Gold sat in his large high backed chair, the air in the room was heavy with the thick smoke coming from the lit cigar laying in a ash tray, steadily burning leaving behind a cylinder of greyish white ash.

Methodically he drummed his fingers on the arm of the chair. Things were not going his way. Agent Red hadn't checked in in two weeks and Yellow had been breathing down his neck. They couldn't have blown her cover could they?

He had sent her in there hidden as a Faunus, it was so simple he knew they would have figured out she was an agent and would convince her to switch sides and be a double agent. So that in itself would be her cover. Let the white fang think they had a double agent but in reality she was a triple agent.

The computer monitor in front of him flickered on, Agent Red's name was flashing.

"About time." Gold mumbled tapping the enter key.

"Agent Red your overdue." he said aloud. There was no reply. "Are you there Red?"

"This is goodbye." the girl spoke her voice was flat. The skin around Gold's eyes tightened. "What is this?" he asked waiting for a reply. "Agent!" he snapped when she didn't answer.

"When atlas the wolves arrive to claim, beware the fallen snow." she said warning in her voice.

"What are you talking about."

"Don't forget that, because I see it now."

"Ruby..."

"Shh, Go back to sleep Samuel."

"Samuel?" he reconised it as one of the names of the soldiers that had been murdered. But why was Ruby talking to him?" Ruby are you OK, What happened?"

"I saw it..." the girl's voice trailed off.

"Saw what?"

"My heart, I held it..." her words vanished into the sound of a speaker screeching then the connection vanished completely.

Gold sat in the silence in the room. He slammed his fist on the arm of the chair. He had been out played.

Ruby exhaled and dropped the needle on the edge of the sink it rolled until it rested against her mask that she had left there. Destroying her communicator had been easy. Just a quick jab with the piece of metal break the small piece of equipment. She pinched the bridge of her nose trying to get rid of Samuel's voice in her head, she grabbed her mask and turned walking across the small bathroom floor and opened the door leading into her room.

"You Ok?" Blake asked from where she was laying on Ruby's bed. Ruby smiled at her. "Yeah I'm fine my shoulder hurts a bit but it'll be OK." She responded, gently rolling her hurt shoulder as she walked across the floor over to the bed. Ever since they had released Blake from the infirmary stating her lung was healed enough that she didn't need constant medical watch, she had been staying with Ruby since the wound she was dealt had done so much damage she need help with simple things.

'It's your fault she got hurt.' Samuel stated blandly in her head. Ruby pinched the bridge of her nose harder, and squeezed her eyes closed.

"Are you sure?" Blake asked, "You've been doing that a lot these past few weeks and you've never done it before."

Ruby let go of her nose and opened her eyes and walked around to her side of the bed placing her mask on the night stand.

"I'm fine, I didn't realize you paid so much attention to me before." Ruby smirked wanting to tease her a little, it worked, Blake's face turned a shade of deep red and she looked away. "I'm just observant." she huffed making Ruby giggle a little as she lay down on her stomach resting her head on her pillow. She had just got back from a mission for Adam a short while ago leaving Blake with some grunt outside the door if she needed anything.

It hadn't been that tough of a mission, just ending the life of some politician. Her nose still burned with the scent of gunpowder and she had added another ghost to haunt her. Now she just wanted to sleep.

She felt a timid hand rest on the small of her back and she opened one eye looking out over the pillow at Blake who was watching her face. "Are you alright?" She asked Blake. She couldn't read the look on her face. Was it worry, disappointment, regret? Did she not want to be with her? Ruby's hand gripped the sheet tightly as her stomach tightened, if that was it she didn't know what she would do.

"I'm worried about you." she said softly moving her hand to cover Ruby's that was clutching the sheet, she felt it relax beneath her palm.

"Ever since they gave you your mask you've been changing, There's something different in your eyes now." Blake said softly her Amber eyes searching Ruby's visible eye.

Ruby closed her eye not wanting her to see what was missing. "I guess I'm just getting use to things." She lied.

"Don't change to much, once we get the chance we should leave." Blake said softly only loud enough for the girl next to her to hear. Ruby's eyes snapped open and she lifted her face off the pillow, propping her self up with her good arm. "I thought you didn't want to leave?" she asked her cautiously if Blake wanted to leave that made things a lot easier.

"I nearly died, and for what, a future where my people are branded as evil?" Blake said shaking her head. " I want out."

Ruby smiled. "I'll find us away." Gold wouldn't work, there's no way he would let Blake go since she was in the White Fang, she had thought about that before cutting ties with him. She would have to find her own way. "But until then we have to play their game." she warned. Blake nodded her eyes flicking briefly down to Ruby's lips before returning to her eyes, a blush beginning to appear on her face.

Ruby felt herself smile. While she found it hard to read Blake some things she could easily read. She pushed herself forward on her hands and closed her eyes as she gently pressed her lips to Blake's, she couldn't get to into it since she was still hurt, but even this small kiss felt perfect, felt right, like everything was fine. 'Liar!' Samuel screamed in her head Ruby recoiled away from Blake so fast that rose petals appeared in the air as she gripped the bridge of her nose. 'No!" she growled in her head.

'She doesn't know what you are!'

"Ruby!"

'Shut up!'

'Tell her then!'

'I said shut up!'

'Liar,'

'Shut up!'

'Deceiver,'

'Shut up!'

'Killer,'

'Shut up!'

'Human,'

'Shut up!'

"RUBY!"

'MONSTER!'

'I said SHUT UP!'

She tore her eyes open she was on the edge of the bed on her knees clutching her head in her hands her body shaking violently she could feel arms around her. She looked up and could see Blake's face a mixture of pain, fear, and worry.

"What are you doing." Ruby gasped her heart slamming in her chest and her stomach felt sick. "Your hurt lay back down."

"What, What the hell is wrong Ruby you've been like this for five minutes! You scared the shit out of me!" Blake exclaimed not letting Ruby go. "It was a headache, a bad one." She mumbled moving her hands from her head and rested them around Blake's waist, the sick feeling growing in her stomach. A lie.

She felt Blake loosen her hold on her and she wanted to scream no, she wanted those arms around her to hold her together.

"You should go to the infirmary." Blake said softly. Ruby shook her head, "It's fine, I've been getting them all my life." More lies, when did it become so easy.

"I just need to sleep." she stated as her breathing began to even out.

Blake relented letting go of Ruby. "If you insist, but next time it happens I'll drag you there myself." she grumbled. Making Ruby smile, she pressed a chaste kiss to the black haired girls lips before helping her lay back down then laying down herself and closed her eyes. She fell asleep with the sick feeling growing in her stomach.

Her dreams were filled with ghosts and darkness, of pain and chains, overlain with her own voice raw from screaming singing. But then something warm engulfed her and sweet nothingness took her.

Blake had noticed in the days she had been staying with Ruby that Ruby cried in her sleep and mumbled names. She didn't know most of them. Dr. Bob, Steven, Clarence, Yang, and the one she did know, Samuel. Where these people she had killed?

When it got bad she would hold the younger girl and her tears would stop. Even now as she held Ruby in her arms ignoring the throbbing the pain in her chest Ruby cried. Even though she said she was getting use to it she obviously wasn't but Blake wouldn't let her know she cried.

The door opened and Adam stuck his head in. "Blake, you got a second?" Blake looked back at the door. "Nows not a good time Adam." she stated not letting go of Ruby.

"It'll be quick." he said and she sighed relenting.

Ruby's eyes snapped open and she rolled over onto her back. "Sleep well?" Blake asked. Ruby stretched her arms into the air ignoring the pain in her shoulder. "Good enough." She mumbled looking at Blake she was reading a book with a blank silver cover.

"Adam came by while you were asleep." she said turning the page. Ruby's face turned stiff and cold, her eyes tight and her lips a thin line. She recovered quickly thankful that Blake was reading, she wouldn't have seen her mask fall.

"What he want?" Ruby questioned as she sat up in bed. Blake closed the book and set in on her nightstand before looking Ruby in the eyes. Ruby's body tightened. She didn't like the look in Blake's eyes, had Adam told her what she was? Fear started to grow in her and the sick feeling returned.

'He told me it was decied that everything that had happened was putting to much stress on your mind and they gave you an out of the White Fang, fearing that your mind might break or some shit like that." Blake blurted out.

Ruby relaxed glad it wasn't what she thought it was, but why would Adam tell Blake this. "I'm fine Blake I'm not crazy, or going crazy if that's what your worried about." Ruby comforted her. "Why didn't you leave?" Blake asked her ears twitching.

"What?" Ruby asked confused.

"They gave you an out, a way to be free of this and you didn't take it!" Blake yelled at her. Ruby leaned back with a sigh, "I couldn't leave you here alone." Ruby explained.

"You should have left, I'm not worth staying for." she mumbled and looked away Ruby moved closer and carefully hugged her pushing her face in Blake's neck breathing in her scent. 'I'm not worth staying with.' she thought.