Okay... I could pull myself away from kingdom hearts. Onto the chapter.

Chapter 14:

Velvet couldn't hold the bile in her stomach any more causing her to run towards the bathroom. As she opened the door she begun to get sick into the toilet.

The same coppery scent that hadn't seemed to leave. She knew that they had to have cleaned the red lake but that smell just seemed to be ingrained in her mind. Not only that but the fact her friends invaded an area she felt like it should have been untold of how pure the area had to be.

Even if it had just a river of bloody boot prints that went from the dreaded room, to the front door. She knew that her friends probably had the best intentions, but still the bile flew from her mouth. Spitting the toilet, to remove the last traces of it, Velvet reached up and flushed it as she turned around to see Yang standing in the doorway looking worried.

"THE FUCK!" Velvet yelled as Yang quickly ignored the comment as she walked over to Velvet. Resting the back of her hand on Velvet's forehead. Shoving the hand out of the way Velvet just glared harder at the blonde woman. "I'm not vomiting because I'm sick! I'm vomiting because I'm angry! You just waltz in here and did god knows what while I was trying to grieve!" Velvet yelled as Yang just took a step back.

"They didn't do this willingly. They did it as a favour to me. At my place you are just in a sharp spiral. The other's live too far to the point that you had ran away a few times. Which is why you've been staying with me. So this is one of the last options we had." Yang said in a firm tone, as she stared at Velvet. She knew that the woman was going to be hard to deal with, but she still had no other option really to talk about it to her.

However, she didn't even know about how bad of the reaction she was going to have. She had assumed that she was going to walk around slowly and then cry. Maybe some yelling, but this wasn't one of the possible options she thought of.

That was why Yang assumed she had decided to jump under the bus to protect the people that had helped her.

"I don't want to be here Yang. Not even ten feet from here, my wife ended her life. She sliced her throat so violently that I saw her spine. I was questioned as to the happiness of our relationship because they assumed I killed her. I can still smell the blood. Do you have any idea how hard it is for me to even stand here?" Velvet asked almost hysterically as Yang just crossed her arms and looked at the Faunus woman who she had no idea of how or why she was being this angry at such a gesture.

The gesture was one of pure care about her mental well being. She didn't want Velvet to crumble, but knew that there was a very strong possibility that they were going to need to lock her in an asylum where she could get actual qualified help instead of their attempts to cure what was running rampant in her mind.

"We did nothing but clean the blood up. We scrubbed all the things that had blood stains by hand. We touched nothing else. We didn't even go into your room. The smell, is all in your head. Blake who has an even stronger sense of smell is proof of that. So calm down. We are going to have some tea made. You don't need to come out to enjoy the tea, but we are all staying here tonight. No one is going to go into the room if you don't want us to." Yang said placing her foot down to show how serious she was. She wasn't going to let Velvet push everyone out. Not now. Not even because of the fact that she was most likely angry. It was purely because Yang knew that this wasn't going to be easy for her. It wasn't even easy for her to be in the home.

The fact that she had to clean what remained of her sister's body above ground had been a lot harder than she had thought was possible. It wasn't even the first time that she had to clean up Ruby's blood, but certainly it had been the most. She still didn't like the memories of the times she had cleaned up the blood from when Ruby had been cutting herself.

"Why can't everyone just leave me alone!" Velvet yelled knowing that there was no chance that they would let her just walk out and go visit Ruby's grave just so she could see if there would be some sort of wisdom that would come to her while she talked to Ruby. She could always find some sort of wisdom coming from Ruby once they could talk. Even now.

Walking towards the room Velvet once found comfort in and tossed to door open before slamming it shut behind her. Sliding down she just looked around the room.

The now empty room.

The room that once held so many happy memories to Velvet. Now just had the last memory she had of the room. Where her and Ruby had sex as a way for Velvet to apologise for needing her to come down to the station. How that same thing had been burned into her mind as something she could have changed. If she could have changed that one thing, then maybe she could have saved Ruby.

Ruby knew that from the way Velvet's hand had been resting on her lap was essentially a death sentence to her wanting to keep her secret for as long as she possibly could. Not that she wasn't happy to be close to Velvet like that, but she just didn't want the tirade of insults that would come.

Things that would range from 'pervert' to 'sicko' to even 'monster'.

She knew deep down that Velvet probably wouldn't react like that to such news, but she had the same thoughts about her parents. Something that took her years to get over. But she actually had a deep caring for this girl as well. She didn't want something to cause her girlfriend to freak out at her for just wanting to be the gender that she wasn't born.

Grabbing Velvet's hand gently, Ruby began to move it away from her inner thigh as she tried to prevent the woman from freaking out at her from stumbling on her secret shame. She wasn't didn't want to hurt Velvet from something like that.

"Velvet... I kind of need to tell you something." Ruby began as she tried to move a little to look at Velvet head on, just so the Faunus would be able to take her seriously. "And... if we are meant to take another step, it can't wait." Ruby said as Velvet just rolled her eyes and leaned in to plant a kiss on Ruby's neck.

Taking a deep breath, she pulled back to be away from Velvet while she still held onto her hands. "I'm sure it can wait Ruby." Velvet said as she leaned in to try and plant another kiss on Ruby's neck.

"It really can't Velvet." Ruby said letting go of one of Velvet's hands and gently pushed the rabbit girl back a little.

"Oh god. You're straight aren't you? I know this was too good." Velvet said moving back trying to get her hand free from Ruby who just seemed to hold onto it tighter.

"Let me speak first Velvet." Ruby said trying to calm the woman down. Even if it was something that really shouldn't be said in the perfect world. But the world wasn't perfect, and she did need to say it. "Promise me you will hear me out to the end though." Ruby continued as she noticed Velvet's ears deflating at the mention of that but once Ruby saw the nod, she relaxed a thousand fold.

"How do you feel about people who are transitioning... you know... genders?" Ruby asked as she hoped beyond all hope that that was going to be enough for her to figure out what Ruby was getting at, but she also knew that it might not happen. She might need to say more, but at the sight of Velvet's ears moving up a little she could see that she didn't really mind.

"If you want to be a man Ruby, I don't care about that. I only had one brother until a few years back. I love you for you." Velvet said as Ruby chewed her lip roughly. That was at least a little bit of a relaxing notion, but that didn't really help either.

Seeing Ruby's reaction, Velvet made a face that was one of acknowledgement. As though it had just been made clear to her. "Oh. You mean the other way." Velvet said as Ruby nodded.

"I don't care about that Ruby. Really. Again, I have a brother who was originally my sister." Velvet continued as she could see Ruby breath a little sigh of relief. Smiling, Ruby pulled Velvet into a tight hug. An almost bone crushing hug only getting interrupted as she planted a kiss on Velvet's lips.

"You have no idea how much that has been weighing on me." Ruby said as Velvet just smiled falling back on the bed with Ruby still holding on tight to her. It was easily one of the funniest things to her. The notion of saying something was able to lift such a weight off of someone.

"But um... there is one question I have..." Velvet began as Ruby pulled back and rubbed the tears of joy from her face.

"Yes that is why I got disowned by my parents." Ruby said figuring that was the question that Velvet had given how she had almost constantly hounded her to find out the reason as to why she had never really talked about them and when Ruby did talk about them, she would become downtrodden.

"Good to know I suppose... but not my question." Velvet said as she began to sit up a little. Already figuring that there was nothing that was going to make the moment better or more romantic for them to enjoy themselves, but she still was curious. "Can you even... you know?"

Raising an eyebrow at the question trying to figure out what Velvet was asking when it clicked given what was being talked about.

"Well, I know. You can find out." Ruby said trying to get Velvet to help with what she was feeling, and after having gotten her so worked up, she would be saddened if she couldn't take care of it.

'Guess I was wrong. Something can inject the mood back into the room.' Velvet thought as she smiled and flipped them over so she was on top.

Lowering her ears, Velvet begun to dig into them as she let the tears start to stream down her face. How was she meant to stay in this place. She might have lashed out at Coco and liked to claim Coco was the reason for what happened, but in reality she knew it wasn't Coco.

It was her.

She was the one who drove Ruby to do such a rash action. She did something so stupid.

Instead of asking Ruby what was wrong and maybe help her think through what was troubling her that much that she even needed to apologise for. She just had sex with her. It made her feel so disgusted.

She knew that Yang was probably looking out for her, and that she knew it looked like she was going into a spiral. But she knew that if she was forced to be here... where Ruby died. Where she all but killed Ruby from a stupid decision, how was she meant to get better? How was she meant to grieve if she was going to be constantly reminded that she killed Ruby?

As she cried, her eyes tightly closed, her ears dripping with the blood as she moved onto a different area so she could get to a new area to injure herself with, she let out a very simple 'I'm Sorry Ruby.'

Author's Note:

Welp, done in a few hours… going to get something to eat then play some more kingdom hearts. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. onto the guest review…

Guest 4:Do you mean My Way? because hate to break it to you, I haven't written for that in a while. I need to wait for doomzoom to write. Glad you are liking the story, but keep in mind, I typically edit this quickly. Mixed with the fact I'm still mentally switching between Irish Slang and phrases to this. So give me a little break here.