"Mom! Mom!"

Ruby opened her eyes and shut them quickly before her children ran into the room. She had pulled a fourteen hour shift with her own mother. She was too tired to want to do anything but her kids would never understand the word 'no'. The two of them jumped onto the bed and began poking her cheeks and stomach trying to wake her up. She heard heavier footsteps stop at their bedroom door.

"Mom, you did promise trick or treating."

Ruby opened her eyes and glared at Roman.

"Mom! You're awake!"

Ruby pulled Penny and Roman Jr into her arms.

"Penny... RJ why aren't you dressed? Isn't Maw Maw coming over soon?"

"I get to be Charmander this year Mom!" RJ said, "Only because I'm younger! Otheriwse I would've been Charizard!"

Ruby grinned.

"What about you Penny?"

"Charmeleon."

"Why would you wake me up without getting ready?" Ruby asked.

The two children ran out of the room into their own rooms to get ready while squeaking with delight.

"I swear they were cloned off of you," Ruby said, "Neither one of them look like me."

"RJ has your sensitive personality," Roman said as he sat on the bed brushing her hair from her face.

"I guess."

"We could always try for another one," he teased and she pushed him playfully.

"Penny is already six and Rj is five. Besides I got my tubes tied for a reason."

"Mom! Aunt E is calling!"

"Aunt E? She said she couldn't call while she was in the mountains," Roman said as he grabbed the phone off of the night stand.

Ruby headed for the shower and washed off quickly.

I wonder if we can handle so many kids... Weiss has four already... She's pregnant with her fifth one now... Poor Junior looked like he wanted to rip his hair out.

"Babe! Weiss is here!"

"Alright!"

"Jack! Snow! Stop that! Daisy! Quit climbing on the counter! Viridian, help mommy!"

Ruby shook her head.

"Damnit Weiss! Why do your kids act like you?! They're tearing up my house! I just finished cleaning an hour ago!"

"I'm sorry-

"If you don't stop, you don't get to trick or treat!" Roman bellowed.

All the children became quiet.

"Where the hell is the ring master to this circus?"

"Junior is on his way down. He's thirty minutes away."

Ruby finished dressing and brushing her hair.

"Are we trick or treating here?" Ruby asked as she came down the hallway.

"Aunt Ruby!" Viridian screamed.

The black haired girl hugged Ruby's leg tightly.

"Nice to see you," she said, "Did you miss me?"

The little girl nodded, "I missed you so much! I have my binder of pictures I drew. I wanted to show Maw Maw Rhea too."

For only five years old, Viridian was a great reader and she loved comic books. That made Blake her second favorite aunt since she always gave them to her whenever she saw Weiss.

"Is Noire and Phoenix coming?" the little girl asked.

"I believe the boys are coming. Yang and Blake never said anything otherwise."

X

The eight kids were outside playing while they waited on Junior to show up. He got stuck in traffic after meeting up with his father in law. They were going to walk around in Ruby's and Roman's neighborhood since it was bigger and had more people passing out candy. At least they didn't have to go very far with impatient children.

"I can't believe how much they look like him," Weiss said staring at Ruby's kids.

"I know... I would think one of them had Ruby's eyes but... Roman's genes were definitely dominant," Yang said with a grin on her face.

"They're cute though," Blake said.

A black car pulled up but Roman already knew who it was. It was his mother.

"Hi Mom!" Ruby called.

Rhea got out of the car dressed up as a Charizard to match her grandchildren. Roman looked completely horrified but Ruby thought it was the sweetest thing ever. Rhea had made all those costumes by herself so of course she was coming with them. They went over the rules of trick or treating again when a white car pulled up next.

Summer and Raven got out of the car. Summer was dressed like a witch and Raven looked like a vampire.

"I feel like the old one now," Yang said, "We didn't even dress up."

"Where's your costumes?" Summer asked looking displeased.

The five of them said nothing.

A blue car pulled up now. Junior got out. His face was painted green. He looked like Frankenstein.

"Sorry I'm late!" he called.

"DADDY!" his four kids screamed as they ran up to hug his legs.

"Weiss, I thought you were going to dress up as Elsa?" Junior asked.

"I changed my mind."

"Well, that ice fairy costume is in the car if you wanna change."

Weiss looked unamused but Junior grinned at her with a big goofy smile until she caved in.

"Ugh, fine. Give it here."

Finally, they headed down the street. They stumbled across a big house with scary and expensive looking decorations outside. They hardly came down that side of the road so it was a bit surprising. Once they got closer, Ruby recognized who it was... It was Neo. She was dressed as a pink bunny.

She looked so odd in the midst of giant, scary Halloween decorations.

"Neo!" Ruby called, waving to her.

The small, pink bunny waved back.

Ruby watched the kids get their candy and they headed off.

She stood in the back watching the group as they walked towards the next house. She smiled seeing Raven and Summer standing beside of each. Raven had just come back from her three year trip to Mistral about a month ago. She decided to stick around and stay with Summer for a year.

Summer still hadn't said anything to Ruby or Yang about the whole situation. She wasn't going to press for information though... As long as her mother was happy there was nothing to complain about.

All the kids were getting tired after an hour and a half of walking. Junior was already carrying Daisy and Viridian. Noire was on Yang's shoulder getting a ride back to his aunt's house and Phoenix was being carried by Raven. Penny and RJ stuck by their dad until they got home. Weiss and Junior took their kids home while everyone stayed at the house.

"Are you guy sure about staying? I won't be here... At least for a while," Ruby said.

"It's fine. Besides, you guys do this every year. Junior made sure he would be there by the time you got there," Yang said with a smile.

"The kids are passed out in RJ's room anyways."

"You actually match everyone else this year," Summer teased.

"Thank Mom."

Ruby took her shower and got ready. She was out the door in forty five minutes.

Roman waited on the far end of Junior's night club waiting for Ruby to enter. A lot of their friends called them cheesy for the reenactment of their getting back together all those years ago but he couldn't help it. It was reminder of how he won back the greatest woman in his life. The love of his life.

The only difference was... Emerald was here to watch it all.

Junior had filled her in on the whole thing and she couldn't help but tease Roman. He did become embarrassed but it pasted quickly since Ruby was on her way. She had said she was going to do something different this time so he couldn't wait to see. The doors of the nightclub opened up revealing his gothic looking queen.

Roman's jaw dropped open. She looked exactly the same way she did when he first tried hitting on her. She even had streaked her hair with the same shade of red. She had let it fade out over time since she didn't have time to care for the color anymore. Ruby hadn't grown any taller or look like she had aged one bit since he had been with her.

Emerald wasn't surprised by her best friend's appearance but the look on Roman's face was more... unreadable. She watched as Ruby took her seat at the bar and ordered her drink from Junior who had a big grin on his face too. He remembered that night too and she looked just the same. Roman walked over to her bar stool.

He sat down and turned towards her giving her a cocky grin. Ruby looked at him and it sent her into a fit of giggles.

"I haven't even said anything yet. Do I have something on my face?" he asked giving her a weak smile.

"Nothing. Can I help you?"

"I saw you sitting all alone here... Junior, a drink for the lady!" Roman called.

Ruby smiled and looked at Junior who nodded.

"I haven't seen you before except the other day. Do you dance?"

Ruby arched an eyebrow, "I do but I don't think you can handle it. My sister taught me."

"Well... Can I get a name?"

"No."

"Then... Red, will you dance with me?"

She shook her head again as Junior sat the drink in front of them.

"You two are the cheesiest people on the planet."

They both laughed.

"Red."

Ruby looked at him.

"I like the surprise."

She blushed.

"It reminds me of everything... That time I saw you and how much of an asshole I really was. Then the look on your face... The sad facial expressions that stayed on your face when you told me about your prom night. I'm glad to be sitting here... Sitting here beside of you knowing I changed and that I made your life better. I want you to forgive for anything I have ever done wrong and anything I probably will be doing wrong at some point in the future."

Ruby took his hand.

"I thank Yang all the time for dragging me here. I never really like coming but I did because she asked. I was wrong at some point too. Everything is in the past now. Don't worry so much and just look ahead with me."

"Anything for you Red."

She leaned over and kissed his lips leaving black lipstick on him.

"Want to go home?"

She nodded.

Sniff. Sniff.

Ruby and Roman looked around.

"I-I thought you two were going to be a bunch of cheesy ass lines but... you got all sensitive. I didn't ask for this."

Ruby gave Emerald a hug.

"I'm sorry. I didn't even know you were here."

"She thought I was going to crash and burn," Roman muttered.

Ruby grinned, "It's happened before."

Roman rolled his eyes.

X

X

The next night Ruby threw her bag onto the couch then kicked off her shoes. Her body hurt so much from working those ten hours but at least she was off for the next day and the half. She listened carefully and it seemed so quiet... except one noise. She could hear Roman snoring.

He always tried to stay awake for her but it was three in the morning.

Ruby walked down the hallway when she noticed the snoring was coming from the kids room. She looked in the playroom and flicked the hallway light on. She pushed the door more open to see why he would be in there of all places.

She couldn't help but smile. The kids had pulled off their mattresses from their beds and placed them inside the playroom. They were asleep half of their mattress and their feet on their dad. Roman was laying in between them with a small stack of books on his side. He had an open book on his chest laying on Penny's jumbo cat plush.

Tears stung her eyes.

I couldn't ask for a better life than this.

Ruby went and changed her clothes and grabbed the sheet off their bed. She went back into the playroom and crawled up between Roman's legs and laid head on his chest. He moved a little knocking the book off his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and went back to sleep.

Ruby drifted to sleep quickly.

-The End-

Happy Halloween guys! I feel like this was the best ending for this story. Even after everything, Ruby ended up befriending Emerald anyways. I just assume as proper as Weiss is, she would have wild children lol I hope you guys liked it!