Welp... I got nothing... got some coffee, got some scary true stories playing in my ears. Let's get this done.
Chapter 29:
Ruby couldn't believe that she was getting forced to take a drug test that was the old fashion way, by going to the hospital. Her parents didn't trust her ever since she she scored positive on one of the drug tests. Even though the other two were negative. They wouldn't even listen to her 'false' positive claims.
So now she was plagued with trying to figure out how to make this test score that negative. She couldn't tamper with her sample, because she had no idea how it was going to be tested. For all she knew she could accidentally make one of them test positive for a different drug.
She looked up to see a doctor presenting her a plastic cup and lid. She had to think fast, if she wanted to keep her parents in the dark. She knew that once that test came back positive, they would search the house top to bottom and eventually once they figure out one of Ruby's hiding places, she would lose all their trust and her pull power over them.
"Fill it up, screw the cap on, and bring it back out so we can take a blood sample." The nurse spoke as Ruby took the cup and walked towards the bathroom. Only stopping at the door, letting the words sink in. "Why the two separate samples? That just seems redundant."Ruby asked, looking just over her shoulder at the nurse.
"Your parents demanded we test for drugs every possible way. We won't take much. Don't worry." She said as Ruby gripped the plastic cup tighter. That made her problem two fold. Now it was only a matter of time before they found her track marks and at least one test comes back positive.
Once the door closed behind her, she clicked the lock into place and slammed the her fist onto one of the tiles. For once she was actually glad that she felt numb. She knew that would have hurt a lot more than a slight stinging pain radiating from her knuckles and up her arm. She pulled her fist away from the wall to observe the damages to the wall and relaxed because it seemed like there was no damage to the tile.
"Come on Ruby... you need to think of a way... when these come back positive... I'm not going to be able to leave the fucking house again without someone to be within five feet of me..." Ruby spoke softly, knowing that this was ultimately her fault. She let it slip to Yang, who she knew would never keep that to herself once she broke through her door to find no one inside.
Not to mention that the confidence she developed from the drug tests coming back largely negative. Literally two thirds of them were negative. And yet they still didn't trust her. There was a knock coming from the door followed by the a slightly irate voice. "Come on miss! Others need the bathroom, and I assume you don't want to spend your Saturday here!"
"One minute!" Ruby yelled back. She was already angry and this nurse wasn't going to help her mood, nor her ability to figure a way out. She couldn't even text Weiss to see if she could think of a way.
Sighing she walked over to the toilet and pulled her pants and panties down so she knew the main urine tests for drugs, while fast, she could easily make a false positive. All she had to do, was take some of the pills in the cabinet a couple of days after. it would be hard, but she could at least cast doubt on these tests.
Ruby frowned as She was the only one forced to stay on the couch, as Pyrrha, Blake and Sun stood facing her. Clearly angry at her actions. The hoodie she would much rather be wearing tossed next to her as the new mark on her arm was the what had been causing Pyrrha to do a number of mental back flips trying to figure out what was happening.
Ruby claimed that she didn't shoot up, but that small, almost unnoticeable mark on her arm spoke different. If Pyrrha Was being honest, she was furious and even debated to kick Ruby out there. But she didn't display any of the signs like she had used. But what Sun said, what Ruby handed over that night was only a small portion of what she had. For all Pyrrha knew she could have found another place to inject and had been slowly doing shooting up in increasing amounts.
It would have made sense, the longer time progressed, instead of realising she didn't want to shoot up, instead she had grown more and more likely to break and shoot up. Pyrrha knew that Ruby often has gotten closer and closer to breaking.
"Look, I have no idea how many times I need to say that I'm sorry. Because I am... I just couldn't stand being there... it felt crushing, and while it relaxed up until Yang started to talk, and then I just snapped. I ran to a different building, went to the roof, got a syringe ready... and someone who keeps calling me her friend because I gave her advice like a month ago made some sense. After she left I stuck my arm, and was about to push down, when what she said started to ring in my mind. So I took it out and even brought it here."Ruby said gesturing to the single, filled needle resting on the coffee table.
She felt like she did the right thing by coming back and talking to Pyrrha, but she felt like they had amassed an entire army against her. "Red... I talked to Adam... he gave you personally a brick two weeks ago. Where is the rest?" Sun asked calmly, not that he was trying to seem like the nicer option out of the three, but he also knew that he could be the only one to know how much she truly got.
"In Pyrrha's toilet, and the light fixture of nearly every room but the kitchen." Ruby spoke pulling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them as sun walked off, Blake walked off, to where she assumed would be to collect everything she could of Ruby's hidden stash.
"By the way Red, right now, the only dealer you can buy from if you were to fall off the wagon is Cinder, and word on the street is, she isn't calling off any debt you have or will have." Sun spoke as Ruby looked up at him. Slightly mad that he had done something like that. But knew if she was to stay clean that, that shouldn't matter to her. She just didn't like getting boxed off like that.
Pyrrha looked at Ruby and began to rub her face out of annoyance. She couldn't believe Ruby had gotten under her skin, even accidentally like she was. She was angry at not only at Ruby for all she knew was high and made another syringe to fill her story but also at herself for letting her gaze off of her and she ran. She still remembers what Blake said about Ruby at the start being manipulative. Not that Pyrrha was surprised by that. But knew that was nothing that would end with her getting clean.
"Ruby." Pyrrha started handing the syringe to the blonde man and took a seat on the coffee table trying to get the girls attention and not make her feel attacked. Almost as if she was dealing with a child. Ruby looked at the redhead, and could see a hurt expression on her face. Unsure of why it had made her feel a lot more guilty than she should feel.
"We aren't doing one of the fast tests. We are going to head to the hospital now, and you are getting your blood tested if you wish to stay here and get my help. As well as the rules are going to be harsher. I thought that a simple rule like, I don't want you to wear long sleeved clothes when no one is around would be enough... but after tonight that is clearly wrong."
The contempt in her voice was clear. It almost pained Pyrrha, but she had to be clear about why she was doing it. Not to mention that she also had to have Ruby make this choice herself. Just like getting clean. She had to want it. What others wanted didn't matter.
Ruby took a gulp and spoke up again, "What kind of conditions?"
"Same as before, except if I'm going to be gone for more than five hours, which is almost any given day, you will have someone here as well. After each meeting, you will turn out your pockets. And submit to weekly tests. If someone can't make it, you will be brought to someone's house so they can watch you. The conditions will change depending on time passed and number of the conditions broken." Pyrrha spoke in an acerting tone, she didn't want to startle Ruby, but wanted to make sure it was clear that she wasn't going to be as relaxed as she had been.
"Deal then."
Ruby crossed her arms, furious at her dad's rant about what is right and wrong in the world, along with demanding her to reveal everything like who gave her her first hit, and where she got heroin, and so on and so on. She was getting tired of the entire situation.
They had been taking turns to yell at her for a solid hour, she didn't even care about that. She was more concerned about the fact she was coming down and she knew that if she shot up, they would find one of her stashes. She already knew that they could find the easy to find ones. They weren't going to find the ones she had in a hollowed out part of her bed frame. Or the hidden stash hidden inside her tv.
"Dad, despite the hilarious hypocrisy in what you are preaching, I'm heading to bed. It is late. I may be suspended from school, but I still have college. So if you want to record the rest of this, so I can play it back in the morning, it sounds like this conversation is over." Ruby demanded as she stood up. Ignoring the half hearted glare from her father.
"What is hypocritical about me wanting to know where the fuck you are getting this... this... this poison!" Tai demanded as Ruby began to stretch in her spot. "Please, a speech about morality from a womaniser like you? The only way that could become any richer is if I cheat on people. So until then, bye kettle, by the way your black." Ruby didn't see the need to hide being direct right now. They found out she shoots up, and not only that, they found out she keeps some in a hollowed out encyclopedia.
She could see anger develop in his eyes, but she also knew that he would never act on that anger. Just from how she would destroy him, and get free from what little control they had over her. She knew she could press harder, something she was tempted to do. And even then that temptation grew with each of the passing seconds.
"So, if you want to be a good father, hate to break it to you, it starts with not cheating on my mom, and making her help raise your bastard daughter, and certainly doesn't involve your legitimate daughter needing to shoot up a large amount of heroin just so she doesn't debate deepthroating a gun barrel to deal with unnatural standards you guys have. Now go and care for your wife and see if she can stop acting like I'm dead. It is just a type of morphine." Ruby began walking towards the door to get out of the living room.
She could feel him wanting to stop her. "Oh right... the concept of monogamy is foreign to you... she is the only person you are meant to be involved with... you know... since two years before Yang." Ruby quipped, not even looking over her shoulder. She knew that did it's job and cut him deep enough to end the conversation for a while.
As she climbed the stairs she could see Yang in her room desperately searching still, like her parents asked her to do a few hours ago. Causing Ruby to smirk a little. She hadn't even found a single ounce of her precious
"Yang, I'm heading to bed. Kindly get the fuck out of my room." Ruby demanded seeing the blonde getting startled, clearly not expecting her. "Dad is going to need someone to patch up me emasculating him, and my mom is still crying. So you can get on that. You are the one to cause this after all." Ruby said as the blonde began to stand and walk out of her room, pulling herself to the wall as Ruby wasn't going to budge, and slipped past.
"Oh tell him if he still has some pride left, his only legitimate daughter not only outsmarted him, but made him seem like the definition of a moot person." Ruby said to Yang as she walked into her room, turning around, still wanting to close her door. She wanted to hurt Yang as well. She saw it as the only fair thing to do. Yang hurt her family, she should be able to hurt Yang as well.
Once Yang began to walk down the stairs Ruby kicked her shoes off and climbed into her bed. Laying on her stomach, she faced the wall and carefully lowered her hand in case someone was snooping and began to feel around a part of the frame knowing Yang didn't find it. She smiled as she reached into the hollow compartment and smiled as she felt the items still inside there.
'Just got to get through tonight and I'll be able to shoot up tomorrow with Weiss... and she'll find this situation funny as well.'
Author's Note:
Well, this is getting amusing, Pyrrha is cracking down on Ruby... only a matter of time now before, White finds out... now onto procrastination with Blue Dragon...
