A/N: I've been re-watching the show from the start in order to make sure I've got everything sorted out in Touch the Sky and What We Call Home. This idea came to me around Vol. 4 and just needed to get out of my head, so here it is.
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she used to say 'i love you'
"The ones who truly love you will say it in a million ways, and you might never hear it- so listen close," his mother had always said.
Jaune had never believed her.
How could he? He was blessed to have been born in such a loving, open family. Every time he hung out with his sisters, they would always drop those three words in the conversation at some point- "I love you, Jaune!"-and he'd tease them, and they'd laugh, and he'd say the words back. Each night, he'd climb up the stairs in his family home and wave goodnight to his mother and father, and they'd reply with those three little words without fail- "Love you, sweetheart. Goodnight."-and he'd say them back, the pattern of movement so engrained into his very being that he could do it in his sleep. Sometimes, on those particularly early Saturday mornings when his sisters woke him up to watch cartoons or hang out, his did say those words while still asleep.
It wasn't to say that he didn't mean it. He always meant it. He loved his family more than anything.
Maybe that was why, however, he never understood what Pyrrha Nikos meant whenever she said those three words. Maybe that was why he had never learned to listen.
Only later did he realize what a tragedy that truly meant for him.