The lyrics to the song have been removed to meet FanFiction's rules and regulations, but will be restored when the completed story gets posted on the Syndicate's flagship account on DeviantArt. In the meantime, if you wanna know how the song goes, look it up on YouTube. I recommend the "Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus" version.


Steven and Greg stood at a safe distance, away from the gigantic, majestic Blue Diamond (and her standard-size Pearl), as she sat before the palanquin of the late Pink Diamond, mourning. It was only a few weeks ago that Steven learned about the Yellow Diamond and her plans to destroy the Earth using the Cluster. It was only a few days later that he stopped said Cluster with Peridot. It was only last week did he learn that there is more than one Diamond to worry about, and his mother, the late Rose Quartz, apparently shattered one of them. It was a surprise to both him and Greg, as Rose never told of her past during their time together.

"I should've done more," said the Blue Diamond, weeping before the abandoned palanquin, "Yellow says it'll all be over soon. I wonder what you would think. This is your planet, after all. I still think it is."

Steven recognized the globs of tears she was shedding. It was the same tears he woke up to. He knew he should've listened to Garnet when she said that coming here was a bad idea, especially on a day like this. And then he sneezed. Loudly.
"Aaaah ahhhhh...CHOO!"
The Blue Diamond's Pearl looked in Steven and Greg's direction, and spotted them over by the bush they were hiding behind.
"My Diamond," she said, "I think we're not alone."
Greg walked forward. Steven followed.
"Hey! Uh...nice day out, amiright?" said Greg.
"They appear to be natives, My Diamond," the Pearl remarked.
The Blue Diamond sniffed and nodded. There was an awkward pause, then Greg broke the ice.
"Were you close?"
"Yes, very," said the Blue Diamond, "This was where it happened, where she was broken."
"I'm terribly sorry," Greg reached up as far as he could and patted the Blue Diamond on her back, "I know how hard it is to move on when you've lost someone."
"You do?"
"Yes. I lost someone very important to me, too. I miss her every single day, and I think about her all the time," sigh, "But she's never coming back. That feeling can be so hard to be okay with."

"I hope you don't mind my asking," said the Blue Diamond, holding back a portion of her tears, "But what happened to your loved one?"
"Well let's see..." said Greg, "How should I put this?"
Steven was better at this, "She gave up her physical form to have me."
"Physical...form?" questioned the Blue Diamond, as if it sounds familiar to her.
"Yes," sighed Steven, "My dad here fell in love with a gem, and the only way for it to work would be if she passed her gem down to me."
"May we see your gem?" said Blue's Pearl.
"Well, I don't know. I've been told my mom has a past with the Diamonds."
And then the Blue Diamond put two and two together, "You wouldn't by chance be talking about..." she shuttered, "Rose Quartz?"
Greg put his arms around Steven, and looking up at the Diamond, they both nodded. Scared, the Blue Diamond pulled up Steven's shirt until she could see the Rose Quartz gem stick out from beneath. She shrieked, and ran behind her Pearl to hide. Steven ran behind Greg and he hid. Then they realized that both of them were hiding from each other, and slowly came back.
"I'm sorry," said Steven, "I don't know exactly what my mother did, or how she did it, but I assure you, I didn't come all this way to fight. I came here to get some answers too."
He stuck out his hand, hoping the Blue Diamond would do the same, so they could make up and be friends. The Blue Diamond did the next best thing: she gently picked up Steven with both hands, and rubbed him against her cheek.
"I'm happy you and your...dad...understand how I feel," she said, apparently parents are a foreign concept to Homeworld gems, "I didn't know humans could do that."
As she spoke, the Blue Diamond's Pearl walked forward and, emotionlessly, hugged Greg. Greg blushed a bit.
"I...uh...don't suppose you could give us a ride home?" he said.
"But of course," the Blue Diamond wiped a tear from her eye, and put down Steven.
She raised her arm, which summoned her giant blue arm ship. Her palanquin lowered itself to the ground, and they all climbed aboard.