A/N: Here we are at the final chapter tying things up and putting a nice bow on this little story.
Chapter 4: Living Circuits
Penny breathed in deep, steam filling her lungs as she stared at her own reflection in the mirror.
The steam from her shower was beginning to dissipate as she examined herself, her hair was still down hanging wetly down her back, her green eyes sparkled with life, a large jagged scar crossed over her heart. She traced her fingers over the damaged skin shivering slightly at the unfamiliar sensitivity. All of her sense were sharper and more vivid than they had been since her 'dream', she could smell the soft pall of the soap lingering in the steamy air, feel the dampness on her flushed skin, even colors appeared more vibrant than they had previously. Most of all though was touch, everything felt different the cold marble of the sink, her silky copper hair, her skin especially not only did she feel more through her skin but her skin itself felt more… real, it felt more like how Ruby's did, she couldn't help but run her hands over her skin again down her sides and up her stomach feeling the corded synthetic muscles working beneath her skin. Her hands rose higher moving with the gentle in and out of her breathing as they came to cup her breasts and then running her hands over the soft flesh, eliciting a hitched sigh as her fingers rubbed across her newly sensitive nipples.
She couldn't bring herself to put her shirt on just yet.
A knock sounded at the bathroom door. "Penny?"
Ruby's gently concerned voice came muffled through the door. She had just recently had a brush with death, she supposed Ruby had a right to be at least a little worried about her.
"I'm fine Ruby." She replied gently, a thought crossed her mind causing the edges of her lips to twitch up in a smirk. "Actually, could you come help me with something?"
Ruby had come through the door and closed it behind her almost before Penny had finished speaking, She now stood wide eyed facing a smirking Penny, with nothing covering her upper body.
Ruby turned bright red.
"W-what did you need Penny?" Ruby gulped trying not to stare.
"Just to see you." Penny smirked devilishly.
Ruby sighed her eyes drifted back over Penny and stopped rather suddenly, Penny knew what she saw.
"Its fine Ruby, trust me." Ruby just looked up at her, grey eyes filled with unspoken apologies.
She came closer and lifted her hand to the jagged scar, tracing it with her slim fingers. "I… I'm sorry."
Penny took Ruby's hand in her own pressing Ruby's palm over her heart. "Don't be, you saved me."
Ruby smiled back weakly. Penny cupped her chin and brought her lips down to Ruby's.
Ruby melted into the kiss, quietly enjoying the soft spark of Penny's lips and the warm curl in her chest. They parted after a moment, but Penny moved her hand to the back of her head twining her fingers into her short dark hair before pulling their lips together more deliberately for a deeper kiss, after just a moment Ruby felt Penny's tongue slide over her lips, and Ruby opened her mouth slightly. It was another several moments before they parted again panting slightly.
"P-penny?" Ruby questioned between breaths.
Penny's eyes sparkled with happy mischief. "I never knew you tasted so good."
Ruby turned a darker shade of red and buried her face in Penny's neck.
A few days later…
"So Yang is spending the weekend with the twins?" Penny asked as she lay in her hammock sideways so her legs hung out over the desk where Ruby was working.
"To quote her 'to bang the shit out of them'." Ruby replied sighing dramatically. "I guess they're happy together though."
Penny hummed in agreement; the big brawler had been in a very good mood since she had started officially dating the Malachite twins, having gotten to know them while working at Junior's. Of course they were twins so Yang couldn't be satisfied with just one of them, the threesome puns had been never ending. But apparently both of the twins loved the brute right back, Penny had seen them all happy and smiling together enough times to know that.
"And Weiss and Blake are gone to one of Weiss' numerous mountain resorts for a ski trip?" She asked next.
"Yup, I'd have loved to go skiing with them, but I couldn't bring myself to break up their privacy." Ruby replied continuing to work on some homework.
"So basically we're the only one's not having sex right now?" She heard an un-graceful splutter from Ruby and chuckled to herself. Yang is a terrible influence.
Penny hopped down landing on the desk in front of Ruby before sitting and sliding herself forward until she was sitting face-to-face in Ruby's lap, and then leaned back against the desk behind her with a devilish smirk on her face.
"We could change that you know."
Ruby turned an amazing shade of red. "P-Penny! I-I'm only fifteen!"
Penny just smiled back. "I'm only three."
Ruby blanched. "I… I forget that about you sometimes." Ruby looked up at her reclining girlfriend, lying back as she was her eyes wandered from where her legs wrapped around her midsection up over her stomach to her shapely breasts and finally her smirking freckled face. "You changed your hair?"
Penny's copper locks were not in their usual curls at the side of her head, but instead a few bangs framed her face, with the rest hanging down her back in a few short braids.
Penny shrugged blushing slightly at the attention. "I feel like a new person so I decided to try changing it."
"I like it." Ruby replied.
Penny smiled back and pushed herself forward wrapping her arms around Ruby and pressing them together into another deep kiss.
"What's gotten into you Penny? You've been acting very… affectionate." Ruby said in between catching her breath from the kiss.
Penny squirmed in Ruby's lap frowning slightly. "I… I don't know I just want to be close to you and…" Penny made a groping motion with her hands. "I want to feel things."
Ruby cocked her head to the side looking quizzically at her girlfriend for a few moments before a horrifying realization dawned on her.
Moments later on team RWBY's group messaging room…
R: HELP! I'm trapped in the dorm with a horny robot!"
W: You're what?
R: Penny is horny, and she doesn't realize it because it didn't happen to her before.
Y: Awww my little sister is gunna get laid. 3
R: YANG!
W: For once the brute is right; there are very few ways to deal with this situation, and you are her girlfriend.
Y: You heard the Ice Queen break in that virgin circuitry!
R: You guys aren't helping. T~T
B: Well you can't just leave her like that.
R: I know but what do I do?!
R: No Yang.
Y: Awwww.
B: She is capable of the act?
R: Her 'dream' changed a lot about her, I think so?
Y: Fuck her for SCIENCE!
R: YANG!
B: You're going to have to help her somehow.
P: I'm horny? This is what it feels like?
Y: I totally forgot we included Penny in this group room.
Ruby looked up from her scroll guiltily at her girlfriend.
Penny chewed her bottom lip in thought. "So this is what it feels like to be 'horny' huh?"
"Yeah." Ruby squeaked.
Penny smiled at Ruby. "Well at least I know what it is now, now I can take care of it and get back to normal."
Penny got up planning on taking a shower to work out her… urges, but was stopped by Ruby grabbing her wrist. "No, I… I'm our girlfriend I should be helping you with this."
"Ruby you don't have too, I know it makes you uncomfortable." Penny replied cupping Ruby's cheek fondly.
Ruby pressed herself to Penny looking up at the taller synthetic girl. "I… love you Penny I want to do this too, I'm just… nervous." Penny's eyes widened slightly before softening as she looked into Ruby's silver eyes seeing them darken with lust. "It's just… I've never done this before… I don't want to… disappoint you."
"Ruby I don't even know what this is supposed to feel like, I love you, anything you do will make me happy." Penny replied looking down at Ruby who appeared to be deep in thought.
Ruby looked back up at Penny she took a deep breath and then shoved Penny backwards onto the bed.
Yang walked into the school cafeteria with her arms up behind her head stretching, she spotted Penny and Ruby sitting at their table and headed over after grabbing a large plate of breakfast. She sat down heavily with a smile.
"Man I had a great weekend!" Ruby and Penny stared at her slightly goggle eyed.
Ruby dropped her fork staring at the numerous hickeys and bite marks covering both sides of Yang's neck, the blond of course wasn't even trying to conceal them.
"What?" Yang replied with a big 'I-know-exactly-what' grin.
"By dust what happened to your neck? Did the twins try to eat you?!" Weiss exclaimed as she approached the table with Blake.
"Well..." Yang started to say but Weiss quickly cut her off.
"Don't answer that."
Yang pouted at the heiress but didn't say anything further.
Penny smiled sliding an arm around Ruby's lower back, the dark haired girl leaned into her in response. Penny felt better than she ever had before, this was her life now, real life, and real love.
Penny leaned on the railing of the second story balcony of her house looking down into the courtyard of their little hunter compound, the sun was beginning to set painting the sky with bright oranges and purples. The air was cool and crisp with just a light breeze stirring through the trees, taking a deep breath she closed her eyes and smiled.
A warm hand on her back caused her to look back at Ruby as she leaned on the railing next to her, they shared a brief kiss before looking back towards the gate.
"They'll be here any minute now." Ruby said quietly next to her.
Penny nodded.
"Ru is downstairs waiting for them."
Rusuto Summer, her daughter, the thought always filled her chest with love both for the little synthetic girl herself and for Ruby her wife. Penny had gotten pregnant with Ru shortly after they had gotten married, which in turn had been shortly after graduating from Beacon. Same sex pregnancy is facilitated through a melding of auras but who gets pregnant is always a bit ambiguous, they certainly hadn't expected it to be Penny though.
Ru was completely made of synthetic material just like Penny but her inner workings were just as complex as a human's, the same kind of robotic organs sustained her and at a glance you wouldn't be able to tell her apart from a human child.
Ru was a unique girl, she had Ruby's sterling silver eyes, but they were also tinged with streaks of bright orange like rust on steel. Her hair was wild short and rust colored with black tips, at seven years old she hadn't quite found her passions yet but she was already fervently set on becoming a huntress.
A commotion brought Penny's eyes up to the gate again now seeing a familiar head of yellow hair flanked by two shorter black haired women. They were preceded of course by their two children running into the courtyard at full tilt meeting Ru halfway across the courtyard. Yang had boasted of getting both of the twins pregnant at the same time, imagine her chagrin when both of the twins had gotten her pregnant at the same time instead. Weiss had teased her mercilessly for her previous boasts.
The twins took after Yang each having the golden Xiao Long hair, but one bore a long streak of bright blue for Melanie, and the other a streak of dark red for Militia. The twins were boisterous and happy just like Yang, but they had a penchant for grace from their mothers.
Next through the gate was Weiss and Blake, their daughter coming in with them and quickly running off to join the others. Their daughter was an enigma her eyes always changing color between black, white, and grey, her hair was a stunning silver color and ever since she could walk she had always had a resolve like steel. The two little wolf ears on top of her head had come as something of a surprise and upon further investigation a great point of pride for Weiss, somewhere back in her heritage was the blood of a wolf faunus. Upon having a child with Blake the gene had surfaced again creating their little steel wolf.
Ruby and Penny walked down stairs meeting with their team mates in the living room exchanging hugs and greetings.
"It's good to have everyone home again." Ruby said fondly.
"Oh I'm sure you two have been hating all thee private time you've had with us gone." Yang snarked rolling her eyes.
Penny just smiled slipping an arm around Ruby's back prompting the dark haired girl to lean into her.
A/N: Well there it is, I dunno this story didn't end up how I first imagined it, I changed it to a much shorter story than I had originally planned because I've been wanting to be working on less things at once.
Well in any case I hope you all enjoyed it and thank you for reading.