Yang spoke for the first time in an hour. "I need to know for sure," Yang whispered, hand easing off the handle of the door to their dorm. She turned to face Ruby, and Ruby could immediately discern the disconcerted emotions in the dimly lit edges of her face. "The man you're seeing is who you told me in the streets an hour ago?"

Ruby nodded. "Yes, it's him."

Yang drew a shaky breath. "I need time to process this-figure out what I need to do."

"What does that mean?" Ruby felt something tear in her heart at the thought of Roman being given up to the police.

Stretching her jaw, Yang let her head fall back. A moment later she looked back to Ruby. "I love you, and this isn't going to change that. Just remember that."

"Yang, I-" Ruby reached out towards her sister.

She held her hands up. "I'm not saying I'm gonna go turn him in. It just means that when push comes to shove, I'm going to protect you first."

"It's not going to come to that," she defended.

Yang scoffed. "Yes it is."


Yang watched the bottom of the bed above her as if it would give her an answer to what she should do about Ruby's relationship with...Torchwick. She still couldn't believe it. Even after yesterday when Ruby told her right to her face, she still couldn't get over how repulsed she felt when she imagined Torchwick with Ruby. Yang didn't want to picture her sister as sexually involved with someone who attempted to kill her. Twice.

Looking right at his face, only inches away from him, Yang would probably be able to keep her cool. And then kick the shit out of him. But the idea of him being even closer to her sister made Yang want to throw up, so much so that she decided to pull the trash bin to the edge of her bed just in case the image of something truly repulsive came to mind.

She rolled on her side, facing the wall, and tried to make sense of Ruby's actions. The strange thing is that Ruby may be naive, but she's not stupid. And if she were to have gotten in a relationship with someone who has actively taken steps in an attempt to murder her, then there must be some reason aside from masochistic tendencies that she would even consider him in that light.

Ruby trusts him.

Ruby chose to look beyond the things Torchwick has done in the past. Ruby forgave him. Yang bit the tip of her thumb. If a girl can find it in herself to forgive the man who physically hurt her, then perhaps her sister could, too.

But first, she needed to see for herself.


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