Weiss and Blake spent more time cuddling and relaxing before the heiress' curiosity got the better of her. "Blake, are you… purring?"

The vibrations stopped when the Faunus spoke, "I am", then started again when she stopped and nuzzled even closer to her girlfriend.

More questions came to Weiss' mind, but she decided it could wait when she felt the warm body against her. She wanted to enjoy the moment as much as possible, and Velvet even said it was good for her. Who was she to question the benefits of cuddling with the girl she loved?

After a few more moments of silence, the white-haired girl decided to asks her girlfriend a question that had been on her mind since their first kiss. "Blake, when did you fall in love with me?" Hearing Blake say she loved her was one of the happiest day of her life, not only because her affection was not one-sided, but it also was the first time someone said it to her.

The purring stopped while the Faunus thought about her answer. "I… only realized I liked girls very recently, but I think I started being attracted to you a little before that. I think it was when you were the first to realize that I wasn't feeling well, with the White Fang and all. I was upset at the time that you tried to stop me but once I stopped and thought about it, I was touched that you were worried about me. I wouldn't say it was love at the time, but it's when I started looking at you differently."

"Well of course. You didn't sleep, you didn't eat and you stopped paying attention in class, I didn't like seeing you like that."

"So it was because my grades were at risk." Blake couldn't resist the opportunity to tease her girlfriend about her obsession with her teammates grades. Every time a test was coming up, Weiss would spend a lot of energy to make sure her teammates were ready, and while they were grateful for her efforts, her personal standards were a lot higher than most people, requiring a lot of work to reach.

Weiss frowned. "Of course not, you dolt. I—I know very well what can happen when someone focus too much on something, neglecting everything else, and I didn't want you to end up like hi—that."

The heiress slip-up and sad tone remembered Blake the time she told them about her father. "Is it about—"

"I don't think talking about it will be very relaxing." Weiss was smiling, but it was clear she wanted to change the subject.

The Faunus wanted to ask more questions about Jacques Schnee, as almost no one knew how he was in private, but it wasn't worth upsetting her girlfriend over it, not right now. "You're right, I'm sorry." Blake interlaced her fingers with those of her girlfriend before returning the question. "And what about you? When did you fall for me?"

"Had I been in my normal state of mind, I would have at least noticed you the first time we met, but since I had to deal with my father's disapproval and Ruby blowing up my Dust reserves, I was already in a bad mood when you started insulting my family so I had to be a bi—awful and insults you two and leave." Weiss was too busy being angry at herself to notice Blake's frown and her hand moving behind her back. "Eek!" The heiress suddenly felt something—or rather, someone—pinching her butt and was unable to contain her scream of surprise. "What was that for?"

"Stop calling yourself that." Blake tone was serious. She knew they were supposed to be relaxing, but it was too important to ignore.

"Call myself what?"

"Stop calling yourself a bitch. It's not the first time I hear you almost using it, and even if you stop yourself, I hate it."

Weiss didn't understand why it mattered so much to Blake. "It's a pretty good description of how I was acting."

"I don't care!" Blake raised her voice, desperate to find a way for Weiss to understand her. "Please… Just… Try to imagine how it feels to hear that as a Faunus."

It didn't take long for Weiss to understand what Blake wanted to tell her. Of course, being called a bitch as a Faunus… it must have been something they had to hear too often, maybe even Blake herself before she decided to hide her ears. "Sorry." Seeing a small smile on the face of her girlfriend, Weiss made a mental note to be more careful in the future and answered the question she was asked earlier. "I was impressed by how dedicated to your goal you were, by your drive to take on the White Fang and protect innocent people. And a little scared by how far you were willing to go." Weiss couldn't help but think of her father, who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Except that while her father did it for himself, or the company as he liked to say, Blake did it to improve the life of others.

After spending some more time cuddling with each other, Blake realized she had to do something if they didn't want to spend to rest of the day in bed. An attractive idea, but they had important things to talk about. "Weiss, I think we should talk about what we did, like Velvet said. I… also have something I'd like to ask you after that."

Weiss pushed the blanket from them and sat down on the bed. Lying down with Blake's face so close to hers would make it hard to concentrate on a serious conversation.

After a small awkward silence, Blake was the first to speak. "Did you… like it? What we did. I mean, I did treat you like… well, like I captured you or something." Blake remembered that Weiss had told her beforehand that she didn't mind, but a part of her still felt bad for what she did and she wanted to make sure Weiss didn't have any regrets.

Weiss gave a quick kiss to her girlfriend before answering. "I did. It's hard to explain, but I felt… safe, like I could forget everything and only listen to your voice, and everything would be fine. What about you?"

"It was… an interesting experience. It was fun to pretend to be someone else, and if you enjoyed it, then I'm happy that we did it."

"Was it not too hard to play a White Fang Member?"

Blake thought back on how she felt at the time. "That was the part I didn't enjoy as much. I felt myself slipping into the mentality a little too easily, going back to thinking the same way I did at the time. I—I don't want that, so…"

"You don't want to do it again?" Weiss was a little disappointed, but she understood why it was hard for Blake and didn't hold it against her.

"No, I just don't want to play a White Fang member. An unidentified group of criminal capturing the Schnee heiress? It wouldn't change a lot, only making it easier for me to have fun." The Faunus grinned at her girlfriend and was rewarded with a spark of lust in her icy blue eyes.

"Well, I guess that we'll have to look into doing it again." Weiss' eagerness to roleplay again surprised even herself. Was it acceptable for someone in her position to enjoy being treated that way? It didn't matter, she liked what she liked, and as long as Blake was with her, she didn't care about anything else. "What about Adam? Did it help?"

Blake's smile disappeared hearing his name. She wanted to be able to stop feeling so bad every time his name was mentioned, but his influence on her life could still be felt. Fading, but still there. "I heard him. He—He told me to take advantage of the situation and kill you. I ignored it and I heard him less and less as time went one, but… I'm sick of hearing his voice when we're together."

Weiss took her girlfriend's hand in hers and put her head on her shoulder. "I'm sure you'll manage to get rid of him, you're too stubborn to let him win."

Blake was about to tickle Weiss for her teasing, but feeling the body of the small girl against hers made her reconsider. She was too comfortable to make her move.

"Blake, does my scar bother you?"

The catgirl was surprised by the question she felt came out from nowhere. "What? Of course not."

"You can tell me you know. I know that, even if I don't mind it, it's not the case for most people. 'The disfigured heiress', 'Defaced beauty', 'Will Weiss Schnee show her face in public again?'… those were titles from newspapers for weeks after I got it." Weiss didn't want to show her self-esteem issues to Blake, but the focus on her scar her girlfriend showed earlier had affected her and she couldn't hide it completely. "Compared to Coco, Yang, Pyrrha, you… I know I'm not that pretty." She tried to hide behind a small smile, but her girlfriend could see right through her.

Blake reluctantly moved away from Weiss to look at her in the eyes. "Weiss, I love you, but sometimes you just don't make any sense. You are beautiful, and even you don't get to say otherwise. And don't compare yourself to Yang or Pyrrha. They are beautiful, yes, but not in the same way as you are. They're… strong, sexy warriors while you are a graceful and beautiful princess." She wanted to hit herself for how corny she sounded, but it was still better than hearing Weiss say stupid things like that.

"You're telling a huntress in training that she doesn't look like she can fight? How awful of you." Weiss had a little smirk. She didn't want to be lectured, and hiding behind sarcasm almost always worked.

Blake frowned. She hated when her girlfriend did that. "Weiss!" The heiress jumped, surprised by the sudden outburst. "Stop doing that. You told me that I should come to my teammates when I have a problem, but you can't even be honest with your own girlfriend."

Weiss knew that Blake was right. She should be talking to her, not making jokes when she was trying to comfort her. But it wasn't that easy, not when she spent her life hiding from even her family. "And what do you want me to say? That people always told me that I should pad my dresses so I look like I have a bigger chest? That I should go out more because my skin makes me look sick? That I should wear higher heels because I'm too small? I had people analyzing my appearance all the times, at parties, in the papers, in my own house. I know I should ignore them, but sometimes… sometimes I—I just can't." Her voice was getting louder and louder but broke in the end.

Blake took Weiss in her arms and held her against her chest. "Let it all out."

The heiress didn't resist the embrace and let her anger take over. "They all want to control me, to tell me how to act, how to dress, to tell me who I should be, they want me to be the perfect little trophy. Well, too bad, I'm me and no one else. I hate them all!" She had to stop to catch her breath and Blake took the opportunity to start caressing her back, trying to soothe her.

"Don't worry, it's just the two of us here." Feeling her girlfriend getting calmer, Blake decided to explain her behavior during the photoshoot. "I'm sorry about focusing so much on your scar, I just find it attractive and like caressing it, I didn't mean anything else by it. I should have known how it felt to have some part of you having so much focus."

"No." Weiss lifted her head and looked into the amber eyes of the Faunus. She had to look at her to say what she wanted to say. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have taken it on you, you haven't done anything wrong."

"It's fine, you got to talk about it. Did it feel good?" Blake put a quick kiss on Weiss' lips, making her smile.

"It did, thank you." Weiss went back to cuddling with her girlfriend. "Let's talk about something else. About the licking and biting…"

"Right, that." Blake felt ashamed, remembering how she got carried away and let her instincts take over. "Listen Weiss, I'm—"

"Wait." Weiss remembered Blake's expression after biting her and guessed that she regretted having done it. For this reason, she wanted to give her opinion before she apologized again. "Please, let me talk."

Blake nodded.

"The licking didn't do anything for me, but I didn't hate it, so it's up to you if you want to do it or not. The biting… I loved it." Weiss' cheeks went red but she no other signs of embarrassment. She was getting used to this. "Not in the 'tear your flesh and eat you' sense of course, but the way you did it felt… good."

Blake was happy to hear that Weiss had enjoyed it, but it did not completely put her worries to rest. "You didn't find it a little too… feral?"

"Blake, we've both read 'Ninjas of love', you know that it's something humans also do, right?"

Blake was a little upset that Weiss had hit the nail so perfectly on the head. "Yes, but I'm not human. Are you sure it doesn't bother you?"

"Yes Blake, I'm sure. I have no problem as long as you don't draw blood." Weiss was getting a little annoyed by Blake's insistence, but she understood where she was coming from. "Well, there is one thing. My skin marks really easily, so I'd appreciate if you could avoid doing it on places I can't hide."

Blake flashed a little smirk at her girlfriend. "Like here?" She put her lips on her girlfriend's neck and started working on leaving a mark.

Weiss could feel the lips sucking and the teeth scrapping against her skin, but she was too surprised to say anything and by the time she recovered, Blake had moved back was looking at her, licking her lips with a satisfied smile.

"Wha— You…" Weiss stood up and went to check herself in the mirror of the bathroom. There was no way she could hide it without wearing a scarf, and while the weather was slowly growing colder, it was still way too soon for that. She quickly came back, frowning at her girlfriend. "I hope your happy, it's not going away for at least a week." She sat back down on the bed, arms crossed, too upset to go back to cuddling.

"Are you really that upset?"

"I don't know Blake, am I upset that my girlfriend didn't listen to me and did something I specifically told her not to?"

Blake felt her stomach drop. She just wanted to tease Weiss, have a little fun, but she had upset her and now she wasn't sure what to do. "I—I'm sorry, I didn't mean…"

Weiss was about to retort that it wouldn't change the fact that she had a big mark on her neck that would be hard to hide, but seeing the distress on Blake's face made her reconsider and a little voice made herself heard. "Come on Weiss, you know Blake was just playing around, you don't have to be so stuck up all the time. You haven't been together for a day and you already got angry at her twice, how long do you think she'll put up with your insecurities?"

Shut up! But you're right, Blake deserves to be with someone that won't blow up every time she does something and I'll do my best to be this person.

Weiss took Blake's hand and forced herself to look at her in the eyes. She didn't like what she was about to do, but she had to do it. After all, Velvet had said they had to be honest. "Listen, all of this… everything we're doing is new to me. I've never been this close to someone, I have no idea what I'm doing and I don't want to mess it up, but I need some time to get used to… everything. I know I'm not the most pleasant person to be around, but I'll try to work on that."

"Don't worry, I should have known what I was getting into." Blake tried to make a joke to lighten up the mood and the small smile that appeared on her girlfriend's face showed that it worked, at least a little. "Couldn't you use your Aura to remove it?"

"I'm… not good at using my Aura for healing. My father always insisted that our doctor do it every time I got hurt to make sure it healed perfectly, and the only time I did it myself, well…" Weiss raised her hand and caressed her scar.

"Want me to give it a try?" Seeing her girlfriend nod, Blake brought her hand on Weiss' neck, where she had left a mark. Her hand glowed purple and the light moved to the heiress' pale neck, repairing the damaged blood vessels and cleaning up the blood under the skin. She finished by giving a light kiss to the place the mark used to be, hoping the Weiss wouldn't still be angry. "There, no mark left. I'll keep those kinds of things for our roleplay time from now on."

Weiss decided that they were no reasons to further withhold cuddles and went back to being as close to Blake as possible. After some time spent enjoying the feeling of her skin against that of the girl she loved, Weiss remembered something Blake had said. "You said earlier you wanted to ask me something."

Blake tensed up. She knew she had to talk to Weiss about this, she just hoped she could have done it later, maybe in the evening. Or the next day. Or the next week. But she had known she would try to avoid it and mentioned it to Weiss on purpose. She could almost see the smug smile of her past self that managed to force her to talk. "Could we… Could we work together? Lately, I've been having trouble with school work and my grades have been suffering, especially for everything that is mostly theory. Fighting and survival classes? No problem, that's what I've been doing before coming to beacon, but Dust theory and history that isn't about Faunus? I never learned that. I tried to read books about the subject but there is so much that I don't know where to start."

"Of course I'll help you, but why didn't you come to me, or anyone, sooner?" Weiss was always happy to help other people with their work, as long as they were trying to improve and not get her to do the work in their stead.

"I didn't want you or Yang or Ruby to think I was stupid."

"We would never think that of you. And Ruby and Yang's grades are far from stellar."

"But Ruby still manages to get above the average while having skipped two years ahead, and Yang's ranking in sparring is in the top five of the class with Pyrrha and you. Speaking of you, you also get the best grade at every test they throw at us while I'm—I'm dragging the team down."

Weiss frowned. Blake was far from stupid, and she was sure than a few hours of studying together would be enough to get her above the level of an average Beacon student. "Then let's work together. With me tutoring you, you'll be one of the best students in no time."

Blake rolled her eyes at Weiss' boast, but she was touched that Weiss was so willing to help her. She had offered to tutor Ruby and Yang in the past —only Ruby had accepted— but since Blake had hid her grades from her teammates, she never asked her. "Do you think we could start now since we have a little time?" The sisters' absence would make it easier to focus.

"Sure." The two girls went to Blake's desk and began setting up to work on the Faunus worst subjects. Weiss' mind wasn't entirely focused on the task at hand as she was debating with herself whether or not to ask something to Blake. She decided to go for it or she wouldn't be able to concentrate on tutoring her girlfriend. "Blake, I'd… like to tell my sister about us. Winter always encouraged me to do what I wanted with my life, and I want to show her…" …That someone can love me. "… That I'm dating the prettiest girl of Beacon."

Blake knew that it wasn't what Weiss was going to say, she wouldn't parade her around like a trophy, but she wasn't sure what her relationship with her sister was and decided to let it slide. "You know her better than me, so if you think it's a good idea, I trust you."

Weiss beamed at the idea of telling the good news to her sister. "Thank you."

At the mention of Weiss' sister, Blake couldn't help but think of her own family, feeling a wave of nostalgia sweep over her. "Maybe I should tell my parents." It had been so long, maybe they would accept to talk to her.

Weiss couldn't hide her surprise, it was the first time Blake even mentioned her family. "You have parents?"

Blake looked at Weiss like she said something stupid, which she did. "No, I appeared one day in a White Fang hideout, fully grown and clothed."

Weiss decided to humor her girlfriend for a few moments. "You did say you were almost born into the White Fang." It managed to make the corners of Blake's mouth rise a little. "But more seriously, you never mentioned them before."

"I… I said some things I shouldn't have last time I saw them, awful things. There's no way they'll forgive me."

Weiss put her hand on the back of Faunus and started caressing her. "I think you should contact them. Apologize, tell them about us, I don't know, but if there's a chance to make up with them… My father will never approve of us, the best would be that he ignores us, so if it could be different on your side…" She shook her head "Sorry, it's your decision, I shouldn't try to tell you what to do."

Blake smiled at her girlfriend and gave her a quick kiss. "If anyone can give their opinion on this, it's you. I think you're right, I should try to contact them. Not like I'll get an answer right away anyway." Seeing Weiss look of incomprehension, she added. "They live on Menagerie, they don't have a CCT Tower there. I have to send a message to Mistral where it'll be printed then sent to Menagerie by boat. Same thing for their answer."

"Then the sooner the better. Do you need money to use the service to send it to them?"

"It fine, we can get a few messages for free each month to contact Menagerie thanks to Beacon." Despite her refusal, Blake appreciated the offer. "Wouldn't you be in trouble if someone found out that you used Schnee money to contact Menagerie?"

Weiss became even paler at the idea of her father learning about this. "I—I would have dealt with it. You contacting your parents is more important." Her fake bravado disappeared and relief took its place. "But it's better like this. No need to provoke him."

Blake didn't need to ask her who 'he' was. The head of the SDC probably wouldn't like his money being used to contact a Faunus.

Weiss stole another kiss before the two girls went to write their messages. The heiress finished first since she was only asking her sister if there was a time she was available for a video call. She then got her last books out while Blake was typing her message for her parents and setting everything up so that it would get to them. She had thought of what she wanted to tell them ever since their fight, the apologies she wanted to make and how to convey the love she still had for them, so the words came easily, so easily she surprised herself. She decided not to talk about Weiss, wanting to make up with her parents before mentinning she was in a relationship.

Weiss' scroll rang, announcing that Winter had answered. "My sister will have some time for us tomorrow afternoon." She raised her eyes from her scroll and saw that Blake was just finishing typing her message.

The Faunus nodded. "I… I haven't told my parents about us yet. It's not that I want to hide it, but…"

Weiss smiled and hugged her girlfriend. "I'm sure they'll be happy to hear from you." They both knew that Weiss had no idea whether it was true or not, but Blake would take any comforting words she could. "What do you think they'll say about us both being girls?"

"I… I don't know, we never talked about that. I think you being a Schnee will be a bigger deal."

"Oh, yeah, that." Weiss had forgot that, if Blake had been involved with the White Fang, her parents probably were too. "Were your parents also part of the White Fang?"

Blake tensed up. Saying they were 'part' of the Fang would be putting it lightly, but thinking about that would bring up a lot of things she didn't want to remember right now. "Could we talk about it later? I don't really want to right now."

Having done the same thing multiple times, Weiss understood her girlfriend's feelings. "Of course." She broke the hug and took her hand, pulling her toward the desk. "Come on, let's get to work."