Title: On and On
Rating: R
Summary: Ruby, remembering. For _bluebells for the Five Acts Meme; I got four.
Pairings: Anna/Ruby.
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 150

Anna's got Ruby on her knees, arms held behind her back by one of Anna's hands, a devil's trap surrounding them both. Anna's got an iron knife in her other hand; she taps the flat of the blade against Ruby's bare shoulders. Ruby revels in the sting of it.

"Say it," Anna orders.

"I'm—I'm." The knife again. "I'm sorry. I've been—a bad girl, such a bad girl—"

"Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery," Anna singsongs, and Ruby can't not laugh.

Anna sounds so much like Honorata—it's been so long since Ruby saw Honorata, and the woman Ruby had been would hate the woman Ruby is.

"I've done wrong," Ruby says, and this time it's Beatrisia speaking, this time it's sincere.

"For a good purpose," Anna says, serious now, her breath tickling the back of Ruby's ear. "That's enough to make amends."