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Yang's PoV

"Weiss!?"

Nothing.

All I can hear is the static coming from the other end. I had called several times and waited for Weiss to pick up. No one did though. The last noise I heard her make was a surprised gasp than nothing. So many thoughts run through my head faster than a speeding bullet. Fear swelled up inside me quicker than someone can pour a cup of coffee. And what made it worse is that I can do nothing about it. I'm sitting on the other line with no harm done to me while she could be kidnapped or taken somewhere. Gods, I can't deal with those thoughts right now.

"Yang… are you awake again?" The groggily and yet still squeaky voice of my sister echoes through the air, pulling me back into real time.

I have been blankly staring at my phone for the last couple of minutes, trapped inside the screen like a spell had been casted on me. Ruby broke that though. "Hm? Oh…, yeah Rubes, I'm awake."

The last couple of weeks I've been getting shitty sleep and Ruby easily found out one time when I had a nightmare that I was at Weiss' funeral. The dream is vivid just thinking about it sends a shiver down my spine. Now Ruby wakes up every night and checks on me, sometimes staying to sleep with me. I tell her we can share the bed, but she said the spot is for someone else. I didn't know whether to tell her that's dumb or respectful. All in all, it's just a bed.

Ruby shuffles across the room, her feet dragging against the floor. I expected her to crawl into Weiss' spot and simply wait until I fell back asleep. Instead, she crawls right into my arms.

"Okay, spill!" She demands.

I bite the inside of my cheek and drop my phone onto the nightstand. "I was just on the phone with Weiss when the call flatlined. I'm worried, Ruby. I worried that someone is doing something to her and I'm stuck on the other side, safe." Ruby listens to every word quietly. "I should probably call the police."

"I think you are overreacting Yang," Ruby says quietly. "You probably had a bad connection. Or there was a bad storm and the power cut out."

"No. no, it wasn't like that Ruby," I mutter. "She gasped like she was surprised like she was… found out… "At that moment something clicked in my brain. "My gods. Weiss' stepdad found I-I was talking to her on the phone and just flipped out. He didn't want me around her. Th-that if I were anywhere near her he… he would come for me an-and-"

Ruby grips a shoulder. "Woah, woah, woah! Yang slow down!"

"It's just like Jacques all over again," I mutter. "She… she could be getting beaten or… or… or worse." The swelling panic rises and continues to rise. My scar itches and burns.

"Yang? Yang! Yang, stop!" Ruby grabs my shoulders and shakes me. "You need to stop." She whimpers. "...It's been getting worse, hasn't it? Your scar. Ever since you left Weiss at the hospital you've been in a downward spiral and I thought that the texting would help you, but it's not."

I'm baffled by Ruby's words. She's been observing me for the last couple of week. Shame joins the mix of fear in my chest. "I thought you wouldn't notice."

Ruby slugs me in the arm weakly. "Well I did and it's hurting me too! It hurts me to see you like this, Yang."

"I know. I just…" There is no excuse for me to give. Ruby has me cornered and now it's either fight or give up. There is no need for a fight though. I've already lost anyway. "I'm sorry, Ruby. I was scared. I'm still scared and I don't know what to do."

"It's okay to be scared, Yang," Ruby says quietly. "But it's not okay to be alone and scared. We're sisters, Yang. We tell each other these things so we don't feel trapped or alone."

"I know. I just… didn't want to scare you." I mutter shamefully.

"Well, you failed at that."

"Yeah, I guess I did."

There is a pregnant silence between us. I haven't figured out if it's good or not though. It's okay if Ruby is upset. If she's mad that I didn't tell her. That's how I would respond anyway. Then Ruby pulls me into a hug… it's more like she pulled herself into this hug, but a hug is a hug.

"Don't you ever do this to me again." Ruby whimpers. "Don't hide something from me when you know I can help."

She wants to help me so much, but I don't know if she can. Dice has threatened me and doing gods knows what to Weiss right now. What I do know is that sleep isn't going to happen now that I can't get my mind off of Weiss. Ruby must have noticed my scared and worried expression through the dark because she tells me to stop.

"Seriously. You're going to worry yourself to death." Ruby grumbles into my neck. "She's going to be fine."

"How do you know?" I ask.

Another pregnant silence. "Let's just say I have a good feeling about it."

"Oh, because every time you have this good feeling makes the situation okay." It's an annoyed grumble. Harsh on my end, but I hate it when she says she has this feeling about a situation and she halfway right about it. In my opinion that saying or phrase or whatever it is cursed beyond oblivion and no one will convince me otherwise.

"It was one time!" Ruby yelps. "How was I supposed to know there was a strip club downstairs!"

"I think those were gay feelings talking to you because all the strippers were girls," I say in an irritated yet teasing tone. "I mean the sign said you must twenty-one or older. Half our group was not allowed in there, we did it anyway."

Ruby curls her lip into a pout. "I didn't think much of it at the time." She grumbles.

I wrap my arms around, giggling lightly. "Thanks, Ruby… for cheering me up."

Ruby squeezes me lightly. "No problem. After all, what are sisters for."

"Yeah," I say softly. "What are sisters for."

For the rest of the night, Ruby sleeps with me, keeping me company and scaring away the nightmares. I guess the rules of protecting your sibling changes sometimes.

Ruby falls back asleep in my arms, but I stay awake, staring off into the darkness. The way Weiss gasped, she sounded so shocked and surprised. I can't get it out of my head. I hated it. Gods, please. Please! Be okay Weiss.

I don't remember falling asleep, I also don't remember what descent sleep felt like either. The warm orange-yellow sunlight slips through the curtains spilling onto the floor as I slowly pulled open my eyes. Ruby had already gotten up and is most likely making breakfast for us in the kitchen. My body feels so relaxed and my mind is geared up and ready to go. I haven't felt this way in a long time.

"Yang! Breakfast is ready!" Ruby yells from the kitchen. "You better be up or I'll come in there and pour ice cold water on you!"

"I'm up!" I answer, swinging my legs out to the side of the bed, standing up, and stretch my tired muscles. Stretching after sleeping has become a natural thing for me, but every once a while I forget to. Hey, I'm only human okay.

After throwing on some clean clothes and fixing my hair, I head towards the kitchen. The scent of bacon and eggs did not overcome my scenes of smell. Milk and a cereal box sat on the counter alongside a bowl and spoon. Ruby had already made hers and is sitting down eating happily.

"Did you sleep better?" She asks when I come into view.

I pour my cereal then the milk and dip the spoon in. "Yeah. I had a much better sleep last night. Thanks for the help, Rubes." Taking a seat next to my baby sister, I dig into the sugary flakes.

Ruby slurps up her milk and looks at me. Creamy white milk sat on top of her lip. She wiggles her nose. "Look, Yang! I'm professor Port!"

"You're Professor doofus that what you are," I say before taking another bite of cereal.

Ruby frowns. "You're just jealous that I look better than you."

"Yeah, for once in your life." I shot back.

"Oh, ha ha. I bet you can't even pull off a milk mustache like I can." The brunette says proudly while jamming a thumb into her chest.

I take my last bite of cereal and turn to Ruby. With the straightest face I can muster, it's hard to because I'm gay, I gulp down the sweet milk but making sure I have some left on my upper lip. Ruby eyes me for a moment before sighing in defeat.

A smirk tickles my lips as I wipe the extra milk away. "You underestimate me, Ruby. Now go get ready for school. It starts in thirty minutes."

Ruby groans and begs me to let her skip today. I asked and she said they had some stupid test in professor Peach's class. I tell her she has to face up to these stupid tests and suffer like everyone else. Besides she would be postponing the inevitable to tomorrow anyway. She gives me a sour look before marching off to her room. I take Ruby's and my bowl, rinse them off and put them in the dishwasher.

Ruby leaves fifteen minutes later and I am left to wonder the penthouse on my own. I have two hours before classes start for me which means I have two hours of doing whatever the hell I want. It may sound fun at first, but there isn't much to do around here. There isn't much to watch on t.v. and if I get too engrossed in a book I'll want to finish it in one sitting. So the only thing I can do is go hang out in my room which also doesn't have much to do in there either.

The room is warmer and more inviting than the last time. I search for something to entertain me for the next two hours, but nothing really stands out. Until my eyes landed on Weiss' school bag of course. It's wrong to go through other peoples stuff, yeah, but I wasn't thinking about that at the time.

I remember the binder full of drawings she has which peaks my interest. "I wonder if she has any drawings of me."

There's only one way to find out.

I step over to the lone bag and rummage through her stuff. It doesn't take me long to find the white binder full of drawings and sketches falling out of it. Some old, some new, some I've never seen before, and some that I can easily recognize. One that stuck out to me was a picture of the two of us sitting in a park. She, me, and Ruby sat on a bench while Jaune, Nora, Ren played frisbee, Pyrrha standing on the sidelines. Sun was propped up against a tree and Blake and Ilia seem to be talking to him. Neptune sat at his boyfriend's feet messing with his phone. The top right corner had New Friends written in nice and fancy handwriting.

"Woah." I breathe. The artwork easily took my breath away. "I got to remember to tell Weiss she's an awesome artist.

One particular drawing stuck out to me. It looked like a comic panel. I plucked it out to see several pages that were like this. Some looked half finished or simply sketched out. Not much work has been done, but it still looks really interesting to me. And beautiful.

"She's been drawing a comic," I mutter in awe. "That's perfect for her."

I read through the first couple pages. The main character, a girl that looks very similar to Weiss, is rushed to what must be an escape pod of some sort. A man frantically types coordinates on a nearby screen and a mirror that is glossed over with a bubbly color, forms. The girl is shot through and the portal closes. She crash lands in this huge forest. And I don't mean the tree go on and on forever, no the tree was huge as in hundreds of feet huge.

I push the page aside to read the next one, but that's as far as Weiss has gotten for now. I don't blame her for not getting far. She always says drawing and sketching takes a lot of free time. There are several character designs that go with the comic strips. One character to very similar to Ruby, another reminds me of Blake, and another one looked like I was staring at myself in the mirror. That's when it clicked for me.

Weiss was making a comic about us.

A huge smile nearly split my face in two when I pick up the next piece of art. Weiss sent a picture of this art to me a month ago. Me, smiling happily, a tiny version of Weiss in my breast pocket with an offset crown and a sheepish smile on her face.

I set the picture aside and pluck another one. It had a sketch of two people with no detail. One holding its hand out and another it the first one's hand, sitting. Now I one hundred percent know what this is. Weiss got this idea from me because I kept calling her small or short or pocket princess. I can't believe she got this idea from me. That's so awesome!

I kept going through the many sketches she had for this comic. Weiss has some pretty ideas for this. "I got to remember to grab all of her stuff before I graduate."

It makes me sad to know that Weiss won't be at my graduation. Then again I don't want her to sit there for three hours just to hear my name be announced and to walk across the stage and get my degree. We'll have to sit through several speeches then throw our hats in the air and leave afterward. Sounds like fun.

I gather up all the papers and put them back in the binder then put that back in the bag. There is still so much time to kill and I have nothing to kill it with except fiddle with my phone or flip through the channels on the t.v. Neither of those sound appealing to me.

"I knew I shouldn't have sent Shallow back to Patch," I grumble. She was only supposed to stay at home for the weekend, but Ruby and I were emotionally unstable at the time. I guess I could get ready for school or go eat more cereal. Because those two things will entertain me for the next hour and forty-five minutes.

"My gods of Remnant! I'm so bored!" I grumble. "Mindless t.v. and phone time wins again."

After burning my brain out with stupid t.v. and internet time on my phone, I finally go to class. I take a seat next to Sun and Neptune. Pyrrha didn't sit too far in front of us. If I knew she was coming to class today then I would have sat by her.

Pyrrha is still struggling with the loss of Jaune, we all are, but she's on a different level of struggle. It worries me to see her like this. So down and defeated for the last couple of weeks. What makes it worse is that Pyrrha told Jaune's parents what happened by herself. I should have been there as support, but she didn't want anyone else to come with her.

Sun leans over, asking. "How is she doing?" He must have caught me staring at Pyrrha. Why else would he ask that question?

I shrug. "I don't know. We haven't talked much since I told her about Jaune's death. Ruby says she keeps an eye on her though."

"Well, that's good," Sun replies.

Then Neptune chimes in. "Have you heard from Penny or Weiss in the last couple of days?"

"Weiss is… okay, and I haven't heard from Penny." I'm unsure of how Weiss is doing actually, but I don't want my friends to worry about her too right now. We all are still healing and not knowing if Penny is okay is enough salt on the wound.

The bell rings and Professor Port begins to talk about his telltales. They're interesting enough to keep half the class awake, but that's about it. For an older man, he has a vivid memory. Port always says his mind is a steal even though he forgets to give us our test half the time. I'm not complaining though and I'm sure no one else is either.

After Port finished his telltale that has nothing to do with what we are learning, he tells us to get out our books turn to page two hundred and six. We all groan but do it anyway.

Once Port's class ended, I rushed to catch Pyrrha before she disappears for the rest of the day. I decided during class that I would talk to Pyrrha to see how she's been holding up. Pyrrha though doesn't wait for anyone and rushes off to her next class.

"Pyrrha, wait!" I call out, but she ignores me and dashes out the door. "Damnit."

Sun comes up to me and claps a hand on my shoulder. "She'll talk to us when she's ready."

I look over my shoulder. "You could be right, but I feel like she's pushing us away. Does she not know we're here for her?"

Sun shrugs and lets go. I head to Doctor Oobleck's class next where Blake and Ren are waiting for me somewhere close in the front. They had saved a seat for me in between them.

"Ruby told me you had problems sleeping again last night," Blake mutters. "You can always call, you know."

"Yeah, but we all have stuff that we need to worry about and I shouldn't be one of them, Blake," I reply, before Turning to Ren. "How is she?"

He sighs strongly. "Nora is doing better, but Pyrrha… she is still a wildcard."

"She only seems to be talking to your sister," Blake says

"They have been hanging out together a lot lately," Ren adds. "It makes you wonder what they're doing."

I think for a moment. "Ruby does know Pyrrha better than anyone else. She may be helping Pyrrha ease the pain."

The bell rings which causes our little group to fall silent for a couple of minutes. Once the lesson starts, Blake slides me a small slip of paper with a note on it. Do you think they are getting back together?

The question nearly makes my eyes pop out of my sockets. I never thought of Pyrrha and Ruby getting back together. It makes sense too! Than again Ruby could just be there for Pyrrha and nothing else.

I write back. I don't know. If they are, would that be okay? I slide the paper back to the raven-haired girl. We do this throughout the class period and we even got Ren involved too! He says it highly likely for the two to get back together. That it may have started out a comfort for each other and that it grew into something else. Something more emotional. Blake and I don't fully agree on what Ren has said. It is a good theory though. One that I would like to confirm or bust.

The rest of the day drags on slowly like every other day. I try to hunt down Pyrrha to talk to her, to tell her that I'm, and her friends, are here to help. No luck again and I come home feeling terrible. I flip down on my bed and try to think about any good that has come out of this day.

Pyrrha has been avoiding me and everyone is struggling to get through the rest of the school. I even lost all contact with Weiss! How is she supposed to tell me that someone is coming to get me in three to four months?

I blink a couple times when I reminded myself that someone is coming to get me. I pull out the calendar on my phone to see when this person will come.

After the school year is over, they will come around the beginning of July or beginning of August. Can I make it that long? Yes! I give myself a pep talk about making it through the rest of the year. I tell myself that I can't worry about anyone else right now. That if they want to be stuck in the past and decide not the keep moving forward than that is their choice, but I'll keep putting one foot in front of the other until I reach my goal. And Weiss is my goal.

"I can do this! I can wait four months." I tell myself. "I can through all this."

These next few months are going to be more painful than any boxing workout, but I can do it. I can do it.

A month later.

One month after graduating from Beacon, Ruby and I moved back to Patch for the summer. I've gotten no response from Weiss and I've heard nothing about Penny. I worry that Weiss has forgotten about me. That she's too engrossed in getting back on her feet that it's the only thing she's thinking about. I send her a text every day to see if I can get a response from her and every day I get no reply. I haven't given up though.

It also seems like Qrow and his special mission have disappeared into oblivion as well. Not a word has come from him since the day of the wreck and it has me questioning what is going on. He may be hiding something again. At this point, I don't care.

"Yang, it's time to Get up!" Summer calls from downstairs.

"Okay!" I yell back. Even if I would like to stay in bed all day I can't. Today is chores day and I can't have Ruby doing all of my chores for me. That'd be unfair. I roll out of bed and get ready for the day.

Summer made pancakes this morning. Ruby is at the table already scarfing down her share of fluffy golden circles. Dad is nowhere to be seen though. Summer hands me a plate and I dish myself some food. Then I take a seat to Ruby and begin to dig in.
"So where is dad?" I ask before shoving a fork full of fluffy pancake in my mouth.

"Tai got a call from the station and had to check it out." Summer replies. "Oh, and a man called late last night. He said he wanted to talk to you. You were asleep of course so I told him to call back later."

This catches my attention and I set down the fork. "What did he say?" I ask with curiosity.

"Not much," Summer shrugs. She pulls out chair, sits, and beings to eat. "Except that he wanted to talk to you."

Several questions run through my head. Who is this man? What does he want? Why does he want to talk to me? I thought I would have to wait a while for these questions to be answered. The doorbell rings and I am pulled from my thoughts. The three of us eye each other before Summer gets up to answer the door.

She opens the door and greets whoever is there. Ruby goes back to eating her breakfast. I am more interested in the person that Summer is talking to. I get up from my chair and head to the front door.

"Excuse me, but do we know you?" Summer asks.

"No, but my granddaughter knows Yang very well." An old gruff voice declares. His words are like music to my ears and I, gently, push past Summer to see who it is. The old man standing at the door is wearing a pure white suit and red tie. An old wrinkly hand grips his cane and the smile on his face is one of the sweetest things I've seen.

"Ah, you must be Yang, the young lady that captured my little snow angel's heart." The man sticks out a hand for me to shake. "I'm Nicholas Schnee. Founder of the Schnee Electric Company and grandfather to-"

"Weiss." I'm baffled. Completely and utterly baffled. "Wh… what? Why… how do you know me?"

"Weiss told me everything about you." He says. "From the first time you two met to the first you two kissed."

I become hot faced. Weiss told him everything!? I think I'm going to die of embarrassment.

"Why are you here, then?" Summer asks.

"That's simple." He simply says. "I'm here to take Yang back to Atlas." Summer raises a brow, questioning the older man. "Weiss has been miserable in the last two months, but I strongly believe your daughter can fix that." Summer's jaw tenses, eyes narrowing in on the man. She's thinking. Weighing chances. "Your daughter will be safe, Miss Rose, I promise."

"Please, mom." I plead. "I need to see her."

Summer continues to think, eyeing the man carefully. "If you are going to Altas. I want a phone call when you land."

It takes my brain a moment to comprehend what Summer said. She agreed. She agreed! The voice in my head scream. "Yes! Thanks, Mom!" I squeeze Summer with the biggest hug I've ever given then turn to Mister Schnee and asking when we are leaving?

"Right now."

Right now!?

"I will give you time to pack up." Mister Schnee says, which calms my nerves ever so slightly. I'm just so excited to see her again. "Oh, and do bring a swimsuit."

I can barely hold my excitement and dash upstairs to pack my things. Shoving everything I need in a bag throwing Weiss' backpack over my shoulder, I come back downstairs ready to go. Summer says her goodbye and Ruby tells me to check up on Penny when I can. I tell them I love them and that I'll call as soon as I can. We get in a small black car and leave for the airport where a jet is waiting for us. The ride is smooth, but not smooth enough to keep me calm.

By the time we land, it's night in the Atlas. My guess is that it's around one in the morning maybe later. A young man waits for us next to a black car. The same kind back in Patch.

"Welcome back Mister Schnee." The man says as he opens the door for the two of us.

"Thank you, Julius." The man, Julius helps Mister Schnee into the car and takes my bags.

I thank him and climb in after Mister Schnee. He informs me that Dice is away on business and won't be back for two weeks. He also says Weiss has been pushing herself to get better and will most likely be asleep.

It doesn't take long to arrive at the Schnee manor. It's huge! With a gate and fountain in the front and a house that is brighter than a Christmas tree. The car comes to a stop and I let myself out. "Woah," I breath. "How do you guys not get lost in there?"

"We hand out maps to our guests so they don't get lost." Mister Schnee says jokingly. "Eh, Klein will take you up to Weiss' room and don't worry about your bags. Julius will get them."

Klein comes walking down the steps. "How are you, Miss Xiao-Long?"

"I'm good. In fact, I'm great." I exclaim with a broad smile.

"That's wonderful." Klein smiles. "Now could you please follow me."

Klein and I make our way through the manor, up one or two flights of stairs and down a long hall before stopping in front of a bedroom door. My heart is pounding in my ears I'm so excited. Klein warns me to be quiet when I enter. "She's been getting terrible nightmares in the last few months so try to be quiet. Weiss doesn't need to be waken."

I nod in understanding and enter the room. It's a bigger room mine and Ruby's easily. The small lamp light helps me see the little lump in the bed. Klein quietly shuts the door behind me as I approach the bed which is big enough to fit at least four people in it. I slowly climb into the bed, happy that I wore basketball shorts and a t-shirt. A short moan comes from the sleeping girl. She turns her head to face me but doesn't wake up. I exhale slowly and lay on my back, finding Weiss' cold hand and holding it in mine. I plant a kiss on her forehead before relaxing into the pillowy mattress and stare at the ceiling blankly until I fall asleep.

So, this chapter is kind of all over the place. I've been having writer block with this chapter so I kind of just pushed through it. It came out a little better than I had excepted. Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, or not which is fine. Leave some criticism that always helps. Like, comment, subscribe and I'll see you guys later! BYE!