Too close

(Oops I fucking deleted the chapter instead of just replacing it with minor fixes, that's what I get for being half asleep)

Derrick-Skalula: I tried to differentiate memories in third person and in the moment with first person, that's why there's a lot of switching.

BetwixtOni: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) It's about to get spicier in today's chapter.

Like always happy readings my dear viewers!

A slightly younger version of myself was in our family car with my Mom and Dad, we were heading home from a day of celebrating my birthday. It was ending so merrily and we were joking and laughing as we talked amongst each other. I was in the back seat of the passenger side and my Dad was coming to a stop at an intersection. As we went forth, I noticed from the corner of my eye that a car was coming at us quickly and I panicked. "Dad!" Was all that I yelled out before the car 'smashed' us. I was sent flying through the car door and into another scene screaming as our car toppled over and over while disintegrating into nothingness.

While I was still rolling over on the asphalt until I skidded to a stop in the middle of the streets. Terrified, I shakily stood up and looked around finding no sign of my parents but only familiar buildings and streets. I was so disoriented by this sudden change that my head was spinning.

"Ruby!"

Snapping my head to the left of me, I saw Weiss, screaming my name? I was so confused until what I saw petrified me to the core, it was me lying on the floor so lifelessly, so bloody and beaten, was I dead? The other me had my right arm look funny as a part of my skin was bulging out weirdly, I was bleeding from the mouth and my clothes were torn badly. I suddenly clutched the side of my head as my heartbeat was pounding against my ears, I was hyperventilating by the flood of memories coming through me at a painfully fast speed.

Everything was spinning out of control for the me, memories of my Mother and Father's funeral, images of me weeping at my misfortunes, and the many struggles of proving to the court judge that I was capable of taking care of myself so I wouldn't go into a foster home; then recent memories of gaining friends that actually cared and tried to understand me.

I screamed at the overload, the scream continued as I awoke from the nightmare. I could feel people there, I could hear the unintelligible but oh-so-loud mumbles of familiar voices. Everything was so blurry and nauseating, I wanted my parents with me and in the delirious moment I thought they were still alive. "Where are my Mom and Dad!" I shouted out to the blurry lines of people I knew was with me. "Everything just stop being so damn out of control!" I repeated over and over in my head.

I violently flinched when someone touched my right arm for some reason it hurt so badly. Blurriness of things got clearer and I finally managed to see who everyone was, it was Blake and Yang; my stomach lurched and I immediately knew I was in the hospital, "W-what are you... w-why are you…h-?" I stuttered before an overwhelming pain from my head to the rest of my body started to throb excruciatingly. Scrunching my face in agony I clutched my head as I fell back, screaming again. "The pain! The pain! The pain!" It was horrid, it was like my mind and body were splitting open!

I soon felt nurses holding me down as I was writhing uncontrollably in bed and before I knew it, I felt no pain again. Actually my vision was going fuzzy again too, I started to mumbled incoherent words as I began to see the world fade into black again.

"Ugh..." I groaned out, waking up again. My head and throat hurt, "How long was I asleep?" Looking around the blinding white sterile room I soon saw a lot of balloons and flowers at my side. Not fully processing it I was about to start moving when a painful throb hit me, "Maybe I shouldn't yet." I thought before looking down at my left arm and seeing I.V. tubes in me, it made me a bit queasy. Shaking my head, I didn't need to vomit just yet even though the sterile room's scent wanted to make me gag.

Suddenly I heard a loud click at the door and few moments passed before a doctor who strangely looked like Weiss noticed me. "Oh! You're finally awake!" The older woman seemed quite happy before doing a mandatory check up on me, "How do you feel this morning, starting from 1 to 10 on the pain scale?" She asked in a concerned voice, stopping at the foot of my bed.

The doctor was looking down at me with great concern while holding onto a scroll. "Was this really Weiss's sister?" shaking those thoughts away she answered, "Right now I feel like it's a 5 to 6… My head and most of my body is killing me. " I told her honestly and she nodded as the woman typed down something after I informed her, I could hear the loud taps of my doctor's fingers hitting the screen. "How long have I been out?" I blurted out.

She smiled somberly, "Well, I will be honest about it to you, you have been in a coma..." My eyes widen and the doctor quickly raised her free hand in front to stop the girl from talking. "Do not worry, it wasn't that long. You've only been asleep for roughly two weeks." I was about to speak up but the doctor cut me off again. "It really wasn't the worst outcome considering your injuries. If anything it was a good thing that you stayed asleep." The white haired woman finished.

"I'm a-afraid to ask but, w-what were my injuries?" I cringed, "I'm already having a rough time dealing with 'being in a coma' business again."

The older woman coughed in her hand. "You sustained a fractured skull and a broken right leg and arm." Her serious disposition changed into a rather happy look, "On the bright side the advanced medical treatments that this hospital has due to research on energy cells of DUST, have healed your broken limbs into only having a fractured arm and leg, I estimate that by the time you're discharged in about two weeks, you will have nothing more than sores." She stated proudly, resembling Weiss a bit more.

"T-that's great! I can finally be out of here soon!" I exclaimed in hopes of easing her nerves.

My doctor chuckled mischievously as she typed out something on her scroll. Soon she just stared at me and I became flustered, it made the doctor smile, "You know what, I can now see why my little sister has an interest in you. You are quite different from others, whether that is a good or bad thing." The doctor stated while I looked on in confusion.

"Little sister?" I was curious again as I leaned up from my lying position again.

"Ah! Being distracted when I came in I completely forgot to introduce myself to you." She straightened her posture elegantly, "I am Winter Schnee, the Head Doctor of this family owned hospital." My jaw slackened while Winter typed up her notes of my overall condition while adding a bit of medicine into the I.V so it could reduce my pain again.

Finally composing myself just before my doctor left I stopped her. "Um D-Dr. Schnee, is Weiss okay?" I asked and Winter closed her eyes.

"Oh My little sister is fine, all she suffered was a beat down by you and then later Yang the first week you were here." I looked petrified, I had forgotten I had snapped at Weiss but to hear Yang beat her up as well made Me even more terrified for the diva's health, "Ah~ don't worry about Weiss, she lived through it. She has also been visiting since then with the rest of your friends, she's also the one who brings those flowers over there, my little sister is quite endearing when she wants to be." Winter smiled, "Well, I have to do my other rounds now, if you need help please don't hesitate to press that red button, it calls upon the nurses." Was all she said before bidding her farewell to me.

"Weiss had been visiting with rest of my friends? She even brought me those flowers?" I turned my head towards the bouquet and smiled slightly, "She may have been the one who put me here but I was the one who saved her so was it really her fault? No, It was both our faults really." Finally noticing something on my neck as I squirm into a comfortable position, I felt it was a necklace of sorts. Grabbing it with my good hand I saw it was a small scythe and I teared up as the gifts finally hit me, sniffling as I gripped the necklace to my chest.

As hours passed and nothing but occasional nurses came to check up on me; I began to feel drowsy and was about ready to fall asleep, until I was startled by the sudden door swinging open and a tall blonde haired woman zoomed her way towards me, excitedly.

"Ruby!" She shouted happily and I teared up, she gently hugged me even though she was ready to pounce me. Yang was also tearing up as a sniffle came from her.

"Yang!" I shouted back at her and hugged back with my 'good' arm. "I'm so g-glad too see you!" My throat was choking up.

While Yang and I were still hugging, quick footsteps could be heard coming to my room, my heart was pounding faster; proven true due to the monitor. My breath got caught up in my throat once I saw Blake and close behind her Weiss and Velvet. Happy tears were producing faster now as I tightened my grip with Yang's back. My eyes locked with Blake with strange intensity while she awkwardly smiled and waved at me.

"Ruby!" That was Velvet and I was getting even happier now. The bunny girl rushed to the other side and hugged me gently as well. "Everyone missed you!"

I could only nod as my throat was choking up with emotions that were so familiar and yet so unfamiliar. After a while Yang and Velvet let go of me, they were both still crying; while Weiss was 'looking' up at the ceiling with her arm covering her eyes and biting her lips. "Weiss a-are you alright?" I smiled sympathetically at the scene, I knew the diva was feeling guilty.

Looking down from her arm, her blue eyes were glossy while her face looked scrunched up trying to hold back her tears, "I-I'm just wiping disgusting sweat from running all the way from school to h-here!" Her voice cracked several times before she bowed, shocking me and everyone else in the room.

"Ruby! Even though you may never forgive me and I don't blame you! Just please accept that I'll do anything for you too make this right. I'll pay all these medical bills for you and much more!" She exclaimed at me who was about to die from shock.

"W-Weiss!" I shouted at her name, I was unprepared for this apology! "You don't have to do that, I can tell you have done a lot in these two weeks for me so you don't have to do anymore than that!"

The white haired girl just shook her head in a no motion. "At least yell at me for putting you here! I caused this and I deserve no forgiveness!" She argued and this time I shook her head.

"No, you deserve forgiveness! It was both our faults that I'm here anyways! If I didn't save you it would've been you in this place and I don't want that for anybody!" I exclaimed with such certainty that the room became even more tense. I took a stinging deep breath in before speaking again. "If there's one thing I want you to do for me, it's to continue being the Weiss everyone has gotten to know of in these past two weeks." I finished with a smile and Weiss's face scrunched up again.

"Y-you dolt!" The heiress cried out before charging at me to give a hug not as gently as Yang and Velvet did, though it may have stung I could bare it for now. "At least just accept me paying your medical bills Ruby." She mumbled out quietly.

I huffed pretending to be agitated but I was grateful. "Fine, if it makes you feel better Weiss." I chuckled out as Weiss's nodded her head against my neck. "To be honest, it's quite weird that we were hugging each other right now, and I think the rest of us would agreed. For so long Weiss had been best known for bullying me and right now it felt like such a great relief that it wouldn't be like that anymore."

Finally letting go of me, Weiss slowly moved away to where Yang was. Suddenly I felt myself being pulled into another tight embrace by none other than Blake. My face was buried between her neck and shoulder, like always, it felt different than the others..

"I missed you." Blake whispered to me as the hold tightened.

My heart started to beat faster as my montier picked it up, "I-I missed you too." I meekly replied back while this elated feeling was beginning to make my head spin. I slowly detached myself from Blake; "Was it me or did I hear her sigh in disappointment?" Looking at my friends who were obviously still there, I managed to smile awkwardly at them.

"Oh God I'm horrible, getting pleasure from a stupid innocent hug in front of all them!" Cheeks flaring, I tried to save face, "Um, how are you all... and w-what did I miss, probably a w-whole lot, huh?"

Yang had answered first, "I think I'm positive to say that we are all very happy and relieved to see you awake!" She gave a toothy smile at the end.

"You don't need to worry about the homework it's easy to catch up in, especially if you have notes from someone to help." Blake's voiced out calmly with a faint grin, as she pulled out a notebook, wiggling it.

"Yeah right about you doing fine! You were fretting about Ruby just as much as everyone else was!" Yang's voice boomed in the small room while Blake frowned at the blonde as her cheeks bloomed a faint blush at being exposed.

Giggling in response, I soon smiled. "I'm so grateful to have friends like you," Yang, Blake and Velvet nodded in return. "And even you Weiss." The Ice Queen blushed in response, obviously not use to being in the same category with the word friends. With them here, they were non-stop in talking about the two weeks I had been absent to school and their everyday life, they also told me about the chilling news of how the mall was attacked by the White Fang. It was a week later after my accident and the reason for the attack was for a product called DUST owned by the Schnee family.

DUST was an energy source used for advanced technology such as armor for the police force, guns, medical equipment, and etcetera. Blake had been silent throughout that conversation which reminded me of my last thoughts I had before Weiss showed up on the day of my accident. "Was Blake that girl Velvet told me about? Was she a White Fang Member?" A nervous feeling sprouted in my mind, "No, I shouldn't assume that of Blake just because she was a Faunus herself.."

Soon their conversations were about random things like how art hadn't graded anything of our project or how Jaune got a crush on Weiss, much to the diva's dismay. Soon I had told them that I might be discharged in three weeks much to everyone's relief but I noticed that Yang seemed nervous about it…. Eventually the first to leave was Velvet who begrudgingly said she had to do homework, second to leave was Weiss saying her father had plans for this evening with guests and she had to attend. Blake and Yang were the only ones left, they said they had nothing to attend to or do any homework, though I was a bit more skeptical about Yang saying that about her homework.

They had stayed all throughout my visitation time which ended at 8pm; not that I minded. When they finally said our farewells and I was left alone again, I couldn't help but feel a pang of loneliness washed over me. Even though they all said that they would come back tomorrow I still felt lonely and scared, maybe it was because they made me forget where I was and not think about this situation. After sighing heavily; someone, most likely my doctor came in.

"How was your day Ruby, good I hope?" She asked politely before checking the machines.

Smiling back at Winter, I answered. "My day really was good Dr. Schnee." The woman nodded with a smile on her face.

"That's wonderful, you have such loyal friends you can depend on and that's quite hard to find this day and age. I'm also glad that you and my sister made up, she is quiet the sensitive type as you can tell.." Winter exclaimed cheerily and I nodded. "Anyways for tomorrow Ruby, will you be okay with trying to walk around?" I perked up at her request.

Who knew that not walking for two weeks straight and with one fractured leg would make someone so very frustrated. Sure it wasn't my first time doing so and with much worse conditions, but that was a year not two weeks, so indeed frustrated me to no end because for someone who could run the fasted in my class was now the one that couldn't even walk right without support! Now forced to use crutches again in my short life until my doctor deemed me fit enough; sure it wasn't that long till I was free of them, three weeks to be exact, but still she hated restrictions. Soon a daunting fact came to mind as I finally realized that I would need to pay for my checkups and prescriptions after I was discharged from the hospital and those weren't cheap by any means. "Sure Weiss said she would help me with anything but I couldn't do that too her even if she was rich, the small pride I had left wouldn't allow it." With checkups, overpriced prescription drugs, my own groceries I needed at home, and having to pay an upcoming apartment bill; I didn't think I could make it on my own now and being a minor still, that would mean…

"I'm screwed.…" Was the only thought I repeated until I was near my room from getting back from therapy, I was in a wheelchair at the moment because it would have taken too long for me but I signalled the nurse to stop. I wasn't too far from my room now, so I could make it…

"Miss. Rose are you sure of that idea?" The older woman asked in a concerned voice and I nodded in certainty.

"Hmhmm." I pushed myself off the wheelchair, trying to keep my breathing even as I stood up. I put the new crutches under my armpit and began 'walking', when I successfully made it to my room I instantly noticed it wasn't empty, Blake was in there sitting down looking at me. Bewildered, I looked at the clock as it read 11:30am. "Why wasn't she at school?"

"Hey.." Blake had broken the painfully awkward silence first. "Um, I can see you can walk now, that's good..." I noticed she looked a bit worried.

I closed the door and reassured the nurse that I be okay before saying anything to her, "H-hi." I walked to the seat next to the older girl. "And yeah I can walk a little bit, it's frustrating though.." I paused, unsure of what to say next. "Um, uh, how did you get in?"

"I snuck in..." She bluntly said and I nodded. "I just wanted to see if you were still okay.. and I really didn't get to talk to you yesterday." Blake looked down at her lap.

"I-it's okay Blake! I felt good either way knowing that you came yesterday." I squeezed the raveness's shoulder gently, trying to comfort her. Looking back up again Blake smiled slightly and I let out a breath I didn't even know I held in.

"I really did miss you..." Blake said while her hand messed with her purple bow out of nervousness. "I know I'm not the easiest person in letting anyone know how I feel, but I was scared that I might have lost a great friend.." She paused.

Gray eyes widened a little, "Did she come here just to tell me this before everyone else came?!" Feeling elated while also trying to come across concerned, "Blake I- " I was cut off with an unexpected hug making me freeze.

"You're the first genuine friend I had in such a long time… You were the first to actually take my advice and accept me as a Faunus, you allowed me to be me for once." Her voice was becoming strained. "So when I heard you were in the hospital, in a coma no less, I felt like something was being torn away from me, it hurt so very much.." Blake's grip tightened as she began to shake.

When I heard that last sentence I finally returned the hug, beginning to tear up. "I didn't mean f-for you to f-feel like that, I'm sorry-!"

"Damn it Ruby!" Blake yelled at me and disconnected from the hug but held onto bandaged arms. She was staring down at me in frustration. "Don't be sorry for making someone like me feel that way! Please, don't be! I at least know I'm not a cold blooded monster with these feelings." Her intense golden eyes pierced into mine and I was left feeling excited and yet hopeless.

Blake was crying right in front of me and I didn't even know how to comfort her, yet I felt excited about seeing her like this. I knew I was horrible for feeling like this towards Blake's inner turmoil, so with no other options left I just let my emotions overtake me for once. So leaning my body upwards and as I lifted my face up towards Blake's, we both knew we were inches away from each other as I felt the older one gasp half way before I quickly pecked her on the lips. The feeling it left me was the best feeling I had ever discovered in my life no matter if it was just a second long or not.

Before we even realized what was happening I was straddled and pinned down in my seat as Blake went into a frenzy. "Ah!" Was all I managed to say before searing hot kisses were placed over and over on my lips. I immediately shut my eyes as an elated feeling rushed over my body, especially when I felt a warm wild tongue intrude in my mouth. Moaning with desperate need to grip something as intense heat went down my body, my one good hand somehow managed to grab and squeeze Blake's back. Soon the amazing make-out session was broken and only a connection of saliva was prove of it existing, darkened gold and gray eyes stared at each other as they panted, and yet, Blake went on another onslaught of intense kissing but this time on exposed neck, gasping each time a kiss was placed.

It kept going like this until, "Mmngh!" My body twitched and expelled a weird scream at being bitten on the neck, I was moaning harder as the intense feelings pooled between my legs, making me uncomfortable. Blake was breathing harder as well knowing that she caused my disheveled state I was feeling, and the raveness growled on my neck. Soon I arched myself more onto Blake's body when I felt a hand grope my breast and another sneaking its why under my hospital gown.

"Ah!" My toes were curling at the waves of pleasure Blake was causing me, I was being overstimulated with too many emotions at being touched as my hips bucked upwards when the older one rubbed a certain spot. "B-Blake!" I called out and was instantly kissed on the lips by said person as the waves of pleasure was nearing its end, Blake inserted a digit inside making me explode in unknown pleasure as I broke the kiss to scream.

"I love you!" My body convulsed and twitched for a good minute before I became a panting and sweaty mess. Looking at Blake, my stomach plummeted when I saw fear in those golden eyes just before Blake untangled herself off of me and ran off without a single word.

I was in shock, "Did I say something wrong? Why did she run off like that.. Please come back! I'm sorry!" She tried to get up but she quickly fell to floor, "W-wait! Come back! I d-didn't mean it!" When she didn't come back, my heart suddenly felt like it was crushed into pieces. I instantly felt an indescribable pain in my chest just before cupping my hands over my face to sob aloud.

"I fucked up."

Ok, ok, let me explain why I did this, because I know your heads are turning. First off, Blake only ended up going into a frenzy on Ruby due to my headcannon that Faunus's go into heat. Unfortunately or fortunately, Blake was in heat during this time, so when Ruby went in for an innocent kiss on the lips to calm her down. The redhead unknowingly caused the cat Faunus to further go into a frenzy, resulting in turmoil for everyone.

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