Okay back to this and is it weird I like writing a sadistic Ruby? All my friends in real life can't see her as anything but happy and innocent, but I imagine that is just a mask and she is really dark and violent on the inside. It could be from all the animes I watch with characters like that, but it has given me the uncanny ability to call plot twists and the solution a mile off. Like always thank god my editor hasn't attempted sawing, I don't suggest looking for it, it is disturbing. (*Thank you for the suggestion on my methods of disposing of you. Tell me, would you like to be sawed lengthwise or across the middle? –A*)

Chapter 3:

Blake awoke and winced at the pain in her right eye, it was sore but it reminded her of what happened last night. She quickly sat up and stared into Ruby's sleeping face, looking down she noticed a length of bandage on her right arm. Blake couldn't bring herself to care what Ruby did, she was just overjoyed that she was back. She let the tears flow freely at the sight of her long lost love as she gently pushed Ruby's bangs from obscuring her face.

"It should be a sin to be that beautiful." Blake whispered softly. Over joyed that Ruby still held onto her, she was keeping her promise, she will hold onto Blake until Blake deemed it was long enough. Blake could stare at Ruby's face forever. She had long since memorised every line, every placement of the cells on her face, she wouldn't even deny it if confronted, she enjoyed it. And so help Blake if someone made her cry tears of sadness, Blake wasn't sure what she would do but it would be bad.

Blake didn't even notice the silver eyes looking at her until Ruby spoke up. "How did you sleep kitty?" Ruby asked, shocking Blake slightly. Blake blushed at the nickname Ruby had made for her on their second date. Blake never realised how much she missed hearing Ruby calling her that until she said it. "I slept fine knowing you kept your promise. But what happened to your hand?" Blake tried to shift the topic onto Ruby.

"Punching walls when you connect with your two inferior knuckles hurts. I thought I broke it but it was just a really bad sprain." Ruby said looking to her arm and almost laughing at how stupid of a reason she had to punch a wall. "But it doesn't hurt when I look at you, and to quote you 'It should be a sin to be that beautiful.'" Ruby said giggling at the shade Blake turned, it put Ruby's namesake to shame.

"Y-y-you heard that?" Blake said, trying to contain the heat that filled her face and failing at it. "I became a really light sleeper after I left." Ruby said sadly as she developed a thousand yard stare. Blake leaned down and place a simple kiss to bring Ruby back to her. She couldn't even hazard a guess as to what she suffered, but knowing Ruby, she would eventually speak about it if it really was bothering her, especially as seeing as Blake knows about some of the things.

"I'm just glad your back. Just please... don't leave me like that again." Blake pleaded as Ruby came back to her and frowned as Ruby frowned at the question.

"Blake... again... the people who kept me away... I didn't get all of them. The pain they would inflict on you if they just had a figment of a thought of me….. If it was anything like what they did to me. I don't think I'd be able to hold myself back like I did last night." Ruby said looking at the only thing that sullied Blake's beauty, something to remind Ruby what she caused.

"What did they do? It can't be that bad. Your beauty isn't marred in the slightest." Blake spoke softly laying back down to embrace Ruby herself. "What do you know about torture?" Ruby asked quietly, Blake had to strain her hearing, despite being so close she was to Ruby.

"Nothing except what I saw last night. And that water-boarding rumour." Blake spoke slightly louder than the question Ruby posed to her, but was over joyed when she heard Ruby's laugh, it was just as beautiful as she remembered it. Every time she heard it, it made Blake's heart flutter.

"Water-boarding is real. Hell I've done it. As for a mixed grill, unless we are near Belfast, which we aren't he will be in excruciating pain for the rest of his life." Ruby said after she calmed down from laughing as hard as she did. Blake just looked at her with an expression that told her to explain. "It was a common form of torture used by the IRA during the troubles. To the point where the hospitals in Belfast have excellent experience of dealing with them." Ruby said snuggling into Blake like she didn't just reveal such a dark thing.

"Anyway torture is broken into two types. Type one is what you know, it is physical. It is where you inflict pain or simulate some form of pain, but I suffered type two for around eleven months. Psychological. It is a lot harder to do but the results are a lot better." Ruby spoke softly. As if what she would say would break Blake. Like Blake was a delicate and ornate glass sculpture.

"They locked me in a room miles under the earth. It was dark. So dark that even your eyes can't adjust to it. I only made it through by two ways. Way one I punched the door until they came in to beat me. And way two. What I found worked the best was, thinking about you. How you would be safe. I held out that when I got out you would still have feelings for me." Ruby spoke with even more gentleness in her voice. She knew she wouldn't regret telling Blake. All she knew was Blake needed to know that Ruby was alright.

"Why would you want to be beaten?" Blake asked, stroking Ruby's hair. Blake already knew what ever Ruby did to those bastards, they got off easy. Blake was by no means a pacifist but she never could kill someone until she thought that someone hurt her red-haired lover.

"When you get trained to stop torture, when they teach you how to beat that kind of thing, you just need to change something. They thought that beating me was a good thing for them and bad for me but it was the opposite. It let people in, it made me feel something. People would think it's weird but it also works. That was until on the eighth week, my mind drifted onto you. Your smile, your frown, you getting writer's block and come crawling into bed to shake me awake to help you. With either suggestions or doing something far filthier that would require me to confess to every deity." Ruby spoke, the last part with a suggestive but teasing grin, and with each word, she began to pick up. But Blake seemed to grow darker.

"How did you get out of that hell?" Blake asked, fearing the answer maybe something that put Ruby in more danger.

"They put an incapable guard to watch me one day. I killed him and took his weapon and then I killed every single person there, apparently I was the only prisoner. I killed eighty six people but not all the people where there. Three people who ultimately were pulling the strings, they got away and I was hunting them down, until I saw you the other day." Ruby's voice was soft but she lifted her bandaged hand to stroke Blake's hair away from her face as Blake caught it.

"I can't imagine what pain that may have caused you but... I promised you the day we got engaged, I will keep the dark thoughts at bay as best I can." Blake said planting a kiss on Ruby's lips. It felt like their first kiss every time but she still enjoyed everyone more than the last. Ruby's tongue asked for entrance and Blake eagerly allowed it. They both explored each other's mouth like it would be the last time.

Unfortunately, Blake's need for air won over her need for reassurance that this wasn't all some dream as she pulled away from Ruby who just smiled. "I missed that, morning breath and all." Ruby joked, earning a light slap to the shoulder from Blake. "You're not the only one." Blake whispered softly, closing her eyes and leaning into Ruby.

"Well should we get up. You becoming a productive member of society and I continue my manhunt the best I can without heading to the office because I have like about a years worth of paper work that I'm dreading." Ruby joked, earning only a head shake from Blake.

"No... I've waited a year to have this, just let's spend the day in bed. Call Ren, tell him to bring us food. Tell him we plan to do something else we haven't done in a long time... if you catch my drift, and so help me if you try to leave this house I will tie you to this bed." Blake quipped back, earning another kiss from Ruby.

"I'm taking that as a yes." Blake said, shifting herself around to grab her phone and let Ren know of the change of plans. "Okay, while you do that, I need a shower, feel free to join me. Or you can stay here while I test out how many setting the shower has." Ruby spoke, the perverted side only Blake has the right to see shining through.

Ren sat downstairs in Ruby and Blake's house. Nora was busy giving him a death glare. "Why again do you believe I'm cheating on you with Blake? I believe she made it clear her preference. Plus like I said, Ruby did manage to come back last night. Chances are if I walked up there they will be busy, or at least I'd get something thrown at me." Ren said sitting back in the seat he claimed. Well to be more exact, it was where Nora told him to sit, Nora just seemed to grow angrier by the second.

"Oh I don't care about that. I'd claw her eyes out and then break her legs. I'm angry for a particular thing you seemed to have forgotten to invite me to." Nora said fuming. This was one of a few things Ren feared. The other thing was what Ruby would do to him if he ever became dumb enough to ever harm Blake. If what she did to people who threaten Blake was anything to go by... it would be easier and less painful to just remove his own bones one by one without anything to numb the pain.

"You are going to need to a bit more specific as to what you are angry about." Ren pleaded with Nora and received a thrown pillow to the face. "Why didn't you tell me sooner!?" Nora yelled and her face dropped into one of pure pain.

"I can only revel so much to you." Ren spoke softly, taking Nora's hand into his. Staring deeply into her eyes, showing his sincerity. Before Ren could comment further his phone began to go off.

He reached over and answered it after checking the caller I.D. "Hey, Ren I know it's a long shot but I'm going to need you to bring up food for me and Ruby, we decided to do some fun stuff." Blake spoke fast into the phone like she had to do something important.

"Blake, Nora and I are downstairs, tell her to put pants on and get down here." Ren was becoming far more irate by the second.

"Ruby says Nora is more than welcome to join us, she also said some far less then colourful things about you. Followed by 'pants are for the devil' and something along the lines of how whipped you are. But I got to go now Ren." Blake said hanging up before Ren could even reply with anything like his normal wit.

"Blake and Ruby say if you want to join them you are more than welcome to. Meanwhile I'll make pancakes." Ren said standing up and walking into the kitchen getting trailed by the hyper active girl who was angry at him not a mere few minutes ago. "I thought you were furious with me because I had to lie to you. Surely going up stairs to Blake and Ruby would be a great way to get revenge?" Ren quickly returning to his monotone voice. Devoid of all emotion unless you knew him on a personal level.

"I'm not going to lie, the idea did cross my mind. But I've seen some of the things they do, it would wear me out, plus you said you are making pancakes. I also need to make sure you won't poison anyone." Nora said developing a skip to her step.

"Normally I'd question how you have seen them do anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I value any shred of sanity I have left." Ren said chuckling at Nora's bluntness that he fell in love with.

"Ruby posted a video online and emailed me a copy with the subject of 'if you get ever get bored with Ren' and sadly I watched the whole video. All three and a half hours." Nora spoke blushing at the memory of how lewd the video was. "It wasn't even edited... plus I think I heard Ruby wanting to go on longer but Blake was too tired." Nora said just scratching the back of her neck. Ren meanwhile, didn't seem fazed by it at all.

"Sounds about right." Was all he said as he raided the cupboards searching for the ingredients to make the requested food. He wasn't half way through making the batter when he heard the sound of something hitting the floor upstairs. "Nora... do you mind going to make sure that either of them aren't bleeding to death... I'll even make you the pancakes that you love as repayment." Ren looked at Nora as she ran up the stairs. 'If she ever learns that I control her by that I am so screwed.' Ren thought.

As soon as Blake hung up the phone on Ren she jumped out of the bed to go to Ruby. As she entered the bathroom she saw Ruby carefully taking the bandage off her right arm. Ruby didn't realise how painful it really was until she left Blake behind in the room. She barely noticed someone entering the room she was in. Ruby looked up and saw Blake walking towards her. She gently got on one knee and began to help Ruby by undoing the cloth wrapped tightly around Ruby's arm. As the last threads of cloth fell, Blake gasped. Ruby's wrist was swollen at least two sizes more than the other and was a disgusting shade of purple with hints of yellow.

Blake leaned down and kissed each of Ruby's knuckles. She never even pulled her hand back. She was overjoyed that the pain in her wrist instantly subsided just in Blake's presence. It always surprised Ruby how she gave Blake unlimited power over what she felt. "Ruby... please tell me who caused that." Blake didn't ask. It was like a demand but softer. Ruby knew she could refuse to answer but would regret it in the long run.

"I told you Blake, I punched a wall really hard. Don't worry about it. It looks worse then what it feels." Ruby said, pulling Blake up and standing there. Just looking into her face. The serene aura Blake had around her always transferred once Ruby looked into her face.

"Ruby, my eye looks worse then what it feels, that looks broken and knowing your fear of hospitals, you didn't get it checked out properly." Blake accused gently, holding Ruby's uninjured hand.

"So here is what we are going to do. We are going to get in the shower, eat those tasty pancakes I know Ren is cooking and then we are going to get that looked at. Then we are going to do whatever the doctor deems is the right course of action." Blake said, putting her foot down. Ruby may be the love of her life and from what she heard somewhat heartless towards anyone who dares even threaten Blake, but she needed to put her foot down like she was dealing with an eight year old or Ruby would never get it looked at.

"Blake, I got a Vet to look at it, she said it was just a sprain, I trust her judgement." Ruby said softly intertwining her fingers with Blake's. The calmness of the room, transcended the perversion Ruby had. She just wanted to stay near Blake.

"Ruby... Vets specialise in animals, humans are entirely different. Let's just get you washed up so we can go to a human doctor. And you aren't getting out of this, I will get Ren to tranq you if I have to." Blake said, helping Ruby out of the clothes she was wearing.

Blake marvelled at Ruby's beauty. Even after a year, her body was just the way she remembered it. As Ruby turned around to get into the shower Blake gasped and fell backwards. On the once silk smooth and unmarked body, Ruby had multiple what appeared to be very nasty scars all over her back and on the inside of her arms. They were still red and raw, some looked like they had barely healed. One Blake could swear was infected and could only assume what type of pain Ruby must be feeling with them across her body.

"Blake... relax. I don't feel them." Ruby said turning around and helping Blake up. "I thought you said they just locked you in a room." Blake said, her mind pleading that the scars were just a figment of her imagination, some form of a twisted trick her mind was playing on her. Or this was just the most realistic nightmare she has ever had the discomfort of experiencing.

"No... I said that was all I was going to tell you. They did far worse things, far more dreadful things. What I told you was probably one of the nicest things they did. But please don't worry about it." Ruby said softly. Wiping away any tears forming in Blake's eyes, tears of sadness should never be allowed to even be thought about appearing on Blake's face. That was one of the many things Ruby promised herself when she started to date Blake. "If it makes you feel any better Ren has some medic training. I'll let him look at them, if he says that I should go to a hospital to get them looked at I will, no fighting about it. If he says they are fine or I don't need to go, please don't worry." Ruby pleaded with Blake, both of them barely registering the knock at the door.

"Ruby... the more you tell me not to worry the more I will. You may put on a tough front but I know you are just a fragile little girl like me." Blake spoke softly as the knocking grew louder and louder she was still all Ruby wanted to hear, she was all that mattered to Ruby. The world could be on fire but as long as Blake was alright, Ruby was happy. "We all are fragile Blake, but if you worry... it makes me feel bad especially when I know I'm the cause of it in any way." Ruby spoke as the knocking grew to an annoying level to Blake.

"NORA! WE ARE BOTH FINE! WE ARE HAVING A MOMENT, KNOCK ONCE MORE AND YOU WILL REGRET IT!" Blake yelled and they both heard a small 'okay' as the response.

"Blake... just go downstairs. Talk to Ren or Nora. I won't be long. I promise you." Ruby spoke softly as she lifted Blake's hand and kissed the knuckles. Each one she showed an equal level of care. Blake's delicate hand, Ruby barely considered she was worthy to even look at let alone be allowed to kiss it.

"Okay... but the second you are done, come down stairs and let Ren look at it if he has medic training. And if he has even the slightest hesitation with saying if it is safe for you to be walking around with them untreated, we are going to get them looked at properly." Blake said, lifting Ruby's head slightly to kiss her beautiful lips.

Ruby turned on the shower as Blake walked to the door. As Blake watched Ruby step into the shower she stepped out of the bathroom to see Nora covering her eyes. "Nora, relax. We weren't doing anything like that, I just fell on my ass." Blake said nudging Nora down the stairs with her following close behind. A hundred things were going through Blake's mind, by far the most prominent thought was 'How much has Ruby changed? How much is she hiding from me so I don't worry?' she didn't even register that they were downstairs and sitting in the kitchen until Ren started to snap his fingers in front of her face.

"Blake... you kind of zoned out there. You feeling alright?" Ren asked kneeling so he can look Blake in the eyes. "She has these nasty marks all over her body and some look infected. Plus a sprained hand but I don't think it's just sprained." Blake said quietly, looking away from Ren's reassuring gaze. It wasn't that she didn't need the reassurance, she did. It's that she wanted to figure out why Ruby felt the need to hide something like that from her.

"When she comes down I'll take a look at it Blake, cheer up, she's back. If she sees you this way she will get sad. I'll even fend Nora off and give you the first pancake. Just... Smile... or at least not frown." Ren spoke softly, letting Blake know he meant every word. He stood up and walked back over to the stove to pull Nora away from the hot pan. "Nora! We talked about this. You will get burned again and I don't feel like going to the hospital because you got third degree burns again." Ren all but yelled as he picked Nora up and put her in a chair across from Blake.

Before Nora could make any form of reply, Ruby strode into the kitchen, attempting to re-wrap her hand. "Hey Nora. Long-time no see." Ruby said as casually as if she hadn't been missing for a year. As Ruby was just about to finish putting her hand back into the bandage, Blake caught her hand. They stared into each other's eyes. "Please... let Ren look at it along with those marks." Blake softly spoke. She was never one to show much emotion but when it came to Ruby... she was the only person on earth that would bring them to the surface.

"Ren get over hear and look at my sprained wrist. You are the only one out of the two of us who has medic training." Ruby demanded, earning a small laugh from Ren. "I thought my medic training was, I think was the word you used to describe it 'useless'." Ren joked, walking over to Ruby after he carefully dropped a small portion of the batter into the pan to test the heat.

"I actually said pointless, because normally, I'm a mile or so away looking through a scope." Ruby quipped back as Ren put a small amount of pressure onto Ruby's wrist. Ruby punched Ren in the shoulder. "That hurt you ass!" Ruby yelled, puling her wrist back and flexed her fingers.

"Well it isn't broken. That's a plus I suppose. The dead arm was not needed." Ren commented rubbing his arm slightly. Smirking, Ren took Ruby's arm, putting the length of cloth back on to bring up the other part. "Right Ruby, take your shirt off." Ren said, going back over to the pan to flip the test pancake.

"Sorry Ren, you aren't my type. Maybe if you gained an 'X' chromosome instead of that 'Y' one, then we could talk." Ruby joked, getting hit in the shoulder by Blake. "Ruby, I've seen everything you have already. You forget who gets the fun job of making sure you take your holidays." Ren said turning around to stare at Ruby and crossing his arms.

This was nothing but a battle of will. Ren had the advantage with Blake wanting him to look at her, and Nora doesn't want the pancakes destroyed. Plus Ren knew that he was her last choice before she needed to go to the hospital, which she hated with a fiery passion. "Ruby... you promised that you wouldn't fight, just let him look." Blake asked, softly tugging Ruby's arm. Ruby muttered a simple 'Fine' as she took her shirt off. She turned around to let Ren look.

Nora gasped as she saw the same things as Blake did. Ren walked up to get a closer look. He lightly touched the healed ones and then moved to the area of skin just next to the festering wound. Ruby tensed up slightly. "Does it hurt Ruby?" Ren asked and received a head shake from Ruby. "Lying won't help, just tell me the truth." Ren continued pressing slightly harder.

"It does slightly when I have a jackass poking it!" Ruby yelled turning her head around to look at Ren, anger growing in her eyes. "Well I know you are going to dread this but you may actually need to go and get that checked. It can be a few things, but if you desperately want to test fate and the chances of sepsis, an anti-bacterial cream and an anti-fungal cream would work." Ren said walking over to the sink and began to wash his hands.

"So Ruby, after they leave we are going to the hospital and get them tested. You promised that you would if Ren said it is best to go." Blake commented softly rubbing Ruby's arm. "But he also said that some cream can do the same thing and I wouldn't have to deal with those smartasses." Ruby pouted.

"That's rich coming from the queen of smartasses. But I'm shockingly agreeing with Blake, and if you do put up a fight we both know I can and will tranq you. I can't determine if it is safe for you to not get hospitalized. The worst that will happen is they give you maggot therapy." Ren said not even turning around to address Ruby.

"That is one of the reasons I'd much rather the creams. The other is patients always die there." Ruby commented as Ren put three plates of pancakes in front of the three women. As he brought over his own plate and took a seat as far away from Nora as possible. She could only steal so much of his food before he learned ways to fight back. And his fear of her stealing his was well warranted as he noticed Nora was almost done.

"Nora I'm not making more." Ren commented. Nora's eyes grew to the level that a deer has in headlights. She quickly finished the one that was in her mouth as she began to inch herself closer to Ren to attempt and take some of his. Ruby passed her plate to Nora after she ate one of the pancakes on her plate.

"Here, Nora. Your boyfriend inflicting pain on me made me lose my appetite. Just don't scarf them down, he is serious about not making any more." Ruby said softly and scarcely dodged Nora going to give her a bone crushing hug. "Nora! I will take them back. I don't value pain all that much." Ruby commented returning to her seat as Nora returned and began to eat the newly acquired pancakes. Nora managed a 'thank you' between stuffing her face with them and swallowing.

Author's Note:

Okay I wrote some of this while drinking, actually around a thousand words so if my editor doesn't fix everything give him a break, I didn't make his job easier by partaking in the delicious liquid known as the devil's nectar. Also, like always, leave a review I enjoy reading them all. And again don't look up sawing it is a very gruesome way to kill people but it does get the job done if you want to send a message.

Editor's Note:

Hey guys, Abiectio here. First of all, glad to be working again, I missed being able to put my insanity on display. Second of all, and this is the first my author is hearing of this, a dear friend from school has asked me to edit a RWBY fanfic for him as well. This of course means that I will have even more on my plate so I ask you all to be understanding if my editing occurs at a slower pace than you all are used to. Lastly, what my author says is true, sawing is a very gruesome method of killing someone, if anyone who is reading this story is of weak stomach or faint of heart, I advise against looking for information regarding it, remember kids, this is a work of fiction, don't try this at home.