Ruby Rose | Team RWBY (eyesofsilver) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2018-02-01 07:41:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, ruby rose, weiss schnee |
Who: Ruby and Weiss
What: Running into one another. Literally.
When: 26 January 2018, late morning
Where: Random sidewalk
Warnings: Low
Status: Log | Complete
As much as Ruby wanted to avoid thinking and worrying, she couldn’t. Upsetting Dreams, worry about tabloids, school stress? Those she could push aside, bury beneath smiles and pushing forward. And when she couldn’t do that? She could throw herself into her workroom and tinker on projects and work through it that way and she’d be fine. But that wasn’t happening. Not since she had learned that Qrow was sick because she knew it was her fault. She didn’t know how but it had to be because of the Dreams and him coming to her rescue.
And so Ruby was feeling the crushing weight of guilt all over again. The ever present migraine. There wasn’t anything that she could do about it either, which made it all the worse. She didn’t have classes that day and she didn’t have her internship - as if that would have kept her from the hospital. She had tried to work on her current project but for once that focus was completely gone and she couldn’t make sense of the pieces, how they were supposed to fit together. The ever crushing reminder of where she was, a hospital, didn’t help matters.
Giving up on that particular attempt at distracting herself, Ruby went to let her dad know that she was going to go for a run and would be back but to call her if there were any change. It was good to build up more stamina and maybe it would help. She wouldn’t use her semblance since a burst of rose petals might confuse people and the fact that it depleted her aura, but it would at least be something. In theory.
At first the running went well enough, but if guilt and worry and anxiety could be creatures, they were definitely following after Ruby who pushed herself to run faster, even as the migraine started to pick up as well. She couldn’t run from it fast enough. Rounding a corner, Ruby ended up stepping on her own laces and fell forward. Straight into a body. She had just enough presence of mind to grab the person so that they wouldn’t hit the ground, instead the teen doing so.
“I’m so sorry, are you okay?!”
So caught up in what had happened and making sure that even if she’d accidentally run into some that they didn’t hurt themselves, she didn’t realize just who it was she had ended up running into.
Weiss had been on a shopping spree, because honestly? What better thing was there to do with her Friday? A very large iced mocha in one hand and a series of bags on her other hand, she hadn't even been looking where she was going. She certainly didn't expect clumsy people to come around corners and crash into her body in some re-enactment of a car collision.
Yet it had happened. Bags scattered, the iced latte went flying against the sidewalk, spattering sad brown streaks of coffee everywhere, and somehow her sunglasses had even managed to disconnect from her ears. Sure, it was nice that the woman had broken her fall, but Weiss was indignant.
"Excuse me!? Am I okay? How dare you even ask me a question like that! Do I LOOK okay? That coffee shop is at least a block away." Weiss rolled her eyes at the younger girl, then let a long breath of air out of her nose. It was only then that she realised she was straddling a woman in the middle of the streets of California. "I hope you realise how likely this is to land on some horrible tabloid now."
The second she heard the voice, she knew. Weiss. Ruby would be lying if she hadn’t had a sense of missing her partner from the dreams, especially after they had moved past the whole…. Weiss seeming to hate her thing and Ruby trying desperately to prove her worth thing and they both chilled out in their respective ways. Especially now that she was travelling with Jaune, Nora, and Ren instead of her own team. But she could also tell just by the tone and words that this wasn’t nice Weiss. No. This was the Weiss who made her anxious and small feeling and god was she not in the place for that right now.
“I’m sorry.” And again with the apologizing because what could she really do? “Um, I can buy you another one?” Which admittedly didn’t address the fact that - horror of horrors - the coffee shop was a block away. But she was trying to make up for it.
At least until Weiss mentioned the likelihood of it ending up on a tabloid. Mostly because she had been hoping to avoid the Skeeter woman and was hoping that all of that was also over and done with. She hadn’t noticed talk of the woman posting anything since Qrow had been declared the father of some actress’ child.
“Okay I’m really, really sorry.” But it wasn’t like the silver eyed teen could really move at the moment as Weiss was still on top of her. “I don’t think I’m very interesting on my own to them though and it was only one time.” Because of course Ruby wouldn’t know about Weiss’ family business or what she did and why tabloids might be interested in her. She didn’t follow all of that. “So you should be okay on that front?”
"It isn't you that needs to worry," Weiss replied, with a long sigh. She'd rolled her blue eyes so far back into their head that the color of them could barely be seen, and then it hit her. The incredibly compromising position they'd landed in was going to get her in more trouble than just the front page of some c-list gossip magazine if they didn't correct this quickly.
So she rose to her feet with all the elegance of some kind of reigning queen, and went through the process of dusting her skirt off before looking down at Ruby and letting out another sigh. "You don't even know who I am, do you? No, don't bother replying. I guess since you did stop me from getting hurt I should at least help you up."
And accept the apology, perhaps. It did mean she'd get another coffee at least. Weiss wondered if this girl was even coordinated enough to manage walking all the way there. Some part of her also acknowledged the fact that she should probably make sure Ruby wasn't injured. She held out her hand so that Ruby could take it, and asked. "You aren't hurt, are you?"
Yeah, that definitely confused her. Ruby had just sort of accepted that while she didn’t understand why Rita Skeeter had dragged her into the whole thing with Lena and Ms. Sato or what she tried to insinuate, it was something she needed to be careful with. She’d even considered pulling away from people and just going to school until it blew over so no one got involved because of her but Yang had said that was a bad idea so Ruby had been trying not to let her worry and anxiety about that interfere with her life. So instead she just shook her head at the question.
Obviously Ruby knew who Weiss was in the Dreams. But she didn’t know who she was here and that was just easier to go with because it would sound really weird to say how she did know her. For all her awkwardness and rambling, Ruby could at least keep from blurting that bit of information out.
Prepared to get up on her own, Ruby was actually shocked that Weiss offered her a hand but took it thankfully and brushed off her running pants.
“Nope. I’m okay.” She’d dealt with worse injuries thanks to the Dreams and since she was awake, her aura at least had been activated. “I’m tougher than I look.”
"Good." Weiss dropped Ruby's hand immediately, and went about the process of picking up her bags. It was a longer process than most people would have taken, as she painstakingly checked each purchase to make sure that no coffee had splashed on anything and that her more delicate items were still in one piece.
Only after she had the bags looped over her arms and had picked up her discarded coffee cup did she focus her attention on Ruby again. "My name is Weiss Schnee and I'm only the heiress to the largest diamond distributor in the world. We also have a jewelry company? But I guess it caters to a more... elite clientele." Ruby in her running pants and obvious lack of knowledge when it came to who Weiss was, at least in that world, told Weiss everything she needed to know about the younger girl's ability to afford 3 million dollar earrings.
Weiss was all about judging people by their appearances. "Do you think you can handle getting to the coffee shop from here, or are you going to run right into anyone else?"
As Weiss picked up her bags, Ruby rocked back and forth on her heels. With her hand dropped, the teen just wrapped it around herself. She hated how small she felt. How anxious and tense thanks to the run in and Weiss being all...Weiss. But it was still better than the anxiety and guilt that came from waiting in the hospital for some sort of sign that Qrow was on the mend, that he’d be okay. Right now it was just talking in his sleep and that didn’t make sense and the ghosts of the hospital. Though, she did check her phone to make sure there weren’t any messages from her dad about Qrow’s condition.
No matter because Weiss was introducing herself and all Ruby could do was nod slowly. It wasn’t terribly surprising that she was an heiress to a diamond company but again, it was something she had no reference for or interest in.
“Right. Well, I’m Ruby Rose.” Of the...awkward tripping over her words and feeling small and stupid despite the awards she’d won in school for engineering. But between the way elite was said and then the question about if she’d even manage to make it to the coffee shop? Yeah. Her head hurt, the ground should swallow her and she just pushed through it for now.
“Yes, I can manage to get to the coffee shop just fine.” And it was back to the desperate need to prove herself even though she had thought she was more comfortable in her own skin here and knew who she was. Well, had before the Dreams. Ugh.
"I only ask because it's obvious you're having an issue staying upright today. I'd hate to have to pick you up off the pavement again on the way there. Is this normal for you?" Weiss asked, while eyeing Ruby up and down. The halfway decent part of her that was down there somewhere was checking over for injuries. Ruby had said she was okay but Weiss wasn't taking any risks. Besides, if Ruby was cut up there was a chance that blood would get everywhere, and there was already coffee on her. She didn't want to think about the nightmare of getting blood out of her clothing, too.
She let out a long sigh, and then turned around and pointed in the direction of the coffee shop. "It's just that way. They have this coffee that tastes just like you're drinking a chocolate sundae."
In another universe she'd have happily bought another of her own and also bought Ruby one, but this Weiss wasn't there yet.
Why or why couldn’t this be the classroom or somewhere Ruby was confident? In those settings she could take the snide comments because when it came to engineering? She knew what she was doing and it made sense and that was all that mattered. The pieces that went together, what fit. It was how she viewed her team, how they fit. But right now she was all over the place and the feeling of flailing in the water wasn’t helping. Alas, she wasn’t anywhere dealing with mechanical engineering and just trying to get through this and save some face even when she still would prefer being swallowed by the sidewalk.
“Falling? Um… sometimes? I mean, not like constantly but I don’t think anyone has perfect grace and really it was just a blind corner and….right, um. You won’t have to pick me up off the pavement again. Promise.”
Because really, had there not been a person there, Ruby would have been fine but Weiss didn’t seem like she cared to hear that because technicalities and impressions were already made. So scratching the back of her neck awkwardly.
“Really? That sounds like something I’d actually drink.” As a rule, the teen didn’t like coffee. It was either tea or hot chocolate (or iced hot chocolate depending on the weather). But she knew she would also need the caffeine given the hospital stay. Maybe she’d get one of those for herself and then also pick something up for her dad as well.