WHITEROSE REMEDY

An icy exterior shields the broken past of Weiss Schnee. Perhaps the key to resolving the repressed feelings of yearning and sadness lies in the most unlikely of people: Ruby Rose. After all, victory lies in the simpler things that have been long forgotten. Things that require a smaller, more honest soul.

White Rose pairing (If not indicated already by the title)

Hi, DataGrowth here! This is my first time ever writing here on fanfiction. I've had a few experiences writing on other websites, but very, very strong emphasis on the word 'few.' Anyways, this story will primarily focus on the viewpoints of both Ruby and Weiss. I'll update as frequently as I can, but remember that I am human after all, so if I miss a few deadlines, don't leave just yet! Hope you enjoy! If you have any comments, criticisms, or feedback in general, I'd be happy to hear them through comments, reviews, and PMs.

NOTE: ALL WORKS BESIDES THE STORY PAST THE INTRO BELONG TO MONTY OUM AND ROOSTER TEETH. I AM IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH ROOSTER TEETH OR MONTY OUM, AND I GIVE NO CLAIM TO ANY OF THE ORIGINAL CONCEPTS AND IDEAS BEHIND THIS FANFIC.

The time is set to the evening that Weiss's request to become the team leader was denied. However, rather than taking Prof. Port's words to heart, everything from this point will be different (either completely or in small aspects) from the rest of the season one that we know of.

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Weiss stormed through the hallway, angrily pushing aside the students that were in her way. Seeing her mood, students moved away from her hastily. There was no way that any sane student at Beacon Academy would dare to challenge Weiss Schnee while she was in a foul mood. Especially not while she had a weapon at her side. Despite it being the first official day of school, the ice queen had already gained some notoriety amongst the students. They knew that she was breathtakingly beautiful, but at the same time extremely arrogant as well as selfish, and at times, bitchy. Despite this, they also knew that Weiss Schnee was not the person you wanted to be on the bad side of. Things would not end well for you.

Weiss knew what most students thought of her. She knew that they whispered behind her back and quickly scattered whenever she approached them. These were further exemplified by the current situation as she stomped through the crowds and watched them disperse. She heard the whispering, but she didn't care. Right now, Weiss was too angry to think about anything save her current position under Ruby Rose. Ruby Rose. As Weiss thought about the name, she clenched her fist and walked a little bit faster. "The… immature… naïve… girl…" She muttered angrily to nobody in particular. Weiss had trained so hard. She had done everything within her power to improve her skills. Countless years of training alone under different tutors and teachers… "And for what?" Weiss thought to herself angrily. "To be surpassed by this LITTLE GIRL?"

Weiss stormed outside to the balcony, no particular destination in mind. She felt like yelling at the top of her lungs, but she couldn't do that. That would be improper. Inside, Weiss felt like… crying? Her facial expression changed to that of a sadder, more broken face. Then her face hardened again. "No." Weiss thought again, shutting out the thought. "Tears are for the weak" She thought to herself, recalling her father's words from countless occasions. With another harsh sigh of frustration, Weiss sat down hard onto a bench. She put her head into her hands.

Ruby watched her from the entrance of the school, concerned. She wanted to go out there and talk to her… to comfort her, but Ruby knew that this was not the time. Actually, she wasn't sure if there would actually be a time that she could talk comfortably to Weiss again. Sighing heavily, Ruby turned around and walked back inside.

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Ruby glanced at the clock, which read 11:48 pm. She looked around. Yang was playing a game on her scroll while Blake was reading a book. Weiss was still nowhere to be seen. Ruby sighed again, feeling helpless. What could she possibly do in this situation? She admitted it, maybe she wasn't acting the way that a proper leader should have acted, but she didn't see any way that she would be able to make amends with Weiss. After all, it wasn't her decision to want to become leader. Ruby thought back to the words of Ozpin.

"Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you're not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?"

Ruby felt especially troubled at those lines. She was only fifteen. Even though she knew that she was skilled enough with her Crescent Rose, she felt inadequate when comparing herself to all the other older students at Beacon. Even to the team that she led… No, especially to the team that she led. It was probably Ruby herself who was the most surprised when professor Ozpin had called her name when selecting the team leader. Ruby sighed once more, still lacking a solution to all of what was happening.

"I wonder where Weiss is." Yang said, bored of the game that she had been playing for the last hour.

"It is getting pretty late," Blake added in her usual flat tone of voice. "I wonder if it has anything to do with how upset she seemed in Grimm Studies today." Ruby looked away. She hadn't mentioned what had happened with Weiss after class to Blake or her sister. The truth is, Ruby didn't really know how she felt about Weiss. Ruby reflected back to her first ever encounter with Weiss. Ruby remembered that the first thing that she had ever noticed about Weiss, besides the loud, irritated yelling about how careless Ruby was, actually was her breathtaking beauty. It was as if she was a princess that had come straight out of a story book. However, Ruby remembered that she didn't have time to admire Weiss's beauty for long before she exploded again... literally. Ruby smiled at that memory.

Past that point, Ruby had a very difficult time getting along with her. It was clear by the way Weiss talked and acted around her that she saw Ruby as somebody who was lower than her. Of course, she spoke and acted in that condescending manner around most people, but Ruby, being as young as she was, felt it even more so than others. It was clear that Weiss thought she was better than Ruby. The only thing that frustrated her was that Weiss didn't believe that Ruby was any good.

Though there was the instance where Weiss agreed to work together with Ruby in the Emerald Forest, after finding out that Ruby would be the leader of RWBY, they seemed to be back to square one. Now Weiss treated her no differently than she had on the first day they had met. "Maybe it's because you're not living up to your title of a leader," Ruby thought to herself. Thinking about it, there were actually very few reasons why Weiss should even want to pursue a relationship with Ruby.

"Wait, how did I just word that?" Ruby asked herself. Clearly, that wasn't what she meant to think… Ruby shook her head and dismissed the thought. That brought her back to her original thought: How she actually felt about Weiss. There was a strange feeling that Ruby held towards Weiss that she just could not really explain. All she knew was that she desperately wanted Weiss to like her and she didn't know why.

Ruby looked up from her thoughts and realized that Yang and Blake were already sleeping. Weiss still wasn't back. Ruby sighed and turned to face the ceiling. She knew that she wouldn't be falling asleep any time soon.

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Weiss approached the door hesitantly. Bringing out her card, she unlocked the door and slipped inside. She looked at the clock. It read 2:11 am. Cautiously, Weiss checked around the room. Her gaze settled on Ruby. Her face showed no emotion as her gaze held for about ten seconds. Then she turned away. Figuring everybody to be asleep, she didn't bother taking her clothes to the bathroom and decided to change in the room. She tugged off her school clothes and neatly put them in her dirty clothes basket. Shortly after, she found and slipped into her sleeping gown. Sighing heavily, she slid under her covers and closed her eyes, not wanting to think about anything. After a few minutes, she fell asleep.

Ruby turned over, thinking hard about what she had just witnessed. This feeling… what was it? Images of Weiss without proper clothing flashed back through her mind. What was going on? She had never felt this way in her entire life. Ruby stayed awake another half hour, thinking hard. Then, she too, finally fell into the clutches of sleep and drifted off.

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"Ruby, get up!" Ruby heard a voice say. It was Yang's.

"Ughhhh, five more minutes…" Ruby called out sleepily. A pillow hit her head.

"We're going to miss breakfast!" Yang yelled back. Ruby didn't respond. Another pillow hit her face.

"Okay, okay!" Ruby cried grudgingly. She slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes. Normally, Ruby was the first one up in the room, but after her little amount of sleep from the night before, she was dead-tired. Ruby looked down from her bunk bed and caught a glimpse of Weiss's bed. Instantly, images of Weiss last night flooded her head. Ruby's eyes opened quickly. The rest of the day came back to her soon after the images. She looked around. Weiss was not in the room. "Where's Weiss?" Ruby asked.

"Dunno," Blake said. "I heard her rise about an hour ago. She left without us." Ruby fell backwards and sighed. She really was that upset.

"Ruby," Yang called out. "You really need to get a move on. We are seriously going to be late… we might even miss breakfast." If Yang had another pillow, she probably would have thrown it at her. Ruby knew that Yang loved her breakfast. Typically, if Yang missed a meal, a very unpleasant side of her tended to appear and linger throughout the rest of the day. Sighing again, Ruby got up and got ready for breakfast.

Even in the cafeteria, Weiss was nowhere to be seen. Yang and Blake looked worriedly at Ruby, who was spinning her fork around in her sausages rather than eating them. It didn't take a genius to tell that something was wrong. The pair had already put two and two together about the lack of Weiss and Ruby's somber mood and decided to confront Ruby about it.

"Ruby," Yang said. "You don't have to hide anything from us… What is going on between you and Weiss?" Ruby looked up startled. Immediately she thought Yang was talking about Ruby's confused feelings regarding Weiss. About how she felt about her… and how she had seen her naked.

"N-nothing." Ruby stammered.

"We're not that dumb," Yang replied. "We know that she wasn't in the best of moods yesterday, and she didn't return to our room until late at night. You also seemed really quiet yesterday also." Ruby sighed in relief. It wasn't about that. Yang took Ruby's sigh for something else. "If something is wrong, then you can share it with us Ruby. We're your team after all… No, I'm your sister after all." Ruby looked into Blake's amber eyes. Then she shifted her focus to Yang's violet eyes.

"Really Yang, it's nothing." Ruby said. She didn't want to seek pity from her sister or Blake. They probably had enough to deal with given their weak leader. However, she knew from experience that Yang wasn't the type to give up until she had an answer, so Ruby excused herself from the table. "I need to use the restroom before class," She said, hurrying towards the exit. Yang looked away.

"Be sure to go quickly," Blake called after Ruby. "Class starts in a few minutes." Yang looked down. That didn't go the way she had planned it to go.

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Weiss didn't turn as the rest of team RWBY entered the room late. "What should I expect?" Weiss thought to herself, airily. She made no eye contact with any of them despite the way that Ruby was desperately trying to capture her attention from the seat about twenty feet to the right of her. After a few minutes, Weiss noticed that Ruby had given up trying to get her attention and sat staring straight ahead of herself. "Better for her," Weiss thought to herself. They had a class to focus on anyways.

After twenty minutes into the lesson, Weiss admitted to herself that the class was quite boring. Much of the material that the professor covered was knowledge that Weiss had known beforehand. Relearning information was dull. She glanced over at Ruby. Much to her surprise, she wasn't goofing off the way that she had expected Ruby to be doing. Instead, she was focusing intently on the information being provided and… taking notes? Weiss looked a little closer. She could see the expression that Ruby held. It was mysterious but sad… strangely an expression that Weiss recognized that she herself had worn on many occasions. Weiss looked back up. There was no use thinking about that sort of stuff. It was impractical and unprofessional. She had outgrown that. But had she? Weiss looked down, lost in her thoughts. She was still upset at Ruby, and Ozpin, and everything that had happened leading up to her current position as a… lackey. "Is that all I was meant to be here at this school?" Weiss thought to herself angrily. She waited impassively for the lesson to be over.

The class was finally dismissed after nearly an hour of the boring lecture. Weiss hurried past her team. She had no desire to talk to any of them at this current situation.

"Weiss, please wait!" She heard Ruby's voice call out above the commotion. She didn't care. She hurried out of the door past the crowd of students doing the same. About fifteen steps into the hallway, Weiss felt a small hand grab her shoulder. She knew it was Ruby. She knew that despite Ruby's shortcomings, she was still an incredibly fast girl. "Please, just talk to me!" Ruby cried.

"ABOUT WHAT?" Weiss yelled, turning around fiercely and making Ruby, along with a few students in the hallway, flinch.

"I-I don't know!" Ruby cried. "I'm sorry! I really am sorry about how everything turned out! It wasn't MY fault that I was chosen to be the team leader! Honestly, I really just wished that it was different, or you were the team leader so you wouldn't feel this way about me!" Weiss could tell that Ruby was making a very strong effort to hold in her tears. It wasn't completely successful, as some water began to leak out around her eyes.

"Saying sorry isn't going to change anything," Weiss replied, her face stoic. "Either get better than me or don't talk to me at all. It's bad enough that I need you to represent me, I don't need to make it any worse by associating with you." A tear fell down Ruby's cheek. Weiss could tell that Ruby was trying to say something, but she choked up instead and looked down. Weiss watched her for a moment. Then she strode off to her next class. Luckily, this was a class that she didn't have with Ruby.

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Ruby felt as if she had been punched. Her attempts to apologize to Weiss to get her to like her more had failed utterly. She couldn't even form a response to Weiss's come back. She realized that a tear had fallen down her cheek and scrubbed her eyes hastily. She felt so stupid. So inadequate. So… What was it? There was such a strong urge to impress Weiss, and the way that things were going, it didn't seem like that was happening anytime soon. Seeing that Weiss was already gone, Ruby turned around and began to head to her next class. With her head down, Ruby failed to notice passing by Blake, who had seen and heard everything that had just taken place.

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Weiss thought hard about the encounter with Ruby. The tears. The sadness that Ruby displayed… as if it had stemmed down much deeper than simply being sorry about being the team leader. It was as if she so desperately wanted to say something but couldn't. There was just something about Ruby's face back there that Weiss couldn't deduce. Something that reminded her of herself. Before she could finish that thought, however, she heard a voice next to her.

"What you did back there was selfish and childlike." Weiss turned. It was Blake, looking angry. "Ruby is only a child, and I don't think you can even begin to understand how hard she is trying to gain your approval. "

"But that's just it!" Weiss hissed back in a hushed tone, as class had already started. "She's just a child. She is most definitely not fit to be a leader… much less over me."

"You call Ruby childish, and at least she has an excuse for it. Take a look at yourself and just ask, who is really the child here?" Blake replied. Weiss stopped talking.

"There's obviously something that you're failing to realize also." Blake replied. "I know that you pride yourself as smart and strong and… better, but don't you think that Ozpin would be smart enough to see those characteristics also? For all these years that he's spent at this academy, he obviously can't be stupidly blind. There has to be something about Ruby that he saw and decided was worthy of leadership material… And maybe that's something that you don't have."

Weiss tried to come up with a comeback and realized that she could not. Anyways, Blake had already turned away. "Maybe she's right," Weiss thought to herself. Was she being too hard on Ruby? She reflected on her actions in the past twenty four hours. Though Ruby was clearly a dolt who seemed highly inexperienced, Weiss realized that it was stupid to blame her for not being trained as intensely as Weiss had been trained. Honestly, it would have been stupid to expect anybody to perform at the level that Weiss did. Weiss thought about it some more.

Then Weiss realized why the face that she had recognized on Ruby back in the hallway looked so familiar. It was of a pain and loneliness that yearned for affection. An affection that Weiss had longed for, but never received when she was a child.