A/N:
Sorry for the long time between updates! I should be back to updating at least weekly now.
Also, new cover by my artist LovelyLittleRose who has also worked on the covers for Bloody Snow Volumes 1 and 3.
Weiss woke to the gentle voice of a flight attendant who was apologizing for waking her. She informed her that they were about to land and asked her to wake Ruby who was apparently also asleep, not that Weiss could blame her wife. They had been up at an ungodly hour to catch this flight, and they were honestly exhausted from their wedding the previous day. She thought back to everything that had happened and couldn't keep a smile from stretching her lips at the support all her relatively new friends had shown. Even Yang had started joking about the 'first night' once she started sharing her uncle's flask part way into the evening. Weiss shook her head to clear those impure thoughts as she remembered the all too embarrassing reference to Winter's 'gift' that Yang had made while they were at JNPR's table.
Yang had given them each a key that she had no doubts were for the chastity belts as she'd given a very obvious wink to the newlyweds. She remembered Nora bothering them for the following fifteen minutes trying to find out what they were for, to no avail. Thankfully, Ren finally managed to reign the girl in, saving Weiss from getting a headache. Unfortunately she was almost certain that the rest of the other team had known what they keys were for, or at least what they implied. Pyrrha's demure smile and Ren's attempts to control Nora were the most accurate reactions that showed their understanding, though Jaune seemed a little misguided until he voiced his suspicions of them being "the keys to each other's hearts."
Yang had cleared up his misunderstanding relatively quickly when she'd replied that his statement sounded dirty. It was honestly shocking how quickly he could pick up some hints but not others like the ones Pyrrha had been sending his way the entire evening. Thankfully, it was a topic to be quickly dropped thereafter, and the conversation pleasantly turned to their plans for the following week that would be a honeymoon for the newlyweds.
Weiss smiled as she looked over her sleeping wife who was cuddled comfortably into her side, her belt still fastened from falling asleep before the plane had even left the gate. She had dark bags under her eyes that testified to the lack of sleep she'd experienced over the last while and Weiss couldn't help but feel that it was her job to ensure Ruby was well rested over this week of break that Beacon's headmaster had approved to avoid the potential of stress induced ailments should they not have any time to relax. Even he had encouraged them to take longer than one week, but Weiss knew they wouldn't be comfortable doing so in the middle of the year when they were the busiest in almost all their classes. Even a single week could put them days behind on work that they'd need to catch up on. But Weiss had decided that they wouldn't study until they returned.
It wasn't one of the most responsible decisions she'd ever made, and it surprised her when Ruby had initially argued the decision. But in exchange for agreeing to work together once they returned to catch up, Ruby was willing to send the books in her locker back to their school rather than bring them in her luggage. Of course, she didn't do the same with her weapon, but Weiss didn't have a problem with that since she had brought her rapier along as well, more for peace of mind than security as her father had paid for more than enough of that already.
Weiss felt the craft start to descend, and buckled herself while being careful not to disturb Ruby's sleep. She still found it hard to believe all the events that had transpired since new years. If anyone had told her before she started Beacon that she'd meet someone like Ruby and fall in love with her, she would have thought them crazy. If they had told her how hard she'd fight to stay in that person's life and get married to them as a result, she would have felt bad for their stupidity. And if anyone had told her how happy the whole affair would make her, she wouldn't have hesitated in calling them a liar. But she knew now how wrong she would have been.
Even simply sitting next to Ruby as their plane cut through the air, approaching the ground to land, she felt a sense of comfort and happiness that she had craved at various times throughout her childhood. And it was all thanks to Ruby that she was able to experience it. It was the comfort of promises made and vows spoken in moments of honesty as well as the unspoken promises that were equal if not more powerful simply because of the emotion behind them. It was the happiness that said today would be a good day and there was nothing in existence that could change that, and it was all because Ruby would be with her. Talking, laughing, and, at the end, cuddling with her as they awaited the next day. Overall, Weiss felt that the stress of the previous weeks was already sapped from her soul and now all she needed was time with Ruby to fill the void it had left.
She carefully leaned against Ruby again and closed her eyes. They would land and need to wake up soon enough, but right now she needed to listen to Ruby's calm breathing and feel the gentle warmth of her wife. Right now, all that mattered was sleep.