Moments Of Comfort (ch1)

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Hello and welcome to my 3rd round of RWBY Week! This is an idea I came up with a few years back, something I wanted to do in Monty's honor to prove that we'd never abandon the characters he created even after his passing. I typically do RWBY Week over the anniversary of his passing.

For those of you who don't know or are new to this little event of mine, I thought up the idea and made it so each day of the week could be centered around any and each 'pair/couple' within Team RWBY. I have plenty of other/previous writings from previous RWBY Weeks on my tumblr and in my other drabble collection fics!

A/N: Just so you know, since this is being written right after vol5, all of these chapters are basically set in the context right after their team reunion. I imagine they're in some safe house of Qrow's to recover a bit before going to Haven, and that's where these drabbles all take place.

So here we go, starting off RWBY Week 3 with Ladybug Sunday!

This was based off the line of dialogue prompt "Anything but that..."

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.

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														Moments Of Comfort

														    Chapter 1.

"Blake, come on! It's time to get up!"

Ruby had woken up moments earlier, hopped out of bed here at the safe house, stretched, changed clothes, and brushed her teeth already. But by the time she returned to the bed she found Blake hadn't budged even an inch.

She was still lying on her side with the blankets half-pulled over herself, hair a frazzled mess, ears ruffled.

Ruby scampered back to her bedside wearing a grin, chucking to herself at the sight of her.

"Blaaaaake~"

Ruby reached out to shake her shoulder a little, earning a moan in response.

"Five more minutes..."

"That's what you said ten minutes ago!"

"Nn..." Blake turned herself over, facing away from her leader. Ruby chuckled again.

"Blake, come on. Pretty please?" She skirted around the bed to face Blake once more, then crouched and leaned herself over the edge to give her a quick sweet kiss.

Blake sighed happily, and she almost followed Ruby when she pulled away, but ultimately the Faunus girl's head remained embedded in the pillow. Ruby stood back up and cracked her fingers.

"Well, it looks like you leave me no choice." She turned around and headed off to the other side of the room.

Blake smiled to herself and buried her face into the pillow again, under the impression that Ruby had given up and was going to let her sleep longer.

But the second her Faunus ears picked up on the sounds of tiny little barks, Blake's eyes flew wide open.

"Oh, no..."

She half-pushed herself up onto her elbow as she watched Ruby approach her, only this time she had Zwei in her arms. Blake tossed over and flattened herself, weakly covering her face.

"Anything but that..."

"It's the only way, Blake!"

Ruby paused right next to Blake, who once again turned away from her.

But Ruby was determined. She held Zwei out, letting him hover right over her girlfriend's face. He wiggled and panted and yipped happily, pawing the air in an effort to get closer to Blake. She moaned again, ducking away, refusing to look up at his drooling face. She grabbed the covers and yanked them over her head as a shield.

"Ruby, please..."

"I warned you!"

Ruby slowly eased Zwei down onto the bed and let him loose. He instantly started barking, jumping up all over the blankets where Blake had covered herself. She cringed, feeling his paws trodding on her, scrambling over her shoulder and back as he panted eagerly above her ears.

He barked and barked, making her ears flinch. She tried to turn over again but the second she did he jumped on her chest, making her wheeze.

Ruby was a giggling mess next to her, but even she knew when to call it quits.

"All right Zwei, that's enough. I think she's mostly awake." She picked him up and put him back on the floor. "I'll take it from here."

As the corgi waddled away, Ruby sat down on the edge of the bed and slowly peeled the blankets away from Blake's face. Her girlfriend looked up at her half-tired, half-suspicious.

"Is he gone?"

"Yeah, I sent him on his little doggie way."

Blake relaxed a bit and let Ruby pull away the covers.

"I'll get up in a minute," she yawned. "I just-"

"Don't worry, I know exactly what you need, Blake!" Ruby leaned forward with a smile.

Blake was more than willing to accept a good-morning kiss to help rouse herself.

But of course she should've known better. This was Ruby Rose, after all.

Instead of a soft bumping of their limps Blake got something else entirely.

"Tickle attaaaaack!"

"Wha- ah!"

Before she could even hope to react or defend herself, Ruby's hands were already all over her, fingers wiggling and curling and poking all up and down her sides.

Blake shrieked, convulsing as Ruby ambushed her, feeling the jittery sensations shooting through her body - a rude awakening indeed after she'd been so calm and peaceful from slumber.

Ruby laughed as she pinned the Faunus girl down with her legs, straddling her and holding her in place so her hands could move freely. She poked Blake's sides and tickled her neck and shoulders.

Blake tried to free herself, but she was already weakened from the tickling and couldn't manage to push Ruby off. Her voice rose up in a strangely high-pitched laugh, her ears standing tall as she tried to grab for Ruby's hands and cover herself at the same time.

"R-Ruby-"

"You asked for this, Blake!"

Ruby didn't let up even when Blake tried to roll over and shake her off. Ruby pushed her back down and leaned over her, brushing her nose against Blake's. She paused for a second, waiting until her girlfriend opened her eyes and looked up at her.

"R-Ruby, please..."

"Nope. You said anything but Zwei, so now it's this! And it's time for my special move~"

"Ruby-"

But the brunette didn't listen. She buried her face in Blake's collar and nuzzled her shirt aside until her lips met Blake's skin directly. Immediately, she started blowing raspberries onto her neck.

Blake shrieked again, whimpering as she clung to her leader's back. Her whole body trembled with laughter and tingling as she accepted her fate.

Ruby blew onto her skin a few more times before sitting back up, her hands still running up and down Blake's sides a few more times. She drank in the scene of Blake all messy from sleep and now from the tickling as well. She was breathless, her hair ruffled and ears sitting at different angles, clothes messy and cheeks pink as she tried to catch her breath.

But Ruby's favorite part was the smile on her lips.

She ended her attack and leaned forward once again.

Blake instinctively tried to curl in on herself, but the tickling didn't resume. Instead she felt Ruby's mouth on hers, kissing her softly.

Blake gasped, but as she realized it was over her hands gradually loosened their grip on Ruby's arms. She accepted her defeat and lie still as Ruby peppered kisses all over her face and ears.

"You should've known better, Blake," she mused.

"I... really should've..."

Ruby climbed off of her now as she let Blake catch her breath. She sat next to her and rubbed a hand over Blake's stomach in soothing little circles. She sat with her until she could feel Blake's pulse slow back down to a normal pace.

When she was finally able to, Blake cracked her eyes open.

"You win."

"I know!" Ruby bent down to peck her lips again, then stood. "Come on, breakfast is gonna get cold!" She took both of Blake's hands in hers and helped her sit up, coaxing her out of bed.

Blake shook herself off before dipping down to steal a kiss of her own. Ruby hummed and kissed back happily.

It definitely beat a wake-up kiss from the dog, that was for sure.

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A/N: Don't ask how Zwei got to them aha. I guess this one could've just been back at their Beacon dorm room but with the series so far away from that setting now I think it's best to just imagine them in some safe house laying low for a few days. Future chapters are clearly set up that way.