AUTHOR NOTE: I DO NOT OWN RWBY, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED TO ROOSTER TEETH. THIS CHAPTER WAS INSPIRED BY THE SONG DISTANCE BY CHISTINA PERRI AND BREATHE ME BY SIA. WARNING SELF HARM TRIGGERS.

Chapter Three:

(Ruby POV)

Weiss was gone, after She had regained her memories of me she had disappeared from the hospital with no trace. I had spent the last year searching for her. My heart felt so cold and everything felt numb. I couldn't believe she was out of my life again. After the first incident all I could remember is fire and smoke. When I had woken up Weiss had been taken for the first time. After that I had promised myself that I would never loose her again. As I lay on the bathroom floor of my apartment all the memories rushed into my head. I lay there clutching my heart breathing in deeply, the cold of the tile felt calming. Tears now unshackling themselves form my eyes and streaming down. Silently plucking on my guitar as I tried to gulp in air.

"Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And the worst part is there's no one else to blame

Be my friend, hold me
Wrap me up, unfold me
I am small, and needy
Warm me up, and breathe me

Ouch, I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again, and I will, I'll say"

Each word causing a pang in my chest as I throw my guitar down picking up the metallic sharp raiser and bringing it to my wrist. Maybe this will take the pain away, I thought to myself as I dug the blade into my arm creating three parallel scars to keep the other 10 company. The raiser dropping from my hand and replaced with a bottle of whiskey. It was time to get my life together. I can't keep looking for a ghost. Weiss was just another good thing that had passed me by in life.

(Weiss POV)

I woke in the hospital with a start, a glove covered my mouth to keep me from screaming as I was dragged out by my fathers henchmen. With a last pleading look to Ruby a single tear escaped my eye. That was the last time I saw her, a whole year had passed as I was shuffled to different mansions across the globe. My father had been stern with me for the past couple of months after the accident, and I had some new injuries to prove his frustrations.

I had learned long ago that screaming for help would do me no good. my father had sound proofed my room. I knew that somewhere out there Ruby was out their looking for me. I knew I herd hurt her with my random disappearance but nothing could be done. My father was a monster whom could not be stopped, and after a night of rather bad beating I retired to my room to clean myself up. My father had told me that I was to be married by next week to the heir of rivals company. It was part of a huge deal that brought my family even more power. I couldn't even cry after hearing the fate I was sentenced to. I crawl into my bed in defeat.

Two years later

I had been married for two years now and couldn't stand the man. He was almost as bad as my father, he had seen fit to have me sire an heir almost immediately but the when the child was in the last term of pregnancy it died duo to complications. I never herd the end of that, but I could never hit back. My eyes had long dried up, and my heart was full of ice. I looked over my body that was now painted with more bruises from my husband and father. I wanted this to all end, I couldn't take this anymore. I just wanted to wake up from this nightmare and be back in the hospital with...Ruby. The name caused my heart so much pain. My first and only love, my heart still only beat for her. I herd soft music coming from my laptop, I froze for a second. That voice, no it couldn't be. But it was, It was Ruby.

"The sun is filling up the room,
And I can hear you dreaming.
Do you feel the way I do, right now?

I wish we would just give up,
'Cause the best part is falling.
Calling anything but love.

And I will make sure to keep my distance,
Say I love you when you're not listening,
How long, can we keep this up, up, up?

Please don't stand so close to me
I'm having trouble breathing.
I'm afraid of what you'll see, right now.

I'll give you everything I am,
All my broken heartbeats.
Until I know you'll understand.

And I will make sure to keep my distance,
Say I love you when you're not listening,
How long, can we keep this up, up, up?

And I keep waiting
For you to take me
And you keep waiting
To save what we had

So I'll make sure to keep my distance,
Say I love you when you're not listening,
How long, can we keep this up, up, up?

Make sure to keep my distance,
Say I love you when you're not listening,
How long, 'til we call this love, love, love?"

With that I faded from the world, With Ruby filled in my heart for the last time.