"I'll see you in six weeks Weiss, and, please don't forget next time. I know you can do better." Weiss slowly nods to Dr. Savoy as she speaks, grimacing in pain all the while. Having forgotten about her appointment due to the stress of recent events weighing down on her, she arrived a fair bit late, but was still able to be seen, leaving her in misery thanks to the ever present pain coursing through her mouth. Once her next appointment is set, she retreats out of the building and over to where Penny is seated, the ginger android offering her a comforting expression and a light pat to her shoulder.
"I know it hurts Weiss, but it'll be ooooo-kay! It's only for a few days, after all, and Ms. Willow has informed me that it would be a splendid idea to take you to get ice cream!" Comes a rather up-beat attempt at comfort, Weiss managing to smile wearily as Penny speaks before pulling her into a firm embrace, one which is reciprocated in full for a few moments before both girls separate.
"T... Thank you, Penny, I really appreciate that you came with me today." Weiss says before taking Penny's hand, a light squeeze given to it while the two head off to the ice cream parlor. Penny simply smiles and gives a small salute in response, a cheery hum becoming audible before long. While most other times the two might be alight with conversation, at present they elect to walk in silence, Weiss seeming... More than a little distracted.
Once they arrive, Weiss heads inside and places her order, soon stepping out before settling down at the table Penny had selected and focusing on her sweet treat. However, before she can get more than few bites into it...
"Weiss, I have noticed you seem distracted! Why is that?" Penny questions, having noticed Weiss acting far from her usual while they were walking. Weiss, predictably, grows tense at this line of questioning, gazing off to the side before huffing.
"It's this trial... I'm just... Worried." She mutters, eyes closing before she continues, "I'm afraid he'll somehow just..."
"Be found innocent and not serve justice for his actions, Ice Queen?" A bemused voice interrupts Weiss, but not one that belongs to Penny, no, it belongs to someone familiar, someone with a knack for troublemaking and shenanigans.
"Y... Yang! What... What are you doing here?" Weiss blurts out a question in surprise, certainly having not expected Yang to catch her off guard. Yang just grins down at her before glancing over her braces, making note of the light orange elastic ties now lining them.
"Cute color. As for what I'm doing here? I've been following you both, princess. We're worried, all of us, you're just... Too tense about all of this, y'know? You hardly eat, you aren't sleeping well, you're like dad after Summer didn't come back from her mission." Weiss frowns slightly before glancing towards the ground, hands balling up slightly while she thinks, So what if I have? They don't know what it's like, what any of this is like...
"I... Suppose I haven't cared for myself as well as I should have, but... I've been under a lot of stress, Yang, you know that." She begins to say, glancing up at Yang while the brawler reaches behind her back.
"This is true, and... I think I have a solution to help with all that stress." No sooner does Yang stop speaking than a large horseshoe magnet is pulled out, Weiss's eyes shooting wide open before she scrambles to her feet and backs up. Penny, having noticed the magnet quite quickly, is a good distance away, watching and waiting where the magnet won't reach her.
"Y... Yang Xiao Long, you get away from me with that right now, o... Or so help me!" Weiss exclaims with a noticeable fear in her eyes, this only making Yang grin deviously before she starts her approach.
"Or so help you what, Tin Grin? Is the little brace face afraid of the big, scawy magnet?" Yang teasingly retorts, arm being outstretched with the magnet pointed at Weiss's face. "C'mooon, Mr. Magnet just wants to say hi!"
"Absolutely not! I... I refuse!" The moment she falls silent, Weiss turns and breaks into a sprint, bolting away as fast as she can. Of course, Yang only grins wider at this and sprints after her, Penny waiting a few moments before taking off flying and tailing the two from the air. The heated chase weaves through the streets of Atlas, Weiss ducking and weaving behind vehicles, buildings, anything she feels might be an obstacle in the way of Yang... But Yang just barrels past each and every one of them, her speed just a bit faster than Weiss's.
Even with Yang slowly but surely closing in on Weiss, the brace faced teen manages to snake her way around the city to Atlas Academy, racing past students fearfully while Yang continues to give chase.
"... Say, Blake? Wasn't that... Weiss? And... Yang, chasing her with a magnet?" Sun questions, Blake almost immediately face palming while a groan escapes.
"Gods damn it Yang... I'll be back Sun, I've got to stop my girlfriend from being an idiot. Again." Sun gives Blake both a grin and a nod, the feline faunus immediately running off into the academy, heading for her team's dorm. Upon arriving, she presses her ear to the door and listens in, her frown growing in response to what she hears.
"Y... Yang, please, get that away from me! I don't want that on my braces, m... My mouth hurts enough as it is!" Comes Weiss's pleading voice, followed by...
"Aw, lighten up Tin Grin, it's not gonna hurt! Well, probably! Now, c'mere and open up for Mr. Magnet!" And out follows Yang's retort, her voice filled with the sort of mischief and chaos Blake recognizes. Being as quiet as can be, she slowly sneaks into the room, catching Weiss's gaze before making a motion for her to be quiet, then she picks up a pillow, and-
"OW! HEY!" Yang is promptly hit across the head with the pillow, this startling her and causing her to spin in place to face Blake, who looks all kinds of unhappy.
"Yang Xiao Long, how dare you! You know better than to antagonize Weiss after she had her braces tightened, especially by using a magnet of all things. And we talked about you calling her Tin Grin, she hates that nickname!" Blake exclaims in a scolding manner, Yang sheepishly chuckling before rubbing at the back of her head. Blake always found herself being the one to rein in Yang's chaotic side, and while Yang would hesitate to admit it, she loved seeing that side of her girlfriend.
"R... Right, sorry Blake. Probably wasn't the best idea I've had." Yang murmurs, the magnet being thrown onto her bed before she glances back at Weiss, who continues to look fearful. Out of all the terrifying things she's experienced in life, few things come close to Yang when she has that spark of chaos in her eyes. "Sorry Weiss, I hope I didn't scare you much... But something tells me I did." Blake whacks Yang across the head with the pillow once more, then tosses it back onto the bed before sighing.
"Come on Yang, let's give Weiss some time to herself, I'm sure she could use it." Blake says before grabbing Yang's hand and pulling her out of the room, Weiss watching the door for a few moments before slumping down onto her bed and pulling Muffin into her arms.
"Nnh... Why me... I just wanted a quiet day... Stupid Yang, stupid magnets..." Unbeknownst to Weiss, Penny silently makes her way into the room through the window, stepping over to the bed before settling beside Weiss and pulling her into an embrace.
"It's okay Weiss, Yang isn't here anymore. You don't have to be afraid, I don't have any magnets on me." The moment she hears Penny's voice and recognizes the familiarity to her touch, Weiss leans against her and sniffles, misty eyes threatening to spill forth.
"Did... Yang really think that was going to help? All it did was make me upset..." She murmurs, Penny running a hand along her side before kissing the top of her head. "I know, Weiss, that was very mean of her. I don't like magnets very much myself you know, the ones in me are small, they don't affect anything outside of me, but magnets like what Yang had can get stuck to me." Pausing for a few moments, Penny thinks about something and a question comes to mind.
"... Wait. Can braces even attract magnets? I don't recall what type of metal is used in the wires and brackets." Weiss blinks a few times in response to what she hears, then claps her hand against her face and groans.
"No, my braces probably can't attract magnets, and I was just too dumb to realize this." Weiss slowly gets up and grabs the magnet off of Yang's bed, then brings it towards her braces before...
"OW! STUPID BRACES!" The magnet suddenly latches onto the metal in her braces, it's impact sending a wave of pain through her face which causes her to cry out while prying it away. Once she gets the magnet pulled free she throws it onto Yang's bed, then drops beside Penny and groans. "And I was wrong... I'm a double idiot..."
"That's not true Weiss, you most certainly are not an idiot, just because you didn't know whether or not your braces were magnetic. And now that you do know, you can be sure to avoid magnets from now on!" Penny points out, Weiss offering a sigh in response before leaning into her girlfriend's side. "Get some rest, I'll stay here with you the whole time, okay?"
"Scarlet my man, where have you been?! We've been looking for you all day!" Sun exclaims when he sees Scarlet walk over, the redhead blushing a fair bit before glancing off to the side.
"Oh, you know, just... Places, doing things and stuff." Scarlet replies as nonchalantly as he can, only to grow tense when Neptune speaks.
"Things and stuff, huh? What sort of things and stuff, maybe... Making out with that boy from Team FNKI?" Sun blinks in surprise, then looks between Neptune and Scarlet for a few moments.
"Whoa whoa whoa, wait, you mean my boy Scarlet's been making out with Flynt Coal? That's AWESOME! Dude, you've gotta tell us EVERYTHING!" Not expecting Sun to have responded so positively, Scarlet just groans and drags a hand down his face.
"Do I haaaave to?"