"It still feels a bit weird to have all these old memories back in my head." Ruby had her head in Weiss's lap, staring up at the clear blue sky. The two of them were out on the grass between the academy and the forest, just enjoying the quiet and the fresh air together. "It's like there's two lives inside of me, and I sometimes wake up and forget which one I'm living."

"It's all your life, Ruby. Well... You weren't technically alive before you came down here, so you have one life, and one... Hmm... You know what? Yes, two lives. Semantics." Weiss then poked Ruby's nose, frowning slightly. "You shouldn't have tried to follow me down here, though. What if something bad had happened to you? I would have never been able to forgive myself."

"You wouldn't have known anyway." That earned Ruby another harder poke, this time on her cheek. "Besides, I had to do it so I could find you. Life, or whatever you want to call it, isn't the same without you." She grabbed Weiss's hand and squeezed it, looking over to smile up at her. Weiss couldn't help but smile back, even if she was still a little miffed that Ruby risked her eternity just to come looking for her.

"Well, you're lucky that it worked out the way it did." They both were lucky. She agreed with Ruby: life wasn't worth living without her, and she was determined to never do so again. Even if she had to die a thousand deaths, each as painful as her rebirth had been, she'd do it in a heartbeat if it meant she'd stay with Ruby. She leaned down and gently kissed Ruby, smiling against her lips. "I love you, my angel."

"And I love you, my demon." She giggled and pulled Weiss down for another kiss, feeling more at peace than she had in the last seventeen years. All that time apart wasn't going to magically become worth it, but she had Weiss back now. They were together, just as they had always been fated to be. The time apart may still hurt, but it was now a past hurt. Now they could just pick right back up from where they left off. It didn't matter that they were on Remnant now. She would shower Weiss with her immortal love until her mortal body threatened to burst, and she knew that Weiss felt the same.

"So, we've got about sixty or seventy years left here, give or take. What should we do?" Time had been inconsequential to them before. Now they were beholden to it, and everything seemed so much slower than before, especially now that they were aware of their previous selves.

"Well, we just live, I guess." Ruby slowly sat up, scooting next to Weiss and laying her head on her shoulder. "It's not so bad, right? Yang and Blake are awesome, and fighting evil as a huntress is something I was trained for anyway." She gulped when she noticed Weiss side-eyeing her. "I didn't mean you! You're not evil, darling. You're the best demon I've ever met." Weiss quirked an eyebrow, chuckling quietly.

"And how many demons have you met, exactly?"

"Just you." Ruby smiled, like that was an acceptable answer. Weiss just rolled her eyes, but she wasn't actually mad. She knew what Ruby meant, and she was done with the worries and the misunderstandings. Those feelings of inadequacy in the face of Ruby's purity would never truly go away. They were just something that seemed naturally ingrained into the core of her being. It was something that she could push aside before it got too overwhelming, though. She could do it for Ruby, whose love she had no reason to doubt.

"Alright then. So we'll be huntresses." Wrapping an arm around Ruby's torso, she looked at the towering Beacon Academy, narrowing her focus on where the balcony of their dorm was. Inside, Blake and Yang were likely studying. Or, Blake was likely studying, and Yang was horsing around. She laughed to herself, surprised that she was able to find common ground with any of these people. She hadn't even been able to play 'nice' with her fellow demons. The fact that she could be relatively civil with humans was a miracle. "You're right, it's... not so bad here."

"Because we're here together." Ruby softly kissed Weiss's cheek, feeling the warmth through her partner's usually-cold exterior. The sheer irony, if she thought about it for a second. "It doesn't matter where we are, as long as we're together. I'll fight all the Grimm in Remnant and all the Seraphs in Heaven if it means keeping you by my side." For a moment, her eyes blazed with conviction. Then they returned to normal, but Weiss knew better than to doubt what Ruby said.

"I'm not going anywhere, Ruby. Not this time." She rested her head on top of Ruby's, sighing contently. Where she belonged was no longer a place. It was wherever Ruby was. With Ruby by her side, she could deal with the crawl of decades on Remnant. This was just another step back to eternity, and she would take each step hand in hand with her beloved. "You'll just have to deal with me for the rest of time."

"That's not enough for me." They kissed again, closing their eyes and allowing the rest of the world to fade away. Sometimes, when it was just the two of them, they would open their eyes and be floating outside Heaven again, safe in their own world. It wasn't bad to snap back to their current reality, however. They were always next to each other when it was all said and done.

Together, they had their own little sanctuary: a piece of the afterlife on Remnant. There was no one else she would believe loved her despite her demonic form. Every day, it seemed that Ruby found a new way to worm her way into her heart, making her feel warmer than the deepest pits of Hell ever did. She didn't need those comforts of home - or, often, discomforts, as it were. Not when Ruby's arms felt more like home than Hell ever had.

Wherever Ruby was... That was where she could truly bloom.