Fuck my entire body is sore. My arm is in a cast, my leg in a sling with bandages wrapped around it, I'm laid on my stomach with bandages around the stem where my wing once was. Most importantly I was handcuffed to the bed. Clearly whoever brought me here didn't trust me. For some reason I had a feeling this fate would be worse than death. I still had blood in my mouth from the last human that tried to touch me.
The doorknob turned caused me to look at the door and see the girl I failed to hit on the other day. I blushed since apparently torture begins with humiliation.
"Um...hey" she nervously greeted
Now that her hood was down I could see she was a human which crushed my hopes.
"Leave me alone human"
"What did I do wrong?" she squirmed slightly out of self doubt
"You're human" I glared at her
"Wow you're mean" she sadly responded
"This world is the mean one"
"Come on it's not that bad" she sat down on the chair next to the bed
"Do I look like there is joy in my world?"
From the look on her face it seemed like she knew exactly what I've been through. She couldn't know the pain of losing a parent and spending your entire life getting the other to notice you.
"Wow...you could really use a friend"
For the first time in years I laughed.
"Why would I ever have a human for a friend?" I continued to laugh
"Why not?" she innocently asked "I don't hate Faunus, in fact I think your wings are pretty"
"Wing" I glared
"Crap! Wing! Sorry!" she apologized and covered her mouth with her hand
"They're not pretty...not anymore" Tears came to my eyes
"H-Hey don't be sad it just makes you unique"
"Freak" I corrected grimly
She grabbed my head and forced me to look at her then moved her thumbs to my cheeks and pulled up, forcing me to smile. As a thank you I bit her thumb.
"Owowowowowow!" she yelled as she forced my teeth off of her thumb.
"Why?!" She yelled apparently not knowing why I would do such a thing
"I hate your kind"
She got a really sad look on her face.
"Get better"
After placing a vase on the bedside table she left.
I looked at the vase and found it was full of black roses. I sighed and swallowed my pride then yelled "Thanks!"
Through the glass window I could make out the smile on her face as she walked away. Damn that girl is cute AND hot.
Okay, what to do now?
I ended up flapping my remaining wing to both cool me down and get used to only using the one. I still don't want to believe it's gone. At least two hours passed until the next visitor came.
A pimp and a principal slash dominatrix were the next people to walk into the room.
"Hello Miss Rook" the pimp greeted
"Not interested"
It looked like the blonde was about to scold be before the pimp talked again
"So you say yet you don't sound very convinced yourself"
In response I shook the handcuffs.
"Would you be willing to talk if I were to remove the cuffs?" he asked
"Professor Ozpin you can not be serious-" the dominatrix began to rant before the pimp named Ozpin raised a hand to silence her
"I assure you Glynda I am, we have a rare opportunity here. Miss Rook can come clean about why she tried to shoot one one of our students and in exchange we don't hand her over to the police, she can then make the choice to stay here under surveillance and reform herself or try to flee and be taken into custody. I believe in second chances Miss Rook, take this opportunity and use it to help yourself for you will not be given another"
It took me a few seconds to respond.
"Look...You seem sincere for a human but I just can't trust you, I can't trust anyone anymore. My own CO cut off one of the wings I was so proud of" I clenched my hands into fists in anger
"Pride does tend to come before the fall. I believe your heart is in the right place, you are just misguided. Again the choice is your's Miss Rook. You know my offer but you don't have to answer right away take some time to think. Come along Glynda, Miss Rook still needs time to recover. One more thing before I go, I suggest you thank Miss Rose for saving your life"
With that he left and before his assistant left she glared at me. I pressed my hand against the handcuff and activated my semblance which let me slip right out due to it now being similar to rubber. I did the same to the other cuff and then rubbed my sore wrists.
"Is it really that hard to get comfy handcuffs?" I sarcastically asked then remembered the only comfy handcuffs are fuzzy
I raised my hand that wasn't broken up to the stem of where my wing use to be and started to cry. I always had so much fun flying but now it's gone, all because I couldn't kill one girl. It took me about half an hour to calm down and then I just stared at the ground for a while.
I switched out of this stupid hospital gown and into my clothes which were folded on the table next to the bedside. I changed into my black hakama, slipped on my white tabi socks and then my sandals. After putting on my black cape I opened the door and left the room. At the end of the hall was an elevator which told me I was on floor negative three since B or G is not a thing.
Once I was above ground nobody seemed to mind the deformed freak but that's probably because my wings...wing were...was hidden under my cape. Nobody seemed to stop me as I walked away from Beacon. Once I was in town I looked around for about a half hour until I found what I was looking for.
The store was called Illustrators Illusion, all I wanted to get was a sketchbook and a pencil or two. Once at the counter I found I had no money in my pockets. I sadly looked down at the sketchbook and pack of pencils and went to put them back. I could steal them but I'm just too tired, tired of ruining lives. In the span of a day I've been saved, offered a friend, and a new start...one last crime? No! Dammit this is gonna be harder than I thought.
It took a little while but I managed to find a solution to my problem. The store got a bunch of new crates but broke the crowbar they used to open them with so a little semblance magic and half an hour later I was on my way with the notebook, pencils, and ten lien for saving the store from a crisis.
Having gotten what I wanted I decided to head back. I stood in the elevator and waited to reach the bottom floor. When the metal doors opened on the other side was the girl from earlier who dashed into the elevator not seeing me and forcing us both to the ground, making me scream from landing on my broken arm.
She began apologizing, saying the word sorry at least twice per second.
"Forgiven" I groaned "Get off my arm human"
She kept apologizing as she did so. I tried standing up but fell over and was in incredible pain.
"Fuck!" I clutched my leg
"Are you okay?" she asked with actual concern for a Faunus.
"Think I sprained it when I fell"
I knew I was gonna have to ask for help but I REALLY didn't want to ask a human for help. My logic was telling me to ask for help but my pride told me to resist. This time logic won.
"Help" I mumbled and looked at the ground
"What?" she asked and got closer
With a blushing face and watery eyes I looked up and asked "H-Help me up"
I expected to have her put my arm over her shoulder to help but instead I was picked up bridal style which made me blush harder. I gripped tightly to the bag I carried and decided not to argue for some reason. She is surprisingly strong for a girl her size.
"Okay put me down" I said once back in the room
She gently placed me down on the bed and then sat next to me.
"What's in the bag?" she asked
I pulled out the sketchpad and pack of pencils.
"You can draw?" she asked
"Yeah, pretty much my only hobby...if these were actually sharpened" I facepalmed
"I got it" she grabbed the pack from me, our fingers touching for a few brief moments which made me blush. She opened the pack and pulled out a pencil then threw it in the air. Without any warning at all she pulled out a huge freaking scythe and sliced at the pencil then caught it.
"Owwwwww" she whined as her aura began to heal the cut the pencil made
"Be careful with that thing" I said as if talking to a child
"Her NAME is Crescent Rose" she hugged her weapon tightly like a child would hold a stuffed animal
I ignored her and started drawing. Surprisingly she shut up.
Right when I was finishing, she asked "What are you drawing"
Once I put on the final touches I turned around the sketchpad to show the girl herself with a shut zipper for a mouth.
"...I am both flattered and insulted"
I was a pretty amazing artist so she should be flattered...wow I'm humble.
"What do I call it?" I asked as I spun the pencil in my fingers
"Ruby" she finally gave her name
I wrote down at the top R...crap um...O...B.
"That's a joke right?" Ruby asked me
Shame and tears showed in my eyes as I hung my head down and shook it side to side "No"
Ruby took my hand and below my misspelling helped my write RUBY which made me blush at her touch.
"There, Ruby. What's your name?" she asked
"Um...Kon...Kon Rook" I blushed while responding
"How do you spell that?" she asked then the shameful look returned to my face "So sorry!"
"K….O….H...N...ROO….K. I-I think" I responded confused and with the shame and disappointment in myself clear in my voice
Ruby gave me a pat on the back.
"I'll help you learn" she smiled
"What makes you think I'm sticking around?"
"Well you got free but decided to stick around. Please stay?" she requested looking up into my eyes. Dammit that face she is making is too damn cute, only person close to this cute is Jessie.
"Fine! Stop looking at me like that!" I turned my head away while blushing
I pulled at the covers of the bed which sent Ruby to the floor and hid under them to hide my blush.
"Hey I found this under the bed"
I looked between the crack between the sheets and the bed and saw Talon which I grabbed then went back under the cover. I screwed off the tip of the javelin and pulled out the picture I kept inside.
The woman had short red hair, green eyes, black lipstick, and a bronze necklace.
"Who's that?"
I tried to stab Ruby who was under the covers next to me with the head of the javelin. She barely managed to keep it out of her face as I tried to bring it down. Ruby went back to three apologies per second which got me to put down the javelin head out of annoyance.
With a huff I answered "Her name is Jessie" I ran my finger across her cheek
"Is she your sister?" Ruby asked
"Girlfriend"
"OH! OKAY!" Ruby yelled
"First time around a lesbian?" I asked
"YEAH!"
"Stop yelling"
"CAN'T!"
"No need to stay if you're uncomfortable"
After I said that she ran away.
"Hehe, straight girl" I laughed
I know you all are thinking why is it RubyxOC if Kon has a girlfriend? Stay tuned ;) same emo-time same emo-channel
