A/N: Decisions are hard!

Where is it? Where? It can't possibly be this hard to find, its one book, how hard can it be to find one book? Actually, what was she thinking, it was like finding a needle in a hay stack! The amount of books Blake had was ridiculous. Ruby couldn't stop but wonder how in the world she fit so many books in her suitcase, or how they fit on the book shelf.

Unless they didn't and Blake had put them somewhere else.

Ruby held her finger in the air in triumph, she had been looking in the wrong place this whole time. Of course it wouldn't be in the bookshelf, that would be too obvious. But then Ruby paused.

Unless Blake wanted them to think like that and she actually did have it in the bookshelf.

Maybe just one last check and then she'll look elsewhere, Ruby decided.

Weiss watched her partner as she leaned on the door frame, arms folded and an eye brow raised in the air. She said it so many times, yet she found it hard to believe that she had actually fallen in love with a dolt, a honest-to-goodness real life dolt.

One which was currently on her hands and knees scampering around Blake's bookshelf, scanning every single inch of the wooden cabinet, a focused, yet undeniably adorable, look on her face. It was a wonder how Ruby hadn't noticed her yet, then again she was extremely focused and Weiss had considered making herself known but decided she'd rather observe and preserve such a moment. So there she stayed, against the door frame with a small smile curving her lips as she watched her dolt of a partner look for something.

'What is she after anyway?'

What's this? Ruby had found something, something she missed last time, but not this time. Along the side of the shelf about halfway down was a small wooden panel that was just sticking out a little. You wouldn't have noticed from far away, or even up close, but seeing as Ruby was dedicating so much time and effort for searching for this book, she didn't miss it.

She brought her finger up to the small panel, the book sized panel might she add, and gave it a little flick outwards. Surely enough the panel came loose and fell to the ground, revealing to the red headed leader, another compartment within the bookshelf filled with even more books, books Ruby had been looking for.

"AH HAH!"

Ruby pulled the book out and yelled in triumph, holding the book high into the air even though she thought no one was in the room to see her triumph.

Weiss jumped at the sudden proclamation of victory and looked to see what her oh-so-dear partner had discovered. She squinted as she tried to make out the title, reading it slowly within her mind.

'Ninjas….of love. OH NO!'

"Now I get to see what Blake keeps hiding from us." Ruby mumbled greedily as she went to open the book.

Ruby slowly opened the book, a bookmark opening it midway through the pages. Her eyes landed on the first words of the page, 'and then she lowered her hand and-' and then the book was in two pieces and Myrtenaster was resting against her knees.

"AAH!" Ruby jumped and threw the two pieces of the book in the air, scattering loose pages across their dorm.

"Weiss! What did you do that for?!"

"I'm sorry, I panicked." Weiss quickly returned Myrtenaster to her waist.

"Panicked?! What for!? You just destroyed Blake's book!"

"It's fine, we'll get her a new one. I mean I'll get her a new one, you can clean this mess up." Weiss stumbled through her statement.

"What? Why me?! You sliced in half like a maniac!? Not to mention you nearly got me too!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Ruby I pride myself on having more than enough control not to slice my dolt of a partner in half, so please don't be so overdramatic."

"Me? Overdramatic? I wasn't then that just cut a perfectly good book in half!"

Weiss winced, it was unfortunately a very good point.

"Nevertheless," Weiss started, "what's done is done. Now help me clean up." Weiss kneeled to the floor and began picking up the loose pages, catching a glimpse of a few words her eyes went wide and a warm flush spread across her cheeks.

"Don't read any of it!"

"What? Why?" Ruby asked, holding a few pages in her hands, the temptation already growing.

"Because I said so!"

"Weiss you're acting really weird and your cheeks are all rosy. Are you feeling okay?"

"I'm fine!" Weiss turned her face away from Ruby.

"Weiiiiss?"

Weiss grumbled before turning to Ruby and snatching the papers out of her hand. "Give me those!"

"Hey!"

"Go talk with JNPR." Weiss commanded.

"No, I don't want to!" Ruby remained defiant. "Tell me why I shouldn't read these pages."

"Ruby!"

"Weiss."

Weiss stared at her partner as the red head folded her arms and remained steadfast in her defence. Weiss had assumed Blake had been reading some rather, mature, material, but this, this was on a whole new level then what she had assumed. Something she'd very much like to shield her partners innocence from, telling Ruby what was on these pages as vaguely as she could, would only make the dolt more curious, and in this case, curiosity would definitely kill the cat.

"Ruby it's-"

Just as Weiss began to talk Ruby's scroll rang, saved by the bell.

'Oh thank goodness.' Weiss sighed, rubbing her forehead.

Ruby answered the call and held the scroll to her ear, all the while maintaining her gaze on her partner, until she heard her sister's voice.

"Yang? Hi! How's it going?! How's Vacuo? What's Blake doing? What did they want with her? Is everything fine?"

Ruby easily shot off question after question even before Yang had the chance to even think of an answer for them. After practically yelling into her scroll, Yang finally got her sister to calm down and to listen.

" What?! A sister!?" Ruby yelled. "What do you mean?"

…..

"Seventeen years? What?! Seriously?!"

….

"Wow."

Weiss couldn't hear all of what was being said but from reading the change in her partners expression she could tell something was up. After a few minutes of talking Ruby closed the call and stared at the wall as she hit her palm with her scroll in contemplation.

Weiss watched as her partner frowned and pursed her lips, humming a 'hmm' before stopping and turning to face her.

"Weiss, you ever been to Vacuo?"

"You own the penthouse!" Ruby squealed as they rode the elevator to the top floor.

"Ruby please." Weiss winced and ushered her partner to lower her voice.

"What else do you own?! This is amazing!" Ruby spun around and jumped in excitement, causing the elevator to shudder a little as it continued to climb. "Oops."

"How big is it? Does it have a pool? A hundred inch tv? Huge beds? Huuu!" Ruby sucked in a breath as a thought came to her, "does it have a candy room?" She asked in a half whisper half squeal.

"If you waited a few more seconds you would find out wouldn't you? And may I reminder you that although we are away from Beacon that doesn't mean we stop doing work. We promised that we would do what was sent to us by JNPR and send it back on the due date, this isn't a vacation, we're just here to offer support for our teammate."

Ruby blinked wordlessly at her partner. She had never known someone to be able to suck all the fun and delight out of something with such ease and keep a straight face while doing it.

"What are you?" She breathed, just as the elevator dinged and the doors opened.

"Excuse me?!"

But Weiss' words fell amongst a cloud of roses as Ruby shot straight out of the elevator and right across the huge room and slammed against the wall–to-wall window that looked over Vacuo city.

"This is amazing." Ruby breathed, being pressed against the window gave her voice a rather comical nasaliness.

Weiss rolled her eyes as she was left to pick up their bags and move them out of the elevator and toward the rooms.

"There are more than enough rooms for all of us, but I suppose I should let you choose your own." She called.

"Uh huh." Ruby responded, still gawking over the view.

"Ruby." Weiss repeated.

"Yeah?"

"Rooms? Could please peel yourself off the window, you're going to leave prints." Weiss moved forward to grab her partners hand and remove her from the window, which did feel like peeling something off a wall.

Ruby whimpered as the amazing view was removed from her sight.

"Oh please, the city isn't going anywhere, the view will be there tomorrow night as well." Weiss stated.

Ruby followed behind her partner as they moved through the huge penthouse, Ruby throwing her head from side to side so she wouldn't miss anything. There were a bunch of closed doors to her right that were just begging to be explored but Weiss had Ruby's hand in her grasp and Ruby didn't really want to break the contact just yet, she quite liked the feeling.

They moved around the centre of the room that was the elevator shaft and found themselves walking up a flight of stairs to a second level. It seemed the wall-to-wall window from downstairs reached up and continued upstairs, offering a similar view of the city.

The centre of the room was a large TV room, a huge flat screen sat in front of the windows, looking over a luxurious rug and what appeared to be even more comfortable lounges, enough to sit a family of ten. On the right there was a wall that separated the TV room from the rest of the floor and from what Ruby could see, beyond the wall was a bar and a huge wine rack and possibly a fridge. To her delight there was even more beyond that.

But Weiss went left, on the very left of the room, in the corner, was a hallway that ran all the way to the end of the penthouse, Weiss stated that was the way to the master bedroom. But before that, where the hallway began, was a row of doors next to each other, equally spaced out and what led to the five other bedrooms of the suite.

"Pick one." Weiss commanded.

"One what?" Ruby asked.

Her partner rolled her eyes, "A room silly. Pick a bedroom."

Ruby walked up to the first door, "Out of one of these?"

"Yes Ruby."

"Oh. That's easy! The one next to yours!" Ruby answered with a warm smile.

'Of course, how didn't I know.' Weiss thought as he moved to the second door.

"I guess that would be yours then." Weiss motioned to the first.

"I guess so."

They stepped into their rooms and Weiss immediately heard Ruby take in a breath as she laid eyes on her room. Not long after was there the sound of someone bouncing on a bed, followed by a click and the TV came to life.

"They have the Let's Play channel!" Ruby squealed.

Weiss shook her head with a smile as she entered her own room, opening her suitcase and laying out her items. Sure this place was huge and luxurious, but something about it already made her uncomfortable.

Ruby had discovered so much already and with every new discovery she fell in love with this place even more. Not only did it have two huge TV rooms, eight bedrooms, one ridiculously huge master bedroom, a mini-gym, three huge bathrooms-one with a spa bath, a computer room, a massive kitchen and not to mention the roof top terrace, but the penthouse also had, the single most amazing thing ever in the whole universe ever to be observed. It had a hallway, filled with a glorious light that beckoned the red head to come forth and bask in its endless glory and she so humbly accepted.

Weiss came out of the kitchen with a nice warm cup of coffee, warming her hands as she sipped at it gently. As she left to inspect the rest of the suite, to see how much of it was kept the same from last time she visited, she couldn't help but stop and turn her head and watch as her partner slowly went to her knees in front of an open cupboard.

Weiss blinked at her for a moment, she was extremely confused and even a little worried, before she remembered that it was Ruby Rose and this was not far from her regular self. So Weiss quietly walked up behind her partner to see what all the fuss was about.

Of course! How could she forget?!

The suite did have a candy room! It was actually more of a walk in wardrobe filled with high sugar levels and bad blood pressure, but Weiss knew her partner wouldn't see it like that. Actually, by the looks of things, Weiss had no clue how Ruby was seeing the cupboard.

The red heads silver eyes were gleaming so brightly it was as if she was staring at a heavenly light.

"Ruby?"

No response.

"Rubyyyy?" Weiss called.

Ruby chose the moment to get to her feet and slowly, carefully walk into the cupboard.

"Yeah?" She answered, sounding very distant.

"What are you doing?"

"Going to heaven. I think." Ruby continued, stepping further into candy land.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? You don't want to leave me alone do you?" Weiss tried.

"I'm sure you'll cope." Ruby replied.

Weiss mouth dropped open at how forward her partner was being, not to mention how little attention she was getting from the red head, all because of some chocolate and sweets.

"Ruby!" Weiss yelled.

Ruby jumped and was pulled from her hallucination, coming to her senses and frantically looking between Weiss and what she was standing in. Suddenly she rushed out of the cupboard and slammed the door shut behind her, breathing heavily as if she had run a marathon.

Weiss perked an eyebrow at her partners sudden reaction.

"Weiss, if you love me. You'll keep me away from this door my entire life. Do you understand?"

Weiss nodded carefully, unsure whether to laugh or take her warning very seriously.

"Okay good. We should probably get ready, they should be here soon."

"Yang where are we going?" Blake asked for the hundredth time, receiving the same answer.

"Just relax. We're not going anywhere."

Blake simply glared at her partner.

"Okay I admit, that was a bit stupid to say. Uh, we're going out!" Yang decided.

"I can see that. But where? This isn't exactly a good time to be getting drunk."

"Blake when have any of us ever gotten drunk?"

"I don't know, whenever I ask you I can't tell if your being serious or not."

"Good."

"Yang!"

"Look, if you can just calm your bellabooty for a few more moments you'll found out."

Blake glared at her partner. "Don't ever use that word again."

One, calmish 'bellabooty' and a few moments later

"A hotel?"

"Yep."

Blake sighed, "Why?"

"I really don't like your attitude today." Yang stated, pressing the button in the elevator.

"Sorry for being so conflicted lately." Blake snapped.

"Maybe that was a bit too soon." Yang mumbled.

"Why are we going to the penthouse? We didn't even order a room let alone the penthouse. Yang what's going on?"

Yang just smiled and watched the numbers slowly tick up.

"Yang?"

DING!

"SURPRISE!" Ruby yelled, causing Blake to jump.

"Ruby!?"

"And Weiss!" Ruby pulled her partner into view for the faunas.

"What?! What are you doing in Vacuo?!"

"We came to-" Ruby paused as the elevator doors started closing again, until Yang stuck her hand out and they opened again. "We came to stay with you of course!"

"Stay? What do you mean stay? What about school?"

"Fortunately, Ozpin was kind enough to grant us leave as long as we continued to study from here." Weiss explained.

"Leave? Leave for what? For how long?"

"As long as you need Blake." Ruby stated with a warm, sunny smile.

"Well if you don't mind, I'd like to see just how loaded you Schnee's are." Yang proclaimed, stepping out of the lift. "By the looks of things I'd say it's quite a bit."

Blake remained in the elevator, still trying to comprehend what was happening, why the rest of her team was in Vacuo.

"Roof!" All of her team.

"Oh hey Zwei." Yang called, bending down to ruffle his chin.

Just then the elevator doors were about close again before Weiss stopped the doors.

"Do you want to come in?" She asked with a smile.

"So you own this place?" Yang asked as they sat and eat dinner.

Weiss had apologised for having to order room service, her professional, heiress to the SDC, side taking over as she apologised for the inconvenience, although they all quickly told her not to worry and sit down.

"Well, my family does. Not me per say." Weiss explained.

"Anything else you own?" Yang asked with a grin.

"I asked her already, she won't tell." Ruby stated.

"Because it doesn't matter." Weiss cut in. "Where have you been staying these past few days?"

"Oh just with Leone." Yang stated.

Ruby and Weiss nodded, much to Blake's surprise. She was expecting something along the line of, 'Who's Leone?' but instead nobody said anything, which could only mean one thing.

"You told them!?" She hissed at Yang.

"Told them what?"

"What do you think!?"

"Oh, yeah I did."

"Why!?"

"Because I-"

"Is that why they're here?!" Blake asked, ignoring Ruby and Weiss' glances.

"What do you mean?"

"Did you call them over because of what I told you? Did you tell them about that too?!"

"No I di-"

"What Yang told us was," Weiss cut in waiting to get their attention. "Was that you'd be staying for longer than expected and that perhaps we should come over too. She said that you were having troubles and that being here would help. If that's not true we can always go back to Beacon."

They sat in silence for a moment, Weiss' words hanging in the air between them.

"No you don't have to leave. I'm sorry I've just got a lot on my mind."

"We know." Ruby said, her smile still as warm as ever. "We don't mean to intrude or anything, we just came over so you know that we're close by if you ever needed us."

"Why do you keep saying it as if I'm going to be here for a while?"

"Because Blake," Yang turned to her, "The choice you need to make isn't going to be easy, I can see that it's already hard for you thinking about it. It's going to take time, and time is what we want to give you."

Yang watched Blake as the faunas slowly came around to the idea. Blake was more than grateful for what they had done for her, at first she was a little angry, mostly due to the surprise, but she understood why they had did it and it made her realise one of the reasons why she loved these people.

"Thanks guys."

"Our pleasure." Weiss replied with a bright smile.

"So," Ruby quipped. "When do we get to see big sister Leone?"