MM! AU: Come home safe....

"Sweetie..." Pyrrha said sleepily as she lifted her son into the bed "what are you still doing up?" 
Her young son fidgeted as he lay down, staring into Pyrrha's eyes, the color mirrored in her own. 
"M' not sleepy..." he said at last, his words put down by the large yawn he released to punctuate his sentence. Pyrrha smiled at JJ as she pulled the large comforter up over his little body: it was rare indeed that SHE was alone with the kids, with Jaune needed at a staff meeting at Beacon, and her mission with Ruby and Yang starting the next day. she only hoped he'd be home in time. 
"Did you have another bad dream?" She asked, idly stroking JJ's soft curls. The four-year-old sleepily shook his head, still staring into her gaze. 
"I dun wanna sleep..." he murmured. Pyrrha tutted near-silently, though her smile remained on her face. 
"Why ever not?" she said, laying a gentle hand over JJ's little body "You need your sleep, sweetie, if you want to be able to go out and play tomorrow. I don't think Sucre will want to nap all day." 

JJ stared at her, his huge, emotional eyes seeming to grow even larger. 
"Because if i go to sleep....then it'll be morning...." he said at last, his tone far too grave for someone his age "...and you'll be gone." 

Pyrrha's eyes widened, before falling slightly in sadness. JJ never liked it when she went on missions.
The Huntress reminded herself to smack Ruby upside the head, if Yang didn't beat her to it: the younger Huntress, in a misguided attempt to help, had given JJ a crib-notes version of what had happened to her own mother, how Summer Rose had disappeared on a mission when Ruby was very young. All JJ had taken away from it, however, was an unassailable terror that whenever his mother went away, it would be the last time he ever saw her. The first time, he'd been inconsolable for the first day and miserable for a week, certain he'd done something to upset her. Despite Pyrrha's attempts to explain what she was doing, for once, JJ's remarkable intelligence seemed to fail him. 

"Oh Sweetie..." She said, pulling her son close as he began to sniffle. Every sound was like another stab into her heart. 
"Sweetie....My dear, sweet JJ...." she whispered, stroking her son's hair comfortingly "I'm not doing anything nearly as dangerous as Ruby's mama....I promise, I'll be home Before Sunday." 
Her son's only reply was more sniffling. 
"And I promise, i'll make sure you're awake before I leave." 

"....Promise?" 

Pyrrha smiled as she closed her eyes, feeling the familiar warmth that flowed through ehr every time JJ embraced her. 

"I promise....I'll make sure you're up.....and I'll come home safe." 

"I Promise."