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A kiss on the heart is...
“Ruby, I’m...not a real girl.”
Ruby looked back at Penny, who had stopped in the middle of the dance floor to stare downwards.
“So?”
“So...why do you keep taking me to these events when…” Penny shifted her legs. “When you could be spending this time with an actual human or Faunus girl?”
“I am. She’s right in front of me.” Ruby smiled.
“No, I’m a-”
Ruby quickly cut her off. “You’re as real as me and every other person at this party. Your thoughts are real, your feelings are real...why do you keep insisting you aren’t?”
Penny held a hand to the right of her chest, where a heart normally would be. “Because I...I wasn’t built that way. In fact - I was built . There isn’t a real, beating heart in here…” She let her hand fall to her side. “How can you love someone with no heart to give back to you?”
Ruby stepped forward, first holding Penny’s hands into her own. Then she leaned forward and planted a kiss over that same spot on Penny’s chest.
“That’s funny…” she said when she brought her head back up. “I definitely felt a heart there…”
Penny’s body heat shot up, causing the internal fans to kick into overdrive.
“...you did?”
Ruby nodded with a smile. “Yep! Is that proof enough that you’re a real girl?”
The answer was a pair of synthetic arms wrapped around her body.
“Yes! I really love you, Ruby Rose!’
Ruby hugged Penny back. “Heh...love you, too.”
Blessed. Loyal. Devoted.