Reaper's War

Chapter 10: Memorial

A/N: Heyoooo. Thought I'd update again today as it may be awhile until I update again. Not sure yet.
But in any case, I hope you all enjoy the new chapter. It's a long one. 6012 words.

A year. A full 12 months since the facility incident. Since Weiss had been gravely injured.
Five months since she'd woken up from her coma.
It felt like a lifetime ago. The only thing that always reminded her that it wasn't, was the fact that she was still losing her sense of self. Her explosive episodes had become more frequent as the months went by. Now they were happening nearly everyday, exploding at anyone and everyone. Her mother, brother, even her sister and the doctors.

No doctor wanted to help her after the last few times and sent her home to Schnee manor.
Winter was still trying to find answers about what was happening to her but always came up empty. Even Weiss tried looking in the manor's library and even contacted Ozpin. Apparently he knew nothing about it too.

The white-haired girl would be continuing her search for answers if it weren't for the event she was being forced to attend. A Memorial Service for her father.
It was only happening because of the media and Atlas Military covering up how Jacques Schnee had died, reporting that he had been attacked in his own office in the SDC Headquarters by the White Fang, being killed in the process.

It boiled her blood to know her father had gotten away with it, knowing he had everything to do with the facility and his victims.
It was a wonder why none of those victims had come forward about it but then again, they were promised to be cared for, especially those that remained after the White Fang attacked a rehab centre with many of them in it.
That was covered up too with Weiss only finding out about it through her sister who came to visit every week.

Sitting at her desk in her bedroom, Weiss was looking over an already written speech for the Memorial. It said how loving her father was. How he cared for them and made sure his staff were well paid and everything else that was a lie about him. Getting to the next lie, she ripped the papers from the desk and scrunched them up.
No way in hell was she going to say any of that. She was going to tell the truth about her father. Call him out and make sure he was turning in his grave. She didn't care, she wanted the world to know that he was involved and that she and her sister had gathered enough evidence to prove it.

Taking her scroll out, she brought up a private number and pressed call. It rang a few times before someone answered.

"Hello Gerald. I need you to get a hold of the folder I gave you to keep safe until I need them. I need them now. Meet me at the Memorial site with the folder." She said before the other person could even speak.

The white-haired girl listened for a moment, the person on the line agreeing to meet up with her.

"Good. Thank you. Make sure everything is in there. Don't lose anything on the way." She replied and then hung up.

There was a knock on her door and she stood, striding over to it and opening it, finding her family butler standing there with a small, caring smile.
"Miss Schnee, it's time to go." He said, moving to the side so she could walk out of her room.

"Thank you for letting me know Klein. Also, put this in the trash, I have no need for it." She replied, handing him the scrunched up speech.

"Of course." Came the simple reply.

Walking off down the hall, she wondered why her mother and brother were going with her. She already knew why Winter couldn't go. She had been called for a mission in a place in the North East of Solitas to exterminate a large number of Grimm spotted travelling towards the settlement there. They were closing in to the medium sized settlement called the Port of Arden, obviously being a large enough threat that warranted the help of the military.