Weiss Schnee lay in her bed, her eyes locked on the digital alarm clock on her nightstand. It currently read 11:59 PM and it seemed like this last minute was taking much longer than sixty seconds. She sighed and sat up in bed, throwing her blankets off. She wouldn't need them anyway, not for when she arrived.
It had been about a month since that terrible accident when everything Weiss knew and loved had been shattered. Team RWBY had been called in to deal with a pack of Borbatusks and Lancers that had been harassing a small farm in the northern part of Vale. It was rare for the whole team to reunite, but when they did, it was usually for something serious. The Lancers had attacked fast and deadly and the team was briefly split up. Without thinking, Ruby ran off to a nearby cave and that was the last anyone saw of her for the time being. There was blood-curdling scream and when they ran in, all that was found was a blood-stained, torn cloak. No Ruby, not even Crescent Rose. The search went on for the next few days before it was finally called off. She was marked as KIA and that was that. That would have been the end of it there hadn't been that knock her bedroom window about a week or so ago.
At this moment, the clock finally rolled over to midnight, the alarm buzzing loudly. She shut it off, sighing to herself. No clue why she thought she would be going to sleep anytime soon. Like clockwork, there was the gentle knocking on her bedroom window which would alarm most people, considering Weiss' bedroom was on the third floor. She flung back the curtains and let the pale moonlight bathe everything in her room like it was gothic sunlight. There, floating perfectly in a cross-legged position and a sheepish smile on her face, was Ruby.
"Hey Snowflake!" she waved. "Can I come in?"
"May you come in."
"Oh don't start with the grammar thing again," she pouted. "You know exactly what I mean."
"I do," Weiss said with just the tiniest hint of a smirk on her face. "but what if I said no?" Ruby frowned at this.
"You know the rules. I can't come in unless you invite me."
"I know, I'm messing with you, Dolt. Yes, you may enter." Weiss said as she opened the window. Ruby squealed with delight and darted forward, no rose petals as her Semblance no longer worked, and tackled Weiss to the ground.
"I missed you!"
"It hasn't even been twenty-four hours since our last rendezvous!" Weiss protested, struggling to throw Ruby off. She was much stronger now and it was a bit alarming, definitely something she wasn't used to. Ruby flipped backward in the air and resumed floating in her cross-legged lotus position.
"Yeah, but when you have to sleep all day time seems to crawl," she said matter-of-factually.
"One of the perks of having a vampire for a girlfriend," Weiss mused, flattening down the wrinkles on his now disheveled nightgown. Weiss wasn't kidding, however. After the initial shock of seeing her again, Ruby had explained what happened that dreary day.
The scream did come from her lips, due to the fact she had seen a large bat-like Grimm she had never encountered before. It moved so fast and so quickly that when it attacked her, she failed fending it off. After a brief struggle, it sank it's razor-sharp fangs right into her neck and drained her of almost all of her blood. What happened next was hazy, but Ruby did remember waking up in the darkest part of the cave but could see clearly like she had night vision, as well as having a host of other abilities that only confused her. It was with Weiss' help and a musty old grimoire that she had found tucked away in the back of Beacon's library, that they realized Ruby was now a vampire.
"Have you 'eaten' yet?" she asked, eyeing Ruby suspiciously.
"I had a squirrel on the way over and a badger…I think it was a badger? I'm not sure. Tasted like a badger." she said casually. Weiss visibly shuddered and gagged.
"I'm horrified that they all have different tastes to you," she said. Ruby merely shrugged.
"Not like I have much of a choice. Not like I can eat cookies again…" she sighed. An awkward moment formed between them, as each young woman knew what the next topic was going to be, but it would be a matter of who would ask first. Finally, it was Ruby who broke the silence.
"So….have you considered my offer?" she asked quietly. Weiss sat on the edge of her bed. One would think being a professor at the Pyrrha Nikos School of Higher Learning, most of the staff just simply called it Beacon, would give one a better bed, but no, it was same scratchy bed sheets and thin mattresses the students used.
"I have and I have an answer for you." she finally said. Ruby tensed up and floated down to her feet, stepping closer to Ruby. Unlike Weiss who was in her PJs, Ruby was wearing a refashioned version of her combat skirt, with the peasant top and black skirt with stockings and combat boots. Her old cloak carried too many negative memories with it after the 'incident', so Ruby had sewn herself a new one.
"And…what is it?" Ruby breathlessly asked.
"I thought about the consequences of my decision if I said yes. I would have to watch my family grow old and die. With Jacques? Well, the less said about that the better. There's a reason why I'm an ex-heiress and forced to take up work as a teacher. As for Whitley and Winter, that one hurts to think about, especially Winter. But I have to think about my other family, specifically, you. We were engaged when all of this happened, just days away from our wedding. I thought you were dead. I thought I was a widow before I even said 'I do' and then I find out you're not dead…"
"Dead-ish is how I like to describe it." Ruby joked. Gallows humor helped soften the seriousness of the situation and she used it often.
"Yes, well, dead or dead-ish, it matters not. I can't imagine living a life without you Ruby, one way or the other. So yes, you can turn me or whatever it's called." Weiss said, expecting Ruby to plow into her with her enhanced vampiric speed, but instead, she quietly sat down next to Weiss and pulled her in for a hug, her silver eyes welling up with tears.
"Thank you…" she choked out in between sobs. "I know this couldn't be easy for you."
"I might reconsider it if your tears stain my nightgown. This is highly expensive Mistralian silk!" she countered, making Ruby chuckle deeply.
"Always my Snowflake," Ruby said.
"Before we begin with this little macabre ceremony, I have one request - tomorrow night, we confront Yang and Blake at their apartment in downtown Menagerie and we tell them you're alive-dead-ish. She has been tortured without you and you owe it to her to explain to her what happened."
Ruby glanced down at her boots, her face low and sullen.
"I know, I know, but how do you even do that? 'Oh hey sis, you thought I was dead but it turns out I'm an immortal bloodsucker. Pretty cool, right?'" she bitterly mused. Weiss shook her head.
"You are who you are, plain and simple. Your powers may have changed, but you're still Ruby Rose and you're still my Dolt. That's my one condition. Either you agree to it or the deal is off." she said firmly. Ruby hesitated, not making eye contact at first. When she lifted her head, her silver eyes were hard as stone.
"Deal. Tomorrow night, we tell them. And my Dad too." she added. Weiss hugged Ruby and kissed her cheek softly.
"Excellent. You may proceed. Oh and please don't tell me when you're going to do it. The surprise will actually lessen my nerves a bit…" she stammered, pulling down the collar and sleeve of her nightgown to reveal her bare neck.
"I promise, Snowflake," Ruby whispered. She licked her lips and tried to keep her emotions under control. She had yet to taste human blood and thought of it was kicking off some sort of primal instinct in her. She could hear the pumping of Weiss' heart, smell the sweet coppery aroma of her precious vitae, she could even see the blood rushing through her veins. She felt like an animal and she hated herself for it, but it was the nature of the beast. Ruby took a deep breath to get her raging desires under control and placed feathery soft kisses up and down Weiss' neck. Weiss shuddered, though whether it was with joy or fear, Ruby didn't know and didn't want to ask.
More and more kisses up and down her neck, following by a soft sucking that would for sure leave a hickey and even some gentle love nibbles. When she felt Weiss relax in her arms, her wiry muscles finally reaching a state of rest, she made her move. Like a snake lunging at a mouse, her fangs sunk deep into Weiss' neck with scary proficiency. Weiss gasped and groaned loudly, but she quickly threw a hand over her mouth to muffle it out. The sweet red nectar tasted like honey to Ruby and she didn't know if this is what all human blood tasted like or just Schnee blood since her family is so regal. More and more came up from the wound and she drank it all, feeling Weiss getting weaker and weaker till she finally collapsed on the bed. Her face was pale and sickly, with gaping holes on her neck dribbling what was left of her blood.
"Ru…by…." she moaned, her life signs fading fast. Ruby was a blur as she grabbed Crescent Rose from behind her and popped it's blade open. With one swift motion, she sliced the palm of her hand and winced a bit. She held her bleeding palm to Weiss' lips, her own hand shaking from a mixture of nerves and pain.
"Drink it, Snowflake. Just a couple of drops, that's all you need." she implored. "Hurry!"
Weiss nodded weakly and lapped at the blood like a cat with milk. She had a few tastes when the color slowly began to return to her cheeks, her crystal blue eyes getting their shine back.
"Oh it hurts…" she moaned, squirming on her bed. Ruby brushed some of her snow-white hair back and kissed her forehead.
"It does at first, like you have ants in the blood. That's just your body changing. Just ride it out, you'll be okay. I'm here with you, Weiss. Now and forever." Ruby encouraged, the cut on her hand had already healed. She took one of Weiss' hands in her own and squeezed it tightly. Eventually, Weiss' ragged breathing returned to normal and the groans of pain stopped. She sat up and rubbed her eyes in astonishment.
"Everything…is so perfect looking. I can see every detail and every little thing…and I can hear everything…for better or worse." Weiss observed.
"Yeah, it's a blessing and a curse. Trust me, you do not want to hear the things coming from Ren and Nora's room." Ruby said with a giggle. She helped Weiss stand, but she was quick to jump to her own feet and after a bit of practice, float upwards in the air.
"This is incredible. I am literally flying!" she said with childlike glee. Ruby smiled, so happy to see her beloved enjoying this.
"There's so much I can show you, but we can do that later. I'm sure you're hungry, so uh, you can feed on me if you want…" she said blushing. Weiss blushed too and floated back down to the ground.
"Well, maybe we can have some fun with it?" she smirked.
"Fun? Like how?"
"Well, for starters, you can lose the combat skirt…"