I've mentioned this already in one of my other stories, but I feel like mentioning it here too. I'm working with another author by the name of Phoenix Commander. We've already published the first chapter of Pedigree, a Faunus Weiss and Faunus Ruby story. If you can handle the fluff that comes with that, go onto Phoenix Commander's profile to check it out.
Here's chapter 20 everyone.
"Ugh, we can finally leave. This place is so damn boring." Yang whined.
Weiss rolled her eyes. "We didn't come to a hospital to have fun." Weiss walked into Velvet's room with the crutches. "Velvet, we have the crutches now and they just said you're okay to leave now."
Velvet smiled. "Thank you for getting the crutches for me, Weiss."
Weiss nodded and brought the crutches over to Velvet. "We might have to wait a bit longer, since we'll need to call a cab. I'd rather you not be moving too much."
"Right, so what time is it by the way?" Velvet inquired.
Yang spoke up. "It's about twelve, so when we get back to Beacon, you'll still have some time to enjoy the day."
"I'll need it…Um…Weiss, could you help me out of bed?" Velvet requested.
Weiss placed the crutches next to the bed and gently lowered Velvet's leg down. The heiress was still saddened when she saw the cast. "Yang, could you go make sure that Coco calls that cab?"
"Gotcha." Yang walked out of the room.
Velvet waited until the door was closed to ask. "Weiss…I was thinking. Should we let someone know about…what we did?"
Weiss blushed and grabbed the crutches. "I-I don't know about that…I still can't be sure about any of this."
"Okay...I understand…I'm sorry for pressuring you." Velvet's ears drooped.
"You're not pressuring me, Velvet." Weiss gently helped Velvet up onto the chair and made sure to keep Velvet's leg on the bed. "Does it hurt?"
"Just a little, but don't worry." Velvet said.
Weiss nodded and gave her the crutches. "Do you think you'll be able to walk on one leg while I hold you up?"
"I should be good, Weiss." Velvet slowly got up from the chair and felt Weiss wrap and arm around her waist for support, causing her to blush. "T-Thank you."
Weiss blushed as well. "Y-You're welcome." The heiress walked Velvet over to the door, making sure to keep Velvet's leg from hitting the floor. "Um, before we go…I want you to know that I'll be doing my best to be in your room to help you during your recovery. I'll try to bring food, help around your room, whatever you need."
Velvet giggled. "You don't need to do so much for me, Weiss. I'll be okay."
"Sorry, but not needing to, and wanting to help are different." Weiss stated and opened the door. "And besides, I'll still need to make sure to take you to that spot outside every now and then…that is, if you're going to be well enough to go out there."
Velvet nodded. "Of course I'd like to. I just hope it doesn't take long for my leg to recover."
Weiss frowned. "I'll make sure to ask for some pain relief before we go. To be honest, I believe they'll already give you a bottle to take to Beacon."
Yang ran over. "Coco called, and the cab will be here in a few minutes." She got on the other side of Velvet and helped her out as well. "So, are you feeling any better, Velvet?"
"I'm doing a lot better, but I honestly just wanna go back home." Velvet answered.
"Home? Do you mean your mom's place?" Yang asked while she and Weiss were walking Velvet over to the others.
"No. Beacon's our home." Velvet smiled.
Weiss thought about what Velvet said. "I…I agree with that…Beacon is our home now." Yang chuckled and Weiss glared at her. "What's so funny, Yang?!"
"I was just thinking about how I said that to Rubes when we were on the airship going to Beacon. I think about our home back at Patch…and I do miss it, but seeing how it's been so far, well…besides yesterday. It's been awesome." Yang said.
Velvet nodded. "It truly has." Velvet winced in pain. "Ouch."
Weiss stopped and she started freaking out a bit. "A-Are you okay? Yang, help me get her on the chair!"
Velvet shook her head. "Weiss, I'm okay…Really. I just felt some pain in my head, but it's passed."
"Are you sure? We can easily get you back in the room and-." Weiss was cut off.
"Weiss, she's good." Yang assured.
"S-Sorry…I was just a little worried." Weiss blushed, and looked over to see Coco standing in front of them. "C-Coco…Um…Were you there the whole time?"
Coco crossed her arms and smirked. "What do you think, Weiss?"
Weiss groaned. "It's not my fault that I got worried about that…She still has a headache."
Coco nodded and handed Weiss the bottle of pain relief. "I asked for it, and the nurse said she was going to give you one anyway. She got it from the hospital's pharmacy, so try not to lose it."
Weiss rolled her eyes and took the bottle with her free hand. "I wouldn't be so careless with this. Now, is that cab almost here?"
"I'll go check." Coco ran outside to look for the cab.
Yatsuhashi walked over to them. "Velvet, are the crutches okay?"
Velvet nodded. "They are…Did Coco make sure to call for two cabs? I doubt we'll all fit in one."
"Yes, I was making sure she did that…Did you want me to be in the other one?" Yatsuhashi asked, though he already knew what Velvet was going to say.
"I…I don't know. We'll decide when they get here." Velvet answered.
Yatsuhashi nodded and walked back over to sit next to Fox, who said. "Have you decided on what you'll be doing next?" Fox whispered so the others wouldn't hear.
"What do you mean?" Yatsuhashi whispered back.
"You know what I mean. Are you just going to go back to Beacon and act like nothing's happened?" Fox questioned.
"No…That isn't exactly a choice I can make, Fox. As long as Weiss doesn't do anything to cause Velvet pain…then I can leave her be." Yatsuhashi explained.
"I guess that's good enough for now." Fox sighed and got up from his chair to walk over to Velvet. "Hey, Vel. We're almost home free."
Velvet smiled. "It's going to be nice when I can lay down in a room I'm comfortable with. The room here isn't bad, but it just felt a little…I don't know."
"You didn't like the different surroundings. I got that once when I visited a friend of mine when I was a kid. It was the first time I spent a night there and I couldn't sleep because everything was so different around me." Fox explained how Velvet was feeling was normal.
"Oh…I think I did feel that way the first night at Beacon. After that though, it felt right to be there." Velvet said.
Fox patted Velvet's shoulder gently. "It's right because you deserve to be there."
"Fox…thank you." Velvet looked over at Yatsuhashi and muttered. "I wish Yatsuhashi thought the same way as you do." Weiss, Yang and Fox heard that.
Yang spoke up. "Hey, don't think about him. He just doesn't get how much of a badass you are."
"Even though I personally would've worded it differently, Yang is right. You know I've seen you fight, and you're amazing." Weiss blushed at the thought that got in her head. "I…I have nothing against Ruby…but…I would've been happy if I had you as a partner."
Velvet blushed as well. "O-Oh, w-well…I would've too if we were in the same year at the time…"
Yang raised an eyebrow at that. "Do you two need a minute?"
Weiss blushed harder. "N-No! We were just expressing how great we both are as huntresses in training."
Yang snickered. "You have a lot of confidence about that, princess. Maybe you and I need to spar to prove how tough you really are."
"I won't have time to spar with you, Yang. Velvet is going to need some help during her recovery, and I've already volunteered to be the one to help her." Weiss explained.
Yang shrugged. "Eh, we can put a rain check on that, or we can even spar during one of Goodwitch's classes."
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Whatever, you brute. Just try not to whine when you lose."
"Oh, so now you've got some words, huh? Okay, I'll be ready to take you on when the day comes." Yang smirked. "Actually, semblances, or no semblances?"
Weiss sighed. "Yang, this is not the time to talk about that. Keeping Velvet in one spot is not the smartest thing to do. Now move."
"O-Oh…right." Yang and Weiss began to move towards the exit.
Coco ran back over. "We got one of the cabs here now, but the other one will be here in about five minutes. Obviously Vel is getting in this cab, so who else is coming?"
Velvet spoke up. "Um…Weiss can…"
Weiss blushed and Coco nodded. "Alright, Weiss, get her over there. Anyone else you want in that cab, Vel?"
Velvet looked over her shoulder to see Yatsuhashi, and then she looked back to Coco. "Um…I don't know…I guess you and Yang."
Yang whispered to Coco. "I kinda feel bad for Fox."
Coco whispered back. "I'll stay with those two. You just look after Vel for me, okay."
Yang nodded and she helped Velvet to the car with Weiss. "Princess, we'll be going with Velvet. Coco is gonna stay back with Fox and Yatsu."
Velvet spoke up. "I…kind of feel bad about this."
"What do you feel bad about?" Weiss asked.
"When…I looked at Yatsuhashi…I thought about how I didn't want him in the car with you, Weiss." Velvet's ears drooped and Yang opened the back door.
"Velvet, would you rather Yatsuhashi go with you instead of me? Thinking about it…I don't want you to feel so worried about it." Weiss offered.
"No, I want you here, Weiss." Velvet said.
Yang spoke up. "We're already here, Weiss, so we can't exactly go back."
"I…Alright, fine. Yang, please make sure to keep Velvet held up while I go speak to the driver." Weiss said.
Yang nodded and Weiss slowly moved herself away from Velvet, making sure Yang is able to keep her up. "Relax, princess, I got her. Right, Velvet?"
"Yeah, I'm okay right now." Velvet said while keeping her one leg from touching the ground.
Weiss walked over to driver's window and gently tapped it to have him roll it down. Once he did so, Weiss said. "My friend has a cast on her leg. Is there any way to give her more room to keep her leg off from the ground?"
The driver nodded. "I can move the seats back a bit."
"Thank you, sir." Weiss walked over and helped Velvet into the car after the driver got the seat in the back to have more room. "Velvet, take it slow, okay."
Velvet took a breath and slowly sat down, making sure she kept her leg up as much as she could. "It's a little tough to do this."
Weiss thought about how to help and snapped her fingers. "I got it. Here, this should help." She brought out a glyph underneath Velvet's leg to keep it up.
The driver jumped a bit at that. "Whoa, why are you using that in the car?"
"S-Sorry…Um, please let it stay. Her leg needs to stay raised so she doesn't put pressure on it." Weiss begged to keep her glyph up.
"Ugh, fine, but this thing better not break anything in my car, or you're paying for the damages." The driver warned.
"Don't worry. My glyph won't cause any damage." Weiss assured as she sat on the right of Velvet. "When's the airship supposed to take off for Beacon today?"
"I could call Ruby to see if she can talk with Ozpin about that." Yang offered as she took her seat on the left of the rabbit Faunus.
"Wait, we don't even know if there's an airship to take us back?" Weiss resisted the urge to scream at her teammate. The cab driver started the car and began his way to where the airships would be.
"Look, I'm pretty sure there's gonna be an airship to take us back to Beacon as soon as possible." Yang got her scroll out. "I'm gonna send a message to Rubes instead here."
Weiss sighed and felt Velvet's hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure waiting somewhere close won't be so bad. I mean, I would love to be home, but I can't wait a bit longer."
"I suppose that gives the others time to catch up, but I still wish we could just be there already." Weiss looked over at Yang. "Any answer back?"
"Yeah, Rubes is gonna go see what she can do. It might not even be that long if she mentions that we have an injured huntress in training with us." Yang said.
Weiss looked out the window and thought about what she was even going to do when they got to Beacon. Between what happened at the hospital, and how she's going to help Velvet through her recovery, Weiss felt terrified.
We kissed…a few times. This is a bad idea…help-…No…No. How could I even say something like that?! I want to help her and that's all that matters. No kissing, just helping out a friend…that I kissed…
Velvet wanted to ask what Weiss was staring at, but she left it alone. She felt like calling her mother to talk to her about what happened at the hospital, but she didn't want to lose Weiss' trust. She decided to lay her head back and close her eyes to get some more rest while they were being driven.
"Velvet…Velvet are you awake yet? We're here." Velvet heard Weiss' voice and slowly opened her eyes.
She looked to her right and saw the heiress with a small smile on her face. Velvet yawned and saw that the car was stopped. "Hmm? Oh, you're right. We are here."
Yang chuckled. "Yeah, dozing off like that will get you through a car ride, no problem."
"We'll need to take her out slowly, sir." Weiss said to the driver. "Oh, and how much do I owe you for the ride here?"
"You don't need to pay me anything. That one girl paid me when she ran over to ask if I was the one picking you all up." The driver said.
Weiss knew he meant Coco and thought about how she dodged a bullet on not having to pay with her dad's money. "Oh, okay then." Weiss opened the door and slowly helped Velvet out of the car. Before Weiss got the rabbit Faunus fully out of the car, she said. "I…May have an idea to help with the wait, but…it might be stupid."
Yang grinned when she heard that. "Princess is gonna do something stupid? Wow, now this I need to see."
Weiss groaned. "Quiet already, Yang." She sighed. "I can have you be placed on one of my glyphs so you don't have to walk to the airship."
Velvet raised an eyebrow. "You mean you can carry me on one?"
"Well, as long as I keep my focus on the glyph like I was in the car, then yes." Weiss answered.
"But you were looking out the window at one point. Wouldn't break your concentration?" Velvet asked.
"That one was a smaller glyph, so I barely need to acknowledge it." Weiss explained.
Yang got out on the other side, and brought out the crutches. "Let's get her out of the car before we get your plan started."
Weiss nodded and Yang handed one of the crutches to Velvet. Once Weiss got her out entirely, she and Yang both got on her sides to help her up. "Can you still hold onto the other crutch?"
Velvet nodded and Yang handed it to her. She took it and they began to walk, saying bye to the cab driver as he drove off.
"Okay, we can walk the rest of the way, which is like not even a block, or try your idea." Yang said to Weiss.
"N-Never mind what I said…It's too risky with how hurt Velvet is right now. I'd rather not cause more-." Weiss was cut off when Velvet stopped walking, causing the two to stop. "V-Velvet, why'd you stop?"
"You were about to blame yourself again…Why?" Velvet's ears were drooping.
"I-It was an accident…I just-." Weiss was interrupted again.
"Do you still blame yourself, Weiss?" Velvet asked, and Yang could feel the small amount of tension rising.
"Hold on, you two. Let's just get to the airships before we talk about this." Yang suggested.
"No. There's a bench over there." Velvet pointed out. Weiss and Yang looked to where she pointed and brought her over, being careful with her leg. Weiss made sure to keep another glyph up to keep Velvet's leg on it. "Ugh…That still hurts a bit. Anyways…Are you still blaming yourself?" She asked Weiss.
"I don't know…Maybe…Yes…" Weiss answered in different ways.
Yang sighed. "Prin-…Weiss, you really shouldn't do that. You weren't the one to hit her with a car."
"I'm not trying to blame myself again…It just slipped out and…I don't know, I guess I just thought about it a bit." Weiss looked over where the airships were to pick people up, though she couldn't tell which one lead to Beacon. "Look, we need to start moving again. One of those could be the ride to Beacon."
"Not until I get you to stop blaming yourself." Velvet said.
Weiss sighed. "I thought we all agreed that getting to Beacon is-."
"Please." Velvet said one word.
Weiss looked at the pleading look in her eyes. She hated seeing Velvet like that, because it just brought out how upset she was about the whole thing. Weiss took a breath and got something from the small bag she wears on her back.
The heiress got out a small book, and a pen, causing Yang to raise an eyebrow. "I didn't know you carried those around."
Weiss sat down next to Velvet and looked into her eyes. "This is something I want to say and put down in this book to show you that I won't blame myself anymore." The heiress opened the small book and Velvet saw the few things she already had written down.
"Weiss…What exactly is this book for?" Velvet asked.
The heiress frowned a little and said nothing, though she made sure to turn slightly to not have Velvet or Yang see what she was writing in it. She turned to an empty page and wrote out Velvet's name. Next to it she wrote,
She is an amazing friend, the girl who saved me from myself, and someone who I'd never hurt.
Weiss took a breath and showed only Velvet what she wrote, causing the rabbit Faunus to smile and Weiss to blush.
Yang spoke up. "What? I can't see what you wrote, princess?"
Weiss closed the book and shook her head. "Privacy is a thing, Yang. And I would hope that you'd be able to respect that."
"Well yeah, I can respect that, but it didn't seem like you wrote much." Yang pointed out.
Weiss stood up and put the pen and small book back in her bag. "How much I wrote is irrelevant." She helped Velvet up, who still had her crutches with her, so it wasn't too much work to do so. "Yang, come on."
Yang nodded and helped Velvet up as well. "I'll leave that alone, princess, so don't worry."
"Thank you. Now let's go see if any of those airships can take us to Beacon." Weiss suggested, and the blonde nodded.
They walked Velvet over, but none of their surroundings or what they were doing was on Velvet's mind. She could only think about the small book that Weiss wrote in and wondered more about it. She didn't want to pry though, so she stayed quiet about it and let the two walk her over.
That book might be very important…or maybe not. Anyways, I'll be trying to get some things going a little faster here. I just felt I took a long time to get them out of the hospital.
To JJ- At this point, Weiss would definitely go to Velvet for support on something that bothered her. I'm gonna work on her expanding on that though, so that she can also trust other people as well. And yes, nurse Weiss is gonna be cute to write.
I hoped you al enjoyed chapter 20. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 21.
