Whitley was finally at home after a long day at work, beyond exhausted.
Going through the whole stack of documents from morning till dusk for days was quite a mentally draining process, one of the things He has been willing to do as part of his duty as the newly assigned CEO of the Schnee Dust Company. Whitley needed a good break.
Tomorrow, he will participate in another trip to one of the mines to examine the working conditions there.
"While arrogant I suppose my sister made the position look a lot less daunting than this." He muttered.
His sister, the former CEO Wiess Schnee who had recently left to manage a smaller subsect and enjoy her new married life with her friend turned wife, had managed the company in such a high spirit that he nearly got the wrong impression about its difficulty.
Hazardous Dust Particles is a much more serious problem than people might think, the safety guides were often overlooked due to the incredible nature of the resources.
His clients tend to exploit the smallest details in the final product and demand a lower price. Some of them could be so ignorant as to put the manual away and hope for a one-sided beneficial deal just because they thought he could get caught up in a web of empty compliments.
Oh, dearest customers and business-partners. How mistaken they could be.
They underestimated a Schnee's conviction and had their running mouths clamp shut in a meeting this afternoon. A wave of satisfaction hit Whitley and continued to linger all over his senses as he temporarily rested on the sofa.
It cost him an entire night to create a perfect, flawless electronic presentation, which he still remembered letting out an evil giggle in-between the making.
And that somehow excited his wife a bit, she was there to support him not by going through the documents as she would sooner shred them all.She was his greatest physical support and worked as perfect intimidation whenever a shareholder or random women got to touchy,
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"It seems those years of training were worth it after all" Weiss beamed smugly hearing about her becoming the CEO though she handed over the position she mainly wanted to fix the sins of her father beyond that..Well she could see herself passing it on to Whitley if he behaved himself.
"Wow good job Weiss!" Ruby gave Weiss a thumbs up. After all she was the first person Weiss told her dream and struggles with her family name to and was the person besides Winter who supported her the longest.
"It was only natural. I was trained to embody the Schnee name." Weiss was now even more smug and basking in the praise from Ruby until she heard a cough from Blake and snicker from Yang. Ruby and Weiss both turned to face their teammates who now couldn't stop laughing to themselves.
'What Has you to laughing like buffons? Surely we would find it funny as well" Weiss not liking being kept out of the joke asked Blake.
"Yeah we wanna laugh to sis" Ruby looked over to Yang who just coughed and nudged Blake.
Blake smirked and leaned further into her embrace with Yang. "Well well well, Look who decided to join the fun side. Weiss i thought you were more 'Classically Trained'. Blake made air quotes with her hands while Yang also further embraced Blake and even began to wiggle her eyebrows at Weiss.
Weiss slowly came to a realization about what was so funny when Yang replayed a specific part of the viewing.
"Welcome to the world of girl's love Weisscream or maybe It's more slippery when wet.'"Yang smiled and added on to the teasing of Weiss who's face was now redder than a tomato.
"It's Okay Weiss we'll be old grannies hunting baddies together! I'll be with you no matter who you love Team RWBY Forever!" Ruby wrapped one arm around Weiss while her other arm went to the sky in solidarity.
"Yeah...together forever". Weiss who could never imagine herself being in any kind of romantic relationship with anyone after short failure with Neptune. Could barely wrap her head around getting in one with another woman let alone her best friend, Could only bashfully raise her arm along a smiling Ruby and endure the teasing looks from Blake and Yang.
This became even harder when she looked past her team leader's shoulder to see the Yang making kissy faces and Blake waving a little flag with the words 'WhiteRose Confirmed'
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Speaking of which, Whitley grabbed his scroll and shot her a text. She didn't reply and seemed to have been offline for a while. Vernal as usual wasn't home yet. She was probably on guard duty, checking the perimeters outside the city wall or even better stealing whatever she wanted in some back water alley somewhere in Anima.
If she got lucky it would be more than on of his potential buyers.
If he got lucky she would finish the job and kill some rival company ceo's on the way back.
"She's so attractive when she gets a crazed look in her eyes."
If only she was here, they could have a short celebration. Whitley saved them a good story to tell, he would be glad to hear about the result of her work.
He stayed up later then usual and after a few glasses a wine he began filing more paperwork.
"Archaic but still useful." Yawning as he finally closed another drawer, Whitley hardly stopped his eyelids from closing as fell asleep.
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Ruby rolled around in her seat and continued to watch while internally hurrying the viewing to skip past all the boring homework and get to the happy married life.
Talks between everyone were really slow today and maybe it was because she was bored but she just wanted to get out of here and no one else had much too say about what they saw either.
The only thing they saw for the past half an hour was a older version of her bestie's brother file paper work only one of them could understand. Weiss while intrigued at first eventually got bored explaining every little detail to her teammates and quietly settled into her chair and took notes on her scroll.
"I wonder what Weiss is feeling about this?" Before asking out loud Ruby looked over and still saw her typing away on her scroll. Ruby grinning decided to reach out to her partner.
[Weiss, are you there?]
[What is it?]
[I'm Worried about you! Also i don't want you mad at meee>_<]
[Ruby, you are literally right next to my seat. I'm Fine]
[I'm bored, Weiss. Let's chat about something fun. Like Umm Pretty weapons you know girls' stuff!]
[I'm afraid I have to make plans for what to do after we escape. If you want we can talk about what we see but if it's just girltalk We can do this another time.]
[Oh.0~0]
The conversation ended just like that, as quick as a passing breeze.
Ruby slumped against the edge of her seat. The dreadful boredom returned to snuff out her cheerful mood.
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Very faint, Whitley heard a click by the entrance while the drowsiness plagued his consciousness.
"Snowy Sweetie! Bring the bubbly! I'm home."
Hearing a raspy yet sweet and loving voice followed by a loud thud from her kicking the door closed.
Whitley knew It was Vernal, coming back from her long stint outside. Whitley couldn't find the strength to fully open his eyelids, the exhaustion finally sunk into his body and it refused to let go.
He only saw her blurry figure approaching the sofa.
"You ignoring me! You better be Sick or Dead."
Wiping the dirt of her hand on the nearest stack of papers, Vernal crouched down, next to his side.She placed the back of her hand on his forehead to check on the temperature. With the air-con running and the cold weather outside, She was worried he might have gotten sick.
Whitley wanted to tell him that she was fine but the lack of energy on every part of his body plus the tired drinking continued to reject the idea.
Vernal grunting as she walked away, turning off the lights and leaving on just a lamp by the sofa where he was planted like mushroom.
Her footsteps echoed lightly around the house until she returned with a blanket. As Vernal covered him, Whitley felt the warm setting in. It embraced his already warmed heart.
"Night, Snowy." with those words Vernal grabbed the edge of the blanket and wiped her face before planting a slightly damp kiss on his forehead.
As the wetness of blood and saliva covered his head .
'You too, Vernal'. Whitley thought and couldn't say those words.
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"Ugh! Finally" Ruby not wasting any time rushed over and changed to a new channel on the screen but then thought about it and clicked back she actually wanted to finish the hero world.
"While a bit Rushed i cant say id ont feel the same"Weiss who also did not want to veiw intamte moments with her own family was glad to have Ruby change the channel.
As for Yang and Blake they had fell asleep halfway through citing boredom. Weiss however noticed how Blake's legs were wobbily the entire time and how Yang also never left the bed but was constantly adjusting her arm and drinking energy drinks that Alaya provided.
She could only Sigh and hope the two eventually slowed down because no matter how close they all were explaining the birds and bee's with bumblebee as live data was not distance Weiss ever wanted to cross
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Short chapter Between Parts 1 and 2 of the MHA chapter . Not much here beyond some shipping nonsense honeslty you can skip this one but i though a little breather before the emotional moments next chapter would be nice.
I really did have these two as my crackship in terms of romance anyway. When it comes to being buddys i always imagined Oscar ,Whitley,Penny, Ciel and Emerald on a team maybe like the next generation Oz's inner circle to protect the world.
Does it make sense with cannon? No but thats why its crack.