Jaune awoke with a start. 'What happened!?' He began looking around. It looked like he was in the Nurse's Office. He checked the time. 2:37. He tried to remember how he got here.
He was training against some bots, when he just passed out. Had he went to far with training?
Pyrrha was gonna have a fit.
It was then, that the head Nurse walked in. "Oh! You're awake." He turned his head towards her. "You should be fine to go, it seems you were just exhausted. I would recommend you keep better track of your body if you don't want to be stuck here permanently." He nodded. "Get lots a' rest, and be careful. That'll be all." She then turned around, and walked out of the room.
Jaune then took the chance to put on his armor, and head out the door. He noticed that he didn't happen to have his Scroll. Hopefully, whoever brought him to the Nurse didn't steal it. He hurried back to his room, hoping not to be caught walking the halls during class time.
He, really quickly checked the training room he was using previously, and noticed that his Scroll wasn't there. He silently cursed, and continued to the dorms. He arrived in front of his room, and was embarrassed due to having to knock on his own door. The door was opened by Ren, who was holding Shea in his arms. He let out a grunt in surprise when he saw that it was Jaune at the door.
Jaune for his part, took Shea out of his arms, and walked into the room. He was quite thankful that Goodwitch was nowhere to be seen when he was walking around. He didn't want to be on the receiving end of one of her punishments. He turned to Ren.
"What are you doing here?" He questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"I was watching Shea." He then sent an annoyed stare at Jaune. "Because someone can't take care of themselves." He said pointedly. Jaune then made to try and explain himself, but Ren then said "Wait until the others get back."
Jaune sighed, and turned around. He noticed that on his night stand, was his Scroll. "Well, thanks for grabbing by Scroll anyway." He said to Ren.
"Huh? I didn't grab it, it was there when I got back."
"Really?" Ren then nodded his head. How strange. He set Shea down next to him, on his bed, and started inspecting the Scroll. It looked normal, and had no signs of being tampered with. He set it back down, and shook his head. Maybe he was just being paranoid.
He sighed, and decided to put it out of his mind for now. He had a class to focus on right in front of him. Just as he turned his head, he heard a sound right next to him. Shea had just thrown up.
'This day couldn't be any worse.'
'This day couldn't be any worse.' Blake thought. Professor Port was just rambling on and on at the moment, so she had time to herself for a while. That just left her with her jumbled thoughts. She should be sleeping right now, considering how little she actually got of it last night, but every time she tried, she just kept thinking back to her out burst in the library.
She felt horrible about that. She was stressed, and tired. Jaune was likely stressed to, and she just exploded at him. Plus, Pyrrha had told team RWBY that Jaune was in the Nurse's Office, which just made her feel like it was her fault. Finally, her team was starting to take notice of the bags under her eyes, and her general distracted-ness. Even now, she could see Ruby try to sneak glances at her, and every time she spoke to Weiss, she could here the mixture of concern, and snootiness. Yang didn't seem to notice, so at least there was that.
All in all, today was terrible so far. And was probably going to be worse. Ruby and Yang were talking about how they were going to see Jaune after classes were done today, and knowing them, they would drag her and Weiss along for the ride.
She didn't want to face Jaune yet.
She didn't think she could.
Of course, as soon as she thought that, the last bell rung. She varely had time to react, before Ruby began shouting about heading to the Nurse's Office with the rest of them. Weiss then began walking of her own accord, followed briefly by Yang, before she turned around, and looked at her. It was like the universe was trying to spite her.
"Sorry, but I think I'll pass..." Blake said.
"Nope!" Yang then grabbed her arm, and began pulling her along. Blake just sighed.
Team RWBY was walking alongside Pyrrha and Nora. The group of six was making there way to the Nurse's Office, when Nora remembered that Ren wasn't with them, so the group made a detour to the JNPR dorm. When they got there, Nora went ahead and opened the door. There, they saw Ren reading, while Jaune was scrubbing down his bed.
They turned to the now opened door, and just as Pyrrha was about to say something.
"Jaune! Are you okay?! What happened?!" Ruby decided to get her two cents in.
He sighed to himself, and began explaining the situation. They already all knew about his transcripts, so it wasn't much of a stretch to think he might be feeling down about not being able to do much. This, of course, just made Blake feel even more guilty. Maybe, if she had accepted his help last night, he wouldn't have done this. She then quickly cleared her head of those thoughts. She has a responsibility. He has no right getting involved.
He had his kid to take care of. That was his responsibility.
'But what if he gets to distracted to take care of her in this state?'
She silently grumbled to herself. Somehow, the kid had wormed her way into Blake's heart. She hated when she started thinking about her. It always leads to some kind of dumb situation. Like taking Jaune on a mission against the White Fang.
"Are you okay taking care of Shea like this?" Yang asked Jaune.
He just shrugged and said, "I have my team... For now, I gotta get stronger." He said resolutely.
So, he delegates his team to take care of her then? Can they do it properly?
"So, does that mean you're going to keep doing this to yourself?" Pyrrha asked. He didn't look at her, and stayed silent.
"Well I-" He started, but was cut off by somebody no one expected.
"I guess I'm going to have to stay here then."
For some reason, everyone just stared at Blake after that. 'Huh? Why are they staring at-' then it hit her.
A second.
Another second.
She'd look crazy if she just denied that after hearing herself say it.
One more second.
Everyone was still staring at her. Damn her big, disloyal mouth! "Well? What are you looking at me like that for?" She said to everyone present.
Yang then looked at her, then opened her mouth to say something, only to be cut off by Ruby. "Wait! Are you leaving Team RWBY, Blake!?"
"No! Of course not!" She then crossed her arms, and turned away.
"Why?" Jaune asked.
That was on the list of questions she had no desire to answer. Mostly because she had no Remnently idea. Well, she did have an idea, but not one she would want to admit. So she decided to give the next best reason.
"I feel bad about last night, so I want to make sure you don't try anything stupid again." She didn't like the way Yang perked up at that.
Jaune put a hand to his chin, and his team looked at him, expectantly. He sighed, then said "fine, I'll call Glynda, and let her know we need another bed." He then looked at his own bed. "Maybe I should ask for two..." He then picked up his Scroll, and started going through his contacts. While he was doing that, NPR was discussing between themselves how, in Nora's own words, 'fantabuleyamaziweird' this would be. RWY was also discussing between themselves what this would mean, but then Yang decided to walk over to her.
She slung an arm over Blake's shoulder, and got up close to her cat ear. "What's with you and Vomit-boy over there?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. Blake didn't want to admit the truth, so she kept quiet. "Lover's quarrel?" She asked, wiggling her eyebrow. Blake looked at her mortified. "Didn't realize you would try for a second kid so soon!"
'Maybe a night away from Yang would be a good thing.'
And that's how Blake, became a resident of the newly named JNPBR dorm.
After that whole fiasco, Blake was to exhausted to even do her research, while Yang laid awake in bed, feeling a new kind of loneliness she really felt she shouldn't be.
And thus ends this chapter. One I'm not to proud of, to be honest.
Updates have been slow recently, due to me getting dragged into involvement with my school play. Won't have any time to write for the next week, because there's practice for it from the end of the school day, until 8pm, leaving me about 2 hours to do homework, and about 8 to sleep.
It also produced the conditions in which this chapter was posted.
Not fun. It literally took about a week of on and off writing to get this one done, so if there are inconsistencies in the way this chapter was written, that's why.
The week after next, everything should be back to normal.
Hopefully.