A few months later...
"There is absolutely no way that happened!" Blake exclaimed laughing as she walked around the pool table looking for a shot. Ruby was perched on the other end holding a pool cue in her hand. They where currently in the recreation room in the White Fang base, a place people could come and do whatever, there was a basketball court that doubled for tennis or other sports. Pool tables, foose ball, and even some video games. They were playing a game to see who would get the last pack of cupcakes that they had found in the cafeteria.
"There is no way that you made the cue ball go in some ones cup." Blake said as she leaned across the table to line up a shot.
"Hey, it was a once in a life time thing and it did happen believe it or not." Ruby said with a shrug watching as Blake took her shot and missed the cue ball sailed straight into the pocket.
Blake frowned as Ruby laughed. "Great shot." she said jumping off the table and fished the ball out of the pocket.
"I only started the other day." Blake said as an excuse for her bad playing. Ruby walked past Blake and set the white ball down on the green velvet and started to line up her shot she only had one solid left and then the eight ball. She smiled as an idea occurred to her, the two balls were side by side she could hit both and get them both in, but she had to get her last solid in first before the eight ball which would be nothing but luck.
Blake leaned on her pool cue as she watched the younger deer faunus contemplate her shot. It had been two months since the girl had came to this base and in that time the two had become close friends, out side of missions they spent most of their time together. Either in the base, walking through the surrounding forest and occasionally going to the nearby town.
Having a friend was new to her, she smiled as Ruby tensed and made the shot hitting both the balls and sent them spinning towards two different pockets. Blake leaned forwards watching intently, the balls fell in their pockets at the same time. Ruby jumped up and down in triumph.
"Ha, It's mine!" she exclaimed dropping the pool stick on the table and snacking the pack off the edge of the table.
"Hey, it is not they went in at the same time!" Blake explained abandoning her pool stick and it fell to the floor with a clatter. Smiling she grabbed Ruby's wrist.
"Did not!" Ruby giggled trying to pull her hand free from Blake's grip. Blake stepped closer to the girl and laughed. "Yes it did and you know it, you lost!"
"No, I won!" Ruby howled as she laughed uncontrollably while trying to keep hold of the prize. They moved forward and Blake lost her balance falling forward into Ruby and towards the pool table, on impulse Blake let go of Ruby's wrist and caught the edge of the table, her other hand wrapped around the girls waist putting them really close together.
The atmosphere instantly changed. Ruby stared into Blake's eyes, pinned between the pool table and Blake's body. Ruby's face grew hot as she was aware of every part of Blake's body that was touching her own. They stayed like that for a moment just staring into each others eyes.
"Umm." Ruby mumbled and Blake blinked realizing what was going on. "Oh sorry!" she said quickly backing away and letting Ruby up. Ruby stared at the floor between them feeling a mixture of feelings rise up inside of her, nervousness, anxiousness, and...disappointment? She frowned confused at the feeling.
"Sorry about that." Blake said again not meeting Ruby's eyes. "oh, um, It's cool." she said opening the cupcake she still had in her hands. It was a little smushed but all in all Ok. She tore it in half and handed a piece over to Blake. She smiled and took it from her. "Thanks." she said but was slowly backing away towards the door.
"There's, something I need to go do." she said hurridly and left the room.
Ruby stared at her half of cupcake in her hand. Ever since that night in the forest with Blake her feelings had been steadily growing towards the quiet darker girl. It was to confusing, she was here on a job, here to help stop the White Fang, and all she wanted was to get close to one girl. She bit her lip and walked towards the door.
She had a job to finish, it was nearly time for her to leave. She threw her half of the cupcake in the trash as she walked out the door.
Her job was fairly simple. She headed for the main elevator, pushing the call button. "I'm getting ready to add more." She said pressing the button in her throat and keeping her voice low. There wasn't a reply but she knew that he was listening. The elevator dinged signaling its arrival and the metal doors slid open.
Ruby walked in and pushed the button that would bring her down two levels deeper into the compound. There were seven levels in total. First floor was ground level where the lobby and dorms were, second was where the recreation room and cafeteria among other things were located. Third was for storage. Fourth was a research area full of dustologist's from the white fang. Fifth was a holding area, she hadn't been there yet, and the final two where off limits, she had zero access there, well, she knew the seventh was a meeting room of the leaders over this base. Her jaw tightened at that memory.
Her stomach lurched as the elevator started down to the research area. She hadn't finished mapping out that area yet.
Her job here was to relate a map of the base's layout to her company. The elevator was quiet as it took her farther down. It stopped and the doors slid open. Two men stood outside the doors, one had fox ears and the other had horns coming out his forehead. They were both dressed in lab coats.
"Brothers." Ruby said in greeting as she walked past the men, they merely nodded and stepped onto the elevator returning to their conversation. "That dust crystal he made is a mystery, I don't have a clue what its for..." Ruby overhead before the doors closed.
'They must be talking about that crystal we brought back on that first mission.' she thought, but that wasn't important to her. She walked through the research area until she had reached where she had stopped last time. She looked around making sure that she was alone and touched the communicator. "Picking up with last time." She said walking forwards. "hall turns left, two doors on the right side three on the left..." she started. She spent the next thirty minutes mapping it out quietly.
"That's it on this floor" she said removing her finger and turning around. At the end of the hall stood Adam, grinning at her from beneath his mask.
"Adam." she said tersely watching the man she had never liked him since she met him. "What you up to?" he asked still grinning.
"just feeling out the layout of the place." She said with a shrug.
"Come on," he said turning around "you have a mission."