Hey there all! PartyGod Douglas here from TheMidnightGeeks, here to bring to you my personal dabbles into fanfiction with my another installment of Lapidot Weeks 2016, this story is going to come out more sporadically than the previous installment because of life complications so I was unable to prepare most of it ahead of time like the first Lapidot week, but you will be getting all of the fanfiction-y goodness you have come to expect from me! Thank you for returning, and if you aren't returning then be sure to read my first fic "We'll do it Together" because it too, is great. This story is taking place directly after "Gem Harvest." Much after that, I think that's all you need to know. Read, laugh, love and enjoy!

"Are you sure about this Peridot?"

Lapis asked her smaller, greener, gem counterpart.

"More than certainly, Lapis! Our rings will make the perfect final additions to our self-portraying meepmorp. Now, may I have your hand?"

Peridot outstretched her small green hand towards her barn mate expectantly. Lapis looked down at the green gemstone attached to a small metal band laced around her finger.

"You went through so much to get this to me, though. Even after I tried to run away from you and from our home. It wouldn't be right if I didn't keep it close to me." Lapis replied holding her ring bearing hand to her chest and covering it with her ringless one.

Peridot grabs Lapis' hand and pulls them down closer to her being.

"All of that's incredibly correct Lapis, but let me ask you something of utmost value," Peridot stared up to look at Lapis whose head was cast off to the right, her gaze avoiding peridot's

Lapis nods her head.

"Will you still be the gem I married with or without this ring?"

Lapis' expression widened and without turning her head she met Peridot's intense stare with a flustered side glance.

"Yes." she replied plainly.

"Then See no reason logically why you need to keep this ring, but if you would prefer to hang on to it then you are more than welcome to keep it."

Peridot outstretches Lapis' left hand and singles out the ring finger. Peridot then swathes her hand in front of her face removing her visor. She pulls Lapis' ring nd more specifically the stone on it and touches the peridot stone to her own gem.

"Your happiness is more important to me than completing one meepmorp."

Lapis still refused to full on look at her green gem wife but her cheeks quickly warmed up causing a large portion of her face that was faced towards Peridot to go a deep blue, all before snorting in her trademark way.

"Okay, okay, you've convinced me."

Peridot looked up, her eyes glimmering with hope and anticipation.

"But if isn't too much, I'd like to hold on to it- for a just bit longer."

peridot's expression notably dropped causing Lapis to start perspiring nervously.

"You did chase me through a really bad storm just to give it to me. I know thunderstorms still make you nervous."

Peridot reels back from her blue wife.

"I, the great and courageous Peridot, fear no naturally occurring meteorological phenomenon."

As if the universe itself was determined to challenge the tiny gem's claim, a flash of lightning followed quickly by a crack of thunder roared in the skyline above causing all of Peridot's hairs to stand on end sending her to the ground on all fours running and ducking cover behind Lapis.

peridot wasn't the only creature aiming to acquire safety from Lapis' being, however, as a small, sentient pumpkin dog soon found its way into Lapis' arms.

Lapis sighs.

"C'mon you two. Let's get into the barn where we are safe."

Lapis pulls veggie head closer to her chest and pets Peridot on top of her oblong hair causing her to glance up at Lapis who was wearing a small, reassuring, toothless smile.

Peridot clasped Lapis' hand and laced her stubby green fingers between Lapis' slender sky blue ones and the family walked towards the entrance of the barn.

Once inside, veggie head hopped out from Lapis' arms and began rummaged around the piles of meepmorp making material the blue and green duo had strewn about the barn.

For purely intentional, aesthetic, purposes of course.

Lapis picked up the green gem and gently beat her water wings in such a way as to gently propel them onto their hammock which has become such a familiar locale for the pair ever since they picked up on sleeping.

Lapis nestles Peridot into a little spoon position and Lapis takes her larger, slender frame and wraps it around Peridot's shorter , stout one.

They laid there in silence. A very comfortable silence acquired by two people who have been around each other for a long time. Peridot and Lapis have been practically inseparable since the rubies were chased off after the baseball game and through that time a lot of bonding occurred at an exponential rate that would take humans years to get to, and yet here peridot was lovingly draped by her blue wife on a stormy night.

Odd it hasn't rained yet.

"I'm really thankful that Andy let us keep this barn."

Peridot's voice was quiet and sincere, something that isn't common and always immediately grabs the attention of those in the room when it happens.

"I am too." Was all Lapis could think to say, but that was more than enough.

"I know we could have forced him off anytime. Between my drones and your abilities, it wouldn't have been hard." Peridot continued

Lapis pulled Peridot in a little closer after she said that.

"Yeah. It would have been."

Peridot made a low-sounding hum of agreement.

"But I'm a lot happier with how it went out instead."

Peridot turned her herself towards her wife, her oblong hair brushing against Lapis' torso, then the cloth of the hammock until Peridot was completely turned around and face to face with the blue gem in an incredibly intimate fashion.

"Why's that? Because we didn't hurt any of Steven's family again?"

Lapis chuckled under her breath before clasped the side of Peridot's face with her hand, the ring gleaming in the corner of Peridot's visor-covered eyes.

"More than that."

"What do you mean?"

Lapis pulled Peridot's forehead to her own.

"We've already talked about it a little a few weeks ago. If we would have attacked Andy and taken the barn for ourselves just because we believe we had some claim over this land because we were stronger and superior then we would be no better than Homeworld who doesn't think twice about the homes it's taken away from hundreds of planets."

Peridot started tearing up and cast her gaze off into the cloth of the hammock.

"But this is our home, Lapis. We weren't just trying to take it and use it. We love this place. Our meepmorps, our vegetables, everything- we couldn't give that up."

Lapis put her hand out in between her and Peri's faces and started moving her fingers with subtle flair. With that, the liquid coagulating at the corners of Peridot's eyes were sliding cleanly from under her visor and forming a small orb above the pair lying in the hammock.

"We would have never given up our home, Peridot. Even if we did have to 'fight' with Andy we would have been doing it to protect something we love, not to destroy it eventually like Homeworld."

Lapis then flicks her wrist in the direction of the barn's entrance which catches the attention of veggie head who was chewing on a couple of sweaters he had dug out of one of the meepmorp piles. The little pumpkin dog runs towards the entrance of the barn.

Peridot smiles a small happy smile at her blue wife and delivers a chaste kiss to her forehead.

Peridot's usual confidence returned

"It probably helped our case when Andy found out that we were married ourselves. I genuinely believe that even if we weren't married he would have probably gifted us the barn, but I'm saying it probably didn't hurt our chances here."

Lapis snorts instantly thinking about this.

"Remember how hard he yelled at Greg whenever he found out that we were married, us, the aliens from another galaxy before his own human cousin. I never thought Andy's face would return back to its intended shade!" Peridot continued to her blue wife's bemusement.

"I'm certain that helped us." Lapis quietly stated after she finished her fit of laughter.

Both gem's attention were grabbed when they heard the sound of veggie head barking.

Lapis tightened her grip around Peridot's small, stout frame and quickly summoned her water wings and beat wing to the entrance of the barn. Veggiehead stopped barking when they arrived.

"WHAT IS IT VEGGIEHEAD?!" Peridot yelled

"LAPIS! Put me down, I need to get my drones." Peridot said squirming around and frantically looking around the barn for her remote control

"Peridot, there's nothing out here."

Peridot stopped squirming.

"What?"

Lapis brushed the tarp out of the way to make it easier for Peridot to see.

Veggiehead looked up at the due excitedly.

"It's just rain?"

Lapis said, a stutter of confusion in her inflection.

"Actually Lapis, this is not rain. It's snow. So it's snowing."

"How is that any different from rain?" Lapis deadpanned, control the snow like water to emphasize the point.

"It's not so different. They are surprisingly similar. They are both forms of meteorological precipitation; the main difference comes from the temperature of the region one is in. If it is cold enough, where it would normally rain instead it snows."

"Interesting."

Lapis sets Peridot down.

"So what do you usually do when it snows?" Lapis asked, her face genuinely puzzled.

"For humans, it's too cold for them so they have to apply layers- but after that, they have been noted to play in it."

Lapis put a finger to her chin, a loud 'hmm' humming out.

"Well, we've got some layers."

Lapis points towards the sweaters veggie head were chewing on unsuccessfully.

"We're gems, so we don't really need it but I know you like wearing clothes and I figured if it's a part of the ritual I could try it as well."

Peridot's eyes lit up with stars.

"That's sounds amazing Lapis! C'mon let's get ready to enjoy the cold."

Peridot grabs Lapis' arm and pulls her along to the sweaters, veggie head follows close behind.

The two sweaters on the ground were as follows. One was a blue sweatshirt that had white text on it reading 'Hi, I'm Bob. Are you married' which Lapis snorted to herself before picking it up and gracefully putting it on, it being far too big for her but she wasn't too affected by that.

While the other was a green-hooded sweatshirt which featured a symbol which looked like Peridot's aliens but instead of having a rounded head, this one's head was more triangular with two orbs for eyes and two horn-like appendages up top its flat head. Peridot grabbed that one immediately and attempted to pull it over her massive hair, after a few cartoonish moments she pulled it over, leaving behind a slightly larger neck hole to add on to the already baggy sweatshirt which covered nearly her whole body, leaving only several inches of her legs uncovered by its size.

"Are you ready to go out in the cold and enjoy your first snow, Lapis?" Peridot's being beaming.

Lapis closed her eyes and smiled, "I suppose so."

The two grabbed one another's hand and head out into the snowy terrain, a small pumpkin dog barking happily behind.