Hi everyone! I'm sorry about the wait! I didn't have any access to my computer over the weekend and when I got back I was having technical difficulties. I wasn't able to get on and finish/post Nora's chapter until now. Sorry about the wait!

I think you'll love this chapter anyways though. Personally I find this to be the most heartbreaking chapter of them all except for Weiss mainly just because Ruby and the heiress were in love. Hope you enjoy!

I just updated this chapter because I noticed a few errors within and a set up for Pyrrha's chapter so if you get an update about this you don't need to read it again. Speaking of the red haired warrior her chapter will likely be up in the next hour or two. I hope. Definitely tonight so no need to worry!

Nora

I sniff and lift my head up, biting my lip trying to hold back tears from overflowing again. I look at Ren who's kneeling in front of my bed with a desperate smile on his face. "Oh! I have another one!" he says.

He lifts up his pink lock of hair and asks, "Remember when you did this? You died my hair back in combat school? I was sleeping and you snuck into my dorm room and streaked my hair pink. I remember waking up and having no idea what happened! I thought I did it to myself in my sleep!"

Ren gives a small laugh and I smile a little bit, fondly remembering that night. I sit up on my bed leaning against the wall. "Or what about that time when you stitched the holes in all my shirts closed? It took me hours to undo all that and then I went and did the same to you."

I laugh shakily at the memory. I sniff again and look fondly into Ren's magenta eyes. "Feeling better?" he asks, smiling back at mine. I nod in response still not trusting myself to speak. "Good." He pats my head and adds, "I'm going to go grab a shower and then we can go get some pancakes. Sound good?"

I nod again and Ren stands up seeming satisfied. He heads to the shower in the back of the room starting to unbutton his shirt. He enters the bathroom and shuts the door behind him. A minute later the sound of the shower sounds from the room.

I sit on the bed patiently waiting for Ren to get out, my mind blank. Not really aware of what I'm doing, I notice I'm no longer in the dorm but walking down the hallway. Then it's like I'm looking through someone else's eyes, not my own.

I move through the school passing rooms until I find myself outside. I wonder where it is I'm going, I ask myself. I walk around to the back of the campus where the large hill leading up the cliff is. Oh… I must be going there.

I start my hike up the steep hill crashing through the underbrush of the forested hill. My short hike quickly ends with the tree line breaking apart showing the clearing at the end of the cliff. Ahead of me is Ruby's grave and Weiss kneeling in front of it.

I silently slink back into trees not wanting her to be here for some reason. She doesn't seem to have noticed my brief entrance. As I observe her from the shadows I notice that her already thin body has gotten even thinner.

Sometime later the white haired heiress slowly rises to her feet and she turns around, her head hanging down. Even with her head down I can see her cheeks have been sharply outlined from lack of eating.

Weiss makes her way down the hill using a different path than the one I came up. As soon as I'm sure she's out of sight I leave my hiding place and walk up to the grave. I look down at the shimmering quartz feeling a pit in my chest.

I sink to my knees and stare at the stone and it's engravings. "Hey Ruby," I whisper. "Nora here… I just thought that you could maybe use some company while Weiss was gone or something. So here I am!" I weakly lift my arms into the air for emphasis.

My gaze drifts downwards. "So how you been? Well I guess not that well seeing as how you're-" I stop and purse my lips. Off somewhere in the distance I hear Ren shout my name though the sound is faint.

"So how have you been?" I imagine Ruby asking me back, using the wind as her words.

"I've been… fine," I answer. "Well, not really. It's been tough since you died… Not just on me either. Everyone is having a tough time. Ren has been trying to cheer me up with old stories but I can tell he's hurting on the inside. I just don't know how to help him..."

I sit there for a moment, the wind howling around me. I stare at the set of engravings on her stone thinking just how appropriate they are.

"Jaune and Pyrrha too. I haven't seen much of Jaune, he refuses to talk to anyone. I did hear that he almost killed Cardin the other day. Apparently he badmouthed you and Jaune lost it. There are rumours that he's going to be expelled."

"Pyrrha hasn't been much better either. She attends all her classes except for battle class. Her weapons have just been sitting in the closet collecting dust for weeks. She's even talked about leaving Beacon." I look down worried that I might start crying again but no tears come.

I stop talking again thinking about the fun memories I had with my now fractured team. I think about the dance party that happened only a few weeks ago. Jaune disappearing and then showing up again in a dress. The dance off.

Now the tears really do start to come. Not a tidal wave like it was before but instead like a weak stream. I struggle to keep my smile up, the muscles around my mouth twitching and trying to turn into a painful grimace.

"Your team is struggling too… Blake told me that Yang hasn't left the dorm and hardly eaten for weeks and that she just started cutting herself. Blake herself disappeared a few days ago. Apparently she was last seen having collapsed in the library."

"Not to mention Weiss… I guess you already know how bad off she is. I think she misses you the most out of all of us." I look up to the sky the tears now freely running down my cheeks.

I look back down at the grave, at the rose emblem that was part of Ruby. Ruby Rose, the girl who wanted to be a hero. "Why did you have to leave us?" I poke the emblem, barely able to raise my arm up. "Boop..." I say weakly as I touch the emblem.

The realization finally hits like a physical blow to the chest. I curl over clutching my chest and wail out loud. I stop screaming, my throat feeling like it's been ripped apart. Through my tears I'm aware that I shakily stand up.

I feel myself moving past Ruby's grave heading for the edge of the cliff. I keep walking forward wanting the pain to end. I take another step but instead of ground, my foot lands on air. I tip forward a feeling of weightlessness taking over my body.

With no warning someone grabs my arm and yanks me backwards. "Nora! What the hell do you think you're doing!?" Ren shouts from behind me. He spins me around and pulls me farther away from the cliff edge.

Ren kneels in front of me gripping my shoulders, the pain and worry evident on his face even through the tears. "Nora," he whispers. "What do you think you were doing? You have to be more careful. I can't lose you, you're all I have left."

"I-I-I just wa-wanted th-th-the pain to s-s-s-stop," I manage to say, my voice interrupted by hiccups. Seeing the pain on Ren's face I close my eyes. My knees buckle underneath me and I collapse into Ren's arms.

My body shakes with sobs but I realize that not only my sobs. Ren is crying too and holding me tight, like he's afraid if he lets go I'll jump off the cliff again. "I know," he whispers. "I know," he whispers again.