Jaune's Escapades

The Jaune Arc

Blake pretended to go to sleep also, but kept one eye open waiting for eleven o'clock to come. 'That's it. I'm just going to tell him, I'll tell him about the way we feel and all that's been happening behind our door. He has a right to know.'

Velvet is not an eavesdropper. She would agree with this fact and deny any claims otherwise for the rest of her life. But happening across two people and slowing your pace so that you had enough time to hear their entire conversation with your enhanced hearing did not count as eavesdropping.

Velvet knew nothing as to why, but she knew that Blake had made plans to speak with Jaune at eleven at night, and it seemed important. Jaune had protected her when no one else would, and she developed feelings for him instantly. So sneaking into the library at night so she could eavesdrop on, or 'happen across' their conversation seemed perfectly within her moral bearing.

She waited from nine until eleven for the two to come by. Jaune came in half an hour early and merely waited for Blake. So at least she had something to look at while she waited the last half hour.

It only took twenty minutes for Blake to arrive though, she came early as well it seems. "Good, you're already here." Jaune smiled. "I wouldn't want to keep you waiting, Blake." She cringed at his tone, he seemed to be acting friendlier. 'He must know that my problem is big, I did drag him here in the middle of the night after all.' "Alright Jaune I'm just going to get straight to the point, is that alright?" He nodded.

"Jaune. Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Pyrrha, Velvet and I all have feelings for you. They are deeper than friendship." Jaune replied with a good natured chuckle. "Very funny Blake, but you wouldn't bring me out here just to tell a joke. What's really the problem?" Blake expected that response, but it still infuriated her.

"That is exactly the problem, Jaune! I don't know how you can't realize this but we all really do-" "Stop it." He ordered, interrupting her. Blake was astonished to see that his usual happy smile was now replaced with a deep frown. "W-what…?" She asked softly. "I said stop it. I don't want to hear this." He looked down in sorrow. "Not again."

Blake had no idea what to say. 'He knows? How long has he known? WHY HASN'T HE SAID ANYTHING?!' "Jaune, I don't understand what you mean. What's going on?" Jaune looked Blake directly in the eye and responded bitterly. "Blake, I've known about everyone's feelings for months now. I was ecstatic when I first found out, but those feelings left when I realized I could never act on them." Blake didn't dare utter a word.

"If I asked someone out, at least five other people would be crushed. I couldn't do that to my friends, Blake. I've been trying to ignore it whenever someone brings it up, I always laugh it off and say that I'm not good enough, hoping that they'll realize that and look for someone else. But that isn't working anymore, everyone just keeps fighting, I can't sleep at night when I hear you guy's across the hall. That's the only reason I agreed to come here tonight. I need your help Blake." He stated slowly.

"I need you to help me break things off with team RWBY."

No words could do the amount of shock that Blake felt any justice, she had thought up many scenarios before coming here. But they all dwarfed in size compared to what actually transpired. Despite all of this, their goals intertwined. Blake just needed to know why. "What about Pyrrha and Velvet?" Jaune sighed. "I'd rather just choose now and be done with it, but I honestly don't know who I have feelings for. The reason I want things to go back to normal with you guys is because you're on the same team together. If I ask one of you out, the team will be done. They'll all be crushed if I just ask out Velvet or Pyrrha as well." He stopped to think for a moment.

"But if I break it off with them before choosing a girl, they'll have time to recover, and the sight of me with someone else won't be so hard to bear." He finished describing his plan and looked at Blake hopefully, desperate that she would accept. "Blake, I'm still bad when it comes to other people. It was obvious even to me that the others liked me, but I still have no idea how I can handle this, I need your help."

Blake was not very versed when it came to being social as well, but if it had to do with her team, she'd do anything. "Alright Jaune, leave it to me. I'll talk to them, we've brought this up before in one of our fights. I know that they'll understand if I tell them. But there's no way I'm helping you with your Pyrrha and Velvet problem." Jaune shook his head, remembering the words of a wise man. "I wouldn't want you to, that's something I need to figure out… myself"

Blake smiled to the blonde goofball and silently left for her room, her mind buzzing with ways to break the news, and her eyes filling with tears she didn't know she was holding back. She let out a few inaudible sobs as she opened the door to her room and made her way to her bed. Blake cried herself to sleep that night.

Velvet silently left the library after Blake did. Her own mind swelling with ideas to woo the knight now that most of the competition had been eliminated. She knew that she should have felt bad about team RWBY, but as she returned to her own room and rested in bed that night. Velvet realized that even though he had six girls in love with him. Jaune would let them all go if it meant they'd be happy.

And she truly loved him for it.

Jaune felt very conflicted as he went to bed that night. He knew that he had just caused a lot of emotional turmoil, and there was far more to come. He wondered what it would have been like if he had asked out any of the girls he turned down today.

He could envision himself holding Ruby as she lay on top of him, reading her a bed time story about hero's and monsters. As she slowly fell asleep in his arms, he too would soon succumb to his dreams as he gave her a gentle kiss.

Weiss would finally tell him about her past, letting him inside the walls she built around herself so many years ago. He could see her crying into his arms as he whispered sweet nothings into her ear, telling her that he would protect her from anything and everything that dare hurt her.

Yang would be the living embodiment of a party. Jaune couldn't stop himself from blushing at the thought of himself and Yang laying in a bed, she'd probably want to do it the moment they got together. He wouldn't dare abuse her like that, but it was a fun thought to play around with.

He felt terrible about Blake though, she said that she would tell her teammates herself. But he was the one who told her, as much as it would hurt to be told by someone else, at least the rest of her team had each other to console them. Blake had just been told straight by the person she likes that he couldn't be with her. And now she has to go to sleep without waking them as well, something tells me she's trying not to make any noise right now.

Jaune nearly cried at the thought.

If the two of them ever got together; Jaune would eradicate discrimination against the Faunus, making it so that all of the years she spent protesting in the past were not in vain. He would spend every waking moment with her and stay by her side until she was content with life.

None of these dreams would ever come true though. Jaune made sure of that. Instead, he could see all of them standing together, being proclaimed the greatest team to ever exist. The four of them were smiling proudly and would wish for no other person to be with them on their team. A single tear slid down his cheek when he thought of them being with another man, but he managed to calm down at the thought of them staying together.

'Hmm… staying together…' Jaune thought of nothing else as he succumbed to his fatigue, it was one thirty in the morning and he had classes in a few hours. Not to mention his early morning training, he wouldn't miss that for the world.

Even though it would be hard for him to keep them that way, Jaune needed to upset his friends to help them be truly happy. He would do anything they ask for as long as he knows them, for he was sure that he could never make it up to them for the pain that he caused tonight.

But he'd be damned if he didn't try.