Reaper's War

Chapter 15: The Journal

A/N: Looks like I became impatient again. And besides, I just wanna say how much I officially hate Ironwood. I cannot even explain how much I hate his guts even if he is a fictional character. Like, omfg, he needs to die ASAP.
On a different note, enjoy this early chapter and as I said, I got impatient again.
Enjoy!

Three days after the Schnee sister's argument, Winter had gotten down to business with translating the journal, barely coming out of her hotel room to speak to anyone. Food had to be brought to her or she'd forget to eat since she was concentrating so much on the journal.

Weiss had come by a few times to see how she was doing and try to help with the translating, even if she barely knew the Old Atlesian Language. After just a couple of hours, Weiss would give up and move onto finding Ruby who was usually either at the edge of town or hiding atop the hotel.

Thankfully Weiss had found her on the roof and sighed in relief at the fact that she didn't need to go looking for her partner and possibly getting lost on the way.
As the heavy door to the roof slammed shut behind the white-haired girl, Ruby looked over her shoulder to see who it was, even though she knew exactly who it would be.
She turned back to looking over the town and sighed and Weiss could've sworn she saw her partner's cheek slightly flushing.

The ex-heiress smiled a little as she stood as close to the younger girl as possible, leaning against the railing on the border of the roof.

"Hey." Ruby greeted, trying to subtly move away.

"Hey." Weiss parroted, noticing the failed subtlety, smirking as she moved back into place against her partner's side.

Ruby moved again and Weiss followed. It soon became a game of the young faunus moving along the railing and the white-haired girl following but it had to come to an end.

The younger girl finally hit the side railing and had to stop, unless she wanted to go over it.
Instead of following, Weiss stopped still and turned to her partner, an unusual look in her eye, something Ruby couldn't decipher it at first.
Then it hit her like a truck.

Desire.

But it wasn't just that. There was sadness in there along with a burning question Weiss was hesitating to ask.

"Weiss? What's-" the wolf faunus began.

"What are we?" the young Schnee suddenly asked.

"What? What do you mean?" Puzzlement engulfed the younger girl's expression and she took a small step forward. Weiss stepped back. Ruby's chest became tight at the reaction, her heart almost shattering.

"I mean, what are we? Are we dating or-or was what happened just a one time thing, a spur of the moment?" Weiss questioned on bated breath, her own heart beating wildly, a lump growing in her throat.

"Um... this- this is gonna sound super stupid but I- I thought we already were." Ruby stuttered, her face flushing ever so slightly as the events of the cave flew through her head.

"You did?" The white-haired girl asked, dumbfounded at her partner's words.
"Well, I guess... if you want to that is... we could, you know, make it official?" Now Weiss was stumbling over her words, her heart fluttering in her chest at the thought of finally, officially being with the girl she'd missed so much. That she loved more than she could describe.

Ruby didn't respond at first, hesitating. She didn't know if it was a good idea. She didn't know if she'd become a danger to Weiss, or if she'd hurt the older girl again. What if she did? Winter wouldn't take it lightly and she could guarantee she would try to kill her with no warning. Was it all worth the risk? What if she was arrested for all of her crimes when they got back to Atlas? What if she was put into prison for the rest of her life? Would Weiss want to stay with her if that happened? So again, was it all worth the risk?