Ruby Rose | Team RWBY (eyesofsilver) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-08-05 19:45:00 |
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Ruby knew that she had told Yang that she would find her sister when she had a dream about chess pieces and a forest, and well… she’d had that dream. However, she also wasn’t seeking her sister out. Not yet. Mostly because she had a feeling Yang wanted to see her freak out and Ruby wanted to make sense of it. Okay, she’d probably freak out about it later as well when she saw her sister. This whole trying to make sense about it beforehand and come to terms was going to be an exercise in futility at the end of the day. But she could at least try.
So here she was, once again at the Emerald City Cafe sitting at one of the tables inside and just… trying to make sense of what was happening in her dreams. Well that part actually wasn’t hard to figure out. It was a test to make sure they could survive in a world of Grimm and to form teams. That part Ruby wasn’t excited about because she just wanted to be paired with Yang though Blake would be cool, even Juane. But no, she’d ended up seeing Weiss first and while she had tried to make nice…
But Weiss had come back and somehow in the midst of the forest and arguments, they had made some sort of truce and even worked together and then had teamed up with Blake and Yang and now she was apparently team leader of the team and that was a lot.
Maybe it would be okay? Ruby hoped it would be okay and that would mean that Yang was right and that Weiss might want to be friends, or needed friends and didn’t know how to show it. At least in the dreams. She wasn’t sure yet about here as she hadn’t seen Weiss since the disastrous run in. Ugh. Her head hurt and it wasn’t because of brain freeze.
The dreams had returned and with them, a level of annoyance she hadn’t previously had to deal with. Or at least that’s what she was telling herself. She was exhausted just having to deal with everything that happened. And on top of it all, she was partners with the annoying sneezing girl. How had that happened? Oh, right. She’d been the first person she saw. Ugh.
Despite the shouting match that had happened at the Emerald City Cafe, Weiss had not avoided the place because it was open 24/7 and she needed the caffeine. When she walked in, she felt herself sighing. The girl was there again. AGAIN. Was she ever going to be safe? First she got saved by the most annoying girl in the world and now she kept seeing the annoying sneezing girl everywhere.
This time she didn’t shout at her, even if the urge was there. No. This time she got her coffee and then sat across the table from her, eyes focused on her. “How much do you know?” As if that made actual sense with no context, but obviously she was talking about the dreams. She wasn’t going to go talking about things without her knowing about them. That defeated the purpose.
Ruby had noticed Weiss too late and while she had hoped to hide behind a book that plan had failed. And she still let out a startled yelp when she just sat down across from. Okay. No yelling, that was good at least. She could handle no yelling. Even if Weiss still looked like she would rather be anywhere else. It was still progress!
Hopefully.
Fiddling some, Ruby shifted uncomfortably before answering. Since it was clear what was being asked.
“Um, we were partnered up and then ended up on a team with my sister and her partner and fought a Nevermore and the teams were just announced.”
Which wasn’t all that much even if it felt like a lot had happened because the fighting of Grimm and learning to work together and coming up with the attack plan to defeat the Nevermore.
So somehow they were on the same page. Weiss sighed, but at least that kept her from having to explain things or keep herself from explaining them. This was getting ridiculous. How anyone thought they would be a good team was beside Weiss. How anyone thought Ruby deserved to be the leader was also beside her. She didn’t understand it when she was so clearly leader material. And yet the youngest of them was in charge.
“I wasn’t sure if I hallucinated most of that or not, but apparently not.” She took a sip of her coffee, not entirely certain how to feel about the team as a whole. She also wasn't sure how she felt about knowing people from her dreams outside of them. “None of this makes sense.” As if that needed saying. Obviously none of it made sense. There wasn't enough coffee in the world to help her brain make sense of everything, but the benefit for others was that she was stuck in a state of general confusion instead of one where her annoyance was winning out.
Okay… still no yelling. Maybe this conversation could end up okay after all! Straightening up some, Ruby sipped her frozen hot chocolate, she nodded some. “Nope, no hallucinating. My sister also has had them. But she’s like really far ahead. And so have my uncle and my friend Blake. All the same place which is really weird but Yang already told me it could happen so I guess not that surprising. Well it is but there was warning.”
Had Weiss been given that warning? Because it was weird enough with the warning, let alone going through it without. Though she supposed it was too late now. But they were in the same boat.
“So we’re not alone at least!”
Because despite her awkwardness with people and especially Weiss and not knowing how to talk to her, Ruby did tend to find the bright side to things. Like not being alone when dealing with really weird dreams.
People got a warning? Weiss’ expression darkened for a moment. Perhaps it was her general first impression of the network that had kept her from receiving the warning. She decided she didn't care. People were stupid anyway. The only person that wasn't was her sister and no one could ever be Winter for her.
“Yeah, but does that really make it any better? It just means we're probably all tied to people we don't really want to be because we are stuck together in the dreams. Again, not because we want to be. I could have at least been partnered with Pyrrha. At least that would have made sense.” Weiss sighed and drank more of her coffee. Her and Pyrrha weren't even on the same team. Instead she'd gotten stuck with Team RWBY and she wasn't even the leader of the team. Ugh.
Well so much for that. Ruby should have known that Weiss wouldn’t want anything to do with her. Yang was so wrong about her whole claim that she’d want to be friends. She’d just stupidly let herself think that maybe it would be okay. But she had Blake as a friend and she had her internship at Future Industries… so what if Weiss didn’t want to be around her?
Okay so it sort of sucked because it was just a bad feeling.
“Maybe we get paired up with people who can help us be better even if we don’t see it right away…”
Sliding down in her chair, Ruby just shrugged.
“Or maybe it just doesn’t make any sense. All that was required was looking at each other first.” Which just didn’t seem like a sensible way to choose who would be your partner, but then they had also been shot off a cliff. She knew about that before because the man that was the head of the school in the dreams had already mentioned it. She just hadn’t realized she was going to be launched off a cliff. But she’d made it through and now she was...going to have to live with her partner and her team. They didn’t do reassignments.
The kicker of it all was that she didn’t have Myrtensater. If she was going to be punished like this, she could at least have the thing from her dreams that mattered, but no. She didn’t have Myrtenaster. Despite never having the weapon to begin with out of the dreams, she now felt unusually incomplete without it. It was the worst. But at least she still was able to fence. It just wouldn’t be the same.
“I just wish the dreaming wasn’t a thing. It’s just annoying.”
“I’m just saying that sometimes things aren’t supposed to make sense like that but that in the end it all works out even if it seems it shouldn’t.” Ruby honestly didn’t know why she was even trying at this point. Why she cared so much. But she supposed that was part of who she was. Despite her very awkward tendencies and poor social skills, she always cared. Yang said it was why people wanted to be her friend but clearly her sister was wrong about this and was just biased.
It would be cool if Crescent Rose showed up. Ruby really wanted her weapon. It wasn’t that shocking, in the dreams she much preferred weapons to people just like how here she preferred her projects to people because they didn’t make her feel so small.
“I don’t think they care about being annoying.”
Weiss shrugged. “I don’t know how it’s going to work out.” Her dad already didn’t want her at the school or following in her sister’s footsteps in any sort of way...and now she wasn’t...even part of the team she thought she should be...and she wasn’t leader. It could have been worse, she supposed. She could have had Jaune for a leader. That would have been painful. She felt sorry for Pyrrha.
“Probably not.” Which was just annoying. More annoying than the dreams being annoying in the first place. “Hopefully there won’t be too many more of them and I’ll be able to go to sleep without having to worry about all of this. It would be nice because I’m really tired of the whole thing and I’m not about to just move. Ugh. I have things to do still.”
Ruby remained quiet, the feeling of being small and insignificant continuing to rise. She was trying really hard to reconcile what Yang had told her and what she was actually experiencing and honestly it just wasn’t adding up. So either her sister had lied and been wrong, or she really had been childish in thinking things would get better.
“I don’t know. But it sounds like there will be plenty of dreams to come just from how Yang’s talked about it and what I’ve seen mentioned on the network.” Not that Ruby was always good at keeping up with it. Projects to do and all.
“I mean, everyone has things to do that go beyond the dreams but they seem to figure it out so I don’t know why that won’t be possible with these ones.”
Great. Plenty of dreams to come. Weiss just could not wait. Except that she could. She had enough to focus on without them. Sure other people had things that they did and stuff they had to deal with, but that didn’t mean she had to deal with both things.
“Because they are impossible and when school starts up, I’m going to have more things to deal with than I already do.” If Weiss was honest, she really only had a few things to deal with. Most of those things were charity functions in which she had to sing and carefully remember the names of people who might talk to her. Not that they usually did, but her father insisted anyway. The most demanding thing she really had to do was try to figure out a business plan for the company once it was hers. Her father might still be in charge at the moment, but eventually she would be in charge and she’d have to figure it all out. Especially the part where she fixed things that needed fixing.
“It would just be nice to know everything now and avoid dragging it all out.”
“Well it’s find a way to deal with it all or just explode from everything.” Probably a poor choice of words, but Ruby already had dealt with the dreams she had on top of her internship and taking care of her dad when he was having one of his days which could be a lot… and she knew that Yang had clearly been dealing with the dreams for a long time and by herself so it wasn’t the worst thing, “But even if you don’t like everyone you’re not alone in these specific dreams which is better than other people have had it.”
And that was important. Even if Weiss probably woudn’t care because it was all about her apparently.
“Yang might tell you if you ask? She told me to find her when I had this last set of dreams so she obviously knew it was coming.”
“You’d know about exploding.” It was a quick retort, one that took very little thought. It just came out. She let out a long sigh. Instead of sinking into her chair, however, she sat up straight, posture perfect. “Are we going to argue about who has it better or worse when it comes to the dreams? Because I feel like it’s a moot point.” As if she was clearly the bastion of knowledge when it came to these things. She was already thinking about how much worse she currently had it because of having the wrong partner. At least she was pretty sure she had the wrong one.
She didn’t care if she knew people and she didn’t need people she didn’t want to talk to telling her everything that was going to happen. She just wanted to pretend none of it ever happened, but everytime she closed her eyes, it seemed like she had some dream or another.
“I don’t really know if that’s a good idea because who knows what she might say.” The things she was most worried about right now were her sister and her company. If something happened to either, she really didn’t want to know about it. She worried about Klein, too, but but he was always the one trying to keep her from worrying, not the other way around. Idly, she wondered what Klein was doing now. She hadn’t been home in a little while, so she hadn’t seen him. He did occasionally send a message to check in on her, though...so that was nice.
Okay, yeah, that was an expected response. Honestly Ruby hadn’t even made the connection because she was just talking as she normally would. But of course Weiss wouldn’t let the comment go and so she just stayed quiet on that front. It wasn’t like anything she said on the matter would be accepted.
“No?” It wasn’t like Ruby was trying to have some sort of contest on who had it worse. It was just a fact of life that everyone had things that they were dealing with and worrying about… And the fact that she knew that there were people who didn’t have people who shared the dreams. Or how Yang had clearly gone through the dreams alone and it made Ruby wonder how much of what had happened in the past year was because of the dreams and what was actually what she said. “I just meant….”
Sighing, she shrugged.
“Nevermind, it’s not like you care about my opinion anyway. But I don’t know what she would say, I just know she’s gone through them so if you wanted to know you could ask.”
Weiss stopped for a moment to stare at Ruby, seeming to just catch on to the fact that the girl was behaving oddly. “Self depreciation really doesn’t make things better.” She sighed before taking another sip of her coffee. “If you’re going to say something, you might as well say it.” She looked back on the conversation, trying to figure out what was happening.
“I’m sure I’ll figure it out.” It was definitely going to be annoying and a pain, but if Winter could survive the military, she could survive this. She just wished that her sister was with her now. She could use her...and all she had...was Whitley. And their parents. None of those options involved someone that really cared about her.
Ruby was also trying to figure out just how the conversation ended up this way.
“I just meant that it could have been worse and you could be going through them alone. Even if you don’t like any of us, you aren’t alone.”
Right. Back to her drink before she could once again be called an idiot. Ruby didn’t know what she would do if she didn’t have her uncle or Yang there who knew about the dreams, or Blake and Nora. Even Weiss if she’d let them in but that seemed a bit less likely.
“I’m sure you will.”
Part of Weiss felt like she should argue with the assertion that she didn’t like any of them, but at the moment, she didn’t know how to feel about any of them. She didn’t think much of them, but otherwise, she didn’t know how to feel about them. They were weird, but they had worked together pretty well.
“Well, I guess I’ll see you around later.” Because things were awkward now and she was ready to leave. So she stood up, taking her coffee cup with her. “Have a good rest of your day or something, I guess.”
Things were definitely getting awkward now and Ruby nodded.
“You too.”
Which was the weirdest thing ever to say, but at the end of the day, she wasn’t sure how to talk to Weiss here. She had somehow found a way to put together a plan and they were a team and they did work well together. But here? She wasn’t so sure. But time would tell so as Weiss left, Ruby finished her own drink before leaving as well. She’d go wherever her feet took her.