Okay, I'm back... That month long break was enjoyable. But I'm back with a story where the final member of team RWBY is the bad guy. Say hello to Bitch Ruby.
Chapter 1:
I'm sorry, I tried hard to make everyone's lives better, but it seems every single time my dream is within my grasp... somehow life kicks me down and just jumps on my dream. Every time it does kick me down, it kicks harder and harder... I just can't take it any more.
I'm sorry Velvet... I know we always talked about what we would do after I finally got the surgery... but I just can't keep out of my own head. While I was with you, I was able to get out for long, long periods of time but I always found my way back in… and i was just violent to myself
Yang, if for whatever reason you are the one to find me first, don't blame yourself either. I know you tried just as hard as Velvet to give me what I want... even to the point you left Summer and Tai's house just so I wouldn't be alone. Just... I hope you can move on with your life... be free from me. Call Mom and Dad once in awhile. They made it clear if I wasn't going to be their son, then they want nothing to do with me.
This has nothing to do with the bailing out of just about everyone I know a couple hours ago... This has nothing to do with my parents... this all has to do with how I just can't take it any more. So Velvet... Yang... which ever one of you finds this note first, step outside, call nine one one tell them I slit my throat as deep as I could ten to twenty minutes ago, and then the other person.
And tell everyone... I'm sorry.
Velvet had no idea why she kept that note. The note that made her loath her very existence because she couldn't notice the signs that her wife had been hurting deeply. She even kept the same expression on her face all the time.
The even bigger mystery was why she didn't listen to the advice Ruby had given her. The scene she saw of just the blood having already encrusted her wife's normally beautiful form. The way it just flew out and formed a pool at the base of the small single bed they kept in the spare bedroom. The vast sea of red still stuck in her mind days later.
But now, the sight seemed to be so much worse. The way the casket was being lowered seemed to ring harder to her. They had let her down time and time again... but now the way they were lowering her meant they really did fail her. She knew then and there that it wasn't going to be long before she was down next to the woman once again. She couldn't handle it much more.
Sniffling hard, she could feel an arm wrapping around her shoulder pulling her into a tight hug, but it just seemed to just rub salt in the wound. She knew that it wasn't the woman she fell in love with. Just another person that Ruby had to bail out to keep everyone safe and happy.
It was another person that just piled all their problems onto the person in the grave and it eventually caused the woman Velvet loved with all her being to end it all. Holding the rose tightly in her hands, Velvet walked over to the hole and let the flower slowly fall. Everything since she saw Ruby in that state had just seemed like static to her.
The way Yang was near tears again was hurting Velvet but not nearly as much as how everyone there had at one stage or another stopped Ruby from getting to her goal of being comfortable in her skin. Even Velvet herself had stopped her.
To add salt to the wounds of everyone, the sight of black on Tai and Summer had enraged Velvet, but she couldn't react on that anger, nor could she let Yang. Ruby wouldn't want them to. Lowering her ears feeling some new drops of rain she felt like now was appropriate.
She had to lose the battle. She knew that Ruby wouldn't want her to keep all these emotions bottled up, but she knew that she couldn't cry to her heart's content. How is one meant to deal with something like this?
If Velvet was being honest, if it had been anyone else, even her own parents it wouldn't have stung as much. It would hurt, she had no doubt about that. But the woman she was building a life with, had stung in a way that nothing else really could compare it to. It felt like another knife was plunged into her heart with each and every thought of it.
As the young once orphaned child that Ruby had helped find a home with Pyrrha and Reese picked up a tiny fist full of dirt and dropped it into the hole before he walked back towards the couple that had taken him in.
Once the Priest finished the verse, he closed the thick book and quickly walked off. As if he had something far more important to be. It didn't matter to Velvet. It seemed like there was nothing keeping her tied to the earth at that moment. She had already started to contemplate killing herself in the same manner as Ruby did, but she hadn't been given even a minute by herself.
She wasn't even allowed to sleep in her own bed, not that she could. The same bed that they had spent the seemingly last few minutes of her life having sex. Something that brought on all sorts of nauseating feelings to her. Instead of worrying about Ruby's mental health she was just trying to repay her for bailing her out of jail.
The way the time passed didn't even seem to catch onto Velvet, before she even knew it it was just her, Yang, Blake and Weiss standing at the grave. She could feel the rain getting blocked but she didn't feel like she deserved it. Side stepping the protection the piece of stretched waterproof cloth brought she just couldn't take the sight of everyone standing there. Herself included.
"Come on Velvet... you are staying with me tonight." Yang said as she tried to give Velvet a hug getting met with a hand pushing her back.
"We failed her..." Velvet croaked out. Her voice just frail from a mixture of her crying the previous days, mixed with just how that had been the most she had said to anyone after she called Yang. "She just wanted to be happy... she took on everyone's problems... and we all failed her." Velvet continued as she took a step further away from the group. As if that was going to wash her hands clean from how she had dealt Ruby equal blows. All of which were unintentional ones.
"Nobody knew Velvet." Blake said softly as she looked up from the grave. To see the fire that had been brewing in Velvet's eyes.
"How!? Yang was her sister, someone who had been with her in some of the worst times!" Velvet began pointing towards the blonde woman. "You two were her best friends, and even patients at one point!" Velvet continued pointing towards the monochrome duo as she looked into the grave.
"And I was her wife... and I failed her the most..."
The way Velvet had hurt them didn't seem to help any really. It was nothing but a temporary soothing in the sense that it disguised what had been hurting her. She knew that it was just going to make what she was feeling so much worse. But it still made what she was current feeling feel so much better. If just for the few seconds she would get.
"Come on Velvet. I'll make you some of that carrot soup you like." Yang said as Velvet just looked up at the blonde. She knew she must have looked foolish, but she couldn't help it. She lost everything that was important to her in the span of one trip down to the store to pick up some things so she could make Ruby's favourite meal.
"I don't deserve that... I deserve hate." Velvet said softly as she was feeling herself getting lead out. She knew from experience that Yang wasn't going to take a no as an answer. She knew that if in a matter of hours she could come back again and the hole was going to be filled in again meaning she'd never get to see Ruby ever again. Something that just tore Velvet's mind.
"You don't deserve that Velv... you at least made her one of the happiest girls in existence. Just some damages our parents caused was too much for anyone to fix... not even Ruby." Yang said as they walked out of the graveyard. The steel gates just seemed so much more daunting than they had going inside them. "I mean, the fucking nerve of them showing up. Both of them at that. They should be glad I don't beat them to an inch of their lives."
"Yang... don't. Velvet takes priority." Weiss said calmly as Velvet could just feel tears starting to beg for freedom once again. She couldn't let them see how much this was paining her. It would just cause so many problems. Some that she wouldn't be able to explain too well considering how hard it was to explain them to Ruby.
"No... don't. You read the note as well Yang. You know what is meant to be done." Velvet said as she begun to fight the urge to cry again. It was the hardest thing that could be done, but she knew it had to be. Especially with what she had planned. She needed for them to eventually let her be by herself and the more whole she seemed the faster she could get to that goal.
Taking a deep breath as she turned around and looked at the trio that had meant so much to Ruby, almost as much as Velvet knew she had meant. "Do I need to be with you Yang? I just want to go take a walk and clear my head..." Velvet asked, knowing that maybe she could get at least some time by herself. It wouldn't be very long, just enough for her to do as she asked.
"Just text me then if you want a lift to my place... no one wants you to be alone right now." Yang said softly as Velvet just looked towards her. She was already thankful that Yang had said that. It would mean that she would be given that time by herself.
Smiling Velvet begun to walk down the path, not wanting to look the gift horse in the mouth. She wanted the freedom. Lowering her ears more, Velvet begun to lightly play with the cartilage. Digging her nails into the large rabbit ears, as she turned the corner. She knew that they wouldn't stop her for two reasons. They couldn't see it and they also didn't know how significant it was.
As she walked, she didn't notice the large lip in the pathway causing her to fall over, connecting her face with the pavement she winced as she begun to push herself up a little and begun to rub the bridge of her nose. As she begun to stand up, she couldn't help but remember of the first time she met the woman that had done so much to her.
"Ow... flipping Vale pathways." The brunette rabbit Faunus said as she heard a soft chuckling next to her.
Looking up, she could see a brunette with red tips just looking at her with a smile. The silver eyes that had seemed to view straight through her caused Velvet to shrink a little. It wasn't from any sort of intimidation. On the contrary, this woman seemed to be genuinely nice. As though she had just found something amusing.
"Here, let me help you up." The woman said in such a gentle tone, Velvet was expecting at any second the scant wildlife in the city would flock to her. It was as though this woman was a princess in some archaic animated movie. As Velvet begun to stand she could feel the brunette slowly dust her shoulders off, and just smiled at her. "There you go. Much better." The woman said as she begun to walk off a little. A small skip in her step, leaving Velvet with a single thought.
'What is with that woman? And why do I want to know more about her...'
"Hey! Where you at Ruby!" Velvet heard yelled as the woman a couple of steps in front of her quickly turned around. The woman that helped her quickly jumped behind a large garbage bin. Before Velvet could ask what was the matter she could see a blonde woman running up. Stopping for only a second to turn and look at her. "Have you seen a thin looking woman... brunette hair, red tips... silver eyes?" The woman asked as Velvet could see the woman who had helped her peak over the top of the bins and began to furiously shake her head.
"No." Velvet said as the blonde just rolled her eyes, letting out a simple 'she could be in Vacuo by now.' before she started running down the road again, turning a corner and seemingly out of Velvet's life.
After a few minutes of debating whether or not she should leave, when the brunette begun to walk out from her hiding spot. A smile on her face as she grabbed one hand behind her back. "Sorry... she just wants to go to the gym... and I don't." The woman Velvet was assuming was Ruby said with her smile just beaming. Before she could even ask for further details, the girl just spoke up, "So, how about we go get a coffee... she'll never find us there. You are just as much into this as I am now." She stated as Velvet just frowned.
"I'm actually broke... I just moved here from Menagerie." Velvet said as the woman began to chew her lower lip in deep thought.
"That's fine. I'll buy you one. I know this really nice place." Ruby said grabbing onto Velvet's hand and begun to walk at a leisurely pace down a nearby side street. She could see Ruby saying something but couldn't hear it over the sound of her heart in her ears.
The way the woman was so close as she looked over her shoulder. "Okay... I think we are far enough away from Yang... just be careful... she seemingly makes all those jokes about blondes carry weight. She is a lug... but a loveable lug." Ruby said as Velvet just smiled a little at her. For some reason this woman had been able to infect her mind in the short amount of time they had known each other. Something that made the rabbit Faunus just feel so much better.
Author's Note:
Welp, I'm back. And a lot drunk. But would you guys want it any other way? I hope you enjoy this... Silver Titan... the story you suggested is coming up soon. But other than that... I hope you guys enjoyed it after this break. and like with the previous stories of members of RWBY being antagonistic… Ruby will follow her character to minus one thing compared to the canon.
