A/N Hallo! Bonjour! Nǐ hǎo! Hello, and welcome to the next chapter of Loved and Lost of which I promised to do a second chapter to along with two other one shots. So I really can't call them two-shots anymore. Hmmm. Anyway this chapter will take place over a couple of days (in text not real life) be sure to notice the day changes or it might get a tad bit confusing. Anyway, without further Adieu, I present, Loved and Lost CH:2.
"Jaune? Jaune? JAUNE!" Jaune was aroused from his deep slumber from various shouts of his name. When he finally gathered the energy to open his eyes, and sit up straight he saw Nora, Ren and team RWBY looking at him with worry.
"Oh, hey guys, what's up?" Jaune asked with a yawn while attempting to move his arms and legs which had gone numb.
"What do you mean what's up!?" Weiss screamed at him. "You found Pyrrha, brought her here, and then just fall asleep in the waiting room and not bothering to find us!"
"Hey Hey Hey. I had my reasons. Besides I figured you guys would know soon enough with the way news travels around here. And look at the time, i've only been here for a couple minutes. So it wasn't that bad." Jaune defended while still trying to get the feeling back in his limbs.
"Guys the important thing is that he found her and that she's safe now." Ren jumped in to defend his leader who gave him a grateful smirk.
"Besides, I don't think he has slept much in the last two weeks so he would probably like to catch up on that. I'm sure all of our teachers will understand considering the circumstances. So can you guys take him up to the room while Nora and I check up on Pyrrha?" Ren asked as he pointed over his shoulder to her room door.
"No it's fine you all go in and see her. I can make it up to the room by myself." Jaune replied while trying to push his way onto his feet now that he regained feeling in his arms, but once he did make it to his feet he fell onto his face due to still having a lack of feeling in his legs.
"Actually on second thought, I wouldn't mind a little help getting there." Jaune said from his face down position on the floor.
"Fine. I guess we will take notes for you also so don't attend class. And when Pyrrha wakes up tell her that we will be by soon. Yang do you mind getting him?" Weiss answered and pointed at Jaune's prone body while hastily walking the other way.
"Up and at em Vomit-boy." Yang said as she hoisted Jaune's body over her shoulder and managed to stand up with a slight stumble. "Damn Jaune you've gotten heavy."
"Well you know i've only been a student at a combat school for four years. Would have never guessed that I would put on weight." Jaune replied in a snarky tone.
"Watch it with your attitude, I could just drop you and leave you here." Yang growled with a grunt as she tossed him around on her shoulder. Soon they arrived at the JNPR dorm room and after getting the key from Jaune, opened the door and deposited him on the bed. It wasn't long before Jaune finally succumbed to the lack of sleep over the last two weeks.
*Time Jump 3 Days Forward*
Slowly Jaune opened his eyes. Each making a popping noise as the fluid that sealed his eyelids together broke apart. As he sat up from his bed his body let out a symphony of cracks and pops each time he moved a joint. His body felt like he had been hit by a train, but at least it tells him his muscles are repairing.
After dressing into some casual clothes, Jaune left the room and headed for the cafeteria since it seemed to be around lunch. As he entered the building he saw his friends sitting at their usual table talking amiably. They greeted him as he sat and began to put food onto his plate.
"Sleep well Jaune?" Ruby asked as he stuffed a whole pancake into his mouth. He answered with a nod while preparing to stuff another in.
"Whoa slow down Jaune." Yang said as he finished off another plate full of food. "You're acting as if you haven't eaten in weeks."
"I've barely eaten anything in weeks Yang. I mean I just found Pyrrha yesterday, this will be my first real meal in a while." Jaune said with a chuckle while restocking his plate.
"Jaune. It's Saturday. You brought Pyrrha back three days ago. You put your body through a lot of stress. It took a couple days to actually start functioning again." Ren said as he patted Jaune's back due to him choking on the food he had in his mouth at the time.
After swallowing, Jaune looked up in a panic. "Wait three days, when does Pyrrha get out of the hospital?"
"They said sometime tonight when we visited her." Blake informed him as she casually flipped through a book.
"Tonight. Tonight. That means there's no time to lose! Weiss! I need you to go to Vale with me right away." Jaune said as he stood up but when he did he caught a whiff of his stench. "Change of plans, meet me at the docks in half an hour." Jaune then took off towards the exit.
"Wait! Why do you need me!" Weiss yelled at his retreating form but received no answer.
*With Pyrrha in the Infirmary*
"Hey guys." Pyrrha said with a smile as Ren and Nora entered her completely white infirmary room.
"Hi Pyrrha how are you feeling?" Ren asked returning her smile while Nora bounded over to her friends side to give her a hug.
"Good, better since I know that i'll be out of here in a couple hours." Pyrrha replied while returning Nora's hug, trying to match her friends strength. "How's Jaune?"
"Well he's finally awake, we just saw him at lunch." Nora responded as she plopped down into Ren's lap -eliciting a groan from the pink eyed boy- even though there was an open chair right next to him.
"Is he busy? I would have thought he would come and see me." Pyrrha said with a frown.
"I don't know what he is doing at the moment, he ended up dragging Weiss to Vale after I told him you would be getting out today. Don't worry though you will see him soon enough." Ren answered with a smile while placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"So, how did Jaune take it when I went missing?" Pyrrha asked continuing to frown. "I know he probably didn't take it all too well."
"That would be an understatement of how he took it. For a week and a half Jaune went out searching for you by himself after classes ended and wouldn't return till the morning where he would repeat the day." Ren answered mimicking her frown.
We all tried to stop him, it was obvious he was killing himself doing it; his grades were dropping, he barely ate, barely talked, the only time he slept was when he passed out from exhaustion. No matter what we did, what we said, he continued his routine until he found you three days ago."
"I feel bad for putting him through that." Pyrrha whispered with sadness in her eyes, but no matter how quiet she said it, her companions would hear it.
"You would have done the same thing Pyrrha." Nora said with a smile. "And, you probably would have killed twice the number of grimm he did. Which reminds me, walk through the forest of forever fall sometime, there hasn't been any grimm sighted even close to the school. You can thank Jaune for that."
*Back to Jaune*
After a quick shower, shave, and change of clothes, Jaune made his way down to the docks where an impatient ice queen was waiting.
"Why must I go along with you to Vale?" Weiss asked indignantly as she followed him onto an awaiting dustplane to Vale.
"I need your input on some things, and you will figure out what things later." Jaune replied simply with a shrug as the dustplane finally got off the ground. Soon they were in Vale with no incidents due to Jaune getting over his motion sickness the prior year. After exiting the dustplane and taking several turns down the main streets of Vale, Jaune stopped in front of the shop he was looking for.
"Really? You dragged me out here for this?" Weiss said softly, no anger whatsoever in her voice.
"Yeah, you are really the only one I trust with this. Ruby isn't mature enough to help, Yang would try to tease me instead of help, Blake, though a good person wouldn't be much help, Nora is well, Nora, and Ren is like a brother to me, but this isn't something I can ask him to help with." Jaune replied with a soft smile. "Well we're wasting time just standing here, lets get a move on."
"Yeah. Lets." Weiss said with a smile as she followed Jaune into the store. After looking around for a while with comments and suggestions from Weiss, Jaune was able to pick out a simple ring with a single diamond on top. However, this diamond had been engineered with dust to be able to absorb aura and glow the color the aura is.
"Sweet one item down." Jaune said as the exited the store. "Now I just need a new suit."
"I suppose you need me to help you with that also." Weiss sighed but not without a small smile.
"Please." Jaune responded with a smile of his own while walking to their net destination.
By the time Jaune had found everything he needed, along with Weiss's help, it was already getting dark. Jaune thought it best to change before heading back to beacon, so he used one of the changing rooms at the last shop to get into his suit. Weiss ended up fussing over his tie because he apparently didn't know what he was doing.
Once the duo returned to Beacon, Jaune thanked Weiss before sending a message to Ruby via scroll to meet him on the roof of their dorm and heading there himself. Soon, Ruby opened the door to the roof to find Jaune sitting on the edge of the roof with his feet hanging over the side.
"Hiya Jaune, watcha need?" Ruby asked as he stood up and faced her.
"Could you run around the roof with your semblance real quick?" Jaune asked in a bashful tone.
"Uhh sure. I guess." Ruby slowly responded before running darting back and forth across the roof. In no time at all the roof was covered in Rose petals.
"Sweet now everything is perfect! Thank you Ruby, I owe you one." Jaune said with a smile as he pulled out his scroll.
"Any time Jaune." Ruby said with a wave as she went down the stairs.
*JNPR Dorm*
Ren stopped his usual polishing of Storm Flower to pick up his scroll which was buzzing due to receiving a message.
From: Jaune Arc
Message: Hey Ren, can you relay a message to Pyrrha real quick? Sweet, thanks. Tell her to meet me at the place trust began. She knows what I mean. Thanks again, see you soon.
"Hey Pyrrha, Jaune just told me to tell you to meet him at the place trust began and that you know what he means." Ren told his teammate who was looking through notes of what she had missed while she was gone.
"Yeah I know where he is talking about. I'll see you two later." Pyrrha said as she jumped up from her bed and ran out the door. In a matter of minutes Pyrrha found herself at the door to the roof. Taking a deep breath she opened the door and stepped onto the roof just to gasp at what she saw.
The roof was littered in rose petals compliments of Ruby no doubt, and Jaune was standing in the middle in a brand new suit with a grin plastered on his face. Pyrrha ran up to embrace her boyfriend -whom it felt like she hadn't seen him in a lifetime-with tears in welling up in her eyes.
"J-Jaune. I've missed you so much." Pyrrha gasped into his chest in between sobs.
"I've missed you too Pyrrha." Jaune replied while rubbing her back trying to sooth her. After a couple minutes her sobs quieted and she pulled back with a smile on her face.
"So what's with all this? New suit, rose petals all over the ground, and do I detect some classical music." Pyrrha asked still sporting her smile
"First of all the music wasn't part of the plan. Must be Team CRDL. And second, this is just buildup into why I needed to go to Vale today, of which I'm guessing Ren and Nora told you about." Jaune answered matching her smile with his own.
"Then why did you need to go to Vale today?" Pyrrha asked while taking a step back to give some room between them.
"Well. It's just that I...When you...Gahh this is difficult." Jaune started before taking a deep breath. "When you disappeared it felt like a part of me was torn away. I didn't know what to do with my life anymore. So I decided to go and kill any grimm that stood in my way. And that got me thinking.
I thought that, if there was any way I could see you again, to have you back safe and sound that I would want to make you mine and mine alone. So Pyrrha what this is all about is that I wanted to ask you." Jaune spoke while getting down on one knee. "If you will marry me."
Pyrrha was once again in tears at this point. Once Jaune asked her to marry him she rushed into his embrace, nearly knocking him over in the process while crying and spewing out affirmatives in between sobs.
A/N Wow. This took me forever to write. I have no idea why, but that isn't important right now. What is important is that it is done and you are reading this. Any reviews are appreciated and don't forget to favorite and follow me for more updates!