Ruby POV
I woke up on Saturday morning, feeling excited. For a long, slow second I didn't know why, then I remembered that I was going to a concert with Weiss Schnee. Technically, it won't be a date, since Yang, Cali, and Anna will be there. That was a bit of a wet blanket over things, but I shook off my disappointment. Just spending time with her is good.
I was certain that I was falling in love with Weiss. I was having dreams about her, thinking of her suddenly during class, missing her when we were apart, and craving her touch. I kept thinking about those pretty pink lips that looked oh-so soft to the touch, and about those ice blue eyes that laid bare my soul.
I was absolutely sure that she knew I was in love with her, but I didn't think she felt the same. She's probably got dozens of guys going to her dad for permission to marry her. She'd probably think I was disgusting if I told her that I loved her. Coming from a rich family like that, they probably expect her to marry some super rich guy and keep the family wealth going. What chance do I have?
I slapped my cheeks with my palms and shook my head vigorously.
"No. Never give in." I scolded myself. Then I slid off my bed, dropping to the floor. I glanced back to see if I'd disturbed Weiss only to find that she was already wide awake, sitting cross-legged on her bed, her nightgown ridden up just enough for me to catch a glimpse of snow white panties, and polishing Myrtenaster with a deep blue cloth. I blushed and turned away, then snuck a couple more peeks.
"Good Morning, Ruby." She said distractedly, blowing strands of white out of her face.
"Morning Weiss." I said as cheerfully as I could muster after my earlier depressing thoughts. I checked to see if Yang and Blake were awake, finding Blake gone, and Yang still snoring lightly.
I stripped down to my panties and bra, showered, and pulled out my usual outfit. But as I went to slide it on, Yang bolted upright and pointed at me, glaring.
"Put it down, Ruby." I blinked.
"What?" She vaulted off her bunk and landed on the wood with a slap of bare feet. She stalked over to me and ripped the combat skirt out of my hands.
"No. You're going to a friggin concert. Wear something normal, please." I pouted.
"Can I at least wear my-"
"No. The cloak stays too." I started to protest, but Yang held up a hand. "I don't want to hear it. Now go pick out regular clothes, or I'll do it for you." Knowing Yang like I do, and her loose definition of 'appropriate', I cut my losses and decided to go pick out my clothes.
I ended up wearing red skinny jeans, a black T-shirt I'd had custom made with my rose crest in red on the front and a red silhouette of Crescent Rose on the back, with the boots I always wear.
Yang gave me a once over, then nodded.
"I approve. Weiss, what do you think?" She looked up, slightly annoyed at the interruption.
"Of wha. . ." She trailed off as she saw me. I blushed and tried unsuccessfully to stop fidgeting. "It's. . .It's okay, I guess." My heart sank a bit, but I tried not to show it. Yang nudged me.
"Don't mind her, it looks good." I smiled gratefully and Yang's scroll beeped.
"Thanks Yang." She smiled back and pulled out her scroll and read the mail. She closed it and flashed me a thumbs up.
"Looks like Anna and Cali are on their way." Weiss's head snapped up, and she seemed to realize for the first time that she was still wearing her nightgown, and it wasn't really covering much.
She jumped off the bed and straightened it, cursing.
"Why didn't you tell me?" I smiled innocently.
"Tell you what?" Scowled at me, but it wasn't very convincing, seeing as her face was beet red. She went to her suitcases and pulled out her usual outfit before hurrying to the bathroom to shower and dress.
Yang stretched.
"Guess it's my turn to get dressed." She went and picked out a gold dress shirt, and black pants (A/N: Sound familiar? ;3) "Done~!" She sang. I sighed.
"That's it?" She paused for a moment and thought about it.
"Oh, that's right!" She rummaged around for a moment, then put on her sunglasses. "Now I'm done!" No sooner did the words left her mouth, than a knock sounded on the door.
"Never a dull moment, eh Ruby?" Yang commented with a wink as she opened the door.
Cali and Anna tumbled into the room and Anna gestured frantically, out of breath.
"Door," She wheezed. "Close. . .It!" Yang closed the door and took Cali's hand, helping her to her feet. Anna held up her hand, and Yang stared at it for a moment, the slapped her a high five. "Gee thanks." Anna muttered, dropping her hand and not bothering to get up.
"You guys are early." I observed. Anna glared up at me, still breathing heavily.
"Good to see you too." Cali gingerly moved Myrtenaster and sat on Weiss's bed.
"We're hiding from Blaine." Does she have to sit on Weiss's bed? I thought with surprising vehemence. I didn't voice this question, instead asking another.
"Why are you hiding from Blaine?" Anna sat up.
"Last night she said she wants to go with us." I winced.
"Yikes." Anna nodded glumly.
"I'd rather choke on my own tongue than go anywhere with that witch. In fact, I've been practicing." She started making gagging noises and rolling around on the floor, much to Cali's amusement. Yang shook her head and leaned against the wall, crossing her arms.
"Maybe we should let her come." Cali stopped giggling. Anna stopped rolling. They both looked at her.
"Uh-uh." They said flatly, at the same time. "She's an awful bitch and I don't want her to ruin our fun." Anna continued. Yang shrugged.
"Maybe she's an okay person, and she was just upset you hadn't answered her mail." Anna shook her head.
"Look. I'm sure here on team RWBY you guys are committed to seeing the best in people, but there is no best in Blaine. She's evil." Yang shrugged.
"Alright, don't Blaine me when your team falls apart." Anna and I grimaced at the bad pun, but Cali was staring at her shoes, looking extremely uncomfortable. After a moment of awkward silence, Anna's scroll went off. She pulled it out and looked at it, then laughed and shook her head. Cali stared at her.
"What is it?" Anna tried speaking, but couldn't. Finally, she just held it up for her to take. Cali took it, read whatever was on it, then sputtered and laughed, dropping the scroll and clutching her belly. Yang walked over and picked it up, looking at it.
Her eyes widened, then she smiled a bit and shook her head, passing it to me. It was a message.
From: Akari Rush
Subject: WTF
So, it turns out that Blaine got in trouble for jerking some poor guy off in a hall. =_= And then she threatened a teacher with his job when he caught her. That girl needs serious help. Oh, and we won't be able to make it. Dante's refusing to leave the room, and I can't be sure she won't mess with my stuff while we're gone. Sorry.
I stared at the message, shaking my head. Anna stopped laughing with some difficulty.
"She's such a whore." Cali said, shaking her head almost sadly. Anna nodded her agreement.
"Worst leader ever. . .of all time." She looked at me. "Ruby, whatever it is that you're doing, keep it up, because it's obviously it's better than whatever Blaine's doing." I expected Yang to chime in, but she wasn't in the room.
"Yang?" She slipped out of the bathroom and tossed a bundle of white at me. I caught it and stared at her. "What's this?" In the bathroom, the water turned off as Weiss finished her shower. Yang grinned evilly, opened the door, and backed out.
"Why don't you Schnee for yourself?" The hell? Were the only two words that came to me in response to Yang's strange 'gift'. Then she was gone. I stared after her for a moment, then unfolded the bundle and held it up. It was Weiss's combat skirt. Oh crap.
The bathroom door burst open and Weiss stomped out.
"Alright, who took my-" She saw me, holding it, and she blushed. "RUBY!" I flinched.
"It wasn't. . .I didn't. . .It was Yang!" She folded her arms, still blushing.
"Yang's not even here!" I gestured to Cali and Anna.
"She was! Ask them!" Weiss turned around, but Cali and Anna were smiling, obviously enjoying my predicament. They shrugged together and shook their heads.
"I didn't seen anything." Anna said, smirking.
"You really shouldn't lie, Ruby." Cali affirmed with a straight face.
"You guys suck." I whined, preparing to face the wrath of Weiss Schnee.
Yang POV
There's nothing better than committing the perfect crime. I strolled down the hallway, unsure where I was going, but sure that I couldn't go to the room for a while now. I'd have to get Weiss to wear something other than her 'combat skirt' as she and Ruby call them. I snorted to myself.
"A dress is a dress, by any name." I caught a flash of shadow out of the corner of my eye, but I kept walking, not breaking my stride. I waited for it to happen again. It did. I spun and pounced, tackling my stalker to the ground.
They rolled with the impact, getting their feet between us and flipping me off of them. I twisted my body and landed in a crouch, scanning the hallway. Nothing. I spun in a slow 360 degree turn, scouring the hallway for my mysterious assailant. Still nothing.
Then something in the air shifted. A dark shape came hurtling at me out of the shadows of a nearby doorway. I dropped low and swept my leg out, tripping my opponent and readying myself to attack again. The person crashed heavily into the opposite wall of the hallway and slid down onto their face.
"Ow." She mumbled, pushing herself upright and rubbing her nose. "You're good. You actually got the upper hand and turned the tables on us. Without drawing your weapon. This'll be harder than we anticipated." I stayed in my stance, ready for anything she could possibly throw at me.
She got to her feet and turned to face me. I stared at her, not understanding what I was seeing. She was wearing what looked like a full face mask, carved with red runes and symbols. Her black hair was tied up in a loose, sloppy bun, and she wore a full body suit that seemed to be made of figure hugging black. . .spandex?
"Who the hell are you?" I demanded. She tutted and wagged a finger at me, chuckling.
"Kukuku~, all in good time, my dear, but we'll have time to play later. Right now we have things we need to do first." Then she backed into the shadows with a jaunty bow and disappeared.
I waited for a full five minutes before I was sure I could relax again, and even then I was on guard against another attack. I have to tell Ruby about this.
I threw open the room door and stepped in, scanning the hallway again to make sure she hadn't followed me back. I slipped into the room and closed the door, placing my back against it and sliding down.
I surveyed the room and blinked. Cali was still sitting on Weiss's bed, Anna was in the middle of the room, and Ruby and Weiss were laying on Blake's bed. Wait. . . Weiss was kissing Ruby! Oh. Anna was standing a few feet away, her jaw slack and her arms extended in a push.
"I leave for two minutes. . ." I trailed off, shaking my head. Weiss broke contact with Ruby and stared down at her, cheeks flushed scarlet.
"I. . .I. . ." She got up and slowly backed away, as if afraid of Ruby. Ruby was still lying on the bed, covering her face with her hands. Anna had the look of someone who had just activated the timer on a bomb that no one would be able to defuse. Which is exactly what she had done. "Ruby, I didn't mean. . ."
"Didn't mean what, Weiss?" Her voice was muffled by her hands, but the anguish in her tone was audible. "Didn't mean to stick your tongue in my mouth? Didn't mean to take your sweet time getting off me? Didn't mean to make me feel. . ." Her voice cracked and I grabbed Anna and Cali, dragging them out into the hallway and over to team JNPR's room.
"This is something they need to work out of themselves." I said, despite wanting to stay myself.
3rd Person POV
Ruby rolled completely onto the bed and turned her back on Weiss. Weiss was staring at her, not even noticing that the other girls had disappeared. The ice encasing her heart began to melt, slowly revealing her true feelings.
"Make you. . .feel?" She spoke softly, tentatively. "Make you feel what?" Ruby curled in on herself.
"Nothing. Forget I said anything." Weiss took a step toward her.
"I can't do that. I need to know. What were you going to say?" She sounded so desperate that Ruby glanced back at her over her shoulder. She hesitated.
"Happy." She spat, sounding anything but. "You made me feel happy. . .and special. Pretty. But that's not true. And you didn't even mean anything by it at all, did you? It was accidental. You felt nothing." Weiss stared at her leader, for once truly speechless.
"That. . .that's not true! You-" She stared at the ground. "You are pretty. Not only that, you're beautiful. I mean, sometimes I just can't stop staring." Ruby rolled over and looked up at her, unshed tears glistening in her eyes.
"Don't." She whispered. "Don't say things like that unless you mean them." Weiss knelt next to her and took her hand.
"Ruby. I mean it. You're the most amazing girl I've ever met." Ruby's face was still guarded, suspicious. Weiss placed a hand on her cheek. "Please. Don't look at me with those eyes." She pleaded. "I can't stand to see you upset. It makes my heart ache. I hate that I'm always the one to do that to you, it kills me inside. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry for the cold things I say, the way I act sometimes, I don't really mean it. I was always lonely before I met you, so I don't really have much experience with people, I-I've never really known what it's like to be in. . .in love."
All these words gushed from her mouth and washed over the girl on the bed. Ruby stared up at her teammate, unsure whether she was telling the truth or not. What a stupid question. She thought. The words were too raw, too unfiltered and fresh to be fake.
"Weiss. . .I-I thought you h-hated me." Weiss leaned down and captured the younger girl's lips and a single lyric from a song floated through her mind, twisting and undulating, unravelling her self-control.
I never thought I'd, be in love like this.
She flipped Ruby onto her back and straddled her, her mouth moving on Ruby's insistently and her wet bags caressing the other girl's face. Ruby's fingers grasped at the towel and she moaned. Weiss pulled back and whispered in her ear.
"I could never hate you, Ruby Rose. You mean too much to me." She slipped a hand under her shirt, trailing her fingertips along the smooth skin, tight over her taut abdominal muscles. Ruby gasped.
"Weiss. I-I love you." Weiss froze, could she do it? She tried to say the words, but they seemed stuck in her throat. She could feel the ice creeping back over her heart.
"Ruby, I-I. . .I'm sorry." No! She screamed in her head. I love you! I love you! Dammit, why won't my mouth work! Ruby's fingers slipped from the towel and she turned her head away.
"I. ..I understand. I'm sorry too." Don't apologize! No! Ruby, I'm the one who should be sorry! She wailed in her head, but the ice had swallowed her. The Bitch Princess was back, and she wasn't saying shit. She sat up and pulled her hand from under Ruby's shirt.
Ruby sat up also, and shoved Weiss off of her. The older girl toppled backwards onto the floor and landed with a grunt. "Sorry I trusted you." She got up and dragged the back of her hand across her eyes before fixing her shirt and marching to the door.
"Ruby. . ."
Weiss wanted to call after her, tell her she was sorry, but she couldn't move or force any words past her frozen lips. Why? She thought numbly, feeling the cold creeping out from her heart to envelop her body and mind. She pounded her fist on the hardwood floor. Dammit! Why can't I get close to anyone?
Ruby POV
I knocked on JNPR's door and Nora opened it, beaming at me.
"Hey Ruby!" I forced a cheerful smile.
"Hey Nora, is Yang here?" She nodded and ushered me in, herding me over to where everyone was sitting in a circle. Yang smiled up at me, but not for long. Everyone was staring up at me strangely, and Pyrrha was asking me if I felt okay. I was staring back at them, bewildered, until I realized I was crying again.
"Ruby. . ." Yang stood and hugged me. "What's wrong?" I shook my head, hugging her back tightly. She stroked my hair and I felt my sobs start to die down. Eventually, I stopped and breathed deeply through my nostrils.
"Thanks, Yang." She smiled, patting my back.
"Anything for my baby sis." I sat next to her in the circle and looked around at everyone.
"What are we doing?" Ren sighed, leaving no room for doubt as to whether or not he was a willing participant of what was going on.
"Truth or Dare." I smothered a giggle with my hand and looked around the circle.
"Really? Whose turn is it?" All heads turned to Cali. She looked around and her shoulders slumped.
"Do I have to?" Nora nodded. She stood, and began to do the chicken dance. Her face turned beet red and she squeezed her eyes shut as we all burst out laughing. She hurried through the rest of the dance and sat down quickly, turning away from the rest of the circle. Anna nudged her.
"You have to pick someone now." She glared at her.
"Your turn." Anna grinned.
"Yeah right, truth." Cali smirked maliciously and Anna's smile began to fade. "What are you-"
"Most. Embarrassing. Memory." She said, enjoying every word. Anna's eyes widened and she flushed.
"Oh you evil, evil. . .tch!" Cali smiled sweetly. "You already know my most embarrassing memory." Her smile widened and she pointed to the rest of the circle with her chin.
"They don't." The blood drained from Anna's face.
"Cali, c'mon, y-you aren't mad about the ch-chicken thing, are ya?" Cali folded her arms and raised her eyebrows.
"We don't have all day."
Ah, the cliffhanger. A writer's best friend, I'd say. It's only a matter of coming up with the right places to stop. ;3 The new RWBY episode surprised me for a few reasons:
1) Roman can fight (In hindsight, that should have been obvious, but it surprised me)
2) Sun's weapon is not just a bo staff that turns into guns, it's a badass bo staff/nunchuchs/flintlocks thing (I'm driving DJ and Feelex nuts blabbing about it.)
3) They gave Cinder a name! It's not Crimson (I sighed in relief 'cuz I didn't like that name.
Well, as Benson would say 'Get back to work or your FIRED! That's all. Blah blah blah ba-na-na okayyyy.