Weiss groaned as she stretched and left class. It was her math class, and without Ruby in it, the class was quite boring. She yawned as she walked towards the cafeteria, as it was nearing noon. She thought about yesterday, and had to stop for a minute to regulate her breathing and to make sure she wasn't going too red. She had a lot of fun at the pool, but sometimes Ruby was too bold for her own good.

She sighed and marched forward, only to nearly collide with a certain redheaded archenemy of hers.

"Oh wow, I'm so sorry I didn't see…..you." Penny said, her voice turning from apologetic to venomous as she realized to whom she was speaking. "And what, pray tell, are you doing? Trying to knock me out?"

"Oh please. If I had wanted to knock you out, I wouldn't do it in such a clumsy manner." Weiss responded with a scathing tone, her voice colder than the North Pole.

Penny sneered. "Pah. You couldn't do anything to me, not without your precious Ruby bawling her eyes out."

"Don't talk about her like that! And I'm quite sure Ruby would thoroughly appreciate the thrashing I could give you if she only heard the horrid things you say when you aren't fawning over her."

"At least I actually appreciate her, unlike some other people I could mention." Penny spat, her eyes burning.

"Oh yes, trying to break up our relationship sure shows how appreciative you are. Friend of the year right here." Weiss shot back, her voice cool and level.

Penny's voice was less so as she balled up her fists, straining to keep her voice low. "Damn straight! You don't deserve someone as sweet, and kind, and as amazing as Ruby! You're just a frigid, uncaring asshat with a complete douchecopter for a father!"

That struck a nerve, and Weiss snapped. "Well you're quite apparently wrong, because as it so happens, Ruby is mine and not yours. She will never be yours, understand that? And I might be an asshole sometimes, but at least I have friends. All I see you doing is moping around and fawning all over my girlfriend who quite honestly finds your behavior appalling." Weiss's tone became heated and Penny quailed slightly.

But she quickly recovered and fired back. "We'll have to see how long that lasts, with how closed off you are. A girl has needs you know. And I think I could satisfy those needs far, far better than you ever could."

Weiss was fuming as she tried to formulate a response. "What Ruby and I do together and how we choose to do it is none of your damn business!" she said, her face reddening with anger.

"Oh-hooo. So you haven't done anything yet? Tsk. Better hurry up Weiss, a girl can't wait forever!" Penny said in a cheery voice, but her face was anything but cheery as it was twisted into a terrible sneer with a look of derision in her eyes.

Storming off, Weiss was finding Yang's method of dealing with anger more and more appealing as she imagined slamming her fist straight into Penny's face. She didn't feel like going to the cafeteria now, and instead retreated off to her dorm room and made a quick salad, fuming.

…

Penny felt rather proud of herself as Weiss stormed off in the opposite direction. She went off towards the cafeteria to find Ruby sitting alone, looking at her phone. Her face was rather downcast as she looked around, brightening up slightly as she spotted Penny.

Sitting next to Ruby, Penny threw an arm around her shoulders. "Hey Ruby! Where's Weiss?" she asked innocently, knowing full well that Weiss was off fuming somewhere.

"I dunno, I tried texting her but she hasn't responded." Ruby said, a worried look in her eyes. "She usually meets me here for lunch after her math class is over…"

"Weird…it isn't like her to stand you up." Penny said. "Did you piss her off somehow?"

"No…I don't think so." Ruby said, sighing.

"I dunno, I just saw her in the hallway and she looked kind of angry about something."

"She did? Did you talk to her? Did she say where she was going?" Ruby gasped, firing off questions at Penny.

"I asked her if she was okay, and she wouldn't tell me. But she did mention that you were a much bigger…ah, 'pervert' than she thought. She wasn't too happy about it."

Ruby paled a little. "Oh nooo….is this about yesterday? Son of a…" she muttered, holding her face in her hands.

"What happened yesterday?" Penny asked, rubbing Ruby's back gently.

"We went swimming…we were teasing each other, having a splash fight. She dunked me, so to get her back I charged at her and…groped her a little." Ruby muttered, blushing.

Penny whistled. "How'd she react?"

"She scolded me, but she always does that. And we seemed okay after at dinner. But I wonder if she was madder than I thought…" Ruby said, her tone pretty downcast.

Penny pulled Ruby close, and Ruby rested her head on her shoulder.

"That sucks," Penny said, running her fingers gently up and down Ruby's arm. "But you'll be okay. You have me!"

Ruby giggled and nuzzled up to Penny. "Thanks. I know it was kinda hard for you to understand that Weiss isn't really evil, so thanks for trying. And for being my friend."

Penny frowned. "I'm still not convinced, especially with how she's acting now. She looked really mad."

Ruby groaned. "I better go apologize…"

"No, stay! You didn't do anything wrong! She is your girlfriend, right?" Penny said, pulling Ruby down as she attempted to stand up.

"Yeah? So?"

"So she shouldn't be so uptight about that stuff! A girl has needs, right?" Penny said nonchalantly as she sat Ruby down next to her and held her.

"I guess…." Ruby said as she leaned into Penny.

"Exactly. She should stop being such a goody two-shoes. I know that if I was your girlfriend I wouldn't be so uptight."

"That's because you're a massive pervert!" Ruby said, chuckling.

"I plead guilty." Penny said, squeezing Ruby's shoulder. Ruby laughed again, louder this time, and Penny laughed as well.

"Thanks for cheering me up Penny." Ruby said as she sat up.

"Anytime. Do you wanna hang for a bit?"

"Sure, seeing as Weiss hasn't texted me back yet. Why would she ditch me like this anyway?" Ruby said, pouting.

Penny let out a badly-concealed laugh, and Ruby looked hurt. "What?"

"I want to cheer you up but you look so adorable when you pout." Penny said, giggling.

"Oh shut up!" Ruby said, poking Penny in the forehead. "You're an idiot!"

"Hey, I'm not the one dating the Ice Queen of Beacon." Penny said, shrugging.

"Grrr…." Ruby growled as she hooked Penny's arm in hers and dragged her along. "Come on. Let's go find something to do."

…

Weiss sighed as she stepped out of the shower. A long, hot shower made everything a bit better, she reasoned. She checked her phone and saw five texts from Ruby and swore.

"Oh fuck me." She muttered as she read the texts.

At the table! Where are you?

Heeeey. Wakey wakey. Where u at?

Weiss?

Hey, I'm gonna hang with Penny for a bit, kay? Text me.

You know, if you're mad you should just come out and say it. You don't need to shun me like this.

The texts were spread apart, the first three about five minutes each, then ten minutes till the next one, and the last one was only a few minutes ago, which was about fifteen minutes after the fourth one.

"That bitch!" Weiss shrieked as she realized what Penny had done. She tried calling Ruby with no luck, as it went to voicemail. "Oh come on, of all the times to not pick up the damn phone…" Weiss muttered as she threw on some clothes and walked out.

She bumped into Blake who was on the way back from the library. "Hey Weiss. You okay?"

"No. No I am not." Weiss huffed. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go kill someone."

"Whoa, hold the phone. What's going on?" Blake said, grabbing Weiss's arm.

"That bitch, Penny, is plotting to steal Ruby from me!" Weiss said indignantly.

"Weiss, that's not true. Penny is just a very overprotective friend. Kinda like Yang, except worse." Blake said. "I'm sure she's not conspiring to take Ruby from you."

"But she told me! She keeps telling me that I don't deserve Ruby, that she'd make a much better girlfriend!"

"She probably just has very limited experience with encounters with you to draw on, and you being mean to her isn't exactly helping." Blake said. "She's most likely just drawing a comparison."

Weiss wanted to scream. Why did no one get it?

"Come on. If she is hanging out with Penny, you showing up is just going to spark a huge fight and you'll just upset her." Blake said, steering Weiss into her room.

"But-" Weiss protested, trying to convince Blake she was right.

"No buts. Come on, help me study. I have a big test in a few days and I don't really know what I'm doing."

Weiss knew this was bullshit, but she sighed as Blake gave her puppy eyes.

"Pleeeease?"

"Fine! Fine. Just stop doing that."

Blake giggled. "Ruby taught me how."

"I'm going to have to have a word with that girl…" Weiss grumbled as she plopped down at her desk, motioning Blake to sit next to her. "Alright, what is it you need help with?"

"Biology."

Weiss sighed and settled down beside her friend and lost herself for a few hours helping Blake through her studies, which she was having some legitimate problems with.

A few hours later, Blake leaned back with a groan and rubbed her eyes. "Okay Weiss, my fingers hurt from writing and my brain is refusing to accept any more information. Can we go for a walk or something?"

"Yeah sure, of course."

They left and heard a movie playing from inside Blake's dorm room. Weiss almost went in, but Blake held an arm in front of her and a finger up to her lips. They heard talking from inside the room and Penny's voice was clear, as well as Ruby's. They were talking about some class, and Weiss frowned.

"Come on. Let's go."

The two of them walked away and encountered Yang, who invited them over to the gym so they could see the kickboxing club in action. "We just started a meeting, I was just busting for a pee. Wanna come watch some matches?"

Weiss shrugged and Blake dragged her into the clubroom. They saw a few familiar faces as Sun and Pyrrha walked up to them.

"Hey! What're you two doing here? I didn't have you pegged as the kickboxing type." Sun said, grinning. He didn't have a shirt on, which Weiss found rather repulsive. She felt like she could feel the stink of sweat in this room.

"We're just watching." She said tersely, looking for a place to sit. The club had set up a makeshift boxing ring in the middle of the room, and the place was devoid of chairs or tables.

"Just sit up against the wall over there then. You chose a good day to watch, we're running qualifiers today. We have a tournament coming up, and the winning school gets a big check and the winning boxer gets a trophy. But more than that, the winner gets some serious bragging rights." Sun said, puffing out his chest. Weiss made a face.

Blake laughed and sat Weiss down. "So is there a reigning champion?" she asked teasingly.

Sun shot her a look. "I'll win someday you know."

"I'm currently the champion. I won last year." Pyrrha said, raising her hand. "This is only my second year competing, but I plan to win just as soundly as last time."

"So how do the qualifiers work?" Weiss asked, curious.

"People volunteer. Over the next two weeks, each volunteer fights in 3 matches. Whoever wins the most of their matches fights tiebreakers until we have our team of five. With thirty members, and pretty much everyone volunteering, it takes a while."

"I see." Weiss said, sitting down.

The club got to work as they cleared out the stuff around the sparring area. The first fight was Yang versus a larger boy. Blake let out a little gasp when Yang emerged from the changing room. Her feet were bare, she had very short black shorts on, and she wore a tight sports bra that exposed her midriff and her lower ribcage. She tied on boxing gloves and Pyrrha finished them off for her.

The bigger guy grinned as Yang stepped into the ring. They stood on opposite ends, then Pyrrha called the match. Yang blocked a few straight jabs to the face, but immediately lashed out with a kick to the shins, causing the guy to backstep and try a different avenue of attack.

This continued, with him trying to throw a punch and Yang landing a menacing kick to the back of his knee, his thigh, or his shin. Eventually Yang went on the offensive, and slammed her leg much harder than before into the back of his knee, sending him down.

He didn't get up, and Pyrrha called the match in Yang's favor. Blake clapped and Yang grinned, sweat dripping down her body. The fight had lasted about five minutes, as the guy could definitely take a hit.

"How come you didn't just lay into him right off the bat?" Blake asked curiously as Yang walked over.

"Too beefy. I can take a few hits, but he's just bigger than me. I had to whittle him down while playing defensive. If I had gone all in from point zero, he would have downed me with two, three punches. But he ignored his lower half and tried to land a hit, which wasn't working. So after I noticed him getting wobbly, I went in for the kill."

Blake stood up and embraced Yang, running her fingers through her hair and down her arms. "You're all shiny."

"I am? I should probably shower." Yang said, grinning.

"I never noticed how sexy you look when you're all sweaty like this…and the way you're dressed…mmm…" Blake said, gently biting Yang's neck.

"I'll shower later." Yang said quickly as she pulled Blake off towards the changing rooms, her face turning a little red.

Weiss made another face as she watched the rest of the matches play out. Pyrrha knocked her opponent flat on his back barely thirty seconds into the match, and Sun tanked quite a few punches from his opposition before a knee to the solar plexus took him out.

Sun collapsed next to Weiss, who quickly made distance. He pouted. "Hey! I'm not that bad!"

"You smell like a sweat factory." Weiss grumbled.

"A sexy sweat factory."

"You're disgusting."

"Am I your kind of disgusting?"

"I'm gay, Sun." Weiss said curtly. "Remember? You helped me get with my current girlfriend, your friends roommate?"

"I did?" Sun looked confused as he ran through his memories.

"The Halloween party?" Weiss said in an exasperated tone.

"The one where I got piss-drunk and remember nothing?"

Weiss sighed. "Yes, dumbass. That one."

"Oh."

There was a few moments of silence before he followed up with "So I'm not your kind of disgusting then?"

That got a small laugh out of Weiss, and Sun grinned. "No, you aren't. You're just the regular kind."

"Psh, I am anything but regular. Did you know that one time, I managed to eat an entire turkey on my own? And didn't get fat?"

"How big was the turkey?" Weiss asked, bemused.

"Hmm…pretty big. Like, those really big ones you see at the deli and wonder 'who the fuck needs that big of a turkey'. That kind of big."

Weiss laughed. "And you really managed to eat an entire one on your own?"

"Yup. Whole thing."

"How long did that take you?"

Sun blinked. "A month."

Weiss burst out laughing. "That just got a lot less impressive."

"I dunno, living on turkey for a whole month is pretty damn impressive in my book." Sun said, shrugging.

"I'll give you that one, I suppose." Weiss said, giggling a little.

"So," Sun started, looking at Weiss. "Why are you here, watching sweaty guys and two very, very hot girls in relationships beat the piss out of each other when you could be with your girl?"

"Because I fucked up." Weiss said, shrugging. "I got really jealous of one of her friends. I was convinced she was trying to steal her away from me, but I've been thinking and I'm not really sure if that's true anymore. She might have just been really overprotective since…well, I haven't exactly been nice to her. Or most other people, really."

"You're being nice to me." Sun said, smiling.

"Yeah…I guess I am." Weiss said, smiling.

"So…why not just apologize to this friend, and your girl?"

"I don't really know how. I feel like if I tried I would just get angry and blow up again." Weiss muttered, staring into space.

"Hm." Sun said, pulling his knees up to his chest. "Do you love her?"

"Huh?"

"Your girl. Do you love her?"

"Um…yeah. Of course I love her."

"Does she know that?"

"I hope so."

"Then you shouldn't have anything to worry about, right? Just go up to her and say 'sorry for being a bitch' then you make out and everything is hunky-dory." Sun said, waving his hand to emphasize the point. "And with her friend, you say the same thing. Minus the making out bit. I mean, unless you two are into that sort of thing-"

"Okay! Okay, I get the point!" Weiss said, laughing. "Thanks, Sun. You're not that bad."

"Sweet! Approval from the Ice Queen!" Sun said, punching the air. "I'm privileged!"

Weiss punched his arm and laughed. "Shut up."

"Anyway, what are you waiting for? Go get some!" Sun said, shoving Weiss up. "I bet you could get some serious loving if you act all mushy and girly and shit about this."

"Shut up!" Weiss squealed, but she was laughing. "I'm going, I'm going!" She turned to leave, but turned around and smiled. "Seriously though, thank you."

Sun smiled and gave her a thumbs up. Weiss grinned and ran back to her room, texting Blake an apology for bailing on her.

When she arrived, she heard weird noises from behind the door.

"Penny…what are you…doing?" she heard Ruby ask hesitantly.

"It's okay Ruby…I'm here for you." Penny said, her voice sounding sweet, but with something else. Like poison honey.

"Penny…no…this is bad…"

Weiss opened to door to find Penny kissing Ruby full on the lips. She had Ruby pressed up against the wall, her hands on either side of her, trapping her. Seeing red, Weiss raced forward and slammed her side into the two of them, and she twisted to find her hands forming a death grip on Penny's clothing. She heard a loud crack and someone screamed. She nearly threw Penny across the room, and she landed in a heap.

She walked over and stood over Penny, murder in her eyes, when Jaune, who lived a few dorms over, raced in.

"What the hell is going on in here?" he said, taking in the scene in front of him with wide eyes.

"She was…doing things…to her….trying to…trying to…" Weiss said, unable to finish her sentence.

"Oh gods Ruby what the fuck…" Jaune said, horror in his voice. He ran over to Ruby, who was crumpled on the floor. A pool of red was forming around her and sinking into the carpet.

Weiss gasped and darted over, but Jaune shoved her away. "What the fuck did you do to her?" he yelled, fear in his eyes.

"I didn't….it wasn't….oh god…" Weiss sputtered, tears streaming down her face.

"Call 911, now." Jaune said as he leaned over Ruby. "Oh Jesus this looks bad…."

Weiss called 911 and told them what was happening. When she looked up, Penny was gone.

…

Three hours later, Yang, Blake, and Jaune were sitting in a waiting room of a hospital.

Weiss had disappeared after calling 911, despite Jaune trying to get her to stay. She said nothing, but simply ran. Jaune called Yang and told her what was going on, and she had shown up when the doctors did. Upon hearing she was Ruby's older sister, the paramedics let her go on the ambulance with them as they carried Ruby down in a stretcher.

Blake and Jaune drove behind them to the hospital and when they had arrived, Yang made Jaune tell her in detail what had happened.

"I heard….someone scream. From Ruby's room. I ran over to see what was going on…and Weiss was standing over this girl. Penny, I think her name was. Weiss looked crazy. And I saw Ruby lying against the wall all crumpled up with blood just pooling around her…"

Blake covered her mouth with her hand. "Oh god…."

"She had broken ribs sticking out of her chest." Jaune whispered in horror. "I kept Weiss away from her, and she called 911. Then she just ran….Penny had left too, I didn't see her leave though."

Yang looked stone faced. "When I get my hands on her…" she snarled.

"Yang, no. She probably has a good explanation for what happened, and you get riled up way too easily. You need to stay here with Ruby, I'll go find Weiss." Blake said, her voice shaky.

"No, Blake, she had one job. One fucking job." Yang said, standing up.

Blake stood up quickly and placed her hands on Yang's shoulders. "Yang, listen to me. Whatever happened was an accident. Weiss loves Ruby, she would never hurt her on purpose. Trust me. I'll go find her, you stay with your sister."

Yang closed her eyes and took a deep breath, tears welling in her eyes. "Fine. But if her explanation isn't satisfactory….well, she better know a really good dentist."

Blake nodded, wiping her eyes. She darted out and got into her car, telling Jaune she'd be back for him later. He nodded numbly, and she wasn't sure if he even heard her.

As she drove, she only had one thought on her mind.

If Weiss's explanation isn't good enough….Yang doesn't need to worry. I love Ruby too….just like my own little sister.

Author's Note

OHHH SHIIIIET. You done fucked up now Penny. And Weiss.

Well, I promised you drama. And you got your fucking drama. HAPPY? I'm not. This chapter was difficult as fuck to write.

Reviews make me happy, yadda yadda yadda, wonderful day and stuff.

I need to go lie down for a little bit. I feel dirty inside for writing this.

Oh, also, my new story is up. The Strife of Sanity. It'd be super awesome if you guys could check it out.

Spike