Blake stared at the door as she tried to turn the handle again.

It still didn't budge.

"Blake?" Ruby looked towards where the door handle was, although its off by nearly a foo- right she can't see. It sometimes slipped Blake's mind that most people she knew now could not in fact see in the dark. It was a different experience compared to being in the White Fang where night time missions might of well as been done in the day.

"We're locked in" Blake stated matter-of-factly.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Ruby dove for the door handle, or would have if she could actually see it. Rather, she ended up running head first into Blake, knocking the duo over into a pile of cleaning supplies.

Blake lay still for a few seconds as Ruby scrambled off of her. It was clear as day that Ruby was…blushing? Huh, I wonder why she'd be blushing…

"So..um…um…. what should we do?"

Blake cocked her head as she thought, "We could call Weiss." Ruby nodded vigorously at the thought, the action decidedly cute in Blake's mind. However Ruby's face became crestfallen, "Um, Blake, uh, do you, uh… know where we are?"

"No…?" Blake's eyes widened, "…which means we wouldn't even know where to tell her to go." Sighing loudly, Blake pulled out her scroll, "might as well tell her to start looking now". As the device lit up she noticed something very VERY off. In the glass reflection she could see herself. Yet, problematically her attire was missing something. Something extremely critical to her safety and perhaps even her mental well-being.

The bow was gone.

Internally Blake started to panic, crap crap crap, where is it?! Can Ruby see the ears!? The small rational part of her brain jumped into action, turning off the scroll immediately. Blake studied Ruby in the dark; the girl was rubbing her eyes, maybe the bright light blinded her?

"Weren't you going to call Weiss?"

Blake's mind was moving at a thousand thoughts a second as she sought out a suitable excuse, "The scroll died," Genius! "I forgot to charge it last night."

Ruby nodded in understanding, "Yang forgets to charge hers' all the time," The Faunus had to repress letting out an audible sigh of relief, that was a close one! "Good thing I charged mine then!"

Panic returned in full force to Blake, I need to cover them! The Faunus did the first thing that came to mind, she put her hands over her ears. The room lit up in a dim glow, mostly centered on Ruby's face as her eyes dilated to see in the new light. As she looked around the small closet Ruby's gaze focused on Blake, concern dawning in her expression. "Are you okay?!"

Blake blinked, "Yes… I…" her life flashed before her eyes, "Hit my head when I fell over."

Concern turned into guilt on Ruby's face, "I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" Now I feel bad! "It'll never happen again! I promise! I'll make you those tuna cookies you really like!" She looks like a kicked puppy, and I don't even like puppies, "I'll m-"

"Its fine" Blake's calm voice cut into the erratic tone of Ruby's, "Its fine… just call Weiss so we can leave."

Ruby slowly nodded as she laboriously started to pull up Weiss' number. Meanwhile Blake was silently and discretely scanning where she had landed. The light from the scroll made it hard to search, either her night vision was having interference from the light, or her normal vision couldn't see well enough in the darkness.

She started to tune out Ruby when Weiss came on the scroll, looking for the little piece of black fabric that kept her secret. Where is it?! Blake eyed the pile of cleaning supplies she had fallen into. It was hard to see anything distinct in the small scroll light. The light turned off as silence reigned in the room. Blake turned towards Ruby; the scroll was closed up in her hand as the girl stared at it.

"I'm really sorry Blake… I didn't mean to hurt you." Ruby's voice was barely above a whisper. "Please don't be mad at me."

One part of Blake wanted to console Ruby; she really didn't want Ruby to feel guilty about a non-existing injury. On the other hand, she really reallyyyy wanted to keep her secret, well, a secret. "Ruby, its fine. Really. It just stings a l-"

In between two mops was the bow.

Realizing she had stopped in mid-sentence, Blake continued, "it just stings a little, that's all." Silently and ever so slowly Blake reached down and picked it up. A wave of relief washed over her with the bow safely in her possession again. Now time to put it back on and I'll be fine. I'll be fine!

Ruby seemed to freeze for a second before letting out a clenched sigh of relief as she leaned against the wall, "Ok-"

Click!

An old single light bulb flickered on above them, as Ruby leaned on the light switch.

Time slowed for Blake as Ruby blinked at the sudden flood of light before staring at the top of Blake's head. Specifically the top of her head, where her black bow usually was. A detached part of her brain realized that her hands were holding the bow still. Both hands.

Panic returned and then some to her mind.

AU: One of the few things I tried to make very clear is that this is Volume 1. Not Volume 2.

Holy moly guys and gals, I've gotten a lot of reviews last chapter. I'd debate doing more cliffhangers intentionally but this was already planned out as a multi-chapter thing. Also this is significantly longer then most of my Dilation chapters (looking at ZurichianAnimations).

I plain to post the next chapter around...I dunno, June 1st or so? Something like that. I'd love to here why you guys and gals thought of this chapter... its definitely a different type of thing for this story. Did you like it or not?