Weiss
Finishing off the Deathstalker with a quick stab through one of its eyes, Weiss spun around knowing that the other Deathstalker would be through her binding snowflakes by now. Instead of a Deathstalker, Weiss saw Ruby, cape billowing out to her left standing in front of the mangled Deathstalker. Smiling, Weiss was glad that she could trust that even if Ruby was knocked down she would get back up and have her back.
As Weiss started to walk toward her partner, she noticed something; a lot of the blood around Ruby wasn't disappearing in a cloud of dust like Grimm blood normally does. It almost seemed to be spreading, emanating from the girl in red. "Ruby? Are you ok? Are you hurt?" Weiss questioned quickening her pace and unknowingly letting icy concern fill her voice. Running now, she made it to Ruby's side just as Ruby's knees buckled as she fell, Weiss reached out and caught her, slowly lowering her to the ground, Weiss couldn't help but notice the even paler than usual face of her partner. "Ruby, what's wrong? Please tell me what's wrong!" Weiss shouted, trying hard not to let panic creep into her voice at her partners' weakness. Ruby's always so strong and happy, what's happening?! Eyes fluttering Ruby croaked "W-Weiss? My arm, it hurts so much…" Quickly glancing towards her arms to determine the injury, Weiss was horrified to find that Ruby's left arm, was gone.
Weiss' throat went completely dry, she knew no amount of aura aided healing could reattach Ruby's arm without professional medical care, even if Weiss could figure out where it was. So Weiss decided to stop the blood and stabilize Ruby. Ripping off her jacket Weiss as gently as she could, wrapped Ruby's stump in a bandage. Ruby groaned in pain from the contact to her stump. "Ruby, I'm sorry but you have to hold on just stay awake, look at me!" Weiss sobbed. Ruby cracked open her eyes and peered into the panicked, shaky, tear filled and beautiful eyes of the girl holding her. Desperately wishing she could let her know how she felt, but the veil of darkness was falling over her, taking away her consciousness, making it harder every second to stay awake no matter how much she wanted to keep staring into those beautiful icy blue eyes "Weiss… I'm sorry, but I, love you. Good bye." Ruby whispered, closing her eyes and falling unconscious.
Weiss, was sobbing now tears streaming down her face. "Ruby, no, don't leave me. I love you too much to let you go." Cupping Ruby's face gently she leant down and kissed Ruby on the lips pouring aura into the younger girl hoping to stem the flow of blood and keep her alive by any means.
She looked over at Ruby's stump to see that the wound had stopped bleeding. Satisfied that Ruby's life was no longer in immediate danger, she attempted to calm herself. "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10" Weiss spoke aloud her voice quivering less on each number. Thinking clearly now she pulled out her scroll and sent an emergency blip back to beacon, letting them know her and Ruby's location before putting the scroll away. Taking stock of her surroundings Weiss noted the lack of living Grimm but what she did notice was a quickly disappearing Deathstalker claw with a bloody red arm in its grasp. All of a sudden Weiss realized what had happened, when Weiss had side stepped the claw, it had continued on and cut off the arm of the girl who had trusted her to take care of her own Deathstalker, and have Rubys' back just like she always had Weiss'.There were so many things I could have done to stop this from happening, I could have frozen it, burned it off, or just immobilized it. It wouldn't have been that hard, but it was me, ME! Who let this happen, what happened to Ruby is my entire fault. After this realization all Weiss could do was lie down next to Ruby and hold her, trying not to disturb the bandage too much as her calmness left her and she cried, and cried until all that was left was the empty abyss that was her heart after she had caused the only person she admittedly loved so much pain and future suffering.
Weiss, in her emotionally devastated state could barely remember her and Ruby being carried onto the jet. Ruby, I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry. Weiss thought. Once they arrived back in Beacon, they were rushed to the infirmary.
"She isn't hurt, but she seems to be in shock." Weiss woke up to find the light of a small flashlight flashing in her eyes. Wincing at the harshness of the light, Weiss sat up from her bed and glared at the nurse, "What happened, why am I here?" Weiss snapped. Miss Schnee your friend was injured, and we brought you to the infirmary…" the nurse explained, eyebrows furrowed up looking concernedly at Weiss. Remembering what had happened to Ruby Weiss felt tears start to roll in great numbers down her cheeks but refused to break down in sobs in front of the nurse. Seeing this the nurse said "your friend is in the room beside you, she's asleep so try not to wake her." The nurse left the room leaving Weiss with her thoughts. I don't know if I can face Ruby after this, maybe I should just run away from her and everyone or else I will just end up hurting them all. Well I still need to tell her I'm sorry for everything I've done and let her go. Didn't she say she loves me? I can't let her love me or else I will just hurt her again. At least she's still asleep, that should make it easier for me.
Standing up she left for Ruby's room, but when she opened up the red heads' door, she found Blake leaning up against the wall with a few silent tears slowly falling down her face, and Yang hunched over her younger sister hiccupping and sobbing into Ruby's collarbone. Finally Ruby, who looked so calm, innocent and beautiful despite her circumstances.
Looking up at the new arrival Blake regarded Weiss, "do you want me to sign you out?" Blake asked, glad for the possibility to be away from the sadness emanating from this room. Nodding Weiss replied "Yes, thank you Blake" Blake walked out of the room, Weiss followed her movement with her eyes as she left the room, but as the door clicked shut Weiss was thrown against the wall of the hospital room. "What, happened, out there?" Yang snarled into Weiss' ear. Fresh tears fell from her eyes "I-it, it was a-all my fault!" Weiss cried. "Explain." Yang growled dangerously. "S-she trusted me and I let her down! If I had just paid more attention or tried to protect her instead of just trying to get the highest grade she would be OK!" Weiss began to sob uncontrollably then felt a massive impact on her stomach. They came one after another raining down upon her face, chest and stomach. Yang was beating her to death, she deserved it, she really did, Weiss had ruined Ruby's life as a huntress, and maybe her life in general. I deserve this, I deserve whatever she can give me. I'm sorry Ruby, if only I could take your pain. Hopefully this is a start. Weiss deactivated her aura, allowing for Yang's punches to slip through. Blow after blow smashing into Weiss, she started to slip into unconsciousness only for Yang to slap her awake and continue the punishment.
This continued for some time until the beep of the heartbeat monitor quickened and a moan emanated from the bed across the room, with that the fists stopped and Yang rushed away from Weiss, toward the bed. With relief Weiss slipped into unconsciousness thinking Good, Ruby is awake I hope she's ok."
Ruby
Ruby's mind pulsed, throbbing with a massive headache. She was unable to form coherent thoughts so debilitated that she had to wait for her mind to calm and sort through the mess that was her head and work out what her thoughts and senses were. "Crunch!" was someone eating some cereal in Ruby's ear or something? Her eyes hurt too much to open just yet and she was slightly confused by the sounds she was hearing. "Thump! Cough, drip, drip, drip" What was it now? What could be making that arrangement of noises? Growing concerned, Ruby bore the pain and opened her eyes just a slit. Letting her eyes adjust, Ruby couldn't quite be sure what she was seeing. My eyes are still really blurry, but is that Yang, beating a huge pillow to a pulp? Ruby opened her eyes a bit more and with a couple more seconds of focusing she managed to make out what it was she was really seeing. Ruby's heart skipped a beat, in fact it skipped several, then beat so fast she couldn't have distinguished between the beats if she had wanted to. The heartbeat monitor went crazy.
Ruby, started to cry, horrified at what she was seeing, Yang was relentlessly beating a lifeless looking Weiss into a wall. "No…" Ruby quietly croaked, her throat so parched she couldn't make coherent sounding words. Yang snapped her head toward Ruby and let Weiss' body slump toward the ground, seeing that she was awake Yang jogged across the room toward Ruby, but not before she gave Weiss a last vicious kick to the gut. "Thump!" This brought a new onslaught of tears to Ruby's eyes. "No…" Ruby, said slightly louder now. "Shh, Don't worry she can't hurt you anymore." Whispered Yang into Ruby's ear as she grew close. "No!" Ruby cried, tears coating her face, she couldn't stop looking at Weiss the love of her life beaten to near death, if she was even alive! After the beating she got from Yang, Ruby couldn't actually be sure. Ruby frantically searched for the call nurse button, finally finding it she found her hand stopped by Yangs'. "She doesn't deserve any help, Ruby. She doesn't deserve anything! After what she did to you." Yang growled, her eyes the deepest shade of crimson Ruby had ever seen "NO!" Ruby screamed at the top of her lungs, which right now was not very loud, but it was enough to startle Yang. Feeling Yangs' hand let up Ruby quickly slammed her right hand down on the call nurse button. After pressing the button all Ruby could think to do was claw her way toward Weiss, crying every drop of liquid from her small frame. Ruby got to the edge of the hospital bed and fell over the edge. She dragged herself toward Weiss' crippled form, unable to express her overwhelming sadness she felt at seeing Weiss like this. Not knowing if touching her would hurt her more Ruby just lied down in front of Weiss and sobbed over and over again. Leaving Yang to stare at Ruby like she was crazy for crying for Weiss' state.
In moments, a doctor and a nurse ran into the room along with a panicked looking Blake. Seeing the heiress the doctor quickly ordered. "Miss. Belladonna, get Miss. Rose back onto the bed, but be careful with her stump. We will take care of Miss Schnee." Nodding Blake grabbed a hold of Ruby and with Yangs' help dragged her away kicking and screaming back to bed, and held her down. The medical staff got Weiss out of the room and took her to the emergency ward. A few minutes later Ruby had calmed down enough to only be crying lightly. Ruby suddenly stopped, looked up to Yang, stared her dead in the eyes and asked in a voice devoid of any and all emotion but pure unrestrained fury "Why Yang? Why would you hurt the girl I love?"