Don't own RWBY, as usual!
This a set of loosely related One-Shots we decided to do when asked a certain question. Depending on how popular this turns out, we'll continue it. As it stands, we will write up until the team joins Beacon. Yes, that means we'll see a little Blake and a little Weiss. BUT only if you guys follow and review! Heck, just a big number of hits will suffice.
If you guys know the birthdays for the team then pass it our way! As it stands we just picked dates that would fit.
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Born September 2 – Yang
Born July 25 – Ruby
`…`…`…`…`…`…`Yang - First Christmas `…`…`…`…`…`…`…`
"Achoo!" Yang sneezed, making Summer flinch at the sound and nearly drop the shiny white tinsel in her hands. Raven looked up from where she had been digging through a box of décor, her red eyes looking over at a pair of surprised baby lilac ones.
"Does Yang look okay to you?" Summer asked as Raven climbed to her feet to walk over to where Yang was sitting in her bouncy chair.
"Hey Sunshine." Raven hummed, unbuckling the infant and lifting her to her chest. Raven gently rested her lips to Yang's forehead, frowning at the heat she felt the heat emitting from the tiny bundle now laying on her. "Bit of a fever, we got any baby Tylenol?" Raven asked, already walking toward the bathroom down the hall to check while Summer moved a few boxes out of the way to mess with later.
"I'll fix something." Summer called down the hall as she slipped into the kitchen. Raven didn't answer, her mind focused on finding the Tylenol for the quiet child in her other arm.
"Here we go." Raven smiled, finding the little bottle of cherry liquid before whispering a curse when she noticed the lack of liquid inside. "Sum? Do we have any more Tylenol?" Raven asked down the hall, poking her head out to view down the hall and into the living room.
"Did you check in one of the drawers?" Summer asked, causing Raven to pull each drawer open in search for the item as Yang started to cough.
"Nothing." Raven told her, lifting a bag of bath salts in confusion before putting it back and heading to the kitchen. "What are you doing?" Raven asked as Summer fixed some hot chocolate and stirred it with a candy cane.
"An old family cure." Summer said as she turned around with the bottle and looked at Raven with a grin. "Here, try this." She told her wife, holding out the candy cane to a cranky Yang and watching her lilac eyes widen with interest. Summer grinned in triumphant when Yang leaned forward and grabbed the candy in her mouth.
"I don't think that's gonna work." Raven said as she shifted a cranky Yang to her other arm and watched Summer give her a look that said 'try me'. "Damn," Raven whispered as Yang started to calm down, grabbing the candy with her own hand and looked up at Raven.
"And something for us too." Summer said, holding up two mugs of hot chocolate while Raven looked behind her to the rare whiskey bottle on the counter. "It's Christmas." Summer said in her defense while Raven laughed and leaned in to steal a kiss.
"Ah!" Yang grouched as she was squished slightly between both Mothers, keeping them from kissing. Both women laughed lightly at the grouchy child chewing on her candy before moving back to the living room to enjoy the return of the peaceful atmosphere. Raven lounged on the end of the couch with one leg curled under her and Yang sitting in her lap and determined to cover herself in peppermint drool. Summer was leaning back against her with one of her many novels in her hands, the worn pages making a soft sound with every page turn and interrupting the music that Raven hadn't noticed playing before.
Raven was starting to doze off when she felt Yang shift on her lap and opened one crimson eye to look down at where she was. Summer was still wrapped up in her book, not noticing the little blond reaching for the woman's mug, or the wet candy now stuck to her shoulder. Raven smirked at the sight, wishing she could reach for her scroll to capture the moment before pulling Yang back before she could fall off her lap.
"C'mere you." Raven muttered, shifting Yang in her arms and grabbing her own mug. "Is this what you want?" She asked, tilting her mug to show Yang the cooled liquid and getting a happy grin and wiggle from the child. Very carefully, Raven brought the mug to Yang's lips, grinning in an anticipation of Yang's surprised look at the taste and her inevitable refusal to get more. Instead of that though, Raven had to quickly pull the mug away when Yang kicked her legs and latched her tiny hands on the mug, trying to get more.
"Not so fast, Sunshine!" Raven exclaimed softly as Yang licked her lips and reached for the mug again. Having the tiny ball of energy like the alcoholic cocoa was not Raven's plan, but she couldn't deny it was cute how she enjoyed the beverage and had chocolate and peppermint on her face. "Sum, Summer you need to watch this." Raven said, gently jostling her wife with her leg and drawing her out of the book's world.
"Huh?" The red head asked, tilting her head back to look up at Raven as she carefully let Yang have a sip of the hot cocoa, the child kicking her legs again as she got more of the treat.
"Raven!" Summer exclaimed, jumping up right so fast that her head hit Raven's elbow and knock the mug off kilter, spilling all over a stunned blond. It took two seconds for Yang to start to cry at being covered in the liquid and cough as some got in her mouth.
"Crap." Raven muttered, both women standing up to fix the situation as Yang continued to cry.
"Here, use this!" Summer said, snatching up her white cloak and giving it to Raven before darting off to get a wet clothe.
It took a few minutes to get Yang cleaned up and into a new set of pajamas, but once the near one year old was cleaned up, everyone was happier. Summer was back to decorating the tree, holding Yang since she refused to be held by Raven, while the other woman alternated between giving Summer ornaments and trying to come up with a way of getting her daughter's forgiveness.
"Try fixing her bottle." Summer suggested after a few decorations, looking at Raven with a bit of a smile as the woman scoffed at the idea. "It should still be in the kitchen." She said, smirking when she heard Raven stand and walk off before starting to hum softly along to the music.
"Ma," Yang said, pulling herself up on Summer's shoulder and trying to reach for one of the small lights circling the tree. Summer paused, looking at Yang with a bit of a smile and leaned toward the light, letting the child grab the lights in wonder before carefully pulling her away as Raven walked back in.
"Here," Raven said, holding out the bottle of child friendly hot chocolate to her wife. Summer rolled her eyes, silently amused at Raven's attempt to make Yang happy even if she wasn't really getting the point. Being careful not to distract Yang from the glittering lights Summer carefully passed their daughter to her other mother and waited. Raven was stiff for a few seconds, the corners of her eyes tight as she expected Yang to start crying but when she didn't she relaxed.
"Ma!" Yang cheered as Summer added a few ornaments and made the tree shake slightly. "Ma?" Yang looked at Summer in confusion, biting on her fingers as lilac eyes tried to figure out what had happened.
"Hey Sunshine." Raven whispered, softly blowing in Yang's exposed neck and making the girl twist around in her arms.
"Ma!" Yang yelled happily, babbling about something only she knew and seeming to have forgotten being mad earlier. Raven felt relieved, giving Summer a look when she heard her wife laugh from behind the tree.
"You know I hate you." Raven told her as Yang patted her face and grabbed at her lips.
"And yet you married me~." Summer sang as Raven lifted the bottle to distract Yang from pulling her lip off.
"Nope, I hate you." Raven slurred as Yang kept one hand on her lip and used her other to hold the bottle, trying to wrap her own lips around the tip. Summer only laughed, using her scroll to take a picture through the tree, the lights framing the mother and daughter perfectly as Raven turned towards her with Yang.
"I love you, both of my beautiful birds." Summer whispered as she snapped the picture and smiled. That was going to be her screen saver for a long, long time.
`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…` January (5 Months) `…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`…`
"Summer! Have you seen Yang's bottle?" Raven called out as she walked around the small house with a crying five month old baby. "C'mon Yang, baby girl, shhh. Please be quiet." Raven tried to sooth, using one arm to rock the baby as she bawled and her mother went to make another bottle.
"Mommy loves you, but she's really tired." Raven said as she set the fussy child down in a bouncy chair on the table so she'd have her hands free. "Where did you get those lungs from anyway?" Raven muttered as baby Yang gave an even louder cry, when Raven put her down.
Raven sighed, letting her head drop against a cabinet as she held a clean baby bottle in her hand. She was exhausted, Yang had been fussy for two nights in a row and neither Summer or Raven could figure out why. Summer had taken Yang to the small town clinic in Patch to see if maybe the child was sick, but nothing had been found wrong. Instead, both mothers had been told that Yang was a healthy baby girl with no real concerns.
Raven smiled at the thought. Both of them were the happy mothers of the little sunshine. Raven and Summer had gotten together in their final year at Beacon, surprising their teammates with the announcement before being surprised on their own at Tai's admittance to being bi. Qrow had moaned and groaned, complaining that his sister had gotten with his crush but had grinned the whole while. It was thanks to him and Tai that Raven had managed to propose, though the whole romantic part had been destroyed.
Tai and Qrow had tried to set up a candle lit dinner for Raven and Summer. Tai, the only cook they knew, making the meal while Qrow had set up the area with soft candles and a few see through curtains. Unfortunately, Summer had shown up early and accidentally knocked Qrow off the ladder he was on and sent him swinging into Raven and Tai, who had been setting up the food. The ring had flown out of Raven's hand at the impact and as everything crashed around the group, Summer had found it and tried to give it to Raven.
"You dropped this." Raven could remember the love of her life saying, slipping the ring on Raven's finger before the taller woman could protest. "Hmm, I think it's a little small." Summer said as she looked at the ring that only came halfway down Raven's finger. When Raven had tried to explain that the ring was for Summer, the leader of their team had laughed it off and said she didn't need a ring to say she was Raven's before blushing and pulling out a steel band with Branwen plus Rose inscribed on it.
Raven cherished that moment. Sure it hadn't turned out the way she had hoped, but it was still perfect and she wouldn't change it for the world. As Raven looked down at the ring on her finger, Yang decided to remind her why she was in the kitchen by giving a loud cry.
"I'm almost done, baby girl." Raven said softly, moving over to the table to brush Yang's short blond hair out of her lilac eyes, smiling as Yang focused on her and stopped crying for a few seconds before moving to the fridge. "You are so much like your mother!" Raven laughed as she pulled out a small container of breast milk that had already been prepared and poured it in Yang's bottle.
"Give me ten seconds." Raven said as she put the bottle into the microwave and moved to lift Yang up in one arm, cradling her carefully as the child stopped crying to cough and whimper. "I know baby." Raven cooed, gently kissing her baby's forehead before grabbing the bottle and testing it. She sighed in relief when it was ready, moving to sit in the living room to feed Yang and relax.
"I bet that's better." Raven smiled as she watched Yang eagerly suck on the bottle, moving her little hands and feet up to try and hold the bottle as Raven rolled her eyes and shifted to accommodate her.
"Hey," Summer greeted her from behind, leaning over Raven's chair to kiss her wife and run her fingers through Yang's hair. "She's getting so big." Summer laughed, smiling lovingly at their little girl as Raven hummed in reply.
"You know, growing up as an only child is pretty lonely." Summer said, her voice tilting a little as she spoke, moving her lips to trail kisses down Raven's lips and neck.
"Mmm," Raven hummed, enjoying the sensation of her wife's lips though the words didn't seem to click.
"What if," Summer continued. "We give our little sunshine, a little brother?" Summer asked, smiling when she felt Raven perk up at the question. "Or a little sister?" She asked and frowned with apprehension as Raven pulled away to look up at her, before her attention went to Yang as the child whimpered to see that she had pulled the bottle away.
"Summer, do you think we could handle another kid?" Raven asked, looking up at Summer as the cloaked woman walked around the recliner to look up at her. "I mean, Yang's not even a year old yet!" Raven said, shaking her head as she watched Yang finish off her bottle.
"I don't hear a no." Summer said with a shy grin that had Raven giving her a slight glare.
"Are you pregnant?" Raven asked in a suspicious voice that made Summer roll her eyes.
"Not yet." She laughed as Raven relaxed and leaned back in her chair, making it rock at the motion. "If you're that worried about it," Summer started, a hurt look in her eyes even as she smiled and stood up.
"No!" Raven said, jumping out of the chair and dropping Yang's bottle. "Aw dammit!" Raven growled, her red eyes flaring as she tried to make Yang stop crying again.
"Here," Summer said trying to bend down to grab the fallen bottle only to flash forward and wrap her arms around Raven when the taller woman's foot caught on the bottle. "A-are you okay?" Summer asked, a little breathless at the scare as she let them both drop. Raven's eyes were huge as she blinked in surprise before looking down at a surprisingly happy and unharmed baby laughing in her arms.
"I'm fine. We're fine." Raven said, letting out a breath of air as Summer started to laugh. "What?" Raven asked, a frown on her blushing face at the thought of her wife laughing at her.
"I always knew I'd swept you off your feet." Summer managed to say, her eyes shining a sparkly silver as she laughed and Raven blushed even more.
"You bet." Raven said and leaned forward to kiss her wife before both started laughing as Yang managed to move between them and get both of their kisses. "Alright! You little kiss thief!" Raven said in a mock growl as she held Yang up with one hand, and stole a loving kiss from Summer.
"You know; she's not crying anymore." Summer mumbled as they broke the kiss and Raven brought Yang down to rest on her chest. Raven hummed in reply, letting her fingers dance in front of a giggling Yang as Summer shifted and let them both rest against the couch.
"I think a mini Summer would be cute." Raven said suddenly, her eyes focused on Yang and missing the wide eyed look from Summer as she looked at the red eyed woman. "Maybe have her a little cape and chasing Yang around." She added before letting out a surprised sound as Summer tackled her side.
"That'd be perfect." Summer said, her whole body seeming to buzz in excitement as she looked up at Raven before pulling her into another kiss. Raven stared wide eyed at Summer before closing her eyes and leaning into the kiss, neither woman breaking until Yang let out a loud yell.
"Ba!" Yang yelled, making both women break apart with a laugh as they started to nuzzle Yang happily. "Ba! Ba! Ba!" Yang chanted between laughs, clapping her hands together as both women played with her.
`…`…`…`…`…`…`…` Four and a half months (9 and ½ months) `…`…`…`…`…`…`…`
"If it weren't for that blond hair, I'd almost swear she was you." Summer said as she watched Yang crawl around the living room. The little blond was growing up fast and Raven was certain if she blinked she'd find her little girl all grown up.
"Why?" Raven asked as she carefully cleaned the revolving mechanism of any Dust still on or in it. "She looks more like her 'daddy' than her Mommy." Raven said, her crimson eyes looking to where Yang had pulled herself up to stand and had cocked her head to the side at the words.
"She's so smart!" Summer exclaimed, slamming her book closed and sitting up from where she had been lounging after breakfast. "Look at her," Summer laughed as Yang babbled and preened under the attention.
"She's already trying walk and she's not even ten months!" Summer said with a proud smile as Yang's short attention was drawn to the shiny metal pieces Raven had already cleaned and set aside.
"Be careful with that." Raven smirked, making Summer confused while Raven moved her weapon pieces out of reach. "She might take that as a challenge." Raven added, looking up at Summer as she clicked a few pieces of her weapon together with a smile.
"Ma!" Yang exclaimed, holding up a small coaster in triumphant before throwing it down onto the small wooden coffee table.
"Yang," Summer groaned, drawing her daughter's attention as she got up to grab the coaster off the floor where it had landed. "We don't throw inside. If you want to throw things you throw them outside." Summer told her for what could possibly be the hundredth time since Yang had discovered the joy of throwing things.
"At least nothing broke this time." Raven admitted as Yang pouted at her toy being put out of reach. "Did Mama ruin your fun, Sunshine?" Raven asked the girl, smiling when Yang gave her a happy smile.
"I think she's like you." Raven said as she clipped the last pieces of her weapon together. "Always quick to forgive." Raven teased as Summer rolled her eyes and scooped up Yang.
"Well, I still stand by what I said. She is a tiny you." Summer told her while rubbing noses with the giggling child. "And now that your done with that, you can help clean up the kitchen from breakfast." Summer said, getting an indignant sound from her wife as she stood up and swooped Yang out of Summer's arms.
"You can clean, I've got Yang." She said with a smirk as she bounced a giggling Yang in her arms and looked down at her shorter wife.
"I cleaned last night." Summer told her smugly and grinned at the drop on Raven's face. "I'll be reading." Summer said, brushing her fingers over Raven's face before plopping down on the couch and retrieving her book.
Raven knew better than to try and escape cleaning up, it was a deal from when they were still at Beacon. Each of them cleaned up in an alternating schedule, though now with her brother and Tai gone her time to clean came faster than before. Setting Yang down, Raven quickly walked moved to get to the kitchen and almost immediately, Yang started to fuss. Raven knew Yang would be fine in the playpen and that holding her would spoil her, but looking in to upset amethyst eyes still made her hesitate.
"Look, Mama'll be right there." Raven whispered, pointing at Summer for the child as she pulled herself up to stand at the edge of the play pen and reach for Raven with one hand. "I'll be right back." She added, kissing her baby's forehead before walking to the kitchen, trying to ignore the whines that came from behind her. That was the exact reason she waited for Yang to be asleep or out of sight when she left for missions.
Summer was completely wrapped up in the story of a woman trying to figure out why she could kill and heal with a touch. She had been hung and survived only because she took the life of whatever touched her to revive herself. The thing that drew her out of those pages and back to the present was the familiar sound of her daughter.
"Ma Ma!" Yang yelled again, crying as she tried to get Summer's attention. "MAMA!" Yang screamed, making Summer drop her book and zip over to her daughter via semblance. Yang sneezed at the roses that brushed her face as Summer stared at her in shock, absently wiping her little Sunshine's nose as she grabbed onto Summer.
"Raven?" Summer called out, still looking at Yang as she blinked owlishly up at her. "Raven, come here." Summer called again, this time making her way to the kitchen to see Raven cleaning the few dishes with a pair of headphones on.
"Raven." Summer said a little louder, saying it two more times before walking over to her wife and tapping her shoulder.
"Wha?" Raven asked, jumping and pulling her headphones off to look at Summer in confusion. "You okay?" She asked wiping her hands off and looking at both of them for any kind of injury.
"Yang said her first word." Summer said in shock, making Raven blink in surprise at the words before smiling and looking at Yang.
"And what was her first word?" Raven asked with a smile as Yang made grabbing motions to the woman. "C'mere Sunshine." Raven said, pulling her out of Summer's arms and setting her on her hip.
"She said Mama." Summer told her, breaking out into a smile as well as she saw the smile on Raven grow with proud. "Question who was she asking for?" She laughed as Yang snuggled under Raven's chin and let out a yawn.
"Yang," Raven hummed trying to keep the sleepy child awake. "Who's that?" Raven asked, lifting one of Yang's hands to point at Summer and hoping for her to say Mama again.
"Mama," Yang said tiredly, her little eyes starting to close but fighting to stay open. Raven and Summer smiled broadly, pride shining around them at Yang's first word.
"And who am I?" Raven hummed, absently running her fingers over Yang's back while Summer took a step back to watch.
"Ma," Yang told her, making Raven roll her eyes and laugh softly. Well at least she was learning.
"Want to lay her sleep?" Raven asked in a whisper as she rocked back and forth with Yang.
"Yeah, I'll go put her down." Summer said, reaching for Yang but only to have Raven pull away.
"I've got it." Raven said with a smile. "You did it last night." She told the woman with a half grin as she walked into the living room and then down the hall to set Yang down in the crib in their room.