Alright, was a little bit late on this one, really wanted to make it good after that gong show that was the last chapter. The next time I upload will be after I've edited the previous chapter and made it better. Writer's block is gone now thankfully, with any luck I won't have to do this again, and for that guest who asked for a smut warning, I've updated the warning at the first chapter.

You guys continue to amaze me by the way. We're at 11k views and nearly 80 followers! Man, I have never seen so much popularity from only a month! Thank you all so much! This is entirely new for me as I was a bit of a lone wolf when I was growing up.

Okay, enough gushing, let's get on with the main event!

*Update: I went ahead and edited this chapter, thank you to both Crazeblaze and the guest below his latest review for pointing out the flaw in this chapter. Good thing I watch the reviews or I might not have noticed. Thank you both.

*Update 2: The chapters are unfortunately going to start slowing down, university tests are coming up and more and more of my story-writing time is instead being devoted to studying for these tests. It's unavoidable guys, I'm sorry, but I'll try to keep up one chapter a week. I'll let you guys know as soon as I can start going at my usual speed again.

As Ruby reached the park, she scanned the area, looking for Vade.

The area itself was nothing special. A fountain in the center, a paved path crisscrossing the freshly cut grass, and a set of trees that provided shade from the afternoon sun. It was an area that was very, very traditional, one of the last places in Remnant that had their pieces of history within its boundaries, the rest of it stored in data vaults many times larger than the average house.

She finally spotted him. Vade sat at the base of a large tree to her right. In his lap was... a small girl? Ruby rubbed her eyes, to make sure she wasn't seeing things, and looked again. It was too! The silver haired girl sat in his lap, leaning against his chest, currently pointing up at something in the sky, green eyes flickering between things she was looking at.

As she watched, Vade reached down, and took her hand before using its point to draw something in the air upon a canvas Ruby couldn't see. She laughed, and lowered her hand slowly once the older man released it.

Feeling that now was the time to say hi, Ruby walked towards them. She got roughly halfway to the before Vade looked up and spotted her. The girl had started reaching for something in the grass to Ruby's right.

"Hello, Ruby." Vade greeted, causing the girl to look up and smile at her.

"Hi." Ruby replied, seating herself opposite him. "Who's this?" she asked, gesturing at the girl in his lap. Vade made eye contact with the girl as she looked up, then returned to Ruby.

"This is my daughter, Aya." Vade replied. "Aya, this is the girl I was talking about before."

"Nice... to meet... you." Aya responded in a quiet voice, reaching out a hand slowly. Ruby took it, shaking the small yet extremely soft hand, before Aya retracted it and rested herself once more on her father.

"So, what would you like to know?" Vade asked. Aya jolted at his words, before focusing hard on Ruby, until Vade patted her on her head. "She wouldn't have come here if she didn't want to know something, Aya." Their expressions of quiet expectation were eerily similar.

Um.

Ruby was pretty sure what she was about to talk about would not be suitable for Aya.

"How old is Aya?" Ruby asked, tilting her head, trying to convey meaning to Vade. His head tilted in response, though his expression didn't change. Did he get her meaning? Aya looked confused.

"Seven." she replied, before giving a smile that was very reminiscent of her father. Very... sinister. "Why is... that important?" Sudden realization flashed in Vade's eyes, and he nodded seriously to Ruby.

"Aya?" Vade called, his daughter leaning back in his lap and looking up at him. "See those dark green leaves on that tree?" Ruby followed his point to a tree on the other side of the park, one with distinctive dark leaves, as Vade had described. "Could you bring one of them to Ruby?"

"As... you wish... Father." Aya responded with a smile, before lightly sliding off her father and standing up, before walking towards the tree, a light skip in her step. Vade, after watching her go, turned his gaze back on Ruby.

"She's adorable." Ruby commented honestly. If it wasn't for Vade being there and how soft she looked, she would have cuddled the cute little thing right there and then. Her father chuckled.

"Completely different from me, wouldn't you say?" Vade replied. "So what did you come to ask me? After what I told you, you probably have something... private in mind." He tilted his head again, but thankfully, he didn't have his scary grin on. Thank goodness.

"Well, um, Weiss is hurting." Ruby began. "She's hurting because of... what I did last night. We did... it." Ruby explained. Vade nodded, indicating he understood. "Then she was bleeding a little. Now she's sore... down there, and we don't know why. Weiss doesn't want to go to the doctors, so I didn't really know what to do. That's why... I'm here. She's fighting in the tournament right now, but I bet she'll be sore after the fight."

Vade didn't comment for another, his eyes leaving Ruby's for a moment while he thought.

"Well, it sounds like a delicate issue." Vade replied. "Why is Weiss reluctant to go to the doctors?"

"Don't know. She won't listen to me." Ruby replied honestly. Why she didn't immediately go, Ruby just couldn't understand. That was what Yang had said, if she felt any pain where there shouldn't be, get help, right?

"Here's a question that I like to ask everyone." Vade said, his voice quietening a little. "How do you think I can help you?"

"I don't know, talk to her maybe?" Ruby asked, getting a bit annoyed. Why was he asking these things?

"Let me play my cards straight." Vade said, slapping a hand down on his knee as he crossed his legs, sitting up a little straighter. "I can help you, for no charge as I'm not working." Thank goodness. "I can't help you, but I know someone that can. She'll come with her own costs, which you might have to pay, but aside from that, we'll be good. Here's what I want you to do."

He beckoned for Ruby to come closer, and she did so, knowing that she was on to something now.

"Once Weiss and the rest of your team are asleep, wave at the window. It doesn't matter where you are, I'll see it." Vade explained. "My contact and I will appear in the center of your room, and do our work. We just need to check her out, that's all." A sinister grin flashed across his face for a split second.

"Check her out?" Ruby asked, apprehensively. "What do you mean?" She did NOT like that smile.

"We just need to get close. Why, what did you think I meant?" Vade asked, a smile on his face, his eyes narrowed.

"Never mind." Ruby said, deciding not to speak her mind. Vade, however, read it. Either that or he was a good guesser.

"Ruby, if I wanted to bend her over and give her my love, I would have done it the first time I met her, and there aren't many in this world who could have stopped me." Vade growled, his voice taking on a menace that compounded the fear Ruby'd been feeling earlier. "We need trust here, if this is going to work Ruby. All I'm going to do is stand by and make sure nothing goes wrong with this. Now are you in, or are you out?"

Give her his love? Did that mean what Ruby thought it meant?

She bit back her retort. Vade was the only one who was going to help her. His anger frightened Ruby, but a bigger part of her really wanted any help she could get with Weiss. Her stubbornness to get help for something like this really sucked, and anything Ruby could do, even if she had to put up with Vade, was worth the risk.

Yeah.

It was worth the risk.

There was just one thing she was going to do first.

"Sure. Sorry, Vade." Ruby replied, deciding to apologize in order to get back on his good side. It worked, as he visibly relaxed, and his snarl became a small grin once more. "Can you do me a favor though?"

"What's that?" Vade asked.

"No offense, but you're kinda... weirding me out with that smile of yours. And that thing you said about Weiss, kinda makes it hard to trust you. So, can you please stop? Please?" Ruby requested, honestly.

Vade's eyes hardened dangerously for a moment, his smile widening, and Ruby could have sworn there was a momentary red glow under his right eye's contact lens, before it subsided, and his grin shrunk into an 'almost' normal smile.

"Is that better?" Vade asked. It was.

"Yeah." Ruby replied.

"I'm also..." he paused, giving a sigh. "I'm sorry about what I said about Weiss as well. That was out of order." he admitted. "I put a lot in trust... you follow what set me off?"

"Yeah." Ruby repeated. "By the way, who's this other person?"

A tap on Ruby's back answered her. She slid around to see Aya standing there, holding the dark green leaf up to her, a cute smile on her face.

The green contact on her left eye had slipped a little, revealing part of a pure navy eye.

Just like Vade.

Weiss rested her arm on the door to her dorm. It was early evening, and she felt tired.

That fight against FNKI had been the toughest one yet. Possibly the most frightening. That faunus fighter, Flint Coal. She was no stranger to faunus blaming her for her father's actions, but it didn't make it any easier when one decided to target her as a way to take their revenge against him. At least she had made it unscathed.

And it was over. Now, only the one-on-one matches remained.

They'd decide who went up later. Right now, she needed sleep, bad.

And Ruby.

Where had she been? Weiss had glanced up at the stands occasionally, trying to locate her. Blake had been there, so had JNPR, their friends. But no Ruby. Why? On top of that, she hadn't seen the crimsonette on her way back, even turned down the victory party to Junior's bar to possibly see her lover.

But she wasn't here. Weiss sighed, walking over to her bed, drained, and sat upon it.

She landed on something... hard. And crinkly. Weiss reached under her rear and pulled out a scrap of paper.

'Weiss' it read. Was this from Ruby?

It had better be an explanation.

She turned it over, reading the message aloud, the scrawl surprisingly legible.

"Weiss, I'm really, really sorry I couldn't stay for the match. I wanted to, but there was something I needed to do. Something personal. I can't really tell you right now, but I can when it's just us. Hope you won the match! If I'm not there by the time you read this, don't worry. I should be back by tonight at the latest. Love you, Ruby."

There was a little smiley face next to the message, and Weiss smiled a little at the childish mark.

So she hadn't been there. It hadn't been just her imagination. But still. What could have been so important that she'd miss the match? Miss Weiss doing her best for her? It had to have been significant, else Ruby wouldn't have gone. It didn't ease the soreness in her chest, but it did give the logical part of her something to gnaw on.

She slid under the covers of her bed, not bothering with the nightie for tonight, holding the note close to her chest as if Ruby was there, in her arms.

She'd earned this rest, even if it did come with a pinch of salt.

The door opened again.

The hooded figure crept silently across the dorm room, letting the door close with only the faintest 'click', stopping to look at the sleeping forms of Weiss, Blake, and Yang. It twitched at the last, the smell of alcohol wafting off the blonde, her mouth pumping the fumes into the open air surrounding her. It gazed around for one final time, before stepping up to the window, and waving at it.

Ruby pulled back her hood and turned just in time to see Vade materialize out of thin air, Aya holding onto his back, eye glowing. She raised her two feeble arms, and stretched them towards Blake and Yang. Blue, powdery aura flowed from her fingertips, surrounding the pair, and as Ruby watched, their breathing slowed, their legs and arms slowly dipping under the covers as the muscles within them relaxed. Ruby knew what that power did. Aya's semblance, as Vade had told her, revolved around dreaming. She could send someone into such a deep sleep that they wouldn't wake up even when they were hurt.

"Weiss is a deep sleeper, right?" Vade whispered, his glowing right eye illuminating his face, giving it a paint of luminescent crimson as Aya finished her task and patted Vade on the back. "Nice job, Aya."

"I think so?" Ruby replied uncertainly. She'd only known Weiss' sleep to be deep when she'd been sleepwalking. Actually, come to think of it... "Vade, Weiss sleepwalks sometimes." she warned quietly. "What do we do if she starts sleepwalking?"

Rather than being surprised, as Ruby had expected Vade to be, he didn't seem to react that much. Neither did Aya. They both held the same small smile, not creepy ones as Ruby had seen them do.

"She won't." Vade responded, advancing on the sleeping and utterly helpless Weiss.

"How do you know?" Ruby asked, watching apprehensively as Vade reached the heiress' bedside, Aya leaning over his shoulder, clamped onto his back. He gazed back at her.

"I know." he replied, before turning back to his target. Ruby stood by as Aya slipped from her perch on Vade's back and landed lightly on the carpet. They then made eye contact, giving Ruby a view of both of their glowing eyes. Aya nodded. Vade nodded in turn, then reached over to the foot of the duvet and started to slowly roll up the duvet. Weiss' expression twitched, and Ruby felt her heart start to race. What were they doing?

"Wait, I thought you said you were just going to stand by?" Ruby whispered anxiously, as Weiss' legs were revealed. "Why are you taking off the duvet covers?" A little tap on her arm, and she turned her eyes upon Aya, who beckoned with a finger for her to get closer. She crouched before Vade's daughter, so that they were eye to eye.

"It's my... power that... let's us see... inside her." Aya explained breathily, her voice barely audible even though Ruby was inches away from the little girl. "I can... use a light... to see through... her skin and pyjamas. Then... I use another... power to send... what I see... to my father." She panted at the end of the sentence, and Ruby reached out to pick up the small figure. Aya attempted to bat her hand away, though there was no strength behind it. "No need... I just... can't talk for... too long."

She took several deep breaths as Vade skillfully removed the duvet cover, putting it carefully on the floor. Aya flashed her eye warningly at Vade when Weiss shifted in her sleep, rolling onto her side. She was clutching a piece of paper to her chest.

Her note.

Ruby felt a surge of guilt. Weiss would have been looking for her.

She'd have to explain a lot the next time she spoke to Weiss.

She was still dressed in the combat skirt she was still wearing, her skin illuminated by the moonlight flowing in through the windows. With a nod from Vade, Aya climbed back up onto his back, and positioned herself so that she had a clear view of the body before her. Then, Vade beckoned Ruby closer with a finger, mirroring Aya in his motions. As Ruby did so, Aya's eye shone a light onto Weiss body, illuminating a patch of her skirt near her nether regions.

"What is she doing?" Ruby asked.

"Nothing to worry about." Vade replied quietly. "Calm down. This is like an X-Ray. Come here." He grasped Ruby's shoulder and pulled her next to him, letting Ruby get a good view of Weiss. Ruby held down her comment as Vade pointed at part of her, near her entrance but still a fair distance away, though her clothes. "There's a trickle of blood that I can see coming from here." Vade explained, his glowing eye flickering.

"Okay." Ruby said. "Why is there blood?" She was doing her best not to be completely grossed out by the fact that Aya and Vade were looking inside her girlfriend, and checked on the former, who was still on her perch. She didn't seem nearly as disturbed as Rbuy was. A tap from Vade brought her back to attention, and he pointed at a part slightly upward of here the first point was.

"That's Weiss' hymen. Yang might have called it a cherry, purity, or something like that. Basically, the first time you do... things with someone, it breaks when you go a certain distance inside." Ruby saw him looking at her now, but her eyes were stuck on Weiss. "What you have there is a half-torn one."

"Half-torn?" Ruby muttered distractedly, still focused on Weiss body.

"When you had that thing last night, you tore it when you stuck your hand too far." Vade continued. "But only some of it was gotten, which is why Weiss was hurt on that night. Her aura and her body thinks it's damaged, not gone, so it's trying to repair it. That's why Weiss still feels sore today. If you want to cure her, then my recommendation is to reach inside and get the rest."

Wait. So that fold of skin was doing it?

She would definitely get rid of it the first chance she got.

She would do it with Weiss again, and...

Hold on.

How was she supposed to get Weiss to do... stuff with her? Every time so far, it had been Weiss who'd started it. What if-

"That's enough, Aya." Vade instructed. "Stop the connection."

The light left Aya's eye, and she fell against her father's back, fatigued. She was panting lightly too.

"Was... that what you... wanted, father?" Aya whispered faintly.

"It was." Vade responded, reaching back and ruffling her silvery hair. "Sleep if you want. I'll take care of the rest."

As Aya closed her eyes, still clinging to Vade's back, the conundrum inside Ruby continued as Vade slowly lifted up the duvet covers. It took Ruby a second to realize what he was doing.

"How could I- never mind." she said, deciding halfway through that Vade shouldn't be in this plan as she slowly crept onto the bed, letting Vade drape the covers over them both. It seemed that her thoughts were not private, however.

"Still wondering how to start it up again with your girl?" Vade asked, his smile returning. Okay, that was starting to get really annoying. How did he know every time?

"Yes, and can you quit doing that?" Ruby asked irritably.

"Knowledge, remember?" Vade reminded her as if he was patting an annoyed child on the head, and his smile did nothing to relieve Ruby's new found animosity. "Even if I didn't want to know. And as for your question, I'm sure Weiss has some fantasy, fetish, whatever, that'll turn her on, or get her ready. But a bit of advice between friends." he continued, putting emphasis on the last word. "Never try and force it. She'll come to you when she's ready, heh," he visibly tried and failed to suppress a chuckle, "in more ways than one."

"Too creepy." Ruby muttered at him as he turned to leave, piggybacking his little daughter on his black-clad back. He turned his head just as he opened the door.

"Just for the record, I'm rooting for you, Ruby. Weiss is a fine lady, from what I've seen anyway." he commented, before quietly slipping through the door, leaving Ruby alone with her three sleeping teammates.

Tomorrow, she was going to do it.

She'd finish what she'd started.

Sleep did not take long to take her on her nightly trip to her cookie filled dreams.