Hello everyone on Fanfiction. I am J. Van A, and i am really tired right now. i am currently hanging out at my brother's house because we went to go see Deadpool (and btw, if you like Deadpool comic books, go see the movie, it's hilarious) and right now it is 2:27 in the morning.

So, I've decided to post this Valentines chapter today before the RWBY finale is released so this whole chapter isn't a constant spray of profanity.

Anyway, same as last year, this is a Valentines AU, so it does not go along with the story at all, even though I continued with the plot from the previous chapter.

-Enjoy


Eva hated this time of year. The time of year when couples all across Remnant get together for one special day.

Lapis and Zaria eventually turned out to be a couple. As it turned out they were great together, though Zaria kept pranking him everyday. Quinton and Shizuko also ended up as a couple. It was strange for the two couples at the beginning seeing each other every holiday, but then they realized they didn't have to try and make each other like them, they turned out fine.

Alex and Reita both hadn't found anyone special so they went into a bachelors-for-life sort of deal when moving in together. They thought it would be bad at first since they were cousins, but after one incident, Alex never messed with the sock on the door handle policy.

Over the past few years even several other couples were formed. Some of the more distinctive ones were pretty self explanatory. Ruby and Weiss ended up together, and so did Blake and Yang. Jaune finally realized Pyrrha's feelings a year before they all graduated and they became a couple. And finally Nora and Ren were together-together after a corny line from Ren about him making her pancakes for the rest of his life.

Ever since Blaise died, Eva had been alone. Lapis and Zaria had tried to get her out of her apartment and meet new people, but it never worked. Eva just simply said that the only person she could ever love was Blaise. Every year after he had died, whenever Lapis and Zaria would give up on trying to get Eva to leave, she would stay at home and watch movies.

Walking over to the nearby bookshelf, Eva looked at the urn on the shelf and the last picture she had of Blaise.

"So, another year, another headache," Eva said picking up the urn and walking towards the couch in the LZE's apartment. "I know I haven't been talking to you very much, but I think if the others saw me talking to you, they'd probably send me to the looney bin."

She sat down on the couch with the urn in her hands, then she turned on the TV to the newest Spruce Willis movie Hard Death 3, coincidentally one of Blaise's favorite movies during his time at Beacon.

"Did you have a hand in this?" she asked the urn as she curled up with a large bowl of popcorn. "It just seems pretty coincidental."

No matter how many times she wished the urn could respond, it never did. The last day she ever saw him replayed in her head every day. She just couldn't believe that everything would happen so fast. After the doubles round Blaise went away to do something and he never came back. Eventually Sedric and Lucia found his remains and cremated them. After a heartfelt meeting with Blaise's siblings, they agreed that Blaise should remain with his team. So Lapis, Zaria, and Eva made a little shrine to Blaise in the living room of their apartment complete with his cutlasses and pistols that were recovered from the field.

"A lot has changed, I'm sure you've guessed that by now," she told the urn as the opening credits played on the screen. "Lapis and Zaria seem to be going strong. I can't help but feel like a pain for them, just someone they took pity on because I am on their team. So I've been looking around for my own apartment, just a small place. When I was talking with Reita I told her about this and she suggested that I move in with her and Alex. Their place is big so I wouldn't have any privacy issues, and the rent would be pretty cheap.

"Oh, I have been taking on some solo missions. It was pretty usual: kill some grimm, take down some raiders, or just be a security guard. Those railgun boots you designed are amazing. After a few years of continuous use my legs got strong enough to the point where I could kill a grimm with one kick."

About forty five minutes into the movie, Eva had already opened a bottle of red wine and downed half of it.

"Clara and Sonia are soo cute. They call me Auntie Eva. But they're not just cute, they're smart too, just like their parents. Sedric himself is still the hopeless romantic he ever was. Lucia has joined the assassins and became the right hand woman of Sergio, so she's been busy, but she does show up every holiday.

"Helena got accepted into Beacon and became a leader of her own team. Most of them seem capable, but they will never be as cool as BLZE. Helena gets mad at me every time I tell her that, but she only knows I'm kidding. She also got into using spears and crossbows just like me. My dad even gave her her own antimatter arrows which I told him was a bad idea considering the destructive power of the arrows."


Nearing the end of the movie, Eva had finished the bottle and was nearing the bottom of a second one. Though Eva had been drinking for a few years now, she still had a low alcohol tolerance, and that was becoming evident.

"Blaise, why did you have to die?" she asked the urn clutching it to her chest as tears streamed down her face. "Blaise, why didn't you tell us where you were going? We could've helped you… then maybe you could still be…" she couldn't continue as she began sobbing

"Eva, Eva, are you there?" a voice asked her nearly causing her to drop the urn. Looking around the room she looked for the source of the voice.

"Guys, maybe we shouldn't wake her up," another voice said that was also familiar to her. She then realized it was Lapis's voice. "She did have a long day yesterday."

"Come on guys, it's not everyday that we get to celebrate Eva's birthday," Blaise's voice said.

Eva finally found the source of noise. It was Blaise's scroll left open next to where the urn was before on the shrine. She did not know how it had turned on or how it had opened the video, but she was smiling. It was them video taping her birthday that had occurred over summer break before the tournament.

"Guys, what are you doing?" Eva in the video asked the team as she woke up with massive bed head.

"Happy birthday!" they all shouted at the same time.

Then the scroll was handed off to Zaria and focused on Blaise who was holding a strawberry swirl cheesecake. Blaise then walked over to his girlfriend and quickly kissed her for a few seconds causing Zaria to cheer and Lapis to chuckle.

"Thanks guys," Eva said pressing her forehead against Blaise's. Then the video ended exiting out to the home screen. Behind all of the icons was a screenshot of their kiss that caused Eva to start sobbing even harder.

"Blaise, I miss you so much," Eva said holding the urn close to her chest.

"I'm sorry," a voice said this time not from the scroll, but somewhere from behind her. She could tell it was Blaise's voice, but she couldn't bear looking over her shoulder. "I love you." Then the voice disappeared leaving Eva by herself.

"I love you too," Eva said falling to her knees on the floor still clutching the urn.


"So, what do you think Eva did this year?" Lapis asked Zaria as the elevator in their apartment building slowed down as they neared their floor.

"I don't know," Zaria said to him as the elevator stopped and opened letting them out, "but I really hope she's not passed out on the couch covered in beer cans again."

"Well, she did lose Blaise suddenly and she's kind of been heartbroken about it," Lapis said turning the key in the lock opening the door to their apartment and was greeted by a strange sight. "Oh, and she went after the wine this year."

Zaria walked into the room and saw the two bottles of wine, then chuckled to herself. "Two bottles, she's a lightweight," she said then looked over to the countertop in the kitchen to see a half empty bottle of bourbon. "I stand corrected."

"She seems pretty out," Lapis said poking Eva's cheek getting a minimal reaction. "She's not dead."

"What was she doing?" Zaria asked him putting the bourbon away in the cabinet.

"She seemed to be crying while holding Blaise," Lapis said picking up Eva in his arms then began carrying her to her room. "She has a strong grip on the urn."

"Well, I'm kind of glad the urn has a good lock on it or we'd have to have Blaise up on his shrine in a handheld vacuum," Zaria said changing the tv channel that was currently in the middle of a Spirit Busters episode rerun over to The Grimm Brothers. Then she walked over to the shrine and saw Blaise's scroll still on with the screenshotted image still up. "Lapis, didn't Blaise's scroll die like three years ago and we just didn't charge it?"

"Yeah," Lapis said walking back into the living room without Eva and walked over to Zaria. "Oh, I remember that, Eva turned eighteen and we had to take an emergency trip to Vale for that cake."

"Yeah, Blaise made it such a big deal about celebrating her birthday even though she didn't want us to do anything," Zaria said then paused for a moment and sighed. "Do you ever miss him?"

"Blaise? Yeah, all the time," Lapis said sitting down on the couch. "I mean, we handled ourselves for the three years in Beacon pretty well without a leader, but that's just going through school. We kind of just stopped connecting with each other."

"I think we connect just fine," Zaria said sitting down on the couch right next to him snuggling close.

"That's not what I meant," he said then looked over to the rooms where Eva was audibly snoring. "I feel kind of bad for her. We've shut her out ever since we got together, and I can't help but feel sorry for her."

"I mean if she wasn't soo introvert-" Zaria said then screamed at what appeared on the screen.

On the screen was the image of their old team leader in a darkened room with red eyes and a black ooze flowing out of his eyes and mouth. His chest's right side had a giant hole with red glistening blood flowing down his chest and over a tattered aviator's jacket. Then Blaise ran up to the camera and shouted into the camera releasing a loud howling roar. Simultaneously the railgun cutlasses mounted on the wall fired off rounds causing the two to jump and shout.

The room suddenly became quiet as the two looked over to the screen to see Blaise standing there looking normal pointing and laughing at them. Then the screen turned off and the two looked at each other.

"Did we just get pranked by a ghost?" Lapis asked as Zaria just hugged Lapis burying her head into his chest and weeping.


"What the hell happened to you two?" Eva asked Lapis and Zaria as she woke from her hangover and returned Blaise's urn back to it's proper spot on the shrine. Then she walked over to the fridge and poured herself a bowl of orange juice before she realized her mistake.

Groaning in annoyance, she picked up the bowl and sat down at the kitchen table and looked over to the couple who were just sitting down on the couch staring at the tv.

"So, anyone going to say anything?"

"Shhh! You'll piss him off," Zaria said continuing to stare at the screen.

"I don't even want to know," Eva said drinking the whole bowl of orange juice then walked back into her room and started putting on her hunting outfit so she could take on a job that day.


Oh, were you expecting BlaiseXEva fluff? Well life isn't fair!

RWBY has been turning into Game of Thrones and I'm pretty sure the new guy will have no problem killing off I dunno, Pyrrha for the hell of it since she has been overhyped for the past three seasons as 'The Invincible Girl' just like they did to Penny. They even cut off Yang's arm! What the fuck?!

Anyway, people have been telling me that Blaise is most likely still alive *cough* looking at you Kaimi *cough*. So I wanted to make a point clear: Blaise is currently dead. his heart is no longer beating. You'll learn more about the situation with him in a few days when I get chapter 8 rolling, which it is mostly done, except for a fight and interrogation.

So anyway, I'm going to go to bed soon and sleep till RWBY comes out.

Everyone, have a relatively decent day considering how the finale goes,

-J. Van A