Authors Notes: Sorry for the longer wait then normal, I'll try to not let that happen again.

The day after the docks felt like it had stretched on far longer than normal, it didn't help that it was a monday. Jaune's body ached and he could feel every bruise and to top it all off, it was a monday.

News had spread overnight about what had occurred at the docks, not about Blake's actions in starting it however. The rumours only said that the group had interfered with actual criminals and stopped the theft of millions of lien of dust. The stories also hyped up Jaune's actions quite a bit.

All in all the story kept a lot of people entertained and it seemed to be quite amusing to most of the student body how such a poor combatant like Jaune Arc could fight a criminal like Roman Torchwick and survive.

One person who wasn't amused however, was Professor Goodwitch. "You are all very lucky. Roman Torchwick is not an opponent anyone should fight unprepared for. You are luckier still that the headmaster was the one to decide your punishment and not myself!" Team RWBY along with Jaune and Nora had been brought to the headmasters office once they had time to rest.

"You endangered the lives of not only your own team, but those of another." The headmaster paused to drink from his coffee and directed his attention to Team RWBY "It is the duty of a team to stick together, and had it just been your team I might have let the issue pass, it was not however." He paused once more and turned to Jaune and Nora. "Tell me, why did you go with them?"

The room was silent a moment before Jaune realized it wasn't a rhetorical question. He thought a moment but failed to come up with anything that sounded like a good excuse, in the end he settled for the truth. "Our friends asked us to help, so we helped."

The headmaster hummed in curiosity but stayed silent for a moment.

Jaune was slow to continue. "We didn't know we would be fighting anyone at the time but even had I known… I still would have gone."

"You would have placed your teammates at risk?" The headmaster didn't say it as an accusation, nor did he sounds disapproving. It was merely a question.

"I didn't force them to come last night and I wouldn't have forced them either way. I asked them and they said they wanted to help… all though, we probably would have brought Pyrrha had we known there was gonna be a fight." Jaune rubbed a hand against the back of his head. "She would have done far better than I did." he chuckled softly but failed to notice the glares from basically everyone else in the room at his self-deprecation.

The headmaster leaned back in his chair. "I applaud your willingness to aid your friends, it is something sorely lacking in today's generation, but you could have called the school or chosen not to engage your opponent. Instead, you rushed in unprepared and out matched." The headmaster kept his eyes locked on Jaune's until the younger boy looked away. "So tell me, what were you thinking Miss Belladonna?"

Jaune didn't seem to be the only one surprised by the sudden change of focus, the girl in question was caught off guard for a moment before regaining her composure. "There were criminals at the docks, it's the job of a huntress to fight not only grimm but criminals as well."

"And yet you are only a huntress in training. Torchwick is a foe far beyond you, you should have known that before seeking him out." The headmaster sighed heavily. "You were very lucky he was so distracted, had he truly wanted to, or had he not been in a rush, he could have killed you. Think how your team would feel learning their friend had ran off and died in Vale. A tragedy they could have easily stopped from happening."

Blake seemed shaken by his words, and for a moment it seemed that Yang was actually going to be the one to defend her before the accused finally decided to defend herself. "This isn't about them, it was my responsibility to dea-"

"Would that have brought them any comfort?" The headmaster sighed once more. "You are all dismissed. Miss Belladonna will be receiving detention for the issue, as will her team to a lesser extent. Mr Arc and Miss Valkyrie, you will receive no such punishment."

"I-I don't know if that's really fair." The words had left Jaune's mouth before he could stop them. "Yang and Weiss weren't even there for the fight, they didn't show up until after. If they are supposed to be punished than I should as well."

The headmaster seemed slightly surprised but quickly hid it behind a neutral expression. "Very well, Mr Arc" Jaune both was both happy and upset that his words had taken effect, the loss of his free time was gonna suck but it was only right. "Miss Belladonna will be the only one to receive detention, the rest of you will receive no punishment." Those… were not the words he had expected, those weren't the words anybody expected.

Jaune opened his mouth to ask the headmaster why but felt two hands latch over it, along with hands grabbing his arms and pulling him back from the desk.

"Thank you headmaster, we won't forget what you said." Ruby was the first one to speak. Weiss had said something more formal and Blake had followed them out. Yang and Nora had practically thrown him into the elevator to stop him from ruining their lucky break.

"I still can't believe he talked us out of detention." Ruby repeated what they had all been saying for the last three hours. "I mean, that was the headmaster and Miss Goodwitch… How?!"

"I wouldn't say he talked us out of it." Weiss was quick to argue, as she always was. "You heard the headmaster, we were hardly getting any detention anyways."

"No detention beats any detention, Ice Queen." Yang was relaxing on her bed, enjoying the relaxation for what it was. While it was a monday the classes for the day were already over, Beacon's courses were fairly simple. The upper years had a few more classes but most of the day was free periods meant to encourage training and studying. Neither of which Yang needed nor wanted to do at the moment.

Weiss sent a glare Yang's way before a small predatory smirk appeared on her face. "So Yang… about that kiss yesterday-" Yang winced as Ruby practically snapped around, being reminded of the discussion they hadn't had time for yesterday.

"There's nothing to talk about!" Yang tried in vain to stop Ruby from bursting, sadly in vain.

"Does this mean you two are dating? Are you in love? Oh why didn't you tell me you were in love? Don't you trust me anymore? Is this why you two are off every night 'training'?" The questions came rapid fire with little room for answers.

"I would hardly call it a kiss and it doesn't mean anything. You all heard the way he was talking about himself, I was just trying to get his attention." Yang rolled over on her bed in a futile attempt to end the conversation.

"You could have helped him without making out with him." Weiss once again fed the fire. Was this payback for all the puns?

"It was one kiss! On the cheek!" Yang sighed and rolled back over to look at the pair of annoying girls. "He's my friend ok. He helped save my partners life, my sisters life, and he was bad mouthing one of my friends. It doesn't matter that that friend was him."

"Hmph, I didn't need saving." Ruby's face contorted into a poor attempt at a scowl. "So you don't have feelings for him?"

"My my, are you jealous dear sister? Afraid I'm gonna steal your man?"

Ruby went a shade darker than her cape. "N-no, Jaune's a friend and that's all." It took a moment for her to regain her composure. "Why did you start hanging out with Jaune all of a sudden anyways?"

Yang shrugged her shoulders slightly, though from her laying down position it wasn't really noticeable. "I wanted to help him train."

"How generous of you." Weiss' deadpan expression betrayed her thoughts at the fact.

"Ok, ok, Blake and I had a bet." Yang shrugged her shoulders again.

"So you aren't really his friend?!" Ruby seemed incredibly hurt at the idea of faking a friendship. "Yang that's not okay you could really h-"

"We're friends now, don't worry. That might be why I started talking with him everyday but it's more than that now." Yang had started to really enjoy his company. Jaune was awkward and a little stiff from time to time but once you got to know him he was a good guy. "The bet is still on though."

Weiss and Blake both stiffened at that response.

Ruby, of course, missed her teammates awkward glances at each other. "What happens if you win?"

"When I win, Blake and Weiss go to that dance together." Jaune was already shaping up nicely. He was far from there but he would make the deadline well before then. "Maybe they'll learn their true feelings for one another, maybe they will fall in love and learn that the reason they disliked each other was because built up sexual te-"

"If she loses she has to get her haircut." Blake filled her in on the totally never gonna happen part.

Ruby gasped in horror. "How is that equal?! Yang, you love your hair!" Her sister failed to see the obvious solution.

"Which is why it's never gonna happen. Besides, he's already loads better than he was. I've practically won already."

"So you're not gonna hold up your end even if you lose?" Yang noticed the trap too late to stop herself from wandering into it. Ruby hated it when her sister went back on a promise or went against her word and she had an annoying habit of never forgetting things like that. The only thing Yang loved more than her hair… okay not the only thing but Ruby was definitely one of those things, she could be a pain sometimes.

Yang sighed. "If I lose, and that is a very unlikely if, I'll hold up my end. Not all of it of course, Blake would die trying. Blake better hold up hers!"

Originally Yang had said it because it was funny, but now? There was a twisted sense of irony in the Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company being taken to a school dance by an ex terrorist. Plus, she would never say it out loud but the two of them would make an adorable sight to see… Weiss must never know.

"I'll hold up my end, so long as Weiss isn't to adverse to the idea." Blake looked to the Heiress who was appropriately red faced.

"I-I'll admit I didn't expect my first request to come so soon… Wait! Why should I participate in your bet! What do I get if you lose?" Weiss was always too smart.

"You know how much Yang loves her hair. It's a miracle she agreed at all." Ruby was the one to convince her partner. "She'll be so distracted over the loss of her hair she'll probably even stop making her terrible puns."

"Hey!" None of them had a sense of humour. Yang wasn't sure if she should be thankful for her sisters help.

"I'm in." Weiss worse of all.

"Hey! My jokes are hilarious!" The repressed laughter from the rest of her team did not help her growing frustration.

Yang hopped off her bed and moved to the door. "I'm gonna go punch something."

Jaune hit the familiar rooftop once again. Pyrrha stepped back and did not pursue her attack, it was only a spar after all. He had requested more training after his complete failure at the docks.

Jaune sighed, both physically and mentally. Yang had made her point pretty clear, he needed to stop being so negative about himself. The kiss had gotten his attention, as well as his hormones attention. A few months ago he would have been over the moon, now it was just par for the course. It was his first real kiss, sure, but he knew it didn't have any real meaning.

It had taken all of three minutes before Nora had practically exploded and told Ren and Pyrrha about it. His partner had asked him about it several different times and it had occupied their battle banter the entire evening.

"You're sure it didn't mean anything?" In truth Jaune wasn't sure why Pyrrha cared so much.

"I'm sure, that isn't Yang's style." His partner helped him up off the ground and fell back into a combat stance. "Besides, I'm not her type."

"Oh, and who would you say is?" Pyrrha ducked under his thrust and retaliated with one of her own.

"She's more into strong people." Jaune pushed his partner back, using his strength and height advantage while he could to move her weapon to the side.

Pyrrha flipped backwards and away from him before abandoning her combat pose and standing straight. "You are strong Jaune. You just need more practice and training, training you're getting right now." She dropped back into a combat pose when her point was made.

"I know, I know." Crocea Mors caught Milo and locked against each other. "You know, you're pretty strong yourself, maybe you should ask Yang out. You know, if she's your type. I wouldn't judge."

Pyrrha was caught off guard by the suggestion and Jaune was able, for the first time ever, to gain the advantage and sweep her legs out from under her. She flipped backwards kicking him in the chin in the process of course, but it was still something.

"That was a good trick." His partner didn't seem upset, in truth she didn't have too much of a reason to be. A gentle smile graced her lips.

"Might have worked on anyone else." Jaune smiled back and sheathed his sword. "I think that's enough for now. Yang will probably want to spar later and I still have a few errands to run." For a split second it seemed like his partners ever present gentle smile fell away, but it must have been a trick of the light.

"That is probably a good call."

Authors Note: This chapter is more a necessity than it is interesting, and for that I apologize. Getting Yang and Jaune's thoughts on last chapter are important moving forward and serve a purpose I promise… doesn't change that it's not the most interesting stuff to read.

Hot damn I'm bad at writing Pyrrha's lines. Also, I know this story might make it seem like I don't like her but that isn't true, she's actually one of my favourites. This story just kinda forces her to be the butt end… it is how it is.

I hope you all enjoyed regardless of the troubles on my end and I encourage you to review to let me know your thoughts.

Sincerely SE