Hey guys so here is chapter 13 and HOLY SHIT PEOPLE 2,500+ views you guys are the best, also im kind of going into an AU story here if I haven't already. Please leave your thoughts and opinions on how I should approach certain things in the story. Thanks in advance well enjoy :3
Ruby POV
Cold...so cold I roll around and around under the covers trying to warm up but to no avail. I shiver as I feel my face radiate heat every second feels like an eternity. I can hear people talking but I can't make out who it is at the moment. I struggle to get comfortable in the bed as I feel what I believe to be a fever get more intense. I open my eyes and I am all alone in the room. I sit up and look around trying to see if anyone left a note before leaving. I see nothing of the sort and move to the edge of the bed. I rub my eyes and when I reopen them I see Summer standing in the middle of the room.
"What are you doing here mom?" I ask hesitantly
"I came here to see how you were doing" Summer replies taking a seat next to me.
"Im doing alright I have a slight fever at the moment due to an infection I believe." I say leaning my head against her shoulder.
"Oh my that isn't good..well Yang should know how to take care of that easily." She says with a warming smile.
"Mom I have a question." I say shyly
"What is it dear you know you can ask me anything." Summer replies wrapping her arm around me.
"Why did you have to go on that mission?" I say trying to force back tears. "Why did you have to leave?"
"It was my duty as a huntress honey." She says hugging me.
"But still.." I say lowering my head.
"I also saw what happened yesterday with you and your friends." Summer says shifting on the bed.
"You...did?" I say confused.
"Yes I did and Ruby I need you to know...it's not your fault." Summer says lowly.
"What?" I say turning to face her.
When I turn to face her the room begins to turns into a crimson red. Summer sits next to me her face slowly becoming distorted and horrifying. I try to scream and nothing comes out. I attempt to push myself away from her as she edges closer and closer.
"It's not your fault Ruby." The now disfigured Summer says in a demented voice.
I close my eyes and force a scream to exit my lungs. I sit up in a cold sweat and see Weiss and Yang along with Blake sitting around me with scared expressions. I feel a bout of dizziness overcome me and I lay back on the bed.
"Wh-what happened?" I ask horsely
"Ruby...you started screaming and screaming." Weiss said in a shaky voice.
"Did I say anything else?" I ask trying to sit up but was laid back down by my sister.
"Ruby you were also screaming..you were." Yang kept trying to speak but she wasn't able to before she started crying and pulled me into a hug.
"Yang what is going on?" I ask her gently
"Ruby you started screaming Summer's name." Yang says letting me go.
I sit there in silence as I realize that while I may have not been able to scream in what I hoped was a dream I was screaming in reality. Everyone sitting in front of me had heard me.
Yang POV (1 hour earlier)
I open the door to our dorm room and see Ruby laying down in Weiss's bed and her sitting in the desk chair next to her. I walk up to her and place a hand on her shoulder causing her to be startled.
"Yang what are you doing here aren't you supposed to be in class at the moment?" Weiss asked in an annoyed tone with a hint of happiness.
"I wanted to check on Ruby." I say to her walking over to the bed. I look down at my little sister who was fast asleep.
"She..is doing ok." Weiss says taking a stand next to me. "But there is one thing."
"What's going on Weiss?" I ask turning to look at her.
"She has an infection in her wound from not being treated with proper medicine." She tells me taking my hand and squeezing it.
My eyes flash red and I growl "Raven you fucking!" before I could finish my sentence Weiss interrupted me.
"It is not her fault! she stopped the bleeding if she hadn't event attempted giving her medicine she wouldn't be with us right now!" She yelled at me.
I looked at her before my eyes returned to their normal lilac color. I sighed and hung my head a little as I felt Weiss give me a small hug. I appreciate all that she does even if she normally has a cold heart. I decided to stick around for awhile and help Weiss with whatever she needed after much arguing. Ruby stayed asleep for most of the time only moving every now and then to change positions as she slept. I walk over to Blake and I's bunk beds and hop up to mine and lay back.
"Yang?" I hear Weiss ask from below.
"Hmm?" I say closing my eyes.
"Can...I talk to you about something?" She says in a quieter tone.
I open my eyes as this has intrigued me to some extent and I wouldn't let this pass me. "Sure we are teammate Weiss you can talk to me about anything." I say in my best caring sister voice I could.
"Well let's say that there is someone at this school who I have..in a way started to develop feelings for?" She nervously says
"Aww Weiss has a crush who is it huh huh?" I say jokingly eager.
"Forget it...I knew it was a bad idea to talk to you." She says shortly turning away.
I pout and slide out of my bed and jump to the floor and sit on Blake's bed. "Weiss come here." I say softly patting next to me on the bed.
"I said forget it Yang" Came her cold answer not moving her eyes off of Ruby.
"It was not an option Weiss...come here." I say a little more intense. I see Weiss hesitate for a moment before getting up and sitting next to me.
"Im sorry about the joke earlier." I say after a moment of silence between us.
"Its...fine" She says quietly.
"Now...whats on your mind, I was being serious when I said you could talk to me about anything." I say scooting a little closer to her.
Weiss again hesitated before saying "Like I said earlier there is someone at the school who I believe I am starting to like...a lot."
I nod and just stay quiet as she continued.
"I don't know how to go about figuring out these feelings especially since it is under a special circumstance." She sighed
"Well first off who is the lucky guy to woo your heart?" I ask curiously
"As I said it's a special circumstance." She repeats
"I don't follow." I say my eyes meeting hers
"It's...not a guy I like." She trails off as her eyes slowly start to move to look at Ruby.
"Oh...OOHH!" I say as I follow her gaze. I feel a small grin come across my face.
"I just don't know what to do." She sighs hanging her head.
"Well first things first you need to know is that if you hurt her I hurt you." I say placing my hand on her shoulder.
"I already understood that when I realized who I liked." She retorted
"Secondly I want her to be happy...and if you haven't noticed you make her happy, almost more than I could." I say loosening my grip on her.
Weiss smiles a little at me and goes back to the desk chair next to Ruby. I get up about to leave when Blake walks through the door surprising both of us.
Blake POV
I open the door to the dorm room and when I entered I made eye contact with a stunned Weiss and shocked Yang. I slowly enter the room and make my way to my bed. I sit down grab a book and lean back and start reading.
"Uhhh Blake what are you doing here?" came Yang's voice
"I couldn't let you and Weiss be the only ones to care for our leader..we are a team." I say my eyes not leaving the page I was on.
"Fair enough" I heard Yang say as she sat on the edge of my bed. I looked up to meet her gaze and felt a slight blush cross my face.
We were interrupted by Ruby who had started mumbling in her sleep. At first we did not make much of it as she was known to do it occasionally. Yang walked over to her and grabbed her hand in hers and just sat there. Ruby continued her mumbling as me and Weiss went about our business. At some point Weiss and I must have fallen asleep but were woken by the sound of Yang and Ruby.
"Ruby...Ruby please stop!" Yang was pleading.
I looked over at the two and saw Ruby squirming on the bed as if she was in a nightmare that was too real. I got up and walked over and attempted to help. Weiss just sat there unable to speak or do anything. None of us had any experience when it came to something like this.
"Ruby...please." Yang continued to plead.
"Mom?" was the only audible word any of us heard her say up to that point.
I sighed as I thought this meant she might be ok. I looked at Yang who sat there in utter shock. She was not moving a muscle her eyes wide trying to comprehend what she just heard. I hesitated for a moment before placing my hand on hers and looking her in the eyes. Yang immediately shoved her face into the crook of my neck and began to silently weep. I helped her up and over to my bed and when she moved her face I wiped away the tears. We all knew the story behind Ruby mom. Yang's stepmom.
"I never expected her to say something like that." Yang said after a few minutes of silence.
"I know..I know" I said leaning my head on her shoulder.
We were once again interrupted but this time by Ruby who out of no where started to scream bloody murder. We rushed back over to the bed and tried to keep her still. She kept pushing at us like she was trying to keep whatever it was in her dream away from her. Yang was pleading with her while the tears returned to her face. It took both Yang and me to hold Ruby down so she wouldn't hurt herself.
"Weiss." Yang said grunting trying to control her sister.
"Wh-what." Weiss said worried looking at Ruby.
"Talk to Rubes she might recognize your voice...please Weiss." Yang begged her.
Weiss stood still for a moment before leaning in next to Ruby's ear. "Ruby it's ok i'm here." She spoke softly into her ear.
She took Ruby's hand into hers and began stroking the back of it with her thumb. "Shhhh it's alright." She continued.
After a few minutes Ruby settled down and relaxed her muscles. She opened her eyes a little later to see all of us sitting around her.
Weiss POV
I walked out of the room shortly after Ruby woke up. I couldn't be in there at the moment not after what happened. I put my back to the wall outside the room and slide down until I am sitting on the floor. I wrap my arms around my legs and rest my head against them. I don't know what to feel I was scared then happy then...then. I sigh again as I try to make sense of what is going on. I hear the door open and Yang walks out. She looks at me and then flops down next to me.
"Hey Weiss?" Yang asked
"Yeah.." I say not lifting my head.
"Thanks." was all she said as she stood up.
Before I could say for what she looked down at me and smiled. "She wants to see you by the way." she said before taking off down the hallway. "Tell Blake I will be training!" She hollered before disappearing around the corner.
I enter the room and see Ruby sitting up in my bed looking out the window. Blake is on her bed reading her book everything is just like nothing happened at all a few moments ago. I walk to the desk and sit in the chair not letting myself see Ruby. I open my notebook and return to studying. After a while I close the book having been unable to concentrate on anything.
"Weiss?" came Ruby's voice next to me
"What do you need I am busy trying to study." I say more harshly than I wanted.
"I just wanted to thank you for being there for me...again." Ruby said a hint of sadness in her voice.
I said nothing and continued to look out the window at the grey sky forming overhead.
"Hey Blake can you.." Ruby's voice trailed off but I assume Blake understood what she meant cause soon after she left the room closing the door and leaving both of us alone.
"Come here Weiss." Ruby said patting the spot next to her.
I reluctantly got up and walked over to her but scooted a bit further away.
"Weiss I need to talk to you about something important." Her voice becoming more serious.
"What's wrong Ruby?" I ask slightly looking over to her.
"I..well there is someone I like but I don't think they like me back and Im so confused at what to do." She rambled off quickly.
"I-I see" I stammered thinking I was looking at a mirror seeing her in the same ship as me.
"What do I do?" She asked her silver eyes pleading for an answer.
"I guess just show them how much you like them...if you don't they will never know you do." I say confidently but ashamed since I couldn't follow my own advice.
"If you say so." Ruby says. She scoots closer to me and sits with me shoulder to shoulder.
"Ruby what are you." I was cut off by her when she grabbed the side of my face and turned my head. She placed her lips gently to mine in a delicate kiss.
"I'm following your advice." She said leaning back and looking me in the eyes. I knew I had a huge blush right now but was unable to hide it.
"Weiss you have always been there for me, caring for me, wanting me to better myself not only as a huntress but as a person." Ruby says not moving her hand from my face.
"So...I slowly started to fall for you..at first I thought I was crazy but then I couldn't help but keep noticing how beautiful and kind you really are." She said a blush starting its way across her face. "Weiss Schnee I love you and I will wait for you no matter the answer I receive." she finished and before she let go she gave me one last kiss.
I could not pull away...I didn't want to pull away. She smelled of roses and her lips tasted of strawberries. I was in heaven, but at the same time my emotions couldn't comprehend what was going on. As she broke the kiss I immediately stood up. I walked to the door and opened it, but before walking out I looked back at Ruby who was just looking at me. I walked out of the room and shut the door a flurry of thoughts rushing into my head all at once. I needed to find Yang she could help me with this.
Well guys this is the end...of the chapter hahaha fooled ya. but nah I am having fun writing Whiterose at the moment. Like I said if you have any ideas on what could happen leave it in a review or PM me I will try to view them all. Have a good night bye bye :3