Some time after the Vytal Festival ended, with team RWBY as its champions, the aforementioned team was sitting in their dormitory room, each doing something on their own. Weiss was studying, as she usually was, Blake was reading, Yang was on her laptop, and Ruby was.. sitting around, bored. She did have books to read, but each of the books she owned, she had already read countless times over. She would've read Blake's, but she said that they weren't appropriate for her. She would've looked at some of the cool new weapons on her favorite website, "Arsenal . com", but when Yang got her hands on the laptop, it was extremely difficult to get them off. And so, Ruby walked around the room, often watching Weiss work.
Shortly after the Festival ended, Weiss's sister, Winter, went back to Atlas, leaving the youngest of the Schnee siblings in a state of sadness for a mere week. During that time, Weiss became distant towards the rest of her team, but was slowly drifting back to her place. As the time ticked to 4:00 PM, Blake and Yang both stopped what they were doing and stood up, putting away the things they were using. "Hey Rubes, me and Blakey are going to go to the city for a while, need to do a bit of shopping." Yang spoke up, telling their leader what they were doing.
"Oh, okay Yang!" Ruby replied, looking at her older sister with a smile. As soon as they left, Ruby hopped off of her bunk and walked over to Weiss. "Weiss?" She said, looking over her shoulder. This was the third stack of paper she'd gone through in 2 months, her hands must've been extremely sore with all the writing she did. "Maybe you could stop working and.. I dunno, maybe we could do something together?" She asked, receiving a glare from the older girl at the desk. While it wasn't the wisest idea to break Weiss from her work, Ruby was both bored and worried for her teammate, partner and best friend. Underneath a cold exterior laid a girl that was caring but lonely, who only wanted someone she could connect with.
"Ruby, I've got a lot of work to do, I need to get this done." Weiss replied, giving Ruby that cold death stare that she normally put out when she was annoyed. It was true that Weiss spent most of her time studying, but most of it was not necessary. Weiss was always in the 90%'s, and sometimes she was ranked 100%, high above the second person, Ruby, who usually had a 78%.
"Come on, Weiss! You do tons of studying everyday, you should have some fun!" Ruby said, slowly reaching for the pen in Weiss's hand. Then, in a flash of petals, she snagged the pen and pulled it away, shoving it into one of her ammo pouches. Weiss was even more annoyed now, standing up and huffing loudly. The younger girl had a mischievous grin on her face.
"Fine. In one hour, I want to continue working." Weiss said, Ruby cheered loudly and wrapped her arms around her teammate, spinning around like a child. When she did, Weiss felt a warmth spread across her face and a strange feeling spur in her stomach. What it was eluded her, but she shrugged it off, assuming it was a byproduct of her anger. When Ruby finally let go, she grabbed Weiss's hand and pulled her outside, closing and locking the door behind her. Then she was dragged to the airships that flew students to and from Beacon Academy. That way, Weiss wouldn't be able to work in an hour. All according to Ruby's awesome plan that's primary objective was spending some time with her BFF.
As soon as they arrived at Vale, Weiss was, again, dragged around, arriving at an arcade with lots of blinking lights and fun games. Ruby let go of Weiss's hand and pulled out some lien chips from her pocket, walking to the desk and paying for a 2 pouches full of tokens. Handing one to Weiss, Ruby walked around the arcade, finding a game they could play. "Ooh, Weiss! Look at this one!" She said, pointing to the game titled "Grimm Destroyer". It was a violent first person shooter game, costing one token, where one person had a plastic gun and they pointed it at the screen and fired. Depending on where they pointed it would kill a Grimm.
Weiss seemed a little confused by it, but decided to get it over with. She opened the point and put in a little metal token, then picked up the gun and shot the START button. "Okay so.. what do I do?" She asked, watching the little intro movie play. Then, she was dropped into the game, with a few Grimm running at her. Weiss sat there for a few seconds before looking down at the gun, looking at the controls. There was one button on the handle, which was the trigger. As she pressed it, it vibrated, making her tilt her head. Looking back at the screen, she hovered the crosshair at one of the Beowolves and pulled the trigger. A little red line shot out at the Grimm, and when it connected, the Beowolf died in a puff of smoke.
Finally understanding what she was supposed to do, she did the same thing with the other Grimm, an Ursa and a small King Taijitu. When she killed all of the Grimm, Ruby cheered in happiness. "Good job, Weiss!" A small smile crossed Weiss's lips as she moved forward, a larger Ursa jumping out of a window at her as she progressed down the ruined streets. This one took a few shots to kill and took a little bit off of Weiss's health bar. As she progressed into a building, the screen went black and the score showed up.
KILLS: 4
DEATHS: 0
SHOTS: 7
PROCEED TO LEVEL 2? Y/N
"Well.. that was easy." Weiss said, shooting the N and putting the gun down. "And.. admittedly a little fun." She told her teammate. "Why don't we try and find a game we can play together, Ruby?" She asked, looking around. Ruby gave her a thumbs up and grabbed her hand, dragging her off. That same feeling rung in her stomach again and this time it was a little worse. Holding hands in public with a friend? What's so wrong about that? It wasn't like she had feelings for Ruby, she was just a really close friend..
As the day drew to a close, they had spent the majority of their tokens, taking the rest back to the dormitory for the next time they went there. When they arrived, Ruby grabbed her PJ's and went into the bathroom, changing and putting the clothes she was wearing into the dirty clothes bin. Coming back out, she climbed to her bunk and went under the covers, falling asleep after a long day of fun. In the bunk beds next to her, Yang and Blake were fast asleep, coming back likely a few hours before they did, since Ruby and Weiss were out for around 5 hours.
Looking at her work, Weiss sighed and shook her head, grabbing her nightgown and heading into the bathroom, planning on showering before she went to bed. Half an hour later, she came out and laid down on her bed, pulling up her blankets. Tossing and turning, Weiss sighed in annoyance, clearly not going to be able to find her dreams. She stared up at the bunk above her, and for the third time that day, the feeling overwhelmed her. She went through the possibilities of what it could be. Illness? Not likely, she felt fine before and had been to the infirmary for a checkup. Guilt? No, that wasn't possible, she wasn't guilty of anything. The only other thing she could thing of was.. no, no, no! That isn't right! Two girls together is..
A warmth spread across her cheeks and her eyes widened. So it wasn't illness or guilt, but it was love.. how couldn't she have noticed the signs?! She connected with Ruby, she cared for Ruby, Ruby was her best friend and partner.. and Weiss thought she knew everything there was to know. Weiss laid in her bed, contemplating what she should do. She clearly liked Ruby in that way, but.. how did the younger girl feel about her? Did Ruby like her back? How would everyone react? Father would have her head for it, but what about Winter?
Weiss stood up from her bed and looked up at Ruby. Her sleeping form was cute, beautiful.. she looked over her for a few brief moments before getting a little closer, now face to face. She could feel Ruby's hot breath on her face, and that sparked something in the little Heiress. Getting closer and closer, she soon found her lips pressed against her team leaders, her eyes closed and that heat making her face a big red tomato. When she pulled back, she realized what she had done. She kissed her team leader.. while she was asleep, no less! She ducked back down to her bunk and threw the blankets over her head in embarrassment. "Mm.. Weiss..?" Oh no..