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POV Pyrrha
Everything is so…. quiet.
Where…. Where am I?
Everything is white, there’s nothing around me but a blinding void of pure white.
What’s going on? Where is everyone? What happened?
I didn’t… I didn’t die, did I?
I can’t really remember much after that bright flash of light atop Beacon Tower….. did I….. was that where I died?
And then something catches my eyes.
A small patch of blonde yellow among the white.
That same head of blonde curls that I’ve caught myself staring at so many times.
“Jaune?”
I find myself moving towards him almost subconsciously. As if I’m being pulled towards him by something.
“J-Jaune?!”
He doesn’t turn around.
He doesn’t even react to my voice.
“Jaune, it’s me, I-“
Before I can get to him, something stops me dead in my tracks.
I don’t know what it was, there’s no wall, nothing is there, and yet I find myself being kept away from Jaune.
And then, he speaks.
“Pyrrha….”
“J-Jaune, I’m here, I’m-“
“Why did you have to leave?”
What?
“Huh? Jaune, I’m right here, I’m-“
“Why did you have to leave us all alone? What did we do to deserve this?”
“Jaune, I didn’t-“
“You just had to be the hero, you just had to run to your death, without even thinking about how it might affect us…. How it might affect ME.”
What is he talking about….. did I actually…. N-no, I couldn’t have….. right? I lost the battle, that’s for sure, but I don’t remember anything being fatal.
“Jaune… please, I didn’t leave any of you, I-“
“Then why did you go…. Why did you have to fight her?”
“Jaune…. Nobody else could do anything to stop her….”
“And you could?”
“…….no…. I couldn’t.”
I really couldn’t, I knew going into that fight that I wouldn’t be coming out of it.
But…. I did, I just know deep down that I did.
“Jaune… please, I need to-“
Suddenly, I feel something pulling me back.
I can’t turn to look back and what is grabbing onto me, I can’t seem to look away from Jaune.
“….goodbye Pyrrha…..”
“N-NO, JAUNE, WAIT, I-“
“I wish you didn’t have to go.”
“I DON’T, IM STILL HERE, I’M NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU.”
Yet that’s exactly what I find myself doing. I’m being dragged away from him.
“N-NO, LET GO OF ME, JAUNE WAIT.”
Jaune begins fading out of view.
And then, another voice fills the void around me.
HER voice.
“Don’t worry, he’ll be joining you soon enough.”
And with that, I find myself jolting awake with a scream.
“NO!”
…..oh….. it was a dream……
I’m in a bed…. A hospital bed by the look of things.
The pain in my leg seems to have gone down, good.
To my right, I can hear somebody stirring.
When I turn to look, I see that same head of blonde hair.
“Jaune?”
I’m terrified that this will prove to be another dream, that I’ll again be dragged away from him.
His tired reaction is honestly adorable.
“Huh… wazzat? Who?”
“Jaune, are y-“
“P-PYRRHA!”
Almost immediately, I find myself being pulled into a crushing embrace.
“Y-you’re… you’re ok… I was so worried I though…”
I can feel heat rising to my face from the contact.
But more pressingly, is the sense of guilt.
“Jaune……”
“You’re actually ok….”
“Jaune…. I’m sorry…. I’m so sorry.”
“H-huh?”
He pulls away, an expression of pure confusion plastered across his adorable face.
“I’m sorry that I ran off like that…. I almost…. You almost lost me…. I’m so sorry, I just-“
And again, he pulls me into a hug.
“Pyrrha, it’s ok.”
He holds me tightly against his chest, his head resting atop mine.
“You’re safe, you’re here, you came back, that’s all that matters now.”
I can already feel the tears welling up in my eyes.
“Jaune….”
“It’s ok Pyrrha, you’re ok, that’s the only thing I care about right now.”
That already would’ve worsened my blush, but the brief kiss to the top of my head he gives me makes it even more apparent.
I feel like my face is going to melt off at this rate.
Until suddenly, somebody bursts through the door to the hospital room.
“Jaune, is she- PYRRHA!”
Oh, it’s Nora and Ren.
Jaune immediately pulls away from me, looking rather red in the face.
I doubt it’s even half as red as mine.
And the Nora suddenly rushes over to me with blinding speed and crushes me in a bear hug.
“N-Nora, be gentle with her!”
“J-Jaune, it’s ok, I’m fine.”
Nora basically buries herself in my shoulder.
“Oh I’m so glad you’re ok, I thought you were dead for a while there!”
And suddenly, she is yanked away from me by Ren.
“Nora, give her some space, she just woke up. Nora is right though, we’re glad you’re doing ok.”
“Likewise…. I was getting worried about all of you.”
Nora scoffs at that.
“US? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED WE WERE ABOUT YOU??!?”
“Nora, calm down.”
“S-sorry Ren, sorry Pyrrha.”
Ok, now that I know the rest of my team is fine, I need to figure out about the others.
“W-what happened to everyone else? Is Team RWBY ok?”
Jaune and Nora tense up at the question, Ren looks as calm as ever.
Nora begins to speak, but she sounds shaky and concerned.
“W-well…. They…. Uh.”
“I’ll explain it Nora.”
“Thanks Ren.”
At this point Ren has finally let go of Nora.
“Ruby is….. we’re not sure. We know she’s alive, but she’s been unconscious since she went up Beacon Tower after you.”
Right, it’s coming back to me now. Ruby made her way up the tower, then there was that blinding flash of light that seemed to take out Cinder.
“Oh…. Is Weiss ok?”
Nora pipes up next.
“She’s fine last we checked, apparently she was taken back to Atlas by her father.”
“Oh….. ok then.”
Weiss made her disdain for her father very well known, so I doubt she’s very happy right now.
But at least she’s alive.
“Blake?”
Nora again looks a bit nervous.
Jaune picks up for her.
“We don’t know…. we didn’t get to see her before she left.”
“She… left?”
“Yeah, apparently after she woke up, she ran for it. Sun tried to catch her, but she got away…. at least she was in good enough shape to run.”
Oh…. Yang probably isn’t too happy about that.
Speaking of Yang.
“And Yang? How is she?”
That seemed to worsen everyone’s mood.
Even Ren gets nervous when I bring up Yang.
Nora tries to start.
“Well…. Uh…. She…. I-“
Ren places a hand on her shoulder.
“She’s…. Alive, and recovering…. But….”
That “but” fills me with a great deal of concern.
“She’s…..”
And then Jaune cuts in.
“She lost her arm during the attack.”
Excuse me?!
“W-what?!”
“Yang lost an arm during the attack…. Blake managed to get her back to the evac point, but…..”
Oh…… oh.
That…. Can’t be good for Yang…. I can’t even imagine having something like that happen.
How badly it must affect somebody’s life.
“Oh…… is she-“
“She’s… doing about as good as she can be right now… hopefully she wakes up soon.”
….at least they’re all…. relatively alright, all things considered.
Now that I’ve gotten that taken care of…. I need to take care of something else.
“H-hey… Jaune…”
“Yeah?”
“Can I… talk to you…. Alone?”
I look straight at Ren when I say that. He seems to understand.
“Alright Nora, let’s go.”
“But-“
“Let’s go.
He grabs Nora by the waist and carries her to the door.
“H-HEY, LET GO OF ME, I W-“
And he’s already left the room and shut the door beings them.
“So…. What did you want to t-“
“I think you already know what I want to talk about.”
“…..yeah, you’re right….. so… I’m listening.”
Well, guess it’s now or never.
“Jaune…. ever since we’ve met, I’ve considered myself the luckiest girl at Beacon to have a partner like you, somebody who sees me for who I really am and cares about me because of that.”
“Yeah… I remember. You said something similar back at the dance before the Vytal Featival…. How I didn’t put two and two together is honestly beyond me…… so are you gonna say it?”
Yes, I am going to say it.
“Jaune Arc….. I-I…. I love y-“
Before I can even finish my declaration, Jaune lurches forward, and smashes into me.
His lips make their way to mine and begin smothering them.
I can feel the breath leave my body from the contact. My face is probably as red as my hair at this point.
The kiss isn’t a long one, but so much is said through just those few seconds of contact.
“Pyrrha….. I…. I love you too.”
And suddenly, I find my lips crashing against his yet again.
This may just be the happiest moment of my li-
I can hear a bang against the window to the hospital room that gives a view of the hallway.
Jaune and I break off the kiss and both look towards to window.
It’s no surprise that Nora has smooshed herself against it, trying desperately to keep Ren from pulling her away.
Honestly, I don’t care about her right now, the only think I care about now is Jaune.
My love.
My everything.
My Forever Fall, Jaune Arc.
And as I lean in for yet another kiss, the adorable look on his face just makes me fall even further.