You Are My Sunshine (Good End)

I'm just too weak of heart to leave most fics off on a bad/sad note. So enjoy the happy ending! Takes place at the end of/after volume 3's events!

This part could even kind of be a sequel to Finding Home, if you've read that!

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.

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														Good End

Ruby woke to find the dorm room dark and still.

Her pillow was damp, and her cheeks were sticky with residue from tears she'd shed in her slumber.

She pulled the tarp of blanket aside from her rope-suspended bed and peered down at the alarm clock on the table below to discover it was just after 1AM.

Ruby tried to keep herself as quiet as possible as she let loose tiny sobs, pressing the back of her hand to her lips in an effort to stifle them.

Zwei was roused from the foot of her bed when she slid her legs from beneath the sheets and dangled them over the edge. A whimper from her dog gave him her attention as he waddled into her lap. Ruby hugged him and hunched forward, hiding her sobs into his back.

A moment later, she dropped to the floor, still trying to keep her mouth closed.

The sound of her landing was soft, but after all that had transpired within the past few weeks, all of them were instinctively on high alert, even in sleep.

Weiss shifted behind her, sensing her distress and pushing herself up quickly.

"Ruby...?" Rubbing her eyes, Weiss squinted for a second before her vision focused on her partner's shivering back. The heiress' voice rose a pitch in concern. "Ruby, what's the matter?"

The young leader turned slowly around to look at her, revealing a face strewn with tears turned silver by the moonlight.

"W-Weiss..."

Even without her explicitly stating it, Weiss knew what had happened.

Ever since Yang had been injured so severely by Blake's old partner, their leader had been having nightmares very frequently.

Weiss wasted no time in opening her arms in an offer for comfort.

"Ruby, come here."

Her partner didn't resist.

She slumped onto the edge of Weiss' bed and slowly wrapped her arms around the heiress, then began sobbing into her shoulder. Weiss hushed her, rubbing all up and down her back with languid motions.

"It's alright. It was only a bad dream, Ruby... Was it about Yang again...?"

Ruby merely nodded and continued to wail softly.

In a matter of seconds, Blake was stirring, her ears flicking and perking up on the sounds of pain. She moved more quickly than she'd been able to in previous days, due to how her stomach wound had been so efficiently healed.

Her panicked golden eyes met Weiss' melancholy blue, then saw Ruby crumpled in her arms. Blake understood right away, and a bit of the tension drained from her body. She pulled her own blankets aside and addressed Weiss quietly.

"Is there anything I can do...?"

She still felt responsible for all of this.

Blake believed she'd been the one to lead Adam to them, and that it was her affiliation with him and her betrayal of the White Fang that had caused Yang's injury, and the consequent torment that followed for all of them.

Weiss knew Blake was still blaming herself. She made it quite clear that she was, and likely still would be for some time.

Weiss gave her a pacifying look while she continued to hold her partner.

"Blake," she murmured. "Would you please wake up your partner and have her come down here? Her sister needs her."

Her words provided a sense of calm for Blake somehow. Even during the height of the chaos, Weiss had remained level-headed, and the same was true now. Blake didn't know where they'd be without her to keep them sane.

With a nod, Blake reached up to knock on the underside of her partner's bed.

"Yang?"

There was a moment of subdued sounds, sheets ruffling and soft yawns, before a familiar face peered down at them.

Her hair was a golden array of sunlight despite the hour, her eyes already opening wide as her mind registered the sounds of Ruby's cries.

"Again? Crap. Blake could you help me, please?"

The Faunus girl swiftly got out of bed and reached up, nodding towards her partner.

Yang still had trouble maneuvering up and down from her bed without assistance, so Blake took it upon herself to always help her. She had less work to do when Yang came down rather than when she went up, but even now, Blake was prepared to steady her landing. She held onto Yang's hand and guided her forward until her feet hit the carpet.

"Thanks, partner."

Seeing a tear already slipping down Blake's cheek, Yang wiped it away and smiled kindly at her.

"Aw, c'mere, now."

She put her arm around her partner and led her across the room to Weiss' bed where the others were waiting for them.

Keeping one arm around Ruby, Weiss extended her other towards them and shifted over a bit to make room. Zwei hopped down as well and joined them.

Only once they were all close together like this did the pain begin to ebb away.

Since the arduous battle on Beacon's campus a few weeks prior, it had been difficult not to let their thoughts lapse back into the horrific memories of what had occurred.

The four of them had been prone to nightmares and sudden outbursts of emotion since then, often finding themselves crying for no particular reason.

General Ironwood had made arrangements to structure a prosthetic arm for Yang, but it would be another few week or so until it was available. Thoughts of Penny often scraped at the backs of their minds as well.

Too many things had been hurting them recently.

Being close together like this was the best remedy they'd found for such a saddening diagnosis.

Presently, the older three girls were doing their best to stay composed for Ruby's sake. But Blake found herself surrendering before long, and Weiss was close behind her.

For the time being, Yang managed to hold off as she pulled her little sister in to her.

"Hey, hey..." she cooed. "Easy, Ruby. I'm here. Big sis is right here. Whatever you saw wasn't real, okay? I promise."

Ruby always needed a few moments to detach herself from the visions of the nightmare and find herself in reality. Throwing her arms around Yang's shoulders, she nodded.

"O-Okaaay..." Her voice dragged in a soft wail. "Okay... o-okay..."

Blake and Weiss moved to wrap one arm each around either of the sisters, and Zwei crawled in between them to curl up on Ruby's lap.

For a few minutes, they remained in each others' arms.

To Ruby, it was almost painfully similar to her nightmare.

Only this time, Yang was here.

She could hear their cajoling murmurs, smell their unique, familiar scents, feel them all breathing against her.

And at the heart of their overlapping pulses was a profound warmth, which was what ended up being the thing that convinced Ruby she could believe this was reality.

To her left side, Weiss' calm voice laced the air.

"We're here, Ruby. Yang is here."

To her right was Blake's soothing whisper.

"It's okay. It's okay..."

And before her, Yang's voice spread a tingle of relief through her chest.

"Do you wanna talk about it, Ruby? C'mon, let it out. It's okay, promise."

By now, Ruby was familiar with all of this. It happened almost every other night, if not to her, than to one of the others.

They'd all learned by now that talking about it only hurt to start, but once they could talk it over and provide the necessary comfort for each other, the pain faded away with the frivolity of the dream itself.

Ruby did her best to talk about it a little.

"I-It was... well, we were all a little older a-and Yang was... driving Blake and me to see Weiss a-and then another car came a-and-and-"

She didn't need to finish for the others to be able to infer roughly what had happened.

They waited a moment for Ruby's sobs to die down a little, then began offering gentle words.

"Well, that's silly," Weiss began. "Yang driving a car? As if."

"She's right." Blake sat back a bit, her ears finally lifting. "Yang would never drive a car."

"Yeah!" Yang herself agreed with a grin. "Even with just one hand, good ol' Bumblebee will be my only ride for life! And besides, why would I go visit Weiss?"

"Hey!"

"I'm only kiddin'!"

"Yang, that was mean," Blake chided her.

Their banter had sparked a bit of laughter in Ruby, and she wiped her forearm over her eyes.

"Yeah... you guys're right. Yang had also bought Blake a ring. Kinda ridiculous, right?"

At that revelation, the others all blinked in shock.

"Oh?" Weiss hummed, intrigued. "That's quite something."

"A ring...?" Blake gulped. "Like a-"

"Oh, man..." Yang mumbled. "I get more action in my sister's dreams than I do in real life."

Blake was thankful for the cover of darkness, because she could feel her face heating up.

But before any of them could comment further, Ruby continued, seemingly oblivious of the implications of her dream.

"And it must've been some weird alternate universe or something, 'cause Blake didn't have her ears."

That tidbit was a bit lighter than the previous, and the three older girls chuckled.

"That's absurd," Weiss said.

"Definitely a dream then," Blake agreed, her ears as real as ever now.

"That's right," Yang concluded. "Just a dream. So no worries, okay?"

Her little sister squeezed her again.

"Yeah. Thanks, you guys."

"Do you feel better now?" Weiss checked.

"Mm-hm. We should all try to go back to sleep now I think."

"If you're sure," Blake said. "Then it sounds like a plan."

"All righty then."

Yang sat back and released them all from their shared embrace, stretching her shoulders out a bit. Zwei hopped off Ruby's lap, while Blake and Ruby prepared to get up and leave Weiss to her bed.

But before they could all part ways, Yang called them back softly.

"Hey, before we get back to sleep..."

She swept her arm around in an inviting motion, one they all recognized and complied to.

One last hug.

The four of them came together one last time for the night, curling into one another's presences.

Yang then pulled each of them individually into her. She let Weiss go after kissing her temple, then kissed Blake's cheek, and finally kissed Ruby's forehead.

"Sleep tight, you guys. See you in the morning."

They wished her the same.

Ruby picked up Zwei and climbed back up over Weiss who was lying herself down again, while Blake assisted Yang in getting back up to her bed.

They soon all laid down for bed again, with moonlight on their skin and sunshine in their hearts.

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A/N: Just a little thing to wrap it up. I hope you enjoyed.