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Today was not a good day to irritate Weiss Schnee. One thing only was occupying her mind today.

"It's been five years today" she thought "and she's still not here"

"H-Hey Weiss" Ruby called out

The shy, innocent tone, and stuttering reminded Weiss of her first friend who she waited so patiently for.

"Crimson" Weiss perked up

"Who's Crimson?" Ruby asked

Weiss was berating herself for making such a stupid mistake.

"N-Nobody" the heiress hesitated

Deep down Weiss did want to share with her team who Crimson was - who Crimson is.

"She's still alive" Weiss tried to convince herself even if Crimson was losing a lot of blood the last time Weiss saw her

Getting back on topic, Weiss wanted to open up to her team about Crimson but couldn't for several reasons. One was that it would make her treatment of Faunus even more inexcusable. The second is the painful memories of the last five minutes they shared that have haunted Weiss all these years. The third is that she would be sharing rather intimate details considering that Crimson was naked for most of the time. Reason number four is it would reveal Weiss as a bisexual that would be insufferable due to reason number five. The fifth and most important reason is, to put it in a word, Yang. Weiss knew the teasing would never end. Weiss was going to list more reasons to herself but was pulled out of it by her partner.

"Welllll class ended like...five minutes ago" Ruby awkwardly stated

"I spaced out for that long?" Weiss questioned herself

Weiss would usually space out for longer when she thought about Crimson. Even though she would never admit it, deep down Weiss knew she had a crush on Crimson.

"Is it a crush if she likes me too?" the heiress thought "That is the reason why she stole my first kiss"

"Ruby….can I, tell you a secret?" Weiss requested of her partner

Ruby grew ecstatic at the fact that her partner was FINALLY opening up to her.

"Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes-" Ruby finally stopped only because Weiss placed her hand over Ruby's mouth

Weiss was already getting the feeling this was a mistake.

"If I tell you this, you can NOT TELL ANYONE, ESPECIALLY YANG"

Ruby shook her head since she couldn't speak. Weiss stood up and walked with Ruby through the halls of Beacon and up to the roof where they were greeted by the icy cold winter air.

"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" Ruby said in response to the cold

"I am NOT risking your sister finding out about this" Weiss stated as an explanation for being on the roof

"Okay" Ruby excitedly answered as her icy partner was FINALLY opening up to her

Weiss thought for a minute, trying to select which details to include and which to exclude. After a minute of contemplating Weiss finally had the acceptable story.

"I want to tell you about my first true friend. Growing up I always had friends forced upon me but she was my first real friend" Weiss started

"What was her name?" Ruby asked

"Her name is Crimson Goldenrod, and she's a Faunus"

"You were friends with a Faunus before Blake?" Ruby asked

With a slight laugh Weiss responded "At first I thought she was a thief. She was just hanging from my window and scared me, I was only twelve at the time. Instead of breaking in she just drew a smiley face sticking out it's tongue on the window. I saw her tail already but I decided to open the window and talk to her, she had frostbite so I let her in and warmed her up. I threw all of my blankets on her and asked her why she was at my house if she isn't a thief. Crimson only said this and then without even asking, she stole my first kiss"

Ruby was gawking in awe at the story and asked Weiss to continue. Despite her embarrassment Weiss figured she might as well tell the rest of the story.

"Crimson told me that her mother told her if she ever saw someone that made her heart beat fast and can make her smile without even doing anything, she should just kiss that person. The dunce didn't even know that isn't something people do"

"Do you like her?" Ruby bluntly asked which made Weiss blush which opposed the white snow falling down around them

"...A-As long as I'm revealing all this to you and you PROMISE not to tell anyone then yes, I suppose I do...like...her" Weiss finally admitted

"Alright as team leader, I command we all go in town for dinner tonight to celebrate your…..coming out?" Ruby questioned

"No. Fifth year of friendship with Crimson, it was five years ago today" Weiss suggested

"Alright, let's go get Yang and Blake" Ruby said as she marched towards the door

Weiss knew Myrtenaster and had the blade at Ruby's throat

"Just remember, tell anyone ESPECIALLY Yang, and you will not live to regret it Ruby Rose" Weiss threatened

"Y-Yes Ma'am" Ruby mumbled in fear

A half hour later the entirety of team RWBY was in a four seat booth at their favorite restaurant.

"So why are we out to dinner?" Yang asked since she was just dragged away from her game without any explanation

"Do we need to have a reason?" Ruby asked her sister

Yang responded with "Yeah, when you drag me away from my game"

"You spend far too much time on that thing" Weiss added

"Like you studying" Yang returned

The tension in the air could practically be seen.

"So what are you getting Blake?" Ruby asked trying to get away from this conversation

"Grilled tuna, what about you Yang?" Blake asked catching on to Ruby's plan

"Not having any milk with that?" Yang teased which made Blake glare at her

"Weiss what are you having?" Blake asked

"I'm having a salad" Weiss answered

Dinner proceed with little Yangisms which the other three were grateful for and after paying the bill they started to walk back to Beacon. The cold winter air hit all of their skin which caused them to pick up their pace back to Beacon but Blake stopped her friends when she heard something in an upcoming alley.

"Come on hurry up dude"

"I'm trying, it's hard to get these damn boots off of her"

"Oh man this is gonna be great, she is so hot"

Even someone as innocent as Ruby could tell what was going on and team RWBY is not letting this happen. Ruby and Weiss had Professor Peach's class last so they didn't have their weapons but Blake and Yang had Goodwitch's class last so they both had Gambol Shroud and Ember Celica.

Blake and Yang turned the corner and drew their weapons.

"Step away from the girl" Blake said

The three assailants turned around to see what they saw as two girls trying to play hero. The first one approached and immediately got his arm broken by Yang.

"S-shit run" the leader ordered as the picked up their comrade and ran away

"At least they don't abandon their own" Blake thought

"You okay?" Yang called out to the girl that was getting assaulted but she was unconscious in the snow

Ruby and Weiss turned the corner to help not that the assailants were gone and a plethora of emotions occurred in Weiss's heart as she recognized the girl and ran to her side. The black hair with the yellow highlights gave it away and the red eyes just drove the point home.

"Crimson?" Weiss called out in disbelief

Crimson was unconscious in the snow with her skin pure white.

"She has frostbite" Weiss told her friends "let's get her back to Beacon"

"Go, we'll catch up" Yang said

With Weiss using her glyphs and Ruby using her speed with each of Crimson's arms around one of their shoulders, they got Crimson back to Beacon in a third of the time it would have taken a normal person.

"What do we do?" Ruby asked as she opened the door to their dorm.

"Blankets" Weiss ordered as she and Ruby got all the blankets in the room and threw them onto Crimson.

Weiss decided to actually wrap Crimson in the blankets instead of just having a pile of them on her.

"Can you draw a bath?" Weiss requested

"Sure thing" Ruby responded and went into the bathroom of the team

Weiss used her semblance to summon multiple fire glyphs to surround Crimson's body and then started talking to her old friend.

"Of course you would get frostbite again" Weiss stated

Crimson's outfit was and at the same time wasn't winter appropriate. Crimson wore a tanktop that had many holes with black jeans and shoes that were coming apart.

Weiss assumed Crimson was coming around due to her mouth opening slightly which let her breathe more. Weiss suddenly got an idea from staring at Crimson's lips that made her blush furiously. Weiss began to lean down and was about to kiss Crimson when suddenly the door opened which made her straighten up.

"Woah, someone's red" Yang teased as she and Blake entered the room

"Quiet you!" Weiss yelled "It's just from the heat, that's all"

Yang didn't buy it but thought the unconscious almost rape victim with frostbite was more important.

"I'll save this for later" Yang told herself

"You acted like you know her Weiss" Blake brought up

"Yeah, she's my friend" Weiss stated

"That's unexpected" Blake responded

Neither had to mention why it was a surprise due to the big bushy orange fox tail that Crimson had.

"It's a long story" Weiss said

"How long we talking?" Yang asked

"Around two thousand words" Weiss responded

The running water that could be heard in the other room suddenly stopped and out from the bathroom came Ruby. A moan caught the attention of everyone as Crimson started to wake up.

"Crimson" Weiss softly called which woke her up

"I have to tell you something Weiss" Crimson whispered "come here"

Weiss leaned down with her ear towards Crimson so she could hear whatever it was that Crimson had to say.

"Sorry I'm late" Crimson whispered into Weiss's ear and then planted a kiss on the heiress's cheek which made Weiss blush bright red since they were surrounded by her friends.

"That's one way to say thanks" Yang jested

Weiss wanted to get out of that situation as quick as possible so she stopped all the heat glyphs and dragged Crimson into the bathroom by her arm making the blankets fall off as the girl with frostbite couldn't move.

"Bye" Crimson said to Blake, Yang, and Ruby

"Have fun in there" Yang called out

Weiss slammed the door shut and started to yell at Crimson.

"What was that?!"

"Did I do something wrong again?" Crimson timidly asked

When Crimson is sad her tail goes between her legs and she gets this look on her face that just makes everyone want to give her a hug and tell her everything will be okay.

"She looks like a puppy that just got it's bone stolen and told it's adopted" Weiss thought

"Let's get you warmed up" Weiss said since she knew she couldn't yell at Crimson since she's only doing what she was taught

Weiss held Crimson's arms over her head so she could take off her shirt. Weiss wanted to bang her head into the wall over and over at how unfair life is. Weiss is still flat as a board and Crimson is huge.

"HOW IS THIS FAIR?!" Weiss yelled in her head

"Are you okay?" Crimson asked with genuine concern

"I'm fine!" Weiss snapped which made Crimson cower a little "I'm sorry" Weiss immediately apologized

"I'm use to it" Crimson reassured and Weiss didn't like that her friend is use to getting yelled at

The more clothes Weiss took off, the more mad she got. Not at Crimson but at whoever decides what curves girls get and whoever put these scars on Crimson, mostly the second one.

Once Crimson was naked and helped into the bath since she still couldn't move, the fox Faunus had a request.

"Hey Weiss?" Crimson called over to her friend

"Yes?" Weiss responded

"Can you take out my contacts, I can't risk them getting wet"

"Alright, how do I take out contacts?" Weiss asked

"Touch the lower edge of the lens with your index finger then slide the contact lens down to the white part of the eye. Then use your thumb and index finger, squeeze the lens gently to remove it" Crimson explained

Weiss was nervous since she had never done this before but did it without poking Crimson in the eyes.

"Thanks, the container is in my jeans" Crimson said

Weiss put away the contact lens before sitting by the fox Faunus who's recovering from frostbite.

"Can you clean yourself this time?" Weiss asked

"Nope, S-Sorry"

Weiss sighed and threw a bathrobe over her combat skirt so it wouldn't get wet.

"Hand me the soap" Weiss requested

Crimson was lying in the snow with her right arm on her lap so it didn't have frostbite. Crimson's method for getting soap was odd to say the least. First Crimson put her hand on the bottom of the bathtub and moved it up until it reached the edge of the tub. Crimson's hand moved farther away from her until she bumped into something and grabbed it, then moved it as far as she could to the left and hit Weiss in the neck which made the soap fall into her lap.

"Are you blind?" Weiss asked angrily

"Yeah" Crimson answered with her voice saying how sorry it was for hitting her

"What?" Weiss asked in disbelief

"Didn't notice the scar? Must be the frostbite. That blade from your dad cut a little too deep into my eyes so unless I wear those dust contacts, I'm blind"

Weiss just gave Crimson a hug.

"I'm sorry" Weiss apologized

"Why are you apologizing?" Crimson asked and turned in Weiss's general direction

"If I just rushed you out a little sooner, you'd have your sight"

"I loved every second I spent with you that night. If anything I should be thanking you" Crimson responded

Weiss was absentmindedly cleaning the muck and dirt off of Crimson as she spoke.

"I never did forget about you"

"Really?" Crimson asked in shock and her tail wagging caused the water to splash a little.

"Well you did steal my first kiss" Weiss defended

"I gave you mine" Crimson returned

Weiss stopped talking for a minute as she focused to clean Crimson's more...sensitive areas without touching them while blushing from that and the fact Crimson gave Weiss her first kiss

Suddenly Crimson let out a moan and Weiss noticed the bar of soap was over Crimson's generous chest.

"Sorry!" Weiss frantically apologized

"It's okay, I mean if it's you I don't mind"

That made Weiss blush even more.

"Why is it fine if it's me?" Weiss asked as she started to wash Crimson's hair

"Because I love you"

Weiss tried to hide how hard she was blushing by drowning Crimson.

"Weiss!" Crimson tried to yell as she was pushed under the water for fifteen seconds and then allowed to breathe.

"You can't love someone you have only been around for a total of twenty hours" Weiss stated

"This is totally gonna sound creepy but I've been checking in on you for the last five years. I worried about you but I saw you were doing fine. I knew if I tried getting into the mansion again I'd die so I just hoped you got the blood message"

Just then a miracle that changed the world happened. Weiss Schnee laughed. Hearing Weiss laugh brought a big smile to Crimson's face.

"She deserves to laugh" Crimson thought

"All finished" Weiss let Crimson know

"Frostbite is gone too" Crimson informed her love

"Crimson" Weiss called out after she was dressed

"Yes?"

Weiss was blushing as she thought about how to word this.

"I...suppose that if we keep it a secret due to my family, and don't do anything too over the top, we could….um…..date" Weiss was now blushing harder than ever before even though she knew there was no chance of being rejected

"WEISS!" Crimson yelled in happiness as she lunged at Weiss with a hug but missed due to being blind and hit her head on the wall.

"Owwwwww" Crimson whinned and held her head which made Weiss giggle and plant a comforting kiss on Crimson's head

Since Weiss was now within range, Crimson hugged Weiss. By the time the two were finally done in the bathroom it was late at night but as a courtesy, the rest of RWBY was still awake.

"You two are louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud" Yang teased

"W-We didn't do anything lewd" Weiss defended

"I'm use to it. Can you take it out. I'm fine! All finished. WEISS!" the blonde quoted

"S-Shut up you deviant!" Weiss demanded while blushing

Suddenly it felt like the very essence of everything scary in the world was coming from Crimson as she casually strolled up to Yang's bed and demanded "Please stop embarrassing my girlfriend"

Yang was actually scared for a change and was hiding behind her pillow.

"I-I'm sure we can work something out scary hot girl" Yang cowered

"A-Are you two d-dating?" Blake asked with fear dripping in her voice. All the time she spent in the White Fang could not have prepared her from Crimson.

"As of two minutes ago" Crimson cheerfully replied with her aura of evil gone which made everyone let out a sigh of relief

"Crimson. You really don't get what dating in secret is do you?" Weiss asked her new and first girlfriend

Crimson fell to her knees and had an aura of depression sink in.

"I'm sorry" Crimson apologized as her tail sunk between her legs

Weiss inwardly swooned at how cute and sad it is to see Crimson sad. Weiss walked over to Crimson and scratched behind her ears which made her tail wag.

"I'll find a way to make this work, father can go to hell"

"We should probably go to bed, we have class in the morning. B-By the way, what's your name?" Ruby cowered a little due to how bipolar Crimson was.

"Oh" Crimson gasped and stood up, presenting herself to everyone "My name is Crimson Goldenrod, I'm a fox Faunus, and since it's already out there I am also Weiss's girlfriend"

"So, I'm gonna guess you don't take any goldenrods?" Yang teased which made Blake kick the bed above her and led to Yang falling on the floor

"No, Weiss has always been the one for me"

"That's so cute" the entirety of RWBY thought

"So um, where are you gonna sleep?" Ruby asked

"Oh don't worry about me" Crimson reassured as she walked over to Weiss's bed and curled up with her tail on the floor.

"Oh my god that is adorable" Weiss internally squealed

"We can't let you sleep on the floor" Blake tried to reason

"It's fine" Crimson reassured "I'm a lot more comfortable than you'd think"

"I'll allow it but if you're uncomfortable at all just let me know" Weiss told Crimson

"I will" Crimson reassured her girlfriend

While Weiss got changed into her nightgown Crimson had fallen asleep already with a big innocent smile on her face. Weiss decided to lean down and pet Crimson for a couple seconds before climbing into her own bed with her left hand hanging out the bed, on top of Crimson's head.