A/N
Sorry for being so late with putting this chapter out, this is the last pre-written chapter I have, I have about three thousand words written for the next chapter but need to break it up and edit it a little.
Anyway two things one, if you like Mai-Hime then I'll have something up for you in the next few days of a story I'm writing for it.
Also I'm working on something for another story that I want to add extra chapters to, and also SIS will hopefully be updated soon as well.
Oh and Warnings for this chapter, blood and someone having a panic attack/ relapse so be warned now!
Alright none of you can complain now. Anyway please read and review. ^_^
Chapter 6
That night
IA was in a blissful sleep, the last week and a half catching up with her with all the late nights she and Ruby had had together over that time.
She was smiling in her sleep as the dream she was having was a particularly nice one for a change in pace compared to her normal dreamless sleep.
It was all shattered when a loud scream echoed around the house waking IA up immediately as she recognised the voice.
Almost sprinting out of her bed IA opened her door up, not caring how she was dressed and launched herself into Ruby's room as the two other girls in the house were slowly coming out of their room confused.
IA was inside Ruby's room and at the girl's side within seconds as she saw the girl curled up shouting and clawing at her arms and shoulder.
IA went to Ruby immediately, "Ruby, Ruby wake up." IA tried but found that Ruby wouldn't wake up, and as she tried getting close to shake her found Ruby moving further away from her.
Luka and Miku entered the room to find Ruby screaming and clawing at her arms and shoulder, confused they stood still shocked at what they were seeing.
IA saw them inside just standing there causing her to shout, "HELP ME!" IA shouted prompting them into action.
Luka went immediately to help IA in trying to stop Ruby from doing any more harm to herself but was struggling to get her restrained.
Miku on the other hand called out, "I'm going to get Blake." As she received nods from the two girls she ran out to go and get said girl.
As Miku went out of the room, IA and Luka went about holding Ruby down. "IA you get her hands I'll get her legs." Luka ordered the other girl, moving to hold Ruby's legs down.
IA went through the hard part of trying to hold down Ruby's arms and stop her from clawing at herself further.
Trying to pull Ruby's arms down to her side, IA quickly found that the girl was much stronger then she looks as she continually fought her way out of IA's grip.
Failing once more IA tried a different method to hold Ruby's arms down, climbing further onto the bed IA straddled Ruby's stomach, gripping her arms and putting her weight onto her the girl's arms to hold them above Ruby's head.
As IA had her hands on Ruby's wrists she found them covered in some sort of fluid that covered her hands as well, not looking up to see what it is IA assumed it to be sweat as she tried speaking to Ruby to calm her down.
"Ruby, its IA you need to wake up. It's just a dream, it can't hurt you." IA kept repeating, trying to get Ruby to wake up.
After what seemed like forever the Blake haired bodyguard burst into the room with speed as she quickly went about accessing the situation.
"Keep her pinned." Blake ordered as she went into Ruby's bathroom and where she knew the girl's first aid kit was stored.
Tearing it open she quickly found the small vial and syringe out of the bag, she carefully pieced the vial with the needle using it to take the vials content into the syringe.
Blake walked back into the room moving past all of them until she was near Ruby's head and arms, "Keep her still." Blake ordered.
Tightening her grip on Ruby, IA moved out of the way slightly to allow Blake the access to Ruby's neck.
Blake got IA to move slightly as she herself held Ruby's head to the side with one hand while the other hand put the needle into Ruby's neck injecting the sedative.
After about ten seconds Ruby finally calmed down and stilled, the three girls didn't move off Ruby's body until they started to hear Ruby's calm, soft breathing.
Slowly the Luka moved off of Ruby's legs and IA slowly climbed off Ruby's upper body to stand at the bed beside them.
Blake saw that Ruby had finally relaxed and ordered the other three girls in the room, "Out, now!" Blake ordered as she went into the bathroom to bring out the first aid kit.
Miku and Luka left the room, following what they were told while IA remained routed to the spot staring at her hands.
Blake turned the lights on in Ruby's room as she came back with the first aid kit to find IA looking at her hands that were covered in blood, Ruby's blood.
"I told you to get out." Blake said as she went past IA and to Ruby's bed.
IA didn't even hear Blake as her eyes and attention was fixated on her hands which were covered in Ruby's blood.
Once Blake put some cloths onto the Ruby's wrists she walked over to IA giving her another cloth to clean her hands.
"Clean up and go wait outside." Blake said more softly this time.
IA just shook her head as she came back to the present, "No, I want to help." She told Blake.
Blake looked IA in the face and saw into the girls eyes and noticed something, "Fine, go fill up a bowl with warm water and come back."
IA nodded going to do what she was asked to, moving to the bathroom once she found a bowl to fill up with water.
Coming back into the room with the bowl filled with water she found Ruby lying flat on her bed with the covers moved out of the way and her arms at her side.
Blake was checking her over while IA walked over with the bowl, no words passed between them as Blake handed a cloth to IA who then, using the water started to clean Ruby's wrists of blood.
IA was shocked to see the cuts she saw the night before, over half of them had been reopened and slowly bleeding.
IA cleaned Ruby's wrists of blood until the bleeding slowed enough or in some cases stopped completely, then with Blake's help she bandaged up the girls wrists.
Once complete they rolled Ruby onto her side to reveal the bandages covering her shoulder now had some blood going through.
Blake sighed as she saw that Ruby had disturbed the mark on her shoulder causing it to bleed, slowly peeling away the bandages she saw the brand on her shoulder now covered in blood.
Taking the wet cloth Blake started to gently clean around the mark with IA's help doing the same, eventually once the outside was cleaned, Blake moved onto the part of the brand hearing Ruby's breathe hitched as Blake cleaned the mark.
Looking at Ruby her eyes grew sad at the pain the girl was enduring as she cleaned the mark.
IA watched as Blake slowly cleaned the blood away to reveal a dark red, angry snowflake brand burnt into Ruby's shoulder, confused she looked to Blake for clarification but the girl only shook her head.
The two girls sat in silence as Blake finished cleaning Ruby's shoulder, re-bandaging it up once she had finished and dried the area.
Handing the bowl of bloody water to IA, said girl walked over to the bathroom to empty out the bowl and clean it out before allowing it to dry.
Entering back into the main bedroom area to find Blake tucking Ruby back into her bed, once the bodyguard had finished she took IA by the arm to lead her outside, knowing otherwise the girl would stay in the room.
Blake led IA downstairs to the kitchen where the two other residence in the house were quietly talking with a couple cups of tea in front of them.
Luka noticing their arrival said, "We've made some tea for you, have a seat." Luka said, handing over and pouring two more cups for the two girls.
All of them sat down in silence each sipping their cup of tea until Miku decided to speak up, "What was that?"
Luka looked shocked at her girlfriend for being so blunt, to which Miku just shrugged her shoulder, "You can't just ask like that."
Before either girl could say more Blake spoke up, "Its fine Miss Megurine, what you saw was a relapse, I think Ozpin informed you about them. As Miku was coming to get me I was halfway out the door from the alert I was sent." Blake informed them, gently sipping her tea.
Luka nodded her head, remembering what she was told but didn't realise it could be this bad, "How is she?"
"She's alright for now, I've given her a sedative that will keep her out until the morning at which point I'm going to take her to the hospital to have her checked out." Blake informed the others.
The three other girls nodded in return, understanding that course of action Miku was next to speak up, "Does it happen often?"
Shaking her head Blake answered, "It can vary, there are a few things we know that can trigger them but sometimes it's from stress or for no reason, at least not one Ruby is willing to share with me." Blake informed all of them.
Once again the four girls nodded their heads in response, Miku and Luka then stood up saying tiredly, "We're going back to bed so we'll see you in the morning."
Blake nodded as they took their leave, telling them goodnight as they went.
IA and Blake remained behind quietly sipping their tea as neither wanted to talk until finally IA broke the silence, "What's that mark on her shoulder?" IA asked softly.
Blake looked to the other girl, "What mark?" Blake said, trying to remain naïve about it.
IA just glared at Blake, "Don't give me that, I saw how you looked when you saw it. You looked sad and annoyed, I'm assuming sad that the mark was on Ruby and annoyed at yourself." IA stated to the other girl.
Blake looked stunned at how observant IA had been during the whole event to pick up on Blake's facial expressions, especially since the expressions were only on her face for barely a second.
"How did you know that?" Blake asked.
IA smirked as she realised she caught the older woman, "Being a singer means I have to notice things more then another person, mostly it's things in the voices but I can also notice facial features, so are you going to carry on being naïve about that mark?" IA said asking once more.
Blake looked to the other girl realising she couldn't be allowed to go without telling her, "I don't know everything, all I know is the after effects of what happened. How much do you know?" Blake asked the other girl as she stood up to make more tea for the two girls, reading the time and seeing it was around two in the morning.
Blake walked back to the table pouring IA some more tea before sitting back down to listen to IA's answer.
"Luka told us about the potential relapses and not to let Weiss Schnee near her, but that's mostly it." IA informed Blake.
Blake nodded her head in response, "Another person not to let near her is her half-sister Yang Xiao Long, and she has quite long blonde hair so it'll be difficult not to recognise her." Blake said, her voice taking a faraway quality to it.
"Do they know she's here?" IA asked.
Blake smiled at the question, "As you know Ruby doesn't have her identity published at all and we try very hard to keep it that way, the only people who know is her uncle family wise." Blake informed the girl.
IA nodded, "So who did that to her?"
Blake started to grow sad as she remember, "It was from her girlfriend, Weiss Schnee. Weiss caused a lot of harm to Ruby that I failed to protect her from, but the marks on her wrists, they are all self-inflicted while the mark on her back is from…." Blake stopped talking for a minute as she shut her eyes, remembering back to when she got Ruby out of Weiss' house, the smell of burning flesh and Ruby's crying.
Blake slowly came back to the present, "Weiss branded her, she used a red hot brand to mark Ruby for life, she screamed and when I said screamed I meant blood curling to the point that I thought she was dying. I'm pretty sure she thought she was dying but she's never talked about it. Anyway when I heard that I rushed inside and when I saw what Weiss was doing I punched her in the face and got Ruby out of there." Blake told IA coldly, but she smiled in satisfaction when she spoke of punching Weiss.
IA grew sad as she found out what Ruby had gone through and what Blake had to do, she was torn between hugging Blake and running upstairs to hug Ruby.
Blake saw this response and smiled at the girl, "It's alright IA, and I've dealt with it even though it was barely a month ago."
IA nodded her head in understanding, "I'm sorry for asking."
Blake just shook her head, "It's alright, you saw the marks earlier and were unsure about them but please don't tell Ruby I told you." Blake asked.
IA nodded her head in response and after finishing their tea Blake spoke up, "I'm going to go back and go to bed, I'll be round in the morning around ten to pick up Ruby." Blake said as she stood up and left the house.
Once Blake had left IA went about going back to bed herself but instead of going to her room she decided to go into Ruby's room, pulling the chair from her table over to sit on as she leaned half her body onto the bed while the lower half remained on the chair.
IA fell asleep shortly afterwards in an awkward position she would later regret in the morning.
