A/N: This is from the most recent WPW thread, with the prompt being: Cinder or Emerald are adopted into the Schnee family instead of being discovered by Salem/Cinder. This also marks the week where we officially decided to start offering three items to choose from (our suggested prompts sheet has nearly 500 entries)!
"Weiss, I don't know about this," Emerald whispered. "It's one thing to pull a prank on dad, but this is pushing it. He was really mad last time." She was hunched behind the knight statue, just down the hall from Jacques' study.
"Oh come on, Emerald!" Weiss grumbled from just behind her. "You were just nervous last time. He almost didn't notice the bucket of worms. Do you want to go to Beacon or not?" Emerald fumed in silence.
Ever since she'd discovered her semblance, she and Weiss had gotten into all kinds of mischief. The pranks were usually harmless enough, and their father had a sense of humor - most of the time, anyway. Willow put them up to it, more often than not, and so he suffered the indignities with stoicism.
"Explain the plan to me again, Weiss."
"Ugh. It's simple, Em." Her tone was a bit annoying, but she knew her adopted sister meant well. "You know this is when he does paperwork. I'll distract him by asking if I can go visit the mines, and you'll sneak the consent forms into the pile of other things he has to sign. Did you memorize the purchase orders I lifted last night?"
Emerald grinned wickedly and looked over her shoulder in concentration. Weiss jerked back and pawed at her face, pulling away a handful of nothing but air. "You said you wouldn't do that any more, Em!' she hissed.
Emerald snickered at her sister's irritation as the girl held up the imaginary page. "I said I wouldn't trick you anymore, Weiss." She rolled her eyes and looked the illusion over. "Besides, you're starting to climb that high horse again. Not very appropriate, given what we're about to do, sis."
Weiss frowned at her, and rubbed the 'paper' between her fingers, checking for texture. She even lifted it to her nose and gave it a cursory sniff. Emerald smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Satisfied?"
The Heiress pursed her lips, but nodded. Emerald dropped the ghost paperwork and held out her hand. "The consent forms?" The papers were drawn from where she had them tucked in her belt, and deposited them into Emerald's waiting fingers. "Alright, let's get this over with. If I get caught, you're covering my allowance."
Weiss nodded in agreement and moved to stand in front of the study door.
post-A/N - I know this one is really short, but I couldn't stay awake to write more. I might tinker with it later, after RCCC. ;)