div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"Ruby had been dreading this day for weeks, at first the outbreak hadn't affected her or her own much. But now, now it had ruined her and her own. She stood, staring at the mess of bodies at her feet. Regina, Henry, Belle, Whale, Leroy, Ariel, all dead, all beginning to stir with life once more. Peter and Granny flanking her as she dispatched them, tears falling freely as she did so. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"As Ruby reached the one woman who she had grown to care so much about, her tears grew more fierce, she didn't know if she'd be able to kill her, she didn't want to. So as Belle began to stir, she raised her knife - hand made, sharpened wolf tooth blade - but she was not expecting a scream of fear. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"Dropping to the ground, Ruby laughed, she hadn't lost her best friend, Belle was just a fantastic actress with a knack for timings. This revelation was exactly what Ruby needed to keep going, Belle constantly by her side, growing closer as Peter drew further away. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"What Ruby discovered a few nights later was that Peter was hiding a bite. The fever had set in, he had mere hours to a day left beforeem /emhe turned, starting to beg Ruby,em kill me, kill me, kill me. /em/div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"em /em/div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"She knew she couldn't do it, he was her fiancé and while she knew she had some feelings for Belle, she still loved him. She didn't kill the living and she knew it, coming up with a plan on how to handle breaking her one rule she lived by in the ruined world she lived in. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;""I'm sorry Peter." She muttered, plunging her blade through the moan's eye, cutting the connection from the brain to the rest of the body, killing him quickly and relatively painlessly. The killing was done quickly, the grief soon following emwhat had she done/em? /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"She kept camp in the same place for a few days, burying the body, wanting to give Peter a real goodbye, not just burning his body on a small fire, though she knew she should've moved on straight away, finally seeing how foolish she had been when Belle came to pay her a visit while Ruby was keeping watch. She knew she was being a sentimental fool when there was no time for it, no place for it. Human nature was the enemy now. She could finally see that, thanks to that stupid librarian with a heart of gold. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"When Ruby finally decided to move the camp the next day, she did so feeling lighter, she'd finally come to terms with everything - losing her friends, losing her family, her feelings for Belle - and she knew that while they were in a world gone to shit, if there were people like Belle, the world wasn't all bad, there was hope for all of them. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"She knew thinking like that was both cheesy and could lead to her death, but she didn't care. She could deal with death as long as she had the other brunette with her, fighting by her side while her gran protected their behinds. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"As Ruby reached the one woman who she had grown to care so much about, her tears grew more fierce, she didn't know if she'd be able to kill her, she didn't want to. So as Belle began to stir, she raised her knife - hand made, sharpened wolf tooth blade - but she was not expecting a scream of fear. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"Dropping to the ground, Ruby laughed, she hadn't lost her best friend, Belle was just a fantastic actress with a knack for timings. This revelation was exactly what Ruby needed to keep going, Belle constantly by her side, growing closer as Peter drew further away. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"What Ruby discovered a few nights later was that Peter was hiding a bite. The fever had set in, he had mere hours to a day left beforeem /emhe turned, starting to beg Ruby,em kill me, kill me, kill me. /em/div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"em /em/div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"She knew she couldn't do it, he was her fiancé and while she knew she had some feelings for Belle, she still loved him. She didn't kill the living and she knew it, coming up with a plan on how to handle breaking her one rule she lived by in the ruined world she lived in. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;""I'm sorry Peter." She muttered, plunging her blade through the moan's eye, cutting the connection from the brain to the rest of the body, killing him quickly and relatively painlessly. The killing was done quickly, the grief soon following emwhat had she done/em? /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"She kept camp in the same place for a few days, burying the body, wanting to give Peter a real goodbye, not just burning his body on a small fire, though she knew she should've moved on straight away, finally seeing how foolish she had been when Belle came to pay her a visit while Ruby was keeping watch. She knew she was being a sentimental fool when there was no time for it, no place for it. Human nature was the enemy now. She could finally see that, thanks to that stupid librarian with a heart of gold. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"When Ruby finally decided to move the camp the next day, she did so feeling lighter, she'd finally come to terms with everything - losing her friends, losing her family, her feelings for Belle - and she knew that while they were in a world gone to shit, if there were people like Belle, the world wasn't all bad, there was hope for all of them. /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;" /div
div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"She knew thinking like that was both cheesy and could lead to her death, but she didn't care. She could deal with death as long as she had the other brunette with her, fighting by her side while her gran protected their behinds. /div