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Chapter 25:

Smiling softly as she rubbed her eyes, Blake just started to groan softly at the bright light flooding into her room as she could hear a soft but firm knocking that she knew exactly who it belonged to. Slumping out of her bed, Blake walked over towards the door, where she could see Perry standing in the shadow of the door hands clasped behind his back as he continued to meet Blake's gaze.

"It is the time you requested to be woken up at Miss Belladonna. According to the captain and navigator the Vale docks should be coming into view soon." Perry stated softly as Blake began to rub her eyes carefully as she began to yawn loudly. "Well put Ma'am. I've sent down for coffee, as well as a light breakfast thinking you would be behaving like this." Perry continued as Blake just braced herself against the door frame.

"I should punch you for calling me 'Miss Belladonna' and 'Ma'am'... but you are getting coffee brought up to me... and food. So I'm going to overlook it." Blake mumbled softly as she walked back into her room to just grab her phone as she stepped out of the room, quickly checking to see if their had been any more contact from Ruby. Frowning from the lack, Blake slide her phone into her sleep pants pocket as she rested over the railing and just smelled the salty air that was slightly tinged with the minor pollution that she had come to know and find a seemingly equal amount of comfort behind.

Sniffling a little, Blake spun around to see the man having walked towards the wall with his back pressed against it causing Blake to just smirk shaking her head softly at. "So what are you going to do with your what three day holiday as you wait for the next boat?" Blake asked softly yawning into her open hand as the man just kept a stoic face as he stared ahead.

"I have no such luxury. Once I know you are on your way to your home, me and my men will return to the boat and be going back to Menagerie. Your parents were insistent and I think we would feel a lot easier knowing that I was on my way back to fill my position once again." Perry spoke as Blake just chuckled softly at the statement. Not because she found it overly amusing, but because of how accurate he had stated his position on the matter.

It wasn't even a case that she had something against the other security guards. She just knew that Perry had been the one to work with her family the longest for their security. Something that she was glad that he seemed to understand as he sighed softly before he fixed the ear piece around his ear.

"You don't need to fret. I didn't take all of my best men, and your father still has his b team guarding him." Perry said with a smile as he took a deep breath. "So is Miss Rose meeting you at the docks?"

"No. Ruby's chair probably hasn't been buffed or even cleaned properly since before I left so the salt air probably would just cause rust. Not to mention she doesn't really have anyone to drive her down to them." Blake said calmly as she as she could see the man's eyes focus just behind her causing her to groan softly. "I always forget you are a hawk Faunus..." Blake muttered as she spun around to face the city. "Is she there?"

"Not that I can see. But the docks aren't exactly close." Perry stated calmly as he could see the guard he had sent down walking up holding a platter out towards Blake causing him to just smile as Blake took the cup and bowed her head softly.

Breathing gently on the cup, Blake took a small sip as she looked at the woman's head. "Thank you. If it was up to me, I'd send you away to go enjoy some time on the ship not babysitting me. But I'd rather you keeping your job." Blake said softly as the woman just smiled softly bowing her head again as she stood back upright.

"Velvet, go gather the men, and do one last sweep before we dock. We must be the first people off and back on once we make sure our charge is safe." Perry stated calmly as he held his hand out for the tray as the woman quickly handed it to him before quickly rushing back from where she came.

"Nice girl... looks familiar though. Is she new?" Blake asked calmly as she took a drink from the coffee once more. As Perry just stepped into the room to place the tray down on the small table before walking back in front of Blake.

Smiling softly, Perry just returned to his position as he stood back upright. "She is new. But according to her record and the background check, she was in the graduating year before you. She is just normally on outer wall duty. But she is on the fast track to get promoted onto house duty... but that is of course dependent on your parents ultimately. I can only suggest people during the two months total your parents offer promotions to the staff." Perry spoke as Blake just rolled her eyes gently as she took another gulp from the mug.

"You do know they don't only offer promotion for two months right? That is only because the workload for the both of them becomes nonexistent for those two months. So it is just easier on them to sort out the promotions then... but if you do enough, or prove yourself enough they do make exceptions." Blake said as she lowered the mug as she just continued to stare at the man who had a small chuckle.

"I'm aware. I'm also aware of how they do take my suggestions about my staff happily and often only rely on it. Now go have breakfast and get ready for the day."

"Fine. Just make sure you actually relax on the trip back. Can't have you dying from being wound up so much. It would piss everyone off." Blake mumbled softly as she walked into the room, closing the door behind her gently with a smile on her face as she could hear the soft chuckling as she slipped the lock on the door, just glad that the man had been accepting of the joke.

Groaning a little, Ruby began to rub her arm slowly as leaned back in her chair, just staring at the wall across from her. The fact that her eyes had been straining was enough to actually hurt her significantly, but she knew that she could get over this small bump in the road. Blinking her eyes a little seeking for desperate relief. Relief that came as Ruby felt an eyebrow raise as she heard a knock on her front door.

Sighing softly, Ruby began to quickly start to roll towards her front door just wondering who it could be. She knew Blake was on the way, but would still be a number of hours away. Not to mention she knew apparently Neo didn't have anything against using her key, but she also knew that Neo was still in work at this time so that didn't leave many people who would come to her place.

Coming to a stop, Ruby gave the door a sharp tug as she gasped lightly at her disheveled looking sister in law. Her clothes in a disarray as her face was obscured with a large hat and glasses causing Ruby to just feel her eyebrows raise higher at the sight.

"I'm sorry ma'am, I'm not expecting any Victorian era deliveries." Ruby said as she began to shake her head softly. "Okay that was a terrible joke. Come in... and what happened to your key so I know if I should get another one cut for you." Ruby asked as she began to roll backwards as Weiss rolled her eyes stepping into the house and closing the door.

"Glad you at least know the joke was an awful one. Didn't even get a chuckle out of you. Look, I just need someone to vent to, and I figured you were the best for a number of reasons." Weiss said with a small chuckle as if this wasn't going to get some reaction.

"So you look like you are going to be going for a country drive in a nineteen thirties movie?" Ruby asked as Weiss sighed turning around to just look at Ruby with a slight glare in her eyes that Ruby just chuckled at knowing that unmistakable feeling. "Seriously what is with the pooffy hat and huge sunglasses." Ruby quipped as she could see Weiss crossing her arms as she continued to stare at Ruby.

"Oh my God that moronic bitch actually hit you!" Ruby yelled as she gripped her wheels as she was about to roll out of the apartment when she could see Weiss standing in front of the door blocking her path.

Craning her head upwards to just stare at the ceiling, Ruby gave a sharp exhale as began to match where she assumed was Weiss' gaze. "You have about five seconds to tell me exactly what happened and the phrase 'I punched her in her damaged ribs' best come up somewhere before she hit you." Ruby said calmly gripping the wheels and giving them a small turn backwards as she just stared at the woman walking further into her house.

"She didn't intentionally hit me Ruby. It was an accident that happened a few days ago after she found out your dad lied to her about who ordered the amputation." Weiss said as she pulled the glasses off her face revealing a small ring around Weiss' eye of an off yellow shade that just caused Ruby to sigh at the sight as she began to roll towards the kitchen. "And where are you going?" Weiss asked as she could hear the sound of water bubbling before Ruby came back into the room. "Peppermint tea if you have it please."

Rolling her eyes, Ruby gestured towards the living room. As Weiss was walking past, Ruby pushed herself up to grip the brim of the hat and gave it a sharp tug back simply taking the hat off of Weiss' head before tossing it onto the chair as Weiss spun around to look a bit indigently at her.

"It was distracting me, and by extension pissing me off. As well as hiding your head making me think you were hiding some more hits to your head." Ruby said Weiss took a seat followed by Ruby quickly re-entering the kitchen to make the drink requested.

If for any other reason, Ruby just wanted Weiss calm enough as so she could decide how much she should murder her sister. Or at the very least she wasn't sure what was holding her back from telling her father when he would without a doubt go to Yang and do the same thing that Ruby wanted to do. The only difference was he'd actually feel a bit sorry for it.

Placing the tray of hot tea on her lap, Ruby began to just carefully wheel herself into the living room where she could see Weiss looking at one of the devices Ruby had been testing the previous night.

Seeing Ruby reappear Weiss jumped slightly before reaching for the tray on Ruby's lap for her. "You probably shouldn't leave these prototypes out... I think my company is working on something similar."

"Who do you think hired my firm? But that doesn't really matter. They are broken and it would take someone who knows what they are already to figure out what they are." Ruby began as she picked up her own mug of tea before she stared seemingly into Weiss' soul. "Now, are we done with the topic changing? Can we get back to the real issue at hand of you explaining why I shouldn't go and kill my sister?"

"She didn't mean to hit me Ruby." Weiss' voice croaked out. She was almost pissed off at the fact that she was having to say this, but she should have known better than to try and change the topic with Ruby. She had known Ruby long enough to know better than to do something like that.

Picking up the cup, Weiss breathed on it softly as she began to just nestle the cup in her hands. She needed some strength for what was going to come. It didn't make sense to her about why this was such a hard thing to talk about.

Ruby had always been there for her, and had seldom actually resorted to violence. Even when her and Yang were having nearly daily fights before the wedding. Ruby was always there helping her see the reason. Even when Yang had tried and failed to make her points that clear. Ruby had always been there to try and smooth their relationship over.

"We were arguing and I was trying to get her to realise I don't want her to die and I placed my hands on her and she accidentally swung trying to dislodge me from her and she accidentally smacked me and since then has locked herself up in a room and only has been relaying things through Klein."

Glaring at Weiss, Ruby wasn't sure what she thought was the dumber of things to happen that Weiss would try and hide that or that she would try and think that Ruby wasn't going to be pissed at the blonde woman. Especially when it was something as serious as the woman who was much stronger than Weiss physically had delivered a blow to her like that.

"I know it doesn't excuse it Ruby. And I know I'm starting to sound like one of those stupid straight to television movies. But that doesn't change the fact that Yang really didn't mean to hit me. If she did there is countless better times for her to hit me if she wanted to. But instead it happened after we got in a very vocal argument that I know all the staff at our home heard... and once she hit me she told me where she would be and practically sprinted off."

Sighing softly again, Ruby just stared at the woman as if she had heard this story multiple times over and was starting to get annoyed by hearing it all over again. Weiss however knew that Ruby would gladly sit through time and time again provided Yang never intentionally hit Weiss.

"Weiss, I don't care what was happening, or whatever happened after short of her instantly apologising. I mean did she even apologise yet?" Ruby asked as she tried to drive home the point that there wasn't any way Weiss could make it seem acceptable that Yang had hit her with the exception of Weiss throwing the first blow.

"Well... not exactly, but I do kn-" Before Weiss could continue the point the front door opened causing the both of them to look over towards it to see Blake walking in just rubbing her face calmly as she picked up at the sight of Ruby before gasping lightly at the sight of Weiss.

"It is a long story Blake. I may need to postpone our dinner and talk because I need to go and beat my sister." Ruby said as Weiss gasped as she stood up and was about to stop Ruby when Blake just closed the door calmly before clearing her throat as to remind Weiss that she was here as well.

Walking towards Ruby, Blake just gently placed a hand on her shoulder feeling herself become slightly giddy at the feeling of Ruby near her once more. But she had to admit that this was something far more important than anything else going on in her life. She had never seen Yang hit Weiss or at least left a mark on her face like that and with how far she felt out of the loop, this was just something that was hard for Ruby right now and she knew that she could make it easier by just being here.

"Ruby, you just need to calm down." Blake said softly as Ruby rolled her eyes causing Blake to quickly look around in desperate search for her mother before shaking her head remembering where she was. "Seriously Ruby. I get you are emotional. And we don't even need to go to some dinner to talk... but you know Yang doesn't respond to aggression. And I'm positive that Yang truly didn't mean to hit Weiss." Blake said as Ruby gently rested her hand on top of Blake's.

Ruby sighed softly as she picked the hand up off of her just giving it a small squeeze. A sight that Weiss normally would have teased Ruby for, but she knew that if she did, she'd lose this war against Ruby trying to get her to not fight her sister. All she could do was hope that Blake could talk sense into Ruby.

"She didn't mean it. Something that I've been trying to tell Ruby. Even if she wanted to, Yang has been held upon the second floor... and I doubt that she would come down. I mean Klein has been trying to get her to come out of the room for a number of days now... but he just can't." Weiss said softly as Blake just smiled giving Ruby's hand a squeeze back as if she was just trying to coax an impossible feat.

Namely convincing Ruby that it was best to just not start anything right now. As far as Blake could tell this was a once off incident. Even if it seemed cruel, she just knew that Weiss knew what she was doing. Blake knew too well to think Weiss would accept Yang intentionally harming her.

"Right, I should get going back home... you two do need to talk. And Ruby... tell her." Weiss said standing up as Ruby just rolled her eyes at Weiss' stance.

"Blake, I banged Neo and her twin sister." Ruby said calmly as she looked towards Blake who had a smile on her face as Ruby looked towards Weiss. "Told Weiss about our secret." Ruby continued as Blake began to blush a dark shade as she tilted her head away out of a clear sense of embarrassment at that becoming knowledge Weiss had.

"Did you record it?" Blake asked softly as Ruby just gently gestured towards the shocked CEO who had just frozen where she was standing. Something that Blake clearly picked up on as she separated from the comforting hand of Ruby as she walked towards Weiss just waving your hand in front of her face as Blake helped her back into a sitting position.

Laughing softly at the fact that Weiss was trying to put the pieces together but it just seemed like she was coming up short. Mostly why would anyone want to do that kind of thing. Something that Ruby had to admit that it did seem kind of odd if someone was looking from the outside in.

"No Blake. It was after we got into the fight. But other than that, nothing major happened. But to be fair, Weiss gets off on humiliation." Ruby said as she laughed softly at Weiss' shock turn into anger as began to fume. Meanwhile Blake began to blush further in embarrassment as she chuckled softly at the thought of someone like Weiss having that kind of fetish.

Standing up to glare at Ruby, Weiss walked over towards where her hat was laying to place it firmly on her head. "I'm not staying here with in this type of filth!" Weiss gasped out as she picked up her sunglasses that she quickly slipped onto her face obscuring the mark. "You two must talk. And if I find either of you ever talking about this, I'll sink the both of you. I don't imagine Menagerie would like to hear about your depravity." Weiss said pointing towards Blake before moving towards Ruby. "And I can have you fired for leaving sensitive information out for any person's eyes to see."

Storming out of the home, Weiss slammed the door shut before Ruby just began to chuckle. Something that Blake joined in on the laughter. It was something that just made it all the better to them from just the simple fact that they were with each other once again.

Ruby just smiled as she looked across to Blake as she began to wheel herself towards her. Coming to a stop, Ruby locked breaks as she began to carefully move herself from the chair onto the couch, just feeling a small frown as she could feel one of Blake's hands gingerly help her down. She knew that Blake was simply just trying to help, but Ruby still would have just preferred it if she was allowed to move herself.

"So I suppose we shouldn't really avoid this long..." Blake said softly, knowing that it was either going to be something good or something terrible to come from this. She was only feeling some small amount of trepidation towards this. Ruby had in her hands the power to destroy Blake emotionally if she so much as wanted to.

"Blake, you just got back... you are probably exhausted. Do you really want to talk about it at this exact minute?" Ruby asked turning towards Blake as she stared into her eyes. She could see the determination in them, as Ruby just bit her lip lightly. She couldn't believe she had put the thinking of this possibility of what Blake would want.

But not only that, but the fact that she hadn't even considered what to do about their relationship. And yet here she was getting caught with the fact that she didn't know what was going to happen. The only reason she wasn't trying to fight it was the fact that she knew that it wouldn't be something on her mind.

"I know Blake... I'm not trying to lead you on or anything. But you still slept with Ilia. One of the women who attacked me and even tried to kill me in the process of making sure I couldn't run for a long time if ever. And even a decade later, you know I still have nightmares of them... that you know fully well." Ruby said softly as she looked at her lap. Just wondering why this was something that had to have happened. "I mean you are fully aware of the kind of suffering I have... or even the constant hospital trips we've had because I can't feel anything from my lumbar region down... how do you think I'm meant to handle you sleeping with one of the women that caused all of this?"

Blake frowned softly as she could feel her heart starting to freeze over as she looked at Ruby who seemed like this was the first time in a long time she was being forced to relive those emotions... emotions she had only ever heard from Ruby that she had felt. But she had never seen these things coming from her.

"And I hope you never would intentionally do it. Drunk or not, that doesn't change the fact it happened. It wouldn't if you killed someone so why should that be the case when you sleep with Ilia?" Ruby asked looking towards Blake who had an almost hurt expression in her eyes as she tried to remain resolute in what was happening. Something that Ruby had to admit was an admirable quality.

"Ruby... I don't even want Ilia near me. Why would I intentionally jeopardise our relationship?" Blake asked as Ruby just sighed softly as she stared into Blake's eyes once again. Just trying to search why the amber eyes were something that could cause her pain like she was.

Gently grasping the paraplegic's hands, Blake spoke up again, "Ruby... I love you. I'd never intentionally hurt you. Even emotionally." Giving her hands one tight squeeze, Ruby sighed as she just looked down. "Just can you tell me if you forgive me?" Blake pleaded feebly looking for Ruby's answer.

"I don't forgive you." Ruby croaked out as she held Blake's hands tightly knowing that she was just wanting to run from this situation, but Ruby had to continue her point. "I can't forgive you for sleeping with her Blake. She did awful things to me. But I don't want to break up with you." Ruby continued her point wincing a little as she felt Blake lunge gently forward just wrapping her arms around Ruby as she pressed their lips together.

Author's Note:

And here we have the resolution of the Blake Ruby relationship troubles... but the story isn't over just yet. Stay tuned.