AN: The title explains this one pretty well, meaning to 'return to battle' (not necessarily a physical one). More to come!-CakeLegends
The Impossible Girl - Chapter 38
"Blake?" Ruby exclaimed half-whispering, "Where were you all night?"
"Getting coffee." Blake informed bluntly, raising her cup and the other three in the carrier.
"It took you 6 hours?" Yang spouted in disbelief.
"It's really good coffee." Blake said as she walked towards the scene before her, placing the cups on the nightstand.
The Faunus looked at the dark circles that appeared under her teammates eyes. She noticed a sleeping, grinning Weiss with a yellow cap next to her, bleeding profusely in her sleep.
She analyzed once more and saw the bruises on Ruby's body, and the fading bite marks on Yang's hand.
"Well, damn." Blake sighed as she sat down on the armrest of her partner's chair. "I missed something important."
"It was probably the second longest night in our lives so far." Yang clarified. "It was definitely Weiss' longest."
"You really shouldn't let her sleep."
Ruby's eyebrow rose. "Why is that?"
"She's going to bleed out if she stays unconscious like that. Her aura won't reinstate." Blake explained, sipping her coffee. "And you know she'd climb out of hell and punish the both of you if she died in such a pathetic way."
"You really should have been here..." Ruby said with a glare.
"If I was here, you would have to find a cool place to bury my corpse. Normal Weiss and I just barely get along."
"Blake-"
"Don't act like it's not true." Blake began. "She's a good friend. We just...get along better when we don't talk directly to each other."
Her teammate's faces sunk slightly at the disappointing facts. Blake smirked at her teammate's reaction.
"Just because I think she's an asshole doesn't mean she's not a close friend." Blake pulled a slip of paper out of her pocket and placed it on the nightstand. "And I take care of my friends."
Yang picked up and unraveled the wrinkled piece of paper. She was greeted by a series of check marks next to names and locations. She recognized the handwriting as The Heiress', but the last couple of checks were done in a different scrawl.
She looked carefully at the list, uncertain of its meaning until she saw the last check made by The Heiress: Mr. Adrian De Santé.
"You finished her hit list..."
"No killing. No witnesses. 6 hours." Blake announced with a tinge of pride in her voice. "I'd say I did her justice. It actually wasn't a bad plan. It just needed a quieter vessel to carry it out."
Blake stood up and walked towards the bed. "I just wish I did it for her back then. We wouldn't be in this mess if she didn't have to put someone down."
Blake moved to shake the sleeping Heiress awake.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Ruby asked nervously. "She went through a lot."
"We won't know if she's even...'there'...until she wakes up." Blake informed. She shook The Heiress' shoulder: No response. She shook her again, more violently: No response.
"Weiss!" Blake yelled at The Heiress as she shook her with increasing vigor. The Heiress' body was still limp and unresponsive.
"Holy shit, I don't think her heart is beating."
Ruby and Yang shot up and stood next to The Faunus. Ruby placed her fingers against the wrist of her partner. No pulse.
Yang quickly pressed her ear against The Heiress' chest. She heard nothing.
Blake sprang into action, using what medical knowledge she had. She began to perform CPR on the lifeless form of her teammate. The sisters held their breath as Blake's efforts continued, seemingly to no success.
Ruby was too stunned to move. Yang hugged her close, shielding her from the horror.
Tears began to well up in Blake's eyes as she was useless to help the lifeless friend before her. "C'mon Weiss...You can fight me for hours, you can fight this..."
The Faunus' mouth connected with Weiss', blowing air into the lifeless girl's lungs.
The Heiress began to move her mouth against the lips of her confused teammate. Her eyes opened to see someone quite different than the Ruby she was expecting.
Blake suddenly pulled back and recoiled, coughing heavily. "Oh Fuck! You spat in my mouth!"
"Of course I did." Weiss grumbled as she sat up. "No one kisses me except Ms. Rose...and Zwei, if he ever visits again."
"I was giving you CPR!" Blake groaned back as she doused her mouth with coffee. The complete, almost comical loss of her usual calm tone lightened everyone's mood. "I think I earned a 'thank you for saving my life', by the way!"
"You didn't save shit." Weiss declared with a small laugh at her friend's distress.
"Weiss, your heart stopped..." Ruby informed, still shocked.
"That's what happens when I don't use my powers for a day and reach REM sleep." Weiss stated casually. "My body temperature drops and my heart slows to about a beat per minute. The opposite happens to you Ruby: all that adrenaline burns off in your sleep."
"I've never noticed..." Ruby said with a quizzical look at her body.
"It sounds like the drum solo from Hawaii Five 0 on loop."
"It totally does." Yang confirmed with a nod and a laugh.
Ruby sat down next to her partner, placing a hand on The Heiress' leg. "Weiss, how do you feel?"
Weiss' face grew serious at the question. "Let's see here..." The Heiress looked over herself as she pointed out specifics.
"My foot feels like it's broken from kicking in that nightstand. I practically bit off a chunk of my arm. I have a throbbing headache. I feel guilty for saying the things I did. I have a permanent scar under my left eye. My left eye is pretty much a useless decoration. I want to gut myself for hurting you..."
Ruby's head fell as The Heiress finished her list.
"And I'm OK with it."
Ruby looked back up to see Weiss wearing the happiest grin she'd seen in a long time. The Heiress slid her legs out from under the covers to sit next to her partner.
The caped-girls lips returned to the soft touch of her partner's own. Ruby's head tilted opposite the Snow Queen's, allowing them to pull closer to each other. The caped-girl felt her partner smile against her mouth. The Heiress stopped occasionally to let out a playful giggle, moving down to give soft, laughed kisses to the caped-girl's collarbone. Ruby couldn't help but giggle with her partner in such a good mood.
"We're still here..." Blake said clearing her throat.
"This isn't the worst thing you've caught us doing." Ruby said with a grin. Weiss and Ruby pulled away, both knowing they would continue at a later time.
"You're acting exceptionally bubbly this morning." Yang smirked. "Not that it's bad! It's just kind of weird..."
"Well then," Weiss said, her face once again becoming remarkably serious. "Some of the stuff I plan to do may seem very weird. It's not. I'm thinking clearly."
Weiss grabbed a coffee cup and began to sip the energizing nectar.
"I'm starting with you, Cat." Weiss said, standing up to face the taller girl. "Sorry about hacking a wad of my bacteria down your windpipe."
"Oh joy." Blake responded in sarcastic monotone.
"That's not all..." Weiss pointed to the wrinkled list with her cup. "I didn't take a look, but I can guess why it's here. You finished it?"
Blake nodded.
"You think you can take my job? Is that it?" Weiss growled in a dark tone.
After this endeavor combined with 6 hours of heroics, The Faunus had been pushed off her edge.
"Yes. In fact, I think you can't do half the things you supposed to. You're incompetent." Blake replied sharply.
"And, what does that mean? You think you could do a better job?"
"I could a lot of things better than you. Half the time I feel like I end up doing the most-"
"Then do it all."
"I feel like I am!" Blake retorted.
"You're not listening! I want to make you CEO!" Weiss exclaimed.
Blake's cat ears twitched in response. "..."
"You might think this is some crazy epiphany, but I've thought about this almost as long as I've known you. You're smart and cunning, but at the same time compassionate. That's something I still need to work on."
Blake was too stunned at the offer to react.
"I looked over the papers." Weiss added, stirring her coffee. "I am allowed to appoint my direct successor. Though, I do legally have to remain a board member, as founder. That leaves the Chief Executive Officer position open to you."
Blake's coffee cup almost fell out of her frozen hand.
"You have a long time to think about it, of course. You have several years, in fact. If you do say yes, don't let it go to your head." Weiss ruffled the space between the frozen Faunus' ears.
"This is really good coffee." She said, turning around to get ready for the day. She grinned at the sight of the rest of the teams jaws crashed against the floor.