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A C T I O N ; OPEN
Early Afternoon, Somewhere in Genessia

[ Weiss had always been the kind of person to come into work looking pristine, making sure to make an appearance with the customers and generally just being an overachiever at being manager since she'd gotten the position. However, today had been different.

Namely because her lip was actually split open and decidedly not healing automatically like it normally would have. Training had gone more roughly than usual that morning, resulting in her having come into work late due to a case of unconsciousness. She knew that training with Adam would be difficult, but she hadn't expected it to drain her aura enough that she would have to spend the morning in the back of the restaurant waiting for her aura to recover enough that she could heal her lip. She'd spent all of 25 minutes that morning still going out to the front of house to check on things before she decided to just focus on paperwork that day unless someone specifically needed her, having been asked far too many times what happened to her face. Once she finished a significant amount of small backlogged tasks, she decided to call it an early day. She could work a little extra tomorrow to make up for it.

Now, Weiss was walking down the street on her way home wearing one of her work outfits (except with a white skirt instead of the black skirt) and a pair of white knee boots with red accents on the bottom of the shoe. She stops at the window of the shop, having caught her reflection to see her busted lip. It looked like it was starting to heal. She figured it would be gone completely by dinner time, but she wasn't used to having any blemishes to her face beyond the scar over her eye. It still looked weird to even see something there at all. ]

A C T I O N ; CLOSED TO BLAKE
Evening, Laundry Time, May contain some NSFW discussion

[ It's laundry day. Which means it's time to get things done and while it wasn't technically her turn this week, Weiss has decided to tag along with Blake under the pretense of wanting to help out and just spend some time with her friend, since Blake had taken on a bunch of responsibilities lately already.

Which was technically true, but she also had ulterior motives. Namely, she needed to get some things out and clear the air. And mostly she just needed to talk to someone about things before she mentally imploded, and she definitely trusted Blake. Both because she was a good friend, despite their past and recent differences, and because Blake had a boyfriend and Weiss felt like that meant she could understand on a different level than some of her other friends could. ]

[ It was probably the most awkward conversation starter from Weiss, but.. what could she say? She wasn't exactly sure how to start this conversation since she hadn't exactly broached the subject before. Honestly, she was probably just going to blurt out whatever she was thinking in about 5 seconds regardless of what Blake answered. ]

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Waterbenders can heal people?

[ He'd explained the 4 elements to her at least- she can figure out freezing leading to waterbending, but healing wasn't something she expected. Either way, Weiss wasn't sure she would accept that. She needed to fight without the assumption there would be a healer there for her.

Weiss reached up to pat Charizard's head when he appeared. ]

Exactly, don't worry. Either of you. I'm going to get stronger and this will stop happening. [ Weiss learned well from her recent fight with Blake than to keep who she was training with a secret though. ] Adam's a good trainer, even if I suspect he's taking out his frustrations on me as much as training me.

..Are you two just out taking a walk or am I interrupting something with my lip drama?

[ a nod. ] Some of them can. In the Northern Water Tribe, women with bending abilities are expected to use them for healing and only healing, or so my uncle says. I can confidently tell you that Katara uses it for more than that. I've had enough ice hurled at me and been water-whipped off my feet enough by her to vouch for that, but she's from the Southern Water Tribe, not the North. She taught the Avatar how to waterbend.

[ did he mention that they're all — the avatar's bending teachers — a bunch of kids, just like him? katara's not much younger than he is, and toph was about aang's age. a bunch of kids teaching a living powerhouse how to use that power. their world was doomed. ]

Adam? [ just like that, zuko's "i'm willing to leave it alone" demeanor shifted. charizard seemed to sense this, rumbling low in his throat. ] Didn't you tell me to stay away from Adam?

Edited 2014-11-11 06:48 (UTC)

I've only hurled ice at you once. Should I be jealous? [ Weiss was just teasing. ] That's ridiculous to limit someone's abilities simply because of their gender, regardless of cultural customs. We have just as many women as men who become hunters and huntresses in my world. Even with the faunus, they're still just as entitled to an education and training as humans despite our world's problems.

[ Weiss wouldn't think anything strange of their ages at all. They were waging war against the most notorious criminals and taking on jobs behind the backs of their superiors to do such with the idea of becoming the youngest huntresses in Remnant. Ruby was two years younger than anyone else in the school and she was Weiss's partner and leader. Despite that she didn't think of her as more than a child sometimes, she knew she was fully capable.

When Zuko's attitude shifted, Weiss tensed a little. She knew this was going to happen, but it was better than lying about it. ]

Yes, but he and I have come to somewhat of an understanding. I'm not strong enough and Adam's the strongest person from our world here [ that she knows about ] besides Professor Ozpin, who seems to keep busy. Frankly, my team doesn't... tend to share things with him anyway and he might ask why I need extra training here. He'll bend the rules for us but I think him not officially having word of what we're doing is better for him from a political standpoint. Most importantly, Adam doesn't hold back and I don't quit just because I sustain injuries. I never have.

WHAT? [ zuko visibly flinched. ] Jealous of the waterbender? No! She hates me! Why would you need to be jealous of a waterbending peasant who would probably throw a party if I died who isn't even here?

[ he didn't like it. granted, zuko had never met adam and had no real basis to go off of for the guy other than weiss had explicitly told him to stay away... ]

Why do you feel you need it? The extra training.

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I was joking, Zuko.

[ She gave him an amused look at his reaction though.

Weiss would be lying if she said training with Adam was 100% ideal, but it was better than her attempts to train herself here. ]

For one thing, one of the most recent memories I got from the Dream Docks was Blake having to physically carry me out of a train car after I got grabbed by the face mid-attack, smashed into the floor of the train car, and hit with a chainsaw hard enough to knock me into the next room. We weren't able to stop a train from breaking into the middle of Vale through a sealed-off tunnel, unleashing hundreds of Grimm on the town-- which we did take care of with help from three other teams and part of the Atlesian fleet that was stationed in Vale for the upcoming tournament. We managed to get Roman Torchwick arrested but a lot of people were injured and a number of White Fang members died in the train tunnel instead of being arrested because we interfered. So there were some good results, but there were bad as well. There are a couple of other reasons regarding this place that I'm not about to tell you in public, too.

[ Weiss is crossing her arms at that point. She knows that Zuko was probably going to freak out on her after she dumped all that on him, but that was.. what they did. ]

Take your pick.

[ at this point, charizard seemed more disgruntled that zuko. the pokémon's expression remained hard and unyielding, while zuko's had melted from anger and confused outrage to something akin to understanding. he didn't recall charizard into his pokéball often, but this was one of those times when he and weiss needed to be left alone. it wasn't until charizard was back in the ball and tucked into the pocket of zuko's jacket did the prince speak again. ]

Why are you just telling me this now? Were you ever going to tell me?

[ hey sparky, remember the blue spirit incident? pot calling the kettle black. ]

[ Weiss glanced at the ball briefly, then nodded. She just hadn't exactly had a chance to and bringing it up like 'hey so guess what I nearly died' didn't seem like a good conversation starter. At least not to someone who she didn't want to worry about her. ]

I was just trying to figure out what the best way to bring it up was, but honestly, Zuko it's.. less of a deal than you're making it out to be. I need to train harder and get better, that's all. Team RWBY decided to take down the White Fang and Torchwick ourselves. Torchwick is in custody already because of our actions, we decided to count it as a win.

I guess I don't really have much room to judge, given what you know about what I was doing back home. [ a group of kids doing what adults refused to, and couldn't, do. ]

We shouldn't be talking about this here. Any of this. [ her toils or his. if the wrong pair of ears overheard... ]

Which I agree with, but you are the one who started interrogating me on the sidewalk because of a cut on my lip.

[ She held her hand out to the side for a moment while she talked, then reached out for Zuko's hand. ]

I left work early today, I can go anywhere you want.

You do realize I can't kiss you until that heals, right?

[ hand in hers, zuko tugs her out onto the street. he doesn't know where he's headed, but he's content to walk hand-in-hand with her. ]

Not on the lips, anyway.

You do realize I'm capable of doing other things than kissing you still, right?

[ Weiss just walks by his side, intertwining their fingers. ]

Anyway, it'll be healed by tonight at the latest. Aura doesn't take that long to recover.

Like what?

[ zuko, that's not a question you should be asking in public. not after the conversation she just had with blake that you will never, ever know about. ]

[ Weiss lets go of his hand, crossing her arms. ]

Politely kicking some Fire Nation Prince's butt for assuming I mean 'let's go makeout' when I suggest we move somewhere else in the middle of a conversation we can't have in public after said fire-breathing prince complained about it. For example.

[ HEY. hey. hey. his mind isn't always in the gutter. that was an innocent... mostly innocent question. ]

Did I imply that? I didn't imply that!

I suggested we leave and you made sure to inform me that we couldn't kiss right now, then said "Like what" when I said I could do other things.

Great cindering sages, I was just pointing out that I couldn't kiss you until that healed!

Then don't ask me "like what" when I say we can do something other than kiss.

[ Weiss rolled her eyes. ]

Then don't say that after I say I can't kiss you! Agni.

[ girls are crazy. ]

[ Zuko's crazy, she's sure of it. ]

Am I going to regret asking what you thought I was going to say?

[ yes. because his mind slinked dangerously close to the gutter and filled his mind up with things fueled by what they did the other night.

zuko put his face in his hands. he does very nearly collide with a telephone pole, but he doesn't answer. ]

[ Weiss moves to put her hands on his shoulders to steer him away from telephone poles and other obstructions. ]

You are so lucky I love you, Zuko.

[ At least she's being forgiving about it. Namely because she's thought about it a lot too, so she can't even judge. ]

[ peeling his fingers away from his face, zuko glances back at her. ]

Why do I get the feeling I'm going to be reminded of that more often?

Because you love a person who can be difficult sometimes and occasionally thinks the conversation is going a different direction than you are. Keep your eyes ahead of you, I can't actually see from back here. [ You're too tall, Zuko. Or Weiss is too short. Probably the second one. ]

We can fix that.

[ well, one of those things. zuko stops abruptly so she'll bump into him. if she does, he'll take the opportunity to bend down a bit and hook his hands under her knees and hoist her up onto his back. ]

[ She most definitely bumps into him. Weiss has good reflexes in battle, but when she's not in it and her mind is far from it? She's entirely subject to bumping into people or pies to the face, whatever the situation calls for. An exclamation of surprise leaves her mouth and she ends up wrapping both arms around Zuko's neck a little tightly to hold on for a few seconds before she adjusts herself. Once she is adjusted, she loosens her grip and moves her hands back to rest on his shoulders. ]

Warn me before you do that next time?

Edited (ff clicked the wrong icon) 2014-11-11 22:08 (UTC)

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