Jaune's Escapades

Pyrrhic Victory

Due to Jaune's massive aura supply, it only took him one week to heal both his legs and his ribs. During this time, he didn't see Velvet once, he was upset by this fact, but he had no idea what he would say if he saw her anyway.

As Professor Port's reveling lecture concluded in Grimm Studies, Jaune began to limp his way to the cafeteria, he couldn't walk yet, his aura wasn't that powerful. But he could make his way about.

Grabbing some Nevermore Wings, he sat down at the usual table and started eating. He looked over to where one would normally find team CRDL, they were sitting there, but one spot was empty. Despite the objections of his friends, Jaune decided not to press charges against the rest of team CRDL, saying that they were only following orders; he would be seeing Cardin in Court though.

Jaune firmly believed that everyone should have a second chance, not a third. He let the rest of Cardin's team off with a warning, and Professor Ozpin gave them all two month's detention, while Cardin got expelled. It was more than good enough, but the only way Cardin was getting out of Jail was if he pleads insanity, not hard to believe.

Even then, there was no way he could come back, Beacon doesn't accept applicants with a criminal record, nor does it accept the clinically insane, so Jaune doubted he'd be seeing him again. He felt bad for Russel, Dove and Sky for breaking apart their team, but it would be better to be a broken team apart, then a whole one in prison.

He was certain he'd never see any harassment from that team again.

As the rest of the group soon filled into the cafeteria, Jaune found his musings broken when his attention was awkwardly grabbed. "H-hey Jaune." Velvet greeted with a wave of her hand. Jaune nearly choked on his food. "O-oh, hey Velvet, how are you?" Velvet laughed softly. "I should be the one asking you that, you're still limping, aren't you?"

Jaune shook his head. "Oh it's not that bad, nothing to worry about, really." As the two continued their awkward conversation, the rest of their friends soon sat down with them. When Yang noticed the two, she smiled knowingly, it didn't go unnoticed by Jaune.

'Oh my God, Ren was right! She knows. How does she already know?' Before Jaune could stop her, Yang had already begun the initiative. "Well, you two seem awfully close, did something happen recently?" Jaune gulped nervously, as baddass as Velvet may be, she was still surprisingly nervous when it came to social interactions.

"I don't know what you're talking about Yang." Jaune replied, picking his words carefully. "We've always been this close, haven't we Velvet?" Velvet looked between the two in fear, it would be wrong to lie, but she didn't want to think of what Pyrrha may do if she found out what happened.

"R-right, nothing's different between us at all…" She was already starting to crack. 'Come on Velvet, don't let me down now!' Jaune thought, as he looked on in horror. Yang didn't even bother replying, she just looked at Velvet with a small smile. It was only a matter of time before-

"Alright, fine. WE KISSED!" Her hands immediately shot to her mouth in an attempt to cover what had already been said. Yang burst out laughing while Weiss and Ruby both blushed, Ren and Blake smiled softly, as Nora began dancing around the place singing 'Jaune and Velvet sitting in a tree!' over and over again. Jaune deadpanned while Pyrrha stood to her feat.

"WHAT?!" She screamed in a jealous outrage. "How did this even happen?!" Velvet flinched while Jaune looked over to her nervously. "Well, the night I woke up, Velvet stayed behind after everyone left, I told her if there was anything she wanted, she should just ask. I felt like I needed to repay her for what she did." He stopped for a moment, wondering how he should say the next part.