A/N: GUYS THE SEQUEL IS REAL! IT'S BEGUN ALREADY AND UP TO CHAPTER 3!
So i just realised- and this a little embarrassing- that I didn't explain how Blake didn't die. Well i kinda did, with the whole gold clone thing but I didn't actually explain it. So for the sake of it what i was meant to write was that, the clone summoned itself, like it did before, and basically blocked the attack. But i completely forgot to write it because I was really tired when i wrote that chapter, soooo sorry?

Ruby rolled over in her bed just as Yang shut the door behind her. Ruby sighed as her sister left the room in the middle of the night once again, Yang believed Ruby didn't know that she left their room in the middle of the night, but Ruby wasn't finding sleep easy either and had feigned ignorance.

Ruby lay in her bed staring at the handle of the door, her mind wandering off to a different place. The past few days had been nothing short of depressing. Her big, joyful boisterous sister had become a quite morbid sorrow filled person probably with a broken heart. Because Blake was gone.

Blake, her teammate, her friend was no longer with them. No longer sleeping in her bed underneath Yang, no longer reading while everyone else chatted, no longer yelling at Zwei and telling him to stay away. Ruby couldn't help but feel partly at fault. It was unreasonable, she knew it herself, but she was the team leader. It was her job to keep them together, to keep them safe and alive and now it seems she had failed.

Looking back she hadn't been doing a very good job of it. Getting captured by Adam, being hopeless to save Weiss from Cinder, getting captured again and becoming a catatonic piece of bait to draw the rest of them to what was obviously a trap. Even when they got out of that there was still that huge titan that she really shouldn't have fought, what she should have done was led it away from the city and retreated, regardless of how far they have come in terms of skill and power, they were not prepared to fight it, especially since they knew nothing about what it could do. If it hadn't been for Weiss they'd all be incinerated by that blast.

For the most part Ruby hadn't been in the position a true leader was meant to be in, she had been playing the part of the damsel, the part of the helpless team leader, the part of the child. Instead of the strong, brave leader she was a tied up shattered girl tittering on the edge of giving up, and now Blake was gone.

Was it her fault? Could she have prevented it? Maybe she could have, but it was too late now.

"Ruby? Are you awake?"

Apparently Weiss was awake too.

"Yeah."

"Did Yang leave again?"

Ruby sighed and rolled onto her back. "Yeah she did."

There was a silence between the two partners.

"Weiss was this my fault?" Ruby finally asked.

"Your fault? How could this possibly be your fault? Why would you even say that?" Weiss got out of her bed so she could look at her partner properly.

Ruby pushed herself up into a sitting position and looked down at her partner.

"Because I'm the team leader and I'm supposed to keep everyone safe." Ruby was using that small voice that always made Weiss heart twang uncomfortably.

Weiss looked up at Ruby for a moment, taking in her saddened expression and guilty look. She held her hand out for Ruby to take as she gently pulled her down off the bunk.

When Ruby became level with her, she held onto her hand and looked her in the eye as sincerely as she could manage.

"Ruby none of this was your fault. No of it at all. You weren't the one to decide to attack us, you weren't the one to decide to lure us in, you weren't the one to decide that Blake should have done what she did. Don't be ridiculous and take everyone else's choices on your shoulders."

"Yeah I know but, I just feel like I should have done something, anything. We shouldn't have attacked the titan, we should have left it we're nowhere near strong enough. If we had lured it away as a team we would all be here now."

As Ruby spoke it sounded as if she persuading herself more than persuading Weiss. But Weiss could still sense that underlying plea for her to prove Ruby wrong, to tell her it's not her fault and make her believe it. To help lift the burden of Blake's fate off of her shoulders.

"Ruby you can't possibly know that for sure. At the time Blake did what she believed she had to do at the time. It had nothing to do with you being our leader. She did because she believed it would keep us alive, keep us together. Don't blame yourself for that."

"Yeah but she wouldn't have had to if I handled the situation differently."

"You can't know that for certain. Don't be unfair to yourself and take the actions of others as your fault."

"But, if I- I could've-" Ruby stopped herself and looked to her partner. "I just want Blake back."

Ruby stepped into Weiss arms and Weiss held her tightly, the heiress struggled to keep herself together as Ruby spoke those words. No doubt they all wanted the faunas back, Weiss was just beginning to feel closer to the amber eyed girl.

"We all want her want back Ruby."

Sometime later found the Whiter Rose pair sitting in each other's arms with Zwei between them with only the moonlight through the window to illuminate the room. Ruby was slipping in and out of sleep on Weiss' shoulder and the heiress herself was gently playing with Ruby's hair as she stared out the window.

Yang had been gone for a while, then again she usually stayed out for long. This whole situation felt very strange. Strange in the sense that the grief they were feeling didn't feel complete at all. Weiss wasn't sure what that meant, but the only way she could explain it was that Blake wasn't gone, Blake was still out there somewhere and they all felt it which was this strange feeling of grief was indeed very strange.

"Weiss?" Ruby said groggily, her eye's half open.

Weiss hummed in response.

"Blake isn't really gone is she?"

Weiss paused. Ruby wasn't a mind reader was she?

"How do you mean Ruby?"

"I just feel like…" Ruby trailed off and for a moment Weiss thought she had fallen asleep. "I just feel somewhere that she's still out there. The way we've all been acting feels…strange. Would it be wrong to believe she's still alive?"

Weiss took in the words, they were heavy words and Weiss wasn't sure if she had an answer. Fortunately she wouldn't need one.

The door to their dorm swung open and Yang practically dived into the room. The sudden appearance of the blonde brawler, in such an upbeat manner, more than surprised Weiss. The heiress jumped in surprise and Ruby slowly peeled off her shoulder to see her sister standing in front of them, almost out of breath and with the brightest expression on her face Ruby had ever seen.

"Yang what's going o-"

Before Weiss could finish Yang yanked on something in her hand and pulled someone else into the room.

"BLAKE!" Now Ruby was awake.

"Roof roof!" Zwei knew that smell.

Blake didn't have a chance to form a response before her leader was diving into her with her arms wrapping around her. Weiss stood up abruptly, forgetting about Ruby's bunk and knocking her head against the bottom of it before she ducked under it and stood up.

"Blake? What?"

"SHE'S BACK!" Yang yelled, grabbing the heiress and pulling them all into a group hug.

"How did she- how did you-where did. How?!" Weiss struggled to form a sentence.

"Who care's she's back!" Ruby yelled from somewhere in the hug.

Blake looked down at the red head holding onto her tightly and could only smile at the gentle feeling of all of her teammates arms around her. She had no idea what the past few days had been like for her teammates, no doubt they had cried, as they were now. But this time Blake knew they were tears of happiness.

"I'm so sorr-"

"Don't you dare say it!" Weiss cut her off. "Don't you even think about apologising! It doesn't matter what you may think we went through, what matters is the present. Now that your back…" Weiss paused and looked away for a moment. The heiress tried to compose herself and stop her voice from cracking, but when she looked back at her teammate Blake could see the shimmering of tears.

"Now that your back, everything is fine."

"Roof!" Zwei seemed to agree.

When they heard the corgi announce his agreement they all felt a resistance from within the hug and realised that Blake was trying to get away from the dog as soon as possible. But she only managed to pull out of the embrace-with Ruby still attached to her- tripped over said Ruby's legs, topple onto the floor and gave Zwei the perfect opportunity for him to jump on top of her.

"Roof!"

"Zwei!"

In signature Zwei style he immediately began licking all over Blake's face, not a care in the world and undeterred by Blake's frantic head thrashing.

"Zwei! Please!" Blake finally recovered enough of her ability to come up with the idea to use her hands and lift the corgi off of her body, holding him at arm's length.

"Woof!" Blake looked at Zwei and her looked back at her with his head cocked to the side, and what she could only describe as a smile on his face.

"C'mon Blake he's only happy to see you." Ruby explained.

Yang offered Blake her hand as she pulled her off the floor.

"Yeah well I can see that the rest of you are but I don't see any of you licking my up and down."

"Hey, if that's what you want I'll be more than happy to." Yang replied with a grin.

"Yang!" Ruby warned.

"What?"

"I think I'll pass Yang, Zwei alone is enough-"

Blake sentence was cut short by Yang grabbing her roughly and pulling her into a kiss. Nobody except Yang had expected it, but really, nobody had any complaints, Especially Blake. Ruby and Weiss exchanged glances and even Zwei was watching quietly.

The kiss made all the pain of the past days wash away effortlessly, like a shadow washing over her in the scorching heat Yang finally felt relieved. The weight on her shoulders that she had been carrying with her was lifted off and now she could just relax and bathe in the connection with her partner, with Blake.

Yang broke the kiss and looked at Blake, who's eyes were slightly widened but not at all alarmed.

"I missed you so much."

"I'm sorry I put you through this."

"Blake don't apologise. I don't care anymore. Just don't do that ever again, don't ever leave me like that."

"I won't."

"Promise?" Yang pushed.

Blake looked at her partner, should she really make another promise?

"Hey, technically you didn't break this promise." Yang stated with a smile.

Blake smiled back, "I promise."

"HURRAY! Everything's back now! Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby yelled, brining Blake and Yang out of their moment.

"And it looks like were all together, together now. As in, not just partners but like friend friends. Well I mean I guess we were always closer than that but now you just kissed so it's a hundred times more official. Oh boy I'm making this awkward aren't I? Here we go again I feel like I should stop talking but of course I'm not going to seeing as I never do but I really should stop because now your all staring at me and probably thinking how much of a dork I am I'm really sorry…"

Ruby was right, they were all staring at her and she did indeed continue talking. Weiss simply blinked at her while Yang couldn't help but chuckle and even Blake had to admit it was a little adorable and smiled.

Weiss sighed and rolled her eyes, "You really are, a dolt."

Although that night was behind them and the past, and even somewhat forgotten, Yang couldn't shake the memory of that black shade she had encountered that night. She hadn't told Blake about it, not wanting to bring it up or remind Blake of that night. But Yang couldn't help but feel uneasy about it.

Had Yang known how Blake was feeling the blonde may have told the faunus. Since that bight Blake knew that there was something still out there. Those clones the made luring the titan away, they were abnormal, and not like the golden clone, they were different. They felt independent, they didn't feel connected to her in anyway like her regular clones, even the gold one did. It was an unsettling thought but she didn't bring it up, although she had a feeling that sooner or later she would have to.

A/N: THE END! Now if you haven't already seen it. There's a sequel...