I recommend listening to "This Will Be the Day (Acoustic), All Our Days, and Wings (feat. Casey Lee Williams)" from the volume 1 and 2 soundtracks while you read this for added effect, (I did while I was writing this). Hope you enjoy!

Weiss

Weiss lazily drifted back into consciousness, the dark veil of death lifting off of her. She could feel things again as her aura stretched back out into her extremities from her heart. She could feel her legs and feet, then her arms and hands, and finally her own face and mind. Finally, the coat of confusion disintegrated, and she opened her eyes, and sitting in front of her, was no one.

Using precious strength to look at her surroundings, she managed to see that she was in a hospital room. She chuckled lightly, as she could feel the wetness of a few tears start to prick at the corner of her eyes.

Back here am I? What happened this time? The heiress pondered.

She was about to lift up her hand to brush away the half formed tears, when she felt some resistance. After working up enough strength to lift her head up off the pillow, which was now throbbing with a massive headache. Looking down at herself, Weiss realized that she was restrained to her hospital bed. Then she remembered what she had done, laying her head back down, she quietly thought.

I tried to kill myself… Why, why couldn't I succeed in that one last thing? Everyone's far better off without me, so why didn't it work?

Weiss continued to sulk inside her own mind, not making a single sound as she did so. Eventually a nurse walked in and checked on her. Weiss ignored her like she had ignored the doctor earlier. The nurse left in exasperation a few minutes later, frustrated at being unable to coerce any type of response from Weiss.

Why couldn't I just die?… She thought, closing her eyes, starting to drift back off to sleep.

When she woke up next, it was to a very frightening sight. Yang was watching her above her bed, but she looked odd. Her face was a mixture of intense anger (the cause for fright) and deep sadness, it almost looked like Yang couldn't decide how she was feeling and it was making her face screw itself up into an ugly expression of frustration.

"W-what do you want?" Weiss asked, far more shakily than she would have liked.

Yang blinked, Weiss realized, for the first time since she had woken up, and sneered.

"You pitiful excuse for a person." Yang said forcefully.

"What?" Weiss said, shocked that, that was the first thing Yang had said to her after nearly succeeding in suicide.

"You obviously heard me, you, Weiss Schnee, are a pitiful excuse for a human being." Yang said, more matter-of-factly than anything else.

Weiss stuttered incomprehensibly, unable to form a sentence after hearing that.

Yang cut her stuttering off and continued,

"Which was it? Could you not handle the embarrassment of having such a crippled girlfriend? Or, did you not want to have to feel the guilt when you dump her?"

"What are you talking about?!" Weiss asked.

Yang gave her a cold look, and continued further. "Oh, so what was it then?! Why did you do it?! It couldn't have been for anyone but yourself, because we all need you a hell of a lot more then you obviously know! And I swear if you say you did this for Ruby," Yang inhaled deeply.

"Then you will be leaving this hospital in a body bag, just like you planned, because then you are not someone Ruby needs in her life." Yang swallowed loudly, and blinked furiously, holding back as many tears as she could.

"I-I-I don't know, I just, I just, I don't know! What do you mean you all need me?!" Weiss spluttered.

Yang could no longer hold back her torrent of tears. "We need you Weiss! You are our teammate! Our friend! And to Ruby, the most important person in the world!"

The blonde tore her gaze from Weiss, fumbling around in her jacket pocket for something. Pulling out her scroll, she quickly opened it and entered the password, then she shoved the screen in front of Weiss' face, and sobbed. It was a picture of Ruby, before everything had happened. In the picture she was happy and smiling, standing in front of a bush of her namesake.

"My baby sister! Sob! M-my baby sister Weiss! this is what she used to look like! Sob!" Yang cried.

Yang flicked her finger across the screen revealing another picture. This one broke Weiss' heart. It was a picture of the same girl, the same girl she loved but instead of standing, she was laid down on a hospital bed just like her own. Ruby was hooked up to countless machines and IV's and what was left of her arms and her beautiful face were all covered in dried blood, but the worst of all, was that she was smiling. She was smiling so warmly, as if she was trying to reassure anyone who saw her that everything would be fine and no one need worry about her.

"Look at her! This is my BABY SISTER NOW!" Yang screamed, as she took her scroll and went to throw it at the wall, but as she wound up she stopped, looking at the picture on its screen she instead clutched it to her chest and crumpled onto the side of Weiss' bed, sobbing loudly.

After a few minutes she looked up at Weiss and said,

"She can't handle anymore Weiss. She lost her mother, she lost her limbs and eyes, she can't lose you too. It would break her, and I will not see my baby sister broken in front of my eyes."

Weiss' jaw worked, opening and closing but no sound came out. Eventually she managed to break out of her stupor and quietly said,

"I'm not going to leave… I-I won't leave, Yang, I promise…"

Yang looked at her sternly again, narrowing her eyes and examining her expression for signs that she was lying in the slightest. Appearing satisfied, she stood up with some trouble and looked back at the heiress, she said,

"Then you are coming with me, because the person that really needs to comfort Ruby right now is you."

With that, Yang grabbed each of the cloth straps and ripped them open, letting Weiss out of her bed. Then she walked out of the room. Weiss watched her leave, and once she had Weiss slid herself to the edge of the bed and holding onto the corner for support, she managed to get out of bed and bring herself to a standing position. Once she could, she walked out of the door where Yang was waiting for her. They walked to Ruby's room and once they arrived, Yang gave her one last look of stern sadness before she opened the door for Weiss to enter.

Weiss immediately locked her eyes onto Ruby, she looked little better than how she had looked in the photo. Quickly making her way over to the bedside, Weiss lowered herself into a waiting chair. She sat there in silence for quite a while until, Ruby spoke,

"Hello? I know someone came in, but you haven't really given me much indication as to who you are, not talking and all… So, hi! My name's Ruby, if you don't already know, and I'm pleased to meet you! If I haven't already, in which case I'm happy to have you here."

Weiss, forced herself to not choke up and cry. She needed to let Ruby know that she was fine and that she was there for her. So she spoke as well,

"Hey Ruby, my name's Weiss Schnee and I'm also pleased to meet you."

"Weiss! Oh my gosh! How are you? Are you ok? Where have you been?" Ruby asked excitedly.

"Ruby I'm fine, It's you that I'm worried about." Weiss replied, as she laid her hand onto Ruby's stomach, caressing lightly in what she hoped was a comforting gesture on the only part of Ruby that wasn't covered in wounds.

"Weiss?" Ruby whispered.

"Yeah?" Weiss responded, teary eyed as she looked back up to Ruby's face.

"C-can you hold m-me please?" Ruby asked, her lip wobbling pitifully.

Instead of responding Weiss just got up and put her arms around the person who mattered more to her than anyone or anything, the person she loved to the fullest she could and the person who she desired nothing but the best for. She put her arms around Ruby and kissed her softly, tears falling onto Ruby's cheeks. Breaking the kiss off, she buried her face into Ruby's neck and cried silently as she continued to hold Ruby.

"Weiss… Thank you."

Ruby

Ruby could feel Weiss holding her and wished, she wished so badly that she could hug back and cry alongside her. But she couldn't, she didn't have the arms to hug and hold, and her eye sockets were so damaged that she couldn't cry. So she decided that she would let Weiss do those things for the both of them.

Eventually visiting hours were over, and Weiss was dragged out of the room, pretty much against her will, which is what it sounded like anyways. If you could take all of the sounds of cursing and scuffling sounds that were being made as any indication. Once Ruby was alone she found that she couldn't sleep, she had too much on her mind.

What am I going to do now? How can I be anything after this? After all that's happened? What can I do?… Nothing. I can't do anything on my own anymore can I? I'm going to have to be pushed around in a wheelchair for the rest of my life, holding everyone else around me down, burdening all of my friends and family. Now that I think about it, I can't even feed or clean myself! I will have to get Weiss or Yang to spoon feed me, and give me sponge baths… Never mind being a Huntress! I won't even be able to act as anything more than a newborn baby!

Listening to her surroundings, she heard the drip of the IV and the clicking and beeping of various machines. Her mind wandered, going everywhere but not really stopping at any one moment or place or idea. She finally started to think about when she lost her left arm. The painful snip of a claw, the warm embrace of Weiss and their admissions of love. That brought Ruby at least one small smile. She remembered the despair and sadness, the pain they had both gone through and after it all they had built Ruby a new arm and things had started to return to some version of normal…

Wait, Ruby's Stem! I made one before, I can do it again! I can, with everyone's help, I can make all of the limbs I've lost!

Ruby smiled, maybe things weren't as bad as she thought, maybe this could really all turn out ok. Who needs eyes anyways? She was sure she could figure out a way to make do without the sense of sight.

As soon as I get out of this hospital bed and back to Beacon, I will make these limbs and I will still be a Huntress, and most importantly I will not burden Blake, Yang, and Weiss."

Ruby felt that she had the will to get up and fight for her life, she wouldn't be held down, she wouldn't give up. She started then, she started to design in her mind all of the things she wanted and needed on these new limbs, she would need to modify Ruby's Stem of course to make it fit in and work properly but first she had to decide on their names…

Ruby's Stem, and how about, Frosted Stem, Cold Thorn, and White Petal?

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. See you next week for the next one! P.S. I told you there would be a light.