Snippet 29

Whether by Snipe or by Suicide

Genre: Dark/Hurt and Comfort

Pairs: Implied past White Knight, past Iceberg, forced Pride and Prejudice, Dragonslayer, past Arkos, Lancaster

Parody: RWBY

AU-Type: Canon-eqsue AU (An alternate take on Vol. 4, where Weiss cuts a deal with her father to leave to aid her team. This snippet takes after Vol. 5 and is a hypothetical ending after Salem is killed off.)

Tags: Scumbag!Schnees (except for Weiss, Weiss's mother, and Winter), Suicidal!Weiss, Suicide Trigger Warning, Darker than my usual works, Woobie!Winter, Blake is absent in this fic, Jaune/Ruby/Yang are the next Taiyang/Summer/Raven,

It was the wedding of the decade being that the cold ice princess of Atlas was getting married in the beautiful botanical gardens that the SDC owned. It was supposed to be a happy day, but for the bride herself, she considered it a death sentence. Her father had twisted her arm into his marriage by using her team as leverage to get what he wanted. Weiss had slowly walked out in an ornate pristine gown which was chosen by the groom.

"Ugh, this gown is way too showy. It feels he'll tear it off once the wedding night starts." Weiss thought as she walked down the aisle.

Walking her down was Winter who was trying her best to comfort her sister. The news of this had not gone well with Winter and she was already hitting the sauce like her mother.

"Weiss, I…." Winter said before Weiss stopped her.

"Don't. Please do not. I just want this day to end." Weiss said blankly.

Weiss wished for anything to interrupt the wedding. Her fantasy of a crazed fan coming out of the bed to stab her was dashing by the yelling of her "groom-to be".

"Weiss, hurry it up! We're burning daylight!" He screamed out.

The groom was none other than Cardin Winchester. Hell, she would have taken Neptune or even Weiss over him. She regretted not giving Jaune a chance. As for Neptune, that ship long sailed when he ended up dying. Not on the battle, but from chlamydia. Weiss had finally stopped reminiscing to get up to the altar. Her father was three with Whitley looking smug.

"Babe, you look so delicious in that. Can't wait to get it off you." Cardin said in a low whisper.

Was it too late to free Salem from Ozpin's clutches? Or maybe bring Cinder back from the dead? Grimm attack? None of them was happening despite Weiss's hope for it. She was considering slitting her throat with her rapier, but her father made sure to have her leave her weapon behind. She'd even take the White Fang right now. As the priest droned on, Cardin was glancing down at the body of his wife to be. He had the intention of recording their wedding night to give a copy to Jaune as a bit of a middle finger to his old enemy. Jaccques thought of the money he would make from this, Whitley was gleefully looking at the miserable faces of Winter and their mothers, and Weiss just wanted to die.

Two bullets rang out having cut desires and hopes short. Weiss opened her eye hoping to feel the slow fall to nothingness only to see blood trickle out of a bullet hole in the side of Cardin's head before he fell. Whitley screamed as his father choked on sanguine falling to his knees. His money would not save him now and he looked into Weiss's confused eyes. He drew his last as his body hit the ground. Everyone was screaming, and panic erupted around in fear of being shot down. Only Weiss was standing on the podium catatonic to everything.

"Why? Why?" She thought. "I was supposed to be shot…I paid him to kill me."

Little did Weiss know that her plans were dash. Up on the building where the shot was fire, an unconscious sniper had a big bruise on his head thanks a well-timed punch.

"Jaune, thanks for doing this. You did not have to." Yang said warmly.

"Weiss was our friend too." Jaune said still holding the smoking borrowed sniper rifle. "And Cardin had it coming."

Ruby looked down at the chaos along with Ren and Nora. Fighting Salem had hardened them all and gave them a bit of a darker outlook.

"I wonder if Blake had to do this in her White Fang days." Ruby said as Yang growled with her eyes blazing red.

Blake was a bit of sore spot to Yang as team RWBY had never truly reformed. Yang had flat out refused to forgive Blake for her cowardice, and even five years after her defeat, she refused to have anything to do with her. Jaune had put a calming hand on her shoulder.

"Yang, please. No need to flip out now. She's not here." Jaune said soothing her.

Yang had calmed down her eyes flicking back to lilac at last.

"Jaune, moments like this I'm glad I married you." Yang said taking a breath. "I wish Ruby didn't have to want to marry you too."

"Hey, I love him too!" Ruby touted.

Ren and Nora shared a chuckle.

"So, what about him?" Nora said pointing to the sniper.

"Leave him, but we'll take the gun and the bullets. If he's smart, he'll say he did not see anything." Yang said as they left.

They left feeling rather glad that they stopped Weiss's suicide. Weiss had insisted that they did not come to the wedding saying it was going to be her "execution". Yang had done some digging and found out one of Raven's tribesmen was hired to kill Weiss at the wedding by the heiress herself.

"Now that that's over, let's pay my dear bitch of a "mother" a visit. I owe her a beating." Yang said punching her fists together.

"Duly noted." Jaune said as a dark malignant aura formed around them all. "But even after five years, we're all still adjusting."

The dark aura had circled them forming Grimm-like wings before they all took up flight. While they had defeated Salem, her cursed power had not faded but changed hands.

(A/N: Started out as a simple request from Khorevis who writes Remnants of Dimensions, but I expanded it to a bit of a dark and twisted ending. I do recommend checking out his work! Next time, who knows? ;))