A/N: Wooooooo! School's done!!!

-Outlaw Chapter 4-

Ruby wakes up to find Weiss' sleeping face smiling her a good morning. Not wanting to wake the girl up, Ruby stealthily got out of bed and realized that she was still In her attire she wore all day yesterday. She brushed it off and started to head to the bathroom. She closes the door and started relieving herself on the toilet. After that, she got up, undressed and took a shower. She got done in a little over 2 minutes and brushed her teeth.

When Ruby got out of the bathroom, Weiss was just getting up from bed. Ruby walked over to the girl in nude and gave her a morning kiss, "Morning, hun."

Weiss woke up completely with the quick peck and greeted the girl in red, "Morning."

"Hey I got work today, you gonna be okay?"

"What! Just one more day?"

"Come on, you know we don't really have a say in this," They really didn't. Salem has Ruby on a tight leash since she is a valuable asset to the family and since Ruby has debts to pay off.

"I know but, but..." Weiss freezes trying to think of an excuse to keep Ruby home. Weiss is worried to death of harm coming to Ruby. Ruby's side jobs working for the Salem Family wasn't excessively risky but with the Salem Family being the most active drug cartel within the US, even being associated with the family means a couple extra hours in the interrogation room.

"I already told you that I'll be fine. Weiss, I know that you can worry too much but we still need to make money to live."

"I know, Ruby. I just don't want you to get hurt. I love you."

"I love you too, Weiss. I promise that I won't ever leave you forever, okay. I'll follow you to the moon and back."

"I promise the same. Just don't be gone for too long, okay."

"Of course. Now what would my queen like for breakfast."

Playfully, Weiss blurts out, "Dolt."

The two have a peaceful breakfast, enjoying each other's company. Weiss was first to finish. She helped Ruby get her things ready for her work. Weiss was then waving Ruby off on their doorstep. Weiss had clear worry in her eyes, "Be safe, okay. Don't forget to eat. And try not to be too late. I love you."

"Yes, mo-" Ruby cut herself off on the last moment. She was stopped by her conscience and a quick sting on the chest, "M-Ma'm."

Weiss let her lips drift into her lover's. She knew that there were topics that were better left untouched. She was there for Ruby to support her, not hurt her more.

"I love you, Weiss. Thank you."

Ruby gets in the car and drives to the Salem Family base in Fresno. It was a warehouse facility in the outskirts of town.

After a quick drive, Ruby was greeted by a familiar head of silver hair as she was pulling up to the gate. The redhead rolls down her window and speaks nervously, "Merc! Been a while, huh?"

Mercury, with his signature wide smirk responded, "Yeah, Rubes. Came back after a while," Mercury was cocky as ever, "You know, if your new missus isn't treating you right, we could hang out at my place like old times."

Ruby quietly shudders at the recollection. She was almost always high when she was with Mercury back when she thought she was truly alone. She responded after digesting the question, "Nah. I'm good. My lady really knows how to work her hands."

"Well, how about we come and invite her too."

"Nah. We're pretty busy anyway," Ruby meant for the response to be nonchalant but Mercury was left with the wrong impression.

"Too bad for you, I guess," He sounded offended, "The boss should be in the office. Just follow the signs. You get your jobs from her." Mercury opened the gate and Ruby parked her car in the facility's parking lot.

Ruby followed the signs, as instructed, to the main office. She could see a silhouette of a woman as she comes into eye contact of the door. The door suddenly opened and Ruby was greeted by a woman with raven black hair and a small smirk that adorned her face. She was wearing a black blazer that hugged her frame and showed off her assets. She spoke in a low sultry tone, "Miss Rose, I presume? Cinder Fall, pleasure to meet you," Cinder held her hand out which Ruby shook, "To what do I owe you this meeting for?"

"I got transferred here from the main branch. I recieved word that you are the one in charge of our operations here in Fresno."

"Yes, that would be me. Now as your kind employer, I would like to give you a grand tour of the place before I assign you your job here."

"That's understandable," Ruby gave a slight nod as Cinder started to stand up and lead her outside.

Cinder lead the two through the halls of the warehouse until they reached a large room full of crates with a central lane running through the room from the entrance in the front to another room in the back. Each crate was labeled many different things from shoes to bananas but in reality were different packages of drugs and drug paraphernalia.

"Now this is one of our storage facilities for narcotics. Every crate here is recorded and every square inch of this room is under surveillance. Now if you noticed, the only way in and out of the building is the front through the offices. We designed it that way so I can physically see the flow of goods that enter and leave this warehouse. We're just about done here so if you have any questions, ask them now."

"Well, there seem to be not much people here, are we understaffed?" Ruby has been wonder this since she entered this part of the building.

"Not necessarily. We used to have a poblem with employees and missing assets. Mother got directly involved and punished the offenders, she did really hate people that steal from her. After the whole scenario, Mother made it a policy to have no more than seven people per storage area and for shifts to be randomized every once in a while. Will that be it?"

"Yeah let's move on," Cinder then lead Ruby to a different room but this room was at least twice as large the room before. The room had the same layout as the last one but there seem to be more people in this room than the last.

"Now this is the pride and joy of our Fresno facility. The largest cache of weaponry in California," it was indeed the largest weapons collection as the whole room could outfit a large army. "We made an exception to the seven people rule for this room as we keep track of every single gun, part, and even bullet in this room. Watch this," Cinder turned to a worker, "you there, hand me ARb277," the man scrambled in the box he was handling until he found the single bullet and tossed it to Cinder to show to Ruby, "For example," Cinder raised her hand to show off the bullet before tossing to back to the worker. "Now time for your job. You will be in charge of security in this room. You will get your own office and your work time is from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm. Everything will be reported to me directly. That means the number of crates that get put in and taken out daily. I was informed that your debt is currently $30,200 and Mother is willing to forget $50 per hour you work. In a day or so, check your mail and you'll receive a card for your food which give you about $200 per month."

"I understand, will that be all?"

"Well, there is one more thing. Every now and then, we will require your services which should help with your debt. If that is all I will show you to your office."

Ruby nodded and Cinder lead her back to the offices and led her to a dark room filled with monitors from cameras all over the first room, "So, I guess I'll see you at 7 when I turn in a report?"

"Very well, Rose. Don't cause too much trouble," Cinder gave Ruby another smirk before turning around and closing the door, leaving Ruby alone inside.

-End-

A/N: Summer is here and so is some big changes to my upload schedule.

First of all, I have a new multi-chapter fic in the works(Ruby x Coco because there doesn't seem to be many on this site)

Second of all, Outlaw is going to see less updates because, to be honest, I'm losing a bit of interest since it has been so long since I originally started writing this story.

Lastly, expect to see some fics that isn't RWBY. I just want to expand and I have been involved in a lot more communities in recent time.

That's about it.

-FIRE OUT-