The Prompt – It's Blake's birthday and the Faunus spends it the only way you really can when your life is a fucking train wreck: by getting piss drunk.

The Characters – Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Jaune Arc.

Yang kicked her dorm room door open and said as loudly as she could, "Good morning everyone!"

Her response was the collective agonized moaning of the bowls of Hell.

Yang chuckled to herself and moved into the room, kicking the door closed behind her again, also making sure the action was louder than necessary. Not like she could close it normally since her arms were full of greasy fast food. Yes, that was her excuse and she was sticking with it.

She put the food down on their nightstand and flung open the curtains to let the bright morning sunshine in, which was met with just more grumbling and retreating below the covers. Yang could only sigh at how weak willed her team mates were.

Yesterday had been the birthday of none other than her partner Blake, and Ruby had insisted upon a full fledged celebration with their team and friends JNPR. But Ruby's ideas of celebrating usually fell along the lines of 'eat disgusting amounts of sugar' and 'marathoning movies full of colorful explosions.' As ever the introverted killer of all things fun, Blake shot down all of her suggestions.

As more of a joke Yang had suggested just going to a club and getting piss drunk. Blake was quiet for a long time before saying, "You know what, my life is such a fucking train wreck why not add excessive alcoholism to the pile?"

One trip to Vale and a fake ID for Ruby later found the eight of them at one of Vale's seedier clubs willing to not look too closely at said fake ID.

Yang tried to be the responsible one, hand to god. But Blake hit the bar like Prohibition was set to start the next day, Nora was a sheer force of nature once she got a few Cosmopolitans in her and having Pyrrha along meant they were guaranteed to be constantly mobbed by fans. So instead Yang settled for making sure Ruby and Weiss, the babies of the group, got their share to drink and got home safely, trusting Blake to find her own way back.

The red and white partners might have had about seven drinks combined and nothing harder than a craft beer, but that was still enough to hit them both like trucks and leave them reeling the next day, much to Yang's enjoyment. Ruby was tossing and turning under her covers, wailing like a plague ridden patient. Weiss was only slightly more composed, peeking out from under her blanket with a glare that could freeze a Beowolf solid.

"Have I ever mentioned how much I despise you, Yang Xiao long?"

"The latest time was last Tuesday in combat class after I whooped your prissy butt." Weiss grumbled something unsavory and buried her head back under her sheets. "Oh come on, don't be like that! I brought you guys McRonalds!"

"Why would I ever want such plebeian food?" Weiss snarked.

"Uuuurrrgh," Ruby agreed.

"Fast food is good for hangovers, believe me," Yang told them. She started rifling through the bags and pulling things out. "Ruby, I got you one of their milkshakes!"

The promise of liquid sugar was finally enough to rouse her sister, Ruby pushing the blanket away like it was weighed down with cement and swinging her legs over the bed frame. Her normally bright silver eyes were dulled and red rimmed. She accepted the dairy drink wordlessly and immediately began sucking it down.

Yang heard Weiss sniff the air. "Did you bring me coffee?"

"Is there anything else you'd actually drink?"

"Ugh, fine," Weiss relented, pulling herself out of bed with about as much enthusiasm with her partner. She took the drink and wasted no time chugging it, cream and sugar be damned. "Chain food coffee is terrible." She still kept drinking it.

"It'll still help with the hangover, and so will these," Yang told them, passing the girls a pair of sausage and egg sandwiches. Yang then turned around and said, "And for my partner I got-"

Nothing. Because Blake wasn't in her bed.

"Uh, did Blake not come home last night?"

"You're asking us?" Weiss demanded, referring to herself and the still barely conscious Ruby.

Yang checked her scrolled and again found the message Blake had sent her last night while she'd been asleep. It was supposed to say, "On my way back to school now," as littered with spelling errors and emojis as it was. And when Yang woke up a bit earlier she'd been just enough out of it to take the message for granted and assume Blake had been in her bed before she left. Clearly that was not the case.

With a sigh Yang made for the door. "I'll start looking for her, I guess. You guys focus on feeling better and let me know if-"

She stopped short as the door swung open, revealing Blake standing in the hallway.

Her partner looked just as surprised to see Yang. "H-hey."

"Oh thank god," Weiss muttered. "I was so not in the mood for another Blake scavenger hunt."

Yang rolled her eyes and let Blake in to the room so they could close the door again. "Hey yourself, party animal. Seems like you had good night."

Very good, if Blake's ruffled clothes and distinctive smell meant what Yang thought they did.

"Well you would know," Blake replied with an annoyed look. "Thanks for just leaving me there, by the way."

Yang furrowed her brow. "What, at the club? I had to make sure my sis and her partner got home safe."

"Not that, you left me to wake up alone in the student rec room! Do you know how mortified I would have been if someone else got up early and found me there, in the state I was in?"

"Is that where you woke up?"

"Of course, after we..." Blake glanced over Yang's shoulder and decided to lean in close, lowering her voice, "...you know."

Yang leaned back, eyes wide. "I didn't sleep with you!"

"Oh, why does it have to be one of these mornings?" Weiss bemoaned.

Blake cocked her head. "Wait, you weren't the person I slept with?"

"No!"

"Huh, I always assumed drunk me would go for the low hanging fruit." Yang resorted to gnashing her inner cheek to keep her annoyance down at that particular comment. "Well then I have no idea who I slept with" Blake leaned around her partner. "Weiss, did you and I have sex last night?"

The heiress merely groaned in displeasure, still too hungover to truly freak out at the insinuation like she might normally have. "No we most certainly did not."

"And I'm still alive so I'm assuming I didn't deflower Ruby."

"Keep talking like that and I'll help you along to your grave sooner," Yang groused.

Blake ignored her and went on, "By the same logic I don't think I slept with Ren, as Nora would have burned down half the school by now looking for me."

"Maybe you hit up Sun when you got back to school?" Weiss tried.

"No, I'm friendzoning him so hard even drunk me wouldn't stoop that low." Blake cupped her chin as she thought back through the events of last night. "Maybe I got it on with Pyrrha? I seem to remember going ballistic on some guy who tried to cop a feel on her, and she was really grateful for it."

"Grateful enough to give you some nookie?" Yang asked skeptically.

"Never underestimate a repressed child prodigy," Blake said like it was some sage advice. She turned back to the door and said, "It's not like I can think of anyone else. I'll see if Pyrrha's awake and ask her if-"

Blake stopped short as the dung swung open, revealing Jaune Arc standing in the hallway, guitar in his hands and goofy smile on his face.

Yang sighed at the sight of him. "Jaune, I don't think Weiss is in the mood right-"

"BLA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AKE!"

Weiss' coffee, Ruby's milkshake and Yang's gut all plummeted to the floor. All the girls were dead silent as both the reverberations of Jaune's guitar and the realizations of his presence settled on the room.

He cleared his throat after hitting the first chord. "Hey Blake, I wanted to say sorry for leaving you alone earlier, but you were still pretty out of it and Ren was blowing up my phone with Nora emergencies. You know how she can be. So, to make up for it, I wrote you a song! Now let's see..."

Jaune got his hands in position and started thrumming the guitar. "You took me by the hand, and turned me into-"

The door slammed shut on him.

Yang, Weiss and Ruby all just stared at Blake, whose hand was still on the door as she stared fixedly on nothing in particular. In the hallway they could still hear Jaune singing his impromptu love ballad.

Weiss tried speaking up. "Look, I don't think he's-"

"Shh."

Weiss' mouth clicked shut at Blake's sharp reprimand. Yang's look of astonishment turned into one of confusion as she stared at her partner. To her it looked like Blake was thinking a mile a minute, but what about she had no idea.

For a long time the room was utterly silent aside from Jaune's muffled song. Then Blake shrugged her shoulders, went "eh" and opened the door again.

"That one night!" Jaune continued to belt out. "You made everything-!"

A hand clamped over his mouth and immediately he stopped singing. Jaune looked down to the intense stare Blake was giving him.

"Are you free next Friday night?" she demanded.

Jaune nodded.

"There is a poetry def jam at the civic center. You will attend it with me. You will not wear that god-awful hoodie. Am I understood?"

He nodded again, and Blake pulled her hand away to reveal Jaune's smile had only grown exponentially. "I love y-"

The door slammed shut on him again. Blake turned back to the room to find her three team mates all staring open mouthed at her.

The Faunus girl shrugged. "I could do worse."