Back to this. I do hope you guys didn't mind the wait. I was just finishing another story, that as of me starting to type this, hasn't had the final chapter published. Ah well. Slight tunnel vision, but that is done, so now let's do tunnel vision on this.

Chapter 5: Day two

Nora woke up and she was unsure of how she was meant to take Ruby just staring at her. Or, if she was truly starting to lose it, through her. Like she was trying to figure something deep out. But the past handful of conversations she had the day prior, it was really just something trivial. Like counting in something that she called the golden ratio.

She even got offended when Nora didn't know what that was. How the hell was she. It sounded made up. Or like some natural human reaction, even though that would be the first Ruby would have shown in a near twenty four hour time frame. She had seen more human reactions out of a brick wall. It was a shock to her system.

Nora began to wave her hand in front of Ruby's face, shocked to see it hadn't changed. 'Maybe I am going insane. I'm talking about my birth parents easily, she was just looking right through me, saw Ren lose at checkers... or was it chess. Who cares both suck. I wonder what is for breakfast. I hope it is something good tasty. Like Pancakes!'

"Ruby." A voice, it wasn't sharp, or harsh. It was just from someone attempting to snap both women out of their own contemplation.

Nora swung her head to see the dark haired doctor that came in yesterday. The name was alluding her. Not that she cared. She didn't call her. It was Ruby.

"D-D-D-Doctor B-B-B-Blake." Ruby stuttered as Blake smiled taking a step closer. She held two cups, handing one to Ruby and the other to Nora.

"Both of you take your pills, and Ruby... here is your daily schedule." Blake started as she handed Ruby a sheet of paper. "Nora, your schedule was given to you yesterday. As far as I know you and I have a meeting in thirty minutes. So I suggest getting dressed and something to eat." Blake stated as she waited for Nora to swallow the pill concoction. She knew Ruby would. If they didn't hand them to her on time she would be at the dispensary window asking for them. She had become a creature of routine, that the staff knew wasn't going to do anything bad with them.

Nora just shrugged and swallowed the pills. They didn't do anything negative yesterday. And they looked the same. She just hoped she wouldn't get the real dangerous ones now. If she was a doctor here that is exactly what she would do. But she would also need to listen to annoying logically solved problems.

She would more than likely kill all her patients. Which also wouldn't do the hospital any favours, and from her experience, the staff are friendly. It was just some of the people were almost tin foil hat level of crazy.

"Right doc. See you in a bit then." Nora waved as Blake nodded her head turning on her heel and walked out. Ruby would state any problem she had during their talk later in the day, and most likely will try her best to put up with Nora just for the remainder of the day. When Ruby was on her medication it took a fair bit to set her off, but once it happened, it was next to impossible to reel her in.

As Blake left, Ruby opened her mouth and swallowed each pill individually. Nora was surprised, that Ruby would put herself through such a long process. Nora's throat was drying up from seeing Ruby swallow several chalk like pills without a drink. The ones with a plastic coating she wouldn't mind. That was what she had.

"I'm missing one. Where is it!?" Ruby yelled as she jumped off her bed and began to look on the floor, making ever slight movements to find just that one pill. It was almost laughable to Nora. The once remarkably organised girl was now in slight disarray. Nora could tell she was about to tear the room apart.

"Ruby... do you-" Nora started but was quickly cut off by a loud "DON'T SPEAK! I NEED TO FIND IT!"

Ren came rushing in, fearing Nora had done something adverse to Ruby's treatment. When he saw Nora standing rather still, looking frightened to even move, and Ruby on the floor looking rather intently.

"What happened?" Ren asked as Ruby continued her search. He turned to Nora looking for an answer. And prayed that it wasn't Nora to cause such a reaction out of Ruby. He could not guarantee Nora's departure the next day if she caused such a back step in the treatment of patients.

"She just said one was missing and began to search. I'm assuming she meant one of her pills." Nora got out as soft as she could as fast as she could. She saw Ruby nearly turn aggressive just there. She did not want to see her turn truly violent. She was beginning to learn that Weiss didn't say a single joke yesterday. Weiss said she may scream loudly because of a nightmare. And she did. Weiss said she could be violent, and while it was just yelling, it was becoming more and more likely.

Ren kneeled closer to Ruby being careful to not step into her field of search. "Ruby. Which one was missing?" Ren asked as Ruby continued her search. "THE CITALOPRAM!" Ruby yelled at Ren who seemed to ignore it entirely. He just gestured Nora out, following close behind her.

"Now you see why we have told you, she can be aggressive. But be glad it was only yelling. I've seen her do worse. But just go get something to eat. I think it is pancakes. I need to get her that pill." Ren stated as he jogged at a fast pace down a hallway. Ruby was a creature of routine, and if that routine was broken, it often lead to her taking a back step, which was harder to pull her out of.

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Nora wasn't sure what the point of the exercise that Blake gave her was. It was a puzzle. Granted the number of pieces was higher than one Nora would go for. She didn't even know they made five thousand piece puzzles. But with the medication she was on, she found it oddly easier to focus on one thing. Or focus on anything really.

"So Nora, as to not startle you, Weiss had to inform me about you in group yesterday." Blake began as Nora just looked up from her puzzle. Confused partially as to what Blake meant, until it clicked. Blake meant what she said about her parents.

"Doesn't that violate doctor patient what ya call it?" Nora asked as she placed another piece into it's place. She knew she should be pissed. Or rather that is what she was saying mentally what she should be. But decided to reel in her anger in case Weiss was doing her job.

"Doctor-Patient Confidentiality. And she did but at the same time didn't break it. She shouldn't have told me the story, but she should have informed me about the subject matter. Because from what she said, you gave her very little to make a call on. So if you don't mind I want to talk about that. Of course if you have another topic I wouldn't mind." Blake spoke as she wrote something down. As if Nora's question was drastically important.

"My parents were killed from a practise that was barbaric when countries created it. Sorry I don't enjoy talking about it. I said the same thing to Weiss. I'm more worried about Ruby. She just seemed to become stupidly aggressive because a single pill was missing. I didn't even see her in the cafeteria after I assumed Ren got her one." Nora continued as she placed a piece. She smiled at the picture forming. Granted she was missing a lot of the formed pieces but the slight picture she got was of puppies playing.

"Yes and when I get my break I'll have words with the nurses in there. But out of all the various pills Ruby takes, all of which are important I would say that is the most important one." Blake started as she observed Nora smiling at the puzzle. "But do you mind if I ask why you always seem to shift the conversation to her? I mean out of our first encounter and now, she seems to be very important to your life for some reason." Blake asked as Nora placed the final piece she wanted to.

"Her sister was a close friend. And while I never met Ruby, Yang always talked about her with such pride." Nora said softly. She was still mad that she couldn't make it to her funeral. She loathed it in every aspect. "Hell, when I tried to find Ruby after Yang's funeral, I couldn't. I never thought the 'Ruby' Ren talked about was the same one Yang would do anything to protect." Nora continued to look forward. Just beyond Blake like she would find her answer there.

"Well my chats with Ruby, she cared for her sister as well. But let's not change the topic onto Ruby. This time is all about you, if you don't want to talk about your parents, let's talk about someone else. Maybe your relationship with Ren." Blake stated as Nora just shrugged.

She looked at the remaining pieces, she only had two puppies and they looked like they were playing. But she still had thousands of pieces left. "Not much to talk about. His parents adopted me, he has been a brother to me since then. I know just about everything about him. But he doesn't know a lot about my past before he came into the picture." Nora stated as she was about to go back to the puzzle.

"Nora, have you always tried to dodge questions about your past? Or is it just about the part where your parents appear even slightly?" Blake asked as Nora threw the piece she held down onto the table.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Nora spoke crossing her arms. She wasn't sure if Blake was intentionally talking about the subject that she clearly didn't want to talk about. If Nora was being brutally honest with herself chances were she was, but just to get some of the needed answers before she could make a call on if Nora should stay longer.

"Well, the act of aggression, while not an example you would be used to call as aggression, speaks differently." Blake stated rather calmly as Nora began to glare. "I also think that some of your problems stem from their death that you keep bottled up." Blake continued as Nora was debating if she should just throw the heaviest thing she could at Blake.

"Nora. You clearly don't understand the gravity of your situation. Ren called in every favour and then some to get this evaluation. This will never appear on your record unlike a jail sentence would, no matter how short of a time it was. Those few months in jail, while seem like nothing to you, but you will need to declare it entering any country for the next twenty years, not to mention according to the trust fund set up for you, it is all voided and the money goes to the government. That then turns into you needing to get your own job which would be next to impossible with a criminal history." Blake stated dry enough to get Nora to drop the glare and take up a much less defensive position.

"He did all this because he cares about you Nora. The least you can do is take it seriously and not resort to dodging every little question anyone has about your past." Blake's voice taking a far more gentler tact for the remainder of her statement.

"If you want to know about them so bad, just search them. You'll know just barely less then me." Nora's voice laced with a distinct level of venom, few had ever seen her use. She never liked anger clouding her judgement.

(Line Break...)

"Okay Ruby. Are you feeling better?" Weiss asked. Shortly after Ren came back with the needed pill, he had to inform not only Blake but Weiss as well. Blake who had been in a meeting still took the information and wasn't overly pleased. Weiss who was free wanted to make sure she was going to be alright.

Ruby nodded her head. Fearing she may snap at Weiss. She had already snapped at two people. One of the people being Ren. She was fine snapping at Nora. Nora had been grating on her nerves. It was just a miracle Ruby hadn't jumped up to strangle her.

"Ruby, can you use your words? I need a verbal response." Weiss spoke as Ruby continued to nod.

"Y-y-y-yes. I-i-i'm f-f-fine." Ruby stuttered as she looked around at the mess she had created just for one small pill. She didn't even find it. Ren said there was a mistake at the dispensary. But Ruby wasn't sure what to believe. She knew Blake was going to yell at someone if it was a mistake on their part.

"Okay Ruby, do you want Ren and me to leave so you can get ready for the day or do you want someone to come in here to clean the mess up?" Weiss asked already knowing the answer. Ruby wanted to be the one to clean up the mess. Ruby practically needed to clean up the mess, if they got someone to clean it, they would mix up her order of things.

"I-I-I-I need to c-c-clean it." Ruby stuttered as Weiss nodded and walked out leaving Ruby to her small job. As Ren walked out he closed the door. Ruby waited for a few minutes before she pulled out the single thing she needed to start her day with outside her morning pills.

A single picture of her and her sister. She needed to be reminded that Yang was real. She was there for a reason. She was the reason Yang was gone. She was the reason everyone from that time now hates her, and with a just reason. And she would just die in the asylum just fine if it meant Yang would forgive her in the next life.

Author's Note:

Is it wrong I enjoy making Ruby suffer? I feel like it is, but I'm not apologising. She is far too innocent for my liking. But I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. Onto writing the next.