Sunken Stars: I edited out some grievous errors and combined chapters one, two, and three; making a much smoother reading experience for everyone and getting rid of a dumb. disconnected feeling that I personally feel takes you out of the story early on. As a bonus, the word-count on the chapter now matches the rest of them.

Jaune Arc was a wise man at times. He knew many things about the world and how it worked. For example, he knew never to play a prank on Yang with Nora, since the blame/beating always landed on him and him alone in the end. He knew that trying to fight like Pyrrha was one of the dumbest ideas he had ever had (1. He didn't have a mecha-shifting spear/gladius/musket. 2. He didn't have a magnet semblance. And 3. His massive aura reserve was more suited to tanking than mixed sweeping and rushing, who would've thought?!). And he knew that Reese Chloris was one of the coolest people he had ever seen... until she fell straight on her butt at least…

And talking with her after the fight? He thought she was even cooler than before, even if she had fallen on her butt. Lots of people fall on their butt, after all, so why should he ever hold that against her. He'd been in that same position thousands of times as well and knew the pain very intimately. He had broken his coccyx bone before, at only the age of thirteen. He thought the world was going to end from all the pain coming from his rear end. And so, of course, he would offer her sympathy when he saw her walking out of the stadium, rubbing her butt like she had just been taken to brown town by a bull Grimm.

Now, for most people, talking to a girl about their butt ache was not the wisest of ideas, but this was Reese Chloris, and she was cool.

"Sorry about your butt, I know how much of a literal pain in the... well, ass that can be," Jaune said in the most apologetic tone he could muster.

She laughed. That was the first sign that things would go the way Jaune had hoped. "It's cool, the pain should go away soon." Her voice, Jaune had noted, was absolutely the coolest. Just like everything else.

"I'm Jaune Arc, by the way." He raised his hands in a small nonchalant wave, no need for formalities after all, in the presence of someone so cool.

"Reese." She said back with a wink that practically oozed cool, "Say, you wouldn't happen to be related to Rouge Arc, the goddess of destruction, would you?"

Jaune couldn't help but laugh at Reese's questioning but still very cool face, and at the fact that his awesome sister was apparently famous. "Yup, she's one of my big sisters."

Jaune could see a flash of worry across her features, but it dissolved back into coolness rather quickly. "Oh, sweet," she said, "She scares me."

"Me too," Jaune replied, half in truth, half wanting to seem as cool as she was. "She scares everyone though. Oh, hey, my team is actually going to be fighting soon, are you guys going to be watching the next few fights?"

"Of course, wouldn't want to miss out on some butt being kicked after all!" Her face split in the coolest of grins, and Jaune happily grinned right back at her. "I'll probably be rooting for you, so be sure to give me a good show!"

"It'll be the best fight you've ever seen no doubt."

This was the worst fight she's ever seen, no doubt," Jaune lamented, thinking of how they didn't do anything but run away, and Nora was really the only one who did anything of worth.

'What a farce', he thought. 'We should just be Team Nora, she's strong enough to carry all of our weight on her shoulders…'

"Third worst, actually. Second worst was when the Mad King fought X-Ray and Vav, they hyped him up so much and then was beaten in like five seconds!" Jaune jumped slightly as a certain aqua haired coolness deity apparently teleported in next to him, no doubt harnessing the power of her coolness to bend the laws of time and space.

He let out what he hoped was an extremely cool girlish scream at her sudden appearance, ashamed that he still wasn't used to that after all of the time he spent living with his sisters. He calmed himself down and sent her a chill smile. She sent another incredibly cool one right back.

"Sorry for the disappointment, I know we just spent most of the time talking."

"It's cool," Jaune silently cheered, "Your team consists of Pyrrha Nikos, and one of the strongest fighters I've ever seen, I mean she did take the whole team out in one hit. That was pretty cool. Everyone has off days."

He felt his heart rate slow to normal once again, and he did a double-take at what she had said earlier, it just then registering in his mind. "You like X-Ray and Vav?"

"Well duh, it's just, like, the greatest piece of fiction ever created by man!" She said as she waved her arms in the air to accentuate her point, said waving also being really cool.

Jaune's mouth fell open. He hadn't met anyone interested in X-Ray and Vav since that girl he met back when he was 13, Armor Whatsherface or something, but know he finally finds a fellow X-Ray and Vav-ian, and she just so happens to be the coolest of all!? Today was a great day for Jaune Arc!

His stomach grumbled in a totally not cool manner, and he laughed it away nervously as she just kept being the coolest ever.

"Sounds like you could use some food. Come on, you can buy me some too in exchange for making me watch that totally lame fight." She winked at him coolly to signify that it was a joke and that he actually didn't need to buy her anything. He agreed, plotting to pay for her food anyway so he would earn even more cool points.

Reese, Jaune found out after talking to her over some excellent Grimm-shaped nuggets, was not just cool, she was downright awesome! She actually laughed at his jokes, she loved X-Ray and Vav just as much as him, she loved playing Battleaxe and Creature Slayer, just like him, and she treated him awesomely right back.

She felt... honest, to Jaune, like nothing she did was because how she should act but how she wanted to act, and he could really respect that. Not just think it was cool, but actually respect it.

Jaune felt it was too bad that someone as awesome as her was eliminated so quickly, and he said so hoping to seem just as awesome as she was, and because it was the truth, and she awesomely shrugged it off like it was nothing. She honestly didn't care about winning so much as she cared about the sportsmanship of it all, which was awesome.

Eventually, their conversation went beyond just the tournament and into the realms of true philosophy:

"Jaune, no matter what you think, there is no way O.R.F ever helped Hilda when she was feeling lonely, and I don't care what your sister Rose says..."

Despite the serious way in which she said it, the hilarity of the situation came full force from the expression of joy upon her awesome countenance.

"You don't think there's even the smallest of chances?" He asked one last time, and she seemed to actually think about it.

"No."

Laughter followed, and everyone looked at them like they were awesome. Well, it was more like they were idiots, but it sure felt like they were awesome. Reese was totally awesome, and that was enough for the both of them really.

Jaune had no idea where the idea came from or why it seemed like a good idea to him, but with a grin he still suggested it.

"We should totally have a spar, like, right now."

Reese stared blankly at him for a second before she too grinned, "Heck yeah we do." And with that she grabbed his hand and rushed from the food stand with Jaune following right beside her, both of them laughing like a pair of crazed maniacs... or a cute couple, take your pick.

Reese ran into a clearing far away from the festivities taking place, and Jaune was nearly thrown down to the ground as she suddenly stopped. He laughed even harder as he stumbled a bit away from her and turned to look her in her eyes, which was the first time he had noticed how absolutely stunning a color of green they were.

Neither of them spoke as they got into their battle-stances, Jaune unsheathing Crocea Mors and folding out the shield, and Reese getting onto her hoverboard. For a moment they just stood looking at each other, forest green eyes locked with Cobalt, wide smiles on both of their faces, before Reese dashed forward.

Jaune brought his shield up and easily deflected Reese's thrown hoverboard, bashing it away to the side before focusing in on Reese herself. For once, he felt his mind just becoming clear. There were no expectations put on him right now and he could just fight to have fun, not to win.

Reese was knocked to the side, and she felt herself becoming more focused on his fighting style. He hadn't really fought in the match she had seen, so there were some things she didn't know. Not being one to play it too cautious, she rushed forward, deciding to wing it for the most part. As she neared Jaune, she jumped high into the air off her board, making him panic slightly as she landed back on it behind him. She turned quickly, using the momentum to hit him in the back with her board.

Gritting his teeth, Jaune took the hit, knowing that his aura wouldn't decrease by much. The force of the blow still knocked him forward a bit, so Jaune took the opportunity and rolled, getting his shield up in time to block yet another smashing hit from Reese's skateboard.

Splitting the board in two and transforming the parts in their pistol form, she leaped off his shield and fired a volley of shots at him, the rounds bouncing harmlessly off his stalwart defense.

Jaune smirked behind his shield. He knew how to absorb sniper rounds from Ruby, and now there were no flukes like in the tournament match, so he could easily shield himself from Reese's fire.

All of his training with his friends had prepared him for this fight it seemed like. Reese threw her pistols down, both of them latching together and shifting back into their board form. She landed directly on in it and rushed at him again. He took a deep breath and the world slowed down. It seemed like she was just rushing at him once again, hoping to throw him off balance. He knelt down to the ground and held his shield in front of him, steeling himself for what was to come.

Reese laughed, and he knew he had read the situation wrong. He cursed silently, not letting her know that she had the upper hand, at least for the moment. Reese ramped off of his shield and kickflipped in midair, reaching down, and with careful timing placed a canister of fire dust in the dust chamber. She landed back on the board and turned to rush at Jaune once again.

Jaune knew she had done something, why else would she so purposefully block his vision but then not attack? He spun around and faced her, a smile still on his face despite his disadvantage. Not a cocky smile or a knowing smile, just a happy smile. He was enjoying this fight, enjoying fighting without limits or goals, just letting his body move together with the awesome girl on the skateboard in front of him, a happy smile adorning her face too.

His smile changed to surprise when he felt the heat wave wash over him.

With a cry of "Hope you like it hot!" Reese jumped off her board, propelling it up into her hands and hit him with it, his aura absorbing the damage well enough that it wasn't too much of a problem. He checked his aura and it was still very much in the green. He laughed along with her lame one liner, putting it into his mind that he needed to keep her off her board. She was too fast for him when she was on it. She was worse than Ruby when she ate too many cookies.

They fought for some time, neither of them really caring if their teams were looking for them, they were having far too much fun. Back and forth they danced, Jaune slashing and blocking, and Reese dashing and striking. They battled until sweat was flowing off their bodies, Reese's aura in the red and Jaune's in the yellow, both of them panting and smiling as they collapsed next to each other in the clearing.

"Looks like you win, dude..." Reese said between pants, looking over at Jaune with a look of contentment. "That was too fun. You're really cool, you know that? And awesome. They should make a new word that means both of those things at the same time."

Jaune ran a hand through his sweaty hair, trying not to laugh and focus on getting oxygen in his lungs. "Thanks, you're both of those things too." They just laid there for a while after, staring at each other with doofy grins plastered on their faces.

'I don't know why I didn't notice it before, but she's gorgeous...' Jaune thought as his roamed over Reese's face, taking in every detail. She was beautiful, but still, he didn't feel the same tug he felt towards Weiss, this was something else, something new...

'Heh, he's actually kinda handsome...' Reese thought, looking at his extremely deep blue eyes, and his messy blonde hair. Neither knew what the other was thinking as they both looked each other in the eye and moved closer. Reese let out a surprised hum as her lips collided with his for a few small seconds. Both of them blinked and then laughed some more before looking up at the clear, blue sky.

"You're awesome..." they said in unison before laughing again.

It was a while yet before either of them opened their mouths again, not wanting to ruin the atmosphere as it was. It was, they felt, perfect. But sometimes you don't get what you want, and Jaune's scroll going off was not what he wanted.

He looked at it and sighed. "Pyrrha noticed my Aura going down and is wondering where I am. I'm afraid I have to go." Reese frowned.

"Laaaaaame," she whined, standing up and offering him a hand which he gladly took. "Hey, look, I'm... going to be in Vale for a while. At least until this whole tournament blows over. But then my team and I have to go back to Haven... do you maybe want to... I don't know, chill out, and show me around town tomorrow?"

"Like... as a date?" Jaune asked.

"Do you want it to be a date?"

Jaune opened his mouth to answer, but then he closed it again and smiled, before leaning forward and capturing Reese's soft lips with his again, kissing her gently for a moment before breaking it.

"I just want it to be awesome..." he said while scratching the back of his head.

"That I can do, dude." She stood up on her tippy toes kissed him one last time. "I'll talk to you tomorrow." She shot him a wink and stuck her tongue out, to which he responded in kind and looked back up at the sky one last time before going on his way to meet with his team.

When Jaune and Reese met up with their teams later that day they were greeted in much the same way, aside from the hug/tackle Jaune received from Nora. They were both asked about just where the hell they'd been all day, and both could only laugh and say they were with someone awesome.

Although Pyrrha did give Jaune a stern talking to about his aura depletion, and how he should be safe and careful. Jaune simply shrugged it off and kept on thinking of Reese.

And when the two of them were back with their teams getting ready to sleep they couldn't stop thinking of the next day, and just how much fun they were going to have.

'This is going to be so awesome...' were their last thoughts before sleep overtook them.

On the second day of the Vytal tournament, Pyrrha found herself feeling a strange mix of aggravated, worried beyond belief, and saddened. When she had woken up that morning she had been met by the very unpleasant sight of Jaune's empty bed. There was no note left behind, no message waiting for her on her scroll, and no indication that he would be back anytime soon.

This, Pyrrha felt, could mean nothing good, and she found herself keeping a careful eye on the state of his aura.

Jaune himself whistled a happy tune as he met up with Reese at the airship dock, and laughed as they shared a high five, and a small kiss before boarding. Jaune steadied himself and hoped that she didn't think it was weird that he got motion sick easily.

He made it through almost half the flight down into Vale before his stomach learned of his treachery. Jaune was very happy he hadn't eaten any breakfast yet as he vomited into a nearby trashcan, his stomach's vengeance no doubt for him taking it on an airship ride.

When he returned to his and Reese's seats, after emptying whatever was left in his stomach since his late night snack, Jaune couldn't help but feel worried. Yang had certainly not been impressed by his vomiting powers when he first met her, so what would someone as cool as Reese think?

"You okay dude?" Reese asked with slight worry, afraid that their totally awesome day would have to be canceled. Jaune waved it off.

"Yeah I'm okay, I just get a little queasy when I fly. Motion sickness and all that." Reese smiled.

"Oh, dude, same. Here take one of these." She reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a packet of pills. "Motion sickness is a huge problem for me. You'd think I wouldn't have made my weapon a hoverboard, but that's what I get for falling in love with skating. These babies take the problem away entirely."

"... are you an Angel..." Jaune asked as he stared starstruck at the bottle of heaven in this divine being's hands. He slowly reached for the pills, careful to not move too fast lest this magical creation, no doubt forged by the great Monty himself, shatter in his hands.

His fingers were less than an inch from the bottle when Reese suddenly held it to her chest. "To answer your question; probably not, I don't have any wings after all. And before you get too hasty, Jauney boy, I think I deserve something in return for giving you these pills..." she said as she waggled her eyebrows.

Jaune's face fell for a small moment before he realized exactly what she meant. He was all too happy to give her exactly what she wanted. He leaned in and kissed her hard. She squeaked happily, kissing him back, and handed him the pills as they separated, one of which he downed as fast as possible.

"Thanks," he said.

"I should be the one saying that," she replied breathlessly, smiling as widely as she could.

"So... what do you wanna do first? I don't know any places here in Vale so you're the shot caller this time." Jaune's ears perked up at her words. He hoped that the 'this time' meant there would be a 'next time.'

"I haven't eaten breakfast yet, so finding someplace to eat would be nice."

Reese nodded frantically at his suggestion, "Yes! I'm totally starving!"

At her enthusiastic agreement, they headed out as soon as the airship docked, hoping that their stomachs would soon be appeased with the offering of sustenance. Jaune grabbed Reese's hand and broke into a slight run as he knew immediately where they could go. "I know this totally kick ass place that serves the best freaking pancakes!" Reese herself was all too happy to follow his lead.

They came to a stop in front of a rather low key building surrounded by what seemed like much more impressive displays of Vale's style of architecture. The small building wasn't busy at all, and Reese was sure that she would never have known this place even served food if not for Jaune.

Going inside, their ears were suddenly greeted with the sound of some old pop-punk radio anthem from years ago, and the smell of bacon and eggs and maple syrup. It was still early enough that the amount of customers bordered on zero.

As soon as they got to the counter, Jaune already knowing what he was going to order for both him and Reese, a middle aged woman came out from the kitchen, her bright red eyes lighting up as she recognized one of her regular customers.

"Jaune! Sweetheart, how have you been? It's been forever since I last saw you~" she cooed, quickly making her way around the counter and giving Jaune a big hug.

He returned the hug and Reese realized that he must come here often when he was less busy at school. "Where's the rest of your team? More specifically, where's my best customer?" The woman laughed. "I swear that girl will vacuum down as many pancakes as you can put in front of her." Reese knew that she must have been talking about that Nora girl she had seen fight in the tournament. Jaune laughed along with her.

"Are you gonna introduce me, Jaune?" Reese asked, feeling slightly awkward.

"Yes, Jaune, don't you know it's rude not to introduce your lady friend?" Jaune could only laugh awkwardly.

"No, sorry... Wilma this is Reese, Reese this is Wilma. I met Reese yesterday after her team fought in the tournament, and Wilma here is the best damn cook I've ever met, aside from my mom of course." He said to both of them.

"You give me too much credit Jaune, way too much. But thank you anyway. You two can sit anywhere your heart desires, feel free to order whenever." Wilma said.

"Two orders of pancakes please." Wilma didn't look surprised at all. She laughed while Jaune took Reese's hand and led her to a random unoccupied table.

They took their seats, but their hands immediately found each other once again over the table.

"Before we eat, I must warn you," Jaune said as his eyes grew steely, the serious tone in his voice took on making Reese raise an eyebrow, her interests peaked, "Once you taste Wilma's pancakes there is a chance any and all other pancakes you eat from this point forward will taste like dirt in comparison. This is no laughing matter, I haven't been able to enjoy pancakes not made by Wilma in months, and I only know of one who's been able to withstand this Flowers of Algernon effect; Nora, the Queen of pancakes."

Reese thought about whether or not she would be able to stand not enjoying any other pancake for such a potentially long, long time. When the festival ended she was going back to Haven, after all, where Wilma was most certainly not. Could she take that kind of torture if these pancakes were indeed as good as Jaune said they are? Yes, she felt. Perhaps some things were just worth it.

Within minutes Wilma came out from the kitchens and set two plates down in front of them. Reese looked down at the medium sized stack of fluffy goodness before her, her mouth salivating at the delicious smell they were giving off. She looked back up at Jaune and grabbed the syrup on the table without taking her eyes off of his. She flipped open the lid on the container and narrowed her eyes.

"Bring on the pancakes." She tilted the bottle and the syrup fell over the stack like a waterfall of sweetness. She didn't mess around with syrup, Jaune noticed, as by the time she was done her pancakes were completely and utterly drenched.

Jaune smirked at the liberal amount of syrup Reese poured onto her stack of heaven, reaching out and taking the jar strawberry jam that Wilma had also placed on the table for himself. Using the ancient Arc family art of pancake eating, he poured the perfect amount of jam onto his first pancake, spreading the strawberry goodness all over it, and then he rolled it up and began eating it with his hands.

Reese took the jar and poured what was left on pancakes, and, noticing that there was also a jar of peanut butter on the table for whatever reason, put a bunch of that on there as well. Jaune's eyes bulged out of his head as she took a bite of the horribly sugary, unhealthy mess and hummed in delight.

'I think Nora and Ruby just met their match…' he thought.

Reese's mind expanded as she chewed, her senses reeling at the discovery of the holy taste of what she could only describe as Valhalla, Heaven, and Nirvana in their purest forms.

Jaune was content eating his own pancakes through the Arc family tradition, but one thing was missing. As his first pancake disappeared down his gullet, Jaune waved at Wilma, who, unfortunately, understood what he wanted. She would never understand how a mother could let their child eat garlic sauce with pancakes, but she also felt like she didn't honestly want to know the answer.

Wilma just followed through with his request, and he put it on his pancakes. Before he could even get a bite, though, Reese snatched his pancake and put a big piece of it into her mouth, savoring the flavor of the pancake drizzled in garlic sauce.

Jaune gave her a deadpan look for a moment as she enjoyed his heavenly pancake, but it soon turned into a smile as she cut off another piece of pancake and held it out for him. He leaned forward and let her feed it to him, feeling that somehow it tasted even better than normal.

She had a somewhat teasing look in her eyes as she watched him chew, making him look away from her in slight embarrassment. Eventually, after what seemed like a whole hour of savoring the perfect fluffiness before them, they finished it all off. Much to Jaune's surprise, Reese seemed not at all affected by her choice of a meal and seemed much too enthusiastic about getting out and about. Whereas he was regretting eating pancakes at all.

"That was yummy, but now let's do something awesome!" Reese's excitement was clear and Jaune happily shared it.

"I know a Place we can go that I'm sure you'll like," Jaune said as they made their way back to the streets of Vale. Reese grinned at him and their hands intertwined as she motioned for him to lead the way.

After about ten minutes of walking, Jaune stopped and Reese's jaw dropped. "Welcome to the coolest skate park in Vale," Jaune said. Reese fell to her knees. Dozens of drained pools, ramps, rails, and half-pipes greeted her eyes, and the graffiti brought with it a certain flavor of old-school she adored. There were a few other skaters who seemed to have control over one of the pools listening to some old skate-punk tunes on an old boombox. The quality of the song made her think that they were listening to a cassette tape. This place was basically the reanimation of her tween and early teenage years.

"Jaune, I think I'm in love."

To say that Reese enjoyed herself for the next few hours was both redundant and a massive understatement, like saying Nora seemed to enjoy pancakes or that Jaune's sister Verte had a soft spot for him.

Jaune was happy for her, the way her eyes were shining with joy made him feel very warm and fuzzy inside. He also felt slightly scared shitless. Every time Reese went up a ramp and rocketed into the air he thought she would land and break her everything and no matter how many times she perfectly pulled off a trick he couldn't help but wonder if her face had locked up to hide the agony she was in after crushing her spinal cord.

Though Jaune had to say that she was very talented with a board. So talented in fact that he couldn't take his eyes off her. There was a grace in her movements, a type of gentleness that Jaune would never have attributed to skating of any type. She looked so graceful and beautiful as she nailed every landing, and pulled off a perfect grind on every rail she could find. Every time her board flipped, she made the landing look easy.

Eventually, she stopped, taking a seat on the gray concrete beside him and taking a big drink out of a water bottle she had gotten from one of the vending machines. "You're incredible," he murmured, still staring openly at her.

She could feel her cheeks becoming heated, but she still shot him a big grin. "I have to be, right? Otherwise, I'd be kind of useless in combat."

Jaune couldn't help but chuckle as he took a seat beside her, their free hands intertwining on instinct. "Seriously though, I've never seen anyone skate as... well, awesomely as you do, and we had a ton of skaters back in my home town." He said as he squeezed her hand.

Reese's cheeks heated up once more and she smiled at him, not really used to so much praise. "Thanks, but it's nothing that special, really. I'm sure you could pull off some stunts too if you got on a board."

Jaune suddenly felt his fear return, though this time it was for his own safety rather than Reese's.

"NO!" He heard come out of his mouth on instinct. Reese drew away from him, her eyes wide. He cleared his throat. "Uh, sorry, I mean... no thanks. I can't skate worth shit. I'm gonna break every bone in my body if I so much as touch that thing."

Reese laughed, putting an arm around his shoulder. "Nah, I'm sure you'd do fine, man. Just try it." She got back up and offered him a hand. He just stared at it for a while. "Come on... for me?" She pouted, and Jaune groaned at how cute it was.

"Alright fine, but if I fall I'm not getting back on it!"

Needless to say, Jaune fell... a lot. Turns out having the grace and balance of a drunk Borbatusk don't go very well with having to stay on a thin strip of wood with wheels. But after falling straight on his ass, not unlike how Reese herself had fallen the day earlier, Jaune couldn't help but feel his fragile masculine ego shrivel up in a damaged heap, especially when Reese's laughing reached his ears, and as his father's wise words filled his head he got up from the ground, dusted himself off, and got back on the board, regardless how many bones in his ass were broken.

Jaune tried again... and again... and again… and again... and again. He couldn't even stay up for a few seconds each time, but soon the laughing from Reese stopped, and when he fell he didn't hit the ground, no, he fell into her arms. She kept her arms wrapped around his torso as she held him up.

"Jaune... you don't' have to keep trying to impress me," she whispered into his ear. His ears were burning up at the feeling of her hot breath against his skin. "You did a good job for your first time. It's getting late, though, and we should head back."

"Sure," he said back quietly, "But there's one last thing we need to check out before that." Reese gave him an intrigued look as he took her hand and started leading her away from the skate park, ignoring the throbbing pain in his body as his Aura rushed to mend it.

They walked in silence for a while as Jaune lead them out from the heart of Vale and instead up to a grassy hill overlooking the city.

Taking their spots next to each other on the soft grassy ground, Reese held her breath at the sight. It was absolutely breathtaking. As she looked over Vale in silence, a thought came over her that sent her mind into overdrive. In a matter of days, this would be the past. Jaune wouldn't be physically there. It had only been two days, but already they had somehow made a connection. Perhaps it was that they had learned about a few years worth of information yesterday, but Reese felt like she had known Jaune for much longer.

Reese never believed in that soulmate crap before, but if she had to say anyone was her soulmate, it would be Jaune. She felt at home when she was with him. Like, in some past life they were everything to each other. And pretty soon they would be talking over their scrolls, or however else they could. She wanted to leave him with something. Something incredible.

"Jaune..." her voice was unusually soft as she spoke and it got Jaune's attention immediately. As he turned to face her she leaned up to kiss him, climbing onto his lap and pushing her tongue into his mouth. Jaune's hands landed on her butt as her own arms encircled his neck. They held the passionate kiss until the need for air became too great, forcing them to separate. "Let's do something crazy tonight, we're not gonna be able to see each other for much longer after all..." she whispered with a suggestive glint gleaming in her eyes.

Jaune's heart hammered in his throat and he gulped down as much air as he could possibly fit in his lungs. "Crazy? What do you mean exactly, I don't want to jump to conclusions or anything..." the look on her eyes already told him all he needed to know, but confirmation was too important in this situation for him to even consider not asking. If she was indeed saying what he thought she was, he would gladly do it. Being with her in these ways felt so damn good that not doing it felt like it would be a mistake. And there was the fact that if she was saying that, they would need to stop somewhere so he could buy some things…

"I'm sure our teams won't mind if we get a room here in Vale instead of going back to Beacon, it's pretty late after all and we're probably gonna miss all the bullheads anyways..." she closed the distance between them and kissed him again, more softly this time. "Let's make this night a night to remember." She whispered against his lips.

Jaune kissed her back, holding her tightly for a moment, Before they got up and started going back down into Vale, their hands of course intertwined once again.

Stopping only briefly so Jaune could run into a convenience store, they made it to an inn pretty quickly, located very close by the docks so they could make it back bright and early tomorrow morning. Their room was cheap and small, and only had one king sized bed, a TV, and a bathroom with the bare minimum of essentials. Reese thought it served its purpose well. Jaune went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and left her out sitting on the bed. She knew that him brushing his teeth was only an excuse to give him a bit of time to think, but she didn't mind it. She used the time to think as well.

She was nervous, no surprise there, but she was beyond excited as well. A part of her wondered if she was really ready for this, and she was sure had it been anyone other than Jaune she wouldn't even consider going this far, but with Jaune, she knew she wanted to do this. With Jaune, she felt that she was ready. With Jaune, she felt a connection that she wanted to imprint onto her through this physical act.

That's why when the bathroom door opened she didn't run away. She just smiled at him, trying to convey as much as she could that she was going to try and make this amazing. And the smile he gave her in return said the same thing to her.

All time stopped as he took his spot next to her on the bed, and it stayed that way for a short while as they drank in the silence, and what was about to happen. Without even hesitating Jaune leaned towards her and pulled her lips into his, falling down with her sideways onto the bed. His hand slipped down her side and onto her lower back. He pulled her closer and she moaned as her body connected with his.

Reese's hands came up to rest on Jaune's shoulders as they kissed, tongues dancing with one other's. She slowly climbed onto him, their mouths still connected, and straddled his waist as his hands went down to her butt once again. Reese couldn't help but giggle into their kiss at how much he seemed to like her ass, she was hardly complaining though, his firm palms groping her behind felt fantastic.

Reese felt herself growing hot rather quickly, her clothing quickly becoming way too much. She didn't dare break the kiss to take anything off yet though. Jaune's hands found their way over every inch of her body, clothed or not. Her toned legs and thighs apparently being a favorite of his, she noted. She increased the pace of the kiss and Jaune didn't protest at all, wanting just as much as she did to hurry onwards, but being conflicted in the knowledge that it would be much sweeter if they took it slow.

As the fickle bitch that was the need for oxygen got the better of them, Reese raised herself to sit straight on Jaune's hips, her hands resting on his lower stomach. Tentatively she raised her arms, hoping Jaune understood what she wanted, her cheeks ablaze with both excitement and embarrassment.

Jaune quickly got to work lifting up her hoodie and undershirt, much to her pleasure, and pulling it off her completely, revealing the thin, white tank top she wore underneath. She lowered her hands and tugged on his hoodie as well, ripping it off of him frantically. She leaned down and kissed his neck, her kiss quickly turning into playful bites and licks. If there was any doubt in either of their minds that this was a dumb idea, it was gone. They wanted each other badly, and both of them knew it.

She dragged her fingers down his chest over his t-shirt as she continued to give him hickeys, causing a shiver to go throughout Jaune's body, and quickly let her hands wander up underneath his shirt, her mouth practically beginning to water at the feeling of his toned abs beneath her fingertips.

Jaune hummed in pleasure at Reese's ministrations, but still, he felt it was unfair that Reese herself wasn't getting as much attention. To remedy this, he hiked up her thin tank top, but when she showed no signs of wanting to stop her playing to raise her arms again, Jaune tore it open and let his hands find her bra-covered breasts.

She moaned into his neck, suddenly becoming too weak to even move. He groped and squeezed through her bra, but found that he really, really wanted it out of the way. It was an annoyance he didn't want to put up with. Finally, she raised up again and allowed him to strip off the remains of her top, leaving her chest very nearly bare. She pulled his shirt up and off and just grinned at his very, very toned stomach, and abs. And that was when she realized just how incredibly lucky she was in as many ways as she was.

She reached back and unhooked her bra, holding it to her chest before letting it fall. Jaune's eyes immediately trailed over every inch of exposed flesh, and he felt like conveying to her just how absolutely stunning and beautiful she was. But talking would have ruined the moment, so he simply reached up and continued toying with her now bare breasts, pinching her nipples between his fingers and making her coo in pleasure.

Raising his body up he kissed the valley between her breasts, the happy mewls his actions brought making his already rock-hard member twitch against Reese's groin. He kissed his way to her right nipple and took it into his mouth, sucking greedily on it while still massaging her left breast. His free hand began trailing its way down to her shorts, swiftly undoing the button and pulling down the zipper on them.

Reese regained as much control over her body as possible and slapped his hands away, giggling with a predatory glint in her eye. "Nuh uh, if you wanna see me, you're going to have to work for it." She winked and stuck out her tongue, and Jaune gladly followed along, increasing the pace of his licking and sucking. She cried out as he pushed her down in her weakened state and switched their roles.

With Jaune now on top of her, Reese ground her hips up against his as his hand once again descended to try and rid her of her shorts. He let out a husky growl at her action, and she could easily tell there was something very hard in his pants rubbing against her leg. The knowledge that she was making him so excited sparked her own excitement even further and as Jaune's hand made its way inside her shorts she offered no resistance, feeling far too aroused to play these games anymore.

He didn't try to take them off, instead, he started playing with her through the fabric of her panties, happily enjoying the sounds she started making upon contact. He leaned down and took a page from her book as he started licking and sucking at the soft skin on her neck, leaving marks behind that she knew she would have to cover up later. Or not. She'd much rather let the world know. It seemed like the heat was increasing, and the wetness from her nethers made it very clear to the both of them that things were ready to move forward.

Taking yet another page out of Reese's playful book, Jaune stopped both his rubbing of her core through her panties and his kissing of her neck, bringing his drenched fingers to lips and licking them clean, making Reese bite down hard on her lips at the image. Reese's taste was an odd one, Jaune thought, but he certainly enjoyed the salty sweetness of it. He gave her a smirk before beginning to kiss his way down her chest, placing a long lick on either of her nipples on the way, halting his progress just above the hem of her shorts.

Reese let out a groan of annoyance as he didn't continue his rubbing of her core, instead choosing to make his way down her legs, placing soft, tickling kisses all over them. He slowly pulled off her boots and socks, nuzzling her delicate feet before kissing his way up to her shorts again.

Very torturously slowly, he set to work slipping them off inch by inch. She offered no resistance, she was far much too into this to ever do that again. She had decided to just give in, and this made Jaune very happy. Once he pulled them about halfway down her toned legs, he stopped. She bit her lip again, this time harder as he drew close to her incredibly soaked panties. Mint green in color, they were just light enough that her wetness allowed him to see through them. Jaune licked his lips, making her face go even brighter at the thought of him 'digging in.' He offered her one slow lick, and she shivered and held in a high pitched mewl.

"P-please..." she begged, and Jaune couldn't say no. He placed a kiss directly on her center before pulling her panties down too. She couldn't believe that this was happening, after so many years of imaging this very scenario, she couldn't believe how incredible it felt. She spread her legs as much as she could with the cloth bondage still on her, she wanted to show Jaune her everything.

Jaune ran his fingers lightly over her wet folds, making her squirm underneath his touch, before leaning in a placing a slow lick over the entirety of her core. Reese moaned loudly at his action, her hands coming to play with her breasts. He dragged his tongue slowly up and down her folds a few times Before pushing it in between them, his fingers helping to spread her lips.

Reese gripped at the bed's covers as hard as she could, enjoying the way Jaune explored her most intimate parts. She gasped for air as his tongue sped up, and he started to insert the tip of his pointing finger. "J-Jaune!" She grabbed his messy hair and tried to pull him even closer as gently as possible. "More..." She writhed as he inserted more of his finger and licked at her clit softly. She cried out in a high pitch, not at all ready for the sudden bump in pleasure.

"Jaune! I-I'm-!" Reese moaned loudly and clenched her thighs around Jaune's head as she came, her moan turning into a scream as he kept licking and sucking on her clit, making her orgasm last longer than she ever thought possible. Her legs shook as she tried to calm herself, body twitching every so often from the trip to paradise she had just experienced. She felt Jaune's tongue still exploring her pussy, drinking up as much of her juices as he could.

Eventually, he pulled up and gave her a passionate kiss which she returned automatically without even thinking. Jaune let her catch her breath as he gazed upon the state he had left her in. Sweat was running down her body as her arms laid limply to her side, and her legs shook as she held them up, her panties and shorts still stuck between her legs. Jaune helped her out of them completely and admired her naked form before she took a deep breath and pushed him down. She tiredly got to work taking off his jeans.

She didn't care of she felt tired though, she wanted more still. Stamina be damned, she needed to feel Jaune inside her. She practically ripped down the zipper to his pants and unbuttoned them as quickly as her shaking hands could, pulling them and his boxers down as soon as she could.

She froze at the sight of his erect cock, looking at it as if she were so terribly confused at what to do next. Jaune had seemed like he knew what he was doing, but she knew for sure he had just done whatever his instincts told him to. His nervousness gave away that he was a virgin. She tentatively traced her hand along his shaft, and he groaned as she gave it a test lick. She knew that despite how wet she was, it wasn't going to go in as easy as it could if they were both lubricated. She placed the tip in her mouth and swirled her tongue around it, going as deep down as she could, which admittedly wasn't as far as she had hoped she could take it. She wanted to give him as much pleasure as he had given her not moments ago.

She worked diligently as he grabbed the back of her head and moaned, guiding her along. She grasped what she needed to do fairly quickly, and soon she was able to suppress her gag reflex enough that she could take him fairly deep. She drooled, unable to keep it all in, and it trailed down his cock, lubricating it enough that she felt it was okay to continue. She let go of his shaft and straddled him once more, leaning down to kiss his lips softly. She reached into the pocket of his jeans and pulled out a few square packages stuck together, pulling one off of the chain and ripping it open with her teeth before putting the condom on his shaft.

"Ready?" Reese asked as they looked deep into each other's eyes, Jaune merely smiling and kissing her softly in response. Slowly, she lowered herself down on his shaft, her mouth falling open and tongue hanging out as he filled her insides. She had never felt something so good in her life, touching herself felt like a joke compared to this, and she vocalized her thoughts with a loud moan, resting her hands on his chest to steady herself as she took another inch inside her.

She remained still as she got used to the feeling of having him inside of her, her entire world changing just from the feeling alone. She had never been much of a sexual person, but this feeling... it was something she wanted more of. She cried loudly in ecstasy when she even moved an inch.

"Fuck..." she was too sensitive. This was going to be a wild ride, she knew. "Okay, you can move..." Jaune obeyed, grinding his hips into hers, pulling out only an inch before pushing back in. It was as if the world was ending.

Jaune grunted as Reese came down to meet him on his second thrust, the warm, tight feeling all around his cock making his head spin. If he had thought her mouth was heaven, being inside her felt like standing before Monty himself. Their pace was as slow as they could manage in their lust adhered states, both of them moaning with each meeting of their hips. After some time passed, neither of them having been able to keep track of minutes or hours ever since they got into the room, Reese leaned down and met him in a searing kiss, tentatively gyrating her hips and causing both of them to gasp in pleasure.

Jaune didn't want any of this to end, but he could feel his release was not far off, and Reese could feel hers was nearing as well, and they were feeling far too amazing to stop just for that reason. Thrust after thrust, their flesh slapped against the other's, and the gasps of pleasure became much more frantic and wild. Reese's body was lighting up with electricity, sparks flowing through their mouths as their tongues continued to dance. Second by second, they neared an ending they saw coming from miles away, and finally, Reese reared up, arching her back and falling on Jaune's cock one last time, letting out an ear piercing scream.

Jaune dug his fingers into her thighs as he screamed with her, feeling her juices splashing down on his hips and his own load being stopped by the condom. Reese sat rigidly on his shaft for a moment, eyes rolled back and drool falling from her wide open mouth before she started regaining some of her senses and looked down at him. They met in another searing kiss as she pulled herself off from Jaune's still rock hard member, but the kiss wasn't nearly as long as any of the ones they'd shared before as she broke it and made her way down to his crotch again, her own hovering over his face. Her hands swiftly rid him of his rubber protection and she once again put his shaft in his mouth, greedily licking it clean from all semen.

Jaune watched on, clearly happy that she had decided to do that. She crawled up beside him and fell as she gulped it all down as well as she could. The two of them exhausted in every single way possible. Jaune grabbed her hand. "We should probably take a shower..." she didn't want to get up, though she knew he was right. She grunted meekly in response, and Jaune knew that the only way he was going to get her in the shower was to pick her up. He got off the bed and did so, taking her into the bathroom and placing her in the tub. She rubbed her eyes as Jaune gathered the few bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and one of the small wrapped body soaps.

They enjoyed their short, but warm joint shower and fell into bed. Both eager to not sleep alone for once.

Jaune was woken up the next morning by the very uncomfortable feeling of his scroll buzzing against his left foot. For a moment he wondered how mad Ozpin would be if he smashed the thing under his heel, but he forgot about it when he felt something shift against his chest. Something warm. Something incredibly beautiful. Something that was making the cutest noises he had ever heard with every breath.

Reese looked absolutely unreal to him at that moment. The way in which she shifted to get more comfortable and force her mind back to sleep, the way in which she groaned "Five more minutes, please..."

Jaune pushed his jeans off the bed, and with them went the buzzing scroll. He grabbed Reese by her side and pulled her as close as possible to his chest.

"Morning," he whispered. She smiled and opened her eyes, finding nothing but a bunch of blue floof in the way. Jaune immediately cleared it away for her.

"Hi..." she whispered back quietly, her cheeks reddening at the soreness in her body and the fact that both she and Jaune were still naked. 'Last night wasn't just a dream...' she thought as she smiled up at him, never having been more comfortable. She was no longer a virgin. She had shared her virginity with the guy who's chest she was resting on. She was happy she shared it with Jaune Arc.

Jaune himself had similar thoughts, but mostly he was just thinking that was fast. They definitely rode the plane, most people walk. But, for some reason, it felt perfectly natural. And he felt great. Reese seemed like the kind of person who lived life fast, it wasn't too surprising that they would end up here if he really thought about it. He was happy he got to share last night with this goddess before him.

"Hi," he finally replied sheepishly. Reese started giggling, and before long they were both laughing. Jaune pressed his forehead against hers as it died down and both felt at peace.

They shared a quiet, intimate moment, neither feeling any want to break it, but no matter how hard they tried, the universe seemed to have other plans.

"Manual answering override complete," a synthetic voice called out from the floor in front of their bed, and Jaune sighed as he realized what was happening. Pyrrha must have gone to one of the teachers and gotten their override code for his scroll, making it automatically answer even if he didn't want to.

Surprisingly, though, it was Nora who spoke. "Jaune! Where the heck are you, Pyrrha is furious! It's kind of scary... also we're all super worried about you because you didn't come back last night!" He couldn't help but laugh while Reese just stayed quiet, not wanting to give away anything before she knew if he was comfortable with people knowing.

Jaune sat up on the bed, giving Reese an apologetic look. "I'm okay Nora, but you did just wake me up," he lied, mostly so he could get away with putting a sharp tone in his voice.

"Eep! Sorry, Jaune-y~! But where are you, seriously. Pyrrha is really worried, she didn't even eat breakfast!" And that was when Jaune looked at the clock. It was nearly 11 o'clock. Jaune sighed, rubbing his temples.

"Don't worry Nora, I just... I went into Vale with someone I met at the festival, she wanted me to show her around but I guess we lost track of time. The bullheads stopped making runs before we could get back so we had to get a room- I mean, rooms at an inn near the docks."

"You made a new friend? That's awesome! I can't wait to meet her what did you guys do yesterday was it fun can I come with next time that would be so sweet we could get pancakes together and then do all this cool stuff it would be so awes- hey, Pyrrha! I got a hold of Jaune, wanna talk to him?" Jaune smiled at Reese as she tried her hardest to contain her laughter. He was really happy he met her, not only because it meant he wouldn't die a virgin later when Pyrrha killed him, but he hadn't connected like he had to her ever since he left home.

There was a muffled sound over the scroll as if Nora was handing it over to someone. "Jaune Arc," came the incredibly angry sound of Pyrrha's voice over the scroll. "You tell me right now where you've been! I've been worried sick! You just leave without telling any of us all day, not even one note on your bed, and then you don't come back all night?!" Her voice calmed slightly, and then she no longer sounded angry as much as she did worried. "What could you have possibly been doing?"

"No, no, don't worry P," came Nora's voice faintly from the background. "He made a new friend yesterday and showed her around Vale, and they didn't make it back to the docks in time!" Jaune knew at that moment that she wouldn't be as worried as before, but hearing his 'new friend' was a she, and that they had stayed the night in Vale after hanging out all day... he knew Pyrrha probably had it all spot on in her head.

"Is this true Jaune...?"

"Yeah..." Jaune laughed nervously. He felt awkward talking about this with the girl he had spent the night with was still in the same room, but as soon as his thoughts turned to Reese he actually felt calmer. Yes he had spent the night with a girl in Vale and worried his team sick, but when compared to how happy he felt as soon as he thought of Reese and how awesome she and their day had been... he couldn't help the big smile that crossed his lips as he turned to look at Reese's laugh-holding form beside him.

Pyrrha sighed deeply over the scroll and she sounded very tired when she spoke, "Just get back to Beacon as soon as possible, we'll talk more then."

"You got it, boss," Jaune said, doing a tiny little salute. Reese finally laughed, and then Pyrrha hung up the phone. A brief flash of panic struck him when he realized that Pyrrha definitely had to have heard her. He got up from the bed and picked up his jeans, going into the pocket and pulling out his scroll. Opening it up, he was greeted with the sight of over 30 messages. Almost all of them from Pyrrha, and one from Nora.

"Wow, she must really care about you a lot," Reese said, looking over his shoulder. Jaune didn't really know how he should respond to that.

"Yeah, she does. Maybe a bit too much, sometimes, you know?"

"I know how you feel, my team leader, Arslan, is going to be REALLY upset with me. Sometimes I make her worry. She's such a mother goose. But of course, if she heard me say that, I think she would kick my ass." Reese smiled affectionately.

The silence came back, and whereas before it was comfortable, there was an unspoken question in the air after the call that made this silence slightly uncomfortable.

Neither of them wanted to be the one to breach the subject, but they both knew they had to at least mention it. With a sigh Jaune sat down next Reese on the bed, taking her hand in his right while playing with the covers with the other. Reese squeezed his hand as she scooted up next to him, using her hoodie to cover herself up somewhat, and they both turned to each other.

"So..." Jaune began, his voice serious, "Are we... something now?"

Reese looked down at their joined hands, not really sure of the answer. "I honestly don't know... maybe? I'm not saying I don't want to, I really like you, Jaune, but..." she trailed off, Jaune nodding absentmindedly.

"I think..." Jaune said, trailing off to think a bit more about everything. "I think we are what we are. And what we are can just be whatever. If that makes sense." He nodded as if he just said something sagely. And he might as well have said something sagely because the look on Reese's face bordered on life changing realization.

"Jaune, do you want us to be something?" She asked, her voice a little careful. Jaune nodded and Reese couldn't help the grin that spread across her lips. "Then let's be something. Let's be something. I like you, you like me, there's no need to put a label on it. We don't need to be together-together or friends with benefits, we can just be something, end of story."

Jaune mulled her words over in his head for a moment, before he grinned too. He leaned forward and kissed her softly, still grinning after they broke it.

"Something is perfect." He agreed. "But now that we've got this figured out, we should probably get on with the day." The grin fell from her lips and she looked down at her naked body, not feeling an ounce uncomfortable. If she could just stay with Jaune in the room forever, she had no doubt in her mind she would. Jaune got to work dressing up from nothing after finding all his clothes lying haphazardly about. Reese followed soon after.

Upon leaving their room they immediately checked out and went to grab a seat on the bullhead leaving at the soonest time. Once they were seated, Reese offered Jaune another pill, which he took gratefully after paying her with another kiss.

She leaned her head on his shoulder, their hands (you guessed it!) linked together like they always seemed to be, and Jaune smirked. "You didn't lie earlier, this was awesome."

They shared a laugh as they made their way back to Beacon.