The early morning rays appeared through the trees as Jaune Arc was the first of his team to open his eyes.

Stretching up within his sleeping bag and rubbing the remainder of sleep out of his eyes, his first sight in the morning was inevitably ruined by a happily and whistling Alector Nirvana sitting by a fresh campfire, with a cup of tea in his hand.

"Good morning Mr. Arc, I trust you slept well" he said in his usual polite tone as he took a sip from his freshly brewed tea.

Jaune groaned in response the moment he saw the man, his eyes widening even more as he saw that the man's hand weren't tied up. "Why are you not tied up?" he immediately asked and all that earned him was a subtle nod from Nirvana towards Milena, who was quietly sitting next to him, her tail wagging around in response.

"You cannot tell me you did not see this coming. Would you like some tea?"

Jaune was now wide awake as he stood up from his sleeping back and strode up to Nirvana who was calmly sipping his tea, his face completely emotionless and uncaring of the angry young warrior walking up towards him. Just a few feet away from the campfire Jaune came to a standstill as Milena suddenly jumped in front of him and started hissing.

"Milena behave!," Nirvana called "we must be kind to our friends."

"We are not friends!" Jaune barked angrily, Nirvana just shrugged and continued sipping from his drink, not a care in the world.

Jaune looked down at the feline whose venom green eyes were staring daggers at him. Jaune tried to step aside to walk around the creature but she just kept blocking his path, hissing as she did showing her clear discontent with the young warrior.

Nirvana snickered from a distance as he saw the sight unfold before him. Thinking back to the memories he had glanced at last night, surely he had secretly laughed at most of Jaune Arc's actions in his memories.

"I know what you're up to!" Jaune said annoyed as he still tried and failed to step past Milena.

Nirvana raised his eyebrows and looked up, grinning at Jaune "is that so? Quite a claim coming from you Mr. Arc, does this mean I have misjudged your insightful abilities considering you can't even see the obvious two feet in front of you" he said laughing as he did.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Oh surely you must know what I mean" Nirvana replied.

Jaune looked at the man with confusion, he may not have excelled well at school but it didn't take a fortune teller to see that Alec Nirvana had a rap sheet of distrustful behavior a mile long and with his actions at Beacon still fresh on his mind, it was clear to Jaune that despite what they had seen yesterday, which had proven Nirvana's claims to be true, that still didn't mean he could be trusted in any way.

"Quit it with the mind games Nirvana they will not work on me" Jaune said.

Milena was still blocking his path and all Nirvana did was look at his with a curious expression, but even with that Jaune could see that the condescending smirk slightly forming across his former professor's lips.

"You really are dense aren't you Mr. Arc. I'm talking about miss Nikos of course" as soon as that name was dropped Jaune felt a cold shiver travel along his spine and the memories of the night of Beacon's fall washed over him. Remembering his and Pyrrha's first and only kiss.

"It was obvious she was into you. But you were so busy pining for a girl that would never give you the time of day that even though the signs where obvious, you never went for it. I do hope she had managed to confess her feelings before well…she passed" Nirvana said with a smirk.

In that moment all Jaune saw was red, a burning and furious red. And without thinking he kicked the cat in front of him to the side with his foot and the feline flew a few feet away over the ground.

He turned to the object of his anger only to be suddenly pinned to the ground. In his angry haze he saw Nirvana pinning down both his arms, his face red with rage as well.

"DON'T YOU EVER DARE HURT HER!" he almost screamed in anger as Jaune tried to push back. But the former professor had too much weight on him, his knee was on Jaune's stomach causing him to feel the pressure setting onto him.

And as soon as he was on top of him, Nirvana had also gotten off. Jaune breathed a sigh of relief as he calmed down and saw Nirvana running towards Milena and gently picking her up from the ground and hold her into his arms.

"Are you alright dear?" he asked softly and Milena responded with a soft "meow" as she nudged her forehead against that of her owner's.

Nirvana looked up at Jaune who was still on the ground trying to calm down, his rage still present but he was thinking clearly. Nirvana's expression was one of clearly restrained anger as well, especially as he stepped forward to the young warrior, stopping a few feet in front of him.

"Apologize to her" he said.

"What?" Jaune asked in disbelief.

"You heard me, apologize to her" Nirvana repeated pointing towards Milena.

Jaune stood up from the ground, wiping the dirt off his shirt in the progress and now stood face to face with the man he despised. "Are you crazy, you want me to apologize to that thing, that creat…"

"Watch it Arc" Nirvana interrupted with gritted teeth.

Jaune angrily pointed his finger at the man "you are absolutely out of your mind you know. You want me to apologize to your cat, even though what happened is because of you!"

"Watch out Arc, you better not escalate things lest you want the rest of the team to find out your dirty little secret" Nirvana spoke calmly, his voice emotionless and his tone composed, if he was still angry he was definitely holding it back.

"What are you talking about? You know nothing about me."

Milena was curiously looking around while in her owner's arms, when she looked at Jaune and saw his obvious confusion the young warrior could swear he saw the cat snicker maliciously.

"Is that so? I wonder what the rest of the team and in particular Miss Rose will say when they find out what you did?"

Nirvana's grin was wide and Jaune began to feel uncomfortable about the situation. He thought back onto his time at Beacon and about any weird or embarrassing situation he had found himself in that Nirvana could somehow be talking about. He must be bluffing, Jaune thought, it had to be the case.

"You're bluffing! You don't have anything on me" Jaune said as he turned to walk away.

"Very well then Mr. Arc, so should I be the one to tell Miss Rose that you had sex with her sister!"

Jaune's feet immediately stopped walking as he was frozen in place. The words coursing through him as if he had been pierced by a sword. He felt the air leave him, unable to turn around and face the source of the words that had just entered into his ears. In that moment only one thought entered his mind.

How?!

Nirvana's smile was growing as he walked towards a frozen and dumbfounded Jaune Arc and the moment he was again face to face with him he played his trump card. Producing the device from his pocket and activated it. Before Jaune a video played of a scene he was all too familiar with. A scene he had replayed in his head over and over.

It was him and Yang Xiao Long making love on the rooftops of Beacon.

"First time, big boy?" Nirvana asked sarcastically "and with goldilocks no less you must consider yourself one lucky man."

Jaune remained silent, just watching the video play on the device of him on top of Yang in a passionate lovemaking session. His eyes were glued to it. Nirvana on his part was beaming, a smirk a mile wide was plastered over his face as the video kept playing.

He turned the device off and spoke "this is a memory recorder, a device from my world that we took of Leana yesterday. It reads and collects people's memories, I believe the idea was to use it as evidence in court to get the truth without the need for…more painful measures. But as you can see Mr. Arc, it works for this too."

The young warrior still did not respond. His mind was in panic mode as he took in the information as well as the realization that his worst enemy now had access to not just his memories, but one of an act he never told, nor wanted people to find out about.

"I'm sure miss Rose would love to see this. I'm sure it will break her heart considering her obvious crush on you but you know details" a gleeful Nirvana spoke, this breaking Jaune out of his trance.

"Wait…what…crush" he mumbled.

"And this just proves my point" Nirvana spoke smugly as he put the device in his pocket and petted Milena on her head "Pyrrha Nikos was in love with you yet you where to dense and preoccupied with a girl way out of your league to notice and now history repeats itself as it is clear that miss Rose fancies you, and if Milena is to believed she had caught miss Rose in a very compromising position looking at you."

He kissed the top of Milena's forehead.

"You spied on her!" Jaune replied infuriated.

"No, Milena did but that's not the point. The point is I wonder how she will react when she sees it. Will she be shocked that her best friend and crush had slept with someone else, not just someone but her own sister, oh that's a betrayal of the ages I tell you" Nirvana grinned, clearly enjoying having the upper hand over the young warrior.

Jaune was taken aback by the whole revelation. Ruby having a crush on him? She was his best friend? He should have noticed…and Nirvana telling him this…he had to be lying, saying his cat saw Ruby spying on him….he had to be lying. He just had to?

"You're lying…you wouldn't" was all Jaune could blurt out.

"I think we are well past the point of figuring out what I would and wouldn't do Mr. Arc," Nirvana said as he stepped forward "but I am reasonable man so I would like to offer you a deal."

Jaune gulped nervously upon hearing this. Here he stood basically being a slave to Nirvana's whims. He felt as if he was back at Beacon, being Cardin's errand boy for the most part and now here he was again. Dancing to someone's whistle.

"First of all you will give me back my freedom, no more tying me up at night, no more keeping information from me or treating me like a prisoner, oh and no more of your aggressive condescending behavior towards me."

Jaune gritted his teeth at those demands.

But even he realized he had no choice.

"And secondly you will apologize to Milena for kicking her understood, do we have a deal" Nirvana said as he extended his hand.

With an angry scowl Jaune shook it "deal" he spoke shortly.

Nirvana smiled "very good Mr. Arc, I'm glad we have come to an understanding, now apologize" that last part was spoken with force as he pushed Milena a bit forward right in front of Jaune.

"Ugh" Jaune moaned as he stepped closer and looked at the kitten who was clearly enjoying seeing him suffer "I'm sorry for kicking you Milena, I shouldn't have done that" he said begrudgingly. In response the cat lashed forward and slashed Jaune across the cheek.

"Auwww" Jaune moaned as he placed his hand on his cheek and stepped back, a smiling Nirvana whispering "good job" into Milena's ear as the cat cackled at Jaune's misery before she and her owner turned their back on Jaune and returned back to their seating spot at the campfire.

All Jaune could do was quietly curse and think about the situation he was in. Particularly the words that haunted him the most at that moment. Not the blackmail, nor that his hated enemy knew his most intimate secret. But the revelation, be it true or false that his best friend may secretly, of all people, like him.