Okay good news bad news. Bad news is my laptop done killed itself again. Good news... kinda is I had no stories to upload before it decided to kill itself so I can write them on my phone which is only semi annoying.
Chapter 4: two years later...
On top a lone cliff side sat Amethyst Rose knees pulled up to her chest and softly sobbing into them. She stared out and then down to the grave marker, the grave marker was for her grandmother.
"I-I-I'm... s-s-sorry for bothering you Grandma Summer. I just needed someone to talk to." Amethyst began sniffling and wiping her eyes with her sleeve. She always hated coming here to tall about bad things but in reality she feels truly lonely and it was hurting that the only person she could talk to was Summer.
"You know I don't like talking to you about bad things but this week has been nothing but bad and I had no one to talk to." Amethyst continued looking at the grave marker. "The week started off alright, I woke up normally full of hope but when I got downstairs to see that Mommy got called to go on a mission that was supposed to be a few days. Like Normal though Sanguine had his head in a book after getting skipped ahead again." She muttered into her knees.
"Mama was busy doing some work but she did stop when I came down to make me and Sanguine breakfast. It was after all our first day of school so she made us our favourite. Blueberry pancakes. When I was done I jumped up and put my dishes in the dishwasher to try and make as little mess as possible to help Mama. I then ran upstairs to get ready for the first day back." Still coming out as a mumble, she just wished Summer was alive so she could hug her or give her some form of reassurance.
"Auntie Yang came and picked me up because I'm know in the same school as Amber, I'm just a year behind her. But it all started to go downhill from there. I still haven't made any friends... but on a better note those four bullies weren't there so I managed to get to lunch just fine... Amber even let me sit with her and her friends." At recalling the memory she started to sob a lot more.
"But then one of them started to pick on me for my purple hair and the fact I'm full Fauns. Amber... she did nothing and I ran away to go cry a bit. She eventually found me under a tree a bit away from people. She said they were just joking." Amethyst spat her statement laced with venom.
"Amber still knows I am very sensitive to the fact I am adopted. I still love Amber because I know she was equally angry at the Fauns. jokes, I just think she has bad friends... but still more bad or good than me." she said wiping her face. "I stayed even more quit for the rest of the day and went out of my way to stay away from Amber's friends. Granddad picked me and Amber up because Auntie Yang and Blake were busy and Sanguine had is know in Signal so he wouldn't be home for a while." She said cheering up a bit, she did always like being with Tao Yang. He just had a thing about him to but her at ease, he also helped her and Amber get over their fear of Weir. Amethyst actually enjoys playing with the corgi now.
"The rest of the week was alright Amber's friends apologised because they didn't know I was that sensitive but those four bullies came back. They stayed away until today." She said her hand reaching up and cupping her ears.
"They threatened to cut my ears off so I could 'look human' Sanguine came by because he got off early and wanted to walk home with me and he saw this... He punched and kicked them and one of them 'accidentally' stabbed him in the arm and broke the same arm." She began to cry even more almost whaling.
"Sangie is now in hospital because of me and my stupid Fauns. ears..." Amethyst said smacking her head with her open palm. "I'm scared Grandma... what if he doesn't get lucky like that again? Mama came racing to the hospital where she saw Sanguine trying to push me away because I was crying and sighed at the sight." She said, her crying beginning to subside.
"But Mommy hasn't come back yet and that is making me scarred, I know she will be fine but still, I'm scarred every time she leaves and to top that off with this. I just ran here to talk after Sanguine went to get his arm fixed and mama went to go make sure he was alright. I needed to talk to someone and you were the closest..." She said wiping her eyes. Her ears beginning to pick up on someone approaching but she didn't mind only a few people knew of this location.
"Hey Sweetie, you alright?" Ruby said taking a seat next to the girl. Amethyst just continued to stare at the grave. "You know, me and you always do the same thing... When anything happens we always come here to talk with your grandma." Ruby said crossing her legs and putting a hand onto Amethyst's back.
"You're mother is worried sick about you, and so am I so do you want to tell me what went up now or do you want to talk about it over some hot coco?" Ruby asked the smell of Grimm ichor was over powering to Amethyst she could tell she came straight here.
She mumbled something under her breath. Ruby tried really hard to hear it. "Amiee I don't have super hearing like you and I most certainly can't read people's mind like your brother so you need to speak up a bit." Ruby said putting her head on the purple haired girl's shoulder. "I said nothing is wrong."
Ruby pulled Amethyst's ear closest to her, "Ow Mommy stop that hurts!" Amethyst pleaded. "Not as much as when my own daughter lies to me let alone in front of my Mom. Now tell me the truth!" Ruby demanded leaving little room for Amethyst to counter.
"I-I-I'm scarred Mommy!" Amethyst yelled crying into Ruby's shoulder and wrapping her arms around Ruby and hugging her like it would be the last time. Ruby returned the hug and started to rub her back gentle, whispering calming words to her.
After what felt like an hour to Amethyst only felt like five seconds to Ruby but in reality it was only around ten minutes. Ruby decided to break the silence, " Do you want to talk about it sweetie? Or you can play a game like last time and say nothing is wrong." she just felt Amethyst nod her head furiously in the crook of her neck. "Thanks for talking to her Mom. We all still miss you and Dad and Yang haven't destroyed anything recently but I need to talk to Amiee here. I'll be back soon." Ruby said placing a single rose down in front of the grave marker.
As she did this simple action a calm gust of wind blew in from the sea carrying a few stray rose petals. "Thanks again Mom." Ruby said quietly. She picked Amethyst up who stayed inside her place inside the crook of Ruby's neck. "By Grandma, thank you for listening." Amethyst said from her place but loud enough for all around to hear.
Ruby walked down the hill and onto a small path where she put Amethyst down and held her hand. "Mommy, where do you always get those roses from that you give to Grandma?" Amethyst asked.
"You are just like Weiss trying to change the subject when it is hard to talk about, but whenever I visit my Mom's grave I take one to give to her. No do you want to grab some hot coco or ice cream before you want to talk... It might make it easier." Ruby said her eyes full of hope.
"Mommy by any chance do you want hot coco or ice cream? Because if you do I'll say yes." Amethyst said grinning. "Again you are like Weiss knowing when I'm trying to edge you towards something. Climb on my back and I'll run home." Ruby said letting go of Amethyst's hand and kneeling down in front of her.
Amethyst climbed on and held on tight, "Sweetie you know you need to hold tighter if I use my semblance or you might fall off." Ruby said and as Amethyst's grip tightened Ruby started running. Her daughter on her back just began to laugh, she always enjoyed doing this. Mainly because after the first time her grip loosened she fell off and sprained her hand and both her and Ruby got yelled at by Weiss who condemned doing if ever again.
Alas like it is with all children and children at heart which both Amethyst and Ruby fell under. When you tell them not to it just means they want to do it more, at first Ruby was hesitant fearing what would happen if she fell again, but through cleaver convincing Amethyst got her to do it again.
The walk home that would normally take half an hour with Ruby using her semblance was able to make it home in under three minutes amongst a flurry of rose petals, Ruby began to slow down and eventually halted just a few hundred feet from there home.
Ruby let Amethyst down and grabbed her hand again. "Like always if you tell Mama I did that she will kill me and eat your stash of cookies in front of you." Ruby said staring into Amethyst panicking eyes.
"No! Mama wouldn't do that... she would just move my cookies or give them away because Mama doesn't like overly sweet things." Amethyst said matter-of-factly, causing Ruby to laugh. "Yeah that sounds more right. So here is what is going to happen because Mama is most likely with Sanguine right now. You can go get Flopsy while I make hot coco with the little marshmallows, we will then sit down and we will talk." Ruby said unlocking the front door causing Amethyst to run past her upstairs.
Ruby walked into the kitchen and grabbed the milk and began the realitivly quick process of making hot chocolate. By the time she finished making it Amethyst came running down clutching her stuffed rabbit toy, long since beaten throw time and had clearly had many times needed to be repaired.
"Was it honestly so bad you need Flopsy as well as talking to your Grandma?" Ruby asked passing a mug of the hot chocolate towards her purple haired daughter. She buried her face into the toy and nodded. "Let me guess those boys threatened to cause you bodily harm your brother heard this after he offered to walk you home. He then beat those guys to an inch of their life but they got a few
lucky hits in and now you are blowing his minor injuries out of proportion... am I in the right ball park?" Ruby asked taking a big mouthful from her own cup.
"T-t-that was right? How did you know?" Amethyst asked sceptically. "Your brother told your Mama and she in turn told me about it." Ruby said putting her mug down and rubbed Amethyst's head.
"They do it because I have stupid hair colour and stupid ears..." She lamented earning a smack across the back of her head. "Don't think like that. They are just jealous about your cool ears and in fairness so am I because you have all these cool heightened senses naturally, meanwhile your Mama and me had to train to get a fraction of that. And your brother he just rubs in the fact he can see auras." Ruby said rubbing her head gently.
"But Sangie is in hospital because of my stupid ears and he will probably hate me because of it." She said pushing her face further into the toy feeling one of her ears being pulled. "Owwww. Mommy why do you and Mama pull ears? It hurts." She pleaded following where Ruby's hand moved.
"Because it is the easiest way to punish your brother and after doing it for years it has become second nature. And what did I say about calling your ears 'stupid' if anything they are cute." Ruby said letting go of her ear and started to eye Amethyst's cup.
"But now Sangie is going to hate me." She said having a tear beginning to trail down her face. "We both know out of everyone in the world Sanguine could never hate his Family. Well except for your Uncle just because your Uncle enrages your grandfather for no reason but he still loves him." Ruby said rubbing the back of her neck.
"Why does Sangie have to be so nice at heart? I know if people started to pick on our family, family or not I would hate them at least a little bit." Amethyst said starting to sip her hot chocolate enjoying the conversation she was having with Ruby dearly. "Your brother believes the very true statement of 'Hate just breads Hate.' and you know he just wants the world to remove hatred and the scary thing is he doesn't mind if he is seen as a villain." Ruby said starting to enjoy a leisurely pace of drinking her hot chocolate.
"Hey Mommy...?" Amethyst asked playing with the hem of her shirt. "Yesssss?" Ruby answered signalling for her to continue. "Can you read me on of those fairy tales Uncle gave you?" Amethyst asked fearing a rejection. "Which one? Because if it is the one I think it is you are bound to know it off by heart." Ruby said picking up Amethyst and passed her, her cup and walked over to the couch and sat down.
"But it is a beautiful story and it always reminds me of you..." Amethyst said pouting. "Who taught you how to do that pout?" Ruby asked already knowing the answer. "You did!" Amethyst chirped happily. "By the way your uncle says the same thing about this story." Ruby said taking out an old almost falling apart book.
"But it is true Mommy. You even have that really soft red cloak." Amethyst said placing her head softly onto Ruby's lap so Ruby could begin reading. "That cloak is older then me and you put together so don't talk bad about it... now can I start reading this story for the umpteenth time?" Ruby asked quickly turning to the start of Amethyst's favourite story. Her response came from Amethyst violently nodding her head.
Ruby cleared her throat and began, "A long time ago in a far away land was a small cottage by a river side. Inside that cottage lived a mother and a daughter. The daughter who was known for wearing a red hood..."
Ruby began to tell the story, about halfway through the sound of soft snoring could be heard from Amethyst. She leaned over and saw her eyes closed and her right thumb inside her mouth gentle sucking on it. "Heh I don't think you have ever heard the entire story of this." Ruby quietly said gently putting the book down next to her, as the front door opened. Weiss walked in glowering and muttering something in atliasian Ruby couldn't even begin to understand.
Ruby raised and pressed her pointer finger to her lips and shushed Weiss. Weiss quickly directed her anger towards Ruby but once she saw what was on the couch it subsided.
"So how is Sanguine?" Ruby whispered as Weiss walked towards the couch and sat down next to Ruby who moved a bit while trying to not wake Amethyst up. "He has to stay in the hospital for the night but by the time the doctor came to check his vitals he was already fine and wanted out so they had to subdue him. How is she doing?" Weiss asked gentle rubbing Amethyst's ears earning her a pleasant purr in return.
"From what I can gather she was getting bullied again and Sanguine saw the back end of it and well you know the rest. She also called her cute ears 'stupid' followed by her fear Sanguine might hate her." Ruby said rubbing Amethyst's arm. "She is lucky she is asleep because if i heard that she called those adorable ears 'stupid' I would have smacked the back of her head." Weiss said resting her head on Ruby's shoulder.
"So here is the trick though... getting her up to her bed with Flopsy without waking her." Ruby said nudging Weiss. "You deal with the heavy lifting I just dealt with our son in a type of place he hates worrying about where his sister was." Weiss said tiredly. "So I'm getting the stuffed rabbit?" Ruby joked earning an ear grab from Weiss. "Ow I see why this keeps our children in line." Ruby said trying to fight the heiress off of her ear.
After a few more peaceful moments after Weiss relinquished Ruby's ear, Ruby gently picked up Amethyst who still asleep wrapped her arms around Ruby's neck and nuzzled deep into her neck. Weiss quickly grabbed the toy and lead the path towards Amethyst's bedroom. Weiss pulled the blanket back a bit as Ruby walked in.
"Help Princess she has a death grip around my neck." Ruby pleaded quietly still not trying to wake the asleep cat Faunus in her arms. "Sorry Dolt but if I help you you get to sleep on the couch tonight." Weiss said rubbing her eyes with her free hand. Before Weiss could reach over and help Ruby gentle held Amethyst up with one arm pried the grip off with her free hand and started to put her down.
Weiss put the toy rabbit into Amethyst's arms and ruby pulled the blanket up to Amethyst's neck. They both quickly kissed Amethyst's forehead and walked to the door to just stare at the most serene sight of Amethyst gentle starting to suck her thumb while holding her precious toy rabbit close to her.
"I'm not sure how but I'm glad we have the best children ever despite that they both make use want to tear our hair out." Ruby said holding Weiss close. "One dolt, it was you who brought that bundle of joy into our life and they make use want to pull our hair out for different reasons. Sanguine is the over protective person that doesn't care what happens to him and Amethyst makes use pull our hair out because she constantly fears people hating her. Plus you can't say we have the best just like that." Weiss said rubbing her eyes again and turning around inside Ruby's arms.
"When you say it like that it sounds like you have doubts." Weiss said finishing her statement pressing her lips gently onto Ruby's.
Author's Note:
Okay a few things, One I've had this chapter finished for a while but haven't been able to get to a computer of some description until now to let me upload. Two my computer is down for the count right now and I'm still trying to fix it without spending money because effort of that but I will need to resort to that soon. And finally shout out to a new author who is using this AU and characters, he goes by Tim46billion, he has two stories and I personally like both of them, ignoring the fact one of the stories just strokes my ego because again he uses this, and the second story he has is a nice spin on things. What are you guys still doing here go read his stuff and I may give you a cookie. Till next time,
Timmydog Out :)