Yang stood at the doors to the infirmary for a moment, if anyone asked her she would say it was because she thinking about whether or she really wanted to do this. After all, if she was caught in the infirmary after hours then she could be charged with some very serious this and may even be expelled.
That is what she would have said to anyone who asked her. In all reality, she was trying to understand why she hadn't hesitated at all when she reached the door. Sure Jaune was her friend. Maybe even her best friend, after all, she had never gotten into a bar fight with anyone else. shaking off those thoughts Yang got back to the matter at hand. Opening the doors to the infirmary Yang looked down at her scroll to see where the orderly was. He making the rounds and was at the end of his route.
Making her way over to a cart and taking up a position behind it she kept one eye on her scroll and the other one on the corner the orderly would be walking around. She took a moment to think and then she hid entirely. She couldn't see herself on the cameras and she didn't want to risk being seen by the orderly.
After the orderly finished his route and began again she snuck her way towards Jaune's room. She stayed about ten feet behind the orderly. This way she didn't waste time and still kept a safe distance from orderly.
When she reached Jaune's room she was about to go in when she heard a voice. It was Suzanna. "Don't try to move that arm, I can lay on your the other side." that got Yang's attention. She was laying down with him… but only Yang did that. And she was talking about his injured shoulder and ribs. That meant that she was on Jaune's left side which is where she usually stayed.
Yang felt sick to her stomach, who did this bitch think she was. Jaune was Yang's friend, not her's. Just as she was about to enter the room and throw the Heffer out she heard Jaune groan in pain and she froze. Had she just Hurt him. Now Yang was getting ready to not just throw her out but to kill her too. Thinking fast Yang grabbed the nearest weapon she could she grabbed a desk phone and ripped the cord out of it. Wrapping the cord around her hands a few times she gave her makeshift garrote a few tugs to test its strength. When she was satisfied she walked back to the room and then froze again when she had touched the door. She could see them through the small window and they were so peaceful.
Suzanna had curled up next to Jaune's left side and had her left arm on his chest. Neither of them saw her and she swiftly ducked down below the window again. "You don't need to stay here." Jaune's words gave Yang a brief shot of fear, had he seen her.
"I do, not only that I want to be here with you." Suzanna's answer told Yang that Jaune hadn't seen her but She had little time to think about that.
Jaune's next words were spoken in a calm and honest fashion, leaving no room to argue their legitimacy. "Suzanna, I love you."
In the blink of an eye, Yang felt a sledgehammer crash into her chest, through her heart and lodge itself in her soul. She didn't really remember when she started to cry or when she curled into a ball. Her silent sobs rocking her vision more than the hardest hit she ever took in training.
She laid there until a gentle hand grasped her shoulder. Looking up she saw the orderly kneeling over her. She knew she should be afraid of what was going to happen but she couldn't feel it. She did feel him taking the cord from her hands and putting it back on the phone it belonged to. Then she felt him pull her to her feet. He was going to take her to an empty room to avoid disturbing any other residence and then he would call for a teacher.
Yang wasn't certain when she left the infirmary or why the orderly was helping her do so. As they reached a door she looked up and saw that it was her dorm room. The orderly reached up and rapped his knuckles on the door. Weiss answered it and saw the orderly supporting Yang who was slight amount taller than. "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
the threat was obvious so the orderly simply shrugged and said. "My name is Chad and I am repaying a favor that I owe to my friend." With that, he left back for the infirmary.
Weiss guided Yang back into the room and sat her down in a chair. "What happened, where did you go." Yang began to retell her journey to them and found the tears coming stronger as she reached the end.
Her mounting pain and frustration finally breaching her limit she yelled. "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE HELL DOES THIS HURT SO MUCH".
She was answered with silence for several seconds before a small voice said. "Because you're in love with him." Yang turned to see Ruby walking towards her. Once she reached the chair she reached her arms around Yang and pulled her sister into a hug saying. "I know what you are feeling, you lost someone you loved and now you don't know what do. You're in pain and you want to be mad, mad at the world, mad at him, and in the end mad at yourself."
the words of mature wisdom from an unlikely source brought Yang back to the operation just a month ago. The operation where Bud was killed. It was no secret that Bud and Ruby were in love. As cliche as it may have sounded, it was almost loved at first sight, right down to the way he spoke to and handled Crescent Rose. they were in love and it could have gone anywhere. But he went out with Jaune, Luke, Ren, and Nora to raid the White Fang safe house that tried to have Weiss killed and Blake framed for it.
Ruby had gone after them even though she was told not to. And then Bud had to be sent to get her out. It was then that Bud had told her that he loved her and it was shortly after that when a White Fang sniper killed bud, it had been found out that the shooter was most likely not a White Fang member and rather a hired killer since the gun used was a stolen Atlesian prototype weapon meant to breach armour. As such it made short work of Bud's body armor and then Bud's body.
Looking up she saw Ruby had tears in her eyes and she wrapped her baby sister in her arms and held her. After all, they were both hurting so it made sense. Looking at the alarm clock Yang saw that it was getting late and carried Ruby to her bed and after she had gotten Ruby in bed she tried to leave but Ruby wouldn't let go.
Understanding what Ruby meant Yang stayed with her for the night. And after Ruby had fallen asleep Yang allowed her thoughts to drift to a memory that only further supported Ruby's claim that she was in love with Jaune.
It was during the time they spent It was back during the time when team rockslide was staying with the Arc's for Christmas. After Jaune had tried to kill Jorge when he found Jorge was sleeping with mother Jorge gave Jaune a case of what looked to be whiskey. The actual drunkenness never seemed to hit Jaune. Though Jorge explained that the effects might be more pronounced if the whiskey weren't made by Jaune's own father.
The "curse" Jorge said that Jaune suffered from and that he apparently got from his father. Was that when Jorge got any kind of alcohol that was made by someone he could use something called " Sadin" to slightly alter the chemistry and change the taste. But in the case of Romerean and apparently Jaune. When they drank such spirits they also took on traits similar to the personality of the maker.
This brew of whiskey was made by Jaune's father. And the traits that it bestowed upon him were barely noticeable causing Jorge to make a joke about how Jaune and Romerean were basically the same people, well there was one difference. Romerean was apparently easily manipulated. Yang had gotten him to spar with her twice a day during the week. That being said Romerean was a much meaner fighter than Jaune.
Jaune fought fair, Romerean kicked fair fights in the teeth. He was all for the cheap shots. He once got back clinch and then threw a couple kidney shots. The pain this caused Yang allowed him to perform a talented belly to back suplex. Then he back mount and caught her in an armbar. In all honesty, Yang was relieved to have Jaune try to fight her. Even if it came at the price of Jaune fighting a little meaner than usual.
This also lead to the two of them being rather exhausted at the end of the day. And this might have been a good thing as it would have been easier to convince him to be willing to sleep in a bed. But it seems that Romerean was even more stubborn than Jaune when it came to modesty. Ultimately Yang just gave up on getting him sleep in a bed at night and followed him wherever he went through the night. This lead to many times when she would find him and Jorge sitting on the front porch talking about the battles they had seen.
One night she found Jaune sitting out on the porch with a cup of coffee. Yang decided that she wouldn't let him sit there all alone so she made herself a cup of tea and walked out onto the porch. She soon learned the error of her logic when she realized just how cold it was. Her t-shirt and shorts were wholly inadequate. But that gave her an Idea to get him to come inside.
"What brings you out here at this time of night" Jaune said from his place in the rightmost chair.
Yang sat in the chair just to his and said. "I have this friend who does stupid stuff like sitting out on the front porch when it is too damn cold to do so. I guess I was just worried about him."
Jaune nodded he seemed to understand her point. "Well, I know this friend of yours. He is a pretty resilient guy. I think he can take care of himself, you, on the other hand, coming out here in a pair of short shorts and a light t-shirt. Well, you may want to go inside and warm up."
Recognizing a chance to get him inside Yang continued. "Well, I could be persuaded to do that If I was kept company."
her request was clear and after a moment Jaune answered. "I wouldn't be opposed to that but I need to take care of something first." with a simple gesture of his arm he motioned to the C.A.S.A.C.O.M. leaning against the wall of the house between the two chairs.
Now Yang was concerned. "Is there something I should be aware of?" as she spoke Yang panned her view across the dark field before her looking for a threat. She found none but she kept looking.
"No," Jaune said as he again looked out only this time his gaze seemed to lock on something. "I need you to stay here. If I don't come back in three minutes wake up Jorge." as he spoke Jaune rose to his feet and turned to walk off of the porch. Stopping he turned and gestured to his rifle and asked Yang. "do you know how to use that?"
Yang nodded a no and said, " I have no idea how it works."
Jaune reached across the front of Yang and grabbed his rifle holding it up in front of her. He began pointing to buttons and switches as he named all of them. "Magazine release, bolt release, and this is the safety. This is the charging handle and just don't press these buttons." after he spoke for a moment he asked her. "Do you even know how to shoot a rifle.?"
With a slightly embarrassed smile, Yang said, "no, not really"
No Jaune paused again and said. "Then let's get you inside," with his hands on her arms he gently stood Yang up and they walked inside of the house. He led her to the bedroom where team RWBY was staying. Once he got her inside he tried to get her into the bed while also getting her to let go of him. She wouldn't and he was getting annoyed. Why didn't she get it? He was her team leader he couldn't do anything that may be seen as favoritism and since he most definitely was not sharing a bed with the rest of his teams he couldn't do it with her. "Yang release me."
Her response was swift and resolute. "No" Jaune was going to argue with her when she continued. " I am not letting go of you because I have no way of knowing if you are going to try to go back out there. So no I am not going to let you go. If you won't sleep in the bed then you can sit next to it.
After a moment Jaune seemed to think and then with a tired face said. "Damn it this isn't going to end well." and with that, he climbed into the bed next to Yang. as she quickly laid her head on his chest and wrapped an arm around him to keep him from moving she allowed herself to be slowly lulled to sleep by the sound of Jaune's heartbeat. Among her final thoughts before slipping into sleep was that she could stay here for an eternity. At that moment she was content.
…
Team RWBY sat in silence as Yang sobbed with her little sister. It was wrong and she knew it, she shouldn't have gotten attached to him. He seemed like such a nice person. He cared about his team. He loved his family. He was a good man. It all seemed too perfect, so in the end, it was. The one time she had really attached to someone after summer died and he broke her heart.
The silence was interrupted by a knocking at the door this time it was Blake who answered the door. She stood in shock for a moment and then asked the person standing there. "Shouldn't you still be in the infirmary?"
The was a dry laugh from a familiar voice as Jaune said. "Maybe but Chad just told me that one of my teammates was crying in the hall so I came to see what the problem was." as he stepped into the room Jaune saw that Yang was crying and Weiss and Ruby were glaring at him.
"What are you doing here?" Weiss snarled her voice little more than a hiss.
With a confused look on his face, Jaune answered. "I came here to find out why one of my teammates was found crying in the hallway. I just said that."
Realizing that Jaune was right and that she in her haste just asked a pointless question Weiss slightly lowered her head and stepped farther between Jaune and Yang. Jaune, in turn, walked around her and reached out to put his hand on Yang's shoulder. "Yang, what hap…"
Jaune never finished his sentence as Yang burst into flame and lashed her arm out at him. He didn't have time to raise his aura so his skin burnt at the touch and he lurched back to avoid further damage. In his lunge, he accidentally slammed his right arm against one of the dressers and the pain that flooded his body brought him to his knees.
With a growl, he rose to his feet turning towards the girls of team RWBY he felt his blood begin to boil with the same rage he experienced when he fought with Yatsuhashi. Recognizing that he couldn't risk hurting any of them Jaune closed his eyes and focused very hard on the thought of Suzanna waiting for him when he returned. The peace he felt wash over him quickly subdued the dark fury he felt a moment before.
Upon opening his eyes Jaune saw that team RWBY was now staring at him with fear on their faces. They had no doubt felt the emotions running off of him and were afraid of what was to come. Looking once more at them Jaune said in a stern voice. "Clearly you aren't that hurt otherwise you wouldn't be so violent." with that he left the room.
As soon as he left the room Yang began to cry once more. Her words where almost indecipherable but it was clear she felt bad for hurt Jaune when he was just trying to help. She kept on crying for several minutes and Ruby was getting ready to call her dad. It was true that he father would most likely try to kill Jaune but at least he could get Yang to stop crying. As soon as Ruby's hand reached her scroll the door opened once more.
"Okay chitlins tell momma Arc what is wrong." standing in the door was Isabao. She had a bag with her and she made her way over to the bed where Yang was. As she sat down she slowly wrapped an arm around the hysterical teen and repeated her question. "Yang sweetie tell me what is wrong."
All at once Yang lunged forwards and latched her arms around the momma Arc. "I think I am in love with Jaune but I am too fucking late!"
As Yang cried into her shoulder Isabao with one hand rubbed Yang's back between her shoulder blades and with the other hand she reached into her bag and pulled out a box with the word Ghirardelli written on it. "Jorge brings these, I don't know where they come from but they are my favorite. Especially for these types of problems." opening the box she withdrew a small chocolate and handed it to Yang who promptly made it disappear. Handing the box to Yang Isabao reached back into her bag and this time withdrew a hairbrush.
As she brushed out Yang's hair Yang seemed to calm down. Soon the teen was peacefully asleep with her head on Isabao's lap. Gently extracting herself from beneath the sleeping girl she left the room and softly closed the door behind her. "Okay, I know what happened. Jorge already told me everything."
As she spoke Isabao heard Ruby jump. Apparently, the half-pint sized reaper hadn't expected for Isabao to know that she had left the room too. "Well do you know who is to blame for this Suzanna girl being here?" the anger in Ruby's voice was clear. As was the threat to whoever it was that was to blame.
Isabao's voice was filled with authority. "Young lady it would very foolish to try and kill Orin. yes, he brought back Suzanna but he is someone you still shouldn't try to kill, no matter what he did." as she spoke she turned and walked her way to the infirmary. After all her son was injured so she wanted to check on him.
She found him and Suzanna laying together in his infirmary bed. "Well, you've been indecisive this year." hearing her speak Jaune and Suzanna turned to her.
With confusion on his face, Jaune asked: "what do you mean?"
With a coy expression, Isabao continued. "Well, about six months ago you were in the exact same position with a different woman."
as she said this she pulled out her scroll and put the photo Yang sleeping with Jaune after he was injured in the diner robbery. "The friend she made less than a day ago just jumped on a live hand grenade. I think she is allowed to worry"
Once he finished Suzanna was speaking. "You did WHAT!"
Jaune looked at her and answered. "I was fine, but she didn't know that
"Oh, and this" again Isabao held out her scroll with the photo from the next day after he had been shot protecting Ruby.
"I was shot protecting her baby sister. Again she is allowed to worry." Jaune argued back
"Well, what about this." once more Isabao held out her scroll. This time her screen showed Jaune and Yang were huddled together on the couch over Christmas break.
After a moment of thought Jaune raised his hands in a mild show of defeat"Okay, I have no real answer for that. I think she was just feeling affectionate."
Isabao shrugged and said. "If you say so." she knew that Jaune believed what he said. He was as emotionally blind as his father. But it was best if she told Suzanna just what she was up against.
With that, she left to deal with Ruby and her no doubt extreme anger issues.
…
after a moment of thought, Suzanna looked at Jaune and said. "I want you to shave."
Bringing his hand to his mustache and goatee and asked. "Why, I like my facial hair."
"Well, I just can't see you with it. It is too different." the reply that Suzanna gave was a good enough reason but it wasn't the true one. If the goatee and mustache had been things that this Yang girl seemed to like then she wanted then gone. It was a signal. A way of marking what she felt was her's in a way that wouldn't raise too much suspicion. Suzanna wasn't giving Jaune up without one hell of a fight.