The roof was deserted at night. No one was there to bother you or interrupt your thoughts. That's what Jaune loved about it. Whenever he couldn't sleep, or was feeling stressed he would come to the roof.

Lately this has become a regular thing for him. The Vytal Festival was coming up and he wasn't prepared. Of course he signed up for partner spars so he would have Pyrrha there to help him, but he still wasn't very confident. His fighting skills had improved ten fold from when he first started and he could now leave a spar with some dignity, but he would still lose.

He was having nightmares of him failing halfway through a match and causing Pyrrha to lose. Of her disappointed look knowing that he had failed her. So he made his way out of bed and up the stairs in the hallway up to the roof.

Once he got to the roof there was something there he wasn't expecting to see. Someone else on the roof. Whoever it was, they were sitting on the edge of the roof staring out into the night sky.

Jaune didn't know what to do, but something compelled him to step out from the doorway and clear his throat, getting the attention of the person. It turned out to be a faunus, since only their heightened sense could hear him.

He heard a yelp of panic as the person leaped to their feet and turned around to look at him. The upper half of their body was still shrouded by the darkness of the night, so he could only see their outline.

"Jaune?!" the faunus asked.

It was a female, that's for sure after hearing her voice. She had cat ears, but he didn't know any faunus girl with cat ears. How did this person know who he was if he didn't even know who they were? He tried to step closer to see her face, but all she did was step back.

"W-who are you?" Jaune asked.

The girl looked down at the floor, and didn't say anything. His instincts told him to back away, but his body refused and pressed on for an answer.

Once again Jaune took a step forward to see who he was talking to, and this time they didn't back away.

He hunched over to look at her face staring at the floor. Another thing Jaune wasn't prepared for that night was to find out Blake was a faunus.

Jaune stood stock still as Blake prepared to get a talking to...but it never came. There was an awkward silence that could only come from very serious moments. Blake wasn't expecting this, and backed away as Jaune stood up straight and looked at her.

His eyes looked her over multiple times, as if reassuring him this wasn't a trick of the light or anything like that. Blake could only get more nervous as he constantly looked up at her cat ears, and see him quickly look away.

After a few minutes of this Jaune looked her in the eyes and saw guilt.

An overwhelming sense of insecurity, and fear. Fear of what he would do, and he could relate to what she felt.

When he confessed to Pyrrha how he got into Beacon, he had the same look in his eyes. The same frigid movements that came with guilt and shame.

Blake was about to push past Jaune and head back inside to hide under her blankets when he decided to embrace her. It was almost as if time had just stopped. She was prepared for him to hurt and harass her just like Cardin does to Velvet.

So when Jaune hugged her it was safe to say she was flabbergasted. Someone who she had been lying to for months just accepted her for who she was without yelling at her. It was a bit too much for Blake to handle, so she let out all her emotions at that moment.

All her fear of being a faunus and being treated differently, all the fear of fighting the White Fang, and most of all...the fear of losing her friends.

She sobbed and took gulps of air as Jaune held onto her until she calmed down. He understood her fear, maybe not the same reasons, but the intensity of it all. Letting someone know your deepest darkest secret.

So just like Pyrrha was there for him, he would be there for her. Her own team probably already knew she was a faunus, but they weren't here at this moment to comfort her.

After about 15 minutes of letting Blake collect herself he released her and looked her in the eyes.

"I don't care if you're faunus or not Blake...you should be treated the same as everyone else, and if anyone tries to do anything to you I'll be there." Jaune declared.

Blake could only smile back at him and nod. "Now lets get back inside. It's getting chilly out here" Jaune said putting an arm around her shoulders and leading her back inside.

'Now i have another friend to confide in...and another friend i can rely on' Blake though as the door to the roof closed behind them.