Within the Team JNPR dorm Pyrrha looks out the window sadly, while Ren loads StormFlower and Nora jumping on the bed.
Nora: How come Jaune gets home so late?
Ren: He's become rather scarce since he started fraternizing with Cardin.
Nora: That's weird... Doesn't he know we have a field trip tomorrow? We need our rest!
Pyrrha: (angrily) I'm sure our leader knows exactly what he's doing.
Nora and Ren exchange glances, not knowing that Jaune himself is looking in through the crack of the door.
Nora: Mmmm... I guess so.
Jaune hangs his head and closes the door, just as a voice interrupts his thoughts.
Ruby: Hey, Jaune!
Jaune turns around to Ruby and Ben in their pajamas.
Ben: Hey man, you seem on edge. You ok?
Ruby: Yeah... Long time, no see! Did you lock yourself out again?
Jaune: Oh, uh, nope!
He holds up his scroll as he chuckles lightly.
Jaune: Got it!
Ruby: So! Where have you been lately?
Jaune: I, uh...
He tries to come up with something, but just sighs and lowers his head.
Jaune: I messed up. I did something I shouldn't have, and now Cardin has me on a leash, and Pyrrha won't even talk to me, and...
Jaune breathes heavily.
Jaune: I'm starting to think coming to this school was a bad idea.
He presses his back against the door of his team's dorm sliding down slumping to the floor depressed.
Jaune: I'm a failure.
Ruby: Nope!
Jaune: Nope?
Ruby: Nope! You're a leader now, Jaune. You're not allowed to be a failure.
Ben: Listen to her Jaune, this the girl who fought a crime lord and decapitated a Nevermore on day one if anyone knows about being a leader it's her.
Jaune: But... what if I'm a failure at being a leader?
Ruby thinks a minute before giving him, her answer.
Ruby: Nope!
Jaune: You know, you're not the easiest person to talk to about this kind of stuff
Ruby: Nope!
She joins him on floor.
Ruby: Jaune, maybe you were a failure when you were a kid...
Jaune groans and sinks lower to the ground.
Ruby: ... and you might've even been a failure the first day we met!
Jaune continues to sink lower towards the ground.
Ruby: But, you can't be one now. You know why?
Jaune: Uhhh, because...?
Ruby: Because it's not just about you anymore. You've got a team now, Jaune. We both do! And if we fail, then we'll just be bringing them down with us.
She proceeds to get up before continuing.
Ruby: We have to put our teammates first, and ourselves second. Your team deserves a great leader, Jaune. And I think that can be you.
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