Welp, you people are curious how I'm going to make a dead girl a bitch... all I can say is... you'll need to wait.

Chapter 2:

Walking up the stairs, each step felt like few thousand. Each one seemed to bring up what she had seen what felt like hours ago. But knew that the odds of her finding her dead wife again was impossible. Instead all she was going to do was sleep in the bed with her sister in law.

Not that Velvet found the warmth to be bad. It just felt wrong to her. It felt like she was cheating on Ruby even though the comfort that Yang would bring would be enough for both of them to make it through the night. It was all that they could do really. Their entire lives seemed to be in ruins. The weather was just constantly spitting rain, the birds seemed to stop their joyous singing every morning, even the food Velvet had been forced to eat just seemed to taste like dirt.

Knocking on the door, Velvet was secretly hoping that Yang wasn't going to be there. Just so she could go and all but hang herself. She already knew that it would hurt the rest. But she couldn't take it. Her prayers seemingly getting thrown back at her when the door swung open to show Yang standing there in the same black garb she had been wearing since the funeral.

Quickly walking past Yang and straight into the bedroom she would be forced to share, she closed the door and begun to slide down it. Her back pressed against the door in an almost fit as she begun to lower her head into her hands. She knew the fact she was crying was what was really shocking. She was already confident that she had lost the ability to cry, she had been doing it constantly.

Hearing a knock on her door as she nearly jumped out of her skin, wondering what was so important her late afternoon crying was interrupted. "Velvet... you mind coming out? You need to eat. Even if it is just some raw carrots." Yang said softly, feeling a sense of dread mixed with deja vu of whenever she talked to Ruby over some of the large roadblocks she had encountered.

Sniffling as she begun to rub her eyes a little with the cuff of the red hoodie Ruby had bought her. "No... I don't deserve anything like that... just... leave me alone." Velvet said as she brought her knees up to her chest. Draping her arms around them as she begun to take some deep breaths. She was trying to force herself to keep the tears back far enough so she could at least have this conversation. She didn't want to speak, but knew that she was going to need to.

"You don't deserve to be alone Velvet. Just... can you open the door so we can talk properly? I don't care if you are crying." Yang asked as she heard the silence that befell the entire small apartment. She knew that Velvet was taking this hard... even Yang herself was taking it just as hard if not harder, but knew that if Ruby was alive she would be damned if she let a death harm Velvet this bad.

"I care Yang..." Velvet croaked out after what seemed like half a dozen hours, but was probably a few minutes already hearing in Yang's voice that she was about to ask again. She knew that she was going to need to explain it a little bit more.

"Velvet... please... I just want to talk." Yang said as she heard some deep sniffling followed by the sound of moving. Twisting the handle, she began to walk in as she took in the sight of Velvet sitting in the small wooden frame chair with her knees practically burying half of her face behind them. "The gang is coming over again tonight. And we all are starting to worry more and more about you... two weeks and you still seem like you are in that downward spiral."

The way Yang was speaking was just seemingly tearing Velvet's resolve to stay like this. She couldn't understand how Yang was able to just seemingly get on with her life after two weeks since they put Ruby in her final resting place. It just seemed to constantly rub salt into her wounds. "You didn't see her Yang. I did. There is nothing left for me in this world... My parents refuse to acknowledge my existence until I go back home..." Velvet began to mumble as she could see Yang wrap her arms lightly around her. As though she was waiting for Velvet to continue. "Only reason I'd go back anyway is to kill my sister."

The way Velvet spat that hate, wasn't something knew to Yang. She had been saying that for a while, and from what Yang knew about Vi, she would join in just because it would make Velvet at least come out of her shell a little.

"Maybe if I wasn't mistaken for Vi... I'd at least have everything ready for our anniversary dinner. She wouldn't have been left alone long enough to do it... I could have stopped it." Velvet said softly as Yang walked over to the foot rest and took a seat looking at the rabbit Faunus who had lowered her ears and begun to seemingly play with them.

"Velvet, I've known Ruby long before she even started to undergo HRT. Once she has her mind on something it is next to impossible to take her mind off of it. No one saw it coming. Don't keep beating yourself up. Ruby would loathe herself for causing that." Yang said as she could see Velvet seemingly getting more and more violent with her ears.

"I should have noticed!" Velvet yelled as she begun to glare at Yang. "We spent countless hours just talking while we cuddled. I should have noticed any number of signs... now all that remains of my once beautiful wife is a hole in the ground her parents are trying to get the stone changed to 'Ruben' a house filled with now terrible memories, and a guest bedroom coated in a sea of blood. HER blood." Velvet continued the tirade, knowing that Yang wasn't going to fault her.

Velvet just couldn't handle how it was so easy for Yang and her friends to just move on. How they could patch such a massive hole in their lives that Ruby had left. Something that made less and less sense to her as the time seemed to creep on. The world should just end in Velvet's opinion. "Honestly, your parents keep trying to force me to sign off on the paperwork because that is the only way they can do anything legally." Velvet continued softly as Yang just shook her head.

She figured that at least it was something that was keeping Velvet going was preventing her parents from harming what remained of Ruby's legacy besides the number of patients she had that remembered her. Her memory was going to live on, even if it was mostly through people who were in dire straights in an asylum.

"Velvet... I get it. It hurts. But unlike when my ex tried to kill himself... and despite how much it hurts to say this... my baby sister isn't here to pull us out of this. We need to be the ones to do it." Yang said as she stood up looking at Velvet calmly. "So, I'll ask again... when the gang comes over are you going to come out? None of us are going to force you to... but it would at least put all of our minds at ease a little." Yang said as Velvet just seemed to rub her ears a little. Something Yang hadn't seen her do in a long time.

"I... I don't know." Velvet whispered softly as she took a deep breath pulling her knees tighter against her. "I... might just go out for a walk again soon."

"I'd rather if you didn't Velvet. It can't be healthy for you to constantly visit her grave like this." Yang said softly as Velvet just looked up at her. A slight whimper in her eyes as she was clearly debating how she was meant to say the next part. Something that Yang knew well. "But I can't stop you even if I wanted to. Just... don't stay late tonight if you do. You've been coming home later and later." Yang continued as she walked back towards the door. She really didn't want to stop Velvet for the simple fact that she had no idea what Velvet was going through. She had never been as close to Ruby as Velvet was. Something that irked her to a new degree, but not overly so because at least there was someone that made Ruby immensely happy.

Stopping just in the door frame as she turned around, Yang looked at Velvet who just looked out of the window as she begun to mess with her ears a bit more. She could have sworn she could see some liquid dripping down but chalked it up to the small amount of light that was getting into the room playing tricks on her. "You know where I'll keep the spare key right?"

"Just inside the lip of the mail box..." Velvet whispered as she frowning a little more at the feeling of blood just coating her fingertips. None of this had been a dream. The pain just made it seem all that more real. It had been the only way she could seemingly feel these days.

She could hear Yang walking back towards the kitchen as Velvet was left alone again. It just seemed fitting that she should be alone. She lost Ruby when she was so close to finally saving up enough money. She had to have been with how long they both had been saving.

Taking a deep breath as she could see the cityscape starting to darken signifying that she should leave if she wanted to spend most of the night with Ruby again. Sniffling as pulled the cuffs of her sleeves down so she could dry her eyes, she quickly walked out of the room and towards the front of the small building. Ignoring the soft speaking as she slipped past the sturdy looking front door and just begun to walk.

The bitterly cold air mixed with the near freezing rain made each step feel like she was getting pelted with needles. Another source of pain to cause her to constantly remember how all of this was real. She was going to go to the very real grave of her wife, she was going to sit on the very real ground, and she was going to cry very real tears.

Despite how she never wanted to do that at Ruby's grave. It just always happened and it always hurt Velvet that little more than the digging her nails into her ears in a careful spot as to not alert others to it, or even the freezing rain.

Walking through the open intimidating gates, Velvet was shocked the normally long walk where she could think and clear her mind a lot more, but was short. Her body seemed to be running purely on autopilot. Coming to a stop in front of the ornate grave marker, she just frowned. At the start of the journey she had hoped that it was all a very real dream. But with the engraved letters staring back at her.

Plopping down, just on the far side of the patch of dirt that she knew had seeds tossed to regrow the grass. Just the bland, brown dirt looking up into the heavens had seemed far more fitting for Velvet to just stare at.

"I'm sorry I didn't get flowers this time Ruby... Yang kept me longer than normal." Velvet said softly as she waited for some sort of response to come. Even though she knew one never would. Not any more. "I promise to bring some lilies for you tomorrow." Velvet said as she brought her knees up to her chest and just stared.

For whatever reason she just felt off. Quickly resituating herself so she was laying down on dirt. Her left hand still adorned with the wedding ring just resting over the patch of dirt. "I miss you Ruby..."

Author's Note:

Welp... don't know about your guys but I enjoyed this chapter... feels good to be back writing a feelsy story. Onto the Guest Reviews...

Guest 4: Well, I did cut off both my arms and I'm typing this with two chopsticks walrus style. I'll refer you to the first author's note of this chapter. But I plead the eighteenth to the final part.

Posh: It was sad... and most likely going to get sadder. And it is good to be back.