:AN. OK! I know this is a bit of a shock! I know I said this would be a monthly series but I got to level with you. I write for fun, it's stress relief I like doing it and it calms me down. So! When somebody says hey Pat! I love this story I know you write smut commissions but how about some money to get a Reverse chapter out sooner?! And while I normally do not take commissions for my stories I'm going to Atlanta to watch RWBY V6 with my older sister. And as a raging alcoholic college student, I want to be turnt! So I'm taking a bit of a commission to get this out soon so enjoy the new Reverse! Where Jaune bonds with his new family. We see how some other's take the loops and we get a hint of the future of all of the cast so without further adieu enjoy...


Blood. Blood hot and red poured of a weeping wound and spilled over a mass of old straw painting it a harsh crimson color as the smell of fresh blood along with a human scream filled the air. Blake never did like the way blood felt.

"AH!"

A harsh male voice screamed as Blake winced in pain.

"Stop! Adam please!"

Blake yelled tears in her ask as hot blood hit her face.

"Jaune!? Jaune?! Are you ok!?"

Blake asked her voice harsh and rough. Tears falling from her golden eyes as Jaune gagged.

"I'm fine! I just need a break!"

Jaune said with a wry grin blood falling from his mouth his sole blue eye puffy and red, it's normal rich cerulean blue that Blake had once and still found perfect to get lost and drown in now blood red the other eye so swollen shut it was almost perfectly hidden by a massive purple bruise on his face.

"Jaune! You are going to be ok! Just stay with me!"

Blake begged as a cold chuckle filled the air.

"Blake. Didn't I tell you to not make promises that you cannot keep?"

Adam asked cleaning his long blade wiping Jaune's fresh blood from Wilt's hilt. Jaune glared at the man with his one good eye his arms tied up to the dim fang interrogation chamber that both of them were held captive it.

"Shut up Adam! You are a monster! You always have been, and you always will be!"

"Such words from someone I love can hurt you know Blake? And if you continue to hurt me I just might hurt you."

Adam earned glaring down at Blake his face completely hidden by his maks but his intention was crystal clear.

"You don't touch her! You so much as move and I'll kill you!"

Jaune spat as Adam gave a low humorless chuckle.

"You will forgive me if I find that hard to believe Jaune? Was it, you are not long for this world as is. And judging by you numerous wounds I doubt that you will be conscious for more than a few minutes at best."

Adan noted with dry interest. Jaune, as the human was called, was not long for this world. Wilt had left several deep wounds in his chest and soon he wound exsanguinate.

"Adam, please! Let him go! I'll go back to the Fang! I'll go back to you!"

"Blake no! You can't!"

"For once I and a human agree. You can't just go back Blake not after what you did. You left us, Blake! You left me! You killed our brothers and sisters for a group of humans!? Not only humans but a Schnee! Blake, you have gone far past what can be reasonably forgiven. If you want my forgiveness then you must earn it."

Adam railed off and-

"Don't listen to this fuck Blake! We are getting out of here! You are getting out of here! I'll do anything to keep you safe!"

"Anything human? I like that, a human that knows his place. Alright, enlight of your human's devotion how about this? Blake. I will let you live."

Adam said as Blake cried. She knew what he was going to say. He said the same thing every time she went back. Every time the gods sent her back in time in always end up like this her friends dead, her family dead and Jaune-

"Kill Jaune and you will be welcomed back with open arms. I will protect you from all dissent and ther will be dissent. You were a traitor."

"No."

Blake said as cooly as ever. She knew it didn't matter. Jaune was dead either way and she was not going to kill the one piece of sanity that she had left. Jaune was a rock in a storm for her a blonde lighthouse in a sea of blood and madness and even after all these times, she could not bring him harm.
"Blake! Don't do this! I... I'm ok with this! Just kill me! I'll be ok.'

"You will be dead but yes Blake. Your human... I won't dare to call him you lover."

"He was better than you, bigger than you too."

Blake could not resist the barb relishing how Adams face twisted in rage.

"AH!"

"Jaune!?"

Blake shouted as Adam drove his blade deep into Jaune's stomach a killing blow even with Jaune's aura. Adam's blade bit far into his lower intestines, making him scream in agony tears falling from his eye as Jaune was eviscerated.

"Your precious human is dying Blake. His own body is eating itself. He. Is. In. Agony."

Adam said twisting the blade, grinding Jaune's insides making him scream.

"AHH!"

"Stop! Please! Adam don't do this! You are better than this!"

"I won't stop Blake! If you want' to spare your loves suffering than kill him!"

"Blake! it hurts."

Jaune's pained voice was like a dagger into her heart. Like someone drove Crocea Mors deep into her spin and twisted it.

"Jaune..."

"Blake... I love you."

The boy said forcing a smile s-

Whap!

Adam backhanded him full force knocking teeth from his face with a sick whap of flesh on flesh.

"You are unworthy of her human. Blake forget this trash and come with me."

"Go fuck yourself."

Blake spat her good judgment long out the window as she glared death at Adam.

"Blake! Don't do this! You can still live!"

"Listen to your human Blake. He speaks wisdom."

"Fuck you, Adam! Fuck your stupid hairstyle! Fuck your damn revolution and fuck you pathetic mask, you hide behind you damn coward!"

Blake shouted unable to keep her emotions in check. Jaune was dying her Jaune was dying and-

"Be that way."

Adam said taking out his sword and slicing Jaune's neck open. The boy gave a sharp gasp as a bright red smile appeared on his neck as he gagged.

"Jaune! No!"

Blake shouted as Jaune gurgled choking on his own blood as his face broke into a grim smile as he mouthed out a final pained "I love you."
Through his gurgling face choking on his blood as he expired in the dull interrogation room.

"Jaune... No...'

Blake thought as her limbs went slack she failed again she was given all the power and she failed. She always failed.

"Now Blake one last chance kitten, come home with me."

"Go to hell."

Blake spat as-

"After you."
Adam said as he raised his sword and slashed her neck open ending her life in one brutal motion.
Blake woke with a start.

"AH!"

The woman now a girl barely over five years old shouted screaming up once again no longer in the future but flung into the past.

"I failed... again."

Blake thought fresh hot tears falling from her eyes as she balled up her small child fist. Blake had no idea how long this was going to happen. How long she would be sent back in time. How many more chances she would get before her slew of failure finally angered whatever gods took joy in making her suffer and she would die for good.

"I need to get better."

Blake thought as she growled. Her first three dozen reports were chaotic brutal thing filled with blood tears and suffering. Just like her others. In the being Blake was a traditionalist she followed a set path. Go to Beacon. Meat RWBY. Meet her best friend Yang. Befriend JNPR. Threaten Jaune to train with Pyrrha or she would personally kick him out.

Date Sun...

Blake froze she didn't like to think of Sun. He was her first lover for over a hundred times she gave her body, mind, and soul to him and he gave her twice of that and in return for his love, trust and heart he died... he always died...

In the end, it didn't matter everyone died. They all died in front of her eyes. Everyone always died, everyone but her and Jaune...

No matter what happened, no matter how much she went back Blake knew two constants. One all her friends died. And two... Jaune...

Jaune was always there in the end. After Ruby was killed by Cinder, Weiss by Adam, Yang by Illia, and Nora and Ren murdered by Tyrian. Pyrrha executed on top of a tower because of an old wizards scheme gone wrong. Sun was killed by Hazel and in the end?

It was her and Jaune. No matter what happened Blake and Jaune were the last two standing time and time again in the blood of everyone and in Jaune's case the ash of everyone they held dear? It was too much and after so long Blake snapped. She forced Sun out of her life. She forced everyone out of her life. She coudl not take the death the loss the way Pyrrha turned to ash...

In the end, Blake decided to shut out all the unnecessary factors cut out all the dead meat.

She cut out everything that was unnecessary, Illia, Sun RWBY. Sometime after the second hundred loop, Blake snapped. She had seen her best friends killed too much and she broke. In the end team, RWBY died and team JNBR was born. Team Juneberry her, Jaune Ruby and Nora. It was not perfect but it was the best she could do. This way she would not lose two of her best friends, Ruby was a loss but it was an acceptable one. And plus with Nora as her partner, she didn't get a chance to bond with her old leader. In the end, she cut out all the things that didn't matter and decided to take the only thing that stayed the same Jaune...

Blake didn't know how Jaune lived like he did but he lived. He shouldn't have, lived as long as he did he had no right to live like that long when people far stronger and more fit died in the droves. Jaune was what you would call decently basic. His life wandering the wilds left little in the way of formal training he could hold his own but in a one on one fight versus a hunter or Huntress? He should have been dead in a moment. His aura helped along with that damn semblance of his plus more luck than should be humanly possible kept him alive far past his expiration date and pushed himself into her arms.

In the end when both their teams were dead, and their families slaughtered Blake and Jaune were all that was left. Not RWY, not NPR not SSN or CFFY, not the adults that played with fate or the generals that swore thier protection they all died and he lived.

The two had fought, died and lived together for over a century really and over time... Blake fell for the dumb fool of a human. The bumbling questing knight who was far too naive and honest too kind and too stupid to know what was for his own good and so damn self-sacrificing! He never let Blake die first...

"YOU IDIOT!"

Blake snarled tears in her face as-

"Blakey? What's wrong?"

A soothing angelic voice said as Blake froze.

"Mom?"

Blake asked as a pair of worried amber eyes regarded her as her mother Kali Belladonna walked into her room. She was clad in a near see-through coral nightwear that showed off her slim young figure her amber eyes dead ringers for her own wide with concern as the woman walked into her daughter's room.

Blake was shocked at how young she looked, she was a literal younger version of Blake. Kali was her mother to a T and Blake felt the urge to hug her before she died. Before Tyrian came.

"Blakey? What's the matter?"

Kali cooed in the voice that only a concerned mother coudl use when their child was in trouble. Kalie frowned Blake almost never had bad dreams she slept like a rock and now she was crying? Kali couldn't even remember the last time Blake cried she was always a strong girl.

"Mom?"

Blake asked still stuck in her past, the memories of the future clinging to her mind like a virus as Kaile silently walked to her daughter.

"What's wrong dear? You look pale as a sheet!"

"I... I had a bad dream mom."

"A bad dream? What happened?"

"I... the boy I loved... he died..."

Blake said as a warm arm wrapped around her head.

"Hush Blake. That was just a dream. Your love is just fine to trust me."

Kali said as Blake hid her frown Jaune was alive for now... but in the future? That was going to change unless Blake did something about.

"This is it, I have to make this right."

Blake thought as Kali cooed her daughter to sleep.


"Yang! Ruby! Say hi to-
"Jaune!?"

Yang and Ruby both shouted out at the same time their jaws almost hitting the floor as the small smiling blonde fool of a knight waved his hand to them.

"Hello? My name's Jaune but you know that."

The boy said as-

"How did you know that? Lucky guess?"

Qrow asked his nieces who looked like Oum himself walked dint the house and not a starving malnourished child. The boy looked like he was knocking on death's door. One foot in the grave the other on a hand grenade. As Qrow liked to say. Sharp blue eyes that were hollowed at the base, a thing baby face sunken in on the skull.

A sigh of malnourishment along with what Qrow could tell even through his clothes as a starved human child, the boy looked like hell and if Summer brought-

"Jaune?!"

Ruby shouted blurring into Jaune like a red comet. Slamming into the boy like a wrecking ball. Knocking the breath out of his lungs wrapping him in a tight hug as she began to cry?!

"Jaune's here!? Jaune's here!? What's he doing here?! Why is her here!? Why does he look so skinny!?"

Ruby thought panic starting to set in, Jaune was here! In her house! This never happened, Ruby never met Jaune before Beacon! At most, she heard of a blonde boy roaming the wilds from Qrow after practically begging him to look for a blonde child with blue eyes, a sword, and shield.

Qrow had only reported sightings of Jaune nothing concrete as-

"Excuse me! Ruby? You are choking me!"

Jaune gasped as the small red cut girl attempted to cut off his air supply. Jaune was gagging as her throat was crushed by the surprisingly strong grip of the red girl who was busy trying to strangle him to death.

"I thought Summer said her kids were friendly!? Why is she trying to kill me?!"

Jaune thought as he saw black as the girl began to crush his windpipe.

"Ruby! Please! I just got here! I don't want to die!"

Jaune gagged as-

"Jaune?! Jaune?! What are you doing here!?"

Ruby shouted unable to contain her emotion as the sight of her lover's child form and-

"Jaune!? How do you know my name!?"

The boy gagged as Ruby froze.

"Stupid!"

Ruby thought as her world came crashing down. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Ruby berated herself. She knew what she had done was not only strange it was also unexplainable. She was just a child! She had never set foot out of Patch let alone Beacon! And she had just called Jaune by name?!

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Ruby! What am I thinking!?"

Ruby thought as her mother cocked her head, her silver eyes a dead mirror for her own looking down blinking curiously at her child.

"Ruby? Why are you acting like that? Do you know Jaune?"

Summer asked completely confuddled as to why her daughter was acting so... desperate to a stranger.
Sure Summer knew Ruby was a kind girl who was loving to most people. A fact Summer was very proud of but this? Crying, shaking eyes, that pained tone in her voice? Ruby knew Jaune as impossible as that was.

"What's going on?"

Summer thought as Ruby leaped back as if she had been shocked.

"Um! I don't! I've never met him a day in my life!"

Ruby shouted her eyes shaking as all five pairs of eyes in the room narrowed at her. Three hundred tries into the past and Ruby still could not lie to save her life, a factor that had cost her, said life more times than she could count.

"Ruby, you know it's not nice for you to lie, right? Now if you know Jaune please tell us, we want to get him safe and sound.'

Her father Tai said his voice firm but soft, he knew his daughter would fold. Ruby could not take his somewhat stern gaze for long as-

"I don't know him!"
Ruby said convincing no one as the room's gaze settled on her and not the strange child in ther midst.

"Come on Rubes, if you've seen the kid just tell us. You won't be in any trouble promise. Hey if you do there are some cookie flavored ice cream in it for you.'
Qrow said going for the easy route with any child their sweet tooth and-

"I don't know him!"

Ruby shouted now panicking, all eyes were on her dad was frowning Qrow sighed and her mother gave her that look that only mothers possessed that said I'm trying to be patient but if you keep trying my patience you are going to be in for a sore rear.

Summer stared down at her daughter not speaking her eyes seeking for the truth hidden inside or Ruby's, hell even Yang was looking at her with suspicion! Of course, she was I mean a boy was in her house a boy! She didn't know Jaune she could not know Jaune!

"Yang was only supposed to try to kill him after we had sex!"

Ruby thought blushing wildly intense passionate memories of losing her first time to Jaune filled her mind with wonderful intense steamy memories flooded her mind as-
"I saw him in my dream!"

Ruby suddenly blurted out tossing a hail marry play as-

"You saw him in a dream?"

Summer asked her head cocking like an animal that was trying to understand English.

"Yeah! I saw him in my dreams! He... He was..."

"He was what?"

He father asked hands on his hips in the stern parent mode and-

"He was my teddy knight!"

Ruby shouted as the room went still, a pin could be heard dropping across the house as all heads coked.

"I'm... I'm your teddy knight?"

"Yeah! You were my Teddy knight! Because you look like a blonde teddy bear!?"

Ruby asked as Jaune blushed.

"Hey! I'm not a bear!"

"That is so cute!"

Summer said her perpetual good mood restored as her daughter was clearly dreaming when she saw Jaune an obvious answer know that she thought of it.
"How could she know Jaune? I met him deep in the wilds on my way to my mission. I mean hse's never left patch! How could she even begin to know a random runaway?"

Summer thought still unsure as for how to classify Jaune. So far all he had given her in their weeks of traveling was his first name age and dream. He was Jaune, no last name. His shield was was muddy and worn that the emblem that Summer thought looked suspiciously like a pair of crescent lighting moons dulled out far too much to recognize as anything traceable. Jaune was an enigma.

All he let loose was that his family and he had a disagreement, and they no longer wanted him, according to Jaune they hated him in fact. If what Jaune was saying was to believe and Summer did believe him. He was young far too young to lie in Summer's opinion at least about this.

Jaune was half dead starving badly and suffering from a number of minor illnesses fevers, coughs etc. When she nursed him back to health he swore he was going to be a hunter one day and his trek here after his own family had cast him out from his home was just another step in his journey.

"How could you do that? How can a mother just toss away her own child?"

Summer though sadly as she rubbed Jaune's head affectionately.

"Ruby, no more milk before bed."

"What?! Why!?"

"Becuase it makes you have funny dreams that make us worry. Now we have all had a long day. Summer why don't you and Qrow get Jaune a room and we'll talk about this in the morning ok?"

Tai asked smoothing things over with a practiced ease gesturing at Qrow who nodded.

"Ok brat let's get you a room, things are tight here so you might have to bunk with me, ok kid?" Qrow said taking a swig from his trademark still shiny flask making Jaune glare.

"Hey! I'm not a kid!"

Jaune whined as Qrow slapped his back a bit too hard making Jaune yelp and Yang's eyes flashed red.

"Yeah and I'm not drunk now come on Teddy. Let's see if there are any monster under your bed to fight why don't we?"

Qrow asked rubbing Jaune's head ruffling his short blond locks as the boy balked.

"Stop that!"

Jaune said blushing wildly as Qrow laughed as he lead his hopefully not newest daycare recipient up to his bed.


"This can't be happening."

Yang thought as she stared slack jaw at the love of her life in child form across from her.

"Jaune?"

Yang asked still not sure what to believe. Jaune was here! Jaune was here! In her house living under her roof! Dressed in his dignity comically large bunny sweater that was in this timeline according to Summer a hand me down from one of his sisters not the result of his eating prize.

"Yes... Yang?"

Jaune asked still not able to look his sister in the eye. It was almost a month since Jaune had come to live in the Rose Xiao-long household and Jaune was like a wall. He barely spoke barely interacted with anyone that was not Summer herself beside polite hellos and good mornings in passing.
Jaune was somehow worse than he was in Beacon, his eyes never locking on with another his head always held down and it was pissing Yang off!
This was a once in a lifetime opportunity and Jaune was not going to slink this off.

"So Jaune! Tell me, bro! You want to be a hunter right?"

Yang asked flashing Jaune a cocky smile doing the best-disarming wink that had charmed the pants off many boys and got her into Jaune's pants more times than she could count.

"Yeah... Yeah, I do why?"

Jaune asked his sharp blue eyes that still made her heart even as a nine-year-old flutter as butterflies formed in her gut.

"Dammit! Stupid sexy blonde! Wait till we get to sixteen! You won't sit down for a week!"

"How about this! You have a sword and shield right?"

Yang asked a plan forming in her mind as her reclusive future husband nodded his small head.

"Yes, why?"

Jaune asked his tone finally rasing as his blue eyes found and held on her own.

"Then why don't you train with me ?"

Yang asked flashing Jaune a cocky smile as the boy coked his head as he gulped.


'Left!"

"I know!"

"Right!"

"I know!"

Yang yelled jumping to her right her fists up and-

"Then why can I do this!?"

Tai asked sweeping his daughter's legs out from underneath her causing her to fall on her ass. Making him let up arm raise only for Yang to launch herself into him like a cannonball. Taking him in his gut before he gripped her arm slamming her onto the ground knocking the air from her lungs. As she groaned.

Yang saw stars as she laid on a damp grassy hill her body throbbing in pain as the warm Patch sun beat down on her.

"Good fight Yang. You almost touched me, almost."

Tai said smugly walking over to his downed child's moaning form noticing his daughter improved progress, no not improved her impossible progress. Yang was years above Tai at her aged and-

"Hiya!"

"Too slow kiddo!"

Qrow said tossing Ruby on her ass with a dramatic flourish of his scythe sending his nice flat to the ground and making her pout.

"Qrow! That hurt!"

"First of all it's Uncle Qrow second off, don't feel bad kid you are doing better than your brother."

Qrow said pointing to Jaune who looked ready to die.

"Come on Jaune! A little more! Just three more hours than we cant take a cookie break!"

Summer said both short swords out her silver eyes gleaming with a burning passion that Qrow had not seen since early summer in Beacon as her son panted.

"Summer! I can't keep up!"

Jaune said panting as the firmly nicest woman on Remnatbecame a demon before his very eyes.

"Don't say that Jaune! You are doing much better! I can see the potential in you! Now up and at me!"

Summer said twin swords swinging easily as she bounced lightly on the ball of her feet a far to wide grin on her face as she was practically bursting with happiness.

"This is so fun! Why didn't I train Ruby!?"

Summer thought grinning ear to ear as she bounced back and forth on the bottoms of her feet her twin short swords Felica and Fold twirling in her hands. Summer had never taken on a student before but now?! What was she thinking! This was so fun! She was finally getting through to Jaune! She had been trying her damnedest to get the boy to open up to her over the past month and now?! Now she was finally getting him to open up! By striking him repeatedly in his head with a sharp object!

"Ok Jaune enough rest! On your feet young man!"

Summer said confidently that her student had rested enough his blue eyes shook in panic as he scrambled up to draw his weapons.
"Wait! Summer! Please!"

Jaune begged his sword and shield shaking in his hands as Summer grinned.

"I already told you Jaune! Rest time is up and besides!"

Summer said flashing Jaune a predatory grin as she blurred over to him in a shower of white roses.

"I told you to call me mommy!"

Summer said appearing behind Jaune in a wave of white as she brought down her twin sords right as Jauen tired to raise his shield.

"Too slow!"

Summer said as her sword hit home and Jaune screamed for mercy.

"I see..."

Ruby said winching as Jaune was tossed twenty feet, ahead of him. His body crumbling into a tree and flashing blue. His aura protecting him form any real damage as the boy groaned.

"Summer I-

"On your feet!"

Summer chirped blurring to Jaune striking him in his side a blow barely blocked by his shield making a harsh clash of sparks fill the air as Summer smiled.
"You are learning!'

Summer chirped in her perpetually happy voice as she landed a dual strike on Jaune's back flinging him into the air as he cried out.

"But you have a long way to go!"

Summer said smiling at her son as Ruby grinned.

This was perfect! Not only was Jaune here, with her but! He was training! Jaune's biggest weakness in Beacon beside his malnourishment was his lack of formal training. Jaune knew how to not die for long periods of times. besides during one on one fights and a basic grant of combat Jaune was not the best hunter, just above average and not quite the brightest. If he trained with Summer? That coudl change everything.

"We can win."

Ruby said as she felt hope rise in her chest for the first time in what felt like a hundred repeats. With her Jaune and Yang, all trained under their parents. Maybe, just maybe she coudl bet Cinder and finally, this hell of death and repeats would end and Ruby coudl finally be happy with Jaune.


Time passed when you had fun, it also passed when you were training for your life.

"Hah!"

Yang yelled finally punching her dad, landing a firm uppercut right into Tai's strong chin making his aura rare up as he grimaced in pain.

"That's my girl!"

Tai said his face beaming with fatherly pride. His daughter did it! She finally broke past his guard and landed a solid hit on him! Tai's baby girl was growing up right in front of his own eyes.

"Hah! Take that old man!"

Yang shouted grinning like a fool. She was already doing better than her last repeat. She was much stronger, faster and agile than before. She bounced on her feet her bones felt like air and her muscles tensed and flexed with power.

"Come on pop! One more round show me what you got!"

Yang said flashing Tai a cocky grin as he took a boxing stance.

"Hah! I'll wipe that smug grin right off your face!"

Tai said as he charged back itno his daughter a massive grin splitting his face as he charged forward as they fought. Less than ten feet to the left another dance of combat was played out but this one with the hars clang of metal on metal as sword met shield and metal clashed!

A blade flashed down like a falling moon only for a rising silver fang to shoot up striking into aura making a feminine gap filled the air as Summer quaked.

"Jaune! You hit me! You really hit me!"

Summer said unable to keep the tears from her face. Fresh tears fell from her face as she fought the urge to hug her sone Jaune Rose so hard his neck might snap! After so long Jaune was doing it! Summer had been training Jaune personally for the longest time now! And Jaune had just landed his second solid hit on her!

"Oh, Jaune! I am so proud of you! I'm going to take you out for chicken nuggets!"

Summer beamed as a bruised, panting breathless Jaune gasped.

"Thanks! Mom! That mean's a lot to me"!

Jaune gagged as Summer squealed finally giving in to her inner hug mode, blurring over to Jaune and wrapping her son in a back-breaking hug lifting him off the ground twirling him rapidly before-

"Summer! Ease up on the kid! You are going to break him, before the Grimm doo."

Qrow said smiling smugly taking a sip from his flask eating a death glare from Summer in the process.

"Qrow! What did I saw about drinking when we train!?"

Summer demanded her foot stomping in irritation as Qrow sighed.

"That it dehydrates you?"
"That's right! Now, why are you doing that in front of the children!? You are supposed to be a role model!"

"Then I'm a bad one besides not like she can actually wear me down. I mean I've been playing with her all day and she can't even land a single hit on me!"
Qrow said taking another long drink earning a glare that could chip the paint of his sword from Summer as he held a pouting reaper under a scythe.

"You cheater!"

"No such thing as cheating in a fight kiddo."

Qrow told the pined down pouting reaper who struggled to get out from the pin of his scythe.

"Stupid normal knees! Stupid kid arms! Stupid lack of upper body!"

Ruby pouted as she failed to escape from Qrow's scythe pin. The man and once again easily pinned Ruby with Harbinger. Trapping the small girl under her blade planing a foot on her abdomen as she grunted.

"Good work kid, keep it up and you might! Just might land a hit one day."

Qrow said grinning ear to ear as Ruby fumed.

"I'm going to shave that beard!"

"Whoa! Hostile! Take it down, kid leave the hot head stuff to your sister ok?"

"What was that old man!?"

"You heard me firecracker! You got a problem come see me about it!"

Qrow snapped hearing Yang growl as-

Whack!

The sound of flesh hitting flesh filled the air as Tai connected a fist landing a haymaker on his daughters face sending her flying into the air.
"Pay attention! You never know when an enemy will strike!"

Tai said a roguish smile flashing on his face as he sent his daughter flying into a crumpled heap.

"Oum dammit!"

"Language!"

"Sorry, mom!"

Yang said as Summer glared at her daughter before smiling brightly.

"That's ok Yang! Just don't do it again, now Jaune!"

"Yes, mom?"

"Put up your shield we have three more hours left of training now hop to it!"

Summer said flashing forward in a blur of white as Jaune groaned bracing himself as he clashed with his mother.


"Hah! That was great!"

Yang said finally finishing with her day of training, sitting down on her favorite chair in her home as-

"Jaune! Jaune! Do you want to see what I did!?"

Ruby asked blurring up to her brother a bight blush on her face placing a bright white canvas in front of Jaune as she displayed a variety of crayon to her brothers panting coughing sweat covered form.

"Uh, sure? What are we doing today sis?"

"Crayons!"

Ruby said practically dragging Jaune to her side as she and he begna to color in a large Beowulf.

Time had flown by for Yang. It seemed only yesterday that Jaune had just shown up in thier lives and now? Jaune was their sibling for over a year. It had gone by in a moment. One second Yang as confused shaking as the love of her life had come into her home. As a shaking starving child, Jaune had gone from a frightened timid teddy knight to somewhat less timid but for more deadly one.

Jaune was far ahead of where he was, his current skill level after a year of training was already equal to his entry at Beacon skill. Summer's relentless training of him that would have driven any other human with less than an iron will and an absurd amount of aura to quit after the first day and not pursue for over a year.

Jaune had grown from a timid mouse to a fully fledged member of the household. Tai saw him as a son Qrow as a nephew and Summer as another one of her children. And to Yang? This was just perfect.


BRAKA! BRAKA! BRAKA!

The sound of rapid gunfire filled the air of Haven along with the thick acrid smell of gunpowder as a Gatling gun fired as a pair of brown eyes narrowed. The gun clicked! A sharp metallic click! Rang out as her weapon ran out of ammo and whirred to a grinding hot it glowing red barrels spelling to s still as the minigun hissed!

Coco moved without thinking hurling her weapon forward with all her impressive muscle stretch, her weapon crashed into something soft and flesh making Coco grin the woman was busy relishing the OOF! Of air leaving a woman's chest as her weapon took her down. Her left arm shot out gripping the fire bitch by her throat enjoy the cay she gagged! Her hands clawing at Coco's and as she yanked her off the ground raising her high and-

WHACK!

Coco slammed Cinder's head into a stone slab cracking her head like a grape, Cinder head pooing on the stone table bursting part in a gooey mass of red and pink pulp. Her skull cracking on the stone tablet killing the fallen maiden in a moment.

"CINDER! NO!"

A sharp voice yelled as Coco sighed ducking the swinging sickle strike as a furious crimson-eyed woman slashed forward.

"Please. You tried that last time. Didn't work then either FYI."

Coco said in a tired voice her first launching out, punching Emerald in the throat crushing her windpipe with an aura infused blow.
The woman gagged falling back her twin weapons clattering to the floor as-

"There."

Coco thought ducking back as a burst of air blew past her face.

"Bitch!"

Mercury yelled charging forward firing air shot after air shot at Coco who dodged them with a practiced ease. She had done this many times before, over three hundred to be precise.

As Mercury ran forward his dull grey eyes alight and fueled with rage-

"Can you not yell into my ear? I need to hear my husband moan my name later on."

Coco chided ducking a kick from Mercury going below it before her arm shot out gripping the man's fake leg before twisting it infusing her hands with her aura making them glow blew as a shower of sparks and human screams filled the air as she twisted Mercury's fake leg. Ripping it off with a sicking crack of wires and oil.

Mercury screamed falling back on his back his eyes squeezed shut as-

"Mercury! You fuck-

"Can you ever be quiet?" Coco sighed taking Mercury's severed sputtering leg and-

FISHT!

Jamming it down, in one aura fueled blow crushing Emerald's head like a bug. The woman dropped like a sack of bricks her head spurting out blood and offal crushed like a gnat.

The thief fell to the floor and-

"Emerald!"

"Oh shut up you-

FISH!

"GAH!"

Coco gagged as a burning spear of yellow burst through her chest. Blowing out of her chest hollowing out her heart cavity in a moment as the smell of burning flesh filled the air she spun aroudn blood in her mouth as a pair of hateful yellowed eyes glared balefully at her.
"Fucking Vernal."

Coco said sighing once as she closed her eyes and waited for her return.

"AH!"

Coco woke with a start once again in her own bed, covered in heavy light brown blankets a heavy sigh left her lips as she rolled her head.

"Time to train."

Coco said falling out of her bed without a moment's hesitation the now nine-year-old falling on the handcrafted designer hardwood floors of her room instantly going into her daily routine of pushups. She always did this on a loop. Coco always trained the moment she got back to her bed.
This was not a bad run as this run marked the first time she and killed Cinder for a thirtieth mark. She had killed Cinder before many, many times in may many painful ways but this was her first thirtieth win streak and she owed it all to an idiot knight who stumbled his way into Beacon and against impossible odds into her heart.

Coco did not know what to expect during her first two dozen loops, they where choice, painful and desperate times when her life was filled with death, pain suffering and loss. She saw her team, her family tore away from her time and time again she did not like to think about her early experience with the hell of time travel only concerning herself with the steady progress she was making. Cinder was being pushed back farther and farther, she has stopped the fall of Beacon this time and save her team along with the brats form RWBY and JNPR including her blonde good luck charm and as he was affectionately called by Coco her very own Subby Hubby.

Coco did not know Jaune well at first. To her, he was just the goofy weak leader who had somehow managed to be partnered with a girl who was not only leagues above him but madly in love with him to boot.

To Coco Jaune Arc was a nobody, just another name in the crowd, that was until one day her life changed. It was on her twenty-fourth repeat that Coco started to break.

She could not take it. Velvet died, Yat's died and Fox died all in front of her face, her team butchered in front of her eyes time and time again it was too much!

And in that desperate panic ridden moment it happened.

"Can I go out with you!?"

The blonde dork of a knight who would later worm his way into her heart and later on her pants. Granting him the exclusive right to share her bed a privilege that no other man had done before and after a hundred times molding him into her perfect lover, no other would take since.

In the desperate fragile moment, Coco said fuck it. She was dead, she was always dead she might as well give this one idiot a night to remember?
Well that was when things changed.

She lived that time, she survived the fall of Beacon, her team and Jaune's partner did not.

After that, it happened. Coco noticed that Jaune was a literal good luck charm. The longer she associate with him the longer she lived. The farther she got and the more progress she was able to make. Jaune was a literal manifestation of good fortune and with his damn healing semblance?! It was not long before not only Coco but Fox, Yats, and even Velvet survived the fall!

The more she associated with jaune the longer everyone lived, and the more she associated with Jaune the less noodley he looked and more appealing he became. Easy on the eyes, a decent build and a master of his tongue? It didn't' take Coco long to mold him itno a more personal use for the fashionista. Coco would admit at first it was purely physical relation Jaune was a good luck charm and she needed to be around him. And with his partner barking at the door she needs to give him some incentive to make him stick so to speak. And after a cycle or tow, one night stands one a week in closest beach more personal dates were planned evenings done and soon...

"It was that smile, it all started with that damn smile."

Coco said smiling widely as she finished her first set of push-ups she was young again she had time soon she would go to Beacom there she would meet her second family deal with the sociopath of a headmaster and then her subby hubby would fall inot her lap like he always did!


"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when days are grey. You'll never know dear just how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away."

A tired rich voice sang as blood formed on its lips. A harsh gag followed by the taste of iron filled her mouth as a head dipped. The harsh smell of gunpowder fille the air along with a burning sting sensation in her side, the large blue room shook as an explosion rocked Schnee manner as the massive chandelier swayed ominously above her head threatening to come down at any minute.

"Velvet? I...

"Shh. It's ok Jaune. It's ok you are going to be fine."

Velvet said rubbing her lovers head, running her strong callused and though his hair, his normal sort blonde locks were now matted and stained with fresh blood. His own blood poured freely from his scalp as Jauen gasped.

He was dying again, Jaune was going to die in her arms again. For what was this? The five hundredth time? Velvet lost count after four hundred redoes. Hundreds of attempt to change the future save her team and her love all ending in bitter, failure. Tears fell from her brown eyes like always Jaune gagged.
"I... I can't feel my legs..."

He wheezed as Velvet cringed looking down at her bleeding lovers crumpled form. It was apparent that the reason Jaune could not fell his legs was that he did not have any legs to fell not after Adam...

"You're fine Jaune. You just hit your head, you'll be ok."

Velvet lied smoothly as Jaune's lips curled up in a bitter smile his once bright skin that seemed to radiate happiness sunken and ashed, his face had lost almost all of its color and his flesh was cold as death. A death that was soon to come for not only Jaune but her as well.

"That's good for a second I thought I didn't have any!"

Jaune joked weakly blood spitting out form his mouth as his body shook and trembled a violent tremor running through it as his massive amount of aura tried to heal him. His very soul attempting to keep him alive, a futile gesture. His blood loss was far too great and if judging by the crushed remains of his legs in the far opposite corners of the room.

Winter's old bedroom actually, Velvet would normally worry about the mess they caused with a failed to makeshift surgery, not that Winter would mind when you lose your head you tend to not care about much else after all.

"Velvet... I don't feel so good."

Jaune said more blood falling from his mouth as Velvet moved her hands over his head petting him gently as her bruised faunus rabbit ears fell down.

"Shh, it's going to be ok." Velvet said as Jaune's dull blue eyes shut close.
"I'll always love you and make you happy. If you will love the same. But if you leave me and love another you will regret it one day!"

A blonde human with a guitar played as Velvet nearly fell out of her char, this Jaune was adorable! She thought that Coco forcing her on a date a regular occurrence in her loops would end like all the others.
In awkward silence and wasted time but this time? This human was interesting. Velvet thought as she petted her human's blood-matted blonde hair in the shaking Schnee manner as she let her memories overtake her.

"You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away."
"Freak! Look I told you they are real! What a loser!"
"Stop! Leave her alone!"

A shaking terrified voice said as Velvet's ears perked up. This was new, in all her loops no one ever dared to defend her against her bullies. There was never a blonde boy with blue eyes in front of her and-

"Leave her alone!"
The boy said before being beaten into a pulp. He got in a good hit but four on one was never a good fight. Soon the boy was bloody bruised and looking halfway to the grave.

"Why? Why did you help me?"

"Becuase you needed help!"

The boy said smiling missing several teeth as blood leaked from his bruised gums as Velvet giggled the boy was a fool but he was kind, she wished never met him.

"You once told me you really love me. And no one else could come between. And now you left me and love another. You have shattered all of my dreams."
Velvet sang the song that her love had sung to her on that dances now that now seemed to have happened an eternity ago as Jaune gasped as his chest rose fell and went still as he gave his final breath as Velvet sighed.

"Please, don't take my sunshine away."

Velvet said as the ceiling fell ending her world in messy squelch!

When Velvet wok in her hovel a tired sigh left her lips. Jaune died, her team died everyone died again.

"I guess I'm doing this again."

Velvet said rising from her too many thick covers in her underground home Velvet did not know anymore she... she was lost...

"Again, it just keeps happening to me!"

Velvet shouted tears in her brown eyes as she clutched her fists into tight balls of rage. Not that she knew it but she was different, different than any other afflicted by the curse of the loops, you see unlike everyone else dealing with the hell of failure after failure Velvet was special. Velvet was the only person who had won.

Velvet did it! She really did it! She beat this hell of death and repeat! She beat Cinder! She stopped the fall of Beacon! She even killed Salem herself twice! She watched the Grimm queen's palace fall as her team shouted and her lover, the lovable blonde knight came to her side. Her the weakest of her team proved time and time again to be the strongest.

She retired after that became a stay at home mother for her and Jaune's inevitable thirteen children. She filled the rest of her day's with love and warmth and when she died old and in her bed with her threatened kids and dozens upon dozens of grandkids aroudn her she was finally happy...

Until she woke up.

Velvet nearly cried when first happened. What did she do!? Where did she go wrong!? Velvet thoguht ti was a cruel joke but no, she had awoken back in her hovel even after her supposed victory she was sent back and this would not bet the last time.

Every. Single. Time. Velvet was sent back.

Victory or defeat she always came back here.

"It's always the same."

Velvet thought as she balled her fist endless repeats, none like the last. Some ended in her victory or survival. Some ended in her crushing defeat just like her last. No two were the same and they were all painful.

As Velvet choked down pained sob a determined looked came over her face. She knew she was lost she could not stop this loop that was a fact she gave up on charging thing a long time ago now? Now she was determined to be a mother to her friends. Keeping them all alive and happy for as long as possible. Velvet had a theory a dark theory about the loops that she dared not give voice. It was something that kept her up at night at and her life impossible. She called it critical mass that whatever was happening to her had a hard limit of retries allowed. And that if you broke that number you were stuck. The thought terrified Velvet. Stuck in her own loop, no matter what Victory or death, forced to repeat this hell time and time again for eternity? This was hell.

"I need to get better." Velvet said as she hopped off of her small brown bed as she grit her teeth as the cold floor greeted her feet. She would keep them alive and keep her knight for herself. Velvet had beaten the loops before and she would do them again. A tired sigh came from her mouth as sher rolled out of her bed and did what she always did when she came back she began to train.


"Jaune! Come on! It's movie night!"

Ruby said pulling her older brother close as Jaune nodded.

"Hold up Ruby! Let me walk!"

Jaune gasped as his little sister pulled him to the now dingy green Patch couch. Ruby tugged Jaune with an unnatural strength even after over a solid year of Summer's training Jaune could still into believing just how stronger his little sister was, as she pulled him to the couch a low dry gravely voice chuckled out loud.

"Jeez, Ruby wait till you marry the boy to boss him around like that."

Qrow said taking a sip from his flask leaned back in the old Lazy boy recliner flashing Ruby a smug grin making Juane flush as Ruby pouted.

"Uncle Qrow! Don't tease Jaune like that!"

"I'm not teasing! I see the way you look at him. She's got a crush on you blondie watch out! If she's like her mother she likes guys on the rebound-

WHACK!

"Ow!"

"Qrow you were sign something about me and rebound?"

Summer said smiling bloody murder at Qrow.

"Not at all!"

"That's what I thought!"

Summer said triumphantly harumphing holding a bowl full of popcorn big enough for a family twice as big as there own and holding enough butter in one corner of it to give a normal man diabetes two times over.

"Movie night! I hope you are all ready! I found a perfect action flick! Spruce Willis at his best!"

Summer said smiling sitting down on her own husband's lap, enjoying his strong hand gripping her waist, and she nuzzled the back of her head against his stubble. Putting down her bucket of popcorn with far too much butter and grease that a good mother should allow, for her children.

Good thing Summer was not a good mother, she was the best! And the best mom gives her kids triple buttered popcorn for dinner! Only after they eat thier vegetables.

"Hell yeah! Popcorn!"Yang said during her fist into the bucket-

Slap!

"Excuse me?"

Summer asked a warning tone in her sharpened silver eyes as Yang gulped.

"I mean! Heck yeah?"

Yang asked as repeat or not an angry Summer rare as she was not something that Yang wanted to deal with.

"That's what I thought!"

Summer said victorious removing her hand from Yang's quaking one the eleven-year-old gripping her hand blowing it as Ruby and Jaune took advantage in the disrupted sibling pecking order diving their hands in taking up fist fulls of popcorn and shoving them into their faces.

"Hey! Leave some for me!"

Yang whined diving her fist back into the bucket fighting her siblings for dominance making shouts and accusations fill the air while Summer sighed her children behaving like animals over something as simple as a snack.

"Remind you of Beacon? That time I brought in the triple glazed crepes? You and Raven nearly tore each other's hair not to mention your throats out for the last one."

Tai said reading his wives mind with the trained ease of a husband who had been married for far too long.

"Tai! I did not!"

"What? I thought I was going to have to be burying one of you by the end of that squabble."

Qrow said speaking in air quotes taking a sip of his flask only to gaps and crash to the floor with a large whap! As a pillow landed in his face seeing him careening off the lazy boy making his nieces and nephews chuckled.

"Hah! The old bird got knocked off his perch!"

Yang shouted chewing loudly through mouthfuls of buttery salted popcorn as Qrow groaned.

"Uncle qrow? Are you ok?"
Ruby ever the sweat heart asked as-

"He's fine, I've seen him get hit by bigger things at bars."

Jaune added dismissing his uncle with a glare as he an Yang's fist bumped.

"Dman blondes. Why is it that they never like me?"

"Cause you never know when to shut your mouth?"

"Or you don't know how to talk to a woman?"

Yang and Jaune said in almost perfect tension as Qrow balked, string up at his niece and nephew with an appalled glared.
"What?! I am a master of women! I took many hearts in Beacon I'll have you know!"

Qrow said defiantly still tiring and failing to stan up flailing like a... like a long drunken bird as Tai chuckled.

"Can you eve name a girl you date longer than a weekend?"

Tai asked as Qrow's mouth fell open.

"Yes! I dated a girl longer than a weekend!"

"Qrow that fall day weekend does not count."

Summer said as Qrow growled.

"It does!"

"Qrow that was a four day weekend that does not count."

Tai deadpanned as-

"Ouch, the drunk bird got roasted."

Yang said as Qrow turned his irritated glare to his loving niece.

"Oh? What's this? Is the girl who has never had so much as a date in her life lecturing me?"

Qrow asked mocking child as Yang smirked.

"Hey, just cause ther is no man who can handle me is not my fault you know?"

"You mean you can't confess to the boy who you like. Jaune! You find a girl yet! I heard you like blondes.'

Qrow said flashing her a shit-eating grin as Yang's cheeks went redder than her sister's cape.

"What? No, I don't really talk to many girls."

Jaune said blsuhing slightly as he bowed his head.

"I wonder why? Jaune what happened to that Sarah girl who you like?"

"Oh, Sarah? She talked to Yang and then she didn't want to date me."

"And Lisa?"

"She talked to Yang too why?"

"And Michelle-

"Hey. How come every time a girl like me and she talks to you she runs away?"

Jaune asked his elder sister who gulped.

"Um, no reason! Jaune they were no good for you anyway!"

"She means they were not her Jaune."

"Not her? What does that mean?"

Jaune asked an innocent look on his eyes as Yang growled.

"Jaune those girls were no good ok?"

"But why where they no good?"

"Because!"

"Becuase?"

"Becuase she said so Jaune Yang likes you."

Qrow said simply as Yang's cheeks went blood red as Summer flashed her partner a death glare and-

"Oh? I like her too!"

Jaune said smiling ear to ear as-

Whap!

"Ow! Mom! Yang hit me!"

Jaune whined rubbing his shoulder wincing in pain as Ruby panicked rubbing his injured arm as well.

"Jaune, you deserved that."

Summer said as Jaune paled.

"What did I do?!"

"You are being dense Jaune stop that. Qrow stop teasing the children."

"They started it!"

"Qrow they are children."

"They are being mean!"

"Qrow. They are children."

Summer said a warnign tone that made Jaune mumbled under his breath.
"Stupid kids when was the last time they did anything for me!?"

"When was the last time you had a date?"

Jaune asked as Qrow's mouth fell as-

"Boom! Good one bro!"

Yang said giving her brother and not so secret crush as fist bump as-

"Why I out to-

"Qrow. Children."

Summer chided as Qrow mumbled falling back in his seat running off a slew of expletives as Summer sighed.

She saw a storm brewing in her children a storm that she did not want to see happen. Ruby like Jaune her crush was a clear as day. She hung on Summe's adoptive son's arms like a koala. Never letting Jaune go more than five feet from her side.

Jaune for all his good points and there were a lot of them! Thought of her clinginess as simple sisterly affection. Jaune bless his soul indulged her affections. He treated her like as he called her his rosebud.

A foolish but sweet nickname that Summer had done nothing to discourage as Ruby and Jaune looked so cute! She could already see her red-blonde hair grandkids running around and Summer wanted nothing more than to help their relationship along. And she would if not for one thing her other daughter Yang. Yang also liked Jaune but was nowhere near as held back as her daughter.

Yang liked to wrestle with Jaune. Roughhousing putting him inot may submission pins as she would call them that Jaune could!

If he really wanted to break free form but Yang' position as the alpha sibling was undisputed in thier simple pecking order. Yang was on top, the Jaune then Ruby.

But! That was only in public in the house it was complicated. Yang was clearly the dominant one but Ruby young as she was, was oddly mature for her age. She was smarter than most in her class, she did not steal, lie or cheat common things for kids her age. This also had lead to her developing more devious approach to Jaune.

While Yang liked to rub Jaune's face if her developing assets that would surely match her mother's own... bountiful size Ruby was subtle.
She sat on his lip asked him for fave rode him piggyback. Both sisters were making plays at Jaune and none seemed to realize that the other was doing so! This could only end in one way and Summer saw it coming just as the movie started she knew that it would end in disaster.


"You know for someone with a loud mouth you don't really know how to fight."

A pair of dull grey eyes asked as Nora growled.

"Shut up!"

Nora shouted blood in her teeth as Mercury sighed.

"You know for all that talk of breaking legs you don't look so hot when your own are broken, you all talk kid?"

The assassin asked as Nora glared daggers at him. her hammer gripped in a death grip in one arm, the other as broken as her legs as Mercury smirked smiling in the dull moonlight of the emerald forest.

"Just get it over with."

Nora said not willing to keep this loop going for any longer than necessary. Mercury won this time, he beat her in the forest in Mistral. Right now the rest of her friends were attacking and winning as Ruby would call it even if it was simply delaying the inevitable.
The battle here lead them to Atlas where the disaster in Schnee Manner would occur. Soon they would all be dead, Jaune, Ren Pyrrha... What was left of RWBY.

Nora never felt that bad about sacrificing thier sister team. Don't get Nora wrong she loved team RWBY but they were not her true family. Jaune, Ren, and Pyrrha were her brothers and sister everyone else was secondary.

"Just get it over with."

Nora said as Mercury sighed.

"Well at least you won't beg, you did better than Weiss? Was that her name? You know she begged when Cinder found her on the roof? Begged to bot be killed for the power she stole? I heard it was you who convince Weiss to be a maiden why was that?"

Mercury asked no longer sensing danger in his downed opponent and decided to do what he did beast be an ass hole to people he was goign to put in the ground.

"What? why do you care? She's dead Cinder's the maiden why does it matter that I have her a speech?"

Nora said not sure why Merucy just was not getting it over with, and why the assassin hadn't sent her back in time for another chance.
"Well don't get your panties in a bunch! I'm just curious."

"Curious?"

Nora asked a lone teal eye spitting up a wad of bloody phlegm as Mercury nodded his head and flashed a pair of finger guns to her.

"Yeah, I'm curious! You peak my interest Valkyrie! Le'ts chat."

The assassin said taking a seat on a stump o wood as Nora rolled her eyes.

"Mercury cant' we just get his over with? I know you are going to kill me, you know you are going to kill me why drag this out?"

Nora asked as Mercury blinked in confusion.
"Really? You know most people in your position start begging by now. Turns out most humans don't' want to die."

"Well, I'm not most humans."

"What are you suicidal?"

The assassin asked now genuinely interested in the bleeding out hammer wilder who looked more annoyed than anything.

"Does she not know I'm going to kill her soon? Does she even care?"

Mercury thought eyeing the downed bleeding girl with curiosity as she rested her diminutive form on her hammer. Panting heavily her aura desperately tiring to patch up her bleeding form as she whimpered.

"So you are not suicidal? Shouldn't you be running?"

"You'd catch me."

"You can almost fly that hammer sends you clean across the forest you could make a good show of it you know?"

"And give you the satisfaction of hunting me down and killing me? Thanks, but no thanks, I'm good.'

Nora said with a steely tone as Mercury chuckled.

"Fine! Fine! Be a killjoy! I'm used to it, by now really most of the women in my life are like that."

"What Emerald not going down on you enough?"

"Not nearly! And how did you know about that? The last time someone knew about our trys they end up in the barrel in the harbor of Vale, you a voyeur or something Valkyrie? If so kinky I dig it."

The boy said, flashing Nora, a cocky smile as she rolled her head.

"Please spare me the details of your sex life. I'm already going to get killed by you don't let me heat about her making Emerald gag on your cock. Please."

"Hey, you started this! You asked if I was sleeping with my partner, you really should watch your tone."

"Can you please just kill me! Come on! I'm tired, just end this."

Nora said in no mood for games. It was bad enough that she had lost the fight to save Beacon again. It was bad enough that she had to get about these repeats by sacrificing a member of team RWBY every time instead of Pyrrha.

It was bad enough that she had done this over five hundred times and still! Had nowhere close to what she considered progress. She just wanted to get this damn death scene over with.

Mercury was an ass but he was a professional before anything else despite his easy-going nature he was a cold-blooded killer and he would never let his emotions get in the way of his kill.

"Well here's the thing I can kill you and I will but I'm really curious! You didn't strike me as the kind of girl who wants to die. You have things to live for. You have a boyfriend, you love your team and you are young! Why so eager to die?"

"I don't care just kill me."

Nora deadpanned making the assassin grin.

"There! That's why I'm talking about! That look! That's the look! You don't give a damn that I'm going to kill you. You are not afraid why?"
"Does it matter?"

"Honesty no I'm just curious so indulge me?"

"Go to hell."

"Fine but I'll see you there. Save me a seat why don't you?"

Mercury asked cocking back a leg standing up and send a burst of air to Nora aura less form as she closed her eyes and-

"Hey! My name is Ren! Lie Ren do you need some help?"

A pair of Magenta eyes asked as Nora smiled ignoring the mind-numbing hunger in her gut as the love of her life looked down to her.
"Yes, yes I do."

Nora said as Ren helped her up and she smiled and-

"Wait for what!? Why is Ren helping me?!"

Nora thought as for some reason Ren was helping her? He never helped her in any timelines when they first met. As the love of her life help her up a steady look in his eyes as she saw him twitch.

"It's good to see you, Nora."

"Ren!? How do you know my name!?"

Nora gasped her child form forgetting the pangs of hunger as Ren smiled.

"I could never forget you."

Ren said as tears form in Nora's eyes as a miracle happened.


Jaune was never a smart person.

"Easy there, Mister Grimm! You don't want to eat me now do you?"

Jaune asked as the Beowulf stalked him in the outside of the abandoned farmhouse he had so foolishly gone in the middle of the night to get his adoptive sisters mom back!

Really! Jaune just had to go! All Yang said was that the map he found when giving Yang her nightly back rub was that it looked like a map of something important.

Yang said her mom her real mom like to hang out there.

And Jaune know hs en to meet her real mom decided that if she coudl ther then maybe he coudl convince her mom to come back and-

"Please don't eat me"!

Jaune yelled as the Girmm charged its claws flashing down inot his make making blood fly as his aura flared-

"KID!"

The furious voice of Qrow yelled as Jaune saw a blur of red and black as his vision swam as it went dark.

"Kid!? Kid?! Oh, fuck me hold on!"

Qrow yelled picking up a bleedingJaune up as his vision swam and Jaune's world turned black...


"Goddammit!"

Qrow yelled sprinting through the forest his heart was up and his fist balled.

"Stupid idiot! This is why I can't take blondes! They always get into this shit!"

Qrow yelled moving through the forest at a preternatural speed. His night had taken a turn for the chaotic. One moment he was enjoying a drink on the way back from a mission form Oz. The nest he's making a mad dash to the ass end of Patch to rescue his dumb ass nephew who was hell-bent on getting his own ass kill for searching for the deadbeat mom that called herself his sister.

"Fucking hell! I won't make this!"

Qrow thought taking a deep breath before turning into his fast form. His legs melted and shited as his whole body collapsed into a single black mass that sprouted wings and began to fly.

Qrow never did like becoming a well Qrow. It was awkward not to mention irritating. "Why did the fucking immortal wizard that I basically sold my soul to have to be the one with a damn sense of humor?"

Qrow thought flying through the forest at blinding speeds know that he was running out of time.

Jaune had left three hours ago according to a frantic panicky Summer who sounded like her world was falling to pieces. Apparently, Yang, had Jaune give her one of his trademarked back rubs and she somehow let it slip out that she missed her mother, and she had a map!? Of all things to where an old hideout of Raven's was. And the lovable idiot nephew that he was had decided to wait until everyone was asleep sneak out and go on a mission to bring back Yang's mother.

"Fucking moron!"

Qrow thought finally saw the dark small cabin looming up in the far distance as his beard eyes narrowed he let out a rough feral growl it was not the best sight.

Jaune was facing down an Ursa a major not a minor, the blonde boy for all his credit held his ground. Aiming his sword up and he raised a shield. Not that it did any good. The Ursa slammed down a paw with the force of a sledgehammer. Striking down the boy as-

"Jaune!"

Qrow shouted turning inot human for the final sprint to the boy. Jaune fell screaming as blood flew from his face. the boy hits the ground with a wet slap! As his aura flared up Qrow launched forward Harbinger slashing out and slicing the monster in two. The Grimm died without a sound as Qrow fell to the crying bleed boy.

"Jaune!? Jaune!? Speak to me kid! Kid!?"

Qrow shouted picking up the bleeding coughing boy his blue eyes rolling in his head as his breath came out in rough sharp gasps.

"Uncle Qrow?"

Jaune barley wheezed making the man grimace.

"Dammit! Hold on kid I got you!" Qrow shouted picking up his fool of a nephew carrying the bleeding boy into his arms and sprinting for the hospital.


"So... how bad am I?"
Jaune asked a tall man in a white coat. The doctor with the name Brown on his coat sighed heavily as he looked over at his clipboard.
"Consider yourself quite lucky young man, the Uras could have taken out an eye."

The man said as Jaune gulped.

"Will I be ok?"

"Besides some major blood loss yes."

"Will it leave a scar?"

"Oh yes, I'm afraid that little fight will be with you the rest of your life. I'm sorry but you will live. Until then I will leave you with your guardian." The man said as he left the room as a sighing Qrow looked up.

"He'll live?"

"With a scar but yes."

"Good."

Qrow said making his way to his bandaged nephew who looked away from him.

"So... you wanted to meet your aunt huh?"

Qrow asked as Jaune kept his face firmly on the floor.

"I'm going to have a scar.'

"So what? Chicks dig scars, you'll be a smash with the ladies in no time. Trust me I know."

Qrow said sitting next to his nephew taking out his flask and taking a stiff drink, sighingly deeply before a heavy silence filled the air.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be. You did what you thought was right."

"You think Summer is mad at me?"

"Mad at you? Nah she's furious right now. I thought she was going to strangle me on the scroll just to get to you."|

Qrow said giving off a trademark dry laugh taking another swig of liquor as Jaune gulped.

"I don't want her to be mad."

"Kid, she's not mad... she's just worried. She thinks of you as her son, adopted or not she is your mom. And she just had to hear from me that her son was in the hospital in critical condition after fighting a Grimm twice his size. What do you think she's felling?"

"Like her world is falling apart?"

"That and a burning need to take you and hug you till you pass out and chain you to your bed till your old enough to date."

"Isn't that a bit... extreme?"

"For Summer that is calm. She takes the safety of her children very seriously. And you for better or worse are one of them."

"I... she's going to ground me huh?"

"Only till your next birthday."

"But that's so far!"

"Hey take it easy when I ran away from Beacon to go out drinking for a weekend mind you, she literally chained me to her hip!"

"She chained you to her hip?"

"She put a collar on my neck and dragged me aroudn the school."

"Like a dog?"

"More or less..."

"That's... interesting..."

"Your mother is interesting Jaune you know? Luckily Tai took one for the team and now she only leads him around by a collar at night. That's why Raven was into him now that I think about it. Also if you ever hear barking late at night in the house espically coming from their bedroom do not! Go investigate it ok?"

Qrow said as Jaune shivered as a cold hand gripped his spine.

"I won't?"

"Good your eyes and brain will thank me later as well as your sanity. Not to mention your future therapist."

"Are they that bad?"

"Kid I once walked in that room unannounced on a bender only to be reminded that a sock on a knob means stay out bob!"
Qrow said shivering as Jaune gulped.

"Since I'm going to be grounded till I can't think can I have a drink?"
Jaune asked making Qrow cock his head warily before shrugging his shoulders.

"Why not? You are dead anyway."
Qrow said taking his flask giving it to his nephew hiding his shit eating grin as Jaune took his first and hopefully not last bit of hard liquor-

"AHH! What is this stuff!? I taste like death!"
Jaune gagged spitting out the drink as Qrow hollered.

"Hah! That' a man's drink Jaune! It put's hair on your chest! It will make you a big strong man!"

"I don't want to be a big strong man!"

"I've seen you around your sister, I can believe that."

The man grumbled as-

"Jaune! JAUNE! Where is my son!?"

A panicked familiar voice yelled as Qrow sighed.

"It was nice knowing you blondie."

"Burry me somewhere nice?"

"Sure how about the cliffs in Patch?"

"Perfect."

Jaune said as the hospital doors almost flew off their hinges as a blur of white came in.

"Jaune!"

"Mom-
"What is wrong with you!? You moron!"
Summer yelled blurring up to her son as a loud whap!

She slapped Jauen cheek making him flush before tearing off his gown.

"Are you hurt?! Where does it hurt!? You face! Your precious beautiful face!? What is wrong with you!"

"I wanted t-

"I'm goign to wring your neck till you break!"

Summer yelled shaking the life out of her gagging som Summer crying as Jaune cried as the parent and child embraced making Qrow give a sly smile as a family reunion finally had a happy ending a rare thing for him., as the night finally came to an end.


AN! OK! Another day another chapter of Reverse! A paid chapter too! I won't take much more of these in the future by my inner alcoholic thanks you for your patronage! Next up is Game on so look forward to it! And as always thanks for reading!