Weiss Schnee

I am slowly stirred from my sleep by the loud sound of my alarm going off. I groggily sit up attempting to rub the sleep out of my eyes looking over at the clock. "Guess I should get ready if I'm going to get to work before everyone else." I technically don't have to be but as the manager I like to set a good example.

After getting a quick shower and putting on my uniform I am out the door. On the way there I started thinking about my conversation with Winter last night. I guess she's right, I shouldn't worry so much about the whole double date thing. Ruby and I work really well together and I'm sure Yang will see that too…even if she can be a bit overprotective at times and when it comes to Ruby her standards are pretty high. I let out a sigh as I realize that I am worrying again.

Eventually I get to the restaurant and I immediately head to my office hoping to bury myself in work so I don't think too hard about it. Ruby is the next to show up, which isn't exactly normal for her but I won't complain.

"Hey Weiss, good morning." She pops her head in to let me know she is here as usual.

"Good morning Ruby." Usually she would walk off to prep her station immediately after I acknowledge her but this time she hangs around my door like she wants to ask something. "Can I help you?"

"Well..it's been awhile since we have stayed over at each other's houses sooo..I was wondering if you wanted to stay at mine and Yang's place tonight?" Is that all?

"Alright alright, but we can't stay up too late, we both have class tomorrow okay?"

"Yes ma'am!" she excitedly salutes me before running off to start working.

A couple of hours passed, it's not been a particularly busy day so I spent most of it in my office getting some manager work done. I put the paperwork I have been working on down and rub my eyes deciding it would be a good time to take a break. "This isn't good. Our numbers have been down for the third week in a row." I exclaim to myself. If we don't start making more sales soon…

Suddenly I hear a loud knock at my door and before I can even get the chance to invite the knocker in, they step inside revealing them-self to be the District Manager, . "Oh g-good afternoon." I greet him standing up and shaking his hand.

"Good afternoon." he says back with an ominous tone to his voice.

"What brings you here?" I ask, motioning for him to take a seat. I kind of already have an idea and it's not good.

"Well as I am sure you are well aware your store has been slowly but steadily dropping in sales." he says making me worry even more.

"Yes I am and I am very sorry" I say with a bow "there has just been so much competition popping up recently."

"Regardless you haven't been bringing in enough money to cover the store's expenses." he says looking at me very stone faced. "So if your sales haven't improved by the end of the month I am afraid you will have to start laying people off." he explains confirming my fears.

"Sir most of my employees are college students who need this job to pay their bills." I say knowing full well that doesn't change the reality of things. I don't mean to make his job harder, he may be the district manager but I'm sure this lay off order is coming from higher up the chain.

"I am aware but that is neither here nor there." he says sternly but still sounding somewhat sympathetic. "The fact is we can't afford to keep all these employees if your profits don't start going up, honestly I had to push hard to get you the extra time you have." he stands up heading for the door.

"I understand" I say, realizing if it weren't for him we'd probably already be losing people. "thank you sir I'll try not to disappoint you".

"Good day." he says more softly and leaves. I sit back at my desk laying my head down on it.

How am I going to raise our profits in less than a month and what if I can't? Who will I have to let go?...

Ruby's POV-

"Hey Rubes slow day huh?" Alan asks as he walks up to my register and leans on the counter.

"Yeah, I'm just glad it's almost over." I look around for a certain pink haired dog girl. "Why isn't Inu with you?"

"She's watching Azu, her mom had to work. Anyway, are you still on for the arcade Friday?"

"You guys are going to the arcade?!" Jaune asks, looking betrayed.

"Y-Yeah, sorry Jaune, I guess I just forgot to mention." The truth is that I have a plan for Jaune so if it works out, he won't be able to make it anyway.

"Good afternoon and welcome to Port Burger." I say with a smile when I hear the door chime ring. That is, before I realize that it's Pyrrha. "Oh hey Pyrrha."

"Good afternoon Ruby." she says before walking to Jaunes register. "Hello Jaune." she greets him, smiling sweetly.

Jaune smiles and blushes in return. "Hey Pyrrha." he responds "You don't usually come in here on the weekends since we aren't open in the morning and all that." he says babbling like the dork he is prompting me to giggle slightly.

"Yeah I guess I just figured I would, you know, actually try the food for once." She lies pretty badly. Time for operation 'Get Jaune a Date'!

"Hey Pyrrha wanna know something funny." I ask, giving my most innocent smile.

"Uh sure Ruby" Pyrrha as well as Jaune turn to look at me. Jaune is not fooled so I better hurry.

"Jaune has this funny looking letter he keeps in his school bag."

"Okay?" Pyrrha responds, not really getting it.

"Ruby.." Jaune tries to stop me but it's too late.

"What's even funnier is that it has a big heart on it and it has YOUR name on the front."

"Ruby! What the hell!" Jaune yells with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. He looks ready to yell something else before Pyrrha speaks up.

"Do you really Jaune?.." she asks nervously. He turns to look back at her but avoids eye contact.

"Well uh...y-yes." he responds, not really seeing the point in lying about it now but again refusing to make eye contact. "I've had it for a few years actually."

"I see...um can we talk?" she asks, blushing even more.

"Uh sure can you cover for me Ruby?" he asks, giving me a pleading look.

"Yeah sure thing" I responded. He gives me a quick thanks and as he is about to walk off I grab his wrist and whisper "Go get her."

"That was certainly one hell of a push." Alan leans on the counter.

"Yeah, now if only I could give you the same push." I chuckle.

"Shut it."

We watch as they both walk over to a corner booth and sit down to talk. In between serving customers I glance over, keeping my eye on them. Before long I see Pyrrha lean over the table and kiss Jaune. Finally! Mission accomplished! Suddenly I hear Weiss speak up behind me, making me jump slightly.

"Took them long enough, are you responsible for that?" she asks, obviously talking about Pyrrha and Jaune.

"Uh yeah I kinda decided they needed a push."

"True…though I suppose we aren't exactly in a position to talk." She smiles softly and walks off.

"Yeah, I guess so." I giggle.

"Oh and Ruby?"

"Yes?" I ask her.

"Tell Jaune that this time is coming out of his break time." annnddd there's Manager Weiss. She walks back to her office and Jaune comes back to his register after saying goodbye to Pyrrha.

"How'd it go Jaune?" I ask slightly teasingly, noticing that he is still agitated at me. After about 5 minutes of silence he leans over and says a quick "Thanks Ruby."

"No problem." I respond and give him a wide smile. "oh and Weiss says that came out of your break time."

"What!?"

—-

Eventually closing time comes along and after locking the place up I meet up with Ruby in the parking lot. "Hey Ruby um if you don't mind before we go to your apartment, I need to go by my place to pick up a change of clothes."

"Oh yeah no problem." she says getting onto the bike and I hop on behind her. "Are you alright, you look kinda gloomy."

"I'm fine, let's just go." I say holding onto her. I guess not wanting to push the issue any further she pulls out of the parking lot and takes off down the road. I am happy that she cares but I don't want to bother her with this just yet I know it affects her too but I don't want to ruin her night.

Once we show up at my place I run inside really quick to get changed. I decided on a blue tank-top and white skirt. I slip them on and run for the front door only to see Ruby blocking it.

"What are you doing?" I say trying to avoid where I know this is headed.

"I didn't want to force you to talk about it until we were alone, now we are and we aren't leaving until you tell me what is bothering you." She says with a stern look on her face.

"Nothing is bothering me now move!" I yell trying to act angry really not wanting to talk about this.

"I am not backing down Weiss, maybe I can help and maybe I can't but, we are together now. I just feel like, as your girlfriend, I should be here for you even when you don't want me to be." she says more softly. I let out a sigh, I should have known better than to even try and avoid this.

"The District Manager came by today to discuss our sales..." I start really hoping she doesn't get too upset "...our numbers have been kind of low the last few weeks and if they don't improve by the end of the week...people will be fired."

"oh." she says actually looking stunned. "That is…pretty bad."

"I'm sorry Ruby I was trying to avoid this subject because I didn't want to ruin your night." I say looking at my feet. "After all it's my job to handle the situation, you shouldn't have to worry about it."

"First of all, don't be silly, you don't ever have to hide your problems from me for my sake, I love you so your problems are my problems." she says, causing me to look back up at her "Second I am not worried I trust that you will figure something out and I will help with anything you might need." she plasters a big grin on her face. I smile back at her in return hoping I am not blushing.

"Thank you Ruby, that means a lot." I say honestly. "I love you too."

Finally, that rough conversation out of the way, we make our way to Ruby's place.

—

"Welcome to Rose Manor and make yourself at home." she rolls her eyes but I could swear I heard a muffled giggle.

"If I must." she says sitting on the couch "So uh did you have anything planned?" she asks

"Not really I'm not very good with plans, I just figured we'd see where the night takes us" I say honestly grabbing some water out of the kitchen.

"Alright then what do you want to do?" she asks, looking around almost as if she's inspecting the place.

"Well there is this new game I got called Grimm Eclipse. It's about hunting monsters." I say kind of excitedly

"Well..I guess I'm okay with that." taking that as my cue I run and grab the controllers and remote. Sitting next to her I pass her the other controller and after turning on the TV boot up the game selecting the 2-Player mode. It was really fun at first but the constant death screens were starting to get old.

"Weiss, have you played a video game?" I ask sarcastically "like ever?"

"Shut up!" she yells, sounding irritated. "You know full well I have, I played at your house before." That is true I guess. Now that I think about it she was never really good at games. "I just can't figure this stupid game out."

"Alright" I say scooting closer "I guess I will just have to mentor you in the ways of gaming." I smile as she lets out an agitated huff.

"Fine if you insist" she says, sounding kind of disinterested while simultaneously leaning forward and going into concentration mode which I won't lie almost made me laugh because it was actually really cute. Good thing I didn't though or Yang may have come home to a corpse.

Weiss Schnee

By the end of the at least hour long gaming session I managed to survive for more than 15 minutes at a time which was a fairly big improvement, at least for me.

"Great job Weiss you actually didn't suck that time!" she says cheerily.

"Whatever you dolt!" I respond not really offended. I was actually grateful that she was willing to put up with my incompetence. For some reason I just could never get a handle on these things…probably didn't help that I only really played video games for the first time when I met Ruby. Father didn't exactly like them, he saw them as an unproductive waste of time.

"Wow it's been awhile since you called me that." she says leaning back on the couch.

"Yeah I guess it has." funny how over the course of our friendship what started as a legitimate insult became a term of endearment.

"I remember the first time you called me that, it was the first day of school and I bumped into you in the hall" she says starting to laugh "both our books went flying and the iced coffee you were drinking spilt all over you."

"Hey, it wasn't funny!" I say, trying not to laugh at myself.

"If it weren't for that though we probably wouldn't have become friends" she says now smiling warmly "afterwards I lent you my Gym clothes to change into and we started talking, not long after that we were besties"

"Well..." She says standing up and stretching "I'm getting kind of sleepy." she starts heading for her room. "You want to borrow a pair of my Pajamas?" she asks.

"Uh sure I guess." I responded just now realizing I didn't have any.

I follow her back to her room and she tosses me a tank-top with pajama pants. Does this girl own any clothes that aren't mostly black and red? I look at her intending to make a joke about it before I realize she has started changing. "D-Dolt!" I shout running into the bathroom "you could at least wait till I am not in the room!" I slam the door shut and after calming down a little I start changing. "What am I going to do with her?" I ask no one in particular. Now I can't get that image out of my head. I look in the mirror and see my face is bright red and I could swear there was steaming coming from my head as I hide my face in the bundle up tank top.

Ruby Rose

What was that all about? I mean we've changed in front of each other bef...I am such an idiot! I let out a sigh...of course it's not the same now that we are a couple. I mean sure that comes with the territory eventually I guess but…Weiss and I have never done anything like that. I should apologize after she gets out of the bathroom. I plop down on my bed and look over at the picture of me and her on my desk.

Suddenly I hear the bathroom door open and Weiss steps out. She is wearing my Pajamas which strangely makes me happy and her hair is down. Don't get me wrong, she's always pretty but I always really like it when she wore her hair down, it's just so long and silky. I quickly realize I am staring and avert my gaze. "So um about the whole changing in front of you thing...I am sorry I wasn't thinking."

"It's fine" She said, looking away. "Just don't let it happen again…so where am I sleeping?" she asks.

"Oh just take Yang's bed she won't care." I offer.

"You sure?" she asks "I wouldn't want to get on her bad side." she says probably thinking about the last time she made Yang mad.

"It's fine she's not stingy with her stuff" I say " you just can't touch her hair as you well know." she shivers.

"Yeah...never again..well uh goodnight." she waves and walks down the hall to Yang's room.

I plop back onto my bed resting my head on my pillow. I roll over onto my side grabbing my favorite stuffed wolf Fluffy from under my bed and hold him to my chest. I know I'm probably a bit too old for it but..it helps me sleep which I am really going to need.

I find myself stirred from my sleep by a loud noise. I was so groggy it took me a second to realize it was screaming, specifically Weiss screaming. I scramble off of my bed and run down the hall to Yang's room grabbing my red bat on the way. Once I opened the door I didn't see anyone except Weiss which confused me at first but then I looked at her face and saw she was crying.

"Weiss..are you okay?" I ask shortly after realizing that was a stupid question. I sit on the bed next to her and gently place my hand on her back. This is actually the first time I am seeing this in person. I knew she had terrible dreams that would wake her up at night but I didn't know it was this bad. "Do you want to talk about it?" I ask and she shakes her head. I won't force her, especially not right now. I do the only thing I can think of and wrap my arms around her, slowly.

She jumps slightly at first. "Shhhh..it's okay." I whisper reassuringly. She doesn't object anymore and rests her head against me. Before long she fell back asleep and I laid her back onto the bed. I tried to get up to return to my bed but I felt her grip tighten on my arm. I smile sympathetically and too tired to fight it I just lay next to her falling asleep myself.

The next morning I slowly opened my eyes, sitting up and yawning. I look over and see Weiss sleeping peacefully. I can't help but smile, in her sleep she looks so helpless and cute, not a side of herself she shows very often. I brush the hair out of her face and kiss her gently on the cheek.

When I think about last night..it breaks my heart to see her in that much pain. It doesn't help that her asshole dad never showed any concern for the situation. According to her, Winter was the only one who ever stayed up with her when she had those nightmares. Her Dad couldn't care less and her brother was too young..she never talks about her Mom which is probably not a good sign.

I look over at the clock and see we still have a good few hours until we need to be in class so I decide to get up and wash Weiss' clothes so she has something to wear.

"So uh I'm assuming your date went well?" she asks with a smirk on her face. I feel like all the blood in my body rushed to my face.

"Yang! It's uh not what it looks like!" I shout, feeling Weiss stir in her sleep. I hope I didn't wake her. I quickly get up and push Yang out of the room.

"Look sis I am okay with this, you're a big girl after all, but you could've at least done it in your bed." she says snickering.

"That's not what happened!" I whisper yell at her. "She just stayed the night because of the storm last night and I was just laying with her because she had one of those really bad dreams she always told us about, she and I haven't done anything like-".

"Rubes chill I figured that was what it was okay I was just messing with you." She says now full blown laughing. I just punched her in the arm.

"Not cool" was all I said as I grabbed Weiss' clothes and threw them into the washer.

"How about, as a sorry, I make a big breakfast for all of us." she says walking into the kitchen.

"I guess that wouldn't hurt." I just pout and sit there turning on the TV and start flipping through the channels. After a while I hear Weiss walk into the living room and look up to see her groggily rubbing her eyes.

"Hey sleepy head." I say patting the spot on the couch next to me. She responds by just plopping down next to me.

"What's that smell?" she asks, obviously talking about the breakfast Yang is cooking.

"Yang is making breakfast for us." This causes her to jolt awake.

"Yang is here?" she asks and I nod "when did she get here?" she asks. "Did she...see us in bed?" again I nod having had time to get over it. She lets out a loud groan and throws her head back.

"Hey I am not missing anything fun in here am I?" Yang asks, her head popping out from the kitchen. Mine and Weiss' faces light up.

"Shut up!" Weiss yells, throwing a pillow at Yang who just pops back into the kitchen laughing.