Hey everyone welcomes to my forever and always fic. It's something that I have been intending to write for a while now and it's nice to get it written down. This will be in two parts but still this chapter isn't a happy one which I'm warning people about so don't read it unless you want to feel sad. Expect major character death. This story is also inspired by the song forever and always by Parachute.
Sighing as she rubbed her stomach Ruby took a sip of water to quench her thirst as she waited for Jaune to make it back to her. Looking to the ring around her finger she sighed impatiently as she sipped on her coke tapping her feet as she looked to her phone as she checked the time.
"Not only are you late but you didn't even bother messaging me this isn't like you." Ruby murmured to herself as she placed her hand back down onto her stomach "I was going to tell him about you but I don't know where he is." she continued to mumble nervously taping her fingers against the glass table.
He told her that he was free today after work and they even called each other a couple hours ago where was he? She wondered as her fingers played with her ring trying to distract herself from her thoughts luckily for her though she didn't need to do that for long as she heard her ringtone go off making her almost jump.
Quickly grabbing her phone her fingers clumsy and cold causing her to almost drop it as she fumbled to accept the call after she saw the caller ID and the moment, she succeeded she pressed the phone against her ear.
"Hey yang what is it? You won't believe what Jaune has just done?" she spoke to her sister a hint of annoyance in her voice but what Yang said next made her heart stop as the blood drained from her face.
The heavy crack from her phone falling out of her numb hands drew the attention of a lot of the people at the restaurant while Ruby sat still dead to the world uncaring for the tears running down her face as her other hand that was holding her drink squeezed it with an iron grip until it cracked spilling its contents down onto her legs.
The thing that snapped her out of her stupor was the feeling of glass shards scraping against her soft skin making her quickly drop it feeling dizzy.
The next thing Ruby knew was that she was sprinting into the hospital with blurry vision pushing through the doors Ruby wasn't even sure how she got there so quickly all she could think about was that she should have been there with him.
Feeling her lungs burn she tripped forward down onto the floor as her ankle gave from a bad step luckily for her though she was caught just in time.
"I'm so sorry It was all my fault." a familiar voice said as they pulled her up making Ruby look up through tearful eyes.
"Pyrrha." Ruby mumbled in surprise doing her best to wipe her face to compose herself "what happened?" she asked dreading the answer.
"I'm so sorry the car was going so fast and I didn't see it in time." Pyrrha said with her voice choking up as she spoke making Ruby stop wiping her eyes as she pulled her into a hug quickly breaking down as the two of them did their best to console each other.
"I need to see him," Ruby demanded as she stood up straighter breaking the hug as she gave up on trying to wipe her eyes now just blinking the tears away. Placing her hand down against her stomach she bit her lip hoping that this was just a dream and that she would wake up in his arms once more "I need to tell him something." she pleaded.
"Ruby are you sure?" Yang asked as she walked forward looking at Ruby in concern "the doctors say that it's not a nice sight and he's heavily medicated so that he won't be in too much pain." Yang told her as she did her best to act strong but the bloodshot eyes told a different story.
"Yes, I have to tell him!" She told her frantically as her hand rubbed her belly to try and calm herself.
"Okay I'll take you then." Yang said as she gently took Ruby's hand feeling like she would shatter if she held too tightly and then she led him towards Jaune's hospital room.
When she got into the room Ruby felt dizzy, it was like she was going to be sick. Stepping into the room as each step felt heavier almost as if her shoes were filled with lead Ruby continued to move forward collapsing onto the floor the moment that she reached the side of the bed she wailed when she saw the state of his body.
"Jaune," she cried as she took his hand in hers sitting down on her knees as the tears ran down her face faster "Jaune I need you please wake up," she pleaded as she grabbed his hand in a bone crushing grip "I need to tell you something please just wake up," she choked out to him.
At this moment Ruby was certainly lucky in a sense as the hand she gripped slowly closed around hers as Jaune did his best to fight through the fog of morphine to make his way back to her. The hand gripped hers as strongly as it could.
"Ruby is that you?" Jaune asked his voice scratchy sounding painful and there was something about it that made Ruby think that he wasn't all there.
"Yeah t-" she starts to say before she cries harder as she realises how grave this really was resting her head against his chest she whimpered "Jaune I can't lose you please pull through." she begged as she stained his shirt with tears "you're going to be a dad please don't leave us" she cried.
Hearing the news made Jaune's head spin as his heart skip a beat his eyes widening before he calmed himself placing his hand on her head he weakly ran his hands through her hair to try and calm her "Ruby you're the strongest person I've ever known," he started to tell her as he did his best to stay strong "you can do anything I'm sure of it, Ruby I love you and I always will," He finished weakly as he mustered up the last of his strength to kiss her one last time.
Sadly, that strength couldn't last long as Jaune's hand slowly went limp with Ruby's head resting against his chest seeking comfort in the slow thump of his heartbeat until the sound was gone "no!" she cried out as she hugged his body closer to hers trembling in sorrow.
Welp, sorry Jaune I'm probably a bad person but still hope you all enjoyed this story it certainly was interesting to make for me. You should expect chapter 2 to come out some time soon it's going to be the comfort side of this fic which people can see as canon to this story or none canon depending on what you prefer. Oh, and this is probably my fastest written chapter ever.
