Chapter Text
The First Time-
Weiss Schnee absolutely did not get along with Ruby Rose. Everything about the girl was an annoyance to Weiss, from her completely unorthodox fighting style, to her obsession with those sugar-loaded chocolate chip cookies that she insisted were “A necessity of survival, just as important as food, water, and shelter”.
Weiss was also hugely unhappy with Ruby’s constant attempts to befriend her, and she wasn’t having it. Ruby’s latest plot to get Weiss to like her was the final straw that made her snap.
“For the last time, Ruby Rose, I am not going to turn the pool into ice just so you and Yang can skate on it ! First off, that’s destruction of property, and Goodwitch is already mad at you for the last stunt you pulled! Second off, that is an incredibly stupid idea.”
Ruby looked at Weiss with hurt eyes, a frown gracing her usually grinning face.
“It’s not that bad of an idea”, Ruby cast her eyes down as she muttered dejectedly. “I just wanted to have some fun.”
Weiss felt her blood boil. She turned to the younger girl with a scowl on her face, hands on her hips.
“Fun! All you do is have fun! Do you ever focus on anything besides yourself? Like bettering yourself in combat so you don’t hold your teammates back when they’re fighting.”
Ruby went from hurt to something else, something new Weiss had never seen on the girl’s features. Weiss watched, shocked and a little ashamed as Ruby drew herself up and mirrored Weiss’s own posture, hands on her hips and a scowl on her face.
“All you think I do is have fun, huh? Really Weiss? How do you think I got into the same school as you, even though I’m two years younger than you, Yang, and Blake! Because I worked for it. I was the best at Signal, and Professor Ozpin seems to agree with that, since he made me the leader of this team! At least I’m not here on daddy’s money .”
Weiss was shocked to her core. She’d never heard Ruby speak that way to her, or to anyone for that matter. Ruby was kind, to say the least, but the words that came out of her mouth were not kind. Was that all she thought of Weiss? Skating by on her father’s money? Weiss found that she was bothered by this very much, despite never caring what other people thought of her, except her family. Weiss found that she hated to hear these kinds of words from Ruby, because it was just wrong. The younger girl was naive and fun-loving, not cruel.
She looked up, not realizing that she had been staring at the ground, and found Ruby with her hands clasped over her mouth, apparently just as shocked as Weiss that those words had come out.
“Well, if that’s what you think.”
Weiss turned to leave.
“Weiss— wait! Please, I didn’t mean that! Come back.”
Weiss paid her little attention and walked toward the library, strangely forlorn.
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Weiss was writing Ooblecks nonsense essay, frustrated that the words weren’t coming to her as easily as they should have. Weiss shut her text book with a bang, earning her a couple glances from other studying students, and a shush from the librarian. Weiss set her head down on the table and sighed.
“At least I’m not here on daddy’s money.”
Those words from the fight earlier echoed around her head, taking up valuable room that she could have used to write this damn essay.
Frustrated, Weiss picked up her things and made her way back to the dorm. As she walked down the hallways, she caught a glimpse of Blake and Yang, chatting, and they largely ignored her as she made her way past them. This wasn’t a surprise to Weiss, she’d been just as friendly with them as she’d been with Ruby, which was a nicer way to say cold and indifferent. Sighing, she stepped into the dorm.
“ Oh! Weiss! I’m really really sorry about what happened earlier I just lost my temper, oh I’m so sorry it won’t happen again!”
Weiss was met with a frazzled, babbling Ruby, who was sitting on her bed surrounded by textbooks, evidently working on the same paper she’d been writing earlier. Ruby looked sincerely upset and apologetic, if not a little scared of how Weiss might react.
Weiss was nothing if not shocked, and when she’s shocked, she tends to make bad decisions. Instead of apologizing like she had planned to do, like a good teammate would do, she went and sat on her bed and ignored Ruby, like an awful teammate. Weiss wasn’t dumb, she knew this would only make it worse, but she didn’t know what else to do.
Ruby studied her apprehensively, and once she made the deduction that Weiss wasn’t going to say anything, she sighed and went to her own bed. After a few minutes of tentative silence, Ruby spoke again.
“Listen, Weiss. If you’re not going to accept my apology, that’s fine, because I know what I said was uncalled for, and I am really sorry that I said what I said. I don’t really believe all those things, but you’ve been just so mean to me ever since we arrived here, and everything I try to make you like me ends up backfiring. So, I’m done apologizing to you. I’m not going to stop trying to be your friend, to be a good teammate and a good leader, because I want to get along with you. I promise that I’ll always come back, even if you don’t want me here, because that’s what a good person would do. And when you decide to forgive me, I’ll be there for you.”
Weiss was shocked, again, a recurring theme of the day, and she sat on her bed, frozen, as she processed Ruby’s words. As Ruby slid off her bed to make her way out the door, Weiss spoke.
“ Ruby. I’m sorry.”
Ruby looked back at Weiss with a little smile on her face.
“See, I knew you’d come around!”