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Interlude

"Sir, we should go," Weiss registered Schwarz's words, turning her head about just in time to train her gaze on the two of them as they discreetly turned a corner behind one of the stone columns.

"Wait!" Weiss managed to yell just as they walked out of sight, pushing her own chair back as she strode quickly towards where she last saw them, shocking the rest of her team into action as they all stood from their respective seats to follow.

"Uhh, Weiss…" Yang asked just as Weiss turned the column "-what did he mean by 'She's a great listener!'" Yang quoted, pitching her voice into the faux familiar, joking tone Mr. S had taken not seconds earlier.

"How am I supposed to know?" Weiss asked, pushing aside the hanging tapestry and frantically inspecting the featureless wall before her. "He must've taken one of the secret passageways!" Weiss grumbled in frustration as she pressed her body flush to the wall, feeling along the marble surface with the tips of her fingers.

"You guys have secret doors?" Ruby asked with a fascinated excitement.

"Where does this passage lead?" Yang asked with a threatening tone.

"I don't know! There's a whole network of passages throughout the entire castle, he could be anywhere!" Weiss responded, backing away from the wall with a dejected expression.

"Do you have any idea where he's likely to go?" Blake asked, trying to be helpful.

"His office!" Weiss sprang up after a second of thought, running further down the marble corridor as Blake rushed to follow her, wide eyed at the prospect of meeting with Mr. Schnee and endeavoring to be less helpful in the future.


Weiss paced before the locked office door, surrounded by her friends. Yang scowled, leaning by an anxious Blake as Ruby looked seriously off into a corner, her eyes flickering and her lips moving with silent whispers, deep in thought. The staccato clicks of Weiss's heels and the measured pace of her footsteps served as good an indicator of the time passed as the wall clock that had been staring down at them from above the office door for the past fifteen minutes.

"Uhh, Weiss…" Yang broke the silence, "are you sure he's going to be coming here?"

"Yes," Weiss responded curtly, still pacing before the office door.

"Well, how sure are you?" Yang asked with an annoyed lilt to her voice, having taken the silent wait time to cool down and now angry that she was no longer angry enough to do something rash when Mr. Schnee showed his face.

"I'm eighty percent sure, Yang," Weiss responded shortly, herself testy over the situation.

"Oh, and how sure are you about that," Yang responded quickly, knowing she shouldn't but deciding to tease the high strung heiress like it was a Tuesday.

"Twenty percent," Weiss responded with equal confidence, shocking Yang with the lack of eye rolling or annoyed yelling.

"Uh, what?" Yang asked, still trying to wrap her head around the matter. "You just said you were…"

"I'm twenty percent sure that I'm eighty percent sure. How much simpler could it get!? Now could you be...Quiet. For just a second?" Weiss said, on the verge of shouting as her voice echoed throughout the cavernous halls.

Yang pressed herself back against a wall with a cautious expression, deciding it might be best to save her personality until after Weiss was done having the epic boss battle with her father.

The silence reinstated itself for all of twenty seconds before receiving a timely lack-of-noise complaint from team RWBY's namesake.

"Ahahah!" Ruby broke the silence with a light laugh.

"What." Weiss asked through her teeth, hackles raised and barely holding herself together at the sudden outburst. She knew Ruby wouldn't ever laugh at her, not with any ill intention, anyway, but it still grained at her psyche in her current state...she really just needed an excuse to yell, Weiss concluded, trying to ignore the lead pumping through her heart and weighing it down as she tried to find out what was going on.

She'd just kissed Blake on live television and he'd just laughed it off, suddenly all but declared himself pro-faunus, tied her to his ruined legacy, whipped up the atlas elite and anti-faunus sentinet all across the continent while he was at it, and he did all of this just as she went public with the fact that she was dating Blake...Blake, the faunus!

So, in light of this, "What could be so funny?" Weiss asked, glaring down at Ruby who was leaning against a wall for support, she was laughing so hard.

"Her, ahahaha, Blake's ears," Ruby laughed, pointing a finger up at the two protrusions wiggling about atop Blake's head.

"What?" Weiss asked, her anger flushing itself down and her worries dissipating for the moment as she figured it was best to leave behind all memory of her father for the moment.

"She's an excellent listener, don't you get it!" Ruby replied, still laughing. "She has four ears, and she's really quiet all the time! Ahahahaha, It just works on so many levels," Ruby said, somehow laughing loudly and softly at the same time as she wiped a tear from the corner of her eye.

Weiss blinked and shook her head, turning away from her teammate while internally labeling that moment as the stupidest thing she'd lived through in her entire life so far. In fact, she was certain that was the stupidest thing she would live through ever.

"Ms. Schnee," A commanding voice echoed through the hall, turning the heads of team RWBY towards the approaching figure of Glynda Goodwitch as she headed the approaching group of herself, Ozpin, and Qrow.

"Oh, Ms. Goodwitch, Professor Ozpin," Weiss stood at attention, nodding her head to each respective figure.

"Uncle Qrowww!" Ruby yelled jumping up to tackle the remaining figure in a full body hug.

"Hey there, kiddo," Qrow responded with a slow chuckle, rolling with the impact and lightly shaking the excitable girl hanging off his arm.

"What are you doing here?" Yang asked.

"We're just here to break into Mr. Schnee's office," Qrow said.

"Oh, ha ha," Weiss threw back with a glare, "even if you could get past the biometrics, I doubt you could ever convince such upstanding indi-" CLICK a sound interrupted Weiss as Glynda stood before the metal doors, holding out her glowing riding crop to point at the door.

CLICK, another, softer, click resonated from the internal mechanisms of the door as Glynda twitched her wrist, pushing the metal halves inward

"What are you doing?" Weiss asked, managing to sound indignant and deferential in the same sentence.

"We're trying to find the big S," Qrow said with a casual drawl as he strode in through the doors, "word on the street says this is the place to find him," Qrow said with a pointed glance at Weiss.

"This-this is illegal!" Weiss said as the rest of her team flowed around her to get in through the doors.

"The rules can get...bent in strange situations," Ozpin explained as he strode into the office, looking back at her with an understanding look.

"But, but, we can't just burst into the office! He's not even here!" Weiss implored.

"And that's likely to be the case if he sees us loitering outside of it," Ozpin replied.

"It's sti-" Weiss began.

"You coming or not?" Yang added, looking back through the door as she strolled in.

"Ugh, fine," Weiss slouched, steeping in through the doors. It's not as if things were likely to get any more nonsensical than they already were.


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