An AU where Lapis, Peridot, Jasper and the rest of the Crystal Gems are a team of journalists. (You guessed it, Garnet is the Boss.)

Generic Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, Steven Universe belong to its respective owner.

"Dialogues"
Inner thoughts
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Chapter I: The Sudden Assignment

I stared at my boss who was staring back at me as she rhythmically tap her fingers on her table. She patiently waits as I tried to absorb the information that she just gave me but my brain seems to have suddenly loss any of its ability to comprehend. "Uhm, pardon but can you please repeat?" I looked at the taller woman hopefully, wishing that I misheard whatever she just told me.

Garnet fixed her shades before calmly saying. "Lapis, I'm sending you off with Peridot to cover a scoop. You will be staying in the location for a while." I blinked, yep I heard it right. I nodded my head stiffly "Yes, of course... I'll go and prepare my things. Please excuse me, boss." I stood up and made my way out of my boss' office.

I sighed, walking to my table. It has only been a few months since I got this job so I'm basically still a rookie. Being a journalist is extremely fun since there's always new stuff to cover and places to go but at times it gets really tiring. Sometimes it takes weeks to get the scoop in a particular location or there is a need to transfer from one place to another in such a short time.

Now, I really like travelling and sightseeing but this is the first time I'll ever go as a part of a duo. I sighed once again and this time it caught the attention of my coworker whose table is just beside mine. Amethyst, a short girl with long hair dyed lavender with a pretty carefree personality, slightly turned her chair towards my direction.

"Sup rookie? Been sighing a lot today." She said as she leaned back on her chair, lifting her leg up to her table. "I was being sent to God knows where with Peridot and Garnet doesn't even specify exactly how long we'll need to stay." It also doesn't help when I'm secretly attracted to said coworker… I'm starting to freak out a bit.

"Yo, Peridot ain't that bad. Ya just have to know her better. Maybe use this chance to get close to her." Amethyst said wagging her eyebrows. I blushed a bit glaring at her. Maybe I'm being too obvious even Amethyst is catching up…

"It's not that I don't like Peridot but no one really knows that much about her. She's a mystery! Well maybe aside from Pearl I guess, but she's not one to gossip..." her expression turned sour but she nodded anyways.

Well I'm not exactly wrong. Peridot can be described with many words… prideful, irritable, precise, smart, orderly and professional to a fault. In appearance, well she's just as tall as Amethyst, she have this unruly spiky blonde hair looks kinda like a triangle that somehow looks sooo perfect despite its unruliness, and she have this huge circular glasses that just accents how smart she is.

She is very serious with her work but the moment she goes out of the door, there's nothing else I know about her. "Well you could always ask Pearl." Amethyst said shrugging as she lifts her feet off the table. With that I stood up, waved goodbye to Amethyst and made my way to the elevator.

I just really want to go home. I sighed in relief when I heard the familiar ding of the elevator, signaling its arrival. I waited patiently as the elevator doors slowly open before taking a step inside the elevator but stopped when I saw the person inside. It's her. Peridot was standing in the elevator, her posture straight and firm as ever.

She raised an eye brow as I just stood there staring at her then I realized she was waiting for me to get in so that she can go on with whatever business she needs to attend to. I hesitantly made my way inside the elevator, greeting her in which she responded with a nod in my direction then she immediately closed the door.

This is what I'm talking about! She have that air around her that just screams 'don't fuck with me'. And I just went ahead and made a fool out of myself. I internally face palmed as I occasionally steal glances at her.

After a few tense seconds of me constantly eyeing her, somehow our eyes made contact and we both quickly looked away—blush forming on my cheeks while she lifted a hand to adjust her glasses, effectively covering her face. Damn it, keep yourself together Lapis. I mentally screamed to myself as the elevator came to a stop at the ground floor.

Finally. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and as soon as the door opened, Peridot brushed pass me, made it past the door and quickly disappeared into the parking lot. Another sigh escaped my lips as I got out the elevator, taking my time as I get out of the building and start walking home.

Well, let's just see what happens I guess…

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Welp, there we go for a first chapter. In reality, I have read a fanfic here before with an AU just like this and I guess it inspired me. This one will be Lapidot though, so Lapidot shippers rejoice for I am also one ahaha~ I do have a lot of gem ships though so let's see what ships can be spawned in this OwO

Thank you for reading the first chapter. I do hope that you stay to read through the whole story, until the very end. Please do leave comments and suggestions and again, thank you for reading~