I got inspired to write another dark story mainly because looking at the views for my stories you guys like the dark ones so here is one. This is an AU where Grimm don't exist so there isn't a need for hunters and huntress.
Warning this is about substance abuse and other dark themes.
Chapter 1: Welcoming the Gates of Oblivion…
It has been almost a year since the events that drove the red head down this dark path but the events still played in her mind like it has just happened. Every time she thought of them it got worse, the memories hurt her even more. She was once told that the thoughts were just a figment and only hurt you when you let them but who would want this kind of pain… this emptiness. Every time she began this train of thoughts she instantly turned to the closest thing she could reach. Be it a stash of heroin she hid or alcohol she constantly turned to these two things to help her through anytime.
"Little Red, long time no see. So the usual or are you going to be adventurous and try something else?" The cocky man at the other end of the alley began like he always did. He was a tall man with medium length red hair swept over his right eye. His bowler hat tipped to the left. His white long coat covered most of his body but the stench of his cheap cologne filled her nostrils and it burned.
"Shut up Torchwick and just give me the stuff." The red head spat as the memories got more and more vivid they brought more and more pain along with them. "Fine then here that will be twenty bucks." The man named Torchwick held a small bag with a tight grip on it so the woman couldn't run away with it.
"Here." The red head passed him his money and grabbed the bag and quickly as she could she ran from the dark and dank alleyway. Her mom always said home isn't a building but wherever your heart is, well if that was true she no longer had a home, ever since the person she gave her heart to threw it back into her face because her daddy threatened to cut her off financially wise.
She rounded a few more corners and was met with the place she would call home for the night, the only place in the city she could have some semblance of safety. She walked with a quick pace into the corner at the far end and sat down. She pulled the bag the man gave her and a needle she always kept with her. She began the long process of melting the drug of the evening down and hoped this time oblivion would welcome her… this time she could remain happy… this time she could see her face just once more.
As she pushed the plunger and injected the clarified poison into herself she thought she heard someone call out to her… like always… it was a constant that haunted her… like the darkness… like the memories of the past. Something was different this time it wasn't the voice of the woman she had developed hatred for but the voice of the woman that genuinely cared for her, if her sister wasn't in some drunken stupor from thinking she lost her sister forever to never see her again. In reality she just needed to look down any dark alleyway at night and she was sure to find her.
No this was the voice of a beauty that the woman knew she could never have because she was her own sister's best friend. The voice belonged to Blake Belladonna. She may be Faunus but that never deterred Ruby from her adorable cat ears but Ruby maintained the thought she never wanted to be found… she wanted to drift into nothingness. Her sister always said the heart wants what it can't have but all she ever wanted these days was to slip off into nothingness… to be nothing but another statistic to the growing drug crisis in Vale… to be another victim of cruelty of the Schnee dynasty.
She slowly drifted off but felt warmth, was this death or maybe worse, maybe someone found her some random stranger and wanted to help. Why did the world have to have good Samaritans when it is so much easier to forget some faceless, nameless statistic?
It rained that day constantly but that never did deter Ruby from enjoying time with a girl she considered to be the most beautiful girl. They planned to stay wrapped amongst their blankets and watch old movies that Ruby had no idea about but Weiss loved them and if it meant the white haired woman was happy then so was she. But sometimes fate has a different plan and as they sat down to watch some movie that will forever be ingrained into Ruby's mind as the worst movie ever… 'The Naked Gun.' She was assured that it was funny and perfect but as the opening credits rolled Weiss' phone rang and she answered.
It was the only heartless person Ruby ever had the displeasure to hear; it was Weiss' father who offered Weiss an ultimatum she could be cut off or she could break her as he would say unnatural relationship up with the red head. Weiss took the latter and shattered the girl's heart and before Weiss could say anything else Ruby ran… she would normally chuckle at running out in the rain without her coat, but the pain in her heart easily dwarfed the daggers of freezing rain being poured down on her from the heavens themselves.
"RUBY! WHERE ARE YOU?" Blake called out into the darkness hoping for a grunt… a shift in the cardboard that lined the streets… anything that signified life. Each passing night that she walked the streets trying to find Ruby she slowly lost hope that she would find the red head.
"What did Little Red do exactly?" Torchwick said stepping out from behind a wall. "Doesn't matter but I am a friend trying to find her." Blake quickly spoke covering her nose to avoid the nauseous smell the man was giving off… to say he bathed in the cologne was the understatement of the century. She knew she needed to resume the search, every minute, every second she was with him the farther Ruby got. At the start if anyone recognised Ruby's name she would jump and ask a barrage of questions but after the first few months and more and more sleaze people recognized it and the more it hurt her.
"Well I may know where you could… how would I say acquire her but I'm not sure. Maybe something may refresh that? But alas we don't live in that kind of magical world" Torchwick overacted getting ready to step back into the darkness where he could slither his way back to from where ever he came from.
Blake panicked; this was the first viable lead all month on where the red head was. "Wait! How much do you want? I don't have a lot but her safety is what I want." Blake shouted causing the repulsive man to stop and turn on his heels. "Well I think the world just got a bit more magical… don't you?" The man taunted the slowly growing enraged Faunus. "Yes this is a magical fucking world that we are all lucky to be a part of now answer my question!" Blake spat not wanting to spend more time with the man.
"It will cost you… oh… I don't know five… hundred dollars. She is a valued costumer after all." The snake of a man continued if Blake didn't value the possibility of Ruby's location she would have stabbed the man. "Here is six hundred but so help me if what you say is bullshit I will come back and gut you." Blake said holding a wad of money she took out of her purse but held onto it. "Well than just pass it over here and I will send you on your marry way." The man said an evil smirk growing on his face. "Not till you speak. Unlike Ruby I grew up on these filthy streets. I know you want this money and I want to give it to you but I also want her safe." Blake said summarising the situation to the man.
"Oh goody you are smarter than her." Torchwick said clapping his hands together and jumping on the spot. "She is just out the way there first three lefts and the second right down that alleyway at the back. No give me the money and I won't follow you and kill you on your way to her." Torchwick said his previous childish demeanour shifting to cold and callous. "If what you say is nothing but Horse Shit, I'm coming back… and you will wish I had a knife or a gun to make your pain you will suffer seem like it will have a happy ending with death." Blake said passing the money to the man who quickly counted it to make sure she gave him the money she promised.
"Pleasure doing business kitty cat, Adam sends his regards by the way." Torchwick manically laughed at that fading into the darkness leaving the cat girl with more questions then she had answers but she had the most important one… where Ruby was.
Before anything else could happen Blake ran… she ran faster then she thought possible ignoring the burning developing in her legs as she ran. She followed the snake of a man's directions to the letter… what she found in the alleyway made her wish she had taken a wrong turn somewhere… at some time. She wished she could un-see the sight before her.
There slumped inside the farthest corner, on the ground was a broken and beaten shell of a woman that resembled Ruby. She had open wounds over her arms and legs that Blake could see. She had a syringe in her arm with a slowly hardening clear liquid. Blake wasted no time and ripped the useless needle out of her arm and smashed it… it's evil taint can never harm anyone ever again. She quickly cradled Ruby in her arms hoping that this will pass.
She pulled her phone out of her pocket without ever dropping Ruby from her arms and as fast as she could dial she dialled Yang's number.
"What Blake this better be important I'm in the process of gathering information here!" Yang said with the sound of punches connecting with something flesh sounding. "Well stop it I have her and she is bad… really bad. I'm going to bring her to Vale hospital as fast as I can. Whoever it is punch them extra hard for lying about her." Blake said hanging up and putting her phone back inside her pocket. She quickly lifted the near comatose girl inside her arms up and started to run towards her new destination.
As Blake ran the burning sensation came back but it was dwarfed the desire… no the need to see the girl she had a crush on was safe. There was only two things stopping Blake from pursuing her desires, one by the time Blake acknowledged her feelings Ruby was takin and two she was her best friend's little sister. That was the least of her worries right now. Now she had to make sure Ruby was safe, now she had to put her feelings away for another time.
"Yang I'm worried no one has heard from her for just over a week. She could be in serious danger. I may not be able to continue my love for her but I don't want to see her get hurt over a breakup. It was for more than what she thought." Weiss panicked into her phone talking to a furious Yang.
"Well you know ice bitch enlighten me because from what Rubes' last message said it seemed like you chose money over her!" Yang yelled into her phone eyes long since turned red. "If I would have continued it he would have harmed everyone. He would have crushed them, their parents, their pets and even crushed their best friends. Hell even people who owed them money! I did it to save you your father your uncle and even Blake and despite what she said her too!" Weiss yelled with growing rage.
"Then why say it was for the money? She could be anywhere and her phone is broken or lost or who knows what!" Yang continued her yelling but her eyes changed back to their calming purple. "Because you know how she would have taken it if I told the truth she would have challenged it and when he made true on his promise and killed you all she would have blamed herself." Weiss said with a strong sense of guilt, remorse and bunch of other emotions but mainly guilt that she could be responsible almost single handedly about the death of her one and only true love.
"Look I'm busy looking right now Blake is looking and if any sign of her turns up we will contact you. Just continue calling her. I'm sure she has to answer one of us." Yang said melancholic into the phone having stopped mid stride. "Thanks but I'm pretty sure she won't answer it if it was me. I'll try and if you need anything just call." Weiss said hanging up and wiping a tear from her face… she didn't even realise she was crying but she was like a fountain.
Ruby slowly gained consciousness… she didn't open her eyes but she took in her surroundings. She was on a soft and comfortable surface… the room she was in was warm not too hot but not too cold. It was a nice feeling. She heard a faint beeping noise in the background. She was wrapped in a nice blanket and she wasn't suffering from the normally awful down of taking that night's drug.
Heroin normally has a tragic down that made you feel worse and almost like you would gladly kill yourself because if you resorted to it, you probably didn't have to great of a life to begin with. She however did feel well rested but that constant beeping noise was beginning to grate on her last nerve but she could now here soft muttering between two people. Ruby's eyes shot open in case she feared one of the women was the ice queen known as Ruby's ex.
She attempted to jump out of the bed but the burning hot feeling in her legs from a time when she broke her leg to get away from some people had returned but it was accompanied by being solid and unmovable.
"Rubes!" Yang shouted jumping into her sister holding her tight like it was the last time she would ever see her again. Ruby fought in vain to pry herself away from her sister but failed when she noticed her arm was tightly bound in a cloth bandage.
Wincing in pain she pulled her arm back and chose option two and yelled at Yang… the way a sister could yell at a sister. "Yang Xiao Long! Let me go I can't stay here." Ruby said flailing her arms and when Yang heard this she accidently let Ruby go to which she jumped out of bed and attempted at hobbling away.
"Ruby… what do you mean? No one is going to hurt you." Yang said with nothing but concern in her voice. "No but that Bitch might find out where I am and I can't ever face her!" Ruby shouted as her hobble lead her to the window. Looking down she noticed they were on the top floor and no way could she ever live if she jumped down.
"Ruby relax she won't come here if you don't want her too." Yang said wrapping her sister in a much softer embrace. "I don't care Yang…? Clearly I didn't want to be found. I just want death to take me away." Ruby said staring down into the ground. Quickly calculating how long of a fall it would be. Yang at this new revelation did the first thing their mom did whenever she doubted if she wanted to die. Yang spun Ruby around and slapped her across the face. When she saw her stunned face she slapped it again.
"Ruby Rose don't you ever talk like that again! You are meant to be the little ball of joy. So you had one bad break up. So what." Yang said wrapping Ruby in another warm hug, a hug that was tight but nurturing at the same time. "So if as you say 'Bitch' broke up with you it is her loss but me and Blake searched almost nonstop for a year. The least you could do is stay put and wait for the hospital to discharge you and then you can get better." Yang said letting Ruby go so she could see the only other person in the room, Blake Belladonna.
Blake doing what she thought was the polite thing and remained quite during the exchange between sisters. Knowing they need to work things out but glad to see that Ruby was alive and safe. She may never be able to hold Ruby as the fall asleep in each other's embrace but she can take a small bit of comfort in the fact Ruby was safe.
Author's Note:
Right in case you guys didn't know I don't know what kind of things people go through for addiction because I don't have one yet and hopefully ever but as right now short of you guys liking this this is the ending of it. As I said I may continue it but you guys need to review, follow and favourite. Preferably in that order but I'm not going to be mad if you guys just follow or favourite it still lets me know you guys like it. Till next time,
Timmydog out B)