Chapter 8:

"Why did you kill her!?" Qrow yelled as Ruby fought against the handcuffs binding her. She just wanted to punch the man for making such an acquisition. Every fibre of her being wanted to beat him to an inch of his life and then continue.

"HOW FUCKING THE DARE YOU!?" Ruby yelled. She could feel the metal biting into her wrist. The blood beginning to trickle down into her palms as she kicked her chair further back. "IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING YOU WOULD KNOW SHE MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME!" Ruby continued knowing her blood will get everywhere, but she didn't care.

She needed to beat the man in front of her to gently remind him exactly what Blake meant to her. "I KNOW, YOU WASTE OF SPACE! NOW ANSWER MY QUESTION!" Qrow yelled as he pushed his chair back when he stood. He knew Ruby was guilty. He just needed evidence. Something he severely lacked at the given moment.

"YEAH A WASTE OF SPACE THAT PROMISED TO BEAT YOU INTO A COMA FOR EVEN SUGGESTING I WOULD HARM BLAKE! NOW UNCUFF ME SO I CAN MAKE GOOD ON THAT PROMISE!" She could see the man was tempted to unlock them just to give him a reason to shoot her.

He began to walk around the table when the door opened and Weiss walked in. "Captain, the mayor is on the phone demanding to speak with you now. I tried to tell him you were talking with your niece, but he wouldn't listen." Weiss spoke as Qrow debated if it would be worth ignoring the mayor to shoot Ruby. "Sir, he sounds really angry." Weiss continued. She looked towards Ruby and could see some of her blood on the table just below her hands.

"Fine! Don't let her go back to her apartment. It is still an active crime scene." He spoke leaving the room, slamming the door as he walked out. Ruby had seemed to relax the second he was gone as she let her wrists go slack as to not damage them further.

"Why do you need to fight him like that Ruby. Yang can only brush so much under the rug. What were you guy's shouting about?" Weiss asked as she uncuffed Ruby from the table and began to lead her to a chair just so she could get a better look at Ruby's wrists.

"He thought I killed Blake... He is lucky you came in when you did. I would have continued to pull until either the chain broke, or my hands came off." Ruby spoke as Weiss smiled a little. "We will find this fuck Ruby. He seems to be taunting Yang and going for what Yang will feel."

Ruby let out some stray tears. The sight that was burned into her mind. She couldn't be strong. "The damage is superficial. Do you want me to go drop you off at Yang's or do you want to go somewhere else first?" Weiss asked as Ruby rubbed her eyes with her blood soaked hands. She wanted to get clean in memory of Blake. But that sight. Her adorable feline ears. A pool of blood with that damn grin permanently forcing her beautiful lips into a grin.

She needed to forget.

"I just need something strong. I don't care if it is booze or ether." Ruby spoke standing up on shaking legs. She just wanted to cry, and hopefully forget about this day like a bad nightmare.

"We can stop by the off license. But I will not let you go down the drug route. I may be your friend, but I'm a cop first." Weiss spoke as they began to walk out of the room. She made sure to hold onto Ruby tightly till they got to the elevator. She didn't want to risk Ruby making good on her threat. She just wanted to make sure that Ruby got to a place she couldn't cause any trouble. And hopefully just drink herself into unconsciousness.

As they waited for the elevator to open, Weiss spoke, "Do you have a key for Yang's? If not you can crash at my place. I probably have a lot to drink as well, and I'll be less pissed at those bottles being gone." Weiss just really didn't want Ruby out tearing up looking for the person who had taken Blake from her.

"Yeah I should." Ruby spoke patting her pockets which quickly turned into panic. "I must have dropped it in my place. Fuck!" Ruby yelled. Not loud enough to disrupt the people working. But loud enough for Weiss to hear how much she hated it. Not that she hated Weiss' place, but she didn't want to risk that Yang's place would be broken into because she lost the key.

"It is okay Ruby. If it was in your apartment, we will bring it in. No harm no foul. We'll just get you something strong, and I'll let you into my condo then when I get back here I'll tell Yang where you are, don't worry." spoke Weiss as she helped Ruby into the elevator.

"How can you be so calm!? Blake is gone! And that sick fuck is after Yang!" Ruby yelled as Weiss began to walk Ruby into the metal box.

"Ruby... are you still taking your medication?" Weiss asked as the doors closed. "These mood swings aren't normal."

"No. They were screwing with my head. I was losing some hours and Blake always said if I was losing time, to stop taking them." Ruby spoke as Weiss was left unsure what to do. "Well, I'm going to attempt to call you at least once every few hours."

"Just... just get me to some place I can pass out in a drug induced coma." Ruby spoke as the doors open.

"Hey Yang. Catch me up." Weiss asked walking into the building she had been in just a few hours ago.

"You first. How is she?" The blonde asked ducking under the yellow tape. She had seen her sister's apartment countless times. A few of those have been as part of a drug bust, but now the type of crime scene made it hard on her.

"Torn up. She is at my place planing to drink herself to sleep. She even convinced me to get more, even stronger stuff. Didn't even know absinthe was still legal." Weiss spoke as she looked into the apartment. Slightly disgusted by the mess.

"Yeah it has been for a long time. But you do know she is probably going to go onto something harder. I can't really find anything wrong with that all things considered." Yang held the tape up for Weiss to walk in. Both having a loathing for what they were essentially doing. Going through Blake and Ruby's personal life to find evidence as to why the killer would go after Blake.

"For once I don't care. As long as there is no evidence of her doing any of it. I'll look the other way. Bad enough the second the captain heard she was there instantly went in and they locked horns." Weiss spoke taking a look around. Stopping as she noticed something.

"What is it?" Yang asked as Weiss was trying to figure out a way to word it.

"The room is off. And for once I'm glad Ruby is a little bit of a slob." spoke Weiss as she pointed to the kitchen, it looked as if everything was in its place. Not even dust had set on the counter.

"So? Blake always cleans the kitchen because Ruby would normally hide things everywhere when she cleaned it a few times. You forget how doped Ruby is most of the time doing even the most mundane tasks." Yang spoke as Weiss quickly began to look around the small room.

"But that's just it. She says their big fight was a few days ago. Blake would have gone to Emerald's, Ruby went onto a binge and eventually wound up in the woods." Weiss started as she opened one of the drawers only to close it moments later. She quickly turned around to look into the white small dishwasher. "One of the carving knives is missing. And judging by the handle design it was the one lodged into Blake's chest."

"What are you saying Weiss!?" Yang shouted quickly regaining her voice to speak again, "Are you saying Rubes did this?" Yang hissed. She couldn't believe her ears. Weiss was one of Ruby's best friends.

"Of course not Yang! Ruby does a lot of illegal things, but she doesn't have it in her to kill anyone. Let alone Blake." Weiss hissed back. Desperately trying to clarify what she meant. "What I'm saying is this sick fuck is trying to get us to believe she did. Probably even wiped what they touched down. Just to make sure their prints weren't on anything." Weiss continued as they walked into Ruby and Blake's bedroom.

"You see. Ruby came back from where ever she passed out, to get changed. Old clothes she hasn't worn in a few years spread around. Looks like some may have some blood on it. I bet if we test it it will come back positive for Blake's." Weiss spoke as Yang relaxed at the clarification.

Yang let out a loud exhale through her nose as she rubbed her hand through her hair. "We need to know the time of death. For all we know we could have just missed him. Or Ruby had gotten changed while Blake lay bleeding to death." Yang spoke as they quickly walked out of the apartment. Neither wanting to be there any longer than they needed to be.

"Just call Ruby on the way back. She is off her meds, and I'm worried that this may be too much of a shock to her system."

"Okay, she probably needs a lot more than just us talking, but Pyrrha is swamped right now and it's only going to get worse."

"I know."

Ruby looked at the glass of the dark green liquid before she quickly swallowed it. She turned to the dark brown bottle and ripped a part of her shirt off. 'I can't fucking believe Weiss doesn't have a single fucking cloth here!' Ruby yelled internally as she opened the bottle.

She poured some of the clear liquid onto the rag of clothing to quickly closed the bottle and inhaled deeply from the rag.

"I can't believe she thinks I don't know where I can get fucking ether. Especially when I need it like this." Ruby spoke to herself as she poured another glass of the green liquid. She could feel the ether beginning to take affect as she took another large mouthful of the absinthe.

"Now I just need to debate if I should overdose intentionally. No point in continuing a semi sober life if Blake is gone. Finally give Qrow what he wants..." Ruby closed her eyes as she rested her head against the back of the couch she was sitting on.

"I'd say that would be a bad call. The guilty always run."

That voice. Ruby recognised it, and it doesn't make sense. She opened her eyes to see Blake sitting next to her. Clothes still soaked in blood. That grin still present.

Ruby began to move flail away from her seat. "This can't be real. This is all a bad trip!" Ruby yelled as she tried to put some distance between her and her Faunus lover's body.

"How do you know this isn't real?" The woman asked as Ruby began to look around to see if it really was just a bad trip. Anything else. "I felt your dead body! I held one of your ears as they waited for the crime scene techs to get there! I cried holding you!" Ruby yelled back as she began to pace around.

She felt like she was losing it. She needed to know how it was happening but didn't want to get closer to the phantom of her mind.

"Well then it makes sense to contribute this all to some bad..." The phantom began as it looked closer at the bottle, "Ether... someone is going big to try and forget things, or your tolerance dropped." Blake spoke replacing the bottle.

"Just shut up!" Ruby yelled pounding the side of her head with her open fist. She closed her eyes tight, not wanting to pay the phantom any intention. She heard a phone that wasn't hers go off as she opened them the phantom was gone.

She ran over to where the noise was coming from and picked up the phone. "WHAT!" Ruby yelled as she pulled the phone away to look at the caller id.

"Relax Rubes it is just me. I'm just calling to check up on you."

Author's Note:

Okay... So that was a thing. Wrote that in like two decent sittings. Kinda find it odd how easy I find it is to write for. I hope you guys enjoy it. I'll see you all next chapter!

Wow that was quite the chapter, I wonder what's gonna happen next… oh yeah it's my turn... I have to write the next chapter and I know I am going to have such fun with it. Please review and all that jazz and I'll try to get the next chapter written soon. - dz