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Chapter 60:

Rubbing her eyes, Ruby started to walk towards her dorm door which she opened and just frowned the sight of Weiss. "She isn't here right now Weiss." Ruby said with a calm breath as she began to rub her face. "And if you want to talk I suggest you making it quick. Because my eyes are still killing me."

"Damn it... move aside. I'll wait for her." Weiss said pushing past Ruby as she took a seat on the bed as Ruby walked towards her desk. "And did you actually blind yourself temporarily?"

"Not intentionally. It is like the worst thing to do to yourself. I was just a dummy and didn't flick the face shield down and a single millisecond later I was in nothing but sheer pain. And then for a few days later I was still in immense pain and still am if the lighting changes sharply." Ruby said as she clicked her pen before tossing it back at the wall as she closed the notebook and spun her chair around to just face Weiss fully. "And I wish I could tell you how long Yang is going to be. Last I knew she was going to be at her family's farm. And I have no idea how well dinner went last night because I had a huge panic attack and my Mom and therapist both agreed it was for the best."

"The absolute gall of her... she was just mocking me the other day because I had like two horses... and she grew up on a farm. Does explain where all her monstrous upper body strength comes from. Do you have any idea if she has a lot of animals?" Weiss asked as Ruby simply shrugged her shoulders.

"I haven't been given the full tour really just the driveway and the back door. I know of a dog. Reese would be able to tell you better. She has been there a few times to just crash and talk to Yang... or her Dad. You know how Reese is with people. Especially since we started to date and she stopped being this shy and timid girl that never wanted to ruffle anyone's feathers." Ruby said leaning backwards as Weiss let out some laughter she had been clearly holding in. "Seriously. Reese used to be a goodie two shoes and had never thought about another woman before we got forced to be together for home economics... specifically baking and before you knew it we were making out in my room a few days later. Which years later after I corrupted her; her parents and the nuns words not mine, she is what you see today."

Gently holding her sides as she fell over Weiss just began to take some deep breaths to calm herself down. "You... corrupting people... that is rich." Weiss said as she began to sit up as she regained some composure. "I'm sorry." Weiss said covering her mouth gently. "Just... that doesn't sound like your relationship at all. I mean Reese is a deviant... and you... the worst thing seemingly you can do is keep a library book a day late."

"That is bad though. And as I said to my Mom. You can be a deviant and still have manners." Ruby said as she could see her phone vibrating. "And while I'd love to stay here and continue this brutal assassination of my character but I've got to go I made plans with Reese for a panic attack and because she has been the only woman who has surprised me with a date... I don't know what to expect. And I need to smack her. She decided it was fun to play tricks on me while I was blinded by my awesomeness."

"And a welder. Not to be that girl... but isn't that kind of a man's tool?"

"No, that is normally attached to them and I want nothing to do with." Ruby said as she stood up seeing Weiss just coughing softly. "And a woman can use any tool a man can. Sometimes better. And I mean that in all senses of the word."

"Pretty sure men... or at least most men aren't the type to forget eye protection for welders... plus I'm expected to trust your opinion on men and their penises? You a lesbian who as far as I can tell from you saying it and others you've always had an aversion to men."

"They are gross and oddly hairy and all kinds of nasty. They have zero redeeming factors for the bedroom. As friends they are kind of great. Especially as wingmen. Once they know you are a lesbian you can bond over girls and even help each other out finding them. At least that is what Merc and I do." Ruby said as she down to tie her shoelaces. "And I seriously need to get going Weiss. Reese tends to wander when she is left alone and Pyrrha is probably going to be there which well... you've walked in on me and Reese." Ruby said standing up as she grabbed the blue tinted medical glasses as she began to slip them on she just smiled at the sight of Weiss just eyeing her up carefully. "Don't ask. You'll gag. About the same amount I did when my mom handed them to me. And if you and Yang do anything strange... first aid kit is in the top drawer, Emerald is in her room..."

"Thanks... for being the reason I need therapy."

"Pretty sure the abusive father who self confessed to only marrying your mother for her money and the elevation of his class..." Ruby said as she began to pat her pockets as she looked around just to make sure she had everything. "And therapy isn't that bad. Speaking as someone who has been in it for a long time total." Ruby said as she just smiled as Weiss just glared at her.

"I need to stop telling you things like that if you are just going to throw it in my face."


Smiling as she could see the woman walking into the room, Cinder just had to have a hand under her desk to squeeze her knee so she wasn't going to laugh at the fact that a woman she was going to take the first amount of glee in torturing someone since Ruby called her 'mama' for the first time. It was going to bring her all kinds of joy. The type of joy she often envied Ruby from how she enjoyed every model rocket that she launched.

"Summer Rose... sit down. I'll be honest, I was expecting I'd need to have someone to pick you up. But you've honestly made my day." Cinder said as she stood up to stare at the woman. "It isn't every day you meet someone who is all kinds of dumb."

"Look I know it is foolish of me to try and plead with you... but I need the drugs. You don't get why... but I do."

"Attempted infanticide. Something even when the most hardened of criminals wouldn't do. But more than that you tried to do it on your own biological daughter." Cinder started as she stood up as she walked towards the door. Closing it and locking it, Cinder just had to take some deep breaths to try and calm herself down lest she kill the woman too early. "But I didn't cut you off of your drugs to be cruel... I did it because it was asked of me. You see, when you scratch my back I'll scratch yours. And your step daughter is scratching my back. And while she requested your death and for it to be a slow and painful one... I was originally not going to do it. Even now I might not. Depends how dumb you really are."

"I didn't just attempt it."Summer whispered as she took a deep breath as Cinder placed a hand on her shoulder holding her on the spot in the chair. "And seeing your lovely daughter... I need my stuff."

"Oh you did just attempt it. I know for a fact your little girl didn't parish. She is very much alive. And you aren't ever going to see her again. You might not even live long enough to see the outside world again." Cinder said happily as she just took a deep breath. Out of all the ideas that had been floating in her head, she had to admit that she just wanted to prolong her suffering without revealing who Ruby was. She didn't want to run the risk that she would lose Ruby. No matter how impossible it was. That was the one thing she was glad Salem forced her to go through the correct legal channels to adopt Ruby. "Now I could force you to overdose... that would be a very easy thing for police to believe. Fifteen separate arrests for various crimes. The last two being possession charges. Frankly if your lawyer wasn't good you would have been in jail for a long time."

Feeling her breath catching in her throat Summer just took a deep breath to try and ease the tension before she spoke. "It is your Ruby isn't it..."

Smirking as she took her seat as she leaned back and produced a gun. "Yes. And I promised her all those years ago... I'm never going to let anything happen to her... and if i ever met the woman who has been haunting her nightmares... I'd make sure that she suffers before she passes away." Cinder said as she could see Summer just deflating. "She has lived an ideal life. Never wanting anything and wants nothing to do with her biological family. And believe me. I went looking with next to no information." Cinder said as she produced a file and dropped it in front of Summer. "And then after I talked her down from a massive panic attack from her seeing the one woman that every. Single. Night. Has haunted her nightmares making her wake up in cold sweat was sitting in the dining room... I well, had your DNA tested. Even had the mitochondrial DNA tested. Fun fact that one... it is transferred from mother to child."

"Ruby..."

"One hundred percent match for a child between you and your husband..."

"He didn't know about Ruby..." Summer said as Cinder just smiled shaking her head as she cocked the hammer to the gun back.

"If for a second I thought he did, I would have dragged you and him by your fingertips to the nearest wooded area and made you both dig your own graves so deep your bodies can enter hell before your spirits would. Instead, all I see is an addict who came to my home where my daughter rests her head at night under some wrongful delusion that the infant she killed is the young and powerful woman I adopted from the age of sixteen months. The security I employed tried to subdue her, but she slipped past not before she accidentally got into multiple physical altercations..." Cinder said as she stood up and smiled at Summer. "Fearing for my life, I shot her. But the angel dust she was on wouldn't let her stop. Eventually she escaped and while bleeding will huddle into the area where she tried to kill her daughter, where a mixture of hypothermia and her injuries will lead to her death."

"So you are going to get people in here to torture me!?" Summer yelled as she stood up getting ready to run as Cinder began to laugh.

"I'm not going to let someone else have that satisfaction. That is all mine. Try to run if you want. This room is bomb, sound and bullet proof. The doors are locked. The second you entered this room, you became my bitch." Cinder said as she pointed the gun at Summer and squeezed the trigger as she could see the fact not registering to the woman before the hot red liquid began to run like a river down her leg before she fell over screaming in agony. Placing the gun onto the desk Cinder walked around it before she bent down just outside of Summer's reach as she spoke up again. "I plan to make the next twelve hours of your life... worse than the hell you will be heading to for even thinking about harming a woman like Ruby."


"Ruru. It is going to be fine. Honestly what is some square going to do?" Reese said as she kicked her feet up as she continued to turn a flashlight on and off. Just simply ignoring the glaring that had been coming from Ruby.

"What I tell you I swear can't leave between us Reese. But she is an ex-member of the White Fang." Ruby said as she could see Reese quickly coughing as she turned the flashlight off and tossed it next to Ruby. "And Yes... Mom already knows about that and our date tonight. And she already knows Mom. Apparently they met a few times when we were in highschool." Ruby said as Reese just sat up straight and looked at her.

"And Ashes is okay with that? That sounds like the exact kind of thing that would get her scruff raising as she tries her hardest to protect you. Like what does your Grandmother say?" Reese said as Ruby just smiled as it finally was getting through to Reese that Blake wasn't as boring as she appeared.

"She says that Blake is foolish to believe that the Fang can accomplish anything but fear without a martyr. And that if at any point that Blake brings me into harm's way and onto a White Fang agenda even by accident then she would spend her twilight years wiping the enter race except my uncle out." Ruby said softly before she took a deep breath and began to slouch. "But Sienna is all kinds of not caring about me and knows that my Grandma can easily destroy her world. With worryingly only a slight stain on her conscience." Ruby said as Reese let out a bark of laughter.

"Sorry. It is just... I legitimately think that if you got harmed by Sienna... even tangentially your family would destroy it with not a single ounce of guilt. If anything they'd feel like they did the right thing." Reese said as she just looked at Ruby. "Wait. Go back. Blake... the incredibly cute barista? She is who you are going on a date with? Didn't even know she was a Faunus."

"Yeah... she has cat ears... just hides them. And doesn't really like showing them. People being cruel and such. Hell it is her family that runs the cafe. Hell the founder of the White Fang is Ghira. And he is also Blake's dad..." Ruby said softly as Reese nodded her head gently. "Before you ask, you should feel bad for whatever it is that you are going to ask about."

"Remember when you couldn't read my expressions?" Reese asked rhetorically as Ruby just shook her head. "Anyways yeah she still seems like she is a square and if she knows Ashes... and your grandmother... chances are she is just going to take it safe for the date. Maybe a late night walk... reading a book to you... that boring stuff you are so into that it actually pissed me off a little. I mean why do we need to read something boring like Pride and Prejudice... or Sense and Sensibility... or Persuasion... or Emma... what was with you and I want to say the Bronte sisters."

"What? Not even close. Those are all by Jane Austen, you know someone who lived like a hundred years before the Bronte sisters. And if you recall right three of those four were required reading and you put it off. And it was the night before it had to be done and you were wanting to just go out on some dinner date and willing to do summer school. Which I didn't because I had plans for things we were doing." Ruby countered as she got comfortable and took just a deep breath. "Besides... I like stories. I was just in a romantic story mood those days."

"So boring. That was without a doubt one of the worst things about highschool. So would have rather read something with action... and violence. Like 'The Count of Monte Cristo'... but no. Those nuns were stuck in the past about how all girls wanted to read romantic stories." Reese complained as Ruby just laughed softly. "And this is where you say something that makes zero sense right now and once I'm with Pyrrha and we are in the afterglow, I'm going to want to kill you for making me see a cool story as something that it isn't."

"Romance is a major theme of that story. He literally started his revenge because the love of his life was taken from him after he was imprisoned. And not only that his love for her was so strong even decades after he was imprisoned that he eased up on his revenge by not killing her son." Ruby said as Reese simply stared at her.

"I think you read a different book. That is a favourite of mine and I don't remember any of that... also doesn't sound like my boy Edmond Dontaes." Reese said as Ruby began to laugh. "I'm going to re-read that book just to prove you wrong. That story is about revenge and forgiveness. With like zero romance after the police broke in on the wedding dinner." Reese continued as she had to resist the urge to throw the pillow by her at Ruby who had been hugging her sides she had been laughing as hard. "Feeling less and less bad for pulling tricks on you when you were blind."

"When you realise that I'm right, I'll be waiting for the call."

"Yeah well when I'm right I'm going to call you just to laugh. Now don't you have a date with an ex-terrorist?" Reese said crossing her arms as Ruby looked at her phone.

"I still have two hours. And there is another thing I wanted to talk to you about. What do you know about Yang's step mom? I ask because... she has the same eyes..." Ruby said earning Reese's entire attention.

Author's Note:

And done... was actually a very fun chapter to write.