Disclaimer: This has never been my franchise. Sorry, but no. I just borrowed it for this fanfiction.

Save the Date

By: athrunzala

Chapter 12: Afterparty

With the ceremony over, the group headed back to campus, where the re-assembled Team CFVY was keeping watch over the ballroom. They weren't allowing any students inside, as per Blake's orders. While this would have been strange during their time as students, now they were all Huntsmen and Huntresses with equal standing in their field.

Coco and Fox had since gone their separate ways, but they remembered their brief relationship at Beacon and still met up for some fun every now and again. Their choice of outfits hadn't changed either since graduation. Yatsuhashi and Velvet, on the other hand had moved into the same building, and were working out of their own office. The swordsman had changed over to wearing a brown and black garment similar to his former attire as a student at Beacon. Velvet, on the other hand, had gone over to wearing more of a business suit, a pair of glasses adorning her face now.

As the party approached, Fox and Yatsuhashi opened the doors to make it easier for them to enter, as Coco and Velvet hijacked Weiss, in order to help her change over to a slightly simpler dress for the reception. There was no way, according to the fashionista, that Weiss was going to be able to survive in the dress she was in currently. Ruby gave her wife a quick kiss before the heiress was absconded with.

Jaune and Pyrrha headed over to double check the seating at the tables, as they wanted to make sure people were seated together, followed by Yang, who decided to take a seat for a little bit, as she felt slightly dizzy. The blonde woman simply attributed it to the fact that she had only eaten breakfast that day, and had not touched any other food, mostly under penalty of death from Weiss.

There was no way anything was going to go wrong at this point, unless both teams decided to re-enact their legendary food fight that was still being talked about on campus. All the same, Nora was placed as far away from Yang as possible to prevent a repeat. They had decided to forgo the introduction of the wedding party to speed things up a little, as the ballroom would be needing to be completely cleaned up from floor to ceiling to make preparations for the next year's incoming students after this.

Weiss had managed to sneak in her own personal touches, including white flowers on the tables. As the heiress re-entered, Ruby rose and faced her, leaving the table to meet her half-way through the room. As their hands met, they looked into each other's eyes, silver and blue orbs making direct contact, thanks to Weiss' high heeled shoes.

They headed back to their seats and were almost immediately met with flatware tapping on glasses, much to Glynda's chagrin. She knew the limits of things, and she didn't want to have anything going wrong, which could force her to use her semblance. She was starting to lose it when Ozpin pushed a beverage towards her.

"Here."

"Professor Ozpin?"

"Glynda, you need to calm down and relax for today, alright? There is no need to be angry if something should break."

The Huntress downed the beverage and then noticed the after taste.

"Was this… alcoholic?"

Ozpin smiled and put his fingers together slightly. "Only a little bit."

He then leaned in towards her and whispered something that made her blush.

"But…"

"Right now, we are simply people. We are, as other jobs would be, off the clock. What do you say?"

"Well… I…" she struggled to collect her thoughts.

"Have a couple more drinks with me, then we'll discuss it again."

"As you wish, Glynda."

The two then headed over to stay by the bar that Ozpin had magically managed to procure for the event. He would never say where the alcohol had come from, and nobody would ever bother to ask. They knew that it had been his contribution to the wedding, so they left it at that.

Over at the head table, Ruby, Weiss, Jaune, and Pyrrha were accepting well wishes from their friends, co-workers, and family members. Oobleck had brought a message from Qrow and Taiyang for Ruby and Weiss, the two being unable to attend as Signal was on lockdown due to threats from the White Fang. It was who showed up after him that had them sitting slightly slack jawed.

"You… hung up on me earlier."

"Penny….?"

Weiss turned to face Ruby.

"She works for the Schnee Dust Company now. Field inspections. She can detect things that we can't."

"Oooooh. Weiss, why didn't you tell Ruby?"

The heiress chuckled, waving her hand in the air.

"I didn't think about it."

"Oh. Okay. In any case, congratulations. Be good you two!"

Penny then wandered off to sit next to her usual guardians, two soldiers from the Atlas military.

Jaune looked over at Pyrrha.

"Care to dance?"

"I would love to."

They then got up and walked away from the table to dance together. As the night went on, more and more people joined them, crowding the dance floor with people. This had been expected, so they continued dancing for several hours, With Weiss guiding Ruby through a very simple box step at one point, as the latter was adamant that she still wasn't a fancy-schmancy-dancy type of person.

Over at the bar, Ozpin had disappeared, he and Glynda heading off towards the teachers' lodgings, where they would end up spending the rest of the night together. Russel was, at this point, passed out in the corner, an insane amount of alcoholic beverages scattered on the floor around him, while Violetto stood guard and tried to clean them all up. Nero and Lilly were standing off to one side, talking.

"You have to move on."

"I know that," the swordsman said, looking over at his partner. "It will happen when I'm good and ready, alright?"

"I know. But you've been really… mopey."

"I know. Sorry."

"Don't apologize to me."

"But you have stood by me through the whole incident. I don't want things to be… you know. Weird."

"Nero, if something is normal with you, that is weird."

She then laughed and walked off towards the bar. She would be joined by her partner, and the two would spend the rest of the time talking about things that had gone down.

As things started to wind down, Blake and Sun made a small motion with their heads, signaling the two newly-wed couples that there was a place where they could calm down a little.

Nodding gratefully, Jaune and Pyrrha led the way, followed closely by Ruby and Weiss. As they headed up the stairs, they ended up in a location that Jaune and Pyrrha remembered from their time as students. It was the very balcony where Pyrrha had first made it blatantly obvious that she wanted to be with Jaune. Weiss and Ruby turned around and headed off in the direction of the exit.

Before they could get far, they were stopped by Jaune and Pyrrha.

"Jaune?"

"Please, Ruby. Just stay up here. Both of you. It's a beautiful view."

"Are you sure," Weiss questioned.

"Absolutely," Pyrrha responded.

The two couples stood, looking out over the balcony railing, their faces lit by the moonlight. It was then that Nora, who had been behind the separation of the couples shoved a violin into Ren's hands.

"Nora, what am I supposed to do with this?"

"Play that one song."

"Nora…."

"Trust me, Ren. They'll like it."

The martial artist, now being forced into the role of musician, began playing, which startled the two couples momentarily. As they all looked over, Nora gave them all a thumbs up and pointed back at Ren. Taking it as a sign, they moved closer and began to dance on the balcony.

"Jaune?"

"Yes, Pyrrha?'

"I'm glad I met you."

"Me too. Pyrrha?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you for saying yes."

The red-head placed her head on her husband's shoulder before responding.

"I wouldn't change it for the world."

Weiss and Ruby were more-or-less rocking back and forth, as opposed to Jaune and Pyrrha who were slow dancing.

"Weiss?"

"Yeah?"

"Remember when we first met?"

"Yes, Ruby. I do. And you're still a dunce."

"I know. But I'm your dunce."

SAVE THE DATE…. END

A.n./ - Yes I ended it on a balcony. If Rooster Teeth is allowed to make references, then so am I. mwahahaha! Normally, I'd leave it up to you to figure out, but I'll just say it: Final Fantasy VIII. I liked the ending of the game, so I wanted to write something as a reference to it at some point. I regret nothing.

And it is now that I will say it: I am taking a break to work on some things for an epilogue for this. Bonus Chapter! Yay for you, kinda odd for me. I meant to end it here originally, but I was convinced to write one last foray into this story. I should end it on a good note anyway. The epilogue is completely optional reading, so if you don't like that kind of thing, you don't need to read it.

Thank you to all of you who have read all 45 chapters of this storyline that I conceived while half asleep.

A big thank you to the friends who stuck with me through this and caught some things that had been missed before, as well as helping me design the dresses for Weiss and Pyrrha.