Ruby and Blake watched Nora carefully chew the pancake, as if examining to make sure it wasn't poisonous. It was almost unnerving to see Nora eat a pancake so slowly, considering she usually went by the pound with them.

Blake was quite nervous, even with the help of Ruby, she didn't feel completely confident in making something edible, especially after the disasters of the previous day. I just hope Nora likes it. Suddenly Nora grabbed her fork and started to shovel in the pancakes, the stack of them disappearing into her vacuum cleaner, the audible slurping filling the room.

"The debt has been paid." Nora turned to her partner, speaking in the most serious tone that either of the two members of team RWBY had her speak in. "Ren, call off the sloth assassins, the Schnee will live this day."

Ren sighed. "Calling off the sloths."

Ruby's eyes bugged out. "You had sloth assassins?!" To Blake, that even seemed like overkill, although maybe they really didn't have sloth assassins? Who knows with Nora…

"Why wouldn't I have sloth assassins?" Nora queried, curious eyes looking at Ruby, as if wondering how anyone could assume she DIDN'T have sloth assassins.

"Oooo, that's so cool!" Ruby started to ramble to Nora, asking all sorts of questions about sloths and assassins.

Meanwhile, Blake took a few steps towards Ren, the quiet member of team JNPR. Ren stared at her, waiting for a response. When none were forthcoming, he spoke up. "Yes?"

"Ren could you…." Blake felt embarrassed asking this, but she really wanted to surprise Ruby. "….could….. could you teach me to make pancakes like you do?"

Xxx

Ruby was having a good day; classes were on a temporary break, and the students were mercifully given a small break after the majority of finals. Sure, she had spent one of those days helping Blake make pancakes, which was enjoyable in its own way. However, Ruby was looking forward to the upcoming winter break, going home and seeing uncle Qrow, her dad and Zwei.

But for the moment, she was enjoying just the ability to play some mindless shooting games without having to worry about studying. The sound of unadulterated violence filled the room, as Ruby blew up zombie after zombie with a automatic shotgu-

Ruby smelled something, something that could only come from one thing; Ren was making strawberry pancakes! I am not gonna miss this!

Pausing the game, Ruby jumped up and sprinted towards the door, intent on dashing into the team JNPR dorm before Nora inhaled all of the strawberry goodness. So determined with Ruby that after bolting out of team RWBY's room, she nearly bowled over Blake.

Nearly.

"Sorry!" Ruby only gave a brief glance to make sure Blake was okay before continuing her dash to the JNPR dorm. What she saw made stop in her tracks.

Blake was holding a massive stack of pancakes, doused in a red tinged syrup that Ruby knew as strawberry syrup. More importantly the smell was emanating from the plate. Ren's famous strawberry pancakes. "D-d-did you get these from Ren?!"

Blake gave a smug smile as she shook her head. "Nope. But he did teach me how to make them." Pausing as she observed Ruby staring at them, Blake asked a single question as she brought the plate towards Ruby. "Want some?"

AU: Oh man, THIS IS FINALLY DONE!

I'm not going to lie, I'm running on two days with no sleep, and even though they let me out of work early, I didn't get around to this until the day was almost over. HOWEVER NEVER FEAR, LET IT NOT BE SAID THAT THIS AUTHOR DOES NOT DELIVER ON HIS PROMISES!

Although I fear for the quality, I'm just delirious enough from the lack of sleep and overwork to not care! So much apathy right now & here!

Author-san is burned out and won't be writing any dilation for a few days a least! Now I should go get some sleep, and hope to bloody hell its restful sleep unlike the previous few nights.

Have a great night everyone!