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JNPR had established a closer relationship than most teams. After a fair amount of convincing from Ren and Nora (mostly Nora), Pyrrha finally asked Jaune if he felt the same way about her, that she felt about him. And one extremely long conversation later, the blonde and the redhead were officially, "a thing".
Only a couple of days later, Nora and Ren made an announcement to the remaining members of JNPR, and team RWBY that they were finally, "together-together" also. The two couples spent more and more time together, becoming closer as friends. Countless training sessions of clanging metal and heavy breathing, shopping trips in each others company, lunches and lessons spent together. Feelings towards each other changed, emotions became more intense, and eventually, the team sat down in their dorm room after a day of lessons plus lunch with RWBY, and didn't come out until the next morning. The group talked for hours, about how they felt towards each other. For the first time, Nora sat quiet and still. For the first time, Ren spoke up about his true feelings, and spoke much more than he ever had before in Pyrrha and Jaunes' presence. For the first time, Jaune spoke about his feelings towards another male, and how he wasn't sure how to respond to them. For the first time, Pyrrha stuttered her words, and tapped her foot, just as unsure of how to react as her partner.
In the end, when they finally emerged from their dorm again, Nora was clinging to Ren's arm as usual, but her other hand contained Pyrrha's. And at Ren's other side stood the leader of the team, their hands tightly intertwined.
In other words, the team was close. In fact, they were all together-together. Though, they were aware that it was unlikely for others to understand or accept them, so they decided to at least attempt to keep their odd relationship status to themselves.
It wasn't long until RWBY noticed something different about their team dynamic. The way that Nora would now happily sit on any of her team members' laps like it was nothing. How each of the members would hold hands when in corridors, while believing there was no one present to see them. How Ren would rest his head on Jaune's shoulder, and Pyrrha would gently run her hands through his raven hair. Ruby was the one who approached them about it.
"Hey, Guys?" She asked, a hint of hesitance in her voice.
"Yeah?" Jaune replied absentmindedly, his eyes remaining on the pages of his comic, Ren leaning against his shoulder, his eyes closed. Ruby wasn't quite sure if he was awake or not. They were in the library at the time, team RWBY sat on the table next to JNPR's. Though, the two teams were there for very different reasons. The all-female team were presently using the space in order to have to "team bonding" time. While the other team was there simply to study. Considering the fact that Ren was most likely asleep, Jaune was reading a comic, and the two redheads were almost tickling each other to death, their studying session was not very successful.
"You guys have been acting kinda weird around each other- well not weird, but like, we were- I w- was wondering-"
"We're polyamorous," Ren apparently was awake.
"W- what?"
Ren looked to Jaune for a moment. The blonde simply stared for a moment nervously, before sighing and nodding towards the 15 year old.
"We're all dating," Ren continued, "that's what polyamorous means. It means all four of us are together."
Ruby seemed confused for a moment before a slightly taller blonde appeared behind her, "congrats, guys!"
By this point Pyrrha and Nora had tuned in, ceasing their tickle war. Not only that, but Pyrrha was now blushing profusely. Nora found her hand under the table and squeezed it gently. The taller redhead visibly relaxed a little.
Jaune smiled politely, "Thanks, Yang."
Pyrrha coughed quietly. She hesitated for a moment before speaking, "does it not make you uncomfortable?"
Blake leant back in her chair, making herself visible from behind the sisters, "no, of course not. Why would it?"
Nora spoke up, "We thought that people might not understand."
Ren continued for her, as if reading her thoughts, "And when people don't understand things, they tend to rebel against them. They develop a hatred for them."
"You don't have to worry about that with us." Everyone turned to face the white haired heiress. She paused, "Look, I know I've been difficult with this sort of thing in the past. But I'm being serious, you don't have to worry about that with us. We're your friends, after all."
JNPR was silent.
Nora leapt to her feet and immediately jumped to Weiss, wrapping her arms around her in a hug. Pyrrha's lip quivered as tears formed in her eyes. When she thought about this day, she imagined a heated fight. And it was a well known fact that Pyrrha could deal with combat, not conflict. Such a positive reaction was a fantastic weight off of her shoulders. Her dark haired teammate placed his hand on her shoulder, rubbing her back with his other hand. Jaune moved to sit on her other side and pulled her body towards him. Ruby and Yang smiled at each other, moving around the table to hug the three. It didn't take long for the final member of JNPR to notice this and leap atop the group hug, nearly knocking the sisters' off of their feet. The huge grin on her face seemed to set off a chain reaction, as each of them let the infectious laughter creep out of their mouths. Even Blake managed to chuckle.
"Thank you, guys," Jaune finally said, after their laughter had subsided.
"No problem, vomit-boy."