Chapter 1: Blake finds Ruby
'Why mommy, why did you leave me?' I kept asking myself that over and over again while I was sitting on an old swing set with my cloak and hood on over my head that my mom made me not long before she died. I'm a wolf Faunus just like my mom was. I was happy living with my dad and half-sister Yang until my mom died then the abuse started. They both just finished beating me until they got tired, so as soon as they stopped and went to bed I went to my room and packed my backpack with clothes, my journals and a bunch of other stuff I would need then I grabbed my cloak and my stuffed Beowulf that my mom gave me and I ran away. That's why I'm now here crying my eyes out bruised up and bleeding.
Blake's P.O.V.
I left the warehouse that I've been calling my home since I was five years old. Now I'm six nobody goes near there so I decided I would live there since I was an orphan. I left because I couldn't sleep so I thought I would go for a walk when I walked by the old swing set. When I got there my ears twitched underneath my bow. 'Crying? Who would be out this late at night it's almost eleven?' I thought to myself when I started too look around for the source of the crying. I finally looked at the swing set and froze. I saw a little girl probably only around four years old sitting on the swings with a cloak on and a hood covering her head, a backpack on the ground beside her, and she was holding a stuffed Beowulf as if her life depended on it. But that's not what made me freeze, no it was the condition she was in, she was badly bruised and bleeding. I slowly walked up to her and I saw she had a tail. 'She's a Faunus like me.' I thought to my self. Suddenly she jerked her head up and looked around immediately, before her eyes stopped to look at me. "W...wh...wha...what do you want?" She stuttered out so I slowly walked a little closer and said "don't worry I'm not going to hurt you okay? I just want to help." She slowly relaxed and nodded her head telling me I could get closer to her. "Hey lets go back to my place and take care of those injuries of yours. And don't worry nobody will ask questions about you. I'm an orphan so you don't have to worry about anyone seeing you." I told her and held out my hand for her to hold onto and smiled down at her. She got off the swing and grabbed her backpack and put it on and grabbed my hand and she slowly looked up at me which caused her hood to fall off revealing two black wolf ears with red tips and smiled back up at me before she responded. "Okay miss...thank you" at that I couldn't help but smile even more and we headed back to my house. As soon as we got to my house I brought her up to the second floor and into a hallway with two office doors right next to each other. I walked her to the first door and sat her on my bed which was only a mattress with a few blankets on it, and went to the desk that was in the corner of the room and grabbed the first aid kit that was on the top of it and treated the injuries I could see. "There we go do you have anymore injuries? If you do let me see them so I can help." She just nodded and took off her cloak, her pants, and shirt until she was just in her underwear but what I found odd was the fact that the whole time she only used one arm and if she moved the other she would always end up winching. I immediately set to work on on her other injuries and when I finished I gently grabbed her right arm and told her to leave it bent in which she nodded and started wrapping it up to hold it in place kinda like a makeshift cast until morning when we could get it looked at. I helped her get dressed again and sat down next to her. "Um...uh...thank you miss...uh?" She asked and I suddenly realized we didn't even know each other's names. "Blake...Blake Belladonna but you can just call me Blake if you want or whatever makes you feel comfortable. But uh can you drop the miss please? I'm only six so it's kinda weird being called miss okay? What's your name?" She nodded the stood up to stand in front of me. "Ruby...Ruby Rose but you can call me Ruby. Oh yeah and I'm four years old." She said to me smiling and I couldn't help but smile back at her. "Did you run away from home Ruby?" She nodded. "Then how about this why don't you stay here and live with me Ruby? That way neither one of us gets lonely and we can look out for each other that way." Her whole face lit up and before I could even comprehend what happened I was tackled onto the bed with Ruby on top of me. "Thank you, thank you, thank you Blakey." She said trying to hug me the best she could with one arm. I wrapped my arms around around her tiny shoulders and returned the embrace before I stood back up. "I'm sure you have a lot of questions Ruby as do I but it's rather late now and we both need sleep. When morning comes I have a friend who can better look at your arm for free so we'll go see him then. You can sleep in here if you need anything though I'll be in the next room." I finished telling her everything we were going to do and covering her up. I was just about to leave the room when I felt Ruby's tiny hand grab my shirt so I turned around. "Uh...um...uh...Blakey? Can you sleep with me please? I'm scared to sleep by myself." She whispered trying to cover her face which was a deep shade of red as her cloak. I lifted up the blankets that I had used to cover her up and crawled underneath them until I was right next to Ruby and covered the both of us up with the blanket and wrapped both of my arms around Ruby's waist and pulled her closer to me. "It's okay Ruby I don't mind if you ever need anything just ask now let's get some sleep we have a busy day tomorrow." I leaned closer and kissed her forehead gently and then closed my eyes.
Ruby's P.O.V
I watched Blake close her eyes to get some sleep. I wrapped my left arm around Blake's waist and held her close then I looked back up at her face and put a gentle kiss on her cheek before whispering "thanks again Blakey I promise you won't regret it one bit." Then I pushed my head into the crook of Blake's neck and shoulder and closed my eyes allowing sleep to take over with a smile on my face.
