Weiss knew she had to face her father and explain her day and a half of absence. But maybe it didn't have to be today.
Besides, she wanted to make it an even two. Fractions are weird.
Weiss climbed up the side of her house, repeatedly freezing and unfreezing her hands and feet to the wall until she reached her bedroom window. She purposely broke the lock the first time she pulled off this little Spider-Man stunt.
Silently sliding the window shut, she went to her closet, changed into more comfortable, casual clothing and opened her cutting edge laptop. If she was lucky, Winter would be on.
Opening Skype, she was delighted to see her sister was online. Weiss immediately started a call.
Winter answered within seconds. "Weiss. Hello. How was your day?" Winter asked, maintaining her professional manner.
"It was spectacular Winter. How was yours?" Weiss replied, trying to mimic her sister's attitude. "How's Qrow?"
Winter signed, letting her façade slip. "He's still just as insufferable. The fact that I have to share a barracks with him just makes it worse."
"Where is he then?"
"I kicked him out when I saw you calling." Weiss nodded, lost in thought for a few seconds. It was not unnoticed by Winter. "Oh! I met the most amazing people today!"
"Oh really?"
"…and last night."
Winter visibly stiffened on the screen. Weiss backpedaled quickly. "Not like that! Let me explain!"
Weiss retold the day's story, all the way from Ruby running into the pole to scaling the outer wall of the building. "These people don't seem like the kind of people Father would approve of."
"They aren't." Weiss replied, a hint of negativity poisoning her smile at the mention of her parent. "But that's OK! I'm never going to be the daughter he wants anyway!"
Weiss saw the look of concern on her sister's face, and realized she might of said that a little to happily, forced or otherwise. "But that's not what's important. What's important is that I'm the person I want to be."
"Well wadaya know! Mini-Schnee's got some good stuff between her ears!" A voice slurred off camera.
"Qrow! I told you to scram! This is none of your business!" Winter shouted to out-of-frame Qrow.
"Oh but it is, Winter. It became my business when your sis started talking about my nieces."
"Wait, Ruby and Yang are-"
"My brother's daughters." Qrow said, moving into the shot behind a very upset Winter as he did.
"Wow. Small world." Weiss said .
"You have no idea. Now look kid, I'm not going to pitch you that whole 'Overprotective-you-hurt-them-I'll-kill-you' speech because a) Winter would freeze me solid if I tried, and b) I trust you."
Weiss and Winter were shocked at the abrupt admission.
"Really?"
"I listen to your Skype calls more than Winter would like. I believe you and my nieces will be close friends very soon." Qrow replied surprisingly evenly, despite his apparent need to hold onto the back of Winter's chair to keep himself upright.
No one spoke for a few seconds.
"Ok then. Good talk." Qrow muttered as he stumbled out of frame again. The sound of him hitting the mattress was a few seconds later, but Weiss would never be sure if the sound of his mighty snore came first.
Winter rolled her eyes, then looked back to Weiss. "Is he right?"
"Yang can be a bit…over the top at times. But she's a good person. And Ruby…" Weiss trailed off, trying to think of the words.
Winter waited patiently.
"She just glows, y'know? Not because of her Neon though, but like…" Weiss was at a loss again.
"Ah. She's one of those people." Winter said, nodding her head to show her understanding of Weiss's words.
"Yeah." Weiss replied.
"Hold onto them Weiss. People like that are worth ten times our family fortune."
