Wow! 200 subs! Yay me I guess. Still working on Chapter 16 so it might be awhile until the next one, in bit of a slump right now, maybe I'll watch through the early seasons again or something? Anyway, everything belongs to Roosterteeth except my OCs.

The next day Tai dropped them off at the airship port early in the morning since Ruby's team had a match later in the day so needed to get back to Vale. It was still dark when their flight left with Ruby and Yang snoozing in the seats next to Nathan as he leaned against the window dozing off every couple minutes. He let his parents know he'll be back in Vale soon, his dad told him he has lots of work piled up for Nathan to do when he gets home so won't be able to watch the Vytal tournament in person. Ruby won't be happy to hear that but he can still watch on TV while working.

When they got to Vale the three parted ways with Ruby and Yang heading to Beacon to prepare for their matches. Ruby predictively was upset Nathan couldn't come to Amity Arena to watch RWBY's first match but Nathan promised he'll watch them at home.

Nathan walked into the shop to see his dad was already watching the tournament. "Hey, how much do I have to do?"

"Oh, about ten weapons, all need repairs and one needs all the electronics swapped out." His father answered. "Have fun in Patch?" His father asked waggling his eye brows and grinning.

"Yeah, got to meet her dad, he seemed alright. We also killed an alpha beowolf."

"We? You gonna be a huntsman now?" He said jokingly.

"Nah but the experience is always good." He said walking into the workshop.

Soon Nathan had the TV running and he was replacing the metal tip of a spear. The blade had snapped off at some point so he forged a replacement and installed it. After that he refinished the alloy staff of the spear as it was wearing thin in areas where it was more frequently gripped.

He was just finishing when a mustached man on the television announced the next match was between Team RWBY from Beacon and Team ABRN from Haven. Nathan grabbed a bag of potato chips and a drink for the show.

The match went about as well as Nathan expected, there was a few close calls but RWBY pulled off a win without losing any of their team in the fight. He texted Ruby a congratulations for the win and walked out front to see his dad was watching the TV in the store.

"Your girl's team is pretty good, though ABRN did put up a good fight." His father said.

"I know Ruby and Yang are pretty good since I fought them both."

"They're only good to you because you're not a huntsman." His father said grinning.

"Thanks dad, really uplifting." He said sarcastically.

"Anytime."

Nathan's scroll beeped with a reply. Fishing out the phone he had a message from Ruby, it was a picture of her taking a selfie with Weiss. Ruby had a big smile on her face while Weiss looked uncomfortable with Ruby's arm around her. The picture came with a simple text of "Thanks! You think we can hang out tonight?"

He texted back. "You sure you won't be tired and need your rest?"

"Sleep is for the weak!"

"Ok, I guess just let me know when you're coming."

"K, gotta go."

Putting his phone away Nathan went back to work on the customers' weapons while having the tournament play in the background with occasional watching during his mini-breaks. Most of the work was done, the weapon that took the longest was a mace whose owner wanted engraving on the shaft of the weapon. There was still others but they can wait until tomorrow, he went to get cleaned up before Ruby shows up.

When Ruby got there she yelled excitedly: "Weiss'sisterandmyuncleQrowfoughteachotheritwassocool!"

"Slow down Rubes, what?" He said holding the giddy girl by her upper arms to get her to stop hopping.

"Weiss' older sister is here and so is my Uncle Qrow, they got into a fight and it was awesome!"

"Why did they fight?"

"Oh, well Uncle Qrow broke some of Weiss' sister's robots….he was drunk." Ruby said with a shrug.

"This happen often?"

"Yup! That's my Uncle Qrow for ya! I hope to be as good a huntsman as him someday." She said dreamily.

"If you keep progressing like you've been I'm certain you will….minus the alcoholism." Nathan said taking her hand and leading her down the street.

"So where you taking us tonight?"

"How do you feel about a movie?"

"Sure! What kind of movie are we seeing?"

"Horror." He stated.

"Ehh, I don't usually watch those but I think it'll be ok if you're there. Funny thing is Weiss actually really likes horror movies, on movie nights she usually picks either horror movies or historical dramas."

"Never pictured Weiss as a horror fan, maybe I should ask her what her favorites are." He wondered.

"Maybe after the tournament is over and things have settled down we can have a movie night with all five of us, maybe we can get Team JNPR to join us too."

"Could be fun, crowded though so we can't play around."

"Play around?...oh." She blushed.

He chuckled. "And we aren't doing that at the theater either."

They finally got to the theater and purchased tickets and drinks, Nathan recommended Ruby to not get food for two reasons: one being they'll get real food after the movie and two because of the movie they were about to see.

"What's 'The Thing' about?" Ruby asked when they got their seats, it wasn't a very crowded showing so they got to actually pick their spot.

"You'll have to watch and find out." He said with a grin, Nathan had already seen the movie.

The movie opened up to the frozen wastelands of northern Atlas with some guys shooting at a dog from a VTOL. What followed was a story of paranoia, infighting and alien body horror. It was a great time for Nathan, not so much for Ruby, especially during the dog kennel scene. She gripped Nathan tightly a few times, once or twice hard enough to hurt his arm. During one scene someone in the theater threw up, one of the reasons he told Ruby she shouldn't snack while watching this movie. When the movie was over Ruby released her vice-like grip of his arm and the two left the darkened room.

"So how was it for you?"

"It was gross! All that blood and guts and stuff and the heroes didn't win."

"Well it is a horror movie." Nathan said.

"I know but I like when the good guys win, some of Weiss' horror movies end like The Thing though she usually plays a different kind of horror I think she called it 'eldri-something'."

"I think it's eldritch? Supernatural stuff?" He asked.

"Yeah, like ghosts, demons and stuff."

"Still have an appetite after the movie?"

"Yeah, but please no spaghetti or noodles."

"Tacos?"

"Sure, we can pick up some and eat at the park."

They proceeded to do just that with Ruby grabbing two handfuls of the free sauces next to the drinks and other condiments before shouting "RUN!" and rose peddling her way out of the restaurant like she robbed the place. Nathan just shrugged in defeat and followed her out slightly red with embarrassment for the scene the reaper created and the mess she left.

He met her in the parking lot shoving the sauce packets in the paper bag holding their food. "What was that about?"

"Last time me and Yang ate here we took a lot of sauce and they got mad at us."

"How much did you take?"

"Well…the whole plastic tub." She answered pressing her index fingers together.

He face-palmed. "What am I going to do with you."

"You can start by kissing me." Ruby said gesturing to her cheek.

"So needy." He said walking closer and kissing her on the requested spot.

"Yay! Now to the park, my stomach is starting to growl."

Going into the park the sun was just starting to go down and the lamp posts were turning on. They found a bench to stop and munch on their tacos, luckily no one was around in the park that night it seems. Ruby was smothering her tacos with sauce, mostly the kind that came in black bags with a skull-and-crossbones on them. She noticed him watch her do this.

"I developed a high tolerance to spicy food thanks to Yang, she really likes hot and spicy stuff so of course she'd make me eat it too." She takes a bite then gulps down some soda. "Still hot." She says with her tongue hanging out.

Nathan was more conservative with his sauce, he didn't want his mouth to imitate a flamethrower. Ruby ended up with some of the sauce packets left over when they finished the tacos, she just placed them in her pockets for later.

"We should get going, I have to be in bed early for tomorrow. And Weiss will get mad if I'm late for our 'curfew'". Ruby said throwing the paper bag in the trash.

The two walked back towards the airship launch pad to Beacon holding hands and chatting some before stopping in front of the building. "Well good luck on your matches tomorrow, I'll be watching."

"You're jinxing me, now I'm more nervous about it…thanks." She said smiling.

Nathan pulled her into a hug and kissed her with Ruby returning it. "I love ya Nate." She says.

"I love you too Rubes, now get going, don't want to get lectured by Weiss do you?"

"No, and I'll try not to stay up texting you, no promises though." Ruby said with a wink.

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