Luke had been keeping a very close eye on Pyrrha ever since they released her from the hospital. He would have been protective of her if she had just been injured but she was also carrying his second child and that brought a whole new level of protection down on her. Luke had almost broken a students nose when he made a snide comment about Pyrrha getting pregnant in her first year at Beacon. Almost being the keyword. Luke never got the chance to get ahold of the boy as Ren had placed a hand on his shoulder and told him to go back to Pyrrha. When Luke left Ren was slowly walking towards the boy and the boy's face was growing more scared with every step the calm man took towards. "I think we need to have a talk." was the last thing that Luke had heard. From the resident monk.
There was also a fair share of people who were not happy with him. After all, he was a twenty-year-old man in a school full of teenagers. There were plenty of people that wanted to kill him just for being in love with Pyrrha let alone have a child and marrying her. The part that many people seemed to fail to understand was that Luke was just barely twenty and Pyrrha was on the high end of seventeen. All in all, they were only one and ten/twelfths of a calendar years apart. But Luke still got harassed for it. He didn't mind if the price of loving Pyrrha was being treated poorly by a few arrogant pricks and the Nikos fanboys who hated him for taking her "off the market" as they would say. (just not in front of him) then he would pay that price with enthusiasm.
This particular encounter was going to get ugly fast. It was Hinkel Johnson. He was on Luke's radar less than a day after he became Pyrrha's partner. Once he found out his partner was a celebrity. (a fact lost on him due to his nomadic lifestyle.) he found about Johnson. He was a borderline stalker. And that was the scary part. It was quite clear that he was obsessed but he seemed to know how to fly just below the line. That meant he was smart AND crazy. When Luke found out that Johnson had applied to Beacon and had been accepted he was worried. The immediate fear was that he may try to harm Pyrrha. And since Luke had placed himself in Pyrrha's life he was now a target too.
At the moment Johnson was walking towards the table where RWBY and PLNR were currently eating dinner. He stopped at the edge between Weiss and Ruby. He was looking at Luke who was sitting at the end on the other side of the table. He stood there and just stared at Luke for a time.
"Can I help you?" came Luke's question. The request was clear and filled with authority.
No sooner had it been issued had Johnson reached into his pocket and pulled out a small snub nosed revolver and moved to level it at Luke. it was Weiss who acted first and tried to disarm the maniac.
Weiss grabbed the man's wrist and pushed up sending his first shot high and wide to the right. The next shot was fired just above Weiss's head and the cylinder gap sprayed her face with hot gas and deafened her causing her to flinch. The momentary gap in her focus this provided gave Johnson the time he needed to bring his left hand up and break her grip on his wrists. Then he slammed his left elbow into her throat. If he had hit her any harder he may have collapsed her trachea. She fell to her seat and looked up and saw the muzzle lined up with her eye. She held her breath and waited.
In the blink of an eye, Luke acted. He had already been moving but now he had leaped up on the table. In one swift move, Luke buried one of the metal chopsticks he was eating within the man's left carotid artery. The other was buried in the back of his neck.
Weiss felt a hot liquid spray across her face and then she watched Luke yank the struggling man onto the table. She saw him slam the chopsticks into the man's throat three more times. Soon the man's thrashing ceased and he lay limp on the table. When she touched her face and pulled it away she saw the red blood of the body now laying on the table. She felt sick to her stomach. The combination of almost dying and seeing someone killed in such a brutal fashion resulted in her vomiting on the floor. Soon she had a hand on her left shoulder that belonged to a third-year student and a hand rubbing her back from Ruby.
Luke got Pyrrha to the infirmary to get her vitals monitored for any signs of stress-induced complications. She was crying all of the ways to the room because she blamed herself for the actions of Johnson. Once she was stabilized Luke went to the room next door and found Weiss sitting on the bed and cleaning her face. He grabbed a towel and helped to clean her up. 'Why did you do that? You could've been killed. I had it handled" Luke asked his voice speeding up. He was ashamed that she almost died trying to help him.
"You are on my sister team and above that, you are my friend. I know we didn't get along very well at first but now that I've seen the man you really are I could lay down my life for you because you are one of my friends." As Weiss spoke she looked into Luke's eyes with a face that showed how serious she was. It was just a few months ago she was afraid he would poison or drug her and now she was willing to die to protect him. She saw Luke drop the towel in the sink and head for the door. "Where are you going?" Weiss asked upon noticing that Luke was heading in the other direction from Pyrrha.
Looking at her Luke answered. " I need to find out who in the Hell let that sick Fuck into this school."
After the bloody mess at dinner, the teams were all relatively silent. RWBY had spent a few minutes hugging Weiss. They were all worried about losing her. (even Blake). Afterward, they all just sat in silence. They had no idea how to continue after what had just happened. Should they feel bad about the fact that Luke killed a guy? Or should they be relieved that they were all safe? Yang was preparing a bad pun about how dinner was "to die for". She knew it could set off the emotional time bomb that her team currently was. There would be lots of tears and eventually laughter. But she would take the anger of Weiss blake and her sister if it kept her team from shutting down.
She took a breath and opened her mouth to speak when there was a furious knocking at the door. Walking to the door and opening it Yang saw Fox from team CFVY standing outside their door. He looked like he had been running recently and when Yang looked at him he said. "Someone is kicking the shit out of your team leader. You may want to see this."
Afraid that it was Jorge again all of team RWBY rushed across the hall and told team PLNR. of them only Nora and Ren came since Luke and Pyrrha were still in the infirmary. When they made their way to the training room they were shocked to see Jaune and Suzanna fighting. It looks surprisingly balanced which was impressive because they had all seen Jaune destroy Yang in a fair fight.
They watched as Suzanna threw three quick jabs and then a lower lead inside leg kick with her heel to set Jaune off she had achieved that she launched herself as Jaune and planted her right foot on his left hip and her left foot on the side of his neck. Leaning back she dragged them both to the ground and she rolled to the top and locked Jaune in an elevated kimura lock.
Jaune was in trouble. His shoulder was about forty-five degrees of rotation away from dislocating. And that leads to his second problem. If he wanted to tap out and avoid injury there was only one thing he could reach, her ass. Which was also placed precariously in his line of sight. (not that he noticed of course). He had to decide between tapping Suzanna butt or getting his shoulder dislocated. It was a challenging question. And he was running out of time. He had about ten more degrees before his shoulder popped. Then in one sudden and final choice, he closed his eyes and made his choice.
Yang was annoyed, and also pleased Jaune was about to let Suzanna dislocate his shoulder. And that annoyed her. But he was also refusing to cop a feel when he would have been justified in doing so. And that was good it meant that she may still have a chance.
POP Jaune shoulder finally gave way with a sickening popping sound. And once she heard it Suzanna instantly switched gears from being Jaune opponent to being his girlfriend. She rolled him over and tried to lay his head on her lap with his good shoulder on the ground. "Oh My God, baby are you okay?"
Jaune seemed to be trying to both enjoy have Suzanna dote on him and also be in pain with a dislocated shoulder. " I will be okay just get me on my feet okay." she did and once he was standing there was a yell that came out of the crowd that had gathered to watch.
"You should've tapped that you damn fool" the call out came from a student that Yang didn't know "You even had an excuse. What's the worst that could have happened she dislocated your shoulder, gee I wonder." his words were filled with humor as he seemed to be enjoying Jaune stubbornness. Yang made a note to find out who that was and beat him senseless latter. Right now she was again running across the room and getting ready to help Jaune to the infirmary to get his shoulder fixed.
Before she could Jaune walked over to Luke who was closer. And said, "Luke you got this?"
Luke, in turn, looked at Jaune and asked: "depends, YOU got this?" Jaune nodded and Luke grabbed his arm with one hand and the side of Jaune neck with the other hand. Then he pulled on the arm and pushed on the neck. When he released the arm it popped back into its proper place with a sickening pop.
After a pained Grunt Jaune turned to head back to the training area. "Where do you think you are going?" Suzanna asked. It was clear she didn't care what he had to say. She didn't want him to keep training. And she was going to do whatever it took to make him stop.
Jaune seemed to understand this so he turned and said. "We will go to the infirmary and then I will come back."
Suzanna didn't seem to like this and she answered with. "No, you will go to the infirmary and get that shoulder looked at." Jaune opened his mouth to speak but was promptly cut off by Suzanna who said. "I don't care that Luke just fixed it you are getting seen by an actual medical professional not one of your teammates. I just, I worry about you. Always trying to do it all yourself. Your gonna get hurt, and I … I just" her words grew more and more emotional and her eyes began to water as though she had been thinking about Jaune being hurt on a mission. Her voice seemed to crack as she broke down a started weeping into Jaune's shirt.
It was obvious the effect this had on Jaune who instantly wrapped his left arm around her and began to head for the door saying. "Okay, let's just get to the infirmary and go from there."
As they were leaving Yang caught a glimpse of Suzanna and though she wanted to say she saw the eyes of someone who was using a sad face and some forced tears to play Jaune's heartstrings. instead, Yang saw genuine fear on Suzanna's face. This girl worried about losing Jaune to the life he had chosen.
As they left Yang looked to Blake and said, "I want to hate her, I really want to hate her. But I can't she loves him and I can't fault her for that because I do too. At this point all I can do is accept that she made a move and I didn't." her eyes were watering now. She was accepting defeat and it tasted bittersweet. She could sleep knowing that Jaune would be happy but her dreams would be haunted by the fact that it wasn't with her.