#dadjckes

     The rain pattered on puddles and made beats out of them. Ruby could hear them over her headphones, no matter how loud she turned up the volume. She saw Patch as the land of flowers, where the green grass greeted them and the sun always shined above her dad’s gardens, but today, there was only wet gravel and the murky smell of grey. Maybe, she thought, the sky knew what she was doing today and this was its way of punishing her.

     Red lights peeked from the horizon and rose above the slope like eyes which spilled over the road. Ruby’s head tipped past the bus stand, peering cautiously from her hood. The bus was coming. Her fingers gripped her backpack straps tight enough to feel a burn. The bus was coming. She willed every part of her body to step out, but her eyes, they just wouldn’t stop blinking. The bus was coming. The rain poured harshly down her face.

     Ruby shouldn’t have looked back, but she did, to the direction of a man running in the distance.

lucky for you i run INTO danger

                                                             「ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴏʟ’ ʀᴇᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴍᴇᴍᴇ - accepting || @dadjckes.」

Their first mission as a team done, the newly formed team STRQ collapse into the transport with varying levels of grace - Raven and Summer taking one side and the boys taking the other. The burn of adrenaline would soon wear off as Qrow’s head leans back against the wall behind him, pale eyes closed to find a moment of peace before Raven’s inevitable teasing picked up again from where she sat opposite him. 

Vague flashes of Grimm and blades cut through the darkness behind Qrow’s eyelids - he’s seconds away from opening his eyes again before a weight on the Branwen’s shoulder drags his vision open and to where Taiyang was sat next to him. Qrow’s frame stiffens, eyes widen and lips part as he stares down at the mop of blond laid against his shoulder. His heart races as Tai shifts slightly, something akin to a sigh leaving his lips as Qrow throws a pleading look to his sister where she sits simply smirking at her younger brother. 

His face burns with red and pink tones mottling pale skin as the younger Branwen daren’t move for fear of shifting his teammate (and crush) in the process. Qrow’s scared look toward Raven quickly shifts to one of irritation as she pulls her scroll out, motioning to take a photo of the pair - smug look clear on her face as Qrow narrows his eyes. 

“Don’t you dare Rae.” 

ᴜɴᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛᴇᴅ | always accepting.

     Laughter breaks free from her body, her arms and legs flailing like she’s trying to row away from the monster that’s got her trapped in his arms. She remembers this line. Dad just read it last night! But, there’s a small, aching thing poking her chest when she remembers what the boy says as he leaves. She would never leave Dad, even if he was a big, wild monster.

           ‘  agh -------- dad !  ‘  her tone implied she was TRYING to sound argumentative like any other teen would, though ruby quickly gave up the facade in order to clutch at her father in return. if the little rose were honest, she was more than relieved to be back at his side &. smushed against his chest. it was one of the very few places little red managed to breathe, ironically enough ; &. for a first in a very long time, ruby felt entirely safe. 

            The first thing he does is notice the hand and almost CASUALLY shrug it off, amazingly so, because at the action, his breathing jumped, his heart dropped.

              ‘…Well I haven’t died yet and I don’t plan on it anytime soon.’

             He supposed that a smile would’ve been comforting now— For Tai, anyway. Yet now, as he tried maintaining a joking tone, his words only came out biting and cold.