Hello Readers! After a long hiatus, I'm back! Just in time for White Rose Week on tumblr, too. Don't ask me how, but somehow I have never participated before, so the buck stops now - with a brand new story!

The prompts for today (day 1) were: "Love at first sight/Eye-contact," "Mirror," and "A Blue eye with tears."

Enjoy!

The first sounds of the morning to enter the consciousness of one Weiss Schnee were birds gently singing outside her dorm. She smiled and turned over, wondering what had happened the previous day as her mind seemed slow to remember.

Friday.

Weiss smiled as she sat up and stretched, realizing it was almost the weekend, and thankfully they'd gotten their typical Yang-inspired shenanigans out of the way a day early. That's right, it was all coming back to her. The beer-pong, the funnel cake, Nora swinging from a light fixture… before it electrocuted her… before she promptly renovated a section of the bar with her forehead… and an intoxicating blur of red and white as she spun around a dance floor.

Not that she'd ever admit such a thing, but it had been rather fun to let loose with her friends after working so hard on their mid terms the previous week. Weiss sighed, realizing there was no way she'd get back to sleep now that she was thinking coherently. The dislike of that realization placing a slight damper on her otherwise copacetic mood. As usual, it seemed a cup of strong coffee was in order.

So Weiss picked herself up and jumped out of bed, stumbling slightly as she landed on the floor much harder than she was used to with her eyes still closed and blurry before she caught herself and headed to the washroom.

She was quick to shed her clothes and run the shower, sighing as she adjusted the temperature and stepped in to the steaming water. She closed her eyes and held her breath as she stepped under the water and gently scrubbed her face to rid herself of her sleep encrusted eyes and any makeup the removal pads hadn't managed to catch the night before.

Weiss relaxed as she let the hot water wash over her, warming her cold bones as she started as usual to plan her day. She washed her body first, noticing that for once her hair seemed to be behaving and not flying everywhere as it normally did. It often made scrubbing her body much more difficult, but she paid it no mind as it was cooperating for once.

And so it was as she was rinsing off that she felt her breasts were slightly larger than the last time she'd taken notice of them in the shower. Not by much, maybe a half size, if even that, but it was something at least. It had been a long while since she'd seen any growth in that area, and it honestly concerned her at times that she might be stuck with such a small chest forever, especially since she outright refused to stoop to the level of the twittering elites back in Atlas who kept recommending their plastic surgeons to her.

Weiss moved on, grabbing her shampoo and lathering up her hands before grasping her hair.

"…" Weiss froze as her hands carefully explored… not a whole lot. Again, she'd never admit it, but she liked her long hair as it was one of the few things that she could control, as the rest of her body seemed intent on ignoring her wishes. Regardless of that though, she couldn't believe that it felt… gone. "Maybe I'm just imagining things…"

Her mumble was a faint hope even as the fact that it was gone echoed in her head. Then a thought occurred to her. Yang enjoyed pulling pranks on them, so maybe this was her idea for a laugh. Rage bubbled in Weiss, forcing her to take deep breaths as she calmed herself. Being angry never did any good, anyway. If she was calm, she could make whatever revenge she decided on hurt that much more. A small part of her reminded her that she shouldn't follow her father's footsteps, but the part of her that was angry with Yang's practical joke convinced her to ensure this joke ended with Yang bald.

With her mind made up and her mood already less than two steps from an explosion less than ten minutes after she woke up, Weiss stepped out of the shower. Short as it was, she had already fogged up the mirror, and what she could tell already was that Yang seemed to have done much more than just cut her hair. The distorted reflection was darker than it should have been had her hair retained its fine white colour. Gritting her teeth in an attempt to stop herself from loosing a scream at the last prank Yang would ever dare to pull in her presence, Weiss swiped a hand quickly over the mirror and froze.

Silver.

Her eyes stared into the mirror, but the eyes looking back at her were definitely not hers. In fact, Weiss only knew one person with those eyes.

"Ruby?" Weiss asked, almost in disbelief as she finally heard her voice. "Wait a second…"

Weiss thought for a second, thinking of something Ruby had said to her that she could remember clearly.

"Weiss, give me a biiig hug!" She even went so far as to stretch her arms wide as if she were about to scoop someone into a hug when she realized how her voice sounded exactly like Ruby's. "SON OF A FUCK!"

Weiss exclaimed and stepped back from the mirror in shock as the fog slowly continued to clear. She couldn't believe what she'd just heard come out of her own mouth, a perfect impersonation of her team leader and best friend, and a swear she'd only heard Yang use once in her life. Except for all the voice training Weiss had undergone, impersonation was definitely not one of her known skills.

Her disbelief just rose as she stared into the eyes of her team leader in the mirror as the last of the fog disappeared from it's surface. A quick glance around told her she was indeed alone, and the mirror followed her movements perfectly. She looked down at her body, dropping the towel as she did so noticing the muscle tone in her arms was weighted very differently than she was used to, though she only noticed it when she relaxed her shoulders.

"What in the world?" Weiss mumbled to herself as she approached the mirror again. She jumped back, petals falling in the place she'd just been as she felt her aura tap into a semblance much easier to control than her own. Weiss concentrated on her palm for a second before a cloud of petals burst forth and showered around her even as they dissolved seconds later into nothingness. "This is so weird."

Weiss considered herself as she turned back and forth in the mirror. Ruby's body seemed no different than she remembered from the countless times they'd seen each other in the changing rooms, but something was still off. "Right…"

Weiss slouched her shoulders and it struck her, that this was really Ruby's body. Weiss turned, striking a pose and laughing at how goofy her partner looked before striking another. Weiss wasn't sure why she found it so funny but she struck anther pose and gulped as her mouth ran dry. Weiss took in the sultry smile on her partner's reflected face and how attractive she looked as if she were giving herself an invitation to bed.

Weiss gasped as she realized with a throb of her heart that she'd let her emotions get the better of her again, and she'd also just realized exactly why these feelings would crop up unexpectedly. The heat racing through her veins told her explicitly how much she enjoyed the look of her partner naked, and it was enough that Weiss finally put the feeling she'd been having about their friendship as of late into perspective. But Weiss shook the feeling off for the time being, because somehow, she was stuck in Ruby's body… which meant…

"Where am I?" Weiss looked down and took her own clothes from the counter and, using Ruby's semblance, returned them to the wardrobe and quickly took Ruby's and dressed. The flurry of rose petals gave her plenty of cover for her body, and she was done within the space of two seconds anyway. She looked at her bunk to find it empty along with Ruby's bed. Blake was curled up facing the wall still, and Yang had just stumbled up from her bed.

"Good morning Rubes!" Yang pounced for a hug, only for Weiss to duck and dart under her arm as her mind raced for an excuse to avoid her partner's sister.

"No time Yang! The cafeteria has cookies!" Weiss remembered that Ruby had made a huge deal about it the day prior, realizing that if her suspicion was correct, it was the best chance to find Ruby.

Weiss used Ruby's semblance and darted out the door as Yang opened her mouth to say something, but it was futile as she was long gone by the time any sound would have reached her ears.

Ruby entered the cafeteria seconds later, scanning the dozen or so people that were up at six in the morning like her. It didn't take long to spot the only person with long white hair, but Weiss's eyes almost skipped over her as the red cloak pulled up over her head did a great job of hiding almost the entire person from view, but the few strands hanging out of the hood as she pointed at the counter gave her away.

Weiss waited patiently as the person finished their order and paid for the massive plate of cookies. There was only one person who ate nothing but a diabetes inducing number of cookies every Friday morning at Beacon Academy, and Weiss was currently residing in their body, meaning that the person wearing the signature red cloak was without a doubt the person Weiss was seeking, and by the appearance of it, she was in her body as well.

Weiss approached the table just as a cookie was lifted to the hood only for Weiss to catch the person's wrist in a vice grip.

"I sincerely hope you weren't going to eat that garbage." Weiss spoke, her usual vocabulary sounding especially strange in Ruby's voice.

"H-huh?" The Weiss before her turned at her voice, her eyes widening as Weiss took the cookie and replaced it on the plate before taking a seat across from her own body.

"Strange meeting myself here." Weiss quipped with a raised brow, knowing Ruby would pick up her mannerisms without any trouble seeing as they'd had so many similar interactions by now.

"W-Weiss? Is that you?" Ruby asked under her breath as she leaned close so she was sure they wouldn't be overheard.

"No it's Santa in here, you dolt!" Weiss snapped, the frustrated sound of Ruby's voice filling the space between them.

"Weird, I woke up this morning and felt really slow… and I had your hair too… wait! Am I you?" Ruby asked incredulously as she looked down at her dainty hands as if taking them in for the first time. "I didn't look in a mirror yet!"

"We have a winner. Now what did you do?" Weiss asked as she looked around to make sure they still had time for the private conversation. Ruby meanwhile had found a discarded spoon and was glaring into the terribly unreflective steel.

"W-what do you mean?" Ruby asked in confusion. Weiss scowled at the ditzy expression she saw on her own face and snapped in front of Ruby's eyes to get her undivided attention.

"Do you remember doing anything strange, or anything that would have swapped our bodies?" Weiss asked as she thought about the previous night, and how hazy everything seemed. "I don't know… maybe some experimental dust or something?"

"Um… no…" Ruby thought before snapping her fingers excitedly. "Oh, that lady gave us fortune cookies, but you took them away before I could read my fortune, remember?"

"It was just a paper Ruby, I'm talking anything like playing with dust, eating something that would cause severe hallucinations, you know what I'm getting at?" Weiss sighed in exasperation.

"Listen, I have no clue, but I bet it was those fortune cookies that did this. I mean it has all the markings of some strange curse, doesn't it?" Weiss opened her mouth to reject the idea, but Ruby held up her hand. "Listen, I know you don't believe in this kind of thing, but from the stories my Uncle Qrow used to tell me, I think it might actually be more real than you'd think. Either way it doesn't hurt to at least see what they said."

"Fine, then lets go." Weiss made to get up only to see her partner in her own body reach for another cookie. "Hey!"

A loud smack was heard as rose petals floated to the ground and the red hood across the table from her shifted back off of Weiss's unkempt hair. Ruby held her hand as she looked up with tears to her partner.

"Weiss Schnee does not eat cookies!" Weiss hissed under her breath as she noticed a few stares coming her way already. Surrendered to her fate, she sighed as she pulled the mountainous plate to herself and resumed her seat. "And you're going to pay for this."

"W-Weiss?" Ruby asked as she watched herself shove cookie after cookie into her mouth and chew as if they tasted worse than sour pickles. "You don't have to eat those…"

"And if I don't? They'll go to waste… though they might anyway if I throw up." Weiss glanced up and took in the bedraggled look of her own hair. "Did you do anything this morning before you came to eat?"

"Uh, I put on my cape and uniform… and I kind of understand why it's so loose and baggy looking now." Ruby mentioned as she pulled on her neckline that was indeed looser than it should have been.

The cookie in Weiss's hand exploded into a dust of crumbs as she watched Ruby pull at her chest. She felt her blood boil into her head and thunder along with her anger.

"Oh!" Ruby noticed her hair was sticking up a bit on one part of her head and promptly licked her hand and ran it through her hair. "Much better… Weiss?"

"Damn it Ruby!" Weiss barely contained her voice as she hissed. "Pull that damn hood up, and don't do anything to embarrass me further! Not only did you leave yesterday's makeup on, you didn't brush my hair, and didn't even take the time to figure out why your clothing was a size too big!"

"I think it's more like two or three, Weiss…" Ruby trailed off at the look of pain her own eyes promised, she'd never seen her own eyes turn dark before but it terrified her all the same.

"How dare you! How dare you parade my body around Beacon looking like that! How dare you attempt to stuff your face and ruin my body with these damned sugar pucks!" Weiss's fist came down, shattering the rest of the cookies with a well aimed punch of her semblance. "And how dare you suggest all this is the cause of some hokey made-up religion or other… other… bullshit like that?!"

"Weiss, wait!" Ruby rose at the same time as her partner before Weiss stormed off, rose petals flurrying around her like a turbulent cyclone as she slammed open the cafeteria door and disappeared. On the other side, Blake and Yang made their appearance and made their way over to who Ruby figured they'd think of as Weiss.

"Wow, you sure got her angry early in the morning." Yang mused as she took up residence across from Blake who sat down next to Ruby. "Told you never to take her cape without asking."

"That's… not what she's mad at…" Ruby replied before realizing it may be a better idea to keep the fact that they'd swapped bodies a secret.

"Not anything I should be concerned of is it?" Yang asked threateningly as she cracked her knuckles and Blake glanced at Ruby in warning.

"No." Ruby replied as she quickly searched through the phrases she'd heard Weiss use before in similar situations. "Just a misunderstanding is all… I should make sure she's okay though. See you in class."

Ruby got up and tried to walk as gracefully as she could out of the cafeteria even as she felt hot tears track down her face. Not wanting to further besmirch Weiss's image, she ducked into the nearest bathroom and was shocked to take in the beauty and sadness of Weiss's eyes reflected back at her. Above that was an untamed mess of alabaster hair and her face was indeed covered with partially ruined makeup that was only ruined more as tears continued to stream from her eyes.

Weiss was normally beautiful as a goddess, and Ruby honestly believed she was no different even in this state of disrepair. But Weiss prided herself on being well kept, and Ruby had done nothing to even attempt to maintain that image. She hadn't known she was in Weiss's body, but looking back she should have figured something was wrong when she had to stuff Weiss's hair into her cloak's hood.

"Oh crap…" Ruby felt a pang in her chest as a cold hand gripped her heart. "What if I ruined our friendship… what if… she doesn't like me anymore?"

Her mutterings fell short as a single word floated through her mind and a flashback to the night before as Weiss spun her around on the dance floor. Her heart started beating again as she stared into those deep blue eyes and a feeling she'd never really known before filled her up as she thought about her relationship with Weiss.

"No… why her?" Ruby felt her head spin and she grounded herself by grabbing onto the sink tightly. "Why… why, it doesn't matter why!"

Hearing Weiss's voice come out of her mouth, Ruby found the courage to take a deep breath. "Okay, so I'm in love with her… I can deal with that. She's mad at me… nothing new there, except it looks to everyone else like I'm mad at her. Our minds are in each other's bodies… now that's a tough one…"

Ruby thought to herself for several long moments as she started to hear the sounds of students pass by the washroom on their way to class. Ruby looked at the time on her scroll and thought quickly.

"Okay, the body thing will have to wait. Ten minutes to shower dress in the right clothes, and get to class." Ruby nodded to herself as she pulled her hood all the way down over her face. She couldn't make up for being such a slob in Weiss's body that morning, but she could still do her best to redeem some of that by showing up to class like a brand new Weiss.