"Jaune… Jaune are you awake…"

The soft voice right next to his ear made Jaune blearily open his eyes. He was met with pitch black darkness, though he knew that would be the case, his internal clock told him it was the middle of the night after all. He couldn't say he enjoyed being woken up in the middle of the night while he was having a nice dream, but he knew if someone did go through the trouble of waking his admittedly lazy ass up it had to be at least somewhat important.

"Who's asking...?" He replied groggily while rubbing the sleep out of his.

"It's me…"

"Winter? It's the middle of the bloody night, what could be so important you had to walk all the way from your room to here and wake me up?"

"... I can't sleep…"

"... come again?"

"... I'm cold and I can't get comfortable or relaxed…"

"... that's it?"

"... I need your help…"

Jaune sighed as he sat up in his bed, careful to not make any noise that could wake up his teammates. He wanted to say that he was surprised someone woke him up, but considering how wild yesterday's festivities were he felt this outcome would be inevitable in the end. "What do you want me to do?"

"... come with me…" Winter's voice continued to be as soft as ever, her normal strong tone gone like the wind, and Jaune felt her hand grasp his, pulling him from his fluffy bed. He was dead tired and he wanted nothing more than to fall asleep once again, but he couldn't refuse her. Both of them knew it, he always wanted to help, even if it meant he lost a few hours of sleep.

She lead him out of his team's dorm room and towards the communal areas, lying him down on one of the very comfortable couches once there. Jaune had no idea how she saw in the dark so well and he was about to ask her about it when he felt someone lay down next to him and place their head on his chest.

Winter let out a sigh of content as she felt Jaune's warm body against hers, his arms pulling her closer still. It was all his fault she couldn't sleep. If he had never showed her how nice sleeping with him felt she would never have known what she was missing out on whenever he wasn't at her side. He needed to take responsibility for his actions, and that involved letting her sleep with him whenever she felt cold or lonely for as long as she stayed at Beacon.

'I want you as my cabin boy when I have to return to Atlas…' she thought, the rhythmic beating of Jaune's heart and the lifting and lowering of his chest as he breathed making her finally feel relaxed.

"You know you could have just asked me to come back with you to your room before we went to bed…" Jaune's voice made her bury her face in his chest, despite knowing there was no way he could see her blush in the darkness.

"Shut up…" she whispered, feeling Jaune's chest shake as he laughed quietly.

"You're adorable when you're embarrassed…" he whispered back, kissing the top of her head softly, and Winter felt the urge to retort diminish as she began to fall asleep. She only heard four more words before she entered the world of dreams.

"I love you, Winter…"