Yang groaned as she opened her eyes. She didn't remember how she ended up on the couch or how a bottle of aspirin ended up on the coffee table. Yang reached for the aspirin and downed the pulls dry without a second thought. Yang slowly got up from the couch in order to minimize her hangover but that didn't help much. She smelled the smell of eggs and bacon wafering from the kitchen and slowly made her way over to investigate.

"Aren't you supposed to be at work?" said Yang as she sat down at the island table they had in the kitchen.

"Nope, neither of us are because judging by how wasted you got last night you remembered what day it is." said Ruby as she plated the eggs and bacon, placing them in front of Yang.

"I don't want to go…" muttered Yang as she began to eat with her meal.

"You don't have to go if you don't want to, but it would be nice if you did so I won't have to go alone… and I'm sure mom and dad would like it if you came along."

Yang sighed and ran her human hand through her hair. "Alright, I'll go, but only if you force uncle Qrow to go and there is no way you are gonna be able to drag that old geezer out of work to visit some graves."

"They aren't just graves Yang, they're what's left of mom and dad and I would really love to visit them on Mom's birthday, even if that means dragging Qrow with us, then so be it." Yang continued to eat as Ruby plotted ways to trick her uncle into coming to the graveyard with them. A few moments later she saw Yang's prosthetic twitch and then a few moments later twitch again.

"Hey,Yang? Can you do that exercise you learned when you were just starting out with the arm?"

Yang looked at Ruby with a questioning gaze but complied and set her arm out on the table and began the exercise. She tapped each finger against the marble counter to send out a different message in morse code. She tapped the message 'good' with her thumb, tapped 'first' with her index, 'fuck' with her middle finger and 'ring' with her ring finger, but when the pinky refused to respond, they knew they had a problem.

Yang continued to attempt to tap out the next message with her pinky, but it only twitched and refused to move to Yang's commands. "Yeah that's not good, I'm going to need to disable the arm and partially disassemble it to properly assess the damage, then I'll see if it's a quick fix like a loose wire or a long fix that will take a day or two to fix depending on the damage."

"Sooo, does this mean I'm out of the trip to the graves?" Yang looked at Ruby with her faux puppy dog eyes as Ruby simply glared.

"Yang, I don't care if you obliterate the arm into a million pieces and force me to build a new one. You are not getting out of this trip no matter what. Now take your shirt off so that I can properly disassemble the arm."

Yang rolled her eyes and sighed, "Alright, alright."

Yang began to unbutton her shirt as Ruby went to retrieve the tools she has made to be able to quickly disassemble the arm if need be. As soon as she fished out the first L-shaped tool, she inserted it into one of the holes under the top metal shell that protected the delicate inner wiring, and gave it a light tap with a small hammer. The shell popped off without a problem and Ruby began to look inside the arm with a small flashlight.

"You know this kinda reminds me of when I was first trying out the arm."

"God you were such a pain to deal with, I had literally invented extremely innovative tech for you to test out and there you go complaining about how you couldn't move it and such."

"Yeah yeah, whatever."

Soon they began to reminisce on that fateful day

"If you would sit still for five minutes while I get all of the neural sensors connected we wouldn't be having this problem."

"Ruby, I literally can't move it at all. It's a hunk of junk that has no purpose being attached to me and the chip you put in my neck to control it is itchy as all hell and I want it out." Yang began to fidget and attempt to mess with the prosthetic but Ruby slapped her hand away before she could touch anything.

"It's itchy because it's healing and continuously trying to connect to a device. Which it can't connect because you won't. Stop. Fucking. Moving…

there are you happy? It's finally connecting. Can you move any fingers? You should be able to control at least one."

"I ca- wait, it's moving… Oh my god it's actually moving. Yes! And it's the finger that expresses all of my feelings." Soon the middle finger began to twitch and rise away from the semi closed hand.

Ruby sighed and rubbed the bridge of her nose with her index and forefinger, "...Of course it's that one… Why am I surprised?"

As Yang played with the finger and watched in amazement as it slowly bent and unbent at her command, she said, "I noticed that the thing in my neck stopped itching as much as soon as I was able to move the finger."

"That's because it's finally connected and at least a good percent of capacity, after a few weeks and/or months, you should have full control of the arm and may be able to perform surgery again depending on your chief of staff if he lets you operate again, if not you can just do what any other doctor does."

"Let's see if Qrow or Coco will even let me near the hospital first."

"Yeah, good luck with that." said Ruby; then they both began to laugh.

"I still can't believe that's the first finger you were able to control." sighed Ruby as she sorted through more wires.

"Anything is possible if you believe hard enough." Yang laughs.

A few minutes later, Ruby found the problem and glared at Yang. "You were punching walls again weren't you? The supports wouldn't be this fried if you were just doing normal things like surgery or anything normal people do. But no, you just had to go around punching walls with your robo-arm. Now I'm going to have to replace the supports with stronger ones so that you don't go and break it again. Aw crap that means that I'm going to have rewire a few things so that that doesn't break other things in the system." Ruby ran a hand through her hair in frustration and began to work in the damaged pieces first.

"I'm sorry Rubes…"

"Yeah yeah. But now, you have to come with me with no complaints and without Qrow."

Yang sighed; "Fine…"

Ruby smirked and continued the relatively easy fix she had blown out of proportion to guilt Yang into going. She really didn't want to go alone. Especially not today…

After Ruby finished fixing and assembling Yang's arm they left to the graveyard to visit their parents for their mother's birthday. When they arrived, Yang stuck her hands in her pockets and almost had to drag her feet up the small hill until they reached the graves she dreaded seeing every time they came up here. Yang still felt the guilt of not being in that car with them in their final moments. That maybe she could have just held them up as she usually did when they went on trips. Then maybe, they would still be alive.

Yang's heart clenched as she saw the head stones. On the left side sat the grave of the woman she always saw as her mother. Summer Rose, beloved mother and wife, may her kindness and melodic voice always be remembered. On the right side sat the grave of her father, who was the best father anyone could dream of. Tears threatened to fight their way off her eyes but she willed them away. She had to be there for Ruby, it was one of the few days she allowed herself to just fall apart after being strong for so long.

Ruby stood before the marble markers and began to tell them about what had been happening over the last few months. Tears streamed down her face but she kept her smile as she told them about working in the bakery and all of the fun things she has learned since working there, and interacting with people on the daily. Something she had never done before and was proving to be good for her.

When Ruby began to tremble, Yang wrapped her arm around her waist and let her lean on her as Ruby began to sob into Yang's shoulder. "Why'd they have to leave Yang? Why couldn't they stay just a little bit longer? Why did I have to live?... I… I wish I had gone with them, so that I wouldn't feel so alone. I feel so alone all the time Yang. You're always working and Sun has Neptune and and…" Ruby began to hiccup as she held on to Yang for dear life.

"You're not alone Ruby, you'll always have me and Sun and all your friends at the bakery. All you have to do is tell us you want us to stay with you and you'll never be alone for as long as I am here to hold you until you feel better."

A sad smile appeared on Ruby's face as she remembered how she is the one taking care of Yang most days instead of the other way around. "Will you sing me mom and dad's song? You know the one they would always sing and dance to when they were happy?"

"Their wedding song?"

"Yeah."

Yang chuckled and cleared her throat, "It's been awhile since I've sung anything other than a drinking song but I'll give it a shot…" Yang took a deep breath, and began.

"J'en vois des qui se donnent, donnent

Des bijoux dans le cou

C'est beau mais quand même

Ce n'sont que des cailloux

Des pierres qui vous roulent, roulent

Et qui vous coulent sur les joues

J'aime mieux que tu m'aimes

Sans dépenser tes sous

Moi je m'en moque

J'envoie valser les trucs en toc

Les cages dorées

Toi quand tu m'serres très fort

C'est comme un trésor

Et ça, et ça vaut de l'or

J'en vois des qui s'lancent des regards et des fleurs

Puis qui s'laissent quelque part ou ailleurs

Entre les roses et les choux

J'en connais des tas qui feraient mieux

De s'aimer un peu

Un peu comme nous qui nous aimons beaucoup

Et d'envoyer ailleurs valser

Les bagues et les coeurs en collier

Car quand on s'aime très fort

C'est comme un trésor

Et ça, et ça vaut de l'or

Moi pour toujours j'envoie valser

Les preuves d'amour en or plaqué

Puisque tu m'serres très fort

C'est là mon trésor

C'est toi, toi qui vaut de l'or"

By the time Yang finished the song; Ruby had stopped crying and had begun to stare blankly at the dew covered grass. When Ruby didn't respond for several minutes, Yang began to tug Ruby away, "Come on Ruby, I think that's enough for today."

Ruby attempted to stay in place for a few more minutes but she was too emotionally drained to continue to struggle. They soon arrived home and Ruby could almost see the ghost of her parents dancing around the living room in their pajamas singing their song. It had quickly become their favorite song the first day they met in her mother's home in the Basque country. It was just another stop for her father as he was backpacking through Spain and into France. It was a one in a million chance meeting for her mother was selling things in a street shop that changed location every other weeks and her father was just had just happened to forget to get water in his last stop and had passed in front of Summer's shop.

Ruby dragged her feet to her room as Yang began to make hot chocolate on the stove. She lied in her bed and stared at the ceiling, trying to keep her thoughts away from the events that occurred on that fateful day. She curled into a ball and began to chant, "Another day Ruby… another day… I don't need this right now. I've already cried enough until the next time I have to go and visit them." Her thoughts kept trying to force themselves in as she tried her hardest to force them out. "No, no, no, please no not this again." Tears began to stream down her cheeks as the memory that had been burned into her brain began.

The ringing in Ruby's ears made it hard to concentrate on a single thing. Ruby's eyes slowly opened as she took in her surroundings. Her father was leaning heavily against the steering wheel causing one long honk. Her mother was bent in an awkward position with half her body trapped into part of the door.

"Mom? Dad?" whispered Ruby as she gathered the energy to gently shake her Mom's shoulder before her dad'. Tears began to pour down her cheeks as she began to notice their breathing or lack thereof. "Mom! Dad! Please! Please wake up!" when neither responded she turned to the left and saw Weiss.

She had yet to see her or even worry about her until she saw a glass shard protruding from the side of her neck. She watched her gag in horror. She was still alive and gagging on her own blood. Her eyes turned to meet Ruby's as she began to mouth words with no sound. Ruby saw pure fear in her cerulean eyes as she watched them slowly dim in horror.

Ruby began to scream and attempted to shove her way out of the car before she hit her head on the bent car ceiling; only seeing darkness until she woke up in the hospital a few weeks later.

Ruby began to shiver as the memory replayed over and over again. "How could I have been so useless…" she whispered. "Why didn't help them? I was too stupid and just sat and screamed as she died." More tears fell down her cheeks as she grabbed the sides of her hair and pulled. The pain was nothing compared to how she felt about that day.

Ruby quietly sobbed until she heard a soft knock on her bed room door. Ruby didn't bother to say a word as Yang walked in with a steaming cup of hot chocolate.

"Hey there Rubes, I brought you some hot chocolate… Do you need anything? One of your teddies? Or maybe I can go grab some bread from the bakery."

Ruby shook her head and refused to even look at Yang, she didn't want to be reminded of the lie she told Yang that fateful day. She lied about Weiss dying instantly and will take that lie to her grave. Yang quickly gave up on trying to cheer Ruby up, but not before she came up with an idea for one last ditch effort to make Ruby happy again.

Yang grabbed her winter coat off the hanger by the front door and rushed outside. She soon made it to the Belladonna bakery and hurried inside to escape the cold. The bakery itself was rather empty when she walked in and the only person behind the counter was a dark haired woman.

"Hello, welcome to the Belladonna bakery, how may I help you?" She asked as she sets down the cloth she had been using to wipe down the counter.

"Hi. My name is Yang and my sister talks very fondly of you guys since she started working here a little while ago. I'm not sure if you're Blake or Cinder but if you could come over to our house to cheer her up it would be much appreciated."

I have no clue which one she has a crush on but I have a 50/50 shot at getting it right, so I better not fuck up and if I do I can always call up Sun. I really hope this makes her feel a bit better, I know randomly seeing my crushes usually make me feel at least a tad better. Yang thought as she watched the girl's face contort with confusion.

"Is Ruby okay?" Asked the woman as she began to walk around the counter, picking up her coat and scarf along the way.

"She's okay, it's just that today she's a bit down in the dumps so I need someone to cheer her up." Said Yang as she began to walk towards the door.

"Alright, just wait here a second, I have to tell the baker that I'm going to be leaving for a little while." with that she quickly sped to the kitchen and after a few minutes of drowned out arguing, the woman returned and walked out the door with Yang.

As they walked to Ruby and Yang's house, Yang said, "So I didn't catch you name."

"It's Cinder"

~A.N.~

I'm glad I was finally able to upload this thing, my wifi has been in the frits and its been a bitch to deal with. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter and I would like to thank you for reading and if you leave a review it will be very appreciated. I would like to thank legacy23 for editing this for me and Till next time peoples!

translation for the song j'envoie valser (letting go) by Zazie

I see some that give, give

Jewels (word game with kiss) in the neck

It's beautiful but still

It's only rocks

Rocks that roll you, roll you

And roll down your cheeks

I like it better when you love me

Without spending your money

But I don't care

I'm letting go of the sham

The golden cages

When you hold me really tight

It's like a treasure

And that, that's worth gold

I see some sending glances and flowers

Then letting go somewhere or somewhere else

Between roses and cabbages

I know lots that better

Love each other a bit

A bit like us who love each other a lot

And letting go somewhere else

The rings and hearts in necklaces

Because when you love each other very much

It's like a treasure,

And that, that's worth gold

I'm letting go forever

Of the fake gold love proofs

Since you're holding me real tight

That's where my treasure is

That's you, you that's worth gold

p.s.- I don't own this song or RWBY.