"Did you teach her to react that way?" Yang leaned over Weiss as she glanced at the dog girl.
"I… did not. It'll take time to adjust, just let her have those moments." Weiss smiled awkwardly as her eyes moved between her friend and the dog girl.
"Did I do something weird?" Ruby's confidence quickly melted as she noticed the reaction from both the humans in the room.
"No, they're just being mean," Blake said as she pulled Ruby into a hug, more so to cover up the stare she sent towards Yang, the blonde smiling sheepishly and offering a shrug in return.
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"Blake?" Ruby peeked up at the cat girl, against which she was leaning with her back.
"Mmm?" The black haired girl hummed as she took a sip of her soda, glancing down to meet the other girl's eyes.
"What did you have for dinner today?" The redhead asked as curiosity sparkled behind her silver eyes. Blake raised a brow at that, not sure why her meals should be that interesting, but with a shrug decided that it wouldn't harm anyone if she answered.
"We had some leftover meat from yesterday, so I cut that into smaller pieces, added some veggies and we had that with rice, why? Are you hungry?" Blake glanced between Ruby and Weiss, not sure if she should propose anything to eat.
"We ate before we came here." Weiss answered as if she was accused of starving the redhead.
"Well, we did eat, yes… But..." Ruby lowered her eyes.
"Yes?" Blake nudged the girl for her to continue.
"…Weiss can't cook." She mumbled.
"Did you not like what she made?" Blake still wasn't sure what this was about. Was she complaining? If that was the case she was doing so in a strange way.
Weiss let out a deep sigh. "We eat premade meals, you do remember I can't cook, right?"
"Wouldn't making your own meals be cheaper?" Blake scratched the back of her head, she was doing most of the cooking so she understood how much cheaper certain things were the more work you had to put into things to make it into a meal.
"Blake, which part of I can't cook did you not understand." The Schnee rolled her eyes and took a sip of her drink.
"What's so hard about cooking?" The cat girl frowned.
"Well, imagine that Yang was now cooking from now on for both of you." Weiss nodded towards the blonde sitting beside her.
"Hey!" The girl in question protested.
"Good point." Blake frowned and nodded.
"Excuse me? I'm still here if you forgot." The blonde crossed her arms.
"As long as you're in the kitchen, you can be wherever you want." Blake poked her tongue at her owner, to which the latter just pouted and looked away.
"I didn't mean to complain." Ruby scratched her cheek and without anything else to do, she took a sip of her drink.
"It's alright Ruby, I know you prefer to eat when you're here." Weiss smiled at the girl, wanting to let her know that it truly wasn't that big of an issue.
"How about I teach Ruby how to cook?" Blake offered with a smile.
"No, not yet. I want her to focus on getting her licenses first, at least the basic ones." The Schnee shook her head.
"Then you better learn a meal or two to prepare before that, you can't feed her that stuff all the time, Weiss you can do with your life what you want, but you're responsible for Ruby now, at least till she can order her own food or make her own food." It was Blake's turn to cross her arms as she sent a stern look at Ruby's owner.
"I know I know… I'll figure something out, promise. At worst I'll ask you for help." Weiss looked to the floor in defeat, only to feel an arm wrap itself around her.
"It'll be fine, Blake just tries to motivate you to give it a shot. It's always different when you're doing things for yourself and when you do it for someone else. You put that extra something!" The way Yang grinned was enough to make her smile and there was some truth behind her words, a quick glance at Blake, who did in fact nod at her owner's words, made it that much more believable.
"I'll try as soon as I catch up with things I had to drop because of the adoption process." She nodded, maybe it would be different now if she knew that there was someone else that counts on her… And her potential cooking abilities.
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Amidst all the casual chatter Weiss haven't noticed that Ruby moved closer to her, only once the girl placed her chin on top of her lap did that fact register inside her head. She looked down and smiled at the redhead. "Yes, Ruby?"
The dog girl frowned at that. "You smell," Ruby said, only to follow up as if understanding that it could be taken as a random insult. "Of alcohol I mean."
Weiss just rolled her eyes at that. "Blake rubs off on you." She smirked.
"Blake doesn't rub me." The girl protested.
"I hope not!" Yang chimed in with her protest.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Blake joined in as her brow rose up in surprise.
"So you want to Rub Ruby?" The blonde squinted as she looked at the cat girl.
"I don't want to rub Ruby?" The girl in question answered although it sounded more like a question than anything.
"You don't?" Ruby looked away from Weiss and looked at Blake sounding as if she was hurt by her answer.
"It's not that I don't want to rub Ruby!" Feeling that she was between a rock and a hard place, Blake started to back paddle on her answer.
"So you do want to rub Ruby?" Yang pouted.
"Hey!" Weiss rose her voice as she moved from the couch and lowered herself, pulling Ruby into a tight hug." Ruby's mine and only I can rub Ruby." She kept her squeezed close like a plushie, the girl in question squirming in her arms, muttering how she still smelled of alcohol.
And as the two struggled, Blake and Yang shared a knowing smile.
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As time went by, the hour became late and the sky darkened but only when Ruby yawned, did Weiss notice the time. "Getting sleepy Ruby?" The girl nodded and the Schnee placed her glass on the table. "I guess it's time to wrap things up." She was about to stand up but was stopped by a strong grip on her shoulder. She rose her eyebrow and glanced at the source of the grip, Yang.
"How about you two stay for the night? It's already pretty late and tomorrow's Sunday anyway." The blonde offered with a smile.
"Stay? We haven't brought anything for a sleepover or anything like that, we can't really stay." Weiss frowned at that.
Her host just rolled her eyes at the stubbornness of the white-haired girl. "Weiss, I know you won't agree if I say you're drunk, but you're at least tipsy. It's late and you'll have to wait for the night bus. You think you'll be fine, not just by yourself but with Ruby by your side?"
Weiss wanted to retort with something, but all her ideas weren't that clever and had plenty of drawbacks, and that frustrated her. She hated not having a solution of her own. "We still can't stay, we don't have anything to change and all that."
"We'll improvise something, Weiss this isn't the first time you'd stay here like that. Don't let me have to convince you again that this is for your own good. And additionally for Ruby's good as well." Yang grinned and the Schnee knew why, it's because just saying the name of the dog girl made her more eager to comply with her demands, even if by a little bit.
She leaned against the backrest of the couch with a defeated sigh. "Fine."
"I guess that means you'll be staying over for the night." Blake offered a smile to the dog girl as she stood up and offered her hand to help the other girl to do the same.
"Mmm..." Ruby just nodded and yawned again, getting up with the help of the cat girl. "That's alright, where will I sleep?"
"Since Yang offered to take the floor..."
"I did not!"
"… You'll take our bed, come on let's get you ready to sleep. I'm sure we can find something you can use as provisional pajamas." With that Blake lead Ruby towards the small bedroom.
"What about me?" Weiss glanced at Yang. "I mean, we know you sleep on the ground and Blake most likely will find herself a comfy spot." She smirked, which turned into a grin as she heard the blonde's grunt at her comment.
"I swear I sometimes feel like I'm the one wearing a collar in this house." She let out a sigh followed by a chuckle. "Hm… Most likely with Ruby? I think at least. But you're not yet sleepy, are you? You usually last a bit longer." Yang nudged her to which she just shrugged.
"I'm not, but I want to know where I can lay down once I reach that state of exhaustion." She reached for her glass and emptied it.
"Fair enough!" Yang grinned as she reached for the second bottle, opening it and pouring its content for both of their glasses.
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"Blake isn't coming back for a long time now." Weiss frowned as she glanced at the doors leading to the bedroom.
"True, does Ruby require some… Special treatment before sleep? Like a bed story or something like that?" Yang raised a brow as she glanced between the door and the girl sitting next to her.
"Not really, we just go to bed and that's it." Weiss shrugged, she never really had to do anything special to make Ruby sleep, she wasn't a pup or anything like that to have issues sleeping.
"I'll check on them." Yang rose up and after a second of trying to maintain balance, she slowly moved towards the second room. Weiss observed as the blonde gently opened the doors enough for her head to be able to peek in. After a moment she closed them again, a smirk on her lips.
"What? What happened? What's with the smile?" She asked, not sure what this sort of reaction from her friend could mean at a time like this.
"Think you'll be taking the couch here." Yang sat down heavily with a huff, reaching for her glass and taking a sip.
"Why? Yang, come on, tell me what happened." She nudged the taller girl, her brain empty of ideas of what could possibly happen.
"Blake and Ruby took the bed." The blonde finally explained with a smile. That made Weiss frown, that meant they shared the bed right? Like she normally did with Ruby. Although Blake was acting in a very specific way towards the dog girl all this time.
"Blake sure is protective over Ruby." She finally spoke her mind, for some reason she wasn't angry at the fact that the cat girl took her spot. She trusted both of them, not that any of them were obliged to remain in any way loyal to her, not in this way at least.
Yang glanced at her glass thoughtfully. "I think it's because she feels responsible."
"Responsible for what?" Weiss tilted her head, not sure what the blonde was talking about. Why would Blake feel responsible for anything? Because she convinced her to keep Ruby? Or tried at least.
"Eh? Oh erm…" Yang rubbed the back of her neck. "I mean like, you know… Her being the more experienced one? Like an older sister!" She snapped her fingers at that.
"That… Does make sense." Weiss offered a slow nod. That did fit with being protective over the girl, some sort of Faunus thing? No that's… That's just dumb. Humans do that as well, friends do that all the time.
"Yep, totally normal." Yang nodded.
"So what about you?" Weiss glanced at the girl beside her.
"What about me?" She asked as she reached to pour the last of what the bottle had to offer, trying to equally share it between their glasses.
"Where will you sleep? You do have a plan for that, right? It won't really be the ground?" Weiss frowned, if Yang had nowhere to sleep, she'd rather sleep sitting and offer for her friend to do the same. No way will she allow for the girl to actually lay on the floor like that.
"Eh, we have this soft thing to lay on the ground, you know so you don't lay on the hard floor like that. We got it in case we'd get more guests to sleep over for whatever reason. I'll grab a pillow and a blanket and I'll be okay for one night, no need to worry about me." Yang waved her hand dismissively.
In a way that did make Weiss a bit jealous over how prepared Yang was at a time, she might ask her for notes and such, but when it came for the practical stuff? The girl always seemed to have something stored to just fit the occasion. Or was she just drunk and impressed by mundane things? Was this how man picked up drunk ladies at bars? Because said ladies were easily impressed?
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Weiss observed her glass intently, she was considering something important inside her head. First, if she even should and then how to even approach the said topic. Something finally clicked inside her head and she took a deep breath. "Yang? Can I ask you something?"
"Ho'boy, that sounds serious. Sure, shoot." The blonde placed her now empty glass down onto the table and turned to the side to face her.
"Yang, I'm not joking, I really have an important question." She crossed her arms in annoyance.
"Hey! I didn't say you were joking, it really sounded like it's something important, so feel free to ask." Yang rose her hands in a defensive manner.
"And now you're putting pressure on me!" She covered her face with her hands.
"I'm sorry? Do you want me to tell a bad joke to loosen the mood a little?" Yang rubbed the side of her neck, dealing with drunk Weiss was always a tiny bit draining, although not as bad as with different types of drunk she dealt with in the past.
"No! No, it's fine." Weiss took another deep breath to collect her thoughts. "I… Would you mind… No that's stupid." She paused and chewed the inside of her cheek as she attempted to form the question inside her head.
"Weiss? Just ask what's on your mind, I won't laugh or anything." The blonde smiled, not a smirk or a grin, but just a smile. A friendly smile which luckily did help her clear her mind enough to form her question.
"Would you think differently of me if… If I was gay?" She closed her eyes as if preparing for the worst.
"Eh?" Was the first reaction from Yang, surprise. She didn't expect anything else. She never really talked about dating or anything like relationships, so dropping this sort of bomb about sexuality? That had to have some impact at least. "Alright, I'll give you an answer but… But answer me this first, how do you know that you're gay?"
"What do you mean?" Weiss frowned, she didn't expect a counter question and to top it off this sort of question.
"Well, often people just get confused with their own sexuality or they just think they are gay or bisexual or whatever. Nothing wrong with thought experiments, but… But if you really think you are I want to be sure that you won't hurt yourself in case you're wrong… Yourself or someone else by accident." Yang reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder, her expression painted with worry.
Was this it? Was it all in her head? No, it couldn't be. It was because of Ruby and it didn't just happen overnight. It went on for a longer period of time, shortly after she started living with her. But she couldn't tell her, at least not yet. "Yang? Do you trust me?"
"Of course." The blonde nodded.
"Then… Then if I tell you that I know that I'm gay and I'm sure of it, will you trust me with that?" She clenched her jaw, not sure what Yang would say to that. They were friends and while initially, that could mean she would believe her, there was the fact that she wanted to make sure she wouldn't hurt herself as she claimed before which could mean she would drill her further about the issue and that's something she didn't want to deal with, not right now.
"Alright, I trust you." The blonde smiled and nodded. "And I won't think differently of you, you're still my friend, Weiss. I would think that you knew the answer without having to ask for it." She chuckled.
Weiss bit her lower lip at that. "I just wanted to hear it. With everything happening lately I really needed some sort of reassurance from the outside." She lowered her gaze. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Yang reached out and gently grabbed her chin, raising it up so that she could look her in the eyes. "I understand, I'm not upset so don't worry about it." With that said she pulled her into a hug, something that Weiss was more than eager to return, feeling relieved. A feeling that she hadn't felt for a bit now or at least it felt that way to her.
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Weiss wriggled around, not that she wasn't glad for a spot to sleep, but the couch wasn't the most comfortable place to sleep, maybe for some, but not for her, she was in no way used to sleeping with so little room to move around. It didn't help that her mind was still a mess with everything that happened both yesterday and today, the good and the bad.
She finally had enough and opened her eyes, the room was coated in darkness and it took a moment before her eyes got adjusted to it, soon she saw all the shapes in the room, including Yang laying on the floor. Yet she wasn't really in any sleeping position, at least for her taste, as she was laying with her folded arms underneath her head and if her eyes were open she'd be staring at the ceiling.
"Yang?" She called out in a whisper, wanting to know if the girl was sleeping or not.
"Yeah?" The blonde answered without looking her way, which made sense, not like they could see each other.
"Why aren't you asleep?" She asked, knowing very well that it could be countered with the same type of question, still not knowing how to ask differently she just decided to go with it.
"Just have some things on my mind, that's all." Yang tilted her head to look her way and she could half imagine half make out the smile in the darkness that the blonde would wear.
Of course, while it was strange and awful it was also a fact that she completely forgot that Yang had to have her own issues in life. It's not like life was a movie and she was the main character as such the only issues that were presented would be hers. She let out a soft sigh at that.
"What about you?" After a moment of silence, the blonde asked.
"I'm sorry Yang." Instead of answering with something generic she decided to just jump onto a more important topic.
"About what?" Her words had to surprise the other girl, as she once more tilted her head to look her way, the confusion clearly audible in her voice.
"With all of my stuff with Ruby and all that I completely forgot that you have your own things you need to worry about." Life was never easy, she wasn't sure if it was the alcohol that made her think this way and feel this way but it's not like it wasn't the truth. She forgot about it.
"Hey, Weiss?" Yang's voice got her to focus on the real world once more, as she saw the girl raise her arm towards her with her hand open.
It was an invitation of course and after a moment she accepted it, as she took her hand, more out of curiosity than anything, knowing that the girl would just remain silent till she did accept it. Once their fingers entangled with each other, only then did she continue. "You're in a tough spot, I've been there at one point in my life. I know how difficult it is for both you and Ruby. So don't blame yourself for anything, because I know that when I get into a pickle, you'll be there for me and you won't take no for an answer if you offer to help." With that, she squeezed her hand.
She was too lucky to have people like Yang in her life. She smiled, although that would go unnoticed by the blonde, what was more important was that she decided to squeeze her hand back after which they both remained silent, both knowing that there was nothing else to be said. Soon their hands parted and Weiss turned around, trying once more to find a comfortable position to sleep in. Perhaps it was the brief interaction with Yang or just the exhaustion catching up with her but she finally managed fell asleep.
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Bonus Scene
"This way Ruby." Blake led the girl into the small bedroom she shared with Yang. "The bathroom is to the right, you should wash before bed." The cat girl paused as she glanced at the redhead. "Do you need help? Or are you fine doing it yourself?" She wasn't trying to be condescending but she knew this or that to suspect that Ruby might have been one of those faunus that required help with something like that, at least for now.
"I can handle myself, I just need a towel oh and should I sleep in my clothes?" The dog girl looked at herself briefly before her silver eyes went back to Blake.
"I'll find you something, in the meantime, you go and clean yourself. Oh and use whatever towel you'll find, don't worry about it." She smiled and Ruby just nodded, going inside the bathroom.
She let out a sigh, what to get her. Shorts and a shirt, that sounded about right. Both her and Yang were taller than Weiss and Ruby was around Weiss's height. Was she taller? She wasn't, right? Well, that didn't really matter. She grabbed some black shorts from the clean pile of clothes and a black t-shirt and went inside the bathroom to offer it to Ruby.
"I'll put the clothes on the washing machine, you can put your clothes there once you've changed so it won't get lost and confused with some of our stuff tomorrow." She said, glancing briefly as the girl was washing her face.
She shrugged, seeing that she indeed could handle such basic things as cleaning herself. It made her feel a bit better since she was seriously worried that Ruby was raised to be someone that could not handle anything without an outside help, some humans did that, wanting a child that would never grow up. It would annoy her if she discovered that Ruby was treated that way, especially considering that she was a smart girl.
With all that thinking she almost didn't notice the girl leaving the bathroom. "It's sort of big." Was the first comment as she stood there wearing nothing but black. The t-shirt itself looked like a dress more than anything and Blake couldn't help but smile at the sight.
"It's just for tonight and just something you'll sleep in. Too big is better than too small, right?" She chuckled to which Ruby just shrugged.
She watched as the girl moved towards the bed. "Do you need anything else? You know where the bathroom is, I can get you a glass of water or something to drink… Anything?"
Ruby was sitting on the bed and it was very easy to notice that she was thinking about something. Blake was about to ask, but seconds before that the thought that lingered inside the redhead's head decided to leave in a form of a question. "Can you lay down with me?"
"Eh?" The cat girl blinked at that. "Why? Do you… Need someone to sleep with you?" She almost regretted her words, but she knew that Ruby would take it for what it was, so just sleeping with someone. And thank goodness Yang haven't heard it, or Weiss.
"Well, I don't need to but I feel better if I can fall asleep with someone being there. I don't really like to be alone, especially when I sleep in a new place." The dog girl grimaced slightly.
"What about Weiss?" Blake couldn't help but ask.
"She's not here yet and besides she smells of alcohol." That made Ruby frown.
"Right." She bit her lower lip only to let out a defeated sigh. "Alright, I'll lay down with you." The smile that appeared on the dog girl's face made her feel as if just agreeing to such was worth it.
Soon they laid down in the bed, covered with a blanket. It took a moment of adjustment before Blake could feel Ruby curl up against her and while she was still unsure about it, all she could do was to wrap an arm around the other girl.
It wasn't completely silent, as she could hear the murmurs from the other room, something that Ruby had to hear as well.
"You were there, weren't you?" She wasn't sure what surprised her more, hearing Ruby's voice so suddenly, the tone of voice she had or the words that left her mouth.
"Where?" She whispered back, not sure what Ruby meant.
"That night." Was all that Ruby said, and it took Blake a moment to understand what she meant. She took a deep breath, not sure what to do or say.
There was no point in keeping things a secret, right? "I was." She answered, not sure what would come next.
"Why did you act like you didn't know me when we meet with Yang and Weiss being there?" It was strange to hear Ruby like this, her voice serious and confident, not scared or playful or anything like that.
"I don't know." It was the truth, she wasn't sure. "Everything happened so fast that night and after that, I wasn't sure what to do. You acted like you didn't really remember, like shock and all that affected you to the point where you blocked the details of that night out. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lie to you."
"It came to me slowly, everything. I'm not sure what I'm expecting from you, I didn't mean to sound mad at you or anything." That made her smile a little bit if anything she didn't want to make Ruby angry with her.
"I'm still sorry. Ruby?" Since they were having this sort of mood she decided to continue their conversation, hoping the girl wouldn't suddenly fall asleep.
"Yes?" The redhead asked without even moving an inch.
"Do you think Weiss is happy with you?" It was an odd question, but she was curious about the answer she'd get.
"Yes." Came a simple reply which was nothing that she expected to hear. If anything she thought that Ruby would ask what she meant or some less confident answer at least.
"How?" She had to drill for some specifics, some details, now even more curious than before.
"Because..." There was a pause. "I'm not sure if it's the correct term, but it's because Weiss is fighting over herself just to do all those things so that she could keep me. I know that she had to fight with things outside, but I can see that she's also struggling with herself, which means that she really wants to do things for me. I like to believe it's because she's happy with me."
"Are you sure?" Blake continued, she never was an optimist and while she herself claimed to be a realist, more often than not Yang claimed she was pessimistic at nature.
"I'm not, but it's what I choose to believe. Otherwise, I'd just be sad since I don't have anything else outside of Weiss right now." That made the cat girl bit her lower lip. This was a bit too much to hear. Still, she herself trusted Weiss so there was no point in making a tragedy out of it, at least not yet.
"Are you happy with Weiss?" It made her curious now if the girl could surprise her with her answer, no longer expecting to hear the obvious from her.
"I am now," Ruby answered softly.
"You weren't before?" Did something happened at one point, or did Ruby just grow more attached to Weiss over time?
"No." Once more a very short answer, but this time she didn't think about drilling further, instead a different idea came to her mind.
"Ruby? If you ever have some weird thoughts and you're not sure what to think or something similar? Remember that you can talk to me, alright? Humans often don't understand us fully, even if we want to believe they do." It was a bit sneaky and Yang did say that they shouldn't cross a certain line with those two, but Blake was just setting things for later… Besides, she was a cat, in no way would she listen to Yang, at least not when it was entertaining this way.
"Blake?" She felt the girl move her head to glance up at her.
"Yes?" She smiled as their eyes meet.
"Thank you, for everything. Back then and now." That just made her smile grow, as she hugged the girl to herself.
"We have to protect each other, Ruby. Among humans, we have just our owners and ourselves to rely on." Her own words left a bitter aftertaste on her tongue, effectively removing the smile off her lips.
The girl didn't say anything and she could feel her breathing growing softer which meant that she finally had fallen asleep. While it wasn't her time yet, she decided to close her eyes. It was comfortable to lay beside Ruby, she knew that dog Faunus was very warm and if anything? Her catness enjoyed this extra warmth. How ironic was that for a dog and cat to sleep together like this.
Author's Note:
The bonus scene is there to keep with the bonus stuff being outside of Weiss's point of view or at least her being there. It was too little for a bonus chapter so I just decided to squeeze it here and call it a bonus scene.
After re-reading this chapter for proofreading purposes I thought that perhaps it would be better if I made this story differently, as in making Ruby and Yang the Faunus and Blake and Weiss the owners, that would make more sense in regards of the bonds that the characters are making. But well… It's too late now.
Initially, I wanted to ramble a lot here, but since I usually write and proofread when its super late, and doing so exhausts me additionally, I'll spare you guys my dumb thoughts. I should just make a blog, shouldn't I? I actually do have that, although it consists of me just sharing my fics there … And will have my thoughts on the upcoming episodes/volume of rwby. So yeah maybe better avoid that place.