I do apologize for taking a while to update my fics, but I'm a slowish writer dealing with Uni and multiple fics in the works.
Aside from that please enjoy!
"Ruby! We have no idea who this girl even is!"
"We know she almost drowned! Isn't that enough? She needs our help!"
"Fine! If you want a stranger living under our roof, then fine! But she'd better be able to either help out or pay rent if she wants to stay here when she wakes up!"
"Y-Yang! She's gonna need to stay here where else would she go!?"
"Maybe home to wherever she lives?"
"On what? That wreck of a yacht! You said yourself it's going to take weeks to fix, if we can do it at all! The hull's been completely torn away in places, everything is waterlogged, and oh yeah! EVERYTHING THAT USES ELECTRICITY NEEDS TO BE REPLACED!"
"We're barely scraping by as it is! We can't afford another mouth to feed! With all the pollution-"
"You think I don't know that? Less fish means there's less money to pay us with! It's not that complicated! But what else are we supposed to do? Kick her out?"
"I… I don't know Ruby." The golden haired girl slumped into the kitchen seat, defeated. "You know it's not that I don't want to help her, but I don't think we can afford to. Look, we'll take care of her. We'll just have to make a few cutbacks. Okay?"
"Thanks Yang."As Ruby moved off to check on the mysterious girl, Yang sank her head into her hands. They were barely scraping by as is was. They lived upstairs in their shop, and in the past year had barely been able to afford to pay their suppliers. Yang was just thankful they owned their small building. The lack of rent was a life saver ever since the blasted Schnee company had began dumping its waste not far offshore. The town had protested, but been ignored. She was shocked out of her reverie by Ruby calling."YANG! SHE'S AWAKE! COULD YOU MAKE SOME HOT CHOCOLATES?"
Sighing, Yang looked about the four rooms she shared with her sister. There was only one bedroom, holding a one double bed, the bathroom, the living room where she currently was, sitting on their couch facing their small T.V., also the middle room to which everything was connected, and then there was the kitchen, consisting of a small oven, a single electric stove top equipped with four hot plates, a sink, and some cupboards Yang had built herself. It wasn't much, but it had been their home for as long as Yang could remember. Slowly, she picked herself up off the couch and moved towards the kitchen.
The strange girl sat silently by the bed as Weiss looked around, still grimacing from that shout for hot chocolates. The girl hadn't said a word since, the Weiss's request for quiet cutting off the chatter that had almost followed. Slowly, Weiss started to sit up when she felt a sharp, strong pain through her ribs and left arm, and a lance of fire through her head, followed by a bout of dizziness. Hissing, she fell back onto the bed, sending another flash of pain through her ribs. Weiss gasped.
"Please don't try to move..." the girl said quietly. "Yang thinks your arm's broken, and your head was bleeding when I found you. We'll have Doctor Ozpin around later today, he'll know what's wrong with you."Weiss groaned.
"Who are you?"
"Ruby. Ruby Rose."
"Weiss…" she paused. She had heard the fight in the other room, if they knew her company was responsible... "Weiss Snow."
"That's a nice name. I've always liked the snow. It's my favorite kind of water. But it's so cold as well, and then the cold gets in engines and boats and then the boats stop working and I get to fix them..." Ruby trailed off, her eyes unfocused, and that's when Yang crashed into the room.
"CHOCLATE'S HERE!"she sang, setting down three cups and snapping Ruby back to reality. Weiss watched the brunette reach eagerly for a cup and bring it to her mouth without hesitation, chuckling at her reaction as she spat the liquid back into her cup, fanning her scalded tongue.
"AHH! HOT! HOT!" Ruby gasped for breath as she drew out the last word, glaring accusingly at a hysterical Yang.
"Don't... Haha!... look at me sis... hahaha! I didn't say it was cool enough to drink!"
"You could have waned me it was so hot!"
"Or you could take a sip, to test the heat." interjected Weiss, smiling slightly as she blew on her drink, raising her eyebrow as Yang pulled out a small radio.
"What's that for?"
"I usually watch the news round about now with Ruby, see what's happening."
"Yeah right, I'm the only one who actually takes note half the time. Blake comes on and you zone right out!"
"Blake?"
"A friend of ours." Yang answered, shooting a look at Ruby. "A reporter for the local news. But she's out of town, reporting on some protests, probably taking part as well."
"Protests?"
"Against the Schnee company, trying to get them to dump their waste somewhere else, and to take better care of their workers. Particularly their Faunus workers."
"But, why the Faunus? They're subhuman." As her saviors faces darkened, Weiss realized she had made a mistake.
"And what," Yang almost growled, "makes you say that?"
"Well... that's what my Father always taught me. I've never actually seen one so..."
"Your father is a discriminatory dick." The blonde snarled.
"I'll... remember that. I... I think I'll wait until I meet some... before... before making any... assumptions." Ruby seemed satisfied with that, although Yang was less so.
"See that you do." Yang said as she left with her hot chocolate.
"Faunus are every bit as human as you or me." Ruby said softly. "A couple of really good friends are Faunus. Blake's a Faunus too. Yang likes her. A lot. So please try to remember that."
"My father is... less than fair in a lot of ways." Weiss looked down at her drink, taking a sip. "It's cool enough to drink now. Would... would you mind passing me the radio?" Taking the small device from Ruby, Weiss set the channel and turned it on.
...Schnee, founder and head of the infamous Schnee mining company, died yesterday, of natural causes. While the company is to be passed to his daughter-
Weiss was paler than a ghost as she shut off the radio, breathing deeply.
"Ruby, could you give me a minute?" Weiss quavered.
"Are you alright, you've gone really pale. Is it something to do with-"
"Please just go..."