A/N: TMF! On the scene! Hey guys I'm back. Got over my little sad mood yesterday and decided to celebrate by giving you guys the new chapter early. Yeah I love you guys. Oh yeah I recommend that you go and read Love is a Knight-mare written by the outstanding DravynLeCrux. It is possibly one of the best fanfics I've read. So without further ado, let the chapter begin.
The feeling of suffocation is what awoke Connor. Quickly taking check of his surroundings, he smiled as he noticed it was only Velvet wrapping her arms around his neck. As sweet as the sight was, it was slightly uncomfortable. He wriggled himself so that her arms weren't choking him. Glancing at the clock, it read 8:51 am. 'Ahh screw it. I'm going to have a sleep in for once' Connor thought to himself. He looked back down at the girl resting against his chest and grinned. Closing his eyes, Connor lowered his head so that it rest on top of hers. He couldn't help but notice how her hair smelt like mango's. He started to count the seconds pass in his head as it helped to fall asleep Connor found.
'One'.
'Two'.
Thud. Connor's counting was cut short by a loud crashing sound. Sitting up and raising his head, he saw that Ruby had fully rolled out of bed and fell.
"What the - Ruby are you okay?" Blake questioned with genuine concern.
"Blehh" an extremely tired Velvet groaned, still hanging from Connor's neck. Similar to the way a sloth would hang from a tree branch.
"Morning sleepy head. Enjoy snuggling into my chest last night?" Connor joked, attempting to make Velvet feel embarrassed. To this question, her answer was to blush a shade of red that would put Ruby's cloak to shame. Ruby got to her feet clumsily with the aid of Blake.
"Uhh thanks Blake. Did I wake Yang and Weiss?" Ruby thanked and asked Blake at the same time.
"Its Weiss and Yang, they could sleep through an earthquake" Blake replied with a small smile on her face.
10 minutes after Ruby's bed calamity, the four had gotten out of bed properly, Connor and Velvet had fell asleep in their clothes so that left Ruby and Blake to get changed. Connor had went into the bathroom to do his morning routine and let the girls change. 'Two birds one stone' he thought, then adding the joke 'the key is small birds and big stone' to make himself laugh. Turning on the shower, he climbed in and let the water hit his body. Connor didn't particularly need to wash but he needed to think and calm himself, today was the day he would ask Velvet out. Not only that but he had to help Jaune get Pyrrha as well. Grabbing his scroll, Connor selected the music tab and hit the shuffle button. Putting it back on the side, the song 'Everybody' by the Backstreet Boys began to play. Connor's favourite song.
5 minutes of thinking and 15 of washing later, Connor exited the shower. After turning down the music slightly he began to get re dressed. The song had switched to 'Red Like Roses' by Jeff Williams which was fun to hum along to, which Connor was doing. Connor had deliberately not put his shirt on as his hair was wet and the shirt would also get wet when he put it on. Connor grabbed a towel and moved over to the mirror. As wet hair obscured his vision, the doorknob began to twist. 'Crap I forgot to lock it, ahh I'm not indecent so its okay I guess' was Connor's first thought. The door opened at what seemed an unusually slow speed, though that was due to the intensity of the situation. Through the door came a yawning Ruby. After taking a few steps in, Ruby finished her yawn and finally opened her eyes.
"Oh Dust sorry I didn't see - Faaaaaa..." Her sentence trailed off to nothing as her eyes came to rest on his abs. Ruby couldn't break her gaze from Connor's 6 pack. It looked harder than solid concrete.
"Take it you like my abs?" Connor asked in a mocking tone. He knew this situation could only get more awkward so why not? Ruby only managed to stutter a series of vowels while keeping a lock on the males lower torso. To this, Connor simply laughed. Deciding that his hair was dry enough and looked relatively tidy (he hated bed-head) he walked past the still speechless Ruby and into the main room.
"Hey Blake, might want to give Ruby a hand. Looks like she's got a thing for abs" Connor chuckled. Blake and Velvet turned to face him while Weiss and Yang were still asleep.
"What do yo - oh my..." Was Blake's first response and Velvet's was roughly the same.
'What the? I'm not tensing or anything. If anything I'm letting my stomach rest' he thought. Maybe all the girls shared Ruby's interest. Speaking of which, Ruby had left the bathroom to join the trio in the main room. All the females awake in the room just stood there staring.
"Take it you want to feel?" Connor asked, instantly realising what he said was a double entendre. As the fingers began to prod him he decided to tense his stomach. 'Give the ladies a show' was his reasoning. Ruby, Blake and Velvet were amazed. It was like pressing a sheet of solid steel.
30 seconds of poking, prodding and general touching, Connor decided it was time to put his shirt on. Much to the girls disappointment. Looking at the clock it read 9:22 am. He had heard a slight commotion in the team JNPR dorm so Connor thought it might be a good idea to hang with them for a bit. After telling Ruby and Blake where he was going and grabbing his scroll, he left the RWBY dorm and knocked on the opposite dorm door.
"Just a minute" a feminine voice shouted.
"Its probably not a good idea to -" Ren's sentence was cut short by Nora answering the door in a full T - Rex costume. Looking past her Connor noticed that Ren had facepalmed. Hard.
"Uhh Nora. What has possessed you to dress up in a T - Rex costume?" Connr could only wonder what the answer would be.
"I had a bet with Jaune. He said I have to were a T - Rex costume for the whole day if I fell asleep in the middle of a movie last night" Nora responded, sounding as if wearing the costume was a good thing.
"And if you won the bet?"
"Jaune would have to wear a skimpy maids outfit all week".
"That was Ren's suggestion" Jaune replied quickly, not wanting to sound like he would want to do it.
"Uh huh okay then" was Connor's reply to the last two statements, unsure what to make of them. Looking past the human dinosaur hybrid again he saw that the group were playing a card game. Connor had never actually learnt how to play cards but found the concept interesting. Pointing to the table, Connor asked "Hey mind if I join? Never played so wouldn't mind learning".
"Yeah sure join us, we'll teach you" Jaune replied. Connor walked in and took a seat at the table.
"Hey Pyrrha. You're quiet today?" Connor asked, noticing she had not said a word since he had knocked at the door.
"What, oh, hey Connor, I have other stuff on my mind so I'm a bit spaced out" Pyrrha replied. It sounded like it was kind of personal so he didn't bother to ask what it was.
2 hours had passed since Connor's Cretaceous welcome and he had picked up the basic concept of the game. They were playing Poker and according to Ren and Jaune he was fairly good at the game. During the hour Connor had sent Jaune the details of the plan. Ever since he sent them, Jaune had gained a cheeky grin.
"Hey Connor, I need a private word with you. Want to get some late breakfast and talk over that?" Jaune said, reciting exactly what Connor had told him to say.
"Yeah sure, I kinda skipped breakfast so I'm hungry anyway" Connor replied, remembering the script perfectly. The pair got up together and left the other two to deal with the Dino. As soon as the door was shut behind them, Jaune and Connor both looked at each other with the smuggest grins in the world. But they both knew that what they had just done was only the easy part...
A/N: Enjoy that? The more observant of you may have seen the slight Weiss Reacts reference in there. ElfCollaborator is another one of my favourites. Oh yeah I hope you guys liked the extra long chapter last time. The pairing from the draw involves a certain red head and an unusual character. Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter and possibly leave a small R&R? Catch you on the flip - side - TMF.