I know…I took way too long to get this chapter out. I want to apologize, but I've been…well pretty shitty these past two months. Both writer's block and depression took over, but I will make this promise. I will never abandon this story.

Oh and just letting you all know, I've been helping out a bit with this collaboration story. It's called Room 205. It's on NobleMETA's profile and damn, there are a bunch of writers on it. Definitely give it a read if you haven't already.

Here's chapter 8 everyone.

"Winter, exactly what is so important that you felt the need to contact me?" Mr. Schnee inquired.

"Apologies, father, but I couldn't help but hear about Weiss' injury from a conversation you had with the headmaster of Beacon the other day." Winter said.

Mr. Schnee scoffed. "Yes, your sister had in fact gotten herself injured while trying to be a huntress. Now what does this call have to do with that?"

"Well isn't it odd that she hasn't even attempted to contact you or me about her recovery? It has been a few days after all." Winter reminded.

"Hmm, well I'd assume that she just got herself so injured that she couldn't, but…you may be right. It is odd that she hasn't contacted me by now." Mr. Schnee remained quiet for a moment and said. "I have no intention of seeing how her injuries have been doing, as she is to handle that herself, but for now, you will contact their headmaster and inform me why she hasn't called."

"Of course, father." With that, Winter hung up.

Mr. Schnee sighed as he looked at a picture of his family. "I give you a chance to prove yourself and you fail. Now you refuse to contact me? You better be unconscious, or you'll have a lot of explaining to do, young lady."

Back at Beacon, Ruby was up and waiting for Weiss to wake up. She found it cute when she asked Nora about what happened the day before, since Jaune confused her and the rest of the team with that Knight comment he made.

Ruby turned when she heard Yang yawn. "Good morning, whoever is up."

"Morning, Yang." Ruby responded. "Try not to be so loud by the way. Weiss is still asleep and I don't wanna wake her."

Yang looked over at the little heiress and chuckled. "I still can't believe Pyrrha let her borrow her head piece. I don't think I've ever seen her without it besides when we're about to head to sleep."

"I'm guessing she just wanted to give something to Weiss to make her happy. I know I was happy to let her borrow my cloak for a bit." Ruby said.

"Have you two even planned out what we're going to be doing today?" Blake suddenly asked which startled the sisters.

"Gah! Blakey, could you not?!" Yang felt her heart jump.

Blake rolled her eyes. "Did you honestly think I wasn't going to be awake by now?"

Ruby spoke up. "I've been awake for a bit and didn't even notice."

"Alright, well now that you do know, you can answer my previous question. What are we doing today? If you forgot, we did promise Weiss to spend a day together. And since we couldn't yesterday, we do have to make it up to her." Blake reminded.

Ruby was about to answer, but was interrupted by a scroll going off. "Where is that coming from?" Ruby then turned to the table and saw that it was Weiss' scroll going off. "Who is calling Weiss?"

Yang jumped off the bed and looked at the screen. "Oh, it's Winter. Her sister is calling. Should I answer it?"

"Um, well I think so, but just don't tell her about you know what." Ruby warned.

Yang nodded and answered the scroll. "Um, hey."

"Excuse me, but who is this and why do you have my sister's scroll?" Winter inquired.

"Oh, uh, I'm Yang. I'm one of Weiss' teammates over at Beacon Academy." Yang explained.

"I see, well why are you answering for her exactly?" Winter asked.

"I don't know if you heard, but Weiss got hurt on a mission we were sent on, so she can't really answer her scroll right now. I'm sor-." Yang was cut off.

"It has been quite a few days already since she was put in the infirmary, so how hasn't she recovered by now?" Winter questioned.

Yang looked over at Weiss and felt confused, since she thought about what she said with Winter not liking her, but for some odd reason, she was asking about Weiss' health. "O-Oh, well she's still not recovered yet. Her injury did put her in a coma." Yang partially lied.

"A coma? Well then, I guess if that's the case, I can go over to Beacon to see her." Winter said.

"I-I don't know. I mean, I'm sure Weiss will call you once she's up and running again. There's no need to check up on her now." Yang tried to keep Winter away.

"Stop trying to keep me away. I was tasked to see exactly why my sister hasn't contacted father or I, so I'll be there tomorrow to speak with the doctors to see how long this…recovery of hers will take. Goodbye now." Winter said.

"W-Wait, hold on." Yang saw the call had ended and sighed. "Well, shit."

Ruby gave a look of worry and Blake asked. "What is it, Yang?"

"Looks like Winter is coming over here to check on Weiss tomorrow." Yang explained.

Ruby held her breath. "That's…not good. Nobody has told Weiss' family about what really happened to her, so if they see she's a kid, they might be angry at not being told."

Blake got up from her bed. "The Schnee family…They're more of getting things done right. I know a bit about Weiss' father in that regard and I don't think Winter is that far off from how he is." Ruby and Yang were confused, so Blake said. "I mean that they might be more angered at how Weiss is a kid and won't be able to be their heiress, than her actual health."

Ruby frowned and looked over at Weiss. "M-Maybe Winter is different, Blake. Maybe she's actually worried."

Yang spoke up. "Yeah, she did seem a little concerned about it. Why else would she want to come over and check on her?"

"Did she say anything else about it?" Blake asked.

"Um, well she said something about why Weiss hasn't been calling." Yang answered.

Blake sighed. "I don't know if you two would think this way, but with how I've witnessed some things that the Schnee family takes part in and how they handle things, well, I feel like Winter cares more about Weiss updating her family on her time here." Ruby didn't understand what Blake was getting at. "I know it's confusing, but think about it. They only want to know if she's okay at times because they probably worry about her status as the heiress."

Ruby thought about it for a moment. "I…So they only care about her health because they want an heiress for the company?"

"I'm pretty sure, but…I would hope I'm not right about that. Even people in the White Fang looked at me as their family, not just some tool in their organization." Blake said.

Yang walked over to the little heiress. "Well, if that is all Winter is going to be here for, then how should we handle this?"

"I'm not really sure. You don't think Winter and their father knowing what really happened will be too much of a problem…right?" Ruby asked.

Blake sighed. "We can't be sure until she's here. I would think the worst thing would be…well, her taking Weiss back to their home."

Ruby gasped. "No, we can't let her do that!"

Weiss moved in her sleep and Ruby covered her mouth.

Blake placed her hand on Ruby's shoulder. "Ruby, relax. I said it was the worst thing that might happen. Key word is might."

Ruby moved her hands away and said. "Still, though. We need to make sure she doesn't do that."

Yang nodded. "Don't worry, Rubes. We won't let our little heiress get taken away from us."

Ruby took a breath. "Okay, so what should we do if Winter comes over tomorrow and she doesn't find Weiss in the infirmary? Should we just bring her over there before that and explain what's really been going on with Weiss?"

"That would probably be the only real way of handling that. We can't stop her from coming over to Beacon and you know she'll question where Weiss is if we try to take her out to Vale tomorrow." Blake said.

Ruby frowned and looked at the little heiress. "Maybe we can…uh, try to get the doctors to tell Winter that Weiss can't have visitors or something. That way she can't just barge in and see that she's a kid."

Blake shook her head. "It wouldn't work. If Winter is like her father, then she won't care to hear a doctor say she can't go into the room. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's the truth."

Yang sat down on the edge of the bed. "Look, I told you we won't let Winter take Weiss back home. We'll just have to explain what happened and tell her that while she's still a kid, she'll be safe in our care. Ozpin will back us up too, so no way can she just take her."

"But what if-." Ruby was interrupted.

"It's like you say sometimes, nope. Just try to stay positive, especially for Weiss. We promised her a fun team day, no. A family day and we'll give her just that." Yang said.

Ruby looked down to see the little heiress smiling in her sleep. It made Ruby happy to see her like that and she had taken Yang's words in. "Yeah, you're right, Yang. Okay, so what should we do today?"

"Why don't we take Weiss to play some laser tag? Not sure if she'd like it, but trying new things has been working out for her." Yang offered.

"Hmm, I like that idea, but we'll have to ask Weiss first before we head out to Vale, unless you feel like surprising her about it." Ruby said.

"I don't see a problem with surprising her about that. I'm sure she'll love it once she sees where we'll take her. Now before that, we should probably get some breakfast for her." Yang suggested.

Weiss slowly opened her eyes and yawned. "Good morning, Ruby."

Ruby was a little startled by that. "Weiss! You're awake. Um, you just woke up, right?"

The little heiress rubbed her eyes. "Yeah, why do you ask?"

"Oh, it's nothing. So do you wanna eat some breakfast?" Ruby asked.

"I should bring Pyrrha her headpiece back though before we eat." Weiss said.

Ruby got the little heiress a new set of clothes and said. "Don't worry, Weiss. Team JNPR is going to be eating with us in the cafeteria, so you can give that back to Pyrrha over there. Now do you want me to help you change or do you wanna do it yourself?"

"I can do it. Daddy told me that I should just make the servants dress me up, but I don't like it." Weiss stated.

Ruby nodded and handed the little heiress the snow white colored outfit. The tiny dress she wore made her blush, since she remembered the last time Ruby and Yang gushed over her when she wore the baby blue outfit the first time.

Ruby squealed and hugged the little heiress. "You look so cute!"

Weiss' blush reddened and she looked to Blake for help. The cat Faunus chuckled at first, but then tapped Ruby's shoulder. "Alright, Ruby. You can let go of Weiss now. You're embarrassing her again."

"Huh? Embarrassing her? I'm not…oh." Ruby looked down and saw the blush on Weiss' face, so she let her go and rubbed the back of her head like she made a big mistake. "S-Sorry, Weiss. You just really look adorable."

"T-Thank you. Now…shouldn't we get to the cafeteria?" The little heiress reminded.

Yang spoke up. "Not in our pajamas, Weissy. Just give us a minute and we'll head out."

Weiss nodded and waited for the others to get dressed. When they were done, she walked over to Zwei and petted him. She still felt bad about what had happened to him when they were in Vale with Blake the other day. She wanted to find that man so he could answer for what he did, but Blake had assured her that he got the message to not mess with them again. Still though, it bothered her that Zwei and Blake were hurt, even herself by that guy.

Blake walked over to her and whispered. "Are you okay?"

Weiss whispered back. "I'm just remembering that man who hurt us the other day."

"Don't think about that guy, Weiss. He isn't anyone you will ever need to bother with again." Blake assured.

"Just because I won't, doesn't mean other people won't have to deal with his kind of behavior. I wish…I wish I could do something about it myself." Weiss said.

"Weiss, you can't-." Blake was cut off.

"I know what you're going to say. I'm a kid and I can't change anything, but…maybe one day, when I get older…I can show the world that Faunus aren't bad people. That way, maybe humans won't provoke the Faunus." Weiss went silent for a moment and took a breath. "I know I'm a Schnee, but…I'm not my father."

Blake smiled and hugged her. "You are Weiss. And that's all that people need to know. I want to make a promise to you." Blake pulled away and looked at the little heiress. "I'll be right by your side to prove to people that a name shouldn't label a person."

Ruby and Yang were smiling as they watched Blake and Weiss talk about the subject of making big changes. Yang remembered Weiss talking about how she didn't want her father being the end of their family name and that just proved it.

"Blake…Thank you." Weiss smiled.

"You don't need to thank me, Weiss. You have an amazing goal in your life. Not only that, but you want to be a huntress. People won't look back on the Schnee name for your father. They'll look back on it in a good way because of you." Blake said and kissed her forehead.

Weiss wanted to tear up, but kept it in. She gave Blake one more hug. After she pulled away, Blake took her hand to lead her out the room. Ruby patted Zwei on the back to get him to follow them.

"I still don't see why I'm in so much trouble!" Nora whined as she laid her head down on the table.

"You broke Cardin's leg, Nora. I know its Cardin and all, but you still can't do that to a person." Ren said.

Jaune looked over at Cardin's team, who had their team leader still in the infirmary. "It was a little funny when you scared his team back to the seats. I wonder if they're even angry at what you did."

Nora lifted her head and shrugged. "I wouldn't be."

Pyrrha smiled as she saw Team RWBY and Zwei. "How long do you guys think Weiss will stay a child?"

"Not sure, but she is the cutest!" Nora squealed.

Team RWBY and Zwei got to the table. "Hey, guys." Ruby greeted.

Nora stood up and bowed in front of the little heiress. "Hi, Lady Schnee!"

Weiss giggled. "Nora, you know that was only for yesterday. I'm just Weiss now…Oh and Pyrrha. Um, you can have your headpiece back if you'd like. Thank you for letting me borrow it yesterday."

Pyrrha smiled and walked over to Weiss. "Are you sure you don't want to hold on to it for a bit longer? You do look very cute with it."

Weiss huffed. "Ruby keeps saying that too, so if that's true, then please take it back. I can't stand being hugged for being…cute…"

"Oh come on, Weiss. You know that the headpiece isn't the reason why you're so cute." Ruby smiled as she leaned down to pat the little heiress on the head.

The little heiress groaned and tried to swat her away, which made Yang chuckle. "Weissy, don't be so embarrassed. Ruby is just happy to be around you."

It was Ruby's turn to blush and she whined. "Yang! Could you please stop talking and get Weiss some food?"

Yang playfully rolled her eyes and headed over to get some trays for them, with Blake walking with her.

Jaune spoke up. "So what do you guys have planned for today? Gonna be hard to top watching Cardin get his leg broken by Nora."

Weiss looked to Nora. "Um, what happened to that boy? You know. The one whose leg you broke."

"Oh, well he's in the infirmary, but… I got into some trouble, so I have detention today." Nora answered.

The little heiress frowned. "O-Oh. And you can't get out of it? He was being mean, so I'm sure Miss Goodwitch would let you off with a warning."

Nora leaned over and ruffled Weiss' hair. "Sorry, Lady Weiss, but Ms. Goodwitch was the one to give me detention. Don't worry though. It isn't like detention will be boring for me, right Jaune?"

Jaune raised an eyebrow. "Uh, what?"

"Like I said, detention won't be boring, since you, Ren and Pyrrha will keep me company." Nora said with a smile of confidence.

Ren sighed. "Nora, I don't think we'll be allowed to just walk into detention with you."

"Well duh. You guys just need to get into some trouble yourselves." Nora's eyes widened. "Ooh! Let's have another food fig-."

Pyrrha covered her mouth. "Okay, how about instead of that, we just sneak in to the detention room and we don't need to re-enact that entire battle?"

Jaune spoke up. "Pyrrha, do you really think that would be a good idea? We might get into some actual trouble that way."

Pyrrha leaned over and whispered. "You know Nora won't stop, so we should just go with it. At least this way there won't be a food fight."

Jaune was a little surprised. "Alright, but this isn't something I thought you'd ever go with, Pyrrha."

"It's not like I'd ever try doing this for fun. I'd rather not jump into another food fight, especially with Nora still trying to play a knight. She might even try to take Weiss to… 'Protect' her. And you know we can't let that happen." Pyrrha said.

Jaune sighed at the memory of the last food fight, since he hadn't been able to do much. He was half tempted to let Nora go with it, just to prove her can hold his own, but then he thought about what Pyrrha said about Nora trying to stay as a knight for Weiss.

"Yeah, you're right, Pyrrha. Okay, well I guess we'll have to convince Ren to sneak into detention with us." Jaune then looked to Ren, who was still eating his lunch.

Ruby coughed to get Jaune's attention and he turned to her. "Um, Jaune, you do realize that you haven't been whispering any of that, right?"

Jaune's eyes widened. "Oh…There aren't any teachers around, right?" He asked in a worried tone.

"In a rare occasion, you are lucky, vomit boy. No teacher in sight." Yang assured as she and Blake set the trays of food down for their team. "So, what's this I hear about you guys sneaking into detention? You trying to get Pyrrha's attention by acting like a bad boy or something?" Yang teased.

"W-What?! I wasn't trying to do that!" Jaune quickly stated.

Pyrrha blushed slightly at the comment Yang made, but felt a little saddened by how Jaune reacted to it. "Um, well anyways, it would be nice if we stopped talking about it this loudly in public." Pyrrha warned.

"Wouldn't just getting into trouble be easier though? So maybe you should get caught trying to plan a break-in." Yang said.

Jaune pulled Yang to the side and whispered. "Don't let Nora get any ideas of getting us in trouble. We don't need another food fight on our hands, especially with Weiss in the crossfire."

Yang looked down at Jaune's hand on her arm. "First, hands off." Jaune immediately withdrew his hand. "Second, I said you guys should get caught forming a break-in plan. No food fight involved. Besides, we're not risking that right now. We promised Weiss we'd spend the day with her."

"I guess, but I think actually sneaking in might be better." Jaune stated.

"It really won't, since the teacher watching over the students in detention will easily tell that you guys shouldn't be in detention." Yang looked over at the rest of JNPR. "Listen, Jaune. I'm sure that even you can figure out how to get into some trouble." She then walked over to eat her food and smiled as she watched the little heiress happily eat her own food.

Jaune just sighed and went back to sit down. "Fine, I'll figure something out. I am the leader after all, so I need to do something right."

Pyrrha patted Jaune's shoulder. "You are the leader, but remember we're here to help too, Jaune."

Yang snickered. "Pyrrha, this isn't a combat scenario. You guys are just trying to get into trouble. Let vomit boy give it a shot on getting you guys in trouble."

Nora turned to Yang. "Did I hear that right? I can help with that, Jaune!" Before Jaune could react, Ren poked Nora's shoulder and she turned to him. "Yes, Ren."

"Calm down, Nora. You're already in trouble, so no need to add onto that." Ren warned his closest friend.

"Oh fine, but only because I kinda wanna see what Jaune would do to get in trouble. Ooh! You should break someone's legs! That's how I got in trouble. Or maybe you could hide an ice dust crystal in someone's pants!" Nora suggested.

Jaune just sighed and Weiss whispered to Ruby. "Um, I think Nora might be a little too excited about them getting into trouble."

Ruby giggled and whispered back. "Yeah, but don't worry. We won't be involved. Today is about you after all."

The little heiress gave a small smile and went back to finishing her food.

After they all finished their food, Team RWBY left the cafeteria. They wondered what Team JNPR would be doing to get into detention, though only for a little, as they knew they'd either find out later, or Jaune would chicken out.

"Okay, Weissicle. What do you wanna do today?" Yang asked the little heiress.

"Um, I don't know." She thought about it for a second. "Oh, uh, can we go to a music store? I wanna see all the instruments." The little heiress then got worried about a thought in her head. "Wait. Is there even a music store in Vale?"

"I'm sure there is, Weissy. And yes, we can definitely go to one if we can find one, right, guys?" Yang looked to Ruby and Blake.

Ruby nodded. "Of course we can. And I bet we can all find something to be able to play."

"You wanna play an instrument too?" Weiss asked.

"Well yeah! I grew up loving weapons, so I never really got to try out an instrument. It should be fun!" Ruby exclaimed.

Blake spoke up. "I never got much of that either as a kid, so it should be nice to experience."

"Then it's settled! Team RWBY, u-uh and Weiss are gonna have fun with music!" Ruby threw her fist in the air. "Banzai!"

Weiss giggled at that and raised her fist as well. "Yeah! Banzai!"

Ruby, Blake and Yang were a little surprised by that, since the first day of classes, Weiss never joined in on the cheer they had. Blake and Yang chuckled and joined in as well, while Ruby looked down and patted Weiss' head. The little heiress blushed at that, but she didn't let her arm down and smiled.

After a few seconds, they all let their arms down and Ruby looked to Zwei. "Hey, boy, you wanna try to play an instrument today?" The corgi replied with a bark and ran to Ruby. "See, even Zwei is excited for the music." The team leader then picked up the corgi and began to head out. "Come on, guys."

The little heiress was the first one out, which caused Blake to chuckle at her excitement and Yang to wonder something.

Yang tapped Blake's shoulder as they walked and the blonde asked. "Hmm, something wrong, Yang?"

"Nothing too important. I just wanted to ask what you thought about all this. You know, with Weiss being all, well happy. I mean, we know a lot more about her now that she's a kid and she's been telling us about her life, but…well I'm worried that when she gets back to normal she won't be that happy heiress we helped her become." Yang expressed her worry.

Blake sighed. "I know it may be sad to see this Weiss go. The happy one who was able to have a childhood, but no matter what, Weiss is Weiss. As long as we do what we've been doing for her here, then I'm sure Weiss will learn to open up more."

"I hope you're right, Blakey." Yang said and made Blake sigh.

"I'd call you Yangy to bug you, but one, it sounds stupid and two, I'm sure you find that fun to hear." Blake stated.

Yang chuckled and wrapped an arm around her partner as they followed Ruby and the little heiress.

Okay, so…yeah. I know this is way shorter than the previous chapters, but I just haven't been able to write anything for like 2 months like I said earlier and since it's been so long, I decided to cut this chapter into two parts so that I could post something now for you guys. I'll try to get the second part out sooner than this one had taken.

To JJ- Yeah, insulting Ren is an immediate mark on your life from Nora. JNPR being her knights was such a fun piece to write. Sorry for taking so long on this chapter by the way.

To DragonBreath- Yup, Winter is going to be showing up soon.

To Iron-ninja- You're welcome. Glad you're liking the story still.

To Reyna- It was definitely fun to write for me. I loved the idea of those four protecting her in the way of a knight protecting their princess.

To the guest on chapter 7- Yeah…I really should've.

To Poisson01- Winter will be appearing very soon.

I hoped you all enjoyed the eighth chapter. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 9.