A/N: Sorry for the wait guys, been a busy week. This chapter's a bit of a 'eh' chapter so...

Blake remained in silence, she really had nothing to say, nothing she should say. Weiss was right and completely justified. No matter how many times she replayed that moment in her mind, she kept seeing herself stepping in front of Weiss to save Adam, even when she knew the consequences of her actions to those around her. No matter what was at stake, or who was at stake Blake knew that she wouldn't have done anything differently, a part of her refused to lose Adam and it seemed that part of her had control over all the other parts.

But Blake knew that was wrong. She knew she couldn't stay like this, she had friends now, she had a family. People who loved her and cared for her, she had Yang. What if Yang was in Winter's position? Would she have done the same thing? Adam or Yang, who would she choose in that situation? It doesn't even have to be Yang! Weiss, Ruby, they all loved her and she loved them, but she couldn't give up on Adam.

Winter is gone because of this, Weiss' sister had been taken because Blake made a decision. Was it the wrong decision? Now her team are being pulled deeper into something that really should have never happened. The White Fang, Adam, Raven, all of these things would have never affected them if Blake didn't summon Raven, if she didn't use the crystal, if she-

"Blake?"

Yang's warm voice pulled Blake out of her thoughts. She turned to her partner, her eyes still wide and lost.

"Are you okay?" Yang gently grabbed her arm, her lilac eyes soft and caring.

"I-I-"

A Bullhead roared over their heads, cutting Blake off as its engines bellowed loudly over them, moving toward the end of the train.

"They must still be on board!" Weiss yelled, already running after the Bullhead.

"Weiss! Weiss we need to get off the train before it blows!"

Of course, as if on cue, as Ruby finished her sentence all the crates and boxes around them started beeping. Weiss stopped and looked to a box right to her left, she turned around and looked back to her team.

BOOM!

Ringing. Ruby's ears were ringing horribly. She couldn't see either, everything was a blur. Smoke? She smelt smoke. Her body felt numb, all of it. Her arm tingled, it felt weightless and she wasn't sure if it was moving. She managed a groan and shook her head, some sense of sight returning.

Ruby's breath hitched as she realised she was indeed alive and the sight before was actually reality. It soon became clear to the red head that she was sitting in the midst of an enormous crater, one that had ripped a hole in Forever Fall, a crater that ran for miles.

All around her Ruby could only see scorched dirt, only a few pieces of the train remained, the track itself was completely obliterated. It was as if she had been teleported to a waste land and was no longer in Forever Fall. What she saw the Titan accomplish that night, was nothing compared to this.

Ruby groaned as she pushed off the ground into a sitting position. She looked around, noticing that the ground around her was still crackling and giving off a strange energy. She got to her feet, looking around as she scoured the crater for her team. It wasn't hard to miss a patch of white in an otherwise black waste land, Ruby immediately spotted Weiss lying face down meters from her position.

Ruby took one step toward the heiress and collapsed to the ground, yelling out in pain as she fell on her left side and pain shot through her arm. She rolled over onto her back as her face scrunched up in pain and she began to tremble as the adrenaline left her system and her injuries began to call. Her breathing became ragged and she had to force herself to ignore the pain as much as possible and calm down.

Once her breathing became stable and her body stopped trembling, she got back into a sitting position. She took Crescent Rose from her back and used it as a support as she painfully got to her feet. Her left foot touched the ground and she yelped in agony just as she almost toppled over again, this time using her scythe to hold her up.

Looking around once more at the level of destruction around them, Ruby realised that there was no way she should have survived, so how had she?

Blake's head pulsed painfully, there was some sort of intense pressure there, one that had her eyes closed shut in agony. Her back felt hot and burning, her chest stung with every breath and she was sure her left arm was bleeding from somewhere, her fingers felt something warm and sticky.

She felt a weight lying on top of her, she moved her right hand around to feel the object, it was soft and padded. Blake moved her hand up the object just as her eyes finally opened, she felt hair and when her vision retuned she realised what it was.

"Yang?" She breathed softly, panic immediately flooding through her.

Yang had her arms wrapped around her defensively, her body draped over as if creating a human shield for the faunas, which was pretty much what Yang had hoped for. Before the explosion Yang threw herself over Blake in an attempt to shield her as much as possible, to her credit it worked, but right now Blake was hoping it didn't work too well.

"Yang! Yang!"

Blake shook her partner gently, the blondes head remaining silent against her chest.

"Oh god, Yang please!"

Blake couldn't help her voice from cracking as tears began to well up and her hands began to shake from fear. She shakily brushed away a few golden strands out of the way of Yang's face, showing Blake her closed eye's and soft, somewhat peaceful expression. It was then that Blake noticed her hand coloured crimson with blood, not her blood.

Blake's heart felt as if it clenched up at the sight, her eye's widened in horror. This was Yang's blood.

Blake's hand fell back onto Yang's back and the faunas was filled with dread as she found the wound in her partners back. Feeling the object lodged in her Yang's back, her blood seeping around the area.

"No! Nononono! Yang!"

Not again! Not AGAIN!

'Why was she always doing this? Why did she always put herself in danger for me!? WHY?!'

Blake couldn't have this. This couldn't happen. This was her fault, all of it, it was all her fault.

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?!

WHY!?

"Blake, I told you, I like to be on the top."

Blake froze as the words left Yang's mouth, as lilac eyes turned towards her, as a goofy, pained grin spread across her partners face.

"Yang?"

Yang groaned as she rolled off her partner, landing on her back and yelling as pain burst from the wound at her back.

"Argh! Fuck!"

Her back arched in reaction and she quickly turned onto her side, trembling and breathing heavily from the shock. She forced herself to hold back anymore curse and groans being conscious of Blake probably being flooded with guilt and worry.

Blake watched on in with glazed eyes as tears rolled down her face, the wound on Yang's back on full display for her. Some sort of metallic debris had found its way into Yang's back, to the side of her spine. Blake wasn't sure how large the object was, nor did she want to find out, the blood on her hands was enough to cause her to lock up and lose control over her sense.

"How bad is it?"

Blake couldn't reply, tears filling her vision and rolling down her face.

"Blake?"

Yang waited for a response but only heard a quite sob.

"Blake?"

Yang made to roll on to her front and get up, but Blake saw her and called out.

"No! Stop!" She managed between her crying.

"Blake it's fine I promise. I'm okay." Yang tried to reassure her partner but it only seemed to make it worse.

"No! Yang please! I can't keep doing this to you! I can't keep hurting you like this!"

Blake began to back away unintentionally as Yang finally got into sitting position.

"No Blake it's fine I swear! It's not that bad." Yang replied with a small chuckle.

"Yang I'm serious!"

"I am too-"

"You don't get it!"

If Yang had to be honest, she had somehow completely forgotten about the pain in her back as her mind was overridden with how stricken and lost and afraid Blake looked in that moment.

"This is all my fault! All of it!"

Blake wanted to wipe away the tears streaming down her face but both her hands were covered in blood. Her left in hers, her right in Yang's.

"Blake none of this is your fault."

"Yes it is! It is!" Blake rose to her feet and was still backing away.

"Blake pleas-"

"I'm sorry. For all of this, I'm sorry."

"Blake stop apologising."

Yang struggled to her feet as Blake continued to increase the distance between them.

"It's ok, I promise. None of this is your fault. I don't blame you for any of this, none of us do."

"Winter is gone because of me! That was my fault!"

"Wha-"

"Raven exists because of me!"

"Bl-"

"This whole thing happened because of me!"

"Blake!"

"I'm sorry Yang. But I- I can't kept hurting you like this."

Blake turned away from Yang and Yang had the horrible realisation what was about to happen.

"No Blake don't-"

She started running.

"Blake! Blake stop! Blake!"

Yang tried to give chase but there was no way she could with her injury.

"BLAKE!"

Weiss was in a bad way. She was sure her right arm was either dislocated or broken, either way it hurt beyond description if she tried to move it. Her left arm was bleeding horribly from either one large gash or a series of smaller cuts, or perhaps even both, it didn't matter because it was covered in blood and felt heavy.

Whatever caused the cuts in her left arm continued on to attack her left side, she stared down at her shredded dress in agony as she took note of all the pieces of shrapnel embedded down her thigh and leg. She was positioned right next to a crate before the explosion, no doubt some of that crate made its way into her body. Yet it was still a wonder as to how she survived.

She blinked and her left eye started stinging, she blinked away the sensation but left the eye closed, apparently her scar was bleeding again. She looked around with what little vision remained, taking note of all the destruction. She was not surprised by the magnitude of it, but she was still awed by it.

'Winter!'

The thought suddenly hit her. Had her sister survived? For some reason she knew that she wasn't dead, but that wasn't exactly extremely reassuring, the White Fang may still have her and Weiss didn't want to even give a single thought to what they might do to her. She snarled at the thought of those foul creatures, those horrid faunas.

Something caught her attention, turning slowly to look at it she found a dark figure running, stumbling as they went. Weiss frowned as she tried to make out the figure, she looked in the opposite direction they were running from and found a mass of golden hair standing still.

"Yang?" which would make the running figure, "Blake?"

'Why is she running away from Yang?'

Then Weiss remembered what she had done earlier. Adam should be dead! He should be dead and Winter would still be with her. Weiss' fist clenched as much as her pain would allow her as she watched Blake running.

"Maybe its best if she stays out of this." Weiss breathed, ignoring a multitude of other thoughts that passed her mind.

"Weiss!"

Weiss found Ruby limping toward her, using Crescent Rose as a walking stick.

"Ruby?"

"Oh I'm so glad you're ok."

"'Okay' is a bit of an overstatement. It seems we all made it out somehow." Weiss nodded over to Yang.

"Yeah but where's Blake?" Ruby asked innocently.

A/N: Blake like's to run a lot doesn't she?