Home away from home (rwby harem x male reader)

Chap 59 True terror

Ruby Rose stares at the moon through a window, sitting on the staircase. Snow is drizzling outside. Ruby checks on Blake Belladonna, Weiss, you and Yang, who are sitting on the rug and staring at the fire from the fireplace. Maria reads a book while sitting on the sofa and Octavia is pacing back and forth. After checking on the others, Ruby stands up and walks toward Quill. Quill is sitting nearby the window, looking outside with her feet propped on the drawer.

Quill: Storm's cleared up for now. We should be able to leave by morning.

Ruby: That's good.

Quill: No... I don't have a good feeling about this place, especially with me around...

Ruby looks down at a wine bottle on the floor with Quill's hand hovering near it, then looks at her.

Ruby: Are you... okay?

Quill: (scoffs) Sure. Tell everyone to get some sleep. I'll wake you guys up just before sunrise.

Ruby walks away as Quill drinks from the wine bottle. Ruby pauses and looks back at her before narrowing her eyes downward.

Back in the other room, the fire continues to burn. The book Maria is reading has a "III" on the cover, with the other two volumes on a nearby table.

You: It's a diary?

Maria: The head of this household, Bartleby. Apparently, he and several other families founded this little settlement to try and live on their own. It sounds like it worked, at least for a spell.

You: Grimm?

Maria: Just one of many hardships. Slowed down their farming, made everything harder... It's a shame, really. He seemed like quite the ambitious fellow, always thinking of new schemes to overcome the odds.

You look to the family photo.

Maria: something on your mind.

Sort of, it's just one person looks oddly familiar.

Maria: which one?

You point to the small girl in the middle.

You: she looks very familiar, but I can't put it.

Ruby: (walking back into the room) Hey guys. Quill said we should get some sleep. We're gonna head out early tomorrow.

Blake: Thank goodness.

Everyone gets up to get ready to sleep. Maria hops off the couch.

Maria: Hmph, the last thing you'll catch me doing is letting some kid tell me what to do. (in a mimicking voice) "Go to bed!" (scoffs)

Maria sits on an armchair, turns on the lamp next to it and continues reading from the book. Ruby shrugs and smiles before going to sleep herself.

You look to Maria and notice something.

You: are you wearing eye colour contacts

Maria: well when traveling with silver eyes your a painted target.

She goes back to reading and you following Ruby, the fire continues to burn in the fireplace.

(Next morning)

The fire is out. Sunlight seeps through the curtained window while Team RWBY and Octavia sleep on the floor. Maria rests on the armchair, still holding the book she was reading. Quill sleeps on the chair by the window, still barely grasping the wine bottle in her hand.

A couple other wine bottles are also on the floor. The bottle slips from her hand and clatters on the floor, causing Ruby to wake in your arms, you raise up feel around finding your glasses.