So it is done

Branwen, Rose and Xiao-Long

Yang was awake despite the early morning hours, during which she would have preferred sleep into all other pursuits. Worst of all, she wasn't doing anything fun, she was just lying in her bed not, unmoving, eyes closed – Yang couldn't sleep. Instead, she continued to lure her unsuspecting victim to her.

This was not the first time that Yang tried to lure in her prey, not in this house, not in the last week.

Closer, closer, a little closer still, until the light footsteps stopped just centimeters from her face and Yang could hear the quiet breathing... Now!

Like a compressed spring, Yang lunged forward, instantly grabbing her target in an embrace. Yang's hands closed around the victim's body, pinning their arms to her sides, and then, with an outraged and surprised squeak, Yang opened her eyes slowly with a cheeky and triumphant smile on her face. "Good morning, Ruby. Did you sleep well?"

"Yang!" Ruby, the victim clutched in Yang's powerful arms, tried to wiggle from side to side to free herself, and then, finding that she couldn't even find a purchase in Yang's strong grip, stopped moving and glared at Yang judgmentally. "You should release me right about now!"

"Maybe...?" Yang gave Ruby a sly glance, then rolled her eyes in mocking contemplation.

"Or maybe not."

"Yang!" Ruby tried to make the most menacing expression she could at the moment. But because of her features, it was more like a petulant little hamster than something menacing. And Yang, unable to resist her little sister's cute expression, burst out laughing, releasing Ruby from her grip.

Ruby instantly landed on her feet and took a step back from her older sister, then defiantly stood her ground, pointing at her older sister with an affronted look. "You're acting like a child!"

"Oh, my little sister has decided to accuse me of being 'childish'!" Yang could only laugh at the accusation. "Should I remind you why you came to my room, is it such an 'important' and 'adult' reason? Wasn't it to doodle on my face while I was sleeping, just as you did for the past week?!"

Ruby, caught red-handed, automatically tried to hide the hand clutching several felt-tip pens behind her back, then stared at Yang indignantly, as if offended by Yang's suggestion that Ruby might be doing something so childish... Then, faced with Yang's sly smirk, as if to say, 'Well, tell me I'm wrong', she exhaled irritably and rolled her eyes.

Yang only gave her an even more sly smile in response, which turned into a small smile a moment later, Yang understanding why her sister was acting out. "Ruby, it's just the Academy. I'll be coming home for all the holidays and weekends..."

"You say that now!" Ruby looked at Yang with a childish indignation, a pout on her face, not serious, still looking cute, but the hurt in her eyes was unmistakable. "First it'll be once every one week, then two, then three, then a missed celebration, and finally, in the end, we'll see you once every six months!"

"Don't exaggerate, Rubes," Yang rolled her eyes. Maybe Yang hadn't really planned on coming home every week, she has no doubt that she would be busy with classwork. She doubts that the Academy would provide much free time, but going home only once every six months? It was too much. Especially considering that even without teleportation, the trip from the Academy to her home would only take twenty minutes – with teleportation? It was literally three minutes away.

"Pfft," Ruby eloquently objected to Yang's words, blowing a raspberry, before stopping when Yang didn't react. Finally, deciding to take mercy on her sister, squinted her eyes before deciding to tell her sister what she was told to do in the first place. "Mum made cookies, so if you don't come down, don't blame me for eating them all!"