Today was Owl City's « Fireflies ». It's got a nice, dreamy feel to it.

Some people make their life goal to become the best, to success in one aspect or another. To Yang, the only valid lifegoal was to put a smile on the faces of those she loved. That's what she had always tried to do, making fun of herself and becoming the boisterous troublemaker she was now, in the sole purpose of seeing them laugh or just smile.

Of course, her fiery side had made her learn hand-to-hand combat which she was using mostly to defend herself or her family and she was always seeking adventures and danger, making her seem like a reckless… And she had to admit it was true when fate turned tables against her in that fateful night of Beacon's fall. She shrugged lightly, expelling those grim thoughts from her mind. She had made it out alive and had finally overcome her trauma, what could she want more than that?

She was even lucky enough to find herself back to her sister and friend's side, and even if Pyrrha wasn't with them anymore, she made her duty to keep going, and keep a smile on their faces. That; truly meant everything to her. Seeing that she could get Ruby to laugh, Weiss to smile and even Qrow to smirk, she felt like she had found back her purpose in life. Thinking back about all people comparing her to a flame, for the first time she seriously thought that it was quite accurate: she wanted to be comforting, to light everyone's path and to chase away darkness… And the recent happenings had taught her that she wasn't immortal and had to take care of herself too.

And as a flame, she was desperately attracted to shadows.

When that precise thought went through her mind, she peeked a glance at Blake reflexively. She always had that guilty, forlorn look on her face since she had come back, and yet was the only one Yang hadn't seen smile since the fall of Beacon. She represented perhaps, the greatest challenge Yang had yet to overcome. How could light comfort the shadows? How could she get closer without scaring her away in the process? She had attempted it several times by now, only to fail several times… But that wouldn't discourage her.

"Hey Blake, watcha' reading?" she said, temporary letting go of her detached robotic arm and yellow tinted brush to look at her partner, visibly completely in the story.

"The first book from the Shadowalker's Pact Trilogy… why?" she said, not even taking her eyes out of the book.

For once she looked neutral, and the guilt had been replaced by genuine passion for the pile of paper she was holding.

"No special reason. You just look so much into it."

"Yeah, it's on of my favorites," she said carefully turning one of the used pages. "I must have read it a thousand times… And it's still as good."

"Wow, you really like it! Mind if I borrow it when you're done?" Yang said, hoping that her unusual request wouldn't raise Blake's defense barriers, since she had so much trouble finding a moment when they weren't up.

"I'd see no problem with that but…"

"But?"

"It's written entirely in Italian"

"You're speaking Italian?!" Yang realized with a frown

"Not really… I can read it, but I have a really bad accent" the raven-haired said, with what seemed to be a smirk.

"In this case…" Yang ranked every corner of her mind to find a way to push her luck. If speaking about books could get Blake to smirk, then… "would you read it to me?" she said almost randomly.

She held her breath as Blake finally raised her eyes from behind her book to stare at her, seemingly dumbfounded by the question. Then the Faunus tilted her head slightly on the side and smiled.

"As you wish."

Completely abandoning everything on her workspace, Yang made her way to the chair next to Blake, who started the book all over again. Weiss would probably scold her for letting paint dry on the brush, and she'll have to restart doing the details on her robot arm all over again… But she couldn't care less. Right now, the only thing she could care about was that shy though radiant smile.

Yay, today marks two weeks of writing! Thanks to all those who read me up to this point !

Also, I got an email notifying me for a review on this story simply stating 'more pls' on the previous chapter, but it's nowhere to be found on the website… Anyway, in case the one who wrote it is still reading, I'll answer.

First, thanks a lot for being so fervent in reading and asking for more, I'm really glad that my work is appreciated. Second, maybe one day I'll write more on some of those AU and novels, I'm specially thinking about 'Memory' and 'Light' which gave me quite a bunch of ideas. The only trouble is that it'll have to wait until I finish this challenge, 'cause writing daily dries imagination quite fast, and I know I couldn't hold writing this and another story at the same time (that's why How could I know? Has temporarily stopped… again….).

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you tomorrow !