Weiss held back the urge to skip happily beside her sister, sneaking a few happy and somewhat eager peeks up at her expression as they both narrowly avoided bumping into anyone. The crowd in the mall was larger than usual, and Weiss knew exactly why. The Christmas decorations were absolutely beautiful this season. Everyone was shopping very nearly last minute as they tended to do, but Weiss already had all seven of her gifts picked out for her closest friends, and Winter had came to visit, so this trip to the mall wasn't one she was worried or nervous about. Rather, it was her sheer happiness that threatened to get the best of her.
Winter would be lying if she said she wasn't nearly as excited as her sister, whom she could easily tell wanted to practically dance in joy. It had been so long since they had a chance to do something like this, just spend time as "normal" people. With her position in the military and Weiss' school spending time together was nearly impossible under normal circumstances, but right now, as Christmas day neared, they could finally leave their obligations behind them and be sisters once more.
"So..." Weiss began, and Winter counted to three in her head. One. Two. Three. "What do you wanna do first I can't believe we actually have time to spend together we should go get our nails done OOH and maybe we can go pick out a few dresses from one of the Schnee owned clothing stores would that be a bit weird I think it would be a bit weird..." her stream of words suddenly changed to a deep breath and nervous laughter. "I hi-hi-mean... what do you think sounds fun?" Weiss finally asked slowly, her cheeks glowing a faint pink.
Winter giggled at her sister's excited state, happy to finally be able let her military persona go bury itself if only for a while.
"What I think sounds fun is spending time with you, Weiss. I'm ready to do whatever you want today." She said with a smile as she took her little sister's hand in her own, giving it a gentle squeeze.
They never really had too much time together as kids, and as busy as they both were, doing anything together sounded like the most appealing thing in the world.
Weiss held in her squee of excitement and tried to pull Winter into a random clothing store that they were passing by. Winter didn't recognize the branding, so it most definitely was not a Schnee owned store. Winter gave Weiss an amused smile as she pulled her along to the back, and in what seemed like no time at all, she was suddenly carrying about 64 random articles of clothing in her hands, and Weiss was excitedly smiling up at her.
"You know father will kill us if we buy so much clothing, right?" Winter asked with a smirk. Weiss simply nodded excitedly, her words obviously not registering fully in her mind as she just kept smiling.
Winter simply shook her head and chuckled, randomly looking through the pile of clothes in her arms as they made their towards the changing room. There were dresses, shirts, pants, skirts, jackets in an assortment of colors, but the thing that caught Winter's eyes was the pure white set of lacy underwear... in Weiss' size.
Winter couldn't resist putting on a devilish grin. How could she resist such an opportunity. "So... little sis. Have any potential suitors caught your eyes yet?" Weiss suddenly coughed and sputtered, the pink that was on her cheeks returning full force.
"W-what?" Weiss' voice suddenly shifted an octave higher than usual, and she turned to look away from her sister with slight worry.
"I'm just saying, when I was in training for the military I was surrounded by rather gorgeous, and attractive people, it's only fair for me to assume Beacon is the same." Winter smirked.
Said smirk quickly turned into a full-blown grin as Weiss devolved into a furiously blushing, stammering mess. "If I recall correctly there were quite a few handsome fellas and gorgeous gals when I came to visit for the Vytal tournament, within your own team even. That Yang girl certainly stood out, as well as her partner. And in that other team, across the hall from yours if what you told me is correct, that Lie Ren fellow was an exotic one." If her face got any redder, Winter suspected that Weiss might explode just from the blood pressure in her head.
"And your partner? The one I was introduced to first. Ruby Rose. She was cute, if not just a little underwhelming and a bit too quirky. And I remember team SSSN from the tournament, and I also remember you cheering particularly hard for a certain blue haired dork." Weiss wanted to scream no, but she really couldn't. Everything Winter was saying was true, except for Neptune, but only because they had tried it, and he was not what she expected him to be like. Every other person her sister was bringing up was undeniably attractive, and more often than not had made her hot under the collar.
"But something is telling me," Winter said, "That I'm leaving someone out..." her grin grew even bigger, and Weiss was at the edge of a very deep cliff.
"Someone who you yourself admitted had feelings for you... am I getting closer?" Weiss was quickly becoming convinced her sister was actually an evil Grimm who's sole purpose was to make her die from embarrassment.
Involuntarily, she realized, she must have nodded her head, if the evil grin spreading on the Grimm-pretending-to-be-her-sister's face was anything to go by.
"I wonder who it could be," Winter sang with glee. "I bet they're the same person you picked this lingerie out for." She laughed wickedly as Weiss very quickly grabbed half of her load and ran into one of the dressing rooms. "Oh Weiss, you can't get away from me that easy you know."
"Yes I can!" Weiss yelled indignantly inside the small, enclosed space.
"Not when the room beside you is unoccupied~" Weiss groaned, realizing she basically sealed her own doom.
As the countdown to her demise ticked down, Weiss spotted a ventilation shaft above her. For a few moments she stood and weighed the pros and cons of jumping up and climbing into what seemed like her only option for escape.
'Hmm... if I vault of the walls and manage to land a precise kick on the exact place I might be able to remove the cover so I may crawl in and die there...' she pondered as she thoughtfully stroked her chin with her thumb and pointer.
"Weiss, I think we need to get serious for a small moment here." Came Winter's voice from the other side of the wall to the left of her. The sound of Winter taking on her normal tone stopped Weiss' thoughts in their tracks. "It's Jaune, isn't it?"
Winter didn't personally know Jaune, but she knew his reputation at Beacon. Needless to say she wasn't impressed in the slightest, but Weiss did seem really happy, and that was all that mattered to her. But there was still the subject of the lingerie, and as Weiss' big sister she felt like it was important that it was discussed. She felt like she needed to watch over Weiss, and all the choices she made, after all, to help stop her from making terrible decisions. She needed to know some things.
Weiss mumbled something that Winter had since long learned to take as an affirmative, and she couldn't help but smile a little. Despite his less than stellar performance at the festival, from what Weiss had told her it was clear to her that Jaune was very much in love with her sister and not just her name, and that made her very relived. However, there were still some important aspect about their "relationship" that she needed to know.
"So, have you guys had sex yet?" She asked as she examined the craftsmanship on one of the dresses Weiss had brought her.
The loud thud from Weiss' dressing room that followed this question made her smile slyly, glad that even after so long she could still effectively fluster her sister with blunt statements and questions.
"N-n-none of your business!" Was the reply, which Winter knew immediately meant yes. Indeed. Undoubtedly. You know it. Several times. Actually we did it last night. Okay so a few of those may have just been the way she took the response as it stood, but Winter wouldn't be surprised if all of those things were true.
Regrettably, she had to let her sly smile fall, the serious tone once again entering her voice. "Weiss, I trust you, don't ever doubt that, but I still can't help but want to make sure you're sure about what you're doing. I just don't want to see you hurt if things don't work out with Jaune, like what apparently happened with Neptune. Just how do you feel about him, do you see you guys staying together long?" She hoped that Weiss understood just what she meant with her question, that she just wanted to be sure she hadn't given her heart to the "wrong" person.
"Winter..." Weiss looked in the mirror on the door and sat down on one of the small wooden stools provided for comfort. "To tell you the truth, we haven't been together for too long. No one really knows about it. It's only been about a month, in all honesty. But you know I would never do anything like this, let alone let anyone see me in such a way, if I weren't absolutely sure." She heard her sister let out a relieved sigh.
"Are you at least being safe?"
Weiss couldn't help but let out a giggle at that, not noticing how Winter's eyes suddenly became huge and her posture stiff as a board. "Despite what most people would say if you asked them, Jaune actually knows what he's doing when it comes to this. He's being careful, we've never not used protection, and we've never done anything both of us didn't want to do."
Winter regained her natural posture and relaxed state and shook her head slightly, hating that she jumped the gun like that. "That's good, I was a bit worried that you weren't taking this as seriously as you could have. One last thing, and this is mainly for my own personal peace of mind... which one of you initiated it first, and... was your first time as perfect as it should be…?"
Weiss looked down on her hands, thinking back to her and Jaune's first time, and a smile quickly spread across her lips. "It was me who initiated it, Jaune never pressured me once. He... only the people close to him, those who really know him, would believe you if you told them this, but Jaune's really serious about this stuff. He told me as soon as we decided to be together that we would take this at my pace, that he would never do anything I didn't want, and that he would never pressure me into anything. Our first time... I don't know if it was perfect, but I'm sure it was as close to perfect as one can possibly get."
Her fears eased, Winter smiled. Glad that her sister was lucky enough to have someone who took that kind of stuff seriously. Her first time was certainly not perfect, it was in fact far from it. She regretted who she had chosen to share it with. But the fact that Weiss didn't meant she was already doing better in romance than she ever had.
"He sounds like a keeper."
Weiss' smile turned into the dopiest grin imaginable. "He sure is."
"And that's exactly why we're going to find you something to show him EXACTLY what he means to you~!"
"Wait what?"
"Try on the lingerie Weiss, we're starting operation Best Girlfriend Ever."
Weiss stared blankly at the wall in front of her for a moment, now completely sure that her real sister was dead and this Grimm in the stall next to her had forever taken her place. Once again she looked up at the vent above her, the idea of climbing into it and dying sounding more preferable by the second.
"When did you take Winter's appearance and place, foul creature of Grimm?" She asked, eyes locked on the tempting vent.
The giggle that came In reply was pure evil, and Weiss shivered as Winter spoke in a dark voice, "Oh your sister has been dead for a long time..." before immediately brightening. "Hurry please, we've got a lot of work to do~!" Weiss hung her head in resignation and began to undress.
"Alright, but if we're doing this, you can't be biased! Don't just do what you always used to do and say everything looks good on me because I'm your little sister, I need you to think like a blonde, dorky, tall guy who's only ever seen his girlfriend nude in the dark!"
"Oh my, so she still has a sense of humor. I was afraid all that time away from me had dulled you!"
"I hate you."
"I know, I hate you too."