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Chapter 10: The End?
Adam
"No! No. No. Weiss!" I pick her head up and set her in my lap. No, this can't be the end. This can't be it. "I love you, too. Please don't leave me. I don't think I can live without you." I let my cheek fall against hers. Tears start to roll down my face, mingling with hers that haven't quite dried yet.
"We should call an ambulance. Move so I can pull my sword from her." I look up to see a stern Winter breaking down in front of me. She can't hold her tears, and they start streaming down her face.
I put my hand on hers in a panic, trying to keep her from pulling out the sword.. "Don't. She could still be alive!"
Her free hand wipes her face. "She's not. Look, she's not even breathing!" She points to Weiss' chest. I look down and see that her chest isn't moving.
I lay my ear on her chest to try to hear a heartbeat, but there's nothing. I choke on a sob. No. No. No. Not her, why her? "Why?" I whisper it, hoping that it's not true. "She can't be." I hold her to me carefully. I can't live without you. Please, don't be gone. Don't leave me. An idea comes into my head. She healed me earlier by transferring some of her Aura into me. Can I do that with her? Is she too far gone? I take in a shaky breath and begin to push my Aura into her. I try to find even a sliver of hers anywhere in her, but I don't sense her. It's like her body is a shell now. I sit up a bit after pulling back my Aura to rip the saber out of that obstacle out of the way, I wrap my arms around her and cry into her neck. "Why did you have to do something so stupid? Why did you have to leave me?"
I feel a hand on my shoulder. "You should go, Adam. The authorities and Ozpin are on their way. You need to leave."
I look up at Blake, who is giving me such a pitying look that I almost break out into tears again. "I can't just leave her."
She sighs, one of those sighs that a child would get for being petulant. "Go back to the White Fang and change it. That's what she would have wanted, to make the world a better place."
I wipe my tears with the heel of my palm. She's right. I look back down at Weiss. Farewell, my love. I hope I can make you proud. I give a single kiss to her forehead before letting her rest gently on the ground. Standing tall, I can hear the siren in the distance. An ambulance is coming, which means that there are more people coming, ones with the authority to arrest or kill me. I sigh as I give Weiss one last look before stepping over to the cliff. I gulp as I turn around to Blake. "Thank you. I'll be in touch." I nod as I drop down and start to descend the cliff. The tears slowly slide down my face, determined to get shed before I reach the compound once more. I steel myself for the inevitable, complicated process that I'm going to have to execute for the successful reformation of the White Fang.
Winter
I don't want to believe it. I did this. I killed her. I couldn't stop myself in time. Taurus left. He just set her down and left. I look at the cliff, then back at Weiss. Falling to my knees, I scoot over to be beside her. I look at her. She looks so peaceful, like she never experienced the pain that I know would have been coursing through her before she… before she… I take a deep breath. Before she died. I caress her cheek, surprised that she had even jumped in front of him. It must have been love. The Weiss that I knew from so long ago would never have even contemplated doing that for anyone. She was such a brat, but she'd changed so much. I bend over her and move the hair from her face. This isn't how I wanted it to end. If only I could have controlled my temper, I could have prevented this kind of ending. "I didn't want this." My voice is muffled by the tears, but I don't care. You're gone, and now I'm alone.
I inhale deeply to try to calm myself before everyone gets here. I take the handkerchief from my pocket and dab at my eyes. I guess my makeup is ruined now, but I couldn't care less about that. I just don't like to be seen vulnerable. I worked too hard to look like the Ice Queen, and I have to keep that up if Father is going to not interfere with my military career.
That girl that was here, Weiss' teammate is just staring silently, at Weiss, at me, at the cliff. It's hard to tell, but we're all in the same general direction. "You might want to leave, if you don't want to explain anything."
She just shakes her head. "I've contacted my team. They'll be here soon. I can't leave them to find her without someone to help them and explain." So reasonable, so emotionless.
I nod as the ambulance pulls up. When I called, I told them that she was already dead, so there's no rush. They don't jump out of the vehicle or anything. If anything, they gracefully glide to their equipment and come to check if she's truly dead. New tears threaten to escape as they record that she doesn't have a pulse and isn't breathing. They don't even question me, the one beside a bloody sword and an… obviously impaled sister. I place my hand over my mouth to silence the scream that would escape in anger. Someone should be blaming me, yelling, telling me that I just… killed my own sister, but all I get is pitied looks and a few shakes of their head.
I clench my teeth and fist before getting up. They'd pulled a stretcher up, and are fixing to cart her off in the ambulance. I follow them and request to ride with her. I wasn't there in her life, not when I was supposed to, and I'll be damned if I'm like that now. I hold her hand the whole ride, hoping that this is all just a nightmare that I'll wake up from in the morning. Sadly, I don't think I will.
A/N: Sorry! *sits in corner, fending off tears* This isn't the END! There's an epilogue! I am so sorry.
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