Some of the stuff are inspired from other fics I read (from different websites.)
Fixed a few grammatical errors and changed a few sentences. Thank you to the readers who pointed them out and PMed me some suggestion. U da best!
Morning came and neither queens had gotten much sleep. Blake woke up first and saw the alarm wasn't plugged in. She groaned and got out of bed. The movement caused Weiss to wake up and get out of bed as well.
Both did their normal morning routine then got dressed. During all this none of them said a word. Blake went to the vanity mirror and sat down then started to slowly comb her hair. Weiss copied the action and after a while she broke the long and grueling silence.
"She would be waiting for us right now..." She said half-consciously, looking at the door using the mirror. This cause Blake to flinch. She dropped her brush and got up to embrace Weiss.
"Weiss... We'll go visit her later, Ok?"
Weiss looked up at Blake and gave a half-hearted smile. Blake smiled back. Both of them left the room and went to the dining room for a quiet breakfast. After breakfast, they stayed together and waited for Dr. Peach to arrive. It was strange, despite all the servants they had, the castle felt empty to the two queens.
...Especially without her there with a smile on her face.
Ten minutes passed befora a guard entered with Dr. Peach.
"Good morning, your highness." The doctor said then bowed.
Weiss rushed up to the doctor. "Is...Ruby ok?" Weiss asked worry in her voice. The doctor nodded and smiled.
"She's resting in the hospital. We expect that with time, she will fully recover, Your highness." Weiss and Blake sighed in relief then the doctor approached Blake.
"Your highness, I need you to show me Ruby's room please." The doctor asked.
Blake scratched the back of her neck nervously then told the doctor that she doesn't know where. Weiss came back and told them that she can take them to where she found her. Blake and Dr. Peach nodded and followed Weiss.
They passed the servant's quarters and Weiss led them to a small worn out wooden door at the back-end of the castle. Weiss opened the door and started going down the cold stone stairs.
"What is this place?" Dr. Peach asked as they continued going down further.
"Its an old part of the castle that used to keep criminals before we decided to build a dungeon outside. There were not as many back then so it was really small." Blake answered.
Both queens had to memorize both the inside and outside of the castle. The queens and doctor reached the bottom of the stairs but Weiss stopped at the last step of the stair.
She had her head down, looking at the floor as if it would melt her if she stepped on it. "I-i can't go any further." She muttered then quickly went back up the staircase.
Blake looked at Weiss, confused and concerned. She was about to follow her but she heard a door open. She looked back and saw the doctor holding the door open for her. Mentally reminding herself to comfort Weiss later, both her and Dr. Peach went in the room.
Both were horrified at the pool of blood on the ground. Blake saw boot prints, knowing it was from Weiss. Some of the blood on the edge of the pool looked dry while the middle was still wet.
They followed the trail with their eyes and saw it came from a torn up bathroom near an metal door. They stepped over the pool of dried blood and went into the bathroom and looked around. The doctor was taking notes as she looked around, occasionally humming. Blake turned and saw a small wooden cabinet. She went to it and opened it.
Inside where Ruby's outfits, neatly hung as if they were new. Below them are her boots that also looked like they were new. It was heartbreaking seeing them so clean inside a horribly dirty place.
"Don't tell me she comes all the way down here to get dressed?" Blake thought to herself as she closed the cabinet.
Her eyes drifted towards the metal door. She went to it and opened it, struggling slightly due to the rusted hinges. She huffed as she fully opened the door and looked inside. She saw a small bed taking up most of the tiny room. She approached the bed and ran her hand on the mattress. The bed was as hard as the stone floor. She grabbed the thin blanket covering the bed then pulled it off. She saw the bed had stains and the springs could be seen poking through.
Blake put the blanket on the bed. She could not stand this awful and dirty place. Before she turned around and exited the room, something caught her eye. A red hood with a short cape at the end of the dirty bed. Blake picked it up and the pain in her stomach and chest returned.
Blake felt something wet on her face. She used her free hand and wiped it off. It was her tears, she was crying. She closed her eyes, brought the hood to her chest, rubbing it softly with her fingers.
Her horrible fears were true. Ruby lived in this horrible place.
'I-i had no idea...I never looked into where she was staying.' She thought as more tears fell.
Blake had assumed that Ruby had a room in the servants quarters. Blake heard a knock on the metal door. She wiped her eyes and looked back.
She saw Dr. Peach standing outside the room. Blake got up and left the horrible room. The doctor gave way for the faunus queen and closed the metal door, also struggling.
Once the door was closed, Dr. Peach turned around and saw Blake softly rubbing a red hood with her fingers.
The doctor cleared her throat, making the faunus queen look at her.
"Well, from the looks of thinks, it seems it was an accident." The doctor said softly as she looked over her notes. She saw what Blake was thinking and answered quickly.
"I studied a little criminology before becoming a doctor, Your highness" This seemed to answer Blake's unsaid question.
"It looks like she slipped and hit her head on the edge of the sink which caused head trauma and bleeding so it wasn't a result of abuse." Blake hearing the word abuse, flinched.
Both of them went back up after finishing and saw Weiss waiting beside the door they came out of. Weiss turned to Blake and saw her wife pull out Ruby's hood. Blake handed it to Weiss, who recognized it and held it close to her chest. Blake hugged her wife as she cried on her shoulder.
"Weiss" Blake said softly and Weiss looked up at her.
"R-ruby...lived down there, Weiss." Weiss froze as more tears streamed down her face.
"I-i didn't know..." Weiss muttered, trying to fight back her emotion. Blake softly patted her wife's head.
"Me neither Weiss." Blake said softly.
Dr. Peach stood beside them with a faint smile on her face.
"Your highness, It seems like both of you really didn't know about this or the true condition the girl was in." She said putting her hands in her doctor jacket.
"Even thought you both still neglected her, I feel that she may be returned to you care." Both queens smiled softly upon hearing this.
"I just asked a servant if they knew and she told me that there wasn't enough room for more helps. My guess is, Ruby chose to stay down there by her own accord." She continued.
"So, first thing is first. We need to find her a new suitable room. One with plenty of light and all necessary utilities." She finished, facing the queens.
Blake nodded and took Weiss's hand as she led them to a small hallway by the stairs of their quarters.
"We reserve these rooms for diplomats from different kingdoms, though we haven't had any in awhile so they may be dusty. They are the best rooms in the castle next to ours." Blake said then opened a door.
The room was pretty large with a small closet and dresser, as well as a fully outfitted bathroom. Dr. Peach looked around the room and smiled as she opened the close curtains of the room, letting sunlight in.
Outside the window, the room had a great view of the kingdom and got plenty of light. The room is also close to the queens, meaning Ruby will be better supervised.
"Yes, this room is great though it needs to be cleaned before she gets here but it will do nicely." The doctor said causing Blake and Weiss to smile. Blake took a step forward.
"I'll make sure to clean this room myself, Doctor." Blake volunteered, this time causing the doctor to smile.
"Now there is just the matter of her diet. What was she eating prior to the accident?"
Blake's smile vanished as she remembered what Ruby used to eat every night.
"Doctor, I just found out that...her meals consists of leftovers..."
Dr. Peach's smile was replaced with a deep frown the took out her notepad and wrote it down.
"She will need three meals a day, which consists of fresh ingredients, not leftovers." She said trying to contain her anger. Blake nodded.
"May we...see Ruby?" Weiss whispered softly and the doctor sighed.
"Well I suppose you can as long as you don't disturb her."
Weiss nodded and they left the castle. During the trip to the hospital, Weiss seems to fidget occasionally. Blake saw this and intertwined her fingers with Weiss's. It calmed the snow queen down.
When they arrived, Dr. Peach left and they signed in then made their way towards Ruby's small white room. They entered the room and all they heard was Ruby softly breathing as the machine pumped oxygen for her. They sat down on the chairs on the side of Ruby's bed. Both of them said no words, only listening to the breathing.
"Hi Ruby..." Weiss said softly, breaking the long silence.
"We hope you get better soon. I know...Its all our fault that this happened." Tears now started sliding down her face.
"I h-hope you can forgive us, t-though we probably don't d-deserve it." Weiss said through her sobs.
Blake put a hand on her wife's shoulder. She then felt a hand on top of her own and saw Weiss's hand above hers while the other is holding Ruby's cast.
"W-we picked out a n-new room for you."
Blake now had her wife in a one arm hug, rubbing her wife's shoulder softly as her tears also fell.
"It's got a great view, you can see so much of the kingdom and best of all it's really close to ours." Weiss stop to wipe her tears from eyes as she felt Blake continue to softly rub her shoulder.
"Ruby, we hope that you can find your way back to us." Weiss said softly. "We miss you."
Blake felt her wife could take it anymore and they left, not before promising to come back tomorrow.
From then on, everyday Weiss would go and visit Ruby. Blake tried when she could but she spent a lot of time cleaning Ruby's new room, which was a lot of word than it would seem. Weiss took some of her royal work with her to do while she visited Ruby and on breaks, she would sing to Ruby.
Weiss told Blake that she would notice a small smile on Ruby's face when she sang. Weiss thought it might help her wake up.
A few days passed, her room was all ready and the kitchen was stocked with all the food she needs. Now all that left was Ruby... It has been two weeks since she was hospitalized, everyday Weiss visited to talk and sing to Ruby and Blake would visit her when she finished cleaning a part of Ruby's new room.
Some of the casts on her had been removed, showing how just how badly her body was. If not for the bandages, she would have been a skeleton. Her chest and head was wrapped in bandages, though her neck, arm and legs were still in casts.
Both of the queens where currently sitting beside Ruby's bed as Weiss softly sang while Blake hummed along. It was nearing the end of visiting hours when Weiss finished singing. She wiped a few tears then stood up and softly stroked Ruby's cheek, careful not to move her head.
"Oh Ruby...please come back to us." She whispered then felt Blake's hand on her shoulder. Blake helped Weiss up in a one arm hug.
As they where walking towards the door, Weiss stopped and turned around. She took out Ruby's hood, which she always kept on her.
She went back to their slave's bed and place the hood beside her. She bent over, using one of hand to hold her off centered pony tail and softly kissed Ruby's cheek.
During all this, It became clear that both queens had deep feelings for Ruby that seemed to be sown into their own relationship.
Weiss smiled as she stood up straight then began turning around. But before Weiss fully turned around, They noticed something they had been waiting for so long.
Ruby's hand started to move.
《A.N.》
I just wanna say... listening to sad songs while writing this probably wasn't the greatest idea I had but It resulted to this and I'm happy with it.
"Other kingdoms" Ooooohhhhh.
If you find an grammatical errors, tell me.
Thank you for the reviews and for pointing out grammatical errors on the last chapters.
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Next chapters will be released next week...why? Exams.
Thank you for Brewer235 and other author from different sites for giving me the idea.