Quick heads up! I started writing this story over a year ago and my quality of writing has changed over the last while. So if it's difficult to read, don't worry; it should get better after the chapters posted after my hiatus. Anyways, please enjoy!

Ruby tapped her foot impatiently on the grass and sighed with frustration. She had asked Oscar to meet her here as soon as he possibly could after training with Ozpin and he wasn't here yet, as he likely would be.

She put her hands on her hips and stared up at the black night sky, sparkling with glittering stars, then crossed her arms. The soft chirping of crickets and other loud night bugs and critters could be heard near and far. She tapped her foot faster on the ground and looked around.

Hurry up, Oscar! This news can't wait long!

She sighed and shook her head, reaching to her belt and pulling out her scroll.

12:27am.

Ruby groaned in frustration and shook her head again. He was 27 minutes later than when he should have come and now she was standing here all alone in the dark. As much as she wished he would just appear, she almost wished that he wouldn't.

The news she was going to tell him wasn't exactly good news. In some cases, it would be fantastic news. But in situations like this, it was not good. In fact, it was quite dreadful.

"What's taking you so long?" Ruby mumbled, tapping her foot some more and then looking back up at the sky, her silver eyes locking with the glowing white moon.

There was the possibility of Oscar still training, even though it would be ridiculous if he was.

Midnight was already a late time for a 17 year old boy who had only recently been 14 to train as hard as possible to. Ozpin meant well, aging the newly 15 year old boy 2 year older with the help of one of his old reincarnate's semblances, and only wanted for Oscar to be strong, well trained, and ready for anything Salem would throw at him, but sometimes, Ruby thought that maybe Ozpin was taking Oscar a little too hard.

He would come back tired, sweaty, and sometimes even mildly injured from his training. And his training started at 3:00 to usually around 12:00, depending on his physical status or the status of everyone else. And if that wasn't hard enough, Oscar could sometimes barely sleep at night due to aches and pains from training, as well as Ozpin's constant talking in his head about Salem and what he planned to do.

"Ruby?"

Oscar's raspy voice startled Ruby and made her jump and give a little "Eep!" before standing rigidly upright and staring frozen at Oscar's taller face staring at her. She relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was just him, not someone else.

"Oh, hey," she said, panting slightly. She hated jumpscares and recovered slowly from them. Oscar saw the fear in her eyes and was quick to apologize. He always was.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" he said, reaching out his hand to her, but then drawing it slowly away.

"That's okay," Ruby said, lightly nodding her head, "Why are you so late?"

Oscar sighed and held his head down. Rather than looking sweaty and beat up, he looked more tired and worn out, which was somewhat a relief.

"Ozpin had me climb that crazy mountain out north," he began, looking back up at Ruby, "Then, after I killed some Grimm on the way, I had to climb all the way down. No breaks, no stopping. Nothing. Just straight climb and go. Then he made me go to some secluded creepy valley behind the mountain and kill a bunch of random Grimm standing around."

He sighed with exasperation and shook his head. Ruby looked softly at him, her eyes filled with sympathy.

"I'm sorry," she said quietly. Oscar shook his head and smiled weakly.

"No, that's okay," he said, "I needed it. I can feel the results of all our training. It's starting to pay off."

Ruby nodded slowly, remember suddenly her original reason for asking him here. Her heart began to beat heavily in her chest and a prickly warmth went down her back.

"Uh...Oscar?" she asked slowly, looking up at him with a more solemn face.

"Yeah?" he asked. His voice had gotten significantly lower since Ozpin had aged him, but it still held that boyish raspiness that made Ruby giggled sometimes.

"Uh...you remember that time a few months ago?" Ruby began slowly, her voice slightly trembling, "When Emerald and Mercury stole us and threw us into that cold, stoney dungeon?"

Oscar nodded.

"Yeah?"

Ruby swallowed and continued.

"And...uh, that Atlas Professor guy interrogated us for answers about Ozpin and the rest of the group and stuff? And when we didn't answer, he'd hurt you, er-us?"

Oscar nodded slowly.

"Yeah?"

"And you offered your handkerchief to wrap around my arm that night after he cut it with his knife?" Ruby continued, her voice getting slightly more strained with every word. Oscar nodded again.

"Yeah. Ruby, what are you getting at?" he asked, confused.

Ruby sighed.

"Remember a few nights later? I think it was maybe a few weeks...I can't remember. And you got knocked out really bad and then next few days you were in some sort of a haze?"

Oscar nodded.

"Yeah. I still can't really remember much about what happened other than what you just said just now," he said. Ruby nodded.

"Well..while you were in that haze...it got colder and colder in the dungeon, and we were both really hurt...and, um, we eventually got to the point where we were both clinging weakly onto each other and crying."

Oscar's eyes widened a little with realization and he nodded.

"Yeah!" he said, remembering, "I remember now! We were injured and bleeding, and our clothes were all torn and we were freezing."

Ruby winced and nodded.

"Well, after a little while...I must have been delirious too..." She put her hand to her forehead in shame and then shook her head.

"Well, after a while, you...I...um, we decided to try to make things a little less...miserable. Like, in a way we should not have."

She bit her lip and suddenly debated on whether or not she should actually tell him. It was embarrassing enough just to look at Oscar after their imprisonment, and she didn't want him to think the same way as her mind was now forced to. But she made up her mind. It was his fault too, for what she was going to say. He needed to know. He was going to a part of this. He had to be.

Just please don't opt out!

"What did we do?" Oscar asked, scratching his fuzzy brown hair. Ruby took a deep breath and tried in vain to still her thumping heart.

Tell him the truth.

"We..," she began slowly, now feeling rather warm all over, "I-we...um, we got real close and-er...we did...we had-"

Oscar's eyes widened and he froze, the memories that had been missing flooding back in one, awful wave. He slowly began to tremble, his hands being shakiest. He locked eyes with Ruby, who tried not to look panicked or too worried.

"And...I'm-I'm…" She didn't want to finished the words. Her voice felt strained and it almost hurt to talk, her mind screaming at her not to say. Not to tell him the truth and to just hide it deep inside herself. Literally.

"I'm pregnant, Oscar," Ruby said firmly, her whole innards feeling ready to explode. She had just told him the truth. And how was he going to react? This wasn't exactly something to take lightly, but it wasn't something to freak out and hurt someone about! Well, sort of.

Oscar just stood there, his wide hazel eyes locked with Ruby's silver ones, sparkling in the soft moonlight. Then he slowly tipped himself backwards, staying on his feet.

"Ooohhh! Why did I do that?! WHY?!" he moaned, staring back at the foliage behind him, then straightening back up and staring with large, frightened eyes at Ruby.

"Why did we do that?!" he groaned, his eyes widening and staring at Ruby's for a moment before averting to the night sky, "So foolish!"

See, Oscar? Ozpin chided in Oscar's head, I warned you. You should have known not to mess with women, especially not with Miss Rose. She is very young, you know.

Oscar groaned again and buried his face into his orange gloved hands. He didn't answer Ozpin's scolding, which seldom happened, due to his constant disappearance, but instead wondered what on Remnant he was going to do.

Ruby was pregnant. With his baby. What would the group do when they found out? They would probably trust Ozpin much less than when they did back in Argus, and just that alone had been miserable. And now they would all condemn him and Ruby, knowing it took 2 to cause this situation.

"But...but we're so young!" he said, his voice somewhere between a harsh whisper and a squeak, "I'm only 17! And you're only 16, which is worse, because you're the one carrying the baby! And I hardly know anything about pregnancy? Do you?"

Oscar's sudden outpour was something Ruby had expected, and she just tried to remain calm. Didn't want any Grimm to be attracted.

"Not much," Ruby admitted, resulting in a groan from Oscar, "But I do know a few things! What do you know?"

Oscar looked down.

"I don't know. That the woman's stomach turns into a basketball and you throw up until it's born?"

Ruby giggled, but then sobered immediately.

"I guess," she said softly, "And I don't think I'll be throwing up the entire time...But that does seem pretty accurate, to some extent. I know a few other things, too. But I don't think they have anything concerning to do with our situation or you."

Oscar nodded slowly. Then his eyes widened at another realization.

"What're we gonna tell the others?!" he exploded, panicked. Ruby roughly hushed him, pressing her finger to her lips and giving him a cold glare that silenced him.

"We aren't," she said hotly. Oscar looked even more afraid. He hated lying, and also hated hiding things that shouldn't be hidden.

"W-why not?" he asked. Ruby sighed and looked down. Oscar hated it when she was glum and not herself. He liked the bubbly, energetic Ruby, not the Blake Ruby.

"If we tell them, they'll kill us!" Ruby squeaked, cleary under extreme pressure, "You think I don't wanna tell them? I would if Ozpin wasn't on such...careful watch of everyone and if it wasn't because of you and me! If it hadn't been my fault, I would absolutely tell them! The moment I found out I would've!"

Oscar winced at Ruby's loud, angry voice.

"How long have you known?" he asked quietly. Ruby's anger seemed to melt down as her gloomy, sad state melted in.

"Almost a month," she said slowly, looking down, ashamed, "I'm almost three moths through. Just by the end of my first trimester."

Oscar raised a brow.

"What's that?" he asked, clueless.

"The first third of the nine months of pregnancy," Ruby answered, looking slowly up, "That's something I know."

Oscar nodded, smiling weakly.

"That's for sure."

Ruby smiled weakly back, but continued.

"And I was thinking...that we should raise this child together."

Oscar looked hard at her, but not in anger. In graveness.

"Not just that," she continued quickly, "Not just together, but with love and kindness. Like we would if this baby was wanted and planned for."

Oscar sighed and shook his head, looking back up at her with innocent, hazel eyes.

"I'll try," he said quietly. He definitely didn't seem very excited, but he did seem to mean what he had just said. Ruby sighed and gave her head a brief nod.

"Thank you," she said sincerely, "It means a lot."

Oscar just nodded again. He was very frightened, and his life had just gotten a lot harder. Not only would he still have to train with Ozpin for who-knows-how-long, but he would also have to support Ruby and be there for her, not to mention, staying away from Jaune. If he found out…

"Oscar?" Ruby asked, her voice soft, "Are you okay?"

Oscar slowly nodded.

"Yeah," he said with a light, nervous smile, "I'm fine."

Ruby looked sadly at him and stepped up to him, her eyes locked with his.

"I know this is a lot to take in," she said, lifting a hand to the side of Oscar's face, "But sometimes the best way to get rid of a problem is through it. And that's what I-we are gonna do. Okay?" She smiled softly at him. He smirked lightly back at her and slowly nodded.

"Okay," he whispered. Ruby drew close up to him and embraced him with a warm, tight hug. Oscar hugged he back, suddenly feeling warm and happy as he did. But part of him urged him to look backwards, fearing Jaune to be there. But Jaune wasn't. He was sleeping, in his tent. Oscar had too many bad memories of Jaune.

Being slammed up against the wall and yelled at for no good reason, constantly glared at, and now...Jaune would kill him if he found out. And Ozpin certainly hadn't been helping the situation. If only there was a way that Jaune would understand. He had seemed nice enough when he had first met him, but after the train crashed and Jinn had revealed everything about Ozma, he had suddenly become a monster, at least to him. And Jaune had seemed to be a little nicer to Ruby than everyone else...

If Jaune likes her, then he'll burn me after he kills me, too.

Ruby slowly drew away, a soft smile on her face. She yawned, rubbed her eyes, and then patted Oscar's shoulder.

"We can talk more later," she yawned, giving him full eye contact one more time, "Goodnight." Then she turned away and walked slowly to the group's campsite, disappearing behind the trees.

Oscar watched her leave, his small smile fading as she disappeared from view. He hung his head and gave an exasperated sigh. He looked arond at all the foliage, glanced at the shattered, glowing moon, and the turned around, slowly walking towards the pond. It was a small freshwater pond, with a river flowing into and out of it, which came from a freshwater lake some distance away. The moonlight reflected off of it's glassy surface, along withe the image of all the trees and plants surrounding the bank. The cricket's song chirped it's nighty tune, accompanying the lonely silence that was Oscar's current world.

He looked down at his strong, manly reflection and sighed.

"Sorry, Ruby," he said sadly, staring into the hazel eyes of his reflection, "But I don't think I'd make a very good daddy."

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