Roses and Ice

by CrystalEssence

Ruby Rose has always dreamed of attending the famous Beacon Academy. Her dream was to become the very best and prove herself to her peers, but then She met Weiss and her whole world was shaken to its core. WeissxRuby. Will be Alternate Universe for the most part. Rated M for graphic torture in chapter 12. Can skip to chapter 13 if you wish. Thanks for reading!

13. Chapter 13

Dear readers,

I am not surprised by many of your reaction to the most recent chapter of Roses and Ice. I knew it was a risk going in writing a torture scene however if you would I would like to offer up what explanation I can without ruining the ending, which I shall be writing later today and posting this weekend,.. First and for most while Roses and Ice has been a fluffy Romance up until this point there have been several sections where darkness and evil is a theme, for example my description of Arias death which I thought was far worse than any torture, in essence I never intended Roses and Ice to be without that darkness. This story is about overcoming Darkness, at the end of the last chapter Roman had taken Weiss captive and obviously hand very evil intentions for her, I found myself presented with two options, skip the description of the torture and lose some character development for Roman, which I would have to jam in the final chapter, or include the torture in order to give the reader a sense of just how evil and twisted my Roman was as well show that despite it all Weiss will still try and save her friends regardless of how much it will hurt or damage her. Obviously I went with the latter. Now I understand your frustration so allow to me reassure you that this is the only graphic torture scene I have planned in anything I have written for any of my current fanfics, if you would still like to read something much lighter and fluffier I would recommend Love n Stuff and My final Judgment day (Skip chapter 1). Now I would like to conclude with this, if you want to read the chapter for what it is thank you for giving it a chance. However if Torture is not something you want to read you can skip chapter 12 entirely when the real chapter 13 comes out. I apologize to the readers that have left this story due to my "ruining" it for them.

Thank you for coming this far

~Crystal Essence

P.S if this wasn't adequate enough please feel free to PM me and I shall discuss in full why I felt Weiss had to be tortured, however these include story spoilers so I will not discuss them here.