"Are you all right Weiss?" Blake asked

The two faunus teammates were looking into each other's eyes. Ears and tail were both dropped down, their arms were outstretched but they hesitated to make contact. The group of five had barely left the prison, and even though there was no actual fight, what Jacques Schnee said had been as emotionally draining as a crushing defeat. Blake and Weiss taking it the worst.

"Me? What about you? There are probably some old friends from back when you were in the White Fang there, and you heard some horrible things about our people." Weiss said with a sigh of the defeat.

"Said by your father." Blake needlessly reminded her. "I hate to say it but that's hardly the worst I've heard."

"I'm starting to understand the White Fang that you believed in." Weiss said, "I'm sorry I doubted you before."

Blake looked away "Seems like a long time ago but, when you think about it we haven't even known each other for a year."

"A crazy year where a lot of bad things happened." Weiss answered, "But I wouldn't trade the friends I made for anything."

"Man this is turning into a real soap opera." Yang scoffed.

"And that's why you're single." Ruby joked.

"What does that have to do with anything?" The rest of the team asked.

"Trying to get you to smile," Ruby answered.

Penny spoke up for the first time in a while "I think the two of them should kiss."

"What?" They both asked turning bright red.

"It certainly helped me and Ruby's mood when we kissed." The robot responded. Which earned a bit of awkward laughter from everybody but Yang.

Ruby's response was to kiss Penny on the cheek "I don't think that will help them right now."

The group of five decided to continue walking, not exactly sure where they were heading. But right at the moment they just had to get away from the prison.

"Maybe we should go shopping," Yang suggested.

"You just want to spend some of my money!" Weiss sarcastically accused.

"Guilty as charged!" Yang said with a smirk "but, hear me out, were always saving the world. And before that, school and uncovering secret plots. We haven't done normal teenage things like shopping, pedicures or getting pizza."

"Yang!" Ruby interjected, "You hate pedicures."

Yang replied, "And two of my closest friends don't know that when it's a thing most girls do together." The other four girls looked at her with a combination of confusion and concern. "Fine forget the pedicures!"

Weiss spoke up "I think she's on to something, desire for self-torture notwithstanding. And I think you would benefit from a facial."

By this point, it was already late afternoon. They wouldn't have that much time to spend shopping, but they would be able to hit a few key stores. First, they went to a clothing store that was so cute and girly Yang felt out of place. But she was smiling nonetheless as she saw the other girls pick out cute new shirts. Penny decided that she wanted a red hoodie and put it on right away.

"A kigurumi, really?" Yang said looking at what Ruby was looking at. There were a few different ones, some cats, corgi, fox, unicorn, and a few others.

"Yaa Ruby you can't wear those," Blake said.

"Why not?" Ruby asked puffing her cheeks.

"You would be entirely too cute," Blake responded with a teasing tone.

"Hey, you guys!" A voice rang out the group turned to find Illia. "Fancy running into you here."

Everyone greeted Illia in their own fashion. "Who's this?" she said indicating Penny who by now was dark-haired without her ribbon and trying to look tough in a cute jacket. She was completely unrecognizable from before despite only having made minor changes.

"They call me Jenny," she answered. "I'm a friend of Ruby's who dropped by to see her after being unavailable for a while."

Illia giggled. "You're a character."

"Were all charters," Jenny responded.

Illia shrugged and said "Can't argue with that. Funny to see you guys, especially after just missing Jaune."

"Jaune was here?" Weiss asked.

"Yeah, they were helping the homeless Faunus child from the looks of it. I didn't want to interrupt so I didn't talk to them."

"That's so nice." Weiss smiled. "How did the video of my father go over?"

"Not well, most people feel like they got the Monkey's paw treatment." Ilia responded with a sigh "I managed to convince the majority of them that if they get mad over it, he wins. Also, your company will be back on track by the end of the weekend as far as I know."

"That's great to hear." Weiss responded than asked, "So what are you doing here?"

Ilia turned pink before responding "Looking for a new jacket. Speaking of which, have you considered how warm the tail of yours probably is?"

"Come to think of it, I don't really know that much about actual snow leopards." Weiss sheepishly admitted

"Well, it's a good thing that I ran into you then. Besides polar bears, they're the predator that lives in the harshest of conditions they are built for surviving up in remote mountains. Before you go any further south I think I should let you in on a secret."

"Well, I do think I should go to Menagerie sometime." Weiss admitted."

With that Ilia unzipped her top a little bit more to reveal a necklace that had a large fire dust crystal embedded into it " well then you're going to need something like this but with ice crystals, your tail will probably cook without it."

Weiss smiled "Thank you very much. Guess that means we're hitting the jewelry store next."

It wasn't too long before the group found a local jewelry store, but it didn't seem to have much in the way of Faunus pacific merchandise.

" I can't find anything like what Ilia was recommending," Weiss said looking at the selection.

"We're probably going to have to improvise it ." Ruby said looking at some of the cheap necklaces "I know a couple things about jewelry making. I can probably get it together."

"I wasn't expecting to hear that!" Weiss said.

"Really helps with the finer details of Crescent Rose." Ruby sheepishly replied, "Could come in handy with my new girlfriend."

Ruby started looking at some different styles of silver chain."Silver?" Blake asked

"It will match Weiss's color scheme better, and it's a little sturdier than gold. It's better for a functional piece of jewelry," Ruby replied. She looked at some of the simple silver hoops " this will be good for mounting the crystals in. Just need some dust crystals."

Jenny added, "Well bronze is best for sturdy jewelry but it would be atrocious on her."

"Well I don't think that's a problem," Weiss admitted. She started smiling with a tear of joy.

"Are you okay?" Blake asked

"It just hit me how much you girls mean to me. I couldn't have asked for a better team.

"We're not a team Weiss." Ruby said, "Were family."

"I don't get it." Jenny snipped "We don't have white hair."

"Family of choice." Yang clarified. "Our bond is deeper than normal friendship. It applies to Jaune, Nora, and Ren also"

"But then Weiss and Blake shouldn't be..."She started to say.

Blake answered"The whole date, don't date thing is a little confusing when it comes to stuff like this. If it feels right, do it. If it feels wrong don't."

The robot responded by kissing Ruby again. After a few moments, Ruby asked with a chuckle "Okay so that's your answer to being confused now?"

Jenny shrugged and admitted, "It's working so far."