A/N: Hello everyone! I'm sorry this took so long to write, work and school have been a bit hectic lately.

WARNING: Lemony goodness can be found ahead

So without further ado please, enjoy.

Chapter 4: Sweet dreams are made of this

Weiss looked up at the sound of her door opening, turning her head back she saw Ruby shutting the large study doors behind her.

"Good morning Miss, you're up early." Ruby said coming over to stand next to Weiss' desk.

It was true, Ruby normally arrived either as Weiss was still in bed or just getting up, she had gotten up early today because of all the things she wanted to do today. A little thrill of excitement shot through her at the thought of asking Ruby to be her lover. It had been a long time since she had been intimate with anyone, it hadn't seemed enticing in a very long time, she wondered why it suddenly seemed so important. Her older sister Valen was much more promiscuous, Weiss couldn't remember a time when her older sibling hadn't had a lover, and could recall quite a few more when she had three or four of them at once. Her older sister's escapades had seemed so frivolous to her so why did the having Ruby as a lover excite her so? She supposed she was getting ahead of herself, she hadn't even asked her yet… what would she do if Ruby said no?

She pushed that thought aside realizing she had been quiet for a few long moments while she was lost in her thoughts. "I'm sorry?" She asked having missed what Ruby just said.

"I asked if you'd like me to fetch you breakfast." She replied. "Are you okay Miss? You seem… distracted."

"Yes, I am, so to speak. I've decided which sword I liked better." She said turning her attention back to her desk where the long straight sword lay wrapped up neatly in its scabbard. "We'll get breakfast on the way to the smithy."

She got up taking the sword with her and handing it to Ruby to carry. "We can talk about the cloak I want while we walk."

Ruby had never actually been to the smithy where Yang worked, but she recognized the smith's symbol on the wooden sign hanging above the doorway. The building was a simple square cobblestone structure standing shoulder to shoulder with its neighbors in the market district, two stories tall with his hop below and his living space above. The front room had a counter behind which the smith sat awaiting customers, the walls were covered in an assortment of tools and weapons he had made showing what level and variety of craft was available here. The room was dimly lit only from some high windows on the front wall and the muted sound of hammer blows on metal drifted through the walls.

Upon recognizing Weiss the smith stood up abruptly. He was large but not in the usual way of a smith, he may once have been muscular but his body had fallen into a decidedly overweight and un-healthy look, he was balding and wore a scraggly brown beard.

"Miss Schnee! Welcome welcome, how can my humble forge be of service?" He asked eagerly, his eyes lighting on the sword in Ruby's hands.

Weiss motioned to her and she stepped forward presenting the sheathed blade to Weiss. Weiss took it and placed it on the rough wooden countertop.

"This blade was made here, correct?" Weiss asked simply.

"Aye Miss, right here in the finest forge short of the keep." The blacksmith assured her.

"You have an apprentice don't you?" Weiss asked next.

"Hm? Yes, she's not good enough to help with this, I made this myself." The Smith proclaimed.

"Bring her out would you?" Weiss asked sweetly enough but with that hint of veiled force that took years of practice and a certain level of personal willpower to pull off just right.

The smith hesitated a moment but quickly moved off to a side door, the muted sounds of a ringing hammer and the whooshing of bellows came through the opening as well as a considerable blast of hot metallic tasting air.

The smith hollered back into the shop and the hammer blows ceased ringing. Yang came through the door a moment later her shirt pulled down and tied at her waist so the only thing keeping her decent was a thick wrap of bandage cloth. Her muscular physique on display save for the thick leather gloves on her hands, her hair tied back with a leather strap.

Ruby caught her sister's eye and smiled at her, Yang looked confused but then noticed the sword on the counter. Recognition registered and then a flash of anger at the blade before her face returned to passivity.

Weiss glanced over Yang's sweaty muscled body and her working attire, and then back to the portly smith in his clean leather apron.

"You made this sword didn't you?" She asked very pointedly looking at Yang.

"Miss Schnee?!-" Weiss silenced the smith with a raised hand.

"Tell me, did you make this blade?" Weiss asked calmly fixing her pale blue eyes on Yang's lilac ones.

Ruby looked to Weiss confusion on her face, didn't Weiss know that Yang would get in trouble for this, even if she had made the sword?

"Most of it." Yang finally replied after a long moment.

"You didn't make the decorations." Weiss stated that already able to guess.

Yang shook her head stiffly.

"Miss Schnee! She has not the skill! She's lying to you, she hasn't learnt her lessons to be truthful." The smith turned raising a hand as if to hit Yang, who looked hard anger building beneath her lilac eyes.

"STOP!" Weiss roared. When she wanted to Weiss could fill a room with her voice, the kind of commanding tone that made you wince and drop your eyes to the floor. Weiss had that mastered.

"Someone here is a rat, and I have my inklings as to who." Weiss very pointedly looked at neither of them. "But I will be fair, I propose a challenge, each of you will make me another blade, the better blade will win just as before but only between the two of you."

Yang's face dropped as the smith smiled widely.

"Yang." Weiss said turning to the blond. "You will have free roam of the keep's smithy and the materials therein, we wouldn't want any… friction from working in the same smithy." Weiss said eyeing the two as there expressions shifted, Yang perking up now and the smith's smile drooping.

After a few moments of silence Weiss nodded. "Good, Yang gather your things and come with me, I shall expect the new blades at the end of the week."

Out on the street Yang followed next to Ruby, her leather jacket over her shoulder and a small bundle under her arm. Yang looked down to her sister communicating in that special soundless way that only siblings and lovers can.

Cocking an eyebrow in question Yang looked down at her sister. Ruby just smiled and shrugged, Weiss did what she believed was best, and Ruby could only guess at her motives.

"Now then Ruby." Weiss said breaking the two from their soundless conversation. "You have a list of things you will need for the cloak correct?"

"Yes Miss, right here."

Neo sat on her stool one leg set over the other as she slowly ran an oil rag over the long knife in her hand. She stopped long enough to hold the blade up to the light coming in through the window across the room, shimmering rays bounced off the mirror polish flickering like fire as it danced off the steel. Smiling she carefully slid the blade back into its sheath inside her petticoat before pulling another knife out of the back of her boot.

"How many knives do you have anyway?" Torchwick asked abruptly from his seat by the fireplace where he had been quietly watching her slowly clean one knife after another.

She cocked her head to look at him, smiling with her shifting miss-matched eyes. "Enough." She replied simply, her voice smooth as silk.

Torchwick grimaced nearly dropping the cigar from his mouth. "Right well I'm going to check on the boss."

Neo shrugged gesturing loosely with the knife in her hand as she silently went back to cleaning it.

Torchwick went into the next room shutting the door behind him, and then shivered. "Eugh why do we need her again?"

"Because she can get information out of anyone." Adam replied calmly as he leaned over the chart table in the glow of a lantern. "Well, any woman." He corrected.

"Surely we could do well enough without her, I'm a creative man to say the least." Torchwick placed a hand on his chest modestly.

"It's not the same, she gets into their heads because of how she enjoys it, what she does doesn't even cause that much pain." Taurus replied.

Torchwick frowned and shivered again slightly. "You mean the way she gets off on it." He straightened his jacket as if the words had disturbed it. "Freaky little fetishist, and a vampire to boot why don't we just rub her out now?"

Adam grimaced. "You know how I feel about vampires, but even monsters can be useful sometimes. We'll get what we need from her and then dispose of her."

Surely Adam knew she could hear him, Torchwick might not, but surely the vampire hunter would know her hearing was good enough to catch a conversation that was only in the next room. She sighed looking over the knife in her hand, slowly turning the blade until her eyes looked back at her in its mirrored surface.

"You're the only one who understands me." She said quietly to her reflection.

Yang walked slowly around the large open air smithy that resided within the wall of the Schnee keep. A sturdy wooden roof stood over the large work area shingled with dark gray slate tiles to keep the elements off of the equipment. Just inside the overhang of the roof were rolls of heavy black leather that could be dropped down to completely protect the smithy from the outside in a storm. The floor was raised slightly from the surrounding ground on a large stone slab worn smooth by time and heavy booted feet. The back wall of the forge was the wall of the keep and the right was the small cottage for the smith but the front and left were open to the air.

Yang walked in slowly setting her things down on a large wooden table against the right wall. She looked around taking in the vast and impressively equipped forge. The massive forge against the castle wall and it's he bellows powered by dust engines. The dark steel anvil sitting on its stone mount, the racks of tools along the two walls.

"This can all be yours, if you've the skill." Yang twisted back to look at Weiss standing just under the roof.

Yang didn't say anything right away. "Why are you doing this?"

"Because I want a good blacksmith, that blade was the best of the ones entered, except for the gaudy ornamentation." Weiss shrugged. "From what Ruby has told me about your work there, the smith, and from seeing the metalwork all over your home, I knew you had made the blade."

"Then why the contest?" yang asked fully turning to face Weiss.

The vampiress shrugged. "There is always the chance I'm wrong, but I also need to at least appear fair, give him a chance to prove himself."

Yang was quiet for a long moment looking off into the sky deep in thought, Weiss was about to turn away when Yang spoke up again. "I'm not going to call you mistress."

Weiss smiled. "Just 'Weiss' is fine, would you have me call you by a title?"

Slowly Yang shook her head. "No, just Yang will do." She hesitated a moment and then stuck out her hand.

Weiss shook it noting the fierce grip the blond had, and then Yang was turned away heading back into the forge to begin her work.

"Yang is… not fond of vampires Miss." Ruby said once Yang was out of earshot.

"Yes you told me that, do you think she will be alright working here?" Weiss asked seriously.

Ruby put a hand under her chin in thought for a moment. "Yeah, I think she's accepted that you aren't all bad. You specifically that is."

"She will work?"

Ruby nodded. "For her own smithy, a house outside of Trough, and good payment, she'll do it, or I'll personally kick her ass."

Weiss smiled. "Good."

"Yang is set up at the smithy?" Weiss asked Ruby.

Ruby nodded smiling. "Yep, she finally finished fawning over all the equipment and actually got her things set up."

Ruby had been with Yang at the smithy for the rest of the day helping her sister set things up as well as situating the supplies and tools she would need for Weiss' cloak.

Weiss smirked slightly. "And you were working on the cloak there?"

Again Ruby nodded. "Yes, I should be able to finish it within a week."

"That's good, the season is really beginning to change." Weiss said walking around to the front of her desk to look out the window. "Since your sister will be staying at the smith house I've set up a room for you, the servants quarter next to my room has been empty for a long time but I had it cleaned up and prepared for you."

"Oh? Thank you Miss." Ruby said bowing slightly.

Weiss looked back at Ruby over her shoulder, those pale blue eyes framed by the dying light of day once again. Ruby was mesmerized, the pale blue crystals sparkling in Weiss' irises, like a thousand shards of pale sapphire flecked with obsidian here and there, and then at its center the sapphire gave way to blood red rubies to rim her pupil.

"Come here." Weiss ordered quietly.

She went padding across the soft carpet to stand before the vampire quietly, looking into those crystalline eyes. Weiss pushed herself off the desk, one arm slowly wrapping around Ruby's waist and pulling her close against her, the other tilting her chin to the side ever so slightly.

Weiss looked into those pale silver eyes, the midnight black pupil in the center looking like a void in the center of a thousand shards of metal sinking towards it. Here a sliver as bright as Myrtenaster in the sun, there a shard as black as iron and again a steel bright shimmer in them all. From a distance they all blended together into a silver gray cloud but up close the variation in the coloring stood out in stark contrast to the black of her pupil and white of her eyes.

Ruby gulped as Weiss leaned in her blood pumping in her veins getting ready for Weiss' fangs to sink into the pulsing vein in her neck. But she didn't, her lips didn't ghost over her heated skin they locked with her own. A soft gasp lost into Weiss' mouth as their lips came together. Eyes open wide with surprise quickly fading to half lidded eyes and finally closing as Weiss' hand cupped the back of her head pulling her closer, her own arms wrapping around Weiss' neck.

Moments passed before Weiss slowly pulled away. "Will you… will you share a bed with me tonight Ruby?"

Ruby swallowed thickly, her heart was hammering in her chest. "A bed? Miss I…" Her voice faltered and she just nodded.

Weiss smiled sweetly. "Just Weiss then." She corrected as she began to pull Ruby towards her room.

Was she really about to do this? Was Weiss. Weiss! Really inviting her into her bed?

There was another kiss as Weiss' door closed behind them. And locked.

When she broke from the kiss she somehow found her clothes had come off, did she do that? Weiss was still dressed and was looking at her with a self-satisfied smirk on her face, she did that.

Ruby moved in and began to gently remove Weiss' clothes, one at a time folding them neatly and placing them on the wardrobe removing all her outer layers. Weiss pulled her in for another kiss when she was down to just her underwear, and when that one ended it was Ruby's turn to smirk as she tossed Weiss' bra to the side. Finally Weiss stepped out of her panties on her own before advancing on Ruby kissing and pushing until her knees hit the back of the bed and they fell together onto the soft comforter.

Weiss was on top looking down at Ruby, she could feel the hunger bubbling inside of her, why had she ignored this for so long? She bent her head again kissing teasing with her fangs, jaw, neck, collarbone, lips again. Her hand settled over a soft breast trapping a pert nipple between her knuckles as she groped, a soft sharp gasp escaping from Ruby, but she quickly abandoned this she was hungry. Her hand went lower ghosting over ribs, trailing over the taught muscle of her belly before slipping between her legs.

"You shave?" Weiss smirked cocking an eyebrow.

And it was that, that made Ruby blush and turn her face away. Weiss laughed and buried her face in the crook of Ruby's neck nipping at the soft flesh there. Her fingers found Ruby moist and hot, she teased the girl only enough to get her fingers wet, she could have fun drawing a long teasing orgasm out of the girl later, right now she wanted sweat, and sex, and heat.

Ruby almost screamed when Weiss' fingers sank into her, she didn't know if Weiss had ever been with anyone before, but she certainly hadn't, she didn't really know what it would feel like she didn't even really know what to do so she was quite content to let Weiss lead. It briefly crossed her mind that Weiss was, in fact, a girl. There wasn't anything in particular attached to that thought, just a sort of passing curiosity that she was attracted to women, but she had more pressing matter on her mind. This, this was incredible Weiss' fingers inside her probing, pressing, wiggling every little movement causing her to arch her back up into Weiss, a moan to tear out of her throat, and Weiss just hovered above her with that satisfied smirk painting her face.

"M-miss!" Ruby cried out.

Weiss just grinned she flicked the spot again getting another desperate cry out of the girl beneath her. "Please Ruby, just call me Weiss here." She cooed with absolute calm.

Ruby, predictably, didn't respond. Her eyes shot open looking up at nothing, Weiss saw it saw the ripple of nerves just begin to start, the mist clouding Ruby's eyes, the muscles beginning to constrict around Weiss' probing fingers. Then she sank her fangs into Ruby's neck, it was like being struck by lightning. In that instant they became one like an electrical surge they were together, sharing every sensation as Ruby's body crashed over the edge dragging Weiss along with her as they plummeted into white blinding oblivion as Ruby screamed out Weiss' name.

The stars finally faded from Ruby's vision and the ceiling of Weiss' room came back into focus, her breath coming in ragged puffs as she lay on Weiss' bed. Her thigh was wet and sticky between Weiss' legs and she could feel the same between her own as Weiss slowly pulled her fingers from her core. Weiss was breathing hard too as she brought her hand up, their faces were pressed together as Weiss had collapsed onto her side next to Ruby. She watched as the sticky fingers came towards her and then disappeared into Weiss' mouth.

"Hmmm even better than your blood, if only just." Weiss said grinning wickedly.

Ruby blushed and let her head fall back onto the pillows closing her eyes.

"Hehe well I guess we'll have to work on your stamina." Ruby opened her eyes looking to Weiss' grinning face again. "But for now." Weiss' voiced dropped to a soft whisper. "Thank you Ruby, I needed that more than I thought."

Ruby just smiled softly. "Anything for you, Weiss."

Weiss smiled and pulled Ruby against her fitting their bodies together as Weiss' chin rested in the crook of Ruby's neck, and like that they drifted off to sleep.

A/N: Well there you go, I hope to have the next chapter done a bit faster than this one. (I always hope that but what can ya do?) So the next chapter should be a bit easier to write, I know more exactly what I want to happen there. Anyway it's not too often I write smut but I do personally think it can be just as good at telling story and developing character as anything else. I hope you all enjoyed and I want to thank all of you for the great support you've shown for the story!

See you all next time!