#legacyheld

kaine ...

❛ 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 , 𝐙𝐀𝐂𝐊 ? ❜ what an absurd thing to say . she hadn't meant to talk about barn sex out of all things but the topic had somehow shifted while she was on the phone with aerith . she quickly tells her friend that she'll call her back before leaning over the kitchen island and looking at zack with a raised brow . ❛ i thought you and cloud were busy talking about god knows what ... your tour overseas or something . i didn't realize both of you were such perverts listening in on my conversation , ❜ she says a bit teasingly . it's enough to warrant @nibelblade to sit up , his lips parting as if about to protest but it's interrupted by zack's laugh . ❛ do you have any plans to do it in a barn then ? why would you even be talking about that ? ❜ he asks her as she grabs a glass to pour herself a drink . their dad wouldn't be home tonight so why not enjoy herself ...

“I feel like you are trying to get an angry response out of me but I won’t give in. I suppose, you’re right. So, WILL you not? Don’t you want to get to know people instead of making them hit you?”

Weiss sighed as she glanced down at her OWN scroll. There were 12 messages from her teammates. Oh gosh, what did they do now. Getting up from the cafe table, she got READY to leave. Why couldn’t she have a cup of coffee without them getting in trouble. Picking up the cup of coffee, she TIPPED it back., chugging the rest of it.

❝ They’re both my teammates and my friends. Just because I call them both terms, it doesn’t mean they’re mutually EXCLUSIVE. Let’s go before they get into more trouble than they already have. ❞

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          “....? I meant that...?” Sage had actually stopped for a moment, thoroughly confused by her statement. Of course he knew the difference between teammates and friends, so why would she feel the need to say-- “Never mind.” He waved the thought aside with a motion of his hand as he picked up his cup of tea. It wasn’t as important as what they needed to be dealing with right now anyways.

Blake had to admit, Mistral never stopped being beautiful.

The thought came to her as she hid behind a stack of crates--ironically bearing the Schnee Dust Company logo--at the edge of the airdocks.  She’d been watching the airships as they came and went, observing and listening to various conversations to gather intel.  But now, as dusk fell, she could see the western mountains stand stark against the blazing, golden sky.  She’d been in the city many times throughout her life, both with her parents and with the White Fang, and she’d never gotten used to the view that always took her by surprise.

But the surprises wouldn’t end with just a beautiful view.  Another airship touched down--Atlesian, by the looks of it, which caught her off-guard.  Hadn’t Atlas been closing down its borders?  That was something Blake had overheard earlier that day--complaints from a Mistrali far-ranger, returned from the northern shores.  So what was it doing here?

A sound nearby drew her attention, and she looked away briefly to ensure her hiding place wasn’t compromised.  Satisfied that she remained unnoticed, she looked back--

--just in time to see none other than Weiss Schnee next to the pilot of the airship that had just docked.

Her breath escaped her at the sight of her former teammate.  It had been months since she’d last seen anyone from Beacon, aside from Sun.  News from the other kingdoms had been trickling in, but slowly, since without Beacon Tower, Remnant was forced to rely on communication by hand again.  Maybe telegraph, if they wanted to spend all that money or it was an absolute emergency.  None of that had been of the remains of Team RWBY or Team JNPR.

Once Blake had emerged from her self-induced stupor of self-pity, she’d realized that she had no idea where her friends were.  Sure, Sun had told her where they’d been when she left, but that had been months ago.  Neither of them knew what had happened since.  So to see Weiss here, after so long, and after so much...

Blake couldn’t reveal herself now.  No, not out of some misguided desire to remain isolated from one of the girls outside of her family who she’d allowed to get so close to her--but because she was trespassing, and getting caught with so many people around would be a hefty fine at the least, and that for a human.  For a faunus, it would be worse, she knew by experience.  So she resolved to follow the former heiress (that news hadn’t escaped her at all) from the shadows, until they were in a safe enough location for Blake to finally reveal herself.