A/N: Thank you for all your support. Here is the conclusion to "The Offshore Pirate". Please review!

Three days were showered onto them with a soft, affectionate hand. Fate seemed to be in good terms with them, and she and Lady Luck bestowed gifts of fresh afternoons and warm nights. It was a lovely time to be alive, Weiss thought. She was desperately and hopelessly in love with Ruby by now, but in the desert of reality, their love was a tiny plant that budded with excitement.

She knew it was to be short-lived, as the journey to the Kingdoms would bring nothing but harsh blows of reality and slaps on the cheek to wake up from this dream of hers.

"Take me with you, why don't you, Ruby?" Weiss had said softly under the shade of tropical trees.

"I would like nothing better." Ruby replied quietly.

Breezes, soft and brushing across cheeks and bare legs, soothed them to daydreams.

"Is that a proposal I hear from a pirate?" Weiss teased.

Ruby blushed.

"I would think not. It's rather an invitation to escape from reality."

"Dearest Ruby Rose," Weiss whispered. "Are you in love with me?"

"I don't think the answer to that question is important."

"It is to me. Because at this very moment, it appears that I am in love with you."

Ruby widened her eyes and settled back.

"We could get married in the Kingdoms. I heard they have lovely marriage ceremonies over there." Ruby replied casually.

"I love you, Weiss." Ruby said softly, quietly, barely able to be heard.

"I love being with you. I think you're the most fun I've seen in all my years. But perhaps if I were older, wiser, and a bit more bored, I would go to the Kingdoms with you. We could start a whole new life. But in this times, I think I'll go back and marry her." Weiss replied sadly.

"But let's not talk of such sad things, shall we? Let's dance!" Weiss added quickly, seeing the small frown on Ruby's face.

There was no music except for the ruffles of branches on trees and the splashes that Belladonna and Long were making while they frolicked like naiads in the sea.

Ruby agreed, jumping to her feet and hoisting Weiss up with a hand. They swayed softly along the sand, listening to the stillness of the earth that moved around them. There was beauty everywhere, from the silver reflection of the moon on tide, to the emerald sheen of palm trees, and the softest breeze that caressed their bodies, pushing them closer together.

Weiss rested her head on Ruby's shoulder, and sighed.

Belladonna came rushing from the sea, dripping with water, and hurried up to the spot of their embrace and slowly turning revolution.

She cleared her throat with a manner of urgency

"What's the matter?" Ruby demanded, releasing Weiss from her clutches and grasping Weiss's hand.

"There's a ship, and it's anchored just about half a mile out. They've found us." Belladonna replied, her calm voice a ripple in the night air.

"Damn!" Weiss whispered.

"Get up onto the cliff. We'll examine the ship from there." Ruby commanded, and Belladonna turned.

"Blake." Ruby said softly. Belladonna turned. "Keep Yang controlled and safe."

Blake Belladonna smiled and nodded. Then she ran towards the bay to retrieve Long, and her figure disappeared behind a wall of dark rock.

Weiss and Ruby clasped hands, and made their way up to the tip of the cliff. There, they stayed for a restless night, lying side by side under moonlight and Belladonna and Long keeping watch from behind.

There they lay, sprawled next to each other, with Weiss nestled in the crook of Ruby's widespread arm, dreaming and whispering to each other of the sunrise that spread in front of them like a fluttering eye of the sun. Eyelashes, the fringe of the outer orange circle that was the sun's wide red-gold eye, batted heavily in a steady beat, slowly fading into the bluing sky that held goddesses and hidden stars.

Then, they saw the ship. It was small and wide, holding about ten occupants, all who had frowns and binoculars.

"It's all over!" Ruby declared sullenly.

Weiss clapped a hand over her mouth and cried out.

"Let's board the ship. We'll be safer there. I'm not being hunted by a bunch of policemen and investigators on Belladonna's island."

They made their way down the cliff, and rushed onto the yacht, skivvying up and down the ladders. When they made it onto the deck, they slowly edged their way out of the bay, showing their faces in the dim sunlight.

The scene was peaceful as ever, two women lounging on settees and two women guiding the ship out. Ruby and Weiss were standing now, watching the mist float in gossamer cloaks over the whole blue and red setting of sunrise and sea.

Dew flurried up as the yacht plowed swiftly through waves and coated their skin with seawater. Shadows created by the moon was cast out by the sun, banished to deep corners and the two figures melted into one, and Ruby was enveloping Weiss's mouth with hers. Their kiss lasted long, soft and gentle, with love perturbations whispered against cheekbones and neck veins. It was an endless moment on a quickly moving boat.

Two figures, one familiar and the other less known, both scrambled up the side of the yacht, their binoculars long abandoned and their frowns inscribed onto ruddy cheeks.

"Weiss! Weiss Schnee!" Weiss's father was calling her now, a long, incessant howl that broke the entwined figures into separate pieces.

"Is this what you've been doing for the past couple of days? Running around like this and besmirching the Schnee family name?" He demanded.

"Oh, you insufferable fool!" Weiss spat.

"That's all from you for now, young lady." He snapped.

"I will say one last thing that you are surely familiar with by now: shove off!" Weiss exclaimed, her arms now loosening themselves from Ruby's neck. She stomped down to the edge of the boat and was escorted by policemen.

Weiss's father glared after her and turned back to Ruby. Then, his face stretched and he smiled.

"Ah, Ruby! You hopeless romantic! Did you find what you wished from that special girl of mine?" He asked, his voice warm and kind.

Ruby nodded. "Yes, sir. I knew when I first heard of her I had to have her."

"Well, you can have her! She's been driving me up the wall with her antics and her books and her lemons." Weiss's father declared while grasping Ruby's hand and pumping it up and down.

Ruby gave a good-natured laugh.

"I'll have her, sir."

"Oh, shh. She's coming aboard." Ruby said softly.

Weiss was climbing the ladder, her petulant gaze flooding back onto her face as she eyed her father.

"Weiss, I have something to tell you." Ruby began. Weiss clasped her hands behind her back and nodded for Ruby to continue.

"Weiss, this was all a scheme. I'm Ruby Rose, and I'm training to be a Huntress. I will be attending Beacon next autumn. I'm not a pirate. I crafted this plan out of Vytal's humid air with my sister and her girlfriend – " Ruby pointed at Belladonna and Yang, who were now dressed in lovely dresses and had their hair down to their waists.

"I knew I had to have you." Ruby whispered. Her voice was choked with emotion and strength.

Waves of understanding and wrath flew across Weiss's paling face. She took a step forward towards Ruby and flung herself onto the dark haired girl.

Her cyan eyes looked into Ruby's silver ones.

"Will you promise to a vengeful god that it was all your plan?" Weiss asked.

"Yes. I would swear it a million times and over." Ruby replied eagerly.

Weiss giggled giddily and grinned. "I want you to lie to me as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life."

Ruby nodded with a smile spread across her face.

"What was in the bags?" Weiss murmured.

"Fake jewels and Lien." Ruby answered. "That was one of the two true things I told you."

Weiss smiled.

"I think I can guess that other one."

She pulled Ruby to her lips and kissed her softly in the glimmering moment.