RWBY A Day in the Life of Crime

Chapter Ten: Too Many Sweets can be a Bad Thing

A/N: To balance out the harsh last chapter, here's one that's sweeter.

"Ruby."

"No."

"Ruby." A stern voice, an even sterner look accompanying it. Ruby ignored both.

"No."

A sigh of exasperation. "If it hurts we need to go get help."

"No. I don't need to. I can take the pain. I'm a big girl!" Ruby insisted and then winced in pain as her loud words caused her jaw to throb angrily.

"Ruby, it's only going to get worse," Cinder gently insisted, trying to reach over the table to touch Ruby on the hand but the girl turned her back to her girlfriend and crossed her arms over her chest. Cinder sighed. "Honestly, you can kill people without batting an eye but you don't want to go to a dentist?"

"I'm not scared or anything of them," Ruby said, which Cinder knew definitely confirmed that she was. "I just don't like their stupid looking tools and their stupid little music that they play in the waiting rooms."

Cinder rubbed the bridge of her nose. How could she convince Ruby? She would have to choose her words carefully. "Ruby. You're whole mouth could get infected from this. It looks bad. You're whole cheek is already inflamed and swollen and it's only going to get worse from there."

Ruby shrugged violently. "So?"

That approach-the rational one- wasn't working. So it was time to move onto another. The what-would-everyone-think-if-the-boss-looked-like-a-chipmunk approach. "Ruby, what would your henchmen think of their boss if they saw she looked like a chipmunk. What would your enemies think?"

Ruby shrugged again, her shoulders stabbing the air. "I can always wear a mask. Besides, you said it was cute."

Well, that approach didn't work either. Onto the next one.

"Ruby, how will you eat your cookies?"

She knew this got the girl's attention because she stiffed up. "The normal way, like I usually do." Her voice was a bit tight and defensive.

"Hmm, you and I both know that it won't work like that. You need to use both sides of your mouth to enjoy a cookie to the fullest. And your toothache won't let you do that." Cinder used a coy tone of voice to say this, leaning more over the table so Ruby could hear her clearly.

Ruby's shoulder's shook with annoyance and Cinder pressed on, knowing she could get her to break.

"And if you can't eat cookies, then you know that it means other people will be able to do so. They'll take all the cookies away from you."

She could hear a frustrated growl come from Ruby. "Fine! Fine!" she threw her hands up in the air. "I'll go to the stupid-ouch!-dentist," Ruby quieted down after her loud cry of ouch because she had aggravated her tooth by talking loudly.

"I'll set an appointment, boss," Cinder got up from the table and went to go schedule one.

"There's no need to rush," Ruby called after her, as she eyed how quickly Cinder moved to the phone. But the woman was gone and Ruby was alone in her room, rubbing her swollen cheek. "Maybe it does hurt. A little." She winced. "Okay. A lot." She liked pain but only if Cinder gave it to her. And this tooth most certainly wasn't Cinder so it had to go.

A very disgruntled Cinder opened the door of the car standing outside the office building with one hand as she held up a very out of it Ruby with her other. The girl was smiling and starry eyed, her eyes not focusing on any one spot. "Cinder," she slurred, tugging on the woman's shirt as said woman gently tried to get Ruby to sit in the backseat without squirming so she could buckle her in. It wasn't working so well. "Cinder. Cinder," Ruby slurred again, giggling at the end when Cinder snapped out an irritated "what?"

"You're very pretty," Ruby said, giggling and grabbing her blushing cheeks as if not able to believe she had just said that out loud. She wiggled her body back and forth at this.

"Yes Ruby, you've only said that a million times. Now would you sit still? I'm trying to get you in the car." Cinder tugged the seatbelt around the girl's waist but she was sliding down in the seat to the floor, into a boneless pile of a person.

"But I'd much rather get in you," Ruby pointed out.

"Ruby, now is not the time for flirting. We need to leave before the police come," Cinder grunted out as she pulled Ruby up by her armpits and sat her back down.

"The police?" Ruby asked, cocking her head to hear what more Cinder had to say but misjudged how far to tilt it and smacked Cinder right in the nose.

"Ruby!" Cinder cried out, grabbing her offended nose and pushing Ruby's head upright with her other hand.

"That's my name!" the girl giggled and let her hand join the one that was on her head. She curled her fingers around it and brought Cinder's hand so close into her sight of vision that her nose was pressed up against the warm flesh. "You're hands are so, so, nice. I know where I'd like them."

Cinder let out a disgruntled sigh. It was bad enough dealing with a loopy Ruby. Now she was both loopy and horny. She tried to free her hand but the girl was too strong for this. "Ruby let go of my hand. We're going to get in trouble if we don't go soon."

"Where are we going? Is it to bed?" Ruby asked as she began to lick and nibble at the back of Cinder's hand like it was a cookie.

"Yes Ruby, to bed. Just sit still." Cinder could hear an explosion behind her go off and she cringed. The wail of approaching sirens was distant for now but soon it would get louder.

"Uh, Cinder, is everything alright there? Are we good to go?" Mercury asked from the front seat, craning his head over his shoulder.

"You know what, yea. Just hit the gas," Cinder instructed, shoving Ruby over easily and pulling herself into the back seat, hooking the door closed behind her with her heel. She gave up on buckling the girl in. Surely she'd be fine.

"Got it," Mercury hit the gas and the car lurched forward and away from the wreck that was left of the dentist's office.

"Oh wow, that place has pretty fireworks," Ruby commented as she sat up and looked out the back window. She was seeing the flaming dentist's office, something she herself caused to happen but probably wasn't very aware of.

"That's not fireworks," Cinder told her, sitting up properly on her seat too.

"Then what is it?"

"You set the place on fire."

"I did?" Ruby's drugged face tried to make a surprised expression but it only made her look like she had to take a shit.

"Yes, you got upset when you woke up from the anesthesia after your tooth got taken out. You were scared that the dentist was a monster and took out your scythe and started hacking things and people to pieces. And then I had to set the place on fire so that there wouldn't be a crime scene," Cinder explained.

"Wow." Ruby shook her head. "I can't believe you did that Cinder. How mean of you!"

Cinder tsked angrily. "I wasn't the one who went crazy-"

But Ruby was already off on a different topic. "Can we make out now?"

"No." Was the flat answer.

"Not even a little?" Ruby pouted, clasping her hands in front of her chest and sticking out her bottom lip.

"No."

"Aww, you're so mean. Super meany Cinder!" Ruby began to swing her legs back and forth petulantly on the seat. "Mercury, do something about Cinder!" the girl kicked the back of the driver's seat and Mercury went face first into the wheel. The car swerved to the right into a water hydrant as Cinder let out an angry cry of "Ruby!"

That was the last time Cinder offered to go with Ruby to the dentist. From then on the woman put a restriction on how many cookies Ruby could eat so she wouldn't get another cavity. And she made sure the girl thoroughly brushed her teeth each night and day. Ruby wasn't too ecstatic about the idea.