Weiss Weiss Weiss Wei- Ompf!
Weiss groaned as she slammed her alarm clock. The night filled with weird dreams and her having to deal with it had cut some time off of her rest. This was the second time such situation occurred and if it continues to go that route, she'll have to seriously consider talking to someone...
...Wait, since when did her alarm clock call her name, and grunt in pain for that matter? This required further research.
With that she opened her eyes, only to see Ruby with a pained grimace, holding the top of her head. Her brain started to process math equation on some quantum physics level before it delivered the conclusion of this situation.
"Oh no! Ruby! I'm so sorry!" Her grogginess was immediately gone, as she sat up and pulled the dog girl into a tight hug, one of her hands moving on top of the girl's head and rubbed it gently. "Are you alright?"
She felt the girl nod. "Yes. I just thought I'd wake you up since you turned off your alarm and just continued to sleep." Guilt, she heard guilt in the dog girl's voice, and it made her feel even worse. What a horrible way to start a day.
"No Ruby, you did great. I'm sorry, I just mistook you for my alarm clock." She moved the girl away and grasped her cheeks to look at her face. "You did good, alright? You're a good girl." She smiled at her.
Weiss was never sure what made the other girl cheer up. The reassuring words, the praise or the physical contact. Perhaps all of these combined. But in the end the most important thing was that Ruby smiled and nodded once more. "Alright, I just thought I did something bad."
"Even if you did something bad, I wouldn't hit you, you silly girl. Now let's move on with our day." She nodded and released the girl from her arms, as she sat on the edge of the bed, stretching. This day barely started and was already filled with misadventures.
She put her feet inside her panda slippers and got up, deciding on the next thing to do. Hair, she needs to fix her hair. This could take a bit longer than usual. Which brought her attention to the faunus girl.
"Ruby? Are you hungry?" She turned her attention towards the girl who was just sitting on the bed, not really having anything else to do.
"Yes." She immediately answered with a smile, although her expression immediately shifted to that of concern. "No." She added after a few seconds. "Maybe?" Now the worry mixed with confusion on her face. "S-Should I be hungry?" She finally asked.
Weiss rolled her eyes, not without a smile though. "If you're hungry, I'll make you breakfast now. If you're not, I'll go take care of my hair first and later make you something to eat. Neither is an issue, I just need to know."
"Didn't you wash your hair last night?" The dog girl blinked, tilting her head curiously to the side.
The Schnee cleared her throat. "R-Right, anyway, it's an uh... Two step process. So breakfast now or later?" She focused her gaze on the girl.
"Umh... Later is fine, you can go take care of your hair." The dog girl nodded.
"Alright, feel free to..." Weiss paused. What was Ruby to do?
And then she remembered.
She grinned and clasped her hands, that brought the redhead's attention to her as she tilted her head curious of why her owner did something like that out of nowhere.
"I actually have something for you." She grinned, and her words made Ruby's ears perk up, as her tail wagged at the prospect of a gift.
"Something for me?" The dog girl asked, her curiosity shining bright through her silver eyes.
"Mhm." Weiss nodded as she went towards her bag. There she extracted the box from her bag and moved to place it on Ruby's lap. "Here, this is for you. Although I assume it'll be a gift to our household, I got it with you in mind."
"A box?" The redhead asked as she looked between it and her owner.
"...Yes, but the gift inside of the box." Weiss tilted her head confused.
"Can I open it?" Came another question, to which Weiss had to keep herself from facepalming or rolling her eyes. Patience was required, although the overly politeness was... Bothersome. Still, that meant she was raised properly at least.
"Of course, if I ever hand you a box, and say it's a gift, you may open it to get to the content in any means necessary as long as you won't destroy the content nor hurt yourself, alright?" Instead she decide to smile, as she explained carefully.
"Alright!" The girl nodded happily and started unboxing her gift. Once she got to the content she gasped. "It's a radio!"
Weiss blinked at that. "Well... Yes, why are you surprised? It was on the picture on the box." She pointed at said box.
"...I... I don't trust pictures on anything anymore." The girl admitted as her ears fallen flat against her head and the tail wagging has stopped.
"I... Why?" The human girl couldn't help but ask.
"Strawberry soap doesn't taste like strawberry even if it has strawberry picture on it." She frowned, a hurtful expression on her face, to which Weiss was wondering if the girl felt betrayed by whoever made said soap.
That of course, while it had to be awful for the girl, made Weiss smile, as she turned away from the girl to avoid her seeing that. "R-Right!" She cleared her throat. "I'll go take care of my hair now"
Just as expected, her normal shower time took a bit more. It didn't have to, of course, but it was required for her to not scare people off with her presence. Or make Yang poke fun at her, or worse, worry about her.
Once she was done though, she exited the bathroom with a smile, only to discover something odd. Well, the discovery came a bit sooner even before she was able to leave the small room. There was no sound, she expected for Ruby to play the radio that she gave her. Which meant that she either didn't know how to turn it on, or the thing was broken.
Yet that wasn't the case. Once she left the bathroom she saw the dog girl sitting there as she left her, with the radio now unboxed on the lap. Weiss raised a brow at that. "Ruby? Why didn't you turn it on?"
"Because you have to plug it in" She raised the cable in her hand.
Weiss sighed. "Alright, different question, why didn't you plug it in?"
"Because I was told not to play around electrical sockets since I could get hurt." She nodded.
This was understandable, and if she was to be honest? Appropriate. She preferred to deal with Ruby being a well behaved faunus that waited for everything, then dealing with her potentially getting hurt. Still she had to find a way to make her a tiny bit more self dependant.
"Right, can I?" She approached the dog girl and reached towards the radio. Ruby released it from her grasp, allowing her to take it. She looked around for a good spot to place it. The cable wasn't too long, but it should be enough if this music box was standing close.
She moved around the bed and placed it on the nightstand on Ruby's side of bed. Although just that thought made her pause. She raised her head to look between the dog girl and the bed. In a way this was her side of the bed, since it's always the one she slept on since she got here. She sighed and shook her head. It was scary how fast she was adapting to this crazy new situation.
She placed the radio on the empty nightstand and leaned down to plug the thing in. She extended the antena and looked at the box. It was a simple black radio with an autoscan function to search for the nearest radio stations, a knob for volume and a silver, what she assumed aluminium retractable antenna. Nothing too fancy, but should be enough.
"There we go, do you know how to use it?" Weiss stood up and focused her eyes on Ruby.
The girl nodded. "You turn the knob to find the radio station."
"Not in this one. This finds radio stations by itself. You just press the button. The knob is for volume, so try not to play with that too much, and don't try to rotate the button. Just push it to find a different station, or press the smaller button to reset it in case you want some previous station." Weiss pointed in the vague direction of each of the buttons and the knob as she explained.
To believe she didn't yet bless herself with caffeine. "Anyway, feel free to play with it and I'll prepare our breakfast."
This already cut too much time from her morning coffee time. If there even will be morning coffee time anymore.
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One cup of coffee and prepared breakfast and morning filled with various random radio stations being heard later, Weiss arrived at her university. Deciding to once more look at the listing of her classes and lectures, together with the list of room numbers to make sure she wouldn't go to the wrong place and be late due to that.
"Wasn't able to finish your morning cup?" Yang's voice brought her back to the real world, as she moved her attention away from the board and focused on the blonde girl.
"Adjusting to my new mornings." She shrugged. "Speaking of which, no sacrifice this morning?" She raised a brow as she saw the blonde not holding any kind of cup in her hands.
"Huh? Am I to buy you coffee each and every morning from now on?" It was Yang's moment to raise her brow.
"Might as well, you got me into this mess." Weiss nodded as she moved past the blonde, who followed after.
"Well if I knew I'd be obligated to pour caffeine down your throat, I'd rethink that." She had to keep herself from smiling, she had to play her role of being dead serious about this.
"Too late now, since you signed the papers and everything." She stopped next to the coffee machine, or drink machine, since it served other types of hot beverages. Although none interested her more then coffee right now.
"I didn't sign nothing." Came a rebellious response from her friend.
"Well I have the documents at home, and it was clearly signed by you, Yang Brute." Weiss nodded as she waited for the machine to pour the awful quality drink.
"That's forgery for one, second, that's not my name." Yang squinted her eyes at the smaller girl.
"Might as well be." She answered with a cocky grin.
At least some things didn't change, and god bless them for it. Even she couldn't handle too much change, at least at once.
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"How's your pup doing? Happy that you managed to register her properly?" Yang's sudden question required extra processing power inside Weiss's brain, as she had to catch up with what the blonde meant.
"Oh, she's... Alright. Although she could use to be a bit more self dependant." She shrugged.
"Really? Most owners claim that when they get their new faunus, or they grow up to a certain age, they could use a bit less of that." The blonde snickered.
"Yes, well, Ruby always waits for everything, since she was taught by the previous owner that she shouldn't do plenty of things due to it being dangerous." She sighed softly.
"That doesn't sound that bad, the alternative could be worse you know." Yang pointed out, to which the white haired girl couldn't help but nod.
"True, but still." She looked into her cup. Talks like these were always awful. Not because she hated talking about such subjects, but it always slowed down her coffee drinking, and while she tolerated the black goo that the machine spewed, it was best drank as hot as possible, before the flavour is too noticeable.
"While I can't say for sure, but it sounds like her last owner treated her like a child." Yang's comment made the Schnee tilt her head.
"Child?" She asked out, hoping the other girl would follow up on that.
"Yeah, since she was alone with her, a woman, not sure about her age. Still, sounds like someone who couldn't or didn't want to have children, so they substituted for a faunus. Happens often enough so that folks are aware of such things happening." Yang nodded at that.
"I guess, maybe." While it was an interesting theory, it didn't really solve the issue of Ruby requiring some sort of... Training? Education? What should she call it.
"So when will you sign her up for the basic social certificate?" Yang inquired as she curiously peered at the white haired girl.
She blinked. "Social certificate?"
"Uh, don't they give out those little pamphlets or whatever? It should have all the information on there. I'd explain it but I'm afraid I forgot a lot of that, and would deliver informations that are outdated or something." The blonde shrugged and smiled sheepishly.
The pamflet, that's right. "I... Haven't, no. I forgot about that actually. I should read it while I'm at work." If she hasn't lost it yet. That would be a disaster since that's the only thing that could give her some clue of what to do next. While internet was helpful, it had its own issues.
"You should get to it as soon as you can, for your sake and your pup." Yang nodded.
"Right. Speaking of things I need... I... I need underwear, Yang." She cleared her throat, trying her best to control her face so it didn't blush.
The taller girl started to slowly lean forward, as her eyes moved down towards the Schnee's dress, brow slowly raising.
It took a moment for her to understand what her friend was doing, as she sat straight up and fixed her dress. "Not for me, Yang! For Ruby." She rolled her eyes as she saw the other girl snicker.
"Right, right. Uh, I can tell you the store I go for any kind of clothes for Blake. Or rather where Blake goes, since I don't need to go with her." The blonde sat up from her leaning position.
"Alright, I can write it down." Weiss nodded as she started to look for something inside her bag she could write on. Complicated task, especially considering she prefered digital means of making notes.
"Yeah, so remember that store? The one I always buy stuff in?" Yang began, only to get cut off by the other girl.
"No Yang..."
"Oh, well it's next to..."
"No! I mean, not like this Yang. I need an address, not you giving me a vague map of some area I barely was in. You remember how that ended last time, right?" She frowned.
Yang winced at that. "Ouch, right. Well, police did find you, right? So nothing bad happened. Not much at least." She smiled sheepishly.
Weiss glared at her friend. "After five hours."
"Fine, fine, sheesh. I'll send you a text message at our last lecture, since I'll be bored anyway." The taller girl rolled her eyes.
"Thank you Yang, I'll appreciate that." The Schnee nodded. "Now let's go, or all the good spots will be taken." She said as she stood up.
If the store wasn't too far, she could go there before work. Hopefully.
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A small bell rang as Weiss opened the door to the store. It wasn't a very big store, at least it didn't seemed like it from the outside. Although once she was inside, she had to admit it was cozy and just big enough, at least for her taste. She wasn't really experienced in interior decoration.
"Hello, can I help you, miss?" A very thick accented voice greeted her. She looked around and spotted a... Fanus girl. A bunny girl, with brown ears, hair and eyes. She offered a polite smile, as anyone would in her position.
She moved deeper into the store, meeting with the attending faunus midway as she also approached her. "Yes, I'm looking for underwear." She nodded.
The bunny girl tilted her head, a bit confused as she looked her customer over, then looked around as if expecting someone else. "I'm sorry but this is a faunus store."
"I know, I'm here for faunus underwear." Weiss nodded, although as she saw the faunus girl's brow slowly raise up, she knew she had to add to her previous statement. "For my faunus, I have a pup. I recently adopted her and things were..." She paused, not wanting to know what kind of image the bunny girl would have if she said the word messy. "...complicated." She smiled, or tried to put on her best smile.
"I... See, very well. Do you have measurements?" The faunus girl smiled as she already was leading Weiss towards the section where she could get underwear.
Although her question made the human girl facepalm. Measurements, of course, she forgot about the most basic thing. "I... No, not really. I forgot." She sighed sadly. Well, this trip was a waste of time.
"That's alright, we can try find something fitting. Can you describe her? Is she small or tall? Chubby or slim?" The bunny girl smiled as she turned around to face Weiss once they were at the appropriate section.
"Well... Actually? She has similar measurements to myself. Would that help?" That of course was a lie, not because Ruby didn't have the same measurements, but because she didn't really check. Still, the dog girl didn't look that much more different from herself, which was a safe bet. Unless faunus panties costed a lot. That could be a waste. Still, a good bet.
The rabbit girl looked at her from head to toes and nodded to herself. Weiss wasn't sure if she heard the other girl murmuring something to herself, or was it just some other noise. Yet, after a bit of doing so, she smiled and nodded. "I think I can work with that. What kind of faunus do you own?"
"A dog one." She answered, although a thought appeared in her head that she couldn't help but to voice. "How long do you work here?"
"What kind of tail she has? And how long? Since this store is up. My owner got it specifically for me." The rabbit girl turned around and smiled at her.
That of course made her brow raise in surprise. "I...uh, medium length I think? With some fluff... Your owner bought you a store? A whole store? Just so you can work in it?" She heard about being easy with money, it was how her previous life was like, but even she, even her past self would admit this was going way above the line.
"Pretty much, yes. She owns a line of stores, both for human and faunus. She's also a very well known faunus activist, you might have heard about her." There was a clear indication of being proud over her owner's achievements, most likely the activist part.
"Did you want this?" She looked around, still not quite sure how she felt about this revelation. Not that it mattered, but still it was... A new experience. It's as if finding Ruby opened her eyes about how the world worked. She never really paid attention to the faunus side of her reality. How ignorant of her.
"Yes, there's nothing worse for me, or I guess for any of us, than inactivity. I'd feel bad for being useless, also I like this. I learn new things, it's always nice to learn new things. It's too bad I can't really have a career in what I really like to do." The bunny faunus sighed sadly.
That of course got Weiss curious. "What's that?"
The question seemed to dispel the gloomy mood that suddenly clouded the brown haired faunus, as she clasped her hands. "Photography! But faunus can't have a license in that, at least not yet. My owner always promises she will do her best to open more possibilities for us, and for me. Still, I can work unofficially on that for her, so I'm happy." She nodded and gasped. "Oh! There's a thing we're organising. It's for fundraising purposes, we're making calendar and all funds will go for the local FAC."
The Schnee had to blink at this information bomb. "Uh, what's FAC again?"
"Faunus adoption center, it's a private association that helps with adoption." The bunny girl explained with a smile.
"I uh, I see. I mean, I don't think we'll have time to attend." She smiled sheepishly, it was always hard to say no to such initiatives, especially now for this specific kind. She still remembers the fear Ruby felt over being in the pound.
The rabbit's ears went down at that. "A shame, we give out vouchers to our stores for the faunus that will get onto the calendar."
"A voucher? How much?" That got Weiss's attention. She needed clothes for the girl, and if she could get them for free? It would most likely help out for their home budget.
"Five hundred, although it's a one time thing, so you'd have to spend it all at once." The brown haired girl explained with a nod.
"Right, it's... What kind of calendar is it?" As she asked the question, she saw the other girl blush and look to the side.
"A... A lingerie one." She cleared her throat.
"Lingerie." Weiss repeated, a bit dumbfound. She expected it to be something cute, not... Perverted. Can cute be perverted?
"It's not my idea, but apparently that's what would sell. Or rather what sells best. It's alright if you change your mind, since you were interested in the voucher. But we're doing it for the greater good." The faunus girl smiled and shrugged.
"I'll think about it." Weiss answered and with that said, they both continued with the process of trying to get Ruby some new underwear.
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She sat behind the desk at her work, while normally she read some additional things for her university courses, this time she had the small pamphlet in her hands, as she studied it carefully.
It was an educational piece, some vague information with more details on some website they provided, while she criticized the internet as a source of knowledge, this time at least she had some firm directions for later.
It had informations about social help, mostly how to get a financial benefit, some general idea on how much you can get, which was calculated depending on how much money was earned per family member, faunus included of course.
Second portion was about education. It had information about basic education that opens door for more advanced courses. The advanced courses granted a certificate to walk around the city alone, work or take some of the household responsibilities, whatever that could mean.
This of course proved to be in some way useful for her even if it was vague, and without being able to open her laptop, she couldn't go to these websites to learn details. One she knew for sure, she had to send Ruby for the basic education course.
Door being suddenly opened and in not so gently fashion made her jump a bit as she looked up. In the doorway to the store stood her boss, his face frozen in a perpetual frown. "You're on time, good." He said as he walked inside, and moved towards the backdoor that lead to his office. "Oh, right, did you solve your faunus issue? Not that I care, I just want to make sure you didn't do anything law breaking while on your revitalizing break." He frowned even more, something she wasn't sure was even possible.
"I... Yes, Ruby, my faunus, is registered. She is officially my pet." Weiss smiled at that, just saying that made her feel happy. Happy that all that crazy trouble was gone now.
"Good... Not that I care of course." He said and with that, and another door being slammed, her disappeared. That made her jump once more, as she highly disliked sudden loud noises, even if she expected it, she could never get used to those.
With a sigh she looked down at the pamphlet. She got as much information from it as she could, some more studying will be required after she's back home.
She put the thing back into her bag and leaned against the chair she sat on. There was another issue, the offer of that rabbit faunus. The prize, if Ruby got herself onto the calendar, was... Tempting, but wasn't this selling her body? In a way, that is. If it was herself, she... Might have considered it without as much seconding guessing the idea. It was for Ruby, and in the end for the betterment of homeless faunus, or faunus in general.
Yet she had power, power she wasn't keen on abusing, even by accident. If she approaches the girl about it, she knows Ruby will accept it, she would accept a lot of things just to make her happy. This, of course, while initially nice, could turn out to be annoying. Like in a situation like this.
Was this situation turning desperate, and that started to turn her greedy? Or was she just being opportunistic. Who knew owning a faunus was filled with such moral dilemmas.
Author's Note:
Funny thing is, I wanted to make this chapter a bit longer (Make the bit that was moved to the next chapter, basicly Weiss coming back home and some shenanigans at home) BUT I decided I had to finish this chapter and post it before the final episode of volume 5 happens...
Why? Because a) This author's note would be like 2k words long AT LEAST of me just being angry at volume 5 and b) It might completely demotivate me to finish this chapter or post it or whatever.
So here it is, I think it's lengthy enough. I apologize for not posting as often lately, but I just didn't feel like writing. And it wasn't that I felt uninspired, I just decided to just take a break, hang out with some friends and play some vidya, which occured at the same time of day that I usually use for writing. Still, next month might be completely free for me, so I might have tons of time to catch up.
Anyway, about the chapter! Velvet huh? And no name drops. Of course the store owner is Coco cause … You know, who else. I have a weird block towards name drops like that, I'm sorry. It will happen.
Also this story is planned ahead, with resolutions to things that already occur in the story, so I already know what will happen next. Also I wanted to make the lingerie an issue for Weiss as I showed in the story, so she's worried if she's turning greedy, if it isn't abusing Ruby and all that jazz, but then I remembered that the last few chapters/bonus chapters were a bit... echi, is that the term? And well... THIS ISN'T HELPING MY CASE.
Still, while I already know what will happen next and all that jazz, I'm curious what do you think Weiss should do? Or what you would do. Also what are you thoughts on this chapter? Share them with me! I like interacting or just reading nice (Or mean, as long as they try to be critical and help me improve my stuff) things.