"You're definitely not okay." Blake stated as Weiss rushed around inside the dormitory kitchen.
"I told you I am, now if you're not going to help, leave." Weiss replied as she sifted flour into the fourth bowl of batter she'd made.
"I'm not going anywhere until you stop and breathe." Blake replied. "Yang's keeping Ruby from totally losing it, so it's my job to make sure you don't either."
"Nobody asked you to become my psychiatrist." Weiss spat venomously. "And if I wasn't doing fine, would I be baking the girl I love cookies?"
"I'm not quite sure where your definition of baking ends and manufacturing begins." Blake stated mockingly. "I mean, one batch, sure. But this is number four and you have enough ingredients to eventually hit fifty or more if you don't stop."
Weiss paused as she was about to crack an egg into a second bowl. What was she even doing?
"I don't know."
Blake remained silent as she watched Weiss look up at her.
"God! I have no idea what I'm doing!" Weiss wailed and spun, taking in the chaos around her. Eight pristine baking sheets filled with freshly baked cookies sat on the counter behind her, not a single one of the entire lot was burnt and she was still holding a spoon. A spoon she'd been about to make yet another new batch with.
She turned back to Blake, her eyes wild as they looked for something that would give her a hint. Evidently, none came and she started to clean up the unmixed ingredients with shaky hands as her mouth mumbled silently.
Blake watched her for a moment, not quite sure what to do until she watched Weiss raise a bowl of sugar to the box of salt. Blake jumped up and caught her wrist before she could tip the bowl and took it from her hands, placing it and the box back on the counter and returning to hold Weiss by her wrists.
"I think you need to just stop for a moment." She advised, rubbing her thumb over Weiss's wrist the way she'd seen Ruby do occasionally when Weiss started getting really worked up. Surprisingly to Blake, the trick worked and Weiss shook her head and nodded before she let Blake lead her over to a bench seat along the wall.
The two sat down and Blake watched Weiss who now looked as if all her energy had just been taken out of her.
"I really have no idea what I'm doing anymore…" Weiss spoke in barely a whisper, but Blake had no trouble hearing with her naturally enhanced sense of hearing.
"If I were to guess, I'd say you're going a bit overboard with the pastries." Blake joked, getting a quick glare from Weiss before her face mellowed out again as she let it go. "Seriously though, what happened? You've been off ever since you came back to the dorm. Even Yang's picked up on it and she can be blinder than most when it comes to you."
"Actually, Yang's the one who… never mind." Weiss shook her head to Blake's look of surprise. "It's a long story, and it doesn't matter. What does is that the contract isn't breakable."
"I'm sorry to hear." Blake stated honestly. "So what do we do now?"
"I've already asked Yang's permission, I'm marrying Ruby." Weiss stated, but her conviction wasn't there. Blake instantly knew what the problem was, and it wasn't anything she would ever have guessed. Weiss was unsure, and that was sending her into a panic.
"Hey, I know everything will work out. But maybe you could use a little help." Blake smiled supportively at Weiss as she looked up into her face. "Let's start small, okay? When are you asking her?"
"Tomorrow." Weiss's voice was still small, but she at least sounded resolved in her decision.
"Good, now what was your plan? Set the mood and ask? Or just spring it up out of nowhere?" Blake asked, knowing the answer, but needing Weiss to get back to her normal self.
"Of course I'm planning to set the mood!" Weiss replied, sounding offended, but mostly back to her old self.
"Good, just had to check you were still in there." Blake joked, this time earning her a frown of disapproval. Weiss was back, and that meant they could move on to the business at hand. "So what was it you were thinking?"
"I wanted to set up the dorm and surprise her after lunch?" Weiss stated, though it sounded much more like a question than an answer.
"Okay, now I'm just guessing this because even I know you well enough…" Blake started, testing the waters to see if Weiss would stop her. When she didn't Blake continued. "You were planning on Yang and myself keeping Ruby busy while you set up."
"You would be correct." Weiss nodded.
"It won't work." Blake stated simply with a shrug.
"What do you mean?" Weiss asked as if she thought she'd missed something.
"You left Ruby alone today, which means by the time you get back to the room she's not going to leave your side. Not to mention that she probably doesn't know that the contract is solid yet." Blake said. "At this point, she's probably getting more than a little stressed which hopefully Yang is dealing with for now."
"Not to mention almost being assassinated by one of my father's goons." Weiss stated sullenly.
"Wait, what?" Blake couldn't help but think she'd heard wrong.
"I was coming back and saw someone on the roofs of the dorm looking down where Winter's room was." Weiss quickly rehashed the events that took place earlier that day. "I guess he thought he could get two birds with one stone and only made his entrance when I'd gotten to the roof. I was only lucky I managed to freeze him and his shot before it hit Ruby."
"I see. I'm sure Yang must have been furious." Blake stated, thinking of her partner almost witnessing her sister getting shot.
"She shattered him and seemed to feel better afterward." Weiss shrugged. "But enough of that, how am I going to set up for this if Ruby won't leave me alone for a moment?"
"I do have one idea, but I'm not sure you're going to like it." Blake said with a slight grin.
"There are a great many things I don't like as of late." Weiss sighed and waved her hand in a circle as she rubbed the bridge of her nose with her other hand. "Let's hear it then."
"So this is what we do…" Blake smiled at Weiss's willingness to at least hear the idea. As Blake finished, the nodding head of her teammate told her just how mentally drained she was from all the stress of the last week.
"Why not? And if it doesn't work, then I'll just take her for a walk by the crater where we met." Weiss said. "Actually, I just thought of something even better! I'll still need you to help with the first part though."
"You sound like you're feeling better." Blake commented slyly.
"Hush!" Weiss said indignantly, but she couldn't hide the large smile on her lips. "I have a plan, so now I just need to put it in motion."
"Alright, I'll make sure Yang knows her part." Blake replied as she stood with her teammate. Together, they cleaned up the kitchen and packaged the cookies. Blake took them to her locker for storage and then they returned to the room. Inside, Yang and Ruby were just waking up from their nap. And as Blake had predicted, Weiss had Ruby hanging off her arm for the rest of the day that was spent watching downloaded movies as a team while they destressed from the past few days.