A/N hello my lovelies! Welcome back! My sincerest of apologies for the wait, I have been on holiday and so have been unable to update. I'm afraid it's a rather short chapter because I have just got back, but I wanted to update so I didn't leave you waiting any longer. But I'm back baby and new drama is about to unfold, in lives of 4 familiar girls!

Anyways... This is a no spoilers allowed zone, so, on with the thankyou's.

A huge thanks to:

My friend pinkteacups for her lovely work on this chapter! Cookies and hugs for you!

Jacklyn Frost: I'm sorry that I am causing enough feels to make you sob. Trust me I know how you feel, and we are all here for you :-) thank you for your words of encouragement, the support is much appreciated. I would recommend some chocolate and a hug to help with those feels :-)

extraordinary banana: I will defiantly consider your suggestion. I may or may not have an idea of how to include Winter ;-) but you will just have to wait and see! Thank you for your suggestion :-)

Deltahalo241: The reason for this is that my editor Little Snuggle has stopped responding to my messages, and therefore was unable to work on the previous chapter. I'm sorry if this was an inconvenience, but it's ok as a friend of mine named pinkteacups has agreed to help with editing so that problem should be fixed soon :-) thank you for your advice, it is much appreciated.

ScytheReaper: thank you for your encouragement, also another thank you for sharing that interesting fact :-) Trust me, things are only going to grow more mysterious as the plot thickens...

Tatya1999: I'm glad you like my fic! :-D I hope I can keep you wanting more, thank you so much for expressing your support of this fic, to know that your enjoying my writing is a huge honour, so thank you!

I am still open to ideas for the competition, so feel free to leave any suggestion for the discoveries within Weiss's mind in the form of a review :-)

Without further ado... On with the story...

Previously...

Ruby POV

It was then that I noticed it. There, highlighted by the blindly white light of the hospital as he reached for the form, was a hauntingly familiar golden ring... adorning his middle finger of his right hand...

Chapter 6

Blake POV:

As Weiss's father spoke with, or rather, ignored the nurse, I glanced around for the familiar, snowflake coloured hair that would identify a past memory of Weiss, only to come up empty handed. This was strange, as all the memories so far had been those that Weiss had been present for, which is obvious given the fact that they were supposed to be her memories, after all. The only conclusion I could draw from this, was that maybe Yang, in her blind (but not unusual) temper, had broken into a new and wholly undiscovered part of her mind; one that allowed us to witness the root of her suffering, even though she may of been absent for it, but her brain had the knowledge of happening. Perhaps, the monotonous colouring of this, most recent, memory could be due to the absence of our missing team mate.

I looked to my two companions, ready to inform them of my new theory, only to notice that the attention of the two sisters was focused solely on Mr Schnee, or more accurately speaking; their hate-filled gazes were fixed on Mr Schnee's right hand.

Yang POV

Weiss's father, a rather arrogant looking man if you asked me, reached across to snatch the form from the poor nurse from her carefully distanced spot, away from him. As he did so, I noticed a clear change within the eyes of my sister: where there once was a steel wall of determination to find Weiss, the wall had been melted by the pure fire of boiling, hot rage. I had only ever seen Ruby act like this once, and that was when we all wound up in a rather extreme food fight with team JNPR and Weiss had a rather nasty introduction to the wall. Needless to say, Ruby took no prisoners after that, but that, however, is a story for another time. The sudden and immediate change in my usually hyper, bubbly sister's demeanour caused a sense of unease to settle at the bottom of my stomach; butterflies trapped within a titanium cage.
"Ruby?" I attempted to reach out to her, hoping to summon her back from whatever faraway location her mind could have taken her to cause her to become so apoplectic. At first I thought she hadn't heard me, but it was only when she raised her arm, which was shaking with the effort to contain her wrath, to point at the hand of Mr Schnee. The hand that was now elegantly holding an expensive looking fountain pen (that again donned the Schnee emblem) and filling out the form given to him by the nurse. I realised that she had heard me, she was just too angry to form words.

My initial sense of unease took a 360 towards confusion, I could see nothing out of place with Mr Schnee's hand; just a dainty hand, with snow white skin that didn't sport a single mark, a true sign that he had most likely been waited on hand and foot for most, if not all, of his life. It was only when I continued my inspection of his hand (I admit, it took me several inspections) that I came across the object of my sister's rage. The gold ring glinted in the white light of the hospital room, the only colour to be seen in all of his deliberately chosen attire, in fact it was the only colour that managed to break the grim black and white colour scheme of the memory. My own detestation for this man was in danger of washing over me, just like a large wave would wash away a tiny crab. As I took in his snobbish appearance, he thrust the form back at the nurse, leaving her almost no time at all to take it from him, before he strode off in the direction from which the kind-faced nurse had come.

"Let's follow him..." The venom contained within my sisters voice as she gave that command, though warranted, I regret to say had even me, the great Yang Xiao Long, slightly afraid of my own sister. I gladly obeyed; I was just as eager to find Weiss so that I could return to my body and hunt down the monster that would dare to lay a hand on my friend and my sisters... Uh... more than a friend?

With that final thought, I (triumphantly) headed down the corridor after the soon to be dead man.

Ruby POV

I struggled to follow the retreating back of the evil man through the fog of pure rage that now clouded my mind and judgement. The only thing keeping me from introducing his sorry ass to Crescent Rose, which I assure you, my hand was itching to do, is the fact that doing so would only lessen our chances of finding Weiss, and therefore lessen my chances of giving the slime ball of a man a formal introduction to Crescent Rose when I once again had the use of my body. I would refrain from violence, for now, as the thought of having Weiss in my arms was worth me ignoring my need to hurt this man as deeply as he had hurt Weiss. However, I glanced across at my two teammates only to realise that I might have to get in line for that honour, judging by the sharpness held within Blake's amber eyes, and the blood red colour of the usually lilac orbs of my sister.

My train of thought came to a grinding halt; the scenery around me had once again shifted, this time taking the form of an equally black and white office. A Doctor paced before Mr Schnee, who was holding the hand of an unknown woman, who looked to be fighting a losing battle of attempting to hold back her tears. Her right hand, the hand not gripping Mr Schnee's, instead opted for trapping the arm of her chair in a vice grip, sported an identical gold ring placed on her middle finger, indicating that she must be Weiss's mother, Mrs Schnee. The Doctor sighed, a look of remorse etched its way onto his face as he turned to look at Mr and Mrs Schnee.
"I'm sorry, these conversations are the ones I dread most in my line of work." His face took on a tired expression as he sat down, gripping the chair's arms as he lowered himself down slowly. His apologetic gaze never left the faces of the couple before him. He then coughed, as though steeling himself for what he was about to say.
"Mr and Mrs Schnee, I regret to inform you that to continue this pregnancy would be of too great a risk to the wellbeing of Mrs Schnee." A sob could be heard from Mrs Schnee as she buried her face into the shoulder of her husband, who for his part presented an unreadable expression. "Mrs Schnee's illness has continued to progress to its later stages, and so it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you sir..." The Doctor now spoke directly to Mr Schnee as it was apparent from the anguished sobs of Mrs Schnee that she was no longer listening to the conversation "... That your wife's condition unfortunately means that her current pregnancy must be terminated for fear of the death of both her and the child."

My breath caught in my throat as I attempted to process what had just been announced so suddenly. The baby I had assumed to be Weiss, was, in fact, never to be born. My shock at this new piece of information prompted an attempt to figure out how this event related to what could scare Weiss so much that she would run from us... From me.

I felt dizzy and a little bit sick as a thousand and one possibilities of what was to happen, whizzed around my head in a tornado-like fashion. It was impossible. Or, maybe it was possible, but that still didn't mean that it should be. My thoughts were interrupted by the pity-filled voice of the doctor,
"This hospital must do what is best for its patients. It is this risk to her wellbeing that will unfortunately prevent her from having children at any point in the future. I am truly sorry..."

A/N The plot thickens! Review to let me know what you think!