Just a short update today, this one really worked me over as I had rewritten and thrown of parts of it three times before I was happy with it, I even cut an entire section that didn't mesh right and would have resulted in some serious OOC issues for most of Jaune's team. So here's the short chapter as written and hope you all enjoy as always today. I'm personally going to kick back and take it easy a bit today.

Jaune paced the room in anger as his three team mates sat on his bed "Un-fucking-believable Weiss!"

Weiss "I get it, your pissed off, I should ha-" she was cut off

Jaune stopped pacing and shouted "You should of done allot of things!" Jaune then sits down rubbing his head in a bit of pain.

Yang got up and sat next to him "Is your head still bothering you, your Aura-"

Jaune interrupted "Is being predictably inconsistent at the moment I know..."

Blake and Yang exchanged worried glances before Jaune took a deep breathe "Just how long will it take you to replace the dust you stole from me"

Weiss folded her arms around her lap and looked off to the side "It'll take a few weeks. White fang keeps hitting everything that even has a whiff of dust in it" Weiss looks pretty embarrassed "Hell that's the only reason I ran out."

Jaune didn't say anything and kept silent he was thinking however 'Shit, I'd be dead before then' he had to decide if he trusted them enough with his secret.

Jaune looked up "I take it then you asked around and no one had any to sell them?"

Weiss shook her head no.

Jaune then asked, knowing the answer "Do you at least have any of the Dust you took from me left?"

Weiss shook her head "Sorry Jaune, I ran out again so I can't even return any of it."

Jaune's anger flared up again, mostly at the idea that Weiss might be murdering him unintentionally "God dammit Weiss! if you were not my partner your ass would be standing before the headmaster, I doubt your family would be able to bribe your way out of that"

Weiss stood up apologetically "Jaune I swear I-"

Jaune had by that point already made his way to the door, stepped out and slammed it behind him.

It wasn't long afterwards that Jaune found himself in the Atrium of the school, Scroll in hand dialing his dad back home. If he was lucky they could send something to him by courier, otherwise he was in for a bad time all around.

Around the third ring his dad answered, his voice sounded tired "Jaune what's up buddy, why you calling so late?"

Jaune rubbed his neck "Dad, got a real problem here I could use help with"

His dad chuckled half awake sounding "Who's the lucky lady?"

Jaune shook his head, only his dad would think he managed to knock someone up in a week. "Dad, I'm serious. My dust went missing and I'm running on empty here."

The phone was silent for a second "Good lord Jaune, someone at that school robbed you?"

Jaune sighed into his phone "It's more like borrowed without asking. Just my idiot partner thinking that I wouldn't mind since my gear didn't incorporate it at all"

Jaune's dad groaned into the phone "God dammit, what kind of partner do you have that would do that? Bianca and Olivia never had these problems in Haven."

Jaune's rubbed his neck "My partners a Schnee dad, you can see the problem here?"

Jaune's dad deadpanned "You need to kill her" Their was a pause "Yeah definitely kill her"

Jaune laughed it off "Murder is off the table dad, I don't think the school would appreciate me going that route."

His dad was less amused "Okay so either way we need to figure out how to get you Dust, and quickly right?"

Jaune paced nervously keeping a look out for eavesdroppers "Yeah that's the basic jist of it all"

Jaunce could hear his dad sigh "I'll call a courier for you, in the meanwhile..." Jaune could hear his dad hesitate "I'll send you a contact for a man named Junior, he knows some morally grey sellers, some of them buy stock from us, some who... well don't buy it at all"

Jaune shook his head "How long would the courier take"

His dad went silent "About 2 weeks, if you ran out today you'd be pushing it for too long, you seriously consider what I said as a stop gap until then."

Jaune paced and quietly muttered into his phone "I don't know dad, I'm not sure i'm desperate enough to try hitting up a black market seller for Dust"

His dad voice raised on the phone "Jaune, your a Dust Eater, same as us! You knew you were taking a risk attending a Huntsmen academy, you knew their might be a time you'd have to do something questionable to survive in the city."

Jaune rubs his neck. "I knew that dad, it's not like I don't know what's at stake here, or what will happen if I'm found out."

His dad kept talking "Then go talk to Junior first chance you get, and for gods sake get a new box with a lock on it!"

Jaune shook his head again not liking the idea "Yeah i'll keep it in mind dad, Say hi to mom and the girls for me okay?"

Jaune ended the call, and turned around to catch a glance of a red cloak hiding behind a pillar. He went pale for a second at the idea that Ruby hear his conversation "Ruby?"

Worry flashed on Jaune's face for a moment "Ruby? What are you doing hiding over there?"

Ruby popped out with a noticeable "EEP" before bashfully rubbing her hands while talking "Sorry I wasn't trying to eavesdrop on you or anything... I was going to drop a couple things off for you"

Jaune's expression turned serious "What did you hear."

Ruby went silent and took a step back slightly frightened by Jaune's expression "I-I didn't mean to lis-"

Jaune closed the gap and was almost shouting "What. Did. You. Hear?!"

Ruby wouldn't make eye contact "Look, I just heard that you needed Dust, that it sounded like someone stole the Dust you brought with you, I didn't hear much else other than that"

Jaune relaxed "Okay, okay, sorry I'm having a rough day" Jaune then put a hand on Ruby's shoulder to calm her down "So you said you were dropping a couple things off for me?"

Ruby's face turned bright "Yeah I did!" She reached into her bad and pulled out an all to familiar hooded sweater of Jaune's "Look what I managed to fix up"

Jaune smiled as he was handed the Sweater "Hey how did you replace the sleeve on it?" Jaune looked it over. "Wow this is good, My twin sister Rose would murder me if she found out I trashed it in the first place."

Ruby smiled and pulled out a second hooded sweater "Well I got a plain hoodie the same color and just took the sleeve off of it" She also handed the second sleeveless hoodie "Also I went ahead and wove some Kevlar plates I found laying about into this one so you won't have to wear that chest piece of yours. And you can leave the Pumpkin Pete hoodie here when your out on mission"

Jaune blushed "You really didn't have to do all this, I mean i'll still wear my chest-plate but..."

Ruby smiled "I didn't have to, but I wanted to Jaune." Her eyes shot up "Oh yeah, I wanted to ask, since it's after curfew anyways,. and we'll both end up in detention if were caught, want to sneak over the the blacksmith shop and cut out some blades?

Jaune had the first genuine smile of the day "Honestly, that sounds like fun right now."

Elsewhere in Campus, Ozpin was also having a late evening when he received a phone call from an old friend.

"James, what do I owe the pleasure this evening." Ozpin spoke into his scroll

"It's strictly business Ozpin, the Atlas council is calling a vote to see about a land purchase from Vale, I want your input on it." James Ironwood spoke into the phone

"Oh? Why call me then, I'm the headmaster of Beacon, I'm not part of Vale's government, well, anymore at least." Ozpin chuckled and took a sip from his drink.

"That's why I'm asking you, this isn't a formal inquiry. But Jacques is riding my ass on this one, I just don't know why he's pushing hard to purchase such a rual parcel of land from vale." James spoke, getting to the point.

Ozpin replied "Can you send me the data on the land he's wanting, i'll look at it."

Ironwood chuckled "It should be in your inbox already"

Ozpin sat down at his desk and pulled up the file, Ozpin admitted that it struck him as odd that Atlas wanted this particular piece of land. "It's not a very large area, they would barely need to redraw the border. I can see why Vale would approve of such a sale on our end, it looks to have little value."

Ozpin then saw what Atlas was offering for the land. "Why are they offering vale this much? This is almost triple what the land would be worth on it's own."

Ozpin could hear frustration in Ironwoods voice. "Yeah but it's Jacques that's pushing for it, so they know something we don't, do you know anyone that would be familiar with that area?"

Ozpin thought about it for a second before pulling a pair of files up "I do actually, if you can put the vote on hold for a few days, I'll make some phone calls and see what I can come up with"

Ironwood chortled "I'm the tie breaker here anyways, I'll buy you as much time as I can." And hung up on his end.

On Ozpin's screen, two names appeared 'Taiyang Xiao Long' and 'Qrow Branwen'