Ruby pouted in her bed. Then she squirmed back and forth beneath her thick blanket. She had to be very careful with how she positioned her head. Despite being an elite academy, Beacon apparently couldn't bother with paying the heating of their students' dorms at night. As such, Ruby has to make sure her head was covered enough, but close enough to the edge to get fresh air from outside.

That was one of three reasons she was pouting underneath her covers in the middle of the night. The second was the fact that she was at Beacon on Christmas Eve.

It was fine though! Her team was there, most of them anyway, as well as Team JNPR. It's just Ruby also wanted to be home for Christmas. Unfortunately, her dad and uncle were trapped while on a mission, stuck in a sandstorm in Vacuo. Freaking weather.

She peeked out from her blanket and stared out the window. It was lightly snowing, and the thought of the glass panes creaking open made Ruby involuntarily shiver.

The third reason was Weiss. Her partner was, well…

"Come on, Weiss! Let's celebrate Christmas together!"

"I'm afraid I'm busy then."

"Oh, you're going home with your family?"

"They're busy too. It's fine, I'll do what I need to do alone. I do it every year anyways."

"What? But… being alone on Christmas."

"I don't really celebrate it."

"Whaaaat? Don't celebrate Christmas? What about any of the other Winter holidays?"

"No, none. Never really saw the point."

"That's terrible!"

"Oh hush Ruby, it is not."

"What's so important that you're going to miss Christmas?"

"It's personal, but I assure you it is indeed important. More important than spending Christmas together."

"Weiss…"

"I have to go. I'll be back in a few days."

And then Weiss left Beacon to who-knows-where in Vale.

Ruby grumbled even more. Darn it. She couldn't sleep. Bracing herself, she threw off her blanket and jumped down to the floor, careful not to make a noise on the creaky floorboards. She shivered and rubbed her arms, then reached for the white nightgown nearby. It was a birthday gift from Weiss, and was white as her hair. Ruby put it on over her pajamas and got her slippers, then walked out of her dorm.

It was a tired walk to the the student lounge, and using her scroll as the only source of light made Beacon's long empty hallways eerily calm in the dead of night, especially on Christmas Eve.

She slowly opened the door and walked inside. Ruby then took the recliner facing the Christmas tree and pointed it towards the fireplace. Using a small dust crystal, she relit the fire.

Lying down in the recliner, its cold leather slowly warming up as the fire's soft glow lit up the room, Ruby snuggled up under her blanket. Her eyelids flitted shut, and as she stared at the tree ornaments shining in the light, she finally fell asleep.

"Hot hot hot!" a feminine voice urgently whispered as a woman jumped out of the fireplace. She brushed the soot off her red suit before mumbling, "Gods, I cannot believe there are students here who still believe in Santa Claus."

She snapped her fingers, and a large white bag followed her from the chimney above and landed on the burning logs, only to fall out and roll towards her. The fire went out.

The woman adjusted her red cap and dragged her bag over to the tree. She reached inside the sack and pulled out a long box, wrapped in green paper with snowflakes on it, and placed it under the tree.

"For Nora," she said before reaching for another gift: a small palm-sized box, wrapped in blue paper with tiny tree designs on it, "For Coco Adel."

She then reached deeper in her bag, moving her arm around aimlessly looking for a certain gift, "Don't tell me… Ruby and the dolt want experiences instead of boxables!"

"Great, I'll have to come back. I bet Arc wants a kiss or something. Just great," she turned around and began walking back to the fireplace, only for, in the dark, her foot to hit something. She stumbled, but quickly turned her momentum. With good luck, she would fall and land on her hand, then she would twist into a cartwheel.

Her luck was never that great.

She landed with an "Oof," and it normally wouldn't have garnered any attention. However, she was unlucky that day, and the object she hit right then was a table and tray, and on that table and tray were a small pile of cookies and a glass of milk left for Santa.

And if there was a sound that could wake Ruby Rose up, it was the sound of spilled milk and fallen cookies.

Silver eyes darted in the darkness. Said darkness was a cover for the red coated woman, that was until the log in the fireplace spontaneously burst into flames again.

Very bad luck indeed.

"Weiss?" Ruby blinked and rubbed her eyes.

Said Weiss was deathly still, as if movement would confirm what Ruby was seeing wasn't a figment of her imagination.

Ruby blinked, "What are you doing here? And why are you dressed like that?"

"W-who is this Weiss you speak of? I am not her, ho ho ho!" Weiss gave off a merry laugh as she posed audaciously, "I am merely Santa Claus, taking on a familiar form to ease your mind towards my very existence. Shocking, no?"

Ruby wasn't fooled, "Weiss I know it's you."

The white-haired girl visibly deflated, "Damn it, it always works for Whitley," she scratched the back of her neck, "This is awkward. I'm sure you have a lot of questions."

"Yeah," Ruby started, "Why are you here, pretending to be Santa Claus?"

"Well… you see…" Weiss sheepishly grinned, "I'm not pretending. I actually am Santa."

"Uh huh," Ruby raised an eyebrow, "Right, like that makes any sense. Come on Weiss, just tell me what's really going on, I won't mind," her eyes shone brightly, "Ohmygosh did you sneak in here to give us all gifts?"

"... Yes," Weiss nodded, "That is exactly what I'm doing, yep. Just dropping off some gifts for you guys like uh," she reached into her bag and pulled out a large dust crystal. She muttered, "This belongs to Isabella."

"Who?" Ruby tilted her head.

"No one! I'm just mixing up the presents I had for you guys. I left them somewhere else so I gotta go bye!" Weiss then took her bag and rushed away from Ruby and out of the room.

That would have been the end of it for Ruby, thinking her partner was just acting weird, had she gone out the door. But out of habit, Weiss made another mistake, and in her rush to escape, left the way she came in. Up the chimney.

Ruby's eyes widened as she saw Weiss suddenly vanish up the fireplace. Her mind began racing a mile a minute, and her feet began moving. She activated her semblance and darted out the door.

Rushing across Beacon, she went up stair after stair, floor after floor, until she opened the door to the rooftop. She practically catapulted herself out into the snow, her nightgown getting slightly soaked as she came to see the most bewildering thing imaginable.

A glowing white sleigh sat on the rooftop, and at its front were two glowing white reindeer. The vehicle shone like a beacon in the dark night, the only other lights being the faraway city of Vale. And there was Weiss, placing down her sack of gifts and sitting in the seat.

"Uhh," Ruby's eyes were starting to glaze over.

"Eep!" Weiss squeaked out. She hurriedly grabbed the reins and shouted, "Mush!"

The reindeer neighed and began trotting, slowly pulling the sleigh into the air.

Ruby snapped out of her awe and ran up to the sleigh and jumped off the rooftop. Her hands grabbed onto the sleigh's side. The sleigh had gone off the roof and now flew above Beacon's courtyard, "Weiss!"

"Ah! Ruby!" Weiss shrieked, "What are you doing?! You're going to fall!"

"What are you doing?!" Ruby screamed back as she clung to the side of the sleigh.

"My job you idiot!" Weiss held the reins with one hand and leaned to the side, reaching out to pull Ruby up. Her partner quickly took her hand, and Weiss pulled her into the seat next to her. The sleigh kept gaining height, and in moments, they were above the clouds.

The sight was breathtaking. Ruby scanned around her, and as far as the eye could see, there were clouds basking in the glow of the shattered moon above, and stars that shone upon her face. In one direction, she made out the skyline of Vale as the sleigh made its way in that direction.

A minute passed and Ruby finally focused on the her partner steering the sleigh, "Weiss? You're Santa?"

Weiss turned to Ruby and smiled, "Yep, I am."

"Whoa."

"Indeed. Come on, I'm behind schedule. These gifts aren't going to deliver themselves," Weiss flicked the reins and the sleigh zoomed across the sky.

They landed on a the rooftop of a house at the edge of Vale. The house had some lights hanging up, but other than that, it was dark. Weiss plopped herself off her sleigh and took her bag.

Ruby jumped out after her, "So how are you Santa?"

"Family business. My grandfather was Santa, and my mother, brother, sister, and I are the current Santas. We divide up Remnant and deliver presents accordingly. My brother, as the youngest, takes Atlas. I'm here in Vale already for Beacon, so I'm taking it this year."

Weiss slid across the slanted roof with her glyphs until she reached the chimney, "Wait here, it'll only take a second."

Ruby, balancing carefully, raised a hand, "Weiss, that chimney is like, five inches wide."

Weiss smirked at her partner and jumped. Ruby watched her land on the chimney, but instead of breaking it, she somehow stretched and shrunk her way inside.

Ruby's mouth was agape the full minute it took for Weiss to return, popping out of the chimney and balancing on a glyph.

Another smirk and Weiss spoke, "To answer your question, the Schnee semblance has very useful additional abilities between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of December. I can summon a sleigh and a bag of infinite size filled with untold gifts, can travel through any chimney or chimney equivalent, and I know exactly what present to give to every child that believes."

She slid her way back into her sleigh, and as Ruby got back in, Weiss added, "This has been the duty of the Schnee family for generations," she flicked her reins and the sleigh took off.

"Every year?" Ruby asked.

"We skipped two during the Great War, but other than that, we've been doing this for over a thousand years, give or take," Weiss smiled, "This is my seventh year, and my fourth year doing it alone."

"Wait seven years? You mean you've been doing it since you were ten?!"

"Yep, although at first I just rode around with my mother, sort of like what you're doing now," the sleigh landed again and Weiss got out, "Come on, I'll show you," she stretched out her hand again. Ruby took it.

"This is the house of Feldspar Flanagan. He's nine years old and he's wanted the newest game since April," Weiss whispered as the two of them snuck around the corner and tiptoed across the living room.

Ruby shivered, "We stretched and shrunk into the chimney… I mean, how?"

The white-haired Santa shrugged, "The magic of Christmas."

"Sure, let's just go with that. No other questions at all. Ooh cookies," Ruby pointed out the tray set aside for Santa, "You gonna eat that?"

"You can have them," Weiss waved her hand as she crept towards the tree, "They're store bought anyways."

"Okay," Ruby munched and gobbled the plate of cookies, swigging down the milk as well.

"Keep it down though," Weiss reached into her bag. Then she pulled a red gift-wrapped box, "Feldspar's been a good kid this year."

"Really?" Ruby stalked up next to Weiss, "How do you know?"

Weiss squinted her eyes, "He broke his neighbor's window, but later confessed to it to his mom. He's been working a lemonade stand to pay his neighbor back."

Ruby blinked, "That is spooky," she then eagerly smiled, "Ooh! What do I want? Tell me, read my mind!"

Weiss snorted, "What makes you think you've been nice this year?"

"I've thwarted a bunch of criminals lately," Ruby pointed out.

"True," Weiss placed the dust crystal under the tree, "But as Santa, I do make the ultimate decision. And you've been quite difficult this past year."

Ruby paled as Weiss grabbed her hand and pulled her through the chimney.

The next house was awkward.

"Are you sure we can't arrest them?" Ruby tittered.

"No," Weiss glared back, "Christmas is a sacred holiday, a temporal neutral ground for everyone, regardless of race, kingdom, or allegiances."

"But they're naughty!" Ruby whined.

"Then they get what they deserve," Weiss reached into her bag and pulled out a large dust crystal. She placed it beneath the tree and walked back to Ruby.

"You do realize that you're Weiss Schnee, giving Roman Torchwick and his evil minion, who have been stealing SDC dust for months now, dust for Christmas?" Ruby raised an eyebrow.

Weiss scowled, "I don't make the rules, especially not the punishments."

"Can we really not do anything?" Ruby asked as they walked back to the sleigh.

Weiss shook her head, "The last time someone in my family tried to use the powers of Santa for non-Christmas related activities, we lost all of it during the Great War."

"So you can't do anything," Ruby said.

"No, not without risking the loss of not only Santa, but also the Schnee semblance itself for everyone, for years," Weiss sighed, "It isn't fair, but it is what it is. The Schnees have been in this role for centuries."

Ruby sighed, but then she smiled and lightly punched Weiss in the shoulder, "It's not perfect, but who can say they make hundreds of kids smile on Christmas day?"

Weiss smiled back, "Now you're getting into the Christmas spirit. Focus not on what you don't have, but what you do have!"

They soared through the air after another dozen houses had presents delivered. Ruby still marveled at the sight of Vale on Christmas Eve.

"Wait! What about gifts that can't be wrapped?" Ruby asked loudly over the wind.

"Well we try our best," Weiss answered, "If it's a metaphysical gift, like an experience, we usually ignore it unless it's relatively doable. It's the nature of our powers sadly. You can't really gift a kid superpowers or anything like that."

"Huh. That makes sense. Where are we going now?"

"Vacuo!" Weiss yelled back, "There's one last gift I need to get, and my sister has it!"

They were on a sand dune in the middle of the desert. A glowing white sleigh, leaking off a tiny bit of white light into the wind, was parked in front of three people. A tall woman in a red suit yelled at a rather disheveled man.

"Get in the damn sleigh, Qrow!"

"No way, Ice Queen. The last time I did, I fell a kilometer to the ground!"

"You passed out after drinking someone's Christmas gift!"

"What kind of kid asks for chloroform from Santa?!"

"He was a good kid, that's what I know, and because of you, I never fulfilled his wish."

"Yeah, some psychotic brat not getting a drug. I'm not losing sleep over that."

"That's in the past, so if you would please get in my sleigh."

"Why?"

"Because I'm fulfilling someone's wish damn it! Why can't you be like Taiyang? Look, he's cuddling the plushie he wanted from Santa."

"... Tai what are you doing."

"Do you have any idea how long I've been looking for this?"

Winter nodded, "Over thirty years. We had a backlog and the plushie should have been yours when you were seven."

"You are definitely Santa, Miss Schnee."

"No she isn't! She's just some crazy bitch with a glowing white sleigh and a bag full of deadly poison!"

"I'll have you know my gifts—"

Whoosh!

"Sister!" Weiss shouted from far above them.

"Weiss! What are you doing here!?"

"Wondering why my last gift hasn't been handed over yet!" Weiss said.

"Sorry about the holdup! It's this one drunk asshole messing up the schedule!"

Qrow grumbled and began to retort, only for him to hear a shout, "Uncle Qrow!"

He looked up at Weiss' sleigh and saw his youngest niece waving at him, "Oh my gosh Uncle Qrow, my partner's Santa Claus!"

"Ruby!" Taiyang waved at her.

"Dad! My partner's Santa!"

"Yeah I see that!"

"It's so cool!"

"It is!"

Qrow grumbled and looked at Winter, "Fine I'll go. It's a free taxi ride out of this storm anyways."

Weiss landed her sleigh parallel to Winter's and hopped out, "Actually, since I'm here, I'll take you and Mister Xiao Long back to Vale," Weiss curtsied at Ruby's father, "Weiss Schnee, the Second Santa of the forty-fourth generation of Santa Claus, at your service, here to grant the wishes of all the good little children who believe in us."

"Okay. That sounds like some weird magical girl bull crap," Qrow sighed, "Also, neither of us is a kid nor believes in Santa. So I don't see why you're helping us."

Weiss chuckled, "Mister Branwen, who said you were the gift recipient?" she looked over at Ruby.

"Oh, I see what ya mean," Qrow smirked. He grabbed Taiyang by the shoulder, "Come on, let's go. We're taking the taxi with Ruby."

"Whoo! Best Christmas ever!" Ruby pumped her fists in the air.

As the two adults got into her sleigh, Weiss grabbed her reins. After Winter took off in her own sleigh, Weiss mushed her white reindeer, and they were off.

Meanwhile in Atlas, in the Schnee manor, inside the office of the President of the Schnee Dust Company, Jacques Schnee was toiling away. Papers needed to be filled out, last minute reports and funds needed to be allocated, there was no time to rest. He scribbled away with his pen in one hand, and a calculator in the other. His dark room was lit only by a burning log in the fireplace.

It was a quiet night, save only for the sound of his pen. Then a sound came from the rooftop and a boy fell out of his fireplace.

The white-haired boy stood up and adjusted his red hat, "Hello father. Burning the midnight lantern I see."

"Whitley. I see you're working hard as well," Jacques said, only glancing in his son's direction before continuing his work.

With a sigh, Whitley placed a flat box on his father's desk, "A man in his forties who still believes in Santa Claus. How odd."

Jacques chuckled and stopped his writing. He looked up at his son and softly smiled, "No matter how old I get, and no matter how far your mother and I drift apart, I will never forget the night I met her. I suppose, deep down inside, I still believe in her."

Whitley didn't say anything. He just took his bag and left. Jacques went back to work alone. Just like the rest of his family.

It was almost dawn when they arrived back in Vale. Weiss grumbled about her lateness before touching down on the Beacon rooftop. She turned to Ruby as Taiyang and Qrow left the sleigh.

Ruby had fallen asleep, and Weiss was about to wake her up when she had a thought. A simple thought. A funny thought. A grin spread across her face.

Ruby Rose jolted awake and found herself in the student lounge, lying down on the recliner. She squirmed to the side, only to have a party horn toot in her face.

Her older sister was in front of her, grinning as she blew the horn again, "Merry Christmas, Rubes!"

"Yang!" Ruby batted the party accessory out of the way. She turned around to see a small party underway, her classmates talking to each other and unwrapping gifts.

"Sorry sis, we wanted to have the party, but we also didn't want to wake you up, so we compromised and let you take the chair," Yang said, "You were in such a deep sleep, you must have been exhausted from training yesterday."

"Training, yeah," Ruby nodded. She frowned, "Where's Weiss?"

Yang shrugged, "Haven't seen her since yesterday. Didn't she say she was busy?"

It was at that moment, in accordance with dramatic timing, that the door burst open, and Weiss stepped into the room. She walked over to the sisters and smiled, "Merry Christmas, Ruby, Yang. I think I have a gift for you two," she gestured at the door.

Qrow and Taiyang walked in, along with Professor Port, who was chatting up a storm with their father.

"It certainly is marvelous to see you two here at Beacon on this day. Indeed! Oh! I just remembered, I have something I must give to Glynda, farewell gentlemen!" Port waved them away as he dashed out the door in a manly manner.

"Uncle Qrow! Dad!" Yang jumped up and wrapped her arms around her parental figures' necks and drew them in for a hug.

Ruby smiled too and walked towards them, but she glanced at her partner, "Weiss?"

"Yes Ruby?"

"Did what happened last night actually happen?"

Weiss gave her an innocent look, "What do you mean?"

"Uh," Ruby twiddled her fingers, "How did you get them back from Vacuo so quickly?"

"Oh it wasn't me," Weiss explained, "My sister found them while on a mission in Vacuo, and with her connections, chartered them a flight back to Vale."

"Are you sure?" Ruby rubbed her head, "I could have sworn last night… You were Santa Claus and had a magic sleigh with white reindeer and we flew across Vale…"

"Well I'm glad you had a very nice dream. I'm afraid I didn't get much sleep, but a few cups of holiday-themed coffee did a wonderful job," Weiss smiled.

"Yeah," Ruby grinned back, then joined Yang in her family hug.

As the party ended, Ruby, Jaune, and Weiss were left to clean up after drawing the short straws. Jaune cleaned up plates while Weiss handled the decorations and Ruby sweeped the floor.

"Hey Weiss? So, I wanted to ask…"

"Fine, it's the holidays, so I will humor you," Weiss said dismissively, "One date. A movie and a dinner. I pick the movie and the time. We split costs."

"Really?!"

"Yes! Anything to stop your constant attempts to court me," Weiss sighed, "One date, just to see how things go. It doesn't work, you stop asking me, capiche?"

"Y-yes!"

"Good."

Ruby frowned at that. Something nagged at the back of her mind. Thinking on it, she swept around the fireplace until she found something on the ground.

A cracked glass and a couple broken cookies? Wait…

Ruby's eyes widened. She whispered, "A metaphysical gift, like an experience…" she looked at Jaune, "Like a date."

She looked down and found a broken plate as well. Ruby chuckled and swept the floor.

Afterwards, she walked up to Weiss and, before she could resist, hugged her.

Weiss squirmed a bit until Ruby whispered, "Merry Christmas, Weiss. And thanks."

"You're welcome," Weiss replied.

"Sooo," Ruby fidgeted while she held her partner tightly, "I forgot to get you a gift this year."

"No Ruby, you gave me the best gift I could ever want already," Weiss said.

"So uh, can I hang with you again next Christmas Eve?"

"Sure," Weiss answered, "It'll a nice change of pace."

"Maybe next time, I'll come dressed as a reindeer? Ruby the Red-Nosed Reindeer?"

"More like 'Ruby the Red-Nosed Elf'. I could use an assistant," Weiss smirked.

"We'll see," Ruby waved her hand in front of both of them, "But don't try to make it seem like a dream again."

"I am supposed to try my best to keep it a secret, but sadly, you are too perspicacious for my magical abilities."

"Yes. Perspicacious. That describes me. I am that."

"You're getting a dictionary next year."

"Aww…"

A/N: The more I write a character, the more I like them. That's probably where this idea came from. That being said, dust would be the coal equivalent on Remnant, and the SDC mines dust, so clearly there's a connection there.

Is this fic White Knight? Only if you want it to be. For all we know, the date doesn't work out and they stop dating. Or it continues. Not really important, just that Weiss granted Jaune's wish to go out with her just once…

If I ever wrote a continuation to this, it would definitely be as a new chapter rather than a sequel. Maybe next year, if I'm inspired. So yeah, Merry Christmas, all.