Guardian

Chapter Fifteen

"Been awhile?" Yang's voice trembled at the sight of her sister. They stood there, staring at each other in awkward silence. She got a new eye patch. Yang noticed that the one she wore not only covered her eye but the surrounding scar tissue as well and was decorated with her signature rose and petals. Finally, Yang opened her arms. "It's been too damn long little sister."

Ruby flung herself into Yang and hugged her tightly, crying silent tears. "I missed you."

Yang gently stroked her hair. "I missed you too."

Ruby sniffed and separated herself from Yang before flagging down Velvet. "Three shots of Firebrand Vel!" Looking past Yang, she finally noticed Blake and beamed at her. "Make that four! So sis is this the girl you're body guarding?"

Blake tugged Yang's sleeve. "Does she know about us?" She whispered.

"She's knows I'm seeing someone but I haven't spilled the fact that it's you. Yet," Yang answered before turning back to Ruby. "Rubes this is Blake. My girlfriend."

Ruby's eye shot from Yang to Blake and back again in confusion before she turned to Weiss. "Isn't Blake the same person she's..."

Weiss sighed and crossed her arms. "It would seem she is dating her boss's daughter," she glanced at Yang. "That's risky, even for you."

Yang took a seat next to Ruby and Blake sat on the other side of her just as Velvet placed a shot in front of each of them and asked for their drink order. "I'll take a sunrise please," She said. "Margarita?" She asked Blake, who nodded. With their drinks ordered she focused her attention back to Weiss. "We both know it's risky and that's why her parents don't know yet."

"Ooh secret romance," Ruby teasingly nudged Yang in the side. "Like those fairy tale books you used to read to me when we were kids. That's so scandalous!"

"Oh hush," Yang playfully pushed her sister.

"Awe you used to read to her," Blake joined the teasing, successfully making Yang's face flare. "That's so sweet!"

Ruby leaned forward over the bar, almost knocking her drink over. "Oh yeah! When we were kids I used to sit in her lap and she would read me stories of heroes and heroines and monster slayers. It was cute 'cause she used to do this thing if I got scared where she would lean forward and her hair would fall all around us and she would tell me the monsters couldn't get to us there because they would have to go through her first."

Yang buried her face in her arms and groaned. "She really doesn't need to know that sis!"

"I think it's cute," Blake laughed. "I like hearing these stories."

"Well then did she ever tell you about the time she set our dorm room on fire in academy?"

Yang shot her head up. "No and she doesn't need to hear it!" She grabbed her shot glass. "Are we going to drink these or what? They're getting warm."

They all raised their shots and toasted to reunions and meeting new people before downing the burning liquid with Yang being the only one not to cough after drinking it.

"So what are you guys doing here?" Blake asked. "Yang said that you were heading into Mistral."

Ruby smirked. "That's exactly what I wanted her to think too. It's true that we plan on heading to Mistral next but we wanted to stop by and surprise Yang. It was actually Weiss's idea."

"Awe Weiss did you miss me?" Yang winked.

Weiss glared at her over the glass of brandy she sipped on. "I may have felt a tinge of sadness about not seeing you for so long but I only suggested it because I knew Ruby missed you terribly."