Elysium
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY.
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Missing someone gets easier every day because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.
-Various
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i couldn't take it couldn't stand another minute
couldn't bear another day without you in it
all of the joy that I had known for my life
was stripped away from me the minute that you died
to have you in my life was all i ever wanted
but now without you I'm a soul forever haunted
can't help but feel that i had taken you for granted
no way in hell that i can ever comprehend this
i wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone
i was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong
how could you leave me when you swore that you would stay
now i'm trapped inside a nightmare every single fucking day
it's like a movie but there's not a happy ending
every scene fades black and there's no pretending
this little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well
theres no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell
i know you didn't plan this
you tried to do what's right
but in the middle of this madness
i'm the one you left to win this fight
red like roses
fills my head with dreams and finds me
always closer
to the emptiness and sadness
that has come to take the place of you
i know you're broken down by anger and by sadness
you feel I left you in a world that's full of madness
wish i could talk to you if only for a minute
make you understand the reasons why i did it
i wanna tell you that you're all that ever mattered
want you to know that for eternity i'm shattered
i tried so hard just to protect you but i failed to
and in a prison of abandonment i've jailed you
i never planned that i would leave you there alone
i was sure that i would see you when i made it back home
and all the times I swore that it would be okay
now i'm nothing but a liar and you're thrown into the fray
this bedtime story ends with misery ever after
the pages are torn and there's no final chapter
i didn't have a choice I did what I had to do
i made a sacrifice but forced a bigger sacrifice on you
i know you've lived a nightmare
i caused you so much pain
but baby please don't do what i did
i don't want you to waste your life in vain
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Take. That. Back.
If she were a faunus, she'd snarl and show her fangs no matter how small. If she had her baby, she'd whip out Crescent Rose in a flash. As it is, silver eyes harden with resolve and certainty. Whatever was left in the song is irrelevant. There's no point in letting it finish.
Jaune did not die in vain.
He'd spent his life badly, but in the end he spent it saving people- even himself, in a sense. And people mattered- again, even himself. But he didn't sacrifice himself because he had to- he had stopped hiding behind an excuse of inability or lack of alternatives- but because he chose to. That might be lamentable, she might mourn, but it's not something that would throw her into life-shattering despair.
Not anymore. Not when she would have made the same choice herself. This song, it may have been true for her once, when she was a little girl and her world revolved her Mother, but it's not now. She's a big girl now. Jaune is not, was not, and never would have been the defining facet of her life. That wasn't what he was to her.
That's not Jaune, in any sense. That's not the boy who never promised her it would be alright, but who let her free to try and do so herself. That's not her, not anymore. There's no reason to remember the rest of the haunting lyrics. Those words don't bind or define her- not anymore.
This song? It's worse than not quite right.
It's outright wrong.
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"I won't do that, Yang."
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Author Notes:
(It's alright to hope, you know.)
