The girls had decided to continue their conversation away from prying eyes (and ears) and had randevud in Ruby and Weiss's room. Yang and Blake had just finished telling Weiss and Ruby about the 4 stalkers. Apparently, Weiss was being followed by 4 different people. Not a group of 4 people, but 4 separately affiliated people. Or at least that's what they assumed. 1, a cloaked person they couldn't see the face of, but assumed was a man from the hunched broad shoulders. 2, a very short cloaked person that Yang swore had brown hair because she said she'd seen it when the person turned their head. Blake said the same, but she'd seen pink. They weren't sure who was correct. 3, a ninja, or at least someone who appeared to be a ninja. And 4, a young man with dull blue hair who was very bad at hiding, and that they honestly should have spotted if they were being aware of their surroundings at all.
"Wait." Weiss said. "Wait, that last one we can cross off the list. Ruby, its that guy. From yesterday."
Ruby clenched a fist and glared dramatically off into space. "Menry harigold..!"
It was funnier to leave it as is, so Weiss didn't correct Ruby. Yang shook her head. "I don't see how you could have missed HIM. He was honestly so bad at it. I don't know how long he's been following you, but I'm a bit concerned you didn't notice him at all this morning.
"Well, you know.. Confession high.." Weiss rubbed the back of her head. The past week, she'd been so wrapped up in her thoughts of how to confess to Ruby, she barely knew where she was at any point in the day. And Henry would have just started following her today, so it was normal they hadn't noticed him! Completely normal! Weiss thought about the footprints in the mud behind the tree she'd seen that morning, and the feelings of being watched she'd had the past week. Those hadn't been Henry. Yikes. Worrying about gay stuff really lowered her guard. She'd have to work on that... Her mind had been so frantic to figure out her situation over Ruby, she had ignored clear signs of danger. Yeah, she DEFINITELY had to work on that.
"Ah, yeah that's fair.." Yang nodded, agreeing with Weiss's statement. Yang had probably experienced a similar state of euphoria when she and Blake first go together, Weiss figured.
"I've noticed that there hasn't been any information going around that you're missing Weiss." Blake said. "Even in the dark places. I only heard about you from my client. You are the second atlas princess, right?"
Client! That's right! Weiss had wanted to ask about that! "Blake? You said your client was my mother, right? Did you meet her?!" Weiss leaned way over into Blake's personal space.
"Ahck!" Blake scooted back, almost hissing. she cleared her throat. "Ahem. No, I didn't. Not directly at least. We communicated by letter."
Oh... If it was by letter, then there was no way Weiss could track the culprit down and see if it was her mother. Weiss thought on Blake's earlier question. Why HADN'T her disappearance become public knowledge? Before, Weiss had chalked it up to the fact that she'd been moving faster then the news could travel, but she'd been in this town for more then a week. And still no sign of a missing poster or anything. Maybe they didn't realize? Perhaps Klein had kept up the whole 'Weiss is still in her bedroom' act up longer then expected. No, that couldn't be. She'd missed her own wedding. Her father had to know she was gone.
Ruby raised a hand. "So uh, what are we gonna do? About the people following Weiss?"
No one had an answer. Yang took a shot in the dark. "We could.. Try to capture one of them..? Maybe the first one, or the second? If we're disregarding Menry. And it'd be wise to Avoid the third as long as possible, I don't like our chances against a ninja. Dragon or not, I don't think it'd be wise for me to loose another arm." Another arm? Weiss double checked, confirming that Yang did indeed have two arms. What did she mean by that? Blake stared at Yang, and Yang froze up. "I, I meeeannnn uhhh I don't wanna, uh, be draggin' out chances of winning down! Hah! ...hahah!" Yang was sweating nervously, looking in the exact opposite direction of Blake.
Weiss thought she saw a small smile appear on Blake's face for a split second. "Hm? What do you mean by that? Dragon?" Blake feigned ignorance. She! She was teasing her! Ohhh! EVIL!
Yang stayed staring at the wall and spoke, her voice a hoarse whisper. "...let's talk about this later."
Blake laughed a little, and leaned against Yang's back.. "You're bad at keeping secrets about yourself, you know. Especially from people you care about." She kneaded a hand on Yang's back. Yang blushed heavily.
Ruby looked deep in thought, then went wide eyed. "Ohh! This, this is about the secret! Weiss, do you know it?" She turned to Weiss.
Weiss nodded. "I do. Both of them." Blake and Yang both shot Weiss a conflicted glance.
"Me too! I'm sure Yang knows, I mean we can smell it from a mile away." Ruby folded her arms and nodded to herself. She then stood up, and put a hand on Blake's shoulder and a hand on Yang's. "You two need to go into the other room and talk about your secrets! We'll talk about Weiss's stalkers later!" Ruby stood them up and pushed them into the hall, leaving to push them into their room. She returned a moment later. Ruby was quite eager to have her sister talk out her feelings, considering how worried she'd been about the stalker thing a moment ago.
Weiss waited till Ruby shut the door and sat on the bed next to her. "So. You knew Blake was a.." She waited for Ruby to finish her sentence.
"Faunus? Yep! Dragons have really good senses of smell. I could tell immediately. But she looked like she was trying hard to hide it, so I didn't say anything. Though It'd be impossible for Yang not to have noticed it already." Ruby waved a hand nonchalantly.
Weiss smiled softly to herself, and flopped down on the bed. "I'm exhausted..!" Ruby looked fidgety. She kept eyeing the door. "Ruby? Whats wrong?" Weiss asked, looking back up at her.
Ruby looked a little guilty. "...I wanna go eavesdrop."
"We can't do that! That is their private conversation, and listening in on that would be extremely rude! She has a right to privacy! And..! And..." ...
"Quit pushing, I want to listen too!"
"Shhh! They'll hear us!" Weiss hissed at Ruby. It had taken her all of thirty seconds to fold and agree to eavesdrop with Ruby.
Muffled voices sounded through the door Weiss and Ruby both had their ears pressed against.
They heard Yang's voice. "I did, I always knew. From the start. But you didn't say anything, so I didn't bring it up."
Blake was next. "Me to. At first I was really nervous, and thought maybe you wanted to get me alone to eat me or something."
"Eat you!?" Yang spluttered. Weiss and Ruby fought hard not to giggle at her slightly comical outrage.
"Yes, eat me! I didn't know anything about dragons! And I hadn't really thought about it until recently, but Ruby's a dragon too isn't she?"
It was silent for a moment, then Yang's voice could be heard again. "...yeah. We're biological sisters after all. Weiss actually figure it out immediately, as soon as she learned I was Ruby's sister she just went 'oh so you're one to?'. Scared the crap outta me, I thought she was gonna go running to the guards or try to off us for a minuet there." A muffled groan sounded next, and Weiss imagined Yang pressing her hand against her face in irritation. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you. There just, wasn't a good moment."
Silence again. Weiss heard a small scuffling movement, and a sigh that she couldn't pinpoint the origin of. Blake spoke "Me to. Though, you knew all along I guess, hah." More creaking. They were moving around on the bed a lot? Weiss had a sudden thought, and blushed a little.
She tapped Ruby on the shoulder, letting her know that they'd probably eavesdropped enough. Weiss had to drag Ruby away, the girls curiosity winning over her reasoning. Weiss shoved her back in their room. "I gave in for a bit, but lets leave them alone now." She said, shutting the door.
Ruby was silent. She sat on the bed, and lied back on it. "Weiss?" She said softly. "Why are people so scared of dragons?"
Oh. That was a hard question to answer, she didn't want to hurt Ruby's feelings.. But then again, she had asked point blank. "Well, one reason mainly. Some dragons, they attack people. They kill and burn and eat everything they come across. That's really the only knowledge humans have about dragons. And because it's the only thing they know, they tell others what they think they know, and eventually because so many people believe the same thing, they consider it a fact." Weiss explained.
Ruby stared at the ceiling. "That's dumb..." She said. letting out a breath of air.
Weiss half smiled. "But think about it. If you saw some weird creature, and all it did in front of you was bite you or bite other things, you'd think all it can do is bite. And as long as none of the other ones show you anything different, you'll think they just bite." She patted Ruby's head.
Ruby rolled over and lied on her stomach, glaring at nothing. She kicked her legs sparatickly for a second, then let out a defeated puff. She seemed very grumpy. Was it just because of Weiss's answer to her question? Or was there something else weighing on her mind? She wanted to ask, but she got a slight feeling of dread. What? Weiss shivered, and looked around. It was just her and Ruby in the room, no one else. Nothing was wrong. Nothing was wrong.
Weiss noticed that the window was open just a crack, so she went over and closed it. Had the window been open before? She searched her mind. She couldn't remember.
"Weisssssss..." Ruby groaned from the bed. Weiss immediately had a flashback of to when Blake had injected that permanent sleeping potion into Ruby before kidnapping her. It wore off because she was a dragon. If the same thing happened again she'd be fine right? Ruby spoke again. "Cuddle meeeee..."
Ah. Weiss breathed a sigh of relief, and walked to the bed. Ruby sat up quick as lightning, grabbed her, and pulled her back down onto it. "Ompf!" Weiss almost got the wind knocked out of her. Ruby hugged her happily and made a small purring sound. Awww~!
Her and Ruby lied there a while. Ruby fell asleep, and Weiss was close to following, but she felt a hand on her shoulder. She was about to tell Ruby to lay off, but she noticed that both Ruby's hands were still hugging her. Weiss looked up to see a figure in black. Her heart rate rose, starting to panic, but.. She calmed down. There wasn't anything wrong here, really. They weren't trying to kidnap her. They could just talk, she didn't need to freak out. Odd, her vision was going black and white. But that was fine. The figure helped her stand, and gently took her by the hand, leading her out of the room Weiss looked back at Ruby, wondering if she'd be alright sleeping alone. She looked away. Yeah, she'd be fine.
She left the room with the strange figure, and was almost out of the inn when she stumbled over a broken floorboard. She let go of the figures hand for an instant, and all color and emotion washed back into her world. She was suddenly hyper aware of her situation. A stranger had broken into their inn room and somehow convinced her to willingly leave with them. How? Had they done that? Weiss nearly started hyperventilating. Was it touch? They'd touched Her shoulder and that's how it started right? So she needed to avoid touch, ok... That was going to be difficult. Wait was this the ninja Blake and Yang had been talking about?! To much was happening at once!
The figure backed up slowly, and left the building. They vanished into the cover of darkness. Weiss was left standing alone in the front room of the inn. Alone, until someone touched her shoulder again. She whipped around and slapped then without a second thought. "Ow!" The person yelped.
"Henry!?" Weiss spluttered. Him? Oh god not now, PLEASE now now..!
His eyes sparkled. "You know my name?" Weiss wanted to sink into a puddle on the floor and cease to exist. She also wanted to back upstairs and tell the girls what'd just happened. Buuut at the same time she didn't need Henry knowing which room she was in, He seemed like the kind of guy who would try sending anonymous gifts to woo a girl. Not that that was a bad thing, its just, she had to travel light. She was technically on the run after all.
"...yes. My friend Ruby told me about you.. You, talked to her." Weiss lied through her teeth. What she was saying was semi believable at least.
Henry nervously coughed. "Hah, yeah, she's spunky." He looked to the aide, and whistled a little. "Sooo.. I was wondering if you were doing anything in the next few days, and I wa–"
"Ahh!" Ruby appeared at the top of the stairs and zipped over to Weiss, rose petals in her wake, and hugged her from behind. Weiss struggled to stay standing. "Enemy spotted!" Ruby yelped, clinging to Weiss still.
Henrys smile turned to a grimace at Rubys appearance. He cleared his throat and asked Weiss again. "Would you like to have dinner with me some time Weiss?" He smiled in a charming way. Ruby gripped Weiss tighter, but stayed silent. As if she wanted Weiss to turn him down of her own free will. Poor Weiss's mind was still reeling over the fact that she'd just narrowly escaped a kidnapping and wasn't ready to deal with this situation. Why couldn't her semblance be invisibility? Now would be a great time for something like that to appear.
But alas, it did not. Weiss sucked up her courage, and spoke in a professional manner. "I will not be available in the near future." For a second, it felt like she was back home. Back home and turning down some guy who had come to propose to her at their parents command. A chill ran through her heart. Henry was disappointed, but nodded. He didn't look like he'd given up though.
Blake and Yang appeared at the top of the stairs, winded. They were wearing each others pajama bottoms. Weiss pursed her lips and looked away.
"Ruby! You yelled! Everything, hah, ok?!" Yang panted wildly. She spotted henry and pointed. "Ah! Number 4!"
Henry excused himself, not wanting to be caught in the middle of whatever was happening. Ruby looked up at her sister. "That was like 5 minuets ago! What took you so long?" She tilted her head.
"Well we had to get dres– ow!" Yang started, but Blake punched her in the arm hard.
Ruby didn't get it, so she went back to focusing her attention on hugging Weiss. Weiss and Blake exchanged glances, and all was known. And it was decided in that glance that they would never speak of this again.
"Ok, so why are you two down here?" Yang rubbed her arm where the agitated Blake had punched.
Ah. Right. "No reason in particular, I just, almost got kidnapped." Weiss said.