Ruby wanted to be a good team leader.

While she may not have been chosen for the role of her own volition, she'd do her best to live up to it all the same.

To be a good team leader one had to make sure all of the team were doing okay. While her own partner and sister were okay, Blake was… less then okay. The closest way to describe Blake had been moody. Ergo, she'd tried her darnedest to try and help Blake feel better.

The result of that had been the two of them sitting in the library, reading books for hours on end, which while fun, didn't seem to solve the problem really. On the other hand, it had given a Ruby an idea. What if more of our friends knew about Blake's ears? She did say that hiding them got to her.

It was with the noblest of intentions that Ruby had decided to try and figure out what their friends' thoughts on Faunus were, and by friends she meant team JNPR …Ruby didn't exactly have the biggest social circle.

That raised another problem to Ruby; how am I supposed to bring this up to them?

At the present, Ruby was gaming with Jaune on his console in the JNPR dorm room. Pyrrha was studying at her desk, while Ren was helping Nora with her own homework, or at least was trying to. I'm here, so I should do something, but…

If I ask them then I'd be really suspicious and I can't lie well, and they'll figure it out and I don't think Blake would like it if I told other people without her permission. But if I don't do anything, then nothing will change and Blake will still be gloomy every so often. What to do?

"Man, that sci-fi game, the one with the laser swords, you lent me was great." Jaune mumbled as the two duked it out in Aura Caliber II. "I kinda want to play it again."

"Hehe, glad you liked it Jaune!" Oh well, I could always figure this out another time. "Aaaaand ring out!"

"Aww dang it!" Jaune slumped at the defeat. "I bet I could beat you in KotOR."

Ruby couldn't help rolling her eyes. "That isn't even a two player game."

"Yeah, but I beat that guy who was missing a jaw pretty easily, what was his name, Marik, right?" Ruby gave him a quizzical stare, causing him to wilt slightly. "Point is, I could totally win in that game."

"…now I kinda want to play it again." Ruby scratched her head. "Too bad the Dust-Station in my room is sorta… busted..." Ruby shook her head sheepishly. "Such a good story."

"I know right?" Jaune enthusiastically nodded his head. "I didn't see that reveal coming from a mile away, who knew he was actually Revan?"

"Yeah I know! Just like Blake being a Faunus!"

"Buh-what?"

Ruby's silver eyes widened as the gravity of what she'd just said kicked in. Oh crap, oh dust, I said that out loud!

Thoughts went screaming through her head at a million per second, as if her semblance had kicked in for her mind only. What do I do? Do I play it cool, and pretend like I never said it? Ruby stealthy glanced at Jaune, trying to gauge his reaction. He miiiight not take it seriously. Yeah, I could just play if off as a joke!

Yet when Ruby went to open her mouth, a strangled noise came out instead of words, prompting worry from Jaune. "Hey, are you okay? You kinda don't sound very…okay…"

"I-I-I-I'm f-f-fi-i-ine." To Ruby, it felt like she had only two options now, either tell the truth or just lie, and lying seems like I can't do it… I just hope Blake isn't angry with me. "Um, please don't tell anyone!"

"Tell them what?" Jaune's head tilted. "That your fin-"

"I think Ruby means what she said before." Pyrrha's voice pipped up, emerald eyes glance between Ruby and Jaune, before settling on the caped teen. "About Blake."

Jaune blinked for a moment. "Huh. So Blake's a Faunus?"

Ruby's head hung in shame at her lack of secret keeping. "Yeah…" I reaaally hope that they take it well, I know Yang and Weiss did, but that's 'cause we're teammates.

"That's cool." Jaune shrugged his shoulders before turning back to the screen. "Wanna do a rematch, Ruby?"

Now it was Ruby's turn to stare and blink. "Wait, really? So you guys are cool with it?"

Jaune gave a frown in return. "Why wouldn't I be? I mean it's not like changes anything, she's still the same person we know right?" Craning her head around, Ruby could see Pyrrha and Ren nodding.

"Yup! She's the same quiet girl we all know… BUT!" Nora leaped up on to the desk. "IS THAT WHY HER BOW TWITCHES A LOT!?" Even Ruby barely caught everything that Nora said, as she started to launch into a billion and a half questions. "…and we can totally keep the secret! Right, Ren?" The quiet teen merely gave an affirmative nod.

Ruby couldn't help but give a weak smile. "Thanks you guys. Um, I don't think I was kinda supposed to tell you, so really try and keep it, a, uh, secret?" They all nodded.

Well, that wasn't so hard!

AU: Oh Ruby, you sweet summer child.

I posted last chapter and as I drove to work I felt downright ashamed. So I feel a bit better about this chapter. Honestly how to integrate the board game episode content. I've been hitting a dead end in my head since November for this, to be honest.

For those of you who are wondering, Acceptance got second place on the RWBY subreddit for best fanfic of 2015! A very honourable spot considering first place went to Remnant's Reclaimers which is something like several magnitudes above me. Kudos to Hysterical Clerical Hijinks!

I posted a thing on my profile for release schedules of stories. Short story even shorter, Dilation will get another chapter either Friday or Saturday most likely.

Its weird having Pyrrha in a story, even as briefly as she was here and her not being the POV character. Or shipped with Ruby. My OTP... need more smol red and tol red doing the mushy stuff. Achhhhhh. Must suppress urge for this story.

Thanks for reading everyone, and have a great day!