When You Come Home (One Shot)

When You Come Home

You're ruining her.

You know it all too well.

Ruby keeps trying her hardest to actually achieve a relationship with you, the real you, not Belle, not who everybody thinks they know.

Gold wants Belle.

Ruby wants you.

She wants all of you, the good, the bad, the broken bits, she wants them all, only god could know why, but she does.

She wants to love you and all she's been asking for isn't for you to love her back, but for you to just simply do what makes you happy.

It's almost like you're killing her.

At night after she gives in and sleeps with you despite you mentioning over and over that you'll never love her, not ever, she'll sit at the foot of the bed with her knees tucked against her chest.

She doesn't move until morning rolls around, she'll sit there like a watch dog at your feet, and whether or not she slept the night before she'll always do it.

She looks sad constantly and when the middle of the month rolls around she fucks you especially hard and thoroughly and leaves but she'll have breakfast ready for you the next morning even if she looks like hell from sleeping in the woods.

She's too tired and the bags under her eyes take away from her sex appeal but underneath it there's something you find even more alluring.

She sits at the head of the bed now, usually Indian style, as you're head lays in her lap most nights.

Her long legs are surprisingly soft and always smooth, they make for a lovely pilliow.

She looks dull anymore, not boring, but bored.

You compliment her taste in wine one night when the two of you actually settle, you were planning on just fucking then leaving but you saw the wine on the table and she said she'd been waiting for an occasion but nothing had occurred.

She smiled tightly at the compliment but soon enough she started smiling honestly when you would present her with a nicety.

Soon enough rough fucking in the middle of the month turned into mind boggling sex that lasted for hours every night.

Eventally she started sleeping at night as well, right beside you, not touching you until one day when she was, then every night since she was holding you.

Which turned into long glances when she wasn't in your direct presence and lead to massages when you complained about your feet hurting.

Somehow all of that lead you here.

Laying in bed in front of the most beautiful woman in the world, waiting for her to wake up so you could see her off to work.

You're telling her you love her when she wakes up.

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Ruby stirred eventually and brilliant green eyes opened as a smile spread across her face.

"Morning." She yawned.

"What?" She asked after Lacey didn't respond.

A smirk crept onto the smaller woman's face and she leaned toward Ruby.

"I love you." She admitted before kissing her.

"I love you.." Ruby mumbled as Lacey pulled away.

"Goodmorning, Red." The blue eyed beauty smiled.

Ruby froze, she hadn't heard that name be said with that accent since-

"Belle?" She asked quietly.

"What?" She laughed at Red's expression.

Red smiled and wrapped her arms around her lover, kissing her until they ran out of breath.

"I missed you.." She smiled before sighing.

She'll miss Lacey too.