Blake's mind had been a mess for days.

She had told her mother everything. Every single thing…barring of course the intimate details of her time with her former professor. It felt uplifting in more ways than one to finally let all these feelings and thoughts out. Her mother had accepted and listened, she didn't compare Nirvana to Adam although Blake knew she was tempted to do so.

It had felt uplifting, like she had finally taken the plunge but had landed softly. Firen Carlisle…the name she still wanted to know and remember him by, but it was all a façade he had been wearing. Alector Nirvana…the man who had put her friends through a living nightmare, who had caused so much harm for what seemed to be something so trivial as finding his beloved pet back. The man she should hate?

But she couldn't….she just couldn't.

Spread out on her bed, Blake did nothing but stare at the ceiling and reminisce about everything she had felt ever since she last laid eyes on the man she had loved and lost. Seeing him tied up and taken into Ironwood's custody. She should have felt relieved, he got his just deserts. But from that moment onward all she felt was grief and loneliness.

Blake couldn't imagine that the man who had accepted her so quickly despite her Faunus status, the man whom she had given herself too…he couldn't be evil…he couldn't be this bad…

Could he?

Blake solemnly sighed. These conflicting emotions where all that bothered her even through the harshest times she and her team had to endure before Beacon fell. She tried to suppress everything she felt, to not bother her team too much even though they knew how much it was on her mind.

How could she forget? Everything that had happened?

How he made her feel?

Blake suddenly felt a familiar wetness arise between her legs. She bit her lips as her cheeks blushed bright red. She thought back to that night? After her fight with Weiss and how she went over to his place, only to be met with the personification of passion. Thinking back to that night, Blake was assured of one thing, no matter his intention, what they had shared that night had been real.

Her hand moved slowly down, fumbling with the zipper of her pants nervously.

Blake remembered his touch, his warm hands around her body, his tongue at her most sacred spot….

Unzipping her pants she pushed her fingers down her panties to her aching womanhood, slowly but surely inserting her fingers in her.

"hmmm…." The Faunus girl moaned softly. Thinking about him, wishing and desiring for his touch more than anything….

Team RJNR:

The forests had been slightly behind them, all that was in front of them was a crossroads.

A sign made the roads clear, one path through the mountains. The other one to a village, Kuroyuri.

Debate had begun to ensue due to Ren being adamant about not going the way to that village, when pressed on why he just replied that he didn't feel it was safe considering the last village they had traveled through had met them with an unpleasant encounter with a psycho. His reasoning was solid but he was clearly trying to hide something.

As the team debated Nirvana stood at the side in front watching the pairs argue with each other as a silent Milena stood beside him. He observed quietly, not unlike his usual clever banter or playful slighting.

The debate between the side of Nora and Ren and Ruby and Jaune had subsided a bit, enough for Nirvana to make his observation and pose the question.

"Is there a reason behind why you do not want to travel through that village Mr. Ren, you seem pretty adamant it's a bad idea even though it is the faster route?"

"He just explained to us why he thinks so" Jaune told him.

Nirvana's glance shifted to Jaune, almost glaring at the young warrior. "Yes but I feel he is hiding something, maybe he has been to the village before."

Jaune saw Ren look down at that. It appeared Nirvana was on to something, but regardless of such, Jaune was reaching his breaking point with him. The last three days where filled with Nirvana holding his blackmail over Jaune's head as a way to torment him. And of course Jaune couldn't react as he had done before or risk his secret getting out there.

In particular if Ruby found out…

Jaune's thoughts about Ruby where called into question the moment Nirvana revealed that Ruby possibly had feelings for him, it made Jaune see his friend in another light, a light he once shone on Weiss and later briefly, Pyrrha…before he lost her.

He questioned everything about this considering it was Nirvana who told him, he had no reason to believe him and he could easily be lying. But since that reveal he began to look more at Ruby and her reactions, some of which he never noticed before. Like her blushing at times when he tried to compliment her.

Nirvana could be right…but even if he wasn't, the thing he held over Jaune's head was something he didn't need his teammates to find out.

"Listen, Alec," Jaune started "if Ren doesn't want to go through that place, regardless of his reasoning. I'm not going to force him to go through it."

Ruby looked as Jaune stepped forward to make his point clear to their unwanted companion and she couldn't help but smile as she saw him stand up for her friend.

"Thin ice, Arc" Nirvana grumbled softly, soft enough so only Jaune could hear it.

The young warrior stepped back and looked at his team, seeing Nora grasp Ren's shoulder and Ruby looking at him hopefully. Seeing his friends and teammates like this gave Jaune a bit of a boost in confidence.

"Personal feelings shouldn't get in the way of an objective" Nirvana said.

Jaune turned towards him, his look was almost stone cold. For a moment Ruby could feel the tension in the air and she almost wanted to step forward and stop Jaune from what she felt was making a mistake.

"Yeah because you have already shown us you do not care about anyone's feelings, or shall we for the hundredth's time remind you of what you did, of what you put us and our friends through. Cardin, Weiss….Pyrrha, they endured so much due to your actions, they suffered so much under you. You don't get to talk about someone's personal feelings clouding their judgment, your journey to save your cat has hurt so many people. You don't care about anyone but yourself and that her."

He pointed to Milena, who looked up with wide, almost angry eyes. Nirvana was stunned silent, as where Nora and Ren. As for Ruby, she was eying Jaune with wide eyes of amazement, a red blush on her face and her hands clasped together.

"Honestly I don't know what Weiss and even Blake ever saw in you" Jaune finally said before turning back to the team.

Nirvana's expression flipped from stunned surprise to one of immediately anger, his teeth gritted and his fist clenched as if a nerve had been struck severely.

"Wrong move Arc…" he muttered.

Fumbling in his pocket he pulled out the small device he had used on the young warrior a few days ago. The memory recorder.

"Ladies and gentleman," Nirvana spoke up somewhat loudly, causing everyone to turn to him "I present you a boy's first time, starring the great young hero Mr. Arc and his first partner."

Sarcasm was flowing from those words as he pushed the button on the recorder, allowing the specific memory to play out.

In that moment, all the color drained from Jaune's face as his most sacred memory was displayed in front of his team.

The memory was on a screen, clear as day. Yang Xiao Long was naked on the ground with Jaune Arc on top of her, engaged in passionate lovemaking.

Jaune turned around to see his team, Ren and Nora with their hands around their mouths in shock and surprise. And then to Ruby…

She looked up in shock as the memory played out, seeing her crush having sex with her very own sister. Her expression was unreadable, everything seemed to overtake her and she couldn't keep her eyes of the sight.

"Ruby…" Jaune said softly as he walked towards her.

Then in all its suddenness, Ruby's eyes began to water and she instantly ran past Jaune and back to the forest area right behind them, not looking back at the teammates left in her wake.

"Ruby!" Jaune yelled, but she just kept running forward, unable to face him.

Jaune looked at a grinning Nirvana, who turned the device off. Every instinct in him wanted to wipe that grin of his face. He took a step forward, Nirvana didn't flinch, he kept giving Jaune the same expression, a continued grin, as if he had taken away the last bit of his dignity. A small punishment for the warrior's attitude.

"I warned you" he said emotionless.

If he expected a response, then he didn't get it. Jaune gave him a short look before brushing past him and running towards the forest where Ruby had just run too, disappearing from sight behind the trees.

Nirvana gave a short look as he appeared before he turned back to the remainder of the team.

"Well how about…" his sentence was cut off as Nora had instantly moved forward and hit him square in the face. With a loud thud Nirvana hit the hard ground, the memory recorder dropping from his hand and next to him.

"I didn't know you would sink this low Nirvana" was the last thing he heard Ren say before he lost consciousness.