Team BRNZ's Dorm:

Brawnz was pacing around the room nervously. When they got back to the school, the first thing they had to do was fend off the press. Despite surviving being the number one priority in Vacuo, some people were living well enough to be snooping around other people's business. They got a couple of good photos of Jaune and everyone knew they had to explain what happened, so Nebula, Brawnz, and Nolan decided to tell the press what had happened.

When they finally got done with the many, many questions that followed, they went to check up on Jaune. Unfortunately, they were told that they needed to wait for a while from their friends. Jaune's injuries seemed to be pretty severe. All of them stayed there for an hour, waiting patiently for Jaune to get out of surgery. That was until the headmistress came in.

When they all began to say it was their fault Jaune was hurt, she held up a hand and they all stopped talking. She told them to head to their dorms and rest. She said that she would contact them once she knew Jaune was better.

Well, it was night and there was still no news of Jaune. Of course, Brawnz was panicking. Jaune could still be in surgery, could be fine, or he could be dead. It was the first and the last options that freaked him out the most. Of course his teammates noticed this and tried to calm him down. The rest of them were semi-ready for bed as they were in their sleeping clothes. Brawnz was the only one that wasn't.

"Brawnz you need to chill," Nolan said as he read his Camp Camp comic. He was wearing a pale blue tank top with black shorts.

"I can't!" Brawnz nearly yelled. "I'm worried about the guy!"

"Panicking won't make him recover faster," Roy said as he continued to type on his laptop. He was shirtless but wore grey sweatpants. He decided to see what the news was saying about them. While there were a quite a few articles that twisted their words, there were also a few that gave it straight. Roy looked away from the computer screen and looked at his friend. "All we can do is wait."

"I know that…" Brawnz said as he turned his hands into fists. "But it isn't it normal for a friend to worry about another one who's in the infirmary?"

"True, but for now just calm down and wait." Roy and Brawnz locked eyes. There was something about Roy's stare that calmed Brawnz down, at least to the point where he wasn't pacing around the room. Brawn nodded sat down on his bed and rubbed his eyes with his hands. He didn't realize how tired he was until then and there.

"While we're waiting," May started. She was wearing a black tank top with red shorts. She was cleaning her rifle as it laid in her case that was on the ground. Some of the pieces were apart so she could clean them individually. "Why don't you tell us about how you and the blonde became friends?"

"I already told you guys about the noodle shop didn't I?" Brawnz asked.

"You did," Nolan answered. He closed his comic book and straightened up a little bit. "Even so, one lunch out wouldn't be enough for you to recommend someone to Nyx. So spill it."

Brawnz sighed and recollected what began his and Jaune's friendship. "You guys know how Wallace said that people only pretend to be your friend at the festival?" All of them nodded. They all knew Wallace and kind of looked up to him. He was a third year that helped them get used to Shade.

Wallace went to the Vytal festival his freshman year and tried to make a few friends from the other kingdoms. Despite there being peace between the kingdoms, apparently no one wanted to try and actually try and make friends. Most of the Atlasians either called Wallace a savage or put on fake smiles, Valiens were somewhat intimidated by him and tried to keep away from him and his team, and the Mistralians kept to themselves. There were a few people Wallace made friends with, but it wasn't enough for him to speak highly of the Vytal Festivals. "Only for show," as he liked to put it.

"Well, for Jaune it actually felt like he wanted to make friends. Whenever he saw me he had that stupid grin on his face and actually kept conversations with me instead of saying he had somewhere to be like some of the other huntsmen we've encountered."

"I really hope that orange-haired prick with the mace got his ass kicked by someone," Nolan mumbled. "Piece of shit said I wasn't worth talking to."

"Anyway, no matter what he was always friendly towards me and anyone else. He then told me why he was like that."

"And why is he like that?" Nolan asked. This caused Brawnz to chuckle.

"Because of a mantra his mother goes by," he said. this caused everyone to lean forward a little bit.

"This should be good," May said.

"He literally told me 'strangers are friends you haven't met yet.'" The entire room started chuckling. It wasn't to insult him or anything like that.

"That's so dorky and cheesy it suits him!" Nolan said wiping the tears away from his eyes.

"Preach it Nolan!" Roy said.

"Anyway," Brawnz said as he regained his composure. "He was still polite and talked with me and I grew to like the guy. Like you said Nolan, he was dorky and cheesy but at the same time he was fun to be around. Whether from messing with him or from him messing with me back, I was always having a blast with him. Not to mention I saw that he really wanted to be a huntsman and save people, not just do it for glory and money. Same for his friend Ruby."

"Why don't you two marry each other already?" May said sarcastically. She had a smirk on her face as she said that.

"Ha ha ha," Brawnz forcefully laughed. "Well after that came the reveal. Even so, when push came to shove and all of us were fighting I saw him doing anything he could to help us out and any civilians. Once the fighting was over I got the chance to ask if he really did fake his transcripts. I was surprised by how he didn't even deny the fact that he did fake his transcript. I won't lie, that was when my respect for him grew. So when we had to leave, I gave him my number and said if he ever visited Vacuo he could hit me up. Ever since then we've been friends."

With their curiosity satisfied everyone went back to their own thing for another five minutes. After the five minutes were up, a buzz in Brawnz's scroll caused him to check it. All it was was a text from the headmistress and it was a room number. Nothing else, no context, no words, it was just the room number.

"Hey guys," Brawnz said. Everyone looks back at him. "I just got a text from the headmistress. It says room and then a number next to it."

"What number is it?" Roy asked. Brawnz showed the room number. "Isn't that on our floor?"

"Yeah it is," Nolan said when he took a look. "Maybe she wants to meet us there?"

"I guess," Brawnz assumed. "Let's not keep her waiting."

"Right," Everyone in the room said. Once they made sure they were dressed and ready they left their dorm room and locked the door.

Team NDGO's Dorm:

While NDGO wasn't as worried about Jaune as BRNZ was, the thought that he was in surgery still lingered in the back of all of their heads. They were all getting ready for sleep since it was night and they were tired from the initiation and from everything they went through. Their shower was currently being used by Gwen. Everyone else had already used it and they were in their sleepwear.

Nebula was on her bed watching their T.V which was showing some sci-fy adventure about an asshole grandfather with his idiotic grandson. She wore a purple t-shirt with black shorts that stopped halfway down her thighs. As she watched the show, she would occasionally check her phone to see if the headmistress updated them about Jaune's condition.

Dew was on her bed with her laptop in her lap. She was continuing her music mixing. All she had on was a black tank top, with matching underwear. Octavia was just watching some videos on her scroll as she lay in her bed. She had a blue crop top on with long grey sweats.

"So you think Jaune's going to be okay?" Nebula asked her team. Dew removed her head phones and looked at Nebula.

"What was that?" She asked as she didn't hear her. Nebula repeated the question and Dew chuckled. "The guy is stronger than he looks, he'll be fine."

"He did take a couple of blows from a charger," Octavia said.

"Well I mean, I helped him out a little bit."

"That's true," Nebula said. "Still I guess we shouldn't worry about it until tomorrow."

"Yeah," Dew said as she closed her laptop. "No point in having it keep us awake, right?"

"Have what keeping us awake?" Gwen asked as she stepped out of the bathroom. Steam followed her out of the bathroom as the warm hot air in the bathroom met the cool air of the room.

"The fact that Jaune is still in the infirmary," Nebula answered. "Think he's all right?"

"Mm hm," Gwen nodded. She walked over to her own dresser and started getting dressed.

"Think he'll get a gnarly scar somewhere?" Octavia asked everyone in the room.

"Well that burn mark is definitely staying on him," Nebula stated. Every one of the girls nodded in agreement with that. Well everyone except Gwen. This did not go unnoticed by her friends. It seemed whenever Jaune was brought up, Gwen stayed silent and to herself. No… it was more than that. It seemed whenever any guy was brought up Gwen went silent.

They thought it was weird since she actual had a boyfriend and thought that having one would help her open up more. Even so she was always shy talking about guys in general so they thought she was taking baby steps.

A few minutes went by of idle chat when Nebula got a text on her scroll from the headmistress. It was just a room number, the same one that team BRNZ got. Nebula tells her team about the text and suggests they check out the room.

"Does this mean I have to put on pants?" Dew asked semiserious.

"Now, Dew," Nebula said as she got off her bed. Whether she wanted to admit it, leaving the bed was hard. She was tired as were everyone else, but they had to make sure Jaune was okay. The blonde sighed, and set her laptop down on her bed and got on grey sweat pants. Gwen finished getting dressed. She wore a white t-shirt with black shorts that went to her knees. "Onward to the room!" Nebula said in an adventure like voice.

Three minutes later:

The two teams got to the room roughly the same time. NDGO was about thirty seconds behind BRNZ. When they reached it they saw BRNZ arguing over something.

"You do it!" Roy said.

"No you do it!" Nolan said.

"We probably shouldn't even do it in the first place guys," May said a little annoyed with her team.

"Look can we all just calm down?" Brawnz said as he raised his hands. As the team continued to argue NDGO snuck up behind them, startling them when Octavia first spoke.

"What's going on guys?"

Team BRNZ jumped and turned around to see the all-girl team walking up to them. Both teams got a good look at one another and saw a lot of fatigue on their faces. Everyone's eyes were puffy and had some bags under them. Not to mention most of them looked like zombies. They were irritable and tired but all of them stayed up just to see if Jaune was okay. All of them stayed up to make sure he was okay.

"So what are you all arguing about?" Dew asked.

"Well Brawnz and I want to wait out here for miss Nyx and these two Yahoos want to open it and see if she's in there." May said

"Well why not check?" Nebula asked.

"Well what if she doesn't want us to go in there?" Brawnz asked.

"Why would she text all of us and not want us to go in?" Dew asked.

"That's what we said," Roy said. "But then they said their point of view and now we don't know if we should or not so we were arguing over who goes in first."

"Well why not all of us go in?" Octavia asked.

"I ain't getting yelled at if we're wrong," Nolan said with his hands up defensivly.

Slowly the bickering turned into loud arguing. All of them were so busy talking over each other they didn't notice the door opening up. The person who opened said door was trying to get their attention but to no avail. Eventually he took a deep breath and then yelled.

"GUYS!"

Everyone turns around to see the blonde they all wanted to see. Other than a few bumps and bruises and looking tired he was fine. He was also wearing a blue onesie. Eveyone stopped and stared at him for a few seconds. With all eyes peering on him, Jaune took a step back, a little intimidated. "So uh… what's going on?"

There is silence for a few seconds before the sound of someone trying to stifle in a laugh. Then everyone in the hallway burst out into laughter or has a smile on their face. Jaune looks at them with a confused look on their face. "What's so funny?" he asked.

"Dude!" Brawnz said as he recovered. "What is with that get up?!"

"You mean my jammies? What about them?"

"Why are you wearing a onesie?" Dew asked still chuckling.

"What? It's comfortable!"

"Dude you look like a dork!" Nebula exclaimed.

"Will all of you shut up!" another voice said. Everyone turns to the next door over to see a faunus with droopy dog ears was peeking out of the doorway. "Some of us are trying to sleep!" The faunus slam the door shut and presumably went back to sleep.

"Okay look, let's continue this inside all right?" Jaune suggested. Everyone agreed and followed Jaune into the room.

Once both teams were in the room Jaune closed the door and turned towards them. He clapped his hands together and took a deep breath. "So… what's up?"

"Well… how are you feeling?" Brawnz asked. "I mean are you good to go? You feeling all right?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Jaune answered he rubbed his neck and moved his head around. "I mean I'm a little sore but I'll get better. What are you guys doing here?"

"The headmistress texted us this room number," Nebula said as she waved her scroll. "We figured she would want us to meet her here. We didn't realize this was your room."

"Speaking off," Octavia intervened. "Who are you bunking with?"

"Uh… no one," Jaune said. "I'm by myself."

"Lucky bastard!" May said. "I wish I could get a big room all to myself."

"Oh glad to see we're such good company to you May," Nolan said in a sarcastic tone. May turned to her friend with a small smirk on her face.

"Bite me."

"I would if you'd let me."

"Ah!" Brawnz exclaimed.

"Dude!" Roy complained.

"Yeah that was a little much there bud," Dew commented.

Gwen pointed into her mouth and made a gagging noise. The others just smiled and chuckled at the antics.

Jaune liked this. He hasn't felt this way in a while. A long while. This… warmness. Sure he's had a few jobs after shit hit the fan, and he had a small place to live despite it being in a shanty town, but that was surviving. This? This is more than that.

Jaune smiled and flashed his big toothy grin. This didn't go unnoticed by Octavia or Nebula. "What are you smiling about dude?" Octavia asked.

Jaune chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "Nothing just… happy I guess."

"About what?" Nebula asked. Jaune shrugged.

"Just… in general."

"The smile looks good on you dude," Octavia said.

"I agree. It's nice," Nebula said. Jaune blushed at the comments they made.

"Well," Brawnz said as he slapped Jaune on the back. "Now that we know you're okay, we'll let you rest man."

"Yeah, good night Jaune," Roy said. Everyone soon began to walk out and gave Jaune various good nights. The final one was Nolan who gave him a fist bump. When his door was closed Jaune took a deep breath. He was ready for an actual rest, and not a forced rest because he was knocked out.

Jaune slipped into his bed and stared at the ceiling and then he looked over and saw the three empty beds. He had debated whether or not to get rid of them. He decided to keep them just in case he gets placed on a team. Better to be prepared right?

Jaune closed his eyes and slowly drifted into what he hoped would be a peaceful night's sleep.

To be continued.