"I don't want to be here anymore." Ruby said out loud while alone in her room.
It had been the worse week ever. Of all time.
Professor Ozpin had given Ruby 2 weeks off from classes so that she wouldn't have any worries or stress. He wanted to give her a month off but Ruby insisted 2 weeks was enough.
Ruby thought since she accepted her teammates' deaths she wouldn't grieve so much.
She was wrong.
She was incredibly depressed the whole week. She didn't get out of bed for 4 days. She cried herself to sleep every night. Her dreams were of her teammates. She woke up and for some reason she kept thinking her teammates would be in their beds when she awoke. But the beds were always empty and Ruby's heart broke more each morning. The whole day she thought of her teammates, of all the good times they had. While sleeping she would have nightmares often about seeing her teammates' corpses.
Every day she would get more depressed. Every day she would have thoughts of suicide. She didn't eat for 4 days until the next day she ate a few crackers.
On Saturday she finally left the dorm. She walked outside for the first time in 5 days. She sort of missed the cool air and the sunshine hitting her skin. She sat on a bench and sat there the whole day. She observed all the people who passed by. She watched all the friends and couples pass by. She thought seeing all the happy people would make her miss her Weiss, Blake, and Yang more but strangely it didn't.
In fact in made her remember of her other friends and she started missing them. She sat on the bench until dusk. At which point she got up and headed towards the cafeteria.
It was time for dinner.
She hoped that JNPR was there, that was the whole reason she went inside, to be with team JNPR.
She spotted JNPR at the usual table. She was glad they were there.
As soon as she walked in people noticed Ruby had walked in and people turned to look at her. Soon the whole cafeteria went silent. Ruby could hear all the whispers. She considered running out of the cafeteria but decided against it. She didn't look anyone in the eye as she went to get dinner. She got her dinner and she headed to JNPR's table. JNPR was shocked to see Ruby; they hadn't seen her in 5 days. They watched her as she sat down next to them. They then looked at each other, they were unsure what to say.
"Uh…hey Ruby how are you feeling?" Pyrrha asked Ruby in a concerned voice.
"I'm fine now that I'm with friends." Ruby said. She then gave them a smile which put a smile on the JNPR's faces.
Ruby noticed that the faces of JNPR looked as though they wanted to talk to her but didn't know what to say.
"You guys go ahead and talk about whatever you talking about, I just want to listen." Ruby said to them.
JNPR looked at each other unsure but Ruby gave them an encouraging smile. They then proceeded to converse again. Pretty soon they talked like normal. Nora told them about an insane dream she had and Jaune talked about a strange encounter he had in town.
Listening to JNPR converse as they always had made Ruby happy, it felt normal.
She felt happy for the first time in days. When Ruby finished her dinner she excused herself and went back to her room. She had gotten depressed again. Though this time she managed not to cry herself to sleep this time.
She repeated the same things she did Saturday on Sunday. Though this time she didn't want to sleep alone. She knocked on their door.
"Hey guys can I sleep with you…for tonight." Ruby asked when Jaune opened their door. He was shocked but eventually responded yes. Ruby was actually excited. She brought over her blanket and pillow and decided to sleep on the floor. But JNPR had other ideas. They put all the beds together so that it would form one big bed. They could then all sleep cuddled together. For the first time in days, Ruby didn't dream of her teammates. She actually felt happy when going to sleep. How could she have forgotten about JNPR and all the happiness they could give her? She kicked herself mentally for having shut out JNPR for so long.
Unfortunately in the morning JNPR had to get ready for class. Ruby did have breakfast with them however. She went back to the bench and sat there whole day. She laughed at the students who were late, it reminded her about when her and her teammates were late for class and they had to run to make it to class. She then felt as someone sat next to her. She turned to look at the person but was completely shocked and unprepared to see who it was.
It was Weiss. She was sitting on the bench with her.
Seeing her dead teammate shocked and scared Ruby. She screamed and fell from the bench but quickly stood up.
"Weiss…?"
"Hey Ruby it's been awhile." Weiss responded.
"How…? You're …dead" Ruby said unable to comprehend Weiss being there.
"I know. I'm a spirit." Weiss responded in a somewhat bored voice.
Ruby then sat back down uneasily.
"So how's…being dead?" She asked unsure of what to talk about.
"It's not as bad as I thought it would be." Weiss responded. Ruby was sure she was going to piss off Weiss.
"How are you holding up?" Weiss asked.
"Well it's hard not having you guys there all the time. It's very lonely. How are Blake and Yang?" Ruby asked.
"They're doing okay. They wanted to come and visit but didn't have enough energy to come to the realm of the living."
Ruby couldn't believe she was having this conversation. She believed in an afterlife, in ghosts, demons, angels, and spirits but she had no idea spirits can come back to the alive realm.
"I didn't know spirits can come back to this world." Ruby said.
"They usually can't but He said that since our bond was so strong He allowed us to be able to come back to this world." Weiss responded.
"So that means you guys can come back whenever you want?!" Ruby said excitingly and while growing a smile.
Weiss herself grew a smile.
"Yes you dolt( How Ruby missed being called that) we can come back to this world."
Ruby hugged Weiss and Weiss stiffened from the unexpected contact (she didn't know Ruby could touch her) but eventually she reciprocated the hug. But after the hug Weiss had a serious look on her face.
"Listen Ruby don't depend on us. We're not going to be here every day. It's very difficult and tiring to get back to this world. I'm going to have to leave soon and I have no idea when I'll be able to come back."
Ruby by now had lost her smile. She was of course disappointed.
"Look Ruby, I'm sorry but that's how it works, at least you still have JNPR and you can make new friends, in fact I implore you to make new friends." Weiss said.
"You're right Weiss, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. But I'm still glad I'll be able to see you from time to time. And I'll try to make new friends." Ruby said.
Ruby then gave her a smile and Weiss smiled back.
"I'll try to come back soon okay? It'll be a least a week tops." Weiss said.
"I'll see you then." Ruby said smiling.
"Hey will other people be able to see you?" Ruby asked.
"No only you. So you're probably not going to want to mention this to anyone else, they'll probably think you're crazy." Weiss said.
"Shame JNPR won't be able to talk to you guys again. But you know this makes me feel special actually." Ruby said.
"Yeah yeah you're very special. Look I have to go to, sorry Ruby but I'm out of energy for now." Weiss said.
"Oh." Ruby said sadly
"Well alright then I'll see you later." Ruby said disappointed but she put on a smile.
Weiss then got up and started walking away.
"Good bye Ruby." Weiss said.
"Weiss wait, are you actually a spirit? I mean I'm not crazy right? I don't have schizophrenia or something? You're real like really real?" Ruby asked very unsurely.
"Yes you dunce I'm really real, I'm a spirit okay? You're not crazy."
"Oh okay then." Ruby gave a sigh of relief and smiled again.
"Goodbye Weiss."
"Goodbye Ruby." Weiss then disappeared from sight.
Ruby walked back to her dorm and was very surprised to find someone in the room.
The person was a girl and she was unpacking clothes into a dresser. She then noticed Ruby walked in she was caught off guard seeing her.
"Oh uh…hello." The girl said with a small smile.
"Uh…hey uh…who are you?" Ruby asked confused.
"My name is Sumire. Ozpin told me that I was reassigned to this dorm and that I was your new partner." Sumire said.
This probably would've pissed off Ruby if it happened in the previous days but she actually didn't mind this change that much, since she found out Weiss and Blake and Yang can come back.
Ruby then took a good look at the girl. She had dark blue hair and had violet eyes. She appeared to be at least 7 inches taller than Ruby. She was wearing a dark blue tank top and had black leggings on. The leggings showed off her nice, shapely bottom and her nice long legs.
Wait why I'm noticing these things. Ruby thought. She then shook her head mentally.
"Okay well nice to meet you Sumire." Ruby giving her a smile, this put Sumire at ease, she was afraid Ruby would reject her.
"I brought my sleeping bag so that I won't have to sleep in any of your friend's bed." Sumire said.
"Oh no, you can sleep in whatever bed you want, I'm just glad that I don't have to sleep alone in this room anymore." Ruby said.
"Oh okay." Sumire said, still unsure.
"Here you can sleep in this one." Ruby said pointing to Weiss' bed.
"Are you sure?" Sumire asked.
"Yeah I don't mind and I don't think Weiss would've minded either." Ruby said giving her an encouraging smile.
They both got ready for bed and said goodnight to each other and fell asleep. It was a pretty weird day for Ruby.
A/N: Hey there, I hope you liked this chapter. I really hope you guys will like Sumire. I also hope you guys liked the concept of Ruby's teammates coming back as spirits. Thanks for reading and leave a review!