I'm just back at it again with the angst :D

"What are you saying?" Weiss could barely feel herself breathing as the temperature around her seemed to drop further every second. Her hands tightened into fists, but she could feel herself trembling.

"You heard me." Her father didn't even bother to face her. "We leave for Atlas tomorrow. You are clearly not safe here, and seeing as Beacon doesn't exist anymore, you have no reason to remain."

"But-" The word forced itself up her throat, pass the years of conditioning, the fact that fighting her fathers will wasn't something that a person did.

"You don't have a say in this. You are required back home." Her father cut her off before she could even begin, dismissing her with a wave of his hand.

"Yes father." Weiss muttered, her mind still scrambling to reassemble any sense of order. Going home had seemed like such a far-off concept for so long that she hadn't even considered what the attack might make her father do.

But still, leaving her teammates, her friends, the people she had come to trust most, was a concept she couldn't wrap her head around.

Walking out of the temporary office her father had set up, she could only stare blankly at the ground as she made her way back to the survivor shelter on memory alone.

Yang and Ruby were still there, awaiting transport back to Patch with Qrow. Of course, Ruby was still passed out, and Yang, Yang wasn't herself. Jaune was still in shock mostly. Nora and Ren too, although they had moved past some of their grief to give Jaune shoulders to cry on. At least Jaune had been kind enough to open his home to them, whenever they were allowed to go back.

She gets back to the shelter eventually, her shock now being taken over by a creeping numbness, one that was spreading outwards from her chest. She was going home, back to where the most common sound was her own footsteps echoing throughout the halls, where every action was scrutinized and monitored, where her father would be able to reassert control over her life once more.

She had to step around the hordes of students and civilians that crowd the center, finding her way to where Yang was staying in the medical area of the shelter.

"Hey." Weiss greeted softly, the sight of Yang's hollow eyes and empty expression hitting her in the gut once again.

"Hi Weiss." Yang's voice is quiet and small, so very, very small. It was a far cry from the loud and boisterous girl Weiss had come to know.

"Any news about Blake?" Weiss asked, knowing that if Sun had managed to find anything, Yang would be the first person he came to. Out of two of them, Yang had taken Blake's disappearance the hardest. From what Weiss could gather, Yang felt abandoned, left behind. Weiss could say the same for herself, although she could also sympathize with Blake. Blake had been the only person with Yang when it had happened, and Weiss could only begin to imagine the guilt that would come from that. Weiss' eyes move down to Yang's bandaged arm, no longer bloody and mangled as she had seen it that night.

Yang just shook her head, staring at the wall ahead of her.

"I have to leave," Weiss said, her fingers clenching once more from where they sat in her lap. "my father showed up from Atlas to escort me. We leave tomorrow."

"You're leaving?" Yang was looking at Weiss now, something desperate flashing through her purple eyes.

"I have to." Weiss shook her head, her teeth gritting. "I don't have a choice."

Yang went quiet at that, and Weiss stayed with her for few more minutes before leaving.

"I'm sorry Yang." Weiss whispered as she crossed through the doorway.

Next, she went to Ruby's room, where her younger teammate sat deathly still on her own bed, the only sign of life being the shallow rise and fall of her chest.

Weiss sat in one of the chairs, sighing as her shoulders fell limp.

"I know you can't hear me, but I have to leave tomorrow. My father came, I don't even have a choice." Weiss' voice shook, but there wasn't anyone around to judge her for it. The numbness had settled in her fingers now, and she could barely feel them as they trembled. Checking one more time to make sure no one was going to burst in, Weiss let the dam crumble.

"I just- I don't want to leave. God, I didn't think it would ever come down to this. I didn't even think I would like any of you. I thought you guys were idiots, especially you. You just never stop, you know? For someone who doesn't ever say a word, you're the most sociable person I know. You were always typing away. You were always there to help anyone who needed it."

Weiss swallowed, her throat thick and her eyes stinging.

"Yang's going to need you. She's, she's not doing so well, especially now that Blake's gone. You'll probably be upset about that too. I get why she ran though, the White Fang was a huge part of this, and she was one of them once."

Weiss sighed, resting her head in her hands.

"My father would have a fit if he knew I made friends with a faunus, and one who used to be part of the White Fang at that. But Blake's trustworthy, and she's a better person then she knows. She too quiet for my tastes, and she does tend to lord her ideologies over you, but you can say the same about me in that regard.

"I'm going to miss you guys. There's a saying, 'you don't know what you have until its gone.' I feel like that now. I didn't think leaving Beacon was an option. Shows what I know. Winter won't even be there to help me out."

Weiss stared at Ruby taking in the girl's face.

"I love her a lot, just in a different way from you and Yang. Things are different at my house. You would hate it. It's too quiet and too big and there are too many rules for you to even begin to remember. Father would kick you out the first day. You'd probably be one of those idiots who tries to give him a hug and gets arrested for it."

Weiss stood, still ranting under her breath.

"But that's just like you, isn't it? You always see the good in people. You're such an idiot. Dolt. You're going to miss have me around, aren't you? Good, you better miss me, because I kept my promise well enough. I was the best teammate you've ever had."

Weiss left shortly after that, once she had gotten rid of the tears in her eyes.

She had a lot to pack after all.

This is what happens when I start wondering what happened in between Cinders defeat and when Ruby wakes up in patch.

Also, I put the title as farwell, then fairwell, instead of farewell at first.