Blake POV

"So," Ruby said. "Two questions. Question-o Numero Uno: What exactly does this 'grave danger' entail, and question number two: do I need a shovel?" No one laughed. Yang just pulled her into another tight hug. "Oh," She wheezed. "That kind of grave danger."

Korra let out a breath and ran her fingers slowly through her hair, making some of it stick up at odd angles.

"Okay, so it's like this: Kyra is literally the creepiest person I've ever met. She's the type of girl that'll compliment your shoes to distract you from the knife she's planning on .shoving between your ribs. Right Blake?" I grimaced, but nodded. It was a pretty accurate picture.

"Unfortunately, yes. Kyra is. . ." I struggled to find the words momentarily. "Difficult." Korra rolled onto her back, gazing up at each of us in turn.

"Kyra is a natural born predator. She has scientifically augmented night vision and hearing, meaning trying to sneak up on her in any way is futile." She wrinkled her nose and rolled back onto her stomach, her tail swaying lazily back and forth in the air. "These facts, combined with her extraordinary semblance and the fact that she enjoys mixing together custom non-lethal poisons that screw with your head, practically ensure that she kills practically everyone she fights. She was engineered by a scientist commissioned by the White Fang to be the perfect killer. Practically the only way to defeat her is to outwit her, and that's not much easier than brute force. In fact, she's only ever been defeated once." I winced and Yang looked at me.

"You said she's never been defeated." Korra's eyes widened and she shot me an apologetic look.

"Sorry, I guess you didn't want them to know about that." I sighed and faced my teammates, who had their eyes locked on me, expectant and hopefully.

"Guys. . ." Ruby leaned forward, her silver eyes wide and her bangs swaying in her face.

"How's you do it, Blake?" Weiss was more reserved and composed, but her eyes were panicked and I could tell she was just as anxious for a solution as Ruby was.

"I'm sorry, there's no way I could do it again. It involved me having to. . ." I closed my stinging eyes and shook my head. "I can't do it. Not again." Weiss shook her head, confused.

"If there's a way, you have to try! If it worked once, maybe it'll work again!" I shook my head vehemently, my shoulders hunching unconsciously.

"No," I whispered hoarsely. "That was back when she thought I loved her. I had to have-" I choked and rubbed my face briskly. "I had to have sex with her. I can't ever do that again." Ruby's face paled.

"Oh my gods, you didn't fall out of bed the other day, did you?" My gaze dropped to the floor and my hands began to tremble.

"No. Kyra, she tried to-" I choked again, and this time I couldn't continue. Yang wrapped me firmly in her arms and pressed my face into her shoulder.

"I'll kill her." Her voice was quiet and devoid of emotion. A statement of fact. I wrapped my arms around her waist.

"We may just have to." Weiss cleared her throat nervously.

"Not to bring up bad memories, but how exactly did sleeping with her defeat her?" I said nothing, but Korra snorted.

"While her guard was down, Blake stabbed her about five times and got the hell outta there." Weiss's jaw dropped and her eyes asked me to tell her it was a lie or a joke.

I avoided her gaze.

"Blake. . .You-you didn't!" Ruby whimpered as she watched me with an expression of abject horror. I stepped back from Yang and turned to her.

"Trust me when I say that back then, I wasn't the Blake you know now." I cringed as I realized her eyes were bright with tears. I stepped toward her and I could see her trying hard not to flinch. "Please try to understand, Ruby, if I hadn't done what I did, she'd have killed me eventually."

Ruby nodded and forced a smile with some effort.

"So you tried to kill her first?" Her tone wasn't accusatory, but it was starting to piss me off that they were completely ignoring the fact that it was either I killed her or she killed me at the time.

"How does that make you better than her, Blake?" I whirled and glared at Weiss. Her pale face was blank and her icy blue eyes pierced me. My blood ran cold when I realized that this was the same look she gave Ruby when she suspected her of something.

"Because I've never killed anyone in my life!"

"But you tried to." I stare at Yang in disbelief.

"Not you too!" Korra stood and moved to my side.

"You guys are being totally unfair." I was grateful to her for her support, but family or not, Korra always had her own agenda. And while I'd told my team we could trust her, I couldn't ignore the gut feeling I'd had when she showed up at Beacon. But still. . .I'd take questionable motives over outright intent to kill any day.

"What do you suggest I should have done? Let her fuck me until she got bored and slit my throat in my sleep?" That shut them up. Yang held up her hands in a placating gesture and moved toward me a step.

"Look, no one's saying you did anything wrong, Blake." Korra scoffed.

"Coulda fooled me." Yang ignored her.

"We just think there might have been a better way to do it." I laughed humorlessly.

"Really, Yang? Because that's what it reeeally sounds like." I stalked over to the window and buried my hands in my hair. "What was it you said earlier? 'I know she'd never hurt anyone unless she had to.' Well obviously you don't really think that. Why does it even matter what I did? There is no point to this conversation."

"The point is you don't have to be a killer like her to defeat her, maybe there's another way." I sneered at Ruby's naïve words.

"Wrong. But whatever, this isn't going to help us beat Kyra, so it doesn't matter." Yang's arms wound around my waist.

"I'm sorry if it seemed like I didn't believe what you did was necessary, Blake, in fact I'm glad you did it. I really am." I could practically feel Weiss and Ruby's surprise. "Because otherwise you wouldn't be here to make me the happiest girl on campus, psychotic stalker or no." I laughed a bit and leaned back into her.

"Thank you, Yang." She chuckled.

"Anything for the girl I love." I twisted around and kissed her sloppily, causing Ruby to fake gag and Weiss to cough into her fist.

"Uh, guys? Can we get back to defeating the psychotic stalker?" We sobered immediately.

"What do we do?" Ruby asked, fidgeting a little. I thought for a moment.

"Well. . .We should just wait for now. We can talk strategy tomorrow, but for now I need sleep. Athena won't try anything else tonight." Weiss scowled.

"How do you know?" I laughed.

"Because she already went to sleep." They all gaped at me.

"How do you know?" I smirked at them.

"When you break out of Kyra's Mirage ability, the mirage is still there, you just don't see it anymore because you're focusing on other things." Weiss nodded slowly.

"So?" I grinned at her.

"It's gone." Yang shrugged.

"Maybe she knows we didn't fall for it." I shook my head.

"Nope. She doesn't know what's happened down here. It's gone because it doesn't have enough of her focus to be maintained." Weiss smiled slowly.

"So we're safe for tonight?" I nodded. Yang furrowed her brow and rubbed her chin.

"What if we found her and ended it tonight?" I shook my head.

"No. That's something she'd do, and we don't operate that way. I'm not a coward, I'm just cautious."Korra looked at me thoughtfully.

"What if she wakes up in the middle of the night and come after us?" I shrug.

"I've got her under surveillance. I'll know if she leaves her dorm tonight." Korra grinned.

"Then I guess that's my cue to go back to my room and get some rest." I stepped forward.

"I'll go with you." She waved me off.

"I'm fine. You get some rest." I hesitated.

"You sure?" She nodded and smiled.

"I'll be back tomorrow." I hugged her quickly and watched her go.

"See you later, Korra."

Unknown POV

I watched from a distance as the girl with the tiger tail walked down the hallway, following her as she headed to her room. At the last second, she glanced back down the hall and changed course, turning away from her path to her dorm, and heading down the other direction. Nothing's over here but-

She stopped outside a door and knocked. I waited for the door to open, and when it did, I grimaced. This is not good.

"Hello, Korra," Kyra smirked. "What have you got for me?"

YAAAAAYYYYY! I finished it! I found my muse again, and the next few chapters should come easier, but don't expect them too soon, I'm grounded so I probably shouldn't even be up here right now, but I couldn't resist so here you go. Tell me what you think, I miss hearing from you guys.