‘ can i hold your hand? ’ nuts and dolts uwu
Yes I know that it is February however it’s haunted house time for these two
Thanks for the prompt babe <3 love me some nuts and dolts lol
Penny stepped a little closer to Ruby. The corridor was dark, save for a subtle red light at the far end. It had been Yang’s idea to visit the haunted house, but now she and the rest of their friends were – naturally - nowhere to be seen.
When Penny bumped into Ruby, they both shrieked.
“What was that!?” Ruby yelled.
“It was me. Sorry…” Penny replied sheepishly, though she still scanned the hallway ahead for any spooky threats. “Can I hold your hand? I’m scared.”
Ruby instantly reached out to find Penny’s hand in the dark, fumbling slightly, but then holding it tight.
“Ready? Let’s get out of here. Let’s just walk as fast as we can and leave all this scary stuff behind,” Ruby suggested.
“And then we can go get milkshakes?”
Even in the dim light, Penny could see Ruby smile. “And then we can definitely go get milkshakes.”
“Alright. Three, two, one…”
Hand in hand, the pair walked as fast as possible down the hallway and toward the red light that signaled the end of the haunted house and the start of their freedom.
They both expected something to jump out at them. Penny’s hand squeezed Ruby’s tighter in anticipation for the scare.
It came in the form of a prop Grimm that swung out from a doorway and barred their path. After the initial shock of its appearance, Ruby and Penny laughed.
“Please, we deal with Grimm all the time.”
Before Penny could reply and offer some quip about how they’d been worked up for nothing, even after the far spookier frights they’d faced earlier in the haunted house, another jumpscare appeared, dropping down from above. The faux Grimm’s claws scratched at their heads and the beast let out a terrifyingly realistic hiss.
“Okay, that’s enough of this,” Ruby cried. She wrapped her arms around Penny from behind, and then activated her semblance. In a swoosh of rose petals, they sped through the remaining scares without them even activating, and the actors could only wonder what that weird red flash was.
Past the exit, Ruby and Penny returned to their more corporeal states, but Ruby still held onto Penny from behind as they caught their breath.
“Are you alright?” Penny asked.
She nodded. “I don’t think I like haunted houses very much, though.”
Ruby laughed, then shifted around so that she could hold Penny from the front. “We’ll avoid them from here on out, okay?”
“I would like that.” Penny buried her face into Ruby’s shoulder; despite her stature, Penny was suddenly very small from the fear she’d felt inside, and she was desperate for comfort.
After a little bit, Ruby suggested, “Milkshakes?” But she still held Penny tight.
“In a minute,” Penny said. “It’s still hug time.”
“You got it. You know I always like hug time.”
