Hey Guys!

I am so sorry for the long wait, There is an update at the end of this chapter that will explain why it took so long.

So a massive wind storm hit the city I am in and I have lost power for 5 days. So I am attempting to upload this from my phone, lets hope it works out.

Chapter 13 I Am Strong

Her mouth was incredibly dry. Why was her mouth so dry? Weiss couldn't quite remember where she was, her head was throbbing too hard to think about anything. Her eyes still weren't adjusting to the darkness of the room she was in but she didn't need them to know something wasn't right.

"Adam!" Her head finally cleared enough to be able to think about something longer than five seconds without it feeling like it was going to explode.

Standing up she was happy to discover that she was alone in this room, but the happiness quickly turned into bitterness when she felt her arms jerk backwards. It was then that she noticed the manacles chaining her to the wall.

Surprisingly, for the daughter of such a high-profile family, this was the first time Weiss had ever been kidnapped, but that didn't mean she didn't know what to do in these kinds of situations. Her Father had made it very clear from a young age that if she was ever taken that all she had to do was exactly what her kidnappers said and he would pay the money in no time. Unfortunately, Weiss didn't think Adam cared too much about money. If he had taken her, it could only be for two reasons: One, he wanted to kill her; or two, he wanted to use her to get to Blake. Most likely both.

'Okay. Just take a minute and think.' Weiss thought to herself as she started to pace back and forth, the chains allowing her to take three or four steps before being to tight to move. 'He didn't kill me outright which must mean he wants Blake. All I need to do is figure out where I am and then maybe I can't find a way out.

Weiss wasn't as good at this as Blake was, it seemed like her girlfriend only needed a few seconds to figure out some kind of plan. Sitting down in frustration she just wanted to scream at the top of her lungs, but there was a better chance of hell freezing over before she would give them the satisfaction of her begging.

Hearing a few sets of footsteps coming her way, she quickly got up and brushed herself off. Weiss refused to show any sign of weakness. 'I can do this, don't give them anything… I am Weiss Schnee... I am strong… I am!' She repeated as she prepared for the new visitors.

She didn't recognize the first person who entered the room but she didn't look to threatening, she was a doe Faunus if Weiss was to make a quick guess. There was no way she could be too much older then she was. But Weiss was a lot more concern about the person who followed behind her.

"How was your nap?" Adam said cockily as he pulled a chair into the room.

"Where did you bring me?" Weiss spoke through a rough throat, only reminding her how thirsty she was.

"Princess, I don't think you would know where we are if I told you. After all, your daddy always made sure you had a personal driver wherever you go. It's a real mystery to me that you don't get lost when you walk around that school you go to." Adam said, sitting down in the chair and motioning for the other Faunus to leave.

"What the hell do you want Adam!" Weiss yelled at the calm masked Faunus sitting in front of her. She knew all he wanted was to bait her in, and she really tried to not to bite but with the day she was having she was in no mood for his twisted games.

"Well that's not very polite, is it?" He said standing up. "Here I went to all this trouble to try and make you feel comfortable until the main party arrived, and you show your thanks like that."

"Blake." Weiss had a sick feeling in her stomach that she was exactly who Adam was talking about. "She won't come after me. She is smarter then that." Weiss said with more confidence and less anger then she had before, but she knew her girlfriend was probably already looking frantically for her.

"Ha! You're smart for a Schnee, I will give you that. But what makes you think I will give her a choice?" He said pulling out what looked to be her scroll.

"When we went to take this apart guess what we found, a small Schnee tracking bug." Adam said tossing it between hands. "If Blake is half as smart as I hope she is then it shouldn't take long before she comes looking for you. And I bet-"

"She will bring help." Weiss said cutting off Adams words.

"Oh, you think she will. Well I don't, let's see which one of us knows her better." He said exiting the room.

'Blake Please… please come with help, you don't need to do this by yourself.' The heiress thought as she was once again left along in the dark room.

"My feet are killing me!" Yang wined as the two sisters entered their room.

"Yang, Weiss is still missing and you are worried about your feet." Ruby said entering the room behind her sister.

"Ruby we have been out for hours and we found no sign that she was taken… Maybe Blake was wrong." Yang spoke as she threw her jacket on her bed.

"Yang! Blake wouldn't lie about this, besides the manger said nothing happened but when we asked to see the video tape it was erased so maybe she did get taken." Ruby said as she made her way to the bathroom.

"I am not saying Blake lied, I am just saying she might be mistaken, that's all." Yang said about to lay down on her bed.

"Yang! Get in here!" Ruby shouted.

"What's the matter Ru-"Yang stopped in her tracks when she saw the bloody shirt laying on the floor and the now red towel. Yang didn't need to ask who the owner of this bloody mess of clothes was, she already knew that they belonged to her partner.

"Blake…" Yang said quietly, she wanted to be angry at her, but at the moment she was just scared that her friend was in danger.

"Yang over here!" Ruby said following the trail of blood back into the room. "I think this is her scroll."

Ruby wasn't quite sure how she missed the pile of cords and small metal pieces laying in the corner of their room but she assumed it was the same reason she didn't notice the blood on the carpet, she was just to tired at the moment to think straight.

"Was she attacked again?" Ruby asked looking back at her sister.

"No. I don't think anyone could get past all of Beacon's new security. She must have done this herself." Yang said grabbing her jacket from her bed.

"Where are you going?" Ruby asked standing up to follow her.

"Blake must be still looking for Weiss. So now I have to go look for her before she get's herself killed." Yang said tiredly looking back at her sister.

"Don't you think we should tell someone what's going on? They might be able to help!" Ruby said almost bumping into the Blonde.

"You can, but I am going after my friends now." Yang said, walking away from Ruby.

Ruby just stood there for a moment thinking about her options, she could tell Ozpin so he could help them search for them, but if the White Fang knew they were looking for them, they might hurt Weiss. No it was probably better to try finding them alone until tomorrow, and if they haven't found them by then she would tell the headmaster.

"Yang wait up, we need to work together!"

"Adam... I know you are there!"

Weiss instantly stopped pulling on the chains holding her to the wall when she heard her girlfriend's voice. That was unquestionably Blake, but Weiss wasn't quite sure why she would be calling out where she was.

Weiss quickly went back to yanking her chains for some small hope that they would break. Sadly all that did was making her skin bloody and raw underneath the shackles. She couldn't hear anything else anymore which worried her more then when she could.

After a few minutes past by Weiss could hear people coming her way, and just like before she stood up fast and dusted herself off waiting for whoever entered the room, silently making a vow to herself that if they hurt Blake she would make sure they paid.

Sure enough when the door opened the first thing Weiss saw was two White Fang members dragging Blake in by they arms, by the look of it Weiss would say her girlfriend was out cold. The soldiers dragging her in didn't look like they were doing very good either, which made the Heiress a little happier thinking that it was probably her girlfriend that gave them their bruises. However when the guard threw Blake down her anger resurfaced, Weiss was sure if she wasn't tied up at the moment she would have launched herself at the men that threw her girlfriend down like she was dirt.

She would have given them an earful if she could, but they were gone before she could get a noise past her parched throat. The monochrome pair were alone in the dark, and the only thing Weiss wished was that she could at least touch her, but Blake was just out of her grasp.

"B-Blake… are you okay?" The heiress asked, worriedly. She still tried to come across as calm, even if she wasn't even close, and when her girlfriend didn't give any sign of response Weiss couldn't help but get even more worried.

"Blake…" Weiss couldn't even tell if she was breathing, it was to dark to really see her now that the door was closed again.

"Please Blake." Weiss said pulling herself as far as the chains would allow.

"Can you hear me?" Weiss said as her arms were stretched to their max, she couldn't even reach her when she tried with her feet.

"Blake… I need you to wake up… We need to do this as a team." Weiss spoke as she fell to the ground herself, all hope of reaching her fading from her mind.

"Fine you lazy faunus you win." She said laying her head as close to Blake's as she could. "I love you, you know? I didn't realize it before, but I know now… I do love you." Weiss said before she closed her eyes waiting for whatever was going to happen next.

After a few moments of silence Weiss was happy to hear her girlfriend breathing, at least now she knew she wasn't dead but sadly she could also tell how hard it was for her to take in air at the moment. Every inhale seemed to be a battle, Blake seemed to be wheezing more then she was breathing and letting the breath go seemed to be just as hard on her body.

"I hope you two had a moment to catch up." Adam voice emanated from the darkness, seemingly having entered the room without Weiss hearing him do so. "I hate when I join in on a conversation only to find out that I interrupted something really important."

"Wow, how did you two even see each other, I can barely see my own hand in front of my face. Let me help with that;" he continued as he turned on the lights to the room, happy at the reaction the Schnee heiress had on her face.

Weiss tried to hide the sound that escaped her mouth when she saw the state Blake was in. When the guards threw her down it looked like her shirt had slid up to her chest, giving Weiss a perfect few of her brushed ribs. Weiss could instantly tell that there was a few broken just by the purple color of her girlfriend's skin. It also looked like she had been stabbed in the lower stomach, judging by the bloodstained bandages around that area.

"I will say she has seen better days." Adam spoke again, bringing Weiss's attention back on him. "When she was my partner she would never have received this kind of abuse. But then again, she wasn't partnered with a Schnee."

"Shut Up!" Weiss yelled as she got up. "You are a disgusting monster!" Weiss was now a foot away for Adam but if it wasn't for the chains she would have collided with him.

"Oh no, I didn't do this to her, this was just my men." Adam said taking hold of Weiss's head with his hands, squeezing tightly. "No, no, no. I won't hurt her at all. You're the one I want."

Weiss tried to shake her head free from his grip but without her hands to pull his off she couldn't do it. So she just stayed still, she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of squirming.

"I am not scared of you." Weiss's words came out a little funny from the force on her face.

"Good, I don't want you to be scared of me little Schnee, I don't want you to do anything. You know why?" Adam said throwing her to the ground. "I don't care about you. I don't care about your money, your white hair, or your last name. You are nothing to me, all you are is an obstacle that my people have to get over to show the word that Faunuses aren't lesser than humans. Sadly for you, not everyone thinks like I do and because of that I am going to have to do terrible things to you. It's funny really the only reason I am going to do this to you is because your name is Schnee.

Weiss couldn't help but look over at her girlfriend but sadly she was still laying there with her eyes closed.

"Oh yes I almost forgot about Blake." Adam said, but this time Weiss didn't take her eyes off Blake. "You know she use to be so polite, she would have never fallen asleep when she was with us. I should probably wake her up."

Weiss wanted to scream at him to get away from her but when she tried to speak she found herself holding it in. if Adam was going to kill her she wouldn't mind saying goodbye to Blake.

Adam pulled what looked to be some kind of smelling salt from his pocket as he bent beside Blake. "Her ears were beautiful weren't they." He said as he broke the capsule in front of her face.

Her eyes popped open from the pain of the breath she took. Blake could feel the dried blood crack apart from her stomach as she exhaled. Once her eyes adjusted to the room and who was in it she tried to sit up only to be stop by Adam putting his hands on her shoulders.

"You're okay you're okay. Calm down Belladonna, no one is going to hurt you… well I'm not, I can't speak for the princess." Adam said with a grin on his face.

"Blake!" Weiss almost yelled trying to move as close to her girlfriend as she could, only being stop by Adam slamming her back down.

"Sorry, you must excuse her. I am told she grew up a little spoiled, she doesn't quite know when to hold her tongue." Adam said walking back over to the heiress. "But it sounds like you already know that."

Blake could still barely move but now that Weiss was in sight she wasn't going to let anything happen to her.

"Adam! Please let her go." Blake said still on the floor.

"Why Belladonna!? Why do you still care about this Schnee? She is the reason you lost your ears, and why you have broken ribs. And you still want me to let her go!" Adam said, looking back down at his ex partner.

"I Lov-"

"Yes I heard you the first time you said it!" Adam said grabbing hold of her arm pulling her to the opposite side of the room where another set of cuffs were waiting for her.

"This little Schnee must be amazing in bed, if she's managed to make you willing to lose it all for her." He said as he tightened the chains.

Making his way back over to Weiss who was now backed up against the wall, Adam couldn't help the smirk on his face. This was the first time he could see the fear in heiress eyes.

"I feel like I am missing out on something. Maybe if you could turn Blake you could turn me."

Weiss could feel the cold of the wall behind her reminding her that there was no were else she could go. All she could do was look forward and hope for the best. 'I am Weiss Schnee I am strong… I am.' She thought to herself as Adam was now face to face with her.

"I guess there is only one way to find out for sure." Adam said as his hand made its way down her face.

"Adam Stop!" Blake said yanking the chains to their full length.

'I am Weiss Schnee… I am strong… I am.' Weiss repeated in her head. As she could feel Adams hands on her body.

"If you move I will kill her." Adam whispered into Weiss's ear as he started to take off her jacket.

Weiss couldn't help the tears that were starting to run down her face slowly, as she looked at Blake who was now screaming at Adam to stop. Weiss couldn't help but Close her eyes.

'I am…Weiss…Schnee…I…..am….'

E/N: OK. I know, I know. I know what you're all thinking, and some of you have even told me, and all I can say is that I'm really sorry, and try and explain a bit what happened. This might be a bit long winded for a note, but you guys deserve more than you've had from me, and at the very least you deserve an explanation.
Firstly, a bit of backstory: I'm currently a student in England, studying physics with the plan to become a teacher after a graduate. Last year would have been my final year of my degree, however there was a rather significant family emergency that I'd rather not go into that required me to spend my time at home for most of the last semester, and so I was unable to complete the course, and had to retake the year this year.
I manage to get through the various hurdles of reapplying for the university without too much trouble, despite being out of the country for a couple of months. However, there was a problem with student finance that they hadn't told me about. In case you don't know, in England student finance will provide you with funding for the length of your course +1 year. Unfortunately I'd already taken my +1 year several years ago after I left school, before dropping out because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. On top of that, my bank changed my account without my knowledge or any prior warning, and i suddenly lost my overdraft. So I was left with -£1300 in my account, and no money coming in, I had literally less than no money. Its taken me this past month to finally get everything sorted, but i got my account and overdraft backon Monday, and the student loan came in yesterday, which means I've been spending my time since trying to cover the various debts I accumulated over this month. So you can hopefully see why I haven't really been in the right state of mind to edit this. And even if and when I was a few times, the only time I really had free to be able to look at this story was on train journeys, but I couldn't because no money means no phone.

Anyway I said it was a long story, but there it is. And now that it's all sorted I should be able to get back in the swing of this now, and hopefully get some semi-regular updates going. I would say regular, but with coursework etc as well as a few other things I still need to sort out, I don't think I can promise regular. I will try my best though.

Once again, I apologize wholeheartedly for this past month or so. You guys, and Jason, deserve far better, and all I can do is try to be worthy of this story again.

See you guys in the next chapter.