6. Burning The Candle

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[In the Beacon Ballroom]

3rd Person POV

Weiss: (smiling) "I need you to pick a tablecloth." (slides two squares over to Ruby, both seeming to be similar shades of white)

Ruby: (confused) "Aren't they both the same?"

Jack: "Nope. Hey Weiss, pick the one on the left."

Weiss: "Why thank you Jack."

Weiss walks out of the scene as Yang comes in carrying a massive sound speaker on her shoulder, which bounces her sister and the table she's moping on again to jump in the air when she drops it on the ground.

Yang: (brushing her hands as she approaches Ruby) So, have you picked out a dress yet?

Ruby: "Yeah. And plus what's the point? Who cares about the dance if Blake isn't going?"

Yang: "Oh, don't worry; she's going. (looks over exasperated) Weiss! I thought we agreed: No doilies!"

Weiss: (walks up to Yang, pointing in her face) "If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines!"

The girls are interrupted by the sound of doors opening.

Neptune: (walking in with Sun) "Your dance is gonna have fog machines?"

Weiss: "We were thinking about it..."

Neptune: "That's pretty cool."

Sun: (acting suave to Weiss' ire) "You ladies all excited for dress-up?"

Ruby: "Pfft... Yeah, right!"

Yang: "Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night!"

Weiss: (addressing Sun and Neptune) "What are you two wearing?"

Sun: "Uuhhh... this?" (gestures to his current shirtless outfit)

Neptune: (steps up and holds a hand in front of his friend's face.) "Ignore him for he knows not what he says."

Sun: (knocks Neptune's hand away) "Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vacuo. It's not exactly a shirt-and-tie kind of place."

Yang: (mirroring Ruby's and Weiss' looks of being told something extremely obvious) "Yeah, we noticed."

Sun: (rubbing the back of his head, preparing to ask:) "Soooo... what does Blake think of all this? She still being all, y'know... Blake-y? What about Swift is he still coming."

Weiss: "Obviously." (turns and crosses her arms in disapproval)

Ruby: "Yeah T-Burn said Swift was coming. The only problem is that I still can't think of a way to change Blake's mind."

Yang: "Guys. (everyone looks at her as she starts walking out) Trust me; Blake will be at the dance tomorrow."

[In the library]

3rd Person POV

The Faunus herself is sitting at one of the library tables with a holographic screen in front of her. She is obviously more sleep-deprived than ever, barely focusing on what she's seeing... until a small, bright red light appears on the screen. Moving up and down, Blake's eyes follow it down to her hand, then disappears entirely. She looks behind herself, obviously irritated, but no one walking among the tables is her culprit.

Turning back to the computer, she starts typing on the beeping keyboard before the laser dot appears on her hand briefly, prompting her to look around again and still find no one. The red point shows up on the screen, moving around in circles until Blake scowls and pounds her fists on the table. She stands up from her chair and finds the light on the floor, following it blindly through shelves of books until both the dot and its pursuer turn the corner, only for Blake to bump, shocked and shaken out of her more "animal" instincts, into...

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