Hello!
Well, it's my first story here.
It take place in the events of the series just after "Hit the Diamond".
I hope you enjoy it the same I enjoy writting it.

Also I want to thank the help of The Last Autumn Leaf, who is goingo to be the BetaReader for this story.
Steven Universe series, and all the character and names don't belong to me, them belong to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network.

Chapter 1, First contact

Chapter 1: First contact

-I'm not sure about this- said Lapis Lazuli with her gaze to the skyline.

-What are you talking about? – questioned Peridot looking at her with surprise. – It's not been one day since Steven left us here and you take for granted that we can't live together - she finished with her arms outstretched in the air, seeing at Lapis.

The two gems were sitting over hay bale, theirs backs against the barn, waiting to see the sunset, but they felt uncomfortable doing that.

Steven had told them that they must try to do something together to get to know each other better and to get along now that they were going to share the barn. Out of all of the activities Steven had suggested, this was the only one which both of them agreed to do.

-Well, it's a start- he told them one day before going back to the Temple with the Crystal Gems.

Now that they were together, completely alone, waiting for the sun to set, they felt that that task was impossible to realize. Peridot was the first one to express how uncomfortable she was, when she started playing with her feet. She was striving to make peace with Lapis, but it seemed she wasn't interested. Meanwhile, Lapis was just frozen, with her arms crossed, her back against the barn and facing forwardtowards the skyline. The only thing she could think about was to get away from the barn and meet the world, but she knew Steven would be very disappointed in her if she did that. And although she was a little scared of the idea of travelling all around a strange planet by herself, she thought that she couldn't share her new house with the little green gem who was sitting by her side either.

While the blue-haired gem was lost in her thoughts, Peridot had settled herself just like her companion only that, she was smaller than her, she laid her head instead of her back against the barn, and now she observed her. The little green gem was intrigued by the blue-haired gem. If she, Peridot, had managed to fraternize with the "Crystal Clods", whom she really tried to eliminate, there was no reason that she couldn't do the same with Lapis.

Besides, the blue-haired gem was the only one who could understand her. Nobody could comprehend how she felt now: without Homeworld she became kind of an orphan. No, that wasn't the correct word, but it felt like that. She wasn't part of Yellow Diamond anymore and neither was she part of the Crystal Gems. And although they had allowed her live in the barn and stay on Earth, she didn't feel like she was part of it.

-Excluded…- whispered Peridot.

That was the correct word. She didn't belong anywhere, to any group. She was alone, and that feeling was what motivated her to get along with Lapis. Steven could be kind and have the will to help but he couldn't understand her in the same way the delicate blue gem, who was now her barn mate, could. Or at least that's what the little green gem believed.

In that moment Lapis sighed deeply, which took Peridot by surprise and she turned around as fast as she could, now blushing with embarrassment of being discovered by Lapis.

-I think this rotation is longer than the others, isn't it, Lapis? – commented Peridot jokingly. Maybe humour wasn't her strongest skill but she definitely had to try something if she wanted to get closer to her.

The blue-haired gem didn't listen to her companion and her mute response demotivated the little green gem, who looked slowly to the floor. In the meantime, one of them had concluded that the best way to satisfy her friend was staying there and try to live with a gem she didn't like; the other one began to believe that she never could get along with her partner.

Both of them were too distracted to appreciate the wonderful, and fleeting, sunset.

By the time they did realize it had already happened, the sun was gone and Lapis sighed in relief.

She got up, spread her wings and flew to the roof of the barn, her favourite place. Nobody could annoy her there. Peridot was slow to react as she started to look alternately between the sun missing and the blue-haired gem who wasn't by her side.

'Great! My chance to make contact with Lazuli and I just screw it up' thought the upset little gem who was still on the hay bale. When she decided to get up and get back to working on her stuff she heard a weird sound. She tried to find the origin of it, looking around. There was nothing unusual until... A little gleam between the shrubs.

With more curiosity than fear, the little green gem got close to the gleam. The strange sound came again as she walked towards the shrubs, but now it was stronger than before. It was like a 'clack' sound, like a starship's doors closing rapidly.

When she was all close to the gleam in the shrubs, it started moved. It wasn't until that moment Peridot realized that it could be something dangerous, like a wild animal, a big one, but the gleam she had seen before made her think of one other possibility: Jasper.

That thought made her stop right there. She froze and a shiver went through every inch of her body. Neither her or Lapis would be a real match against Jasper in one-on-one combat. With only a few feet between her and the shrubs, the scared little gem turned her eyes to her companion, whom could see perfectly from there, hoping that she would understand that they could be in danger.

Lapis was watching how the first stars appeared in the sky. She was thinking about what Steven had told her. If she stayed there, it should be her own choice. At first it wasn't a bad idea, until she discovered that she had to share the barn with Peridot, the same gem who forced her to came back to that planet in the first place.

With her knees against her chest, the blue gem closed her eyes. The only thing she sensed was the air running around her, caressing her gem on her back. She put her head to her knees and sighed.

When she opened her eyes, there was a familiar feeling of someone looking at her. Slowly, she turned her head to one side, looking to the trees, and she could see part of the little gem's yellow hair and then her entire body. Their eyes met and she could feel the fear of the green gem. 'What is going on?' Lapis thought when she saw a glint came out from the shrubs, near where Peridot was standing. There was something that made Peridot feel scared.

She tried to see what was in the shrubs, but couldn't see anything. Then she heard the same noise as Peridot had heard before and then she felt another look on her. Lapis closed her fist with anger and she hit the air and said, her voice hesitant:

– Leave me alone! – The giant fist came out of the little pool and struck the shrubs.

The only thing that the little gem could do was watching how the giant fist hit the shrubs until it clashed with a tree. Maybe Peridot wasn't an expert in the feelings area, but even she could sense the fury of Lapis' attack.

-At least it couldn't be worst- said the little gem when she went to check what or who was in the shrubs. When she removed all of the shrubs, she didn't find a wild animal or the big orange gem. There was a human, helpless and motionless.