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Chapter 13: Velvet Room
Velvet looked at her handy work in pride. She was currently standing in a private room Miss Goodwitch had handed to her after months of non-stop asking. After a few weeks, she had finally gotten the room into a decent and relaxing color: BLUE!
Everything inside the room was blue. The chairs, the cushions, the walls, the floor, even the ceiling. Although she did keep one red cushioned mahogany chair to bring some contrast to the room. It made things less bland.
Hearing a knock on the door, she opened it to see Coco standing outside.
"So how's your side project?" She asked casually. "Is it better than you expected?"
"It's great!" Velvet said jumping on her toes. "I finally have my own private room. I didn't know we could have those. Thanks for telling me about them."
"Yeah well, when us leaders can come together and find out we can get a private room to ourselves, we also start thinking of our cute followers." Coco said putting an arm over Velvet's shoulders. "Sure we said it was a meeting room for all leaders as a reason, but it's not our problem only four out of many know about it."
"…So only the leaders of RWBY, SSSN, and JNPR know of the secret leader lounge?" The bunny asked with a raised brow.
"Shhh!" The fashionista said, placing a finger on her bunny's lips. "Not so loud. Someone might hear you. …Changing topics: What will you name your private room?"
"I call it: The Velvet Room!" she said striking a pose with jazz hands. Getting a raised eyebrow in response, her shoulders sagged. "The jazz hands too much?"
"Overkilled it." She blushed at the truth. "But isn't the room blue? There's nothing in it resembling velvet besides the red chair in the center."
"Well it's my room." She grumbled, before lowering it into a whisper. "What's your room called?"
"…The RAWC(Rock) room." She said, looking away in embarrassment.
"…That sounds awesome!" she said, shocking her leader.
'She has horrible taste in names.' Coco concluded. "Anyways! The Rock room is meant to be a private leader lounge, so what's the Velvet Room for?"
"A student councilor's office." Velvet said in pride. "Goodwitch said herself I have enough merit to be seen as one. The smart thing is that I'm sure no one will come to me for any form of counseling. Everyone here has their pride."
"…Smart." Coco said giving a smirk. "Velv, my cute follower, I think I've corrupted you."
"I guess you have." She teased while turning back to her private room. "This will be great!"
A few days later
This was not great. Who knew so many people needed counseling?
"I know I was a real jerk to people. You included." Said a distraught Cardin while lying on her velvet couch. "But I like to think I changed in some way."
True. Cardin did stop bullying after his mishap with Arc, but the student population still saw him as a tormenter. She was one of those that still held him in contempt, but she gradually saw he had changed overtime.
"Some people are still hurting by your actions." Velvet said in a professional tone. Truthfully, she wanted him out of her private room meant for her nothing but her alone time. "Overtime, they will see you have truly changed."
"You really think so?" He said with a bit of hope.
"I was one who saw you changed." She said. "You can't expect everyone to see it that quick. Give it some time and just ignore it. By the time you look back, you'll notice the numbers have gone to zero."
"…Thanks." He said with a small sniff. "…And I really am sorry. I never got to say that to you all this time."
"It's no problem." She waved off. 'Get out of my room!' "Water under the bridge. Now if you could call the next person? That would be nice."
After he walked, a pair she was not expecting walked in. "Weiss? Neptune?"
"We don't need this." Neptune mumbled, looking away from Velvet.
"Yes!" The heiress grumbled. "We do."
"But if we do, why not go to a real couple's counselor?" he argued back. "No offence to her, but wouldn't going to a professional be more help instead of a student counselor?"
"A real couple's counselor would charge us a hefty amount!" she countered. "Currently, my sister had blocked me from the Schnee account again as a way to call my attention."
"Would you two like to sit down and discuss this some more?" Velvet said annoyed. Her blue clock was ticking and it was saying the room was over the one-person limit. And it wouldn't be her leaving her domain.
"…Fine." The bluenette grumbled. "We'll give this one chance, but if it doesn't seem like it's helping, we'll go to a real counselor."
"Let's see how well I can help." Velvet said. 'I'm going to help you so good that you'll never need to come back here again.'
A few minutes later
"YOU DON'T REALLY LOVE ME!" Weiss shouted with tears in her eyes.
"I DO! I REALLY DO!" Neptune shouted, trying to comfort her. Although, now that Velvet thought it over; yelling wasn't a good way to show you were trying to comfort.
"YOU'RE SUCH A LIAR! YOU HAVENT CHANGED AT ALL!" The heiress said, pushing away.
"YOU HAVENT EITHER!" He shot back in anger.
Fweeeeeeet! Looking to Velvet who had a silver whistle, the two immediately stopped their shouting contest. "Ok. I think we got the anger out of our systems. Now comes the calm explanations. Weiss? You first. What makes you think Neptune doesn't like you?"
"He's always flirting with other women." She said with a few tears. "I thought after the whole Sabre fiasco that we were making progress. But after a few weeks, he went back to flirting with women in front of me. I even heard from Yang he's been flirting behind my back."
"Well you went back to being high demanding!" Neptune cut in.
"Vasillas!" Velvet scolded. "It's not your time yet. Wait your turn. …Continue dear."
"He knows how infuriating it can be to see your other flirting with someone else, but it's like he ignores it and just does to hurt me." She said with a few sniffles.
"Neptune? Your turn." Velvet said while writing things down. 'Sure hope this doesn't turn into a cobra effect.'
"I don't mean to flirt as a way to hurt her. It's just part of my personality." He started. "But with her being demanding of me, I …I don't know. It's like a form of relieving stress and getting some of my self-esteem back after feeling like she's disappointed in me. I don't really mean anything when I flirt with other women."
Jotting some key point down, Velvet stayed silent to ponder what to do next.
"…How well do you two know each other?" She asked.
"I like to think we know each other pretty well." Weiss answered, forcing a smile.
"Really. I want you two to answer these questions and hand them back to me. Don't share them." She said giving them each a pen and some paper. After a few minutes, they had given the paper back. The questions were very basic and simple to begin with. "Let's start. Weiss: What is Neptune's favorite color?"
"Blue?" She said uncertain. Neptune shook his head.
"…Okay." She said putting a check on the paper. "Neptune: What is Weiss afraid of?"
"I don't know. Bugs?" Weiss looked at him with a raised brow.
"…I see." She checked another mark on the paper. "Weiss. Same question."
"I know this one. Water." She said sure of herself.
"And did he tell you?" She prompted.
"Well …no." The heiress said looking down. "Blake told me."
Another check on the paper. "Neptune. When is Weiss's birthday?"
"…I don't know." He said in defeat. After a few more questions, she had finally come to a conclusion.
"Ok." She said, fixing her papers. "I have some good news and some bad news."
"We'll take the good news." The bluenette said in a hopeful tone.
"The good news is that I found the solution to your problem." She said in a happy tone.
"What's the bad news?" Weiss prompted. 'I hope its not a fee.'
"The bad news is the solution itself." She said in a sad tone. "It's pretty clear that the two of you need to break-up."
"That doesn't sound like a solution most love counselors would make!" Neptune argued.
"But I'm not a love counselor." The bunny countered. "I'm a student counselor. And it doesn't take a genius with a degree to see that you two are in denial."
"What?" They said at the same time.
"Weiss? How many relationships have you been in?" She asked to make a point.
"This is my first." She said worried.
"And Neptune. How serious is this relationship?" She prompted some more.
"I think it was starting to get serious." He said unsure.
"The way I see it." She said, putting the papers down. "You two rushed into things without getting to know each other at all. You both wanted this shamble of a relationship to last as long as you wanted but denied that it was going nowhere."
"Neptune. If you truly were in a deeper relationship, you would have known Weiss is afraid of being seen as a disappointment to the public eye." She said sadly. "You'd also know that deep down, she is a happy woman who represses that side to look cool in front of everyone."
"And Weiss." She continued. "This is your first relationship. It doesn't have to be your last. You don't have to settle for the first or the second. Do what's best for the both of you and just move on. If you need counseling again, my door will be open."
"Think it through." She said as the two got up to leave. "And tell whoever is next that office hours are over!"
Outside
The questionable couple walked out to see Blake and Pyrrha waiting by the door.
"She said-" Neptune said depressed.
"We heard." They said at the same time. Walking away, the two decided to give the pair some privacy.
"So…" Weiss said, breaking the silence.
"Yeah." He looked away.
"Should we?" She said unsure. A part of her didn't want to, but another said it had to be done.
"So …who'll dump who?" He said unsure.
"Neptune." She said in a quivering voice. "I think it's best if we see other people. I can't say I want to start as friends again. So maybe … maybe we can start as acquaintances."
"…So you're dumping me." He summed it up for her.
"…Yeah." She said with a few tears.
"We had fun. Right?" Hoping to ease the pain.
"Some of it was." She said, remembering some of it. "…I'll be seeing you around. …I guess."
"…" She left him standing alone in the hall before he walked out the other way.
Back in the Velvet Room
"Ah!" a certain bunny sighed, lying into her couch after locking the door. "After that session I can reeeelax."
KNOCK. KNOCK.
"Oh bollocks!" She cursed under her breath. Getting up, she trudged to open her door. "Office hours ar- Coco?"
"Hey Vel." She said with an awkward smile. "You wouldn't mind …I don't know. Sharing your room with me and the other leaders? Some jabroni found out about the Rock room and told every leader."
"I'd be fine if it was just you but-"
"Please!" Coco said on her knees. "Leader time was our only escape from the all the stress of the title. Having all those leaders in one room is not as relaxing or fun."
In The Rock Room
"I'm playing player two." Shouted a leader.
"Hands off the game!" Sun shouted. Another leader shot a nerf, breaking a glass cup. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? …YOU KNOW WHAT? GET OUT! ALL OF YOU GET OUT!"
"Yeah!" Jaune shouted next to him. Ruby was currently sleeping on their kitchen table. "We found this room first!"
Over twenty nerf guns were instantly pointing them down. "…RETREAT!"
Running towards the door, the three leaders were locked out. Jaune was sobbing into his hands at the loss of Rock room. Sun on the other hand.
"YOU MOTHERF**KERS! THAT'S MY STUFF! THAT'S MY GAME YOU A*****ES HAVE IN THERE! AND I BOUGHT THAT MINI-FRIDGE! THAT TV? ALSO MINE!"
"Who's this Ragekong?" a muffled voice shouted inside. "His game history sucks. I think I'll delete it."
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" Sun started banging on the door. "I DON'T KNOW WHO DELETED IT BUT I'M KICKING ALL YOU'RE A**ES WHEN I GET IN THERE."
"Sun." Jaune said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "I think Ruby is sleeping inside."
"SERIOUSLY? RUBYYY!" Sun shouted, banging hard on the door. "RUBYYYY!"
"What are you dunces doing?" A red eyed Weiss said coming towards them.
"I'M TRYING TO GET IN OUR F**KING PAD!" He shouted in anger. "RUBYYY! WAKE UP! LET US IN!"
"Let me try." Weiss said. She needed something to take her mind off the break-up. "My voice is higher pitched so she'll probably hear it."
Before she could start, a sleeping Ruby was tossed out onto Jaune's lap before the door was slammed lock in Sun's face. She yawned, waking up.
"What's going on?" She said half asleep.
"OH YEAH THAT'S F***ING GREAT!" Sun shouted at her. "WHILE YOU WERE IN THERE SLEEPING, I WAS YELLING MY LUNGS OUT!"
"Sun!" Jaune scolded. "Chill. We can grab our stuff when they all leave."
"I DON'T WANNA F**KING LEAVE!" He shouted. "I PAYED FOR ALL THAT S**T. I AM THE MAN OF THAT ROOM! COCO IS THE BIG MAMA OF IT! AND YOU TWO ARE THE KIDS LIVING IN THERE! THAT'S THE HIERARCHY!"
Back with Velvet and Coco
"So I guess you heard that?" Coco asked looking down the hall where her raging boyfriend was.
"I taste that." She said uncomfortably. "…I guess I could let you in. Sun sounds like he needs some anger management counseling."
"Thanks." She said, wrapping her friend in a hug before sobbing. "They took my coffee machine too."
A few minutes later, the other leaders followed Coco to Velvet's room. Jaune was thinking of a way to get back the Rock Room, Sun was thinking how to maim all the leaders that kicked them out, and Ruby was having her love fortune told by Velvet using a survey. Weiss had left them to go back to their dorm room and eat some comfort food with Zwei.
"You know those aren't real, right?" Jaune said looking up from his plans.
"Really?" Coco said semi-shocked. "We thought you of all people would believe in this stuff."
"Nope." He said popping the p. "From what I've learnt from my mistakes, love takes time and commitment. It's built on trust and openness from both sides. There is no love at-first-sight. You have to work for it. The more you try and find it, the blinder you'll be. But if you stay still …and just take a minute to look around before moving again, the person that was looking for you might see you over the crowd of moving people; and you'll notice that that person was who you were looking for the whole time too. …I guess that's why I think Sun and you are in good functioning relationship. You two didn't rush things too quick and are still getting to know each other more. Sure you get into arguments sometimes, but that's normal."
"Wow Jaune." Velvet sniffed while dabbing her eye. "That was beautiful."
"Yeah." Coco said sharing Velvet's wipe. "And thanks for the compliment on our relationship."
"Thanks." He said before getting back to his plans and putting the final touches. "Now suit up Sun! We're getting the TV back. Operation: Blindside in two minutes! Those f**kers are going down!"
"YEAH!" Sun cheered. Taking out some black stealth clothes, the too blondes quickly suited up. "We'll be back with the TV and your coffee machine baby!"
Giving his girlfriend a kiss on the cheek before running out, the girls couldn't believe they ruined a sweet moment like that. A few minutes later, sounds of screaming and stuff breaking were heard before the two came back holding a 42-inch plasma screen tv, a game console between Jaune's legs, and Coco's coffee machine under Sun's free arm.
"We're heading back for the mini-fridge after we drop these here. Velvet can keep them since The Rock Room is now under siege." Jaune explained.
"Hear that Velv?" Coco said with an uncomfortable smile seeing her friend looking peeved. "You get a tv and a mini-fridge! …Yaaaay!"
"…I have a them going on here." She grumbled.
"We can paint them blue." Ruby supported. "The tv might be more of some blue stickers, but still!"
"And I suppose you'll be wanting to stay here too?" She grumbled.
"…We'll ask?" CFVY's leader asked.
"…Fine." She said. "I could allow it. At least you guys aren't as bad as Yatsu and Fox."
A few more minutes later
"Here's the mini-fridge!" Sun cheered while nursing a black-eye. "This was the hardest thing to get after they were expecting us."
"Oh baby!" Coco said in concern seeing his shiner. "Does it hurt that bad?"
"No. I'm fine." He said in a delirious state. "Nothing a few kisses and some ice can't heal."
Velvet was currently looking over a bloody Jaune. From what she heard, Sun got extremely mad and started using Jaune as a bat. She didn't know what was more impressive. That Sun could lift Jaune with only one arm while holding a fully stocked mini-fridge, or that Jaune was able to be a bat hard enough to draw blood form the others.
"How many fingers am I holding up?" She asked holding her index up.
"Three?" He said even more delirious.
"…Close enough." She said turning to Ruby who was installing the TV. "He's okay."
"Way to take one for the team Jaune." Ruby said proudly. "All part of your plan right?"
"No." He whined in pain.
"So Coco." Velvet addressed her leader. "Do you want to schedule Sun's anger management tomorrow or …?"
"Why do I need anger management counseling?" Sun defended. "I'm chill. I only get mad at not close friends anyways."
"Sweety. I love you." She said in concern. "But you're anger can get the best of you sometimes."
"Name three in chronological order. Today doesn't count." Sun challenged. There was no way Coco kept track of his anger.
"Let's see." She thought. "The time you tackled Neptune over the harbor that time Yang went on a rampage, the time Blake kept trying to steal one of your banana milk when you wouldn't share, and the time after that in the Rock Room when you started yelling at Jaune when he accidentally shot you in a game."
"…Can you name two more in chronological order?" He said.
"The time we got in a heavy argument on which Griff-ball team would win and the day after that where you chased a fat guy around for continuously farting when we were waiting at the parking lot." She said easily.
"…You really do love me." He said with a silly grin. "I guess a bit of counseling wouldn't hurt, right?"
"That's the spirit." She said slapping his butt. "…hmm. Maybe we should have you join Jaune in his squat exercises."
"What?/Yay!" Sun and Jaune said respectively.
"We'll be squat buddies." The blonde knight said still delirious.
"Don't say it like that!" He argued. "Back to counseling though. I'll give it a shot. Weiss looked great after she came out. She even offered us some help. What'd you do?"
"Ooh!" Velvet flinched hearing about her last client.
"What?"
With Weiss and Zwei
"Give me another." She said blearily while holding another cup out to Yang.
"I think you've had enough." Blake said behind her.
"I'll tell you when I've had enough!" She cried in anger. Looking into the mirror, she saw her eyes were completely red. "I'm a mess. …Get it together Schnee. You can get through this."
"You're going through this all wrong." Blake said, rubbing her teammate's back. "There are stages through this."
"Don't lecture me about loss and grief!" She cried, trying to push the cat faunus away. "I'm perfectly fine. I know one person who wont leave me. ZWEI!"
"You wont leave me, right Zwei?" Weiss said to the corgi who was panting while staring at her. Hearing a noise, he ran towards it, leaving Weiss. "FINE! I don't need you either!"
"Weiss." Yang said, walking up to her concerned. "You're currently going through isolation, denial, and depression."
"I am not!" She …denied angrily. "I'm perfectly fine. I don't need 'He who has blue hair and shall not be mentioned!' I'm the epitome of happiness."
"This is good." Blake said in comfort. "Let it all out. You'll be feeling better soon. You're in the anger stage right now."
"Stop psychoanalyzing me!" She roared. "I'm not angry. I'm not depressed. And I'm not in denial! Just leave me alone!"
"Back to denial and isolation stage!" Yang quipped. "What are the next stages Blake?"
"Bargaining and acceptance."
"Pfft!" Weiss scoffed. "What would I even need to bargain for? To wish it all back? Yeah right! Hahahah! I don't need him. I wont miss how he made me feel special! I et he's in an emotional wreck right now as we speak!"
With Neptune
"I'm single!" He shouted to the ladies in reverie in Junior's club. The twins scoffed at him before walking away with their noses turned up. "…Yeah."
Back to Weiss
"Yup!" She said puffing her chest out. "An emotional wreck."
"Is that the acceptance stage?" Yang whispered to her partner.
"I …don't know." She said. "I think she's bargaining his pain for her joy."
"Yay?" The blonde asked.
"I guess so?" She said unsure. Looking back to Weiss, the two saw her crying into her pillow, failing to muffle the sounds of her crying. "And we're back to depression."
"It's all my fault." Weiss said, lifting her head out of the pillow. "I pushed him away. It's my fault I fell for his charms. If only I wasn't so dumb."
"And that's where I stop you Snowflake!" Yang said I slight anger. "It wasn't all your fault that your relationship was a total wreck from the start."
"YANG!" Blake scolded. "Not helping."
"But it was true." Weiss started bawling harder into her pillow. "Hey! He's to blame too you know. Instead of talking to you, he thought of stroking his ego with other women. Breaking up with him was the best decision you ever made. Remember how Blake was when she regretted friend-zoning Sun?"
"Yeah." Weiss said calming down with a few sniffs. "She locked herself in the showers with cans of tuna to drown her regrets."
"And look at her now!" Yang said in joy. "Finding new meat and challenging P-money for Funbuns!"
Weiss started crying harder again.
"Maybe putting Funbuns in this was a bad idea." She mumbled in regret.
"You think?" Blake snarked. "And my feelings developed the more time I spent with him."
"I'm not crying because of Arc!" Weiss said through tears. "I'm crying because he's also another relationship I ruined."
"…" Yang was silently trying to remember when the two ever had a relationship. "Oh yeah! The time he was Sabre. …Yeah. You killed any chances of that ship ever sailing."
"YANG!" Blake shouted. Weiss was back to bawling in her pillow even more. "You're not helping!"
"Well she's still in her depression stage!" She argued. "What's the worst that could happen?"
"Oh I don't know." Blake said in sarcasm. "Maybe suicide if taken too far!"
"…" The only sounds were Weiss's muffled cries. "Oops."
"Yeah!" Blake huffed. "Oops! You're pretty much giving her no alternative at this point!"
"Hey I don't see you doing anything!" She argued back. "At least I'm trying."
"Because I'm trying to tread this carefully!" Soon the two were having a heated argument while Weiss continued to cry into her pillow.
After a few minutes, Weiss had cried enough and looked up to see her friends still arguing. Her sniffles soon turned into small chuckles, then turned into giggles, then finally escalated into full laughter. Hearing her laugh, the two stopped arguing to stare at the heart-broken heiress.
"Did she go from crazy to psychotic?" Yang whispered in fear.
"I'm not crazy." Weiss giggled. "I guess… I'm done crying."
"That's …good?" Blake said unsure. "You're not feeling hurt anymore?"
"No." She said with a smile. "I'm still hurt. But …I guess after seeing how much you guys care …I feel silly thinking I was all alone. Over time, I think these feelings I have for Neptune will disappear. Maybe we can be friends again. Just not too soon."
"That's good to hear." Blake said relieved. "I thought you'd be stuck in depression for weeks."
"Yeah!" the blonde teased. "I thought you'd lock yourself up in the bathroom with some frozen bananas like Blake did."
"One time!" Blake huffed. "One time!"
"But you know?" Weiss said with a relaxed smile. "I don't really care if Neptune is off flirting with another girl right now. Whoever that poor soul is, I pity her?"
"He must be celebrating like most guys." Yang grumbled.
Outside the dorm room, Coco, Ruby holding Zwei, Velvet, and Pyrrha were listening in the whole time. They wanted to head in, but Velvet stopped them saying to let the two help. More people might have caused more grief.
With Neptune
"She was my baby!" Neptune was crying on Junior's counter. "She was my baby and I ruined it. Why did I ruin it? Why?"
Ren, Sun, Jaune, and Nora were looking at him from a distance. They thought finding him and roasting him would have been a punishment, but it looked like he was suffering already. That didn't stop them from recording the whole thing and sending it to their teams minus Weiss. Maybe they would send her the video once she was completely over him.
END
Omake
How it went down in The Rock Room
After getting the tv and coffee maker, the leaders were now prepared to save the mini-fridge. All of them had surrounded it to make sure it wouldn't be taken. Suddenly the lights turned off once more and Jaune flared his aura, blinding everyone except him and Sun.
Bulldozing their way through the other leaders, the two were able to make it to the fridge before they were squished.
"You're not getting the last piece of this sanctum!" One leader shouted.
"It's ours!" Another spat into Jaune's ear. Suddenly, Sun howled in pain while bearing his teeth.
"You didn't!" Jaune muttered in disbelief.
"Did what?" Said the guy holding him up.
"Tell me one of you didn't pull his tail!" He screamed.
"WRAAAAAAAAAAH!" Seeing nothing but red, Sun got out of the pile of people and started beating heads. One of them punched him in the eye giving him a shiner, but it only made him angrier.
"Good work Sun!" Jaune cheered. "We can get the fridg-WAH!"
Still blind with fury, Sun saw Jaune as another enemy and used him as a bat to beat down everyone in the room. After calming down, he dragged both a groaning Jaune and the fridge back to the Velvet Room.
END
A/N: After writing the story where Weiss and Neptune were arguing, I felt some closure was needed. So here's another chapter. I had a few Velvet ideas that I wanted to write down and here's one of them. I hope this doesn't hit any readers close to home.