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Yang slid her hand along Nora's waist, her shirt had pulled up just barely and she could feel Nora's soft, pale skin. It was so smooth under her calloused fingers, it felt like silk. Nora moaned into their kiss, she was lying under Yang and had her fingers all tangled in Yang's hair. Yang usually never let anyone touch her hair, but it felt so good when Nora rubbed her fingers along her scalp or pulled her hair ever so slightly from behind. Nora did just that and Yang arched her neck back, pulling away fromt the kiss and letting out a low hum of pleasure. Nora took full advantage and strung a slow line of kisses down Yang's neck, inching closer and closer to her cleavage. Yang could feel her cheeks and chest growing hot as Nora's kisses passed her collarbone and she planted a light peck just at the top of her breast.
Yang slid her hand the rest of the way behind Nora and pulled her closer so their hips were pressed against each other, separated only by the insubstantial barrier of clothing and the ever weakening strength of their restraint. She slid her hand just under Nora's shirt, putting the full of her palm and fingers against her firm, muscled torso and Nora glanced up from her place at Yang's chest. Yang looked down and saw the want and the desire in Nora's pale eyes and knew it was reflected in hers as well.
There was a soft but definitely audible knock at JNPR's door.
"Yang, Nora. It's Pyrrha, may I come in?" the soft melodious voice of their friend rang out from the hallway but it was like crunching steel and Professor Goodwitch's nails on a chalkboard to Yang. "I have Jaune with me as well."
Yang leaned down and quickly gave Nora one final kiss.
"Sorry," Nora whispered up at her as they slid apart to a more appropriate distance. Nora shifted a little and fixed her shirt as she called out, "Yeah guys come on in." Yang flung her hair out over her left shoulder to hopefully cover the little bite marks she was sure Nora had left along her neckline earlier. Jaune and Pyrrha came into the room wearing their post workout clothes. Jeans and a simple t-shirt for Jaune, as always, and a little pair of red athletic shorts and a tank top for Pyrrha. They were still glistening with sweat and Jaune had all the disheveled looks of having just been thrown about a training room for the past few hours.
"Hello," Pyrrha waved happily as they came in.
"Hey guys, sorry if we're interrupting or anything." Jaune started to blush even at the implied mention of what they had been doing.
"It's okay Jaune, we're just gonna have to figure out a schedule or something." Yang laughed, "I mean you two are gonna need time too right?" Jaune's blush deepened and Pyrrha coughed in surprise.
"Yeah, that's fair right?" Nora looked innocently back and forth between Yang and the other couple, "Unless you two already found somewhere private."
"They do look like they worked up quite a sweat." Yang turned to Nora.
"But Jaune looks beat and Pyrrha's just fine." Nora nodded her head over towards the, immaculate as ever, champion of Mistral.
"At least that means Jaune's putting in the effort to-" Yang stopped with a chuckle as Pyrrha interrupted her.
"We were training, in the field by the library. Trying to prepare for the Vytal Festival." she said much more loudly than she needed to, "Plenty of people could see us if you need proof." Jaune stared at the ground, too red to speak.
"Oh yeah okay, whatever you say." Nora shot Pyrrha a little smirk and the taller girl just sighed in resignation.
"I'm going to take a shower." Pyrrha turned to Jaune, "Is it alright with you if I go first?" Jaune seemed to jump from his embarrassed slump and lock in with her gaze.
"Yeah of course. Take as long as you want." He gave her a warm smile, letting the rest of the world, Yang and Nora's teasing, his exhaustion, all of it fade away. He just focused in on those big, green, caring orbs. Pyrrha reached forward and grasped his hand, giving it a little squeeze and then headed off towards the bathroom.
"You know you can join her if you want?" Yang chimed out and broke Jaune from his bliss.
"Yeah the walls are real thick, we won't hear a thing." Nora laughed out loud and Jaune threw himself at his mattress with a huff.
"I'm so tired." he moaned, muffled by the pillows and comforter pushing against his face.
"Come on Jaune, did you see Pyrrha? You can't be too tired for that." Yang slid her arm back over Nora's shoulders. Jaune rolled over onto his back and sighed. They all heard the hiss of the shower starting up in the other room. A moment or two passed and then Yang looked over at the blonde boy laying on the bed.
"Alright Jaune,you gonna just tell us what's up or are we gonna have to force it out of you?" Yang asked and he lifted just his head to look over at her, confusion evident on his face. Yang cocked her head to the side and gave him a knowing look. Nora leaned up from her spot on Yang and looked over to Jaune as well. Yang felt her hands sliding off her lap and knew exactly what was coming, she leaned back to give Nora plenty of room and Jaune's face slid from dumbfounded to terrified as he caught on, he tried desperately to scramble out of the way. But it was too late.
Nora sprang the distance between their beds and landed with her butt squarely on Jaune's chest, pinning him to the bed. Yang laughed at the loud groan Jaune let out. She knew the impact hadn't hurt him and he was just disappointed because now there was no way for him to evade their interrogation. Yang scooted off the bed and walked over to sit next to his head, she let her hand fall to his face and patted him gently on the forehead.
"How have you and Pyrrha been? Really?" Yang looked down at Jaune's defeated face. Nora bounced up and down lightly on his chest, giggling.
"We want every little detail. Did you make sure you looked really good for your date? Did you two kiss yet. Have you even held her hand?" Jaune groaned a little at Nora's bouncing and she stopped. He sighed and slumped limp against the bed.
"Yeah, I made sure I looked nice. Ren really helped and Pyrrha even said I looked good." Jaune rolled his head off to the side so he didn't have to look at either of them.
"And you told her she looked gorgeous right?" Yang lifter had hand from his head, "I know she did Nora took her shopping." Nora's grin grew in pride.
"Well," he cleared his throat, "I uhh, I tried to but I honestly didn't do a lot of talking. She was so beautiful and I couldn't believe we were out on a date. Me, little Jaune out with Pyrrha." Nora spun around in her seat, his chest, to face him and crossed her legs on top of him.
"What are you talking about? You've been partners all year. You should be super comfortable with each other."
"But this was so different from that. When we were just partners, I felt so easy around her. But now, I feel like I have to be worthy of her. She's so amazing and I'm just," he trailed off and looked back at them, "I'm just me." Yang and Nora both dropped their joking smiles. Nora eased off his chest to the opposite side of the bed as Yang and they both leaned down and hugged him for a moment.
"You're not just you. You're Jaune Arc, blonde stud muffin and leader of Team JNPR." Nora said, still wrapped around his shoulders.
"Yeah and she is falling all over you. You're like, everything she wants you to be already." Yang pulled back and they both just looked at the boy who was lying there, not knowing what to do.
"What do you mean?" he just stared at the ceiling. "What do you-" Yang cut him off.
"Listen Jaune. You've gotta just see it. She's crazy about you, absolutely loses herself when you smile or do something little like hold the door for her." Yang gave him a very serious glare. Jaune shook his head.
"What do you mean, 'stud muffin'? He turned on Nora.
"Huh? I mean you're cute Jaune." she smirked at him like it was a well known fact, "You've got the wavy blonde hair, crazy blue eyes, that square jaw, and" she reached down and squeezed his shoulder, "You're getting pretty frikin' buff too." Jaune's jaw hit his chest in astonishment.
"I'm not cute. If I'm so cute then why did Weiss shoot me down?" Jaune looked over to Yang, Weiss's teammate.
"Seriously Jaune?" she shook her head and chuckled, "You don't want any part of that explanation."
"Yeah, you don't wanna hear what she said about how sad the guitar thing was, or how embarrassed she was at the whole initiation thing. Plus, Snow Princess? Snow Flake? We all know she's the Ice Queen." Nora threw her hands over her mouth when Yang shot her a dirty look.
"Look, Pyrrha was really, really shy about this whole thing too. We had to get her to even admit that she liked you in the first place okay?" Yang stood completely from the bed, "Now you've gotta hold up your end. If you like this girl, you gotta show her you do or she's gonna get all kinds of self conscious and freak out about it." The water in the bathroom stopped and Nora gasped. She scrambled right over the top of Jaune and flung herself back on her bed. Yang gave Jaune one last look and walked over to the bed, laying down next to Nora and dropping her arm over shoulders. Nora made a point of putting her head back on Yang's chest and sprawling her legs out, trying desperately to look natural, or what passed as natural for Nora.
A few moments passed and the door to the bathroom swung open. A generous amount of steam billowed out and Pyrrha emerged. She was wearing an oversized red t-shirt and long fluffy, grey sweat pants. Her hair was loose and she was toweling it off on top of her head.
"The shower's all yours Jaune." she said, eyes still covered by the fabric of the towel. Yang forcefully pried her eyes away from the literally steaming hot, goddess of a girl in front of her and looked over at Jaune. He was obviously just as affected as she was, he had sat up as soon as she opened the door but his hands were limp at his sides and his jaw slightly slack. He knew he had to blink eventually right? Pyrrha whipped her head back to get all the hair behind her again and chuckled merrily. "Did he fall asleep?" She asked as she pulled the towel back over her hair and saw Jaune sitting there staring at her. She immediately blushed and looked away at the wall. Jaune caught himself and shook his head to try and clear his mind slightly.
Jaune jumped up off the bed and walked directly over to her.
"I'm sorry Pyrrha. I shouldn't stare like that." Jaune said as he walked towards her. She went to reply but was silenced as he wrapped his arms around her in a tight hug, "You're just so beautiful," He pulled away and found her face, still heavily blushed but now willing to make eye contact. He leaned in suddenly and gave her a quick peck on the cheek.
"Jaune, I…" Pyrrha was at a loss.
"I'm gonna take my shower now." He gave her another squeeze and then slid past her into the bathroom, closing the door behind him. Pyrrha looked to the closed bathroom door and then turned slowly to Yang and Nora who were still lying on the bed. Nora was doing her best to appear as if she hadn't noticed a thing and was lying with her head in the crook of Yang's shoulder with her eyes squeezed shut. Yang kicked her arm up slightly and Nora leaned up.
"Oh, I guess I dozed off-" Nora stopped when Yang jerked her head in Pyrrha's direction. She was still standing there looking at them in utter disbelief. Her cheeks, neck and even the upper part of her torso were beet red. "Oh." Pyrrha let a hand drift up to the spot where Jaune's lips had brushed her cheek.
"Did you two…?" She trailed off, still unable to form complete sentences.
"No Pyrrha, we didn't," Yang shook her head desperately back and forth. They had talked to him, but nothing to warrant that.
"What happened? What did he do?" Nora sat up in excitement and curiosity.
"He said… and then he just…" Pyrrha let her gaze drift slowly back to the bathroom door.
"Oh my Oum. Did he kiss her?" Nora swung her eyes back to Yang. Yang just nodded her head up and down slowly. Pyrrha turned back to them, a huge smile on her face and tears lightly building. She closed her eyes against them and reached up with both her hands to wipe away that bits that leaked out onto her cheeks. She ran forward and collapsed on Nora's bed throwing her arms around both of them, laughing and crying happily at the same time.
"Thank you so much." she squeezed hard, "Thank you for helping me and being my friends and thank you for everything." Nora and Yang both hugged her back and smiled.
"We didn't do that much Pyrrha." Yang patted her back.
"Yeah, I mean he fell for you all on his own." Nora ran a hand through Pyrrha's still wet hair. Pyrrha stayed burrowed in between them. She just laid there holding them close and calming her erratic breathing. After a long moment of Yang and Nora doing their best to comfort her she sat up, pulling one of their hand's each into hers and clutching them tightly on her lap.
"No, truly. I don't know if we ever would have gotten where we are now without you two. You're the greatest friends I could ever have." Her eyes were shining from the tears she had shed, but she was still smiling wider than Yang had ever seen her do. Her wet hair was matted around her shoulders and her cheeks were red and slightly puffy from the exertion of crying and laughing all at the same time.
"I'm just glad you're happy Pyrrha." Nora smiled and squeezed Pyrrha's hand back, "We're so happy together, " she glanced over at Yang and then back to Pyrrha, "We want you to be too."
"Yeah," Yang laughed, "And I meant what I said. You two ever need some alone time in here you just let us know. We'll take Ren out and do something or just get him to come study in the library or train or something." The redness from crying was immediately replaced with a flush of heat as Yang spoke and Pyrrha squeezed their hands desperately.
"I, well, I'm not sure," Pyrrha steeled herself and looked at Yang, "I don't know that we'll need it any time soon. But, thank you, for the offer all the same." Pyrrha looked down again and sort of mumbled, "If you ever need the same I suppose I could do something to help with that as well." Yang smiled and Nora blushed this time.
"No Pyrrha, we wouldn't want to put you out like that-" Nora stopped as Pyrrha raised a hand, still not looking up from her lap.
"You've been very helpful to me and we all need to share the room. Really I don't mind." Pyrrha stood without waiting for a response, "Now really I have to find something to do before Jaune gets out of the shower. I don't want to see-"
The sound of the bathroom door opening involuntarily drew Pyrrha's attention and she turned. Jaune emerged wearing only a towel tied around his waist and rubbing at his head with a smaller hand towel. There was still some water dripping down his chest and sliding in between the lines of his hard abs, getting caught up slightly in the light fuzz of blonde hair near his waist line and dribbling under the towel into the unknown. His right arm was reaching up behind his head to dry his hair and the muscles in his arm rippled as he pushed the smaller towel across his scalp. He looked gently around the room before letting his eyes fall on the flabbergasted trio of girls huddled together on Nora's bed.
"Has anyone seen my onesie?"
A/N - Woo hoo, sexual tension all around at all kinds of different levels. I've seen a lot of Fan Art of Jaune after a lot of his training with Pyrrha being a lean, built, muscled up piece of Huntsman and I feel like that would be a huge deal for Pyrrha. Not at all why she's there, but if she can have Jaune with all his quirks and his unassuming personality and then he's a total stud too then it can't hurt right? But, Jaune is obviously completely oblivious of his looks.
Hope you enjoyed checking in with Arkos and getting some Collateral Damage info in-between the lines. Any comments or suggestions just let me know. Also, please go check out "Friends and Loved Ones". I posted the first chapter today to celebrate my birthday and I'm really waiting to see what people think of it. Can't wait to hear from you all, thanks so much for reading.
-Zach