February: Weiss' Job

"YES!" Ruby yelled while she was on her phone.

Ruby's outburst even made the cicadas in the wall shut up.

"… Um yes, I mean. I promise I won't be shouting like that during my shifts… Yep I'm still fine with what I proposed during the interview… Oh really?! That is really cool Sun! Discounts for the win!... Yep, I am so happy to be a part of the team… Thank you! I'll see you on Monday in two days… Bye!" Ruby hung up on her phone and jumped in glee.

Blake put down her book and watched Ruby as she dance around the room. The bookworm was stretched across the couch like a cat, her legs dangled off the arms. As Ruby started to get closer to the couch, Blake reached down and with her hand and picked up one of the Switch remotes on the floor, from when she and Ruby competed with each other on Mario Kart earlier, away from the stomps of death from Ruby's feet.

Blake maneuvered herself around so she was properly seated on the chair, to avoid Ruby as the brunette promptly plopped herself beside her. Ruby shoved the phone into her face with a bright smile. "LOOK! I got the job!"

Blake took the phone from Ruby and read the text message the employer just left now, confirming Ruby's shifts, "I see you will get more money than you usually would now."

"Yeah! The channel is good and all but I shouldn't rely on it as a source of income. Thank cookies that EBgames accepted me! I can't think of going to a café and not being able to eat the cookies on display! Which reminds me…"

Blake eyes followed Ruby as she ran to the kitchen and fetched a jar of cookies from one of the lower cabinets, "Celebratory Cookies!"

Blake checked her phone and asked, "We could celebrate with Yang. The boss of her job is pretty lenient and would let us in while she is one break."

With a cookie in her mouth she agreed, "… Yesh! I neewd to bweak the newsh to her!"

Blake froze, "Did you just… make a pun?"

Ruby stopped and briefly choked on her cookie, "… Ack… AHHHHH! Let's just leave before it gets worse!" The brunette yelled as she flailed her arms in the air and ran out of the door.

Ruby and Blake stood outside the largest building in town, in awe. The rectangular building, in its white and blue glory loomed over the two friends, its shadow shielded the girls from the sun. The building sat on a monument of steps, the white concrete added to its clean look. The door at the base of the building opened, which allowed a brief gust of air-conditioned wind brush against the girls for a moment.

"… Did they get a new paint job?" Ruby asked as she pointed to the dark blue accents added to the infrastructure, "Cause the pop of colour makes it look much more sleeker!"

Blake tilted her head in suspicion, "Huh… I thought Yang's boss didn't like the colour blue."

She turned to hear Ruby's input but the excitable girl already ran through the entrance, the doors still swung back and forth from her energy.

Blake shook her head with a smile on her face as she walked up the steps and entered, a sigh escaped her lips as the cool air enveloped her. She looked around the lobby; it seemingly also was renovated as well. Content with the interior she approached the front desk to greet the girl behind it, "Hey Velvet, it seems boss put on some glasses and saw the state the building was in."

Instead of a reply, all she heard was the Australian girl try to reason with Ruby, who Blake now realized was in front of her.

"Come on Velvet! You know us by now and you know that the boss is fine with us coming here to visit Yang, so if you'll just let us through…"

The woman behind the counter waved both of her hands in front of her in defense, "I'm sorry Ruby but now I can't just simply let you though. You don't understand… that boss you are talking about, he is not-"

Ruby puffed, "I need to tell Yang the news whether you like it or not so… bye!"

At her last word, the brunette zoomed out of the room in a red blur. Blake face palmed, "I'm sorry Velvet, I'll just go get her before this situation gets messy."

With that the bookworm ran after Ruby, albeit in a slower pace. Velvet, flustered by the sudden drama called out from the desk, "BLAKE! You don't understand either! You… can't…" Velvet sighed in defeat, "Just walk in… I'm gonna get fired, aren't I Yastuhashi?"

The muscular guy, who had just entered the door with a box of mail, had just witnessed the situation, "I'm not sure, but I think you'll be fine."

Ruby took drastic turns as she rushed to the break room, multiple employees of the banking company gasped in surprise as they either jumped away from the blur or just sidestepped casually, being used to the antics that Ruby brought with her every time she visited.

Blake just followed behind, her apologies accompanied with her nervous and embarrassed manner due to Ruby. She ran for a few meters more in the hallway, until she just gave up and began to walk in a brisk pace to the break room. As Blake continued her way to the room, she met up with one of her other friends.

"Hello Blake!" A redhead greeted, as she pulled up beside Blake, a stack of papers were cradled in her arms.

"Oh, hi Pyrrha. I haven't seen you since that party, when you were pulled away from the party due to a certain blonde boy…"

The said women chuckled, "Oh yes, I remember that night very clearly…"

Blake raised her eyebrow in suspicion and amusement, "Oh… Very clearly I see… How did your night with Jaune go then? If I remember correctly, someone turned up at my house to return my book… with a turtleneck… in the middle of summer."

Pyrrha's face flushed red as stopped in her tracks, as she started to fumble with the last page of the stack of papers, "Yep… A wonderful night…"

Blake gave Pyrrha a smile of congratulations. Pyrrha passed an equally grateful smile. This peaceful exchange was however interrupted when someone jumped in between the women, with a hand on a shoulder of both girls…

"You mean a wonderfully spicy night! The 'battle scars' from that war seems very passionate if you asked me!" Yang coyly with a grin on her face, as she made quotation marks on her index and middle finger on the words 'battle scars' whilst they were on the shoulders.

"YANG!" Pyrrha exclaimed as physically flinched in embarrassment, which caused the papers in her arms to all flutter to the floor due to loose grip she had on them in the first place. Pyrrha, face still painted red, muttered incoherent cusses as she squatted down to pick up the thousands of paper she just dropped… At least each of the papers had page numbers.

Blake shook her head as she face palmed for another time in the day, "Yang, I was at least subtle, we are in your workplace for goodness sakes, at least have some decency."

"Well Blake, you know me! Always brash… Wait, what are you doing here? I didn't give in any clearance before hand." Yang stated, with her eyes wide

Blake tilted her head in confusion, "Clearance? Yang, you and I both know that your boss doesn't even take the place seriously. He usually just lets us in whenever Ruby and I turn up. Why would we need clearance?"

Pyrrha rose up from the floor in concern, "That is because he is not our boss anymore… I thought you and your sister had permission today… Yang don't help me, just get them out as soon as possible."

Yang froze, "Them? Oh god… Ruby's here to? Come on Blake, let's get her before I get in deep trouble."

"Wait what?" Blake couldn't continue as her arm was pulled by Yang, who dragged her to the break room.

"I'm presuming she is there as you guys know my break time is about now."

"When did your boss change?"

"Towards the start of the year. Now please walk so I can get you guys out as soon as possible, she is gonna be so mad when she finds out. You two basically broke into the bank!"

"Who? Not your boss? Whose your boss?"

Unfortunately her question wasn't answered as Yang reached the break room and flung the door open, "RUBY!" All the occupants in the room jolted at the sudden outburst. Ruby stared at her sister confused, with one of the cookies from the lunch bar half in her mouth. Yang glared, "WE ARE LEAVING NOW!"

Ruby confused by the commotion her sister brought, walked up to her sister calmly and excitedly told her what she came for, "What's the problem Yang? I came to tell you I got the job!"

Yang however faced the closed door instead and half-heartedly said, "Yeah, and yeah… That's great but your new job is gonna be the cost of mine!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Friggin Ice Queen is the new boss!" Yang started to pull Ruby to the door where Blake waited. Blake began to open the door out so they could scram before they were noticed.

"Ice Queen? Isn't Junior the boss? He doesn't care if we come unannounced or not."

However the silence filled the room as Blake pushed the door open to reveal Weiss with a few guards behind her. Ruby's backdoor neighbour looked more uptight than usual. She still wore a white outfit, but this time it was a white trouser suit. She had her arms crossed, a finger repeatedly tapped on one of her arms. With a cold tone, she answered Ruby, "And that is why he was fired." With her cold exterior still up, she turned to the guards, "Sorry to get you three so riled up on your first day, just go back to your stations. I can handle this."

With a nod the guards silently left.

Weiss glared at the three girls and looked behind them, "I am very sorry to take time out of your break Flynt, but can you take these girls to my office, I've got to tie some things up before I can speak to these three idiots."

"No problem boss."

Weiss rolled her eyes at the nickname the employee gave her. She rather be just called Weiss but most of them decided to call her that for fun. She began to make her way out of the room.

Yang, with sweat concealed on her brow joked, "Come on Weiss, I work here, I can just take them two there."

Weiss stopped and gave Yang an 'are you serious look' and snapped quickly back, "Yang, I know you well enough that you would try to get out them of here."

Yang sighed in defeat, "Of course boss."

Now the trio of women waited in Weiss huge office, at the top of the building.

The room was well lit, as one of the walls were just two large windows, which allowed the sun's rays to illuminate the room. The floor was carpeted blue and on the three other walls were fancy wooden shelves of books. Blake being polite avoided the two shelves on the sides of the room that contained data on the bank and only looked towards the back of the room where the door is. There the wooden shelf that covered the entire wall was just filled with numerous critically good novels.

The two sisters instead sat in the middle of the room, on two of the three chairs that were provided by Flynt to sit on while they waited.

Yang listened to Ruby as her younger sister apologized profusely for trespassing into the building. Ruby expressed her concerns that she had now ruined her sister's job at the bank.

Yang, who already came to terms with the information, couldn't find it in herself to be mad at her sister. Yang instead ruffled Ruby's head and told her not to worry, that Weiss might be lenient since both of them weren't told of this new information. She then allowed Ruby to relish in the fact that she had just got a job, and urged her younger sister to tell her all the details to pass the time.

After Ruby's excitement about her new job died down, they sat in comfortable silence, only the flips of pages can be heard as Blake read through one of the novels on the third chair beside them. But, there was still a question that droned in Ruby's mind.

"So Yang, Weiss is the new boss?"

Yang perked at Ruby's odd question, "Ice Queen? Well yeah, she is definitely a better boss than Junior ever was. She doesn't always stay up in this huge ass office of hers but in her free time she comes down and walks around to greet everyone. Also check if everything is running smoothly."

She smiled and lifted a leg over the other, "In fact, everyone was scared of her at first but then we all realized she does care for us… She even added a small lunch bar in the break room so we don't have to bring our own lunch! Man, everyone in this company loves her!"

Ruby listened to her sister, her thoughts somewhere else, "Huh…"

Yang's brows furrowed at her sister's reaction, "What is it sis?"

"… You and Weiss know each other?"

Yang bluntly stated the obvious, "Well yeah, she is my boss, and she does make an effort to know her employees more. She and I talk about anything whenever I'm on break. I even have her number."

"You do?!"

"Well yeah, I guess the both of us are kinda friends now. She even watched over Zwei when you were at Blake's house a week ago."

"… Why didn't you tell me this?!"

"… Why would I have to tell you? She is just your backdoor neighbour. If you wanted to, you literally can throw on her rock at her window like Romeo to get her to talk to you."

Ruby began to babble a number of reasons of her curiousity, oblivious to the reference Yang made in that sentence.

Blake paused in the book for a moment to lean from her seat and murmured to Yang, "She's got it bad."

Yang just crossed her arms at the predicament, "Yep." She said with a pop at the letter 'p'.

They listened to Ruby for a minute before Yang decided to stop this before Ruby passed out from the amount of oxygen from her rushed speech, "Ruby, when did you last speak to her?"

"… When I walked Zwei…"

"Ruby! That was weeks ago! Basically last month, if you want to date her-"

"Date? What made you come to that conclusion?"

Yang rolled her eyes at Ruby's sudden defensiveness, "Okay… If you want to be friends with her, you gotta talk to her."

"I know and-"

They were however interrupted by the double door into the room being opened. Weiss' heels became muted as she strutted into her office.

Ruby used this moment to really look at Weiss, she began to feel her cheeks heat up slightly at how the white haired women presented herself… Weiss looked really hot.

When Weiss finally sat down she her posture slumped at her weariness and she asked three questions…

"Who are you?" She asked as she pointed to Blake.

"Why are you looking at me like I'm going to shoot you?" She pointed to Yang.

"And why are you here?" She asked as she faced Ruby, while her fingers came up to her temples to massage them.

Blake decided to go first, "Um… I'm Blake, a friend of Ruby and Yang… And I am sorry to trespassing." She said the last line quickly.

Weiss gave a tired smile to Blake, "Nice to meet you Blake, and it's alright, some of the other employees told me about how you and Ruby would come here to visit Yang when Junior was in charge. Which I must say, that if you haven't notice, this place is looking much better since he no longer runs this place."

"Yes Ms. Schnee, I have indeed noticed. It's good you care about this place unlike him. I never really like him in the first place; he always extruded an aura of… inadequacy."

Weiss nodded understandingly at Blake's conclusion, "Ah yes, that you are right about. You two weren't the only ones being allowed in without permission when he was boss. He himself would allow himself to into the bank's vaults to steal money to refurbish his club. Let's just say that club no longer stands and that he's… behind bars."

She took a breath and addressed both Ruby and Blake, "And don't fret, I won't punish you guys this time. But, I do need you two to understand that you both caused a lot of commotion within the security department… Also, next week we are finally implementing some other security measures around here, and you can't access without a key card so don't bother visiting your sister while she's at work. Okay?"

The two just nodded quickly, happy to be let off with a warning.

Weiss faced Yang, "Calm down Yang, you are not being fired."

"YEAH!"

"And don't call me 'Ice Queen.'"

"As if I'm gonna stop princess!"

Weiss let out an amused sigh, "Just show these two out… Also your break ended ten minutes ago."

"DAMMIT!"

The three of them began to head out as Weiss put on her glasses so she could start to analyze the documents in front of her.

Yang just nudged Ruby harshly in the ribs, and gestured her head towards Weiss, "You do want to become friends with her." She whispered.

Ruby took a breath and turned to Weiss and walked up to the desk.

Yang and Blake shared a look and waited outside.

"Um… Weiss?"

Weiss looked up from her documents, "What is it Ruby?"

"Um…" Ruby fiddled with her hands, her index fingers tapped each other nervously, "Uh… As a sorry gesture about this whole thing, do you want to meet up at my house for… tea? I mean, like, after you finish working for the day and… yeah."

Weiss smiled, "I would like that." She paused and then chuckled, "Look at us, we seriously can't stop bringing trouble to each other."

Ruby giggled, "Yeah."

They both bid each other bye before Ruby exited the room. Once the door closed, she skipped down the hall to the elevator.

Yang and Blake, who were had their ears pressed against the door head everything that transpired in there. Yang walked with her arms behind her head, "Someone's got a date~" She teased.

"Yang!"

Author's Note:

Hey, guess who managed to squeeze a new chapter before New Years! Maybe is I pull my weight around for the next chapter, I might get one out on New Years Eve (depending on where you are)

But anyways, if any of you are wondering about this chapter, Yang at the moment is oddly closer to Weiss than Ruby is at the moment. And just to clear any confusion, Weiss became Yang's boss after the last chapter.

I also want to point out GrnDrgnzrd asked if this story takes place in the south part of the equator, somewhere in Australia. So this explains why is it summer in the start of the year. AND SHOUTOUT TO ANY OF MY FELLOW AUSTRALIAN READERS! :D

And, I'll see ya all in the next chapter!