A/N: Just wanted to thank the reviewers for their suggestions, and all of you for reading this. Enjoy!
"You want me to what?"
"I want you to help me admit to Ruby that I have feelings for her," Weiss repeats. Blake sighs and closes her book.
"Weiss, to be blunt, you've been rather rude and dismissive to Ruby, and she may not appreciate that. On the other hand, it's absolutely perfect for an enemies-to-lovers setup, which I do love."
"We're not enemies, we're reluctant teammates. And I did not come here to be told that I'm doing things wrong. I'm aware that I'm doing something wrong, and that's why I need your advice on what to do right."
Blake shrugs.
"From what I've seen, you should start off with a small, subtle gesture, and keep making small subtle gestures until Ruby realizes that you were always the one for her, and by then your feelings have faded because you've accepted that she's never going to love you back, and then Ruby makes a grand romantic gesture, and –"
"All right, I understand. I should make a small gesture. I'll buy her flowers, but not put my name on them, so it isn't too obvious. That seems eminently sensible."
…
Ruby doesn't know exactly where her team is. They have the afternoon off, so Weiss is probably studying, and Blake might be at the library, and Yang's presumably tagging along after Blake like a lovesick puppy, waiting to get attention and head pats. Either way, it means Ruby has their dorm to herself, so she's going to jump on Weiss's bed, since Weiss never lets Ruby do that when she's actually there.
After the third time Ruby hits her head, she gives up and sprawls across the floor. If her team were here, Blake would just step over her, Weiss would give her a look of disdain, and Yang would take it as an opportunity for a wrestling match. Yang always wins, which isn't fair, just because Ruby's ticklish and Yang knows that. But now she can just relax.
She needs another plan to ask Weiss out, since the letter was a failure. Food is still out of the question, after the last failure, and now it turns out that actually talking to Weiss makes her upset, so Ruby's starting to run out of ideas.
Her gloomy daydreaming is interrupted by a spider wandering across the floor. It's a bigger spider than Ruby's used to in Patch, almost the size of her palm, and she doesn't like big spiders. Yang isn't around to kill it for her, so Ruby chooses the next best option, which is to scream and dive for her bunk before the spider reaches her.
Fortunately, the spider hasn't noticed her, so Ruby starts to make her plan of attack. If she stomps on it, it might not die, and then it might crawl up her leg, which would be terrible. She can't use Crescent Rose inside their dorm without destroying everything, and that would make Weiss upset. Their textbooks are across the room, on the other side of the spider, so Ruby has no way of getting to them either.
Okay, think. Improvise a weapon. You're good at that.
There's a bouquet of flowers resting on her pillow, for some reason. Red flowers, and sort of nice flowers, maybe chrysanthemums.
Good enough.
Ruby drops down from her bunk and starts swinging the flowers wildly at the approximate location of the spider, screaming suitable battle cries. This goes on for a little while, the spider somehow managing to survive the brutal attack of being hit with some plants, until the door opens.
…
Weiss opens the door and stares blankly at the scene in front of her for several moments before she takes in everything that's happening.
Ruby is bashing the flowers that Weiss carefully picked out to match her color motif but not be too obvious about it against the floor, screaming incoherently. To add insult to injury, Weiss's bed is a mess.
Even if Ruby doesn't like flowers much, this is a bit of an overreaction, unless she really hates whoever she thinks sent her the flowers, and she might have guessed that Weiss left the flowers, and – oh, dear.
Weiss reminds herself not to jump to conclusions and asks, "Ruby, what are you doing?" in her haughtiest voice to disguise all her emotions.
Ruby grins sheepishly.
"Oh, there was a spider, and I was trying to kill it. You know, the usual."
"Why were you trying to kill it with flowers? They don't seem like a very effective – aah!"
The spider emerges from the flower petals strewn across the floor, looking no worse for wear and if anything a little festive. Weiss and Ruby both end up on Ruby's bunk, clutching each other.
"What do we do?" Weiss asks, and her voice decidedly does not crack and turn into a squeak from panic.
"I'll call Yang," Ruby says. "She always kills spiders for me back home."
Weiss nods and Ruby fishes out her scroll and calls Yang.
"She's not picking up," she reports morosely. "Probably talking to Blake."
"Why is she so smitten with a girl who barely speaks to her?"
Ruby shrugs.
"I'll call Jaune and see if one of his team will kill the spider for us."
…
"Here's your hero!" Nora announces, striding into the room, and even though she's a good six inches shorter than Weiss, right now she looks like a demigoddess, come to save the world from the spiders. "Now, where's the spider?"
Ruby points at the spider, which has settled in the middle of the room and is looking awfully smug about chasing Ruby and Weiss away.
"I got this!"
"Wait, don't use the hammer!"
When the dust settles, at least the spider is indeed dead.