Chapter written by Sev
A week after Ruby told Weiss about her past, things felt… different.
She was on a date with Neptune, a friend of a classmate, and looked up at him. The young woman was wondering why she didn't feel anything even though he complimented her. Hell, it felt different than when Ruby complimented her.
When she noticed him leaning down to kiss her, there was a sudden downpour, causing him to jump back. Weiss looked up and it was clear a few minutes ago. Why was it suddenly overcast with heavy rain?
"Ugh, what the hell!" Neptune ran for cover, shaking the water out of his hair.
"A-Are you ok?" Weiss was about to help wipe off some water off his face but he just slapped her hand away.
"Don't worry about it. This date's off." He huffed and pulled up his jacket over his head.
"Neptune?" Weiss was confused but sighed. Maybe it was time to go home.
A year passed since Weiss heard Ruby's story. Since then, she didn't know how to act around the angel. She was lucky enough to get into Beacon Academy with a scholarship so that she had some breathing room from her father. Not only that, she had asked for a private dorm room so she could study in peace. Though another reason was that so no one would see Ruby and think that she was crazy.
She woke up knowing that today would be a horrible day, and she was right.
Her father called first thing in the morning and she ignored him, but he constantly called every five minutes to the point where she silenced her phone just so that she would have some peace and quiet. It didn't help that Ruby was hovering over her, worried about the phone call. Weiss just did her best to ignore her. It was childish, but what the angel said last year was still bothering her.
Later that day, the teacher gave Weiss back her test, and she saw that she had an eighty-nine percent. Even the teachers were shocked by her grade and offered an extra credit assignment to make it up after explaining that even the best students have their off days. Never had she been so humiliated in her life!
Weiss sighed as she came back to her dorm room, not caring about anything right now as she slammed the door shut and tossed her bag aside. Her father called again and she half listened to his ranting about how useless and a waste of money she was as she slumped over her desk. Once the call ended, her so-called angel appeared.
"Weiss, it's okay! Everyone has their off days~" Ruby smiled brightly at her, trying to lighten the mood.
"...-ut… Up…" Weiss mumbled as she rubbed her temples.
"Weiss?" Ruby was worried about her and immediately moved towards her side, placing a hand onto her shoulder. "T-Talk to me. I can-"
Something inside of Weiss snapped.
"You can what?!" Weiss slapped the angel's hand off her shoulder and glared at the angel. "You've been nothing but a pest to me all this time!" She wants me to open up to her, but she doesn't even let me in when she needs help.
"W-Weiss…?" Ruby whimpered. She's seen Weiss scared and sad, sometimes annoyed with her family, but never has the angel seen Weiss like this before. It scared her.
"You're nothing but a goddamn freeloader, wasting my precious money that I could've spent for school and not your damn cookies that you rarely eat!" I'm not your wife. I can't make you happy like she can.
"T-That's because I-" Ruby whimpered.
Weiss stood up, not wanting to hear her excuses and clenched her fists tightly. "Why are you even here?! Why do you insist on pestering me and interfering with my life?! You've been doing this for as long as I can remember!"
"I'm your… guardian angel. I'm keeping you safe." Ruby stated simply, giving her a weak smile. "I saved you before… remember? When you were fourteen and you were about to drown…?"
'Oh I remember alright. But it wasn't me that you wanted to save.' Weiss scowled at Ruby, remembering how the angel told her how she and her wife died before. 'It was your wife. You just wanted to save her because you regretted killing yourselves... I was such a fool thinking that you would've loved me.'
"W-Weiss…" Ruby carefully stepped closer towards her and reached for her hands, gently prying them open and frowned at the small crescent marks on her palms. "Weiss, you're-"
"I would've rather drown than have you save me." Weiss pulled her hand away from Ruby and crossed her arms. "I never needed any protection from you either." She sighed.
"H-Hey! Remember when your throat was sore when you were seven? I healed you. Then when Winter left before your fourteenth birthday? I gave you a shoulder to cry on." Ruby tried to reason with her. "A-And the suitors. None of them really loved you." Not the way that I still do.
Weiss was just rubbing her head after hearing her reasons. Yes, Ruby was right, but she'd rather be in pain then thought about it. Ruby kept insisting that she was protecting her and there were a few times at night when she woke up hearing Ruby say that she was in love with her… Wait a second…
She was saying it to her wife, not to her.
"W-Weiss…" Ruby whimpered, drawing Weiss back out of her thoughts. "Plea-"
A memory struck her. "Ruby, tell me something." Weiss interrupted. "As this 'angel,' are you able to manipulate the weather?"
"Of course!" Ruby said with a smug look on her face. "I can do anything!"
"So you were the one that interrupted my date with Neptune!" That was the final straw. Weiss was sick and tired of Ruby interfering with her life. Always saying that she was protecting her and interrupting her dates to figure something out. She was ruining her love life as an attempt to relive her own.
"W-Weiss…?" Ruby was shocked to hear her accusing her like this. "I-I mean, you're not wrong. He really didn't like you and-"
"Just stop." Weiss sighed as she slammed her hand against the desk. Everything was so damn tiring… "Just shut up and leave me alone."
Ruby didn't hear her at first. No, she didn't want to believe what she heard. "W-Weiss…?"
"You heard me. Leave. Me. ALONE!" Weiss shouted at her, tired of seeing the angel hounding her nearly every day since they met. "You told me that I reminded you of someone. Well here's a news flash." She glared at Ruby as she poked her chest with her finger. "I. AM. NOT. HER!"
"W-Weiss…? I-" Ruby whimpered, trying to say something, but the mortal wouldn't let her.
"No! You know as well as I do that I'm not your wife! I can never be your wife! I'm not just some replacement for someone that you lost!" Weiss spat. "I'm me! Not who you think I am!"
"You know…" Tears fell from Ruby's eyes as she gave Weiss a sad look. "I-I never thought of you as a replacement." She sniffed. "If… if you had just told me in the first place to leave… I would've…" The angel took a step towards Weiss who just stepped back. "I-I would've listened to you… because I… I love you..."
'You don't love me, you love her.'
"Oh now you say that you love me. If you love me so much…" Weiss shook with anger. "LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE! Don't ever come around me again!" She growled, glaring at Ruby. When she saw that the angel didn't move, she shouted at her again. "I said get out and leave me alone! Don't ever show your face around me again!"
Ruby nodded as she walked towards the window. She paused for a moment to look back at Weiss with a sad smile. "Weiss, I love you." Then she jumped out the window, leaving Weiss alone like she asked.
"You don't love me. You love that person that I remind you of…" Weiss sighed as she slumped onto her chair, covering her face with her hands. "I was a fool. I thought you were different. But you were like them. I should've known that you wouldn't love me for me."
A/N: This is a small project that Dixie (Dreaming-Paradise) or DreamingParadise14 (on Ao3) and I are collabing together. I will state which chapters Dixie wrote and which I wrote (though if I forget, it's usually odd numbered chaps for me and even numbered chaps for Dixie). Updates will be on and off as we're working on our own fanfics, but hope that y'all enjoy!
Also, we don't know how long this story will be so that's why it's marked as "complete".