Oh no.

That was the first thought made its way into Pyrrha's head as Ruby stared at the broken piece of Crescent Rose. No other set of words felt proper. There were vulgar words, sure, but those were not something that Pyrrha would chose, not enough to describe the gravity of the situation.

I just broke Ruby's sweetheart. The object that gave her own last name to. Her great love. Emerald eyes flickered towards Ruby's teammates, the people that would know her best after herself – or better in Yang's case.

Weiss' gaze was squarely on the weapon itself, surprise etched into her face. Why wouldn't she be surprised? She would know how much time and effort Ruby put into her own weapon, how it's probably never broken before or even have a scratch.

Meanwhile, Yang was focused on Ruby, her lilac eyes not clouding with red like Pyrrha might have thought they would. It's not as if I just broke her sister's most cherished and prized possession, nothing like that at all. It was more troubling then anything that Yang was less angry at Pyrrha and more worried for Ruby. Without being able to see Ruby's face, Pyrrha could only guess at what her reaction was.

Lastly, Blake's eyes were going back and forth between Crescent Rose and Ruby, before finally settling on Pyrrha. The expression was clear as day to Pyrrha. Worry. Worry of what was going to happen to Pyrrha. The teen in question all but wanted to ask for help from the Faunus.

I'm so dead! Ruby is going to be angry- no that wasn't right. Pyrrha knew Ruby very well. Ruby wouldn't get angry over something like this. No, something far worse.

Ruby will be sad.

The team leader wasn't the kind of person to get angry over really anything. Sure, she might get annoyed, but angry? Pyrrha could count the number of times over years she'd seen Ruby angry on one hand. Ruby is going to cry, and it'll be my fault. The realization stung Pyrrha.

I'm going to make Ruby cry! The redhead who I love is going to be sobbing any second now and it's all my fault! Pyrrha's lip wobbled as tears started to well up in her eyes. I could have just given her the part, and it would have been fine, she'd still be surprised! I killed Crescent Rose, I killed Ruby's swe-

Wordlessly, Ruby took a step forward, picking up the sheared off piece of Crescent Rose, before grabbing Pyrrha by the hand and leading her out of the dorm as three pairs of eyes followed them.

Pyrrha let herself be led through the hallways by the shorter teen. That being said, it wasn't without her brain screaming a thousand thoughts per second, as she tried to figure out what Ruby was going to do, where she was going to take her. Out of all the reactions Pyrrha had thought might happen, this was not one of them.

Where could she be taking me?

Another question popped up in Pyrrha's head, why is she leading me away from everyone else? If she was going to cry, she would have done it in the dorm, or yell… why is she so calm? Ruby being calm was something that just did not happen, yet the girl had said not a word to her, there was no emotion shaking her.

Maybe she is so angry that she's calm? Pyrrha had seen it before in people; they were so angry that short of them being a gibbering mess, they held it in. Could breaking Crescent Rose make her that angry? Of course it cou-

A far more terrifying thought wormed its way into the recesses of Pyrrha's head, one that truly scared her.

What if Ruby is going to break up with me?

It all made sense; why Ruby had led Pyrrha off, why she was so silent; it's because she is trying to figure out how to say it. Pyrrha's vision blurred as hot tears started to streak down her face. I just made a single stupid mistake and that's the end? I ruined the best thing in my life-

"Here we are!" Ruby's voice brought Pyrrha out of her thoughts abruptly. Focusing on something that wasn't her feet, the tall teen noticed that Ruby had led her to Beacon's workshop. "Pyrrha-" Ruby spun around, her silver eyes widening at the sight of Pyrrha's teary streaked face. "W-w-why are you crying?" Ruby's tone confused Pyrrha; there was no malice, or anger in it, no hard feelings, but genuine concern. "What's wrong?"

Pyrrha could scream, there were so many things wrong. How "You're…you're going to…" As emotions started to overwhelm Pyrrha, words failed her, silent sobbing starting to wrack her figure. Immediately Ruby had her arms around her, holding on tightly to Pyrrha in an embrace. Pyrrha clutched onto her the smaller redhead, intent on not letting go, fearful that if she did, she'd never see her again.

Seconds turned into minutes, as the two stood in the hallway, Ruby silently hugging her as the tears finally dried out. "I really didn't mean to break Crescent Rose." It took a lot of effort on Pyrrha's part to finally say it with stuttering and even then her voice sounded small, childlike. "I'm sorry."

"Is-is that what this is about?" The surprise in Ruby's voice, in her silver eyes was not what Pyrrha had expected. "I mean it sucks, yeah, but now we can build a better one!"

"Buh-what?"

The emotions muted in Pyrrha as she tried to comprehend what Ruby had just said. "What do you mean?" She has to feel SOMETHING, after all, Crescent Rose broke in two! "Aren't you sad?"

"Nope!" Ruby shook her head. "I used to break her all the time!"

"…you aren't breaking up with me?"

That got an immediate reaction out of Ruby; the smaller teen backing up, looking horrified at Pyrrha, terrified that it'd even been mentioned. "Wha-wha… why would I do that?!"

"Because I broke Crescent Rose…" Pyrrha's eyes tilted down. "Isn't that why we left the room?"

"I would never break up with you!" With that, Ruby squeezed Pyrrha again. "I love you!"

"I love you too." Even as Pyrrha mumbled that into Ruby's shoulder, all of the emotions that had been muted flooded back at her. The biggest one was a sense of relief that she hadn't screwed up the thing that made her, that made Ruby so happy. Another was shame. Shame that she thought Ruby would even consider that. Ruby never even considered it… yet that was my first thought.

"Pyrrha." The tall teen was broken out of her thoughts. "I love you more then I love Crescent Rose. There's… there's no contest."

"Oh." Still, a question nagged at Pyrrha's mind. "How come you were so quiet? I… I really was worried."

"That's 'cause I was already thinking of what to add to Crescent Rose!" Silver eyes gleamed, as a certain giddiness entered Ruby's tone. "We can rebuild her from the ground up and this time, you could help me, so you'd know how to do it!" A very red blush spread across Ruby's cheeks. "Plus I get to spend time with you."

Pyrrha's arms snaked around Ruby's torso before pulling the girl towards her into a bear hug. "How did I get someone as wonderful as you for a girlfriend?"

Pyrrha could feel Ruby smile as she muttered back, "I kinda ask the same question every day myself hehe…"

There was one thing that Pyrrha was certain of however;

I'm the luckiest person ever to have Ruby.

AU: WHAT DID YOU THINK RUBY WAS GOING TO START CRYING OR SOMETHING? NOPE!

Ruby's reaction was basically "well crap, Crescey broke. I CAN REBUILD HER STRONGER AND FASTER AND I COULD DO IT WITH PYRRHA YAASSSSSSSS!"

These two are just like beautiful happy dogs who like being happy, no sads only glads. Also cliffhanger sucked and sorry if I surprised you guys and gals with that chapter on Sunday. I need happier Pyrrha (PYRRHA YANG PROTECT SQUAD 2k16!) so I had to write it. Sorry if I haven't been getting to review replies, life has been hectic for me!

This had Acceptance feels towards the end, and this annoys me greatly for some reason.

Okay, Dilation chapter will be out on Sunday! I'm slowly working through Acceptance, still going to try and put it out on New Year's Day!

Now off to work at the theater for Star Wars.

Thanks for reading everyone and have a great day!