Strength & Bravery

Confessions Part 2

The two girls spent most of the journey 'talking' through the link, Blake had come up with a way to explain everything, even though it wasn't easy, Yang would make gestures when 'asked' and sometimes ask questions aloud, by the time they had to stop Blake had pretty much explained everything.

"We should build a camp." Weiss suggested as she climbed down from the trailer.

"We'll go get some fire wood then!" Ruby announced, grabbing Blake's arm and dragging her into the forest.

"It went well then?" Ruby asked.

"What?" Blake asked, bending down to pick up a dry twig.

"I saw you talking to Yang this morning," Ruby grinned mischievously. "I saw you kissing too."

Blake blushed.

"She... said she loves me." Blake breathed.

Ruby's teasing smile turned into a soft one.

"She does Blake," Ruby stated. "And you love her?"

"I love her," Blake said softly. "I loved her when... she said she liked my ribbon, when she went crazy on that Grimm during initiation, how she didn't judge me when she found out I was a faunus..."

Ruby just smiled warmly.

"When she got back up during the fight against Torchwick, and helped me when I was sleep deprived, danced with me, and lost... her arm... for me." Blake rubbed her cheek, well aware she was crying.

Ruby sniffled, touched at the confession.

"Sis's so lucky to have you." Ruby said, drying her eyes with her sleeve.

Blake bit her lip.

"I didn't mean to hurt her, all the time I was in Menagerie I couldn't stop..." Blake trailed off, her face darkening.

Ruby blinked and turned in the direction Blake was looking, finding her sister staring at Blake, cheeks just as red.

"C-Carry on..." she breathed, ignoring Ruby.

"...Thinking about you..." Blake finished.

Ruby snatched the few sticks Blake had before running back to the camp.

Yang took three large steps forward and kissed the faunus.

"I wondered why you left when I was in Patch," Yang admitted. "I thought you found out and didn't feel the same so you didn't want to stick around anymore."

"I did! I still do, I wanted to find Adam and... take the danger away, he was going to kill you!" Blake cried.

Yang bit her lip, a year ago she would've laughed it off, but if Adam taught her anything, it was that no one was invincible, not her, Pyrrha, or anyone.

"Then let me be there with you, let me be by your side when we take the danger away, then we can finish this." Yang said, tapping her mark.

Blake smiled playfully.

"Alright, just don't die this time." Blake ordered.

"I didn't last time!" Yang cried.

"I know, but he left you..." Blake trailed off.

"Unarmed?" Yang half joked.

Blake hummed. "Unarmed and almost dead."

"But I still survived," Yang pointed out.

Blake looked down at the snow sadly.

"Only because we got away in time." she mumbled.

"You mean... if we didn't escape we'd be dead?" Yang asked, raising an eyebrow.

Blake nodded. "What do you remember?"

"Hm... Fighting a pile of Grimm after we talked, finding Weiss, she told me you'd gone after an Alpha." Yang explained.

"Anything else?" Blake asked hesitantly.

"Yeah, I got to the cafeteria, then I heard you, and got really angry, then..." Yang trailed off while trying to remember. "Everything went... red and black?"

"That's Adam's Semblance," Blake explained.

Yang nodded in understanding.

"I ran at him... Did I even reach him?" Yang asked.

"No, he cut your arm off, you hit the ground next to me and I escaped using a clone," Blake finished. "I somehow made one for both of us." she frowned.

"I just remember running at him, being in a lot of pain, then blacking out, I wasn't asleep though." Yang explained.

Blake blushed. "Then... you heard?"

"I heard Adam ask why you hurt him, and you say a bunch of stuff, I didn't hear much though," Yang answered. "You kept apologising, then you told me something before you left."

"I told you I was going away for a while, that I'd take care of Adam, then I'd come home." Blake relayed softly.

"And have you?" Yang asked.

Blake nodded and hugged Yang.

Yang heard her mumble something, but couldn't make out what it was. "What was that?"

"...Revenge doesn't make a home." Blake repeated.

Yang felt herself warm, and knew it had nothing to do with her Semblance.

"Guess so, I'd still really like to punch him though." Yang admitted, holding the girl tightly.