Author's Note: Hi there. I'm new to fanfiction, and I just wanted to say a few words of introduction. I only recently started reading fanfiction, and now I'm hooked. I decided I would try and write some as well, but this is more nerve wracking than I thought it would be. I do not let other people read what I write, but I decided that I would take the leap and submit something here. This story is very rough right now, so please give it a chance for a few chapters before deciding if you like it or not. I'm not sure how this all works so if there is any advice or tips you guys could give me I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you :)

Weiss stepped out of her powder blue BMW with a heavy sigh. Reaching in to pop the hood of the car she surreptitiously glances around the dingy, beaten down neighborhood warily.

This is the last time I listen to the GPS when it says there is a faster alternate route, she thought, an extra twenty minutes won't kill me, but something in this neighborhood might.

Managing to find the latch on the hood to make it lift she quickly stepped back as a hot plume of steam rises from the engine. That's just great, she glared at the car as it continued to steam. All she wanted was to get out of this neighborhood and get to her house so she could go to bed. School started in two days and she just got done driving for close to thirteen hours straight.

Hoping that fixing a car couldn't be that hard she hesitantly moved closer to take a look. Reaching in she rested her hand on something and instantly jerked her arm back with a small gasp as she burned her fingers. Son of a-!

Irritated that she did something so obviously stupid she glared down at her still stinging fingers. If she couldn't fix the car then that meant she would have to wait here until someone came to get her. She didn't really have a choice, but that didn't mean the situation didn't suck.

Moving back to the driver's side door to retrieve her phone she finally noticed that there were a few people gathered along the street and were looking her way. Like cockroaches coming out of the woodwork, she thought as she quickly picked up the phone to call a towing service that might still be open this late at night. Father is going to be upset that I got myself into this mess.

Before she had a chance to begin dialing a voice directly behind her made her jump in shock.

"Hey there pretty thing! Do ya need a little help?"

Whirling around as unpleasant shivers ran up her spine she faced two dirty boys in torn t-shirts and baggy, ripped jeans. They were grinning at her with amusement as she tried to back away but was trapped between them and her car. She assumed the taller one was the one who had spoken to her, and she that he was missing his front incisor and a bottom canine tooth, almost putting her in mind of a Jack o' Lantern. It didn't help that the dim glow coming from a nearby streetlight turned his teeth a sickly yellow color.

"I'm doing just fine, thank you, so you can leave me alone," she said frostily. She gave them her best icy glare. She refused to be intimidated by these scum!

"Don't be like that," said the second boy as he shifted slightly closer to her. "We just want to help, right Jim?"

Jim grinned even bigger and Weiss saw that he was also missing a few teeth.

"Right ,Joe! Of course, help don' come for free, right? Snowflake here looks like she could be willing to pay for a bit of help right now."

Weiss rolled her eyes at the snowflake remark. She got it, she was pale and had white hair. Honestly, the lack of brain cells present was apparent.

Moving so that she was toe to toe with Jim she looked up into his greasy face. " 'Snowflake' here does not need any help. Especially not from some gap toothed thugs who feel that they both need to gang up on me to intimidate me. You don't know who you're speaking to!" She accentuated that last statement with a shove into Jim's chest, but the boy barely moved back even an inch.

The smarmy grins now gone from their faces they scowled at the tiny girl who was now trying to shove past them in a huff. Joe grabbed her with a dirt stained hand and pushed her into the side of her car with a small thud.

"How dare you-!" she began, but Jim reached out a tangled his hand in the front of Weiss's shirt and jerked her off balance, cutting off her sentence. Beginning to feel real fear set in she tried to wrestle Jim's hand out of her shirt.

"That wasn't very nice Snowflake," Jim said "You really hurt our feelings there."

"Yeah," piped in Joe "We were only offering to help you out a little. We just wanted a little payment for our services is all."

Jim lifted her by her shirt until she was just able to touch her toes to the ground. Suddenly his other hand was at her waist and began to slide up her side. "Maybe we can just take our payment some other way."

Her eyes widened in outrage and she began to kick at him as best she could in her position. Both boys grinned at her struggles and began to run their hands over her clothes. Angry and scared she was about to try and claw at both their faces, but suddenly a heavy combat boot came in over Weiss's head and smashed into Jim's face.

"ARRRGH-!" Jim cried as he let Weiss go to clutch at his broken nose as he backed away from whatever had hit him. Without Jim holding her up, she fell to the ground in a heap, scraping both her palms on the asphalt.

A small figure landed lightly in front of Weiss and nonchalantly put its hands inside the oversized red hoodie it was wearing. Joe, who had taken a few steps back in surprise when Jim had been hit, began to charge at the newcomer like a linebacker. Before he even got with striking distance, however, another figure dashed in out of seemingly nowhere and upper- cutted the boy right in the solar plexus. Joe fell to ground and puked up the contents of his stomach.

"How many more of your teeth am I gonna have to knock out before you learn to stop messing with people?" The smaller figure cocked out a hip as it spoke and Weiss realized that her rescuer was a very petite girl and not a slim boy as she had first appeared.

Weiss gaped up at the small girl, not believing that this was the person who had apparently somehow jumped over the roof of her car to plant a solid kick to the cretins face. She looks shorter than I do! She can only be 5'2 at the most, she thought with a wince as she slowly climbed back to her feet. Her palms stung and she could see that her once pristine white top was now stretched in the front and stained with whatever grime had been on Joe's hands.

Suddenly the larger figure that had taken out Jim rushed to the small girl's side. "Ruby! I told you to not get involved! Why can't you listen to me when I tell you not to do something stupid!?"

Ruby sighed and resisted rolling her eyes. She knew better than to push her sister too far. "Yaaang," she whined. "It's only Slow Joe and Dim Jim. Taking these guys out is a piece of cake!"

Yang glared down at her younger sister with barely controlled temper. She hated it when Ruby purposefully put herself in situations where she might get hurt. Yang finger combed her wild mass of blonde hair away from her face and growled in frustration. "I don't care if Joe is as dumb as a rock! You are not allowed to rush into dangerous situations like that."

"I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE!" roared Joe as he waved his arms to catch the attention of the sisters. He hated these two. Always acting so damn untouchable and unconcerned.

Two pairs of eyes blinked at him blankly; one silver pair, the other a light purple. They had forgotten he was even there!

Blood still gushing out of his now noticeably crooked nose he rushed at the two girls with a feral snarl on his face. Before Yang could stop her, Ruby rushed forward to meet the thug halfway. She kicked out while still in motion and hit Joe's knee straight on causing his forward momentum to be stopped. He stumbled like he had missed the last step on a staircase and Ruby grabbed hold of one flailing arm while hooking one foot on Joe's leg. Ruby unceremoniously pulled him completely off balance and he ended up on the ground with her knee digging painfully into his lower back.

Joe barely noticed the pain in his back though as fresh agony bloomed from his face that had hit the street. He groaned and focused on not passing out.

Weiss couldn't believe it. The small girl had been in control of every motion of that fall, and she had made it look effortless! Joe was easily a foot taller and a good eighty pounds heavier, yet he was on the ground and showed no signs of wanting to get back up soon. Jim was similarly positioned, but he was focused on not gagging as the pain in his stomach was slowly ebbing away.

Ruby started to walk towards her obviously fuming sister and noticed the white haired girl staring at her. Slightly flustered at the intensity of the other girls crystalline blue eyes she focused on her sister instead who was gritting her teeth in obvious aggravation.

Yang was too tired to deal with Ruby's need for a fight. She had had a bad night and all she wanted was to go home and go to bed. "Home. Now." She said as calmly as possible while pointing in a general direction down the street.

Ruby only cleared her throat in response and jerked her head in Weiss's direction. Yang barely glanced at the girl. "She's not our problem."

Ruby frowned and Weiss straightened with offense at the blonde's rudeness.

"Yang just see if you can fix her car and then I promise I will go home with no complaints."

Weiss suddenly spoke up for the first time since the pair had shown up. "No, thank you, but I wouldn't dream of being such a bother." Her tone was laden with barely suppressed sarcasm and indignation.

Yang looked at Ruby's expectant face and sighed internally. She looked at Jim and Joe still lying on the ground where they had left them. She moved and nudged Jim in his side with her foot. "Pick up your friend and get the hell out of here. I don't want to have to deal with you clowns again tonight."

Jim may not be very bright, but he was good at self-preservation and did as he was told. Legs a little shaky he managed to get Joe on his feet and they both hobbled away.

Weiss frowned hard at the blonde's back. She didn't understand what her problem was. Suddenly the tall girl turned and stomped over to the front of Weiss's car. Before she could protest Yang had already rolled up the sleeves to her snug black and beige jacket and had her hands in the cars mechanics.

"Don't worry, Yang is pretty good with stuff like this. She can fix most things with an engine as long as the problem isn't too bad."

Weiss jumped as she noticed that the girl Ruby was standing right next to her. When did she get so close?

Weiss finally got a good look at her tiny rescuer in the dim light and the only way she could describe the girl was pixie-like. Petite and slim her features were dainty, and her eyes were huge pools of mesmerizing silver. She had chin length brown hair with red at the ends that looked very striking against her pale skin.

As Weiss was looking at Ruby the smaller girl was also getting her first good look at the girl in white. Ruby had never seen anyone with hair and skin that was so white. The slightly taller girl had a scar on her left eye, and it seemed to Ruby to be the only imperfection the girl had.

Weiss realized that she had yet to say anything to the girl in front of her because she had been too busy staring at her. Embarrassed she cleared her throat.

"Hello…Ruby, was it? My name is Weiss. Thank you for saving me from those men."

Ruby just gave a slight nod in acknowledgment of the gratitude. "They may seem dangerous, but their threats were pretty empty. They wouldn't have known what to do with you after a few minutes and prob'ly would have just roughed you up a bit before wandering off."

Weiss wasn't sure if that was supposed to be comforting or not. How much did she consider 'roughed up a bit?'

"Well I am glad that I did not need to find out what it feels like to be 'roughed up'."

The blonde at Weiss's car gave a soft snort and rolled her eyes. "If you don' wanna get roughed up then you shouldn't come around this neighborhood. Especially when it's obvious you have the strength of a cooked noodle." Yang paused and glared briefly at Weiss. "Then my sister wouldn't feel the need to put herself in harm's way to save you from the absolute most incompetent thugs you will ever meet."

Weiss gritted her teeth as the blonde continued to fiddle around under the hood after saying her piece. She was insulting her, she just knew it.

Ruby could tell that Weiss was becoming upset, and Yang was already upset and was doing her best to make sure everyone knew it.

"Yang," she said with a sigh. "You just said that they were most incompetent thugs ever. I don't know why you are so upset with me helping Weiss."

Yang just glared at Ruby and began mumbling under her breath while she continued to work on the expensive looking BMW.

Weiss rubbed her forehead tiredly. She just wanted to go home and sleep. She didn't want to deal with anymore dirty thugs, and angry sisters or adorable, fighting pixies.

"Hey, Rubes? Could you get me some water? Enough to fill a half gallon of milk if you can." Yang stepped back from the car and wiped her dirty hands on her ragged jeans. Ruby didn't bother to reply and simply sped off down an alley to find some water.

Weiss watched her speed off and sighed. Just me and the angry one. Wonderful.

Yang and Weiss eyed each other warily, both finding the others presence aggravating for different reasons. Yang was still upset that Ruby put herself in harm's way and she blamed Weiss for needing to be saved in the first place. She knew it was irrational, but Ruby was all she had and the thought of her getting hurt was unacceptable.

Weiss looked away from the tall blonde and stared down at her scraped and bloody hands. They were starting to sting, but Weiss didn't have anything with her to cover her hands with. Yang noticed the condition of Weiss's hands and sighed heavily.

Yang may have a short temper, but she was also kind hearted. Knowing that Weiss was not at fault for anything that happened tonight and then seeing her hurt made all the anger leave Yang. Now she was just tired. Yang looked down her already worn and torn white t-shirt and started ripping thin strips off the bottom. It's clean enough I guess, she thought.

Weiss was startled when Yang began tearing at her clothing. "What are you doing?!"

Yang had grabbed one of Weiss's slender wrists and began to wrap the cloth over her bloody palms. "It's better than nothing, right?" Yang gave Weiss a small grin, which startled her even more. What was with the sudden mood swing?

Both of Weiss's hands now decently covered Yang looked down at her uneven shirt and simply bunched the rest of it under her breasts and tied it off to one side. Weiss looked at Yang's exposed stomach in shock. She briefly noticed that Yang had toned muscles on her abdomen as well as her arms, but what grabbed her attention were the dark purple bruises that marred her skin. Some bruises looked new, but there were others that were fading into that sickly yellow and green color around the edges. Weiss could only imagine how painful and sore they must be, but Yang had never given any indication that she felt any discomfort.

Yang cleared her throat loudly, and Weiss guiltily looked up at her.

Normally Yang would have teased her for getting caught staring at her, but she felt too tired and knew that the girl was only curious about the extensive bruising on her stomach.

Before Weiss could stumble out an apology Ruby came running back through the alley way carrying a jug half filled with water. Silently padding up to the pair she handed the jug to Yang who took it with a big grin. Yang reached out with her other hand and ruffled Ruby's hair. "Thanks sis. We'll have Snowflake out of here in no time!"

"Don't call me Snowflake!" Weiss glared at the sisters as they laughed at her. She couldn't wait for this night to end.

Yang returned the car and Ruby stood beside Weiss once again. "Your radiator has a crack in it. All the water leaked out and your engine got too hot. It's not so bad, so this amount of water should at least last long enough to get you to a shop at least," Yang explained as she poured the water into her car.

Ruby grinned up at Weiss. "I told you she could fix it."

Weiss stared at Ruby. This was the first time Weiss had seen so much emotion on her face the whole night. Ruby had a big smile on her face now, and her silver eyes were lit up in happiness. She looks so young right now and…adorable.

Blinking at that thought she quickly looked away and felt a small blush rise in her cheeks. What's wrong with me? Why am I embarrassed?

Ruby didn't appear to notice, much to Weiss's relief. As soon as Yang had lowered the hoof her car she was saying her thanks and getting in behind the wheel. It had been a strange evening and she just wanted to get home where there were no confusing emotions to deal with.

Yang leaned down to see onto the window as Weiss started her car. Weiss let out an audible sigh of relief when the engine turned over and started. "It was nice to rescue you Weiss," Yang said with a grin. "It's best to avoid neighborhoods like this unless you can defend yourself a bit. Try and build up some strength in those noodle arms of yours."

Yang laughed as Weiss glared at her in annoyance. "Say good-bye Ruby. It's way past our bedtime."

Ruby walked up to the open window as Yang began to walk down the street towards home. Weiss softened her glare and looked at Ruby. "Thank you for helping me. I don't know what I would have done had you not stopped to help."

Ruby just shook her head. "Happy to help. Get home safe Weiss." With that Ruby started to walk away as well, but Weiss saw her stop after a few steps. Ruby came back to the window and flashed Weiss a smile that was pure mischief. "You're really cute when you blush, Snowflake," she said. Her grin grew when Weiss's cheeks immediately turned pink. Not giving Weiss time to answer Ruby jogged away from the car and made her way to catch up with Yang.

Weiss rolled up her window and pressed her hands to her hot cheeks. What was that? How could she say that?! That…that…that dolt!

Weiss drove home in a daze. She didn't know what to think about the two sisters who rescued her tonight. Yang was at first angry and abrasive, then suddenly turned kind and teasing. Ruby first appeared relatively mature and somewhat somber, but then suddenly turned mischievous. Arriving home and sneaking through the house so she didn't wake up her father or her sister she decided she was too tired for a shower and just striped off her dirty clothing before falling into bed. Her last thought before she fell asleep was that Ruby had looked really cute when she smiled.

Ruby and Yang had made it home and were also preparing for bed. The apartment they lived in was tiny so they shared the only bedroom. Yang promised Ruby that she hadn't forgotten that she was still upset with her for rushing into a fight. Declaring she would yell at her in the morning, Yang fell onto the bed they shared with a groan and promptly fell asleep.

Ruby gazed down at her sister with concern. Yang may not complain, but Ruby knew that she was in a fair amount of pain. Yang was a fighter in an underground fight club of sorts, while Ruby was a courier. Tomorrow she would have to travel throughout the city to deliver the winnings to the people who bet on the fights. Ruby wanted to do more to help them save up some money so they could get out of this neighborhood, but Yang was against Ruby becoming a fighter herself even though she was more than capable in a fight herself.

Ruby sighed and shook the thoughts from her head. Squeezing into bed next to her sister she closed her eyes and thought back on the night. A small smile formed on her lips as her last thought before falling asleep was that Weiss really had been cute when she blushed.