The beeps of the heart rate monitor woke her up again.

Weiss's eyes began to flutter open. They seemed to respond faster than her actual body. Her head started to slowly shift on her pillow as she opened her eyes in full. She noticed that the top of a cabinet held several jars of flowers. Some were accompanied by a 'Get Well' card. She felt around her mouth and noticed that the breathing mask was completely gone. She also noticed a sleeping form on the right side of her bed. The figure had her head resting where Weiss's leg but it felt gentle so it did not wake her up. She noticed the person had dark hair with red highlights. Weiss blushed as she realized who it was.

"R-ruby?" She muttered. Her voice sounded awful. It sounded cracked and dry.

Ruby's sleeping form began to stir and move when her name was mentioned. She lifted her head and looked at her. Weiss could've sworn she saw tears forming in her eyes.

"Weiss! You're okay!" Ruby lunged forward rather quickly and gave a massive bear hug. Compared to Yang's, Ruby was not that strong but it did knock the wind of her.

"Crushing me. Can't breathe. You…dolt." Weiss, wheezing out every word with her voice.

Ruby instantly pulled back and wiped the tears that were forming in eyes. As Weiss looked at Ruby, she noticed Ruby was not in the best of states. Her dark hair had become messy and showed no sign of care. Her eyes were all puffy and bloodshot, but also carried bags under them. Her skin was even more pale than usual.

"What happened?"

At that moment the two other members of the team entered the room.

"Well, well, well, look at you ice queen. You look strong enough to rip the ears off an Ursa." Yang said, with Weiss grumbling in annoyance at her nickname.

"Well, I guess I can explain." Blake began. "When they first brought you in here, they were unsure that you would make it. The venom was just too powerful for most anti-venom. After the day we visited you something happened."

Weiss decided to play dumb and she said she was not aware the team had come to visit her.

"Anyway, after we left, we returned to Beacon. Everyone was worried, even Team CRDL."

Weiss believed that everyone was worried for her, but CRDL, known bullies? She must've been worse than they were letting on. Throughout the whole story, Ruby kept glancing over at Weiss, like she would explode. Weiss found it strange but merely dismissed it.

"The day after we visited, the doctors called us in. They said that somehow over night, your condition began to become better. It was like your body was ridding itself of the poison."

Weiss remembered the man who gave her that blood bag that one night. How it was rather mysterious, how he got in after visiting hours, and even how he got up to the window were all questions in Weiss's mind. She looked over at the blood bag only to find it looked like the same she had before the man showed up. Was it all a dream? Was it a dream induced by the venom?

"Weiss, what's the matter?" Ruby said, her face a masked of concern.

"Nothing. Continue."

"Anyway the doctors said you were making a speedy recovery and that your aura somehow purged the venom. Even your injury is gone."

Weiss looked down at her left arm. Blake was right. The gauzes which covered the limb from her forearm to her fingers were gone. Even the wound where the fang had entered as gone. Replaced now by a long pale scar, but even that was starting to heal. She moved her hands up to her face to touch her eye scar, the one that will never heal.

"How long was I out?"

"Three days."

"WHAT! I was out for three days?!" Weiss voice temporarily rose before dying back down to its same raspy volume. Well, that would explain all the flowers.

"Ruby never left your side after that. That's my baby sis for you." Yang said.

Wait, Ruby had stayed with her for three days? Ruby really cared for her that much? It almost shocked Weiss that Ruby was willing to let her own well-being slip into disarray in order to insure her teammate was comfortable in the hospital.

"Well, that was…sweet of you Ruby."

She could've sworn Ruby just blushed.

The four stayed in the room and talked for a few minutes. They talked about how all the other students reacting to Weiss's situation. How Nora wanted to take Weiss to break Cardin's legs when she got better. And how Ozpin gave Ruby a pardon to watch over Weiss. As the continued to talk, Weiss felt her stomach rumble.

"Hey, do you think you can get me something to..." Weiss began to say, but Ruby pulled out a green apple. "…eat."

"I know that hospital food can be a little bad, so I snuck an apple out of the Beacon mess hall for you."

Ruby proceeded to hand Weiss the fruit as Weiss took a solid bite. At first, the apple tasted sublime. Beacon only had the finest food the students who trained there. But the more she chewed; the apple lost its flavor. She literally tasted nothing. Weiss made a face as she swallowed the first bite.

"What is it?" Ruby asked.

Weiss did not want to worry her friends more. Maybe the medicine was doing this. Making food lose their flavor.

"It's nothing." Weiss said as she continued to eat the apple, which had no flavor.

A/N: The flashback chapters will be over soon, don't worry. I know that I have been focusing way too much on flashbacks rather than moving the story along. And for that, I apologize. We will get back to the present soon enough. Only one response to do today!

To Tatopatato: Some of the others will be introduced as the story and plot progress.

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