"Ruby!" Yang screeched, bursting out of bed covered in sweat, with tears rolling down her cheeks.

Her exclamation woke her three team members.

"Yang? What are the fuck are you doing?" Weiss said, loudly but not quite yelling. "The sun hasn't even risen yet."

The entire team closed their eyes and groaned in unison, Ruby having just turned on the lights.

"Yang, are you okay?" Her younger sister asked, concern all over her face.

"Fine Rubes, I just had a bad dream is all."

Blake dropped down from the top bunk, landing lightly on her feet, which made almost no sound.

"Yang, can we talk outside?" The faunus asked. Her face just as worried as Ruby's.

"Please do." Weiss interjected, still angry about being woken up.

"Want to tell me what that was all about?" Blake asked once they were in the hallway outside the door.

Instead of replying, Yang fell forward into her teammate, sobbing uncontrollably as the other girl held her.

"It's alright Yang. Tell me when you're ready." She choked out, her voice unstable at seeing her normally confident friend break down.

Five minutes passed with Yang sobbing into Blake's arms, the faunus simply caressing the blonde's treasured hair.

"I had a nightmare about Ruby." Yang managed to say through the onslaught of tears. "I was in the hospital again and everything exploded. I sprinted down the hallway, but I was barely moving. I saw Ruby at the end, cornered by flames. Then the fire spread and it-." Yang broke down into tears once again, unable to finish her sentence.

"Ruby is safe now Yang. No one is going to hurt her." She said as she nuzzled her cat ears into Yang's face in an attempt to make her feel better.

Her reward was Yang looking her in the eye and forcing out an empty smile.

"Did Doctor Shannon say anything about you going to see a specialist?" She figured it out. A panicked yang thought to herself.

"Yeah... She said that she thinks I have PTSD."

Blake nodded, her theory having been proven correct.

"Let's go back in." Yang said, drying her eyes with her hand and attempting to regain control of her voice.

When they opened the door to the room, they saw Weiss and Ruby huddle together on Weiss' bed, the girl in red crying softly into the heiresses' arms. When she heard the door open, Ruby jumped up and ran straight into Yang, hugging her forcefully and causing the older girl to grunt in surprise.

"Sorry. I just to really worried about you and I could hear you crying. And then Weiss got worried about you too, when she stopped being mad about you waking her up that is. I'm rambling aren't I? Sorry." The words that came out of the girl's mouth were like a flood, washing over Yang and making her feel even more guilty about the whole situation.

"Sorry Ruby, I didn't mean to scare you like that." She hugged her back tightly, taking away the shorter girl's ability to breathe comfortably.

"Let's all get back to bed. We can talk about this at a more reasonable time. It's 3 A.M. I checked." The heiress stated, interrupting the two sisters.

"Agreed this is more than enough excitement for so early in the morning. I'll take the top bunk again Yang, you can stay in my bed." Blake said, still concerned about the blonde.

Yang's response was to turn off the lights and climb back into Blake's bed, comforting herself with the familiar smell that surrounded her. She began to cry again, silently this time. When the sound of even breathing finally filled the room, sobs began to wrack her body, even though she stayed quite apart from the occasional gasp, shudders that rolled through her body. She was slightly surprised when a dark shape dropped in front of her and climbed into bed, joining her and holding her tightly as she cried.

"I'll stay here all night Yang. You don't need to worry about anything now." Blake said, her eyes reflective in the dark.

Yang buried her face into her partner's neck and continued to cry, clinging to her anchor in an roiling sea of emotion. Her sobs quickly subsided to the occasional sniffle and eventually those stopped as well when sleep overtook her.

When Yang awoke later that morning, she attempted to move her right arm but found she was unable to. When she opened her eyes she found ,to her surprise, Blake's face directly in front of her. The faunus' features were lit by the rising sun, making them look even softer than normal. She looks so kissable right now. Yang thought, before stopping herself. Kissable? What the hell? Why would I think that. Even as she mentally reprimanded herself however, she found her face drawing closer to Blake's, her eyes focusing on the soft lips of her friend. Exactly, my friend. It's Blake that were talking about here, not some random girl. Yang pulled away suddenly when Blake's eyes fluttered open, causing the blonde to blush slightly at her predicament. Thankfully the girl in front of her was still tired and did not notice the sudden motion along with the color of Yang's cheeks.

"Morning." The girl in front of her whispered drowsily, not one to wake up quickly.

"Morning." The blonde replied, her voice scratchy because of the activity earlier that morning.

"Sleep well?" Asked Blake as she stood up and stretched, Yang admiring her backside while she was doing so.

"Yeah, no more bad dreams." What the hell are you doing Yang? Blake is your friend, stop staring at her ass.

"That's good I think the ice queen would have frozen you solid if you woke her up so early again."

"That wouldn't be very Weiss of her." She said, a Cheshire grin spread across her face, which was met quickly by a pillow from across the room.

"Do you really have to start so early?" An unseen Ruby complained, groaning as she sat up on the edge of her bed.

"I like to start my mornings off with a Yang." Another pillow made a beeline for her face, knocking her backwards with the force of the throw.

"I' going to go get dressed, you two have fun." Blake said, attempting to hide her smile but failing miserably.

As soon as the Faunus had left the room, Yang pulled out her scroll and plugged her headphones in. She hopped onto the Internet and searched for "Faunus saves civilians during white fang attack" and she almost immediately found the video she was looking for. Hitting play, she was greeted by a block of text that warned of the graphic content the video contained. She watched intently as Blake's image ran into frame as she ran backwards through a partially collapsed doorway. Gambol Shroud in her hand unleashing a steady flow of bullets.

"Everybody, take cover!" She yelled, her voice full of rage and her face frightening to look at.

Yang gasped in surprise as Blake fell onto the ground, a spray of blood coming from her leg. The girl stood back up quickly however, or at least appeared to, the camera having been dropped when she was hit and picked back up. She never told me she got shot. Yang thought to herself, understanding the girl's reluctance to share. As the video continued, the scroll camera zoomed in on Blake's face, then panned up to centere her faunus features in the middle of the frame. Yang was once again struck by how serious she looked, her eyes burning in hatred and her face distorted in a deep scowl. The video cut away suddenly to a shot of the field that was in front of the building, causing Yang to gasp again. There had to be at least fifty white Fang surrounding the building, firing at both Blake and the hoverjet Ruby and Coco occupied. The blonde suddenly realized that team JNPR was nowhere to be found, their attentions assumedly directed elsewhere. As soon as the camera focused on the hoverjet that was circling, a small red figure jerked to the right and then fell down, her scream barely audible above the gunfire. The sound forced Yang to pause the video briefly in order to bring her emotions back under control and stop the tears that welled up in her eyes.

"Weiss! Go with Ruby. I have this under control!" Blake shouted offscreen, right before the camera zipped back to her.

Weiss stood in her dirtied white dress next to Blake and opened her mouth to protest, but closed it once she saw Blake's determine expression.

"Be careful Blake, we'll come back as soon as we can." Weiss said, calling to the hoverjet pilot and launching herself across the sky with a glyph.

The camera followed Weiss all the way into the hoverjet, snapping back to Blake when Weiss had boarded. What the hell is she doing! Yang screamed internally. Blake had ran out into the field and started to engage the terrorists in close combat, blood and bodies following her as she moved through the crowd. The White Fang were trying desperately to retaliate, but the only things that they hit were either Blake's clones or each other, so they gave up on trying to shoot her and instead pulled out knives. Bad move. Yang thought as she saw them struggle to hit even the shadow clones left behind. In a few minutes, there were only around two dozen White Fang left, and they had all either surrendered or had begun to run away. The ones running away quickly wished they had simply surrendered peacefully as Blake calmly shot each one of them in the leg, bringing them to the ground. The video then cut to text which read: "Thank you to the young hunters and huntresses who fight for us every day. In particular to the faunus Blake, who stood up to her own kind in order to protect a group of people she never met. I owe my life to her and so do many of my friends." When the video ended, Yang dropped her scroll down onto her pillow. She looked at her hands and saw them shaking viscously. She put them together in an effort to force them to stop moving, however she only partially succeeded.

"I really wish you hadn't watched that." The voice made her jump as she suddenly became aware of Blake's presence next to her.

"Blake, what the hell were you thinking? Were you trying to get yourself killed?" The brawler asked angrily

The other girl shrugged in reply as she sat down on the bed next to her friend.

"You looked really bad Yang. I didn't-" She paused to choke down a sob. "I didn't know if you were going to make it and I don't want to live in a world without you. I got a little carried away, I apologize."

"Why didn't you tell me that you got shot?" Yang place sat next to Blake on the edge of the bed and took the girl's hand into her own.

"It didn't seem important and it didn't even come close to what you went through." She replied, looking down at her feet and placing her other hand on top of the blonde's, which already covered her right hand.

The gesture sent a small shiver through Yang and caused butterflies to fly about in her stomach, but she ignored the feeling and focused on Blake's words instead.

"Just because I had it worse doesn't make what you went through any less real." She looked into the golden orbs that were glossing over with tears. "You can talk to me about anything. We're partners kitty cat."

"Yeah, you're right. Sorry for not telling you." The faunus replied, choking down another sob.

Yang spread her arms as she offered a hug to Blake, who accepted immediately, falling into her arms. The blonde slowly caressed the Faunus' ears, eliciting a low purring noise that reverberated through the room.

"Oh my god! Blakey, you purr? That's so purrfect! It opens up so many opportunities for catcalls."

"I will end you." Blake said, her voice muffled since her face was buried in the side of the Yang's neck.

The vibration and warmth of her breath sent shivers down Yang's body, making her heart skip a beat and then try desperately to make up for it by increasing in speed. Why did I react like that? She asked herself. Annoyed that Blake was having this effect on her.

"Cold?" The object of the brawler's attentioned asked. "I'll warm you up."

Blake's tighter embrace served to warm her up, but only in her cheeks.

So, Yang had a lot of stuff happen to her in this chapter. Will she act on her new found feelings for Blake? How will Blake react? Why am I asking questions only I truly know the answer to? Because I'm an evil bastard, that's why.