I've returned! I shall be posting chapters a tad more frequently after this week since I'll be on break, but let's see how this goes shall we?

Odell slowly opened his eyes after what sounded like a conversation between Ruby and Yang, he looked around the room to see the two of them sitting in his room in the infirmary and he slowly sat up, wincing at the pain in his ribs as he did so.

"Hey, relax, don't strain yourself too much." Yang said as she got out of her seat and approached his bed "You took quite the blast there."

"How long was I out?" Odell immediately asked

"About 3 days." Ruby replied as she stood up from her chair.

3 days. How could he have been so stupid. "Did...did I get knocked into Weiss?"

This question caused Yang to give a soft laugh before answering "You did, she got so pissed that she didn't even realize you were out cold. You should've heard how loud she was yelling at you for at least a solid 10 minutes."

Odell chuckled at that before wincing in pain. Had he really been hit that hard? "Did you guys catch that woman?"

"No, she got away right after knocking you out" Ruby replied grimly

"Shit." He couldn't help but blame himself for the woman escaping 'If only I hadn't been so stupid, I should've just listened to Ruby and not have moved.'

Ruby noticed the change in expression of him and raised an eyebrow "Are you okay Odell?"

He sighed "No, it's my fault she got away, Ozpin was right, I'm not good enough to be a hero."

"Hey don't say that." Yang put a hand on his shoulder "You just need some extra practice and some formal training."

"Training I'd be happy to help you in" Ruby said with a warm smile on her face

Odell's face went red with a wide smile on his face "You'd...you'd really do that for me?"

"Of course, everyone deserves a chance."

"Thank you...that-that means a lot to me."

Odell felt tears start to form but quickly fought them back as Weiss and Blake walked in "Oh, I see fly boy is awake" Weiss immediately said with distaste in her voice, clearly still mad at him for getting knocked into her.

"Good to see you too, ice cube." Odell immediately stated back as Weiss took a seat in one of the empty chairs

"If ice cube is the best you got, you might as well not even try." Weiss countered with a smirk on her face

Before Odell could find a reply, Yang cut in "Easy there Ice Queen, is that anyway to treat our guest?"

"It is when he gets in the way of us catching Cinder." She quickly retorted

"He was just trying to help!"

"Well all he did was get in the way!"

"Hey, stop yelling!" Odell and Ruby said at the same time, but Odell continued the sentence "I'm right here you know."

A nurse walked into Odell's room and spoke "If you could all please leave the room, we have to do some quick examinations on his ribs."

Team RWBY looked at Odell's room as the door opened and Odell walked out, a smile on his face "I'm free to go!"

"Great! Come with us to our dorm, we were working on something for when you got cleared." Yang said grabbing him by the hand and practically dragging down the hallway

"By we she means Blake, her, and me" Ruby pointed out as Weiss scoffed

"I helped too!"

"You called it stupid and a waste of time."

"It's called criticism!"

"No it isn't." Ruby said as they left the infirmary wing and headed towards the room where Odell's surprise lay

Ruby opened the door and the rest of her team and Odell filed in after her. "Just wait right here, I'm going to go get it" and with that she was gone and Weiss and Blake sat on their beds, Yang sat down next to Blake, and Odell took a seat on the wall, resting his back against the wall.

After a few moments Ruby returned to the room and with her a cyan sweatshirt with blue waves on the left chest and on the back each of Team RWBY's logos in their respective color, when she handed it to Odell he was speechless, he removed the torso section of his armor and put on the sweatshirt, a perfect fit.

"T-thank you, it's amazing." He managed to choke out fighting back tears of joy

"You're welcome." RBY returned with joy, Weiss just rolled her eyes, still believing the whole thing was stupid. The girls wrapped Odell in a hug and he happily returned a hug to the group, looking over at Weiss and sticking his tongue out at her, causing her face to flush with anger, quickly, she turned away from the sight, pretending to throw up.

"Jealous Weiss?" Yang said jokingly in response to her feign vomiting as the group hug was released.

"Jealous? Yeah right, I think it's atrocious."

"That's not what it seemed like my first night here right before I went to sleep." Odell snapped back with a smirk on his face, the other three girls laughing, knowing full well what he was talking about.

"What-what are you talking about?!" Weiss's face lit up like Ruby's cape.

"I saw you checking me out." The smirk still very prominent on his face, he gave a sly wink causing Weiss to go even redder then it already was

"I was not checking you out! I was just observing...your...umm."

"Muscles." Yang finished for her with a smirk on her face "We all saw you perk up when he took off the armor."

Weiss scoffed "Why I'd never!" She turned away from her peers, embarrassed that they had accused her of such things, even though she had enjoyed the view.

Odell couldn't help but laugh at Weiss for the reaction she had to the situation, but decided to veer away from it. "Do you guys mind if I use your guys' shower?"

"No, go right ahead." Yang replied and pointed him in the direction of the bathroom "It's right over there." Odell nodded, thanked her and made his way over, happy to wash up after an uneventful first day here and a 3 day KO, he decided it was also best to wash his clothes as well, as they needed to be removed of some blood stains.

This is where I shall end it for this time. I hope you enjoyed! Favorite, Follow, and Review! I'll hopefully get the next chapter done over the weekend.