Hey everyone, I'd like to take this time before we really get into the story to say thank you, the first chapter went over really well. I mean I feel like every time I put down my tablet I got a new email saying someone followed and favorited.
I especially want to thank everyone for their reviews. I read them all and I hope I improved upon this one.
I really appreciate it.
Stepping foot into the JNPR dorm felt like walking into a den of Beowulf's, unarmed, naked, and covered in meat. As soon as Jaune was in eyeshot all eye's where on him,
"Hey, guys... what's going on."
"Jauney you didn't tell us you were rich!" The ever-energetic Nora exclaimed as she punctuated her statement by shooting her arms into the air.
Jaune razed an eyebrow at Blake to which she responded with a shrugged, "Yes as I told Blake, I am Jaune Miles Arc only son and heir to the Arc clan," Jaune glanced over his friends and received surprised looks from almost all of them to varying degrees. Nora look the most excited, but that's not really saying much, Ruby and Yang looked at him in awe, Weiss seemed the most shocked. The only ones that didn't react Ren, Blake, and Pyrrha.
Pyrrha wasn't in the room, after the rejection he had thought it best to leave her to think and hopefully come to terms with it, and Ren and Blake already knew. He had already told Ren who he was and why shouldn't he have Ren was the brother he had never had and Blake deserved to know.
"Were mainly a warrior clan but we have ties in nearly every business in Remnant," Jaune paused and looked at Weiss, "and yes, we have investments in the Schnee Dust Company as well."
Silence fell over the room as Jaune took a seat on his bed and Blake came to sit near him. "So what are you going to do now?" The question on everyone's mind was given voice by the quite and stoic man, Lie Ren.
"We've got the certificate, one of the two witnesses and the location. You could get divorced," answered Yang, Blake perked up slightly at this only to sink again when she saw Jaune he looked... conflicted.
"Im sorry."
Everyone's eyes came to rest upon Jaune and Blake's eyes went wide when she saw it, He was shaking. "Jaune," Blake asked, placing a hand on his shoulder before recoiling. He was cold, terrifyingly cold... like... like a corpse. "Jaune... are you ok."
"Im so sorry Blake," Jaune muttered as he looked up into her amber eye's. His usual cobalt blue was stained with tears and his eyes were red ringed but the most shocking thing is that he looked sick, just then his eye's drifted close. The combination of Jaune's appearance and the fact his voice had been soft made his unexpected fatigue even more worrying.
"Jaune! What's wrong."
'He had been fine that morning.'
"Allow me to explain Mr. Arcs... special circumstance," The group of seven turned to see Headmaster Ozpin standing in the dorm entryway, "Ms. Xiao Long please bring Mr. Arc with us to the infirmary."
They had made it to the infirmary and immediately headmaster Ozpin had Jaune placed into a bed and a heart rate monitor hooked up to him. Nora and Ren hadn't left his side since they arrived, team RWBY was worried for their friend they still didn't know what was going on but they were worried none the less.
"What brought you to our room today headmaster? Is there a mission you want us to go on." Ren asked as he ripped his eye's from his pseudo-brother and team leader.
"Fortunately no," Ozpin said taking another sip from his mug, "I came to wish the happy couple well for their future."
Blake's eyes shot towards the headmaster in surprise, "You knew."
"Well when your last name changed from Belladonna to Arc, It connected a few dots."
The blush on Blake's face deepened from a cherry to more of a deeper crimson hue.
"But considering Mr. Arc's current condition..." Ozpin trailed off, Blake turned to look back towards her husb- FRIEND.
'did I just think of him as my husband,' looking at Jaune's sleeping form. 'Maybe that wouldn't be so bad.'
"What's happened to him," Yang asked her expression one of concern not only for his current condition but also for being a witness to the marriage of her best friend and the man she had come to call a friend and not being able to do anything about it.
"An Arc NEVER goes back on his word," Jaune said, groggily as he woke from his unexpected slumber and attracted all eyes to him, "It's not my family motto, for nothing."
"What do you mean," Blake asked as she placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Allow me to explain," Ozpin said, drawing everyone's attention back to him, "Long ago back when Remnant was still nameless there was a man, his name was Amadeus Luna. When he married his wife he swore upon his life to never betray her and for a while, he didn't. After forty years of faithful marriage Amadeus grew bored with his wife and the life they lead, he wanted kids and it became clear that his wife was... unable to give him that," Silence enveloped the group of students as they learned of the mans life, Blake found her hand gripped tight by Jaune's own, "Amadeus went on a journey to find something of meaning in life, when he met her, the strongest Arc in all of recorded history, Joan of Arc."
"He fell madly in love with her but unfortunately for him back then they didn't believe in such a thing as divorce. He eventually gave in to his greed and decided to have both women, he would spend his day's with his faithful wife and his nights with Joan, his mistress. After awhile Joan gave birth to twin boys, He was overjoyed children was something he wanted for years but could never have. But the problem arose that he couldn't split his time between his wife and the family he always wanted, so he hatched a rather evil plan."
"To kill his wife and re-marry Joan," Jaune added, still holding Blake's hand, "His wife found out and umm... used all of her aura and even her own life force to curse Amadeus's descendants for all eternity."
Silence broke over the room when Ruby eventually spoke, "To never break a promise," Ruby chirped up, Jaune nodded before adding, "Or death will surely follow."
Blake lay there in her team's dorm room wide awake, she couldn't sleep not with everything weighing on her mind. Everything from this mornings discovery of the fact she was no longer single to the realization of the curse that plagues the Arc family. It was hard to believe, yet Jaune would never lie.
'It would explain Jaune's determination to keep his promises'
Blake's scroll vibrated on the nightstand that sat next to her bed, she turned it on and flinched when the bright light of the scroll assaulted her enhanced feline sense of sight. Its a text from Jaune. 'He's still up?'
'Hey, Blake hope im not waking you. Just wanted to talk ya know. We hadn't had a proper conversation since this morning.
Im on the roof
~ Love Jaune'
'Love Jaune,' seeing those words alone brought a faint blush to her cheeks and a smile to her lips. She looked at the message for another good minute before getting out of bed and making her way towards the rooftop. There she saw him, Jaune Arc stood there surrounded by darkness and was only illuminated by the light of the shattered moon, the sight was... majestic and made Blake's heart flutter for just a moment.
"Jaune, I got your message."
"Sorry to call you out here so late, its just I wanted to talk... in private is all," He didn't turn to look at her but she didn't need him to, she could tell he had been up here for a while and there was sadness in his words.
"Are you unhappy?" He said as he turned to meet Blake's amber eye's, that's when she saw it. he had been crying... but why. Why did the sight of those red rings bring her sadness?
"Why would I."
"With things the way they are, I just feel like im forcing you to live a sham. I don't want that."
"I wouldn't say im unhappy," Blake's words caught Jaune off guard, "It's just... we barely know each other and this whole marriage thing wasn't planned."
"What if I said there might be a way out of the oath?"
Blake was taken aback by his words, 'a way out' was the only words that floated around her head for a moment before she was reminded of a detail that prevented the very thing Jaune was suggesting,
"But... the oath says that you can't break a promise or you DIE," Blake razed her voice on the word 'Die'.
"The Arc oath does, in fact, say that... but what if I wasn't an Arc anym-"
"DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" Blake's outburst took Jaune by surprise, cobalt met amber as he stared at the angry Faunus that currently stared daggers at him. "Family's the most important thing to you, Jaune! I can't ask you to abandon them!"
What was he thinking, how could he think Blake would be ok with him disowning himself just to get out of this marriage. That would mean that he would be leaving his family forever, unable to call himself an Arc or treat any of his sisters as family. Sure the marriage wasn't something she wanted but it's not the worst thing in the world, 'I could have married Sun," Blake internally cringed at the thought.
"Family is important to me, but you're more important!" Jaune's words seemed to take her by surprise. "Blake," Jaune's eye's turned soft, "I fell in love with you... months ago maybe even longer. Yeah, I didn't want to get married either but im more than happy that it was you."
It was Blake's turn to be taken aback by Jaune's words, she had expected him to do something stupid and chivalrous like trying to disown himself just so she could marry someone she loved, but a confession?
Blake did the only thing she could think of to calm him down, she kissed him. She wouldn't say she loved him that's not how the real world worked... but she couldn't say she disliked him. No one had ever been willing to sacrifice so much for her before and honestly that made her feel... special in a way she had never been before. Separating from their kiss Blake looked into the eyes that stared back at her with both surprise and disbelieve, which made her chuckle as she hugged him and buried her face into his manly chest.
"You stupid loveable idiot."
"huh..."
In actuality, Jaune was a pretty good guy all thing considered. He was handsome, kind, courageous, selfless, and always willing to be there for his friends. In retrospect, he's the type of guy to write home about.
"Im not going to say its love but... I don't dislike you."
'Wait does that mean she likes me?'
"I'm not willing to let you disown yourself... So if you'll meet me halfway, then I'll do the same."
Alright finally got the re-write done. Im pretty happy with the way this turned out. I hope people enjoy this, it was kinda a spur of the moment thing after I read a bunch on drunken marriage fics. Let it be known that I, well not hate but I don't like the Blake sun ship, I don't know why I just don't, maybe im just old fashion because I know that the voice actors for both Ruby and Sun are married or maybe because I feel like Sun represents everything Im not confident, sociable. Then again I think that may also be why I don't like Neptune either...
Anyway, I've had this fic on my computer for some time now, and was too embarrassed to share it but September 10th was my birthday.
WooHoo 22 year old
But I talked to my sister and told her that I wanted to be a writer and that I had some stuff but was too afraid to share it with people, and she told me to go for it. So I did.