"My hands are cold."

"Huh?"

"My hands are cold."

"That's…a shame. Want me to find you a blanket or something?"

"You don't need to."

"It's no proble-"

"Seriously. You don't need to."

Jaune, the loveable fool that he was, blinked, with an adorably confused expression on his face. Choosing him to be her partner and actively seeking him out during Initiation was the best thing she'd ever done.

She had a well meaning, kind, principled cute guy who after a little one-on-one training could hold his own long enough in a fight for her to save him. Not to mention that whilst he always looked out for her, he respected her boundaries. Team ALBN (Albino) was definitely something she wasn't going to regret in a few years time after they finally graduated, unlike other organisations she had participated in.

Blake frowned slightly and dismissed her dark thoughts and darker memories, focusing instead on a new favourite pastime of hers that had developed over the past three years she'd spent at Beacon. Teasing Jaune.

It was too easy. He made it too easy, too fun. Part of her, a part that would be more at home in rundown camps hidden in the wilderness, wondered if it was intentional, the rest of her knew it wasn't, that he really was as innocent as he acted.

"Can I warm my hands up?" She asked, and Jaune's confusion turned into an incredulous look that made her smile slightly.

"Of course you can!" Jaune protested. "I'm not that bad a leader that you think you have to ask to do that aren't I?"

"No." Blake replied decisively, stepping forwards and planting her hands onto his shoulders. "You're the best leader I've ever had."

"Well that's a relief. By the way do you have any ideas I can use to show Weiss I'm worthy of her? I think I've used them all by now…" Jaune's sentence trailed off into a frightened squeak as she slid onto his lap, keeping her eyes focused on his wide, vibrant blue ones. "W-What the hell Blake?"

"You said I could warm up my hands." Blake replied innocently, trailing her hands from Jaune's shoulders to the bottom of his thick, warm hoodie. She could practically hear the frantic pounding of his heart as her hands rested just above the lining of his jeans.

"Buwha?" Jaune asked in a strained voice, his pale cheeks quickly turning a crimson red. "Buhow?"

"Jaune?"

"Ha?"

"Shush." Blake ordered, leaning forward so their foreheads were practically touching. His eyes widened as she did so, and she watched quietly as his pupils dilated and his eyes became hooded.

She smirked, deciding to tease for just abit longer. So she leaned away from him only to lift up his hoodie slightly, making him swallow before he tensed and made an adorably weird squeaking noise as her hands slid onto his bare stomach. She let the hoodie fall to cover them, before slowly trailing them up his stomach and onto his torso.

"That's better." Blake murmured contentedly, feeling a smug sense of approval and satisfaction as she felt the benefits of all her training with Jaune in the form of a defined, strong chest.

Jaune shivered and she raised her hands further, until one rested over his beating heart and another rested near his nipple. She closed her eyes and leaned forwards until their foreheads touched, content to feel his pounding heart beat and the way the muscles of his chest tensed and then relaxed underneath her touch.

Then something brushed up against her thigh.

She opened her eyes and leaned back, looking down and raising a brow at Jaune, who look

ed moments away from either a heart attack or an orgasm. Blake smiled at the thought, and Jaune's eyes quickly darted away from her own.

"Well someone's certainly warm." Blake teased, leaning forward and making him gasp as her hips moved with her. "Fancy warming me up too Jaune?"

"I…S-Sorry-I didn't mean-!" Jaune stammered, clearly worried she'd have and adverse reaction to his not so little guy's greeting. Blake was determined to rectify that. "C-Can we just forget this hap-hah!"

Blake felt a pleased shiver at the gasp she managed to elicit from him by just brushing her finger against his nipple. Something else shivered too, and Blake grinned a feral smile.

"Greedy, greedy Jaune." Blake tutted, each word enunciated with her hands teasing his nipples. "Wanting to hog all the warmth for himself."

"W-What are you doing?" Jaune gasped, and Blake felt a long buried frustration rise inside of her.

"Getting you warmed up for sex." She said honestly, coy tone replaced by one of frustration that had been steadily building up for two years. "I tried being subtle. I tried being discreet. But you never understood any of my hints damnit! I like you, even if you're an idiot, and I'm not letting you waste your life away chasing after an uptight princess like a hurt puppy because guess what Jaune! You don't deserve her, but only because the only thing that deserves to date that Ice Queen is someone just as shallow!"

Blake sighed heavily, panting slightly as she finally vented. Jaune blinked at her, mouth open.

"Here's what's going to happen." Blake said authoritatively. "We're going to have sex and start dating. Nod once for yes, twice for no."

Jaune nodded once, a gobsmacked expression still on his face.

Blake grinned and leaned forward to capture his lips in a fierce, passionate kiss. It was about time she truly staked her claim, she'd chosen him all those years ago during Initiation after all.


"And that's how me an Jaune started dating."

The only thing that broke it was the clattering of a metal fork against a ceramic plate and the sound of her boyfriend face palming next to her.

"M-My, my." Auburn Arc said, face shocked and cheeks slightly red. "That's certainly quite the tale."

"Not exactly a fairy tale one." Alexander Arc said gruffly, taking in the cataconic looks on his daughter's faces before shrugging and giving his son a grin. "Reminds me of how we first met actually. Just less ropes and gags."

With that the Arc children collectively gagged and fled the dining table, noise following them as the shouted to the high heavens with hands covering their eyes. The instinctive response made Blake curious, and she turned to find her boyfriend wincing and covering up his ears, though apparently he hadn't joined the cult his sisters were in.

"That's weird." Alexander noted. "Jaune would be off with the others by this point."

"Let's not dig into it too deeply, dear." Auburn interjected, giving her a look that clearly said she believed Blake had done something to Jaune. Blake just raised a challenging eyebrow, making the older woman shake her head and stand. "Alex, help me coral the children back to the dinner table. Don't eat anything until we're all back you two."

"We won't Mrs Arc." Blake promised, and she heard Jaune promise as well.

"Did you have to do that?" Jaune asked once his parents walked out of earshot. "The whole point of this was to introduce you to the family."

"Your sister's are monsters hidden under the guise of adorable children." Blake retorted bluntly, remembering the amount of times she'd been swarmed by them, all of them groping and patting her ears. It made her eyes narrow into a dangerous glare.

Only Jaune could touch her ears.

She heard Jaune sigh and his arm wrapped around her. She sighed contentedly and leaned her head against his shoulder, closing her eyes and enjoying the quiet moment.

"Just so you know, I'm not going to be on my best behaviour around your parents now as retribution." Jaune said suddenly, and Blake only grinned in reply.

Knowing her mother then she'd want to know more, not less, about whatever embarrassing things Jaune could think of. As for her father…well if Jaune said something like what she had then there was nothing she could do to save him.

She'd at least wait a few years after the funeral before moving on.

The thought made her chuckle before she turned and kissed Jaune's cheek, giving him a challenging look.

"It's your funeral." She said, before turning to the food arrayed before them. "Eat a little but don't tell your family?"

"Obviously." Jaune said, leaning forward and stabbing a small slice of meat. "It's an Arc tradition."

Blake smiled and took her own bite. She really did love that dork.