"Wait! You shouldn't be moving around so much!" Weiss called after Ruby as they both dashed down the stairs, Ruby in a mad panic to make sure her sister was OK, Weiss to make sure Ruby didn't give herself brain damage.
"I'm fine! I'm tough!" Ruby called over her shoulder as she ran down the final flight of stairs. Only as she passed under a chance broken lightbulb, did Weiss's fear magnify itself tenfold.
Ruby was glowing.
Literally, neon glowing.
"Ruby!" Weiss called again, trying to pick up the pace, but finding it impossible to keep up.
'Sorry Ruby.'
"RUBY YOU NEED TO STOP RIGHT NOW!"
Weiss shouted across the motel lobby. Ruby stopped.
The desk clerk stopped.
Time stopped.
Weiss hated using that voice. She quickly walked up to Ruby, giving the clerk a glare that implied many years of pain and suffering if he mentioned anything from the last 24 hours to anyone, ever.
Weiss grabbed Ruby's arm and tugged her out the door at a brisk pace. "Your Neon was showing you fool!" She whispered to Ruby through clenched teeth. "We will get to your house, I promise. But so help me God we will not get caught along the way."
Ruby nodded her head, still unsure of her own voice after Weiss's authoritative yell. Arm in arm, they walked down the street.
Ruby slid her house key into the lock and opened up the door.
"Hey sis! It's me!" She called into the empty-looking house. Silence greeted her. Ruby rolled her eyes and shouted "We never came up with a safe word you nerd!"
"I am not a nerd!" Weiss heard come from down the hall.
"So, sis! Where were you last night that got me in so muuuuu…" She trailed off as she turned to corner and saw Weiss standing there, not looking awkward, but not at ease either.
"Holy shit!" Yang shouted. "You kidnapped Weiss Schnee!"
"What! No!" Ruby shouted back her face going bright red. "I would never-"
"Could never, more like." Weiss cut her off.
"Hey! What makes you think my sister can't kidnap you?" Yang said, her big-sister instincts kicking in, albeit at the wrong time.
"I watched her run face first into a pole at 50 miles an hour." Weiss deadpanned, maintaining eye contact with Yang for the whole sentence.
Yang didn't last three seconds. Soon, she was laying on the floor, crying as Ruby tried to hide in her shirt.
"Blake! Babe! You gotta come hear this story!" Yang called out in-between gasps as she tried to compose herself.
Another figure walked down the hall, a quieter but somehow equally insulting grin on her face.
"I heard it all. Better luck next time Ruby." She said, then turned to Weiss. "Blake Belladonna. Nice to meet you."
"Weiss Schnee. Likewise"
"Schnee? Like Schnee Enterprises, the company with the questionable labor safety codes and bank scandals?" Blake said, the subtlest hint of an edge in her voice.
Weiss sighed. "Yep. That's the one."
Blake must've read the emotion in her voice, because while she didn't pal up to the heiress immediately, she didn't drive the knife any deeper.
At this point Yang had finished her fit and stood up, wiping the tears from her eyes. "But seriously now," she said, becoming more serious. "why did the police show up at our house looking for me?"
"I had to make up a very convincing lie on the spot by the way." Blake piped up from behind Yang.
"Shush you. You can misdirect people all day. It's literally your power."
"It was still annoying."
"And what are you doing here Schnee?"
"I saved your sister from the police after she passed out when she hit the pole."
"Why?"
'Because I have daddy issues. Because I'm rebelling. Because she's pretty.'
"Basic Conduit decency. I'd like to know why the police were chasing her in the first place." Weiss said, turning to look expectantly at Ruby.
The other two followed suit.
Ruby stared down at the floor meekly. "Well…"