[ Of course, what she didn't know was that they'd been screwed long before that.
Now sometimes he even makes jokes himself! Vicious ones if he's comfortable enough. That's what she's learned: that Jaune is brave in a way you can't easily see at first, but that nevertheless, he's brave.
But it doesn't explain why when she hears him catch her witty retort, completely thoughtlessly (and return it without any hesitation but the kind you feel at the edge of something you can never take back), she's completely calm and not freaking out like the last time.
Knowing that Jaune is his own kind of suave and charming as fuck when he isn't fucking trying to charm so hard. Understanding without having to try that who he is is nervous and desperate to be loved and that that's okay, but he is not at all flawed and doesn't have to pretend with her–
She knows those things but they should make her more flustered not less when he responds to her.
Exactly the way she wanted him to.
Telling her without telling her the thing she can't say aloud. ]
(5/that drabble i wrote was shorter than this lmfao)
Now sometimes he even makes jokes himself! Vicious ones if he's comfortable enough. That's what she's learned: that Jaune is brave in a way you can't easily see at first, but that nevertheless, he's brave.
But it doesn't explain why when she hears him catch her witty retort, completely thoughtlessly (and return it without any hesitation but the kind you feel at the edge of something you can never take back), she's completely calm and not freaking out like the last time.
Knowing that Jaune is his own kind of suave and charming as fuck when he isn't fucking trying to charm so hard. Understanding without having to try that who he is is nervous and desperate to be loved and that that's okay, but he is not at all flawed and doesn't have to pretend with her–
She knows those things but they should make her more flustered not less when he responds to her.
Exactly the way she wanted him to.
Telling her without telling her the thing she can't say aloud. ]