Ruby's dreamscape was empty. No sign of anyone, as usual. However, this time, Valenrir seemed to be missing. She walked throughout the school but found nothing and no one.

"Hello? Are you here?"

The silence of the dream was concerning. Valenrir didn't just disappear and made it a habit to show up whenever Ruby dozed off. Ruby thought that he might be planning something. Or maybe… this might just be a normal dream. The thought was actually a nice one. She found Valenrir's constant arrival in her dream world to be a little more than annoying.

She walked through the halls until she reached her room. She took a deep breath before opening the door. After all, this is the last place Valenrir could make an appearance. She threw open the door and… nothing. He was nowhere to be found. Finally. Some peace.

Her thoughts were interrupted when a pair of hands wrapped over her eyes. "Guess who."

Now she was confused. She recognized the voice, alright… but why was he in her dream? "Jaune?"

The hands moved away and Ruby turned to find the young knight behind her. "Hey, Ruby." Jaune's goofy smile never failed to spread to Ruby's face when she saw it.

"Hey Jaune. Quick question. Have you seen the others?"

"Not for a while, no."

"It's like the whole school's deserted."

"Probably all out on dates."

"What?"

"It's Valentine's Day, Ruby. Did you forget?"

Ruby looked to her scroll and confirmed it was, in fact, Valentine's. "Huh…"

"Yeah."

"Wait… why are you here?"

Jaune raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"Aren't you and Pyrrha a thing?"

Jaune resorted to his habit of nervous laughter accompanied by scratching the back of his head. "Me and Pyrrha? I seriously doubt that."

"Why?"

"It's complicated. Let's just say it wouldn't work out."

Ruby felt her heartrate increase a bit. What? She only felt this when attending to Crescent Rose, so why is she feeling it here talking to Jaune.

"You okay?" In Ruby's concentration, she didn't notice that Jaune moved right in front of her face.

Ruby nearly jumped in shock. "Uh… I-I'm fine." She spoke quickly and tried to change the subject as soon as possible. "I'm kind of hungry. I'm going to the cafeteria."

"Cool. I'm a bit hungry myself."

As they walked, a thought came to Ruby. "So… are Ren and Nora finally together-together?"

Jaune chuckled. "Nora says they aren't, but it's kind of obvious."

Ruby couldn't help but laugh at it all. She knew Nora had a thing for Ren, but she just couldn't admit it. Ruby just knew that they would get together; but, unlike Yang, she wasn't going to meddle.

The arrived in the mess hall and found that it, too, was empty. Ruby was looking over her shoulder constantly. Valenrir had to be here somewhere. She knew he couldn't resist messing with her.

"Ruby?"

Ruby's attention snapped back to Jaune. "What?"

"Are you okay?"

"Oh… I'm fine. Why do you ask?"

"You've been looking like something is going to happen at any moment."

"Sorry. Someone's been bugging me for a while now."

"Who would be crazy enough to try to mess with you?"

"It's a long story…" Ruby saw something in her peripheral vision. She snapped her head to the side, but found nothing.

"Ruby. Seriously. It's okay. How about I get you something to eat and you get the table."

"There's no one else here, Jaune."

"I know." Jaune walked over to the main cafeteria, leaving Ruby alone.

Ruby took a deep breath. Maybe I'm just paranoid…

As Jaune returned, Ruby couldn't help but smile. He brought back a plate of strawberries! The moment the plate hit the table, half the strawberries had disappeared.

Jaune laughed at this. "You might want to slow down a bit."

Ruby smiled. "Can't help it. My favorite food and speed semblance makes it hard."

Jaune continued to smile. At one point, however, he seemed to stop and think.

"Something wrong, Jaune?"

"No. The opposite actually."

"What do mean?"

"It's just… you're pretty cute."

Ruby froze. She looked at Jaune for a moment before laughing nervously. "Where's this coming from?"

Jaune took a deep breath before continuing. "The bottom of my heart."

Ruby could hear her heartrate at this point. She could feel the blood rush to her face and force her to blush. Ruby's mind became a jumble of thoughts. Why is he saying that? I thought he liked Pyrrha. But he said it wouldn't work out. Am I why wouldn't work out? Oh my Monty! Does he really like me? Wait… why am I reacting like this? Do I like him?

Jaune attempted to read her silence. He immediately jumped to the usual conclusion. "I'm sorry. It's alright to turn me down. I wouldn't blame you."

"No! I-It's not that." Oh dear Oum… do I like him? "It's just a bit out of the blue. I never really thought about that stuff before."

Jaune seemed almost relieved. "Sorry for springing on you."

"It's okay. But now I have to ask…"

"What is it?"

"Do you really like me?"

Jaune smiled and opened his mouth to answer, but Ruby would never get it.

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Ruby jolted awake. A dream? She sighed. Right… Of course it was a dream. I mean, me liking Jaune? Ruby got up and started to get ready for her day. Her team was out and likely all off doing their own thing. Ruby started to remove her pajamas and looked over toward the calendar. [Valentine's Day]. Huh… She thought back to her dream and blushed. She instantly shook her head to purge the thought. "It was just a dream."

"A dream within a dream? You never cease to amaze, little Rose."

A chill went up Ruby's spine. She slowly turned around to find the Grimm god in the three piece, black suit sitting on Blake's bed.

"Oh, by all means, continue."

Ruby looked down to find herself removing her pajama pants and without her shirt. She used her semblance to instantly rush for the covers of her blanket. "Why are you here?!"

"Seriously? You're not going to call me a pervert or some other cliché for the situation?"

"I woke up! So why are you here?!"

"Because you haven't woken up yet. Like I said, you actually had a dream within a dream. I'm actually kind of impressed."

Ruby used the moment to change beneath her covers and popped out with her normal clothing on. "I get the feeling you had something to do with that."

"Aren't you a little young to be that cynical or is Weiss rubbing off on you?"

Ruby rolled her eyes and turned around. She stretched and spoke in a deadpan. "Maybe it's the mask."

"Now a bit of Blake. Monty forbid you start acting like your sister. You know, if the mask is such an issue, I can change it."

"And how would you do that?" Ruby turned around and froze.

Sitting in Valenrir's place was Jaune! "What's wrong little Rose. Something wrong?" It was Jaune's voice! His goofy smile. His scraggily blonde hair. Everything!

"H-how did you…?!"

"This is a dream, remember? I can do or be anything." He made this point be becoming a dead ringer for Weiss. "Is that a significant explanation?"

Ruby was still too shocked to speak.

"Perhaps this isn't the best form for this." Valenrir returned to his normal form and laughed.

Ruby took a deep breath. "Okay… I don't know what I can say here. I'm just going to hope I wake up soon."

"If you must, a quick shock should do it."

"Like a pinch?"

"Contrary to popular belief, that doesn't really work. Something else might work, though."

"What?"

"This." Ruby found herself face to face with Jaune. 'Jaune' grabbed her chin and kissed her.

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Ruby woke up instantly. She looked around her in a panic. Her team was nearby, still asleep. She let out a sigh of relief. She looked over toward the clock/calendar. 6:00 AM. Might as well not bother trying to get any more sleep. Valentine's Day.

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King: Valentine's Special number 2. We have one more special on the books and the special one shot on the 14th. Now, just to make sure we all understand, this story is not in the same world as any of my others. None of these are cannon to each other or the main story, so they'll have deviations. After all, RWBY (owned by Rooster Teeth) doesn't have a dream walking god of Grimm... That we know of. So, hope you enjoyed the special.