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Ow. Yang thought to herself, her first feeling after becoming aware of her surroundings being pain. Her entire chest felt as if someone had a hot needle and was pushing down in sync with the beating of her heart. Trying to breathe was even worse, as she discovered for herself fairly quickly. She attempted a deep breath, her only reward was a jolt of pain that shot up her left side. Slowly opening her eyes, worried that even that might hurt, she took in her surroundings. The walls of the room were aggressively white and although the lighting was dim, served only to accentuate the blonde's headache, an old development she just noticed for the first time . Great, even more aches and pains. When she tried to move her arm, she felt a little bit of resistance which prompted her to look at her arm. An IV? Why would I need one of those? She thought, barely able to form a coherent observation as her headache grew in intensity. Once again lifting her eyes to observe her surroundings, she noticed that she was lying down on a bed placed in the corner, a small window above her head that filtered in a minuscule amount of light, the only thing keeping the room from being pitch black. A couple of feet away from her bed, she noticed an occupied chair, a black figure slumped over asleep, not wake because of what seemed to be the early hour. Why does my chest hurt so much? The brawler asked herself, the answer coming when she noticed the extensive bandages wrapped around her. The White Fang! The sudden realization caused her to jump upright, a decision that her battered body did not agree with. The movement caused her to yell out in pain, startling the figure in the chair and waking them from their slumber.

"Yang! What's wrong? I'll call the nurse!" The familiar voice asked with concern, the outline of the bow that always rested on her head visible in the dark.

For the second time, black spots gathered as she fell back into her pillow. At least it doesn't hurt as much now. She was barely able to finish the thought before drifting back into the black void of unconsciousness.

When she awoke again, it was at what seemed to be a much more reasonable time. The room was unchanged except for the fact that now it was lit by the natural light that flowed in through the window.

"Yang. Oh my God, you're awake." The same familiar figure from before asked, now more than an outline.

"Hey, Blake?" The blonde wheezed out. "This hurts like hell."

"You're safe now Yang. You're safe here." Blake said, her voice cracking as she finished her sentence.

"Blake! Your bow!" Yang said, more forcefully this time after making a conscious effort to make herself sound better than she felt.

"Yeah, everybody kind of knows now anyways. After you... After you lost consciousness we ran across a group of civilians under attack by the White Fang. I decided to leave my bow off because I hoped it would help keep the public image of faunus from getting any worse. They were scared at first, but saw that I was helping them. News spread pretty quick once everything died down about a girl named Blake with cat ears who rescued a group of people during the attack" She said, her eyes glazing over with tears of relief at Yang being awake.

"Good for you Blake. I'm happy you don't have to hide anymore. I never like the bow anyways." Yang said, forcing out a smile which ended up appearing more like a grimace instead.

When the battered blonde finished her sentence, Blake was unable to contain herself and dropped to her knees, burying her face into the side of hospital bed and sobbing.

"There, there kitty cat. I'll get you some tuna right when I get out." She moved her hand over to pet the faunus' ears, delighting in their soft texture.

"Yang?" She asked, her voice full of concern.

"Blakey?" She responded, copying the other girl's tone.

"I was really worried about you. You were unconscious for a two days until you woke up briefly yesterday morning. They told me that your left lung collapsed and you had multiple broken ribs, along with a broken left shoulder." Blake said, looking up toward the brawler with tears eyes.

"I woke up yesterday? God damnit." The object of her attention replied, annoyed at all the makeup assignments she would be forced to do in Oobleck's class.

The next two days were spent in a similar way, Yang talking to Blake in the mornings and evenings when she did not have classes. Periodically the ice queen herself would visit, showing a not often seen concern for others. In between, the girl found herself incredibly bored, her ability to move freely significantly hindered by her current condition. The third day after she awoke however, she finally had recovered enough to start walking around without too much discomfort, even though she had to take her IV bags with her. Her sudden mobility resulted in a series of adventures around the hallways, when she was not either with Blake or in physical therapy to restore the range of motion in her shoulder. Some of the time she simply wandered, ignoring everyone and listening to the Achieve Men on her scroll. However, the majority of the time she spent talking with other patients. Most of them were there because of the White Fang attack, the damage that had been caused being extensive. There was one patient in particular however who she enjoyed talking to the most.

"Yang!" Her closest friend at the hospital exclaimed, running up to her and carefully giving her a hug.

"Hey Ruby. How is your arm feeling today?" She asked her younger sister.

"It's great! The doctor said that I would only have to be here for another day, even though the bullet didn't go through cleanly, my aura helped me out in terms of being able to avoid having to amputate. Don't worry though, even when I get out I'll still visit every day." She emphasized her recovery by swinging her right arm back and forth, albeit gingerly as to avoid hurting herself.

Yang's anger began to heat up her skin slightly, causing Ruby to step back and look up at her with concern.

"Sorry Rubes, it just makes me so mad when I think about you getting hurt, especially when I couldn't do anything about it." She sighed, letting her shoulders slump downwards as her anger left her.

"It's okay Yang. Weiss has been visiting me a lot whenever you've been with Blake."

At this Yang couldn't resist smiling, the bond the ice queen and her Ruby had formed had become stronger every day.

"Why don't you just ask her out already? You two already spend so much time together." She said, unable to keep a straight face and barely containing her laughter at her sister's response.

"B-but we're teammates Yang! I can't do that!" She replied, her fair skin turning a shade of red that rivaled her cloak.

Seeing the blush was the last straw, causing Yang to laugh.

"Oh my God Rubes, it hurts to laugh but it' so worth it to see your face light up like a Christmas tree." The blonde managed to say between bursts of laughter.

"Yang, stop teasing me." The smaller girl replied, attempting to be angry but ending up bursting into laughter as well, unable to contain herself with her sister laughing so heartily next to her.

The following two days passed by slowly after her sister's departure, the only highlight being Ruby and Blake's joint visits, accompanied by Weiss as well, now that Ruby was free to do as she pleased. Although she appreciated her younger sister and Weiss coming and enjoyed their company, she found herself wishing for the one on one conversations that Blake and her had. The blonde and the faunus having many interesting conversations on faunus rights and other heavier topics, but neither of them felt totally comfortable talking about the more depressing issues with Weiss and Ruby around, the both of them so happy whenever they were around each other. Finally, the day had come when she was to be released. She was given instructions by her doctor to keep taking the pain medication, although she was at the point where she could bear being without their assistance.

"Ready to finally get out of here?" Blake asked while helping Yang with the various items she had been brought while in the hospital.

"Oh God yes." The blonde replied excitedly, finally able to leave the whitewashed hospital walls.

On the way back to their dorms, Blake and Yang's least favorite song had begun to play over the taxi's radio. Thankfully for Yang, she had her scroll and headphones still with her. She reacted as quickly as humanly possible the second she heard the line "Ah ah! You know what it is." Drowning out the ridiculous song with a dose of Achieve Men, blasted directly into her eardrums. Yang looked over to see Blake with a strange expression on her face. One of annoyance, probably at the song that Yang could still faintly hear, despite her best efforts, mixed with a small amount of longing as she stared out the window, oblivious to the blonde's gaze.

So! Yang is finally out of the hospital and we found out Ruby was injured as well. Do I sense some White Rose and Bumblebee in the future? The song that came on in the taxi was "Black and Yellow" by Wiz Kalifa if you couldn't figure it out. I don't listen to rap at all and actually dislike that song a lot, so don't take that as my musical preference.

As always, I hope you enjoyed!