Day 3: Tuesday (I know the schedule is screwed, just roll with it.)

Too Shy (Coco/Velvet)

It happened again. Fox and Yatsuhashi were out in the town, so it stands to reason that they didn't know about their team mates current situation, otherwise they would be right here next to her. Coco herself didn't know anything had happened today, as she herself had been out and about talking to various professors about upcoming assignments for her team. She was a diligent leader, and she prided herself with taking care of her team in every way imaginable. So, when she returned to their home, which was one of the small apartments that upperclassmen have the option to live in, she was surprised to hear sobbing come from Velvet's room.

Coco paused in the entrance of their shared apartment, and she felt one part anger and one part concern for her friend and team mate. Setting down her bag on the kitchen table, she quickly removed her shoes before she marched down the hall and paused at the second door on the left. Scribbled adorably on a placard, complete with a little doodle of a rabbit, was Velvet's name, and behind this door was where the source of sobs came from. Coco sighed and inhaled, tapping gently on the door. "Velvet? Are you alright?"

The sobbing paused for just a moment, followed by a low sniffle. "I'm fine," she replied, her voice muffled by the door.

Coco didn't believe her for a second. She sighed again. If this has anything to do with Cardin, I swear to God I will break that man's hands this time. "I'm coming in," she said in a low whisper, just loud enough for Velvet to hear her. Opening the door, Coco stepped inside and saw the brown haired rabbit faunus sitting on her bed, her eyes red and bloodshot, streaming tears down her face. "Oh, sweetie," Coco said in a soothing voice, adopting a pet name to help Velvet feel at ease. She made her way to the girl and sat next to her on the bed before wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "What's wrong?"

Velvet looked away bashfully. "I-It's nothing," she said defensively.

Coco shook her head. "Sweetie, I know that good girls like you don't cry for no good reason. Please, I want to help. Tell me what's wrong."

"I said I'm fine."

"It's team CRDL again, isn't it?" Velvet's silence was all the answer that Coco needed. "Those bastards. They really shouldn't treat you like this, Velvet."

"I-I'm sure they have good reason to dislike a faunus like me," the rabbit eared girl stated.

"You know that's not true. No one, and I mean no one has a good reason to hate an entire race of people. That's racist, and is far too juvenile to exist in this day and age."

"B-but the White Fang and other groups are..."

"Are you a part of the White Fang?" Coco asked.

Velvet was taken aback by the question. "W-well...no, I'm not."

"Then you shouldn't have to worry about anything. That's just profiling and stereotyping when you assume that one person is just like his or her race or nationality. You are you, Velvet. You are a wonderful person, and everyone that has an ounce of intelligence can see that." Coco chuckled. "And if Cardin has proved anything, it's that he doesn't have much in the way of intelligence."

Velvet looked up and stared into her own reflection in Coco's glasses. "But, I didn't say that Cardin had anything to do with..."

"Sweetie, please, don't try to hide it. He has been more trouble for you than any other person we've ever met." She sighed. "And I've had enough out of him. I'm going to pay him a visit." She stood up and started to make her way to the door.

"W-wait!" Velvet cried out. "What are you gonna do?"

"Kick his ass," Coco said without hesitation.

"You can't do that! What if you get into trouble?"

Pausing, Coco turned to face Velvet. "He needs to be taught a lesson. How else do you think he'll ever learn to leave you alone?"

Velvet sat silently for a moment. "I don't want anyone else to get dragged into my social problems." Velvet started to toy with her hair shyly. "These are my problems, not yours."

Coco sighed once again. This girl is so stressful sometimes, she thought to herself. Not that I mind. Returning to her place on Velvet's bed, Coco nodded. "Fine, I won't beat him to a pulp. And, after I explain to Fox and Yatsuhashi what you've been doing today, I'll be sure that they also don't trouble our dear Cardin."

Velvet nodded with a slight smile. "Thank you."

"However, I do so on one condition."

The rabbit faunus returned to looking nervous. "W-what?"

Coco removed her glasses, allowing Velvet to see her rarely visible brown eyes; they shined with care, compassion, love, and a sense of dedication towards her timid team mate. "One day, you are going to need to stand up to Cardin. I don't care if all you do is tell him to bugger off, or whatever it is you say in your homeland. I just want you to stand up for yourself." Leaning forward, Coco wrapped her arms around the shorter girl and held her tightly much to Velvet's surprise. Squeezing ever so slightly more, she whispered, "You're too shy, sweetie."

Velvet nodded and returned the hug. "I'll try my best."

Parting after several minutes, Coco looked into Velvet's eyes and smiled. "Now, show me that adorable smile of yours!" Unable to resist, Velvet gave her leader a genuinely happy smile. "There's my little Bun-Bun!" She gave Velvet a quick peck of a kiss on the cheek before she leapt up and spun happily before making her way to the door.

Velvet, still smiling, scoffed at her leader. "Can we please stop with the cutesy nicknames?"

"Not on your cute little life, Honey-Bun!"

The next day, Velvet found herself trapped outside of Oobleck's classroom. She was forced to repeat the first year class because, out of all the subjects in her curriculum, she was surprisingly mediocre at History. Last year this wasn't that much of a problem, but now that she was repeating the course, she was stuck in the same class with Cardin Winchester, who now had her cowering up against the wall after class. "Where do you think you're going, freak?" he asked her.

Velvet shivered with terror, unable to find a way out of the situation. "Please," she said meekly. "Stop."

He and his team all laughed. "Look at that," Cardin said. "She still thinks she's people!"

Velvet flinched at the insult. Stand up for yourself, Coco had said. Steeling herself as best as she could, she turned to face Cardin and gave him her best stern look. "Leave me a-alone," she said weakly.

"Oh, are we back talking now?"

Putting more iron into her voice, she repeated, "Leave me alone."

"You hear that? She's trying to be scary!"

Anger swelled up within her. For once in her life, it was a true, unfiltered anger. Losing her temper for the briefest of moments, she yelled, "I said leave me alone! Bugger off you impudent twit!"

Cardin flinched in surprise before he himself became angry. "Listen here, you, I'm not gonna ta..."

"Velvet!" came the voice of Coco. Sliding her weaponized handbag across the floor, she gave her rabbit eared friend a wink. "You can borrow my bag if you want."

Velvet picket it up as it reached her feet, and without any thought what so ever, she swung upward with it...

Clipping Cardin right in the groin. His voice went a couple of octaves higher as he yelped in pain before collapsing to the ground, holding his manhood in his hands in a poor attempt to sooth the pain. "Now, bugger off!" Velvet repeated before she moved to meet up with Coco.

She returned the bag to her team mate and kept walking past her. Coco, resisting every urge in her body to laugh as hard as she could, simply lower her glasses slightly and gave the rest of team CRDL a universal hand sign; I'm watching you. Following after Velvet, she clapped a hand on the shorter girl's back. "See, it's not that hard to do is it?"

Velvet, having calmed down, looked nervously at Coco. "You don't think I hurt him too bad, do you? I hope I didn't hurt him too bad."

Coco laughed. "I will never understand that brain of yours, Bun-Bun. But, if it makes you feel any better, I think he's learned a valuable lesson today." She shook her head silently, though, thinking, Such a sweet girl; concerning herself with the wellbeing of the man who torments her. Give her a serial killer as a prisoner and she'll see to it that he'll be taken care of.

Velvet truly was, even in anger, the nicest girl around.

Song: Too Shy-Kajagoogoo

Author's Notes

I'm so sorry that this short, short tidbit of a story is so freaking late! I did everything I could to finish this, and the other four stories of this series by last Saturday, but the weather was having NONE OF IT! My power was in a state of limbo, and because of the coldness and lack of power I even had to stay at my friend's apartment for two days. I was busy getting stuff caught up since I got home this past Monday, and I still have way too much shit to do! I will do everything in my power to finish this series of stories by the end of this week...but we have more snow coming tonight and I am praying that my power doesn't go out again. Please, God, let me finish these freaking stories!

Still writing...well...EVERYTHING. I feel like I've bitten off more than I can chew. I got this, Witch Hunter Ruby, Eternity Rising (which I am still writing, just very slowly,) Rebellion, possibly more A Rose by Any Other Name, as well as the possibility of another spin off from The Longest Night, in addition to my original stories (which are too great in number to truly explain) that I've been working tirelessly on for the better part of 6-8 years...what have I done to myself?

No rest for the wicked, I suppose. Leave a review to let me know what you think, and I'll have the "Wednesday" chapter done as soon as possible...it's already late by over a week, so what the hell, right?

Till next time!