Back to writing this... this is going to be fun.
Chapter 9:
Velvet frowned as she looked at the meal in front of her. She knew that Yang was trying to make her something she could eat and even appetising, but the scorched meal was a little appalling. Not to mention the smell of the charcoal like meal was enough to make Velvet wish she couldn't smell. Just the way it had been able to constantly assault her senses without her even doing anything but being in the same area as it.
"Okay, I'll admit... I screwed the pooch on the meal. But I haven't tried it before, and Vegetarian dishes are surprisingly hard. I mean I can't be the only person who you know who screwed up something like that." Yang said with a smile as she took another bite. She didn't like the taste but she had just spent a lot of time making it, she'd be damned getting stuck with the whole lot of nothing for her time.
"It is actually how Ruby and I spent our first date. Me teaching her how to cook vegetarian things." Velvet muttered as she started to pick around the food trying to find the closest unscorched bits.
"I thought it was the roller rink." Yang asked, a small smile on her face started to grow at just thinking about how this had been the least aggressive Velvet had been when talking about Ruby in a while.
Normally it had just been a doom talk about anything and everything that had started it. She didn't want anyone thinking about Ruby let alone her actually talking about her. It was something that if Yang was confident in calling it, it was progress. As though Velvet was starting to get a small bit better even if she was the one to reveal that much about Ruby.
It meant that Velvet was starting to open up, even if it was something that Yang was sure Ruby must have told her at least a dozen and a half times beforehand, but it never really mattered to her. Not like now, where Velvet seemed to be opening up. The only question was would this victory be short lived and snapped shut, or would be a sign for what was to come.
"No. The rink was Ruby trying to get me to talk about something. And that was about three months before our actual first date. I still remember that trick you pulled on us." Velvet said with a soft smile, dropping the fork onto the mound of food that remained as she moved the plate forward. "Something, that we both joked about just a month ago. Specifically how she never did like coming out of closets." Velvet continued as she pulled her knees to her chest.
She was ready to just go to sleep and put the entire day behind her. She wanted to forget about the whole crap shoot that the day had started and was now ending. The mere fact she was getting forced to live through these memories was starting to hurt her.
If she knew why Yang was trying to get her to live through them again, she might stop her. But that was where the problem really laid. How was she meant to know what Yang was trying? She thought she would know what Ruby was trying and clearly that wasn't the case. It was made even worse was the fact that Yang was just like Ruby in that regard. Velvet could never get a read on them.
Which if Velvet was being honest, she'd felt so much worse about that simple fact. How was she meant to be able to feel better about this, because she didn't see something that should have been obvious. Ruby shouldn't have screamed it at her. Velvet should have noticed the signs of Ruby not being happy any more. From how she had all of a sudden after being a bit downtrodden to being just happy.
It was so obvious in hindsight. But why couldn't it be obvious in the situations. That seemed to be what was hurting Velvet the most.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Yang asked as she noticed Velvet having not really done anything in what felt like hours.
"I'm fine." Velvet snapped harsher than what she intended. Or at least that was what Yang had hoped. She went from being open and talking, to just backstepping to what the way she had been acting just days prior. Something that was making Yang want to pull her hair out.
Velvet had started to make so much progress, to then return to figuratively biting the head off of Yang. It was almost like there had been no progress to her entire mindset. Before she could even ask what was the matter a second time, Velvet stood up. "Seeing as you banned me from visiting my wife for the night, I'm heading to bed." Velvet stated in such a monotone manner that Yang knew most likely would mean the Faunus would be talking to the air again.
Almost praying that her words would be carried to Ruby.
Taking a deep breath, Yang could see Velvet walking towards the room leaving Yang alone. She knew that the isolation she was feeling now, was going to be the main anger behind being alone and why she supposed she liked Velvet being around, or even why she had been constantly surrounding herself with people.
To fend off her own worst enemy. 'I should start scrubbing those dishes... even if it will only give me half an hour max of something to do.' Yang thought as she stood up and started to collect the burnt offerings and started to just scrape the dishes. She didn't like the idea that her mind was starting to slide out of control from her.
She had to snap out of it, just for the simple fact that she knew where that was going to go. And she didn't like that. For the sole reason of how she wouldn't be able to continue her small sobriety stent. Just the idea of it was making Yang debate it. She couldn't have it because she wouldn't have anyone really at this time to call to bail her out.
Placing the dishes in the sink, Yang stared at the stack that awaited her. Glancing over towards the clear bottle filled with the clear pink liquid that Yang knew contained the gift Ruby had gotten her her last birthday being the strawberry liqueur. Sniffling as she looked towards the stack of dishes again. 'Let's clean these I can wait until Velvet has her place back.' Yang thought calmly as she begun to let the hot water pour into the sink, as she uncapped the dishwashing soap and begun to pour in some of the yellow liquid.
'Once that is done, I can enjoy drinking it. Because Velvet will be able to get over this faster.'
Yang knew something was up with Ruby because of how she had danced around the apartment. A smile as almost nothing would bring her down. She already knew that there had to be something extraordinary going on given how she had just walked in through the door from work.
Normally she would be slightly saddened and want to do something with Yang to take her mind off the matter of how something would have happened at work that would have removed all of the joy from her life seemingly.
But this was different.
Not that Yang had something against her sister being happy all things considered, but it was starting to make her debate if questioning some of her sister's colleagues, was a wise or not decision. Even if it was going to be ultimately her getting hounded and made to feel so much dumber.
As Ruby came into the room again, she plopped down onto the seat next to Yang. Smiling as she held the plate of cookies towards the blonde. Taking one carefully as she stared at Ruby, Yang knew something was definitely up at this point. Ruby sharing cookies was something that seldom happened. The only other times it had happened was when Ruby was really down in the dumps over countless other things.
"What gives? Show me your arms." Yang said as Ruby just laughed a little at the serious question coming from her sister.
"I'm not cutting Yang. I'm just in a good mood. I'm actually starting to really feel something with Velvet. And before you even ask, yes I'm willingly not thinking about how she might freak out at the fact I wasn't born a genetic girl. I just want to enjoy this as is now. Don't take that away from me." Ruby said as Yang raised her feet so they were resting on the coffee table.
"Fine. It is just that isn't a small thing and normally you aren't this happy." Yang said as she raised the cookie up getting met with a hand smacking it out of her hand. Taking a deep breath, Yang turned her head to look at Ruby who had one of the fiercest pouts that she had ever seen.
"Way to make me remember. Meanie." Ruby said as she moved the plate onto her other side, so it was as far away from Yang as it could while giving her the same unhindered access to it. She knew then and there that Ruby really hadn't not thought about it. She just didn't want to think about it at that moment.
Standing up, Yang walked over to where the cookie had landed and picked it up. Taking a bite she just smiled at the look of disgust that had started to drift onto Ruby's face at the sight. Smirking, Yang shrugged her shoulders as she walked towards her seat again. Plopping down, Yang took another bite, just enjoying how the cookie tasted but also how Ruby just started to feel uncomfortable at the sight.
"Still good. So tell me, what makes this rabbit girl different? I mean have you gals fucked yet?" Yang asked loving the blush that had started to form on her little sister's face. How could it get better? To Yang there really was no way it could. She just wanted to punish Ruby for smacking the cookie out of her hand and by extension her hand. "I mean, have you guys even gotten to first base? Which let's face it to a prude like you, that is like going into the kinkiest things ever." Yang continued as Ruby began to pull her shirt up to cover her face.
"Shut up Yang. We aren't even going out. Right now we are just friends."
"Friends with benefits? Oh my god did you eat her out? That would explain a lot." Yang said as Ruby started to bat at her shoulder. She knew at this point there really was no for it to get better. She had won, and everything from this point was just icing on the cake.
"No. To both. We just went roller skating yesterday, as platonic friends. Do I wish there was more there, yes. But if we can only be friends then I'm fine with that. What we have right now is fine." Ruby said as she picked up one of the cookies, figuring that there was nothing Yang could add that would make this worse for her.
"Yeah... you two are totally fucking. Question is are you a greedy lover? I'm guessing not in the normal sense." Yang muttered as Ruby dropped the cookie onto the plate next to her.
"Oh. My. God. Last time I come to you with something huge like that." Ruby began as she bent forward and grabbed the remote, quickly turning on the tv. "Let's just watch some crap tv."
'That really was the last time wasn't it?' Yang thought as she stared at the stack of dishes. Trying to figure out what could be done around the home now.
Pushing of the counter, she scanned the rooms and started to regret how she liked to live in a minimal style apartment. 'It is too early to really go to sleep. I suppose one drink won't be enough for me to get that bad.' Yang thought as she reached out and grabbed the bottle that had been almost taunting her since she started to work on the dishes.
Author's Note:
Okay, I seem to have gotten into a swing with this. The Autism has started to commence fully now, and it is looking good. I like Yang getting more development in this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it. Onto the Guest Review...
Guest 4: You are wrong this time... or at least you saw something I didn't. And they may help Velvet, but they will also slowly turn darker. The question is when? But the Cobra's shall be missed. But the Ethics boards in this predominantlydevote catholic country are always going to use religion. It is stupid but short of staging a coup, I need to put up with it. But nope. I mean sentient. I don't want them to be intelligent. Then they'll try to kill me and I'll have a lot of corpses that are hard to explain. I just want them to be slightly smarter than the average birds in the wild. Think Mice of NIMH, not Bird Person.