Diary of a Concerned Friend
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Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.
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I'm not going to lie, Jaune. I have high hopes for you. Too high.
Remember what I said early on? About how I didn't want to be on a team with you because I didn't want you to hold me back?
I apologize.
Okay, I already apologized, but I mean it again in a different way. Whether you were weak or not, I shouldn't have cared. I was doing to you what my classmates at Signal did too me. I was too good, and they didn't want to be with me. You were too bad, and I didn't want to be with you. I never blamed them for not being good enough- I shouldn't have you. I'm just grateful you didn't envy me in turn.
It was the wrong mindset. The wrong way to think of it. Yang used to say I wasn't too good, I was just being so great that they couldn't appreciate me. It's the same for you. You're not too bad- you are, were, could be, an opportunity. A bargain sale, a fixer upper, an investment opportunity as Weiss might say. A-
Alright. That sounds worse than what I mean. What I mean is… you may not be as strong as us, but you can be. Maybe right not now- and I'm not going to slack off just so you can catch up- but one day you might. You have the ability to grow, just like the rest of us, and you can catch up. I know it.
What you have, Jaune, is potential. And I think Pyrrha is a luckier girl than she realizes, or will be if she can convince you tonight. I'm rooting for her right now. If there's any of us who you can trust, if any of us are good enough to be worth trusting, it's her. Please trust her. Please listen to her. Please let her be your partner.
I can't be that anymore, because I lost the chance.
I feel guilty for dismissing you at initiation, Jaune, even if I love my team and like my partner, because when I look at you I think of those stories from childhood. My favorite legends. Not the ones in which the mighty hero arrives already mighty, but the ones in which two people grow. It's not that they might grow, that they might become heroes, but the certainty that they will. That's important to me.
That's why I'm here at Beacon. That's why we're both here at Beacon. And that's why I think that's the sort of story we're in- one where we both grow up, as people and heroes. You may not be my knight in shining armor, but you still gave me a hand up and I still want to return the favor, to offer you something other than support and encouraging words. If we keep doing these things for eachother- if small gestures become greater until they become important- I know I'll succeed.
So… yeah. I'm rooting for Pyrrha tonight. I'm hoping her idea will work out. I can almost hear her footsteps down the hall now, back from the roof, and-
Oh no.
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Author note:
Yup. It's the night of the rooftop. Trying to give some indication of pacing, though I'm a bit unsatisfied how that worked overall.
As a heads-up- wrote another few entries to give the story a bit better of a conclusion, so if you've been counting words you get a few more entries to look forward to.