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Life after Penny's confession and Ruby's acceptance was… almost the same, actually. Certainly, those who hadn't been around for the event knew something had changed, but really… Ruby and Penny hadn't.
They still cuddled. They still took long walks together. They still talked long into the night and watched movies together and read the same comics and cooed over weapon magazines and explored the patches of woods in and around Beacon and traded snacks and held hands and sat in each other's laps and baked cookies and cakes and made breakfast together even though Penny didn't really need to eat and snuggled together while Ruby was a puppy… but there was more now.
There was dancing- gentle, slow dancing together as they held hands, soft music playing as they tried their best to work through the steps in the pale moonlight late at night. They swayed and dipped and laughed when they stepped on each other's toes and fumbled their movements.
There was snuggling- deeper, softer, more gentle and intimate than before. They simply sat there in silence, Ruby straddled in Penny's lap, tail wagging slowly as she buried her face into the mathematically perfected curve of Penny's neck and breathed in the scents of the taller girl as though she were trying to permanently imprint what Penny was like into her mind forever. The faint scent of machine grease, of metal parts and active Dust circuitry, the humming of her soul core buzzing in Penny's chest in lieu of a heart, the whirring of her internal coolant systems in lieu of a pair of lungs. They sat there, saying nothing but letting their actions say everything. Penny's emotions, roiling and rippling in patterns that Ruby was still trying to figure out, still slowly getting the gist of it. Ruby's ears and tails, wagging and flicking and projecting so much love and affection just from how she shook and trembled just holding onto her girlfriend- girlfriend!- as they sat wherever they happened to feel like cuddling that day.
Thankfully, by way of not needing to sleep and having theoretically better memory recall than the average person, neither of their grades slipped even when they spent hours just holding onto each other and relishing in each other's presence, comfortable silence filling the air between them as Ruby squeezed her arms around Penny's shoulders and Penny squeezed her arms around Ruby's waist.
The reactions from the rest of Team RWBYP were mixed, to say the least. Yang was openly supportive, though a little tired of having to literally pull the lovebirds apart so they could go eat and make it to class. Blake… was a little put off by the displays of affection, but couldn't stay mad because it was honestly so adorable . Weiss… was very crabby about being single, and as much as she didn't want to be a downer when Ruby and Penny were clearly enjoying themselves and having fun peppering each other with little cheek nuzzles and forehead bumps and nose kisses, she couldn't help but be a little jealous of what they had.
Team JNPR… Well. Jaune had lost some money to Ren on the topic of when Penny and Ruby would get together, as had Pyrrha and Nora, who all thought it'd be sooner while Jaune had thought it would be later. Ren had been right on the money. Oddly prescient, somehow. Beyond the bet, JNPR… didn't seem to care, actually, and instead had… other things to worry about. That being Pyrrha having finally worked up the courage to ask Jaune out in the wake of Penny and Ruby getting together, because if Penny could do it then as a fellow redhead so could she.
Also, Nora formally decided to stake her claim on Ren. So that was nice.
Love was in the air, it seemed, and the only group among the two sister teams sitting at the top of the first year charts that hadn't caught the love bug was the group of Blake, Weiss, and Yang.
Even Ruby could tell that there were some really awkward feelings there. Or, well. Ruby especially could tell because of her emotion senses. Really, it'd be easy for them to get into a polycule- Yang thought Blake was cool and elegant and super chill and they were totally in sync all of the time when fighting.
Blake thought Yang was beautiful and warm and caring and always felt safe when Yang hugged her suddenly instead of bristly and anxious with most people (except for Ruby and Penny, but the feelings there were totally platonic).
Weiss thought Yang and Blake were everything that her father and Atlesian high society would have hated in all the best of ways, warm and kind and caring in their own ways- Yang with her fiery nature and emotional intelligence and willingness to beat a motherfucker, Blake with her passionate hatred for the injustices heaped upon the less fortunate in the world and willingness to educate anyone who listened about the plight of the faunus across the kingdoms.
Yang and Blake both thought Weiss was pretty, elegant, waifish, and a useless lesbian but in like a really endearing way. She was genuine, kind, and more than willing to fight to make her family name a proud, noble legacy once again.
In short, Ruby, Penny, and just about half the school that was aware of their antics thought that the three of them should really just get together and kiss already because the homoerotic tension was starting to cause problems and even Yang and Blake trying to stage an intervention for Weiss' useless lesbianism hadn't really helped all that much because Emerald had, at the time, not been in a poly with Cinder and Neo (which had since changed as of a few weeks ago during that trip they took to Vale to buy Penny's dress for the dance next semester, thank gods) and was still useless. Also, Cinder had just laughed when Yang and Blake asked about it.
Ruby didn't want to hear about any plans that involved telling Weiss to just masturbate because sex was still kinda icky to her at the moment for all that she was fully aware of it. Also because it probably wouldn't work at all. Not that Ruby needed to think about that ever.
She had more important things to do, like nuzzling into the crook of Penny's neck and peeking through slitted eyes as her night vision adjusted to the darkness beneath the puff of Penny's fluffy, curly hair so she could start counting that light smattering of freckles that was scattered across the artificial skin there.
Ruby genuinely had no idea who decided to give Penny freckles, but she wanted to shake their hand and thank them for doing the gods' work because it made Penny so, so, so cute and adorable and she just wanted to hug her girlfriend- her girlfriend!!!!! Eeeeeee!!!!!- so so so tight forever and nuzzle against her and share their body heat (what… little Ruby had in comparison to Penny always running warm) and wrap her cape around them like a blanket and fall asleep on each other and take little naps here and there while being utterly aware of the others and- and-
"Ruby?" Penny asked idly, tapping her fingers in a perfect 7/8 rhythm along the curve of Ruby's spine, right along her pale skin that was only exposed at all because they were cuddling in bed and had their legs tangled together and Ruby was wearing her pajamas and had only softer, rounded grimm plates projected right now along with her ever-present cloak. "You seem to be squeezing me slightly harder than normal. Is something the matter?"
"N-no… just… thinking about your freckles and how cute they are," Ruby whispered back, breathing ever so softly against the shell of Penny's ear and giggling a little as she felt Penny's temperature spike against her torso. "You're just… so cute. So… so cute. It's kinda unfair, you're mathematically designed to be the cutest, most adorable person on Remnant and you have freckles and your eyes are so pretty and green they're like emeralds or tourmalines or some other really pretty green gem except even better because you sparkle really bright and uuuggghhhh you're so pretty and I don't say it enough to you!"
"And I don't say it enough to you!" Penny huffed out, laughing gently as she hugged Ruby closer and nuzzled into Ruby's neck with a little squee of joy. "You're very pretty as well! Your eyes are the most intriguing I have ever seen, and your hair is so delightfully fluffy and spiky and your cheeks are so squishy and soft and your ears and tail make you the most biologically adorable person on the planet! You are so cute Ruby Rose, and I love you a lot!"
"I love you too Penny," Ruby immediately answered, her voice wavering with a mix of joy and laughter as the two of them rolled around in bed, sheets carelessly tangled around their legs as the cover was thrown off and pillows scattered about, the bed springs creaking ever so slightly as they bumped foreheads and nuzzled together and laughed quietly and-
"Will you two lovebirds shut up and sleep already!?" Weiss groaned, turning over and forming a glyph to fling a pillow from the floor back up to Ruby's bunk. "Either sleep like you're supposed to at… gods knows what hour in the morning… or go to the common room and talk all night there! Gods, this is the fourth night in a row that you've done this and it's actually starting to get irritating!"
She huffed, grumbling as she turned over with a loud harrumph.
"It is a little loud, Rubles," Yang yawned, lighting up her hair so she could properly level a disappointed sisterly stare at her sister and her sister's girlfriend. "You and Pennjamin go have fun elsewhere while we sleep, 'kay?"
Blake, somehow, managed to sleep through it all. Probably because she was used to falling asleep in the middle of noisy White Fang camps.
Both Penny and Ruby blushed, settling back down as Ruby shrunk down to corgi size and nestled into Penny's chest.
"Sorry Yang, sorry Weiss!" she called out, using tendrils of grimm matter to put everything back in order and settle the sheets and covers back on top of the two of them.
"Goodnight everyone!" Penny declared and immediately dropped into sleep mode, Ruby starting to snore quietly as she forced herself into a dormant state right after.
Weiss sighed, grumbling as she shut her eyes again and tried to get back to sleep. "Ugh… I envy them…"
Notes:
Buckle up, the Penny/Ruby fluff only gets more intense from here.
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