Saturday Dawn

[Authors note = I'm back in the hospital again and recovering from the latest round of surgery (hopefully the last *fingers crossed*) and other things going on in my life. I'm going to keep the story going when I can but like the last time that may mean sometimes I might not have much and other times I'll have bunches. Apologies in advance.]

Neo walked into the kitchen. Kali waved to her. "Good morning, Neo!"

Neo waved back. She was getting used to living life like this she poured herself a cup and raised her eyebrow. Kali smiled but shook her head. "I don't think so."

Neo nodded but frowned. That meant he was likely still working.

Kali frowned too. "I know. He didn't sleep much the night before either. I understand he likes keeping busy and doing things and his limits are different... but that doesn't mean I like seeing him deprive himself either."

Neo nodded. She didn't like it either and was willing to bet the others didn't as well. She took out a second mug and filled it as well. Kali grinned at her and nodded as she held up a finger. Neo nodded and smiled as Kali took out a plate and two doughnuts and passed it to Neo who grinned and winked. Kali winked back.

She exited the kitchen and stopped to look at the door. She shrugged and decided she might as well get that over with first. Stepping out she uncovered the bound Demona. She looked up at her but Neo simply set her free this time. It was before dawn and she had yet to change into her human form.

"None of your games today?" The Gargoyle asked.

Neo shook her head and pointed to the clock. She had things to do. Demona nodded and muttered softly, "Sorry for holding you up then." She wrapped her wings around herself and head off in the direction of the hotsprings.

Neo shook her head. She hadn't been expecting that.

She quickly headed inside and down the stairs to the lab before the others could distract her.

He was there of course. Wearing a white coat and surrounded by various machines and robotic helpers as well as Curie and... she blinked looking at Ada. She was still recognizably her but she was distinctly different now. Most definitely feminine in shape. She had significant curves to her form and her body moved in places like actual flesh and tissue. Muscle movement and even some bounce and jiggle in places.

(("I'm sorry Neo. No food or drink in the lab past this point."))

Curie looked up from where Walt was installing parts on KL-E-O. She smiled at Neo and held up a finger. Neo nodded.

Walt finished the connection and then setting the instruments aside he took KL-E-O's hand and helped her sit up. Unlike Ada she hadn't been finished yet. Much of her chassis was removed and her circuits and inner workings were on display. Here too though She'd been given a more throughly Feminine skeletal structure and frame. Walt asked her questions and she responded. She moved hesitantly and... sensually. As if feeling certain sensations for the first time. Walt asked her several questions and seeming satisfied with her answers he nodded. Curie nodded as well but then pointed to where Neo stood. Neo had started to second guess herself about disturbing him but that disappeared as he smiled at seeing her.

Walt said something to the others and they all nodded and assured him they could handle his absence. He nodded and made his way quickly across the lab to Neo and his "desk". She smiled and held out the coffee and doughnuts and he quickly took them from her. He set them down on the desk though and then bent down and kissed her instead.

Neo wrapped her arms around his neck and he happily complied lifting her up as he continued kissing her. He even twirled her around making her laugh.

Walt grinned. "Sorry. I'm just happy to see you, Neo dear!"

She blushed but nodded smiling. She felt the same way. "I love you," she signed and he signed "I love you," back to her. He kissed her again before sitting on the desk, her in his lap. She plucked at his labcoat.

Walt laughed. "You like it?" She nodded. She liked it very much and indicated her own white in her outfit.

Walt laughed and nodded. "I'll consider it. I don't own a lot of white clothes though."

Neo had been through his closet and had noticed that. She tilted her head and he grinned. "Not particularly. Just too hard to keep them clean."

She giggled silently shaking her head. She'd had a feeling that would be his primary reason. She plucked at his grey shirt and Walt chuckled and nodded. "Black's almost as much of a pain as white... but grey is very forgiving. Perfect for someone like me who tends to be rough on clothes and occasionally messy and sometimes wears their food. Speaking of," he looked at the coffee and doughnuts. "One for me?"

She grinned and nodded and it was like she'd released a starving wolf or a shark as he attacked the plain doughnut and passed her the one with the pink frosting. In the time it took her to start her second bite he'd already finished his causing her to chuckle and wonder if she should have brought more. It was just a part of who he was. He wasn't a slob generally but he was... more than half wild. Primal. Free. That was a part of his nature.

Walt chugged his coffee down and licked his lips. "Thank you! I needed that!"

Neo grinned and offered the rest of hers. His stomach made a noise but he shook his head. "No thanks. The hungry hunter hunts best. It's the same with me and work." He gestured back the way he'd come. "It's about half done... maybe a little more actually. Once it's complete and we get Yang somethings for her to wear I can take it eas-"

Neo placed her finger against his lips and shook her head "no" and jerked her thumb at herself. She and the others would figure out how to handle Yang. He didn't need to concern himself with that right now.

Walt sighed and nodded. "Thank you, Neo." He kissed her. "I'll leave that to all of you then... you're too good to me." She shook her head and kissed him... then smirked and held up her finger as she ran upstairs texting!

Penny grinned reading Neo's text. Pyrrha looked up from hers and nodded. "You bring him a snack next, Penny. I'll visit him after my run."

Penny nodded but tilted her head. "I'm not sure we should though. He's very busy."

Pyrrha smiled at her and placed her hands on her shoulders. "But you know it'll make him happy to see you. And you'd be happy too right? Besides unlike some of us you might even be able to help him and the others down there."

Penny considered that smiling. "Do you really think so, Pyrrha? Oh but he did want me to rest up today..."

Ahnassi strolled over and also put a hand on Penny's shoulder. "There's no harm in asking, sweet one. Penny asking will make him happy even if he refuses, yes."

Penny nodded. "Yes. I see both of your excellent points! Will you vist him, Ahnassi?"

She shakes her head. "No, I shall leave that to you young ones. Kali and Lita and the others are busy making picnic preparations. Willow and I shall join them while Neo assemble others to deal with the Yang problem."

Penny nodded. "Alright. It sounds like we have a rough plan!" She headed out to go spend a little time with Walt and see if she could help.

Yang startled awake at the strange sound. She's not in her cell! She remembers. She's in the Belladonna's cabin. She can hear birds. The sound of the breeze in the trees outside. Real sunlight is slowly streaming into the cabin the cabin as the day dawns. On the mountain. Her new home. With friends. Safe.

She covers her eyes with her arm for a few moments. Just breathing and relaxing. She dimly realized it was something else that had woken her. She looks around.

"Oh... the scroll phone thing." She picks up her new phone. "Guess I got a message. I'd gotten so used to not having one. Neo?"

[Hey. We need to figure out your clothing situation this morning.]

Yang sighed. "Texting with Neopolitan... so weird... something else to get used to, I guess." [K. Up now. B down soon.]

She got out of bed as she got a reply. Looking at it she snorted. [U r still 2 slow! XP] "Really? You little punk ass clown..." she grumbled but decided to ignore her.

She gathered her clothes and stepped out of the bedroom. Blake was already up and dressed. "Good morning."

"Morning," Yang said smiling. "Sorry if you were waiting on me."

Blake chuckled. "Not really. I just got out of the shower myself a few moments ago. Bathrooms right over there." She looked at Yang in her underwear. "I put out a towel for you on the counter."

Yang grinned. "Aww, thanks Blake! A shower sounds good." She thought about her conversation with Walt. Was Blake checking her out? "Guess I'll go do that then... can't spend the day in my underwear!"

"I'm sure some people wouldn't mind," Blake said softly.

"What was that?" Yang asked.

"I said you might have to for a bit. We have to find you some more things to wear." Blake said. "Luckily Haruna is a seamstress and we can order some of your base outfits and underwear with some priority shipping once she gets your sizes. Walt was going to schedule a shopping event for some of the others after the wedding so we can get you more things then but you'll need a few things for the next couple of days."

Yang nodded and stepped into the bathroom. She took decided not to shut the door all the way so they could keep talking. "I gathered as much last night. That brat Neo sent me a text about it this morning..."

Blake smiled. "Oh don't be like that. She's teasing you on purpose you know to help you."

Yang looked up surprised. "How is that helping me?"

Blake laughed. "Because it's familiar to you! You expect her to be antagonistic. Not a "friend". You're in a strange new environment and sure you've got some old friends but there are more unfamiliar faces. She's trying to give you something familiar to focus on and help you take your mind off things... plus she likes teasing people a bit. She's actually surprisingly sweet and very thoughtful in her own way."

Yang started up the shower thinking about that. "Really? That's surprising." She started stripping down. "I guess... I never really thought about things from her perspective before."

Blake nodded. "We were stuck together before Walt found us... we didn't get along. We were a bit cold to her and ignored her. When Walt found us he immediately called us all out on that. She's lonely and **** to communicate and in the same situation as us... and we had shunned her just because of our pasts. He was right. We should have been and done better than that."

Yang checked the temperature and stepped into the shower. It was nice. Just a private shower. "Even after all the stuff she's pulled and done?"

Blake nodded. "None of that stuff really matters here. One nice thing about Prime. We're all equals here. We're all slaves."

Yang frowned as she started to wash up. "Ok. I see your point. It's a messed up point but I get it, even if I'm not wild about it, and... honestly it is something I have been thinking about too."

Blake is surprised. "Really?"

Yang nodded. "When I was in "The Pit" bad guy/good guy, hero and villain... that stuff didn't matter as much there. Just winners and losers and even then in the end we were still all trapped there. The place runs like a prison. Gangs and cliques. I barely qualified for one but I joined a cyborg gang. It helped us to survive in there. Watch each other's backs from the gaurds. Keep ourselves from getting **** or jumped by the other inmates... it's hard to explain... but some of them were good people and others not so much but none of what they had been or done was important inside the gang. It was... just useless baggage."

Blake smiled. "It's like that here too. I mean minus the prison and gang stuff but still... it's a family and if you join in you don't need to hold onto all the stuff in your past. You can ditch some of the things that weigh you down. Reevaluate and maybe even make a change. Neo is. She and I aren't as close as some of the others but we're slowly getting there... and she and Penny and Pyrrha are extremely close. My mom and Neo are awfully freindly... too... oh, brothers!"

Yang stops washing her hair. "Everything ok?"

Blake nodded. "I was just wondering if... she and Neo have slept with Walt together... and then I realized that I might eventually... if I keep dating Walt."

Yang swallowed and said softly, "Ok, that's pretty hot!"

"What?" Blake asked.

Yang shook her head. "That's kind of a lot to think about!" She started rinsing off. "Is that... how things are ? And is that something you can deal with?"

Blake nodded. "I mean I have heard the others talking. I guess most of them become pretty open with each other. Threesomes and foursomes happen I guess. I hadn't tried getting the details but I guess it's a sometime regular thing if they don't mind sharing... I... I guess... that's not really a problem for me... except for the whole with my mother thing. That's so awkward to think about to be honest."

"Yeah," Blake said thinking about the two Belladonna's together was pretty hot as well, even the Schnee's too... but if the shoe were on the other foot and it was her and her mother... hell, yeah that would be awkward and strange not to mention their strained parent-child relationship. They weren't on good terms. "I get that." She finished showering and decided to change the subject. "Since when are you an early riser?"

Blake chuckled and hearing the shower shut off fixed Yang a cup of coffee. "Just started actually. It is a ranch and Walt's an early riser. Mom volunteered to cook right from the beginning so I just started rising earlier and earlier."

Yang dressed and stepped out of the bathroom. "Ugh. He sounds like my dad even though he looks more like Uncle Qrow. I hope this place won't be as boring as Patch."

Blake shakes her head. "He looks nothing like your uncle. Walt is way more muscular and chiseled like my..." Blake blushed and sipped her coffee.

Yang grinned though. "You were going to say your dad, weren't you?!"

Blake shakes her head. "No I wasn't." She stepped out onto the porch.

Yang grins and follows her out. "Right... Who were you going to say? Sun? Can't be. Sun's so not tall enough for that comparison."

Blake frowned at her bit then grinned as she watched the sunrise. "Alright fine. I was going to say my dad. Just like you mentioned your "dads"!"

Yang opened and then shut her mouth. She thought about it and then shrugged grinning. "Your point. I walked right into that one." She also looked at the sunrise. "Well Patch wasn't all bad. At least this place has spectacular sunrises too!"

"And?" Blake prompted.

Yang nodded. "And Walt is good guy. We had... a good talk last night."

Blake grinned. "I knew it! He has a way with people. He reminds me of you and Ruby that way. When we find Ruby and Weiss we can be team RWWBY!"

"Ok cool your jets." Yang said. "Firstly, that's silly. Secondly that's not going to fly with Penny, Pyrrha and Neo. Thirdly I only said we had a good talk and I think he's a good guy. I still think it's weird that he's got so many of you all chasing him down. I mean what the heck? Is he gods gift to women or something?"

Blake blushed. "Well... apparently..." she took Yang's hand and led her down the trail towards the house telling her what she knew and what she'd been told and what she'd heard.

"Seriously? What the heck?!" Yang shouted.

[Walter Stark Penny Polendina F.R.I.D.A.Y Neopolitan Pyrrha Nikos Nora Valkyrie Yang Xiao Long Blake Belladonna Kali Belladonna Sienna Khan Willow Schnee Glynda Goodwitch Zwei Ahnassi Lifts-Her-Tail Senko Sayoko Shinozaki Roberta Cisneros Haruna Sasha Blouse Ilulu Raven Manami Aiba also with Tsuyu Asui Haruhime Sanjouno The Baroness Demona Mystique Pirotess Lydia Aela the Huntress Serana Mission Vao Curie Ada PAM and KL-E-O

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