(A.N.) Hello everyone! So here is my second attempt for chapter 14. Sorry about last weekend like I said in the little sorry note. I got a bit carried away with the whole villain subplot and tried to make it bigger than it needed it to be. Good new's is that I was able to change what I had in mind without altering my chapter's so much. The only thing's I changed were the ending dialogue in seven and got rid of the scene where Qrow and Vernal meet.
Thank you for your pateince and understanding and I hope I don't screw up this second chance. Enjoy :)
The next couple day's were long and and very emotionally draining for the young heiress. All her thoughts were on Coco and their relationship. On one hand she felt happy knowing Coco would willingly go through so much for her even to go as far as defy her parent's. On the other hand however. The fashionista wanted to know if she was in this for keep's. No matter what happened between their families.
Weiss will admit that she does have some feeling's for the older girl. But she knew exactly what love was. She loved Yang, still does. She just didn't have that strong connection with Coco. Yet.
She figured that with a bit more time they'd reach that stage. But now she was on a timer. And she didn't know what to do.
"Uh huh!..Oh yeah totally...No way! Seriously!?"
Weiss's eye twitched.
"Oh my dust!...No no no. Listen here! I don't care how cool it look's. It cannot and I repeat cannot! Beat Crescent Rose!...I would not marry her!...I like you both equally."
The white haired girl slammed her hand's on the desk. "Ruby! Can you please keep it down!?" She snapped.
The team leader was currently on her bunk bed hanging upside down with her scroll next to her ear. She eyed her partner who was fuming at the desk. "Umm...I'll call you back. Got in trouble again. Bye!" After ending the call she gave Weiss a worried look. "You ok Weiss?"
The heiress placed her head in her hand's and sighed. "No..." She muttered.
The young leader flipped over until she was sitting up. "Did...Something happen between you and Coco?"
She nodded. Sadly. "You could say that."
The little red leader gasped and was at Weiss's side in an instant. "Did you two have a fight!? Did you do something you weren't ready for!? Did you break up!? Do I need to get Yang to beat her up!?" Ruby's mind was going a hundred mile's an hour, going through so many scenario's. She thought thing's were going great between her bestie and the shade's wearing leader.
Despite the situation Weiss found herself chuckling. "No Ruby. Nothing like that. I think...We're just taking a break until we figure thing's out."
Before she knew what was happening. Weiss found herself laying on her with Ruby sitting in the chair next to her. She had a notebook and pen in her hand. Rose petal's were scattered around the room. "Alright Weiss. Let's get to the root of the problem shall we?" The sixteen year old said almost way to professionally as she started scribbling on the notepad.
The white hired girl's face flushed a bit and face palmed. "Ruby. I don't need you playing shrink. This is so immature." She was slightly touched though by her partner's gesture though.
"Weiss. I am your bff. And bff's share everything. How am I suppose to help you if you don't talk about your problem's." She leaned back in the chair, crossing her left leg over her right . Now miss Schnee. What seem's to be the problem?"
The heiress just sighed, putting her arm over her eye's. "Maybe talking to Ruby wouldn't hurt." She thought. Although Yang would probably be better with dating advice. Weiss wasn't sure how well the cookie loving girl would be giving romance advice when her first relationship is a long distance one. "Well...A couple day's ago she wanted to talk with me privately."
Weiss told Ruby everything Coco said to her. Beside's her past of course. When she was done the scythe wielder hummed to herself. "I see. Yes her parent's sound like they are big dummy head's." Weiss rolled her eye's. "Do you like Coco Weiss?"
"Yes."
Ruby scribbled more into her notebook. "Are you happy with her?"
"Yes."
"Mhmmm." She munched on a cookie before asking. "Can you see yourself with anyone else?"
"No."
Ruby beamed and put her notebook down in her lap. "Well. Then there's your answer."
Weiss actually laughed. "Ruby it's not that simple."
The silver eyed girl groaned, rolling her eye's. "Yes it is. Your just not making it simple. I mean come on Weiss. Coco is going to go through something that's probably life changing, for you. She obviously love's you. And you deserve that kind of love. And I can totally see it in your eye's whenever your with her. You love her~" Ruby said singing that very last part.
Ruby was met with a pillow to the face. "Oh shut it dolt!" Weiss's face was just as red as the leader's cape. She turned away from her friend going over what Ruby had just said. "Ruby is right. The way she talked. Coco is going to do something that might even get her disowned...All for me. If that isn't love then what is?" The heiress thought back on everything that's happened between them since she asked the fashionista to that ball all those month's ago. The way Coco never once seemed embarrassed or ashamed to be with her. How easy it was for Weiss to just be herself with her around. How she felt wanted when Coco would hold her, kiss her and just wanted to be around as much as possible.
She also loved how patient the older girl was with their growing relationship. Whenever Weiss felt a tad uncomfortable Coco would stop what she was doing without being asked to. Plus she couldn't control how her heart was yearning for the fashionista right now.
It was all a familiar feeling.
Honestly she already knew her answer. She was just afraid of it. "Ruby...I'm scared." Weiss was doing everything she could trying not to cry.
The young leader set her notebook down and got out of the chair to sit next to her friend. She rubbed her shoulder. "Why are you scared Weiss?"
Weiss rolled onto her back. "What if 'I'M' forced to leave her? All those year's of emotional abuse but none of it came close compared to leaving Yang. It felt like my soul was ripped to shreds." Ruby opened her arm's, giving her friend a silent invitation and Weiss happily took it. She flew into her partner's arm's, burring her face into the younger girl's shoulder. "I don't want to experience that again. I can't." She knew the only reason her father hasn't done anything yet is because for once Yang was right. Coco was the daughter of two of the most successful clothing business owner's in Remnant and didn't want to jeopardize the partnership. But she knew it was only a matter of time before he came up with something. Especially if thing's go south with Coco and her parent's.
The young leader rubbed her crying partner's back. "It's ok Weiss. Everything will work out in the end. It's going to be tough but you know full well that you and Coco have a lot of people that support you. I don't care how we do it but I will not see my best friend sad anymore."
"Damn right!"
The red and white duo broke away to see Yang and Blake at the doorway with Ilia between them. The partner's helping the wounded girl stand. All three of them had a smile on their face. "We'll be there every step of the way. I'll even bust a few head's if need be." Yang teased. "Speaking of step's. We're almost there Ilia."
The chameleon girl sighed in relief. She was so glad to finally be out of that damn infirmary room. Beside's the slight weakness and the new eye patch she was sporting, she felt fine. "Thank dust. I was about to lose my mind in there."
"You and Blake can take my bunk for a while since it's lower to the ground. Unless Blake is ok with sharing her snuggle buddy with me?" The blonde teased, giving a wink to her partner.
Both faunus girl's blushed. Ilia looked away, skin turning pink. Blake glared dagger's at the blonde as they set the wounded girl down on the bed. "Yang. You want to lose all your hair?" The cat girl threatened.
Yang closed her mouth immediately.
The team leader smiled. "Welcome to Team RWBY's dorm Ilia! Ozpin is letting you stay?"
The darker skinned girl smiled and nodded. "Yeah. He's going to have me help around the school for the remainder of the year. Working the cafeteria line, help out with the library. Stuff like that."
"Ozpin is pretty cool." Yang commented. "Clothe's fit you?"
"Perfectly. Your friend Coco sure know's what she's doing. I can't believe she got my combat attire right on the first try when I described it to her only once." The skin changing girl was so glad to be back in her old outfit. All that's missing is her weapon which she knew she could easily remake within a couple of week's.
Weiss smiled proudly. "If there's one thing she doesn't screw up on. It's fashion."
"Speaking of. What were you two talking about before we came in?" The blonde asked jumping onto her partner's top bunk." We only heard the last bit."
"Me and Coco are...Trying to figure out how to stay together before our parent's do something drastic." The heiress answered with a mall sigh. "Ruby has been giving me good advice. For once."
Said leader looked appalled. "What!? I'm great with advice!"
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"WHAT!?"
Beginning of the year-
"Hey Blake! What's wrong?"
The black haired girl sighed as she closed her book. "Sun has been well... Very flirty with me and...I don't know how to turn him down gently. I'm not used to this sort of thing."
Ruby smiled. "Oh that's easy! Just ignore him and eventually he'll take the hint. It might seem mean but it' the best way to go about it with very flirty people. He'll take it like a champ and move on."
Blake blinked a few time's. Unsure. "You sure that will work?"
"Yup!"
Blake did as Ruby suggested. But it only made thing's worst. Sun started to think Blake was just playing hard to get and the cat girl had no idea how to fix it.
When Jaune and Pyrrha first got together-
"Hey uhh...Ruby?"
"Oh hey Jaune! What's up?"
The blonde haired boy coughed nervously and asked while scratching the back of his head. "Hey uhh...Well me and Pyrrha are going to go on our first date and I...Have no idea where to take her."
The red leader squealed. "YES! FINALLY!" She gave her first a tackling hug. Squeezing the air out of him. "I'm so so so so soooooo happy for you guy's!" She jumped off him and answered his question as he was trying to get air back into his lung's. "You should take her to the beach! It's going to be a very lovely weekend!"
After catching his breath Jaune looked at her questionably. "You sure? Because I heard it was going to rain all weekend."
Ruby rolled her silver eyes. "Pfff. Nah. You know how weather reporter's are. They are always wrong. If they say it rain's it'll be nice, if they say it'll be nice it'll rain. Right?"
Jaune looked unsure. "I...Guess so?"
Ruby then smirked and dashed to his side whispering in his ear. "Beside don't you want to see Pyrrha in a bikini?" That made the boy blush. "Think about it. Walking along the beach, hand in hand with the mot beautiful girl. All the guy's will be so jealous."
Jaune beamed. "Ruby. I can't thank you enough!"
The next day it started down pouring as soon as they got to said beach. The Arkos couple ended up with a cold.
Week before Beacon started, Girl's night out-
"Hey Ruby!?"
The red team leader was combing her hair as she heard her white haired partner call for her. "Yeah Weiss!?"
Weiss walked into the bathroom, holding two outfit's. "Which outfit should I wear?" She held up the one in her left hand. "I like this one but this is more of a formal dress than a night out." She held up the right. "And this one is way outdated. But it's the only appropriate one I have for an occasion like this."
Ruby shook her head. "Weiss. Oh poor Weiss." She set her comb down and walked past her partner while grabbing her hand, dragging the heiress towards the dorm closet. "It's time for a new look!" She dug into the closet and started tossing out random article's of clothing.
"Ruby that is not-"
"Yes it is necessary!" Ruby yelled, finishing Weiss's sentence. "We are going to go out as a team before school starts and I want everyone to look their best! Who know's! Maybe you'll pick up some girls." She teased.
Weiss glared dagger's at her partner, blushing. "I am not! Picking up girl's at a bar or-"
"Here this is perfect! Try it on!" Ruby said while tossing an outfit into Weiss's face, shutting her up.
The heiress huffed and examined the outfit. She blushed even more. "Ruby. I'm not sure this will...Look right on me."
Ruby rolled her eye's. "Come on Weiss you look good in anything."
Weiss ignored that comment. "Ruby I just want to hang out with the team. I do not want to...Attract any unwanted attention."
"You'll be fine Weiss! Now hurry up! Yang and Blake are already at the club waiting for us!"
Weiss spent the entire night wearing a very tight red halter top that barely covered her chest, really tight short short's and black heels. She was constantly getting hit by both guy's and girl's. The night ended when a creep smacked her butt which escalated to Yang tearing up Junior's club again.
Present- Ruby looked away in shame. "Ok so I had a 'few' bad moments."
Ilia started chuckle. "I can see why Blake spoke so fondly of you all."
Blake blushed when her team smiled at her. "Ahem. Anyway. Have you figured out what your going to do Weiss?"
The young heiress laid back down. "Not yet. I know what I want for sure but...How to go about keeping it is the problem."
Yang hopped off the top bunk and sat down next to her ex. "You'll figure it out. Your the smartest girl at Beacon remember?"
Weiss gave her a thankful smile. "I am. Aren't I?"
"Yup! So you better do what you can to fight for your woman!" The blonde then noticed the notebook and picked it up. "What's this?"
Ruby gasped. "Yang nooooooooo!"
It was to late. Yang opened the notebook that Ruby was doodling in during her 'therapy session' and she immediately started laughing. "Hahaha! Oh wow sis! Hahaha! Your skills!"
Weiss's eye's narrowed. "What's so funny?" She asked while swiping the notebook out of the blonde's hand. Said blonde rolled onto the floor still laughing. The blue eyed girl took one look at what was inside the notebook and began to fume.
There were no note's at all as she originally thought. Instead it was a childish drawing of herself and Coco smiling and holding hand's. Coco was wearing a tux and she was wearing a wedding dress. They were under an alter with heart's above them.
"RUBY ROSE!"
Ruby was already at the other side of the school by the time Weiss started chasing after her.
Ilia watched as Weiss ran out of the room following the trail of rose petal's than glance down to see Yang still laughing historically on the floor. "Are...They always like this?"
Blake sighed with a small smile on her face. "All the time."
"What!? But...My father and I have nothing to do with it." They were in their dorm room and the leader of team CFVY has just informer her ex about what was going on. Velvet was on the verge of tear's and the leader hated that. "That job is all he has. If they fire him he'll be on the street's."
Coco pulled the sensitive girl into her arms, trying to calm her down. "Shhh. I know Vel I know. But I won't that happen."
The rabbit girl buried her face deeper into her leader's shoulder. "But I don't want you to sacrifice your happiness for me." The poor photographer couldn't understand why Coco's parent's were trying so hard to make their own daughter miserable. But what she heard next confused her a bit.
Coco actually chuckled. "Don't worry about a thing Vel. I have a plan and honestly I'm going to do it, if Weiss is serious about us or not."
Velvet broke away from the fashionista's arm's. "You...Don't think she is?"
The shade's wearing girl sighed as she sat up from her bed and went over to the window, opening it to let some fresh air in. "You have to understand where she's coming from Vel. She's Weiss SCHNEE. Her name and company hold more importance than mine does. I'm prepared if she choose's the entire Dust company's future over me." She turned around and sat on the windowsill. "And if that does happen then the next girl that appear's in my life is going to go through the same thing. So for better or worst. By the end of the tournament i will make sure that my parent's don't have they're way."
The faunus girl had to admit that her ex had a point. The future of a company that produce's and sell's dust all around remnant is way more important than the future of a company that make's over priced clothing. She has to admit as well that Weiss taking the company throne would be the best thing to happen to that corrupted company since it's creation. "I'm sorry Coco..." She didn't understand why someone as sweet and amazing as her fearless leader can't be happy.
The fashionista gave her a reassuring smile. "It's alright Vel. I think everything will workout in the end."
"Coco save meeeeeee!"
"Ruby wh- whaoooooo!"
Velvet watched as Team RWBY's leader came bursting into the room in a storm of rose petal's and tackling the older team leader. Which caused them both to fall out the window. She winced when she heard a loud thud. She waited a moment till she heard the sixteen year old yell.
"We're ok!"
"Ruby Rose get off me! You could have broken our damn necks!"
Velvet chuckled once she knew they were ok. Thank dust for aura. "We all have your back Coco."
(A.N.) And there we have it! Hopefully the story is getting back on the WhiteChoclate road for you guy's. Please let me know what you think and I'll see you all next weekend :)
Also as a side note. The story i'll be working on will be a Yang x Ilia (Hidden Dragon) Story. With what I have planned those two will make it the most believable choice.
Thank you again for reading!