It was a calm night on Beach City. The stars were illuminating the night sky, shimmering around the moon. At one temple, the sound echoing throughout it was mostly the same quietness, aside from a few crickets that made chirping noises randomly. One boy was exiting his room, wearing his usual pair of pajamas. He had short black hair and he was a bit heavyset in terms of weight. He was Steven Universe, a half magic boy who lived within the temple with three of his considered close friends, known as the Crystal Gems. Slowly, he was making his way through the night, mostly planning on trying to get something to help him sleep. For the past week or so he had not been able to fall fully asleep. He kept waking up randomly in the night. He was presuming that he hadn't been able to burn any energy out since he hadn't been allowed on any of the missions with the other gems, but even if he spent all day doing a tiring activity, he still rarely got a full night's sleep.

As Steven made his way to the living room, he saw the nearby kitchen which a small light could be seen confusing him he just assumed someone else was awake as well "maybe one of the gems has something to help me sleep…" he thought yawning before approaching though when he entered into the kitchen he saw the refrigerator was open which was where the light source was coming from he heard a coughing noise looking over his eyes widened and any grogginess he had immediately dissipated "Amethyst?!" Steven spoke, scared, seeing someone that was barely taller than him. She had a light purple ponytail with purple skin she had a gem on her chest that was vaguely noticeable

Amethyst was holding her throat somewhat bent over the counter. "A-are you okay?!" Steven requested, but only heard a faint wheezing sound. She pointed to the food and her throat. He didn't need to know much more to put that together. He had no idea what to do though, feeling near a panic attack himself. The boy quickly got behind her, doing the only thing he could think of right now, wrapping his arms around her and attempting to do the Heimlich maneuver. He pulled as hard as he could, but didn't get anything out, only hearing her cough and gasp more desperately. He tried it once again as hard as he could but to no seen avail, and that was when suddenly it went quiet. Amethyst just had her head tilted, her hair dangling over her face partially. Steven's eyes began to get watery. "P-PEARL! GARNET!" he screamed out loud, hoping his other housemates could hear and come down to help.

Steven suddenly started hearing a light snicker that began to erupt into a fit of laughter. "Oh, wow! I got you good," Amethyst's voice rung out. It felt great to be hearing her speak, but his minute suddenly began to catch up to it. She had pranked him. He let her go, seeing her fix her hair out of her eyes, still laughing lightly. He just stood there, tears still falling from his eyes. "Wh-what…?" he muttered. "Steven! What's going on?!" he heard another voice turning his head to see a very taller woman with black hair who had come rushing in. She had two gems, one in each palm of her hand, and a pair of sunglasses she wore often, even in the night. Beside her was another woman who had a gem on her forehead and being partially skinny. The two had come running when they heard his screams.

Amethyst got over the laughter, putting a hand on Steven's shoulder. "Sorry about that. It's nothing," she claimed. The prank that was meant for whoever woke up in the middle of the night, and even that had done its job of waking the others. "Of course it was…" the skinny woman named Pearl sighed, rubbing her head sorely, having felt jolted awake too fast for this early. Garnet stayed quiet alongside her before turning around and leaving the group to get back to her room so she could sleep, since there wasn't any threat and she presumed another argument would get out in the morning.

Steven pushed her hand away from his shoulder, still sobbing. "Steven, you can turn off the waterworks. It wasn't real. I just used some of Pearl's nasty leftovers for looks," she reminded him that it was just an illusion of the prank. "You mean the dinner I worked hard to cook for us all yesterday," Pearl growled in frustration, but she was unable to ignore Steven's crying, so she thought she could forget the waste of food for now. "A prank?!" he suddenly shouted, startling them both. Pearl had never seen him get upset with one of the short gem's jokes. Usually the two got along very well. Steven wiped the tears out of his eyes. "I thought you died in my hands!" he choked out through his light sobs.

"Steven, I didn't think it'd bother you that much…" Amethyst admitted. Even she was caught off guard from this outburst. If she had pulled the prank on Pearl, she would have just berated her. And if Garnet had caught her midway through this prank, it never would have worked. "I don't want my nightmares to be real! Seeing you just go limp and stop breathing…" he stopped midsentence, near tearing up again. The awkward silence from trying to think of a response was starting to take over. That was until Pearl stepped between them. "Look, Steven. You should just go back to bed. I'll handle Amethyst, okay?" she insisted that he just tried to go back to bed. He didn't need any encouragement to exit the room with that over. He left the two gems alone. Pearl just began to clean up the mess left over from the wasted food.

Amethyst just waited, expecting the taller gem to begin some long winded speech about what was wrong with that, but then there had been two full minutes of them not arguing which was strange to her. "Thanks for not throwing the food around as much. I'll see you tomorrow," Pearl told her goodnight. It was too late for her to stay up for longer to try and argue pointlessly. Amethyst was fully aware of the negative result of what she did this time.

Authors note: Hope you enjoyed the fic, I have no clue whether to continue or not.