It was the same dream, over and over. Of Jaune losing Ruby, she always died right in front of him, just feet away. He could never do anything about it, either he never got there in time or he did, but she still died anyways. He should have gotten used to it, he knew he should have, but it still came as a shook every time.
Another part, always right after Ruby died, Scarlet came after him. Every time Scarlet disappeared and Ruby reappeared, Jaune felt himself sighing, happy that the horrid dream was over.
That's all he really wanted, for theses dreams to end. For someone to wake him up out of this continuous cycle. That is, until someone did. That's when things got a little messy
The cycle started again. Each time, Jaune thought this time, this is the times I'm going to save her, I know it. It never happened, though, it never worked out like he thought is was.
This time was different though, Ruby didn't come.
"Ruby," Jaune called out, looking around, calling out Ruby's name constantly. All he got was echoes around him, he didn't even know where they came from, it wasn't like there was any cliffs around. He guess that was the thing about dreams, they make perfect sense when you're sleeping, but when you wake up, you're wondering how in the hell that even seemed remotely possible. Like unicorns. No, not really.
Why do you only call me when you're high?
Scarlet showed up, this time, only feet in front of him, breathing his air, that is, if she even still breathed.
"What do you want?" he asked quietly. She started to breath heavily (so she did breath), almost as if she was done running a marathon.
"What do you want?" he said a little louder, stepping as close as he could to her without knocking her over.
"You," she hissed and pushed him forward, knocking him to the ground, digging her nails into his neck until he could" not breath. Jaune's vision was starting to get a little blurry around the edges, as he gasped like a fish on land.
"Please," he tried to plead with her as he felt his last breathes escaping him. He could hardly see her snarl, his vision was to blurry. But what he did see made her look like a demon. That's it, that's what she was, a demon from hell, coming to take him where he always knew he was going.
"Why should I grant you mercy," Scarlet snarled.
"Please," he breathed again. Jaune felt himself getting light-headed.
She let go of him and stood up, walking away. Soothing down her dress as she went. Jaune layed back down, letting the cool ground soothe his nerves.
He closed his eyes, thankful to get some rest, finally. "Wake up, Jaune," a voice said over him. Jaune wasn't even sure if it was real or not, maybe it was just in his head.
Well, it was a dream so he guessed everything, in a literal sense, was in his head.
"Ruby?" he asked, still not opening his eyes, he didn't want to be disapionted when it wasn't her.
"¥ou need to wake up," the voice said again. Jaune could hear the grass shuffle as she kneeled down, pressing a soft hand to Jaune's cheek. Jaune leaned his face into the hand, enjoying another living things presence.
"¥ou need to let this go," she said. Jaune opened his eyes and looked to find Ruby's eyes starung back at him. "Leave, wake up."
"0kay," he said. Jaune didn't even believe want he said. Neigther did Ruby. Ruby was just in his head, though, evrything was. At least, thays what he kept telling himself.
"¥ou need to do this on your own," she said. With one last look at him, he turned around and walked away, disapearing into what deep dark place she came from.
Wake up, wake up, wake up!
How is he supposed to wake up. Ozping said this was perment, there was no way that they knew of the erase this. Maybe there was a way. Jaune didn't know. Until a few days ago, he was just a nobody. Now look at him, Jaune was everyone's biggest worry.
"Jaune, get it together," he whispered to himself. He softly slapped his cheek, trying to get his senses on alert. "Do this for Ruby, for yourself."
Wake up, wake up, wake up!
Jaune felt a pain in his head, it pounded in his skull. At first, it started out small, then, it grew bigger and bigger, as he tryed harder. Maybe he should give up. This place wasn't that bad anyways.
No, he couldn't. He had so much left to live for.
He could have sworn that he heard someone shout, "Get up!" But he could just be imagining it, after all, nobody would be calling him.
"Jaune!" There was that same voice again. Jaune looked around trying to figure out where that voice was coming from.
It could just be his head, though it seemed lime everything was these days. Jaune wondered what the world was like now.
Has thirty years gone by, or just a few day, hours, minutes?
Thats the part that really got to Jaune, the fact all of his friends could be grown up, moved on, having kids of their own. He wasn't saying that they should just dwell on him, it just was strange.
That's why you need to wake up, so you wont be another body on a table, he told himself. €veryone you love is there, don't leave them.
He tried to force his eyes open, like the way you do during a bad dream, he tried pinching his arm, forcing himself awake, but nothing seemed to work.
Well, this sucked.
" Come on," he whispered to himself. "You can do it, you can wake up." Every fiber of Jaune's body went to trying to open his eyes.
Suddenly, everything went black. He still couldn't open his eyes, it felt as though the were glued together. It felt as thoug. He was blind.
Then,t the world around him suddenly became clear, he was awake. Jaune did the impossible.
sorry, not all of this may make sense, I'm sick, plus I have finals that I NEED to pass, so those don't help.. Forgive the errors. I'malso writing this on my phone which doesn't help. Apparently my roommate feels as if my computer is hers whenever she wants it, which is all the time!
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