20 years. That's how much has passed since the passing of Rose Quartz, or recently known as Steven Universe.
It still dumbfounded her how he could've beat Yellow Diamond, even though in that battle both gems were shattered. Yellow Diamond said it herself ,she remembers her exact words clearly, "Rose Quartz is a worthy opponent. If I shall die, she shall die with me."
It happened so recently but it felt so blurry to her. Her comrades were still yearning for there loss. That's probably the reason why they couldn't even see her face without blaming her, not that she wanted to see them.
Because of them the once feared warrior lost her ranking ,and can't go back to Homeworld.
Yet, though Rose Quartz caused her that horrible punishment ,she respected her. To show that respect she went to her grave annually a day before her death.
His lover, the human, made a horrible decision, she decided to place the grave next to, "Beach city elementary school." She said it was to 'show the kids that he was a great man'. Jasper had a hard time believing that considering that his lover lived a block away and visited the grave weekly.
But all that Jasper was thinking was that today was that event full day.
Jasper sat at the bench next to his grave, it was a noisy day. But Jasper realized the possibility that the children were making all the noise, taking into consideration that this was their 'play time'. The former warrior was just glad that there was a fence in between her and the children, she didn't want the tiny humans near her, still it's not like they would do that with Jasper being so big and tall. Now that she thought of it every single human she has meet has feared her. The mere thought of being feared made her grin. Even though occasionally she would feel lonely she still liked the idea of being feared. Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt something pull on her torn up cape.
She looked back and it was the one thing that she didn't want near her.
A human child. The thing she dreaded.
She stared at this child for a good 20 seconds taking in her big blue eyes, her pale youthful skin, her short shoulder length brown hair and her little perky nose. She stayed the additional 17 seconds to see if she would get the message to go away. But, sadly she didn't. At the time the gem realized this she finally spoke up.
"Hey kid, how'd you get out of the school?" Jasper asked clearly annoyed and just wanting her to leave.
"I know a hole that there's in the fence...Hey is that a new thing like sticking diamonds on your face and body?" The young human female said as she sat next to her on the bench, "You're not the first person I've seen do that." She said rocking her tiny feet back and forth since she wasn't able to touch the floor.
HA' this human was so naïve, she had no idea what gems are! It almost made her laugh if she thought it wasn't so pathetic.
"I'm not sticking 'diamonds' on my face kid, I was just made like that. Now get goin' before your guardian finds out your out of school property." The girl rolled her eyes at this, Jasper found it infuriating but she bit her tongue on this one considering she was so weak compared to her. " Well...what are you waiting for? Go back." The human didn't respond instead she took out a stick with a ball at the end, 20 years living in this cruddy planet and she has never seen that 'thing'. The human pointed the 'thing' to her lazily. Jasper watched it curiously and cautiously wondering if it would hurt her. The female human saw this and giggled " It's just a lollipop silly, take it, it's food." She said as she put the 'lollipop' in her mouth. " Your one weird fella your so tall and big and were made-," she said with air quotations ," -with a diamond on your face, oh and don't get me started on how weird your skin color is. Not being racist and no offense if it's a skin condition. But your different ," she paused,"-and I find it interesting!... So are you gonna take a lollipop?" The girl said and took another lollipop out of her pocket, " They're cherry flavored. My favorite!"
Jasper didn't know how to respond to this it was the first time in her life a human has ever offered her anything. And it was really clear that it was the first time a human wasn't afraid of her since she just insulted her more than one time. But at the time Jasper didn't notice she just insulted her. But regardless she took the lollipop.
It was the first time she has eaten any food ever. She found it awkward at first but when she finally relaxed she decided to pop it in her mouth.
"Do you like it?" She said with sparkles in her eyes "Oh,Now you can't bite it, it'll taste gross if you do." She said never taking her eyes off of Jasper.
Jasper truly didn't like it that much it tasted like the pain resistants she used to take back in Homeworld, but if she said that it would shatter the girls gem emotionally, wait,...what was the human equivalent to gem again? Oh yeah, heart. It'll shatter her heart. There.
Since Jasper didn't want that, she lied ,"I love it, it taste amazing!" She said and the female had the biggest humblest grin Jasper has ever seen. It made her feel nice seeing she made this humans day... Well at least it looked like it to her. "Glad you li-" the young girl was cut off by a harsh ,loud ,shrilling sound. It was really loud it even startled Jasper.
The young human looked back at the school disheartened. She looked at Jasper who looked at her wondering why she looked liked that. "What's wrong?" She looked at Jasper and said "I have to go but,will you be here tomorrow?" Jasper was tempted to say yes but she realized the gems are sure to be here tomorrow and seeing the warrior who was the first to start the chain of events leading to the fellow gems death she didn't know what they would do to her.
Would they hurt her?
Keep her hostage?
Torture her?
Break her gem?
God knows how they would feel seeing her and Roses grave at the same time. She decided to not go tomorrow but she won't let that girl feel like she felt for 20 years. Lonely.
" Look kid I can't be here tomor-" "Why?" The human girl interrupted her with a shaky voice. It broke Jasper to the core seeing the only person that cared for what felt like an eternity feel bad.
"Because if I'm here tomorrow a group of mean 'people' would come and hurt me." Jasper said shamelessly to the little human. The human looked at her with an understanding look "It's ok people bully me too." The strong gem didn't know what 'bully' meant but now she was determined to figure out what it meant.
"But I promise on my life I will come here the day after." The now vulnerable gem said hoping it'll make the human smile like she did before. And to her pleasant surprise, she did.
"Ok,I'm trusting you." the human said getting up from the bench.
As Jasper got up too, Jasper knelt down to be the same height as the human and put her hand out for the tradition humans call 'handshakes'. "Let's make a peace treaty. You will be my company and I'll be yours." The female looked at her confused ,"I think what your trying to say is, Let's be friends. And my response is... Yes!" The female smiled excited, she completely ignored her handshake and wrapped her arms around the tall gem. Jasper stayed there processing what was happening, but it just happened so quickly she didn't have time to respond to the gesture before the human left running as fast as her tiny legs could go,
But she stopped mid-way and yelled,
"My names Lapis Lazuli!"
"Jasper!" Jasper yelled back while waving Lapis.
And Jasper was left alone with Steven and Rose.
"Now I see why you protected this planet Rose. And now I respect you even more for that.."
A/N hi! Well as you can see this is Platonic right now ( as it should be when it's not the consensual age) but when lapis gets older this will turn romantic! I promise! Anyway thanks for reading and bye!