Family conversation
"You ready?" Summer asked Fairy.
"Mmm!" Fairy confirmed, giving her a quick nod.
"Okay, three, two, ONE!" Summer went, as she lightly threw Fairy into the air above a sleeping Arthur, her body positioned into an elbow drop which soon landed directly on Arthur's stomach causing his eyes to bolt open and gasp for air in panic as it had all been forced from his lungs.
His eyes quickly darted to what had landed atop him, his eyes widening for a moment when he saw Fairy sprawled over his stomach lengthwise, her head turned to Arthur with a wide smile as she said "Ghoo…d… Marning" in her usual squeaky voice as she was still unused to speaking since she lost her voice.
Groaning Arthur turned to see Summer standing next to the bed a wide grin on her face, hand on her hip, next to her a tray with two plates of what looked to be French toast, judging by the slight golden colour of the breed and the bottle of syrup also on the tray, one of the trays stacked with more than the other.
But Arthur quickly put the thought to the back of his mind as he looked back to Fairy, both his hands raising into the air and making claws with them, causing Fairy's smile to freeze and turn to one of horror as she quickly tried to get away from him.
"Tickle god comes in for round three" Arthur muttered before lunging towards Fairy, his hands immediately going for her sides.
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"Winner, Arthur Fielder, by knock out!" Summer announced smiling at the panting Fairy, still twitching and giggling from the residual numbness in her sides and her cheeks sore from laughing, while Arthur patted his hands together saying, "You've gotta stop doing this, you're never gonna win".
In response Fairy stuck out her tongue but quickly drew it back in when Arthur made another set of claws with his hands, "That's what I thought" he chuckled and turned to Summer, "Good morning, you've certainly been busy" he said staring at the golden slices of bread.
"Oh, you know it, can't let my daughter go hungry when she's sick" Summer replied handing Arthur the plate with more on it, then picking up her own and covering it in a generous amount of syrup and handing the bottle to Arthur, who was holding the plate far above his head to avoid the ravenous grasping of Fairy.
"Yes… sick…" Summer muttered with a slight twitch on her cheek when Fairy began to climb Arthur's arm.
"The only thing that's sick about her is that she's in an infirmary" he replied as he pried Fairy off his arm and putting his hand in front of her to stop her until he could actually begin to feed her, which ultimately resulted in absurdly loud crunch as her jaws snapped shut on the fork.
"I swear… one of these days I'm not going to have a hand to feed you" Arthur complained as he took a bite for himself, much to Fairy's displeasure, to which Arthur just stuck his tongue out at her in response.
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"Thank you, that was delicious" Arthur said as he stacked his and Fairy's plate atop Summer's on the nightstand, Fairy throwing her hand into the air while shouting "Aye!" with a small dribble of syrup running down her lip which Summer wiped off with her thumb and licked it of her thumb.
"Good, I'm glad, I haven't made Atlesian toast in a while, I thought I was getting rusty." She said, "Well, you should probably get back to your room and change into something fresher, Ozpin's probably going to send for you soon to get your side of the story, he'll probably also ask you to bring Fairy as well to get anything she can remember about what happened" she explained.
"Got it" he said, stretching his arms before he threw his legs over the side of the bed and stood up, "Do we have a wheel chair for her? We can't carry her everywhere" he stated.
"Mmm!" to which Fairy hummed discontently, and was then ignored as Summer exited the room and soon came back with a small dark blue wheel chair, "Kardia brought it earlier this morning saying you were free to go whenever you want, and to not come back for a week at the least, apparently she doesn't like it when the same student comes in numerous times over the span of a month." She chuckled.
"Yeah… I would expect that…" he said as he lifted Fairy off the bed and placed her on the wheel chair. "Ruby appear yet?" he asked patting Fairy on her head.
"Nope, but I expect she'll appear sooner rather than later…" just then a loud crash resounded through the infirmary coming from the hall way, both Summer and Arthur locked eyes for a moment and began to chuckle, "Speak of the devil and she shall appear", the door to the infirmary quickly opening as Ruby calmly entered and lightly dusted her skirt, behind her Yang sprawled out over the ground on her back, her eyes spinning as she muttered "Awawawa…" as she tried to push herself up, only to collapse back onto the floor, "I'm just, gonna lie here for a while…" she muttered.
Ruby turned to look at Yang for a minute before slowly closing the infirmary door on her after a bit of contemplation before turning around to Summer and Arthur who were looking at her with awkward smiles while Fairy was all smiles.
"Explain" she bluntly said, her arms crossed and her foot tapping against the ground impatiently.
Looking to Summer with a questioning gaze asking 'What do we say to get out of this without any lost limbs'.
"Well, uh… um… H-honestly, I have no idea how to explain it…" She replied, shrugging her shoulders to Arthurs gaze.
"Try" Ruby bluntly stated once again.
Taking a deep breath Summer said "So, uh, itbeganwithporridgethenshecalledArthurpapathenmemamathenshesaidpapaandmamalovethenthingswentblurryforamomentbeforeclearingupwhenshesaidweshouldkissthenIsortofjustblankedanIendeduppushingmyselfontohimanditfeltsoooogoodandthingsjustendeduplikethatandnowIhaveanotherdaughterandIthinkI'vefalleninlove" Summer began to pant after her extremely quick no pause bullet point sentence, "I-I think that's it" she muttered still wheezing as she caught her breath. Ruby's eyes were wide as she looked between Fairy, Arthur and her mother.
"Huh, way to go mom!" Yang shouted happily suddenly appearing next to Ruby, surprising Arthur as he hadn't heard the door either open or shut. Yang's enthusiasm causing a light twitch on both Ruby and Summer's lips.
Scratching the back of her head Summer spoke up "Look, I'm sorry Ruby, I know you really like, no love Arthur, but it sort of just happened and I don't think I can just ignore it, I haven't felt like this in years, I don't…I can't just throw it away, I don't know when I could…IF I could ever get the chance to experience this again." Summer desperately pleaded to her daughter her face pointing the ground.
Staring at her mother, Ruby's foot stopped tapping as she went silent for a moment before letting out a heavy sigh and began to scratch the back of her head, "I'm… not angry, I'm just surprised, we were expecting the others to get somewhere with him, I-I just wasn't expecting my mom to be the first one" She explained, turning her head to Arthur her gaze turned sharp causing Arthur to shiver, "And you, come here" she said using her finger to order him closer.
Gulping Arthur walked up to Ruby who then said "Lean down" while she stared up at him from her short height of just 157cm compared to Arthur height of 183cm making him tower over her.
Leaning down Arthur closed his eyes fully expecting his cheek to sting any moment now, except the only thing he ended up feeling the soft feeling of Ruby's lips against his, opening his eyes he stared at Ruby's closed ones in surprise his eyes then turning to the side where Summer and Yang were standing, Summer with her hand infront of her mouth with a small smile as she laughed in a 'fufufu' tone while Yang let out a sigh muttering "One day…" staring enviously at Ruby.
'What have I gotten myself into…' he whined as his eyes looked back to Ruby, 'No point in doing nothing then' he thought as his eyes turned determined and he began to push into Ruby's kiss, causing her eyes to flutter and her arms to slump, her body only being held up by Arthur's hands on her hip and cheek.
Eventually Arthur broke their lips leaving Ruby standing there with watery eyes, her tongue hanging loosely from her mouth a small string of saliva connecting them. "Happy?" he asked with a grin, enjoying the sight of Ruby in her oh so vulnerable state.
"Mmm? Huh? Uh, y-yeah!" Ruby said awakening from her stupor her cheeks going red as her sight soon turned to her mother and Yang both who were staring at Arthur, both gulping in envy.
"A-Arthur?" Ruby said, turning back to Arthur.
"Yeah?" he asked, pulling his hand off her hip, but was forced to put it back on when Ruby grabbed it and forced it back on.
"Put the ring on" she ordered, "I may not be able to keep you to myself, but I can certainly have proof that you are mine, and it's just really unfair that I'm stuck with a ring that can't be taken off, while you get off scot-free." She complained.
Hearing this Arthur was at first surprised but soon he began chuckling, "I can do that" and gave Ruby another peck on her lips causing her eyes to flutter once again as her mind went foggy, eventually resulting in her falling forward when her legs began to tremble and feel like jelly causing her to end up with her body limply laying against Arthur's body.
[Arthur Fielder, please come to headmasters office as soon as possible, that will be all] The voice of Glynda came from the speakers.
"Well… I guess that's me gone" Arthur muttered as he dragged Ruby's body to one of the beds and throwing her onto it, and turned back to Summer and Yang, seeing them both gulping as he looked to them causing him to chuckle as he addressed Summer "Seems they don't want Fairy, so could you take care of her till I get back" he asked.
"Y-yeah" Summer answered, voice still trembling from the sight of the broken down Ruby to the side.
"Thanks! I shouldn't be too long, why don't you take her to the courtyard and play with her there for awhile, I'll meet you there" he said backing towards the door "Well, I don't want to keep them waiting so, I'll see you later!" he said and quickly exited the room, leaving the three family members alone.
"What do we do about her?" Yang asked indicating to Ruby, who was still in a state between being awake and unconscious.
"Carry her? I've got to push Fairy so could you?" she said as she wrapped her hands around the handles of Fairy's wheelchair.
"Got it" Yang answered as she picked up Ruby in an underarm carry"
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Alternate Chapter names: [Things can never be easy for Arthur Fielder] [Round Three, Fight!]
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