Author's Note: I was wrong about the prompt I struggled most with. It was this one. Goddesses for the AU week was hard to come up with an idea, but easy to write. This one I got an idea easily, but struggled to write it.
"Erm Weiss? Do you have any spare skirts?" Ruby, Penny and Weiss had been coming back from a trip into Vale when a downpour had started, catching the three of them in the pouring rain.
Weiss looked over at Ruby, who was standing in her soaking wet clothes looking at a very empty chest of drawers, her face a mixture of awkwardness and innocence. "Really Ruby? How did you forget to do your washing, again?"
Weiss started to reach into her own chest of drawers and was a little surprised to find her arm fumbling in an empty drawer. Oh shit. In the two weeks since she'd started her new relationship with Penny and Ruby - one that involved a lot more sleepovers than before, not that she was complaining - she'd been so distracted that she'd forgotten to do her laundry and wash her clothes. Meaning she was in the exact same situation as Ruby was.
"I...I need to apologise to you Ruby, mostly because I appear to be in the same situation as you. What clean clothes have you got?"
"Err...I've got my workout clothes and that's it. I'm all out of my uniform and my combat skirts."
Weiss nodded; she was the same. Fortunately, they'd all agreed to set up a separate basket for workout clothes that was cleaned almost every other day, mostly by Yang as she was in the gym nearly every single day. "Penny, you know how you can warm parts of your body up deliberately?"
"Yes, however I thought ahead about this and worked out that to dry all of our clothes to a point that they would be wearable without discomfort would take approximately seven hours."
"Nope. Not happening. Guess we'll just go with workout clothes?" Ruby looked to Weiss who grimaced but nodded.
The three headed down to get dinner in dining hall, Penny comfortable and happy, whilst Ruby and Weiss felt a little awkward. It was one thing to be in the gym wearing their gym clothes, that was understood and accepted, however in the rest of the school? It wasn't normal, but would hopefully be alright, especially at this time of the evening when the majority of people would've eaten earlier.
Weiss swore under her breath when she saw that team CRDL was still in the room, lounging on the benches, looking every bit the lazy students they had a reputation for being. The trio grabbed plates and food and were walking to sit down when they heard a loud wolf whistle and they stopped. "Well hellllllo there little red! Why haven't you worn that outfit more often? It definitely shows your assets off better than that skirt you normally wear!" Cardin's teammates burst out laughing and Ruby went bright red in the face.
"Ruby? I'm confused. What is he talking about?" Penny looked at Ruby who just shook her head and walked quickly over to the bench and sat down, her girlfriends on either side.
"Cardin's just being a bully and a dick. But if we react then we'll just get a bigger reaction and he'll use it to his advantage, that's what bullies do." Weiss slipped her hand into Ruby's and squeezed, giving her a smile to help.
"It's fine Penny, I don't like what he does, but if we ignore him, he'll get bored and go away. It worked on the bullies back at Signal, so it'll work here. I can handle being uncomfortable."
"Doesn't mean you have to sit there and take being objectified though Ruby. We can take the food back up to the dorm room and eat together there?" Weiss looked at Ruby who shook her head.
"Hey Ice Queen! You need to keep working on those squats, that flat ass ain't getting any bigger!"
Weiss breathed out slowly and closed her eyes, trying to control the rising anger.
"Weiss, is he making you uncomfortable as well?" Penny's voice was laden with concern but both Ruby and Weiss could hear the underlying tone that showed she was getting angry.
"He is, but starting a fight in public isn't something that should be done. Regardless of how justified it is."
"Hmmm." Penny clearly had a different view but wasn't willing to voice her disagreement with her girlfriends and go against their wishes.
"Hey ginger! You look pretty damn tasty yourself, why don't you come sit with us? We'll show you a much better time than those two!"
Ruby and Weiss looked at each other, and Penny, whilst not fully understanding what Cardin had meant, could see just how angry it had made her girlfriends and figured it wasn't polite.
"Fuck it?"
"Fuck it."
A red swirl of petals and a flash of a glyph later and Ruby's scythe was placed at Cardin's throat, her feet on the table behind him and finger on the trigger. Weiss' rapier was pressing ever so gently and menacingly into his crotch. Their words alternated and were hissed through gritted teeth dripping with venom and malice.
"I'm going to say this slowly so your tiny, Grimm sized brain can understand…"
"But if you ever say something like that about Penny again…"
"Then this sword will go through your extremely small and malformed genitals…"
"Before I take your head off easier than a Beowolf."
"Do we make ourselves clear?"
The rest of his team started to get to their feet to defend their leader only for swords to slam into the table or bench in front of each of them, with another hovering in front of their faces.
"Please do not think about interfering, I'm combat ready! And I will demonstrate it." Penny had joined her girlfriends and was stood behind them both looking at the remaining three members. She then looked at Cardin, "Please apologise for making my girlfriends uncomfortable and upset. It wasn't very nice of you."
Cardin's eyes were watering at this point and they darted between the swords in front of his team, Weiss' face, her sword at his crotch, and what he could see of the scythe around his neck. He gulped, feeling his Adam's apple bounce against the blade of the scythe and gently nodded, terrified. "Sorry."
Ruby whipped the scythe around and folded it back up, and he let out a long breath of relief. That breath was cut short when Weiss pressed a little harder with Myrtenaster.
"What for?" Her voice this time was a lot sweeter but no less malicious.
"For being sexist and catcalling you three."
Weiss pulled Myrtenaster back, flicked it meaningfully for the door, and Cardin took the hint, sprinting away out the hall without a second glance back to his teammates who watched him go, then looked back to Penny. She pulled the swords back into her ever present backpack and they scrambled to follow Cardin out the hall.
"I think I'm going to need to disinfect Myrtenaster tomorrow." Weiss held her rapier up, eyeing the point with disgust.
Ruby snorted, and Weiss smirked at her and Penny before they started laughing.
"Shall we go upstairs to watch a movie and cuddle?" Ruby and Weiss looked at each other before nodding at Penny's suggestion, holding her hand as they went back to their dorm room.
"I'll be glad to get back into my normal combat skirt after today. I'm never going to forget to do laundry again."
Weiss laughed, "Don't make promises you can't keep, but I agree about the combat skirt. I'm not getting dinner in just my workout clothes again."