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There are a lot of things that Blake doesn’t understand. Some of them she’ll openly question in the hopes of getting a good answer that’ll quell her mind. Other she leaves to let her own mind wander and ponder over. She can’t help but feel if she inquires about some of those questions, they’ll lose their mysterious aura, and she doesn’t want that.
But there are some that she’s too afraid to know the answers to because she fears that it might not be the one, she’s hoping for.
And one of them involves the girl that’s currently got her face buried in her hair with her arms wrapped around Blake’s waist. Blake has no idea how she even ended up in this situation. Maybe it’s because Ruby ambushed her, or maybe it’s cause she actually likes it when Ruby holds her. Not that she would openly admit that. Yet, if she doesn’t make a move to resist, then Ruby knows it’s okay to hold her.
“I love you, Blake.” Her voice is muffled, and half-asleep sounding.
“I know,” she responds.
She knows because of Ruby’s less than subtle crush on her.
She’s always loved her, but Blake can’t help but wonder when it was exactly that she fell in love with her. It was obviously somewhere in between when they first met and now, though pinpointing an exact time is nearly impossible because she’s always liked Ruby.
And yet, there have been so many things that have prevented Blake from acting upon those feelings.
Even now.
She hasn’t forgotten what Adam said to her the night that Beacon fell. How he would make it his mission to destroy everything that she loves. He’d almost done with it Yang, and with Ilia as well. She wasn’t about to let it happen with Ruby. Or Weiss for that matter. Which is why, for now, she’ll indulge on her feelings just once. But only once.