Ok so this idea has been toying in my head since last week's episode (or this week's if you are a week behind). Anyway not going to say anymore other than spoilers for last week and this week- read at your own risk.

Also too I am working on New Divide-it's just this plot bunny wouldn't go away. Don't know how long this will be- maybe two or three chapters. I just feel like Ruby is reaching her breaking point. She hasn't given herself enough time to process anything…like anything. She just keeps going and bottling everything up. There is only so much more she could take and sooner or later that last shoe will drop or that straw will break the camel's back or both and it will be a triple/quadruple whammy! My friend and I have a theory on events that are going to transpire and her losing it is on that list…amongst other things (cough *Avenger's Civil War style* cough).

So this is the result of a crazy author, an active imagination, and an annoying plot bunny. I OWE NOTHING!

Breaking Point

The point at which something loses force or validity

The point at which a situation becomes critical

The point at which a person gives way under stress

Ruby had sat down to write her report on the events of the Grimm attack in Mantle. She had started her report with Jacques Schnee being announced victor. The beginning had been fine. It had been when she started to describe the events of Penny and Robyn Hill that started to cause her breakdown.

Her heart was racing as fast as her semblance. Her mouth had gone dry as she inhales and exhales to try and gain control of her breathing. She had started sweating, and her senses had gone into hyper-drive. The black pen that was in her hand was trembling, her handwriting having become almost illegible as the words on the page became jagged. Memories and voices started to play in her head, but the visuals and voices echoing and as if she was underwater: blurry, twisted, and warped as they overlay with the events that transpired a few hours before:

To her, he had just been standing there when Yang had suddenly shot him in the leg. The sound of something breaking rings out, and Mercury screams and falls over in pain, "Why'd she do that!? WHY'D SHE ATTACK ME!?" Instead of seeing Penny's petrified and uncomprehending face; she sees Yang's face. Instead of hearing people curse Penny's name, she hears the echoes of them cursing Yang's.

Ruby shook herself. Her heart still beating profoundly in her chest. She tried to write the next part of her report: Nora, Ren, Marrow, and herself going outside to the total chaos of the Grimm attack. Her left hand was still shaking as she tried to write the events that had transpired next. She recalls seeing Penny's face as she had taken to the sky and disappearing. The screams of innocent people along with the roars of Grimm. However even with those events, she doesn't see that battle; instead she sees her and her partner fighting back to back:

"Weiss! Please, you have to stop her!" Jaune's panicked voice had come through on her partner's scroll, "Pyrrha! She's going after that woman at the top of the tower! She doesn't stand a chance!"

There had been a small conversation, but what stood out to her the most was the moments after. The ground shaking, the danger that loomed. The Wyvern flying into view, circling Beacon Tower with black ooze dripping from it. She could still hear the horrifying screech that emitted from it.

It perches on one of the arches stemming from the tower and utters a screech. She had drawn Crescent Rose, shifting it into its scythe form in preparation for the Grimm spawning from the ooze, "I have a plan." She heard herself say.

Weiss had drawn Myrtenaster, "You always do."

She slammed her pen down and covered her eyes with the palms of her hands, seeing not the blackness behind her eyelids, but the scene that continued to play out, "Make it stop." She groaned out. However the memories did not stop coming to her:

They fought side by side against the Grimm, "We've gotta hurry!" She hears her own voice as she cuts down the Grimm that had lunged towards them. They had been trapped against the Tower with nowhere to go.

She stands up suddenly, her chair falling back at the force she used to get away from her desk, "Faster." She mutters to herself, "I should have been faster." She looks around the room, not really seeing it, but instead seeing-

A series of glyphs going straight up the side of the tower, "You can do this." Weiss's distorted voice echoes to her.

Her breathing picks up as she paces the room, holding her head in her hands, "I couldn't…I couldn't…I-" She stops pacing before staring at the wall, "I couldn't save her."

She had finally reached the top after using her partner's glyphs to aid her. She landed just in time to see Pyrrha sitting with her eyes closed, Cinder letting the damned arrow fly into the center of Pyrrha's chest. All she could do was watch in horror as Cinder had flash incinerate her friend.

The scene still plays as she stares blindly at the wall. She is unware when the tears started falling, but all she could see within the painted wall was-

Pyrrha's body glowing orange and then scattering as embers. Her headdress dropping on the floor.

She feels her hands clench at her side into fists. Her eyes close shut, she is growling low and menacingly, "PYRRHAAAAAA!" She hears herself scream, she raised on of her fists and slams through the wall.

"RUBY!" She feels a hand on her shoulder. She grabs the person's hand and forces them against the wall before grabbing the nearest thing next to her, which was Myrtenaster and pointed it at the intruder's throat.

"Ruby stop! That's Yang!" Blake…that sounded like Blake…

Ruby blinked slowly, but did not let up the hold. Yang wisely did not move, however she could see out of the corner of her eye that Ruby was slowly coming to, "Ruby please. Whatever happened we can talk about it." She managed to get out, fully aware that Weiss's weapon was still really close to her throat. Any wrong move, and…well she didn't want to think about that. What she did want to know was what the hell happened to her sister.

The voices were still slightly distorted to her, however she made out Yang's voice. She didn't trust it. She couldn't trust it. There were soft whispers that she was aware of, but her main prey was the person she had pinned. Then she feels another hand on her, this time softer, gentler; instincts telling her it was non-threatening, "Easy Ruby…easy. It's ok."

"Weiss?" She manages to choke out.

"Yes Ruby. Give me Myrtenaster." Weiss slowly moves closer to Ruby now, her hand keeping on her shoulder while her other one goes to the hand that is bloody, yet slowly healing itself as it has her weapon at the blonde's throat. She makes eye contact with Yang, signaling the blonde to not move or say anything more, "Ruby give me Myrtenaster. Please. You are hurting Yang."

"Yang?" Then slowly her mind caught up with her body and she saw what she had done, "Yang! Oh my gods I'm sorry!" She releases Myrtenaster to Weiss as she backs away from the blonde.

"It's alright Rubes. We are good." Yang says wanting to pull Ruby into a hug, but saw the still underlying guardedness in her sister's posture.

"No it isn't alright. I nearly…if Weiss…" Ruby shook her head.

"What happened anyway?" Blake asked slowly seeing the hurt flash in Yang's eyes, "We left to shower and when we came back, you had your fist through the wall."

Ruby shook her head, "I don't want to talk about it."

"Ruby please. We want to help you." Weiss said gently looking at her partner and wanting to hurt the people responsible for the dark look that was in the normally bright silver eyes.

Ruby turned her back on them and went back to her desk. She started to re-read her report and saw the sloppiness and inconsistency in it. What freaked her out once more was when reading the description of the Grimm attack, she noticed how it transitioned from Mantle to Beacon. With a growl, she began to tear it up before throwing it in the trash, "I'm going to the training room. Have your reports of the attack on the desk so I can turn them into Ironwood when I get back."

"Report? Ruby wait." Yang called out stopping her sister from leaving by blocking the door.

Ruby had Crescent Rose in her hand and glared at her sister, "Yes Yang. We weren't together earlier. We went our separate ways so I need both of your accounts. You and Blake were together, so yours is one. Weiss was with Jaune and Oscar so I need Weiss's account. I cannot just have one team report. I'll re-do mine when I get back."

"Ruby talk to us please. This isn't just about your report. Now what happened?" Blake asked from behind her, her ears flattening on her head as she looked at her team leader.

"I do not want to talk about it." Ruby stated firmly, "Now stand aside." Yang didn't move, "Yang move or I will move you."

Yang looks at her sister and sees a dark look come across her face. It was a look that startled her, she had seen it directed at Grimm or their foes, but never at her friends and family, "Alright fine. However we are talking about this when you get back." She moved aside and Ruby just sighed and started to leave the room. She had made it through the threshold of the door and into the hallway, when Yang called out, "Hey!" Ruby stopped, but did not turn around, "I love you Ruby."

Broken, defeated, devastated, "You can do whatever you want. I'm gonna lie here."

"Yang..."

"Just leave me alone."

She doesn't have to look over her shoulder to know what her sister is waiting for. Everything in her power was telling her to say it back, but she couldn't. She wanted to say those three words. Words she had said that day, but was not reciprocated back. In fact she could feel the three of them now looking at her. It was suffocating, just like that day though, she slowly leaves to continue down the hallway not saying those three words back to her sister.

It felt like a stab through the heart as Yang watched Ruby leave them, "What the hell happened?" She now demanded as she closed the door to look at the black and white duo.

"We weren't here so how would we know?" Weiss demanded, not liking how the attitude was directed even though it wasn't intentional.

They had gone to shower after the long evening, leaving Ruby alone in the room, the red clad scythe wielder claiming she would take one once she had the report written. Nothing had seemed wrong then, but as they had come back into the room, they had seen Ruby staring at the wall, eyes closed and her fists at her side before finally throwing that punch. Yang had acted quickly only to have herself slammed up against mentioned wall with Myrtenaster at her throat by her younger sister, "Maybe the answer lies in her report?" Blake suggested, but it came out as a suggestion.

Weiss and Yang turned to see the cat faunus holding Ruby's report. Shrugging and motioning for Blake to proceed, she un-crumpled the paper and put the pieces that she could together, "It's the account on the attack." Blake said softly as she quickly looked it over.

"But something isn't right. Ruby's handwriting is all over the place." Yang said pointing out the flaws.

"Agreed, her penmanship always needed work, but this is just terrible; especially in here." Weiss said pointing to a line then she re-read the sentence, "Wait hold on…she was at the election party right?"

"Yes…" Blake trailed off in confirmation.

"Yang was with you right?"

Yang nudged Weiss, "Yes. Kitty Cat and I went dancing while you saw a lame movie." She ignored Blake elbowed the blonde with a hiss to shut up that Yang ignored.

Weiss glared at Yang, "Then why did she mention you in the report?"

"Wait what?" Yang asked snapping her attention back to the paper to where Weiss was pointing.

In a scratched out sentence she was mentioned that she was there standing in front of…that was when the sentence was completely scratched out and replaced with describing Penny as protecting Robyn Hill and that it was Tyrian Callows that had attacked the party, "Well that is odd." Yang said after a minute.

"Not as odd as this. Here she mentions that she, Nora, Ren, and Marrow had followed Penny outside. He was telling her to leave when the Grimm attacked and Penny had flown off. However this is where she stops and it almost becomes illegible, but look she mentions Weiss." Weiss looks shocked and sees where Blake is pointing, "As Yang mentioned you were at the movies."

"I can't read anything more but you are write. Just what the hell happened?" Weiss commented.

There was a knock on the door and slowly Yang answered it just as Blake began to fold up the scraps, "Hey Nora, Ren. What's up?"

"Winter called us for a meeting." Nora said in an uncharacteristic tired tone, "We told her we'd let you guys know."

"What for?" Blake asked as Weiss still looked concerned, "What about Ironwood?"

"Probably has to do with what happened tonight. Ironwood is handling the situation with Penny." Ren said in the same tired and defeated tone, "We already sent an alert to Jaune and Oscar. Where's Ruby?"

Weiss shook herself and got her jacket on. They had changed out of their combat gear into more comfortable clothes. Blake and Yang gathered their stuff, making sure to take their weapons this time, "Training room. I'll send her a message as well." Weiss said getting her scroll out as they followed Nora and Ren out of the room and down the hall to her sister's office.

"Don't bother. Oscar and Jaune also went to the training room as well. I'm sure they'll tell Ruby." Nora said, "Anyway we thought we heard shouting. What happened?"

"Honestly?" Yang asked, "No idea." They walked the rest of the way in silence.