Hello! Chapter 11 is here! I have mixed feelings about this chapter. I feel the beginning and end are pretty good, but the middle seemed to be lacking. Please tell me if something felt off. You guys might see what I don't.

Also! I have started a sort of collab with blackace70! He gave me a story pitch and I'm gonna start it soon. It involves his version of a gender bent Ruby called Garnet, and a 'bully' Yang. The Garnet from this story is based on his Garnet from his story, "Strawberries and Lemons" Great story by the way. I know I plugged it before but seriously check it out! More details on it later when I start it.

On to the chapter!

Chapter 11: Black and White

Glynda and Ozpin move to the center of the circular office. Spreading out to give each-other room to demonstrate their shadows to Ruby. Ruby leans against the front of the desk to watch as the call out their shadows, effortlessly.

Ozpin's, dark green and spikey. And Glynda's, purple and thin, like whips. Ruby was in awe at seeing them so clearly. She hardly got to see her mother's. And Ozpin's was only for a moment when she saw them in that white room. Their tendrils swayed, back and forth along their bodies, like they were waiting for something to intercept. Anticipating being used.

"Wow…So mine do that too?" The fledgling asks, referring to the agitated tendrils in wait.

"They will, in time. You need to get used to commanding them without having to think about it first. This is a type of, 'auto-pilot,' if you will. I'm giving them no commands right now, besides 'come out.'" Ozpin explains as he stretches his right arm out towards Ruby.

The tendrils on his right side advance towards her. They stop right in front of her. Again, just swaying back and forth, waiting. She gets a little nervous as they approach, but relaxes as they stay in front of her. She starts to reach her hand out to touch one. She looks to Ozpin to see if it's Ok.

He gives a nod. "Be careful, though. They are razor sharp." She nods looking back to the tendril.

She reaches out and pokes the flat top side of the shadow. Her finger passes right through it. She's puzzled as to why it's not solid. "Why does my finger go right through it?" She continues to poke the top.

"That's because it's made of shadow. It takes the form of a cloud, but the edges are far denser than the middle area. They save energy this way. This would be taught to you as well, if your shadows were like mine. Mine are wider than yours or Glynda's. " His shadows dance around her as she follows them around.

"Your shadows are whole, and thinner, Ruby. This is a good thing. When it comes to using your powers, being fuel efficient is most important. It's best to save your energy on maneuverability with speed, or healing if you get hurt. You can't change the shape of your tendrils, though. If this were possible then it would be far easier to save energy just by making them smaller like yours already are. I had to get used to making only the outside dense to save my energy. Our shadows are based off of our soul, as well as our vampire clan. Like a semblance, some are hereditary. Your clan's is hereditary." His tendrils pull back and wait beside him.

"So, what's next?" Ruby asks, excited to learn more about her best weapon for attacking and defending.

"I think a demonstration of how one fights with them would be best." Glynda says, looking to Ozpin.

"I agree, she should first know how to fight another's shadow." Ozpin steps back, away from Glynda to gain some space as they look to each-other.

The shadows continue to dance around them, waiting. Ozpin signals for Glynda to attack him with a nod.

She obliges and sends a single purple tendril at him. His shadow intercept, and they wrap around the purple one. More purple tendrils come down at him and they try to attack an opening created by the first. Ozpin pulls his tendrils, around the first, back to him to defend better and deflect them. The purple ones making whipping noises, while the green make slicing sounds as they block them one after the other.

Glynda tries to get around his defenses, but has no luck as, eventually, Ozpin sends a tendril to the side to pull on Glynda's leg and calls the match. The shadows calmly recede back to their hosts and they look to Ruby again.

"You see, Ruby. The shadows can be used for attack and defense. And you can control them independently from one another, as I have demonstrated by attacking Glynda's leg." Ozpin informs after the match, to a very excited Ruby.

"That was awesome! This is going to make my style of fighting so much better! I can just attack while dashing around!" Ruby gets so excited to learn how to fight with the tendrils as well as still fighting with Crescent Rose.

"Actually, Ruby. That's where the problem lies, fighting with the shadows. You can't use your semblance with the shadows without some danger." Ozpin shakes his head at her, showing he's serious. "It puts too much strain on the body and soul. It's why using your semblance with your vampire speed drains you so quickly. It's possible, but only as a last resort. As for fighting with your scythe, again it is possible. But hard to concentrate on other things while maintaining your control on the tendrils. If you must, you can train on this style, but it will be very hard to master."

The headmaster gestures to himself as he walks back to his desk. "I have decided to forgo this and spend my time training with just my tendrils, they are just as deadly as any other blade."

Ruby looks down, deflated at the realization. "Ah man!" She scuffs the ground with her boots with a frown and then looks back up smiling. She shrugs, accepting it but not quitting. "Oh, well. I guess I'll just make it work. There's no way I'm giving up on Cressy!" Ruby holds her fist up in determination.

"Of course. That is your decision to make. Now, these tendrils may take on the appearance of shadows, but they don't manifest from them. They come from yourself, you won't have to worry about not being able to use them if there is no shadow around. Whether it is in broad daylight or during the darkest of hours in the night. You will be able to use them as long as you have the energy." He sits down and takes his mug to drink from it, deeply.

"Yes, sir." Ruby notices his mug again. "By the way, professor. What's in that? It can't be coffee, right? Coffee tastes just like other human food, awful!" She sticks her tongue out in disgust.

He sets the mug down on his desk and looks at her with a small smile. "It's blood." He says, like it's the simplest thing.

Her eyes widen. "Wh-what!? You drink blood in front of your students?! But I saw steam coming from a mug the other day I was in this office with you?! Do you boil blood?!" Ruby yells, not believing her headmaster would be so bold as to drink blood in front of everyone who passes through here. Especially boiling blood. That sounds terrible, even for a vampire.

"No it wasn't boiling blood. Like every other vampire, we have to eat and drink things sometimes to keep up appearances. I heard you like cookies and strawberries? Well, I like tea." Ozpin smiles at her, as she is finally able to understand him.

"We all have different foods and drinks we like. But that doesn't make it any better on our bodies. You of course know what I'm talking about." Ozpin nods to her wanting her to share what she knows to make sure.

"Uh, yeah. We can't eat human food, it makes us sick unless we throw it up. We have to get by with foods that taste bearable, to keep up the appearance of being human. But liquids are different aren't they?" The red head explains what she learned from her mom.

"Correct." He nods to her, smiling. "We have little to no problem digesting liquids. It's food that is the trouble for us. Our body just has no need for solids anymore. And our bodies react to the unnecessary food by getting sick. But we all have different preferences on what foods and drinks we can manage with." Ozpin looks at the time, and it's approaching late evening. "Well, Ruby. I think that that shall be all for today. I believe you have a sister to see and homework to complete.

"Oh! Right! I should get going. I'm sure Weiss and Blake are wondering why I've been gone for…" She checks her scroll for the time. It was 5:30 when she left with Glynda to come here. "…almost 2 hours! I need to go! See you tomorrow to help Yang, Glynda!" She gets out as she rushes to the elevator.

"Don't forget classes as well, Ruby. I'll see you in sparring class." Glynda shakes her head at the spazzy fledgling.

Ruby races to the dorms. Breezing past a startled Granite, in a flurry of rose petals. She chirps out a, 'hey Granite!' Then continues to her dorm. She walks in and sees Blake on the couch reading a book, the same one form Port's class.

Blake immediately hides the book in her lap, face down, not showing the title. "Oh! Hey Ruby! H-how did it go with Glynda!?" Blake stumbles over herself, trying to get off topic before Ruby can question the book.

"Hey, Blake! It went fine. I did some leadership stuff with Ozpin. No big deal!" Ruby lies, smoothly for once, or Blake is just too flustered to notice.

"That's great!" Blake says, not knowing what else to say. Just sitting there, holding her book smiling at Ruby. She starts to fidget, nervously.

"Uh…Ok? Anyways, do you want to go get some food? And I'm sure Yang would like the company if we go see her as well." Ruby shakes off Blake's weirdness and adopts a smile again.

"S-sure, that sounds good. Let me just…go get Weiss." The secret cat faunus stutters, then finds a reason to go to her room to put her book away. She gets up from the couch and heads to her room shared with the heiress.

She knocks, honoring the agreement. And enters after she hears the Ok from Weiss. Weiss walks out of the bathroom, in a towel, having just showered.

"What's up?" Weiss asks, seeing Blake look flustered. "You Ok?"

Blake stashes her book under her bed and then looks to Weiss to answer her. "Uh, yeah. Ruby just got back. She asked if we wanted to go to see Yang. You wanna go?" Blake calms her blush from the embarrassing situation with Ruby. 'I was just at a really good part, too!'

"That's fine, I just need to get ready. What about you?" Weiss goes to her closet to find something to wear. She decides on her combat skirt.

"I'm just going to put something on a little nicer than my uniform. Do you mind if I change in the bathroom?" Blake asks looking through her closet. She finds a nice white overcoat and tall black heeled boots. The front of the outfit leaves quite a lot of skin open.

"I suppose that's fine." Weiss sees the outfit she picked out. "Are you planning on going somewhere else? Because it looks like you're dressing to impress, Blake." Weiss snickers at the blush working back up on her roommates face.

"I-I don't know. I just thought it looked nice is all." Blake tries to cover up the truth, but she was constantly looking away from Weiss. It was obvious. Blake rushes to the bathroom door to get away from the conversation. Weiss just laughs some more as she gets ready in the room.

Weiss calls out to Blake, getting her attention. "You know there's no reason to hide it from me. You can talk to me about it, just as I would expect to be able to talk to you about…you know." Weiss trails off, wanting Blake to understand without outright admitting it.

"Um…Yeah. I guess so. You know, Weiss. I had my doubts about being on a team with you. But I gotta say, I'm liking it more and more every day. You're actually a nice person, Weiss." Blake finishes changing and steps out after knocking to see if Weiss was done as well. She gave the Ok to enter.

Weiss was slipping on her heels while sitting on her bed. She looked up to Blake, smiling at what she said. "W-wow, Thank you, Blake! That's…really sweet." Weiss blushes at the compliment.

"Well, I mean it. And if you want to talk about Ruby I'm free any time." Blake gives her a small smile at the blush. "We should get going. I'm sure our leader is restless right now." She walks to the bedroom door and opens it. Weiss soon follows and they go to the living room. They see Ruby lounging on the couch, watching the TV.

"Oh! Hey guys! You ready?" Ruby chirps out as she gets up, excited to go.

"Well, you certainly are." Blake jokes. She gives Ruby a smile.

"Well, I was thinking we could get Yang something to eat at the cafeteria. She seemed to enjoy it last time." The red head was hopping in place, impatient.

"Ruby, calm down! Your sister isn't going anywhere." Weiss shakes her head, but smiles at her relentless energy. "And I agree. We could all use some food I'm sure. We haven't eaten since lunch in between classes."

Ruby speaks up again. "I uh…Already ate after seeing Glynda. I'm fine. But yeah good idea. If you guys need to eat, go ahead!" She smiles and nods to them, confirming her response.

"Alright then Ruby lead the way." Blake gestures with her arm for Ruby to open the door.

"I thought you'd never ask! Let's go! I'm sure Yang is hungry by now." Ruby chirps as she runs to the door.

Ruby opens the door and steps out. She sees most of team JNPR just exiting their own dorm. All but Jaune, who is still in the hospital.

"Hey guys! Are you on your way to see Yang? We were just going to see Jaune. Ooh! Let's go together!" Nora yells to Ruby and the rest as they step out. She dashes off, not giving time to refute. Not that they would, they haven't seen Jaune in a few days. They might want to check on him, see how he's doing.

Ruby skips ahead of both groups, trailing behind Nora. "Hey! We were actually going to the cafeteria to pick up some food. Yang, understandably, hates the hospital food. So we're getting her some too! We'll see you at Jaune's room!"

Weiss sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. "She just has to leave immediately, doesn't she?" She mutters to herself. "Ruby! Wait up! You're too fast!" The monochrome duo wave to the other team as they chase after their leader.

"I guess we aren't the only ones who have to deal with a ball of energy?" Pyrrha laughs, looking to Ren. He just sighs and nods. Always a man of few words.

Ruby, Blake, and Weiss end up at Yang's room after getting some food.

Ruby wastes no time hugging Yang when they enter. "Yang!" She squeezes as tight as she can, without hurting Yang. She buries her face in Yang's chest. Blushing at the thought of it. 'It feels so good to no longer hold back! But it's still too soon to tell her. I'll just…pick my moment after she's healed. I have to try!' She smiles into Yang's warmth.

"Hey, Ruby. Wow! I guess you missed me." Yang blushes at the strong hug to her chest. She smiles softly at her sister and hugs back.

Blake and Weiss take their seats, not wanting to interrupt the sisters. When Yang and Ruby come apart, Blake speaks up. "Hey, Yang. You doing Ok?"

Yang looks to her partner and sees the new outfit. "Wow, Blake! That looks great on you!"

Blake blushes and looks away at the compliment. "T-thanks, Yang."

Yang just continues on, not caring about the blush. "I've been doing Ok. Just bored! I can't wait to get out of this dump. I'm looking forward to partner day." Yang smiles at her partner.

"Y-yeah…Me too." Blake finally looks back to smile to her.

At this point, Ruby has been watching the interaction. Wondering what's going on. 'Does Blake…? No that's crazy. She just isn't good at accepting compliments. Weiss is the same way.' She's snapped out of her thoughts by her sister.

"Ruby? You Ok? You look like you're thinking pretty hard. Mind telling me what it's about?" Yang looks to her sister, worried, just wanting to help.

The fledgling shakes her head and smiles at Yang. "No I'm fine, sis. Thanks for worrying."

"Of course Ruby. I'll always worry about you." They stare into each-other's eyes for a moment.

Ruby breaks it first, getting a bit flustered at the attention. She's more susceptible to this now with how she accepted her feelings. "Uh, So, Yang! We got you some food. I hope you like it. It's the cafeteria's spaghetti and meatballs." Ruby hands her the box. Trying to cover up her blush.

Yang opens it and smells the Italian spices. "Mmmh…This smells great! Thanks guys!"

Yang starts to eat when Blake and Ruby call out. "You're welcome!" In unison. They look at each-other. Then Blake looks away, flustered. She thinks she was too obvious. And Ruby just looks at her puzzled. 'Ok that was weird? Still it can't be though. She hasn't known Yang for a week how can she already like her? I'm just imagining things.' Ruby looks back to Yang and laughs off the awkwardness.

Yang shrugs it off and digs in. The other's slowly follow. Weiss was watching the whole thing though. 'Oh my, Blake. You are a mess. I wonder if this is what I look like when I'm with Ruby.' Weiss ignores the thoughts and goes back to eating.

Ruby remembers who she saw at Ozpin's office today and decides to tell Yang. "Oh, Yang! Guess what!"

"What?" The blonde smiles at her sister encouragingly.

"I saw Uncle Qrow! He was with Ozpin! He apparently works with him. Isn't that cool?" Ruby yelled and threw her arms up in excitement.

"Qrow was here? What did he say?" Yang asks, wanting to know what her uncle has been up to in the last year.

"He told me to tell you hello. And uh…That's it! He just needed to see Ozpin and then he talked to me for a bit and told me to tell you hello! That's it!" Ruby got really nervous about almost admitting that they talked about her feelings for her sister. It was all over her face, that something was up.

"Uh huh…" Yang muttered, unconvinced. 'Maybe it's something that can't be said in front of the humans that are unaware. She did say that Qrow works for Ozpin. It might have to do with vampire stuff.' Yang decided to give Ruby a break. "Ok Ruby. We can talk about this later then." She smiles at her little sister.

"R-right! Later! Good idea!" Ruby bobs her head up and down.

"Who's Uncle Qrow?" Blake asks, never hearing from them about other family members. Which was fair. They have only known each-other for four days. Saturday being the initiation. She looks to Yang for the answer.

"He's this badass huntsman that also happens to be our uncle! He taught Ruby to fight with a scythe." Yang, answers happily, looking to her sister as she smiles at remembering the training.

"So he's the one we can think for giving Ruby such a dangerous fighting technique?" Weiss inquires looking to Yang from her seat next to Yang's bed.

"Hey! It's perfectly safe, as long as you aren't the enemy." Ruby shouts indignantly to Weiss, then smirks at her from beating her in the arena.

"You got lucky, Ruby! I just let my guard down is all! Next time will not be so easy!" Weiss shouts, embarrassed. She crosses her arms and huffs in a pout.

"Sure I did, Weiss. We'll have a rematch some time and I'll prove it to you." Ruby gives her a smile that shows she's serious but not being arrogant. Weiss just mumbles under her breath about winning next time, blushing at the smile Ruby gives her.

They finish their food and Ruby remembers to check on Jaune. She gets up and goes over to hug Yang and tell her bye. Yang returns the hug as best she can with one arm and waves to them as they file out.

"Bye! See you tomorrow!" Yang smiles to Ruby more than the group, as they leave. They return the goodbye. Ruby, giving a big smile to Yang as they walk out.

They head to the other wing on the same floor and find Jaune's room. They walk in hearing a man shouting 'Nora!' They immediately know it's Ren.

"What has she done now?" Weiss asks. She gets a few hellos first, before Jaune answers her question.

"Ren just found out that Nora drank all of the syrup in the kitchen." Jaune shakes his head at all the sugar.

"The entire bottle?" Blake asks, just taking a seat on the far wall. The other seats next to the bed taken by the other team.

"More like, bottles!" Ren yells. "That was meant to last the week! Even including Nora! Now I have to go to the store tomorrow to pick more up. You're cut off for the rest of the week, Nora!"

Nora was literally bouncing off the walls at this point. Everyone having to duck or move out of the way to avoid getting hit by the speeding bullet. But at hearing she was being cut off, Nora abruptly stops and stares at Ren.

"What!? You can't mean that, Ren! I need it!" She sheds crocodile tears to make herself more believable. It doesn't work.

"I said no more, Nora! Now calm down and sit still, or I stop making pancakes for the week as well!" Ren points to the chair next to him and gives her a glare.

All that comes out of her audibly is an, 'eep' and she sits down. Ren's serious if he threatens to stop making pancakes. The usually mellow young man releases a deep breath and calms down.

"Well, alright then." Ruby shakes her head at the odd display. Thinking that Ren seems more like a dad to her then a friend.

"How's the leg, Jaune?" Ruby points to his cast. She smiles at him while taking a seat next to Blake.

"Hey, Ruby. It's good. Pyrrha told them about the medication they were giving me for the pain was making me too loopy so they cut back on the dosage. The pain has gone down though. I hardly feel it anymore." Jaune looks to Pyrrha on his left side. "And as a bonus I no longer feel the sting from the slaps I receive, for what doped up Jaune says, from Pyrrha." He chuckles as Pyrrha gets embarrassed.

"I'm sorry!" Pyrrha gets out, looking down, more out of embarrassment than sadness.

Jaune and the rest of the room smile and laugh at her embarrassment. "It's Ok. I don't blame you. I probably said some messed up things. I really don't want to know what I said though. It's happened before and it's usually embarrassing." Jaune chuckles awkwardly, scratching the back of his head.

"Oh, you mean, 'Pyrrha was like my prince charming!'" Ruby mimics Jaune's voice and she laughs, holding her sides as the pair light up in a blush.

Jaune tries to change the subject quickly, not wanting to be reflexively slapped by Pyrrha. "Uh…Uh…H-how's Yang doing?! Is she recovering well?" He asks the remainder of team RWBY.

While Ruby calms down from her laughter, Blake answers for her. Not fully getting the prince joke. "She's doing well. Ruby says that professor Goodwitch is healing her and will be better by next week." She smiles, thinking about finally being able to go on a da-…day out with Yang. Blake blushes and looks down so no one can see.

"What?! She gets released before me? Ah man! That's not fair." Jaune grabs his head in frustration. Then looks to Ruby. "Is there any chance that she would heal me too? I really don't like it here. I have a male nurse giving me a sponge bath." Jaune mumbles.

Ruby, having calmed down from the laughing, answers him. "Sorry, Jaune, but Miss Goodwitch is very busy. She's helping Yang as a favor." Ruby shrugs.

"Ah man…" Jaune sighs at his helplessness. But then sees something that makes him happy again. "Hey, Weiss! I'm glad you could come! So you do care about me, huh?" He puts on a cocky grin and tries to look impressive.

"No." Weiss immediately shoots him down. Crossing her arms and looking away with a scowl.

Blake chuckles. 'You're barking up the wrong tree there, Jaune.'

Jaune whimpers after being shot down. A certain red head to his left smiles though. They talk for a bit longer. Bringing up their strange classes and even stranger professors. When Ruby suddenly remembers she still hasn't done homework for any of her classes.

"Oh crud! I have to do homework! I'm sorry guys, I have to go!" Ruby chirps a 'bye,' as she blurs to the door and leaves.

"Uhg…Of course she forgot! Let's go, Blake. She may need help." Weiss gets up to leave, Blake right behind her. They both give and apology and wave bye as they leave.

When the monochrome duo make it to the dorm, Ruby is already in her room studying. They open the door and see her hard at work. She doesn't even notice them. Too focused, trying to finish before ten PM. She only has an hour left to do all the homework of several classes.

Seeing this, Weiss hesitates to go in and help. 'She's trying really hard. I think I would just get in the way. She didn't need my help last time…She can handle it…that dolt.' Weiss smiles and turns around to see Blake standing there with a smirk.

"Sh-shut-up, Blake!" Weiss whisper yells, trying not to interrupt Ruby's concentration. She blushes at being caught staring.

"I didn't say anything. Let's go, I have a book to read." Blake smiles softly to Weiss, as she gestures for her to follow her to their room. She opens their bedroom door and gets her book from under her bed. She gets back up and turns around to see Weiss turn on the holo-TV. Finding it odd that Weiss would want to watch TV, she asks her about it.

"I just wanted to check the news." Weiss shrugs giving her answer.

Blake shrugs as well, accepting the answer and takes a seat next to Weiss in the other black leather chair in front of the TV. She opens her book to where she left off. The news drones on. Just comfortable background noise to Blake. But something catches her attention suddenly.

"…Tacked by the White Fang this afternoon when they found a local White Fang cell's hide out. Several casualties by local law enforcement were reported as there were no hunters in the area to aid in the shootout. The downtown areas of Vale are getting more and more dangerous by the day it seems. We strongly urge everyone to stay away as much as possible from this area…" The news reporter goes on, but Blake's concentration is cut off by Weiss, beside her.

"I can't believe them! They killed an entire group of police officers! They're monsters! How do they think what they're doing is right when they kill people who are sworn to protect the peace that they are striving for!?" Weiss is utterly furious at the murdering of brave, ordinary people, who try and be heroes in this world that is filled with people of extraordinary abilities. Both good and evil.

Blake remains quiet. Getting really uncomfortable at how right she is. Why didn't she leave them sooner? Why did it take her so long to see what they were doing was so wrong? These questions were choking Blake as she tried to find peace with it. Of course she knew the answer. She was the partner to the reason. She was manipulated into thinking it was alright. That they were the heroes. And the humans just wanted to suppress them. That as long as she stayed at his side everything would be alright. But she could see the changes happening. In the organization and in him. He was the monster now. Velvet's words from before were coming back to her. They were just causing more hurt in the world. Blake muttered aloud. "You're right…"

"Of course I'm right! Who would agree that murder is Ok?" Weiss answers, not understanding she wasn't talking to her.

"…Yeah, I'm tired after today. I think I'll just shower in the morning. I'm going to bed." Blake mumbles out as she shuffles over to her closet to get her bed clothes.

"Uhm…Ok? Blake are you alright?" Weiss turns off the TV and asks at seeing her friend so down.

"Yeah. Don't worry. I'll be fine. I just…don't like hearing about the White Fang." Blake says quietly. She enters the bathroom to change.

Weiss walks to the closed door and stands there looking at it as if she was still talking to Blake. "I'm sorry I brought it up by turning on the news then. I didn't mean to upset you, Blake."

Blake couldn't see Weiss' face, but she could hear the sincerity in her voice. Blake smiles to herself at how nice Weiss really was. She had her pegged so wrong before. "Thanks, Weiss. But you're not to blame."

Weiss turns around and leans her back on the wall next to the door. "Do you…want to talk about it? I don't really know what I could say, but if the White Fang did something to you. That's something we have in common." Weiss trailed off in a sad voice. Remembering all the board members and relatives that went 'missing' from her families company.

"What happened?" Blake's voice came out from the bathroom, sounding quiet, like she didn't actually want to be heard in fear she may be going too far by asking.

"…" It takes a while for Weiss to muster up the courage to talk about it, but she does eventually. "My families company is not the friendliest when it comes to faunus. As you know. A lot of people from the SDC have been targeted by the White Fang because of this. Board members, other business partners, even direct family members…" Weiss swallows the lump in her throat. It was building out of sadness. She didn't want to recall this story, but if it would make Blake feel better by having someone else who shares in the pain, then she would share.

It was such a weird thing for Weiss to want to do, share. She had always relied on herself through all her life, until she got to Beacon. Winter occasionally helped when she could. But she was almost never around. Winter was in the same place as she was. Having to train every day to become the perfect heiress for her father's company. They hardly ever got to see each-other. So maybe it was because she never had anyone to share with, that she never did.

Weiss finally continued after summoning up the courage. "…My uncle. He was a very nice man. Always proud of my sister and I. He may have been…a little prejudice against the faunus, but he wasn't like my father. He didn't deserve what happened to him." Weiss stifles a sob. "I learned the next day. He and his family, his wife and son, were murdered. Assassinated. The White Fang did it under the cover of night. Their night vision made it all too easy." Weiss can't hold back the tears at this point. Her seven year old cousin was killed in cold blood. For something someone else did. She couldn't understand why, how someone could do that.

Blake opened the bathroom door. She heard the crying and grabbed Weiss. She brought her into a hug. Weiss, instead of shying away from physical affection, latched on to Blake for dear life. She cried into her neck.

Blake could only hold her, rub her back with her hands. But she couldn't make the pain of losing family go away. She could only mutter her apologies. Feeling terrible that the organization that she grew up in could do something like this.

Sure the SDC were no better. Making faunus children work for practically nothing. But two wrongs don't make a right. It took her too long to learn that. And she's seeing that now, as she holds her teammate in her arms. Holding such a once proud person as she balls her eyes out at losing family for something that they were hardly a part of. Blake moves her to her bed to sit on. Keeping her arm around her to hold her up and keep comforting her.

Weiss' crying starts to die out as she cries herself to sleep in Blake's arm. Blake smiles softly to her at seeing that she's finally at peace. She picks her up, bridal style, and moves her to a better position on her bed. As soon as she lays Weiss down in her covers, there is a knock at the door.

Ruby opens the door and sees Blake beside Weiss. Weiss, sleeping soundly in her bed, clutching Blake's yukata. "Oh! Sorry I didn't know she already went to bed. I just came to say goodnight." Ruby starts to get quieter as she goes on, not wanting to wake up her partner. Ruby rubs her arm awkwardly.

"Its fine, Ruby. I just put her to bed. She…fell asleep watching the news. So I carried her to bed." Blake lies for Weiss. Still smiling at her peaceful face. 'You know, she would look so much better if she would stop scowling all the time like she does now.'

"Oh, well alright then. Thanks for looking after my partner! Goodnight, Blake." Ruby continues to whisper yell.

"Goodnight, Ruby." Blake smiles to Ruby as she looks over to her leader. Ruby closes the door and goes to bed.

Blake starts to get up, but is stopped by the hand on her robe. She laughs lightly, and starts to remove the hand so she can go to her own bed. Weiss mumbles though, as she starts to lose contact with the clothing.

"Please, don't go…" Weiss is still asleep, but the words are clear. She continues to clutch at the yukata, not wanting to lose the warmth near her.

Blake sighs. She could easily remove the hand if she really wanted to. But the scared face on Weiss of being left alone was too much. It shouldn't be too bad. The morning however, well that was going to be fun. Blake smiles at the thought then slips into the covers, next to Weiss on the other side of her, where there is room. Weiss rolls to the other side to continue clutching Blake's clothing, needing the closeness to comfort her.

Blake, feeling awkward of the positioning, slowly puts her arm around Weiss. And the heiress snuggles closer to the warmth. Blake puts her head above Weiss' and closes her eyes to sleep. It didn't take long. For being called the Ice Queen, Weiss was actually not that cold. Not uncomfortably so, anyways. They both fell asleep with smiles on their faces. The morning, however, that was going to be a different story.

Aww...They slept so peacefully together. I bet you twenty bucks that Weiss screams at the top of her lungs when she sees she slept with Blake! What do you mean its rigged because I know what's going to happen already? You're just chicken! xD

I hope the food thing made sense. Vampires can enjoy certain foods specifically to their liking. Like for Ruby its cookies. But it's still bad for her to fully ingest it. As for liquids, it's mostly Ok. Sense their bodies still need to digest blood intake as their main source for nutrients, they can digest other liquids as well. But it's like eating too many vitamins, your body just flushes all the excess nutrients as extra waste. So only eating is a problem for them.

Please continue to review and tell me if I made a mistake somewhere. Thanks so much for all the help! This story wouldn't be nearly as good as it is right now without all your help! With that said, 132 followers! That's awesome! And nearly 10,000 views! Thank you to everyone who is still keeping up with the story! Peace!