"250 to 247. I win, squirt." Qrow's smug expression gazed over Ruby's look of absolute defeat.

"No way I missed that last shot."

"Tough luck darling, maybe next time."

After he declined the offer of victory cookies, which made Ruby whine even more, Qrow found Taiyang and the two quickly made off for the closest bar. That meant taking a Bullhead and heading off to the glittering skyline of Vale. Despite Ruby's insistence that he should not be drinking in the early afternoon, he and Taiyang soon found themselves well outside the grounds of Beacon, just as Blake and Winter had returned - this left the team to their own devices for the rest of the day.

"Soo…" Yang said, lying on her back with her feet propped up against a tree, "Anyone got any ideas?"

Ruby gasped and quickly said "We could-" before Yang cut her off saying "That doesn't involve sparring?" Ruby flopped back down to the ground again.

"We could catch up on some of our projects?" Weiss suggested, getting a few raised eyebrows from the team.

"Uh, Weiss, excuse me, have you seen the lovely weather today? We can't just go off and waste a day like this studying," Winter interjected, "And besides; what would I do? I'd be bored out of my mind."

With a huff, Weiss returned to playing with locks of Ruby's hair. "It was only a suggestion," she mumbled to herself.

Blake put down her book - she seemed to get a new one every week, if not every day, it was very odd - and asked, "What about spin the bottle? We could play that."

Weiss rolled her eyes, and said "Are you serious? We aren't children. Except Ruby, maybe. What are you going to suggest next? Hide and seek?" She then quickly covered her mouth as she realised the terrible mistake she made.

A childish suggestion.

With a childish leader.

Ruby's eyes lit up in an instant, and she shouted "YES! Good idea Weiss! We could play hide and seek across the whole grounds of Beacon!"

Yang cheered, Weiss groaned, Winter agreed and Blake was already up and off to find a spot to hide in. "You're it, Ice Queen!" Yang bellowed as she leapt into action and began to run across the gardens. She turned to Ruby, only to find a wake of rose petals where she once stood. Finally, Weiss looked at Winter for support.

"Don't tell me you don't want to play," said the girl, one hand on her hips.

"Well… Yes… I guess so… But…" Weiss trailed off in her sentence, her icy façade faltering under (or, technically over,) her little sister's puppy eyed gaze. It didn't quite match up to Ruby's heart melting stare, but it was definitely competitive.

"Oh, whatever. Just go and hide! You have two minutes!"

Weiss was seriously regretting agreeing to this stupid game. At least five minutes had passed, and she hadn't even a glimpse of one of the hiders. She made her way over to the gleaming towers of the main courtyard of Beacon. The white and grey material shone under the summer's sun, and the great glass windows reflected the blue skies.

The cobble underfoot clacked with each step Weiss made in her heels, and it had become a droning noise to her at this point. She originally thought that she held a great deal of patience, but this game was certainly wearing it thin, even though she had only been 'searching' for five minutes.

And by searching, she meant an activity that more resembled a gentle stroll around the site whilst the wind played with the hem of her pure white combat skirt. It was therapeutic, in a really odd and slightly aggravating way, because she couldn't find any signs of her teammates whatsoever. Weiss honestly wouldn't be surprised if they had all hidden in their dorm room and were just running her ragged for their own entertainment.

She swore she'd flay them with Myrtenaster when she was finished. That would certainly put an interesting twist on the game.

It was upwards of fifteen minutes later when she found Yang, who sat amongst the few teams and families who were enjoying a snack in the cafeteria. She was indulging herself in a salad of some sort, with chicken in it, and seemed to be waiting for Weiss to come find her.

Weiss only had to raise an eyebrow in question when she tapped on Yang's shoulder to get a response - an overly dramatic, sarcastic, "Oh, Weiss! You found me! Good job. Looks like I can hit the gym now. See you later!"

"Wait!" Weiss shouted, "Are you not even going to help me find the rest of them, you big blonde oaf?"

Yang seemed to weigh up her options, before responding "Mmm… Nope! Seeya."

Weiss was forced to suppress the urge to growl as Yang bounded out of the dining hall, and Weiss bought herself a smoothie to further repress her genocidal urges.

Her next destination was the Library, possibly one of the largest buildings on the site. Inside the huge arching structure there were rows upon rows of books, on every different topic one could have possibly thought of, with computers and tables interspersed throughout the wood and paper jungle. If Blake was to be found anywhere, Weiss thought to herself, it would certainly be somewhere where she could read and act aloof upon being caught.

Following through on her logic, she checked every single nook and cranny of the grand library to find little more than piles of books and a beanbag that somehow found it's way on top of a bookcase. Nothing else caught her eye and there wasn't a single shred of evidence to suggest Blake had been in there.

She groaned and made her way out of the building once again, coming ever so close to leaving through the second story window. Weiss grew more frustrated by the minute, and angrily slurped down what remained of her fruit smoothie. Focus, Weiss thought, I'm not going to find them if I'm all stressed out. I need to be calm, and take it one step at a time. If I were a hyperactive, childish gun fanatic, where would I hide…?

And that's when the answer snapped to her head - The weapon workshop! Of course! It's cliché as anything, but it's the best lead I've got.

The sounds of clanging and power tools grew louder as she neared the weapons workshop, the familiar little box building coming into view.

Stepping inside the building, she followed the noise to the room with the larger workbench. Where she caught Winter kissing Ruby. Her lips tensed for a moment, forming a thin line, but then she remembered they weren't competing for Ruby anymore.

She silently opened the door and saw Ruby bent over something on the bench, hard at work, not even hearing, let alone noticing that someone else was in the room with her.

Weiss's smile grew into a devilish grin as she crept up on her girlfriend, waited until she wasn't hammering or screwing or anything that might be dangerous and then hastily hugging her from behind.

Ruby, of course, not expecting that, let out the cutest yelp of surprise Weiss had ever heard.

"Kya! Wh-Who is it?"

"Dolt," was the only answer Ruby got. It was said so gently that Ruby almost melted from the feeling it left in her ear.

"Hmmmm, Weiss…", she purred and gently eased into the hug. She then felt warm lips kissing her neck, which made her shake a bit as if she was cold.

"Something wrong, Ruby?"

All Ruby could do was try not to moan at the silky voice echoing in her ears. "N-Not at all, I love it, mmmm…"

Then she realized something. "W-Weiss, aren't you supposed to be searching for us?"

"Well, I found you, didn't I?"

Ruby found it hard to argue the heiress' logic. And it wasn't as if she minded being found if it meant being doted upon like she was at that moment.

"Ruby, I love you," Weiss breathed out and the girl the phrase was addressed to gasped and blushed furiously. She automatically pushed backwards a bit more, to mould into Weiss just a tiny bit more.

"I love you too, Weiss." She closed her eyes and let her mind roam into forbidden territory.

"You know, if it wasn't for all this clutter on the desk and the fact we're in a school workshop, I'd throw you on the desk," Weiss whispered in Ruby's ear, making her shiver with almost every word. "Then I'd kiss your whole body," Weiss continued, every word oozing lust that was completely unlike the proper upbringing Weiss had, but she didn't care. Not then. "And then I'd take you," she finished her lustful confession.

Ruby couldn't hold back and let out a moan at the last three words, unable to deny herself that it was what she secretly wanted too. And for a moment, she thought of doing that exact same thing Weiss just described, just in reverse. The heiress was right, though: the workbench was cluttered with stuff and it was a public place. Kinda hidden, yes, but still public. Should someone enter the room at that moment (say, an explosive redhead with nearly inexhaustible reserves of energy and about the same gun-enthusiasm as Ruby, complete with an oversized weapon) and catch them, there would be no end to bad publicity, not only for the Schnee family, but for Ruby too.

Ruby then squirmed in Weiss' grasp, achieving the loosening of the iron grip she was held in for long enough to turn around and softly kiss Weiss on the lips while cupping her face. The heiress happily returned the kiss, even deepening it.

Both of them being moulded into one with the deep kiss wasn't enough as they heard a faint cough in their vicinity. Ruby jumped a bit more than Weiss, though.

"Ah! W-Winter! Y-you see, this… Um…"

"Mind explaining to me why you're cheating on me with my sister of all people?" There was a certain degree of anger in Winter's voice, and her eyes and posture betrayed that fact as well. The left arm, bent to a degree that her hand rested on her hip made her look cute even with the angry stare, though.

Ruby wanted to stammer out an answer, but Weiss was faster than that. "What does she mean, cheating on her with me? Ruby, how could you?"

Ruby was looking at both girls, panicking so hard she thought she was going to die in that instant. She would rather take on a horde of Deathstalkers than what was unveiling before her eyes.

The angry words were coming from both directions at once, some directed at Ruby, some at either Winter or Weiss. After a while, Ruby couldn't understand another word of what was said. It was all she could do to not run away, as far and as quickly as she could.

"Ruby, what do you have to say for yourself?"

She had to return to reality quickly or something bad was going to happen.

"What do you have to say for yourself, trying to out-sneak the Schnee family?"

Wait, what? Did I hear that right? "W-What do you…"

Before she could finish stammering out the question, one of the Schnees interjected.

"Did you really think you could keep a secret from possibly the sneakiest family in Remnant?"

"Y-You two… Know?"

"We know. Did so for quite a while, to be honest."

"S-So that perfume was…"

"A setup, yeah."

"But… Why?" Ruby whined out.

Weiss smiled at her. "We… Wanted to see how far we can bring this before you find out we know. Turns out you can be rather slow in these kind of things, similar to Jaune."

"Yep," Winter quickly added, "you were totally pulling a Jaune for all this time."

"So… You tortured me? For your own pleasure?"

"You reckon they're having fun, Blake? Maybe killed each other yet?"

"I'm sure they're fine, Yang."

The sisters looked at each other worryingly as Ruby's voice was far from pleasant. Something neither of them experienced before. If they were perfectly honest, driving her almost to the point of breaking as they did at that moment was taking it a bit too far. They nodded at each other and quickly turned to Ruby, heads hanging. "We're sorry."

Ruby's visage was growing angrier by the second. "And you think this will magically make it better? You saying sorry to erase all the worry I had whether you two'd kill me or just torture me in your dungeons if you found out I'm dating both of you?"

Weiss spoke up lightly. "Well, to be perfectly honest, you were playing us both. Why would you even agree to dating both of us?"

Ruby's expression fell. "I… Wasn't sure, okay?"

"Wasn't sure of what?"

"Which one…" The rest of the sentence was lost somewhere halfway between Ruby's vocal chords and her mouth.

Winter tried hard to make out what the girl was saying, but couldn't decipher the combination of low whispers. "I didn't hear that."

"I couldn't decide which one of you I like better!" Ruby almost shouted before slumping on the floor, burying her face in her knees, silently whining.

The sisters looked at each other again, this time with concern for their girlfriend. Without a word, they each took a place on each side of the crying girl and smothered her in a double hug, surprising her.

"We're so sorry, Ruby. We really are. We should under no circumstance play you like that. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive us."

"What are you talking about? Do you think I am angry with you? I am more angry with myself because I couldn't decide on just one of you, thinking that dating you both would show me who I prefer. But now… It's just gotten harder because you're both so cool. And I don't want to break your heart, either of you."

"Is that so?", Winter inquired. After Ruby nodded, she continued. "Well then I have an idea!"

Weiss looked at her, not knowing what she was planning.

"You should come to Atlas and visit our family, see us in our natural environment!"

Weiss was confused. We didn't talk about this. She gave Winter a puzzled expression and only got a shrug in response. Great. She won't accept, right?

That hope was destroyed quickly as the ever-hyperactive Ruby returned to the world of living, jumping up, pumping a fist in the air and screaming "Yes! Yes! Yes!" over and over again. Weiss shook her head. This can only end badly.

"Ninety nine… aaand one hundred! Nice job Blake. Never took you for the type to exercise."

A heavily panting Blake tried lifting herself up and off of the ground, to little result. "Doesn't mean it was easy, you big brute. Not all of us work out day and night."

Yang hummed in agreement. "Yeah. It's not easy to get killer abs like mine, but keep it up and maybe you'd stand a chance! And it's not like I weigh that much anyway." She then rolled halfway off of Blake's back, resulting in another panting fit from the faunus before Blake once again tried to lift herself off the ground. She had to settle on lying down on her torso though, as she was just too exhausted to push the brawler off of her.

Blake rolled her eyes. "Right. Yeah. Because you have never snuck glances at my abs when I've been changing before, hm?"

"Pfft, no? I've got my own to look at, and they're waaay better."

"Seriously though, Yang, do you mind getting off now? My everything is killing me. You weigh like, ten stone, not even joking."

"And all of it, pure muscle!" she spoke in a sing song tone as she finally got off of the poor faunus' back and sat on a bench close by. "You want a drink?"

"Please."

"Would you look at that, Blake's thirsty. That's not a first."

"Just hand me my damn water, Yang."

"Sheesh, Kitty's got claws." Yang threw Blake the small black bottle of water with a shit-eating grin. She'd be surprised if Blake let her get away with that one.

"Sleep with one eye open tonight. If you find Gambol Shroud sticking out of your neck tomorrow morning, I reserve the right to say it was your fault." Of course she wouldn't. Not that it fazed her in the slightest.

"And if I fight back?"

"They'll never find the body."

Yang opted to ignore her and stripped her shirt off, leaving nothing but a sports bra on her torso, with her spectacular abs below them. She then stretched a few times, before sitting herself down and getting ready to do a few hundred sit-ups.

Blake's jaw, meanwhile, was on the floor.

"What's up Blake? Isn't it rude to stare? See something you like? Cat got your tongue?"

After more than a few embarrassing and confused sounds, Blake finally choked out a sentence, glaring at the blonde and saying "You are impossible. Literally impossible." She had to admit to herself that Yang looked pretty damn fine in just her sports bra and shorts. She had to go to the bathroom to freshen herself up before she did something stupid. But as she turned around to walk away, she couldn't help but look back at Yang.

The same Yang that was obviously staring at her butt. Blake saw that, but Yang didn't seem to notice Blake seeing her.

And then Yang licked her lips, her gaze still glued to Blake's toned butt that was extremely pronounced in the yoga pants she wore that day. She couldn't help but blush slightly before turning away, quickening her pace, unwillingly giving Yang more action. Was it really unwillingly, though? Blake wasn't sure anymore.

As she shut the bathroom door behind her, she glued her face on one of the bathroom mirrors. She saw her face was cherry red, though she figured it was not as much from the strenuous practice Yang inflicted on her.

To Blake, there was no denying it. She was falling - no, actually scratch that - she has fallen for Yang. Head over heels. Judging from the blonde's teasing and looks, the feeling was mutual. She was going to ask her if she'd want to go on a date, but then, as she noticed the blonde staring at her butt, her confidence disappeared.

The ice cold water splashing on her face made her shake and as it was sliding down her face, her confidence started boosting up again. Thinking back, Yang's staring only made her believe that she was a really beautiful woman and not just some buff woman with a masculine look, hell-bent on righting the wrongs in a different way than White Fang. It made her feel alive and it made her forget that she was living in very dark times, if only for a minute.

She was going to go down to Yang and ask her out, this time for sure. She hid her face in the towel to wipe the water off when she heard the doors open and quickly close again.

She turned around and there was Yang, looking as amazing as ever, if a bit sweatier than usually. Her amazing lilac eyes were checking Blake out and made her feel like a small, defenseless girl that could just melt into the blonde. It took her too long to figure out she was staring.

"Sup, kitten? You all right in here?"

Blake nodded. "I just had to freshen up a little. You may not be heavy, but a hundred pushups with you on my back is tougher than it sounds."

"Eh," Yang waved her hand, "I used to do two hundred with Ruby on my back when we were on Patch."

"You used to do that every day. I only did this today for the first time. You can't expect me to be as strong as you immediately."

"That's true, kitten. And I don't hold it against you. I'm actually proud that you managed to do it. I was actually thinking of giving you a reward since you were so good."

Blake's ears twitched under the bow. "Hmm?" She tried her best to sound nonchalant.

Yang's mouth widened into a wide smile, as per tradition. "How about we go out to grab an ice cream or something?"

Blake thought she heard it wrong. But no, Yang actually asked her out. "Sure, let's do that."

"On one condition, though," Yang continued with a mischievous smile.

"What is that?"

"You walk five feet in front of me."

Blake couldn't help but wonder what Yang meant with that. "W-Why is that?"

Yang approached the faunus and whispered in her ear. "Because your ass looks awesome and I want to see it walk before me."

As much as she hated to admit it, Blake loved how Yang always told what she meant. The whisper in her ear made her legs wobble a bit though, and she had to quickly compose herself.

"Deal."

Weiss, with the help of Ruby and Winter, eventually found the elusive Blake - she was sat under one of the many trees in the gardens, dozing off in the late summer's afternoon. She was curled up next to Yang, who had fallen asleep, and the two of them seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themselves. Weiss almost felt bad for disturbing her. A book lay in the grass, pages opened and blowing with the wind, and probably contained some story within. Ruby bet ten lien that they had both fallen asleep reading that book, or something.

"Can we dump a bucket of water or something on them? It would be funny to see their reactions."

"Winter!" Ruby scolded, "That's mean. We couldn't do that. Look how peaceful they look together, snoozing and everything!"

"Would that not make it all the more worth it? We're going to wake them up either way, so we may as well enjoy ourselves whilst doing it."

Weiss rolled her eyes, and said "No means, no, let's just wake them up and head off for dinner. I'm pretty sure they're serving salmon today, and Blake would be damned if she missed fishy Friday."

It was a well known fact that Blake liked fish. Tuna sandwiches and salmon fillets were her favourite meals, and fishy Friday only happened twice per month. One of the larger plates was an entire salmon fish. Yang and Weiss both had seen how quickly Ruby could consume cookies and how Nora could inhale pancakes; but neither held a candle to the speed with which Blake consumed the super salmon special. Blink, and you would miss it.

It was decided; Weiss would have to wake Blake up, and shoulder all the guilt of ruining such a serene moment.

That was, until, Yang jolted awake and accidentally punched Blake's face. The blonde then spent the next ten minutes, if not more, profusely apologising for hitting the girl by accident.

"I'm sorry, but we're going to need to go to dinner, so if you two could just hurry this up, that'd be fine," said Weiss to the pair. Yang was desperately trying to make amends, and Blake was continuously telling her it was fine.

"It's… uh… it's fishy Friday, you know?" Ruby's small voice immediately drew the attention of Blake, who turned to her with a sceptical look. "Please tell me you aren't joking," she asked the redhead.

"Uh. Nope. I figured that you'd-AH!" Ruby exclaimed as the girl shot past her and headed straight for the dining hall. Yang lugged herself up and peered off in the direction Blake ran with one hand protecting her eyes from the sun.

"You know, I don't think I've ever seen her run so fast. You don't think she hates me for hitting her, do you?" Yang asked.

Weiss replied saying "I don't think it's a case of Blake hating you so much as Blake loving fishy Friday. We might want to catch up to her before she eats everything being served."

Yang was somewhere else completely, though. "You know, Rubes, your semblance is speed. But I'm sure not even you could catch up to her with how fast she's going."

"You're on," was the only thing Yang got in response before her sister became a blur, running after the faunus. Weiss and Winter tried to stop her, but they were way too late.