A/N: Filler filler filler filler filler, enjoy!


"You kept her alive? I thought you wanted the Schnee's dead."

"I do."

"So why isn't she dead?" Raven gestured toward Winter, who was tied up on her knees, all the while glaring at them.

Adam exhaled, "Come to think of it, I really don't have to answer you." He stated.

"Doesn't matter, I think I know why anyway." Raven replied slyly.

"Oh?" Adam turned back to face her.

"You kept her alive because Blake kept you alive. You still have feelings for her don't you?"

Adam's eyes widened, although no one would have noticed. "That's none of your business." He said angrily.

Raven smiled in response to the tone of his voice. "Hit a nerve have I?"

"To be honest that's all you've been doing." Adam stated.

"Oh well I'm sorry I'm a little observant." Raven said sarcastically. "Well if what I said isn't true you wouldn't mind me inviting them back over for a little trade, seeing as this Schnee is still alive, would you?"

"A trade?"

"I think me and Blake have some unfinished business," Raven explained with a wicked smile, "and I'm sure you two do as well."


The sun had set, the light was gone and the moon hung shattered in the sky. Blake and Kage remained silent for majority of the day, Kage didn't want to say anything and Blake was too busy with her thoughts to strike up a conversation, which wasn't something she did often anyway.

Kage didn't ask why but Blake had decided to stay within the forest instead of reaching the city, they managed to find food and shelter within Forever Fall and used that to keep them as safe as possible. Kage wasn't exactly sure what was going through Blake's mind and he thought it wouldn't be a good idea to bring it up unless she wanted to, which caused them to remain in silence for a long time.

They stopped once the moon reached its peak in the sky and set up a fire. Blake's makeshift bandage had to be changed and that was possibly the only interaction the pair had had that day, albeit silently.

They sat opposite each other with the fire warming the area between them. Blake continued to fiddle with her bandage and with her hands, Kage watched her in silence. Until it became too much for him.

"If you don't mind me asking, what exactly do you plan to do?" He asked, finally breaking the silence.

Blake didn't reply straight away, she needed an answer in the first place. What was she going to do? She didn't know where her team was, didn't know where Winter was, or if she was still alive. What was she going to do.

Blake ran her fingers along the inside of her right hand, Yang's blood somehow reappearing on her skin. She shuddered at the image and clenched her fist, her nails digging into her palm. She was going to fix this, that's what. On her own, without getting other people hurt.

"I'm doing this alone." She said after a short silence. "But I'm going to need you to take me to them."

"To who?"

"To the White Fang."


The next day

Weiss' scroll rang for what had to be the twentieth time and it was only eleven in the morning. The heiress took her scroll out and angrily declined the call, shoving the scroll back into her pouch.

"You sure you don't want to answer that?"

"Yes Ruby I'm sure." Weiss answered, struggling to keep her anger in check.

"It could be important."

"It's my mother, I know exactly what she wants and speaking with will only make me furious."

"She's probably worried." Ruby said softly.

"So she should be."

"Weiss."

"Maybe she had done something to stop her husband we wouldn't be here."

"That's not very f-"

"Fair? Well isn't that something that keeps coming up lately."

Ruby glared at her partner, her rather difficult partner. Understandably she was just worried and angry about her sister, but Ruby though she could at least try.

The scroll started ringing again just as Yang stepped into the Bullhead.

"You gonna answer that?" The blonde asked.

Weiss glared at the brawler before yanking the scroll out and slamming the decline button.

"Never mind." Yang muttered.

The transports engines roared to life as they were lifted into the air, slowly turning around toward Beacon. Yang removed her jacket, revealing the bandage wrapped around her torso, which she started removing.

"Yang!" Ruby called.

"What? This thing is uncomfortable, plus I'm fine anyway. See look." Yang twisted in her seat so Ruby could see her, now not so visible injury. The blonde was right, the wound was nothing more than a thin line now, the wonders of new age medicine and aura.

"Any word from Blake?" Yang quickly asked, changing subjects.

"No." Ruby said sadly.

Yang nodded silently, looking out one of the windows. "She's so stubborn! She should've stayed!" Yang slammed her fist into the side of the transport.

"I'm sure we'll do fine without her, maybe even a little better." Weiss muttered.

"What was that?!" Yang asked, her eyes flashing red.

"Yang be reasonable, we wouldn't be in this mess if she didn't save that faunas."

"Weiss!"

"I don't care! She's my partner she shouldn't have ran."

"You don't care?! What if it was Ruby instead of Winter, Yang? What then?"

"Weiss!" Ruby yelled.

Yang recoiled, it had been Ruby once, and Blake had done the same thing. Yang had to admit, in the moment she was furious, but looking back Yang couldn't blame her.

"Weiss what did I tell you yesterday!"

"Ruby it's fine. Weiss' attitude is completely justified. I tell you what Weiss, you handle your sister and I'll handle Blake and Adam."

Weiss looked at her blonde teammate, slightly surprised by the change of pace in the conversation.

"Deal. Just make sure she doesn't get in my way." Weiss stated.

Yang could tell that the heiress wasn't joking, not in the slightest.

"What are we supposed to do now? We don't know where their hideout is do we?" Yang asked.

"Blake might." Ruby suggested, knowing that it wasn't really helpful.

"That doesn't exactly help us does it Ruby?" Weiss asked rhetorically.

"Can't we track her scroll?" Yang asked.

"I already tried, she's too cunning for that, her scroll is deactivated." Weiss said.

Silence fell over the three girls, what to do next?

"We wait." Weiss spoke up, "Winter is still alive, no doubt they'll use her to draw me back to them. So we wait for them to make their move."

"This is all too familiar." Yang said softly.

Ruby shuddered as the memories flooded back to her, dark, painful memories. She quickly pushed them away, this wouldn't be like that, she would make sure of that.


"BAHAHAHAHA, look at her squirm!"

Laughter echoed through the chamber as the men laughed along with each other. They had a Schnee, a lovely, young girl, all to themselves, why wouldn't they be happy?

Winter forced herself to hold back a whimper as another part of her skin opened up and started bleeding, the sting of the whip lingering long after the blood had dripped onto the floor. One more scar added to the collection.

"Turn her over! There's no more room on her back!" One of them yelled with a laugh.

Winter squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to block it out, block it all out, all of it. The pain, the voices, her own thoughts. All of it!

She knew the White Fang were bad people, but she didn't know they were this bad. Then again, maybe it came with the name, this was more personal to them.

"Now we get to show you how much pain you Schnee's have caused us!" She was told before they dragged her away.

The looks that some of the other members gave her as she was roughly dragged away told her they weren't all like this. Some of the White Fang shot her sympathetic glances, she even heard some say this was a bit too much. But none of them stopped them, so Winter really didn't see any difference between them.

Her eyes shot open when she felt the chains by her wrists being removed from the wall. She looked up and saw two men taking the chains of the wall and swapping them over so they could turn her around. For the most part her back was facing them so she didn't get to see who was watching her, but now that 'there was no more room on her back' she saw them all.

As she was turned around her knees slipped and she fell sideways. They all erupted into laughter, the noise echoing through the chamber and through her mind as she tried to block it out.

"She tripped on her own blood!" Another round of laughter.

Winter looked at the ground, the man was right. Her eye's widened as she realised she was now kneeling in a small pool of her own blood. She didn't know how many times they had whipped her, but the blood on the floor only told her the worst.

She was pulled from her thoughts as her arm was roughly yanked up as the chains were reattached to the wall. One of the men approached with a bucket in his arms.

"I heard the Schnee's like ice. Is that true?"

He stepped up to and tipped the bucket over her head. A rush of ice cold water watched over her and her breath hitched and the sudden drop in temperature. Winter thrashed her head in an attempt to move her wet hair out of her face before her entire back started stinging horribly. She gripped the chains in an attempt to lessen the pain.

"Oh I'm sorry, I may have filled it with vinegar. Bahahaha!" They all laughed in unison as she began shivering, even though she fought herself not to.

They let her sit there for a while before someone else approached her.

"How's it going little lady?" He said with a grin.

Winter sniffled, glared at the man and then spat in his face.

"Argh! You bitch!"

His hand came around and smacked her face to the side. Winter felt blood trickling down from three different spots across her face, she cringed at the sting and the man chuckled in response.

"Haha! Sorry darling, can't help the claws." He stated, bringing his fingers up to his lips and licking them clean with a grin.

Winter watched in horror as the man licked her blood off his black claws, instinctively her body shook and rattled the chains, causing them all to laugh again.

Winter slammed her eyes shut as the noise rang out once more, she turned her head to the side and hoped they wouldn't see the tears running down her cheeks. But before they had the chance her body jerked instinctively as the whip danced along her front, tearing her clothes and adding yet another stream of blood to the collection.

Winter cried out and strained against the chains, her knuckles turning white as yet another whip lash rang out. She felt a cold rush of air against her stomach as a portion of her shirt was torn free, leaving her skin bare.

"She's gonna be naked soon if you keep this up!" Someone yelled out.

"Good! Maybe I should work faster than." Another round of that horrid laughter.

Winter shut her eyes and turned away, she didn't want to see it, didn't want to see them, see the reality, the truth of what was happening. This wasn't fair, it wasn't right! What had she done? She didn't do anything, it was her father not her!

Winter promised herself she wouldn't let them break her, wouldn't let them have the satisfaction. But she was naïve and ignorant, she didn't know they were this horrid, this evil. They were crushing her harder than she had imagined, they were pushing and pushing, every laugh and every joke pushed her closer to the edge.

'Weiss! Weiss please!'


"You really do live in the dark don't you?" Adam approached Raven, who was watching the show through one of the windows.

"I say why not let them have their fun, she won't remember most of this anyway."

"Why's that?"

"She won't be alive in two days will she? None of them will."

Adam shot her a look, but she didn't seem to notice, perhaps to immersed in what was going on in the chamber. This woman, was something else, something unnatural. It really put him on edge. Adam took a look inside, just as they put the whip away and grabbed something else, something long and sharp.

Adam scrunched his nose in disgust, "I never liked those men. I always thought they were pigs."


A/N: Bit of a dark ending, maybe a bit too sudden? Dunno, up to you guys to decide. Tbh, there's no way Winter's coming out of this without scars, I don't mean physical ones.