Alright, firstly, to BleachCadelina, I must thank you for 'keeping an eye' on this story, and I appreciate your feedback. I will try not to put huge blocks of text in the story as much. Now, to Lyricoe, fear not, because I will definitely be writing more of this. I'm quite invested in this idea, and I have a few notions as to how I would like a story like this to play out. Finally, for kaiju62, I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and I will definitely be writing more of this. I think you'll like the way Weiss and Ruby get along here. Also, yeah, I wanted to make a Ruby a massive fangirl for Ozpin. Or like, any Huntsman!
Ruby rubbed the back of her head, feeling a little ache from her collision with the white-haired girl from earlier. She shook her head a little as Fletcher took her arm and pulled her to her feet, then repeated the process with the white-haired girl.
"Oh my Oum, are you alright?" The white-haired girl looked a bit frightened, as she scanned Ruby for any visual injuries. When Ruby nodded, the girl's expression turned sour, and angry. "Good, now why in Remnant are you so clumsy!? This is the second time you've knocked me over!" Ruby laughed nervously and started mumbling, to which the girl scowled at. "You should learn to watch where you're going before you trip over your own feet. Look, I'm sorry alright? Just try not to be so clumsy in the future, got it? I won't be this nice if you knock me over again." With that remark, the girl turned to Fletcher. "You must be Fletcher Arc, correct?"
"Uh, yeah. I'm Fletcher. Who are you?"
"I'm Weiss! I'm here about the open positions within your establishment. I'd like to apply for a job."
"Okaaaaaay. So uh, if you'll just follow me, we can do the interview in my office, alright?" Weiss nodded and made to follow Fletcher back into the basement he and Ruby had just come out of, leaving Ruby standing alone with an embarrassed flush over her face.
"I promise I'll make this up to you, Miss Weiss!" As Ruby called to Weiss, Jaune slid up next to Ruby, and looked from the departing Weiss, then to Ruby.
"Hey, Ruby, are you okay?"
"Oh, hey Jaune. Uh, yeah I'm fine. I just uh, 'ran into' that girl. Literally. I knocked her over twice, and I think she might be mad at me."
Jaune laughed a little and shrugged. "Look, Ruby, I'm sure if you just apologize after she's done talking with Dad, that you two can make up and be friends or some junk. Now, uh, not to bother, but Pyrrha doesn't like running the counter, so maybe you should run back. I'll talk to you after the shift, okay?" Ruby smiled and nodded, then walked over to the counter, hastily relieving Pyrrha of her duty at the counter, then settled herself in to start taking orders again.
"Hello, my name is Ruby! Welcome to the Crescent Rose, how can I help you?"
-Two And A Half Hours Later-
Ruby leaned on the counter, and blew some hair out of her face. It was late in the day, and about thirty minutes from closing time. There was barely anyone in the diner aside from the workers, and Fletcher was over in the corner talking to the Weiss girl, looking thoroughly bored. Ruby could sympathize. No one had come in to be served in the past hour and a half, so she was just waiting around. I wonder what Yang is doing right now? Probably just fixing up some dusty old cars. Ew. I don't understand why she likes being a mechanic! It's all oily and greasy an-
*DING*
Ruby's internal monologue was cut off as the bell above the door rang, signalling that a customer had just walked into the diner. Standing up straight, Ruby turned...and laid her eyes upon two blondes. Yang, and her father, Taiyang, standing right in front of her. Ruby's eyes lit up upon seeing Taiyang, and she practically leapt over the counter to give him a hug.
"DAD! OH MY OUM YOU'RE HERE!"
Taiyang laughed and wrapped his arms around Ruby, then frowned. "Is it normal for the service to hug the customer?" Ruby laughed a little, then backed up and smiled. "Hey, Rosebud! So you finally got a job, eh? Look at you! If you didn't live with Yang and have your own apartment and mode of transportation, I could almost call you a functioning adult!"
"Dad! No fair! I just got out of high school!"
"And you've been living with Yang for nearly 2 years. What, you turn 20 in a month, right?"
"Yeah, but-"
"But you haven't had a job at all since you got out of high school? I know. Anyways, who we gotta kill to get some service around here Rubes?" Taiyang flashed a winning smile as he changed the subject to stop the argument. Ruby shook her head, but smiled and showed Yang and Tai to a table.
"What do you guys want?" Ruby smiled and looked from her dad to her sister.
Yang tapped her chin, then smiled. "Chocolate milkshake, with a cherry please, Rubes."
"Vanilla milkshake, plain." Taiyang smiled again and Ruby skipped over to the counter, and then to the drinks machine, and started to make their drinks. Whistling a little tune as she finished up both drinks, Ruby turned and started to walk back to Yang and Tai, when she collided with something. Rather, someone. Weiss. They both fell, and Ruby managed to spill both of the milkshakes on Weiss.
"You dolt! I told you to watch where you're going! Oum, how do you even function when you're this clumsy!? And look at this! You spilled your stupid drinks all over me! This is unacceptable! I only own like, three shirts, and now you've gone and put chocolate all over one them! Why is it that you can't just look up once in a while huh? Too self absorbed to notice anything else?"
Ruby gaped a little, then frowned. "Hey, this was an accident, princess! I didn't mean to spill milkshakes on you, and I'm sorry for running into you. Literally and figuratively!" Ruby picked herself up, and shook her head, then set the glasses on the counter, scowling. "Besides, it's not the end of the world! Just wash the shirt, or get a new one. There are stores all over Vale that sell clothes, just go pick some up!" Ruby pulled out a rag, then turned and grabbed Weiss, and pulled her over to her, and started to use the rag to help Weiss clean off. "Look, I'm sorry, got it? It won't happen again." Ruby shoved the rag into Weiss' hands, then went to the dressing room, and began searching for her silver t-shirt. Jeez, who does she think she is? So I ran into her, big deal. So I spilled a drink on her. Who cares? She can always get a new shirt freaking anywhere in town! Finding her shirt, she burst out of the dressing room and stalked over to Weiss, then grabbed her again, and pulled her to the dressing room.
"Hey, what are you doing!? Unhand me this instant!" Ruby ignored Weiss and pulled her into the dressing room, and pushed her onto one of the seats, then threw her silver shirt at her.
"Here, put this on"
"What?"
"The shirt, princess, put it on. Your shirt is wet, and white and wet don't really go together if you catch my drift. Just put on my shirt and I'll be out of your hair" Weiss blinked, her mouth slightly agape, before she quickly switched shirts, then looked up to Ruby, blushing a little.
"Ah, I have to say thank you, so uh, thank you, miss. But understand, we're not friends just because of this. All you've done to me today is run into me and knock me over. Until you can prove you're not a hazard to my health, we will not be friends" Ruby rolled her eyes.
"When would I be able to prove anything to you? It isn't like I'll be seeing you again anytime soon."
"Actually…"
"Actually what?" Ruby looked down at Weiss and cocked her head, a frown evident on her face. Oum, I try to help and all I get is a half-assed thank you, and a warning that I'm a 'hazard' to her health. This girl is a real ice queen.
"I've just been hired here. Mister Arc has partnered me with another girl named Ruby, and I'll be working with her tomorrow. Assuming you work tomorrow, you can start making things up then."
"You're kidding"
"I know, I dislike the prospect of working with you just as much as you don't want to work with me, but we need to remain professional. I can only hope Ruby is better than you are"
"I'm Ruby"
"I beg your pardon?"
"I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose. You're going to be working with me, I guess…" Ruby sagged a little bit, and Weiss groaned, then pinched the bridge of her nose. Ruby opened her mouth to speak, but then the door opened, revealing Blake, Nora and Pyrrha.
Pyrrha waved. "Is everyone okay in here? I heard Ruby ran into someone again then dragged a girl in here, so we just wanted to make sure that everyone is dandy in here"
Blake smiled at Ruby, but didn't speak, whereas Nora prepared a torrent of comments, and unleashed them as one. "Ruby how dare you get on top of someone three times and get them wet without even going on a first date? Then drag them back into a small room against their will to do Oum knows what!? For shame! In some kingdoms, you could get arrested for this behaviour!" Both Weiss and Ruby blushed, and Ruby used her hoodie to hide her furiously reddening face, while Weiss spluttered indignantly, trying and failing miserably to piece sounds together into words.
"Nora! That is first of all, lewd, and second of all, a very big insinuation! I'm sure Ruby had no intention to engage in unwanted intimate contact with this woman!" Blake started laughing uncontrollably as Pyrrha tried to scold Nora, who had raised her hands, and made a rough approximation of the number '69' and was smushing the 6 and 9 together, making small little gasps and moans as she giggled. "NORA! STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!" Blake was on the floor, laughing, holding her sides and wiping tears from her face. Ruby blushed harder and hid behind both her hoodie and Weiss, the latter of which turned and glared at Ruby, her eyes drilling holes into the crimsonette.
"Nora, I-hoo my lord-you're uh, you're embarrassing Ruby, and the other girl"
(A/N: Shameless shipping of Whiterose, even though I don't particularly like that ship. I prefer Checkmate, or Under the Schnee(Neptune and Weiss), a lot more. For Ruby, it'd have to be Ladybug, Rainbow Rose, Red Sea, or Lancaster. TBH Neon and Ruby, Rainbow Rose, makes sense to me because of their personalities, both energetic and a bit quirky. Ruby and Neptune, because Neptune and Ruby both like to have fun, and both seem to share the same personality. Intelligent and friendly, as well as dorky, Sue me if you want, at least I'm not shipping Rosewick.)
Ruby stood, and quickly dashed out of the dressing room to escape Weiss' icy glare and Nora's lewd insinuations, and found that Sun had filled her sister and father's order, and was currently sitting and talking with them. Ruby waited a minute for her face to return to normal, then walked over to their table, and slid into the seat next to Sun, across from Yang and Tai.
"Hey Ruby, how'd it go with the Weisscream Truck?" Ruby laughed a little, then frowned.
"How did you know her name?"
"Fletch told us" Ruby nodded.
"Well, I uh, gave her my silver shirt since I kinda ruined her shirt, then Nora came in and started making lewd jokes. So all in all, it wasn't that good of a tradeoff for a half-assed apology from the Ice Queen"
"Heh, that sounds like Nora alright. Hey, we were all gonna go out to the beach for a sunset party today, and Fletch told me to invite you, so...wanna come?" Sun flashed a hopeful smile and crossed his fingers, looking at Ruby as she thought.
"Uh, sure! Sounds fun, Sun" Sun laughed and fist pumped.
"Nice, Blake owes me 10 L! She thought you wouldn't want to go because of Nora!"
Ruby laughed too, then turned to her dad, who was examining Sun. "Ruby, midn introducing us to your coworker?" Ruby raised an eyebrow at Tai, suspecting that she knew what he as thinking.
"Uh thi-"
"Sun Wukong, at your service sir. I'm a server here at Crescent Rose, and I'll be the one your daughter and our other rookie will be shadowing tomorrow. Nice to meet you Mister Rose!"
"It's Mister Xiao Long, actually, Sun" Sun cocked his head, confused, as he looked from Yang, to Ruby, to Taiyang, trying to piece together a puzzle, before just shrugging. "So, Sun, do you have any, 'interest' in your coworkers?"
"Yes sir! There is this one, with long black hair, and a bow, and I'm planning on asking her out today at the sunset party. I was actually gonna ask Ruby and our coworker Nora for help, because they're girls so they know what girls like and stuff" Tai smiled and nodded.
"So Ruby, I'm proud of you. You got yo-" Tai was interrupted when Weiss' hand shot out of nowhere, latched onto Ruby's shoulder, and pulled her up to her feet.
"We need to talk, Ruby" With a grunt, Weiss pulled Ruby up to her feet and dragged her to the door of the diner, then through the door to the outside, before turning to her. "Okay, two things, first, I'm Weiss Schnee, nice to meet you, and second, I'm assuming you know Mister Arc's son right, so how do I get him to shut up? He is trying to flirt with me and I simply am not interested"
"So, you're asking me for help?"
"Yes"
"Right, so, I don't know Jaune very well, because I haven't spoken to him much in my like, ten hours here today. I probably won't get to know anyone well, because I don't have social skills, and this job does not require social skills at all"
"What? Of course the job needs social skills! You'll be dealing with customers all day!"
"All you need to do is smile and act happy, Weiss Queen. Not exactly rocket science"
"Pff, I can act happy, obviously, but I'm just saying you need to have some social nuances when working here! But we're not here to talk about the job, I really need help to get Jaune to stop flirting with me. I mean, like, he is already on my nerves, and it has only been a few minutes!"
"Weiss, just say you aren't interested, and maybe try to say it nicely? I don't know if you can do that though, considering your icy attitude. I mean, just look at how you thanked me when I lent you the shirt you're wearing right now!"
Weiss blushed a little, then looked at Ruby. "I'll give it back tonight, at the sunset party. Nora invited me, and by invited me, I mean she told me to come, and I was afraid of saying no. I'll swing by my house and grab a new shirt then give this to you, alright?" Ruby nodded and smiled, then rolled her shoulders.
"Weiss, I promise I'll make this stuff up to you. I'll be the best coworker you've ever had, and you're gonna be begging to be my friend by your second week!"
"I seriously doubt that"
"Doubt all you want, Weiss, but you'll be surprised when you come crawling back to me, begging me to give you the time of day!" Weiss frowned and rolled her eyes, and walked back inside. Ruby shook her head. Feels like Weiss can't decide whether she wants to be nice or be Weiss cold. First she apologized to me, then she yells at me and tells me I'll need to make things up to her. Now she asks me for help! This is going to be complicated. Maybe if I make her a present or something she'll stop being such a little baby. With a smile Ruby walked inside, just as Fletch walked into the room.
"Alright, clean up boys and girls! Get this place looking tidy, and get ready for the party. It starts in an hour, and none of you are going to miss it. That means you too, Ice Queen!" Everyone started rushing around, cleaning everything off and setting away some of the dishes that were still on the tables. "Also, Weiss Queen needs a ride home, her sister is 'busy' and called me to say that she would need to hitch a ride to Evergreen Apartments. Any takers?" Ruby's eyes widened, recognizing the name Evergreen Apartments. That's where I live!
"Yo!" Ruby startled herself, not even realizing that she had raised her hand and spoke until everyone looked at her. "I live at Evergreen Apartments, so Yang and I can try and to take her home"
"Ruby, my bike can't fit three people"
"Yang, you came here in Dad's car, Bumblebee isn't even in the parking lot" Yang smiled and shrugged.
"Alright, that's that. I won't be at the party tonight, so I'm leaving supervision to Jaune. Ciao guys!" Ruby looked at Yang and Tai, then smiled and walked over to Weiss.
"Follow me, I'll show you to the car!" Weiss groaned, but nodded, and Ruby led her out to Taiyang's car, then opened the door for her, and got in on the other side and sat next to Weiss. She pulled out her scroll and tapped a few times, going to her contacts and creating a blank contact, before smirking, turning, and snapping a picture of Weiss' profile to use as her contact photo. "Alright, Weiss, put your number in and hit create contact!"
"What?"
"Well, if we're gonna be partners and friends, I need your number. So, go ahead, put your number in!" Weiss, huffed, but took the scroll, reluctantly putting her number in, and then creating her contact. She then hit new contact, and brought up a blank contact, and entered a number in, then hit create contact. "Whoa, who's number was that?"
"My sister's, in case you can't reach me. Hopefully you'll never have to use it" The driver's side and passenger's side door up front opened up as Taiyang and Yang slid into the car. Taiyang looked into the backseat, checking over Ruby, then Weiss, before frowning.
"Weiss, seat belt, now" Taiyang's voice was commanding, and brooked no argument. Weiss found herself buckling herself in before she was even half through formulating a response to Ruby's father. "Good, now, Yang, directions to the apartment please? You weren't exactly home when you called me so I have, no clue, as to how to get to your place"
Yang smiled and pulled her scroll out, pulling up a map of Vale and zeroing in on Evergreen Apartments. "Just over here Dad, let's get going!"
Disclaimer:
For any of you that read RWBY: Red Rover, an apology is in order. I have missed my last two scheduled uploads, and spent this night working on my pet project rather than my main story. That being said, this chapter is much shorter than I would have liked it, and I'm rather displeased, but I'm not capable of mustering the energy to write another few pages of words, and therefore, this will be Chapter 2, Part 1, and Chapter 2, Part 2 will be released alongside RWBY: Red Rover Chapter 8 tomorrow, hopefully, or on Saturday, in place of the still delayed RWBY: Little Rover short story that I have yet to even begin writing.
Now, with the disclaimer over, feel free to yell at me about my ships. I'll take it all in stride anyways. I don't have much to say tonight, except for this. I'm really pissed. I have a massive sunburn because I was out all yesterday helping out with a local recreational soccer league, and it stings like fuck whenever touched. Naturally, every single person and their mother wanted to slap the sunburn and ask if it hurt. On top of that I've been having pains in my knee, and they won't stop. Anyways, enough ranting, I hope you enjoyed!
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James