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Chapter 1: Starts near the end of Volume 1, Episode 15, 'The Stray'
"WELL, MAYBE WE WERE JUST TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND!"
A moment passed before Blake realized what she had just said, helped by Weiss not responding. Or rather, responding by taking a step back. And a few more.
Weiss's mouth fell open but no words came out. Her mind had worked faster than Blake's but that didn't mean she knew what to say. It did go without saying, however, that she hadn't been expecting Blake to say THAT.
But… but that can't… I mean, she isn't… but…
"I-"
The single letter pulled Weiss from her turbulent mind, spoken from the…
…what WAS she?
Her mind would have slipped back into the same loop it had just escaped from had the black-haired girl not bolted from the room. Ruby tried to run after her, forgetting about her semblance of speed in the shock of the moment. "Blake!" Ruby cried out, her voice breaking under her own mixed feelings of confusion and sadness over her teammate's state. "Wait! Come back!"
She barely got out her last word when Weiss push past her, sprinting down the corridor. "BLAKE?!" She yelled. Or rather, she croaked out. It was an odd tone, one of a girl whose mind was still back in her dorm room, trying to restart its gears after being knocked out by Blake's statement. She stopped at the end of the hallway, where the path split in two different directions.
One look to the left. Another look to the right.
There was no sign of the other girl down either hall.
Weiss looked down at her feet. Bile began to build up in her throat. She hadn't noticed how sick she felt until she had come to a complete stop. The sentence kept ringing in her head, then words from the argument before, then words from her first day at Beacon. There was a thunderous pounding near the crown of her head. She took in a shaky breath.
She felt like she was going to cry.
Sunlight stirred Ruby from her slumber. She yawned loudly and glanced over to the other set of beds in her dorm room, hoping beyond reason that the bottom bunk would contain her missing teammate, only to be sobered by its empty sheets. She let out a miserable sigh and pushed herself off of her suspended bed, landing feet first on the hard floor with a thud. "Yang. Get up. We gotta look for Blake."
Yang pushed her covers off her head and sat up, turning to look down at her younger sister. What she saw gave her an idea of what she likely looked like: A look filled with guilt, sadness and regret. She sighed in an attempt to push these feelings down and work up the drive to get out of bed. "Yeah," the blonde brawler responded solemnly.
As Yang herself got down from her top bunk, Ruby turned around, ready to relay the same message to her partner.
She had not been ready to meet the sight that greeted her.
Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, often stabbing an ice-cold glare into anyone who dared disturb her beauty sleep, was lying on top of her sheets in the exact same clothes she had donned the day before, staring off at the door opposite their beds. Her hair was tattered, likely from restless turning in her bed. Her eyes lacked their usual harsh yet passionate shine and were accented by bags Ruby had only ever seen when Weiss stayed up late studying for a test she would most definitely ace even without the extra work. She looked like she hadn't even slept that night, though Ruby knew she would have at least sobbed herself to sleep in exhaustion at some point since she herself had been able to fall asleep as well.
"W-Weiss?" Ruby forced out, not really sure if talking to this motionless body would actually elicit a response. Yang took a glance as well, confused by this imitation of Beacon's resident Ice Queen.
After a few seconds of silence, during which Ruby's mind raced to extremes from the lack of reply, Weiss slowly turned her head to give her leader a look that almost shattered the heart of the silver-eyed girl. "Yeah?" she practically whispered.
Ruby somehow managed to compose herself at the sight and managed to get out her order. "Come on. We… we have to go into Vale and look for Blake."
Blake. Weiss's eyes returned to the door. That name made Weiss feel something in her chest. It kind of hurt, but she couldn't really pinpoint what the emotion was. She'd gone over what it might be for a good portion of the night, but nothing seemed to appropriately fit. It wasn't anger. It wasn't sadness. It wasn't betrayal. There wasn't much else it couldn't be, right?
Closing her eyes and letting out a sigh of resignation, Weiss managed to bring herself to her feet and walked into the dorm's bathroom, hoping to at least distract herself with some daily routines, even if it was only for a moment.
Okay, so that was kind of depressing… Don't worry though; next chapter will be happy (but also depressing first.)
Also, apologizes for the technical difficulties; is it clear that I've not done this before?