Welcome to the first one-shot short. Enjoy.
Weiss stared in on her team, just visible through the crack between the door's edge and the frame that held it in place. Ruby was in there, cross-legged on the ground, while Blake and Yang were just out of sight, their voices echoing out into the hall. Each of them was laughing and the smile that Weiss saw playing over Ruby's lips was what drove her to make her choice.
It should have been an ordinary night, but Ruby needed to know. Weiss couldn't pretend anymore, and she deserved the truth. If she didn't tell her now, she might never be able to again, and Ruby would never truly understand why everything changed. So she would say it.
But she hesitated. What she said next could never be unsaid, never could be unheard or taken back. Everything would change irrevocably and not all of it for the better. Still, Ruby deserved the truth at the very least. She deserved a chance to be happy, and Weiss wouldn't lie to her or string her along any more.
The happy gleam of silver eyes caught her blue, and her mind was made up. Pushing into the room, she nodded to Blake. It was time. Leveling a finger at her partner, she did what she could not to break down.
"Ruby Rose: I..." she swallowed once and closed her eyes before saying the remainder in a shout, "I Hate You!"
The room went silent, and Ruby's expression fell into one of devastation. Yang looked furious, and attempted to stand up from her bed, when a hand stopped her from around her waist. Blake was leaning into her back and shaking her head gently.
"Weiss? What... what do you mean? What did I do?" Ruby's voice was like a child, begging for understanding as to why they were in trouble. It broke her heart, so she continued.
"What you've done? It's everything you've done. I hate that you stole my chances from being partners with Pyrrha, and breezing through everything without any need to grow! I hate that you forced me to break down the icy walls that I've been trying to build up since I was six! I hate that everyday since I met you I've been a little more like the girl I mean to be and a little less like the woman my family told me to be!"
Her eyes broke, and both girls began to cry, one with one emotion, the other in confused sorrow. Yang meanwhile, was staring open mouthed at Weiss, evidently having caught on too.
"I had to settle for co-team leader, which isn't even real! You made it up just for me, and I hate you for that too! I hate you for taking a childhood dream of bunk beds and bringing it to life in the most convoluted way possible! I hate you for each and every day where you treated me like your best friend instead of some celebrity, and even gave me advice when I didn't ask for it! You made me worry about you getting into trouble or getting hurt each time I wasn't around, and that was just the first semester!"
Weiss was outright bawling now, and everything about her screamed that she needed to be held by someone, to be given a hug to show her some form of love. Ruby meanwhile, still hadn't caught on, and was looking in fear from her wide-eyed sisters to the girl she'd spent more time with than anyone else.
"Then you decided that it wasn't just enough to be my friend, you had to be my best friend! You turned the entire lunchroom into a war zone over a pie, and decided to play the dramatics like I'd dies when I hit the pillar, as if you didn't know perfectly well I was fine! You made me play a board game for the first time in my life, and made up those pointless teams to stop me from getting close to Neptune: probably my first and only time being flustered by a guy, though a cheating bastard of a guy I'll admit."
Ruby was evidently reliving each moment as Weiss described it, and her shoulders hunched in a downcast stance. Still, she felt like something was... off.
"Then you had the audacity to make me feel jealous of another girl, who turned out to be a robot. You had me jealous of a glorified prosthetic! You never had a problem with my horrible jokes, tried to comfort me when Neptune didn't dance with me, and even offered to dance with me yourself! You absolutely destroyed my facade of self-respect with that adorable and amazing dog of yours, nearly gave me a heart attack when you disappeared, and forced me to realize just what you meant to me that night, not letting me pretend I was alright being your best friend for even another semester!"
Now Weiss moved in and clutched Ruby to her in a desperate hug, their similar heights making Ruby's shoulder and neck the perfect place to hide her tear-streaked face. Ruby gently hugged back, now knowing exactly what she was doing.
"I hate you, because you helped me see past the fake smile of my first and only boyfriend, and the truth of who exactly my family is! You were the one and only friend I brought to see Winter, and it wasn't because of who I didn't want to bring! I... I hate you for becoming the world's best huntress and forcing me to accept the silver as a consolation prize, forcing me to find a new dream instead of making it easy!"
Small circles were now being caressed into Weiss' back, the two girls slowly descending to kneel on the floor, still trapped in one another's embrace.
"You saved my soul and my life more times than I can count, made me see a little farmboy as a rival, forced me to confront myself and my father without letting me run, and of all these reasons to hate you, you gave me one more: You- you... you turned me into a lovesick little schoolgirl!"
"You let me cry and laugh like a person, not an heiress. Every morning, you made me wake up to a smile and warm silver eyes that always had to have laughter in them. Instead of being an Altesian beauty who broke hearts of girls and guys each night and enjoyed sex each night, you made me want to save myself for just one person, and accept that a bed filled with someone just for holding was better than mindless pleasure. And then there was your Valentines gift today."
Weiss pulled back, holding up her hand and pulled Ruby's along with. A red string was tied from pinky to pinky, the end trailing out the hall.
"The day I was most determined to spend miserable, you had me hunting through the halls since lunch, finding card after card of praise, only to find you playing the role of soulmate at the end!"
Weiss leaned in and gently kissed her girlfriend, clasping their hands together. A hint of their aura began to manifest, the vibrant red and pristine white meshing into a soft pink around their fingers.
"But what I hate about you most? It's right here. Our hands fit together so perfectly, like we're meant to be. But even more, I hate that our lips don't match, proving that this isn't destiny. This is my choice."
A slight echo sounded in Ruby's head, the whispered truth Weiss' soul was telling her when her voice couldn't.
"I hate you, more than anything in the world, and more than life itself."
"I love you Ruby Rose to the day I die, more than living I love you."
"If I could change one thing in my life, just one: it would be to have ignored you when you blew up my cases."
"...it would have be to say say yes when you asked me to dance."
With that, Weiss broke down into the the uncontrollable sobs, her tears soaking into the red hood of her best and only partner, her one and only. Ruby caressed her white hair, gently whispering into her ear.
"I love you too, you dolt. You're so difficult sometimes."
"Weiss Schnee, I'll never stop loving you. I love every perfection and every flaw in you."
Weiss let out a small sob, mixed with what sounded like a laugh.
"I hate that you know what I'm thinking."
"Liar."
Ruby giggled as she said it, allowing Weiss to lift her up and carry her to the bed. As they curled up, the red string fell away, leaving only a single strand of pink aura connecting them as the pair curled up under the blankets and began to sleep, gently whispering as they drifted off.