Here's chapter 7 everyone.
Weiss sighed while sitting on her bed, since she could only think about the day before.
Her father is gone…yet she's okay with talking about it. How does she do it?
The heiress' scroll went off and she felt her heart race at the contact that was calling. "It's mom…No, not now…but I can't just ignore her." She took a breath and answered the call. "H-Hello?"
"Weiss, it's so good to be able to speak with you." Kristall said with a voice sounding similar to Winter's.
Weiss found it confusing at times when she heard her mother and sister speak with each other. "Mom…yes, it's good to speak with you too. How are you feeling?"
"I should be asking you that, snowflake. With going to Beacon, you must have some stories to tell." Kristall smiled.
"O-Oh, well…I'm on a team…with three other girls. Um, the team name is RWBY and...I wasn't chosen to be the leader…Ruby was. She's my partner." Weiss explained, but felt ashamed of not being picked as the leader again.
"Snowflake, please don't sound discouraged. You're doing great over there. To even get to Beacon is an accomplishment in itself. And I assume everything is doing well in classes." Kristall said.
"W-Well it has been…I've just been feeling a little off recently, but I'll be okay." Weiss assured.
"Is there something that has been bothering you there, snowflake? Please tell me if there is." Kristall pleaded.
"It's nothing too bad, mother." Weiss lied. "Classwork has just been a bit daunting on me."
"Snowflake, that isn't a very good lie. I know how much you studied before even thinking about going to Beacon. Is there someone or something there that is making you uncomfortable?" Kristall asked.
"Mother, I promise that there isn't anything wrong. I just underestimated the work and fighting here is all. I'll be better within a few days." Weiss kept up her lie.
Kristall turned on the video on her scroll and Weiss saw her mother sitting on her wheelchair. "Weiss, please turn on your video."
Weiss closed her eyes. "O-Okay." She opened her eyes and turned her video on. "Mother, I-."
"Hold on snowflake." Kristall interrupted and smiled. "Look at you…At Beacon now…I am so proud of you."
Weiss felt a few tears well up in her eyes, but kept them from falling. "T-Thank you, mother…Um, you might see the bed look a little…um, hazardous, but it'll hold."
Kristall chuckled. "Just seeing the ropes is a bit worrisome, but I know how much you wanted bunk beds as a kid, but your father wouldn't let you, so it's nice to see this. I would suggest that your father send someone over to help make them a little safer, but I know you wouldn't want that."
"It's…I need to start doing things without him, mom. Anyways, enough about me…how are you at home?" Weiss inquired.
"Oh you know me, snowflake. I mainly just tend to my flowers and keep your father from making an absolute mess of things with the company. I'm sorry for how he's been lately…I know you and he weren't on the same picture with you going to Beacon." Kristall said.
"Well father knew exactly how I felt…I only wish he would have seen that before putting me through that test." Weiss said in a saddened tone.
Kristall frowned and looked at Weiss' scar. "That day…Weiss, I wish I could've stopped him. I'm so sorry, snowflake."
"Mother, you know you had no control over that. And besides, I accepted the test on his terms. I still don't regret it either, mother." Weiss stated.
"I won't let that happen again though, snowflake…I still can't allow myself to be stopped if my daughter's own father won't see-." Kristall was cut off.
"Mom, please…Don't worry about that. I honestly would rather we avoid talking about father, and focus about how you have been." Weiss said.
Kristall let out a sigh and smiled. "Snowflake, I don't have much else to say about how I've been…And you know I still wish to get at least a little information on why you've felt off recently."
Weiss saw the look on her mother's face and it was genuine concern, so lying to her again would've made her feel worse than she already was. "I…I would rather talk about it when I get it handled, mother…It's just not easy to discuss right now."
"And why not, snowflake? I'm your mother, so I will always hear you out." Kristall stated.
"It's complicated, mom." Weiss said.
Kristall smiled and closed her eyes. "The amount of times Winter would tell me that brings back memories." She reopened her eyes. "The longest Winter took to avoid talking about her problems with me was about a day by the way."
"Mom…That is one of the problems I've been dealing with this whole time. People just can't leave me be with my problems." Weiss explained.
"As a mother, I am allowed to get to the bottom of my baby's problems." Kristall crossed her arms.
Weiss took a breath. "Will I really have to explain all of this right now?"
"It would help, Weiss. And if what you say is true about having a problem with people not leaving you be, then I could see you've made some really good friends already, since they obviously care about your well-being." Kristall noted.
"My well-being should be none of their concern, mother." Weiss immediately regretted the tone she used.
"Weiss. What is really wrong here? Having these friends be concerned is obviously not the biggest problem." Kristall said.
"I don't even know where to begin, mother." Weiss said while feeling her heart racing from the fact that she was yet again in a situation she didn't want to be in.
"Then start from the day you got to Beacon." Kristall suggested.
Weiss started fidgeting and nodded. "W-Well as I told you earlier, I'm on a team led by Ruby Rose. She's…something else…I believe that would be a good word for it. Um, so…the thing is, when I first met her, she sneezed on some dust I was shaking in her face…so we kind of exploded."
Kristall giggled at that. "Would you be surprised if I told you that was something I did to your father when we were young?"
Weiss' eyes widened. "I never heard that story."
"Well I'll tell you another day, snowflake. Now please, continue." Kristall said.
Weiss nodded. "Right, so we eventually became partners and faced off against a Nevermore with the other two members on the team. Their names are Blake and Yang by the way."
"A Nevermore?! Weiss, that's amazing!" Kristall praised.
Weiss blushed a little at the appraisal. "Thank you, but I didn't really do all that much…I only trapped it for my partner to take it down."
"Your glyphs?" Kristall guessed.
"I trapped it partially in ice and…um…look, this next part was her idea. I used one of my glyphs with a teammate's weapon to shoot Ruby off at the Nevermore. After that I used a lot of my glyphs to shoot her up a cliffside to give Ruby enough speed to kill it." Weiss explained.
"Wow and you said you didn't do a lot. Snowflake, it sounds like you managed to play a very large part in that fight." Kristall remarked.
"I suppose so, but still. Ozpin picked Ruby to lead…I still haven't told father." Weiss admitted.
"Snowflake, your father-." Again, Kristall was cut off.
"Father would be disappointed…He'd probably say he told me so about going to Beacon…I can't tell him about this, mother." Weiss frowned and clenched her fist.
Kristall placed her scroll on her lap and wheeled over to the desk in her room. "Weiss, I have something here I want to send you, if you'd like it." Kristall picked up her scroll and pointed it at a picture of their family together before her mother's injury.
Weiss started to shake at seeing that. "M-Mom. W-why are you showing me this?"
"I want you to remember that we're still a family, despite how your father has acted like. He still loves you." Kristall stated.
Weiss bit her lip. "Then why does he never care about anything I do?!"
Kristall frowned and looked down at her legs. "He's changed…I know he has…And I am so very sorry for not being able to keep him from becoming the man he is today, but even though he doesn't acknowledge what you've done, I know deep down he still loves you." Weiss stayed silent and felt a tear fall from her left eye. "Weiss."
"It's…Velvet or father…no…Me. it's me okay!" Weiss shouted.
Kristall was taken aback by that. "Snowflake, what do you mean?"
"My problems…All of them are because of me! I mess everything up! Father will never be proud of me! Velvet…Velvet only ever tried helping and I just push her away like everyone else…It's my fault." Weiss felt more tears fall.
Kristall looked at her daughter and frowned at the tears she was shedding. "Weiss…Please don't cry, sweetie. I…I can't hug you, but know I'm here."
Weiss sniffled and looked at the screen with tears continuing to fall. "Mom…I can't do this. I want to go home."
"Snowflake, this isn't the way. You've trained and proven how strong you are. To throw that away wouldn't be fair to you or any of your friends who would miss you if you left, especially that Velvet you mentioned."
Weiss wiped her eyes and blinked. "W-What?"
"The girl you mentioned. It sounds to me like she cares about how you're feeling if she went to the trouble to try and help." Kristall noted.
"N-No, Velvet…We aren't friends. I…I bumped into her a few times around school…but there isn't much else with us." Weiss said.
"I don't know, snowflake. If she tried to help you before, then she obviously cares about you, so I don't see why she shouldn't be considered a friend." Kristall reasoned.
"I can't be friends with her…She's a Faunus…And I'm a Schnee." Weiss explained.
"I see. Snowflake, I know how you feel about the White Fang and my attackers, but you mustn't allow yourself to be fooled by those people. The Faunus are just like you or I." Kristall sighed. "I only wish your father could see that."
"Speaking about this isn't what I wanted to do, mother. Please." Weiss begged.
Kristall took a breath. "May I at least get to know who this Velvet is?"
"I…Fine. Velvet is…a rabbit Faunus that I ran into one day while walking in the hall." Weiss shook her head. "I didn't take it well when I first saw her."
"How many times have you seen her around the school?" Kristall said.
"I have classes with her, so a lot, but another thing happened. My dolt of a teammate decided that Velvet and I should talk out some things, but instead of allowing us to talk on normal terms, she decided to trap us in a room." Weiss grunted in anger.
"Well, that seems…odd. And how did that go?" Kristall inquired.
Weiss remembered how she felt and didn't even want to say it, but she did anyway. "I…I cried. I just couldn't see Velvet at one point and I thought about father." Weiss frowned.
Kristall was taken aback. "He does this to you?"
"W-What do you mean?" Weiss asked.
"Your father, does he make you feel this way?" Kristall asked.
"I still don't understand." Weiss said.
"You said you could only see your father when talking to her that day. So does seeing him make you feel that way?" Kristall asked again.
Weiss placed her scroll on her lap. "Mom, please don't tell father about this."
"He does. Weiss, I've noticed for years and spoken to you about this before. I can't allow him to hurt you this way any longer. I'll go speak to him about-."
"NO! Don't tell him about anything, mom! Please!" Weiss begged.
"Snowflake." Kristall silently said.
"Mother, I don't…I can't have him knowing about this. I've tried to be stronger than him, but…I want him to at least acknowledge me. If…If I can do that, then he'll know I can be strong on my own." Weiss stated.
"So that's what this is about." Kristall clenched her fist. "These conflictions you're having…I should've helped you more."
"You don't have to waste your time on this, mother. I…I've tried to get things to work out, but I just can't do it." Weiss said.
"That is not something you should be saying. While I still strongly stand by what I said about your father, I also know how much this has done to you now. I'm going to Beacon." Kristall said which made the heiress' eyes widen.
"Hold on, mother. You know you can't just take a trip out here like this. Your condition-." Weiss was cut off.
"My condition isn't any concern to me, Weiss. My baby needs me, so I won't allow anything, even this," Kristall looked down at her legs. "Stop me."
Weiss felt her heart racing again. All she could think about at that point was how her own mother was about to force herself to get to Beacon, just for her. "Please, mother…Let me make things right on my own. I haven't even been here a full semester yet and-."
"Then don't give up." Kristall suddenly said.
"Huh?" Weiss felt confused at what her mother said.
"I said don't give up. And don't think about your father's approval, or what he's accomplished. Think about what you can do to continue your dream. I know it's been one you've had since you were a child." Kristall remarked.
"But I-." And again, her mother felt the need to stop her.
"You've said how you wanted to prove to him that you can surpass him, and then you tell me that you also want his approval. And now you say you want to go home…Snowflake, this is not something you should ever be thinking about when you're at Beacon." Kristall took a breath. "Don't let his actions justify how you want to feel."
Weiss stomped the ground. "I don't know how to feel though! Even when I'm not thinking about father…I still don't know what I should do! I…I feel so helpless sometimes, mom."
"Tell me, what other things at school you feel confused about." Kristall requested.
"Explaining that would take too much time…but…if I had to say one thing, it would be how I've…learned a bit more about the Faunus. I know, father isn't completely right with what he does…I even started feeling some sort of pain from how much I read about them." Weiss started explaining.
"And what about this Velvet girl? You did say she's a Faunus." Kristall reminded.
"Yes, she's a rabbit Faunus…I don't know. I guess…She seems like a nice person…but no matter what I just start feeling weird around her. And even when I run into other Faunus in school, I don't get the same effect I get from Velvet." Weiss stated.
Kristall smiled. "I see. So have you ever tried to maybe speak to Velvet alone, but on your own terms?"
"I don't see a reason to even try that, mother. The times I spoke with her made me feel pain…but…she did do something I've thought about recently." Weiss said.
"Okay, so what would that be?" Kristall inquired.
"She talked about her father…He…He died. I just…When she talked about him, she didn't breakdown. I just don't understand how she could be so…calm about it." Weiss explained.
"It may be because she's at peace with it, snowflake. I remember the day my grandmother passed away…I cried for so many days, but not long after, I was able to understand more about what my grandmother meant to me and how she wouldn't want me to grieve for her all the time. She'd want me to live a happy life, so I did just that and was blessed with the two most wonderful daughters a mother could ever have." Kristall said with a smile.
Weiss finally let out a small smile of her own. "Mom…Are you still going to come to Beacon?"
"I can tell you'd rather me stay home. And I know this may upset you, but please try to use my suggestion. Speak with Velvet, maybe try to learn about her more and look past her Faunus features so you can start seeing her as a person." Kristall responded.
"I don't think of her as…as a lesser person." Weiss stated.
"Then instead of that, how about you take things even further. Try to see if you can be friends." Kristall suggested.
Weiss sighed. "I don't know."
"Well whatever you choose to do about that, know I'm always available to talk to. And yes, I'll even go to Beacon if you need me there too." Kristall heard a knock and sighed. "I'm sorry, snowflake. I think your father is knocking."
"It's okay, mother…I…I'm really happy to have been able to talk to you today…even though we did talk about those things." Weiss said.
"I love you, snowflake. And please, if there is anything to take from this, it's to not let a certain person change your feelings on what you want in life." Kristall said.
"Y-Yeah…I'll try, mother. I love you too."
Kristall smiled and heard another knock. "Give me a second, Lawine." She called out and turned back to the screen. "Bye, snowflake."
"Bye, mother." Kristall ended the call and Weiss placed the scroll on her lap. She took a breath and heard the door opening.
Yang walked in and froze when she saw Weiss alone in the dorm. "Oh…Weiss, I didn't know you were in here. I'll be back later and-."
Weiss picked up her scroll and stood up. "Yang, can…can I talk you?"
Yang was a little surprised at that, but nodded. "Sure, but am I really the best person to talk to about whatever it is you wanna talk about?"
"Yes. It's about Velvet." Weiss looked at her scroll and thought about what her mother said. "D-Do you think…that with everything she and I have been dealing with…do you think we can be…friends?"
Yang let out a smile at hearing that. "Of course you can, Weiss. All you really need to do is be okay with that though."
"Huh?" The heiress felt a little confused about that.
Yang walked over and sat on Blake's bed. "That day I messed up. I hated myself for it. I forced you and Velvet in this room. Heck, even Velvet didn't like that, so what I was saying is that you can be friends, but only if you really want to be."
Weiss sat down on her own bed and put her scroll on it. "It's…I spoke to my mother about everything." Yang noticed Weiss' hesitation. "She told me that it would be a good idea to…try and speak with Velvet on my own terms…and take things a little slow to become friends."
"Is there any way you'd be comfortable with telling me about this? I kinda know a bit of it, but details could help me understand more." Yang stated.
Weiss looked to the ground. "I just had a long talk with my mother about it. Could I please have some time before having to repeat it all?"
Yang could hear the heiress' voice getting a little more annoyed with the talk they were having. "Y-Yeah, don't worry about it for now. Would you feel better if I left?"
Weiss looked up and shook her head. "Stay, Yang. I may not want to speak about this, but that doesn't mean I want to kick you out."
Yang smiled and nodded. "Alright, Weiss, so…you ever feel like using ice dust to freeze someone's pants?"
Weiss blinked in confusion. "Um…What?"
Yang chuckled. "Sorry, just trying to make conversation."
"O-okay then…Well no, I never thought about doing that. It sounds ridiculous." Weiss said.
"Well duh, but it's plain funny when someone sees a pair of their pants just frozen on the ground. Ooh! Or even better, you can freeze their pants while they're wearing it." Yang said in excitement of the idea.
Weiss sighed. "That could cause serious problems for the person wearing it."
"Maybe, but it would still be funny." Yang stated as she rested on Blake's bed.
Weiss couldn't help but let out a smile.
Is it really this easy?
This one is fairly obvious, but I'll say it anyways. Kristall is Crystal in German.
To WOWierdness- It does get difficult naming characters in this, since I've used other names for Weiss' mother and father before. And for Velvet's dad, I thought about the material idea. Velvet, cotton, maybe even silk might be a name in a different language I could use later. As for the ship name, I've been told it can also be hot chocolate.
To the guest on chapter 1- I haven't seen that ship name, but it does seem appropriate for those two.
To JJ- Yeah, forcing it may be a little much on her. I mean, she's been forced to stay in a room already, but still, things will pick up. I just need to find a believable point in the story where things could pick up.
I hoped you all enjoyed chapter 7. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 8.
