Decided to give my own little spin on the old 'Monochrome but Daddy doesn't approve' route. Hope you guys enjoy, and feedback is always appreciated.
"Father," Weiss started, forcing herself to summon the courage to keep on speaking. "I know that calling you over from Atlas distracted you from business, but this is important."
"I would hope so, considering that I've had to have Winter take care of everything in the meantime." Frost Schnee, owner and President of the SDC, had little time for small talk.
At times, Weiss wondered why she was even having this conversation with her father, when she knew that a positive response would barely be tepid, and a negative response from range from a few words of contempt, and a barrage of fury erupted onto her.
Contrary to what some in the press thought, Weiss could count the number of times that Father had shouted with two hands. After all, why show yourself to have little control of yourself, when a icy glare and words that could turn a volcano into an iceberg could do the trick? A quiet lecture, filled with unforgiving iron, was enough to place pressure on Weiss.
Now, after having called him down from Atlas, his mood was already unfriendly at best, and it was all but certain that her confession would only make things worse. Why did she think that this would be a good idea? She could have waited. She could have come to him instead, during the end of the year. A fair Tournament showing would make him-
Her head stopped spinning as a warmth enveloped her hands, wrapping around each other between her legs, calming her down. Directing her gaze to her hands, she could see that they had begun to sweat, her body joining to coldly sweat under the force of her own father's gaze, now distinctly unimpressed.
That didn't matter, now that Blake was there.
The experience at Mountain Glenn, the fight on the train, and facing down the Grimm in Vale, all of that had served to remind Weiss that something was coming and that she wouldn't be as lucky as she had been before. There was a chance that she could die in battle, or lose her life in the Huntress lifestyle, without ever saying the truth.
Blake had been an enigma to the Schnee heiress. On the outside, she looked to be a quiet and studious type with sprinklings of cynicism and stark seriousness, and she was, yet there was a side that was playful and happy, yearning for a more idealistic world. She had been firm with Weiss, and had a bloody past, but managed to separate the heiress and her teammate while working to redeem herself for her actions.
Together, the two were an unbeatable pair, bar when they were with their partners, and they worked to improve the other. Blake was there to cut Weiss little slack when she delved into her less enlightened views, or when she was acting a bit too mean, and Weiss made sure that the Faunus didn't isolate herself from others, and that she was prepared for what came at them.
As time went by, certain feelings came to Weiss, feelings that she had never felt for any other. For weeks, she kept them locked away and restrained, thinking that they were ridiculous, that such things could never be returned. It was only when Blake confronted her that she admitted the truth to her teammate, and to herself.
She was in love with Blake Belladonna, and damn the consequences of that.
"I can come back later, if you can't say it now." Father said, the annoyance clear in his voice. Blake's grip tightened in anger, and almost spoke in anger, but Weiss moved to get in the first word.
"Father, I'm gay." She declared, the overbearing weight on her shoulders lifting, and her heart taking flight. "I am in love with the woman sitting next to me, and you'll just have to accept that."
"Alright then. I don't see why this couldn't have been done via your Scroll, it'd have saved everyone some time." He replied.
"I know you hoped for me to love and marry someone more advantageous to the family fortune, but that cannot be." Weiss said, letting out feelings she had kept hidden for the past few weeks. Nothing would stop her from confessing her feelings. "Blake and I are dating, and I hope for your approval, but don't need it. Our love is like..."
Weiss' speech came to a halt when she realised what her father just said. Hours she spent thinking of every horrific possibility, the sharp and cruel words thrown at her, and how wrong it could all go, and it was all for a few seconds of acceptance?
Even now, he looked the picture of apathy, tapping away at his Scroll, moving around accounts, as if he was having to make up for lost work due to a whim, rather than a confession. It was almost as bad as an angry reaction, if it wasn't for the fact that he did technically accept her relationship with Blake.
His daughter just came out of the closet, and he doesn't even care? Perhaps he misheard her, or thought that she said something else. "Father, you did hear me, right?" She asked, part of her wondering why she was so desperate for such drama.
"Yes, you're gay, dating your teammate, and your love cannot be compared to anything else in the world. Either way, you can still have biological children." Father said, which got Weiss and Blake blushing. "That said, if you two advance this to a marriage, the family name will be Schnee." He said
Blake spoke up, her voice uneasy, despite her earlier confidence. "Schnee-Belladonna sounds better on the tongue than Bell-"
"No it doesn't. Schnee is the last name, and will be the family one." Father commanded, both girls deciding that this was a good concession to make, after everything else that happened. "Even then, I'm not too bothered. It is a pre-condition to the hypothetical children being the heir or heiress, in the future."
"I will admit, I am rather disappointed that you're thinking in those terms, but this wasn't the worst possible scenario." Weiss admitted, turning to smile at Blake, who returned it.
Everything looked to be okay. Yes, there was still the matter of Blake being a Faunus, and a certain group she was once part of, but Weiss was sure that the former was something that Father could be eased into and the latter was something to be safely ignored in favour of a fabricated past. She didn't think that he was quite so progressive that he would accept a human-Faunus relationship, after everything that had happened, but there was time for that.
Right now, she had her life with Blake to think of, the girl showing every single sign of happiness that Weiss did. A glowing smile, positive body language, her bow twitching.
"Why did her bow move?" And there went a moment of happiness in Weiss' life. "Her bow moved. Why?" Father asked, eyeing Blake as if she had just declared her love for killing small animals.
It was obvious. Her bow moved because they were hiding Faunus ears, Father's glare making it clear that he knew everything. The secret was revealed, and now Weiss and Blake had to make a new stand, the heiress making a last attempt at denial. "Well, Father, that's becaus-"
"I'm a Faunus. A Cat Faunus." Blake spoke firmly, removing the ribbon on her head to reveal a pair of cat ears. "Does that bother you, Mr Schnee?" She asked, his interrogative stare not shifting one bit.
Silence reigned over them, before a loud groan filled the room, the most emotion that Father had ever shown when it didn't involve Winter's health. At that, he began to mutter, the two girls not willing to interrupt him, so his words involving 'fetish', 'lust', and 'seduction' could be heard by both Blake and Weiss, the former's restraint being something to admire. In a rare moment of not reading the atmosphere, it seemed that Father had forgotten that he was not the only one in the room, before he looked up to them, specifically Weiss.
"Damn it, Weiss." He said, not quietly enough that Weiss managed to just barely hear it. With a reluctant sigh, he focused his attention to his Scroll again. "I'm not totally opposed to this relationship. What's done is done."
He probably thinks I'm rebelling, or that this is some scheme by Blake. Weiss might have complained about how offensive such words were, if she wasn't glad that he hadn't been too negative about the relationship. It didn't stop her from having to restrain a cutting remark about her age, and her maturity. As if I'm some stupid child.
Either way, he continued working on his Scroll, only he was much tenser than before. Blake took the initiative and to play the peace-keeper. "Look, I think we've all-"
"I fucking knew it." Father growled, spinning the device around to show a picture that made Weiss' girlfriend go deathly pale. "Mind explaining this?"
It was a picture of White Fang goons together, all in masks except for someone on the far left side, enough of her face clear to reveal her identity yet not enough to show that she took any pride in what she had gone. Not only that, but Gambol Shroud was on the side that was being shown to the camera, turning what may have been a weak case into one that was as strong as steel. What made it worse was that Blake had the weapon attached to her right now, which Father focused all of his attention on, revealing the third big secret of Weiss and Blake's relationship in the span of five minutes.
"You just had to have that weapon on you, didn't you?" Weiss whispered, before accepting the inevitable. "Yes, Blake is a former, and I must emphasise the word former, member of the White Fang." She said, seeing the Schnee patriarch's jaw tighten and eye twitch in anger, before going back to his Scroll.
"We won't let you inform the authorities, or try to keep us apart." Blake said, Weiss nodding along. If Father thought that he could destroy their relationship, he had another thing coming.
"I know, the authorities cannot be involved, too much risk of media information getting out." He said, once again subverting her expectations.
Why don't I have a good feeling about this?
"Weiss, we need to take a pragmatic approach to this." He added, looking up at Blake before pressing a button on his Scroll, putting it down and doing nothing else. Weiss and Blake looked at each other, feeling a powerful sense of unease
It was very nearly the worst case scenario.
"Penny, let go of Blake!" Ruby shouted, having just arrived with Yang and Zwei in tow.
"I am sorry, Ruby, but the White Fang must be eliminated." Penny said, only she sounded colder than before, as she swung Blake around for the hundredth time.
"Father! You can't do this." Weiss shouted, trying to save the love of her life from dying.
"Shouldn't would be the proper word, Weiss. I am perfectly able to do this, and the fact of the matter is that I should." Father replied, motioning to Blake with a manic look in his eye. "In case you haven't noticed, our friends and family are being murdered by these people. Note the present tense, as in they are still trying to kill us."
"Blake isn't like that anymore, she's helped defeat them."
"All to seduce you with her womanly wiles." Father waved off her criticisms, before moving down to pick up Zwei and dropped him into her arms. "Here, have a puppy."
"That is a fully-grown corgi, who is already with our team, and cannot replace Blake." At her sharp words, her Father barely moved, but Zwei began to whine in sadness. "I'm sorry, Zwei, but I don't want to love you in that way." She cooed, hugging him close, until she remembered what was happening.
"If you did, that would be the only thing that would make this day worse." Father muttered, as Ruby and Yang struggled to make the strangely robotic Penny to stop twirling Blake around.
"Someone-Help-Dying!" She cried out, a gap between each word as she was spun around again and again.
"Don't worry. I have been given clear instructions to not kill you, as that would be illegal, and a mark of a poor friend." Penny declared, which made everyone sigh in relief as she let go, sending Blake flying. Father, on the other hand, scoffed at her words.
"Bloody Geppetto." He turned to Weiss, glaring at her. "You literally have the worst taste in girlfriends, Weiss. Hang your head in shame."
"Maybe if you didn't try having Penny murder her, you'd get to know the real Blake!" That made Father roll his eyes and walk off, probably back to Atlas.
Well, there goes bringing her to Ice Palace. Weiss decided, as the rest of Team RWBY moved to grab Blake and make sure she got better, while Penny moved to walk with the head of the SDC. It was likely that she moved in on Blake, owing to the Schnee's influence in Atlas, and was probably ordered to hold back.
No doubt about it. This was the worst possible thing to have happened.
"How do you even know Penny?" Father asked, dashing back towards her, the abnormal girl right behind him.
Correction, now this was the worst possible thing.