Full chapter is here. Thank you everyone for being patient.
Jaune looked at the person speaking, his heart beating wildly in his chest. This man looked almost familiar, but Jaune couldn't reconize him. The way the man looked at him, that devilish smile, the only thing Jaune could see, for his face was hidden by the shadows, well, it made Jaune uneasy to say the least.
Ruby and Jaune's eyes trained on the man as he left the doorway and stepped out of the shadows and into the light. Jammed squinted, trying to make out the man's face.
"0zpin," Ruby said softly, her eyes widen.
"Ruby, hello. Though I'm not here to meet you, you are welcome to stay," Ruby huffed and crossed her arms.
"0f course I'm staying here. Who else is going to make sure Jaune is safe.
"We want answers," Jaune said, trying to keep his voice tough, because he knew that if he didn't, everything everything would start to crash down on him.
"Correction, you want answers, Ruby is here just to take up space and waste air." Ruby narrowes her eyes at Ozpin, he just smiled and looked down at her, as if she were a small child, unable to 0 understand much.
"Sorry dear." Jaune expected Ruby to lash out, to be her usual self, but she didn't, just sat quitly, staring back at Ozpin.
"These people are here because we, as in the staff at this school, found them dangerous. The only reason you haven't joined them, well at least not yet, is that you kept your head low. We never thought you were anything special, until we found these." Ozpin held up something, Jaune reconized it as his blood. The one he was missing, when, today, yesterday?
"You took it?" Jaune said in a softly. "You're the reason I killed her?" Ozpin shook his head.
"You didn't have the will power out for a couple more stories," 0zpin corrected. Jaune stared wide eyed at the headmaster. He was the only reason that Jaune was in this mess.
"Why?" Jaune asked after a moment. Ozpin shrugged.
"I had a theory about you, I just needed to test it before I could know for sure. One of your roommates saw something intresting under your bed. I took, just to see what you would do. I never dreamed you would hurt someone."
Jaune stared blankly at Ozpin, letting what he just said sink in. Ozpin was the reason why he killed someone. He was the reason Jaune was here and not somewhere laughing with his friends or staring at ever so boring 0homework. Maybe the homework part wasn't that bad.
"You are the reason I'm here, you're the reason I killed someone!" Jaune shouted. Ruby flinched, Jaune felt sorry for that, but Ozpin just smiled. Creepily, Jaune might add.
"How many times do we have to go through this, you chose your own path. You, Jaune, were not strony enough to resist the sweet,.juicy blood of that poor girl. Could you?"
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"I didn't mean to," Jaune pleaded, that ever growing guilt flooding back. It numbed all of his senses until that was the only thing he could feel.
"0h really, are you sure? You don't seem like it," Ozpin said.
"Jaune, just ignore him," Ruby whispered. Jaune was past hearing her though.
"You better step back, or that girl won't be the only person I kill!" Jaune shouted at Ozpin, raising to his feet at rapid speed.
"Scarlett," he said.
"What?" asked Jaune.
"Scarlett,that's her name, I got tired of you referring to her as 'the girl'," Ozpin said, in his "matter-of-fact" way.
"Thanks," Jaune said, after a few seconds.
"For what?" Ozpin asked, but a little hint of a smile on his face. Jaune didn't answer what, however. He knew Ozpin knew what he was talking about. He just wanted to be difficult.
"Are you ready?" 0zpin asked after a moment.
"For what?" Jaune asked.
"Ruby, it may be best if you leave the room for a moment. Don't worry, I will be very sure no harm can come to Jaune," Ozpin turned to Ruby. Ruby's face took on the appearance of someone eating something sour.
"I'm not leaving," she said, determined.
"Suite yourself. Just do me a favor and keep a level head, I don't want you to lash out," he said.
"Jaune, if you don't mind, lay0 down. And I know what you're going to say, do0n't agrue with me," 0zpin said. Jaune layed down, staring at the ceiling.
"Jaune, what are you doing!" she asked as he layed down.
"I'm laying down," he said, like it wasn't a big deal.
"No, you can't," she said.
"I'm tired, I just need rest," Jaune said. Ruby looked at him with wide eyes. She was suprised about what he was saying. He guessed he was too.
"You can't say that, you can't give up!" Ruby pleaded to him.
"I would hate to interupt, but he really doesn't have a choice in the matter," 0zpin said. Both Jaune and Ruby sent him dirty looks. "I can just make him comply either way, but its a lot eaiser for me if you just lay down and sleep."
"Will I ever wake up?" he asked.
"You can't tell me that you're actually thinking about this, are you?" Ruby pratically yelled.
"I don't have a choice," he pleaded to Ruby. He didn't want to make her angry at him. He couldn't stand kt when she was mad at him. It was like a knife to his poor, fragile heart.
"He's right, he doesn't have a choice, Ruby, you should have left. He wants this. To answer your question, we don't know if they wake up or not. We have only been having this progam for five year. So far, no," 0zpin said. Jaune felt like gagging.
"Wait, we woke him up," Ruby said, looking confused.
"That wasn't the real thing, just temporary to keep Jaune calm before I came. He killed on of my students, I would like to be the one to make sure he can't hurt anyone else."
Jaune pulled Ruby in close, so their foreheads touched. He whispered, so that Ozpin could hear them. Ozpin stepped out of the room, wanting to give them privicy. This was one of the things he didn't want to intrupt, he was already taking away part of the boy's life.
"I can't believe you're going to leave me," she said.
"I'm not going to leavd you, think of this as a short vaction," he said, rubbing up and down her arms, trying to make her feel better. There was a lump in his throat he could not get rid of. No matter how much he sallowed.
"I'm going to wake you up, I know where you are now. I'm going to wake you up," she repeated. "I know where you are now, we can bring us all in, you'll be safe."
"Don't bring Ren, maybe not Nora either," he said.
"Why not?" she asked after a minute. She was confused. After all, you were suppose to trust your team.
"I think Ren turned me in. He saw me as I was putting away my blood," he said. She got wide eyed.
"Your blood, Jaune," she said, looking scared. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine. I'm not hungry, or thristy as a matter of fact," he said. It made him worried. The only human blood he ever had was Ruby's and Scarlett's. Ruby's, the small drop that he had was enough to fill him up as long as a whole bag of butcher's blood would.
That fact was what really scared Jaune. It just meant that he was suppose to have human blood. His body obvoiusly liked it better. He knew his mother, who shared that curse with him, had human blood. She told him to stay away from it, at all this was why. Once you had it, you couldn't help but have more.
Ruby placed a soft, tender kiss to Jaune's lips, distracting Jaune from his thoughts. She moved her lips slowly, as if trying to make the kiss last as long as it could before Ozpin came, and with him, he brought his demons. He held her closer, pulling her into him tightly, so that no air could get through their body's. Her breath hitched in his mouth and he smiled.
He wasn't aware of the needle slowly make its way into his neck. He wasn't aware as Ruby screamed something he was past the point of understanding. All he was aware of was the ever growing field of unconsionness that over took his body. Forcing him to lose more and more of his surrondings and pulling him down into the dark planes of his mind.
Before he completely lost himself, he heard a voice say, "I'm sorry."
Then, everything went black.
I will try to update sooner. No more two week things, is tHat okay. Oh, I left a bunch of zero all around, if you're bored, try to find them.
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