Hoo boy, it's been a while. The tests are going well, but it hasn't been easy. It's actually really hard to not write my books, but to instead keep studying. Really, really hard. I was kinda cutting it close to my once a week thing this time, although my guess is that by the next time I upload, I should be able to start going at once every two days again.

We also broke 12k on the views, and now I see the follower count nearing 90. Jeez, thank you all so much!

Sorry about all this and thank you all again for being so patient. Now, on with the show!

"He's... still... sleeping, isn't he?"

"Yes. In a deep sleep."

Vade stood with Aya by his side in a dark room. A black roof, walls and floor, with a reflective, glassy look, which clinked like a bottle as Aya shifted her feet beside him. A black door sat behind them, made of the same shiny material, with a pale, white door handle. Two torches in brackets on either side illuminated the room with a light not unlike the gentle caress of moonlight, if their source weren't bone white flames that flickered subtly.

On the other side, several paces away, a humanoid figure hung. His body was coated in a gold, fabric-like material which sparkled darkly in the anti-light, from his hands to his bare feet. He was bound by ethereal white ropes, splayed out in midair, arms and legs outstretched, as if about to fly, head pointed upwards, as if to gaze upon the skies, frozen in a gravity-defying pose. A helmet covered his head, the dull yet dark gold shimmering with an almost malevolent air. The black visor showed nothing, no view of the person inside. The machine he was suspended by intertwined networks of claw-like appendages and pincer extensions which held the rope that bound him.

As Vade took a step forward, he spotted the sparkles surrounding the man glimmer a little, shining ever brighter.

So he was aware of their presence.

"Master." Vade greeted. The aura of the bound one pulsed in response. "Progress is being made. Soon, it will be time to take the next one."

The aura pulsed again, then started to glow.

Thoughts of Ruby and Weiss filled his head.

"They are fine." Vade replied. "Their relationship is progressing past the sexual encounters."

Another pulse, and Vade felt the foreign thoughts leave his mind.

"Master?" Aya called out, and he turned to see her edging closer to the majestic figure. Vade did not follow; he knew that his master would not harm her. She reached out a small hand and touched the chest through the silken gold, right where the heart was. "Are you okay?"

Vade felt a vibration through the air as the Master's aura responded, sending waves through the air. Aya giggled a little, like she was being tickled, and Vade allowed himself to smile at the childish innocence of his daughter. To think she was actually playing with a being such as he, and he was responding to her curiosity and caress with kindness.

It was a touching scene, and Aya even waved goodbye as she returned to his side. Then, visions of a collapsed body infiltrated his mind once again.

"It will be done, master." Vade said, taking a bow as he reached for a book.

Weiss awoke slowly.

The birds were chirping outside the window, signalling the start of another day, though the sunlight shining through the window did the same.

A body was behind her, and she knew immediately who it was.

Ruby.

Weiss slowly edged away from her lover and turned in bed to face her.

She was curled up, her knees up where her chest was, and her hands were clasped together, though there was more of a lean to her sleeping pose, judging by the fact that Weiss wasn't pressed against her.

Weiss was torn.

Ruby should answer for her absence.

But at the same time, the note she'd left said that she'd tell her.

And she trusted Ruby.

But she wasn't there!

That didn't matter.

Weiss reached out and cupped the younger girl's cheek.

A blush then spread across her face, knowing what had transpired in between her match and her going to bed.

Ruby would find out, she decided, when she'd learned the truth.

Slowly, the silver eyes Weiss had grown to love started to crack open. Warmth was flowing slowly out of Ruby as she woke, pure, tender, loving. Soon, they were fully open , and Ruby stared up into Weiss' eyes, before giving a weak smile.

"Morning, Weiss." Ruby whispered. "What time is it?"

Weiss glanced over at the clock. It was 10 in the morning, but they didn't have any classes. What with their team being involved in the tournament and everything else.

"Ten'o'clock." Weiss responded, letting go of the soft cheek, then looking over at Yang and Blake's bunks, not seeing their owners anywhere. What were they doing so early in the morning? She'd expected Blake to be up, but Yang? She turned back to Ruby. "I got your note." she said. Ruby turned her gaze away, her face practically glowing with a blush.

"You... you want to know, right?" Ruby mumbled, her low voice audible in the near silence of the room. "Why I... was out." Why was her voice like every time they'd... been making love to each other? She was embarrassed, that was for sure, but about what?

"Yes. I do." Weiss replied. Ruby looked back at her, a pained expression on her face now. She really looked like she wanted to say something, what, Weiss had no idea.

"Um... this isn't easy f-for me to ask." Ruby stuttered, eyes wide with embarrassment. "B-but I can't... tell you without... doing it again. You know." Did she mean... sex? Again?

"Why would you need to do it before you can tell me?" Weiss asked. "You remember what I said, right?" she added. "You can tell me anything, and I won't get mad. I promised."

Well, it was a little bit from the truth. But Weiss needed Ruby to be honest, and to trust her. So far, there'd been several instances where she'd been either too embarrassed or frightened to say it. It really said a lot for how Ruby was now, just a girl seeking Weiss' love and acceptance.

"Um... well... please don't get mad at me." Ruby said with a begging expression on her face. If it weren't for the seriousness of the situation, it would have been one of the cutest things Weiss had ever seen her lover do. "I, uh, went and got some help. About your... down there." She motioned down at Weiss' lower regions, and Weiss had a funny feeling she knew who she'd called.

"You asked Vade. Didn't you?" Weiss asked, trying to keep her voice neutral, though it came off as more accusatory than calm. Ruby confirmed by nodding her head, tightening up a little bit. "What did he say?"

"He came in here. While you were asleep." Ruby replied, softly. At Weiss' nod, she continued. "I was desperate. I wanted to help you, but I didn't know anyone other than Vade. The doctors' would have made too much of a fuss... soooo... I asked him." She had been THAT desperate to help her? Even though it was only a little twinge? "He has a daughter, one with this x-ray eye semblance. They... they pulled the blanket off of you, and she looked at your... um, inside."

"And what did they find?" Weiss asked, calmly. It was better not to scold Ruby right now, as fragile a state as she was in right now. "What's wrong?"

"Vade said that your... um, you know what a hymen is, right?" Ruby continued quietly. Weiss did know, and she nodded to indicate that. "Well, he told me that yours had been torn when... we did that thing two night ago. But only torn. Your body's hurting because its trying to heal it, so Vade told me that we needed to break it."

So that was how it was. Using Vade, Ruby had found out that her hymen, the indicator of her virginity, had been torn, not completely broken. Now, she wanted to take the rest, to stop the pain. Weiss took a deep breath. While she disliked Vade quite a bit, if his insight was correct, then they had the solution to both those twinges of pain and Ruby's worries. Perhaps she should have given someone like him the benefit of the doubt, especially if he had a daughter as well.

But, there was more important stuff.

"Ruby, there's no way you're going to reach with anything but your nails... at least not without making me feel very uncomfortable." Weiss said, before she felt her own blush creeping out of her cheeks. "That's why, I, well, you should see it for yourself."

Leaving a staring Ruby in her bed, Weiss ventured over to her chest of drawers and reached for the bottom drawer. She held her scroll up to a Schnee brand padlock on the handle, and unlocked it, before looking inside. A diary laid there, some of her own lien, and the thing she was looking for, something she had to painstakingly smuggle into Beacon.

She withdrew a white and read double ended plastic dildo that had a handle in the middle of it, several buttons upon it. She turned around to see Ruby, her mouth hanging open, her expression of shock almost comical. Weiss resisted the urge to cover her face in shame, knowing that she had to step up, and that she'd gone through the harrowing experience of buying it in one of the more... adult shops in Vale.

"I got this while you were away." Weiss explained, calmly. "For when..." she took a moment to compose herself. "For when we lose our virginity together. I was going to save it, but..." she trailed off, as she approached her lover, laying the sex toy beside her.

"Weiss... I can't believe you actually got that." Ruby replied. "I mean... do you wanna use it?"

"It was for me and you." Weiss responded.

There was a moment where no one spoke, moved, nothing. Then, Ruby smiled, a smile that sent shivers down Weiss' back. It was... was that smile always so seductive? Or was it just her?

"Come on then. I'm going to try something new for me." Ruby called softly, lying back, completely at odds with her embarrassment from earlier. Realizing that questioning it would have been a foolish move, Weiss did not say anything more, instead playing along. Clambering onto the bed, she straddled Ruby, and ran her hands across the younger girl's stomach, through her pyjamas.

Knowing what Ruby wanted, Weiss reached under her shirt and cupped her breast, eliciting a squeak and a moan from her lover. She teased the supple flesh, caressing and tugging in equal measure, before bending over and locking lips with the crimsonette. Her tongue immediately flew out to attack her lover's and she responded in kind, fighting for dominance even as Weiss reeled in the new found confidence her lover suddenly had. She shifted positions so that she was over Ruby, releasing her breasts and allowing Ruby to remove her clothes.

As she removed her own nightie, she noticed Ruby rubbing her body sensually, and paused as she slowly removed her shirt, each motion trying to show as much as possible while also being an agonizingly slow striptease. Then, once her top was off, Ruby made a slow stroking motion as her hands went to her bottoms, and she even spread her legs a little, letting Weiss see the wetness between them, all the while still doing that seductive smile she now had.

It was turning Weiss on immensely.

As soon as Ruby had finished, Weiss was upon her, pinning her down and eliciting a small giggle from the crimsonette.

"Where did you become more confident?" Weiss asked, as her hand found her entrance, soaked with her lover's juices.

"I thought, its just me and you, there's nothing embarrassing." Ruby replied with an honest smile, before it changed into her lecherous one. "Plus, when you have the same scroll password as your sister and she leaves her scroll out, yeah, lets just say I picked up a couple of things."

"Is that so?" Weiss asked, pulling her toy towards them and lifting it above Ruby's head. "Because I think its time to do what you wanted to do."

It was like Weiss flipped a switch. The confidence Ruby had just been displaying immediately faded away, replaced by the nervous Ruby Weiss had seen before they'd started. Now her face clearly displayed that fact, especially the widening silver eyes.

"Please, be gentle." Ruby pleaded.

"Of course." Weiss replied softly, giving her gentle voice to calm the crimsonette. It worked, as she gave her a soft smile, before Weiss aimed the white end of the dildo at Ruby entrance. As she brushed it against the petals, Ruby twitched at the contact, and gave a low moan as it slowly entered her, stretching her insides just a little, the synthetic material of the expensive dildo responding to the pressure and contracting.

Looking up from her task, Weiss made eye contact with Ruby just as the dildo finally met a resistance.

She nodded.

Weiss pushed.

With a scream of pain from Ruby, the resistance broke, and Weiss immediately stopped pushing. Ruby was breathing hard, hissing with pain as her body jerked. For a single, heart-stopping moment, Weiss thought she'd done more damage than good, until she saw Ruby's face.

"It's... ow... its going down. The pain's stopping." Ruby hissed. "While I'm... gh... while I'm recovering it's... your turn." She winced a little as Weiss angled the tip of the red end towards her own entrance.

Now she was here, did she really want this?

To lose the last traces of her virginity to an extension of their mutual love?

The answer was obvious in Weiss' heart.

She lowered herself down, going as far as she could, before she felt a sharp twinge of pain that had meant she'd finished what Ruby had started. She let out a harsh groan of pain as she fell against Ruby, the dildo bending to accommodate the new position. Ruby's soft, silky skin pressed against hers, their breasts mashed against one-another in a plethora of pleasurable sensation.

"We did it." Ruby whispered beside her, as Weiss laid her head face-down beside her own, feeling a kiss on the nape of her neck from her lover. "You took mine... and I took yours. Can we just like, lie here for a bit?"

"Of course we can, Ruby." Weiss replied, softly, letting Ruby turn them around so that they were side to side, embracing each other, not even caring about their nudity or the fact that there was still the phallic object lodged within their entrances. For Weiss, the transition from maiden to loved was complete. She finally had Ruby Rose's affection, and Ruby Rose had accepted her own.

This was perfect.

As Vade watched his Master, he felt a sudden tremor in the very foundations of the Dark Library.

Without warning, the binds on their master's body snapped, sending him crashing to the floor, his helmeted head impacting the floor with a loud 'BANG', as if two frying pans had been smashed together, the noise echoing throughout the building.

Aya jumped and immediately buried her face in his leg, Vade reacting instantly and crouching in order to let her go into his protective embrace. As the little body shuddered against him, he peered out behind the slivers of silvery hair.

"Well, I don't know what just happened." Vade whispered comfortingly to a now tearful Aya, his right eye glowing red. "But it seems like something just made it easier for our master to awaken." He patted his daughter on the back. "There there. Shh. Father's here."

"And we are one step closer to your awakening, Master." he added.