"How do I look?" Yang asked, twirling around in a dress, before looking right at him.

"I still think you shoulda gone with a yellow dress," Jaune answered.

"No way! Why should I have?" She asked back.

"Well, Ruby went with a red dress, Blake has black, and Weiss has already claimed white." He told her.

She paused for a minute, before saying, "Nora has a white dress too!"

"Nope! She swapped it out for a pink one when Ren told her pink suited her better." Jaune said with a smirk.

Yang then began to panic a small bit. "Maybe I should've actually gone for the yellow one instead." She said hurriedly.

Jaune took notice of this, and replied, "You look great. Come on Yang it was a joke."

"Not a very funny one..." She muttered under her breath. She then checked the time. "I should get going. I gotta get there early to get everything ready." She told him, and with a small wave, she left.

The rest of the girl, sans Weiss and Pyrrha, were off doing their own thing and getting prepared for there Dances. They also may or may not be ignoring him for refusing to go. Who could really tell? Jaune decided that he would just walk around the campus, and talk to any of his other friends he might know.

Turns out that list wasn't very long.

He knew next to no one aside from RWBY and JNPR. There were Sun and Neptune as well, but that basically covered the extent of it. He sighed to himself when he found nobody else to talk to and was about to return to his room when he noticed a patch of blue coming towards him.

"Hey, Jaune!" Neptune shouted.

"Neptune! What's up?" He replied.

"Nothing much, I just wanted to thank you for convincing me to come to this thing with Weiss." He replied thankfully. After everyone had finished putting the bookshelf back together, Weiss left saying she had someone to meet with. Most of the other girls were upset with him, so Jaune decided to make sure she wasn't going to get herself hurt. She met up with Neptune and asked him out, but she got rejected. Weiss ran away after that, and Jaune took it into his own hands to bash Neptune's skull in. He explained how he couldn't dance, and Jaune told him it didn't matter. After that, Neptune caught up with Weiss, apologized and agreed to go to the Dance.

"Ah! Well, I was only helping a friend." Jaune replied sheepishly.

"Two," Neptune said, wrapping an arm around Jaune's shoulder. "We're buds at this point amigo! Don't sell yourself short."

"Heh, thanks, Neptune." He said.

"Just call me Nep," Neptune replied casually.

"Sure thing Nep." Jaune checked the time. "Shouldn't you get going?"

"Oh right! See ya later Jaune!" He called, nearly sprinting to the gym.

Jaune chuckled to himself and began his trek back to his dorm. On his way back, he passed many couples on their way to the Dance. Some of the guys even shot him sympathetic glances when they passed him. 'Do they think I was rejected?' He cleared his head of thoughts like those and quickened his pace. Even if it did look like he was running away.

He eventually made it back, to see the room empty, save for one Pyrrha Nikos.

"Pyrrha?"

She physically jumped, and quickly looked behind her, but hid her face again soon after. "Oh, it's just you Jaune." She said glumly. "I was just watching Shea while you were out." She then quickly turned around without making eye-contact. "I should probably get going now." She said hurriedly and tried running out the door. She was only able to make it halfway.

Jaune grabbed her shoulder, and asked, "What's wrong?" She didn't reply and refused to look at him. "Pyrrha c'mon..." He said worriedly. "At least look at me." He managed to turn her around, but what he saw shocked him.

Pyrrha was crying.

"Pyr what's wrong?" He asked concerned.

"It's... Nothing. It's stupid, just forget about it." She said.

"Pyrrha please."

"..." She didn't reply and looked just about ready to bolt. Even now, she was struggling to break away. "I-" She wasn't able to say what she wanted because Jaune did something that took her completely by surprise. He pulled her into a hug. "Jaune?"

"I don't want to see you like this Pyrrha." He pulled back slightly, in order to look into her eyes. "Please tell me what's wrong."

Pyrrha didn't reply at first. She took a step back and then just stood there looking at Jaune. She then sighed. "I don't have a date for the Dance." She told him.

"Huh? Bu-"

"It's stupid, I know." She then pulled herself away from him. "No one even approached to ask me." She looked right through him. "I'm unattainable Jaune." There wasn't a need to finish her sentence. They both already knew. She was lonely.

There was silence in the room for a solid minute, before Jaune replied, "Well, maybe that's okay." Pyrrha looked at him with wide eyes. She looked ready to scream at him, but he interjected. "You saw how Yang was with all those guys asking her out all the time. She was ready to tear her hair out." He said with a small smile.

"What's your point?" She asked, still frowning.

"Maybe, you don't need a date to make you happy." He told her. "You may be lonely right now, but that's why you have friends. That's why you have a family." He looked her right in the eye. "That's why you have teammates." He said while grinning.

Pyrrha didn't move for a while. She just starred at Jaune with a shocked expression. Eventually, she began to tear up. She moved her hand to cover her mouth and then ran forward to pull Jaune into another hug. She cried on his shoulder for a couple minutes, before calming herself down. Still, in a hug, she said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." He replied, patting her back.

They stayed like that for a while longer. "You know..." Pyrrha began.

"Hm?"

"You're the kind of guy I wanted to go to this Dance with." She said, still hugging him.

"Pyrrha... you kno-"

"I know." She pulled away. "You have to watch Shea. I'm not that dumb Jaune." She said playfully. "I just wish..." She trailed off.

"Well, I know someone you could go with." She looked at him, tilting her head. "I don't think Ruby got any requests to go either." He paused to look out the window. "She must be feeling awfully lonely."

Pyrrha let loose a small gasp. "You right." She turned to leave. "I should probably get going now." She reached the door and turned back to him. "Thank you again, Jaune. This means a lot to me." She then turned back around and left the room.

He turned around and shook his head mirthfully. 'Hopefully, she feels better now.' He thought to himself. He started towards Shea's room, in order to check on her. He noticed that she was sleeping soundly, so he carefully backed out of the room without disturbing her. It would be best if she didn't start crying or complaining here soon.

Jaune laid down on his bed and pulled out his Scroll. He went to his contacts list and scrolled down until he saw what he was looking for. His finger hovered over the call button, before he finally steeled himself, and made the call.

It ringed once.

'Maybe this was a bad idea.'

Twice.

'I'll just get yelled at."

Thrice

'Maybe she won't pick up.'

The call was answered.

Jaune silently cursed to himself. Of course, that plan wouldn't work.

"I'm sorry, but you're going to have to call back later. I'm in the middle of dinner, and-"

"Hi, mom..." He cut her off. Of course, she would be too distracted to check who called her.

There was silence for a good while, until all of a sudden, there was a veritable explosion on the other end. It started when Lillie Arc, mother of eight, yelled out her only son's name right at the dinner table. There was a large commotion on the other end of the line. Finally, after the commotion died down, the call was switched to video chat.

On the other end was a grown woman, with long flowing blond hair, and bright blue eyes. Eyes that did not look happy at the moment. That's not good for him. He switched his Scroll to show video as well, and that was when he knew, it was already too late.

"Jaune Damon Arc!" Starting off with the full name... Great.

"Mom..." He replied sheepishly.

"Don't you 'mom' me! We were worried sick! Where have you been? What have you been doing these last three months?" She asked.

"One question at a time please." Jaune requested.

"Fine. Where are you?"

"..."

"Jaune!"

"Beacon!" There was a pause on the other end.

"Excuse me?" Came the ominous voice of Nicholas Arc.

"I'm at Beacon, dad. I'm learning to become a huntsman." Nicholas took hold of the Scroll and stared at Jaune. Most likely trying to intimidate him. It didn't work.

"Why..." Came the ominous voice again.

"I have to be able to protect myself," Jaune stated simply.

Nicholas sighed, and went back to speaking in a normal tone. "If you stayed here, we could have protected you. We could keep you sa-"

"I don't want you always protecting me!" He shouted. There was a moment of silence before he heard crying from the other room. "Crap..." He quickly rushed to Shea's room and saw her crying her small little eyes out. He wrapped her up in his arms and started comforting her. "Sssshhh, it's okay... I'm sorry for being loud. You're okay now." He said as softly as possible. He walked back to his bed, where he left his Scroll with Shea in his arms.

Shea was beginning to calm down, so he picked up his Scroll, only to see the wide-eyed face of his father. "Jaune..." He began. "Did Beacon install a daycare since I was last there?"

"Hm?" He looked down at Shea, who had stopped crying, then looked back at his Scroll, before realization struck. "Oh!" He's gotten so used to having Shea around, that he completely forgot his family had no idea who she was. He looked at his Scroll again to see his entire family now gathered around the small device. "Well, I may have accidentally adopted a child."

"..."

There was complete silence on the other end once again.

"Anything else you need to tell us?" Lillie asked as calmly as she could.

"Well..." He began but then noticed something pass over outside his window. He ran over to it and looked around the outside of it. On the roof next to his, he saw a woman in a skin-tight black suit running across it. He walked back over to his Scroll, and said, "I'm gonna have to call you guys back."

"Jaune? What's going on?" Nicholas asked him.

"Bye!" He said, before ending the call. He pocketed his Scroll, and ran over to the weapons rack, grabbing Crocoa Mors. He was about to run out the door when Shea made a whimpering noise. He looked back and saw her looking right at him, with wide brown eyes. Jaune sighed to himself, before running over to Ruby's bed, and grabbing the baby carrier she bought and putting it on. He put Shea in the pouch and ran out the door.

He was rushing so fast, that he failed to notice small 'wooshing' sound after he left his room. Nor did he notice how the door failed to close all the way.

"It seems the plan worked perfectly." A woman said, walking into the JWNYPBRR dorm. "Cinder wouldn't like another failure." She said glumly.

Red eyes scanned the room, looking for a place to put the small device she was carrying. "Perfect." She said to herself, placing it under the desk lamp on Jaune's desk. "Gotta make sure no one walks in on me again." She said while leaving. She got out, without being detected and released a sigh of relief. She then rushed back to the gym, making sure no one saw her.

That's all folks!

So Jaune didn't end up going to the Dance. I imagine that the characters were so upset at this cuz of Pyrrha. Sad Pyrrha is sad.

At least she has Ruby, right?