Please open!

Guilt lanced through Pyrrha as she helplessly pressed the power button to her scroll, trying to will it to turn on.

Much like the last twenty odd attempts, there wasn't even so much as a spark of life in it.

Emerald eyes glanced over to Ruby.

Her girlfriend was very much in the same boat as her, only far more frantically mashing the power button, while begging with the device. Pleading with it to work.

It's all my fault.

To be perfectly truthful, it wasn't entirely Pyrrha's fault; after all, even the Invincible Girl herself was bound to lose control around her girlfriend, especially when said girlfriend had inherited more than just a few of the traits that her elder sister seemed so replete with.

I should have known Ruby was up to something when she had the same look Yang did when she realized she could tease Weiss about Nora. Regardless of who was to be blamed, one thing had let to another, and Pyrrha had lost control… and fried their scrolls with her semblance accidentally.

Which, while it wasn't such a terrible thing, and something that had happened before, left the two in quite a predicament, especially since it was well into the night. The predicament being they couldn't get into their room, either JNPR's or RWBY's. Nor could they text someone for help for the very same reason. Banging on the door is sure to annoy Weiss – something that Pyrrha had learned during her time in Ruby's dorm was that her partner did not like being disturbed at night.

Yet Pyrrha's dorm room had quite the opposite problem. Nora snores so loud, Weiss will hear us before anyone in there would, so that wouldn't work either. Pyrrha's shoulders sagged as she finally gave up, dejectedly putting her scroll away. "I don't think it's going to work, Ruby."

Ruby's expression was that of panic as she kept on mashing the power button, paying no heed to her girlfriend. "But it's gotta work, else we aren't getting a bed tonight!"

"I'm sorry." Pyrrha's lips dipped into a deep frown.

"It's not your fault!" Instantly arms were around her, as Ruby pressed against her. "If I hadn't done-mmmph!"

Pyrrha placed a finger over her mouth, as the back of her neck turned a scarlet red to match her hair before spreading to her cheeks. "No, it's really my fault."

Ruby pried away Pyrrha's hand. "Nope!"

"But-"

"Nope!"

Pyrrha gave a sigh before regaining some semblance of a smile. "What should we do?"

"What?" Ruby's brow furrowed in confusion.

"Well, I don't think it'd be all that bad if Weiss wakes up… we could just knock on your door, right?" Pyrrha asked carefully.

Ruby shook her head vehemently in return. "Remember when we played monopoly last time and she kicked us out?" Pyrrha slowly nodded. "Weiss said that if we kept her up again, she was going to keep Zwei."

Emerald eyes widened in surprise. "Do you think she'll really do that?" While Pyrrha might not know Weiss as well as Ruby did, that seemed a bit… extreme, even for the heiress.

"She checks to see how much it costs to send a corgi to where ever her sister is." Silver eyes stared back at Pyrrha, deadly serious. "Daily."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Perhaps we could try and get Blake to open the door?" Pyrrha suggested after a moment of thought. "She probably can hear better then Weiss with her ears."

Ruby bit her lip. "Yeah, but, like, she sleeps under Yang, who snores almost as bad Nora..."

Pyrrha gave her girlfriend an odd look, Yang doesn't snore that badly, Nora shakes the bed frames. "Surely it isn't that ba-"

"Also-pretty-sure-she-wants-Zwei-gone-too!"

"Oh" The redhead was quiet for a moment before she ran out of ideas. "What else could we do?"

"Hmmmm." Her better half stroked an imaginary beard as if she was a sage lost in deep thought, contemplating the mysteries of the universe.

"We could go out to the courtyard, try and find the closest tree to my room, climb it. Then get onto the inch wide ledge that our windowsill has, hoping not to fall off. Once there, we could try and see if we can spot someone else's scroll, and you could use your magneto powers on it to unlock the door – which I'll be standing at, ready. But first you have to tap the wall with the scroll to make sure that I know to open it."

Emerald eyes blinked.

"That sounds rather… complex?"

Ruby stared at the floor, crestfallen. "I dunno what else to do…"

Pyrrha had an epiphany. "Perhaps we could get a hotel room in Vale? We'll just have to wake up early to get to back for class, but we could do it."

Ruby hummed in thought for a moment. "Do we have enough lien for that? The only thing we could probably get at this hour would be a love hotel…"

A very pregnant pause hung over them, as Pyrrha imagined the fun aspects of explaining to everyone that they had stayed in a love hotel the next morning.

"…so how many times do you want me to knock on the wall?"

AU: Hey look another chapter this month, whaaaaa!?

Neither of them thought of the most sensible of solutions; have Pyrrha lockpick the door with her semblance.

So, good news first!

Acceptance chapter 28 is currently being edited by ASR, so its going to post July 1st if the schedule holds alongside Dilation and Spoon Equality chapters.

Bad news.

It's been so dang long since I watched volume 1 – 3 of RWBY that I really need to do it again because I'm not as able to hear Pyrrha's voice internally and that makes the above chapter feel a bit bland… maybe it didn't and I'm just psyching myself out, who knows? (also I'm spending all my money on anime, plz halp.)

Thank you for reading, I hope everyone has a wonderful day! :D