"Are we there yet?"
"Nope!"
Silence greeted Ruby in return as Blake and her continued to trek through the woods. I'm surprised she didn't ask where we were going until now, it's been at least an hour since we started up the hill with heavy bags too! If their positions had been reversed, Ruby would have asked at least after the first ten minutes especially considering how cold it was outside. Instead Blake just trudged on in silence, content to follow Ruby to wherever she led.
Turning around Ruby addressed her sole companion. "We're almost there." Blake gave her a brief nod in return. "We just need to get to the top!" Ruby pointed into the dense thicket of trees in front of them.
A few minutes later the duo made it into a clearing as the evening light grew dim. "Okay, we're here!" Ruby huffed as she set down her heavy backpack before flopping down, sinking into the couple of inches of snow that covered the ground.
Blake on the other hand set her backpack down on a rather large rock before looking over towards Ruby with a curious expression. "So what's next?"
Pulling out a bag of marshmallows, Ruby gave a gleeful response. "Now we make s'mores!"
It hadn't take long to get a rudimentary fire going - after all Ruby had done it many times before. Nor did it take very long to get the marshmallows to get warm and gooey. It took even less time for the gooey treats to be consumed by the two. With that out of the way, the two started to set up a small camp – after all they were going to be out only for a single night.
Presently Ruby was lazing about, leaning against Blake while older girl read a book in the light of the campfire, Ruby occasionally reading bits of the book. It was a comfortable silence. A silence oddly enough broken by Blake, amber eyes flickering towards Ruby. "I'm pretty sure we were supposed to set up the camp first, then have s'mores."
Ruby gave a frown as mock-offense bled into her voice. "I'm pretty sure I'm the camping expert here." Blake raised an amused eyebrow. "Besides, are you saying you didn't want s'mores first?" A mischievous grin tugged at the corners of Ruby's mouth.
"I…" Blake held up a finger as if to contest the fact before lowering it. "No, you're right." Blake sheepishly admitted in defeat.
"You know you don't have to wear your bow out here, right?"
The embers of the fire were starting to lose their glow when Ruby asked the question. It'd been on her mind for a while; if Blake wears it to hide it from other people, there isn't anyone out here to hide it from! Perhaps a more selfish reason was because Ruby wanted to see the cute ears again, they are cute after all…
"I suppose not… I could take it off…" Blake looked at Ruby with curiosity while the hand not holding the book went fiddled with the bow. Curiosity turned into a wry smile and a teasing tone. "Do you want me to take off my bow?"
"Um." Ruby had not expected this turn of events. "I mean… uh…" She could feel a heat in her cheeks. "It's not like you can…um… take it off very often and-they're-very-cute!" Ruby blurted out the last part. Oh dust I said that out loud… Ruby pulled her hood over her head in shame only for it to be pulled off gently by Blake.
Looking at Blake was not what Ruby expected; instead of some teasing or something that Yang would do, Blake had taken off her black bow, redness visible in her cheeks. "There." Blake gave Ruby a shy grin. "Better?"
Ruby nodded enthusiastically "Yup~!"
"Blake?"
"Hm?" The black hair girl had nearly fallen asleep; huddled against Ruby for warmth after the camp fire had died out, Blake's eyes were fighting a losing battle against staying open.
"Look up."
Amber eyes were no longer fighting a losing battle as Ruby watched Blake stare up at the vastness of the stars. It was a change of pace to watch the normally calm and collected girl stare in awe of the twinkling dots in the sky. I did promise to take her stargazing after all!
While Blake was mesmerized by the vast array of constellations, Ruby was losing her own battle to stay away. Not quite stifling a yawn, Ruby got up to get into her sleeping bag. Or at least she tried to until Blake gently grabbed onto her arm. "You don't have to go to sleep yet…"
The pleading quality in Blake's voice stopped Ruby in her tracks, causing her to sit back down next to the Faunus. Almost immediately Ruby felt her eyelids start to droop. "But I'm tired Blake…" Ruby knew she was whining but the day had been long and she really wanted to sleep. "At least let me get a pillow or so-eep!"
Ruby felt herself being pulled into Blake's lap, the older girl's arms securing her from falling over, her back resting against Blake's chest. "Are you comfortable now?"
Ruby nodded, too tired to respond with anything. It didn't take long for her to drift off to the land of dreams in Blake's arms, the sense of safeness only added to it.
AU: Finally get a call back to that Stars chapter. Finally!
I'm discovering I have less time/drive to write at the insane pace I used to for Dilation. Which probably means going from three chapters a week to one or two a week. Which is still a lot considering I write three different stories right now. Usually I will update before work on Saturday, but since I didn't have work yesterday, you get the update today before I start a ten hour shift, wheee!
Unrelated note; as of yesterday, September 19th, 2015, I've been watching RWBY for exactly a year!
Have a great day everyone!