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Lancaster

This was it. Jaune Arc has met his hardest and deadliest foe to date. And to think, it wasn't Grimm, it wasn't the White Fang, and it wasn't Roman Torchwick. No, this adversary was far worse than all of them put together. For Jaune awoke that morning and found himself, in a battle with his own body. The dreaded flu has infected the resident adorkable knight and turned what was supposed to be an ordinary, boring day of school into a day full of bodily torture. Stuffy nose, nausea, body aches, dizziness, the list went on for the blonde as his team helped him to the infirmary room after discovering his near death physical state.

"Jaune are you sure you're going to be ok? I…. we can skip class and take care of you" Pyrrha offered while helping him onto the bed.

"Yeah! We can all skip and nurse our fearless leader back into tip top Grimm fighting shape!" Nora agreed enthusiastically, bouncing around the infirmary bed.

"Nora, you need to lower your voice" Ren reprimanded. Nora blushed in embarrassment and let out a small sorry before Ren turned back to Jaune. "I can make you one of my smoothies if you'd like, Jaune. They're full of vitamins and minerals that would significantly aid your body in recovery"

Jaune chuckled weakly. His team was worried; that made him feel better remembering they cared so much. The nurse came over with water and medicine in hand.

"Now now, Mr. Arc is going to be fine. It's just the flu after all. Once he takes some medicine and gets some rest, he'll be back on his feet in no time. No one needs to miss classes." The Nurse reassured lightly with a smile and gave Jaune the medicine. "Now off to classes with you. Mr. Arc needs his rest. You can visit him after classes are done for the day"

Team NPR nodded and said their reluctant farewells to their leader with the promise of visiting after classes are done. The Nurse giggled lightly when they were gone. "You have a very caring team Mr. Arc"

"I know. I'm lucky to have them as a team" he replied with a soft laugh.

"Well Mr. Arc, just lay there and get some rest. I got some business to conduct at the training areas. I'll come back and check on how you're doing once I'm done. Make sure you take more of the medicine in a few hours." The nurse placed the medicine and water on her desk and took her equipment and headed to the door before turning to him "If you need anything, just call that number on your scroll" she pointed to a poster on the wall near the door. Jaune gave a small nod in response and the nurse smiled and walked out, closing the door behind her.

And thus, Jaune found himself alone, in the infirmary. He could feel the boredom, and medicine slowly kicking in and felt his eyes lids begin to get heavier.

'Maybe I'll feel better with some sleep' and with that thought, Jaune drifted into the land of sleep.


(Time Skip)

Jaune didn't know how long he slept, but what he did know was that when he woke up again, he felt even worse than before. His mouth was dry, his body felt heavy, his head was spinning, and his vison was starting to blur. He turned his body to face the digital clock on the nurse's desk reading 12:02.

'Medicine…water...' were Jaune's prevailing thoughts.

His eyes did their best to lock onto the medicine and glass of water resting next to the clock across the room. Summoning what felt like the rest of his strength, Jaune slowly got off the bed, the air around him feeling a lot colder than before, and started his way to the desk. Unfortunately for him, he discovered quickly that every step seemed to get harder to make and the world around him seemed to slowly spin with his vision ever slowly blurring out of focus. What felt like forever, Jaune progressed halfway across the room when his vision began to worsen, and he felt his body beginning to sway. The sound of the door opening broke his attention from the medicine but his current stated prevented him from identifying the person. It seemed at that moment, his legs decided that now was a good time to stop working completely and let gravity take over as he swayed forward. Jaune closed his eyes to prepare for the inevitable meeting with the floor but not before he was able to catch a glimpse of red zooming toward him.

"JAUNE!"


(Few moments before)

The bell signaled the end of class and all the Beacon students began to head toward their favorite time of school, Lunch! All the young hunters and huntresses in training headed toward the cafeteria, idly chatting away, ignoring the red blur and rose petals zipping by them. Said red blur made its way in and out of the cafeteria in less than a second and headed down the halls toward the infirmary.

Once hearing the news of Jaune's illness from NPR, Ruby Rose had decided that her mission for the rest of the day was to make her first best friend in Beacon feel better the best she can. Her plan was simple! Do exactly what her mom did whenever she felt sick when she was little for Jaune! It was fool-proof! She zoomed to the cafeteria and grabbed a bag of cookies and some warm milk and headed straight to where the sick knight was.

'Maybe I should stop by my room and grab a video game. They always helped me feel better. OR a funny poster to cheer him up' mused the huntress as she rounded the corner. 'Nah, keep it simple Ruby. When I feel sick, I always felt instantly better when mom brought me cookies and warm milk' she smiled fondly at the memory as she stopped in front of the infirmary. She lightly knocked on the door.

No response.

Ruby slowly opened the door and peered in. "Jaune? Are you awake? I brought…"

Only to see a pale looking Jaune in the middle of the room about to collapse.

"JAUNE!" Ruby quickly rushed to the knight's aid and did her best to support him. "Jaune!? What are you doing? You should be resting!" The knight mumbled softly. "What was that?" Ruby leaned closer to hear better.

"..ed.." was the only thing she could understand from his mumbling. Ruby blinked confused at the knight's response.

"ed?" she echoed and looked around the room. Her silver eyes resting on the infirmary bed. "Oh! Bed! Don't worry Jaune, I'll help you back to the bed." She walked them toward the bed and laid him back onto the bed and draped the covers over him. Satisfied with her work, she looked back toward the door where the bag of cookies and now spilt milk were. "Ah man. I'll be right back Jaune" Ruby made to leave to retrieve new supplies but was stopped at the tug of her sleeve. She turned around with a questioning look.

"I… need… you…" came the words out of Jaune's mouth.

... "Eh?"

It took a moment for Ruby to process the words in her head. When she did, her face instantly went as red as her hood.

"WHAT!? w-w-w-what are you saying Jaune?" squeaked Ruby reeling back in surprise and embarrassment. "Is your sickness affecting your brain?" Jaune simply grabbed her hand and pulled her closer with a small "eep" from Ruby. Jaune then reached for her neck and slowly brought their faces near. Ruby at this point was in complete emotional disarray. Millions of thoughts going millions of miles, crowding her head as she watched Jaune's red face near her equally, if not redder face.

'What is he doing?'

'What am I doing?'

'Is this his sickness affecting him?'

'Why am I not stopping this?'

'my hearts not ready!'

Jaune was her first friend in Beacon. He was her first guy friend as well! They were both made leaders and were really socially awkward. She could talk to him about almost anything! They were best friends! The best in Beacon in her opinion. Sure she had the rare moments of wondering if something else could happen and become more than friend (thanks to Yang's teasing). And Sure, recently she's been happier around the blonde knight… And sure they've spent a lot of time hanging out but that was just because they were really great friends! R-right?

…. Ruby couldn't find a convincing answer to that question in her mind and eventually just closed her eyes, waiting to see what happens next… only for nothing to happen. After a couple of seconds of nothing, she dared to open her eyes slowly to see Jaune's face not in front of hers, but instead near her ear, his breath tickling it slightly.

"Med…icine…" came the labored words from the sick knight. Ruby's mind took a second to register the request. Eyes widened in recognition as his head returned to the pillow of the bed. She looked around the room and saw the medicine and cup of water on the nurse's desk across the room. The gears slowly turned in her head as Ruby began to put together what Jaune was trying to convey.

"o-o-oh. The medicine… I got it Jaune". She quickly grabbed the items off the desk and helped Jaune sit up on the bed. "Here". Jaune gave a small smile and swallowed the medicine and water and slowly laid back down with the help of Ruby.

"Thank you Ruby" Jaune weakly said "Don't know what I'd do without you."

"N-no problem Jaune" came her meek reply. She was still trying to calm her rapidly beating heart from the whole ordeal. Jaune continued to smile as he closed his eyes, completely unaware of the turmoil he accidently caused the young huntress. She didn't know if it was the medicine, sickness, or the energy he exerted trying to get the medicine, but Jaune fell back to sleep almost instantly. His breathing evening out.

This left Ruby to stare at her blonde friend and just sigh. The guy was completely oblivious to the emotional stress he just caused her.

'But that's Jaune for you' she mused with a small smile. He was dorky, goofy, kind, brave when he needed to be, but above all, he was an amazing and reliable friend. Ruby leaned down, moving her hair behind her ear, and gave a light kiss to his forehead.

'Just like mom would do when one of us was sick' Ruby thought with a small smile and blush. 'Mission successful!'

The bells rang, signaling the end of lunch and for classes to resume. Ruby pouted slightly and sighed, resigning herself to her fate. She quickly cleaned up the spilt milk and bag of cookies she dropped in the moment and took one last look toward the blonde knight before smiling and closing the door.


(later)

When Jaune woke up again, the first thing he noticed was that he felt a whole lot better than before. There were still some small lingering effects of the flu, but overall, the medicine did its job and Jaune could feel himself beginning to feel like his old self again. Noticing the sun setting outside the window, Jaune fished his scroll from his pocket and saw that it was past six at night. He also noticed that he had a couple of messages. Chuckling to himself lightly, he saw that all of them were from his team saying that they visited him, but he was sleeping and they didn't want to wake him. Pyrrha's messages gave him a brief summary of the lectures and assignments he missed as well as saying that she'd help him catch up when he got back. Ren sent his well wishes along with Nora's more boisterous messages doing the same (Nora's also promised that Ren would make pancakes when he got better). The door opening drew his attention from his scroll to the nurse returning from what he assumed was dinner.

"Nice to see you're awake Mr. Arc." The nurse said with a smile and approached his bedside. "How are you feeling?"

"Much better. The medicine really helped. Thanks" the blonde responded with his own smile.

"Good. If you're feeling better, then we can return you to your team and your dorm if you'd like. I'll just give you one more dose of medicine before you do to take care of whatever might be left of the flu of yours." the nurse said as she walked to the cabinets. "By the way, you seem to be popular Mr. Arc".

Jaune tilted his head quizzically at her statement. "What do you mean?"

"When I came back from training areas, your team were all in the hallway outside the room, waiting to see how you were doing. Unfortunately for them you were sleeping. But, I assured them that depending on how well the medicine did its job, you could be back with them as soon as tonight" The nurse explained handing Jaune more medicine and water.

Jaune chuckled lightly "yeah, sounds like them"

"But that's not what I was referring to" She added, now with a slight teasing tone. "Another girl stopped by after your team left to check up on you. She didn't stick around long once she saw you were sleeping. She was adorably shy. However, she did give me some stuff to give you when you were finally awake". The nurse made her way to the small fridge under her desk. When she turned around and presented the items to Jaune, a smile began to make its way across his face.

In her hand was a plate of chocolate chip cookies, a glass of milk, and a small card that read "Get Well Soon!".

Signed by Ruby Rose.


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