I don't know if I'd call anything you two do innocent, but it seems like he's willing to take his time and see what a relationship with emotions is like instead of just jumping straight to.. other things.

[ But she still doesn't trust him on a double date. Mercury might be kinder and gentler to Yang, and he might actually be acting friendlier toward Weiss, but he also mad her wear a cropped "Bad Girl" shirt and cut-off short-shorts out of jail. She doesn't want to see how that would manifest in front of Sun. ]

I can refrain from stabbing, though.