A fluffy break from all the angst I've been writing recently, except it also has like a smidge of angst? Its only for like a line or two though.
"Really?" Weiss snorted derisively, her eyebrows raised as she stared at Yang. "That's what you suggest?"
"You're the one who got yourself into this mess." Yang said, and while there's a teasing smile on her face, there is also a subdued anger in her eyes, a mix of purple and red. "If you want to make it up to Rubes then you're going to have to work for it, or bake for it."
"She's not going to forgive me just because I baked her cookies Yang." Weiss snapped back.
"It's Ruby, of course she will." Yang shot back, sliding the baking directions closer to the cold girl. "Especially once she knows you took the time to make them."
"I'll think about it." Weiss eventually responded, and Yang took it as her cue to leave, waving with a casual "Good luck."
Weiss sighed, looking first at the directions, then at the kitchen she was currently standing in. If she was being honest, she wasn't even sure if students were even allowed to be here. And Yang wasn't exactly a stickler to the rules.
That's more incentive to go along with Yang's idea, Weiss supposed. Ruby did have an insatiable love for the baked goods, and Weiss couldn't think of anything better.
On the other hand, Weiss didn't have a clue what she was doing, with anything in here really. Cooking was never expected from someone like her, not when she could just pay someone to cook for her. Still, she had snuck into the kitchens many times when she was younger, enjoying the company of the chefs that made their living inside the kitchen. She was bound to remember some things from back then.
As she began, her mind wandered back to the reason she had even considered baking in the first place.
They had been in class, practicing training out in the forest surrounding the school, the one lacking in grimm. It was team against team, and because Ruby couldn't talk, they couldn't relay orders fast enough to keep up with the opposing team.
After their blatant loss Weiss had, for lack of a better word, exploded. She hadn't been mad at Ruby more than she had been mad at their failure. But in her frustration, she hadn't defined that difference, and now Ruby was avoiding her because of it.
She had been looking for a way to show that she hadn't meant it, while also remaining strong in front of their leader. Because she wasn't exactly keen on admitting that she had only been mad because of course they lost, because she hadn't been smart enough to plan ahead, she hadn't been good enough to improvise when things started to fall apart. She was a Schnee, she had to be better than the rest. She couldn't fall behind, not with so much resting on her attendance here.
Well, she shouldn't spend time dwelling on things she couldn't control. She just had to hope that these cookies did the trick.
About 4 hours later, Weiss stood as the proud creator of a small batch of six cookies. After three failed batches, two accidentally broken mixing bowls, one ice glyph summoning, two near fire disasters, and too many faulty measurements and mixed up ingredients to count, she was finished.
She put the cookies onto the plate, a plastic one this time, and began to clean up her mess. Cleaning up took her no time at all, but if materials weren't put away where they were supposed to go than that was no fault of hers.
With a sigh, she picked up the cookies, and started her trek back to the dorm room. Once she arrived, she knocked, proud and confident and without a single shred of doubt or fear, not one.
Ruby was the one to answer it, and Weiss barely caught the edge of Ruby's cape as the younger girl tried to speed away to hide.
"Here." Weiss shoved the cookies near Ruby's face, maintaining eye contact as was proper. "I made them in the hopes that you will forgive my actions the other day. I was frustrated at the situation, not you, but I didn't make that clear."
Tentatively, Ruby picked up one of the cookies and took a bite of it, a smile blooming on her face.
"Are we… good?" Weiss asked, setting the plate in Ruby's eager hands.
Ruby tilted her head in thought before nodding and going back to vacuuming the cookies up.
If Weiss let out a relieved sigh as soon as Ruby was out of earshot, then that was solely her own business.
And if even later than that, Ruby was approached by Yang, a sharp grin outlining the older sibling's face as she asked the younger if things had been worked out, the elders grin turning even sharper when the younger nodded, then that was their business alone.
Explanation for the last paragraph, Yang 100% set up hidden cameras to see just how badly Weiss would fail. She now has the ultimate blackmail. I couldn't find a way that fit in though, but i was also to stubborn to remove the last paragraph completely.
Also, anybody have some good, complete RWBY fanfic recommendations? I'm starting to run dry of fanfics to read. The main ship of the fic doesn't really matter to me, my only judgment is the quality of the story and writing.