I don't own anything that has to do with RWBY, I'm just playing around in Rooster Teeth's sandbox.

Ruby Rose sat by her mother's grave looking off into the distance. She whispered, "I hate you." To a presence that should have been there.
The words tasted like acid and a part of her recoiled at how wrong the words felt. "How could you say that?!" A part of her demanded.

"She was your mother! The woman who read you bedtime stories and tucked you in and comforted you when you had nightmares?"

And yet another part of her rejoiced at the words. "This is he woman who left you. You need her! You trusted her! And now she's gone by her own choice!"

But Ruby showed neither her revulsion or joy to the world for her cruel words. She instead burst into tears. "WHY?!"

She screamed at a presence that could answer. Then upon realizing that fact, she broke further and in a hollow voice she asked again, "Why…?"

Hating herself further for what she was about to say, Ruby pleaded out to the ghost of her mother, "Why couldn't you have taken the selfish choice? Why couldn't you have just chosen to come home?"

No response was given to desolate girl alone on the cliff. After all, Ruby was asking answers from the ghost of Summer Rose. But despite true fact that she would receive no answer, Ruby still had to put her anguish into words and ask her hero, her idol, her mother, why she made the choice she did. Because Summer Rose didn't just die on a mission like so many other Huntsman and Huntresses, her death was different.

When the letter came in the mail, it wasn't just the standard apology for a mission gone south. Inside was a written commendation for going above and beyond the call of duty. Summer Rose didn't just die on a mission gone wrong, she volunteered to go further than what was required for her. Unlike so many others, Summer had the chance to weigh her options and their consequences and decide on what choice to make. And she still made the choice to leave them all behind.

It made a crack in Ruby's world. That her mother, paragon of who she wanted to be as a person and Huntress had made she choice to leave them all behind. The fact that her choice would then lead to her death.

Ruby hated her so much for it. For not being the perfect person or invincible Huntress Ruby always thought her to be. Hated that she would never again enjoy a quiet evening alone with her mom again. That the evening she had with her weeks(ohgodtheyfeltlikeyears) ago would be the last she would get. Ever. The very thought felt like ice in her very being. Just the fact that all that she had left of her mother would be memories. It hurt so much, knowing that she would never get to truly know the kind of person her mother truly was. Ruby sighed, it was getting late and she was tired, aching, and emotionally drained. With a heavy heart and swirling thoughts, Ruby started to head home. Looking behind her to all of the lost of the lost opportunity, Ruby whispered "Goodbye...Mom."

And all around the grave, snowflakes fell like tears but Ruby didn't notice on the lonely, desolate walk home.

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