"Okay, so everything you'll need is in there." Weiss gave Ruby a small white binder. "Yang already knows what to do and I'll be informing Winter of her part later today or tomorrow."

"Are you sure you'll be okay?" Ruby asked apprehensively while she placed the binder down on the desk. "You seem really stressed out right now."

"Of course I'm stressed out! This whole plan relies on a few, very difficult to predict, variables!" Weiss sighed. "There's the reactions my father will give, the flight time to get there, and not to mention the willingness of the officiator to continue after all is said and done. Not to mention right now, I have absolutely no information about this Noir character other than the fact that he's the CEO and acting founder of his family's company."

"Take a deep breath and calm down, okay?" Ruby took Weiss into a strong but calming embrace. "Everything will work out fine, even if I have to burn the place down to stop it. Okay?"

Weiss took a deep breath and nodded into Ruby's shoulder as she returned the embrace. This was the one thing that she'd miss most about the next few days, and it was something she never quite expected.

"I…" Her voice failed before she could even say anything.

The feeling of leaving this place where she was valued and appreciated for more than her name was almost unbearable. Beacon was a place she felt like she belonged. Learning to become a huntress from teachers who didn't give preferential treatment simply because of her father's influence was something she enjoyed. Going to class with others whom she would mostly call friends was what she lived for. And her newfound family that shared the same dorm room and more specifically, that quirky huntress that had come two years early, were the very air she needed to survive. Leaving it all for a place in some ceremony she wanted absolutely no part in made her feel sick, even if she'd made a plan to remedy the situation. The fact that this situation existed in the first place was the problem.

"Do you think my father hates me?" The question sprang out of her mouth before she could stop it.

"Of course not!" Ruby's reply came quickly but it didn't help Weiss feel any better.

"If he doesn't, why is he doing all this to us?" Weiss asked as she felt a tear start to leak from her eyes. She immediately felt grateful that Blake and Yang had left them alone in the dorm for these final hours. "Why can't he just be happy for us?"

"I don't have that answer." Ruby replied, nuzzling into Weiss's neck as she led her back to the bed. "Maybe you should ask him if you get the chance."

Weiss nodded as Ruby pushed her down onto the pillow. "I'm going to miss you."

Ruby didn't reply as she moved to hover over her fiance. Weiss stared up into Ruby's face that held nothing but love as she looked down through her short hair that hung around her face. Weiss knew what would happen next but really couldn't be happier that Ruby still wanted to be involved considering all the stress and work their relationship had caused. Thinking back, Weiss realized that they had barely a week of relaxation together after that fateful new years party, but at the same time Weiss wouldn't have changed anything. The rest of that time proved just how much she was willing to put Ruby ahead of herself and also how much Ruby was willing to go through for her. They'd known each other since the beginning of the year and after a rocky start, became friends. She never really realized how much of their relationship had been built before either knew they were building it, but was thankful that everything had worked out the way it had.

Not wanting to wait any longer, Weiss leaned up to join her lips to Ruby's. She left her arms on the bed beside her, feeling that she could surrender everything she was to Ruby, knowing her fiance would take good care of her.

Unfortunately, the moment didn't last as two loud knocks on the door made Ruby move just out of reach.

"I won't see you until Wednesday." Ruby said sadly. "If things get tough, remember I love you, okay?"

"I will." Weiss stood and gave Ruby one last kiss as the knock repeated itself. Weiss took a deep breath and whispered into Ruby's ear. "This is going to hurt both of us. Just know that I will only ever want to say the opposite."

Ruby nodded. This was going to be one of the toughest parts of their plan, but it was a necessary evil since she knew Weiss's father was watching through his employees and they needed him to let down his guard however slightly in order to even consider continuing on with the plan.

"RUBY ROSE!" Weiss yelled loud enough to be heard through the door as she took the items from a pile she'd made and threw them at the wall to make crashing noises. "You are the biggest idiot I have ever known! And I am glad I'm never coming back here!"

A vial of dust hit the wall making a noise like a gunshot. Ruby was already sitting on her bed as she watched the effort Weiss put into her tone. Weiss only hoped that Ruby wasn't taking what she was yelling to heart. Weiss continued on her scripted tirade automatically until she reached the final two lines. She couldn't bring herself to even look in Ruby's direction as she screamed them out loud.

"I hate you, Ruby Rose! And I never ever want to see your face again!" Weiss moved quickly to the door, taking her suitcase and her weapon as she threw it open to reveal a man and a woman in black suits with white accents. Small snowflakes on their shoulders identified them as her father's employees as the ear buds in their ears told her that everything she'd just yelled had been caught on audio. "What are you standing there for? Actually, never mind. Get out of my way."

Weiss stormed past them, pushing the woman out of the way roughly before the two shrugged at each other and followed.

Ruby watched them all leave through the open door and waited for the sound of their footsteps to die away before she got up to close it. As she turned, she saw the white binder had slipped to the floor during Weiss's act. She wanted to start reading it, but the words Weiss had pretended to yell at her were still fresh in her mind, making it difficult to want to do anything but cry even though she knew she hadn't meant any of them.

Ruby picked up the binder and tossed it back onto the desk, as she contemplated taking a few minutes to get her tears out of her system when she noticed a piece of paper that had fallen out. She picked it up and turned it over to find an ice blue note stuck on top of a paper that contained a small essay. It was all written in Weiss's unmistakable cursive. Ruby took a deep breath and started reading.

Dear Dolt,

I'm sure that it hurt to hear all the things I yelled at you before I left. Just know that I never wanted to do that but Yang insisted I do for the sake of our plans. I actually had quite a difficult time writing the actual script, but I wanted you to have the original draft so you know what I had really wanted to say. What I'll only ever want to say.

Until we meet again,

Your fiance,

Weiss

Ruby's tears broke as she moved the note to read the script below it. It was identical to what Weiss had yelled at her but with one major difference - Weiss had only written good things as if she couldn't bring herself to write anything bad about Ruby.

Ruby read to the last lines and had to stop to wipe her face from the tears she was shedding, not due to hurt, but because of how much of herself Weiss had put onto that single paper for Ruby's peace of mind. Ruby looked down at the last two lines and read them out loud to herself just to make sure they were real, to make sure she wasn't just reading what she wanted to make herself feel better.

I love you, Ruby Rose, (with all my heart)! And I want to see you every day that I wake up (in this lifetime and the next).

Ruby smiled and sighed as she imagined everything Weiss had written to her being spoken in the loving whispers they often shared in the morning before the others awoke. At least until she looked farther down the page and found one last line that had obviously been added in a rush as if Weiss had thought of it just before she placed the note into the binder.

I'm waiting for you, my knight in dented armour, to rescue me. I shall hold my breath until I can have you in my arms again. Until we can be united for eternity. -W.S.

Ruby felt her legs weaken at the poetry she'd received. It was just like in her favourite book, but much more original. She only had one question. Why dented armour?