Blake had been very fortunate when it came to Zwei while she was staying with Ruby and Yang. He was normally out the back playing or in Yang's room at night meaning Blake had very little contact with the demon her friends called a dog.
Unfortunately today Ruby had the brilliant idea to try and fix the disdain between Blake and Zwei, placing Blake in her current predicament.
Ruby had decided that the day after boxing day was the perfect day to head into town and spend some quality time with her girlfriend and her adorable corgi. After Ruby had convinced Blake to come along, which took about five seconds with the puppy dog eyes, Ruby, Blake and Zwei left the Rose-Xiao long home heading towards the main town of Patch.
For the entire walk into town Blake had been hiding behind Ruby to put something between her and Zwei.
"Blake why are you scared of Zwei?" Ruby asked, looking over her shoulder at her girlfriend.
"I just, I just don't have fond memories of dogs growing up. Some humans would use them to chase us away." Blake replied, eyeing the stubby hellhound in front of her girlfriend.
Hearing this saddened Ruby as she imagined the terrible things that Blake had gone through growing up. The pair continued to walk and look at shops until they reached the park in the centre of town. Seeing the park sparked an idea for Ruby causing her to stop dead.
"Blake I want to help you." Ruby said, spinning on her heel to face Blake with Zwei now behind her.
Blake just arched her eyebrow in question to what Ruby was referring to.
"I want to help you with your fear of dogs even if it is just Zwei." Ruby beamed as she tared into Blake golden eyes.
Blake's eyes grew wide with fear of what Ruby had just suggested. All of the horrible memories from her childhood came flashing back as Blake remembered being attacked by stray dogs before she joined the white fang or of humans using them to hunt Faunus
In the streets at night.
"R-Ruby I c-can't I just." Blake stuttered slowly backing away from Ruby.
"Blake I promise he won't hurt you at all. Please?" Ruby begged as she reached out and grabbed onto Blake's arms.
Seeing Ruby like that caused Blake to nearly agree right there and then but was too nervous to try this now. "O-Ok but back at your house please?" Blake asked, still keeping her distance from Zwei.
Ruby caringly smiled up at Blake before dragging her back towards the house with Zwei in tow.
Once they had made it back to the Rose-Xiao long home, Ruby lad Blake out into the backyard and sat her down in one of the outside dining tables chairs. Ruby then walked over to the other side with Zwei and commanded him to sit. Ruby then walked back to Blake, sat down and held her hand.
"You ready Blake?" Ruby asked, making sure that Zwei hadn't moved.
Blake just nodded in fear of what could happen next.
"Ok Zwei really slow." Ruby called to the corgi.
Zwei slowly trotted over towards Blake until he was standing in front of her. He then sat down and awaited his next command.
"Ok Blake place your hand in front of his nose." Ruby guided Blake's trembling hand towards Zwei's nose until they were nearly touching.
Zwei sniffed Blake's hand a couple times before licking it over and over again causing the Faunus to jump in shock.
"See Zwei won't hurt you he's a big baby." Ruby said, turning her head to face Blake. "Ok boy go find Yang."
Zwei barked once before running into the house to find his other owner, leaving Blake and Ruby alone.
"Are you ok Blake?" Ruby asked after several minutes of silence.
"Y-yeah im ok. It was just a lot to take in." Blake replied, still slightly trembling.
"I'm sorry Blake I shouldn't have forced you to do this if you were so uncomfortable with the idea." Ruby said now worried about Blake and how she was feeling.
"No no i'm glad you did this. I just never thought i would ever be that close to a dog without it trying to hurt me." Blake said, whispering the last part.
After a few moments of silence, Blake turned to face Ruby. "do you think we could do this again sometime?"
"Sure." Ruby said in her normal chipper voice before jumping up and hugging Blake.
Yang had spent her day in her room listening to music and browsing the internet until Zwei ran in and jump onto Yang's stomach, knocking the wind out of her, and barking at the window.
"Zwei what the hell." Yang yelled as Zwei continued to bark at the window.
As Yang started to get up, Zwei jumped off the bed and ran over to the window and climbed up onto a set of drawers to stare outside.
As Yang looked out the window she saw an expensive white limousine parked outside an Weiss approaching the front door. Yang ran downstairs towards the front door.
Weiss had just arrived on the island of Patch and already her father was interfering. She had purposely gotten a civilian shuttle from Atlas to avoid all of the attention it would bring and yet as soon as she landed a white limousine was waiting for her outside the airship dock. How her father got it on an island that has no connection to any landform besides the airships even Weiss didn't know but somehow he did.
Currently Weiss was sitting in the back of the limo looking out the window at the surrounding forest.
I guess it was good to have some form of transportation to get to their house but did it have to attract so much attention.
"Miss Schnee we will arrive at the destination in a few minutes." the limousine driver announced before returning his focus to the road.
Weiss pressed her dress to make sure there were no creases in it. Ruby had mentioned that her father and uncle would be there by the time Weiss made it to Patch.
First impressions mean everything. I can't mess this up. Everything must be perfect and I can't mess this up.
As the limo pulled up in front of the Rose-Xiao long home, Weiss checked her outfit out one last time before stepping out of the back door and approaching the front door. After knocking, the door opened to reveal a man with slicked back black hair and red eyes.
"So my nieces are in a team with an ice queen." Qrow slurred as he slumped against the doorframe
"Im Weiss. I'm Ruby's partner." Weiss said as she extended her arm to try and shake Qrows hand.
"I know who you are." Qrow started before being interrupted by Yang.
"Hey Weiss come on in. Don't worry about my old uncle he's drunk." Yang called as she jumped down the last few steps to get to the front door and get Weiss away from her uncle.
"I'm not old firecracker and i'm not drunk either." Qrow called as Yang dragged Weiss up the stairs towards her room.
"Sorry about that he can be pretty blunt." Yang said as she led Weiss into the spare room where she was staying. "So you will be staying in here with me the bed in the corner is yours."
"I thought you and Ruby shared a room?" Weiss asked, confused as to the sleeping arrangements.
"Yeeeeah i'll leave the explaining of that to Ruby and Blake." Yang said as she nervously scratched the back of her head.
Weiss was about to question what Yang meant but a knock at the door to their room stopped her as a different man walked into the room this one with messy blonde hair and blue eyes.
"I'm guessing you must be Weiss. I'm Taiyang i'm Yang and Ruby's father. It's nice to finally meet you." Taiyang said as he extended his hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Sir." Weiss shook Taiyang's hand while Yang stood awkwardly next to her bed.
"Please call me Tai or Taiyang. Sir makes me sound old like Qrow." Taiyang smirked, showing where Yang gets it from while Qrow called out from downstairs about not being old.
"Aren't you two the same age?" Yang asked, trying to provoke her father like normal
"Oh how I miss the days where I would braid your hair and you weren't smart with your father." Taiyang quipped back, still sporting that Xiao Long smirk
"Yeah well i'm gonna show Weiss around and then find the other two." Yang said as she started leading Weiss out of the room
"Make sure they are behaving themselves." Taiyang called as the freezerburn pair left the bedroom.
"Considering you and Qrow had her in tears after your talk I doubt that will ever be a problem." Yang called from the stairs leaving a confused Weiss to follow.
After Zwei had run off and Blake had calmed down enough to move, the couple had moved to under one of the big trees in the backyard as Ruby was laying with her head on Blake's lap while Blake rested against the tree.
"I wish we could stay like this forever." Ruby mumbled as she drifted off to sleep.
Blake started stroking Ruby's hair eliciting a content sigh from the younger girl before falling into a deep sleep, lightly snoring, as Yang and Weiss walked out into the backyard.
Blake froze like a deer in headlights when she saw Yang and Weiss, her hand frozen on the top of Ruby's head.
"Yeah like I said they can explain it." Yang said as she spun on her heel and walked back into the house.
Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed before walking over to one of the chairs Ruby and Blake were using earlier.
"Do I really want to know?" Weiss asked, raising one eyebrow as she stared at the couple under the tree.
"Well Ruby and I are dating." Blake replied, looking back and forth between Ruby and Weiss.
"When did this happen?!" Weiss screeched, gaining a death glare from Blake before calming down.
"First be quiet, Ruby's asleep and second we started dating just before Christmas. Is that a problem?" Blake asked, coldly staring at Weiss.
"N-no I don't have an issue. I'm just surprised." Weiss replied, scared of the look on Blake's face.
Weiss honestly didn't have any issue with two members of her team dating it was just a surprise.
Once Weiss calmed down a bit she walked back inside the house to find Yang; leaving Blake and a sleeping Ruby to rest under the tree.
Once Ruby woke up from her nap, Blake lead her inside so they could give Weiss her presents. The four girls sat in the lounge room with Weiss and Yang sitting at opposite sides of the three seater, Blake with Ruby in her lap on one recliner and Taiyang sitting on the other recliner. In between Weiss and Yang were three boxes wrapped in white wrapping paper, one for each of Weiss's friends, while the other girls each had a present for Weiss sitting in their laps.
"So who's first?" Yang asked, looking between Weiss and the couple.
"I think Weiss should go first since she wasn't able to be here for Christmas." Blake replied, the rest of the room agreeing with her statement.
Once everyone had handed Weiss their presents she picked one at random and started carefully opening the paper.
"You can rip it ya know. We won't think of you as any less proper." Yang smirked, trying to rile up the Ice Queen.
Weiss just mumbled brute under her breath as she finally unwrapped the present to find a small box. Inside was a corgi plushie Weiss had spotted one day while in Vale with Blake.
"I saw you looking at it in Vale. Figured you were worried about what people would think about an heiress buying a stuffed toy." Blake said as Weiss hugged the corgi to her chest.
"Mine next mine next." Ruby cheered, bouncing up and down until she remembered she was sitting on Blake's lap.
Weiss just shook her head as she peeled open the second present. Inside was a stainless steel ring. The ring had intricate vine carvings along the entire length.
"I wanted to make something unique. Do you like it?" Ruby asked smiling at Weiss.
"It's lovely. Thank you Ruby." Weiss said as she slid the ring onto her pointer finger.
"Uhh Rubes you're suppose to give a ring to Blake not Weiss." Yang joked, trying not to laugh at her own joke leaving Blake blushing madly, Ruby sputtering, Weiss sighing and Taiyang to jump out of his chair.
"No daughter of mine is getting married this young." Taiyang stated, now standing in the middle of the room.
"Dad no one is getting married." Yang said in between laughs before falling off of the lounge as Taiyang slowly returned to his chair.
The team remained silent for a few moments before Yang handed Weiss her present. As with the last two Weiss carefully unwrapped it to find a small fan and a bottle of ice dust.
"It will help keep the Ice Queen cool." Yang said, earning groans from her teammates and a sigh from her father.
Weiss sighed as she handed her teammates the presents she bought for each of them and waited as they tore open the wrapping paper.
For Ruby there was a scope mod for Crescent Rose that Ruby had been looking at for some time. Blake's contained a copy of The Third Crusade, something Blake had been looking a long time for and Yang's was a book entitled how to be civilized for dummies and an expensive looking polish for Bumblebee.
Ruby squealed as she held the scope in her arms while Blake just stared at the book like it was the largest tuna in the world.
"Hey I can be civilized." Yang cried, resulting in everyone in the room laughing.
"Sorry Hun but if there is one thing Xiao Longs are not its civilized." Taiyang replied after calming down.
The rest of the day was spent watching movies and groaning at Yangs terrible puns.
Yay i finished another chapter.
So the gang's all here now and it's only a couple days before new years so after that chapter we get the beach chapter. Maybe.
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