Weiss
Fingers tightening around her throat, squeezing and squeezing the life from her. Panicked, she stared at the culprit of her pain. Smiling evilly, Yang caught her gaze and squeezed even more, watching, quiet happily it seemed as the spark of consciousness started to leave Weiss' eyes. Her chest shuddering, longing for breath, Weiss could see darkness rimming her vision, slowly decreasing her field of view more and more. She couldn't focus; the darkness was almost there now, she was almost enveloped in it, numbing her to everything that was happening, but that was okay. With her last thought she switched the focus of her attention away from the blurry yellow blot that was Yang and towards the blurry red blot that was her precious Ruby.
I love you Ruby, I'm sorry I have caused all of this, but maybe that's for the better, goodbye. Weiss thought before slipping into the inky blackness of unconsciousness.
Opening her eyes, Weiss was horrified to see Yang still choking her, digging her nails into Weiss' flesh, crushing her throat. Blood was starting to seep down Yangs' arm running from the new cuts in Weiss neck, made by Yangs' sharp nails. As the bones in Weiss' neck started to crack and grind together, an elated looking smile appeared on Yangs' face.
"It won't be long now Ice Queen, just a little more pressure and pop! There won't be anything solid holding your head onto your body anymore." Yang said, giggling all the while.
The vertebrae cracked even more, some altogether snapping.
"You should have known that I wouldn't let you and Ruby be together, what kind of sister would I be if I did?" Yang continued.
The blond squeezed, and as she did a vertebrae was completely crushed beneath her grip, with every word Yang crushed another vertebrae.
"Ruby. Crunch, is. Snap, too. Crick, good. Crackle, for. Pop, you! Click."
Weiss' neck was nothing but a gelatinous mass with nothing holding it together but Yangs' grip, laughing at the sight Yang let go of Weiss and turned to walk away. As she fell, all Weiss could do was stare at the blond, as she turned and started to walk away. Just before Weiss hit the ground she had time to think one thing.
Is she right?
To Weiss' great surprise, she opened her eyes again but to a completely different image than previously. This time, when Weiss opened her eyes, she was met with the sight of black silky fabric and milky white skin, along with the wafting scent of roses. Realizing who it was that was pressed so close to her, Weiss started to relax. Breathing a deep sigh of relief, Weiss realized it had all been a dream, Yang choking her, and… killing her. Weiss nuzzled lightly into Rubys' collar; making sure to tighten the grip she already had around the girl in red and black pajamas.
This is perfect, that was all just a dream and I have Ruby here with me. This couldn't be better. Weiss sleepily thought.
Weiss started to rub Rubys' back, pulling her closer as she did. Appreciating the softness of Rubys' skin and the warmth she gave off, Weiss smiled, happy to be with Ruby instead of the awful place that was her dreams.
Ruby started to wriggle in her sleep, moving along with the light massaging Weiss was giving her back. An unconscious smile spread across the red heads face. Then as Ruby shifted a bit more in her sleep, her smile caught and flipped into a frown, then turned into a scowl. Concerned, Weiss tried to lightly shake Ruby awake, but this only seemed to make Ruby worse.
"Awwww, ow, ow, ow, ow!" Ruby said, slowly waking up in her apparent pain.
She squinted her eyes and looked at Weiss,
"Weiss, could you please back up a bit?" Ruby whispered in a slightly pained voice.
Confused, Weiss shuffled backward on the bed away from Ruby. Wincing, Ruby moved her metal arm onto her stomach. Weiss noticed that where the prosthetic and Rubys' stump met, the skin was rubbed pink and raw, there was also some half dried blood crusting along the rim.
"Weiss? How do I get this off by the way?" Ruby asked still sounding like she was in some pain.
"Just remove your aura, it might be difficult the first time, but that's the easiest way to disconnect." Weiss explained.
Feeling a sharp pain in her throat as she spoke but caring too much about Ruby at that moment she ignored it, despite the difficulty breathing speaking seemed to have induced.
Nodding, Ruby clicked opened a hatch leading to the dust crystal containment housing. Finding the dust crystal, Ruby forcefully withdrew her aura from the crystal, a light sweat breaking out as she did so. Once she fully withdrew her aura, Ruby twisted the dust crystal housing, stopping any connection from happening accidentally. Sighing, Ruby slid off the prosthetic from her stump.
"That hurt so much! I guess I really shouldn't be wearing this all the time then right Weiss?" Ruby asked.
Instead of lecturing Ruby on taking care of herself, and her new arm, and how it was more like her weapon, since it needed to be taken care of. Weiss simply gagged, coughed and started to wheeze taking note of the extreme pain in her throat.
Why does my throat hurt so much?! Was, was the dream real? Then why am I still alive? No, no Weiss stop; think rationally, you would be dead if it was all real. So, maybe only a portion of it was real? Wait, didn't I fall unconscious once before in that dream? Maybe that part was real. Weiss thought, mind in a frenzy.
Weiss thought about it and concluded that the second half of her dream had been just that, a dream. This was confirmed by Ruby.
"Yeah that was all Yangs' fault she got really overprotective and did something wrong, but don't worry I won't let her hurt you again! By the way I can kind of explain why we're in the same bed right now and everything. I kind of thought that you would like some comforting when you woke up." Ruby explained, smiling sheepishly by the end.
"So, am I being comforting?" Ruby asked hopefully.
Rolling her eyes Weiss said "Yes- Wheeze, Hack! Cough."
Realizing that she couldn't speak at all, Weiss quickly flipped around away from Ruby, towards the desk and quickly grabbed a notepad and pen from inside the desk. Turning back towards Ruby she quickly scribbled off a note. Giving it to Ruby, it read.
"Yes, Ruby you dolt, of course having my girlfriend care enough to want to comfort me, will in itself be comforting. Thank you."
Grinning happily at Weiss, after reading the note, Ruby flipped out a new page in the notebook and started to write her own message. As she was doing so Weiss started to think,
Is she? Is she really writing out a message to me, when she can speak? Doesn't Ruby realize that the only reason I'm doing this is because I can't speak?
Ruby handed Weiss the notepad, rolling her eyes Weiss took the notepad and read.
"Thanks Weiss! I love you! And why are we writing?"
Rubbing the bridge of her noes, then glancing at Rubys' stump, Weiss wrote down.
"Ruby, I'm only writing because my throat hurts too much to talk, and what about your stump? Is it okay? It looks pretty painful."
"Oh, well I guess I don't need to write then do I. Anyways, my stump just hurts a bit, more importantly is there anything I can do to make your throat feel better?" Ruby asked.
"Well how about this, you can go get me something for my throat and I will get the things required to bandage your arm." Weiss wrote.
"Sure, sounds good." Ruby said.
Ruby vaulted over Weiss, and in a cloud of rose petals rushed off to find something for Weiss' throat. Sighing, which elicited another small moan of pain from the heiress. She finally got out of bed to go look for some bandages and ointments.
Arriving at the washroom, Weiss started to go through the cupboard eventually finding everything she needed, she went back to the bed, waiting for Ruby to return, Weiss' gaze lingered onto Rubys' metal arm, with it's crusted blood covered edges.
She's going to get infected if she doesn't clean this off. Weiss thought.
Picking up Rubys' prosthetic, Weiss decided that she might as well clean it off herself, since Ruby would probably just forget. Getting some cleaner out she went to work, cleaning Rubys' new arm.
Ruby
Humming lightly to herself Ruby, was running back from the nurse determined to get Weiss better as soon as possible. She had given some vague details to the nurse about what the symptoms were, and eyeing Ruby slightly suspiciously the nurse had given her what was needed.
Arriving at the dorm room, Ruby barely even paused before bounding inside. She found Weiss sitting on her bed with Rubys' arm in her gentle grasp being cleaned of the Rubys' blood. Weiss looked up, eyes aglow when they met with Rubys',
"Oh Weiss, you don't need to do that I was going to clean it in a little while anyways." Ruby said.
Weiss just halfheartedly glared at Ruby, with her best "Oh really?" face.
"Okay, maybe I wouldn't have." Ruby said, chuckling slightly.
"Well thank you Weiss that really helps me out now hold still while I apply this medicine to your neck." Ruby said while she flopped down beside Weiss on the bed.
As Ruby pulled out one of the creams that the nurse had given her, and started to think about how to squeeze the tube into her palm with one hand, Weiss looked at Ruby and handed her a note from the notepad.
"Ruby, I was just wondering, why don't you name this prosthetic? You made it, and it's part of Crescent Rose, and it will probably be easier than just calling it your metal arm." Ruby read.
"First, you helped make this Weiss, and second, you're right, I should name it. Hmm what do you think, about Rubys' Stem?" She asked.
Weiss handed her another note, "I love it. Now please hold still while I tend to your stump."
"Only if you can help me get these crèmes you need into my hands." Ruby responded.
Shaking her head, Weiss just got to work on Rubys' stump. While she helped Ruby pour some creams among other things into her hands so as to work on Weiss' neck at the same time.
This continued until they were both nearly done taking care of each other, and once they were both nearing their jobs completion they both heard two very distinct, very familiar voices a loud boisterous voice and a quiet silk voice. Looking at each other they inhaled deeply at the knowledge of the future confrontation.
Sorry for the shorter chapter, but I still don't have that much time although you can expect the chapters being back to normal this Saturday. Hope you enjoy!