WEISS POV:

As soon as I left the dorm, I instantly felt a wave of regret wash over me. I hurt the team, but most importantly, Ruby. I don't know why, but I always seem to feel better around her. It's like she's one of the only people who can make me feel like I'm supposed to be here. I want to go back and apologize, but I just stormed out like 10 seconds ago. They won't want me back for a while. I'm sorry I yelled at you Ruby. I have never meant to hurt you…

While I'm thinking about everything that just happened, I'm basically walking with no purpose and end up in the training rooms. Good thing I usually keep Myrtenaster in the lockers here unless I know we have something we need our weapons for. So I go to the locker to get Myrtenaster out so I can start training. Training has always helped me calm down, so hopefully it can help me now. I raise my rapier into the proper fighting stance and lunge towards the dummies, stabbing the target that indicates where the heart would be if it were a real person. I have to get stronger. For Ruby. No… Why am I thinking like this? I don't like her, do I? No, that's impossible. I'm a Schnee; we can't like members of the same gender. We can't… But, what if… No! Mother and Father would never allow me to anyways. So even if I did like her, which I'm not saying I do, it could never work between us, because my parents would disown me and leave me even more alone than when I first came to this school.

But she makes you feel good, doesn't she? She's helped you step out of your lonely ice prison that you locked yourself away in as a child, right?

Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean I like her!

But doesn't it?

"AHHH! I can't take it anymore!" I yell. Tears start to stream down my face as I decapitated and run through these dummies. This is why I hate arguing with myself… This sort of thing goes on for another 2 ½ hours of me training and arguing with myself in my mind. Deciding if I really do like the one they call Ruby Rose.

After a while, I hear the voice of the person that I'm deciding if I can make happy. "Weiss!" she calls. I turn around almost immediately, trying to hide my tears and put on that rough exterior that I have always done.

"What?" Damnit that came out harsher than I wanted it to.

"You should really go see your grade. It's posted outside of professor Port's classroom." She has a hurt tone to her. Not surprising since I had emotionally hurt her a little while ago. I try to play it off as though I don't care.

"I know, I heard the announcement. I'll go check it in a couple of minutes, but for now, just leave me alone. I don't want to see how terribly I did just yet…" I say, my tone unintentionally sinking.

"But you didn't do terribly. You got the highest grade in the class! You were almost perfect, you only missed one question!" The words in that statement couldn't be true… Not after the extreme hangover that I had. I start smiling when I hear this.

"Really?" Why am I asking this? Ruby would never lie to me…

"Yeah, really, go check your grade just to know that I'm not lying to you. Then come back to the dorm when you're ready. I'll see you there." Then she smiles. Oh, how I love that smile. So warm and inviting. I could just watch it for a while…

Then, all of a sudden, it's gone… and so is Ruby.

Well, might as well go see the grades.

-Later-

At Professor Port's classroom, I see the grade sheet and go down to the "S"s. And there it is. My name. I look to the right and what do you know? My grade is a 99%. I knew Ruby wouldn't lie to me. She's too nice for that. I wouldn't trade my partner for anyone. Am I seriously thinking like this again? Ahhh, I don't know what I'm doing anymore! My heart is telling me Ruby, but my mind is saying no. I don't know what to do! Maybe, I should start by going back to the dorm, like Ruby said...

-Back at the dorm-

"Hey guys, I'm back." I say as I open the door to the room. "Sorry for running off like that earlier, but I thought I failed the test because of the hangover that I had."

"You think yours was bad? You saw how much I drank last night. Your hangover was nothing compared to mine" Yang stated proudly, donning a huge grin while she said it.

"Ok, Ok, we get it Yang, you can drink a lot. No need to brag about it." I hear Blake say from her bed, reading a book that I had never seen before, but chose not to dwell on it too much.

"Where's Ruby?" I ask, hoping that they could tell me where she was.

"Don't know. She left after we found out about our grades and accidentally woke her up from her nap. She never came back." Blake said as she put her book down and stood from the bed. "Have you seen her in the past hour or so, Weiss?"

"Actually, I have. She came and told me to check the grades from the exam. That I got a 99% on it. I believed her, but she told me to go and I haven't seen her since then. I wonder what happened to her…"

As if on cue, My scroll started vibrating. I pick it up, but don't recognize the number. As soon as I tapped "Accept", I heard a voice that I hate with a passion.

"Hello Ice queen, it's good to see you again" The voice said.

"Torchwick? What do you want?"

"Isn't it obvious? I want you to see this little sight right here." He said as he pointed the camera on it towards the wall. My heart almost stopped beating, because chained to the wall, was Ruby. MY leader was chained at the wrists and ankles, becoming unable to move at all.

"Why did you take her?" I hear Yang yell, her aura flaring because the temperature in the room warming about 10 degrees.

"It's simple actually. If all three of you drop out of Beacon and stop interfering with my plans, I will let her go. Until then, she stays here with me. Oh, and if you think about coming, my boys will kill you. Nothing more, nothing less. Dead. Now, have a nice night." He smirked as he closed the call. My heart was beating faster than ever. No! This can't be happening! The leader of this team. The only person who has cared that much about me. The only person I care that much about… Was captured by Torchwick and bound to the wall wherever he was. I HAVE to find her.

"We have to go get her!" I yell at the others.

"We know, but you know what he said. If we go to where he is, we'll die!" Yang yelled back at me.

"I know, but we can't just leave her there! I know! We can go get Ozpin! He's a strong enough Huntsman to stop Torchwick… I hope…" My tone obviously falters at the last part. I now realize what Ruby is to me… She's more than a partner to me… I… I l-love Ruby Rose… It's so clear now. Nothing can change.

-Professor Ozpin's office-

"So what you three are telling me, is that your team's leader was kidnapped by Roman Torchwick and is being held for the ransom of you three leaving Beacon and to stop interfering with his heists and such?" Asked Ozpin.
"Exactly. Now, could you please help us find my sister?" Yang asks with a slightly irritated tone, because they just explained everything twice to Ozpin and she was tired of waiting.

"But of course! Now, do you have his coordinates?"

"Actually, we do. We traced his cell signal to a supply building in South-Eastern Vale. An old abandoned one." Blake replied.

"Fantastic. Then let me get some of the professors gathered and contact the Vale police department to tell them where Torchwick is."

Don't worry Ruby. We're coming to save you.

-South-East Vale-

"We're here, now, give me those coordinates Blake."

"155 degrees, 21 minutes, 13 seconds east. 45 degrees, 13 minutes, 42 seconds south. Should be a large gray warehouse."

"Good. I see it up ahead. Seems like a perfect place to hide a criminal organization. I wonder why he didn't encrypt the call so you couldn't trace his coordinates. Maybe he wants you three to come. I doubt he's expecting the rest of us, though."

Perfect. They won't be expecting everyone in our little group here.

"All right!" I start, looking at the other people here. "We need a distraction so we can get inside. Professor Ozpin, do you have any ideas of how to get the three of us in unnoticed?"

"Indeed I do, but what makes you so sure that you're the one in charge here?"

"With all due respect sir, I AM her partner."

"Ah, yes. Quite. Now, for this distraction. These huntsmen and huntresses that I have gathered will go around the building to the back, where we will blow a hole in the building's side. At this point, you will have enough space to walk right on in and free your leader. Any questions?"

"No sir!" the three of us in team RWBY repeat in unison.

"Good, now, let's get going."

Yes. Let's find my partner. Let's find the one that I love.

The other huntsmen and huntresses start to make their way around the back of the building. We start to creep up to the main entrance. Surprisingly, it's not heavily guarded as I thought it would be. Suddenly, an explosion could be heard near the back. Subsequently, an alarm starts to go off inside the building. That would be our cue. Don't worry Ruby, we're almost there.

We rush through the main entrance and decide to split up to look for her. Yang goes left, Blake goes right, and I go straight through.

About halfway down the corridor, I hear muffled screams for help coming from a room.

It's her! I found her!

I open the door to said room and the sight before me is pure relief. There she is. I'm so close to rescuing her. Her screams have stopped. She has given up all chance of hope. I have to tell her I'm here.

"Ruby!"