Sorry it's late, been kinda busy.

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It had been another long night for Team RWBY. They refused to leave their leaders side all night, which the nurses in the infirmary didn't mind. So long as they didn't cause a ruckus or disrupt other students rest.

The team tried to get some rest, like their leader had been getting, but they all were too worried. Ruby got some sleep after a while, but she still stayed up for as long as she could, trying to get as much information out of her teammates as possible. After a while, her still aching body demanded rest, so she obeyed and drifted into slumber.

"How are we going to do this?" Weiss asked, her gaze not leaving her resting leader.

"Do what?" Blake asked, "Help her with her recovery?"

"No... I mean our chain of command. If she doesn't remember any of this, then..."

"I don't think we'll be getting a combat mission soon Weiss." Yang interrupted, "If Ruby forgot the last year, then she's forgotten our fighting maneuvers. She will either have to relearn them, or remember. Let's hope she can remember them, soon." Weiss just nodded, realizing that this was the best way to go. If she wasn't so tired, she would have realized it herself. "As for leader..." Yang began again, "I think you're our best bet." She looked to Weiss.

"Me?"

"Yes. You spent the most time with Ruby. Hell you even wanted to lead this team at the start of the year. Now's your chance. If we get any combat mission- which is doubtful- but if it happens, you will lead us." Weiss thought she was dreaming. She wanted to be leader for so long, but after a while she accepted Ruby as her leader and didn't care for it very much. Now the power is hers.

But she wasn't sure if she wanted it.

A nurse walked in, catching Weiss deep in thought. "I need to wake up the patient and change her dressing." The nurse said, "Sorry, you're going to have to wait out here. If you want you can go get some breakfast." The team hadn't realized what time it was. The sun was peaking over the horizon which meant that the cafeteria would be open.

"Ok," Yang nodded, "We'll go get some food. Hopefully we can see team JNPR there and tell them what's going on." The rest of the team nodded and left, slight lack of sleep slowing them down.

It took the team less than 10 minutes to get to the Cafeteria where they met JNPR, just like Yang had hoped.

"So," Pyhrra started, "how's Ruby doing? I understand she starts her recovery."

"Yeah, what is it, like a broken leg or something?" Jaune asked. The team then realized JNPR as a whole had been left in the dark. They hadn't been told of Ruby's amnesia.

"Well," Weiss started, "About her recovery... Uh..."

"Let's not sugarcoat this, Weiss," Blake said, "Ruby has amnesia." Blake's words made all of Team JNPR stop and stare. "Her recovery will begin today. As to what the process will be, we don't know. First off is finding out if she can't remember, or doesn't chose to."

"Wait wait wait, what?" Jaune dropped his breakfast muffin in shock.

"Way to make the man drop his muffin, Blake." Yang said. Blake just shrugged off the comment. "Yes, Ruby has amnesia. We don't know if the force of the impact from when she hit the ground cause it, or if it's her inferiority complex telling her she's not good enough to be here."

"Well either way, there should be a way for her to regain her memory, right?" Pyhrra asked.

"Not quite." Ren spoke, "Amnesia is tricky. If it's physical damage then sometimes you can't remember anything ever. On those occasions people just pick up where they left off. But in cases of psychiatric amnesia, the person has chosen to not remember a moment. Though I'm not entirely sure if Ruby's inferiority complex would cause that. It's more traumatic experiences that leave a person not scarred physically, but emotionally." Ren finished, and went back to eating his breakfast.

"Well, whatever the issue, we're going to help her through this." Weiss stated.

"And we'll be there every step of the way." Jaune declared after retrieving his muffin.

Breakfast ended rather quickly. The team wanted to eat fast and get back to their leader. Walking into her room, they were met with a barely awake rose.

"Hey," Ruby started, "There you all are."

"Hey sis." Yang started. "Sorry, we got kicked out while they changed your dressing."

"It's fine, Yang. I haven't been waiting long." She looked over to her other teammates, "Wait, wait, let me see if I can get this, uh" She pointed at Blake, "Uh, you're Blake!" Blake nodded, not really caring about last names. "Yes! And you're..." Ruby spent another moment, trying to remember the name of her partner, "Wise!"

Weiss sighed, "Well, you're close." She patted Ruby on the shoulder. All the while Yang and Blake had started laughing.

"Hey, I'm trying here!" Ruby shouted, offended at the fact that her teammates were laughing at her.

"Sorry, sis!" Yang said between breaths, "But I needed that." This made Ruby even more upset and slightly flustered.

"Ok, ok..." Yang started after a moment of laughter, "I'm good. I'm good. Ok. So, now that that's out of the way, I want to get down to some business with you before we start on your recovery."

"Uh, ok." Ruby said, not liking where this was going.

"Do you remember anything from when you were asleep?"

Ruby thought about this, but it didn't take long. "Yeah, yeah I think I do. I was dreaming at some points. But in others I could hear voices. I recognized your voice instantly, Yang. But the others..." Ruby trailed off, "There were times where there were too many voices. But the one thing I made note of was your voices" She pointed to her other teammates. "It's why I didn't really flip out when I saw you when I woke up. I recognized your voices because you always spoke when I could hear Yang's voice. So I just equated it to you knowing each other."

"So you recognized us, but because of our voices?" Blake asked, trying to make sense of Ruby's explanation. Ruby nodded. "So you don't remember anything else about us?"

Ruby shook her head, slightly annoyed, "I thought we've been over this I don't remember anything."

"Ok, ok. It's ok." Yang said, grabbing her sisters shoulder after recognizing Ruby was getting mad. "We're just curious." Ruby relaxed a bit.

"The thing is," Ruby began again, "Whenever I heard a voice, it was dark... Cold even." Her teammates faces grew concerned, "I-I think... I had visions when I heard some voices alone, when no one else was around to talk. I saw... What did I see?" She thought about it for a moment, "It looked like a room, uh, it had bunk beds-"

"Our dorm!" Yang exclaimed!

"Our dorm has bunk beds?" Ruby asked, confused and curious. "It seems so... I don't know, spacious?"

"Not quite," Weiss spoke, "At first, at least. The first few months it was packed in that room but after a while we got everything situated and moved around. Now we could do without the bunk beds, but I think it opens up a lot of space."

"Yeah, a lot of space filled by nothing." Yang mumbled.

"Something to add, Xiao Long?"

"Oh no. Nothing from me. But there wouldn't be a lot of open space if you would just add in a-"

"We are NOT adding in stereo speaker set, Yang!" Weiss exclaimed, rising from her seat, "We'd get in so much trouble for the music!"

"Oh no we wouldn't! You worry too much." Yang's attitude only drew anger from Weiss, as she did not want to be cited for a noise violation that the speakers would surely ensue.

The two began to go at it, like they usually did. For a moment, Blake felt right at home. It had been a while since the two had gone to throw done like this and now that they are, Blake felt like nothing was wrong in the world.

"Ah, déjà vu." Ruby said, "One of my visions was you two going at it, looked pretty heated too. Though, I didn't hear any noise then..." Ruby trailed off.

"Oh great!" Weiss started, "The one thing my team leader remembers is me fighting her brute of a sister!"

Yang pulled her into a headlock, "Well we did fight like no other, you know!"

"Ahem." There was a knock with the voice. The team was sure they had gotten in trouble by the nurses for the volume of their voices. Turning, they saw Professor Ozpin. The sight left mixed feelings, as they still thought they were in trouble. "Hello all," He began, "I'd like to let you all know that tomorrow Ruby will be starting her testing."

"Her... Testing?" Weiss asked.

"Yes. We'd like to test her physical and mental state so that we know which standard we can hold her to in order to begin the long road to memory recovery. We will start with a test only leaders can take. We will then move to a physical test, where she will fight off a few packs of Grimm with each of you individually, then together. Then another written test on Grimm using common knowledge and information learned here. Then we will test her in a spar against all of you, once again individually then as a unit. Any questions?"

Weiss started, "Actually, I have-"

"Good! Rest up, Ruby. Tomorrow you have some tests to take." With that, Ozpin left, closing the door to the infirmary room. The girls all took their seats once again around their leader.

"I hate it when he does that." Weiss started.

"He does that a lot?"

"You get used to it, sis." Yang said. "So, what were you saying earlier?"

"Huh? Oh! Right! The visions. Well, they were all seen whenever I heard a voice. It would be a new vision every time I heard someone, regardless of how many times I've heard that person. Those visions are kinda blurry now, but I know I had them."

"Hmmm," Blake started, "If they were visions where you saw our dorm, then they were probably memories. Your mind was trying to get you to remember who we were. You said you didn't hear any voices in the vision?" Ruby shook her head, "Then your mind was probably just trying to focus on the voice and not on the memory."

"Hmmm, that does make sense." Ruby thought out loud, "Does being cold whenever I heard one of you mean anything?"

"I-I don't know." Blake said honestly, "I have a psychology book back at the dorm I can look over tonight and see if it says anything. I even have some friends who work in the psych field who can help."

"Wow Blake," Yang started, "Where do you find time?" Blake just smiled and shrugged.

"Ok!" Weiss took over, "I have a few things I want to say."

"Ahah! I knew it!" Yang exclaimed, "You do have a thing for Neptune!" She got a blank stare from Blake and Ruby and an angry stare from Weiss.

"No. Actually, I want to address our leadership situation, and this test situation." She looked to Ruby, "Until you get back on your feet and have your memory back, we need a team leader. We need a team leader who's not totally... You know." Ruby nodded, understanding completely where Weiss was going. "Since you're our leader, we were wondering who you would appoint as a backup to-"

"Yang will be my backup." Ruby interrupted.

Weiss looked to Ruby, baffled and stunned. She had forgotten to take into affect Ruby's lack of memory on how badly Weiss wanted to be leader. Yang looked to her sister and started shaking her head, mouthing 'no, pick her, quick.' Luckily, Ruby got the memo, "A-Actually, I change my mind! I forgot, Yang wasn't the best leader back at Signal. You can be it, Weiss."

"Pfft, great cover, sis." Yang sat back in her chair, clearly not liking the excuse. "Weiss, If you keep us to any kind of strict schedule I will-!"

"Relax. You're in good hands." Weiss said, putting a hand on the eldest sister. "So, the test. I think you sho-"

"I'm just gonna wing it." Ruby said, throwing her hands back behind her head.

"You... What?"

"It's going to be a physical test. If the leadership test is anything I took back at Signal, it'll be a cake walk. Sure I'll have to go over what our plans were when working together, but other than that I don't think I can study much. I certainly can't go out and train. The nurses get pissy with me if I even so much as try to get out of bed."

"We heard that!" I shout came from the other room.

"I hope you did!" Ruby shouted back. "It wouldn't be an issue if you just let me walk around every now and again!"

Weiss looked at Ruby, stunned. Yang and Blake understood Ruby's position. There really wasn't any studying for this. It would all be mental work. Weiss didn't take that very well.

"You can't just wing it! You need to study, I mean-"

"It's not like I'm being graded on it."

"But-"

"Weiss!" Blake interrupted, "Remember the last time you made Ruby study too much?" Weiss looked at her, then closed her eyes remembering the day, "Yeah, that's what I thought. Let's not have that happen again."

"Wha-?"

"I'll tell you later." Blake promised. "For now, I think the best thing is to rest some more. The test sounds like it's gonna be pretty tough. We'll see if Ozpin can tell us anything else on it. Ok with you guys?"

Weiss and Yang nodded. Ruby, however, wasn't entirely up for that plan.

"Oh," she said, "That's ok, I guess." She carried a rather dejected tone in her voice.

"Hey," Yang said, bumping her sisters arm. "What's up?"

"It's just, every time you guys all leave."

"Oh, say no more." Yang instantly understood, "I'll hang back this time, guys. See if I can even pry more info out of her." She said as she pulled Ruby into a headlock. Blake and Weiss nodded and decided they should catch Ozpin now before it's too late. They waved goodbye to the sisters and left the infirmary.

Ruby looked to Yang, "You're not really going to make me talk too much, are you?"

Yang laughed, "Nope."

Blake and Weiss moved quickly down the hall, trying to get to Ozpins office. They wanted to see if there was anything Ruby could do to prepare for tomorrows test. Weiss was more interested in this. Blake was against Ruby going overboard with studying, as the last time it happened Weiss pushed Ruby too hard and Ruby spent almost two whole days studying with no sleep. This left Ruby very tired and eventually left her to getting sick. Blake wasn't about to have that happen again soon, in fact it was better Ruby didn't remember it.

Blake and Weiss got to Ozpins office in no time, only to be denied entrance by Glynda Goodwitch. "Ms. Schnee, Ms. Belladonna, shouldn't you be with your team leader right now?"

"We would be, but we were curious about the test Ozpin has set up." Weiss began.

"Oh? What are your questions? I'm sure I can help you out. I will be watching over you all during the physical portion of the test?"

Blake's turn, "Ok. How long should the test take?"

"It will be an all day affair."

"What do you hope to achieve?"

"We want to see what she remembers and how we can aide in her recovery, making it faster and easier for all."

Weiss interjected, "You're like a human Troubleshooting form, aren't you?"

"I would say so, Ms. Schnee, yes." Goodwitch laughed, "I have a lot of experience with short and direct explanations. It gets easier and easier."

"I see," Weiss said. "So is there anything we can do to help prepare Ruby?"

"Make sure she rests her mind for the written exam and make sure she stretches well for the physical exam." Goodwitch said.

"Ok, perfect," Blake said looking and Weiss. She knew Weiss hated the fact of not preparing for a test. "We'll go let Ruby know."

"Actually, girls, one more thing." Goodwitch said, stopping them in their tracks, "While I have you, I want to ask if you know who will be taking over as Leader?" The two turned to look at her, "You see, every team needs a leader. We don't doubt Ms. Rose's capabilities, but we will still consider her incapacitated while she has her condition. So... Who will be your new leader?"

Blake and Weiss stared at each other for a few seconds. They both knew the answers, they were just afraid of what Goodwitch would say. "I am." Weiss finally said.

"Ah, you have the power you've always wanted, Ms. Schnee." Weiss winced a bit. Goodwitch tapped her scroll a few times and a little 'bing' sound came from it, indicating the position transfer. "You're all set girls." Goodwitch smiled. Weiss and Blake nodded and left.

Ruby and Yang had been talking for almost the entire time that Blake and Weiss were gone. They didn't talk about Ruby's dreams while unconscious. Yang could tell Ruby didn't like that very much. Contrary to popular belief, Ruby was always more... resigned. She wouldn't give her deep feelings on the spot, usually Yang had to pry them out of the girl when they were young.

"No way, Yang." Ruby said, "There's no way that she's a faunus!"

"Oh yeah, sis," Yang assured, "Weiss wasn't really too thrilled with it. But she's grown to be more accepting over time."

"So she has cat ears... Does she have a tail?"

Yang thought about it for a moment. Really, she didn't know. She hadn't thought to ask. "I... I don't know, sis. I'm not sure if there's an appropriate time to ask that, uh..." Ruby sat there and started to giggle at Yang's attempt to explain.

"You've been her teammate for almost a year and you don't know?"

"Well you were our leader for a year and you don't know either!" Yang exploded, causing Ruby to wince a bit. The younger girl hadn't read the tell-tale sign of Yang's growing frustration. Ruby knew it was more Yang mad at herself, but that didn't make it any less painful.

Yang recoiled, realizing what she said, "O-Oh god... Sorry sis." She wasn't sure what she was more sorry for; reminding her of her amnesia or yelling at her.

"It's ok, Yang. Really." Ruby assured, "Besides, you're right. I was your leader for almost a year. But-"

"No." Yang put her hand over her sisters mouth, stopping her in her tracks, "Stop that. You're still our leader. No matter what. We're going to help you out of this, ok?"

Ruby nodded, "Thanks, Yang." She pulled her sister into a hug, one that neither wanted to end. Eventually they pulled themselves off of each other. "So," Ruby started, "What was that you were saying about, what was her name? Blake?"

Ok, so... Yeah. More filler! Yay!

The next chapter is gonna be long... Really long. Like it's going to take me a while to make long. It will definitely be at least 2 chapters in length. So be ready.

Also, that thing Blake brought up "The last time you made Ruby study too much", yeah, there's a fic to that being made. I just got done with the first chapter. It's not gonna be a series, but it's too long to be one chapter. So It's a mini-series.

On another note: Cataclysmic, still in the works. That one will be long, too. The story is winding down there, so be ready. Whenever I post it, it will signal the beginning of the end.

Final note, I have, once again, another fic lined up. BUT I will not post it until I am finished with Cataclysmic. My first story will end before I start more. I know most of you haven't read that (I don't blame you, I'll be honest,) But those of you that have have been waiting a while to see how it will go. I will not leave it to rot like a bunch of other fics. You know the ones. Really good concept, author did a good job, but never finished it? I refuse to have that be one of mine.

So, how was the chapter? Now that I'm done rambling, I guess I can talk a bit about this. I kinda wanted to get Ruby walking around a bit, maybe meet JNPR, but I felt that that would be... I don't know, I felt that it would take too much away from the story and make it longer than it is.

I will also address a question that came up: Will there be pairings? Ok, check this out: I suck at writing relationships. I will give it a shot, I will mention it here and there (Teasing I can do), but keep in mind I am not subtle. It will be bad. But I will try.

So, with that, I bid you all a good day. If my classes get canceled tomorrow as they did today, then I'll try and get chapter 5 up, even get that "Studied too much" fic up, too. JUST BECAUSE I CAN! If not, then wait for the weekend.

Thanks for reading!