The golden rays peeking through the curtains into the team RWBY dorm combined with the buzz of an alarm clock was the signal that the weekend had regrettably come to an end. Both Blake and Yang had spent the entire weekend lounging about the dorm, reading books together, watching silly videos, and various other relaxing activities. The red and white pair of team RWBY spent the weekend a bit more actively by spending Friday and Saturday out in the shops of Vale. After their weekend in Vale, they retreated back to the library Sunday evening to get in a bit of studying before classes began for the week.

The first to be brought out of slumber was the team's youngest member. Ruby had adapted to waking early in the morning and because of her leadership role, had gotten used to being in charge of waking the others. After Ruby had silenced her alarm clock she went and pawed through her sheets until her fingers met with the chill of metal. Finding her whistle the reaper decided that now was as good a time as any to wake the rest of her teammates. After sounding her whistle Ruby started with her signature morning greeting.

"Good morning team RWBY!" she stated as energetically as she could at 6:30 in the morning.

After the young redhead sounded her morning call, the rest of the team began popping out of their world of slumber. The first person to be brought out of their dreams was Weiss. "Do you really find it necessary to use such annoying means to wake us up? I mean honestly Ruby the whistle was comical the first twenty or so times, but now it's just annoying." The heiress stated agitation clear in her tired voice. The next person to make their state of consciousness known was a certain blonde brawler.

"Oh calm down Ice Queen." The blonde yawned before continuing. "At least it gets us all up in time. I thought you were all about efficiency and being on time."

"I am, but I would prefer to do so without having to worry about losing my hearing each morning." The heiress retorted.

Finally Blake had decided to interject. "Well, at least we are all up. Let's just get ready for class, and grab some breakfast." Weiss simply gave a hmph noise in return.

After all was said and done, the members of team RWBY each took their turns getting ready for the day ahead. As per usual, the first to shower and get dressed was Ruby, followed by Weiss, then Blake, and finally Yang. Each of the four girls completed their morning rituals with plenty of time for them to get breakfast as a team. After they had all eaten their morning meal they decided to proceed with their daily tasks and continue on to class.

Classes went on as they normally did. For their first block they started off the day with Advanced Dust Usage In Combat. Weiss was a natural ace in the class, as she had been taught the material from the age of eight due to her family profession. Advanced Dust was one of the few classes that actually held the attention of Ruby, considering it was a class that taught her new ways to utilize her sweetheart. Blake tried equally hard in all of her classes, while Yang was just trying to pass. After Advanced Dust they had a three hour lecture hall with Professor Port on the dangers relating to different species of Grimm, although this generally just ended up being a storytelling session from the professors more than questionable first hand accounts of surviving endless onslaughts of Grimm. After the three hours were up Weiss left with several more pages of notes, and Yang with more saliva coating her notebook, having dozed off at some point during the tale of how Professor Port slew 30 Ursai using some fire dust and a twig. The last class of the day was Grimm Studies with Professor Oobleck.

Upon arriving at the classroom there was a note hastily taped to the door written in the Professor's messy, near unintelligible handwriting. Sorry class, was called away on urgent business, class will be canceled today. Sincerely, Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck. After being greeted with this note, it had Ruby fistpumping the air excitedly, but now there was a question hanging above all of their heads. The redheaded reaper was the first to voice her thoughts.

"So... Now that we don't have class what should we do in the meantime?" Ruby said while scuffing the heel of her shoe into the ground bashfully.

Weiss was the first to respond. "Well, personally I feel like we should still do something productive with our time, regardless of if class is canceled or not." The first person to object to this was the blonde brawler.

"We get a day off from class, and you want to do work? Why am I not surprised?" The blonde replied in a joking manner chuckling to herself.

"Well I don't see you offering any suggestions." The heiress replies sharply. After waiting several seconds and hearing nothing but silence she continued "That's what I thought."

"Well fine, what would you propose we do ice queen?" Yang stated in a playful tone.

Weiss rolled her eyes hearing her assigned moniker. "Well, how about we get a little combat practice in? It has been a long time since we have been able to train together as a team, the training hall should be open." The heiress replied.

Upon hearing the words training hall, Yang internally panicked, but was able to maintain her external composure. She began getting mental flashes of the events that transpired the last time she was in the training hall. Attempting to keep her cool, Yang was let out a rushed response. "I normally would say yes, but Blake and I spent all of Saturday training together, I kind of got my fill of it then. Sorry. Actually on second thought I think I am going to head back to the dorm, see you guys back there!" After finishing her brief response Yang rushed off, just wanting to free herself of the situation.

After Yang had made her departure confused looks were shared between the three remaining members of the team.

"I thought you said that you guys just spent all weekend relaxing in the dorm, didn't you?" Ruby stated with a questioning tone. Blake wore a puzzled look that perfectly matched Ruby's tone.

"Yeah, I did, because all that we did this past weekend was relax and read. As a matter of fact I don't think that Myself, or Yang has been near the training hall sinc-" Blake stopped the words in her throat. "I think I may have an idea as to what happened. I'm going to check on her, to make sure she is alright. I'll see you in a bit." With that, the faunus left just as suddenly as her partner had, leaving a very confused Ruby and Weiss in her wake.

The onyx haired tore off seeking to console her partner. Seeing as classes were supposed to be in session currently she didn't have to deal with the usual sea of people congesting the hallways, and she was able to make it to the dorm in a few mere minutes. She quickly fished her scroll out of her blazer's interior pocket and unlocked the door. Once she heard the beep, she was cautious about opening the door, not wanting to panic her partner. Very carefully she opened the door to be met with the sight of Yang leaning over her bed, shaking. Blake carefully approached the blonde, not wanting to startle her. She placed a hand as softly as she could upon the brawler's back and called out her name softly. Upon hearing her name, Yang snapped her head around, suddenly aware of another person's presence in the room. The clearly shaken girl tried her best to compose herself, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't face those amber orbs.

"Hey Blake, back so soon?" The blonde weakly spoke.

"What's wrong?" The onyx haired girl inquired, with concern clearly written on her face.

After being called out, Yang decided to stop pretending considering it was just the two of them in the room. "I'm sorry that I freaked out, it's just that…. Just that…"

"That you haven't been in the training hall since what happened to me?" Blake finished her sentence for her. After hearing this Yang buried her head in the crook of Blake's neck. "It's okay, I understand why you wouldn't want to, but you know that you are eventually going to have to go back there right?" Earning a weak nod from the blonde, Blake simply started stroking her partner's back as a means to calm her down. "Do you want to talk about it?" All that she got back for a response was a head shake conveying 'no' and then she started to hear soft sobs emanating from the her partner. Not having had to deal with someone in this vulnerable state before, it was now Blake who was the one panicking. She just did all that she thought was right by continuing her ministrations, and whispering promises that everything would be okay. After a few minutes of this, Yang seemed to cry herself out and eventually fell into a more relaxed state.

"Thanks Blake. You don't know how helpful that was." The blonde spoke softly while removing a tear from her eye.

"Don't worry about it. Feel free to take your time, however long it takes." The amber eyed girl remarked confidently.

"Thank you, it really does mean the world to me to hear that." Blake, assuming the role of caretaker, decided to keep her kindnesses going.

"How about we just wind down for a bit by reading together, sound good?" All she got back was a simple nod 'yes' but this seemed to be enough to satisfy the faunus. Hearing, or rather seeing an affirmative to her question, Blake scooped Yang up off of the floor and moved her covers aside for them to both climb underneath the sheets. Blake began reading aloud, and after twenty or so minutes she felt dead weight fall on her shoulder, signifying Yang had fallen asleep. Regardless of this Blake continued to read for several more hours until eventually she put her book aside and decided to join her girlfriend in the land of dreams, prepared to tackle the obstacles ahead of them in the near future.

A/N: Well, it appears I have some explaining to do. It has been quite some time since I have made any progress with this story, and for that I sincerely apologize. I hope to be able to write more for this story in the coming future, but alas, I cannot make any assurances. As of writing this author's note, I am currently a college student, and unfortunately this means that only time I get to write is during the weekend. This would be fine if I did not have other commitments to uphold. During the weekend I livestream on twitch, and this means that even less time can be dedicated to writing this story. All of that being said, I am going to try my damnedest to make a habit of writing something each week. Anyways, I apologize for the lengthy author's note this time around, but I found it pertinent to keep you all informed.

Best Regards,

Alithnul