A/N: Here is the next chapter of Pumpkin Scythe hope you enjoy.

Yang, Weiss, and Blake were sitting in the infirmary beside an unconscious Ruby with Dr. Schwarz standing on the other side of Ruby's hospital bed holding a scroll, with Ruby's medical information on it.

"Is she going to be okay?" Weiss asked for the thousandth time since they got to the infirmary.

Dr. Schwarz snapped the stylus in her hand and looked at Weiss like she was going to kill them, as Weiss asked her the same question every time her facial expression changed. "Ask me that question one more time Miss Schnee and I'll put you in the bed next to Ruby," Dr. Schwarz replied.

Weiss's eyes widened in fear and shrank back in her chair. "I'm sorry," Weiss squeaked.

Walter appeared with a stylus in hand and gave it to Dr. Schwarz. Dr. Schwarz pocketed the broken stylus and used the new stylus to finish making notes on Ruby's medical status. When Dr. Schwarz finished her notes, she turned to Walter and said, "Wake her up. I don't want her sleep schedule getting messed up."

"Of course, Madam," Walter replied, and Dr. Schwarz walked off to her office.

"Dr. Schwarz there is something I want to talk to you about in private," Yang said standing up.

"Alright," Dr. Schwarz said as she continued to walk towards her office.

Yang took that as her saying, "come talk to me in my office," so she followed Dr. Schwarz into her office.

When Yang entered Dr. Schwarz office, she locked the door, which caused Dr. Schwarz to raised an eyebrow. Yang saw it and responded with, "Weren't you going to ask me to do it anyways?"

"Fair enough," Dr. Schwarz replied, "What did you want to talk about, Yang?"

"My mother," Yang replied instantly.

"Summer or Raven?" Dr. Schwarz replied.

"My mother's name is Raven," Yang said, her eyes widen slightly.

"Yes," Dr. Schwarz said, "In fact, I had a drink with your mother last Thursday."

"You know I've been looking for my mom for how long? And you're just telling me you met up to have a drink with my mom last week!?" Yang shouted angrily, her eyes turning red.

Dr. Schwarz held up one finger, "First off you never asked." She then held up a second finger, "Second, what did I have to gain from a little girl like you? Nothing." She then raised a third finger, "And thirdly, your mother told me not to tell you anything about her until you asked me."

All of the anger towards Dr. Schwarz vanished in Yang and was replaced by sorrow. Yang looked down at the ground and muttered. "Why did my mom leave me?"

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Dr. Schwarz said and pulled out her scroll. "I can either give you her contact information, and you can contact her directly, or I can set up a meeting for the two of you."

"I want to talk to her," Yang said and reached for Dr. Schwarz scroll, but Dr. Schwarz pulled it out of reach.

"Not so fast Blondie," Dr. Schwarz said, "Did you really think I was going to just give you the information for free?"

Yang glared at Dr. Schwarz and asked, "What do you want for it?"

Dr. Schwarz smiled and said, "If you want this information you have to do one of two things. You can either confess your love for Ruby, and I mean really confess where she knows exactly what kind of love you're using, or you can cut your hair, shoulder length is the longest I'll allow." Dr. Schwarz pulled out a pair of scissors.

"And if I do neither?" Yang asked.

"Good luck finding your mother," Dr. Schwarz replied.

Yang looked down at the scissors that Dr. Schwarz put on the desk and picked it up. She stared at the scissors for a full minute before finally putting them down. "Keep the information, Dr. Schwarz. I don't need it."

Dr. Schwarz was taken back by Yang response and asked. "Why is that?"

"As much as I want to meet my mom my relationship with Ruby is way more important and I won't risk messing it up just because I'm in love with her. And my hair is the one thing that makes me feel connected to my mom, and I won't give that up." Yang replied.

"You're an idiot," Dr. Schwarz replied.

"Excuse me?" Yang replied not expecting Dr. Schwarz's response.

"You're an idiot," Dr. Schwarz repeated, "You're too scared of a bad possibility to go after an amazing possibility. So why don't you just grow a pair so you can have five wonderful years of love and happiness with your sister instead of five years of contentedness followed by a lifetime of regret."

Yang gave Dr. Schwarz a strange look, which Dr. Schwarz saw and replied. "What? Even I'm not infallible, especially in the matters of love."

"You know about love?" Yang asked surprised.

"I don't spend all my time in a lab," Dr. Schwarz replied, "Now go tell your sister you love her so I can give you the information you want."

"But she's with my new teammates at the moment," Yang replied.

"Then tell them you need a moment alone with your sister," Dr. Schwarz said, "They'll understand."

Yang sighed and said, "Will you set up a meeting with my mom for me?"

"As soon as you tell her you love her," Dr. Schwarz replied.

"Okay," Yang said and started to leave Dr. Schwarz's office while psyching herself up for her confession, but stopped. "Wait, did you say five years? Ruby told me she had ten."

Dr. Schwarz sighed and pulled up an image on her scroll and showed it to Yang. "See this?"

Yang just saw some kind image of the inside of Ruby's body and didn't know what she was supposed to be seeing. "Uh sure?"

Dr. Schwarz could easily tell Yang couldn't tell what she was supposed to see and said. "It's Ruby's heart. It's more damaged than previously thought and it's deteriorating at a quicker rate than expected. So instead of ten years, she has five, though if I'm completely honest, she might not even make it to graduation."

Yang quickly rushed over the couple of feet to Dr. Schwarz desk and leaned in close to Dr. Schwarz. "Why didn't you tell me this sooner?"

"I told Ruby a month ago; I assumed she told you." Dr. Schwarz replied.

Yang backed away and asked, "Why didn't she tell me?"

"Yang, this is Ruby we're talking about," Dr. Schwarz said, "The only reason I have her weekly check-up is because she doesn't tell me if she is ill, so she doesn't mess up my results. She still doesn't realize that however she is feeling is the result I want. So she thinks she is doing you a favor by not telling you that her time was cut in half, and worrying you."

"But this is the kind of stuff I need to know about!" Yang shouted, "I'm going to have a talk with Ruby right now."

Yang rushed out of the room to go to Ruby.

Shortly after Yang left to Dr. Schwarz's office, Ruby woke up.

"Good afternoon, Miss Rose. Did you sleep well?" Walter asked.

"If you can count a medically induced dreamless sleep well," Ruby replied.

"Fair enough madam," Walter said, "I'll leave you with your friends."

Walter left the area, and Weiss was instantly all over. "I'm so sorry Ruby if it weren't for my negligence then you wouldn't have been hurt. Are you feeling okay? Do I need to get you anything?"

Ruby pushed her back and said, "I'm fine, Weiss. You don't need to get me anything. Besides this isn't the first time that something like this has happened. I'm used to it."

"How do you get used to being impaled by a Nevermore feather?" Blake asked.

"You don't get to be a patient of Dr. Schwarz without going through hell first," Ruby replied.

Blake and Weiss gave her a weird look, and Ruby continued. "Besides my body is already pretty messed up, so I don't really care."

"What do you mean by that?" Weiss asked concerned.

Ruby sighed and said, "Well, you'll have to find out about this sooner or later, but my heart is pretty messed up from an accident that happened when I was eight, and Dr. Schwarz said that I'm not likely to make to past my twentieth birthday."

Blake and Weiss looked at Ruby with sadness and pity. Ruby had to stop herself from telling them to quit it; she had seen it enough in Yang's eyes after the accident.

"I'm sorry to hear that," Weiss said still looking at Ruby with pity and sadness.

"Me too," Blake added on looking at Ruby the same way as Weiss.

Ruby was about to tell them to stop looking at her with pity when Yang appeared. "I need to talk to my sister. In private." Yang said and shot Blake, and Weiss and 'get lost' look.

Blake and Weiss got the message and said a quick goodbye before leaving. Yang turned to Ruby and said. "Ruby, I love you…"

A/N: CLIFFHANGER! Hope you enjoyed the chapter. The next chapter out will be the last Futa RWBY chapter with RubyxEmerald.