"Alright Teeeaaam RWBY!" the diminutive brunette exclaimed, standing atop one of the twin beds in their dorm. "Are we ready for our first order of business?"
"Unpacking?" Weiss asked, dropping one of her bags next to the window.
"Decorating?" Blake interjected hopefully.
"Sexy times?" Yang snickered, wagging her eyebrows and earning a smack on her arm by both her partner and her girlfriend.
"No, no, and really, Yang?" Ruby retorted. "Nope, our first order of business is… our beds!"
"Oh, I suppose that makes sense," the Cat Faunus murmured. "Better to fix them right off the bat instead of what we did last year."
"So, bunks again?" Weiss prompted.
"Nope!" The scythe-wielder hopped off of the bed and, muscles bunching, slammed two of them together and pushed them against the wall. "Ta-daa!"
The other three girls from her team blinked their eyes before growing identical smiles.
"So… two king-sized beds?" the platinum-haired heiress pondered with a grin. "I like the sound of that."
"It was very nice while at Patch," Blake agreed.
"And gives us more room for sexytimes!" the blonde bruiser cheered, earning her a trio of smacks this time.
"Did you two not have any time together in Atlas?" Ruby demanded.
Weiss blushed brightly and stared down at her feet. "Er, perhaps a few times…"
"We were a little rushed, though," Yang conceded.
"I mean, it's a very large mansion…"
"Lots of closets…"
"But also quite a few servants."
Yang grinned reminiscently. "Of course, there was the one time in your dad's bed…"
Her girlfriend delivered a rather pointed punch this time to the blonde's shoulder. "We agreed never to discuss that again," she growled irritably.
"Wait, what?" Ruby giggled. "In your dad's bed?"
"He was being more… difficult towards the end of our stay," Weiss huffed, her arms crossed in embarrassment while staring out the window.
"Mmm," Blake hummed. "So, a revenge fuck, of sorts?"
"Yeah, exactly!" Yang snickered.
Ruby sighed, unable to keep the grin off of her face. "You two… Okay, so we're agreed, two large beds for our dorm?"
"Banzai!" Blake cheered with an upraised fist, quickly joined by both Yang and, surprisingly, Weiss.
"What?" the heiress protested at Ruby's incredulous look. "I can't be excited for a bigger bed?"
"Alright, so we'll need to buy sheets and blankets," Ruby mused after giving her partner one last look of amusement. "Let's get the rest of the room unpacked, and then we can grab Pyrrha and head into town really quick. Sound good?"
"I like they way you think, sis," Yang grinned, giving the brunette a quick, rib-cracking hug.
"Thanks," Ruby wheezed, clutching her side.
"Our fluffy fox will be very pleased," Blake murmured to her girlfriend as they unpacked things on what was now to be their side of the room on the right.
"No doubt," the brunette smiled in reply.
o o o
Pyrrha, Ruby, and Blake had returned to their dorm after eating dinner with the others in Vale. They had all of their purchases with them, as Yang had declared her intent to "show her girlfriend a good time" out on the town that night before classes started the following day after.
"Do you suppose they'll go out drinking?" Pyrrha asked in amusement as she tucked the red fitted sheet down on her corner.
"I have little doubt," Blake sighed, smoothing out the bottom sheet before flinging the matching top one across the bed. "Yang's definition of a good time has direct correlation to how much alcohol she can imbibe."
"I dunno, that's the old Yang," Ruby murmured, slipping a red case over the second pillow, fluffing it, and setting it aside the first. "And besides which, I can't imagine Weiss going out drinking all night."
"Well, tomorrow is Sunday," the redhead murmured while unfolding the white-and-black striped blanket. "As classes do not resume until Monday, they would have a day to recover."
"Yeah, I suppose." Ruby stood back with her girlfriends, hands on hips and regarding their new bed. "So, what do you guys think?"
"I think," Blake murmured with a twinkle in her amber eyes. "That we need to break in our new bed."
Pyrrha and Ruby each giggled lightly before turning towards the Cat Faunus. "First one to suggest it gets to be in the middle," the brunette opined warmly.
"Mmm." Blake gave them a small, sultry smile as she pulled her shirt off. "You will not hear me complain…"
o o o
Ruby woke up groggily to the insistent poking of her cheek.
"Wha…?" she asked blearily.
"Heya Rubes," her big sister slurred. "Um, little problem. C'n ya help us out?"
The brunette groaned softly, cognizant of the need to not wake her slumbering girlfriends. Blake's arm tightened subconsciously around her as she shifted to gaze across the room. Yang was perched on the edge of her bed, in her pajamas but with her hair disheveled, while Weiss stood in the middle of the room, swaying slightly and her eyes unfocused. She seemed to be wearing her nightgown backwards.
"What happened?" Ruby murmured. She gave a suspicious sniff to see just how much her sister had been drinking, but her eyes widened upon another smell. "...Is something burning?"
"No, no, not right now anyways," Yang replied sheepishly, rubbing the back of her neck. "Ya see… um… well, we had a lil' too much to drink, and Weissy kinda accidentally froze our bed while we were tryin' to make it when she sneezed, and I went to thaw it out an' kinda charred it, sooo…" She looked down at Ruby, lilac eyes earnest and hopeful in the dim light. "Um, can we sleep in your bed?"
The brunette team leader sighed softly, not bothering to shake her head in resignation so as not to disturb the Cat Faunus currently snuggled in tight against her back. "Yeah, come on. It's a freaking huge bed now. Just… tell Weiss to put her pajamas on straight."
"Okay, thanks sis!" the blonde cheered quietly.
Ruby just nodded and yawned, quickly dropping back into a peaceful slumber.
o o o
Blake cracked her eyes open slowly, immediately curious as to why she actually woke before the alarm, especially on their last day off prior to classes starting. The early morning light was just beginning to dispel the shroud of darkness in the dorm room.
Mmm. Might have something to do with a little rose curled up on my chest… She's not usually this snuggly in the morning...
The Cat Faunus' soft smile slowly turned into a frown as she realized that the weight across her torso was far too light to be her muscular brunette girlfriend.
Her gaze slowly traveled downward to spy a messy mane of white hair spilling across her chest.
…
...What…?
Blinking her eyes rapidly in case they were playing tricks on her, she ascertained that, yes, there was a certain heiress currently draped across her and under the covers. She could see an arm wrapped around the smaller girl's shoulders from her left, and she followed it over to where her redheaded lover lay. Pyrrha was sound asleep as well, mouth parted slightly.
Blake got distracted for a moment or two by the sight of those luscious lips that she so enjoyed kissing before she gave her Faunus ears a flick. She turned slowly the other way to spy Ruby curled up into her side, hands under her cheek as she slumbered on. Behind her, though, was a curly mess of blonde hair that hid her partner's face. Yang's arm was across Ruby's waist and resting on the small of Weiss' back.
The raven-haired girl shifted her head once more to stare up at the ceiling, unsure what to even do in this situation. Her left arm was trapped under Pyrrha, and her right was currently clenched within Ruby's grasp, so it wasn't like she could move any.
Well, this is… different.
After some amount of befuddled pondering, Blake simply gave a mental shrug and closed her eyes once more, deciding to just sleep on the matter.
o o o
Blake was next awoken by the stirrings of her bed-mates. Ruby let out a soft groan as she tried to stretch out, narrowly missing her sister's chin.
"Yaaannng, gimme some room here," she grumbled mildly.
"Yeah, okay Rubes," Yang grunted, rolling over on her back and yawning widely.
The Cat Faunus could tell the moment Weiss was fully awake by the quick inhale of breath, followed by her bolting upright. The platinum-haired girl brought a pale hand up to her forehead with a pained moan at the sudden action.
"Ow," she whimpered.
By that point all of the other girls were awake, gazing at the flustered heiress with varying expressions ranging from amusement to concern.
"Are you alright, Weiss?" Pyrrha asked softly.
"I don't… How did…?" The platinum-haired girl shook her head slowly, attempting to dispel her confusion as she perched next to Blake's leg. "Um… Nothing… happened, did it? Last night?"
Blake had opened her mouth to offer reassurances, but she was beaten to it by her petite brunette girlfriend.
"Well, I wouldn't call it nothing. You were pretty spectacular."
The raven-haired girl blinked her eyes uncertainly. She didn't drink anything, did she? Otherwise she would have certainly remembered something of that sort happening.
Yang spoke up next with a lazy grin. "And loud."
Blake's incredulous expression must have been fairly close to Weiss' save perhaps for the unmitigated horror that was creeping into her pale blue eyes.
She turned to face Pyrrha as the redhead spoke up next. "It was quite nice, though."
As she gazed into the redhead's eyes, the sparkle of humor there was unmistakable.
Blake sighed softly and gave an internal shrug once more. I'm going to be caught in the crossfire anyway, I may as well deserve it at this point.
She allowed a small smirk to grace her features as she faced forward once again.
"I never knew you had such stamina, Weiss."
o o o
Glynda Goodwitch enjoyed her mornings immensely, that moment when nothing urgent was vying for her attention. Especially now, just before classes were to begin. All the preparations had been made, the incoming class of first-years had already finished with their initiation, and everyone was settled into their dorm rooms, likely still slumbering during their final day of freedom before the new semester began.
She sipped at her coffee while slowly perusing her emails. Some requests for special needs, most of which would be denied unless her definition of special actually matched up with the student's intent.
And then she opened up a missive from the leader of a second-year team which had been rather prominent their first year. The blonde professor had high hopes for them this coming year, even given their past… proclivities.
She frowned, though, as she read over the email. "Team RWBY needs to replace all four of their mattresses already?"
Glynda shook her head slowly, her good mood soured considerably. She suddenly had the feeling that this was going to turn out to be one of those semesters...
A/N: Happy Monday, and welcome back to Beacon! Just to head something off right away, though: No this isn't going to turn into Greek Pollination. The logistics of that alone would give me a headache.
I had to try and describe some things in A Thorny Bind carefully. For starters, not describing where Yang and Weiss were sleeping in the earlier chapters, before Freezerburn was a thing (because they already would have been by the events of most chapters). Also, I tried to not be overly descriptive of the beds, except for a couple chapters in the beginning when I refer to it as "Blake's bunk", but that was before I decided on the current bed layout for their second year. Not feeling the need right now to go and fix anything.
Hmm, what else… Oh! For those Redditors who are reading - I am most disappointed that there was only one entry for Purruby in the Ship Wars write-in round. I should have done a campaign. Ah, well.
Much love for all my fantastic reviewers. So happy everyone liked the Freezerburn chapter! DeamonHunter, DschingisKhan (I admit to nothing), Demonic Angel C, Boombox94, Jack Inqu, Nicodemus Cain, ILikeHotDogs, SonicFan12, kaiju62, RedWing36, Marauderby, SamuraiShippo, Mossblomma, Imagine Exorcist, Gorsouul (Laughter is not supposed to be painful!), THB4. You're all beautiful people!
Stay shiny!