What Good is Love? Ch. 1: Project

AAAAAAAND Number 2! For those of you that don't know, I'm announcing stories and whatnot that I plan to do for today via twitter {www . twitter . c om Codyknight22 remove the spaces add in / when appropriate}. Going to make my attempt at a full on AU for the RWBY girls. This is set in a high school environment, where Ruby skipped two grades and is a senior, Yang and Blake are a couple, and Weiss is that mysterious rich girl. That's all that might not be explicitly explained that I'd want to, so let's get going here.

Yang gently helped her sister off of her motorcycle, and met Ruby's gaze head on.

"I don't need the help," Ruby argued.

"Yeah you do," Yang countered. Things had been going along in this pattern for quite some time. Yang would drive both herself and Ruby to school, and then help Ruby down from Bumblebee, her motorcycle. Whenever she did it, Ruby would give her sister an angry glare, and Yang would just ignore her. The main reason for that was because the first time Ruby had tried to get off of Bumblebee, she screwed up and split her lip on the hard concrete below. Yang had never let her forget about it.

Yang gestured for Ruby to follow along with her, and her little sister complied. It had been a while since Ruby didn't follow her sister into classes. It was just easier to stick with someone that she was familiar with. Yang turned her head, and grinned widely.

"Look what the cat dragged in," she called out. "Hello gorgeous." Ruby didn't even have to turn to know who exactly who it was. Blake Belladonna, her sister's girlfriend. It wasn't rude that Yang had made her remark, since Blake was also a cat Faunus.

"You're going to keep that up for as long as possible," the Faunus said, running up to Yang and Ruby.

"Absolutely," Yang said proudly.

"Hey there little red," Blake said, choosing to go by the nickname that she had given Ruby on her first day with Ruby. She ruffled her hair, and Ruby just smiled up at the older girl.

"Hey Blake," Ruby said. "How was your weekend?"

"Great," Blake said. "I got to live without your sister for a minute." Yang lifted her hands from Ruby, and crushed Blake in one of her famous bear hugs.

"Awww you wuv me," Yang said. Blake quickly grabbed a point on Yang's shoulder, causing the girl to instantly let go of Blake.

"I also learned something useful," Blake said. "I can teach you later on." Ruby eagerly nodded, excited to finally learn an out for Yang's crushing hugs.

The three girls walked into the school, and Ruby's heart froze instantly. Standing by their locker, was Weiss Schnee. The heiress with a reputation for being a spoiled brat, but wasn't as bad once you got to know her. Ruby and Weiss had been paired together for a project after Ruby had been skipped ahead from freshmen to junior. Weiss had initially rejected Ruby, but she recognized why Ruby had been moved ahead soon enough. They worked together, and received the best grade in class. Since then, Weiss had attempted to either get with Ruby, Blake, Pyrrha Nikos {one of the top students} and Ren {quietly good student} to try and receive top marks. Ren often teamed up with Nora, Pyrrha almost never left Jaune's side, and Blake was often sucked into the vortex of Yang. That always left her with Ruby, the girl that Weiss thought she couldn't stand.

Somewhere around the fourth project, Ruby realized that she had grown to thoroughly enjoy the company of Weiss. So much so, that she wound up falling for her. Ruby knew that her older sister was partial to girls {at the time, she wasn't dating Blake}, but she had never once considered the thoughts that she would be a lesbian. Even worse, she didn't know whether or not Weiss would be a lesbian.

Yang noticed Ruby's color change, and quickly whacked her sister in the arm.

"Cut it out," Yang said. "She's gonna notice."

"Hwhaat?" Ruby said, snapping out of her temporary daze. Yang pointed in the distance, and Ruby took a deep breath. Due to some form of cruel god, or demon, or devil, or something, Ruby's locker was right next to Weiss'. She walked up to her own locker, and watched as Yang and Blake took to theirs. Please don't see me, please don't see me, please don't see me, was all that was going through Ruby's head.

"Oh, there you are!" Weiss said, closing her locker. "There's a group project coming up in science class." Ruby just stared at the inside of her locker, her science book resting in her hands. "Hello?" Weiss asked. "Are you in there? Did I get the wrong girl with the red cloak?"

"Sorry," Ruby said. "I was, uh, day dreaming."

"Of course you were," Weiss sighed. She was temporarily regretting going after Ruby, but she had no choice.

"Sure," Ruby said. "Do you know what it's for?"

"No," Weiss sighed. "Not yet. But, science is our next class, so we're about to learn whatever it is." Weiss instantly turned around, and walked away from the other three.

"You know she's using you, right?" Blake asked, pulling out her science book from the locker.

"Yeah," Ruby said sadly. "But what else am I going to do? I only get to hang out with her when projects come up." Blake and Yang sighed. Ruby was hopelessly attracted to Weiss, and it had been that way for years. Yang had already tried to ease her sister off of Weiss for a long time, but it never worked.

"Let's just get to science," Yang finally gave in. The bell rang, and Yang grinned. "Just on time."

Science Class: Professor Goodwitch

The three girls entered class, and took their seats. Ruby shared a table with Weiss {since they paired together so often} and Blake and Yang had taken their own table. Ruby briefly waved hi to Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora when she sat down. A loud crack was heard as their professor, Glynda Goodwitch, slammed her long ruler on the table.

"Good morning class," Goodwitch said. "Today, I have some rumors to address. The first of which, we are still covering the cellular growth rate for Grimm." Everyone in class groaned. As exciting as Grimm sounded, it was actually boring. Grimm were just animals that were already in existence that happened to be slightly larger then your average wolf. All of them looked intimidating, but everyone had seen one before. They were actually quite harmless, unless you threatened it's territory. "That's exactly the reason why you're still doing it. The second of which, is that today is indeed the beginning of the end for that unit." Now the class room started to cheer. Goodwitch slammed her ruler on the desk again, and everyone grew quiet again. "Lastly, there will be a project. I want a research paper and model demonstrating the growth rate in which cells are effected by this Grimm nature. All of you are required to pair up, so I suggest that you get going." Everyone formed their normal pairs very quickly, and Goodwitch just nodded.

"You have the rest of today to start to formulate a plan," Goodwitch continued. "And once you have one, I suggest that you arrange the workload. You have until next week to finish it. Be warned, I have had students try to do this the morning of." Goodwitch shot a glare at Yang, and then swung her gaze to some of the other students. "All of them, have failed this project. I wish all of you the best of luck, and your time begins now." Ruby and Weiss turned to face each other, and pulled out their books.

"So we'll have to meet after school everyday after today," Weiss started. "I think that we should alternate houses."

"W-w-why?" Ruby stuttered.

"Because we haven't done it that way before, you dolt. Plus, you have more creative materials for a model then me." Ruby nodded, but she felt herself getting sick. Oh no, she thought. Weiss is going to my house. This never happens. I'm going to have to clean, and get stuff, and clean, and- oh damn I already said clean.

"Are you okay?" Weiss asked, looking her partner in the eyes. "You look really pale."

"You have a pale complexion too," Ruby argued.

"No, you look sick. Do you need to throw up?" Ruby shook her head, and swallowed her breakfast. "Okay, good. We're going to need to form a plan here. Since we're going to start tomorrow, let's start-." Weiss cut herself off, and sighed. "Let's start at my home." Ruby nodded, and then was able to figure out what that meant.

"So my house on Wednesday?" Ruby asked. Weiss nodded, and Ruby shuddered. She didn't know if she could get her home clean. Maybe she could convince Yang to be at the house. But, Weiss didn't like Yang. And Yang didn't like Weiss. Well, Ruby was going to have to find a way to get out of this one alive.

End: Starting off short, like I always do. Questions, comments, follows, favorites, and feedback is appreciated.