Weiss Schnee

Weiss awoke slowly; a few weeks had passed since her initiation, and she and the rest of team RWBY were finally beginning to settle into Beacon's daily routine. In the time since Weiss had watched Ruby behead a Giant Nevermore on the cliffs overlooking the Emerald Forest, she had come to respect her young leader. Weiss still didn't particular like the girl, but she understood that Ruby was capable of success in tense combat situation. Weiss still hadn't forgiven Ruby for a certain whistle, however, and if luck was on the heiress' side, Ruby would never find where it was hidden.

Rising from her bed, Weiss left the dorm to prepare for the day. She returned about an hour later only to find that the rest of the team had already departed. With this realisation, Weiss promptly left for breakfast, hoping she'd find them there.

The cafeteria was packed with hungry students looking appease their disgruntled stomachs. After a quick scan of the room, Weiss was able to locate, her team, along with JNPR and Velvet, eating near the rear entrance. They appeared to be deep in some sort of discussion; dust knows what it was. She decided to grab some food and escape unseen; no need to let their ignorance ruin her day before it could begin.

"All I'm saying is that sloths should be required to wear spinner caps. Is that too much to ask?" Nora exclaimed as Weiss approached the table.

"Yes, Nora, it is..." Ren spoke slowly.

"S-sloths would look cute in a spinner hat, especially the r-rainbow ones..." Velvet supplied.

"That's ridiculous," Blake spat, "everyone knows that sloths look best in flat caps."

"You're all wrong!" Ruby yelled, "Sloths only need their birthday suits, as they are born in utter perfection!" The table went silent. Everyone was probably stunned by the brilliance of Ruby's conclusion. That had to be it; why else would they be staring at her like that?

"Your reasoning was a little bare, don't ya think?" Yang enthused. Everyone else silently decided that breakfast had been summarily ruined by the resident sisters.

Team RWBY was sitting in Port's class, everyone was in peace. Then, everything changed when homework nation attacked. "Ugh, I can't believe he wants us to finish a whole chapter by tomorrow. It goes against all that is right. That man is pure evil I tell you. Right, Weiss?" Ruby looked hopefully over at her partner; who, for some reason, avoided eye contact.

"Regardless of how you feel about it, it still needs to be done." Weiss snapped, causing Ruby to look at her feet, ashamed. Weiss huffed, and sped up, leaving her partner behind

All Ruby wanted form Weiss was familiarity. Was that so wrong to want from the heiress? She just didn't understand what her problem was. Just when she thought she was getting somewhere with the Ice Queen, she had shut her out. It was really grating on the young girl's nerves, only she didn't know how to make it better. That was the worst part. Weiss seemed to have something bothering her, and she didn't even trust her partner enough to share. 'Well, I guess I'm going to have to make her share.'

Ruby wasn't able to speak to Weiss until classes were over, and the sun was beginning its descent into the horizon. The frosty female was to be found, sitting on a bench, apparently deep in thought. For a moment, Ruby hesitated. She hadn't noticed how beautiful Weiss was until that moment, with the setting sun illuminating the heiress' hair, and the autumn leaves of the tree above her cascading to the ground. The young huntress shook these thoughts out of her head; she need to focus on helping Weiss with whatever problem she had, not stalker-timing her from a distance.

Ruby waved as she approached her partner, who seemed to take no notice of her (hopefully) friend. "Hey, Weiss; what're you thinking about?"

"None of your business, dolt, go find some sweets to murder."

Ruby chuckled inwardly at Weiss' statement, but made no outward showing of amusement. "I can see that something is wrong, and I want to help, so please just let me in."

The heiress chuckled mirthlessly, "You can't help me Ruby; you're part of the problem."

The cloaked girl was shocked by this; what had she done? Ruby thought over all of her interactions with the snowy girl beside her, and came up empty. "What are you talking about Weiss? If I did something wrong, let me know, so I can make it right." Weiss seemed unable to look Ruby in the eyes. "Look at me. I don't care what it is, I'll fix it. I promise."

Weiss looked at Ruby for a moment, and time seemed to slow to a creep. The heiress lunged at Ruby catching younger girl's lips with her own, catching Ruby by surprise. By the time she was able to figure what was going on, Weiss had already pulled away, looking horrified at what she had just done. She tried to stand up to run, but Ruby was too fast, and was caught by the wrist in time to prevent her flight. "Sit back down; we're going to try that again." With that, Ruby pulled her partner in close, who then licked her on the forehead.

"Wuh, huh?' Ruby mumbled in surprise. She lifted her head from her pillow to see Zwei sitting on her hunk, wagging his tail. "Oh, it's was a dream." Ruby groaned, regretting having kept her dog at school. This had been going on for a while now. Ruby knew that something needed to be done, that this wasn't good for her, but then, neither was confessing to Weiss Schnee of all people. That wasn't just emotionally bad, but could be potentially physically harmful to her health. Ruby just wasn't sure which was worse.