Weiss and friends are in the police station. They walk up to the front desk inside.
"Excuse me I would like to see the officer in charge of this place and his partner please." Weiss firmly asks the front desk officer. The officer looks at her, looks down at his computer, then looks back up and stares at her while reaching for his phone and typing 3 numbers all while still staring at her.
The officer answers into the phone, "Hello, yeah, you saw them come in? Alright I'll let her know." The officer hangs up the phone and looks at weiss and says nothing. "Uhm...hello?" Weiss says in an aggitated tone, the officer replies sarcastically, "Oh I'm sorry I didn't notice you there, how may I help you miss princess". Weiss gets aggitated and huffs before lowering her arms and taking a deep breath and saying nice and slowly and perhaps just as sarcastuc, "Excuse me sir but would be so kind as to tell me what they told you over the phone?" The officer leans back in his chair, "Ohhh I dunno, You dont seem very genuine Little princess". Weiss does a 180 and her mood flips to rising anger, "L-LITTLE PRINCESS!? LOOK BUDDY I..." The familiar Cheif Officer and his partner appear from a doorway and greet everyone, "Hello there Miss Schnee! I see you've gotten aquinted with our front desk comedian." Weiss replies, "Uhm, yeah.. whatever, (she gestures to show everyone behind her) These are all my friends, Jaune you already know but the rest are old teammates of mine and jaune's. They're here to enlist in helping with anything that needs to be done tonight. And They are also all aware of our biggest problem."
"Let us go somewhere a little more private and discuss matters further" The Cheif's partner says. The two officers lead everyone up some stairs and into a conference room and shut the door.
"Now, everyone take a seat and I'd like to begin by getting to know each of your names." the cheif officer says.
Starting from the far left side of the table is, "Hi there! I'm Yang! and this bundle of a quiet mystery next to me is Blake!", Blake answers in short "Hello".
After Blake sits Weiss and next to her Jaune, eyes float down at each person, until "NORAAAAA!...I'll make sure you neverrrr forget it!"
The officers raise an eyebrow taken off by her excessive energy. Lastly everyone looks at Ren, "Oh, My name is Ren".
The Cheif officer nods upward looking at his partner who closes the blinds in the room.
"Alright, It is a pleasure to meet you all. Sense You are friends with miss Schnee and she vouches for you, we are going to to treat you as we do her. Now onto matters at hand. Miss Schnee mentioned you all know of our biggest problem, That problem could only be our Homicide problem.." The police cheif's partner speaks up interrulting the cheif, "The One where we're so close they cant deny its a person and not freak accidents or grimm attacks!?". Weiss responds, "Yes, They all have come face to face with the killer, the one Velvet told us proof of but your officers wanted to beat her ajd not belive her. Well, Velvet saw the killer again, and all of those heree except jaune and myself witnessed them cause a murder." The cheif asks, "Can you tell us who it is or how they looked?"
Weiss responds, "Due to personal reasons, I dont think anyone can say who it is." The officer leans back and replies, "Hmmmm, I see. Well, I suppose we can trust what youre doing. Now do we have any idea who they may attack next?"
"IT could he anyone!" Yang replies.
"Does she have any sort of pattern to her kills?" Blake asks.
The cheif's partner responds, "The only pattern has been that the victams were usually alone, They were always attacked at night, and not all but most of the victams, as Miss Schnee had pointed out to us at the first scene she began helping us with in this case, The victoms all get blood stained onto their hair in streaks, and they die in what could be ritualistic or repeating former deaths."
Everyone ponders in silence for a moment until Ren speaks up, "How long has it been sense their last murder? How consistantly do they kill?".
The cheif officer looks down at some papers he spreads across the table and thinks for a moment before responding with, "...hmmmm... It appears to not have any pattern there, its just varying and random with no other consistancy".
Nora responds, "Oooo what if she's always out there at night, looking and waiting for someome to nibble onn."
"Nora, be seriou...no wait (weiss jumps up and looks at paperwork sread out) Nora might be right. She may be just scouring the city every night waiting for the next one to show up." Weiss exclaims.
"If that's the case, (looks up at the clock on the wall) It's almost completely dark outside. They could be out there right now!" The Cheif's partner says.
"Who's on patrol tonight?" Jaune asks. The officers and weiee scour through the paperwork, and Their eyes widen and they start looking panicked, "No no no nooo! There's only one person patrolling the city tonight!? Who allowed this to happen!?" The cheif yells afraid. "Who is it?" Jaune asks curious but a little worried sounding, "It's (searching, uhh (found)...Velvet".
Everyone but Jaune and Weiss jump put of their chairs as fast as they can with serious looks on their faces even Nora. "We have to find her before its too late!" Nora says almost sounding excited. The cheif and his partner get the door open and the cheif's partner runs out of the room and starts yelling at his staff demanding to know how only one patrol was allowed to pass for one night. No one else knew how. And something wasnt sitting right with the situation.
"Where was she supposed to be stationed?" Ren asks, "The cheif looks through the files and see's she was sent to a dark area of town near one of the walls that grimm have almost destroyed where ppl abandoned. But i mean if she doesjt see her she..." He tells them, shocked and worried but is interrupted by Jaune who says, "This is too perfect, it has to be a setup, We have to stop Ruby before anything happens to Velvet!". Everyone agrees and rushes out of the buidling, along the way they see emerald who stops them asking what their hurry is, they cant tell her but Yabg does ask her something, "Wait why are you here, who were you seeing?"
Emerald answers, "W-well I was seeing".. Blake answers for her,
"It was mercury wasnt it?". Emerald gets nervous and answers, "H-how'd you know?". "I see yiu come in and put of here all the time, its not hard to figure out." Blake exclaims. "Hoe can you still be nice to thqt guy!? After everything he did!? what he caused, you were part of and stopped because you saw what it had done!? How could you go back to that? Are you even living a good life right now!? How could you feel ANYTHING for a person so.." Yang asks, says, and is intereupted by Blake who touches yangs shoulder and points to weiss whos head is lowered. "Weiss are you okay? Weiss?" Yang pokes her "hellooo?". Weiss looks up and at emerald, "Can we talk Emerald? In private". Emerald nods and says yes in response. Weiss tells the others to move forward she will catch up, and "Oh, and Jaune is in charge now, lead them fast I know you can do it!", "What!? But I..Im..."Jaune replies, Weoss and emerald leave the building and go alomg the side of it to talk.
Everyone else including the cheif officer and his partner leaves the building and rush off.
"Emerald, You still have a connection with and care about him. Why? How? How do you deal with, facing him when you know what hes done and you still care for him. what do you do? How did you first face him How..." Weiss is interepted, "Whoa whoa...thats a lot of questins. Just let me tell you, It was hard to face him seeing how i wanted to change and he didnt. even when he finally hot put in jail, i just couldnt bring myself to alienate him, Hes still my partner and a good friend, No matter what hes done. I don't care what others think, I want to help him. Thats all that matters. Is there a reason youre asking Weiss?" Emerald asks. "There is...You see Ruby you remember her She...she's..."weiss cant find the words to finish her sentwnce.
Emerald speaks, "Whatever trouble Ruby is, no matter what, You should be there for her, you two always seemed you had a bond, so i think you can say and do what you want to." weiss thinks, zooming into her face the Scene fades and transitions to Ruby and Neo, who are just sneaking up behind Velvet, and it shows the group coming for them trying to hurry. Ruby and Neo draw their weapons behind velvet and...
Scene goes balck,
END CH 7
Author note; I was falling asleep while writing all of this, about 75% i was nodding between being asleep and awake back and fourth so, this probably isnt the best of all the chapters, but its leading into some heavy stuff i have planned.