Let Her Do The Work 4

A/N: Greetings and salutations my dear readers. The fourth and final chapter of what I hope has been a turbulent ride of emotion is upon us and I sincerely hope that it will be worth the wait. Also, the tiny bit of perspective shift is intentional.

The musical inspiration for most of this is once again, Max Richter. Just, pull up a playlist on Youtube or let autoplay take you and I hope that you all will feel it too. Though a very big bit goes to The Trees.

12/18 A/N: I struggled for some time trying to find someone to Beta this up to the standards I needed/wanted, and it just wasn't happening. So, I don't want to keep the finale around any longer and I hope that it is not horrendous in its raw form. That has also been the delay on a number of my other works for those concerned.

The perfect one…Neopolitan…master of spacial manipulation and future wife to Jaune Arc...me…

No more obstacles, no more threats, no more delays…

Finally, he is mine and we will be together, forever and ever.

The space around and in Jaune unfurled with a disturbing unsound, of glass reforming and silence taking hold for the briefest of moments before the world faded into focus around him once more.

The walls were cast in a plush, vibrant red by the sunlight streaming in through a massive window, much of it still largely visible beneath the many posters, pictures and boards all baring his face and outfits and in more than few of them, his nude body.

"Finally..." A whispering voice echoed through the room, its point of origin seemingly everywhere at once. "Finally you're here my love." The voice sounded so familiar and yet, unplaceable, like many meshed into one.

"Yes. I am." His voice was near deadpan as he looked about the room, searching for the mysterious woman. "Where are you?"

"Forgive me my darling. I've fantasized about this moment for so long, and now that its here, I feel so nervous." The large, lace covered bed in the corner ruffles lightly as a tiny figure materializes on top of it, lying down in a seductive pose. "Here I am Jaune." The voice now coming from just the small woman.

"Here you are."

"Here WE are my love." A smile cracks her face, her tongue trailing slowly along her bottom lip. "Together at last."

Jaune takes another dead-eyed step forward, moving closer to the bed as his admirer sits upright, fully revealing her outfit, an opalescent nightgown that shimmered and flowed in the fading daylight, edging down to her mid thigh, revealing the creamy skin beneath while its neck cut down to reveal only the edge of her modest cleavage.

"I've been waiting for so long, working so hard for this moment." Tucking a loose strand of her multicolored hair behind her ear, she stands from the plush bed, arms outstretched. "I've removed so many obstacles, so that we could be together darling." That voice...its was so familiar and yet not, it finally clicked. It wasn't one, it was all, all of them at once...

Jaune's footsteps halt as he stares at the ground, tears dropping into the soft carpet beneath his feet. "Why?" His fists tighten to point his knuckles turn a stark white. "Why did do it?"

Her head tilts slightly, her warm, inviting smile never leaving her face. "Why did I do what Jaune?"

His emotions flare as the tears stream down his face. "WHY DID YOU KILL THEM!?"

A tiny giggle passes her lips, tinkling like icicles on a windchime. "Oh my sweet, I never killed anyone. Never once did I raise my hand to end their lives. It was always their own actions. I would never be so callous as to do that to someone." She takes a step towards the crying teen, arms still outstretched. "But you don't have to worry about them anymore my love, you're here now and that's what matters."

As she reaches out to take hold of him, he jumps backwards, smacking her hands away. "Stay away from me!" He stumbles backwards until he presses up against the wall.

Neo bites her bottom lip for a brief moment before she disappears before his very eyes, only to reappear right next to him, hand cupping his cheek despite the height difference. "Shhhh," Her fingers slide up his jaw, delicately tracing the lines and angles until coming to rest on his lips. "Neo will take care of you now. I'm here to love you like those whores never could." Her soft voice purrs in his ear.

With a cry and a heave, he pushes hard against her, throwing her across the room, landing with a soft pomf upon her bed.

"Don't you get it Jaune?" In an instant, she's upright, standing in the middle of the room. "I did all of this for you. I can be whoever you want." Her form ripples and shatters, replaced by Yang, dressed in the same gown but clearly not sized for more curvaceous body, voice matching the body. "Whenever you want." Suddenly Pyrrha stands before him, garbed in her birthday suit, just a few steps away, the same soft, almost insane smile on her face. "However you want..." Still pinned against the wall, Ruby appears in a ripple of air, clad in his favorite onesy and giving her perfect puppy dog eyes. "You just have to love me and only me Jaune." The shape shatters and her icey voice whispers in his ear once more. "Forever and ever..."

The tears flow even harder down his cheeks as his back slides down the painted wall, leaving him curled on the floor, sobbing.

When her tiny hands once again come to rest on his shoulders and he looks up to meet her hetero chromatic eyes, a chuckle starts to bubble forth from his throat, a deep, dark sound befitting a man who's very world crumbled before him until it breaks, crawling forth louder, more manic even as the tears continue to stream.

"Neo?"

"Yes my love." She leans in close to his face.

"I do love you."

Her face brightens up with a deep gasp, hands covering her mouth.

"Yes. I love you...to death..." On the 'th, Jaune bites down hard on his tongue, severing it fully and letting the blood spill forth from his mouth. "Thil deathhh do uth parth." Spitting the severed chunk of tongue onto her nightgown, tarnishing it with a splatter of her lover's life essence.

His vision darkens quickly as the blood flows freely, his laughter sputtering and choking as his mouth fills with more and more blood, staring directly into Neo's widened, horrified eyes. Aura can stop damage, but not that which is self inflicted. He closes his eyes, feeling the strength quickly leaving his body from both the blood loss and the pain, knowing that any ambulance or emergency care would still come too late.

Though he can't bring anyone back, he can't fix what was done to Ren or to Nora, what he can do is this , this final act of spite. Let there deaths be in vain...but in a good way right?

His body slumps more before he feels the jostling of being picked up, still keeping his eyes closed as he's carried bridal style somewhere. Sleep sounds so good right now, his body leaden. Go to sleep, maybe, just maybe, he'll wake up and everyone will be there. Always the hope right?

The sound of a hinge creaking...

A chill through his body...

The cold, hard feel of steel...

His last vestiges of consciousness slip away as his heart began to run low on blood to pump through his body, drifting off into that comforting black void.

The world returned to Jaune in the form of the steady beeping of a nearby machine and the creeping light of sunrise. With a deep, clearing breath, he jerks, eyes widening in realization. "I'm ayive? I...I shoun't be ayive." His throat raspy and dry, his words slurred from the still missing chunk of tongue. His eyes dart around the room, searching for something to give him an idea.

Its the same room, but the posters and pictures are gone. He tries to move, only to find his limbs bound up, immovable. His eyes continue their sweep until they rest upon the sleeping form of his tormenter, of Neo, lying next to him, curled against his side like a cat.

Her eyes flutter open, taking a wide stretch and a yawn, before locking with his. "Darling, you're awake!" Her smile widens and she leans in to kiss him on the mouth, a brief, chaste affair but enough to force a blush across her face. "Good morning kiss...the first of many, many more."

"H-how?"

"Shhh," A single finger touches his lips. "Don't you worry. You'll be fine, despite how silly that was. Honestly Jaune, you could've ended up very hurt." She pats his bound limbs. "For now though, you'll just have to be kept secure and safe, don't you worry though. I'll be here beside you until you get better. I'll be right here the whole time. Forever...and ever...til death do us part right?"

Tears once more flow from Jaune's eyes, his screams mixing with the icey giggles of a triumphant Neo…

A/N: And done...you guys have no idea how many different forms that ending alone took, how many times it was something different until someone gave me a waaay better idea. I hope that this was worth the wait and while relatively short, I hope that it was enough to make you all see the scene that has been in my head for months. I don't have much else that I can say with this, so: may the night see you safe and the dawn greet you kindly dear readers.