Onyx

Sunday, 9:10am

Why is it that when I most desperately need peace, I can't have it?

As the assassin stared into the amber eyes of the girl approaching him, he noticed several things. First, the way the amber eyes seemed to shine, more than they should. Second, the black bow on top of the girl's head. Third, the description he had overheard from some White Fang members. Onyx was remarkably observant, and put 2 and 2 together quickly. However, he decided to play ignorant and see how things went.

"You know, I've gotta agree with Yang. I wanna know what you want with Ruby."

"What I 'want' with her? What I want is to be able to date her and not have everyone think I have an ulterior motive," Onyx snapped back.

"I know you have an ulterior motive. I can tell you're hiding something; something important. Now I wanna know what it is, and what it has to do with Ruby. Nobody seems to know anything about you, and even your own teammates avoid you. You're hiding your entire past, and I don't trust it. I don't trust you."

"You don't even know me." Onyx growled back. "You're getting up me for hiding my past. You. It doesn't take an idiot to put 2 and 2 together. You're a faunus, and trying to hide it. Which means you're hiding your past too. So don't you DARE try and attack me for hiding mine. Now come find me when you're prepared to stop being a hypocrite. And an apology can't hurt." After snapping this final line, Onyx used his semblance and ghosted off the rooftop, jumping to the ground and sprinting to the gates. He vanished into Vale, and not even Blake could follow him with her sense of smell.

While his semblance didn't completely erase his smell, it did muffle it considerably. She would have to be in the same room to smell him while he was using it.

Onyx quickly headed into an apartment he owned and put a brand new hole in the wall of his bedroom. Great, another one to throw money at. He then proceeded to walk into the kitchen as calmly as he could, before opening his liquor cabinet, and downing at least a bottle of whiskey - and a bottle and a half of vodka - over the course of 6 hours. There went the rest of his weekend.

He didn't remember anything after the whiskey, but he woke up at sunrise the next morning with one mighty hell of a headache.

Monday. Got a hangover juuust in time for classes.

Yaaaaaaaaay.

Fuck it. I'm taking a sick day. I need to talk to Roman.

Torchwick

Monday, 8:00am

"Holy sweet mother of- Who calls at 8 in the damn morning?!" Roman looked at his phone and groaned. Of course.

"What?!" He yelled into the phone, pissed at being woken up. "Just because you're a friend doesn't mean you get to call at 8 in the morning!"

"Wow. Yeah, I'm starting to regret that decision myself. Your yelling reeeeeeally isn't helping the hangover I have." Onyx even was somehow able to make Roman hear the grimace on his face. "Anyway, I need you to come over at some point today. I need to talk to you."

"Oh you have got to be kidding me. Is this more of that touchy-feely stuff? Because let me tell ya Blue, those are really not my specialty." Upon saying this, he only heard silence from the other end. "Uh, Onyx...?"

"...Blue?"

"Oh, right. Well, Red's Red, and her boyfriend has blue as one of his colours, so... Blue."

"Roman, remind me to kill you at some point when I don't have a migraine that could stop Cinder in her tracks."

"Yikes, that's one powerful headache. How much did you drink...?" Silence once again. "Alright, I'll be over at 2. Try and keep yourself together 'till then."

"...Thanks, Roman."

"Yeah, yeah..."

Torchwick

Monday, 2:30pm

"You're late," Onyx accused as Roman Torchwick and Neo walked through his front door.

"I was on a job, sue me. Wouldn't wanna piss off her royal pain in the ass, would I?"

Onyx conceded the point and gave his old friend a drink as they sat down. "Roman, I'm in trouble."

"This was obvious from the moment you called me, but please continue."

Onyx glared at him for a moment before continuing. "Not only is the whole 'Ruby and I' situation getting more and more complicated, but her team have started to notice, and by now I'm pretty sure they all know I'm dating her. I'm not built for undercover spy jobs, Roman. I'm built for quick, in and out jobs. I'm having massive trouble maintaining my cover story to Ruby, and her team is getting too curious for their own good... I... I don't know what to do."

Roman sat there, staring. His friend was worrying so much it was tearing him apart, piece by piece. "You... You've really fallen for Red, haven't you? You say you're having trouble maintaining the cover story, but ya can't lie to the liar. You don't want to maintain it. You want to tell her the truth, to lay it bare." Onyx hung his head in shame. "Jeez, kid, what have you gotten yourself into?"

"I don't even know anymore."

Roman asked the very, very disturbing question he had thought of halfway through his little speech. "Onyx... Is Red making you want to be..." Roman struggled to find the right words.

"...good? As in, enough to throw away 50 million Lien and 20 cases of Dust?"

Roman stared into his friend's navy eyes. Which was a little more difficult than usual. Partly because he could see so much pain in them...

...And partly because the assassin was nodding his head.

Ruby

Monday, 2:30pm

Ruby was a little shell-shocked by this point in the day. Both the conversation from last night and the absence of Onyx both that night, and the next day, had her more than a little frazzled. Without him, she had the nightmares again, even worse than before. When she woke this time, it had been screaming out his name. This had prompted Yang into getting into an argument with her sister. While they had their yelling match, both Blake and Weiss decided to sleep in JNPR's dorm, so as to actually get some sleep.

Ruby turned her mind to the argument.

"What the hell, Ruby?! How long have you been going out with this guy?!"

"I dunno, just like, 2 weeks! Not that long!"

"And yet you're waking up screaming his name?! What the fuck, Rubes?! What do you even see in him?!"

"He's nice!"

"He's a complete asshole to anyone who tries to talk to him! Anyone who gets near him to try and talk to him ends up hating his guts! So why the hell do you like him?!"

"Because! You don't know him! You don't know what he's been through! He's in pain, Yang! ...He has the same eyes Dad did."

This stopped Yang in her tracks.

"Ruby... you had the same eyes as Dad did."

"Yeah, I did. Until about 2 weeks ago."

Yang had nothing to say to that, and left in silence to find somewhere to sleep and process all of this.

Ruby and Yang had avoided each other all of the next day, and even in class had barely talked. Whenever Ruby tried to talk to her sister, Yang just gave a glare in return. Slumping in defeat, Ruby exited Professor Port's classroom and turned to her next class.

Onyx, please be there tonight. I need someone to talk to. I need you.

Author's note:

Sorry for the chapter being a little shorter than normal. Also, sorry if the chapter seems kinda short and/or lame, but hey they can't all be great, right? Gotta have a filler or two here and there.
By the way, if there's a line break/horizontal line, and there isn't a character name in bold, it's a flashback. Just for future references, as there will at least be one or two more in the story.
As always, feel free to leave any questions in a review, or PM me. Hope you enjoyed.