Welp, writing this I hope you all enjoy it. Onto the chapter!

Chapter 15:

"Velvet seems hurt." Jason said sitting down on the red haired woman's lap. Already saddened by how she seemed so mad to be in her place. It wasn't making sense really to him. Nor was the sleep over his mothers had said they would have out in the living room.

"She is little guy. But there is a problem." Blake said as she covered her nose again. Still mad the smell of bleach hadn't left the place and she was meant to sleep in the rooms. She could see the boy look over at her, with a raised eyebrow. As though the Faunus had just said the secret to the universe with that simple statement. "She won't let anyone help her." Blake said as the child bit his lip as he tried to think of something that he could do.

Turning around a little, so he could look at his Mom who had witnessed the entire thought process when he spoke up, "Mom, can I have my allowance? Velvet said she didn't want Ice cream... but I think that might actually help her a little." The child said as he tried to look at the older woman holding onto him.

"This isn't an issue ice cream can solve squirt." Reese said as the child just frowned as he deflated Reese just smiled. "But we should try shouldn't we?" Reese said trying to get over the fact that she could never really stand to see her son deflated at something like that. The teal haired woman stood up and held her hand out for the boy to take.

Walking towards the front door, Reese looked behind her and tried to show the group that she was sorry. Letting go of her hand, Jason quickly ran towards the place his shoes were. Sitting down, he began to unlace his shoes before he slipped them on fully once again. Reese just shook her head as she walked over towards her own and slipped them on as she could just see Yang just rubbing her eyes a little exhausted.

"Do you want anything from the shop Yang?" Reese asked as the blonde just took a deep breath.

"Nothing. I don't want to get drunk. Just, some aspirin if you really want to get me something." Yang said as she walked down the hallway towards the living room again. She could see the mood from Velvet yelling at her had seeped a little bit into everyone except the small boy who seemed hellbent on trying to make Velvet better.

She didn't care really. She just hoped that Velvet wasn't going to snap at the boy. She didn't want to imagine how Reese and Pyrrha would react. Or even how Velvet would react once she came to her senses. "Yang? You seem sad as well... do you want ice cream?" Jason asked quickly walking towards the blonde woman.

"I'm fine kiddo. Just my head hurts a little. You focus on your crusade to make Velvet happy." Yang said already knowing that Reese was going to try and talk him out of it, but it wasn't going to happen. She knew the child was far more stubborn that anyone else she had ever seen. Not that it was a bad thing. Just at this point it was a little unneeded.

Yang looked as the child returned to standing next to Reese and took her hand. A smile seemed to grow on both of their faces, Yang just shook her head at the notion of how his mirth even in a place like this, that she knew he didn't know how hard it was for any of them to really stay the night. He didn't know what had happened, but she wasn't going to let it bog her down.

Taking a seat as she could see the door close as she leaned back and sighed. She closed her eyes and tried her hardest to ignore the look that was coming from what she just knew was one of her friends looking at her.

"I swear to whatever God you want me to, if any of you ask me if I'm alright... I'm going to choke you. I'm fine." Yang said leaning back as she took another deep breath. She was ready to just pass out, but already knew that at any point someone might need her help. She actually secretly wanted them to ask for her help. Even if it was going to give her a few more minutes of being able to avoid thinking about how she was going to go crazy given the fact she knew the likelihood of how doomed she was going to be once she started to think about Ruby.

"Fine." Weiss began as she looked around the room. Wondering what she should say as though it would come to her in the silence.

"How is she?" Pyrrha asked the group wondering if Yang or Blake had some sort of insight to the current situation.

"She is crying right now. I can't make out what she is saying though." Blake said softly as she took her hand away from her face. Glad that she started to get used to the smell, and once she got over the somewhat burning sensation of bleach, she took a short breath as she just looked at everyone. "But I'm curious as to why you took the blame?" Blake whispered in case Velvet heard them. She didn't want whatever Yang was planning to be ruined.

Opening her eyes, Yang just looked at the feline Faunus shocked that this was the first time since they walked in that she wasn't trying to breath through her mouth making almost every other word near unintelligible.

Shaking the her head a little Yang just closed her eyes once more as she tried to put what she was thinking into words. "I'd rather if she wants to punch something that it is me over some inanimate object or one of you. I know I can take whatever sort of anger she has. So just relax. Shockingly, I know what I'm doing most of the time. Even if it might not look it." Yang said as she rubbed her eyes, trying not very hard to ignore the feeling of Pyrrha lowering her head down into her lap.

As she felt the hand running through her hair in an oddly soothing manner that she just knew was from years of nursing a sick child, but she was starting to loath the comfort that was coming. It wasn't something that she wanted to enjoy. She had to stay awake and uncomfortable given the situation. Velvet had yet to come out and reveal that she was in fact alright with everything. Or at least not suicidal with the high chance of self harming.

Taking a deep breath as she opened her eyes, she looked up and could see Pyrrha just smiling a concerned smile down at her. "Are you sure you want to continue this lie Yang? You don't get to raise a child and not notice when people are lying." Pyrrha said as Yang rolled her eyes and begun to turn around so she was laying on her side looking at the wall.

"I told you, I'm fine. Dear Gandhi you guys are worse than Neo, or even Yatsu, or what's his face... Roy. You know the reason I broke up with all of them." Yang said as she closed her eyes once more. Just deciding that it was best to enjoy the feeling of her hair being stroked lightly.

"Neo and Roy don't seem like the emotional type. They seem like the kinky type though. Like knife play kind of stuff." Weiss said with a raised eyebrow looking at the blonde woman.

"Spot on, but that is beside the point. A thing with that kind of thing is talking about emotions and what are you feeling. And it just pissed me of really." Yang said calmly as she took a deep breath quickly crossed her arms. She knew that there was nothing that she could really do that wouldn't raise the eyebrows of someone. Be it if she left or even just go to check on Velvet. Not that it really mattered either way.

She already knew that she could fend off their questions. And could even possibly get out for a bit. Even if it was to go to the near by liquor store and pick up something for them all to drink once Jason when to sleep. She didn't want the child to see her or her friends in a drunken state, and knew that is was a sentiment shared with Reese and Pyrrha as well.

"That must have made Ruby mad. She was really into wanting people to share emotions. That is the way it was for us when she helped us." Blake said as Yang just smirked at the idea of her sister forcing people to talk about things they would rather not talk about. Not that she could really blame them for not wanting to talk about something.

"Oh, it pissed her right off. Which made her all the more confused before she transitioned because all the women she knew were very open with their feelings and I was the most reserved person she had ever met." Yang said as she could hear a small laugh coming from the red head stroking her hair.

"How did she even tell you about that? I know for Blake it was to show not everything is as it seems, Weiss was that nothing is wrong with the likes of LGBTQ things, for me it was telling me about how no matter how broken a mind might seem there are ways to fix it... Velvet I assume it was because things were getting physical. But you never said how or even why she would tell you. Especially after Summer and by extension Tai's reaction." Pyrrha asked as Yang just smiled a soft smile at the memory of her then brother freaking out trying to figure out how he was meant to tell their parents.

"She told me first because we were always close. She wanted a safety net, but would be fine taking the plunge if it came to that. And after she cornered me in my room before a big party and was panicking I eventually got it out of her. And that was the first time I haven't drank since college." Yang began, only getting interrupted by a yawn. The lack of sleep and drink from the previous night had started to take a real toll on her. "We stayed in my room and talked all night. Over some of the most mundane seeming things. Like how did she know, and how long had she been feeling like that, and most importantly I assume is has she talked to some professionals to yet to see if it is possible to start hormones or if it was something that she really should have started to consider that it was just a phase."

Already knowing that the question wasn't one that was amongst Ruby's favourites but it still was one that Yang was glad that she saw coming. It made for a much less awkward conversation. She would know then and there how Ruby, then Ruben was going to at least seem so much healthier given the times that Yang had walked in on him, knife deep in his arm trying to almost skin it. It was a tragic sight every time she stumbled on it. And every time it was written off by her parents.

'I suppose this time you didn't just stop at your arm... you fucking moron. Why didn't you just call one of us... or even Mom and Dad.' Yang thought as she could feel Pyrrha stopping her running her hands through her hair as she felt a blanket getting draped over her body.

"I can't sleep right now."

"It is okay Yang. We can look out for Velvet right now. You just need to sleep right now." Pyrrha said as she felt a what remained of the fighting in the blonde haired woman began to die down. She could feel just how tired and exhausted Yang must have been given how pitiful the fighting was. The snoring that came just seconds afterwards was just further proof.

Author's Note:

Welp, there is the chapter. I hope you guys liked it... and I'm going to go play some kingdom hearts again...