Author's Note

Current timeline: 2, 8, 3, 11, 1, 10, 5, 7, 6, 9, CS, 4.

I would like to say again, for those who may not have seen it at the bottom of the last chapter, that I have made a RWBY forum here on FFN. It is for general discussion. You don't even necessarily have to be talking about RWBY, though that would probably be a common point of interest for anybody actually there. It's a little quiet in there right now .

About the actual chapter, well, I had to get on to the Ruby cookie craze eventually. These chapters always seem to end up longer than I initially estimate. I've actually had the idea of Weiss being a good baker, and some scene involving Ruby eating something she baked since way before episode 1 and the cookies. I think that I was thinking more along the lines of cupcakes originally though.

Since this is a chronologically earlier chapter I also tried to get Weiss a bit closer to her canon personality, therefore expect her to be angry and yelling at Ruby. However, I have a tendency to write her as a tsundere, so expect some dere with that tsun.

Ruby at this point has gotten over her initial apprehensiveness from her terrible first few meetings with Weiss, and has either not yet figured out her feelings for or developed feelings for Weiss and therefore doesn't have those problems yet. Therefore she's pretty comfortable with Weiss right now but can still be cowed when she goes on a tirade.


Title: Cookies and a Burgeoning Friendship

Characters: Ruby and Weiss.

Genre: Humour, Friendship.

Summary: Bored, Ruby finds the scent of cookies, which leads her towards Weiss's dorm.


Ruby was at the moment wandering through the halls of the dormitory somewhat absently. It was the weekend and the afternoon at that, so nobody else was around the dormitories at the moment. Yang had ended up wandering off with her friends again, and who knows where Blake went. She herself didn't really have anything to do, and thus she had ended up wandering over towards where she knew Weiss's room was in a rather roundabout path.

While Weiss wasn't exactly the warmest of people, they had been getting along better recently. Ruby figured that if she wore at her long enough, Weiss would have to like her eventually. Either that or she was going to annoy the other girl to the point where she would just snap and end up killing either herself or Ruby to make it stop. She had finally been able to call her a friend in front of her without Weiss scoffing or making a snarky remark recently at least. Ruby considered a personal victory and a hopeful sign for the future. Unfortunately Weiss as of yet still wasn't quite at the point where she herself was likely to use the word friend.

Suddenly stopping in the middle of the hallway Ruby cocked her head. She inhaled deeply, trying to find the scent she thought she had detected. Ruby sniffed around for a few seconds before finally stopping as a grin spread across her face.

"Cookies!" Ruby squealed to herself in a childish tone. "Somebody has fresh cookies! And I can smell them."

Thus Ruby now found herself slinking through the empty halls sniffing along the scent trail of baked goods. It probably would have been an odd sight to see if there had been any other students to see it. For those unfamiliar with Ruby anyway. Those who knew her had mostly learned by now that sometimes, you might be better off not asking what Ruby happened to be doing.

It was to her surprise that the smell of cookies led her along her original path anyway, right to Weiss's door. Chewing on her lower lip she tried to decide on her next course of action. However, it seemed that her desire to get at the cookies temporarily superseded her common sense as Ruby's first action was to try the door rather than knocking. Surprisingly, it seemed that the door was not locked, and the knob turned quite easily.

Slowly, Ruby eased the door open as it slid open smoothly without sound. Peeking her head in she quickly scoped around. "...Weiss?" she called out softly. Hearing no answer, Ruby quietly let herself in and closed the door behind her carefully.

Looking around, it seemed that Weiss's dorm room was quite a bit more accommodating than most despite being for a single person. Describing it as a dorm "room" was probably an understatement. Being the heiress to a large and important company must come with some perks. As quietly as she could, Ruby snuck through Weiss's dorm to try and find the cookies she could smell. Just a couple of weeks ago, sneaking into Weiss's dorm room to potentially steal her cookies would have been unthinkable, nigh suicidal. Even now, this was still probably not one of Ruby's better ideas, and was likely to not end well. Sadly though, it seemed that her sweet tooth had overridden whatever common sense she had, in addition to her sense of self preservation.

"Fooouu~nd it," Ruby softly whispered to herself in victory. She had found a plate of chocolate chip cookies upon a table, and they looked and smelled delicious. Surely Weiss wouldn't mind or notice if she had just one, would she?

After a quick check to see that Weiss was not in the immediate area Ruby reached for a cookie, practically drooling. Licking her lips, Ruby brought it up towards her mouth, almost going cross eye from her intense concentration on it. Taking a big bite of it Ruby chewed slowly.

Ruby suppressed a moan, overcome by the taste of the cookie. "It's sooo gooood," she whispered quietly to herself. It was definitely still fresh, the soft moistness of the texture attested to that quite convincingly.

Reverently Ruby slowly ate the rest of cookie, savouring each bite. After licking her fingers clean, a pair of shimmering silver eyes rested upon the plate of cookies. Slowly, a second cookie was brought to her mouth after barely a moment's hesitation. This cookie was then immediately crammed in, devoured whole in a single bite.

Her previously slow eating was completely abandoned as Ruby now shovelled them in one after another as fast as she was physically capable of. Evidently her ability to cram cookies into her mouth was speedier than her capability to actually swallow them as soon after her cheeks were swelled with tasty baked treats.

Unable to fit anything else into her mouth Ruby leaned back from the now mostly empty plate. Chewing happily she looked upwards. The sight she saw, which on it's own would not be too bad, however, in the current circumstances it filled her with fear, and an appreciation of just how stupid she had just been.

The resident of this particular dorm, one Miss Weiss Schnee was looking back at her with an expression of surprise on her face. In between fearing for her life and cursing her weakness to cookies, Ruby noted that Weiss was wearing a rather cute pale pink apron, and was holding another plate of fresh cookies.

After a moment of silence in which they stared each other down, Weiss's eyes began to narrow dangerously. "Ruby," she hissed. "What are you doing here? Teammate or not, I do not recall any standing invitations for you to enter my dorm room."

With her mouth still full, Ruby was unable to offer any rebuttal. Instead she began shrinking in on herself, trying to present a smaller target to Weiss, though that hardly made a difference in the case of a verbal assault. Somehow, even in a pink apron carrying a plateful of cookies, Weiss still managed to scare her when she was angry. She really was ruing her poor impulse control right now.

"What kind of uncivilized ruffian just lets themselves into another person's home?" Weiss snapped angrily at Ruby. "Whether you broke in, picked the lock, or even if I just accidentally left my door unlocked, I don't care" she continued, inadvertently having correctly guessed how Ruby got in during the rant. "You had no right to simply come in here." Weiss took a second to place the cookies aside onto the table. "Well? What do you have to say for yourself?" the ranting girl demanded with a huff as she crossed her arms with a frown, scowling down at Ruby who had sunk to the floor.

There was a moment of silence as Ruby meekly finished swallowing the rest of the cookies in her mouth underneath Weiss's steely gaze. Poking the tips of her index fingers together nervously, Ruby with her head held down looked upwards with her eyes. "I-Ah, um," she started off stuttering. She coughed to try and clear her throat. "We-well, Yang went out with her friends and I don't know where Blake is, so I figured I'd come and visit you so we could hang out!" Ruby started off, her voice getting a bit more spirited towards the end.

"Hang out...?" Weiss seemed a little surprised at the thought of the idea of somebody wanting to seek her out just to hang out. Furrowing her brow a little in apparent confusion, it took some of the harshness of her gaze away from Ruby.

"Well yeah! We're friends aren't we? That's what friends do," Ruby said brighter this time as she straightened up a bit from her previously hunched over position. Blushing a little Ruby began to look a little sheepish again. "Ah, but then I smelled some cookies...and my nose led me here. I...had one hoping you wouldn't mind. But it was sooo good. I had a second one, and then, well, I couldn't help myself!" Ruby stood up and then bowed low at the waist. "I'm so sorry I ate all your cookies!"

Looking at her Weiss sighed in exasperation as she lightly pinched the bridge of her nose. It was harder to stay mad at Ruby than it used to be. "You shouldn't just barge your way into somebody's room. It is incredibly rude," she lectured Ruby again, albeit softer this time. Weiss frowned a little. "You are lucky that I had been meaning to give those cookies to the team, or I would be far more cross at you."

Blinking Ruby felt a weight lift off her as she realized that she had lucked out. "Wow! You got us cookies?" she exclaimed in surprise. "Those cookies were the best too! Where did you get them?"

Weiss puffed herself up with pride at the question. "Well of course they were good. I baked them myself this morning."

Ruby's eyes widened at this as her mind finally connected to apron Weiss was wearing to the cookies. "You...baked cookies for us?" she wondered out loud. Weiss barely seemed to tolerate them half the time, that she would go out of her way to make them cookies, and rather exceptional cookies at that was mind boggling.

Weiss's face flushed as she seemed to realize that this was out of character for her and then rushed to justify herself. "We-well, you all helped me out a lot the other week, and on the mission as well! I am simply showing my gratitude through a personal gesture. That is all!"

Ruby remembered the incidents that the other girl referring to, but personally thought that they weren't that big of a deal. Certainly nothing that should have warranted something like this from Weiss of all people. Still, if Weiss was going to do something nice for them (with cookies of all things!), then who was she to protest? Maybe Weiss was finally warming up to them.

Looking at the new plate of cookies Ruby licked her lips absently. She turned back to Weiss and asked, "Soooo, can I have another cookie?" When Weiss simply looked back at her with a stony face Ruby decided to step it up a bit. Clasping her hands underneath her chin she tried to give the best puppy dog eyes she could, opening them as wide as possible as her lips trembled. "Pleeeeease?" she begged.

Weiss looked at her still silent for a moment before her eye twitched slightly. "F-fine," Weiss said in a huff as she turned her face away from Ruby. She wasn't completely sure, but she thought she saw a little pink in her cheeks. "Only the one though! You've already eaten so many, save some for the others."

Ruby beamed at her. " Thank you thank you!" She pulled Weiss into a quick hug before she could react. After letting go of the white haired girl she immediately turned towards the cookies, missing the reddening of her face though either from embarrassment or anger it would have been hard to tell. Gleefully she snatched up another cookie from the fresh plate, noting that it was still warm to the touch, and put the whole thing into her mouth.

Slowly chewing Ruby let out a cookie muffled moan in delight. It must have been fresh out of the oven, the chocolate chips were even still a little melty on the inside. Her eyes were closed as she chewed happily savouring the taste of the cookie. Opening her eyes once finished she was disappointed that there was no more. She would sell her soul for more of these cookies...which actually gave her an idea.

Turning back to Weiss she still seemed stunned from the hug and her face was doing a fair imitation of the colour of her apron. The next moment Ruby leapt at her in a flying tackle of a hug knocking her to the ground. If Weiss was merely stunned before, she was like a deer in the headlights now with her back to the ground as she stared upward at Ruby's faces merely inches from her own. Ruby's arms were on the floor to either side of Weiss, supporting her upper body as her legs straddled her around the waist.

Ruby stared back at Weiss right in the eyes, steely silver meeting cool blue. "Marry me," she stated in a deadpan voice.

There was another moment of silence as Weiss's face slowly darkened in colour. A strangled noise came from the back of her throat before she started sputtering. "W-what? What are you saying?"

"If you're my wife, then that means you have to make me cookies all the time!" Ruby explained. "In return, I'll do anything you want and love you with all my heart 'til death do we part." All of this was said with a perfectly straight face.(1)

Another few second passed as Weiss looked slack jawed at Ruby's audacity. Angrily she narrowed her eyes and pushed the darker haired girl off of her. "Get off me you buffoon! Who in their right mind would marry you?" Sliding out from underneath Ruby she got up and dusted herself off. "I can assure you that in the off chance we ever got together, I would make sure that we part very soon indeed."

"Weeeiiisss," Ruby whined. "Why do you have to be so mean?"

"Mean?" Weiss asked affronted. "See if I ever make you cookies again!"

"Wha-?" Ruby looked rather startled and panicked. "No! No! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!" she wailed in distress. As Weiss turned to walk away from her Ruby latched on tightly around her waist. "I was just joking, you know I love and appreciate you Weiss! Please don't never make cookies again!"

Weiss's face was still crimson from the excessive bodily contact Ruby insisted on as she tried to pry the other girl off of her. "Let go Ruby, unhand me now! I insist that you cease this at once! Ruby!"

The two probably made for a rather comical sight, especially for those familiar with the heiress and her personality. Clad in a light pink apron with a matching shade in her cheeks she had Ruby wrapped around her midsection from behind adamantly refusing to let go. Despite Weiss's protests, nobody who saw this could ever doubt their friendship.


1: Ruby is actually just joking right now. Mostly. She hasn't developed romantic feelings for Weiss yet at this time. She just really wants cookies. The way to Ruby's heart is through cookies.


Author's Note

Weiss will not be in the next chapter. Tying up some loose ends with Blake, so she and Ruby need a little chat. It's not intended as romantic, but I have no doubt you will probably be able to see it if you squint a little. I actually kinda dislike Blake/Ruby, not totally sure why, it's nothing against Blake as I don't seem to have a problem with Blake/Weiss.

So that forum of mine. You should go there. There's only like three or four people actually posting in there right now. The RWBY section is growing pretty rapidly now with new stories being posted every day. I would like a place for RWBY fans to talk.

R&R.