"Soooo, you two lovebirds decent?"

A familiar teasing tone trilled from behind the dorm room door. A teasing tone that could only belong to Blake's partner.

While Blake was really too content to care what Yang thought at the moment, she did notice the fact that Ruby unceremoniously jumped out of bed… or would have, had the Faunus still not been cuddling with her. "Ruby?"

Mortified silver eyes stared back, bringing Blake's idle content feelings to an end. "I just realize t-that Yang is never going to stop teasing us about, um, well… y'know." Ruby's checks became a very cute shade of red. "…'cause we're dating now…"

"We haven't done anything other than cuddle, besides, it can't be all that bad, right?" Blake glanced over to the door. "You can come in, Yang."

Honestly, Blake didn't exactly know what she was going to expect from her partner as the blonde strolled into the room, the biggest shit eating grin across her face before plopping down on Weiss' bed, I didn't even know that someone could smile so wide. "So, you kids havin' fun?~"

"Quite." Blake simply stated, before looking at her cocooned cuddle-buddy. Ruby very slowly nodded, only her eyes and hair were visible over the sheets – not that Blake cared considering her arms were wrapped around her stomach.

"Good! Took you two long enough." Lilac eyes stared unflinchingly into amber, causing Blake to guiltily look away. Blake knew perfectly well what Yang was referencing… Ruby did not however, taking it to mean a very different thing.

"Yang!"

"Uh, yes Rubes?"

"You can't tease us!"

"I… huh?"

Long blonde hair swayed as Yang's head tilted in honest confusion. "Say that again, Rubes?"

"You can't tease me or Blake about us dating." A rather defiant tone came from the small warm body pressed up against Blake, surprising her.

Yang's smile drooped slightly, her tone losing some of its singsong edge. She almost seems disappointed? "Why would I tease yo-"

"Nu-uh, you always tease me! As your team leader, I'm ordering you not to tease us." Can Ruby even do that? Sure the position of team leader meant a lot in combat or in missions, but this was outside of that kind of jurisdiction.

"I wasn't going to anyways…" Yang huffed, eliciting a snort of disbelief from Ruby. "Honest! I'm just happy you two are together, Rubes. My two favourite people are happy, why wouldn't I be?"

Seeing no further objections from Ruby, Yang popped up from her spot. "Now that's out of the way, wanna head to breakfast? If you two take any longer, I don't think we're going to make it to the mission selection on time." Yang glanced knowingly towards the door. "Though I don't think Weiss will mind if we are…"

It was like a gear in Blake's brain suddenly decided to stop working at Yang's words. When would Weiss ever not care about being late?!

The first indication was someone cooing and making disgustingly cute sounds… sounds that seemed so out of place that Blake didn't believe at first that they were coming from Weiss. The second indication came from the pitter patter of a very light creature, with a very distinctive gait to it's walk…

"Oh no." Blake's ears drooped as she tightly clutched onto Ruby. "He's back." The remark earned a small smirk from Yang and a confused 'huh?' from Ruby. How did he get back? Isn't he supposed to be on an island far, far away from here?!

"Turns out that you two weren't the only ones having a good time." A ball of fur about a foot tall ran into the room, followed by a fawning Weiss. A sight that would have elicited a giggle or two from Blake normally, had she not been dreading the thing that Weiss was following.

The only thing that Blake noticed, however, was Ruby bolting from the bed, and out of her arms before scooping up the corgi into her own. "ZWEI!"

"Bark! Bark!" It's stubby, evil little feet uselessly flailed as Ruby nuzzled it and her nose was licked by it's tongue.

Suddenly Blake was hoping Ruby took a shower before the next time they hugged.

"Yuuuup.~ Dad went on a mission and wanted us to look after him while he's gone." Yang held up a letter and a tube… out of which fell about half a ton of canned dog food.

"Eeee!" Blake could count the number of times she'd seen Ruby this happy on one hand. "This is going to be the best thing ever!"

No. No it's not… and now this… this thing has to live with us?! Blake's day had gone from content, sleepy cuddles in the arms of her newly acquired girlfriend… to taking care of some mangy mutt. Except we're going on a mission, which means we can't take him and I won't have to deal with this… this thing for at least a few days!

Yet, as a relieved look crossed Blake's face, she missed something rather important. Namely the very determined look crossing Ruby's face as her silver eyes darted between Zwei… and her girlfriend.

AU: Heeeeeeeeeeey looks like Ruby has some plans up her sleeves… be wary Blake. Be really wary.

So a couple of small things. This may get rambly, sorry in advance.

As I've said before, admittedly at least 25+ chapters back, I will not be doing freezerburn in this story. It's not their story, and while I could see how it could work in the context of Dilation, they are never going to have more than just a strong friendship and that's it. To be fair to the ship, I can't see them going anywhere as long as Ladybug in Dilation has gone, but at the same time, writing Weiss or Yang scares the ever living crap out of me.

My plan is still to continuing use canon in a way to integrate Dilation into it fairly seamlessly and to that end I won't cover much of the actual canon events. Basically… remember how I covered the volume one finale? Essentially segments around it and the like? That's the plan for the future too.

Another thing is that for the most part, for at least the past… I want to say since chapter 65 or so, Gorsouul has been editing and reading before I release. I don't always mention him, but he is usually around! :D

Once again, sorry for rambling! I hope to see you all in the last update of the day, but if not, thank you for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day! :D