Weiss steeled her courage as she stood in front of the library. "Alright, you can do this. Just go in, find the girl you screamed at for being a caring, sensitive person, and tell them exactly how you feel, and hope that she feels the same as you do. No big deal." Despite all her preparations, Weiss still found herself unable to open the library door. "Damn it girl, you are a Schnee! You will be responsible for the biggest dust company on the planet. Now put on your big girl panties, and get in there!" With one last mental kick in the rear, Weiss finally opened the door, and stepped inside. "Alright, now for the hard part." Where would Ruby hide? Weiss decided to enlist the aid of a librarian.
"Excuse me miss, I'm trying to find someone. You wouldn't happen to have seen a girl in a red cape pass this way, would you?" Weiss asked the librarian.
The bookish woman turned to face Weiss, her features set in stone. "As a matter of fact, Ruby did come through here, and she left very clear instructions that we were not to aid you in finding her. I believe her words were "If that white haired meany comes looking for me, tell her not to bother."
"Oh, you dolt!" Weiss muttered under her breath, holding her head in one hand. "Miss, I need to find Ruby, I need to make things right. I have to apologize to her, and I have something important to tell her."
The librarians stone gaze was cracked by a small smile. "Ruby specifically said not to help you, so my hands are bound." Weiss's face fell and she turned away. As the alabaster heiress was walking to the door, the librarian called out "I would, however, recommend you brush up on your mathematics before you go!"
Weiss stopped to think about the curious statement, turning to frame the librarian with piercing eyes, but the woman had returned to her many duties. "What does she mean, 'Brush up on my mathematics'? My math is perfectly fi- Oh, very clever Ruby." Weiss set out towards the math section, going over her speech in her head in an attempt to distract herself.
It was in the middle of this reverie that she walked into someone, knocking the both of them over. "Watch where you are- Oh, Ruby! I was looking for you!" Weiss called. Ruby sat up, and promptly ran in the opposite direction, straight into a glyph." Ruby Rose, I have spent the better part of my morning being worried sick about you, and there is a lot we have to discuss! I will not let you disappear on me again!"
Ruby stood up, hurt and anger clear to see in her eyes. "Don't bother Weiss, I understand. I can't lead the team, I'm a failure as a huntress, and I'm not good enough to be your friend! I get it, okay? You're the Amazing Weiss Schnee, and I'm… I'm just nobody. You clearly should have been the team leader. You are so much more organized and efficient, and I just run really fast and get in the way and eat too many cookies and I'm really immature and I have a problem paying attention at the right moments and-" Ruby was cut off by a resounding crack and the sharp stinging that followed.
"Ruby Rose. You are an insufferable, childish, immature, hyperactive, impulsive, overreacting, obnoxious dolt! But beyond that, you are the most courageous, level headed, compassionate, sensitive, brave, honest, loyal, and quite frankly amazing woman I have ever met. I am lucky to have you as my team leader, and even luckier that you consider me to be a friend after all of the horrible things I have said and done, especially in light of the past week. You are simply beyond description, as no mere words do you any form of justice. What I am trying to say Ruby, is that since we first met I have grown fond of you and have even come to have feelings for you. Now I have spent all morning and the better part of my afternoon tracking you down to your excellent hiding spot to ask you one question."
Weiss exhaled, trying to calm herself before asking one of the most important questions she would ask.
"Ruby, the feelings I spoke of are not one of friendship, they are something more."
Weiss had dropped to both knees and held on to one of ruby's hands. "Will you, Ruby Rose, be my girlfriend?"
Needless to say, Ruby was stunned. "Weiss, I- I- Um… I..." Weiss looked up at ruby, hope filling her eyes. "I- I- I don't know!" Ruby quietly said. "I- uh… um… English, why?" Weiss sat back, sorrow replacing the hope that had been there.
"It's okay Ruby, I had figured I hurt you too much for this to work, but I had to tell you sometime, right?" Weiss stood on her toes and pressed her lips to Ruby's forehead before running away, wiping tears from her eyes as she did so.
Ruby stood still, her mind frozen at what just happened. "Did- did Weiss just ask me to be her girlfriend? I'm not dreaming am I? If I am dreaming, this is the part where yang rides in on a unicorn with ice cream, isn't it?" After several seconds of no Yang, no unicorn, and no ice cream, Ruby realized that Weiss had, indeed, asked her to be her girlfriend. "Oh god, what have I done? I didn't answer Weiss, and now she thinks I hate her, and I have to go fix this!" There was a flurry of petals where Ruby used to stand.
If Weiss had been running through the halls, she was in a full on sprint back to the dorm rooms. "Stupid, Stupid! You knew she wouldn't like you back, yet you still spoke up! Why would you do that?" Weiss berated herself as she ran. As she entered the room, Weiss looked around to find something to barricade the door. The broken hearted heiress propped a bookcase up against the door and, satisfied that it would hold, crawled into a corner and cried.
Ruby was blasting around Beacon, frantically calling out for the alabaster figure. "Weiss, Weiss! Where are you?" Ruby's mind was going as fast as she was. If Weiss had thought that She had been rejected, where would she go? As Ruby sorted through the various areas she could imagine Weiss in right now, she became fixated on one in particular. "Oh, Weiss no!" Ruby exhaled as she tore off towards the roof.
"Hallway two, up the fourth flight of stairs, past team CRDL's room, through the access hall, up the stairs again." As Ruby spoke, the related areas flashed by in a blur. In moments, the crimson reaper was standing on the roof of the dorms, an area Jaune and Pyrrha frequented. As Ruby scanned the roof, she saw no sign of Weiss. Frantically dashing to the edge, Ruby sighed in relief as she failed to find Weiss ten stories below. The huntress in training sat down, leaning against the lip of the building. "Where could she be? I've looked everywhere" Ruby thought to herself. There was a moment of silence as the wind stopped whistling, and Ruby heard a curious sound from below. "Is someone there?" The scythe wielder called out, looking over the ledge again. This time she saw curtains flowing out of a window, and they looked very familiar. "Hey, those are mine!" Ruby hooked crescent rose into the lip and swung herself into the room, feeling very much like a famous explorer. Her landing was flawless, with the exception of crescent rose not fitting in the window. This caused Ruby to careen into a rolling stop, ending with her cape hiding her face. She stood up, trying to find the intruder.
Scanning the room, Ruby laid eyes upon a white ball lying in the corner. "Weiss? Is that you? Oh my God, I found you! I've been running around like crazy, because I thought about what you said earlier and I thought I was dreaming but I wasn't dreaming because Yang didn't have ice cream OR a unicorn, I was kind of disappointed with that but that's not the point, it wasn't a dream so you actually really do 'like me like me' and I never thought that it would happen, but I couldn't talk properly earlier and I was stuttering and you ran away and I didn't get to tell you how I felt Weiss, which was really weird because you were kind of mean the whole first semester, but I guess everything worked out because I kinda figured that you getting mad at me was just you trying to make me a better leader and I pushed myself really hard to try and be the best I could, so I could make you really proud and you wouldn't see me as just a little brat who snuck in anymore. But I really do like you as well!" Ruby finally ran out of steam, and sat down next to the ball of white. "Weiss? Are you going to say something?"
The Heiress uncurled herself and stared at Ruby, her ice blue eyes bloodshot and puffy from crying. "Ruby… you like me as well?"
"Well, yeah. You're this amazing, graceful-" ruby was abruptly cut off by Weiss, who had tackled her with a hug.
"You mean to tell me that I've been crying since the library for no reason whatsoever? You insufferable dolt!" Weiss pounded on ruby's shoulder with a loose fist as she sniffled into the other. "Now I've given my confession, I'm a snot nosed wreck, and I need to tidy myself up before we go eat." Standing up, Weiss marched into the bathroom. Pausing at the doorway, Weiss turned to the stunned huntress. "Ruby?"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you."
After Weiss had straightened herself out and mitigated the damage to her appearance, the two set out towards the cafeteria. Weiss was shocked when Ruby grabbed her hand, but rather than freaking out about the consequences, Weiss just squeezed Ruby's hand in appreciation. The newly formed couple approached the cafeteria, Weiss getting more and more anxious. Ruby could feel the tension radiating off of Weiss, and decided to speak up about it. "Weiss, what's wrong?"
Weiss started up. "It's just that- Its- I've never had anyone before. What if they stare when we go inside?"
Ruby turned to her nervous heiress and grasped her other hand. "MY heiress. Thats something that will take some getting used to." She thought to herself with a giggle, before looking Weiss in the eye. "Weiss, let them stare, let them gawk. All that matters is that I have you, and you have me. The rest of the world should be so lucky as us." Ruby finished with a smile. "So don't worry, we'll go in there with our heads held high, and deal with whatever comes our way."
"When did you have time to come up with those ridiculously romantic lines, dolt? It sounds like you planned this out beforehand."
Ruby pointedly looked anywhere but at Weiss and uttered a drawn out "Nooo… maybe."
The achromatic heiress simply pulled Ruby into a hug. "You dunce. Alright, let's go in."
Taking her girlfriend by the hand, Ruby led the two into the cafeteria. As the two had expected, heads turned at the two holding hands. The cafeteria went absolutely silent for a second, the quiet seemed deafening. Almost as quickly as it had stopped, the flow of conversations throughout resumed, as the two let out a sigh of relief simultaneously. "And now the fun part" Ruby spoke up.
"And what part is that?"
"The one where we tell Yang."
Weiss shrunk a little. "Right… I don't think we'll have to." Lifting a finger, Weiss pointed out beacons blonde brawler headed right towards them, a shark like grin on her face.
"Uh oh." Within moments, the exuberant blonde was upon them.
"So that's what this whole thing was about, huh?" Yang questioned the two, focusing on Weiss.
"Um.. What whole thing?"
Yang's eyes narrowed, and the temperature rose significantly. "Don't play stupid, Schnee. Ruby seems to have forgiven you for the last few weeks, but I haven't. Hurt her, and I will end you. Now, that being said, Come here!" Yang proceeded to bear hug the two, only putting them down after Ruby complained of not being able to breathe. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I was in the middle of a conversation with Flint that I don't know how to handle. Come on, let's go." Ruby and Weiss were summarily pushed towards the table with the Outlander in question.
I looked up from my meal, noting that Yang had the two missing teammates with her. "So, you decided to spare her, I see." Nodding my head at the heiress. Yang just beamed.
"I can't help it if they're so adorable! Besides, hitting Weiss would just make ruby mad at me, much as I want to some days." Yang sat down and began to devour her food.
Weiss looked over. "Really, you brute? If you don't slow down you're going to choke, and where do you think that leaves Flint?" There was a distinctive 'hork' that escaped Yang as she actually inhaled some of her food. The blonde began to pound on her chest until she coughed up the offending material.
Blake sighed. "I thought I might get to actually read my book. Well, you tried Weiss." With that, she left the table. I was very confused at Weiss's comment however.
"Yeah, I'd be upset if Yang choked to death on toast, but what do you mean 'where would that leave me'?" I said, narrowing my eyes.
"Well, the two of you are dating, I kind of figured you would be more than a little upset at your girlfriend dying." I had stopped listening after 'dating'.
"Wait, what?" I spoke up.
Weiss laughed at me. "We all saw what happened in that clearing, it was plain to see you couldn't get enough of each other!"
I was dumbstruck. What had I done in that clearing that would leave such an impression? "Weiss… I don't remember much of the clearing. What happened?" My tone made it pretty clear not answering was not an option.
"What, you don't remember gazing into each others eyes like two lovestruck buffoons? Wow, Yang, I figured you would have left more of an impression." The taunt, while aimed at Yang, had an adverse reaction.
Before yang had a chance to protest, I stood up, towering over the Ice Queen. "Weiss, I was given a concussion by an Ursa major. The fact of what happened, or my memory of it, is not for you to mock, and quite frankly, it disappoints me that you would stoop to such levels." I turned to Yang, who had a look of appreciation on her face until I spoke up again. "That's seriously what you were hiding from me?" Before I was able to receive my response, I glanced at the clock, seeing that I had enough time to finish my project, if I left right now. "Crap, I gotta run. See you later!" Gathering my things, I stepped out of the cafeteria and disappeared through the doors.
Sitting at the table still, Yang groaned and began banging her head against the table. Weiss looked over at the depressed blonde, obviously annoyed. "Would you quit doing that! I am trying to eat here!"
Yang's voice was muffled through her voluminous layers of hair. "You saw how well that went." With that, she resumed banging her head against the table.
Weiss looked at Ruby and gave an exasperated sigh. "She's your sister, you do something about her."
Ruby scooted out from under Weiss and sat down beside Yang, the dull thud of her ramming her cranium into the table repeating endlessly. "Yang, why not go talk to Flint? I'm sure he'll be willing to talk with you, he obviously cares for you." Yang perked up immediately at the statement.
"You really think so?"
"Positive."
"I'm gonna go find him, then."
It was only when I became conscious of a consistent ringing that I realized I had indeed found the forge. I stepped in and was assaulted by waves of rolling heat. Walking forwards despite the increasing temperature, I quickly found an apron and welding mask. Donning the safety gear, I began collecting materials as a weapon design began to formulate in my mind.
My collection of materials was disturbed by a mammoth hand clamping down on my shoulder. "And just what are you planning on building with all that?" The smith gestured to my armful of magnets, tungsten, and surprisingly dust.
"I'm going to create my weapon. Actually, since you are here, think I could pick your brain before I start?"
The smith laughed. "Why of course, my boy! That is what I'm here for, after all!"
I smiled, and began to bombard the man with several questions, all of which were answered with ease.
I wiped the sweat off my brow before I picked up the crucible containing the most important part. I grimaced as I tipped the contents into the mold that would create the body of my weapon. Satisfaction rolled through me as the mixture of metal and dust settled into the mold perfectly, beginning the tempering process.
"Well, I'd say she's finished my boy. Now all that's left is to give her a name." The smith clapped me on the back as I wielded my brand new weapon. The item in question was an axe infused with dust to enhance the channeling of my aura and covered with grooves and holes that would cause it to whistle when swung, and it would shift into a clip-fed railgun when the catch in the middle was triggered, right above the handle.
Names from my world flew through my mind,but I settled on one that stood out above all.
"Baen Sidhe will be your name, for your cry summons death." Now all that was left was to learn how to use it. I began walking back, smiling the whole way. I had succeeded in making myself a weapon, and a good one at that. Marvelling at the heft the weapon commanded, I gave her a few experimental swings, falling into a comfortable rhythm as I whirled my tool of destruction in devastating arcs. Satisfied, I began my travel to my dorm, Only to be stopped by a cannonball of blonde hair and energy.
"Hey, there you are! I've been looking for you, you disappeared after lunch and you wouldn't answer your scroll! Where were you? And what is that?" Questions and worry tumbled out of Yangs mouth faster than I could comprehend, leaving me dazed by the rapid fire queries. Taking a moment to sort everything out, I faced Yang.
"I'm sorry for disappearing, I just had to make this" Gesturing at my new weapon "And my spare block was running out. I didn't answer my scroll because I neglected to charge it, and this is Baen Sidhe, my war axe. Now what has you searching for yours truly?" I rattled off my answers as quickly as Yang had requested them, cutting through to the core of the conversation.
Yang perked up, remembering something important evidently. "Team RWBY and JNPR are doing a thing tonight, and you're invited!" The energetic blondes' voice was filled with excitement and she practically shook as she announced this 'thing' that was happening. A smirk stretched across my face at the sight. I could see where ruby got her enthusiasm from.
"Alright, I'll see you tonight then?" I asked.
"It's a date!" Yang said as she tore off, raving about plans and decorations. I just stood there, most definitely over-analyzing her parting words.
"It's a date!" She couldn't mean like an actual date date, right? No way that was a thing, it could never happen. But Yang's words flew around my cranium on a broken record, repeating herself again and again, leaving a goofy smile on my face.