Final chapter time.

Chapter 28:

"RUBY!" Blake yelled as she jumped over the table stopping as she could see Ruby's grip tightening around the handle. Both seemingly ignoring the sound of two people falling to the ground. The worry Blake just knew was going to be ever present for her as she could just smell blood flowing gushing a little out of Ruby's leg.

"Blake. Back up now or I rip the knife out. Go look after Weiss and my Dad." Ruby said not taking her gaze off of Yang who had shifted into a deeply worried expression on her face. She could just hear Blake carefully climbing up over the table just so she wouldn't tempt Ruby.

"Okay Ruby... make whatever your point is quick though... you could have hit your femoral. There is a lot of blood." Blake said carefully as she could see Weiss shaking her head a bit seeming to be the first person to regain her senses.

"What I was aiming for." Ruby deadpanned as she could see Yang seemingly blanch at that comment. "Do you want to know I know Yang? I know more than enough about having my head lodged up my ass from someone making an impossible call and me loathing their existence. I just know what happens if you continue down that path first hand." Ruby spoke as she could see Weiss gesturing towards one of the boxes on the wall.

Gasping as she took a careful step forward, Yang wasn't sure what her sister was talking about. But all she could do was feel the panic start to set in. Almost masking the rage she was feeling for Ruby at this point. "Ruby... Blake isn't lying."

"I know. I also know if you continue to push Weiss like you've been, while it makes you feel better now best case you end up in divorce court. Worst case you'll end up killing her like I killed Mom." As the words left Ruby's mouth she could see everyone who was still conscious freeze at the comment. "Hell I did worse then just kill her. My last words to her were 'I hope you die for what you did to me.' All because I had nothing but contempt for Mom and Dad and even to you. Worst part is... I still do have anger towards you and Dad. But not because of me being in a chair. Because you both let me have my head lodged up my ass until after Mom was in the ground."

"What are you talking about Ruby? Mom died in a car crash from being sleep deprived." Yang said calmly as she was about to take a step before she rethought it as Ruby's hand began to tremble slightly out of something she wasn't sure about. The best Yang could assume was just a loss of blood because it was still dripping under her onto the floor.

"She was sleep deprived because she was worried about one of her daughters hating her. She was sleep deprived because her youngest had driven a wedge between her and Dad with her hatred towards them. Even though she did what Weiss has been trying to do to you." Ruby began as she could feel some tears starting to run down her face but she wasn't going to let it stop her or her point. "Make me see reason. She even walked into my room frequently when she couldn't sleep and thought I was asleep to beg for my forgiveness. But it took me two hundred and eighty seven days from when I woke up and one fight with Dad causing her to just want to go out. Ten minutes into her drive she got into the crash from falling asleep at the wheel. Five hours later Dad and I got the news." Using her other hand, Ruby began to rub the tears away as she took a deep breath. "That is when it began to set in about my last words to her... how my head was so far up my ass I couldn't even fake like I loved my Mother. How even if Dad wouldn't admit it, I caused the fight that caused Mom to die. And I see you going down the path with Weiss that I caused with Mom and Dad."

"So I'm not allowed to be angry at my loss?" Yang asked trying to figure out the purpose of Ruby's lecture. This was making no sense to her and if anything it was just raising thousands of more questions.

Scoffing lightly, Ruby looked at her lap as she shook her head gently. "I never said you couldn't be angry. Be angry at builders who wired Junior's wrong. Be angry at Junior who had been in early and ignored the alarm." Ruby said before looking back up at Yang. "Don't be mad at Weiss or Dad for doing what they can. Don't be mad at Qrow and the fire department who risked everything and ignored so many rules to save you and are now possibly going to be fired because of it. And if you want to talk about loss because you feel like you are the only person to ever lose a limb or even part of it, kindly pull your head out of your ass first." Ruby bit harshly as she could see one of the service doors opening followed by Klein stopping as Weiss and Blake started to walk towards Tai who had still yet to regain consciousness.

The confusion on Yang's face as Ruby just stared into her eyes. She could almost see the anger starting to fade but it still remained in them. Something Ruby knew she had to remove if she wanted Weiss and Yang to be happy. Something that she would give her life for at this point. The only issue was the guilt she had worked so hard to foster so she could at least possibly feel bad next time she went to Summer's grave.

"You and Weiss are right. We are different. I do still have use of both of my arms." As Ruby spoke she could see Blake glaring lightly at Weiss from that comment as Ruby just rolled her eyes lightly. "But do you have any idea what I would do to even have the slightest feeling in my legs and abdomen? I would give up my home if I could feel period cramps. I would give up being happy with Blake if I could feel pain in my legs. Hell I would trade my life to have basic bowel control. You lost living your dream which you had been doing for years. I never even got the chance to experience mine that day and all that remains of the time I could feel the burn of my muscles, the time I could feel sand beneath my feet... are in photos, a few home movies and those stupid fucking trophies that are just constant reminders of how I spat in life's face to add another possible medal to my chest and life spitting back."

Sighing softly, Ruby let go of the knife as she let her arm dangle loosely by her side. "If you don't want to talk about this shit with me fine, I know countless people between the support groups Dad forced me into and just some people I've come across. If not them, I don't care who. But you need to talk to someone, but lashing out at your family for just trying to get you to pull your head out of your ass isn't the way to go." Ruby said as she took a deep breath and began to shake her head to try and regain some of her mind.

Looking towards her worried family seeing Klein smack her father lightly Ruby just started to laugh a little. "Now if you don't mind... I think I may actually have gotten the artery... because I'm starting to get light headed... might want to get an ambulance. Sooner rather than later if you still want me to be living." Ruby mumbled as she could feel herself closing her eyes.

Feeling a sharp smack on her face, Ruby began to just blink her eyes as she could see the worried golden eyes of Blake staring into her own. She could feel a smirk being robbed as she could feel herself being lifted carefully before she was lowered down onto her side.

"Okay... I admit I could have picked a better method of getting her attention... but I think my method worked. Just... feeling... a bit cold." Ruby said feeling Blake smack her cheek again causing a minor groan. "I should be fine... is the knife still in my leg?" Ruby asked with a chuckle as she could see Blake just glaring at her. "Okay... not the time for jokes... got it. But seriously, it is best if that is still in my leg."

"I know! Give me a reason why I shouldn't kill you Ruby!" Blake yelled with clear tears in her eyes as Ruby just chuckled softly at her. Blake wasn't sure what had hurt more. The fact that Ruby would do something like that, or the fact Ruby was getting paler and paler as time went on.

"You'd need to start getting on the killing me fast... I'm ahead of you on that front." Ruby chuckled softly as she winced at a wet feeling touching her back. "And long shot... that is water touching my back right?" Ruby asked softly as Blake just took a worried look over before wincing and looking back towards Ruby's eyes. "I'll take that as a no... Be honest will I ever walk again?"

"Silence now Ruby." Weiss snapped while Ruby just chuckled softly. There hadn't even been a mystery as to the reason why. She was probably all kinds of angry at the fact that Ruby would do something like that causing her to faint. Not to mention Ruby was actually starting to feel really cold.

"They are on their way Madam Schnee." Ruby could hear Klein speak as he quickly covered the distance to Ruby. She wasn't sure what he was doing, but given the fact that Blake seemed to be helping him, it had to have been good. There was only a handful of things that came to her mind that they could be doing. Best she could gather was trying to cut off the blood going to Ruby's leg.

Chuckling softly as Ruby could just barely make out Yang helping Weiss get their Dad up to his feet. It was a little bit of a funny thing to her that the man who everyone constantly assumed had killed people was that squeamish around someone stabbing their leg and it bleeding like a faucet.

"Klein... sorry about the mess. I know you've probably been trying but I don't think the slow method is the way to go. I just had to get Yang's attention for it." Ruby chuckled out as she could just see Blake's eyes glaring daggers at her. Something that normally would cause Ruby to laugh but something seemed to stop her from doing that. She wasn't sure what it was exactly, all she knew was there was something stopping her. "Fine. I'll shut up now... sorry for trying to make you laugh. I don't think I've entered the danger zone though from blood loss. Just feels like a lot from what I can feel on my back and side... but in my personal experience, it always just looks like a lot."

Blake rolled her eyes as she could hear the doors they entered fly open. She felt some major comfort from the fact that she could see at least the medics managed to get here quickly. She didn't care how, but as long as Ruby was going to be alright.

Taking a step back, Blake knew that it was best to let the professionals deal with this, but that didn't really stop her just wanting to help. Turning around she could see Tai shaking his head, almost falling over once more as he could see the ever growing sea of red Ruby had been placed in.

"Well Weiss, Ruby and I are going to need to pin in the dinner idea..." Blake said calmly, even though she knew that her panicked tone was shining enough for Tai to at least gather that.

"I agree. I need to leave the room." Tai said as he nearly ran out of the room causing Blake to sigh softly.

Seeing them sticking Ruby's arm with a needle as they seemed to have caught onto whoever made the call that there was a badly bleeding wound. It made her feel a lot easier as she could see them trying to carefully move Ruby onto the stretcher as she just sighed softly out of happiness towards this entire thing playing out that nicely.

Flecking her ears back, Blake just enjoyed the fact that she could hear Yang holding onto Weiss as they began to talk softly. Shaking her head, Blake began to follow the medical team out of the building just hoping that something good would come of this. That is what she needed if she was meant to see this much of Ruby's blood just splashed so carelessly on the floor.

Seeing Klein and Blake leave the room as well, Yang just took a deep breath as she held tightly onto Weiss. She just had to hold onto Weiss tightly as she took a deep breath. Just everything Ruby had screamed at her was leaving Yang feeling a lot of confusing things.

The only thing that seemed to be constant was the joy she felt of Weiss clutching onto her with trembling hands. It just made her feel that much better with the storm of questions mostly consisting of 'what the fuck?' filling her mind over and over again.

"I'm..." Yang began as she felt Weiss just cutting her off by squeezing her tighter as she spoke into Yang's shoulder. Yang couldn't really make out what was being said, but what she was able to tell was that Weiss didn't want to hear an apology.

Gently rubbing Weiss' back Yang gently tried to manhandle Weiss closer with what remained of her other arm. Feeling Weiss jump a little at the contact before she relaxed into the embrace. Yang took a deep breath as she closed her eyes to take into how close Weiss was to her.

"You know I love you right Weiss?" Yang spoke softly as she felt Weiss pull away to just stare at her with great confusion in her eyes. "Even when you make me so mad... I still love you." Yang said softly as she could see Weiss leaning in to capture her lips with a gentle and chaste kiss, before she pulled back and just smiled at the sight of Yang being slightly confused.

"I know Yang..."

Sighing softly, Ruby rested her hands behind her head. Her eyes remained closed as she took some breaths just laughing internally at the fact that Gelato seemed to be over pissed at her. But that did bring her almost as much joy as when Blake saw Gelato for the first time and even did the same double take Ruby had done when they were together.

Hearing the door open again, Ruby cracked an eye open before she groaned softly at the sight of Blake walking into the room holding a nearly empty tray of hot drinks with the same scowl she had on her face since Ruby woke up after the surgery to repair her damaged artery. It was almost as annoying as the fact that the hospital had sent the staff psychiatrist in to talk to her after it came out the knife in Ruby's leg was self inflicted.

Seeing Blake take a seat, Ruby took a deep breath as the Faunus rested the tray on the table as she grabbed the closest cup to take a drink from. "So now that you are no longer under the influence, why the hell did you do that?" Blake demanded as Ruby just chuckled softly as she reached for the remote to raise her back up a bit more.

"I know exactly the kind of shit Yang would do. And with my family's history it would take the death of a Rose to get people to accept what happened happened. At least with the sample size I had at my disposal." Ruby said calmly as she looked towards the somehow more irritated Faunus. "I know you wouldn't let me die Blake. And even if I did, my family and your family would make sure you pulled through." Ruby said grabbing the other cup as she could see Blake taking a small drink from her own out of scepticism of what Ruby had said.

The scepticism that Ruby just knew was from the fact that Blake doubted she would eventually recover from something like that "Which you would eventually. Even if you don't think you could because you think I'm your one."

"How..." Blake started to gasp out as she lightly patted her chest to dislodge the hot drink.

"Much or how do I know? Both are kind of simple answers. Yang let it slip like a month after you bought the ring because she was pissed at the fact I didn't have it on my finger. And once it came out that you never popped the question, she felt bad but still took me out to show me exactly what ring it was. Probably should have gone with asking my Dad for all that crap. He knows my ring size, what I like, and has the patients of a saint." As Ruby spoke she could see just the scowl on Blake's face darken as she shifted her gaze towards the door.

Laughing softly at what that meant, Ruby just shook her head softly as she looked towards her leg. A loud throaty groan occurred as Ruby placed the terrible coffee down. "Blake... can you go get a doctor... I think I ripped some stitches out."

Looking quickly to the growing red spot on Ruby's elevated leg, Blake could feel the same bile rise from when Ruby had stabbed her leg. Tossing the cup carefully onto the table, Blake flew out of the room to get someone that could help.

Groaning a little, Ruby began to fix her gown a bit more as she could see a worried expression on her sister's face as she walked into the room before she came to a stop at the growing red spot on Ruby's leg. "How the hell did you rip the stitches again? You do know that is why Dad isn't in here and is currently shaking like a leaf right?" Yang asked carefully as Ruby rolled her eyes at the comment.

"I know. And I can't feel my stitches like you could have. Yet you still ripped them like a billion times." Ruby bit a little at her sister who just glared lightly at her. "What Yang? Do I need to get another knife to prove my point again of how life sucks for everyone and it is best to just roll with the punches life throws at you?"

"Look just be glad I don't punch you. There is still a lot I'm trying to come to terms with." Yang said in her defence as Ruby just smiled at her.

"That's fine Yang... we all come to terms with this eventually. Just in my experience, and the experience of nearly everyone I drink with... with a handicap you always say or do something you regret. So it is a lot easier for me to try and prevent that for you?" Ruby spoke as she gestured for her sister to move out of the way. "Now if you don't mind, it looks like I'm getting some new stitches." Ruby said with a small chuckle.

Groaning softly, Yang walked out of the room to be with Weiss, Blake and Tai. Maybe then she could at least talk to somewhat sane people. Especially when the alternative was Ruby. Someone who at this point Yang was doubting that she was even close to being considered sane.

Coming to a stop, Yang just looked at Weiss and Blake glaring at her. "What? She is doing fine... still her same old bat shit crazy self, and I trust the people know how to do stitches here. I mean mine were just fine." Yang said as Tai just shivered a little. "Come on Dad. Man up. It is just some blood."

"Why the hell would you tell Ruby about Blake's desire to propose?" Weiss asked snapping Tai's attention to her as Yang began to try and think back. As her face contorted, Weiss groaned softly.

"Yeah, can't really remember telling her word for word about it. But you know I wouldn't put it past me. Why the hell haven't you proposed yet?" Yang demanded as Blake groaned.

"Well the most recent reason was us trying to make sure you didn't kill Weiss. Between an accident or worrying her to death." Blake bit at Yang who just felt her eyes narrow a little from the comment before she shook her head to regain herself.

"Says the woman who slept with recently one of the women who jumped Ruby and drove my sister to prove her point by stabbing her leg. I thought that was the reason you didn't pop the question to her." Yang countered as Blake glared harshly at her. Something Yang took some solace in. "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight."

Sighing softly, Weiss just stood between the suddenly feuding people. "That doesn't excuse anything Yang. Besides Ruby didn't seem all that torn up by it. She had a threesome with twins. One of who is that small black haired nurse. And the other just gets handsy from the one time I've seen her."

"Plus there is no proof I've slept with Ilia besides the words of a crazy woman who was naked and might very well die in prison for stalking and trespassing on the presidential grounds of Menagerie. And if she ever does get out the head of my family security will take great pride in shooting to kill." Blake interjected as everyone turned to look at her quizzically. "She tried to break in on one of my last nights and the guards caught her not realising who it was until the guards who knew her from my school days saw her." Blake explained softly as she could see the lack of satisfactory with the answer. "And my parents don't particularly like it when Faunus are supremacists or even when Faunus are just plain aggressive for no valid reason. Which is why all the embassies around the world don't fight for Faunus who actually commit violent crimes."

"How much power does your Dad have?" Tai asked carefully as Blake simply shrugged her shoulders. "I've met the man... he seems like he'd have someone else throw a punch because all politicians are cowards."

"He has never really tried to find the extent of his power... but there is a lot of respect for him amongst our kind. Worst thing he has ever done in his role was shipping Ilia back here to face her trial. Something just about every Faunus agrees with because that is the only time he has used that power." Blake began as she took a relaxing breath. "But it sounds like they are done..." Blake said as she quickly walked into the room, just happy to see fresh bandages wrapping Ruby's leg as the doctors began to file out.

Smiling as she walked over to Ruby who seemed like she had been super angry. Something that just caused Blake to shake her head as she grabbed hold of Ruby's hand. Not even wanting or even caring about what was the situation and why it didn't take them that long to repair the damage this time.

"So what happened Ruby?" Weiss asked walking into the room as Blake just rolled her eyes before she felt Ruby reaching up to just scratch the base of her ears.

"Apparently the pills you've all been guilting me to take thinned my blood a bit more than the doctors had intended. So it just slipped past the stitches which weren't as tight as they should be apparently." Ruby said as Blake stopped to pull back to look at Ruby with slight worry in her eyes. "Relax Blake. There is no way you could have seen that one coming." Ruby said as she gently pulled the Faunus woman into a gentle hug. "You know you still haven't asked the all important question. Ring or not."

As Ruby teased, Blake just lightly stared at the woman. She was sure her confusion was clear, but that didn't make it any easier.

"Go on Kitten." Ruby continued as Blake rolled her eyes. "Fine. Let's skip that step. I'm not one for tradition anyway. Yes I'll marry you. Just next time you are home grab the ring." Ruby smiled softly as Blake just quickly captured Ruby's lips out of the pure joy of the situation.

"Not the most romantic of settings... but with how I've found out so many disturbing things of you two... I think it counts as much as any other romantic setting." Weiss chided softly before she looked at Ruby waving her off. "Fine. I'll go inform the rest of the future nuptials. Just remember though, this is a public setting."

Author's Note:

And that is me largely done... just need the epi now which is coming up shortly.