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One could tell the exact moment that everything kicked in. The slaphappiness. The “cup” of coffee... three servings fit in her Beacon mug, that thing was huge. Talking to Weiss.
One could tell this exact moment because it was when her handwriting began to get sloppier as her fingers began to quiver from the triple high. Her heart started pounding, her eyes raced across the room, searching for her still absent partner, wondering when said partner would return. Her schoolbooks lay on the floor, pushed off the bed in a jerky motion when she realized how late... or rather, early... it was. Not like she could sleep. She had been serious when she tried to tell Weiss she didn't want any more coffee, hell she never wanted coffee to begin with, she hated coffee!
But who was Ruby to refuse a talented, beautiful, older woman when she said she was getting Ruby something to drink? A good leader, the fifteen year old had decided, compromised and occasionally gave into her teammates.
Not on coffee anymore though, never again on coffee. Her heart felt like it was trying to charge out of her chest, like a Grimm on a rampage.
She tried to sleep it off. Sleep, naturally, proved impossible, so she tried to wait it out, but the shaking of her body made it seem hopeless, made it seem like forever.
When Weiss walked in from wherever-the-heck-she-was, Ruby tried to glare at her. She knew immediately it was hopeless. She just wasn't cut out for it. “Your coffee kept me awake,” she complained, her heart quickening.
“That was the idea,” the pale woman noted. “You were studying, after all.”
“I can't study like this!”
“For goodness sake, Ruby, I don't know what's stopping you!”
Ruby held up her shaking fingers in response.
Weiss sighed and hoisted herself up onto Ruby's bunk. She put one delicate hand on top of Ruby's, holding it tight to stop the quivering. “There,” she said. “We'll study together.”