Chapter 28

The hot water flowed over her body like a soft velvet blanket. The large circular shower head on the ceiling created a rain-like effect that she found very soothing.

This is the life...

Weiss closed her eyes and tilted her head back, letting the water flow over her face and down her frame. The thoughts in her mind were lovely as well, as she imagined dancing naked in the rain, a symphony playing Bluethoven's Fifth as she did.

Wonderful

Her blissful thoughts were interrupted by a knocking at the door. A soft, timid voice called out from the other side of it.

"Weiss?"

It was Ruby. She winced as she realized that she had just abandoned her friend to be alone, right after she had opened up about the scar.

I'm a terrible person.

She slumped forward, frowning. She knew she had to help her friend. She had promised that Ruby could call her if she needed anything, after all.

"Yes, Ruby?"

Her heart pounded. What if she wanted to join her in the shower? Her body shivered at the thought. The voice beyond the door called out again.

"Can I come in?"

May I come in.

Weiss sighed at her self for the immediate correction of Ruby's question. Why did she have to be so smart? It was a curse. Wait, did Ruby want to come into the bathroom? The actual content of the question suddenly registered in her brain. She looked down at her naked body, blushing as she realized the implications. The glass shower box had fogged up, and Weiss hoped it was opaque enough to hide her from her friend.

A little see-through wouldn't be so bad, though.

She dropped her head into her hands and rubbed her temples. Her mind was trying to kill her, she was certain.

"You do realize I'm naked in here, right?"

Weiss's hands were shaking. Certainly, Ruby wouldn't want to come in the room after that, right? She was far too bashful to actually make a move like that. Right?

Wrong!

"Yeah, but I'm kinda lonely out here..."

Ha!

Weiss's mind raced. Ruby did want to join her, at least only for company. She should have brought Ruby with her into the bathroom. Why did she leave her alone out there? Weiss felt like a bitch.

"Alright. But no peeking!"

She smiled at herself, content with the coy suggestion she had implied. Of course she wanted Ruby to peek. Come on! It was Ruby!

She's gonna want to join you...

Weiss silenced the voice in her head as quickly as she could as she heard the bathroom door silently creak open. Clearly, the brunette was just as nervous as she was with suddenly nudity. There was the soft patter of Ruby's feet on the tile floor as she shuffled over to the vanity. Weiss could see the outline of her friend lean against the vanity through the fogged glass. Her heart raced as she realized she was fully naked only a few feet away from the girl of her dreams.

Gosh, you sound so cliche.

She could hear Ruby shuffling uncomfortably outside the shower stall. It was mildly amusing to her, despite what had happened not five minutes ago. Girl of your dreams. Pah! What malarkey.

You know it's true. Give in to your feelings.

"Hey, Weiss?"

Weiss brought her hand up to the glass and rubbed a tiny window into the fogged door, just enough so she could see Ruby leaning against the vanity. The moisture squeaked against her hand.

"Yes, my little Rose-Petal?"

She watched as her friend shuddered and smiled at being called that. Weiss had seen that this nickname was working wonders on the girl, and took a mental note to use is as many times as she could. Getting the upper hand on Ruby was always fun, of course. Weiss was the prepared one, never getting blindsided by comedic timing. What Ruby said next, however, she was not expecting.

"Can...I join you? To save water, you know." she mumbled and looked away again "It's wasteful to have two showers..."

WHAT

OH MY

YES PLEASE

Weiss turned bright red in an instant. Like someone had flipped a switch connected to a red spotlight, which was now beaming through the small window in the steamed glass box. She could see Ruby's eyes light up behind her bangs, clearly subtly trying to gauge a reaction. Weiss's reaction had been the desired one.

Cheeky bugger...

I guess I have to roll with it...

Weiss's better judgment usually was a good thing. It kept her away from certain dates that would have ended poorly, it kept her from sustaining injury during sparring practice, and most importantly it kept her out of awkward situations. But in the past few years, she had begun sporadically ignoring her better judgment when it came to Ruby.

"Well... I-I guess...To save water, of c-course..."

No sooner had the words left her mouth then Ruby had stripped down, completely naked, and had rushed toward the shower door. Her scar was out in the open. In the half-second before Ruby reached the stall, Weiss frowned to herself. Here was a girl who was so ashamed of her injury, who had lied about it before, was now completely naked and about to jump in the shower with her. Sure, it was Ruby, who was without a doubt seriously in love, but it just seemed like the younger brunette was acting a little too forward. Weiss's mind raced as she tried to come up with a plan to try and ease the poor girl into this intimacy, lest she get hurt.

"Wait!"

To her surprise, Ruby waited. Weiss took a second to think, quickly determining that removing the lights might help the situation, and focus Ruby's mind more on the shower and perhaps not on her body. If she was lucky.

"M-maybe dim the lights a little?"

Her own breathing hitched a little as the lights came down. Somehow she had not seen the dimmer switches that were next to the main light switch. She cursed herself as she realized that as the light level had come down, the romance level had gone up. Way up.

Shit!

It was only a matter of time, she figured, until her hornyness got the better of her and she made a move on Ruby. Every single thing the girl had done in the past eight freaking years had been one big long drawn out tease. Weiss's eye twitched. She could hear Ruby's grip on the shower door's handle tighten in anticipation. Weiss's grip on her own arm did too.

"The no peeking rule still applies!"

As if.

You pervert.

The door was pulled open, and much of the steam cloud Weiss had been hiding in pooled out of the isolated glass cell. The cool breeze from the air in the bathroom flowed into the box, sending a chill up Weiss's spine. Ruby's elbow brushed against hers. She shivered again.

What have I gotten myself into

Ruby had her back to her, and Weiss so desperately wanted to turn around and do something. It was excruciating to be in this close proximity to a naked person who you were in love with. Someone who you wanted to get freaky with. Weiss's mind was screaming like a siren for her to jump her friend right then and there. Of course, it would also shout for her to be patient and wait for the other girl to move first.

Why are you torturing me?

Weiss hadn't realized she was shaking. Her eyes were glued shut, trying so desperately to wrench themselves open and peek at the goddess behind her. Well, less peek and more consume. The word 'blush' wasn't strong enough for what Weiss was doing at the moment. It felt like her whole body had become one with the colour red. Two arms were placed around her midsection, along with a very warm feeling as Ruby pressed herself against her. Weiss nearly leaped out of her skin, giving a shriek.

"Don't worry, my eyes are still closed. You told me not to peek."

Not to peek?

Not to PEEK?

YOUR BOOBS ARE TOUCHING ME!

Weiss tried to stop her beating heart, which she was sure was going fast enough to be considered a projectile. She settled her back against Ruby's chest and relaxed her arms. She could feel a warm kiss placed on her shoulder as the round, adorable cheeks of her friend's face mushed themselves into her neck. Somebody was enjoying this shower, and Weiss couldn't identify that person due to the nerves. Ruby spoke up in a sultry, inviting tone.

"Hey. Think we could use this shower for its intended purpose?"

Wh- What? I-I don't... Are you serious?

Weiss's heart fluttered. Her mind raced. Was Ruby really suggesting that? Right now? Well. Weiss guessed that she could go for that sort of activity right about now. She would have preferred to do it in a bed, her lover surrounded by rose petals, candlelight, soft music...

Weiss brain no work

"Here you go. Mind doing me first?"

Weiss's legs almost buckled. She slowly spun around in Ruby's embrace, and put her hands on the girl's hips. Her breathing was ragged. She was ready. Something was bumped against her arm. It felt like it was made of plastic.

WOW. OKAY. I'M FINE WITH THIS.

Weiss's fingers gripped a little tighter against the womanly curves in her hands. Her eyes still closed, she blindly brought her hand up to grip the plastic cylinder at her left arm. It's cold.

Wait...

Is this...

It was. Weiss let out a disappointed sigh. She took the shampoo bottle in her hand, and tucked it up under her arm.

You're a fucking pervert, Weiss.

"Tilt your head back, you dolt."

Bit early for insults, me.

The pitch of the water falling against the shower floor changed as Ruby no doubt complied, and Weiss made to reach out and touch her head. Her hands felt blindly in the air between them, searching for the radiant figure. Weiss kept her hands held high, or high enough she hoped as to not accidental grope her friend. Washing someone's hair with your eyes closed was very difficult, as she soon found out. Her fingers finally made contact with something...

..squishy.

The object she had touched keeled away and shrieked.

"Ow! You jabbed me in the eye!"

FUCK

Weiss yelped and her hands shot to her mouth, pushing as many 'I'm sorry's' out through the clenched fingers as she could. She wanted to open her eyes and try to help, but she was afraid that Ruby might yell at her for peeking. Weiss turned her body away, ashamed. There was a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, now. It was an accident. It didn't even hurt! Turn around."

Weiss let herself be rotated back around under the downpour, her eyes still firmly glued shut. Two hands found their way to her shoulders.

"Let me help you wash me..."

The voice was like silk to her ears. The girl's usually high-pitched and rather abrasive tone that Weiss had grown accustomed to over the years was gone today, replaced by a sultry and sweet sound like fresh maple syrup. Very sweet, and she couldn't get enough. Weiss was sure she could listen to this voice explain particle physics and she'd be interested. It was a voice she was sure she could love. But the body it was attached to, however, was now doing something she needed.

Ruby had began gently trailing her fingertips along Weiss's arms, making her way as slowly as she could to her hands. Weiss shivered. She had to be teasing her on purpose. Weiss could understand if the girl was doing this so she could guide her wrists around, but did she have to do it so agonizingly slowly? Waves of pleasure ran up her spine.

Evidently, yes. Please continue.

When Ruby's hands had finally made their way down the shivering girl's arms and wrapped around her wrists, she let her hands be brought up to the other's hair. The soft, damp mass under her fingers was like fine silk, and Weiss took a second to actually enjoy the feeling of touching Ruby's hair. In the past, the bubbly brunette would seldom let anyone ever touch her hair. It was like she had some kind of anxiety-based aversion to it, or at least that was the excuse that Yang had given for her sister's weirdness. But today, in the shower, completely naked, Ruby had encouraged Weiss to touch it. And she loved it. Her fingers worked themselves down to the scalp, and she could feel every minute bump and line on Ruby's head. With her eyes closed still, it felt like she was sculpting fine clay.

"Hand me the shampoo, will you?"

The plastic bottle was quickly poked into her stomach. She jerked away a little at the sudden contact, but quickly relaxed and took the bottle in her left hand. Flicking the top open with her thumb, she raised it above her friend's head and squeezed an amount out she assumed would be enough for the girl's much shorter hair. Of course, she couldn't be certain, as her eyes were still shut, but by the way that it flowed over the hand that was still in the hair, it might have been a little too much.

Hey, just in case you forgot, Ruby's naked. And right in front of you.

Weiss whimpered. More than anything in the world she wanted to open her eyes and take in the gorgeous person in front of her. She allowed the frown to come to her face, feeling a little dejected. It wasn't fair. Ruby had seen her in a bikini, a few times in the shower (by accident, damn that door and its lack of a lock), and once sort of on purpose during one of their more recent weekly visits when Weiss had forgotten what time the girl would be arriving and hadn't finished changing. Ruby seemed to enjoy barging into rooms.

And the one time I had a chance to see, I just HAD to make that 'no peeking' rule. I'm really stupid.

Weiss rubbed the shampoo in. She could feel the suds forming on her hands and making the soft brown hair slick and smooth. Weiss for once allowed her brain to draw pictures of Ruby in her head, seeing as she wasn't allowed the real thing. It probably wasn't the best representation of the huntress's true figure, but it would do for now. The suds were coming out of the girl's hair. She massaged Ruby's scalp a little more, until she could no longer feel the distinct slick feeling that this particular brand of hair product made. She brought her hands down the sides of her friend's face to her neck, followed by the girl's rounded and muscular shoulders. They were immensely smooth from the shampoo suds that had been washed over them.

How would the rest of her body feel?

Her breath hitched. Now she needed to know.

"Can I please peek, Ruby?"

There was a soft chuckle.

"Nope! I haven't done you yet!"

No, you haven't. You must DO me.

Chapter 29

Ruby had peeked already. Well, less 'peeked' and more 'had her eyes open the whole time'. It was both amusing and alluring to see Weiss blushing like an idiot, completely naked, and under the assumption that she couldn't be seen. Ruby had a hard time not looking at Weiss. She drank in every curve and smooth edge on the ice princess's perfect body, all the way down to her feet. Ruby's eyebrows perked up when she saw the scarlet red nail polish that had been applied with milli metrically perfect accuracy. She giggled to herself, thinking that perhaps this was a subtle hint that the slender girl was showing that she liked her.

Heh, she has a crush on me.

Wait, obviously she does.

Her silver eyes focused themselves on her friend's face, which was contorted into a strained visage, eyebrows furrowed and mouth tense as the girl's hands worked themselves through her hair. Ruby smiled and let her lidded eyes drift shut as she enjoyed the pleasurable feeling of the scalp-massage she was receiving. Tilting her head back and allowing the water to flow over her face, she began to feel the slick suds coming out of her hair and flow down her shoulders on to her chest. She thought about rubbing her now-slippery self against her friend.

Bad. Remember the scar.

She frowned at herself. Why? Weiss isn't affected by it. Get over yourself. Ruby wanted to reach into her brain and strangle her inner self. It had ruined a perfectly good perverted thought. About Weiss! She tried to move herself forward, but was interrupted by the ice princess's wavering voice.

"Can I please peak, Ruby?"

Ruby chuckled to herself.

Ha! Told you she isn't bothered by it! She likes the way you look! Be a good girlfriend, idiot.

This was not the time to be that, she thought. More teasing was necessary. Ruby had picked up on Weiss's overly persistent longing for her over the last few years, and had been quietly holding it against her. At first, it seemed like the thin woman was simply being friendly, but the past two days in the car had cemented what Ruby had assumed from day one. She wanted her. The thought brought a warm glow to her cheeks. Nobody had ever wanted her before in that way. The last person who did...

You remember.

...She shook herself to try and forget that particular monster. She didn't need the nightmares anymore. She had her Weiss now.

"Nope! I haven't done you yet!"

I hope I'll get to do you soon.

There was a whimper. Ruby laughed at it to cover up the sudden intense heat that coursed through her chest. Ruby was not usually one to think about Weiss, or anyone for that matter, in that way. She hadn't been able to in so many years. Not since him, and certainly not since the attack. Was Weiss breaking her out of her shell?

She certainly broke you out of the closet.

Ruby let out a laugh, which garnered a confused but still blind expression from the girl in front of her. She sighed and waved it off, putting her arms around the slender figure and pulling her in for an embrace. A slippery, soapy, trembling embrace. Weiss seemed to be a little uncomfortable with being in contact with a naked body. Ruby released her friend from the hug and stepped back slightly, still smiling at the naked being before her.

Naked being? C'mon. That is a piece of ART.

"Okay, keep your eyes shut. I'm gonna do you now."

That definitely got a reaction. Weiss's whole body seemed to flush at the hidden implication that she had so fluently sewn into her words. Ruby brought her hands up to the girl's head and put her fingers into the damp white locks. It felt like Weiss had a long white satin sheet on her head. Whatever conditioner she used, Ruby took a mental note to buy as much as she could. As a huntress, the countless hours spent out in the woods and roughing it had mostly ruined her hair past the point of no return. Her own hair products could only do so much, but whatever magic Weiss used she guessed could only improve it.

Plus, maybe we'll get to shower with her more often.

Now who was being the pervert. Ruby winced unconsciously at the thought of being naked more often than she had to. As much as she knew that Weiss liked her body, she still was having a few issues dealing with her own body image. Though it seemed like Weiss was helping in some way to try and boost her self esteem. Weiss was the only friend she had who had still continued to care for her, even this many years later. She smiled, picking up the shampoo bottle from where it sat on the little suction-cup shelf on one side of the glass shower cell. It was still open from when Weiss had poured most of it's contents into her short brown hair by accident, and Ruby sighed contentedly as she poured the correct amount on to the long white hair of the blinded girl. It was amusing and a little endearing that Weiss had kept her eyes shut for this long in the presence of her girlfriend. Any sane person would have peaked, if only a little. Ruby appreciated that Weiss was strong enough to respect her like this.

"Okay, now tilt your head back."

Weiss complied, and Ruby began working the slippery blue soap in. She looked down at Weiss's body without even noticing.

Good heavens. What have we here?

The gleaming pale skin stared back. Since Weiss seemed to be frozen in place, her figure looked like it was a marble sculpture, crafted by the divine angels themselves in their own image. Only shorter. Ruby let out a breath through her nose and smiled. Her hands slowed their massaging of the woman's scalp. Ruby's eyes were drawn back up to Weiss's collar bones, which looked like they could be used as weapons they were so sharp. Shivering as she imagined getting to kiss them, her eyes unconsciously drifted down to Weiss's chest.

Hello, sailor!

Ruby's mouth dropped open. They were immaculate. Perfectly hung against the pale white skin and one hundred percent identical, as if they had been mirrored over the woman's sternum. They weren't as large as her own, due in part to her mother's wonderful genes, but they looked for sure like they had some weight to them, and they looked excellently firm. Perky, too. Ruby couldn't stop herself from staring. There was a small birthmark on the left one, in the shape of an arrowhead, the skin there being only slightly darker, so you'd actually have to spend a reasonable time looking before you noticed it. Ruby decided to spend a reasonable time looking. Weiss still didn't know she had her eyes open, of course. A dark thought brewed.

Bite her on the nipple.

Ruby froze in place. Why? Why had her brain decided to do this? The heat in her chest resumed at full force, like it was trying to cook her from the inside. She had never known this kind of sexual attraction before. She wanted it.

"I know what you're thinking about doing, Ruby."

Ruby's eyes shot upward to gaze into Weiss's face. Her eyes were still closed. Whew. Ruby noticed that she had stopped rubbing the hair. She had just been standing there, immobile, thinking about doing lewd things to her friend's perfect breasts.

"I wouldn't mind..."

Something in her brain finally clicked. As Weiss's soft voice trailed off, her eyes opened, and Ruby could see deep into the baby blue orbs of her lover.

Oh shit, what have I done

Before she could even stop herself, the hands that she had worked into Weiss's hair slid down to the blushing cheeks and pulled them forward. The burning sensation in her chest was quickly overwhelmed by a new one, one that seemed to emanate from the other girl's lips. This kiss wasn't like any of the others she had received since they had started their journey and relationship. No, this one was different. It was like fire. In the four years that they had been roommates, there was a running joke that Weiss was actually made of ice, due to her abrasive and usually-angry attitude, but Ruby could tell now that this simply wasn't true. She had hard facts now. Weiss put up no fight to being dragged forward with such intensity, judging by how eager her hands were, quickly sliding themselves around Ruby's back.

The soapy brine that had formed over the two women created a feeling that Ruby had never experienced before. The sensation of Weiss's hands on her skin was one without compare, akin only to what she guessed it felt like to discover your sense of touch as a baby. Her skin was on fire from the way the slippery and searching hands on her back were moving. She brought her own hands down to Weiss's body. The skin beneath her fingertips was smooth like a sheet of wet ice, but it was as hot as a thousand infernos. She wanted more.

Her hands trailed down to the thin, well set hips of her friend in a desperate fervour. The fiery kiss she was getting from the ice princess remained, like a heated war of passion. Each side represented by a burning, unrequited love that had stood between the two forces for eight years. It was a war she could enjoy winning. She wondered how far she could push this encounter. Her hands separated, one remained on the girl's hip, the other trailed it's way upward to the soft, soapy mounds above. Her breathing became hoarse, ragged and slowed as a hand found it's way to her own chest, cupping the heavy breast, a slender thumb toying with the protruding portion like a toggle switch. Weiss had beaten her to the chase, clearly far more excited to be getting a little risky. Ruby giggled onto her friend's mouth, causing the kiss to break for a split second, before resuming with greater passion as she was pulled back into the slender girl.

There was a stirring from below. Fingers trailed themselves from behind her back, around her hips and onto her stomach. Ruby briefly flinched as those fingers crosses over the exposed scar tissue, but her fears were quelled as she realized the intended destination, which seemed to be a few inches below her navel. The fingers circled the navel, tracing small circles that sent chills up her spine like she was being electrocuted.

GO.

LOWER.

NOW.

Stopping a her hand a few millimetres above the prize she so desperately wanted, Weiss broke the kiss. She was panting. It was hot.

"How about..."

Her voice trailed off between the sharp intakes of breath.

"...we go back to the bed for the rest?"

NOW!

Ruby didn't giggle. Her eyes didn't glow. She didn't act coy. What she did, in fact, was direct her silver eyes into the baby blue ones of the bitch who had dared stop the journey to the good part, and glare. Without breaking eye contact, she reached over and shut the shower off, grabbed Weiss by the hand and led her out into the room without even towelling off. Her skin shouted at her momentarily as the cool air of the bedroom breezed against her, but the heat from wanting, no, needing what Weiss was offering was swiftly warming her up again. Strolling over to the far bed by the window, she spun around and fell backwards, pulling Weiss down on top of her. The ice princess's still-wet hair piled over her shoulder and onto Ruby's face, but the pale girl was quick to send it back behind her with a dramatic flick of her head. Ruby's pupils dared dilate at the sight. Weiss briefly placed her lips on Ruby's, before moving them past them and onto her cheeks. Ruby shivered as them made their way down her neck and onto her collar.

MORE.

Whatever good judgment she had was gone. Now was the time to enjoy whatever her friend wanted to throw at her. She lay there on the mattress, underneath Weiss, who hand positioned herself so as to best move her hands over the still wet Ruby. The girl's kisses worked their way over her exposed collarbone, her left hand tracing lecherous circles around her stomach. As the taunting girl placed each sultry kiss on her chest, Ruby's breathing became more irregular, as her hands gripped the bedclothes tighter. The wonderfully new feeling of the gentle kisses on her skin had changed course. They were now making their way down the valley of her sternum, turning to one side and beginning the ascent towards the summit of the left-most peak. Ruby wanted this. She wanted it now. Her breath hitched as she let out a tiny whimper. Weiss's hand had drifted past her forbidden area, and was working up her inner thighs. With each minute movement towards the prize she so desperately wanted, Ruby's whole body shook. No one had ever touched her like this before.

Especially not him.

Ruby flinched.

"Weiss...stop..."

Chapter 30

CODE RED! ABORT!

Weiss's mouth unlatched itself from it's place on the left breast. Her body coiled up like a spring and she leaped backwards, coming to a stop on her knees at the edge of the bed, her arms straight down in front. What have I done...

Ruby gave her a confused, but pained look.

"Why'd...you stop?"

I did something wrong!

Weiss looked away, trying to hide what she thought might be a feeling of shame.

"You told me to."

Her heart beat like a drum in her chest as she watched Ruby's chest rise and fall, clearly still feeling the effects of the actions. One's she wished with all her heart she could continue. Her heart pined as she watched the buxom girl close her legs and sit up on the bed. For once, she didn't stare at the girl's mesmerizing figure. All of her ingrained hornyness had been forced away by that treacherous four letter word. Stop. She felt like a criminal. No, worse. Like a monster. She hadn't asked for permission. Or consent. Despite Ruby's insistence, that thought lingered in her head.

Why? Why couldn't I stop myself?

"Weiss, come back..."

Ruby's voice seemed far away. Weiss shut her eyes and straightened her back. Now was not the time to be pouting. Neither was this an acceptable topic for a woman of her age and standing to be pouting about. She looked Ruby in the eye. She looked scared, sad, and a bit confused.

"I don't think I was quite ready for this. I don't think you were either." Ruby's gaze shifted away "Now, this doesn't mean I don't want you, Ruby, because believe me, I don't think I could go another minute without it..."

This makes you the bad guy...

Weiss scrunched up her face, turning her her body so she was positioned with her legs overhanging the side of the bed.

"...but I think that I may have pushed you a little too far, and for that I'm sorry. I want you to know that I love you and I respect you."

Ruby brought her knees up to her chest and planted her face into them. Something was definitely bothering her. Weiss needed to know, and tried to ask, before being interrupted.

"I love you too. I didn't mean for you to hate me..."

Weiss shut her eyes and tried to stifle a scream.

"I don't hate you, Ruby. I feel like you should hate me for being too forward."

Ruby seemed to frown at this.

"You weren't. I wanted it. I just..."

Weiss was confused. Was it her fault? Was it something else entirely? She scooted closer to the now-trembling girl, wrapping her arms around her shoulders. Whatever the problem was, she was sure Ruby would tell her in time. She opened up about the damn scar, after all. Whatever this was surely was trivial. Weiss sniffled into Ruby's shoulder, before looking the cuddled girl in the eye.

"I'm gonna put my pyjamas on, and I'll literally be right there if you need me. You could whisper and I'll hear you." she said, gesturing towards her own bed, only two metres away. As she stood up, Ruby's hand on her shoulder stopped her. There was something that the silver eyes seemed to want.

"Could you...maybe...stay naked? I-I kinda like it..." the quiet voice trailed off "...it makes me feel safe knowing that you're able to be comfortable around me..."

Weiss smiled and sat back down, giving her friend a gentle kiss on the forehead.

"Anything for you, my little Rose-Petal."

She crossed the small divide between the beds, and crawled beneath the soft silk sheets on her bed, enjoying the feeling of the fabric brushing over her naked frame.

Oh right, we're still fully naked.

Weiss couldn't stop the glow that came to her cheeks as she leaned over the side and pulled her book out of her suitcase. Had she taken this trip with Blake, she likely would have brought all the pre-release copies of the faunus's favourite smut series, Ninja's of Love, that she had been given by the author himself. But alas, bringing these books to Ruby would have gotten her yelled at. Although Ruby is pretty cute when she's upset, she figured, cracking open the comparatively mundane copy of Knight's Brigade. As she flipped her bookmark out, she could hear the subtle shuffling as her friend tucked herself into her own bed. She mumbled something, almost too quiet to hear.

"Goodnight Weiss. I love you..."

Weiss smiled over at her in the dim room.

"Sweet dreams, my love."

She could hear a soft giggle from the other bed.

She returned to her book, her eyes lidded from the day's activities. Her arms were nearing the point where they would just give in and she'd drop the book. Her eyes betrayed her. She slumped her body down below the sheets, waking consciousness fading quickly. She hoped she could dream about her Ruby again. And she hoped Ruby would dream about her, too.

Boy, was she wrong.