Her family members were all sitting at the table and yet they weren't. Weiss was having her dream wasn't a nightmare but it wasn't happy either.

She sat at the well set table, with the garnished dishes and flickering candles and the statues of her family members. They all sat in their respective seats, starting straight ahead with their cold, stone eyes.

Weiss looked down at her own meal. It looked wonderful, but she couldn't smell it even with the stream drifting up to her. She placed one finger on plate. Cold. Just as always.

She sighed and placed her chin in her hand. She lazily moved her finger in and out of the cold candle flame in front of her. The same dream. The same reality.

But then, something happened. Weiss heard something. She suddenly sat up quickly. Barking. Something was barking. She stood up and looked around. Everything was the same, but thanks to that little noise her dream was different.

Weiss snapped open her eyes. The barking continued. She looked over, her eyes still blurred from the sleep. She made out a black and white smudge moving around something bright green. She rubbed her eyes.

The smudge was definitely Zwei and he was running around a pajama class Penny on her knees smiling while watching the corgi run around her.

"Penny?" Weiss said groggily. Penny looked up and waved at Weiss.

"Good evening Weiss," she whispered. Zwei stopped and looked at Weiss wagging his little stub. Weiss sat up as Penny skooched closer.

"I apologize for the intrusion," she said, "but it seemed Ren and Nora required privacy."

"Mmm," Weiss said.

"How are you this evening?" Penny asked.

"Awake," Weiss said.

"I apologize if I disturbed your sleep."

"No," Weiss said yawning "I usually get less sleep than this anyway. What time is it anyway?"

"3:15:47 AM."

Weiss looked down at Zwei. "I'm surprised you're awake," she said to the corgi.

"If I may ask a favor," Penny said, raising her hand.

"Yes?"

"May I stay for the remainder of the night? I do not want to interrupt my team mates', as Jaune calls it, 'making out.'"

Weiss smiled a bit. She knew very well it was more than "making out".

"Sure Penny," she said.

"Excellent!" She said. Zwei hopped onto Penny's lap and she lightly stroked his head.

Weiss heard something shift above her and suddenly saw a hand dangle from the bed-hammock-death-trap. How Weiss could sleep under that she would never know.

Weiss looked back at Penny and in the dim light she made out something black extending from her back. Penny made a quizzical look at followed Weiss' gaze.

"Oh!" She said seeing it. "I apologize. Was it rude of me to charge without asking?"

"Charge?" She followed the black line and saw that it was in fact plugged into one of the outlets near the door.

"I will unplug myself." Penny said skooching over to the outlet.

"No!" Weiss said a little loud. Ruby snorted and her hand disappeared. "No," Weiss whispered. "I just... Never knew you needed to be... Charged."

"Oh yes!" Penny said smiling. "I can last for 3 months, 16 days, 23 hours, and precisely 4 minutes with a full charge! But my father always told me," her voice suddenly changed and Weiss heard a man speak from Penny, "Always remember to keep yourself full because you never know when you won't be able to."

Weiss shuddered. Ruby told her Penny has many abilities but voice recording was definitely not on her mind. "Well," Weiss said "It's fine."

"Sensational!" Penny whispered.

"Well it is late," Weiss said sliding fatrher into her blankets.

"Of course," Penny said, Penny said picking up Zwei. The cord was more prominent now that she was standing. "Sleep well miss Schnee."

"Thank you." Penny moved over to the side of the room and sat down. Weiss was fine with Ruby's friend, but it did unsettle her sometimes. Especially after that time at the festival. So many bad memories were from that time. And Penny was almost like a trigger for those memories.

Weiss shook her head slightly. She shouldn't think like that. That's the past. The past has always been dark. She merely needed to focus onward like she always does.

Her eyelids grew heavy and she drifted back to sleep.

She immediately regretted it.

Beacon was in flames. The gunshots and screams blended together with sounds of the breaking windows and roars of the Grimm. It was as if this was a song written for hell. She saw students and hunters fighting against all sorts of Grimm.

She then heard it. The screaming roar that made hunters stop and turn pale. Weiss looked up. The Grimm Dragon. She wanted to run, to draw Myrtenaster, to do something but she was frozen.

Suddenly a white light flashed from the top of the ruins of the clock tower. It was bright. It was blinding. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.

She could feel the hair on the back of her neck stand as she felt the power of that light.

Of that light.

Ruby.

Weiss woke with a start. Sunlight streamed through the window. Penny was gone. Zwei was too.

Weiss quickly got out of her bed. She shivered. She then hurriedly grabbed her toiletries and rushed out of the room.

She quickly walked down the hallway. Soon she ran into the bathroom, straight to the showers, dropped her things, threw off her clothes, and turned on the shower.

It was cold. So cold. But it was familiar. She then felt slight warmth on her cheeks. Tears. Stupid, stupid tears. She didn't make a noise though. She simply sat down on the shower's seat and washed away her fears once more.