All right, some complications came up IRL for me. SO Friday didn't get it's chapter. I realise that alot of you will like the flashbacks to the Knightshade relationship. SO i will work them in every few chapters. This one is an entire chapter of the first fluff between them before the current events. So please accept this as my apology. PLEASE REVIEW, I am selfish and want to see your beautiful words. And it helps inspire me to do better... so in a way... the more reviews i get the more i will fine-tune this story. Enjoy the sadness and wholesomeness.
Many wish that they had family to go to. Weiss' only real family is Cline. Who survived the targeting from Salem. Blake's parents survived as well. Taiyang fought off his assassins. Ren and Nora lost their families long ago, But Jaune… He had people at home. He had seven sisters, a father and mother. With three uncles and two cousins. His entire home town was his family in a way. And all they had to protect them was his father, a weathered and washed out huntsmen with a simple alloy sword.
Right before the final battle, the communications worldwide went back up. Jaune eagerly tried to secure a scroll and call them. Instead he got a police rewire. They informed him that the town of Dawn was razed. There was only one survivor, one James Arc, who later the following night took his own life. All of this happened three weeks prior. And he had never known. Of course Ruby tried to take responsibility, and say that if she hadn't asked him along he would have been with them.
That was the first time he ever lashed out at her.
"If you ever think for a moment that this is your fault… You are completely stupid. They are dead because of me. I should have been on that tower. I should have died. That way they all could have lived. I should have been the strong one who pushed HER away! I have lost everything because of a selfish dream to be something I can never be! So don't for one second blame yourself… I am to blame."
Jaune dropped his things off in front of team JNR's room and left. Everyone went to look for him instantly. But he had a good half-hour head start. Blake found him right away. She had watched from her regular perch every night when he slinked away. She found his cove in ten minutes. He was just sitting there. The moonlight draped in across him. He just sat in the water to his waist, a scroll in one hand, and a civilian pistol in the other.
Blake slowly walked up.
"Why do you even bother Blake?" He asks not turning around. "I can tell when I'm being watched."
"I bother because you are worth saving." She says as a matter of fact.
"How is that? I get everyone I care about killed. If I were any of you I would run like hell."
"Well, in that case…"
Blake then dropped her weapons and overcoat, then her leggings. She waded into the water in her shorts and t-shirt. She sat down beside him and just stared ahead.
"That isn't running." Jaune says quietly.
Blake smiles at that.
"Jaune, I have run from everything. I am never going to do it again. I have all night tonight. If that is what you need, just being with someone who will listen, then that is what I'll give you, all because there was once someone who told me exactly why they believed in you."
"You talked with Phyrra?" Jaune asks sadly.
"And Ozpin."
That got his attention.
"After Mistral I asked him about everyone, or at least after I learned who he was anyway. He said that Ruby was conflicted. That Yang was even more conflicted. Ren and Nora were content. Weiss was incredibly relieved to be with everyone. And finally, Qrow was still a drunk."
Jaune scoffs.
"See, I am not worth a mention. I barely have use."
Blake slaps his arm with a wet hand.
"Tell that to Weiss, to Ruby. Tell that to your team. You are useful Jaune. My mother once said that a good man in a bad man's world is the first you should befriend. You, Jaune Arc, are a great man in an evil man's world. So I asked about you."
Jaune pauses and lets the pistol fall into the water.
"I won't use it anyway. I don't know if I can keep my aura down enough to do the job."
Blake links her arm with Jaune's
"He told me that that boy needs a friend who knows his pain. So now is the time to let me know the pain Jaune. Let's go to the bank and watch the sky. It will help you relax and talk this out. I want to hear about your family."
So they did.
The group found them the next day fast asleep inches apart in the most wholesome situation possible. Jaune wrapped her in his coat and her legs in her own. He simply held the coats around her in his sleep. It seems they talked the night away.
So they agreed to leave them be. And let her bring him home.
They all sigh their reliefs.
Their caregiver finally found someone to give him some care.