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"Weeeiiiissss." Ruby moaned, "Why do we have to do this?" She let her head thunk down against the textbook in front of her. It was their third hour of studying together this evening and despite Yang's request, Weiss would net let Ruby fall behind as a result of all her emotional troubles.

"Because Ruby. You're our leader, which means you have to keep up with your studies." Weiss lifted Ruby's head off the book, slid another worksheet in front of her and released her head. Ruby immediately let her face fall back forward, hitting the new worksheet with her forehead. "We promised each other remember? That we would be the best partners we could be for each other."

"Buut Weiss there isn't even a test until next month." Ruby lifted her head and groaned. "How do you just study all the time?"

"I do not just study all the time. I have plenty of other activities." Weiss recoiled back in offense and Ruby finally lifted her head.

"Oh yeah? Plenty of other activities?" The young girl waggled her eyebrows in a fashion Weiss was very familiar with, just usually from her older sister. "Liiiiike, making out with my sister?" Ruby giggled and poked at Weiss.

"I will have you know-" Weiss began but stopped as Ruby poked her again, "I don't know how you can even-" Ruby poked her again, "Ruby, I swear to Oum if you don't-" Ruby poked her again. "Ahhh Fine. Yes." Weiss crossed her arms. "Yes, we do that. Sometimes. Maybe more than we should. But we both find it...quite… enjoyable." Weiss's face went a deep red and she turned away from her partner.

"Oh Weiss eww." Ruby swatted at her with both hands, "I didn't need to know that eww eww eww." Ruby continued swatting at her until Weiss caught one of her wrists.

"Well then you shouldn't have pestered me about it." Weiss dropped her hand, "And besides. We don't ever do anything in front of you right? So it should be fine."

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Ruby sat up a little straighter. "Thank you for that by the way. I know you are really trying to make me feel comfortable about it all." Ruby glanced off to the side nervously, "It's nice of you."

"And don't you forget it." Weiss recovered her composure now that she had Ruby in a slightly more docile and manageable state. "Now, if we could get back to studying we could just-"

"No Weiss." Ruby lunged out and covered the book with her body, "Please anything but that."

"Would you stop?" Weiss pulled back from the book in shock, physically retreating from Ruby's foolishness, "We are in a library." she chided.

"Please, please, anything but more studying." Ruby scooped up the texts and closed them, crumpling the worksheets and notes inside without a second thought. She made rapid work, piling all their supplies in one corner of the small table before Weiss could stop her. "See, look everything's all packed up, we might as well leave."

"Are you… Are you being serious?" Weiss sat there in complete shock, arms hanging uselessly at her sides. Ruby's ability to completely ignore rational thought and operate as she pleased was remarkable, like something brought to Remnant for the sole purpose of infuriating Weiss. "Well, if not study. Then what would you rather do?"

"Literally anything Weiss." Ruby said as if it were the simplest thing imaginable, "We could walk Zwei, or get dinner, or play a game, or watch a movie, oh my Oum anything but study more."

"No I mean precisely what would you rather be doing Ruby." Weiss levelled a serious look at the younger girl. She had wanted to get in a little more responsible studying and school work before they had this conversation but it appeared that Ruby would be having none of that so they might as well do it now. She did have to get it done after all, that or see a disappointed look in Yang's eyes. That would be unacceptable. "If I had not brought you here to study this afternoon, how would you be spending your time?"

"Oh..? Well…" Ruby sat in thought for a moment, swinging her legs idly beneath her, pursing her lips and tapping her finger on her chin. "I guess I would be back in the dorm reading that new book with Blake. It's really good. We're only a few chapters in right now but it's so awesome and-"

"Wait. Wait wait wait." Weiss waved her hands about to stop Ruby from rambling on any further. "You're sitting here complaining about studying and you would rather just be reading a different book?" Weiss realized she had absolutely zero concept of how Ruby's brain functioned, how it jumped from decision to decision.

"Well yeah, duh." Ruby didn't seem to understand Weiss's train of thought either, "That's a fun book Weiss. It's full of danger and mystery and adventure and a little bit of romance." She snickered at the end.

"So you want to just go sit with Blake and read?" Weiss re-crossed her arms. It may be tougher to get Ruby to admit this than she thought. Trying to guide her thoughts in one specific direction was like trying to herd a pack of creepers into a trap.

"Yep, yep, yep." Ruby smiled ear to ear. She was so obvious, really, but unless she could get her to say it out loud then this wouldn't work. Yang was probably done already. Blake's mind followed some semblance of rational thought whereas Ruby's was a muddled mess of cookies and fluffy animals. "We like to sit together and read the different characters out loud for each other. Like I read this one who's a young boy that had to strike out on his own because his village was destroyed and now he's adventuring across his kingdom looking for-"

"I don't need to know the whole book Ruby." Weiss cut her short. "But, I'm your partner right? You never asked me to sit and read with you. Even before Yang and I were a couple." Weiss shuddered to remember all of the things that Ruby had asked her to accompany her on. Many of them against the rules, most of them dangerous but all in all mostly enjoyable. Except for that incident with the food fight. That was absolutely enjoyable. "Why Blake?"

"Huh?" Ruby's face dropped, "Oh Weiss I'm sorry. I totally thought that you and Yang would want to have more time together and I've been trying to stay away from you guys. No no no, I still totally wanna hang out with you. I didn't want you to think I didn't." Ruby began to lean forward towards Weiss, hands outstretched.

"No, that's fine." Weiss scooted her chair back just a bit, making it look like she was just correcting her posture, which she knew she had a compulsive habit of doing. "That's not what I meant. I uhh-" Realization struck Weiss, "Wait, you've been trying to give us alone time?"

"Well yeah, you're my partner and she's my sister and I want you two to be happy." Ruby leaned back in her chair and Weiss breathed a sigh of relief. "I mean, I know that you two don't wanna do uhh stuff in front of me, and probably not in front of Blake either so we've been trying to get out of your way."

"You didn't have to do that Ruby." Weiss sincerely thought those had been plans of Yang's to get her alone. While she liked the idea of spending more intimate time with her girlfriend she had thought it awfully forward of her. But, to find out that it was a concentrated effort on their partners' part to give them time. Well, now it seemed like a wonderful, romantic coincidence that they had such wonderful partners. Weiss reminded herself to keep an eye out for another such opportunity. "Really, Yang and I are much more than a physical couple I assure you."

"Oh okay…"

"But uhh… I know that she does find it uncomfortable to be.. Well.. affectionate around you and I would rather not be overt with such displays so if you don't mind… well… continuing that. I would not be opposed." Weiss stuttered out, trying desperately to not give her the wrong impression. But, also, not wanting to lose her alone time with that big, beautiful, wonderfully toned, muscular… She had to focus on Ruby right now. Weiss took a deep steadying breath to clear her thoughts as Ruby responded.

"No problem." Ruby did a terrible mock salute, one that would have made Winter literally groan. "Maybe we should come up with like a code word that you can use when you want to have the room. Or like, a sneaky way to send a message that when I see it, I'll know and I can just take Blake and leave or something."

"I'm not sure something like that would work." While it did sound like a decent plan, Weiss could not imagine Ruby being any good at any kind of covert operation. She could just see it now. Weiss would drop the code word oh so subtly into a line of conversation, ensuring that it did not stand out in any way. Ruby, would completely miss it and barrel right on through. Weiss would use the code word again, with slightly more force and while maintaining eye contact with Ruby to make sure she understood. Ruby would, of course, continue to miss the point. Finally when Weiss broke down and just screamed the code word at Ruby, she would yelp, make up an absolutely terrible excuse and run out of the room. Then Weiss would have to endure a tirade of teasing from Yang and probably not get to any of what she had wanted in the first place. "I think Yang would catch on, don't you?"

"Oh yeah, you're probably right." Ruby's head fell back into serious thought.

"Don't worry Ruby. Like I said, we can figure it out." How was Weiss letting herself get so distracted. She had a purpose for being here, a goal. "So you and Blake have been spending more time together lately then?"

"Oh yeah, lots and lots." Ruby's eyes lit up and her head jerked to attention. "Like, we hang out a lot between classes and whenever I want to read she's always up for it. I even caught up like three whole books in time to read the new one with her which is awesome because reading it together is soo much better than reading it alone. I don't know what it is , but like, when she reads I feel like I understand everything in the book way more and I can totally get into it. Sometimes when I read without her i get distracted and I feel like I'm reading but then when I'm done I don't really remember much of what happened in the book." Weiss cut in before she could get too far off track again.

"What you two do the other night?" She cleared her throat, "When you were, erm, well, giving Yang and I time alone." Ruby giggled and jumped right back in.

"First we went to the store and I bought Blake the book because I know how much she likes having them and I don't really care about having one I just wanna read it so it was no big deal. Plus it looked like it made her really, really happy so that's good too right? Well anyways, I bought her the book and then we went out for lunch together which was really nice because she took me to this little cafe that let us eat up on the roof. It was really good, even if I did ruin my muffin, but it was okay because Blake let me share with her. I felt kind bad about that because she bought it all for me anyways and then I took some of hers but, well you know how Blake gets. She was doing that thing where she gets really down on herself and starts to talk bad and like she doesn't believe in herself and I don't like to see her like that so I shoved it in her mouth. She laughed and I laughed and then we went for a walk in this park and it was nice because it was kind of dark and we sat and read together and were really close to each other and you probably didn't want to know this much did you?" Ruby came to a grinding halt amid her tumult of words.

Even Weiss had to admit, that had been an adorable display of someone completely and absolutely crushing on someone but not admitting it flat out. Seeing Ruby go through all of that was enough to reinvigorate her and remind her why she agreed to this in the first place. She wasn't her to curry favor with Yang, she was here to help her partner and her friend find the same kind of happiness that she had found with Yang.

"I did ask though didn't I?" Weiss had to suppress a giggle of joy. It looked as if she may have finally wrangled Ruby's brain into being focused on the one thing she had been aiming for. "It sounds like you two had a very intimate evening."

"Yeah, I mean. It was really nice. We got to spend a lot of time together and oh no what do you mean intimate?" Horror painted itself across her face in bright strokes, red blossoms appearing at both her cheeks and spreading rapidly. "It- It wasn't- uhh… intimate. No, it was just nice. Yeah. It was a nice friendly night out."

"That didn't exactly sound friendly to me Ruby. That sounded like a bit more than that." Weiss relaxed her arms and tried to sit a little less straight, to appear slightly more inviting.

"Why would it be anything more than that? Why would anything else have happened? It's not like that right?" Ruby's blush continued to spread and her words came faster than before. "I mean. I don't like girls do I? And does Blake? I don't think she does. I know she talks about how she doesn't like any of the boys around here but that's just because she doesn't like anyone right now right not because she likes girls. Wait." Ruby stopped in her rambling and locked eyes with Weiss. "Do you think Blake likes girls?"

"Well I think it's a definite possibility." Weiss started to explain her feelings on the matter but thought it might be better, and far more amusing, to just watch Ruby implode into a little ball of confusion and hormones. First loves were so cute.

"And and and why do you think that? Can you like tell because you like girls too? I didn't even know you liked girls until you and Yang started going out. I guess it's hard for me because Yang likes both and so I don't know what it is that you might not like about boys because to her it doesn't really matter and before now I hadn't really met anyone else who was like that. So is there like, a way to tell? Or do you just have to guess?"

"There isn't some secret to it Ruby. We don't have a handshake or passwords or anything like Headmaster Ozpin and your uncle." Weiss shook her head, so many people had such weird ideas about how this worked. "It's the same as being able to tell if someone likes a boy or if the like a girl. It doesn't really matter, you just look for the signs. Like when they watch them in class, or spend all day dreaming about them, or spend a lot of time with them for no reason, or go on things that are totally dates but they swear they aren't." Ruby's eye grew wide as Weiss continued.

"What are you saying Weiss. How did you…?" Ruby recoiled her hands into herself and Weiss felt a little bit of panic. She had honestly expected her to confess by now but this reluctance she was showing was worrying. She knew that if Ruby was backed into a corner she didn't do well. She got very scattered and flustered and became defensive to the point of silence.

"Nothing, I'm just saying that maybe there's a chance that Blake likes you and you just hadn't realized." Weiss started back in slowly. "Perhaps you're night out together meant more to her than it did to you." Weiss knew full well that Ruby had enjoyed Blake's company and what they had done. But, she also knew that Ruby was probably scared that Blake might not reciprocate her feelings so perhaps if she could convince her that she did then Ruby might feel better about exposing her own feelings.

"Do you really think so?" Ruby's voice rose an octave or two, which was impressive, in excitement. "I don't know. I mean, we're just like really good friends right? Yeah I don't think there's anything else-" Weiss couldn't take it anymore. She had tried to be patient, but if she could spell it for Ruby in no uncertain terms and have her try to refute it like this. Well, that was that.

"Ruby, I know what I'm talking about. I've been watching you two for a while now. It is very obvious that you are both interested and just neither of you is willing to admit it." Weiss needed to get through all of it and make her intentions clear before Ruby had a chance to clam up. "As your partner and Blake's friend I can't stand to see you two ignore this. If you don't address it then something terrible might happen, someone's feelings might get hurt, you two might wind up with the wrong people. I have to try and make sure you at least give it a chance."

Ruby sat in silence and just stared at Weiss. Perhaps Weiss had done something terribly wrong, maybe the forward, aggressive approach wouldn't work after all. She sat in horrified silence as she waited for Ruby to react. Weiss was now too afraid to do anything else and risk messing things up more than she had already. This situation was obviously already going to require extensive repair work by Yang and quite possibly may have ruined any chance of Ruby and Blake being together.

"Is it really that obvious?" Ruby finally said in a hushed voice. It took Weiss a moment to garner the meaning of her words before she could respond.

"Definitely. If you can't tell that Blake likes you then you're even more oblvious than Jaune was to Pyrrha." Weiss realized her misstep as soon as she said it. "Sorry I didn't mean to."

"It's okay," Ruby smiled, "I mean I don't think I'm worse than him though. He was so bad that he dated another girl when she was so in love with him." Ruby started to laugh.

"But Ruby," Weiss took a slow breath, "You dated Jaune when Blake felt that way about you." Ruby's eye flew open in shock, much wider than before.

"Has she liked me for that long?" Ruby asked, losing all the trepidation from before.

"I don't think," Weiss had to measure her words carefully, "I don't think she was completely aware of the fact that her feelings were romantic. Perhaps she was convinced that she only liked you as a very close friend. But yes, she has cared about you for that long and it now is definitely a romantic interest."

"Why didn't you tell me Weiss?"Ruby swung at her and hit Weiss on the shoulder. "Oh no, I must have made her feel so bad when I came back and talked about my dates and stuff." She hit Weiss again, "Why didn't you tell me? I'm so bad at this." Weiss lifted her hand to retaliate and Ruby finally stopped hitting her on the arm.

"I was more than a little pre-occupied with my own emotions at the time. Plus, you did start seeing Jaune so I figured that telling you would only cause you heartache. Remember how worried you were about Pyrrha's emotions? Just imagine if I had dumped Blake's concerns on top of those." Weiss lowered her guard once she was sure that Ruby had settled down enough to be trusted again.

"But… But I…" Ruby seemed at a loss for words so Weiss was more than happy to fill them in for her.

"You, Ruby Rose, are going to go in that dorm room and tell Blake Belladonna, in no uncertain terms, exactly how you feel." Weiss crossed her arms again. The worst was past, now it was just giving Ruby instructions, that she could handle. "You are going to tell her and she will tell you and Yang and I will be no where near any of it because she has promised me a romantic walk through one of Beacon's gardens. You know, like the one you and Blake went on without even knowing it."

"No Weiss, I can't." Ruby's face went bright red again and she pulled her hood over her head.

"Well, you have two options Ruby." Weiss knew she had her, "You can either go in there and tell Blake how you feel and start an incredibly happy and healthy relationship with her or you can sit here and study with me for the rest of the evening. Yang and I can take our walk another night." Weiss knew which option she would pick but turned and began pulling down the books just in case, to give her that extra motivation.

"You really wouldn't mind missing your walk?" Ruby mumbled out from beneath her cloak. Wait, had she heard her right? She was choosing studying? No, that was unacceptable. Weiss turned on her.

"Go." She said, "Go right now," she picked up a paperback workbook, "You go right now Ruby Rose. Go to your room and tell Blake you like her." She rolled up the workbook and swatted at Ruby's shoulder. "You go right now, stop sitting here, go." Weiss continued to swat Ruby with it.

"Ow, ow fine." Ruby jumped up with a small giggle, "I was kidding, ow, I was kidding, stop." Ruby took a few steps away. "I'd rather fight a Death Stalker than keep studying." Ruby stuck out her tongue and ran off as Weiss got up to chase her down with the workbook.

Good, now she was on her way and Weiss had done her job and everything was going to go wonderfully. She pulled out her scroll and sent a quick message to Yang that Ruby was on her way back to the dorm. With that out of the way, she just had to pack up her things, correct the mess that Ruby had made, and she could enjoy an evening with her wonderful girlfriend. One who, she had to admit was proving much more caring and considerate than she had even hoped she would be. There was a flash of rose petals and Weiss turned in her seat. Why was she back?

"Thank you Weiss." Ruby darted forward and hugged Weiss before she could react, "Thank thank you. Thank you so much." Ruby pulled out of the hug but left her hands on Weiss's shoulders. "You're the best partner ever." There was another blur and Weiss was assaulted with even more rose petals as Ruby darted away.

"Well, at least she's excited."

A/N - Okay, I'm a terrible person. I missed a publication date. I've never missed one before. You see, i got really busy yesterday and while these chapters are already finished, they do still require editing. I procrastinated and procrastinated and then there was more editing work to do than I thought because some small changes earlier in the story required more significant changes at this point. Anyways, I am extremely sorry to have left you all hanging. I really have prided myself on never having missed a publication date before and it's messing with me that I finally have. I hope you all understand. Tomorrow's chapter will come out as normal, no delays, I promise.

Alright, now that that's out of the way, what did you think? I really like Weiss. Like a lot a lot. So, writing chapters from her perspective is fun for me, especially ones where she and Ruby interact because in my opinion they are even further polar opposites than Weiss and Yang.

Both of our Ladybug girls have discusses with their partners and Blake even has that promise with Pyrrha keeping her going. So, without further delay, the next chapter (oh my Oum chapter 45) will be titled, Ladybug.

Thanks so much for reading, can't wait to hear what you think.

-Zach