A/N: Here is another chapter for all of you. I'm more happy with this chapter then I was with the last one. But I did hit some road blocks along the way, I only really had the first scene planned. Any ways I hope you enjoy.


Fears

Blake was awakened by the sound of a scream. Her instincts made her jump from her bed, only to have her head slam into the one above her. She dropped back down grabbing her head in pain. The black haired girl regained her senses and opened her eyes to find sunlight flooding into the room. She then remembered the scream and quickly but carefully got out of her bed. She saw that both Weiss and Yang and heard the scream as well. They saw Ruby sitting on the far side of the foot of her bed, her body tensed up and a terrified look on her face.

"Ruby what's wro…?" Yang began to ask. Blake turned to see why she stopped, only to see a look of fear on her partner's face. She followed her violet eyes to only have her own fear rise. At the head of Ruby's bed were a black rose and a letter. He had been here. Right next to all of them. And none of them were aware of his presence. Blake prided herself on her senses, but to have someone completely outwit them that it put them in danger was terrifying.

"Ruby it's going to be okay." Yang climbed up to her sister and hugged her. Blake saw that she was trying to keep on a brave face for Ruby, but she could see the look of fear in her partner's eyes. Suddenly their door was slammed open by a red haired girl.

"What happened?" Pyrrha asked in concern as she looked around the room, her weapon at the ready. "We heard someone scream." Over her shoulder Blake could see the rest of Team JNPR, all still in their pajamas, with their weapons at the ready. One look from Yang told her to get them out of here.

"It's alright," the raven haired girl said as she walked over to her friend, "just a little scare."

"But…" Pyrrha said in protest but didn't resist when Blake pushed her out of the room. In the hallway she saw that Team JNPR weren't the only ones to be awoken by Ruby's scream. Many of their fellow classmates were in the hallway, some with their weapons in hand, all looking towards her.

"What's going on here?" She turned to see Professor Goodwitch coming down the other side of the hallway, a clear look of annoyance on her face. "Why do all of you have you weapons out?"

"Professor it's…" Blake tried to stamper out some kind of response but fell flat. Once Goodwitch saw the now broken door she was going to demand some answers.

"Everyone, back to your rooms." The blonde woman ordered before entering Team RWBY's room. No one dared to disobey her. "What happened?" She asked the team.

"He… He was here." Weiss said nervously. "He was right here and we didn't even know it."

"Who was here?" The Professor asked.

"Him." The white haired girl said exasperated. "That psychopathic stalker."

"What?" A look of shock crossed the elder woman's face. "How?"

"I don't know." Ruby said finally recovering from were scare. "But he left another rose and letter." Remembering the letter, Blake walked up to the head of her leader's bed and picked up and silently read it.

Oh my fair, Rose. The obsessive letter started as it usually did. How it filled me with joy to be so close to you once again. The distance that has been between us has been nearly unbearable. To see you again in your blossoming beauty has closed another gap in our destiny. I know you didn't get my last little. I just want you to know that our love will become a Beacon in Vale's sky.

Blake read over the letter again to absorb the information. This nutcase had been near Ruby at least once before now. Had he broken into their room that time as well? It appeared that her theory that this obsession with Ruby being a ruse was now meaningless. And she feared now what would be coming for the young girl.

Suddenly Yang snatched the letter out of her hand and began to read the letter to herself. Ruby looked over her sister's shoulder to get her own look. Weiss appeared to want to see it as well but seemed to hold herself back, as if she didn't want to intrude. As her partner read the letter Blake saw the blonde's hands going tighter and tighter. The bawler's violet eyes turned into a shade of red. Ruby's face just grew more and more concerned.

"I'm going to kill this bastard." Yang gritted through her teeth.

"Ms. Xiao Long," Goodwitch said firmly, Blake had nearly forgotten she was there, "please remain calm."

"Remain calm?" The blonde said quietly before raising her voice. "Remain Calm? How am I supposed to remain calm when he got this close to my sister?"

"Yang." Ruby soothing voice broke through the tension and she placed her hand on her older sister's shoulder. It seemed to work as Yang's burning eyes turned back to their normal violet color.

"Sorry, Ruby." Yang said solemnly.

"Alright," Goodwitch said with a sigh, "you all should get dressed. We'll go talk to Professor Ozpin about this." The elder woman then took a look at the entrance to the room. "And I'll send someone to fix your door."


It didn't take long for word of their morning scare to spread across Beacon. Most of the students were scared, particularly the girls. Weiss couldn't blame them. Her team was all girls and it was their room that had been broken into. She saw students whispering to one other; some taking quick looks at her and her teammates as they walked to the cafeteria building. What they were thinking happened, the heiress could only guess. They were still being told to keep what was really happening, a secret.

Once they had gotten dressed Goodwitch had taken them to Ozpin's office where he had asked them some questions on the event. Most of which they couldn't answer as they had slept through the intrusion. They handed over the letter and rose so the Headmaster could pass it along to Detective Pyrrhus to help with his investigation. After that they decided they needed to get some breakfast to calm their nerves. Which was hard to do with everyone staring at them. The moment they entered the cafeteria the whole room went quiet and everyone turned to look at them.

"What?" The aggressiveness in Yang's voice made them all jump; it even made Weiss flinch a bit. All of them quickly returned to their own breakfasts and start talking about something with their teammates. The white haired girl could tell they were making a great deal of effort at avoiding mentioning her team, clearly wanting to avoid the fiery blonde's ire.

Once they got their food they chose a quiet corner of the room to sit down and eat. They didn't say anything or even make an attempt to start a conversation. What was there to say anyways? 'Hey Ruby, I know you must be worked up about your crazy stalker getting into our room but what are you plans for today?' Their quiet meal became disturbed when four sets of plates were set down across from them.

"Uh… Hey… Guys." Jaune stuttered to say as he stood on the other side with the rest of his team. "How are you guys doing?" None of them gave him an answer. Weiss couldn't help but notice that they had the room's attention again. One glare from Yang corrected that. "Sorry if we're bothering you, we can go sit somewhere else."

"It's alright," Blake said breaking the uneasy silence, "we just have a lot on our minds."

"That's understandable." Ren said somberly as he sat down, the rest of his team followed.

"Um…," Pyrrha said as she situated herself, adverting her eyes from them, "I'm sorry about the door. When I heard the scream I feared the worse."

"It's okay." Ruby said in quiet sincerity. "I appre- I mean we appreciate the concern." Weiss looked over to her partner to see the hooded girl ducking her head down from her near slip up. At the corner of her eye she noticed that Team JNPR had caught it as well but they didn't press the matter. Upon closer inspection the white haired girl saw that Ruby had barely touched her food. Clearly she was thinking too much on what was going on. But Weiss had no idea what to say to help her.

"So," Jaune said, "what happ-"

"No." Yang's voice had a firmness to it, but the blonde boy persisted.

"But-," he tried again.

"I said no." The bawler said more annoyed now. Weiss could feel the tension rising and it was only a matter of time before something snapped.

"I'm just trying-" the swordsman said more timidly.

"Jaune!" Yang nearly yelled. Weiss saw some of the nearby students flinch but they kept their heads down. "Now is not the time or the place."

The silence that continued afterwards was beginning to be too much for the heiress. She looked over to her partner only to see Ruby picking at her food. She hadn't eaten anything. Her silver eyes just stared absent mindedly at her plate.

"Ruby?" Weiss tried to get the young girl's attention quietly. The dual-color haired girl looked up to her and Weiss redirected her attention to her partner's plate.

"Oh." Ruby said solemnly. "I guess I'm not that hungry."

Weiss looked over to her teammates to see Blake with a concerned look and Yang shaking slightly. Suddenly Ruby pushed her plate away and got up from her seat.

"I'm…," she started to say, "I'm going for a walk." Weiss wanted to protest but Ruby was already moving for the cafeteria's doors.

"Ruby, wait!" Yang got up and chased after her sister. Weiss looked over to Blake to see a look of worry cross the girl's face. They both got up and went after the two siblings. The white haired girl heard several more feet following behind them indicating that JNPR was following them but she didn't look behind her to check.

Ruby had already made it out the door before Yang had reached her. Weiss and Blake had just caught up when the blonde opened the door only to find rose petals hanging in the air.

"Damn it, Ruby." Yang said in frustration. By then Weiss could feel every eye of the cafeteria on them, but she stopped caring about them.


She couldn't deny it anymore. Ruby was scared. Scared that this man could get to her so easily and when she was vulnerable. Scared at what he could do to her. But most of all she was scared for her sister and teammates. They had been in the room with her. They had been just as vulnerable as her. This guy could have killed them so easily if he thought it would demonstrate his twisted sense of love.

Ruby was sitting at the edge of a cliff overlooking Vale. She remembered sitting at the very spot after the White Fang's attack that led Grimm into the city during her second semester during her first year at Beacon. She remembered her conflicting thoughts back then. She had wondered if she had tried hard enough to stop the train. People had been injured during that attack and the young girl wondered how bad things could have gotten if her team had fallen to the Grimm before reinforcements arrived.

Now she sat their once more with conflicting thoughts. Despite the clues she and her team had gathered there was nothing to go on to find her stalker. He had remained completely elusive. People would continue to die until he came for her directly. Sure his targets were terrorists, but, like Blake had always defended, the White Fang were misguided by their hatred and anger, Ruby never held them any ill will. They didn't deserve what this man had been doing to them. She wanted to stop this madness but didn't know what to do.

"Ruby." She heard her sister's voice behind her before the blonde sat down next to her. The extra footsteps told her that Weiss and Blake had followed. Yang draped her arm over her shoulder. "Sis, I know that this is becoming difficult for you to handle. But I'm here for you."

"We're all here for you." Weiss corrected. Ruby couldn't help but lean into her sister at her teammates attempt to comfort her.

"We will stop him." Blake said firmly. "Just don't run yourself into the ground by over thinking about this."

Ruby couldn't help but subconsciously laugh, vaguely remembering when Yang had done so many years ago and when Blake did so last year. The dual-color haired girl never thought that she would be in the same situation. But the questions still burned in her mind.

"How?" She asked. "How can we stop him when we have nothing to do so?"

"We'll find something, sis." Yang said holding her tighter. "Just give it time."


A/N: I hope this chapter came off better than the last. Thought the ending could use more work but didn't really know what to do. As always I appreciate feedback.