Heisters (RWBY modern AU fanfiction)

18: Growing Inside

WARNING: Fluff in this chapter. If you are too sensitive or too disgusted by smuts or fluffs, please fast forward from this chapter or skip. You've been warned.

It was a long day for their third day to finish. Too long for it to finish and go home for the day...

Roman had taken a dive in his pool at the back of his manor to settle his nerves. The water was warm, so that was good. Back and forth, Roman swam across the pool multiple times to ease himself, but somehow that method didn't work. He then tried holding his breath underwater to listen to the silence.

It was dark... lonely... quiet... That was Roman. His soul was tormented by other "people" inside of him. Well, more like his demons. Everyday they visit him, only to torture the man. They want to drag him to hell, they want to beat him, they want to kill him, they want to rip him apart! Everyday they laugh and laugh and laugh! They even say:

"PlAy WiTh Us RoMaN!! YoUr CiNdEr Is No GoOd FoR yOu!! DoN't Be ScArEd, We'Re HeRe To HeLp YoU!! JuSt KiLl, StEaL, AnD cHeAt!! Do ThAt AnD We'Ll SeT yOu FREE!! SeT yOu FrEe... SeT yOu FrEe... set you free... set you free..."

And that's what he does to get away from them. But they won't leave him alone. They come back with the same thing: kill, steal, and cheat. The three sins that Roman has been living on throughout his life.

From the lack of air, Roman swam to the surface and gasped for air. After flipping his hair out of his sight, he looked up to the see the burning glow of the sun. People say that when you look at the sun, your eyes will burn. But if you look long enough, you will surely become blind. Not to Roman. He had been looking at the sun ever since he was a little kid. To him, the sun didn't burn his eyes nor made him blind. Every day he'd look up and stare at the brightest star in the universe and not even blink. For a normal person, crazy. For a crazy person... normal.

Roman then flinched from a raging headache that was basically consuming his brain. He grunted violently as he swam to the side of the pool. He rubbed his temples to ease him down, but that didn't work either. Months of therapy, none of them worked. None of them! Roman then tried to balance his breathing to keep a steady heart, but, of course, did not work as well. His fist clenched ferociously as his headache grew.

"C-Cinder..." he groaned. "Cinder... please...."

They were back. The demons were back. The voices... the voices... telling him.... kill.... steal.... cheat.... kill... steal... cheat... Kill. Steal. Cheat. Kill. Steal. Cheat. Kill, steal, cheat. Kill, steal, cheat. Kill, steal, cheat. Killstealcheat, killstealcheat, killstealcheat, killstealcheat -

"STOP!!" he yelled as he punched the concrete side of the pool.

Trembling, he looked at his bloodied knuckle that was also covered in bruises and cuts. Like his wish coming true, Cinder's hand reached out for his and touched his open wound. He looked up to see a pair of golden eyes that he LOVED to see.

"Cinder..." he whispered. But she covered his lips.

She stood up to untie her black lacy bathrobe to reveal her nude body. Slowly, she dipped herself in the pool and wrapped her arms around her lover's shoulders. Cinder pressed her forehead against Roman's as she closed her eyes to listen to him breathe only. But Roman kept his eyes open. He stared at his beautiful lover. Her ebony black hair, her pale smooth skin, her perfected plump pink lips, her cute little nose... Everything about her was amazing. Not even the demons inside could come out and ruin her. And the best part, she was his cure. Even her appearance could calm him down.

As they stood in the middle of the pool with their nude bodies pressed against each other giving warmth, Roman traced tiny circles down Cinder's back and waist. His fingers ran down her curvy back until he groped her hips. Feeling her soft spots, Cinder squirmed a little as she bit her lip. Knowing that she was becoming weak in the knees, Roman then rubbed on her thighs. He listened to her breathy moans that tickled down his neck.

"R-Roman..." she moaned quietly.

But he kept groping her thighs. He wanted to hear more of her beautiful sounds that breathed through her mouth. Roman felt her squirm more as Cinder gripped onto his body more. But it wasn't enough for him. He slid his hands into her inner thigh, which caused Cinder to jerk forward with a squeal as it made the water splash a little.

"R-Roman, please..." she begged. "No more teasing..."

"I can't help it when you make those angelic sounds..." Roman grinned.

But before he could even hear more of his lover's erotic moans, the voices from hell had come back, scraping into the back of his head. He yelled in pain as he hit his head with his bloodied knuckle. He hit again, he hit again, he hit again, he hit again - Cinder grabbed his hand and rubbed his arm to soothe Roman down. She then kissed his bloodied knuckle gently, which made the blood smeared all over her lips. But she didn't care.

"They're growing inside of me..." Roman whispered. "They're trying to kill me..."

"They won't", Cinder said, "because I am here. Nothing can get to you while I'm here."

Roman's green eyes stared into Cinder's golden orbs as he slowly cupped her face. She looked like a beautiful clown with his blood smear on her perfect lips. All she needed was white paste for a mask, at least pink circles for her cheeks, and intense blue eye shadow to perfect the look. Yes... she would look like his very own corde lisse performer. He would watch her tangle her slim body with a vertical rope with one spotlight giving her all the attention from the world. Or perhaps an aerial cradle performer. Roman would swing upside on his knees up in the air, waiting to catch Cinder into his hands. But.... he already has Cinder in his hands. There's no need to wait for her swing to him. He could just swing to her instead.

With his thumb, Roman wiped the blood from Cinder's lips and smeared it on his bottom lip instead. Yep, they were the crazy couple.

The couple then slowly rocked back and forth in the pool while they didn't take their sight away from each other's eyes. As reality faded away for them, the demons crawled back inside his head.

"ThAt LiTtLe AnGeL oF yOuRs WoN't Be ThErE bY yOuR sIdE fOrEvEr... CoMe JoIn Us InStEaD... tHeRe Is NoThInG tO lOsE hErE iN HELL... OnLy A sMaLl TaSk NeEdS tO bE dOnE bY yOu... GeT rId Of YoUr So-CaLlEd ThReE bEsT pAlS aNd YoUr GoOd To Go..."

"Cindy?" Roman called Cinder by her nickname as he tried to shake the voices away.

"Yes, my love...?" she whispered.

There was a long pause between them. It was so quiet, you could hear the slightest wind tickling down the leaves of a tree. You could hear the birds from a mile away. So quiet... so, so quiet...

"Do you love me...?" he whispered.

Cinder looked up at him with her golden eyes as their noses brushed each other.

"More than anything..." she said. "I would KILL to be with you forever."

Roman then grinned knowing that his demons couldn't stop his fiery Cinder from loving him. He pressed his lips to hers, not even caring about the blood that he smeared on his bottom lip. There, where the crazy couple kissed under the burning sun while floating in a pool, where Roman's bloody knuckle left a trail of red around themselves in the water.

For a crazy person, normal. For a normal person... crazy.

Please don't make me say I told you so if you were at all squirmy about this chapter. But to the people that made it through this chapter, good job. You just won a gold sticker. And yes, I know this chapter was short, too. I'm losing everything, guys!