"Someone took the last box of cookies."

Ruby could feel the eyes of everyone in the group immediately turn to her. "What?" It took her a moment to realize why everyone was staring at her. "You… you couldn't possibly think that it was me?!"

The unblinking stares of her teammates and friends only confirmed her suspicious, Yang putting a hand on her shoulder. "It's okay if you did it Rubes, we were saving it for you anyways."

"But it wasn't me!" Ruby felt offended that people would suspect her -her!- of all people! Why would I ever steal the last box of cookies… I mean I do like cookies, but I would never STEAL them! Not once in a million years! Except for last Tuesday, but that's 'cause the cafeteria ran out of them... BUT THAT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE!

Yet none of her friends seemed to believe, merely shaking their heads before wandering off to what they had been doing before. "But… but I didn't do it…" No one seemed to listen to her. That's not fair, don't I get a say? Apparently not.

I have to prove my innocence!

Blake was not expecting the sight that approached her.

Maybe it's not so much as unexpected as I didn't know what TO expect. Blake might have expected Ruby to find her in the library –it would be no surprise considering how much of her time she spent in it, what she didn't expect was Ruby to be wearing an overcoat, a deerstalker hat and- is that a pipe? "Ruby, what are you doing?"

Ruby blew a series for rather colourful bubbles out of said pipe, before taking it out of her mouth. Thank dust that isn't real, Yang would have a heart attack. "I'm going to prove my innocence!"

"Uh-huh." It took Blake a moment to figure out what Ruby was wear, is she trying to look like Sherlo- unimportant. Blake shook her head. "Prove your innocence for what exactly?"

"The cookie heist!" Ruby's arms flailed about. "Everyone thinks I did it!"

"Alright." Blake, herself, thought the culprit was standing in front of the Faunus. "So why did you come to me…?"

"Because I need help."

"In Victorian era clothin-"

"Nope! Read a lot of books right? So you're smart?"

"I'd like to think so." Blake couldn't keep the pride out of her voice as she responded. I do read a lot of books after all… although I don't think that makes me inherently smart.

"Could you pleaseeeee help me?" Big silver eyes bore into Blake's amber ones. They didn't just stare at her, but through her, reaching the very depths of her soul. An small part of Blake was scared at the amount of control those eyes held over her as she found herself nodding.

"Okay... so where do we start fir-eep!" Blake felt a hat of some kind suddenly being thrown on her head. Gently picking it up, it looked familiar. "Is this a bowler ha-"

"To the crime scene!"

"So what are we looking for?"

Ruby's investigation had come up short upon reaching the aforementioned crime scene. There needs to be a clue here… or something! Instead, Blake and herself were standing around a empty cookie jar, scratching their heads. "A clue of course!"

Blake raised an eyebrow at the smaller girl. "Alright, but what kind of clue?"

"Uhhhh…." Ruby didn't have an answer for that. There just had to be something here that didn't fit, something to get the two on the path to exonerating Ruby's good name. "Something that isn't supposed to be here?"

"Something like this then?" Ruby glanced over to find Blake holding an odd looking container. "I found this next to the cookie jar."

It was a tin of some kind that Ruby had never seen before. "What is it?"

Blake read the label carefully. "It says gentlemen's mustache wax."

"Ewwww!" Ruby backpedaled from it. "Who even uses mustache wax?!"

"I think I might know someone one."

A few minutes later, Ruby found herself being led by Blake through the academy before finally stopping in front of a door, the Faunus knocking twice.

"Come in!" A voice from inside answered. It was a voice that Ruby knew for it was one that she heard on a daily basis, even before the duo walked into the office: Professor Port. "Miss Belladonna, Miss Rose, and to what do I owe this fine pleasure?"

Blake pulled out the strange container. "Does this wax belong to you?"

"Ah, I've been looking for that! May I?" Port asked before Blake handed it to him. "I must have misplaced it yesterday, I had to use my reserve wax this morning because I couldn't find it. I was actually thinking I must have gone through too much last month and already used this up, but I knew it mustn't be the case, after all, I stopped doing two waxings a day to just a singular morning waxing, far healthier for the hair, you see."

It was suddenly clicking in Ruby's head as Professor Port droned on and on. If it was his mustache wax at the crime scene, then he must have taken the cookies! "Professor Port!" Ruby interrupted his long spiel. "Did you take the cookies from the cookie jar?!"

"Yes."

"Wha-huh?" Ruby hadn't expected his guilt to be admitted so easily. "Wh-why did you take the cookies?!"

"Well you see, I was trying to think of ways to attract Grimm, given I'm running out of them for my live demonstrations. So I asked myself, 'If I was a Grimm… what would garner the attention of a specimen as fine as myself?' Having just passed the cookie jar, I had my answer. Alas, in my haste to capture some of the monsters, I forgot that they do not eat food. So I ate the cookies after a night of attempts at capturing the wily Grimm."

"Wait, really? It was Port?" Yang fiddled with her hair. "I wasn't expecting that."

"I find it hard to believe." Weiss stated. "Not impossible, just hard to believe."

"It was Port." Blake said flatly.

"Interesting." With that, Weiss returned to her studies.

"Well, it looks like this case has been solved thanks to the cunning efforts of detective Ruby and her trusty side-kick Blake!" Ruby proudly proclaimed.

I think it was the other way around, Blake mentally noted, either way, it was quite fun.

AU: This is mostly based off Booksandweapon's art of offended Ruby gasping.

Well I don't have much to say this author's note, new chapter will be Tuesday for Dilation. I probably will slow down production in December due to real life stuff.

Thanks for reading and a have great day everyone!