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Ruby

She could feel Weiss all around her, her aura was radiating everywhere. It seemed to be taking all of the pure agony she was feeling, and taking it far, far away. She could still feel the pain and suffering, but it was growing distant, almost like it wasn't a part of her anymore, and replacing it, was the familiar icy warmth of Weiss' aura, her soul. She stayed like that for what felt to be only seconds, before, all of a sudden there came a crash, like the sound of splintering wood, and bending metal. Then Weiss' aura disappeared leaving a gaping hole in her own being that the pain, so soundly wiped from feeling gladly filled and sent her mind back into the blackest pits of suffering, this time though it wasn't just because she was in excruciating pain, it was also because she couldn't help but wonder, completely panicking,

Why did Weiss' aura disappear like that?! Is she okay?!

Then another aura washed over her, it was bright and sunny, and teeming with uncontrollable rage. It was Yang's

"Blake, take care of Ruby"

Yang! Blake! I'm so glad you're here, now just please make everything all better, and please take care of Weiss. Ruby thought, pleading hopefully.

The sound of quickly tapping high heels grew, approaching her, along with the sound of many shuffling feet. She felt someone untie her gag and start to work on freeing her from her singular neck bind.

"Y-yang?" Ruby managed to choke out.

"No, it's Blake… Ruby, I'm so so sorry, we are going to get you out of here, and make those who did this to you pay." Blake said, grief and hatred resonating through her voice.

She could feel Blake finally breaking through the final retched bond, but once Blake put each of her arms around Ruby to pick her up and carry her, a new shockwave of pain radiated up and down every one of her nerves. She couldn't help herself, she let out an agonized whimper.

"I'm sorry Ruby, but you need to bear it for just another couple of seconds." Blake said.

Through the pain, Ruby could feel herself being carefully lifted off of her chair and leaned back onto someones body, slender arms wrapped around her and Blake's voice sounded, trying to overpower the horrifying sounds coming from just feet away.

"Ruby, it's going to be ok," Thump! Crack! "Ruby, please just listen to me, everything will be alright." Slap! Thwack!

Ruby could hear what was happening even if she couldn't see it, there was a very one sided fight happening in that room and she knew that Blake would be helping if it wasn't team RWBY that was winning.

"No Blake, its not going to be ok, I can hear whats happening." Ruby said in a small voice that sounded loud in her own ears.

Ruby could feel Blake drop her head into her shoulder and felt the growing sense of wetness, as the sound of Blake sobbing rang. Then there was a wet sucking sound just as another of what she could only assume wereYang's punches connected with someone. It repeated again and again and each time she could hear one less ragged breath filling the room. Then the blows stopped, and footstep echoed throughout the room as Yang joined them.

"Don't worry Rubes, everything is going to be fine, it's all going to be okay…" Yang said as she lifted Ruby off of Blake's lap and pulled Ruby onto her own. Ruby shuddered slightly, Yang's hand were wet, sticky and covered in things she didn't want to think about.

Then from across the building she heard a faint cry of "SHUT UP!" from what could only have been Weiss' voice, then a wet tearing Schluk! quickly accompanied it. More footsteps echoed as Weiss approached them. Ruby heard the rustle of cloth as Weiss kneeled beside them, felt when she cupped her cheek and carefully leaned her forehead against Ruby's.

"Ruby… It's over, all we have to do is get you medical attention." Weiss said soothingly.

Weiss' hand was also very wet and sticky.

Weiss

Not daring to turn away from Ruby for an instant, Weiss thought about how they could do that,

We can't bring an ambulance here or questions will be asked and wether or not we were right in doing this, it will ruin our lives.

Deciding quickly, Weiss glanced at Yang and Blake,

"We are going to need to carry her to the hospital, we can't bring an ambulance here." She said.

Yang and Blake looked around the room and grudgingly nodded as they saw corpses strewn across the floor of the building, pools of blood and grey matter spreading slowly to fill the gaps between them.

Yang picked up Ruby, who only elicited moans of pain as any sort of response, and walked out of the building of horrors that had been the location of their variety of tragedy. She was quickly followed by Weiss and Blake. Once they had completely exited the building, Yang handed Ruby off to Blake, motioning to Weiss' hand as an explanation for why she hadn't been the one to receive Ruby, and slipped Ember Celica back on. Cocking her gauntlets, she fired a full clip into the building, letting her rage at the night slip into her shots, helping the building burn as it fell in on itself. Taking Ruby back when she disengaged her weapon, they continued to hurry to the hospital.

When they arrived at the hospital, Weiss was surprised that it was the same nurse who had helped Ruby come up with the idea for her first prosthetic waiting at the front desk and ushering them into the waiting area as her and a couple other nurses took Ruby to take her to the operating table.

Her first prosthetic. Weiss thought with a sniffle.

Another nurse walked up and started to tend to Weiss' badly broken hand. She ignored the woman completely, not paying a single ounce of attention even as her bones were set and relocated. When the cast was put on her hand, the nurse started to interrogate the three girls but Weiss tuned her mind out of the conversation, trusting Blake and Yang to think of some suitable excuse. Eventually the nurse left to file a report or something Weiss guessed. She was alone with her thoughts,

What will happen to us if the authorities realize we killed Daniel and his cronies? How are we going to explain this to people at Beacon? and most importantly How can I help Ruby?

Eventually, a doctor came into the waiting room and walked up to the trio.

"I don't know what happened to her, but you are extremely lucky that she is alive. There was no way we could have reattached her limbs even if we had them, the amputations were done too poorly, and she will never be able to see again." He sighed.

"I understand that you are all huntresses, so I will have her sent to Beacon Academy the moment she is fit enough to be transferred, I will also grant you all access to her room when she has rested. I wish you all well and I suggest you all get cleaned up and get some rest."

He was about to walk away when Weiss spoke up,

"We're going to stay here and wait to see her, is there any where here where we can do that?"

"Yes, I figured you would say that, We have some showers down that hallway, it's the third door on the left. Although for rest your best bet is to lay down on a couple of these chairs since we don't have any rooms to spare you." The doctor said, scratching his head as he did so.

He turned around again, and walked back through the doors he had come through.

Weiss looked at the Bumblebee pair,

"Can I use the showers first? I need something to calm my mind." She asked.

Yang and Blake just nodded, not really willing to talk at the moment. Taking that as a sign that they didn't care, Weiss got up and made her way to the showers. They were just where the doctor had said, and conveniently there were some extra clothes in the showers, she supposed for just these types of the shower as cold as it could go, Weiss stepped in making sure to not get her cast wet and stood there, relishing the numbing feeling the cold water gave her. The cold water was numbing her aches and pains but it could do nothing to numb the aching in her heart. She closed her eyes and thought

Why did this happen to her? Why again? Can we even help her through it this time? Who's fault is it? Weiss stopped at the last thought, Who's fault is it? Daniel has a lot of the blame, but who gave him the incentive to do what he did?

Weiss remembered the dinner she had, had with Ruby earlier that night. She remembered how she had lost her sense and humiliated him.

I did. It was me, again it was me. Why is it always me that hurts Ruby?! Why can't I do anything but hurt the girl I love?! I don't deserve her! Why did I ever consider that I did deserve someone when all I do is cause pain and misery!

Weiss remembered her previous questions,

This happened because I'm here, all of his reasons to hurt her were because of me. This happened again because I can't keep her safe. It's always me because I'm weak… I considered that I could deserve Ruby because she was always so kind and nice to me and always made me feel like I could deserve her, even though I guess I never could deserve someone. Especially someone as kind and as caring as Ruby.

Weiss made her decision, Ruby was better off without her. She spun in the shower lifted her head and opened her mouth to catch as much of the icy water as she could, and inhaled.

Blake

Blake used to hate her cat ears, the ridicule it brought her and the outright racism too. Although she had learned to love them with Ruby, Weiss, and especially Yang helping her through those troubles. Right now though, she was sure glad to have her ears.

She snapped out of her sad reverie of the nights events when she heard a distant wet slap! of a body hitting the ground, coming from the showers where Weiss had gone. Standing up she gestured for Yang to follow her.

"Blake what is it? Can't we just rest here and wait for Ru-" Yang cut herself off when she saw the look on Blake's face, still sad and concerned for their present plight, but also attentive and aware, like those of someone in danger.

"Yang. Up. Now." was all she said as she sprinted toward the hall where Weiss had gone a little while before, she knew that Yang would follow her.

Reaching the door where Weiss had gone in for her shower, she tried to go in, realizing that it was locked, she slashed the door knob with Gambol Shroud, still equipped at her side, just as Yang caught up. Stepping inside, the duo despaired at the sight that they viewed.

Weiss was crumpled along the floor of the shower, the water still poring over her. She didn't look to be conscious.

Blake ran forward, yanking the shower door open, she pulled Weiss out and started to check her breathing and pulse. Realizing that Weiss wasn't in fact breathing she started CPR, gesturing for Yang to come and help her. They worked over Weiss' body, trying to get her breathing again, calling for help all the while. Since they were in a hospital, help arrived quite quickly. Professionals taking their place at Weiss' side, they worked to get her breathing.

"Why us?" Yang choked, tears falling like rivers from her eyes, "Why us?!"

Blake turned to Yang and they embraced, crying at the total unfairness of the situation.

So I would like to say that there will be a light at the end of this tunnel, I plan on it, and I promise it. For now though, hope you enjoyed reading, until next week!