By the time the ladybug couple had returned to their dorm, Yang and Weiss had left.
Finding the dorm empty, Ruby grabbed Blake's hand and dragged her onto the Faunus' bed before wrapping her entire body around Blake.
"I'm sorry Ruby." Blake meekly spoke, trying to make herself as small as possible in her girlfriend's arms.
"It's not your fault, It's Cardins." Ruby replied in nearly a growl, causing Blake's body to stiffen slightly. "Don't worry about Cardin or any other jerks, I'm here and you are the most important thing to me."
"Thanks Ruby." Blake whispered while Ruby delivered a soft kiss to the top of Blake's head between her ears.
The couple stayed like this for a while, having nearly drifted off to sleep, before being interrupted by a knock at the door.
Groaning, Ruby untangled herself from Blake and slowly made her way to the door. Opening it, she found Coco and Velvet standing on the other side.
"Hi Ruby is it ok if we come in?" Velvet timidly asked, standing in front of Coco.
"Yeah sure." Ruby replied none of her usual happiness gone.
The three walked inside and sat on different sides of the room with Ruby returning to Blake's bed where Blake had rolled over to face away from their guests while Coco and Velvet sat on Weiss' bed.
The older girls tried talking for a few minutes with only getting one word responses or slight shifts in Blake case before Coco had finally had enough.
"Alright Red come on we are going for a walk. Let these two have some quality time." Coco said before grabbing Ruby by her cloak hood and dragging her out of the dorm.
Once the door closed to the dorm, Velvet slowly moved over next to the younger faunus.
"Blake talk to me, please." Velvet timidly requested, running her hand up and down Blake's back.
"He called Ruby a freak because she was with me. I don't want her to be attacked because she is dating me." Blake said, nearly in tears.
"Oh Blake." Velvet replied, grabbing ahold of Blake's hands and pulling her up into a hug as tears started flowing from Blake's eyes.
After a few minutes, Blake pulled away from Velvet, tears having stopped and and her ears laying flat.
"How do you and Coco deal with it?" Blake asked, her ears still dropped downward.
"Well normally Coco drags me away while flipping whoever it was off until we're out of sight but when they're really bad…." Velvet stopped for a few seconds, her eyes having glazed over as thoughts of some of the terrible thing humans had done came rushing back. " Coco normally just hugs me while i cry in our dorm. It's kind of pathetic but."
"Coco seems like a really good girlfriend." Blake interrupted now looking at her hands.
"She is though it's her strength and courage that impress me. She never let any of the things people have said about her or called her get to her." Velvet replied, smiling at the thought of Coco.
"it doesn't bother you that people insult her for dating a faunus?" Blake inquired.
"Every time but Coco doesn't care. I've tried in the past to tell her that maybe we shouldn't be together but she won't accept it. Every time she convinces me that what those people think doesn't matter and that all that does matter is that we are happy." Velvet beamed.
"I don't want Ruby to go through any of that though." Blake spoke, her voice quiet.
"Talk to Ruby about it tonight then." Velvet replied before standing up. "Now come on there's a new book shop opening in Vale that we are going to check out."
Blake smiled before standing up and following Velvet down towards the airship docks out of Beacon.
Meanwhile outside the dorm.
Having dragged Ruby far enough away from the room, Coco finally released the red hooded girl.
"Why'd you drag me away Coco." Ruby asked, irritation evident in her voice.
"Cause Red while we both may be dating Faunus, we don't know what it's like to be Faunus." Coco replied, continuing to walk in the direction she had been dragging Ruby.
The pair continued to walk for a bit before Ruby's curiousity got the better of her.
"Coco where are we going?" Ruby inquired, still keeping up with the taller girl.
"We are going somewhere where i can cheer you up while my adorable girlfriend tries to cheer Blake up." Coco informed, her usual smirk evident when she spoke about Velvet.
"Its not clothes shopping is it?" Ruby asked, fearing a shopping trip that could top anything Yang had dragged her through.
"No Red it's 's an arcade in Vale where i can kick your butt." Coco confidently replied before looking down towards the redhead.
"You're on." Ruby said, some of her usual happiness starting to come back.
After having spent a few hours battling Coco in every possible game at the arcade, the pair were heading back towards the airship dock for their flight back to Beacon with a large stuffed rabbit being carried by Ruby.
"Hey Coco can i ask you something?" Ruby inquired while trying to avoid crashing into people.
"Sure Red what's on your mind." Coco replied, looking around the area at all the shops she would visit on a different day.
"Do you people pick on you and Velvet like Cardin did today?" Ruby asked timidly, worried she may overstep a boundary.
"Yeah kid all the time." Coco sighed, her pace slowing slightly.
"Oh…" Ruby spoke, becoming sullen at the news.
"You wanna know how to cheer her up don't you." Coco said as more of a statement, earning her a nod from the hooded huntress.
"Well i may not know a lot about your kitty girlfriend but whenever Velvs gets like that I normally just show her how little their opinions matter and I show her how what we have is too special for some idiot to ruin."
"So I should show her how much she means to me then?" Ruby asked, her hopeful silver eyes now looking up at Coco.
"Yeah that should help and if she's anything like Velvet the sex after will be great." Coco joked causing Ruby to pull her hood up muttering eww over and over again before speeding up her walking pace leaving a laughing Coco in her dust.
After Coco had caught up to Ruby and convinced her that she was joking, the pair reached the the airship docks.
Just as the pair were heading inside, Ruby gave Coco the stuffed rabbit before speeding off with her semblance and in under five minutes had returned with a small box in one arm and a grocery bag in the other.
"What just happened?" Coco asked, not use to Ruby's semblance.
"I went and bought something to cheer Blake up." Ruby beamed, lifting the box and bag up to show they were there.
"Just warn me next time you speed off Red. I thought you had seen a cute dog to chase after." Coco joked, earning a glare that compared more to a puppy trying to be scary.
The pair then headed towards the next airship for Beacon and found a couple seats near the front of the ship.
"Thank you for all of this Coco." Ruby said, her voice filled with sincerity.
"No worries Red I just hope Velvs isn't mad at me any more." Coco replied, scratching her chin.
"Velvets mad at you? Was it because of us and Cardin?" Ruby asked, worried she had gotten Coco in trouble.
"More like she's mad i tried to shoot Cardin." Coco replied earning herself a giggle from the younger girl next to her.
"His squeals were funny though." Ruby said after her giggling had subsided, earning her a nod from Coco.
The pair sat in silence after this as they waited for the ship to land at Beacon. Once they landed Ruby said her goodbyes and raced off towards the common room on her floor with all her new items to prepare her surprise for Blake.
Having finished her book shopping and returned to Beacon, Blake arrived back at her dorm to find that a note had been left on her bed.
Picking up the note, Blake read that Yang had taken Weiss out on a date since there wouldn't be any classes for a couple days and had told the ladybug couple not to wait up.
Picking up her scroll after finishing with the note, Blake brought up her contacts and called Sun's number.
"Hello this is Suns scroll." answered Neptune from the other end.
"Hi Neptune its Blake." Blake said, feeling slightly nervous with what she was about to do.
"Oh hey i'll just grab Sun for you." Neptune began before Blake stopped him.
"Actually i wanted to talk to you. It's something that Sun can't help with." Blake replied.
"Sure.. whats up?" Neptune questioned, unsure as to how he could help.
"When you and Sun came out you both dealt with a lot of… problems. I was just wondering how you dealt with it." Blake asked cautiously.
"Blake i feel like this would be a better question for Sun considering your both faunus." Neptune replied, seeming slightly on edge.
"It's not really for me." Blake spoke, playing with a strand of hair, a habit she had picked up from Yang.
"Has she finally found a boyfriend yet?" Sun yelled from somewhere near Neptune.
"Girlfriend actually." Blake replied.
"I'm guessing she's human?" Neptune inquired, receiving a quick yes from Blake and a shout of surprise from Sun. "Honestly the best thing i had at the time was Sun. If he hadn't been so supportive i don't know what I would have done."
"Thank you Neptune." Blake replied, feeling slightly better about the situation. "Tell Sun i said hi and that he's still loud and nosey."
"Oh don't worry i will. " Neptune replied before hanging up with Sun yelling goodbye in the background.
Feeling slightly better, Blake picked up one of her new novels and started reading, waiting for the Ruby to return.
Having finished baking her surprise for Blake, Ruby returned to her dorm with the stuffed Rabbit under one arm and a box in the other.
Once inside the room, Ruby found Blake curled up asleep on their bed, a book resting open on her chest.
Having placed the box on the desk closest to the door and the Rabbit at the food of the bed, Ruby picked up the book and bookmarked it before placing it on the bookshelf next to their bed and climbing in next to Blake and wrapping her arms around her girlfriend's waist.
After a few minutes, Ruby could feel slight movements from Blake meaning she was starting to wake up from her cat nap.
"Hi sleepyhead." Ruby beamed as she watched Blake release the cutest yawn she had ever seen.
"Hi Ruby." Blake replied, still half asleep before Ruby sped off toward the desks and back in a flash.
"I got you something." Ruby said as a large stuffed rabbit was pushed in front of Blake. "I won it for you at the arcade i went to with Coco. I wanted to get you a kitty one but they didn't have any and i know you don't like dogs still even though you really tired with Zwei." Ruby spoke, rambling more as she went before Blake stopped her with a kiss on the cheek.
"It's wonderful Ruby, thank you." Blake replied, watching as Ruby was still slightly dazed by the kiss.
After a couple shakes of her head, Ruby picked up the box and showed it to Blake.
"I made these for you too. I hope they turned out ok, I've never really tried these before." Ruby spoke as Blake carefully took the box and opened the lid.
Inside was a batch of cookies but instead of choc chip there was a lighter coloured food mixed in with the dough.
Blake picked up one of the cookies before placing the box on the bookshelf next to her and took a bite, surprised to find that Ruby had make tuna cookies.
"Do you like them?" Ruby asked nervously." I know you really like tuna and you say i always smell like cookies and roses so i thought i'd combine two of your favourite things."
"They're perfect Ruby, thank you." Blake replied, shoving the rest of the cookie in her mouth before Ruby glomped her.
When Ruby landed on Blake however one of her hands softly grazed the back of Blake's ear, causing both girls to tense up.
"I'm sorry. I know you said you weren't comfortable with me touching your ears and i just did but i didn't mean to i'mreallyreallysorry." Ruby raced, trying to fix what she had just accidently done.
"It's ok it was just an accident." Blake replied, the tension in her body slowly leaving as she spoke.
Stupid stupid stupid why'd you do that. Ruby thought, still on edge after what happened.
Seeing that Ruby hadn't calmed any, Blake wrapped her arms around the younger girl and pulled her into her lap.
"If you want to touch them you can." Blake spoke, trying to keep her voice as monotone as possible.
It wasn't that Blake didn't trust Ruby, it was just that the last person to touch her ears hadn't been very kind.
"Are you sure?" Ruby asked, still internally berating herself.
"Just… be gentle." Blake replied, waiting for Ruby to move.
After a few moments, Ruby carefully brought her hand up to the back of Blake's left ear which flicked away from the contact.
"They're really soft." Ruby absentmindedly spoke as she continued to run her fingers up and down the back of Blake's ear.
For Blake, the feeling was magical. She could feel every muscle in her body relax and any tension she felt beforehand leave her body.
After a few minutes of this, Ruby could hear a low rumbling noise coming from Blake, who at this point was the most relaxed Ruby had ever seen her.
Once she realised what the noise was, Ruby stopped rubbing Blake's ears and started giggling, causing Blake to open her eyes and stare at Ruby quizzically.
"You were purring." Ruby replied in between giggles while Blake's face turned scarlet from embarrassment.
Ruby lightly pushed Blake backwards so that they were now laying down on the bed with Ruby's head resting on Blake's shoulder.
Once they were both comfortable, Ruby started tracing the back of Blake's ear again while Blake relaxed to the point of purring again, i love you spoken by both before the pair slowly drifted off to sleep.
Don't worry folks I ain't dead yet.
So in between posting the last chapter and posting this one we broke 100 favourites and 120 follows so I wanted to thank all of you so much for continuing to read this story. When i first started i thought i'd get maybe a follow if i was lucky and your support is what has kept me writing (and we needed more ladybug in the FNDM but mostly you guys.)
And as for whether tuna cookies are a real thing i don't care. I wanna make Blake happy.
As always if you enjoyed, hated, have constructive criticism or have a question please let me know so I can make this story and any future stories I write better.
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