A/N: I wanna say a quick thank you for all the follows, faves and reviews. I really appreciate it. I'd like to apologize for how long this took to come out and the only real reason is because I finished it once before and got to work on the third chapter when the hard drive I saved all my writings to got corrupted and I lost almost everything I've ever written, both personal and fanfic related and it pretty much shot my drive to write at all for a good while. Its my own fault for not saving it to multiple places so Ill be double sure to do that from now on. Also, from here on out I also will do my best not to let this story go more than a month without an update.

When Weiss woke up on a rather nice and sunny Tuesday morning, she had expected a few things. The first being her partner, Ruby, hovering around her asking if she needed anything or if there was anything the younger girl could do for her. It had become a pattern ever since the training accident for Ruby to act in such a way, so that's why Weiss was completely and utterly confused as she woke not to Ruby looming above her, but to the loud and strange noise of her team leader squealing and shooting off of her bunk like some kind of rocket, tangled in her own blanket and sheets as she flew directly into the hard and unforgiving floor.

Apparently, the heiress wasn't the only one to be forced out of their slumber as the two other occupants in the room shot up in their own bunk beds. Blake was now sitting wide eyed in bed, with her bow flicking violently atop her head. While Yang was groaning like some kind of zombie with dull eyes and a pale face that helped only to further the idea that she actually was some undead creature.

"Ruby… I love you but what in the world are you doing?" Yang stared down on her sister from her bunk, refusing to leave the warmth of her sheets to aid the downed girl.

"Mrffbllrmmm…" The response Ruby gave was muffled by the carpet as she seemed to take a moment to calm down from whatever had excited her and removing herself from her tangled sheets.

Taking a deep breath to fight back the mounting headache, Weiss decided to speak up, "Ruby please, it's too early for this. Why are you acting so weird? And please get up before answering."

The brunette finally pushed herself up and got back onto her feet, but she refused to stand still as she bounced from one foot to the other. "I got a message from Jaune!" After that, she hopped onto her bed to grab her scroll before coming back to the floor and shoving the device into Weiss' face.

"Hey Ruby, I'm- ", that was all Weiss could read before the device was pulled away, and Ruby was showing her scroll to the others. She hadn't even had time to see if it was actually from Jaune. The mention of the blonde boy brought a small frown onto the heiress' face. Ever since they had returned from the Emerald forest and Weiss had recovered from her own injuries and learned of the ones Jaune had received in his attempts to protect her, she had been trying to figure out just how to act and treat him. On one hand, as much as she hated admitting it, Jaune Arc had saved her life and risked his own to protect her while suffering a good number of injuries in the process. However, on the other hand she had trouble looking beyond all her past experiences with him and his horrid attempts at flirting with her. That made her wonder if Jaune had only done it as some crazy attempt to woo her or if he truly considered her a friend and chose to risk his life on that.

It showed just how bad her view of him truly was that she didn't immediately know the answer, the heiress saw him as a friend of a friend at best and an annoyance at worst. Now Weiss was left in the uncomfortable position of owing him, and she had little to no idea of how to repay her debt. She could only hope that if he did ask for repayment in some way, it wasn't something outrageous or demeaning. Maybe he wouldn't ask for anything in return at all, but Weiss wasn't going to allow herself to be forever in debt to him especially when she felt a ball of guilt for in her stomach at the thought of Jaunes injuries.

"What do you think Weiss?" A loud voice sounded by her ear and broke her train of thought. Pale blue eyes slid over to meet silver ones that stared with some form of expectation.

"I'm sorry, I was lost in thought. What were you asking?" Ruby puffed up her cheeks and attempted to glare at Weiss, attempted being the key word as it just came off as more of a cute pout.

"I was asking if you wanted to come with me to go check on him. He said he already told his team, and that they were heading over to the infirmary now."

"Oh. Sure, just let me get ready and I'll go with you." Throwing off the sheets that seemed to be trying to pull her back into her peaceful sleep, Weiss moved to prepare her clothing for the day. "Will either of you be joining us as well?" Her eyes moved over to Blake, and Yang. The former giving her a small nod, while the brawler gave her a thumbs up before pulling the sheets back up and instantly falling back to sleep.

"I'll get her up in a bit, I have a few tricks to make sure she comes along." Ruby let out a devious giggle before she moved behind the heiress and began shoving her to the bathroom. "Now, hurry up! I wanna go as soon as possible."

Weiss bristled at the shoving but was able to hold back the urge to yell at the girl, instead she moved calmly into the bathroom and prepared herself for the day. Her eyes locked onto her reflection once she was done with getting dressed, focused mostly on the spot on her forehead where her wound used to be that was partly covered by her bangs. Slowly, Weiss brought one hand up and brushed her bangs out of the way and studied the space on her forehead, looking for any sign of scarring. Luckily for Weiss, her aura had healed the wound completely and left no scars or blemishes to show that it had ever even been there. It was a small blessing that she hadn't ended up with yet another scar on her face that would be forever on display for anyone who saw her.

One last once over of her appearance, and Weiss pulled open the door only to run directly into Yang as Ruby fought to force her older sister inside. A small huff of laughter escaped her lips as she sat down on her bed and watched the rest of her team get ready. Hopefully she'll have come up with a plan of what she would say to Jaune once they were all done.

Upon arriving at the infirmary, team RWBY moved quickly towards Jaunes room. Even if they hadn't visited it a few times before, it would've been impossible to not find it with how loud Nora was being with her cries of joy at her leader's recovery. The doctors and nurses outside the room that were trying to get her to quiet down were also a bit of a tell.

Giving the staff a quick apology and a promise to be quiet, the four entered the room to a strange sight that none of them really expected but at the same time weren't too surprised at. On Jaune's left, Pyrrha sat with one hand holding his and talking to him. On the blonde's right side was Ren, who had a hand on his shoulder in support and Ren's other hand was on Nora's shoulder pushing her back. Because, in classic Nora fashion, seeing that both the knights right and left sides were filled she decided to hop onto Jaunes bed and hover above him.

While Yang was busy laughing at the predicament Jaune had found himself in, Ruby decided to announce their presence to the room.

"Hey Jaune! Glad you're up!" The young girl bounded up next to Pyrrha, waving at her in greeting before turning back to Jaune. "How're you feeling?"

Jaune gave them all a small smile, "I feel okay, my everything is still pretty sore but I'm just glad to be awake."

"We all are Jaune." Pyrrha spoke softly, her grip on his hand tightening just a bit more. "All of us were pretty worried after you didn't wake up on the first day."

"Oh, uh…" The look on his face as he looked around the room showed that even after the pain and panic he went through, Jaune was still the same awkward teenager he was before. "Sorry for scaring you all, I won't let it happen again."

"No problem Jauney." Nora cheered as she was finally pulled off of the bed by Ren, and came to rest at the dark-haired boys side. "Next time you go cliff diving, I demand to come with you."

"Sorry, but that was a one-time deal. At least I hope so, cause hitting the ground hurt like no other."

"I'm still having a hard time believing that bit Vomit Boy, but I guess having so much aura comes in handy, huh?" Yang teased, walking up and patting Jaune lightly on his head. It was then that Weiss noticed something, at the mention of his aura, Jaunes face looked distressed or panicked for just a moment before returning to a small, almost tentative smile. What had that been about?

"Yep, I guess it does." His voice held a weird edge to it, but just like the look on his face, it vanished in an instant. "So what's been going on since I've been out?"

As most of them began to fill the knight in on what he had missed, Weiss took the time to study him. From some of his reactions to the things they said, but also looking over what injuries the boy still had. There were still bandages and gauze wrapped around his abdomen, shoulder, and the majority of his right arm, his thin hospital gown sticking to them and making the wrapping stand out all the more. Even if she wasn't allowed to view his medical charts, Pyrrha had been more than willing to fill all of them in on Jaunes condition, from all of his injuries to any progress he had made while unconscious.

None of that explained the bizarre reaction to the mention of his aura, but right now Weiss had a far more important matter to focus on. Namely, finding a way to break into the conversation and thank Jaune, even if doing so in front of everyone else was rather humiliating. Then she could let the matter die and forget all about the stupid training accident. Before she could speak up, Weiss caught Ruby staring intently at the side of her head before the reaper nodded to herself and stepped forward.

"Is there anything you need Jaune?" Ruby called out, yelling above the hum of their small crowd.

"No, I'm fine Ruby."

"But… But…" Weiss wasn't the only one who started laughing at the heartbroken look on the young girl's face.

"Umm, maybe some food, if I'm allowed to eat any solid foods. Could you do that?" Ruby performed a mock salute before vanishing from the room in a blur of rose petals.

"I'm gonna go make sure she doesn't tackle a nurse to get you some food," Yang left with a small chuckle and shake of her head.

"Oooh, you think they'll make pancakes Ren?" Nora was already heading for the door before the question even left her lips.

"I don't know, we can go check with Ruby and Yang." Ren gripped Jaune's shoulder one final time before moving over to Nora and exiting the room with her.

Weiss noticed something was off in that moment, especially when she noticed that Pyrrha and Blake shared a look before their eyes moved over to her and then onto Jaune, who looked terribly confused. Oh no. Oh no, no, no! I need more time to think of a plan. Unfortunately for the heiress, her fears were confirmed as Blake and Pyrrha stood at the same time, each with their own excuses and walked out the door and shutting it, effectively sealing Weiss' fate. A part of her wondered if they had all spoken and planned this out from before Jaune had woken up.

"You can go too, if you want Weiss," Jaune's voice snapped Weiss out of her initial panic, only to bring a new wave with it.

"I'm sorry?"

"I'm just saying you can go get some breakfast too, if you want. I don't mind."

"No… No, I believe I have a few things I need to say to you Jaune." Weiss forced down her nervousness, and forced her eyes to meet his. She didn't know what to expect when she looked into them, but all she could see was mild confusion. That look seemed pretty natural for the boy.

Weiss took a quick breath, she needed thank him. She knew that. Knowing it, and actually thanking him were two separate things. It didn't help that her opinion of Jaune was still considerably low even after he saved her.

"Listen Jaune, I just wished to…" Her nails began to dig into her palm as she struggled to force the words out. "I wished to thank you." There, she said it. Now all Jaune had to do was accept it and this awkward and uncomfortable moment would end.

Jaune's eyes widened in surprise before slowly drawing together in confusion, "Thank me? You don't need to thank me Weiss. We're friends, I'm sure you would've done the same for me."

He seemed confident in everything he said, the problem for Weiss was that she wasn't. She still couldn't see him as an actual friend, and she wasn't sure she would willingly leap into harm's way to save him if it came down to it.

"Even so, my team and not to mention the headmaster himself said that if it wasn't for what you had done, I wouldn't be here now. So, thank you." Her tone had become sharper as she went on, her eyes narrowing into a glare as she hoped Jaune wouldn't force her to thank him a third time.

"Well, I- uh, you're welcome then." Jaune seemed to fold under her gaze, his left arm coming up to scratch the back of his head. A nervous habit that she had noticed from even before the accident. "So, is that all you needed to say?"

If any one in any other situation had asked her that, she would've taken it badly, assuming that it was meant in a challenging and belittling way. He seemed to be genuinely asking if there was anything else she wanted to say. "No, there is one other thing that I would like to discuss with you."

"Okay, what is it?"

Weiss looked away from the boy in favor of looking out his window as she spoke, "I would like to repay you, for what you did."

"Well, I wouldn't mind a da-." Jaune shut his mouth with an audible click as she fixed her iciest stare onto him. Even if he was saying it in jest, she didn't want to hear him say that. "I'm sorry, that wasn't funny." Understatement of the century.

"Do you have any serious thoughts on what you'd like?"

"Not really, there isn't anything I want."

Was he trying to be difficult on purpose or just trying to be humble and down play the whole thing? Either way, it was beginning to pull on her nerves. The heiress quickly counted to ten in her head and reminded herself that it wouldn't be much of a thank you if she were to add to his list of wounds. "Is there anything you need then?"

"Uuhhh," Weiss could feel her eye twitch as he dragged on the sound, "I don't think so, I mean Pyrrha already helps me train and stuff. I don't think I need anything."

Weiss wasn't sure why he had brought up his training but the thought made her pause. Surely Pyrrha was the better teacher in terms of combat for Jaune, especially since she used a similar weapon set. Maybe she could help him in another area, he certainly wouldn't have any reason to deny the offer since she did have one of the best grades in their year. "Tutoring."

"What?" Jaune sounded lost, again it seemed like a natural state of being for him.

"I can tutor you. You did miss a few lectures with your little nap. I'll help you catch up on the work you missed and even with a few papers afterwards."

"Really? I mean, sure! That would be great." She hadn't expected such an enthusiastic response to the offer but she wouldn't start to complain now.

"Very well, whenever you are cleared to leave we can schedule a time for it." And then she would officially be out of his debt, and everything could go back to normal.

Before Jaune could speak up again, a loud crash sounded out as the door flew open and Ruby, Yang, and Nora all crashed down into the floor. "We weren't eavesdropping!" Ruby cried out as she jumped back to her feet, a bright red blush on her face. Unlike Ruby, who was at least a little embarrassed at being caught, Yang and Nora just brushed themselves off with a teasing smirk and a megawatt grin respectively.

"Why would you?" Jaune started to ask before he just shook his head. "Did you get anything for me to eat Ruby?"

"Huh?" The reaper turned to stare into Jaunes blue eyes, her own silver orbs blinking owlishly.

"You said you were gonna get me some food if I was allowed it."

"What? No, I didn't." Weiss felt her eye twitch, Ruby had just confirmed that not only were they listening in on the conversation, but it had been the plan from the very beginning to leave her alone with Jaune, and then listen to make sure the heiress thanked him.

"Yes you di-."

"Nope."

"Ruby, I actually am hungry and would like some food."

"Nope."

Thankfully Yang stepped in before Jaune continued what was sure to be an endless cycle of denials. "Hehe, sorry Vomit Boy. We just wanted to make sure Weiss-cream actually thanked you."

The sole male in the room nodded his head slowly and then shifted his gaze over to his teammate, "And you, Nora?"

Nora just shrugged, her grin still in place. "I saw these two hanging back so I did too."

"Wait, so then where did Ren go?"

The man in question showed back up before Nora could respond, carrying a plate of pancakes and bacon. Pyrrha, and Blake both trailing behind him. "Here Jaune, I checked with your nurse and she said it was fine for you to eat. I'm surprised they were actually serving pancakes though."

"Ooooh gimme gimme!" Nora cheered as she stalked closer to the plate of food. Ren clearly knew that would be her reaction to seeing her favorite food and nodded his head back towards Pyrrha who was holding a plate of just pancakes.

"Those are all yours Nora." He set the plate down for Jaune and pulled some silverware out of his pocket and handed those over as well. "I also asked them when you would be free to leave here."

"Oh? What'd they say?" Jaune asked before digging into his breakfast, scarfing the food down quickly.

"You'll be stuck here for today and a portion of tomorrow, they want to keep you for observation."

"Well that's great." The look of despair that came over his face at the prospect of being stuck any longer in the hospital was enough to cause a few laughs at his expense. His eyes slid over to the clock that hung on the wall. "Isn't there classes in a little bit from now?" That question caused Weiss to allow her gaze to move over to the clock as well and sure enough they had a lesson with Professor Port in the next thirty minutes.

"Yes, we do. I suppose this is a good time to make our leave then." Ren spoke as he nodded to his two female teammates, "We'll be sure to come back during lunch and after the afternoon classes as well."

"Okay, sure. I'll find a way to keep myself entertained."

Weiss moved with their small group as they all said their goodbyes to the blonde boy and prepared to head off to class. When Weiss left the room, she spared one last look for Jaune, her eyes meeting his as she gave a polite nod before walking down the hallway. That small visit had gone better than she had hoped, now she would just need to work out a study plan for them and get it over with. Her eyes moved over to Pyrrha who was walking beside her with a smile on her face. "You seem pretty ecstatic to have your leader back."

"Oh yes, it was starting to be pretty hard to keep a brave front on for everyone for a while." The redhead kept her face forward but did nod in Weiss' direction to show she was focused on her. "The doctors told us just a bit before you all showed up that nothing will leave any lasting problems so I'm even more relieved."

"That's good, I'm glad." Weiss let the conversation between the two of them die out after that and refocused on what their small group was talking about, intent to just remain silent on the way to class.

On the trip to Professor Ports classroom and throughout the entire class Weiss spent the majority of her focus on thinking of what assignments Jaune had to catch up on and what the best way to go about his tutoring would be. A huff of hot air shot out of her nostrils as she forced herself to focus on the asinine story being told but her mind almost immediately went back to Jaune and the current state he was in, trapped in bed with bandages covering so much of his body.

All because of her failures, her weaknesses, she would never say it to her team or anyone else for that matter but she did feel a great amount of guilt and responsibility for what had happened even if she didn't show it. It didn't matter that it was Jaune who saved her, it could have been any of them or even a random stranger and the guilt of it would still be crushing her. It had been her mistakes and her failures that caused another person to end up in that state, she wouldn't let that happen again. She would be better so no one would ever need to save her again. A sigh escaped her lips as she tried to stop her thoughts from racing any further. Jaune was awake, he was healing and would be free of the infirmary in just over a day, and they had come to an agreement on how she would repay him. All she had to do now was do it and then she would be free of the shadow looming over her. Even then, that thought did nothing to help alleviate any of the negative feelings currently raging inside her.

If only that stupid exercise had never happened.

Jaune let out a breath as he finished another routine check up, this time testing and gauging how well his right arm was recovering. It was getting a lot better and no longer felt like dead weight hanging off his shoulder. The nurse informed him that it would be one more night and he should be free to leave, free of the acrid scent of antiseptic and the overbearingly white walls. His mind stuck on one small fact of the little reunion he'd had with his team, none of them had mentioned the problem with his aura and he was sure they wouldn't have been so honestly happy and relieved if they had known. But that only begged the question of why didn't they know?

Did Ozpin not tell them? Jaune struggled to think of any reason why he wouldn't have done so but it none made too much sense to him. He pressed a hand to his forehead to think for just a few seconds before releasing a deep breath. Right now, there wasn't any way for him to really ask the headmaster why he chose to do that and he honestly didn't want to think about it anymore than he already had been. "Guess I'll just wait till the next time I see him." Jaune muttered to himself as he forced himself to think of something else.

It almost immediately focused onto the new arrangement he had with Weiss, from what he could see in their exchange was that she wasn't being as cold to him as she normally was but she most certainly wasn't swooning for him either. Not that he even expected her to after the accident, he was surprised she even thanked him. It surprised him even more though that she offered to spend time with him and help him of her own volition. Maybe this could be a chance to start fresh with her, his feelings for her hadn't changed but just maybe he could focus on just being her friend now and maybe one day it could be more. A sigh escaped his lips, it felt weird to think of a future for himself now after what had just happened not even twenty-four hours ago but he already said he wasn't going to stop and let this control him. He reached over and picked up his scroll off the table by his side, for now he would just play some games and wait for his team to come back.

So, something felt off to me about this chapter and I just couldn't place it. I rewrote it and tweaked it but none felt any better so I just decided to finish it as is. Maybe it was because I was writing from Weiss' perspective for the first time, or this chapter just sucks, or its all in my head. It could be any and/or all three and it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

If it is bad, sorry but I'd rather put it out now and move on then be stuck on the chapter for any longer, I'm sure I'll get better with portraying Weiss' character and perspective the more I write it so for now they might not feel as fluid or easy as Jaunes was. Practice makes perfect though so I'll do better in the future.

Also, I'd just like to give my thanks once more for all the support from the first chapter, I honestly didn't expect it. I'll see you next chapter, hopefully my school will calm the hell down with all the tests and exams by then.