Professor Arc 2

So it's still a plot bunny. But I'm slowly thinking of ideas for it. If you guys have any ideas, throw them in a review! Anyways, I Hope you enjoy!

Here We Go!

'Alright introduction part 1 done.' Jaune thought in his head. He continued on, grabbing chalk from the blackboard sill. He wrote his name on the board while addressing the class. "I am a certified Hunter. Graduated from Beacon about almost Five years ago. I have been in the field recently and have been reassigned to each this new curriculum." Jaune paused. He stared at the blackboard for a moment before writing three T's in a column.

He turned around to face the class, many of them were shuffling to get out notes. Others were looking a bit bored or attentive. He immediately spotted Josephine, but he bit down everything and focused. He wasn't Jaune Arc. He was Professor Arc.

"Now what am I going to teach you?" Jaune asked the rhetorical questions. "What is Team Combat?"

He held his arms out in the universal motion, 'the floor is yours'.

There was a moment of silence, of awkwardness. 'First year stiffness' he thought to himself. It was with every year and every classroom. Even he had been a contributor to the dead silence, because it was too embarrassing to even speak up. To be labeled that show off or no it all, though in his case he really didn't know the answer. 'I was really a dunce back than.' Jaune sighed as he reached behind his desk.

He had already planned for this. Putting on the table was a large Tupperware of-

"Cookies. For the person who answer. You get one for an attempt to answer, and two if I really like your answer, even if you're wrong." He grinned as saw some people stiffen and bored eyed become interested. 'Ozpin's motivation never failed' Ozpin was the one who had brought cookies to class. He was merely borrowing the idea.

A girl in the back, with orange hair. She was sitting next to Josephine. "Miss Valkyrie" He had memorized every student's names and faces. It wasn't hard, he had worked on harder cases. Plus, Rex's method, of bang your head until it sticks, still worked.

She gave a wide grin. "Fighting together, with a general purpose. Teamwork and stuff!"

Jaune nodded, grabbing a cookie from the Tupperware. He tossed with a quick flick. It sailed right into Nora's waiting mouth. She bit down with glee and gave two thumbs up.

Jaune chuckled at the gesture walking around to the blackboard. "So, Teamwork. That's one of these T's. Anyone else?"

"Technique." Blake answered. "to be able to pull of complex maneuvers"

'Yea complex.' Jaune thought idly, eying team RWBY. He had seen their fight against the Nevermore.

Jaune picked up a cookie, but Blake spoke up. "No thanks on the cook-" She was suddenly interrupted as a cookie sped into her mouth. She bit down on it and glared at Jaune. But, the Professor had already turned to writing Technique onto the board.

"Good. Very good, Miss Belladonna." Jaune finished writing and tapped the last T.

"Now for the hardest one. I'll give you a hint. It's intangible, yet to some people it's clear as day."

He waited for responses. A person in the back, a young male in some pretty hefty armor answered. "Timing. To be able to move as a unit."

Jaune shrugged. "Not quite, but the concept is close." He threw a cookie at the boy.

A few more answers popped through. "Tactics"

Jaune snorted, but threw a cookie anyways."nope."

"Terrain?" A hesitant answer from the left, a girl with glasses.

Jaune shook his head. "That's a separate part of the class."

"Trust." A quiet voice said.

Jaune paused, he stared at Josephine. She seemed confident at first. But it only took a few seconds before she wilted, as if her confidence had burnt up in an instant. 'Still not there yet', the stray thought passed through his mind. He grabbed two cookies and tossed it to her.

She caught them, or at least attempted to. They bounced around in her hands and Pyrrha had to snatch them mid air, to keep them from hitting the ground.

"Trust" Jaune cleared his throat. Yea, he had that once.

Black hair, glasses, a Faunus body builder who loved reading.

Jaune turned back to the board and started to write.

Black haired monotone girl, enjoyed the starry nights and was a romantic.

He finished writing and put down the chalk, dusting off his hands.

Brown, short haired girl, at first seemed like a party girl but loved quiet nights with friends.

"First. Off Trust." Jaune looked at the class, sweeping with his eyes. "Is an important factor. To be able to trust that your teammate has your back. To be able to trust your team can make decisions without your call. To trust that they can make the right decisions."

Jaune walked back towards the front of the class. "You have Three elements. Technique. Teamwork. Trust. With Technique and Teamwork" Jaune continued, grabbing his water canteen. "you can overcome a difficult opponent. Or difficult Op."

He took a sip of water, before continuing. "With Trust and Teamwork, you can overcome Surprises, Ambushes, unexpected snags in the plan. All three of these things, especially in teams, are all built up from scratch."

Jaune placed down his canteen and straightened himself. The next part was important. "I don't expect you guys to like each other right away. Hell, some of you might not actually get along. But, there has to be an undeniable level of trust and teamwork. And each of you must work on your technique because that is your responsibility. This will be the crux of the class."

Jaune paused and shrugged. "And it'll be on the final exam." He paused as he saw more students scribble. "Now that's over with. Let's get through this syllabus." He grabbed a stack of papers and handed it to the student on the edge, taking the master copy and reading out loud."

"Alright assignments are..."

It was really strange to see her brother as a teacher. She scribbled down a chart on the board, something to do with basic terrain. She wanted to talk to him. But what would she say? She had heard the argument between Dad and him. It was a really nasty one, lasted all night. It was the day after Jaune had gotten out of the hospital, with Kyrie.

Kyrie was nice, though Josephine didn't see her often. It was awkward between them. She wanted to ask where Jaune was, but Kyrie said she didn't know. And now, did she even know that Jaune was teaching at Beacon?

Briiing Brring

"Aaand that's all for now." Jaune breathed out, putting down his chalk. "See you all tomorrow, bright and early. You guys should be having lunch right now. Dining hall, if you don't remember it, is down the hall to the right." Jaune took a breath. Students were already starting to pack their bags and shuffle out.

"Oh, team leaders. See me now. I need to talk to you."

'Oh boy' Josephine thought. She really didn't have time to prepare. Pyrrha gripped her shoulder. "We'll see you later" She said in kind tone.

Nora bumped her shoulder. "Save you seat, and pancakes if they have them."

"Thanks guys." Josephine stuffed her notebook in her bag and shouldered it. The rest of team JNPR filed out towards the dining hall. She saw that some of the other team leaders had already made their way down to the front, where Jaune was shifting through some notes.

Josephine walked down, meeting up with another team leader. "Heya Ruby."

"Josephine" Ruby chirped happily. "You never told me your brother would be a professor."

Josephine laughed nervously. "I actually didn't know about this."

They reached the bottom steps and waited, while Jaune finished collecting his scattered notes. He looked up, eying all the team leaders. He didn't even pause when he looked at her. Did he not want to see her? Did he not acknowledge her? Maybe, it was because he knew that she copied her way into Beacon? Or was it something else? Josephine clasped her hands together and twiddled. A habit she never got out of.

"Alright. You guys have an extra assignment. It'll be due in three weeks." Jaune handed out a piece of paper to each of them.

Josephine scanned it quickly. 'It's a questionnaire?' It was a long list of questions about their teammates. Specific questions actually. Like, how do Ren and Nora know each other. Or, How did Pyrrha win in the Mistral Regional Tournament.

"They're all specific to your team. I know all the answers, but what matters is that you do." Jaune explained.

One of the team leaders, a girl with large spectacles spoke up. "Some of these questions seem personal. How do you know them? And how are we supposed to even get these answers?"

Jaune gave a tiny smile. "I have access to a lot of information. And, all of you are background checked the moment you hand in your application to Beacon. So..." Jaune continued. "The way you are supposed to get around getting this information is simple, ask."

Josephine felt her face blanch. A-ask questions like this? Some of these were ok, like Nora's obsession with Pancakes. But others were really personal. Like Pyrrha's reason for leaving Mistral. How in the world would she be able to get these answers in that amount of time?!

Ruby chuckled nervously. "U-um. Professor. You said before that if your teammate is a bit. Umm."

"Deal with it." Jaune replied with a shrug. "I've been through what you've guys been through, and than some. Three weeks should be plenty of time. Now go eat lunch. If you guys need help approaching your teammates, come to office hours."

He waved his hands, dismissing them. Most of the team leaders left groaning, especially Ruby. The poor girl looked like she was in tears, muttering things about "Weiss hates me. Blake is too mysterious"

"Was there something you wanted, Josephine."

Josephine jolted in her rooted spot. She was paying attention to the other teams she forgot to move.

"I-I I'm sorry. Ja-Ja. I-I m-mean P-professor Arc." Josephine breated herself. 'Great you idiot. Now you look like an idiot.'

Josephine looked down in embarrassment. She heard a small snort and she looked up quickly. Was that smile on his face? But, it disappeared quickly so she wasn't sure.

"I'll tell you right now. Josie." There was a pause. She looked at her older brother in the eyes. Their blue eyes stared into each other. "Train with Pyrrha Nikos. She'll help you get stronger. Gain more confidence. If you cannot stand up for what you believe in, how do you expect people to follow you." Every word seemed to be like a rock at her face. Her brother was never one to cut words, but he was pointing out all of her flaws. Flaws she knew she had but could never get rid of. "How you are right now. It won't be enough." He finished.

She didn't know what to say. Here it was. He was disappointed in her. Josephine nodded slowly and walked past her older brother. "See you later, Professor." She mumbled.

She missed Jaune's gaze after her and the words he whispered.

"Stay safe."

Jaune looked around the streets, trying to find the address Ozpin had sent him. 'Investigate disturbance there' That was the note and an address. 'He sure loves to send me on goose chases' Jaune thought to himself. He had already finished teaching for the weekday, and the kids were out on their first weekend. Most of them hurried down to the main part of Vale ready to explore. Beacon was a very famous school in Vale, so a lot of people outside the country flocked here.

He had taken one of the private planes down, the ones reserved for teachers. It was actually pretty comfortable, though it was kind of empty. Jaune watched as a group of kids, probably two teams worth, shuffled passed excitedly. He recognized them as second years.

He had gone through all of the student body this week, and man it was exhausting. Kyrie really had gotten it wrong when she said teaching was easy. 'Kyrie...' It had been awhile. He had written an email or two, but never really. Blood, screaming, crying. Why did this have to-.

Jaune closed his eyes and shook his head, trying to cast away the thoughts, memories. He looked up and saw he had stopped in front of his destination. 'Here we go.' Jaune opened the door, confident it was open. He had walked around Vale for a while and it was near eight. He had even passed a Simple Wok and grabbed some grub. He was glad to see the old man doing well.

Jaune walked in and saw the club was just about getting started. People were filing in and men in black suits with red ties were running around. He saw a guy in a Bear mask dj'ing some tunes. 'Club huh'.

Jaune walked towards the bar, might as well enjoy himself on work. As he walked, he quickly scanned the room. 'Cracks in the glass that has been smooth over. Someone had broke it. The Dj gear is new. But this club is not. So that was also broken as well? Some of these guys have bandages. There was definitely a fight. How many people?'

Jaune sat down at the bar and waited patiently. The man, who he assumed was the bartender, was unpacking some boxes. Jaune grabbed an ash tray to the side and brought it closer. Continuing to scan the room, he noticed a couple more things. 'These pillars' Jaune looked at the glass pillars. Some are older than the others. They were broken. 'More evidence that's there as a fight. And plus' Jaune looked up at the window above the door. 'Something went through there. Hmm'

Jaune took out his cigarette and put it in his mouth. He reached for his Bullet Lighter in his satchel. 'Aww crap.' Jaune groaned. He forgot his satchel in his office.

Jaune heard a cough behind him. Jaune turned to see the bartender holding out a lighter for him. Jaune grabbed it. "Thanks" Jaune replied, while lighting his cigarette. He passed it back to the man and took at look at the bartender. Unlike the other men moving things around, he was wearing a black vest and a white shirt. 'Boss or Bartender?'

"What can I get for you?" The Bartender asked, a cordial smile on his face.

Jaune shrugged. "Whiskey, on the rocks."

"Coming up." The man grabbed a cup and moved towards the right towards the ice machine. As he did so, two girls approached him. They were cute in terms of their dress, both light blue and red. But Jaune had seen much better. What he was interested was the small bandages on their cheek and arms. Letting out a drag, he quickly scanned over them.

'Bandages as well? Are they fighters? Those heels are razor sharp on the back, and that girl's gloves have blade attachments. So, whoever fought here had to be good.' Jaune looked away for a moment, pretending to occupy himself. But, he focused on their conversation, a bit more difficult with the music blaring.

"Should you guys even be up? Ever since Blondie came storming in here-" The bartender said, while grabbing some ice.

"We're fine Hei." The one in red said.

"Plus. We wanted to be here for the reopening. Ever since that bi-" 'Female fighter huh' Jaune pieced together.

"Language." 'Hei' chided, pouring whiskey into the cup. "Fine, But take it easy. Those gauntlets of her pack a punch."

'Gauntlet user huh. Reminds me off'

Large glove. A heavy piston attached to it. A faunus who smiled at him, calling him an idiot. "Can't take a hit can you, fearless leader"

Jaune closed his eyes and sighed. "Your drink sir." Hei put down his drink on a coaster, and pushed it towards him.

Jaune nodded in thanks, taking out his scroll for Hei to use. The man placed it over a scanner. The scanner let out a small beep, confirming the charge. Hei held it out for Jaune.

While taking it back, Jaune asked the bartender a question. "So what's your name. It's been a while since I've been in vale" 'And this club is relatively new. They were building it the time I was in school'

"Hei. Hei Xiong." The bartender smiled. "I own this establishment."

Jaune nodded, while taking sipping. He put his drink and down. "Looks like it got pretty banged up." Jaune nodded towards the small cracks in the glass, on the dance floor.

Hei sighed, rubbing the back of his head. "Yea, we uh. Had a pretty crazy visitor a couple months back. Not a pleasant experience getting punched through a window."

'Confirmation on Gauntlet user.' Jaune shrugged, breathing out some smoke. "I'm guessing he was a crazy customer. Get to drunk or something?"

Hei snorted. "I wish. She wasn't even old enough to be here. Nah. She came in to ask a couple questions, but it got... rough."

"Wow. I usually have trouble with the fairer side." Jaune smiled, hoping to coax more out.

"My old girlfriend was really hard to read." Jaune rambled on as he thought 'So she was the one to instigate it' Jaune took note of that. If you came in, that meant you had a purpose. That also meant that this club was a hub for something, be it illegal operation or hired goons. Jaune took a moment to eye all the men, they were carrying semi automatic pistols as well as Monoblades, blades that could retract themselves. This was interesting.

"She come back at all?" Jaune asked

Hei straightened his tie and sighed. "Yea, Blondie does come back some times to ask some more questions. I usually just give the answers cause it's not worth the trouble. I mean you have trouble with the Fairer side?"

Jaune shook his head. "Oh yea." 'Too much trouble.'

"She had those eyes that made you know you were in trouble. It was the worst." Jaune remembered, finishing off his drink.

"Yea, this girl's eyes. I tell you, were crazier. They changed color when she got angry. Like from Lilac to red." Hei sighed, rubbing his chin.

'Oh?' Jaune remembered someone having lilac eyes and being a gauntlet user. 'Also, fits age wise. Hmmm.' Jaune shook his head as he stood up. "Thanks for the Drink. I'll come by next week."

"Sure thing. Thanks for coming." Hei replied.

Jaune walked out of the bar, still smoking. 'My oh my. Yang Xiao, Long huh. Kitty isn't the only one who liked to create trouble.' Jaune chuckled as he dropped his cigarette and smashed it. 'I'll have to tell Ozpin that it's nothing. But,' Jaune looked back at the bar. 'This place could be a good place for information.'

Jaune started to walk, but pulled out his scroll. He made note on the address and scheduled himself to go to the bar at the same time, next week.

'Oh man. I have to do this every other day!' She whined in her head as she pushed up as hard as she could.

"AND!" Nora cried happily, pulling the barbell onto the rack "DONE!"

Josephine let her arm drops in exhaustion. "Hah. I-" Josephine took a deep breath, trying to calm her heart rate. "Don't know how you handle that Nora." She sat up shakily as Nora passed her a towel and water bottle.

Nora had decided to buff up Josephine. So, for the weekend, after they had decided to have some fun, they went to weight lift. Nora said it would be a great time to bond together, and Josephine agreed.

"Bah" Nora slapped Josephine on the back. The team leader of JNPR winced in pain as she felt her sores rattle.

"You're not so bad yourself!" Nora commented.

"Y-you think so. I mean, I'm not the best fighter, at all" Josephine mumbled out. She drank out of her water and sighed. "How did you ever get Magnhild anyways? It seems like a pretty cool weapon." Josephine was actually curious, but it also helped that it was one of questions she had to ask. It was killing two birds with one stone right? Getting to know your teammates and answering these questions.

Nora hummed for a moment. "I got it... from my parents. It was a couple of weeks after I met Ren. And My parents wanted me to start training with it." Josephine noticed a solemn look on Nora's face but it quickly disappeared.

"How about you?! Where did you get Libra?!" Nora returned to her joyful self.

Josephine chuckled nervously. "I made it. I mean I know its not good or anything because I didn't have any practice or anything. And I just decided to wing it so I made what I thought would fit me and … yea" Josephine quickly blurted through her explanation. A normal person would've asked her to stop and repeat what she just said, but thankfully Nora was extraordinary.

"Cool!" Nora wrapped a sweaty around Josephine's shoulders. "To the showers!"

Josephine smiled lightly as she let Nora drag her towards the Women showers.

It was only a couple hours later did she meet up with Ren in the kitchen.

"Sooo... Ren." Jospehine started. Ren was currently making pancakes for Nora, who had gotten hungry after dinner. Josephine joined him in the kitchen, sitting down with a cup of tea in her hands. She liked the warmth it brought to her fingertips.

"Here to ask me about how I learned to make pancakes?" Ren asked.

'Wha-' Josephine blinked rapidly. "How did you know?" She asked. Was he a mind reader or something?

Ren flipped the pancake with his spatula. "Nora told me that you asked her about Manghild. And, I took a passing glance at the sheet you had on your desk. I put two and two together."

"Oh. Well, I just didn't want to list all of it out to you guys." Josephine coughed slightly. 'ohh man this is embarrassing.' She felt her thumbs twiddle unconsciously. 'Get a grip!' She told herself. She forced herself to stop fidgeting and addressed Ren. "Jau-, I mean Professor Arc, didn't specify we couldn't tell you that we needed these answers. But, these questions" Josephine unconsciously winced. "Are kind of personal"

Ren nodded in understanding, stacking the last of the pancakes. "Yea." Ren sighed, looking down at the pancakes. "I don't think." Josephine noticed that he was gripping the plate quite hard. "We... Nora and I, can tell you how we meet. It's kind of too personal."

"Oh. Oh okay." She nodded. She had kind of expected that. However, she couldn't stop the feeling of disappointment in her chest. Even without these dumb questions, she wanted to get to know her teammates. Have those little secrets. One time, Jaune brought his team home, for a small vacation. Of course, she was brought along with them. And how they acted around each other, communicating without talking and their inside jokes. It was something she wanted.

But, it seems she wouldn't be able to ge-

"I learned how to make pancakes for her birthday. To cheer her up. The first thing I was able to cook." Ren spoke up.

"O-oh. That's nice." Josephine jolted out of her thoughts. She gave Ren a smile. "It's nice that you did that. I mean you two seem really close and all."

Ren's face was unreadable. Or maybe, it was because there were too many emotions on it. "Nora's really strong. It always inspired me."

"Than I'm glad. Because, My older brother inspires me." Josephine replied. She could feel the strength and confidence in that statement. Because, she knew that, without a shadow of doubt, her older brother was her role model.

"You should be like that more often." Ren said.

'What?' She was now confused. "What do you mean."

Ren chuckled. "Be straight forward with things. You seem a lot more confident like that." Ren commented walking out the door.

Josephine stayed in the kitchen for a couple more minutes, thinking about what Ren had said. Was she not straight forward? What did that even mean?

"Mmph." She heard a groan come down the hallway. Josephine stood up. Was someone in trouble? Pyrrha walked through the door, clutching her stomach. "O-oh hey, Josephine." Pyrrha said, while wincing.

"Are you alright?" Josephine rushed to her side and helped her up.

"Y-yeah. You know just the cramps."

'Ohhhh.' Josephine echoed in her head. Josephine helped Pyrrha into her vacated seat.

"Just sit down. I'll get some stuff for you." Josephine ordered as she went towards cabinet. Grabbing a banana, she walked back.

Pyrrha winced in pain, as she looked over at Josephine. "A banana?"

Josephine nodded, peeling it open. "Here eat up, it'll reduce some of the pains."

"Oh. Okay." Pyrrha bit into it and chewed slowly. As Pyrrha was eating, Josephine walked towards the water boiler and set it on again. Reaching into upper cabinet, she reached for the green tea and put it into a clean up. The water bubbled, signaling it was ready.

She poured the water in and placed the cup in front of Pyrrha. "It's hot right now, so don't drink it."

Pyrrha nodded, finishing off her banana. She went to stand to throw it away, but her Team leader stopped her.

"Nope. Gimme." Josephine grabbed the banana and went over to the trash can and tossed it in.

"Heh." Pyrrha chuckled.

"What's so funny?" Josephine asked.

Pyrrha shrugged. "It's funny to see you like this. Usually you're umm" She searched for the word.

'Or the polite word' "Bumbling around?" Josephine finished for her.

"I-I wouldn't say that." Pyrrha quickly replied.

Josephine rolled her eyes and sat down at the table. "you're too nice for your own good, Pyrrha."

"Wha-" the red haired girl was now confused.

Josephine grasped her tea. "I know when I'm kind of useless."

"NO!" Pyrrha put her hand on Josephine's "You are not-"

"Let me finish." Josephine interrupted pulling her hand out of Pyrrha's grasp. "I know I can hold my own in a fight. I really try hard in it. But, I have no confidence." Josephine closed her eyes. "I don't know why Headmaster Ozpin chose me to be team leader. Sure, I'm an Arc. But, that really shouldn't mean anything."

She opened her eyes but stared at her tea. "An Arc is this. An Arc is that. An Arc must be confident, a leader. Must never waver. Must be the best." She shook her head. "I'm not confident. And I have to work for every skill I have. I'm not a genius or anything."

"And that's fine." Pyrrha interrupted. "Being a skilled or even famous really isn't..." She paused. Josehpine looked at her and saw a Paine expression in her eyes, and it wasn't because of the cramps. "Being famous isn't what it's all cracked up to be" Pyrrha finished.

Josephine nodded. "You're probably right. But, I know I'm useless right now." Josephine sighed and recited. " If you cannot stand up for what you believe in, how do you expect people to follow you." She shrugged. "I guess I just have to work at it."

"Josie." Pyrrha tried to reach for her again.

Josephine stood up and walked out the door. Pyrrha noticed a small tear in her leader's eye.

He had been here for an hour already, telling everything he had reported. Ozpin was sitting at his desk and Glynda had dragged another chair to the side. Ozpin had handed them all coffee, while Jaune reported. Jaune sighed as finished his story. "So it seems like, Yang Xiao Long, is our little culprit."

Ozpin nodded from his chair, coffee in his hands. "Well, I think that matter can be closed than. Qrow has informed of her searches, searching for her mother."

"Hmmm." Jaune remembered the Scythe user. He liked to keep tabs on everyone. "Does Raven know?"

Ozpin shook his head. "No. It would benefit no one if she got distracted."

Glynda took this time to interrupt. "Perhaps, we should move onto the discussion of the Club?"

"I can handle that front. Information there can be plentiful. We can use subtlety there." Jaune replied, leaning back in his seat.

Glynda raised an eyebrow. "You mean going in there and drinking yourself into a stupor?"

Jaune rolled his eyes. "One drink. And I get this kind of treatment. Glynda. I am not a child."

Glynda pushed up her glasses. "I know you aren't but responsibilities-"

"Enough" Ozpin intervened. "Jaune, deal with the club how you wish. But I want weekly updates."

Jaune nodded. "Understood."

"Now than." Ozpin continued. "There is a matter of the Dust user that Glynda encountered."

"Dust user?" Jaune whistled. Those were rare. To be able to use it naturally, took a lot of skill.

Glynda nodded. "She was using fire based Dust. Red dust. And She had a high degree of control. Probably at my level."

Jaune felt his pulse quicken at that. He had seen Glynda fix up an entire building. To have that level of control, with Red dust. Oh boy.

"However, During that time the girl, Ruby, showed some promise." Glynda continued.

Jaune remembered the girl, the freshman, in his class. Red hood, bright smile, young, too young. "No." Jaune bit down.

Glynda blinked in surprise at Jaune's interruption. "What is it?"

"We are not involving children in this." Jaune said calmly. But, you could tell by the gripping of his fists and barely concealed growl, that he was anything but calm.

"They are not children. They are the future protectors of our world. We cannot just turn a blind eye to that potential" Glynda said.

"They. Are. Children. Let them have their childhood. They don't need to be fighting battles they don't understand. Making decisions they aren't ready for." Jaune growled out.

"Jaune. We may not the have the luxury of choosing when we grow up." Glynda sighed. "But we can prepare them for it. They are children, yes. But, they have combat skills, we need to utilize-"

"To go undercover in a terrorist cell?" Jaune said quickly, cutting her off.

Glynda winced and turned slightly. This was a touchy subject for everyone in the room. "Jaune, That was mista-"

"That was a mistake and this will be too!" Jaune stood up his chair quickly. The chair clattered the ground loudly, compared to the stillness in the room.

Images fluttered in his head. Images he hadn't seen in a long, long time. Blood, Smoke, burning flesh. Dead eyes. Broken eyes.

"They are children." Jaune growled. "They aren't ready. The biggest worry in their head is getting to class on time or what's going to be on the test. Have them face grim, fine."

A small patrol. First time out on the job. Ozpin was leading them, it would be fine.

" Have them face this? Where they aren't sure of things?" Jaune paced back and forth.

"We have to go Jaune." She begged him, gripping her chain whip.

"NO! We have to go back. We have to tell them or they'll die." He ignored her, gripping his sword.

"They'll kill us anyways. This is insane." He rubbed his gauntlet.

"I'll follow your lead. Even if we all end up dead." She cocked her rifle.

Jaune felt the images ram his head. Even within this quiet room, the sounds filled his ears. "If they face things like that. It could break them. And for what. So, they can make our lives easier? So, we have more assets."

Glynda sighed, closing her eyes. "Ironwood was wrong, yes."

"Damn right he was." Jaune fired back. "And, I will be damned." Jaune looked both at Glynda and Ozpin, who remained silent throughout his tirade. "It will be over my damn corpse. If I let these kids become like me." Jaune turned quickly and stormed out of the room.

It wasn't out of anger. No. The images running through his mind again. He trudged forward, dragging these memories. It was if there were chains attached to him and holding him down with rotting corpses.

Blake noticed a couple things during the 'night over' with team JNPR. Apparently, it became a thing for the two neighbors to hang out with each other. Ruby had made friends with Josephine and hit off great together. The first thing was that apparently Ren was really good at racing games. He was currently winning versus Weiss, Nora and Yang for the fifth time in a row.

The second thing was that Ruby was pretty ruthless at Settlers of Vacuo. It was game that was based on territory and trading. Ruby was one heck of a bargainer. The third thing though, was that Pyrrha was giving Josephine strange looks every so often. And, Josephine was doing her best to ignore them.

"And I'll take over this area" Placing a block down between Josephine's roads. "NOOO!" Josephine cried in shock. "Ruby you evil monster."

Ruby placed her cards in front of her and laughed evilly. "Muahahahaha."

Josephine sighed. "Fine. I'll have to give you trade to go through your road."

"YES!" Ruby cried in victory. "By the way" Ruby asked. "Hows your assignment going?"

Blake blinked. She remembered Ruby coming to them, waving around a questionnaire. There were a lot of questions on there, which was kind of surprising. Personal questions. She knew that Jaune had background checked them all, and probably taken the questions from there. He also knew that some of these questions would not be answered.

'What's your game, Idiot knight.' Blake thought to herself.

"It's going ok." Josephine chuckled nervously. Blake sighed as she watched Josephine. She wasn't bad in combat, not at all, but her leadership were pale compared to Jaune.

Ruby shrugged. "I mean it's really weird that Professor Arc would ask us all these questions."

"Heh. I know right. He wasn't like this back at home." Josephine muttered the last part.

"Oh yea! It's so crazy your brother is a professor and everything."Ruby continued on.

Josephine shrugged. "Yea. It's kind of weird to see him from the guy who would buy me ice cream, to my professor lecturing me."

"You must have some interesting stories." Blake asked. 'Or blackmail material' You know, for future use.

"Ummm." Josephine thought about it for a moment, before her eyes lit up. "Yea. When he wasn't training with Dad, which was often. He would take me out the Circus, movies, and he even taught me how to cook."

"Eh? I thought you burned down the kitchen when you cooked?" Ruby asked.

Josephine blushed in embarrassment. "That was baking. I can't bake to save my life."

Pyrrha looked confused at the difference. But, Ruby nodded sagely as if she understood.

"It was just the two of us really" Josephine continued. "My other sisters were either already huntresses or going to school."

"Wow. You must be really close." Ruby crowed out.

"Well yea. But that was before he graduated. We kind of lost touch."

"Why?." Blake asked, actually surprised. When she had 'met' Jaune. He would brag about his little sister and how she was the most adorable thing in the world. At the time she was just getting more and more pissed off at this guys incessant talking. She had been on medication than, but the idiot knight had talked about it so often that she remembered. It really seemed like he cared for her.

"Well-"

beep beep beep. Josephine looked down. "oh. It's almost midnight guys. We should head back to our side of the hall." Team JNPR started backing up the board while Yang packed up the game station.

Josephine walked towards the exit, looking around to make sure they hadn't forgotten anything. She paused as she looked at something on Blake's bed. It was a worn out jacket, that kind of looked like the one she had given to Jaune for his birthday. 'Weird' She thought to herself, before turning around and going back to her room.

Hope you enjoy it. Please review and tell me what you think. I put a couple hints here and there about future plot devices!