The Boss

Once upon a time, Weiss had dreamed of taking over her family's company. But now that she was finally in charge of operations in this part of the world, she was beginning to reconsider. Oh, the corporate warfare side of things was enjoyable enough. There was nothing quite like planning and executing a product launch or hostile takeover. Maybe it was the megalomaniac that Ruby was convinced was inside her, but crushing the competition had always left Weiss with a spring in her step and a smile on her lips.

What Weiss hated were all the damn meetings – and there were so many of them. There was a meeting for seemingly everything, and despite her best efforts to wipe out some of the more idiotic ones – there had been a weekly meeting about what brand of coffee the break rooms would have – she hadn't been able to get rid of all of them. Her most recent meeting had occurred earlier that afternoon.

One of Weiss's pet projects was to reform the company's employee benefits scheme. It was true that spending more money on the employees cut into profits, but a solid benefits scheme also ensured worker loyalty and hard work, which themselves increased profits. She was determined to make her patch of the company the most profitable, and the benefits scheme was one way of luring all of the best talent.

Part of establishing a good employee benefits scheme involved the development of an insurance program for employees and their significant others/immediate family. She'd never had to worry about insurance, but Ruby had opened her eyes to the difficulties faced by people on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder. The other woman hadn't grown up with anything even approaching the wealth that Weiss had taken for granted.

The meeting to discuss her planned changes had gone well until Weiss had reached the provision covering human employees in relationships with Faunus. That particular section had led to five hours of discussion as to whether or not Faunus deserved the same benefits as their human counterparts.

Weiss was equal parts angry and dismayed by the fact that there were still people in her company that hadn't realised her position on what they termed the "Faunus situation". They were just lucky that Yang wasn't there. The blonde would have started punching people through walls the moment someone said something insulting about the Faunus.

In the end, Weiss had done the same thing she always did when people tried to tell her what she could and couldn't do. She'd done her best impression of a train and run right over them. It was wonderfully fun flexing her corporate muscles and throwing her weight around. She'd gotten her way, but some of them had put up a heck of a fight.

It was only after the meeting, as she she'd trudged into her office to finish off some paperwork, that she'd realised it was Friday night – and Friday night was date night with Ruby. A glance at the clock on the wall confirmed her worst fears. It was already eleven o'clock in the evening. Date night was supposed to have started four hours ago.

Damn it.

She picked up the phone and dialled Ruby's number. It went straight to voice mail.

That was not good. Ruby didn't get angry with her often – Ruby was too cheerful for that – but when she did get angry, it wasn't pretty. The last time it had happened, Weiss had been forced to go running to Yang for help. The blonde's advice had been very simple: show up in Ruby's bedroom covered in cookies and sexy lingerie.

Weiss sighed and contemplated the paperwork on her desk. She was already in trouble with Ruby, so she might as well finish it off. After that she could start thinking about how she'd make it up to her girlfriend. Cookies and lingerie had work last time. Maybe they'd work again.

She got through two pieces of paperwork before her head thumped down onto the desk. It had been a long, long day.

X X X

"Hey, this is pretty fun."

Weiss twitched as something poked her in the forehead. She mumbled under her breath and tried to bat it away.

Poke.

Poke.

Poke.

What was that? Weiss growled and tried to grab it. Whatever it was, it refused to be caught.

"Stop that!" Weiss opened her eyes and rubbed her face. "Ruby!"

Ruby grinned and poked her in the forehead again. How long had she been there, and how long had she been poking her on the forehead? Knowing Ruby, it could have been a while. As usual, the other woman was dressed in a combination of black and red, her combat skirt cut in just the right way to provide maximum ability and killer good looks. Maybe it was because Weiss was in love with her, but she was firmly of the opinion that Ruby was one of the most desirable women in the world – and she was all Weiss's.

"Rise and shine sleepy head." Ruby giggled and then, just because she could, she poked Weiss in the forehead again.

"Stop that." Weiss tried to shoot to her feet. She wasn't as fast as Ruby – nobody was – but she was more graceful. Unfortunately, she hadn't taken into account the fact that her legs had fallen asleep. What should have been an elegant flip over the table so that she could pull her girlfriend into a headlock turned into an ungainly sprawl that sent her face on a collision course with the floor. "Gah!"

"Easy there." Ruby lunged forward and caught her. Weiss ended up on top of Ruby, the other woman smiling up at her from the floor. "You know, Weiss, I've always wanted to do it on the floor of your office. I mean we've already done it on your desk so – ouch!"

Weiss bonked Ruby over the head. "Ruby, don't say things like that."

Ruby chuckled and rubbed her head. Then her mirth gave way to that dark, hooded look that always sent a rush of liquid heat through Weiss's body. "If you didn't want me to say things like that, you shouldn't end up in positions like this."

Weiss froze as she realised exactly how they'd ended up. She was straddling Ruby as the other woman's hands ran slowly up and down her thighs. In typical Ruby fashion, the dark-haired woman's hands shifted to cup her bottom as those remarkable silver eyes burned into hers. "Ruby…"

"Come on, Weiss, you know you want to." Weiss tried to push herself off Ruby, but Ruby just smile and pulled Weiss flush against her.

"Ruby… we… we shouldn't –"

Growl.

The new flush on Weiss's cheeks had nothing to do with Ruby's wandering hands and everything to do with the ridiculously loud growling of her stomach. She hadn't eaten anything since breakfast, and her stomach had decided that now – of all times – was the perfect moment to complain.

Ruby couldn't help it. She laughed.

"Ruby!" Weiss cursed her stomach and did her best to punch Ruby in the head. "Stop laughing this instant!"

Ruby managed to stop laughing long enough to throw Weiss off and get back onto her feet. She held her hands up as Weiss advanced, eyebrow twitching. "Okay, okay. Don't worry. We can always have sex on the floor later. But since you're so hungry, why don't we fix that first? I brought food."

It was only then that Weiss realised that she could smell something. Was that… pizza? She glanced around, and sure enough, there were two boxes of pizza on the coffee table on the other side of her office near the couches.

"Ruby, you know how I feel about pizza."

"Yes, yes, yes, you think it's hideously unhealthy garbage that isn't the least bit fitting for a woman of your stature. But that doesn't stop you from devouring it whenever we buy any." Ruby ducked another punch and dragged Weiss over to the pizza. "Besides, look how easily I'm dragging you along. You're usually way more stubborn. You must have been weakened by your hunger."

"Ruby, that doesn't make any sense." Weiss tried to dig her heels into the carpet, but Ruby continued to drag her along without skipping a beat.

"It makes perfect sense. It's part of what makes me the perfect girlfriend – I kick ass, bring food, and provide mind-blowing sex."

"Must you keep referring to sex?"

"Why should I? We do have lots of it, don't we? In fact, the last time I was here, I seem to recall us taking full advantage of your having such a big desk."

Weiss pinched Ruby's cheek. This was what she got for letting Ruby hang out with Blake so much. The Faunus might have seemed reserved, but she could be even more perverted than Yang, which was no easy feat. Ruby had mentioned, on more than one occasion, that the Faunus devoted an entire section of her private library to certain, intimate activities.

"Let's just eat." Weiss scowled as she flopped down onto the couch. "Although I still can't believe that you got me pizza."

"We've been over this, Weiss. I get you pizza, you pretend that it's beneath you, and then you eat all of it and half of mine anyway."

Weiss promptly shut her mouth and turned away from the pizza. If Ruby was going to be that way, then she simply refused to eat it, even if she tremendously hungry.

"And you call me childish." Ruby leaned over and cupped Weiss's cheek. Smiling that small, secretive smile of hers, Ruby pulled her into a gentle kiss. It was a trick – it had to be – but Weiss found herself relaxing, letting Ruby tease her lips apart and –

"Hah!"

Weiss suddenly found herself with a mouthful of pizza as Ruby pulled away and shoved a slice of pizza into her mouth. She gave a strangled cry, but that simply allowed Ruby to cram more of the pizza in. And as much as Weiss hated to admit it, the pizza was very nice.

"I suppose, it's all right." Weiss huffed.

"Oh, don't be like that." Ruby picked up a napkin to dab at some of the pizza sauce that had gathered at the corner of Weiss's mouth. It was very tempting to kiss the sauce off those full lips, but she knew how much Weiss hated to be tricked. Weiss would probably take the opportunity to bonk her over the head. "You know you love pizza."

"Fine. It's great. Are you happy?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

Ruby opened up the other box of pizza and got started on her own. She hadn't eaten anything since breakfast either – she'd spent her day showing students from Beacon how to not die when they fought giant monsters.

"So… you're not angry about me missing date night?" Weiss asked.

Ruby shrugged. "Not really. I know how busy you are, and I also know why you were stuck in a meeting for so long."

"How did you find out?"

"Oh, some of your staff told me." Ruby gave Weiss's hand a playful slap when the other woman tried to take a piece of her pizza before handing her a piece anyway.

Weiss made a face. The contents of her meetings were supposed to be secret. There was no telling what kind of damage might be done to the company if people knew what they were discussing.

"Relax, Weiss. It's not like your staff blab about things to everyone. They like me, and they know I'd never betray you. Besides, you're kind of a dragon in the workplace. I'm the nice one they go to whenever they want to make a suggestion but are too scared of you to say anything."

"Really?"

"Yep." Ruby munched on another piece of pizza. "Really."

Weiss wasn't sure whether to be exasperated or horrified by the fact that Ruby had, in her usual way, completely won over her staff. Well, at least it was Ruby and not Yang. Yang would probably have convinced some of the maintenance staff to convert the bottom floor into a bar. As it was, the only change Ruby had asked for was for the staff cafeteria to add more baked goods to the menu.

"Fine, fine." Weiss waved one hand. Ruby did have a knack for making friends, even if sometime she could be hilariously awkward about it. She paused. It wasn't often she apologised, but Ruby was different. "But I am sorry about missing date night, Ruby. I mean it."

"I knew what things would be like when I started going out with you," Ruby said. "Plus, we're having date night right now, aren't we?" Ruby waggled her eyebrows. "Pizza, cake, who could ask for more?"

"Cake?" Weiss perked up. "Where?"

Ruby vanished in a blur of motion, rose petals fluttering to the ground, and then reappeared with some chocolate cake. "Tada!"

"You are the best girlfriend ever." Weiss normally did her best to eat in a suitably sophisticated and polite manner, but there were times when pigging out was mandatory. After the week she'd had, it was mandatory. Besides, the chocolate cake was so good.

About an hour later, the pair of them had finished eating. They hadn't quite managed to knock off the pizza and cake, but they could always take them home for later.

"Okay, let's go home." Weiss stood. "I can leave the rest of my paperwork until Monday."

"But we haven't had sex on your floor yet." Ruby looked so much like a kicked puppy that Weiss couldn't help but wonder if she had any Faunus blood. And now Ruby was pouting, and Weiss could practically see her tail wagging.

"We are not having sex on the floor of my office." Weiss was going to put her foot down on this. Besides, the carpet was scratchy.

"You are so bossy." Ruby followed Weiss out of the office and over to one of the elevators. Around them, the hallways were still and empty. Everyone else had already gone home.

"At work, Ruby, I'm the boss."

Ruby managed to behave until they got into the elevator. The dark-haired woman hit the emergency stop button and then turned to Weiss with hunger in her eyes. Weiss shivered. She should have known. When Ruby wanted something, she always found a way to get it.

"Ruby, what are you doing?"

"Technically, you're not working anymore, which means that you're not the boss anymore." Ruby flicked her wrist and used Crescent Rose to slice apart the cameras in the elevator before she tucked the weapon away. "Plus, I've always wondered about these elevators." She nodded at the handrail that ran around the elevator at roughly waist height. "And especially what those are for."

Weiss backed away. She knew what the look in Ruby's eyes meant. "Wait!"

Ruby blurred forward, and Weiss dropped the remaining pizza and cake as she fumbled for Myrtenaster. Regardless of what Ruby wanted – or how appealing it might be – she was not about to have sex in an elevator! She tried to draw her weapon, but Ruby shoved her back against the wall and hoisted her up onto the handrail in one smooth motion.

"Ruby – mphhh!"

Weiss tried to struggle, but Ruby would not be denied. The other woman's lips plundered hers, ruthless, demanding, and utterly, utterly irresistible. Weiss's hands clutched at Ruby's cloak. She shoved Ruby back, but without her feet on the ground, it was futile. Besides, while Weiss was no slouch in hand-to-hand combat, Ruby had grown up around Yang.

Finally, Ruby pulled away, and Weiss felt the heat coil in her belly at the gleam in Ruby's silver eyes. "You know, Weiss, you're not doing a very good job of resisting."

"I…" Weiss prided herself on her ability to think under pressure, but it was hard to think with Ruby's body pressed against hers and Ruby's breath brushing against her lips. "Ruby…"

"Look, if you really don't want to do this, I won't make you." Ruby smirked, and there was something utterly sinful about what that expression did to Weiss. "But if you do want to do this, well, I'll make sure you enjoy it."

"Ruby…" Weiss swallowed thickly. Her mind finally began to work. Ruby had hit the emergency stop button. Unless they activated the phone and talked to security, they might have as long as fifteen minutes to themselves before the elevator began moving again. Fifteen minutes – fifteen minutes in an elevator with Ruby. "Oh… okay."

"Heh. You're so cute." Ruby leaned in. "But that's what I love about. Now just relax, Weiss, and let me have you."

Weiss whimpered as Ruby's hands found their way under her skirt. At the same time, Ruby's mouth settled over hers before wandering down to her throat. Weiss cried out, moaning as one of Ruby's hands delved into her panties as the other went to work on the top half of her dress.

In what felt like a split-second, Weiss's chest was bare, and Ruby's mouth sought out first one breast and the other. She arched toward Ruby, not caring how wanton she looked. The whine building in her throat became a groan when two of Ruby's fingers thrust into her. Her eyes almost fluttered closed, but Ruby's voice stopped her, harsh and almost guttural.

"Keep your eyes open, Weiss." Ruby's gaze burned into her. "I want to see your eyes. If you close them, I'll stop."

"Ruby…" Weiss gasped again as Ruby's fingers found that spot inside her that made her see stars. "Please…"

"You're not the boss here, Weiss." Ruby shoved Weiss up against the wall harder and tore open the top of her dress. It was becoming far too cumbersome holding it open. "I am."

Weiss could do nothing but nod her head as Ruby began to set the pace, pressing her flat against the wall of the elevator with every thrust as her lips trailed over the expanse of pale skin in front of her. Ruby's other hand had stopped stroking Weiss's breasts in favour of holding her hips in place.

"Ruby… Ruby…" Weiss fought to keep her eyes open, knowing that Ruby would stop if she didn't. "Ruby… please…"

"Not yet," Ruby growled. "Not until I say so." She leaned in, lips a hair's breadth from Weiss's. "Look at me, Weiss, look into my eyes. I want to see you fall apart."

"Ruby, please –"

"Now." The word came out in a harsh whisper.

Weiss obeyed. Every muscle in her body clenched as her back arched, and her legs tightened around Ruby's waist. Her hands clawed at the other woman's back, and her hips jerked hard against Ruby in a desperate attempt to draw the pleasure out. Ruby's eyes never left Weiss's, not even when the white-haired woman's eyes glazed at the peak of her pleasure.

Slowly, very slowly, Ruby eased Weiss down. Weiss's eyes focused again, and she met Ruby's gaze.

"Ruby…"

"Good girl." Ruby smiled, pressing a gentle kiss to Weiss's forehead. "You didn't look away. For that, Weiss, I think you deserve a reward."

"But –"

"If you're worried about the elevator moving again, you don't have to be." Ruby kept Weiss pinned against the wall, one hand tracing circles on Weiss's hip, the other resting under one thigh. "I might have – maybe – had a talk with some of the maintenance people."

It took a moment for Ruby's words to sink in.

"Did you plan this whole thing?" Weiss tried to push away from the wall, but Ruby refused to budge.

"Maybe." Ruby smirked. "After all, you've spent so much time at work lately, that I haven't had my weekly dose of Weiss yet." She paused, gaze burning into Weiss. "So, are you going to get angry about my using your own maintenance people against you, or are you to sit back and enjoy all the things I've been planning?"

It was the easiest decision in the world to make. She could always yell at Ruby later. Weiss leaned back, smiling faintly as Ruby's gaze went from her swollen lips to her breasts. "By all means, Ruby, continue."

"Yes, ma'am."

It was another forty-five minutes before the elevator finally got moving again. Ruby had been absolutely merciless, taking Weiss again and again, until Weiss collapsed against her in a boneless heap. Ruby actually had to help her out of the elevator since Weiss's legs had decided to abandon her. As for Weiss's clothes, they'd seen better days too. Ruby, of course, had done the chivalrous thing and lent Weiss her cloak.

To Weiss's utter embarrassment there was someone in the foyer.

"Hey, Bill!" Ruby gave the nightwatchman a cheerful wave. Weiss turned the colour of a tomato as she remembered exactly where – and what – that hand had been doing only a few minutes ago.

"Uh, good evening, Miss Ruby, Miss Schnee." Bill was one of the older nightwatchmen. He was going on fifty now, and he'd overheard Ruby's conversation with the maintenance staff. It was nice to know that someone loved Miss Schnee enough to sabotage an elevator for her. Still, if they'd been doing what he thought they'd been doing, he'd have to send a maintenance crew to clean up the elevator. "Have a good night, ma'am."

"We already had a good night," Ruby whispered to Weiss.

"Idiot." Weiss gave Ruby a playful scowl. "Once my legs are working again, I'm going to kick your ass."

"Swearing, Weiss?"

"What can I say?" Weiss smiled and leaned against Ruby. "You've corrupted me."

X X X

Author's Notes

As always, I do not own RWBY, and I am not making any money off of this.

I wasn't sure what direction I'd take this story after the first chapter, but I decided to just go with my gut: chapters that have a bit of smut, fluff, and humour, not to mention a bit of arguing over who is in charge of what.

I do like Yang/Blake, but I always find myself writing Ruby/Weiss stuff. I don't know what it is about them, but I just think they fit together nicely. It doesn't hurt that I find the dynamic between them extremely amusing. Weiss likes to act like she's in charge, but I have a feeling that if Ruby really wanted something, then Weiss would cave like a paper bag. I also think that Ruby is more devious than people give her credit for.

There was a fair bit of politically oriented stuff at the beginning. It isn't essential to the story, but I thought I'd put it in so that you guys have a better idea of what Weiss is trying to achieve. Obviously, changing deeply held attitudes isn't easy, but Weiss has never been one to give up. I can see an older Weiss becoming much more appreciative of the difficulties faced by Faunus, courtesy of people like Blake and Velvet, and then taking steps to try and make things better. Go Weiss!

I also write original fiction. Most of my original stuff is fantasy. If you like fantasy with plenty of atmosphere and action, check out The Last Huntress, I'm sure you'll love it. If you're in the mood for fantasy with a more 'old-fashioned' feel, then take a look at The Burning Mountains. You can find links to everything in my profile.

I've also released my newest original story, Durendal. It runs to ~80,000 words, making it the first novel-length original story that I've made available to the public! It's a coming-of-age story and a Western with elements of science fiction. If you've enjoyed my other stories, I know you'll love this one. You can find links to it in my profile. If you want a paranormal Western with a good sense of humour, you might want to check out The Gunslinger and the Necromancer.

As always, I appreciate feedback. Reviews and comments are welcome.