"Jaune do you have a second?" Yang said running to catch up with the fellow blonde. Jaune turned and waited for Yang to meet him in the middle of the hallway.

"You need something?" Jaune asked raising an eyebrow. Since being taken to the temple by Raven, and later brought to the White Fang's main base by Winter, Jaune and Yang didn't interact all that often other than at meals. So the thought of Yang needing him for anything seemed a bit outlandish in his mind.

"Well, I don't need anything, more like Ruby and Weiss need you but they just sent me to fetch you," Yang said. "They're in Blake's office, said you need to get there ASAP," Yang added as she turned to run down the hall again. "It's really important so get your ass in there!"

Jaune was going to ask what exactly they needed him for, but before he could ask Yang was already gone. He was too late, like he has been many times before. To slow to ask his questions. Too slow to catch on to subtle hints, even not so subtle hints. Too slow to realize what was going on.

Jaune, now in a depressed mood, walked towards Blake's office. Knowing Ruby was in there waiting didn't help Jaune's nerves either. Jaune talked to Ruby even less than he spoke to Yang. Ruby, especially after what ever happened before they came to the White Fang's base, stayed close to Weiss, and always spoke quietly to ensure no one else could hear what she was saying. The Jaune Ruby grew to know and trust, died somewhere between her disappearance and reappearance.

But that didn't stop Jaune from trusting Ruby. Once learning that she was a hired gun, and more often than not an assassin, Jaune knew that she was just a more hardened version of the girl he knew. Much like other people in his life.

When Jaune reached Blake's office he took a deep breath and walked inside. His eyes first met Blake, who was happily sitting behind her large official desk. Weiss was leaning on the wall closest to Jaune, while Ruby sat at the edge of Blake's desk. His eyes then went over Ruby to see she was wearing her combat outfit, which led Jaune to assume her injury was healed as well.

"Yang said you needed me," Jaune said simply as he looked over the girls one more time. They all seemed serious, stern, like they were going to give him bad news.

"Take a seat Jaune," Blake said gesturing towards the nearby chair. Jaune not knowing what else to do took the seat and looked towards Blake.

"So?" Jaune trailed to show his confusion.

"We have reason to believe Pyrrha is alive," Weiss said moving to stand in front of the door. Jaune's eyes widened, his jaw dropped.

"What do you mean she's alive, she died, Ruby saw her die!" Jaune roared. The three had suspected as much from him. Ruby mentioned how he usually stayed up late right after the Fall, trying to convince himself how it wasn't his fault, trying to cope with the loss of Pyrrha by training. "She can't be alive!" Jaune echoed as he turned to face Weiss.

"Jaune calm down," Blake tried only to see the fury in his eyes seconds later.

"Calm down, you're telling me that the person who confessed to me mere minutes before their death is alive! You're telling me that my friend, who I have spent years trying to make proud is alive! How the hell do you expect me to be calm!" Jaune continued.

"Because if you don't calm down we won't let you help us," Ruby cut in. Her voice was sharp, direct, Jaune was sure this was the voice she used when on her killing missions. Jaune stopped and looked towards Ruby, his anger still growing, but he kept his mouth shut.

"Help you with what?" he hissed when he was sure nothing else would come out of his mouth.

"We're planning to launch a rescue op to get Pyrrha back," Ruby said looking into Jaune's hard eyes.

"How do you know she's alive," Jaune said his eyes glued to Ruby.

"I saw her, or at least what I believe to be her," Weiss answered.

"If you saw her why isn't she here, with her friends."

"I think she's being controlled by a grimm," Weiss' answer was soft, Ruby knew she was tensing from the thought of the grimm more than anything.

"A grimm," Jaune said, his anger finally fading. "A grimm is controlling her?"

"I think so, that's why we need you Jaune," Weiss spoke gently. "Our best chance to get Pyrrha back is to bring you with us. From what we know the only way to stop the grimm is physical contact from someone the host deeply cares about."

"How do you know this?" Jaune asked deeply at Weiss. Weiss was looking off, unable to say the words herself.

"Weiss was under one of these grimm's control," Ruby said taking her place next to Weiss. "I was able to break the control the grimm had by making physical contact. Jaune, you always said that looking back Pyrrha had a crush on you, and that during your kiss with her you felt sparks fly, if you could do something like that, you can save Pyrrha."

Jaune fell silent and thought for a moment. "How long have you known?" Jaune asked. He received no answer, but he knew that was best. He knew they were waiting for Ruby to be as close to top health as she could be before talking to him about the matter. "When do we go?" Jaun then asked.

"Whenever you're ready," Ruby answered. "It'll just be the three of us, and Onirun. We won't have any communication so I suggest you go say goodbye to Nora and Ren."

"You make it sound like we might not come back," Jaune said with a small laugh. The silence that followed only told him what he already knew.

"There's a chance we won't," Ruby said clearly. Jaune nodded and looked towards the floor.

"I'll be ready by tonight," Jaune said as he turned to leave the office, but Weiss still stood in his way.

"You can't tell anyone where we're going or why," Ruby said softly. Jaune nodded, and Weiss stepped to the side allowing Jaune to leave the tense room. "We'll see you tonight," Ruby added before he was out of earshot.

RESCUE MISSION IS A GOOOO!

So about the update situation, I'm going to try Mondays and Fridays for a bit, see if I like that or not.

But we might get Pyrrha back soon.

And as a reminder, I have a tumblr where I announce updates to this story, and a few other things. If you want any behind the scenes actions, or ideas, or even some one-shots I may or may not post, please check it out. I'm really trying to make an effort to do more on there, and hopefully by only updating this twice a week I'll be able to do more over there. ( I'm still 2Nerdzz over there).

Enough self promo stuff!

We're about half way through the story at this point... And let me tell you... Woof... Nothing really gets better from here...

-Nerdz :3