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They left shortly after I gave the clipboard back and I was left to my own devices for god know how long and with the feeling of blood still running out of my nose, I managed to stem the flow with some luck. With a wheeze and chough, I spat some blood out.
"God, my chest hurts…" I run a hand over my chest and down my stomach in search of any pain. I recoiled a couple of time when I found a bruise. "Probably got a couple of broken ribs, but the rest seems fine."
I go to stand only to fall backwards. "Fuck, I ache more than I do after one of his workout sessions." I spat out some more blood before pushing myself up.
I moved to pick my glasses up and the memory of when my mom gave them to me hits me like a truck.
"I still don't see why I have to wear these, Mom, I can see just fine without them." I said standing near the front door the Rose house wearing the Shujin Academy uniform that I got sent a few days before.
"I know you can Little Gem, but have you already forgotten how you got that?" I close both eyes as she pokes the scar above my eye, I then feel the weight of the glasses on my face.
I open my eyes to see an outline of the glasses, I bring a hand up to adjust them slightly. "Please don't bring that day up Mom."
"I'm sorry sweety," She brought a hand up and rubs my cheek with her thumb. "You can do better than her, I know you can… but that beside the point, you take after me with your eyes when I was your age."
"Really?"
"Really, you'll grow out of it, trust me." She said learning forwards and giving a kiss on the forehead. "Plus, people will love seeing a cute girl wearing glasses… if what the internet tells me is true."
I redden to my namesake as I avert my eyes away from her. "Don't go their Mom." I couldn't help be whine at her slightly.
I heard her laugh before she brought her hand up to my head again to make me face her, her eyes where shimmering slightly. "Just… be good, you hear and stay out of trouble."
I nod my head. "I'll keep my head down, Mom."
"Good girl," She kisses my forehead again with a smile. "Do that and you'll be back before you know it eating cookies with me."
Shaking my head just a little as not to hurt myself anymore, I couldn't believe that so much has happened in so little time. "I'm sorry I couldn't hold my end of the deal Mom." I said putting the glassed back on. They don't bother me so much nowadays.
With my glasses on, I moved to the chair to drag it over the table that was in this "interrogation" room. Even a small task like that was hard given how my body was, but I was glad to sit down in the chair afterwards. Every part of me sighed with relief when I did.
I must have been there for some time before I heard raised voices outside and when it went quiet, a little bit of hope died within, so when the door slams open, it scared the shit out of me. I winced as a brighter light flooded the room before I heard the familiar sound of heels against the floor and as my eyes adjusted to the light, I had to question myself on whether or not I had gone insane. It was the white hair that I've come to love over the past several months that I notice first. What got me was how she wore her hair. It wasn't her it was her Sister. 'This is right, yeah?'
"I'll be back and in your arms, before you know it my Queen" I told her.
"I know. But what happens…" I cut her off by planting a quick kiss on her lips; it's one of the ways I knew on how to reinsure her everything will be okay.
She never did like me kissing her in front of everyone, but the small noise she lets out or how she buries her face into the crook of my neck when I do is worth every Yen. I let a smile cross my face at that memory.
"…" As the white noise returns, I shake my head enough to clear it as she sits in the chair opposite me.
"I didn't expect it'd be you sitting there." She said placing a sizable folder on the table between us.
"You of all people Schnee-san should know to expect the unexpected."
"Be that as it may, Ruby, you do know that she'll be heartbroken when I tell her." She said with remorse.
"I know." I look down in an attempt to hide the smile that had formed. 'If only you knew.'
"You'll be answering my questions this time." Prosecutor Schnee said calmly, something that I'm not used to hearing from her. I didn't hear her stand up because before I know it, she is leaning over the table clicking her fingers in front of me with one hand and a syringe in the other. "Can you still hear me?"
Shaking my head once again, I groan in pain before answering her. "Yes, I can."
"You do know that almost anything can happen here and I can't stop them?" She holds the syringe up. "This is just the tip of the iceberg, so that is why I need you to answer me honestly. We don't have much time."
I watch her open the fold up but she doesn't remove anything from it. "What was your objective? Why did you cause such a major incident? I didn't think it was a prank from the get-go, but I couldn't assemble a case for the prosecution. It's because I couldn't figure out the method behind it."
"Of course, you couldn't" I said propping my head up as I lean on the table.
"True. There's no way I could be convinced of such a… "world" just by reading the reports." She said moving a couple of items out of the folder. "That is why you are going to tell me when and where you found out about that world? How it is even possible to steel another's heart?" She looks at me with those stern blue eyes, like she doesn't really want to do this. "Now, tell me your account of everything. Start from the very beginning, with your first target." She flips a photograph of smug-looking bull faunus.
I close my eyes and start telling her my story, from the beginning in April.
