Epilogue Part 1 – Ruby Rose and Her Other Half

A/N: Hi everyone! I'm back! Even better, the story will go on for a little while longer, so the main characters can have their own epilogue chapter and so that the epilogue chapter isn't a million words long. Anyway, Ruby has her epilogue chapter here, so enjoy.

3 years after the cure for the Cordyceps was found

Ruby Rose was late to rise on the first day of the year After Apocalypse 3. A.A. 3 for short.

As she sat up and stretched gently, she stared around the room, open-mouthed due to a silent yawn. She noticed a cup of steaming hot something on her nightstand.

"Are you finally awake?" asked a voice from another room, sounding like it was coming from another world.

"Yep!" she shouted, still half asleep. She was curious as to what the cup on her nightstand was, so she asked loudly, still with her door shut, "What's this cup here for?"

The 'other-world' voice responded, loud clanks and crashes smashing through the pauses in its speech, "That's tea. After I'm done cooking, meet me in the lounge."

"Electric's back on?"

"Yeah! They just fixed it yesterday!"

Ruby got up from her comfy mattress, deciding to once again join the land of the living. After all, she had found herself someone to give her a reason to join it day after day. She opened the door only to be blinded by the intense light of morning. She had a serious headache on top of it all.

She asked, covering her eyes with one hand, fumbling around with the other, "Do you still have Coco's shades? My eyes are burning."

"Medicine cabinet," was the only response she got, immediately understanding it.

Shades, shades, shades. If I were a pair of shades wrongly placed into the medicine cabinet, where would I be? She thought to herself.

She heard a high pitched squeal, followed by, "ow, ow ooooww, oh-ho-ho, ow!"

"What's wrong? Stubbed your toe?"

"No…I burned my finger…"

"You alright?"

"It's not like my hair's on fire! It just really stings…"

Ruby chuckled lightly to herself as she put on the shades. As she did, she opened her iron colored eyes to the world for the first time since…last night, which for some reason, she couldn't remember.

"Yang must be rubbin' off on me."

When did I get back home last night? Who even drove me home? I live in the woods? Who even knows where we live?

"Ruby! Didn't I tell you not to keep spacing out like that? I was telling you what happened, since you appear to have what we grown-ups call a 'hangover.'"

"I'm twenty-something! I'm allowed!" Ruby whined.

"I know you are, but that is no excuse for suddenly disappearing from the window as we went to bed to go out partying with your sister at 4:30 in the goddamn morning," her companion said harshly, yet somehow sounding kind.

"I know…I'm sorry…"

"…I can't stay mad at you."

As her friend wrapped her arm around Ruby's shoulder, the doorbell to their quiet cabin rang.

"That's weird…We don't usually get visitors. When we do, it's usually the-"

A small crowd of people were standing on their doorstep, shouting nonsense at the door holding tightly to their cameras and boom mikes and other equipment.

"Shit…The news is after an interview again."

"You didn't tell me that this kept happening!"

"I was as surprised as you were that they showed up. At least they were polite enough to ring the bell this time."

Ruby's comrade walked toward the door, earning screams of glee from the crowd outside. Ruby followed her friend; for fear that something bad would happen again.

There were at least four or five different news stations on their porch.

"Velvet! Where were you when you found the cure? When did you find out that Ren was your patient?"

"Velvet! Is it true that you worked with Roman Torchwick to find the cure? How was he? Was he any different from what he was before?"

As Ruby was about to shout, Velvet had covered her mouth and said to the crowd of news crews, "I have an idea! If you would all kindly SHUT UP," quieting the crowd, she continued, "We can get our interview rolling. But first, my idea. As to not create chaos or confusion of any kind, I will speak very slowly. How about this: You all beat the living shat out of each other, and whoever wins gets an exclusive interview with me and my lovely, in our house. I'll say it again…If you beat every other station's crew and equipment into the ground, then exclusive interview for you."

Upon hearing this, a short man with frog eyes jumped up to meet the face of VNN's Lisa Lavender, to sock her across the jaw.

Ruby fell over, both in sheer shock and in a pure fit of rib-agonizing laughter.

"Say whatever, it was a brilliant plan. I've called up your sister and she apologized about the fact that she drove straight through the garage door at 6:00 in the morning with you riding on the back of the cycle."

"Thanks. Got any alkaseltzer?"

"Medicine cabinet."

"Thanks, Velv. I need a movie and I need some sleep."

"I put out the tea so it would calm your headache. It's getting cold out anyway. Let's sit down and see what's on the tele."

"Sounds fun. Can we watch something funny? Those kinds of movies help my headaches quick. Not sure why."

"Sure."

"OMIGOD THANK YOU…Ohhhh, Velvet…Thanks. You're great."

"Love you too."

A/N: I just couldn't leave this alone. As you can see by the title, this is the first of the epilogues of this story. I'm not sure how many there'll be, but it will end off with a bit of a cliffhanger ending…maybe. As for that headache thing and the movie, that happens a lot. Whenever I got a headache, I'd sit down to a funny movie and suddenly, the headache just goes away. Is that weird? This little boat has been sitting in the docks for a while, so I thought I'd give the old Scarlet Rabbit ship a little sail around the bay. Tell me how you liked it.