Three stories in a little under 24 hours, Tim you're going insane over this show.
I am not, shut up.
Talking to yourself is the first sign.
I- Shut up!
Only proving my point.
Oh my god, can I just get on with the story?
Fine, fine, I can.
A gentle night breeze wafted into Team RWBY's dorm room, eliciting a shiver from the younger girl who lay awake in her improvised top bunk. She rolled onto her side, her eyes catching sight of the other set of custom bunk beds, two girls asleep on the bottom bunk, clinging to each other. The girl let out a soft giggle, smiling as the bustier of the two began gnawing on the bow the other wore as she mumbled to herself inaudibly. The other girl seemed to mew, snuggling up a little closer.
The girl in the top bunk rolled onto her back once more, resting her hands behind her head, her eyes fixed on the ceiling. Without warning, her thoughts wandered to the girl who slept beneath her, on the bottom bunk. Ruby Rose' cheeks flushed the colour of her cape, pulling her sleep mask over her eyes in a fruitless attempt to expel the white-haired heiress from her mind. She rolled over so she faced the wall, curling up in her own wishful thinking. As if the high and mighty Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, would be interested in a commoner such as herself. Even after the red themed girl's constant bids for her approval, Weiss continued to brush them off, taking very little notice of her escapades. Even when the younger girl managed to save her from a falling tree, the only acknowledgement she got was "You complete dunce! You've stained my skirt!" which was not quite the gratitude she'd wanted, though she could've sworn a gentle "Thank you" escaped those pale lips.
The sound of a faint click emanating through the room snapped Ruby from her daze, jolting up quickly. She looked over at the cuddling girls, cupping her hands around her mouth to direct her voice toward them. "Yang? Blake? Are you guys awake?" She asked, receiving no answer from the still sleeping couple. She turned her attention to the bunk below her, hanging upside down to see if Weiss was also asleep. To her surprise, she found no Weiss, only an empty, neatly made bed, a freshly made bed too.
She went over the small details in her head, easily putting two-and-two together, though she was never really good at math.
Without a sound, Ruby slipped off of her bed, grasping her cape from the end of it, and left the room. She wrapped the cape around herself; cold nights at Beacon were the coldest nights could get in Vale, holding it against her body as she exited the school building, on her way to the courtyard. If Weiss were to go anywhere late at night, it was there.
Ruby could hear gentle footsteps not far in front of her, she could basically hear the grace of each step, footsteps only one person could possibly make. She picked up her pace, finding it difficult to keep quiet while barefoot, something she probably should've thought about before leaving the dorms. Eventually she caught up to Weiss, staying a meters behind the whole time, taking extra care to ensure she kept a light footed step so as to not alert the older girl of her presence.
Soon they reached –or rather Weiss reached, considering Ruby hid behind a nearby shrub– the fountain, the soft splashing of water on water resonating through the area. Then something else resonated just the same, piquing the caped girl's interest, her head popping up from behind the shrub. The sound was Weiss, not only that, it was Weiss singing, and it was beautiful, crisp and waving, each syllable and note so clear one could notate the vocals on paper without inaccuracies. Mesmerised by the sound, Ruby sat down, making sure she could still hear the older girl's voice.
"Mirror, tell me something,
Tell me who's the loneliest of all?"
Every time the heiress parted her lips, her voice was like a cookie to Ruby, the sweetest thing she'd ever heard.
"Mirror…
What's inside me?
Tell me, can a heart be turned to stone?"
As the song continued, Ruby began to wonder about the meaning behind the lyrics, did they have any meaning to Weiss? Or was it just a song she'd decided to sing on that night? She couldn't help but contemplate the one line of "Tell me who's the loneliest of all". Was Weiss… lonely? Why would she be lonely? The heiress had everything. She had wealth, she had power, she had fame, and she had—
"I'm the loneliest of all…"
The last bar of the song got to the younger girl. She could tell by the emotion in her voice that Weiss wasn't acting when she was singing that line, that and the sobbing that followed the song.
Wait, sobbing?
Now Ruby was slightly worried, and by slightly worried, she meant immensely worried. She poked her head up again, her arm brushing against a thorn she hadn't paid attention to, leaving a scratch from her elbow to part way up her bicep. She took in a sharp breath through her teeth when the pain struck her, a little louder than she'd intended, achieving what she didn't want to achieve, alerting her partner to her presence.
"Come out, Ruby, I know you're there." The croaky, sore voice of Weiss Schnee called out, followed by a gentle sniffle.
The younger girl sighed, standing up, and held her stinging scratch as her silver eyes blinked at Weiss. "Uh… Heya, Weiss… I—"
"You heard it, didn't you?"
Ruby looked off to the side, nodding.
"All of it?"
Again, Ruby nodded, this time stepping up to her partner. "I-it was really pretty…" She managed to get out, sitting on her knees next to the older girl.
"No, it wasn't," the white-haired girl replied, turning her head away, "I sang a semitone higher on a single note during the chorus…" It was an insignificant flaw that anyone who wasn't Weiss would've brushed off.
"Is that why you're crying?" Ruby asked, leaning her head to try and get a look at Weiss' light blue eyes.
"Of course not, you dolt." The heiress replied shakily, she wasn't keen on talking about her personal issues with someone as juvenile as Ruby, though at the same time she felt like her partner would almost understand how she felt.
"Then what is it?" The younger girl asked, determined to find out what was bothering her partner and possibly give her some advice toward fixing the problem.
Weiss sighed, pivoting herself to face Ruby, hugging her knees to her chest. "As I may or may not have hinted in the song, I… I feel… I've always felt—"
"Lonely?"
Weiss nodded, so she did happen to hear the song. "I've never really felt I belonged, like everyone thought of me as the scary heiress to Schnee Dust, and not a regular girl with the name Schnee…"
"Well, you are kind of—" Ruby cut herself off before she could finish, not wanting to earn one of her partner's signature glares. "Never mind, go on."
Weiss held in her urge to give Ruby a glaring, but opted to continue her explanation. "I never had friends, at least not real ones, because no one wants to be friends with a jerk…" She sniffled again, hugging her knees to her chest tighter. "I've tried to be nicer, I really have, but… but no one took me seriously… they all laughed at me… so I went back to being me, and… and I attracted the wrong attention, I attracted negative attention." It was beginning to get difficult for her to continue through the sniffling, the teary eyes, and the sobbing.
Ruby wiped her own eyes, sniffling with her partner. In a moment of empathy, she half-pounced forward, wrapping her arms around the older girl's neck, resting her chin on her shoulder. "Weiss, don't worry… you don't have to be lonely anymore, I'll be your friend… I-I'll stay by your side; I won't let anyone hurt you again! You're my partner, you're my friend, and no one hurts my partner or my friends…" She trailed off, lost in the cold minty scent of Weiss' snow white hair.
Weiss was taken aback by the sudden hug, but somehow it managed to warm her icy heart, her arms wrapping around Ruby's back, returning the hug. "Thank you, Ruby…" She replied in her croaky voice, too caught up in her emotions to insult or undermine.
When they pulled away from each other, they found themselves staring into each other's eyes, both girls mesmerised by the other. The next few seconds were a blur to them both, neither could remember how they came to be in their current position, but all they knew was one of them had made a move, and then their lips met, eyes closed, arms wrapped around each other's bodies. Once the kiss was broken, Weiss was the first to look away, her face akin to Ruby's cape in colour. Ruby soon followed suit, slipping back a little after dropping her hands to her lap, poking her index fingers together awkwardly.
'I-I kissed Weiss…' was all the younger girl could think, still going over it in her head constantly.
Weiss stood up, her face still bright red, and brushed her nightgown off. She turned to Ruby, her eyes starting to well up again. "Don't tell anyone about this, got it?" Her tone was laced with her usual ice-cold attitude, but hinted at denial, quickly shook off by the white-haired girl as she left in a hurry, heading back to the dorm room.
"Wait! Weiss, wait up!" Ruby stood as well, running after her partner, but couldn't keep up, falling behind easily. She pouted slightly, continuing back to the dorm, her arms holding the cape around herself tighter, her thoughts buzzing around like flies in her brain.
After a medium-length walk back, Ruby entered the dorm again to find Yang and Blake still asleep, and Weiss in her bed, seemingly asleep as well. The caped girl kept her cape on, climbing up to her own bed, still confused as to what happened tonight. She curled up, pulling her sleep mask over her eyes, and tried to sleep again. She wouldn't achieve it for another few hours, her thoughts and questions spinning around in her head too much for her to focus on sleeping.
Before she finally fell to slumber, she set her mind on one thing. Tomorrow she would tell Weiss everything, everything she felt, everything she wanted, everything she craved, and all of it with her. With five simple words, her eyelids fell over her silver eyes, the words echoing in the room, undoubtedly heard by anyone still awake in there.
"I love you, Weiss Schnee…"
And then came the reply from the bed beneath Ruby, said soft enough for only the speaker to hear.
"I love you too, you oblivious child…"
So, yeah, that's my attempt at a White Rose fic.
I've wanted to do a fic of Ruby hearing Weiss singing ever since I watched the White Trailer, it just seemed like a good idea.
I'm thinking about making this a Multi Chapter, but I'm not gonna commit to it unless I know people like this one as much as my Bumblebee fics.
Anyway, be sure to check out my other two RWBY fics, and drop a review if you'd like, feedback is wonderful and keeps me motivated to write more.I'm also working on an After Beacon fic that ties into Promise Me somewhat, so yeah, more Bumbebee on the way in the form of that.