It was cold. A chilly night where the breeze caressed your skin with the harsh temperature of the midnight air. Deep in thought, Weiss sat on the edge of the roof. She was ten floors above ground, This sort of danger was so unfamiliar. Voluntary danger. Liberating danger. Whether she was to push herself off and crash into the unforgiving pavement or climb up and return to bed, it was her decision. Her destiny under her control. No skill, no training needed. It could all just be over. No one would hurt anymore. No one would hurt HER anymore. Not Grimm, not family, not Ruby. She absently dangled her feet off the edge to flirt with the idea, Weiss hadn't stopped crying. It was as if her eyes were waterfalls, letting the sadness flow only for it to return to where it came from in a vicious cycle. Just moments ago someone Weiss considered family could have ended her life with a pull of a single trigger. Yang, Blake and especially Ruby ARE family to her. Better than family because unlike her actual one, it was the family she chose (so to speak). So she sat and wept as breezes and faded clouds passed her by. Hours later, the door of the roof boomed. It flung open, almost exploding off its hinges. Resulting sounds made distant trees ruffle and caw for the birds taking off to flee apparent danger. Weiss didn't care. The sound of heavy animistic panting came from over fifty feet behind her and she couldn't care less. For all she knew, there was a Grimm here to end her suffering. What could she do? No sword, no team. If a Grimm was to devour her now it would be fitting with a day as sombre as today. Alas, no Grimm, just the familiar growling of an angry blonde. "Weiss!" Yang bellowed, clenching her fists as she approached the heiress, "what did you say to Ruby?". The brute charged at her friend, eyes red with rage and hair glowing with that same anger. Weiss could only quietly whimper off into the night sky. Once behind Weiss, Yang continued: "I know you're a bit of a bitch but you've broken my sister," Yang took a tight grip on Weiss's shoulder to spin her round and continued to unload all her frustration, "and if you don't tell me what happened I'll-". Yang's words got stuck in her throat as she looked down at Weiss. Her cool-blue eyes were buried under hours worth of tears and her face was puffy from it all. Any make-up she may have had on has since washed away in the sobbing sea. With a literally blink of an eye, Yang's facial expression changed from angry to worried and her eyes relaxed into the usual lilac color. Yang stuttered as she stared at Weiss for a few moments. Seeing Weiss cry, seeing her feel, it was alien and Yang was unsure of how to deal with it. "I'm sorry Yang.." Weiss choked and wept into her friend's chest, gripping hold of her shirt's shoulder. All the times Weiss has cried, she's never really had someone to cry on, and even if she came up here to push her off the roof, she was hoping Yang could be the first. Yang's entire body hummed with warmth, shielding Weiss from the cold of her surroundings and her heart. With a nod, Yang closed her eyes and pulled the princess deeper into her embrace, shushing her. It was unsuccessful. If anything her actions made Weiss cry more as her emotions and her thoughts were running wild. "I-I-I am.... I am so s-sorry Yang! I didn't mean to hurt her, I swear!" Weiss balled onto Yang's orange pyjama shirt, staining it with a pool of sadness. Yang continued to rub her teammate's back, with Weiss squirming and flinching at every slight movement. Just as seeing Weiss cry was new to Yang; being hugged so intimately has never happened to Weiss. With every stroke of her spine she felt Yang was on her way to crush it in her hands. To have someone be upset with you only to hug you moments later is impossible. In her experience, this would have ended in her getting beat senseless, slapped and humiliated - maybe even killed if she was fortunate enough. Yet here she sat, weeping in to the chest of her friend who has every right to despise her very soul. The breeze whistled but was felt by neither girl thanks to Yang's heat. "Tell me what happened Weiss... Ruby won't tell me anything..." Yang spoke softly as she loosened the hug to look at her. After drying her eyes on her wrists, Weiss tried to speak through the sniffling, "Yang... I... Ruby wouldn't answer me. I asked again and again where she was today but she didn't answer... so I lost it... I... said somethings I regret..." Weiss sniffled and choked, coughing up all of her feelings. Smiling, Yang rubbed her back and knelt down to be at eye level with her. "Go on," the blonde took Weiss' hand and spoke softly, to make Weiss feel safe. It worked, any fear Weiss had melted away with that smile. "She... pulled her scythe on me and told me to go back to Atlas and.... I was so offended we were going to fight there and then but.... I left... and I've been here ever since..." Yang's face morphed to one of shock as the heiress spoke. The Ruby she was describing was not the Ruby anyone knew, especially Yang. They are sisters. They've seen the highs and the lows of each other's personalities. "Weiss... what did you say to Ruby..?" Yang curiously continued, "Ruby... it just doesn't sound like her..." Yang sighed and held Weiss' hand tighter to release her from the fear of being judged or hated for whatever she was about to say. "I said her family- your family, was happy... and that she didn't know loneliness like I do..." Again Yang sighed. Anything said now couldn't make it any worse for Weiss, yet she remained silent, fearfully awaiting Yang's response. Her tongue felt rigid and dry in her own mouth as if fear had drained any semblance of moisture from her mouth. "It's okay Weiss, I'm not mad," Yang grunted as she stood up and rubbed Weiss' knee, "I'm sorry for yelling and.. you know... calling you a bitch...". Weiss laughed weakly and gave a ghost of a smile, "I mean... you weren't entirely incorrect." Weiss' friend nodded in agreement and lightly chuckled as she gave a wave, heading towards the door. Two options were now presented to Weiss clear as day. While she could stay on the roof, wallow in her own self pity, she could also go apologise to the friend that she hurt. Weiss gulped, swallowing any remnants fear, anxiety and stress she had been pouring out her eyes for hours on end and hopped off the edge to go after Yang. "Wait!" The door room creaking open shined a limited amount of light into it. It spilled onto the floor and walls like the darkness was cowering from it. Cowering darkness that allowed for vision into the beds, Blake had fallen asleep alongside her book as she always did. Her bow would twitch ever so often which all three girls agreed was adorable, but doing so in front of Blake usually earned you a scowl. Yang informed Weiss that she was going to shower and then head straight to bed. Weiss nodded in acknowledgement and walked to her bed, sitting down upon it. A slightly worn mattress sagged as she sat on it. A far cry from the doughy mound of memory foam from her days in Atlas but it did the trick. A glance was given to her pillows, a hollow gesture as Weiss was really trying to focus her ears not her eyes. The breeze against the window, drizzling of the shower head as Yang hummed to herself, the cat faunus purring opposite her. Finally, the soft breathes from overhead, Ruby was asleep - good. While it was true that Weiss sought to make amends with Ruby, she also concluded that in the middle of the night probably wasn't the best time to do so. Especially with Blake sleeping and Yang soon to join her, those two are not happy if they're woken up early. So as the night dragged on, Weiss felt her eyelids weigh her down, reluctantly letting them close as her head drifted onto the pillow. A persistent beam of light shot in through the window and assaulted Weiss' closed eyes. She groaned and rolled over but that didn't prove any better, now her neck was being assaulted with this odd heat. Sun rays made sleeping in impossible. "Blaaaaaaake," Weiss grumbled seeing as in the dorm, Blake's bed was always closest to the curtains. No call back, no movement. "Blaaaaaaaaaake" Weiss made another attempt, her whining getting louder as she was trying to smother herself in blankets. Minutes pass and still no sign of Blake. Boiling with anger now, Weiss shot out of bed to yell at Blake, "BLLLAAAA- Oh..." Weiss saw her bed empty and then looked at the clock. 10am it read. Weiss would usually be awake by now. Then she did hear footsteps and turned her head to face the bathroom door since that's where they came from. "They're both out," a high pitched voice put a name and a face to those footprints as a fully dressed Ruby Rose left the bathroom. Weiss nodded and stood up. Hesitantly, she took steps towards Ruby. Unlike with Yang last night, Weiss had no idea how Ruby would react if she got any closer. "We're going out." Ruby said, collecting Crescent Rose from her bed and sitting upon Weiss'. Two partners stared at each other before Ruby's raised eyebrow illustrated her bewilderment, "sooo... go change Weiss?". Caught off guard, Weiss simply nods, going on to shower and prepare herself as quickly as possible. As they both locked the door behind them and left. Down the hall, into the outside world leaving Weiss with one question as they approached the boarding airship. "Ruby... Where are we going...?"

