"Belle is giving Ruby a 'check-up' after she finds out Gold threw her and knocked her out."
5) Check-up (Red Beauty)
"Five plus five equals how much?" the voice asks, bearing an air of the most hopeful, non-invasive sincerity there can be when it wakes you god knows when, fully aware that hearing what it stands for is of zero interest to a sleep-deprived individual.
"TenforChrist'ssake," Ruby slurs before burying her face under the blanket in search of shelter from that rude, rude voice, dead to the world once more within seconds.
In the morning, everything's changed: the blanket is a placemat someone must have thrown over her, the bed a booth she fell asleep in after the celebration, and the voice now possesses a clear association with an innocent face — or would if she remembered it, that is.
"Do you know what happened last night?" Belle says, hovering over Ruby's still snuggled form.
Having no recollection of the mysterious mathematician voice and her (understandable) irritation, Ruby shakes her head in response, and Belle settles at her feet to clarify, "I thought you might have had a concussion, so I woke you up and asked you some easy questions, like your name, where you are, things like that, just to make sure there was no cognitive impairment," leaving out the part where the story says Belle was also the one to tuck her friend in for the night. "But you're okay," she smiles brightly, if a little embarrassed, and after a moment's hesitation that really isn't there at all, presses a chaste kiss to Ruby's cheek, leaving a warm tingle in the desert of the morning's cold.