Yang left me.
Specifically, she left me with the perpetrator who smells like sweet peppermint.
"Hey." A voice that I haven't heard in years filled the pub's silence. The drink in my hand feels heavy, so I let it sit on the counter.
"Hey." I mumble back.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?" Weiss continued on, she took a tentative step towards me, I keep my gaze trained at the floor in front of her.
I simply nod my head in agreement, my head… there's so many thoughts, so many words, but I can't get any of it to hold still long enough for me to process.
"Did Jaune talk to you?" Her pace picks up a bit, more intent on closing the distance between us.
I nod. Once again words can't leave my mouth.
"Are you going to say anything to me?" Her tone was slightly cross at that.
I gulped, "Yes." My head is starting to feel like a bobble head with all this nodding.
Weiss sighs as she takes the seat next to me, I take a deep breath before raising my head to meet her gaze. I nearly choke on air when I see her eyes, they reminded of untouched snow on a sunny day, blinding almost in nature.
"In all the people I've conducted business with, I've never met anyone with silver eyes like yours." Weiss spies the drink in the counter, she picks it up and takes a sip from it, "and I'm assuming you've been hanging out with Qrow if you're able to stand this rubbing alcohol stuff."
I'm offended, whiskey is the stuff of legends, "Compared to what? Those sugary daiquiri and martini mixed drinks?" I scoff at the thought.
"I'm surprised, considering you had the biggest sweet tooth in all of Remnant. I would have guessed you to like the sweeter stuff more." She commented, I agree with her, I did like the sweeter stuff more.
But I stopped because I didn't like the sweet taste it left in my mouth.
"I guess we all have to grow up some times." I look back down at the bar counter, Weiss still has my glass in hand.
"This is definitely not us in school any more." She takes a deep breath, I finally see what her outfit looks like. A tad bit similar to what Winter used to wear, very form fitting slacks, a prim button up shirt without sleeves, and grey vest to go over all this white she wears. I spy Myrtenaster on her hip. "Ruby, why have you ignored me all these years?" Straight to business now.
"Can I have that back?" I refer to the glass in her hand, Weiss shoots me a scolding look and I back down after that, "I… I couldn't bear the reminder of… what happened." I start out, I'm not sure what else to say after that.
"Try being honest with me." Weiss lets out softly, "I need to hear why."
Honesty, right, "I didn't want to be reminded of how badly things went for… us."
Weiss smiled and rolled her eyes slightly, "You didn't like being hurt, so you tried to avoid it by pretending you're okay."
"You're surprisingly patient." The comment slipped out, guess it doesn't help that I'm buzzed quite a bit.
"The business I'm in teaches you that," Weiss closes her eyes and I watch her chest heave, "I've also learned that you need to be aggressive and be a hard ass for certain things to get done the right way. So, was my last statement true? You didn't like being hurt so you figured you could just shut me out like a bad dream?"
"If you put it that way." My brows furrow, I didn't like how easy it was for her to put my life into one simple comment.
"Did you ever think that I might have needed some time to think about what you said?" She's definitely matured a lot since our last real conversation. "You used to be so hot headed when we were younger, you still kind of are."
"You gotta be for our profession as Huntresses." I think back to all my missions, "Hesitation can get you killed."
"And so can rushing in head first," Weiss had a stern tone, "Jaune told me about your mission with him and the Beowolves, you could have been killed."
"It's something that comes with the job, we all understood that the loss of life is an extremely possible-"
"But throwing your life away?" She cut me off, "I'm trying to patch things up with you, but you keep throwing up this fucking wall whenever we get any where near to talking about what happened to us."
Ah, and now we're back to the place I didn't want to be in.
Weiss stood up and grabbed my shoulders to force me to look at her, "Ruby, I don't fucking care anymore about what happened the last 5 years. I mean I do, because I'm still peeved about how you cut me out and refused to let me back in. But I want to know what's going to happen to us after today."
I swallow hard, my throat dry, "Because Neptune-" Ah shit.
"I don't fucking care about him. Not the way I care about you." She shook me hard, I can tell she's starting to lose patience with me, "You're my partner, my best friend, the one I can entrust my life to no matter the situation. I want you back in my life. And I need to know if you're willing to step out of you wallowing and giant fucking pity party to come back into my life."
Remember how I wanted to cry so badly before Yang left?
"You're still such a big baby." Weiss sniffled; she lets me bury my head into the crook on her shoulder. I'm surrounded by the taste of the salt that's running down my face and the sweet smell of Weiss, the scent only makes me cry harder.
"This is your problem, you bottle things up and pretend like you're fine when you're really not." She begins to choke up, "And then you go out on so many missions to distract yourself from-" She hiccups, I can feel her arm move to wipe the tears off her face, "From the real problem. I can count on one hand how many times you've visited Yang and Blake over the past 2 years." I feel her rub my back reassuringly, I try to stifle the sounds of my sobs, but my body is shaking uncontrollably. "We're worried you're going to get yourself killed at the rate you're going."
We stay like this, the head of Remnant's most powerful business and the land's most brutal and fearless Huntress, crying into each other's arms.
I don't know how long we've been in this empty pub now. I pull away first, immediately I miss her warmth and being surrounded by that peppermint smell. Taking my sleeve, I wipe off tears stained on my face, my eyes feeling extremely swollen. I don't remember the last time I've cried like that.
"What do we do now?" Her once strong voice was now a whisper.
It's time for me to grow a fucking pair and take ownership of what's going to happen, I'm thankful to Weiss for rebuilding this bridge between us. "I have a mission in Atlas in about 2 weeks," I smile at her, "Come along with me, partner." I shoot her a soft smile as I stand up from the stool. I see now that I've grown taller than Weiss since our days at Beacon.
Weiss breaks out into a bigger one as I spot tears of joy starting to form. She throws her arms around my shoulders and I catch her easily in my arms. "I'll take that as a yes." I coo softly, I feel her nod against me.
I finally notice the time, it's close to 3 am now and I don't see any one outside of the pub. Weiss locks up the place and looks to me, a rather shy look on her face. I smile and nod to her, telling her to lead the way.
It's a leisurely stroll, I recognize we're going to her hotel and I don't mind it one bit, neither of us are ready to leave the other's presence.
The night goes by innocently, we're both on the master bed just simply talking. Weiss has herself propped up against the headboard; I'm lying across the foot of the bed, I placed a pillow on top of her shins so that I can turn my head to look at her. Trying to fill in the details that we've missed from the other one's life. I learn quickly that Yang had been passing off the stories I've told to Weiss as she begins to ask questions about some of my journeys that I hadn't told her about yet.
She asks me about the scars on my arms that became visible after I removed my jacket; I notice that she doesn't have any on her nearly flawless skin, save for the one that's always been over her eye.
I tell her about each one, the Griffon I encountered while Mistral, being surrounded by King Tajitu in Vacuo, running into another Nevermore while in Vale, the two Goliath's that tried to take me out in the outskirts of Atlas. At the end of each story I notice the pensive frown on her face, but she nods at me to continue on with the next story.
She tells me about the missions she's been on, although they've become a bit of rarity in recent years since she's taken over the Schnee Dust Company. She does her best to go out on a mission at least once a business quarter; Weiss couldn't stand to be in the office all the time. I smile as I listen tentatively to her stories.
I see the sun starting to creep up from behind the curtains, I notice that it has been quiet for some time now. The Snow Princess has fallen asleep while propped up. I smile at the sight and begin to move her into a more comfortable position on her back.
It's time for me to head back to Yang and Blake's place, probably have a discussion with them about how non-sexual my night was and what not, then gather my things to leave in the evening.
"Stay with me for a little bit." Weiss sat up slightly, rubbing her tired eyes.
"Don't you have to head back to Atlas soon?" I inquire, jacket in hand, Crescent Rose in another.
"Not until tomorrow." She tugged on my hand, "I'm not ready to have you go just yet."
I smile at her and silently comply. She makes room for me to slip in next to her, we're both facing each other. Weiss runs her hand through my hair, running her fingers against my head, I'm glad she remembers I like getting my head rub. I run my hand against her back until I drift rather quickly into sleep. Surrounded by her scent.
Fast forward to a few weeks from that pleasant night. We haven't seen each other since then, mostly because I needed to go home to Pop for a bit and she had a Dust Empire to run. But we were no stranger to using our scroll to text and talk when she had free time. It feels like my mission to Vale just couldn't come fast enough.
Weiss meets me that morning at the airship landing in Atlas, we go to Atlas Academy and get our assignment from the Huntsmen there. Our assignment is relatively simple and straightforward, there's a village about 50 miles away from the city, and it's still near the coast. All we have to do is come in and thin out the hoards of Creep that have been seen roaming about.
Weiss already has our transportation figured out with two motorcycles.
I twist my body forward through the air, dodging the incoming Creep. I spy a glyph getting ready to form just as I hit the highest point of my inversion. I ready my legs and spring myself off the glyph and into Creep, Crescent Rose in full swing.
Out of the corner of my eye I see Weiss making quick work of two Creeps at once, I guess she's gotten a pretty big hand on the summoning thing. Her personal Goliath avatar makes quick work of the waning hoard.
"Ruby!" I hear her call my name and I spin around in time to bury my scythe into the head of the creep. I see something flash at me in my peripherals and I'm already acting on instinct before it registers in my brain.
With expert precision, years of practice, and the steadiest of hands, I fire off a shot from Crescent Rose and a bullet is buried in between the eyes of the Creep that tried to sneak up on Weiss.
"Weiss." I let out casually as I wink in her direction.
A slight blush and smile makes it's way to her face. I'm still pretty good at this flirting thing.
Not that Weiss isn't all that bad either.
On our way back to the city we use two motorcycles that are reminiscent of Yang's Bumblebee. Anyways, Weiss has not forgotten my love of competition as I spy her bike line up next to mine on the high way. She revs her engine loudly, I already notice and could tell by the blue and white design that this was her personal bike and I'm willing to bet she's done some awesome modifications to it.
I take the bait and shift my bike into the next gear and start taking off.
Surprisingly, Weiss has difficulty trying to keep up with me as I'm speeding down the road, giving this bike all it has. I'm laughing to myself at the thought of how the Snow Princess hasn't gotten me beat yet on any kind of speed. I spot the city line coming into the distance.
Then I hear the roar of an engine as a blur of white comes screaming past me.
I grunt to myself as I come to realization that Weiss had been holding back an extra fucking gear on me.
We pull up to the Schnee Residence, or at least I pull up alone, Weiss is waiting for me, casually leaning against her bike, helmet placed off to the side.
"What took you so long?" She asked matter-of-factly, my face heats up.
"That was dirty." I seethe.
"You're just butt hurt that someone else is finally faster than you." A shot at my semblance, and I feel it hurt real good.
"You're bike is so much faster than this stock piece of shit you loaned to me and you know it." My voice rises, "I'm faster than you, and you know it." A smirk.
"Oh really?" A mischievous grin makes it way to her face, I sense a hum of her aura being produced before her form speeds off into the house, a trail of glyphs disappearing quickly after her.
"It's on." I let out, summoning as much aura as I can muster into my next move. I've gotten a lot better over the years at mastering my semblance. I view everything in slow motion as I catch Weiss trying to turn the corner up the stairs. I catch her into my arms easily and pin her against the wall.
We're both panting for air, my heart's beating so fast, I still get such an adrenaline rush whenever I'm out hunting, and for some reason this high just seems to last so much longer with Weiss being my partner for today. Weiss shoots me a dirty look, I catch a glow of her glyph directly behind her and I feel both our forms being catapulted into wall behind me.
Now she's got me pinned and I don't like this one bit. She takes the hilt of Myrtenaster and jabs me with it while it's still in it's sheath. I grab at the hilt and push us off further down the hallway, a photo of a white rose that had been hanging there falls off and hits the ground.
"You better fix that." She tears Myrtenaster out of my hand and jabs me in my stomach once again.
I grunt at that and glare at her, she smiles innocently and I notice yet another glyph propelling us into an open room. By the heavy scent of peppermint and the hint of lavender I take a guess that it's her room.
I have trouble trying to catch my breath as she lays straddled on my hips, a triumphant grin on her face.
Slowly, I rise up sitting with her still in my lap, the hilt of Myrtenaster is probably going to leave a nice bruise in my side. My hand is on top of hers as to make her remove the hilt from my side once more, her grip on Myrtenaster loosens. I can't tear away from her eyes, they seem clouded over, but the stunning white seems to take my breath away even more.
"Kiss me already." She demanded in a ragged tone.
I comply roughly as my lips come crashing on to hers. The sweet taste of peppermint fills my mouth and I can smell the sweat on her from all the hunting we've just done. I'm not much better off myself, I can assure you. The heavy sound of our weapons dropping to the floor fill the air with the sounds of our hungered kisses. My hooded cape is clasped off of me as I pull at her front buttons, it's easy for me to just pop them all off at once rather than take my dainty time undoing them. She can yell at me for that later, but I highly doubt that she doesn't have another outfit like this.
Start Lemon
She works me out of my jacket, and I'm pleasantly surprised to see that she isn't wearing another shirt underneath her button up and a red lacy bra catches my sight. I shoot her scrutinizing look, was this her plan all along?
"Don't act like you didn't see it coming." Weiss accused as she pulls up my shirt to reveal the white lace beneath. I smile like a kid who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
With lips locked, she pushes me against the soft-carpeted floor and attacks my button of my pants. I'm already kicking off my boots and at the same time grip the front portion of her pants.
"I swear Ruby…" Weiss threatens as she feels my grips increase.
"What, Princess?" At the stress of the last syllable I have already ripped off the button and zipper holding her pants up.
"You. Bastard." Weiss quipped as she finally undid the button on my pants.
She attacks my bare neck, her tongue tracing the curvature there; I catch my voice in my throat, as I'm particularly sensitive there.
Through labored breathing I slip her pants down and run my hands across her silky thighs. Daringly, I slip my fingers to her inner thigh and begin to trace the outline of her lips on her panties.
"Mngh." Weiss breaks contact with my skin as she tries to stifle a moan. I continue my ministrations and notice how inviting the skin on her shoulder looks. It tastes salty from the sweat we worked up earlier, but at the same time it's the sweetest taste to me as I continue. I leave a rather big red mark there and smirk at my handiwork.
"Ruby…" A sweet sound catches my attention, her panties have become increasingly wet. I smile gently at her and pick her up in my arms, I easily place her on the bed and hover over her as I step out of my pants.
Gingerly, I reach behind her and undo the clasp there.
"You're so fucking beautiful." I whisper as I look down at her, instinctively I see her arms begin to shift to cover herself, "No." I command as I grab them. I put her hands over her head.
I bite down into her supple breasts, she yelps at the sharp pain and I quickly let go. Gently I kiss the bite mark before capturing her nipple into my mouth. Swirling around and sucking it, I feel her squirm beneath me. I let go of her hands and grope the other pert mound. Her moans coming out more frequently as my other hand travels down her navel and to her panties.
I grip the lacy waistband, and slide them down her legs. I can feel her begging me to hurry up and continue, but I don't comply right away. Instead I run fingers up and down her wet folds, having my fingertips brush against the top of her clit as it begins to harden and grow every so slightly.
"Ruby, please." Weiss begs with a moan, "Ruby." When she says my name it's like a sweet song.
I comply, finally, and insert my digits into her. Her sweet voice fills the room as my tongues swirls around her nipple. I'm careful to watch her reaction with every move I make of my wrist until I see her jolt oh so sharply when I thrusted my fingers deeper. I repeat the motion again and another jolt makes it way with a stifled moan.
I do this a few more times, each time the moan getting louder, I break contact with her breast and kiss my way to her ear.
"What do you want, Princess?" I whisper, I can feel how sticky my panties are becoming from watching her.
"Faster…" She let out, to which I comply.
"Cum for me, Weiss." I think that did it for her because I feel her walls tighten around my fingers, squeezing my knuckles together and the small of her back started to rise off the bed as I watch her stomach convulsed.
A rather sexy moan escaped from her throat as she came into me, I sucked on her neck.
I feel her hands loosen their grip on my neck as she comes off of her waves of pleasure.
"Your turn." She whispers as the smaller girl flips me over.
End Lemon
I think I might get addicted to post-mission sex with Weiss.
So, here I am – the hero – finally getting the girl, and then some. All that's left is the road to happily ever after.
Suffice to say that after a couple of months I end up moving to Atlas to be with Weiss in her decked out mansion with all the fun toys and stuff. Blake and Yang had a great wedding back home on Patch. Pop shed a few tears and Uncle Qrow didn't drink all that much that day. As for missions, I don't go on too many of them anymore, nor have I gone solo since moving in with Weiss.
Mostly because she's forbade it.
With relative ease I've secured a job teaching Grimm Studies at Atlas Academy, the staff was more than welcome to have me come on board and teach. My reputation as a formidable Huntress precedes me, and so does my reputation for dating probably one of the richest people in Remnant.
I look at the words on the stone, Thus kindly I scatter, I smile as I read the words. I've just finished recounting my last journey to mom.
"So all that's left for happily ever after… is this." I hold up the silver ring with white diamond on it, in the center of the diamond is a small ruby shaped into a rose petal. "I've saved up best I could, although I have no doubt that Weiss deserves so much more than this simple ring. She deserves the best I can give to her."
I place a hand on the stone, "Wish me luck mom, I'm asking her tonight."
Here I am, 27 and getting ready to start family life. I'm nervous because I have a feeling this is going to take so much more work than anything else I've encountered in life.
But I know that I'll enjoy every minute of it.
"Did you have a good talk with your mom?" Weiss asked as she held out her hand, I grab it and pull her close.
"Always." I plant a kiss on her forehead as I place my arm around her shoulders. I'm determined to enjoy this pleasant summer stroll through the woods with Weiss.
We hear a noise from the bushes and I spot two red eyes peering at us.
I smile as I look down at Weiss; Myrtenaster was already out of its sheath. I grab Crescent Rose from behind me and flash the scythe at the Grimm in hiding.
There's more than one way to enjoy a stroll with the love of my life.
Hope you guys enjoyed the story, I might be sticking around her for a bit, we'll see.
Cheers,
DevilRed