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Today was the day. Today. Was the day. Nora sprung out of bed and onto her feet. She didn't even bother looking before leaping directly onto Pyrrha's bed because she knew the other girl would already be off for her morning run.

"Good mor-" Nora slipped on something under the covers and went flailing to the ground.

"Ahhh" Pyrrha yelled out as Nora fell on top of her and pulled them both off the bed.

"Oh hey Pyrrha. No run today?" Nora had a blanket over her face but knew that voice belonged to her fellow red head. Though she was sure that Pyrrha used some sort of hair dye, that shade was just too dark.

"What do you mean?" Pyrrha looked over to the clock and saw that it was already half past six. "What? How did I sleep in?" Pyrrha leapt to her feet and glanced frantically around the room.

"Well I mean you didn't sleep any yesterday and you still did all your workout stuff." Nora rolled onto her back and sprawled out in the gap between the beds.

"Didn't sleep any? What are you talking about?" Pyrrha's frantic search ended back on Nora.

"Yeah I mean, you were still up when we got back." Nora cocked her head off to one side and regarded Pyrrha curiously. Did she think that they thought that she had been asleep before she got there? She had obviously been talking to Jaune about Ruby all night. "It's no big deal though right? Just one missed early morning run." Pyrrha fell back to her bed and rested her head in her hands.

"I suppose. It's just. I've never missed a run before. Ever." Pyrrha lifted her head and squared her shoulders, "I shall just have to double the length of my run this evening. I believe I will have time after our classes are finished. Nora?" Pyrrha dropped her gaze to the girl still sprawled out on the floor. "Do you know what time the gym closes?"

"Uhh, yeah I think at like ten." Nora had to think about it. She definitely knew what time the cafeteria closed, but she was pretty sure she remembered Yang whining about the gym not being open all night.

"I will have to go the gym first then before I run so I can finish that first before they close." Pyrrha began rattling off the things she would have to do in order to correct for her oversleeping, honestly why was she so worried? Nora rolled backwards in a reverse somersault and came up up to her feet. She spun neatly on her heel around the edge of Jaune's bed and ended up at the foot of Ren's bed, the boy still lying neatly under his blankets.

"Gooood Morning Ren." Nora called out in a cheery, sing songy voice that she just knew he loved to be woken up by.

"Good morning Nora." Ren said almost immediately but without opening his eyes, "Is it time for class already?" He slowly opened his eyes and leaned up to greet her with a smile.

"Yes, yes it is!" Nora skipped sideways and stopped at the foot of Jaune's bed. "Oohhh Jaaauunne" She had no idea how he wasn't awake yet, but he would be now. There was no response from the bundle of covers. Was he really that tired? Well then it was time for a special wake up call.

"Nora, don't…" Ren warned from his spot by his dresser as he prepared his toiletries. Nora gave Ren a sly wink and leapt directly into the air above Jaune's bed, threw her arms and legs out to the sides around her and came crashing down.

"It's time to get up!" Nora screamed as she fell onto the mattress. But, there was no thrashing or cursing, no flailing blonde boy, wailing in pain as he was crushed by his overzealous teammate.

"Oh no, guys." Nora looked back and forth between Ren and Pyrrha, "I squished him." She rolled quickly off the bed and to her feet.

"You didn't squish him Nora. He's not there." Ren patted her on the shoulder as he

walked over to the bathroom. Pyrrha gasped out loud and darted to Nora's side.

"Where is he?" She threw the covers up in the air, confirming that he was in fact missing. "Oh where could he have gone?"

"Hey guys, I'm right here." Jaune closed the door behind him as he came inside the dorm room. He was wearing sneakers under a pair of gym shorts and a loose fitting tank top with the Beacon Academy logo on the front. "I just went out for a jog."

"Why didn't you wake me Jaune? I missed my run this morning myself." Pyrrha's shoulders relaxed and she let out a quiet breath of relief.

"Oh," Jaune rubbed the back of his head, "Well I felt bad because I'm the one who kept you up the other night and I'm not exactly the fastest runner yet so I didn't want to like slow you down or anything."

"Well I am very proud of you for getting up and exercising on your own." Pyrrha nodded and smiled at Jaune.

"Plus I bet you're super hungry right?" Nora dashed to Jaune and gripped him firmly by the shoulders, "Right? Right RightRight?" She began bouncing on her heels trying to imbue Jaune with her excitement but he just looked a little scared.

"Uhh yeah, yeah I guess so. Why?" Jaune tried to back away but Nora wasn't letting him escape right before the best part.

"Because today is pancake day Jaune!" She leapt into the air, using Jaune's shoulders as a springboard. "It's pancake day, it's pancake day."

"Doesn't the cafeteria serve pancakes every Monday?" Pyrrha asked while trying to avoid Nora's flailing legs as she was still jumping up and down, keeping Jaune very much pined in place.

"Well yeah but that doesn't make it any less exciting." Nora stopped jumping and spun on Pyrrha, "Pancakes are always something to be excited about," She said as seriously as she could manage, though it was hard when she was this excited so her face soon broke back into a wide grin.

"I suppose you are right." Pyrrha turned to her dresser and began removing a clean uniform for the day, "We should hurry then, to ensure we get there while there are enough pancakes for you."

"Enough pancakes? Enough pancakes?" Nora spun needlessly back to Jaune, "I can never have enough pancakes."

"Waffles are just better though." Jaune tried to laugh found himself pressed against the wall and a very threatening finger in his face.

"You take that back." Nora levelled an incredibly serious glare at him. Waffles, better? No, that could not be allowed.

"Nora, let Jaune go." Ren emerged from the bathroom, he was wrapped in his towel now and making his way over to his dresser to deposit his shampoo and grab clothes for the day. "Remember everyone gets to pick their own favorite foods."

"But, Ren, he's wrong." Nora whined. She knew that Jaune was allowed to think whatever he wanted. But it was just so much more fun to play like this.

"Yes Nora, but he's allowed to be wrong." Ren gave Jaune a small, sympathetic smile as he passed.

"Oh well, your loss." Nora stuck her tongue out at Jaune and ran for the bathroom, "My turn next." she hollered as she slammed the door shut behind her.

Once they had all showered and gotten ready for the day Team JNPR headed down to the cafeteria to partake in the absolute best breakfast food ever created. Nora made sure to stack two plates as high as she could and carried them both back to their table with Team RWBY, the mighty stacks teetering dangerously as she walked. She finally reached the table and deposited her load successfully at her seat, only spilling a small amount of juice on the floor which she promised herself she would clean up before she left. Probably.

"Nora? That's a lot of pancakes…" The big blonde said from across the table, Yang was such a kidder.

"Really? I thought this was pretty small for round one," Nora side-eyed the stacks disapprovingly and shrugged. It wasn't her fault the chef said that she 'had to leave some for others', "I mean I had to tell the guy that this was for my whole team just to get them but still." Nora retrieved her knife and fork and began decimating the pancakes as quickly as possible so she could go back and get more. She added syrup and butter as she went, making sure the bottom ones didn't get too soggy as she made her way down.

"Good morning Yang." Pyrrha sang out happily as she led Ren and Jaune over to the table. They all three had plates piled high with bright fruits and dark green veggies.

"What's with the super healthy breakfast?" Yang eyed the plates suspiciously. Nora chuckled through a mouthful of pancake, only she could escape Ren's diet program.

"Oh Ren has the whole team on a wonderful meal plan." Pyrrha said cheerfully and sat beside Nora. Ren took Nora's other side and Jaune sat quietly at the far end of the table, away from all of them. "Well almost all of us." Pyrrha cast a sidelong glance at Nora and quickly diminishing pile of syrup soaked goodness to which Nora responded with a wry smile.

"Well, ish not my faul-t that you all need to be on a diet." Nora swallowed mid sentence and waved her fork at Pyrrha accusingly before returning to her food.

"Yeah thanks, I'll stick to bacon." Yang proceeded to continue eating her bacon and egg breakfast for a moment before leaning in towards JNPR's two female members conspiratorily. "So guys, how is Jaune?"

"Oh well," Pyrrha began awkwardly.

"He seems okay." Nora leaned her head around the remainder of her second stack of pancakes, "He even went for a run this morning." She flashed Yang a smile and then took a bite directly off of the pancake nearest her, getting syrup and crumbs all over her cheeks.

"Oh, uhh okay." Yang leaned back and returned to her food with much less vigor than before.

"Nora, are you going back for seconds?" Ren asked calmly from her side as she added a little more syrup to the final few pancakes.

"Of course I am," Nora sang out, happy that she was understood so well.

"Would you mind getting me another glass of orange juice while you're up?" He lifted his now half empty glass with a smile and Nora nodded.

"Of course I can Renny." Nora unceremoniously shoved nearly half a pancake into her mouth all at once and collected her plates with a pleased hum. Pancake day was absolutely the best day, it totally made up for the fact that it was a Monday.

Nora dropped her two dirty plates off at one of the many receptacles around the cafeteria to be collected by the staff and made her way back to the serving bar. She purposefully headed for a different section than before so as to avoid that annoying chef who didn't understand her need for delicious fluffy goodness. As she gathered her hot cakes into a manageable pile on her first plate she heard a round of loud, boisterous laughter come from her groups table and looked over just in time to see Weiss collecting herself up off the floor and trying to brush herself off. Nora finished gathering her pancakes, grabbed two tall glasses of juice and trotted back to the now very full table shared by Team JNPR and RWBY except for Ruby herself.

"Ah here you are Renny. One tall glass of OJ." Nora set the glass down with an over the top flourish as she rested her tray of pancakes on the table. "And a napkin for the clumsy princess." Nora extended her hand towards a bristling Weiss with a smile, holding a large bunch of cafeteria napkins out for her.

"Oh very funny, Nora." Weiss gave her an unwavering glare, "I suppose you were in on it with Yang then?"

"I'm tryin' to tell ya Weiss. I didn't do it this time. The floor in here is just really slippery, ya know?" Yang attempted to disarm Weiss with a grin but it seemed to only enrage her further.

"You're right I should totally believe you. After the buckets of water over the door, the toy snakes in my bed, not to mention the toilet seat coated in numbing medication. Now I should believe that you didn't set up some kind of terrible trap to trip me." Weiss put both hands on her hips and cocked a sassy chin towards her big blonde partner. There was a moment of silence as everyone realized just how prank filled and dangerous the RWBY dorm apparently was.

"Uhh Weiss, I think I actually might have spilled some stuff because I was carrying all these pancakes and stuff." Nora gestured sheepishly at the huge stack of literally steaming hotcakes in front of her.

"Oh, of all the inconsiderate, clumsy.." Weiss's frustration got the better of her and she groaned as she pinched her nose, "You owe me a new uniform blouse." She finally said with some measure of calm.

"Well I mean I can just wash that one for you." Nora offered cheerfully but stopped when she felt the air around her drop a couple degrees quite suddenly, "Or you know, get you a new one because eww cafeteria floor right?"

"Yeah see it wasn't me this time." Yang crossed her arms at Weiss.

"Oh just because it wasn't, doesn't mean that isn't just the kind of thing you'd do." Weiss's stare left Nora and she was more than grateful to let the two teammates bicker amongst themselves. She looked around for the much more approachable of the two sisters and realized again that she was missing.

"Hey Blake, where's Ruby? She wouldn't want to miss pancake day." Nora was really surprised to not see her there. Sure, she and Jaune had broken up and that might be a little weird, but couldn't they just like, sit at opposite ends of the table or something for a while?

"Oh, she wasn't really feeling well this morning. She said she would meet us in class though." Blake offered quietly and Nora was barely able to hear her over the escalating argument between the remaining two members of the other team.

"Really? That's such a bummer. I hope she feels better. Hopefully Goodwitch doesn't make her spar in class." Nora figured the chances were fairly high that Ruby wasn't actually sick and that it was far more likely that she was just trying to avoid Jaune. Still it couldn't hurt to offer her well wishes.

"Thanks Nora, I think she'll be okay." Blake offered Nora a kind smile which she happily returned. Nora then resumed devouring her pancakes and watching Yang and Weiss battle it out.

"Oh no. Now you're gonna go off about me not cleaning the room? Really?" Yang was up and pacing in a small half circle around the heiress's seat.

"I would really prefer if I didn't feel like I was coming home to a laundromat every night." Weiss lifted her nose high into the air, "And a fairly dirty one at that."

"Don't you even start on this. Just because we can't all afford to get a whole new closet of clothes every week." Yang threw her hands in the air.

"I… I do not but that many clothes." Weiss recoiled in hurt.

"Really? Then what was all that stuff you had shipped home last week? Hmm?" Yang bent down and put her violet eyes incredibly close to Weiss's ice blue ones.

"Please, that was hardly anything. Simply summer clothing that I won't be wearing for the next few months." Weiss lowered her eyes back to Yang's with renewed confidence, "Not all of us are walking furnaces. Not all of us can afford to flaunt all that skin twelve months out of the year." She waved a hand dismissively at Yang's bare midriff and exposed thighs and it was Yang's turn to pull back in hurt.

"Excuse me for being proud of my body," the big blonde held a hand to her chest, "Not everyone is so priggish they have to walk around in four layers of top just to feel decent." The bell rang and drowned out most of Weiss's response. Nora lifted herself from a now empty tray and gathered up her and Ren's dishes.

"Oh, thank you Nora." Ren looked up at her as she pulled his plates onto her tray.

"Of course Renny." Nora leaned down and gave Ren a quick peck on the cheek before hurrying off with the dishes towards the nearest wash bin. She carefully dumped them into the bin and hurried back towards her departing team. They made their way to Goodwitch's class without any further argument from Weiss and Yang. The two simply chose to walk on opposite sides of their seven person group. No wonder Ruby took those walks at night to avoid them. The tension between them was so intense Nora could almost feel it charging her semblance.

They all filed into their seats in the third row from the bottom and Nora glanced around to see how their seating arrangement had changed. She was in the middle now, with Ren on her left and Yang on her right, Jaune and Pyrrha were on Ren's other side with Jaune as far as possible from Team RWBY. Blake was by her partner and Weiss on the far side with the very last empty seat apparently reserved for their leader, who still wasn't here.

"Yang, hey Yang." Nora whispered as loud as she dared this close to the start of class. Eventually Yang's head jolted in recognition and she turned to Nora, uncrossing her arms as she did.

"Yeah?" Yang asked and Nora was happy to see that she was much less upset than when they had been in the cafeteria.

"Where's Ruby? Blake told me she felt sick this morning." Yang perked her head up slightly in surprise and looked down to the end of the row.

"Huh, that's weird." Yang whipped out her scroll to see a message notification that she had apparently missed. She opened and scanned the text quickly and sighed. "Looks like she still doesn't feel super great." Yang told Nora and then leaned around Blake to call down to Weiss. "Hey Ice Queen. Wanna let the Professor know that you're partner is taking a sick day?" Weiss and Blake both regarded her curiously and Weiss shook her head.

"This is exactly what I was worried about." She began getting out of her seat and making an overly exuberant show of fixing her skirt, "She's even missing classes now? We are going to have to have a real talk with her." Weiss left without waiting for a reply.

"I hope she feels better soon." Nora tried to offer helpfully but saw that it did very little to brighten Yang or Blake's spirits.

"We all do." Blake at least tried to smile.

A/N - See? Things are totally on the upswing now right? Yeah totally headed upwards.

I like the idea of a squabbling Weiss and Yang. Especially over issues of day to day cleanliness like picking up clothes and stuff. Weiss is meticulous and Yang probably just leaves her stuff everywhere.

Glad you're all still enjoying the story so much. I wanna throw some much deserved thanks out to Dongyrn, Boombox94 and ZHsteven for their very much appreciated support over the last few rough chapters. There three have done such a wonderful job for me of reviewing almost every chapter and keeping me appraised of how the story is received. Thanks so much! =) Internet hugs for all three of you.

Anyways, that's it for the wonderful weekend double feature. Hope you liked it. Come back Tuesday to climb further up this fluffy trend we're on.

-Zach