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A Break in the Storm
Yang and Ruby have a rare quiet moment to themselves (canonicity to be addressed when continuity catches up)
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Ruby and Yang have had a busy few weeks. Field missions, culling the Grimm on campus, classwork, and more.

Today's a rare day off, and teams RWBY, JSMN, and JNPR have scattered to the winds. Blake and Jade are having one of their teashop dates, Sable and Maya are showing Weiss some bargain-hunting tricks in Vale, Pyrrha and Jaune are exploring the botanical gardens, and Ren is trying to restrain Nora and Neo's mischief. Last Yang heard, the gremlins were preparing pranks for team CRDL.

The sisters opted for a quiet day at the dorms to decompress.

Yang leans back on the bed, resting against the pile of collected pillows as she pages through movie options on her scroll.

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Ruby steps back into the dorm, bumping the door open with her hip, arms full of two tubs of ice cream, a box of cookies, a bottle of root beer, two cups, and two spoons.

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Yang looks up excitedly.

"Ooh, Nora didn't finish off the cherry garcia?"

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"Nope! There was one carton left, and some rocky road, too!"

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"Awesome! Now c'mere, I've got a bunch of corny action movies queued up for us, starting with a Spruce Willis classic."

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"Ooh!"

Ruby tosses Yang the quart of cherry garcia, then jumps onto the bed beside her, snuggling in close. She passes her a spoon, then sets the glasses and soda on the bedside table, resting her head on her sister's shoulder.

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She grins, metal fingertips ruffling into her sister's hair and giving her a noogie while her left hand tugs the smaller girl close, stopping her from escaping.

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Ruby gasps and splutters and flails.

"Ffwha? Yaaaaang!!"

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She doesn't relent, tickling Ruby mercilessly, fingers digging into her sides, arms wrapped across her body to hold her still for the torment.

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"Aaaaaaaahahaha!" Ruby screams and giggles. "Eeeeek hehehehehe Yang! fffffhahaha Yang stop!"

She squirms and tries to wriggle free, or at least get her arms loose to fight back.

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Yang laughs along with Ruby.

And she does stop.

Eventually.

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"Ehehehe," Ruby nestles back against Yang, giggles slowly subsiding. "Meanie."

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Yang smiles tenderly and squeezes Ruby close, fingers combing through her hair.

"Love you, sis," she murmurs.

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"Love you too, Yang," she replies, smiling warmly, before twisting and pushing herself higher up in the snuggle to look her sister adoringly in the eye before shyly pressing a little kiss to her lips.

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Yang can't deny Ruby anything. Especially not a kiss.

She brushes her fingertips along Ruby's cheek, uncharacteristically shy. "I can't believe we get to, that you want to..."

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Ruby nuzzles her nose against Yang's, giggling. "Who else, sis?"

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"I've seen how you and Sable look at each other," she teases, grinning and poking Ruby in the ribs. "And how protective Jade is."

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"Well, yeah, but you always came first. You were my first kiss, Yang, and I wouldn't trade that for anything."

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Yang leans in, blushing, and kisses Ruby again.

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Ruby smiles and kisses her sister, then leans in for another—

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—Before abruptly twisting about and grabbing her ice cream!

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Yang squawks, "You little tease!"

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She wriggles in against Yang, grinning unrepentantly. "We need to eat our ice cream before it melts!"

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Yang grins lopsidedly and pokes Ruby in the cheek with her spoon.

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"Hehe."

She scoops a spoonful of her ice cream and holds it up to Yang's lips.

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Yang swallows the bite of rocky road with a tender smile and scoops Ruby a bite of cherry garcia.

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Ruby swallows it happily.

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Then she grins up at Yang. "Movie time?"

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"Movie time, sis," she replies with a grin, tapping her scroll to start projecting an old Spruce Willis movie on the ceiling.