Rules of a Cuddle Pile.
Part 1.
Author's note: I've decided to lower the rating on this collection of story/chapters because I'm not much for explicit scenes or language anyway. I really prefer innuendos and double entendres. If I do make a more explicit chapter later I might raise the level back up for safety sake.
It was cold. Colder than the lowest recorded cold in Vale history. And what could be worse than the coldest night anyone has ever known? Having it be the coldest night when the power in Beacon goes out. That is how Weiss Schnee, a girl used somewhat to being cold, at least personality wise, found herself on the floor of her dorm room huddled underneath all the blankets her team had along with Ruby, Blake and Yang. Ruby called it a survival cuddle pile. When a shaking and chattering Ruby had first suggested the thing, Weiss had dismissed it almost immediately. Getting out of her admittedly freezing bed to cuddle together on the floor with her team? Insanity. But as Ruby pointed out, Yang's semblance created heat. It only made sense to use Yang as sort of a personal heater and share warmth with her fellow teammates and since all their beds were single ones onto the floor they went.
Weiss would never admit it to anyone asking but the sensation of curling up next to Yang on one side and Ruby on the other was kind of… Well, nice. Weiss had never slept with anyone else even in the same room as her before coming to Beacon and certainly never in the same bed/space before. Weiss growing up was never one of those children to have a bad nightmare and end up sleeping with her parents. Hell half the time growing up her parents weren't even in the same location as Weiss was so Weiss learned to rely on herself. She conquered her nightmares and loneliness all by herself and thought herself stronger for it, that was until she found out what true friends and companionship was all about after coming to Beacon.
That and Yang was really, really warm and with Ruby blocking the cold from the other side? Well Weiss was quite comfortable and contented. That is until some idiot outside in the hallway began beating on their dorm room door around two in the morning. Yang and Blake were sound asleep with their arms around each other and Ruby was lying flat on her back asleep leaving Weiss as the only one to have awoken from the door knocking so with reluctance Weiss pulled herself out of the pile of blankets and quickly raced over to the door wearing her white night gown that barely reached her knees and opening the door peered out into the darkness. A candle on the desk in the room cast a flickering light and by it Weiss could just make out Jaune Arc of Team JNPR wearing his onesie standing outside.
"Jaune?" Weiss asked. "What do you want? Its late."
"Well the thing is… Um, can we sleep on your floor tonight?"
"What? Why?"
"Well Nora got cold when we went to bed last night and in the middle of the night she decided a fire might be nice."
"Our rooms don't have fireplaces." Weiss pointed out.
"Yeah. Nora decided her bed would make a decent substitute?"
"She set fire to her own bed?"
Ren's voice behind Jaune answered Weiss's question. "Nora when sleepy and cold doesn't make the most sensible decisions."
"We managed to put the bed out but our room is smoky now so can we sleep in here till morning?" Jaune rushed to say before being shoved out of the way by a walking pile of blankets. "Nora cold. Nora need heat now!" The moving pile of blankets muttered as it went straight past Weiss over to where Yang, Ruby and Blake were under their own blankets. Throwing her own blankets into the air Nora had wormed her way between Blake and Yang and was cuddling them both before the thrown blankets fell from the ceiling to land and add to the pile that was team RWBY's blankets.
An annoyed Blake made a sound that sounded suspiciously between a drawn out meow and hiss woke and sitting up quickly grabbed a few more candles and lighting them from the lone candle burning caused the room to lighten significantly. She blinked as she looked to the door where Weiss was still standing with Jaune, Ren and Pyrrha and then back to the pile of blankets to see Nora clutching a just waking Yang. "Warm… Warm… Warm." A half asleep Nora sang happily as she clutched Yang.
Ruby woke up and looked around as well. "What's going on?" She asked.
"Team JNRP had a problem with their room and was wondering if they could sleep on our floor." Weiss told her. "Unfortunately as you can see we are already…"
"Of course you can join our cuddle pile." Ruby said happily. "The more the warmer!"
"A cuddle pile?" Jaune asked nervously.
"It's something Ruby came up with." Weiss started to explain.
"I have seven sisters." Jaune reminded Weiss. "And we had cold weather where I lived too. I know what a cuddle pile is. I'm just surprised that Ruby managed to get you to join in one."
An annoyed Weiss replied. "Why? Cause I'm such a cold anti-social person? That I'm the 'Ice Princess'?"
"Sounds like he got your number Weiss." A sleepy Yang said. Yang then blinked and looked down into her arms to find Nora wearing a t-shirt and panties there instead of Blake. "Um, how did I end up with Nora here?" Yang asked.
"She pushed me out of the way and took my spot." A glaring Blake told her.
Ruby wearing her pajamas got out from under the blankets and joined Weiss at the door. "Come in Ren, Pyrrha before you freeze."
"We'll just go back to our own room." Jaune tried.
"Jaune." Ruby said seriously. "It is freezing. Look over there." She said pointing to a water bottle sitting on a night table. The bottle had frozen, burst its sides and the water had formed icicles off the edge of the table. "We're all friends here and as long as everyone obeys the rules of the cuddle pile there is nothing wrong."
"Rules?" Pyrrha asked. She was an only child and never heard of cuddle piles before.
"Yeah. Basic rules so no one gets angry or annoyed." Ruby explained. "First off this is to stay warm so nobody catches a cold so first rule is no hogging the blankets or in this case Yang. Take turns if you are really cold and want to get to the warmest position. Second rule is not to be upset if you are moved." Ruby looked over to a pouting Blake.
"Third rule is there is no such thing as personal space in a cuddle pile so if you find someone hugging you or on top of you, don't take offense or read anything into it that's not there. People are just trying to stay warm and while asleep, you kind of move about looking for the hottest person."
"Which means me." Yang said with a grin. "This means accidental groping is allowed." Yang called out. "It just better be accidental while you are asleep and it better not be to my baby sister Ruby."
Ruby rolled her eyes as she shuffled from foot to foot. It was really cold outside the pile and Ruby wanted to get back to it. She grabbed Pyrrha's hand and started to pull her towards the blankets on the floor. Pyrrha was wearing a night gown similar in style to Weiss's except hers was a deep green that almost matched her eyes. Ren was wearing black pajamas. Pyrrha held Jaune's hand tightly in hers and didn't let go so he was pulled along with her. Ren just shrugged and moved on his own to the pile. Weiss quickly pulled the door to the room shut and raced to get back to her spot. Between Yang and Ruby.
With a sigh Blake got back under the blankets next to Nora and she felt Ren, whom the cold didn't bother that much, take the outside position beside her. Blake wasn't that comfortable with Ren being beside her but as Ruby said this was for warmth and survival sake so she tolerated him. Nora however was pissing her off by taking Yang away from her. Blake vowed to herself just as soon as Nora was deeply asleep she was going to shove her out of the way and retake the Yang pole position.
Ruby found herself next to Weiss with Pyrrha on the other side leaving poor Jaune to suffer the odd man out position of an end with no one to warm his other side.
An hour later Nora was snoring peacefully when Blake made her move and reaching under the girl she flipped her upwards. Nora without waking rolled under the blankets completely over the top of Yang and landed almost on top of Weiss whom also still asleep rolled over the top of Ruby but Pyrrha was there on the other side and even asleep she didn't want to be pushed away from Ruby's warmth so without waking shoved back. Weiss without waking came to a stop on face down on top of Ruby whom was lying on her back. Nora still next to the warm Yang didn't wake but simply put her back to the warmth source and reaching out pulled Ruby closer to warm her front.
Being on the outside all night, Ren and Jaune were the first of the group to awaken at first light. Getting up Jaune crawled out from the covering of blankets and blew out a breath. The air in the room fogged as it was still well below freezing. He looked over the pile to where Ren was standing. "Don't know about you but I never got anywhere near the Yang heat source last night."
Ren nodded. "I know. I think I tried once last night but Blake hissed at me no and shoved me back."
"The same with me cept in my case it was towards Ruby and Pyrrha grumbled something that sounded like 'mine' and shoved me back."
"We should wake our teammates so we can get back to our room and get ready for class." Ren said and started peeling the layers of blankets back.
Finally, they removed the last layer. Revealed was Ruby under Weiss with Pyrrha gripping her from one side with Nora gripping the other side. Blake was lying on top of Yang with her legs and arms wrapped around her tightly as if claiming her.
Jaune spared a thought about using his scroll and taking a few pictures but realized he would never see his next day if he were to be caught by any of the girls so he just shook his head as he tried to figure out who to wake first. He settled for Pyrrha and gently placed a hand on her shoulder and lightly shook her.
"Mine!" Pyrrha grumbled in her sleep and tightened her hold on Ruby's side.
"You have to let go of Ruby." Jaune told her gently.
"Do I? Do I really?" Pyrrha growled in a challenge. Jaune promptly stood up and moved away a bit. "Um Ren? You want to try your side?"
Ren looked at Blake and immediately shook his head and went to where Nora was clutching Ruby. "Nora, time to wake up and let Ruby go."
"NO." Nora hissed.
"Nora." Ren said again.
"Break legs." Nora hissed.
Ren stood up and moved back. "Um, try your side again." He said to Jaune.
Jaune reluctantly reached down to try and pull Pyrrha from Ruby but as his hand neared her shoulder, Pyrrha without waking up lashed out a hand of her own and swatted Jaune on the wrist. "Ouch." Jaune said as he shook his hand. Finally, he thought he might have better luck with a non-team member so he cautiously reached out and touched Weiss on the shoulder. "you need to get up Weiss." He said gently.
"Nooo." Weiss lying face downward on Ruby moaned slightly. "New Mattress is great. Smells of roses."
"You are not on a mattress Weiss. You are on top of Ruby." Jaune told her.
"Oh? Great." A still asleep Weiss mumbled and then began to nuzzle an asleep Ruby under her chin.
"Um, I don't think we should be seeing this." Jaune replied nervously to Ren. Reaching out he touched Nora's shoulder. "Nora you have to let go of Ruby now."
"Nope. In a threesome with Ruby and Weiss come back later." Nora mumbled in her sleep.
"Foursome." Pyrrha mumbled replied.
Jaune looked in helplessness to Ren whom merely shrugged. "Okay." Jaune said slowly. Looking to Yang he said to her sleeping form. "You need to wake up Yang. I think your sister needs some help?"
Almost instantly Yang's eyes opened from the magic words of 'sister needs help.' She found herself staring at the top of Blake's head whom was lying on top of her rubbing her face against Yang's chest. "Well hello kitty. What's new pussycat?"
Blake opened one eye and raised her head to stare at Yang. "I'm going to smack you later for that when I fully wake up."
"Promise?" Yang asked with a grin.
"Um guys? Its freezing." Jaune said as he shivered in the cold of the room.
"You are the idiot that took away the blankets." Nora said without opening her eyes. "Put them back and get back under here."
Taking that as a sign that Nora was waking up, Jaune moved closer to her and said. "Nora we have to get up and let Team RWBY get up as well. Its morning and time for breakfast."
Nora refused to budge or open her eyes.
"Eggs and bacon Nora."
Nora feeling the cold from the lack of blankets snuggled closer to Ruby's side.
"Cookies?" Jaune tried again.
This woke someone up all right but it wasn't Nora. Ruby's eyes opened. "Cookies?" She asked excitedly only to frown when she noticed the pile of white in front of her eyes. Her sleep addled brain's first thought was snow? But a moment later she realized she was in fact quite warm so the white stuff wasn't snow so her mind jumped to her next favorite white thing…. Weiss's hair. "Weiss?" Ruby asked softly.
Weiss sleepily murmured an affirmative.
"How did I end up with Weiss on top of me?" Ruby asked.
"I think she rolled there after I pushed Nora away from Yang and she ended up on your side." Blake said as she finally woke up completely and while still lying on top of Yang stretched.
"Oh." Ruby said calmly. Ruby could now tell that Weiss's arms were wrapped tightly around her, while Ruby's own arms were embracing Weiss back. Ruby started to slowly move her arms thinking that Weiss might be upset to wake and find her hugging her. Weiss as soon as Ruby started moving only clutched Ruby harder. "Nooo." Weiss moaned. "Please don't leave me Ruby."
Ruby couldn't help herself. She tightened her own hold around Weiss and softly said to her. "You don't want me to leave?"
"Noo. Leave and I'll be all alone again. I don't want to be alone."
"You are not alone Weiss. You have friends. Yang, Blake, Team Juniper."
"Don't care. Want you. Friends nice but all I really need is you."
Ruby's face was blushing and she was aware that not only was Jaune and Ren fully awake but Yang still clutching Blake had turned over to watch her dealing with Weiss as well. Blake also had one eye open watching the unfolding drama.
"We have an audience Weiss." Ruby whispered to her.
"Are they my father or my sister Winter?" Weiss still asleep whispered back.
"No."
"Are they news media?"
"Um, no."
"Then they can go screw themselves." Weiss breathed out.
Yang gave out a sudden snort and tried to rein in her snickering. "Who knew Weiss was more fun asleep than she is awake?" She asked.
Nora suddenly pulled Ruby to her tightly. "They can go screw themselves and we'll just screw among ourselves." She murmured.
Yang was officially losing it laughing now.
"Um guys?" Ruby asked. "Someone want to help me out here?"
"Help you?" Jaune asked. "I'm almost jealous. You are seeing more action than I ever have."
Pyrrha feeling Ruby being moved away from her by Nora's pulling tightened her hold on Ruby's other side. "No hogging the adorable." She murmured.
"Okay. Now I really am jealous." Jaune said frowning.
Ren moved over till he was just above Nora's ear. "Nora… Pancakes."
"Pancakes?" Nora asked instantly fully awakening. She blinked when she found herself clutching Ruby with a Weiss on top. "Why is Ruby in our room?" She asked Ren.
"We are in their room."
"Why?"
"Don't you remember the fire?"
"Oh the campfire I started to keep us warm and the Grimm away?"
"That fire you started was in your bed Nora."
"That's just silly. Why would there be Grimm in my bed?"
"No Nora. The campfire you started was in your bed. You were really sleepy last night and cold."
"Oh… So how did I end up with Ruby?"
"We came over here to ask them if we could sleep on their floor but because of the cold they were having a cuddle pile. You moved over and claimed first Yang and then later in the night Ruby. Remember?" Ren very patiently explained.
Nora nodded her head. "I have just one more question then Ren."
"What is that Nora?"
"Who removed the blankets off of us and where is my hammer?"
Ren quickly stood up. "Nora." He said in his best no nonsense voice.
"Reeeenen" Nora replied with a growl. "Blankets now!"
"Come on guys. I need to get up." Ruby whined. "I gotta pee."
Ruby's plaintive voice got through to the sleepy Weiss and she reluctantly opened her eyes and raised her head slightly… To find herself staring directly into Ruby's silver eyes. Weiss looked for a moment and then blinked. "Ruby? Why are you under me?"
Yang to egg it on said. "More like the question should be Weiss why are you on top of my sister clutching her with a death grip?"
"I am most certainly not…" Weiss suddenly realized she was holding Ruby quite tightly. "Oh. I am." She finished subdued.
Releasing Ruby quickly Weiss got off of her but being careful to not hurt the young woman she had evidently been sleeping on. Nora with a snort released Ruby as well. This only left a sleeping Pyrrha holding Ruby down.
"Come on let Ruby up." Weiss said in an annoyed voice and reached down to pry Pyrrha's hands off of Ruby, only to a moment later yelp and jump back rubbing her wrist where Pyrrha had slapped it.
"Yeah. She has great reflexes even sound asleep doesn't she?" Jaune asked as he also rubbed his wrist where she had slapped him.
Weiss muttered to herself about freaking amazons that come in the middle of the night steal someone's bed partner causing Yang whom heard her to smirk at the heiress. Ruby shifted and rolled over in Pyrrha's arms to face her. "Come on Pyrrha, you need to let go of me so I can… Um, go take care of some business." Ruby didn't want to say pee again.
Feeling Ruby's breath on her face, Pyrrha suddenly tightened her hold on Ruby bringing them face to face and then while still asleep kissed her deeply. Ruby's face went bright red. Weiss said a few choice words that Yang would have bet the cultured rich girl wouldn't have known, hell a few of them Yang wasn't even sure what they were. Nora cheered Pyrrha on and Jaune and Ren just stood and stared in shock.
Pyrrha's eyelids flickered and then shot open. Ruby hadn't struggled in her grasp but had closed her eyes and seemed to be enjoying the unexpected morning kiss. Pyrrha's eyes grew incredibly large and she leapt/slid away from Ruby. "Sorry! Sorry!" She said.
Ruby being released, jumped up and ran for the bathroom door.
"Ruby I'm sorry!" Pyrrha once again said.
"It's not that Pyrrha. I just really have to go." Ruby said as she turned the knob on the door and then ran right into the door as it did not open like she expected it to. Ruby blinked at the door and then turning back to the room she did a quick head count. "Who has locked the door?" She asked.
"Dolt. No one could have locked the door. We're all in here." Weiss said as she went to Ruby's side and twisted the doorknob only to find the door wouldn't open. "I don't believe this." Weiss growled. "The freaking door is frozen shut!"
"It must be from that hot shower you took last night before the power went out. The steam must have collected around the door and when the temperature dropped…" Blake said.
"It froze the door shut." Yang replied with a laugh.
"It's not funny. I gotta go!" Ruby whined.
Yang stood up easily carrying Blake and sat her down on her bed before walking over to the frozen door. Taking her hand, she focused her semblance a bit causing her hand to warm and moved it around the edges of the door a few times and then forming a fist she lightly tapped the door causing it to spring open.
"Thanks Yang!" Ruby said and then ducked into the bathroom and shut the door behind her. A moment later a yelp/squeak was heard from within.
"Ruby you okay?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah. The seat is just really cold." Ruby's embarrassed voice could be heard.
"You freeze your butt to the seat, you are going to have to have Weiss come warm you up to get you off. Of the toilet seat I mean." Yang called out to her.
"Barbarian." Weiss muttered.
Yang smirked and turned back to the room. Pyrrha, her face still bright red was standing alone staring at the floor trying to avoid everyone's eyes. Jaune was standing away from her watching her. Nora had gathered all the blankets and was huddled underneath the small mountain of them with only her eyes visible peering out from inside. Ren was shaking his head at her while Blake was over at the window staring out at the blinding white snowstorm going on outside. Suddenly all of Team RWBY's scrolls went off and faintly could be heard other scrolls in other dorm rooms doing the same. "This is Glynda Goodwitch. Today's classes have been called off due to the extreme weather. We are asking everyone to bundle up as much as possible and come to the cafeteria. We will be preparing food as best as we can and it's been decided due to the extreme cold that we will all remain together in the cafeteria until heat and power can be restored to other buildings."