Ruby
Ruby felt her heart clenching in sorrow at the thought of what she was, some crippled girl, too young and broken to be of any use to anyone, especially Weiss. If what Daniel had said was what everyone around them was thinking then she could only help but feel that she was dragging Weiss down.
"Daniel…" Weiss snarled, "I will give you a five second head start to get out of this restaurant or you will NOT like what I will do to you."
Ruby raised her head from looking at her clenched fist, in her lap. Catching a glimpse of Weiss' angrily scrunched shut eyes.
Daniel sniggered, "Miss Schnee, you wouldn't be threatening me, would you?"
"5" Weiss said, cold calm permeating through her voice.
"Going with the cliché countdown Weiss?" Daniel asked, clearly amused.
"4" Weiss continued, raising her head, eyes still closed but now more relaxed.
Ruby yanked Ruby's Stem out of his grasp, and put it out of sight, ashamed to have been the catalyst for all of this.
"3", Weiss' eyelids cracked open slightly, giving her the ability to see. Ruby could see her hand slip down to her hip.
"Enough of this act Weiss, maybe this girl is rubbing her immaturity off on you. Wouldn't that be unfortunate, to lose such a dignified member of our social group to the trash of society like this girl." Daniel said, glaring at Ruby in disgust.
"2" Weiss, grasped Myrtenaster at her hip and started to slowly unsheathe it as she stood.
"You can get arrested for brandishing such arms against someone Weiss, I thought you would know that." Daniel said, now giving Weiss a mock look of disappointment.
"1" Weiss said, adjusting her grip on Myrtenaster and her stance into her combat stance.
"You can't be serious with this, think of the reputation you will lose. Or do you not care about your public image anymore? I'm sure if that's the case it is the fault of this girl. You know you can't let your toys affect you to that degree." Daniel said, his voice getting slightly nervous.
"Why don't you let me teach you toy a lesson for you?" he continued, he grabbed Ruby's ear with one hand and yanked her face toward him, then with his other hand gave her a hard slap. He had gained his confidence back and turned to look back at Weiss.
Ruby hadn't been paying attention to Daniel and had instead been worrying over how Weiss was reacting to this conversation. So it was a surprise when she felt a painful yank on her ear than a stinging pain on her cheek. What she saw right before the flash of pain on her cheek appeared though was, Weiss' eyes shoot open, revealing cold blue, focused and a mix of cloudy and clear like shattered ice.
Weiss
Slap! Weiss felt her mind start to fade replaced with a cold rage. She stepped forward, conjuring a glyph around Daniel completely immobilizing him, and placing Myrtynaster mere millimeters from Daniels left eye.
His eyes widened, a sweat breaking out on his forehead. His lower lip started to quiver lightly, just for him to bite down on it to quell the sign of weakness.
"Weiss, what are you doing? You are committing assault it doesn't matter how much he insults me, we have to ignore him, not attack him!" Ruby pleaded.
"No. Ruby it does matter, if we let him get away with this, then he will spread around that he can do this and anyone of any importance can too. That means we need to teach him a lesson that we are not to be screwed with." Weiss stated coldly.
"Now Ruby, what I want you to do is to punch him as hard as you can to make up for that slap of his." Weiss continued.
"A-are you sure about that Weiss?" Ruby asked.
"Yes I'm sure Ruby." Weiss replied.
Ruby nodded. Turning towards Daniel she clenched the fist of Ruby's Stem and wound up for the punch. Using all of her tiny frame she threw her fist forward into his gut, enhancing her punch with her semblance, it became a blur so fast that it almost appeared like she had never moved her fist. The only real evidence that she had actually moved her fist was Daniels bugged out eyes and his inability to breathe. Ruby then hid her arms behind her back looking to Weiss to find out what came next.
"Now Daniel, I hope you understand your situation. If you so much as come near us You will fair far worse than you have today, and if I hear that you have talked badly about us and especially about Ruby I will find you and make you regret those words. Do you understand?" Weiss asked.
Daniel nodded as frantically as he could while being horribly winded.
Weiss sneered at him, "Now get out of our sight." She turned her immobilizing glyph into a boosting glyph and shot him backwards through the emergency exit door of the restaurant. A crash of toppling bins accompanied his landing.
"Weiss walked up to one of the waiters and gave him some money for any repairs needed and as an apology for causing so much ruckus. Turning to Ruby she grabbed Ruby's hand and stormed out of the front door of the restaurant.
Ruby
"Weiss, who was that? He seemed to know you." Ruby asked quietly, squeezing Weiss' hand for reassurance.
Weiss sighed while squeezing back, "He is Daniel Lacrimento, the soon to be head of the Lacrimento Weapons Tech company. His father will soon be passing to him the reigns of corporate leadership." She said, seemingly drained from the events of that had transpired within the restaurant.
Ruby gaped, "So you just had me punch one of the most powerful people in Remnant?!" she said.
"Yes, but he deserved it and more." Weiss hissed, shaking more from her rage than the cold.
Turning to Ruby, Weiss brought up Ruby's hands with her own and pressing them to her chest, said, "Ruby, it doesn't matter who they are, if someone does anything to you, even if they look at you improperly I will make them regret it. You mean so much to me, and I would have no idea what to do with myself without you. So, no matter what happens I will be by your side and I will protect you! I love you Ruby, I don't ever want to lose you." The wetness of tears sparkled in the heiress' eyes.
Ruby noticed the tears forming, and drew Weiss close o her and embracing her once she could get her hands out of Weiss' grip. Placing her forehead onto her girlfriends, she raised Ruby's Stem up to brush away the new tears.
"D-dunce, you'll rust your arm!" Weiss complained.
Giving Weiss a quick peck, she withdrew from the embrace and led Weiss on back to Beacon.
"Come on, what we need right now is some rest!" Ruby said perkily, almost like nothing at all had happened.
Smiling hand in hand, the White Rose pair walked back to Beacon for the night. Once they arrived, they snuck in quietly so as not to awake anyone in the dorms. Unsurprisingly when they got to their dorm, it was empty.
"Well I guess Yang and Blake are still out." Ruby commented.
Weiss just grunted in response, at this point way too tired to give a real response. Stumbling into bed Weiss merely gave way to tiredness and let sleep claim her. Amused Ruby watched the pitiful stumble and flop of Weiss barely getting to the bed in time to land in a heap on top of it. Ruby got herself ready for bed, and making her way over to their bed, was about to get in when she remembered.
Oh yeah, I have to take this off when I go to bed now, unless I want my skin rubbed raw again. Ruby shuddered slightly at the memory.
Taking Ruby's Stem off she place it on the bedside table. Then grabbing the sheets she crawled into bed forming the big spoon behind Weiss, and pulled the blanket overtop of them. Weiss grumbled in her sleep readjusting herself to the new addition under the covers. Smiling, Ruby wrapped her right arm around Weiss and pulled her as close as she could. With Weiss close she fell peacefully asleep completely abandoning the memories of the night to the sweetness of the land of dreams.
Weiss
She was enjoying a delicious meat pie with Ruby who had predictably ordered the one thing on the menu with sugar in its title, sugar pie. they ate their food with no interruption, simply enjoying each others presence. Once they had finished, they made their way to the cliff overlooking the ocean. Taking a seat on a bench the pair leaned on each other, enjoying the view of the star filled reflection of the nights sky on the oceans surface. Dropping her head onto Ruby's shoulder, Weiss let herself relax to the quietly lapping sounds of the waves.
"Weiss..." Ruby said quietly.
"Yes Ruby, thank you so much for going along with me on this date." Weiss said.
"Weiss." Ruby said a bit more loudly, wrapping an arm around her to squeeze her even closer.
"I know it will take a bit of improving but I plan to make the next date I plan much better." Weiss said, loving determination clearly evident.
"Weiss!" Ruby had yelled now. and was snaking her hand that was wrapped around the heriess, up to her neck and face.
Slightly curious now, Weiss asked, "Ruby, this is not the time to be yelling my name over and over, just tell me, how was the date?" Wincing mentally at the innuendo Weiss waited for a response, only none came. At least not the type of response she had been expecting.
"Weiss..." Ruby whispered airily far quieter than even the first time she had said her name. Now Ruby had placed her hand completely over Weiss' mouth and nose, and it felt... Wet?
Snapping her eyes open she found that she wasn't on the Cliffside bench but in her bed back at Beacon, but with a cloth of something pressed over her mouth and nose. Feeling very groggy and having trouble thinking, Weiss, with great effort dragged her eyes over to the source of the hand holding the cloth. There was a figure clad completely in black, except for a mask, that was simply an extension f the seemingly skin tight suit. The only difference was that there was a toothy smile in the middle of the mask. It seemed to cover the lips of the person wearing it but stopped there, leaving the teeth ready to be bared.
Seeing a flash of red out of the corner of her quickly fading field of view, Weiss managed to focus briefly on Ruby, who was in the middle of the process of being bound and gagged by more masked figures. That was the last thing Weiss saw before she was forced back into darkness, Ruby's face as the cloth gag was fitted over her mouth.
When was brought out of the darkness again, it was into harsh searing light. The light of a lamp that was shining right in her eyes. She winced, clenching her teeth at the pain in her retinas, only she couldn't, her mouth was filled with a cloth. She had been gagged, and now that she noticed it, she couldn't move at all either, she had been bound. The lamp or whatever had been producing the blinding light was taken away, Weiss blinked furiously to be able to gain her sight back. Finally succeeding, she despaired at what she was seeing. There, in front of her, was Daniel Lacrimento sitting in a chair, smiling with what looked like a new cast on one of his arms, and behind him was a darkened window. Through that window was Ruby, She was sitting tied to a chair and gagged, just like Weiss, but unlike Weiss there were what appeared to be various torture devices spread across Ruby's room, all attended by more of the strange black suited figures, and to Weiss' horror they all seemed to be very busy with preparations.