Five years after graduation, team RWBY and JNPR are doing well in their careers as Huntsmen and Huntresses. Jaune and Pyrrha have gotten engaged, but before they can marry, tragedy strikes and Jaune is left without the love of his life. Ruby watches on from a distance, but when a slip of the tongue occurs, Jaune questions how Ruby thinks of him. [Chapter 1 is being rewritten.]

Ruby fills the void her mother left with self-harm. Weiss fills the void of her parent's missing love with the need to be perfect. Blake has the delusion that she is a cat and is friends with monkey named Sun. Yang takes her frustration of her sister's depression out in unhealthy ways. These four meet under the roof of the Vytal Psychiatric Hospital to recover. Trigger Warning/AU

Rumors are a nasty thing. The past is a nasty thing. People are nasty things. However, the two things that can rid those tainted by the taste of such poisons is music and love. Two people, meeting by chance, end up finding common ground in music and through a slip of the tongue start their descend together down the path of love. (M for swearing, murder, self-harm, drugs, and sex)