The Cursed Heart and The Hopeful Light: Ruby Rose x Male Human(RWBY)

Nightmares

I walked through the halls of Haven Academy, with a cold feeling surrounding me. The halls lead to Lionheart's office, with a black ooze floating up through the cracks. I hesitantly opened the door, and found Lionheart talking with some kind of Grimm that looked like a jellyfish.

"The boy must never learn of his power, ensure it to be such," said the voice of a woman.

Lionheart and the Grimm, soon caught sight of me. I went to turn and run, but the door was suddenly gone. The Grimm shot its tentacles towards me in an instant. I screamed out as the tentacles barely missed my body. I caught the tentacles in my hand and threw the Grimm in a circle, before I threw it out the window. I jumped out my new escape route and into the pathways of the school. Grimm surrounded me in all corners of the campus, but they didn't dare move. They lined up down a very long stretch of walkway, straight towards two people fighting. I started sprinting down the lines of Grimm that slowly bowed their heads before me. The battle slowly turned in favor of the person wielding a sword and spear. I sprinted harder and faster, trying to reach the fight ahead. Just as I reached the fight, I recognized the two individuals. Just as I recognized them, the woman with the spear thrusted forward and my heart was torn asunder. I couldn't form words in my mouth, all I could do was cry silently.

"Haly... what are you doing... it's not sa..." mumbled Ruby.

She was cut off as Cinder tore the spear from her chest. I ran to her side as fast as I could, scrambling to her aid. I held her up in my arms, watching as the life faded from her platinum eyes.

"Why... didn't... you... save... us...," were her last words.

I held her body close to my as my voice finally returned to me. I screamed out in agony and suffering...

...and woke myself up. I was hyperventilating like crazy, and absolutely covered in sweat. Tears streamed down my face as I choked up.

"...*sob*... come on... *sob* *ngh*...breath dammit..." I managed to mumble.

"Haly?! What's wrong?" Asked Ruby

I looked back to my bed, Ruby rising to hold my shoulders. I turned around in her arms and just held her tightly.

"Please... please don't go," I sobbed into her shoulder.

"Hey, I'm not going anywhere," she said to me.

"I can't lose you..." I mumbled.

"You're not going to. It's okay Haly," she soothed. "What happened? Bad dream?"

"It was a nightmare," I said to her.

Ruby just held onto me tighter, not even letting a single moment go without her warmth. I kept trying to reign in my tears, but all I could think of was the sight of Ruby dead in my arms.

"It's okay, just let it out. I'm right here for you," 

"Ruby... I love you so much," I shakily mumbled.

"I love you too," she reassured me.

I finally put a dam over my river of tears, and Ruby had me laying back down in the bed. I glanced at the clock and saw that it was a little past 3 in the morning.

"Do you want to try and sleep some more? I'll talk Ranger into letting us sleep in a little," offered Ruby.

"No, I don't want to right now. I just want to hold you," I said.

Ruby nuzzled into my shoulder and took my arms around her. Slowly but surely, my mind thought of just the moment I was in the middle of, and the nightmare soon felt like a distant memory. But it was still a memory nonetheless. I never want to lose her, and I pray that was just a nightmare and not something more.